Mobile Devices - Page 106

HMD Global recently launched their first Nokia-branded Android smartphone, the Nokia 6, but many were disappointed that the device will be available only in China.

However, according to new reports, the $245 phone might find its way to the other markets as well. The report shows that another model of Nokia 6 passed the Bluetooth certification.

Model TA-1000, which marks the Nokia 6 for the Chinese market, already has the Bluetooth certification, but now the model TA-1003 also got the certification.

HTC hasn't been doing too well in the smartphone business over the last couple of years, but it looks like their new flagship smartphone could be something that's actually very exciting.

The latest HTC flagship smartphone which will be called the U Ultra, featuring a 5.7-inch display that is accompanied by a smaller U Play smartphone with a 5.2-inch display. HTC will be pushing something they're calling Sense Companion, which is an AI assistant that is similar to Google Assistant on the new Pixel smartphones.

But wait, there's more: HTC are reportedly removing the 3.5mm jack in another courageous move, following Apple with the new iPhone 7, Levovo's Moto Z, and HTC's own Bolt smartphone not featuring a headphone jack.

ASUS' ZenFone 3 Zoom was officially revealed at CES last week, but the price of the phone wasn't mentioned at ASUS' press conference.

However, the company has now announced some more details in Taiwan. The phone, which will be available next month, will be priced at CNY 3,699 in China (for the top model with 128GB of internal storage). That translates to around $535, but have in mind that the phone might come with a slightly higher price in the US.

Obviously, the 32GB and 64GB models of the phone will be cheaper, but we don't know the exact price yet.

Huawei's next flagship phones, the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus, will launch in March or April this year, said the company's chairman and CEO of the consumer division Yu Chengdong, according to The Android Soul.

The Huawei P9 and P9 Plus were released in April last year, so the timing makes sense.

There have also been numerous leaks about Huawei's upcoming flagship and it is expected that the device will be powered by Huawei's Kirin 960 processor, currently in the Mate 9, and it will come with a 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The more powerful model should come with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage.

There were times when we all thought that Nokia is gone for good, but lately, we are hearing more and more about the once top phone manufacturer in the world.

However, it seems that Nokia is aiming to be competitive in the market once again. HMD Global recently announced their first Nokia-branded Android smartphone, and now the company Nokia Solutions and Networks (not to be confused with HMD Global) filed for an EU trademark for a virtual assistant.

Google has Now, Apple's Siri is widely known, Microsoft made Cortana, and it looks like Nokia will have Viki.

CES 2017 - Alcatel has announced a new smartphone - A3 XL. The phone has a pretty big 6-inch display with a low 720x1280 resolution.

The device is powered by a MediaTek quad-core 1.1GHz processor and comes with only 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage, expandable to 32GB with a microSD card.

The main camera is 8MP and the selfie cam 5MP. Other features include a fingerprint sensor and 3000mAh battery.

HMD Global recently launched their first Nokia phone - Nokia 150. The Finnish company signed an agreement with Nokia that enabled them to create a new generation of Nokia-branded mobile phones, and they are keen to make Nokia phones competitive in the market.

They have now unveiled their first Nokia-branded Android smartphone - the Nokia 6. Unfortunately, the phone will be available only in China. In their official announcement, HMD Global explained their strategic move:

The Nokia 6 has a 5.5-inch full HD display wrapped in 2.5D Gorilla Glass. The device is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor with X6 LTE modem. The phone comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.

In addition to their Snapdragon 835 announcement earlier in the week, Qualcomm had a CES 2017 keynote where they delivered their 5G vision for the future. Qualcomm says that they see 5G changing the world as we know it and that it will change the economy in ways that the internet did.

In fact, Qualcomm did an in-depth economic study to estimate the value of 5G. They said that they expect the impact of 5G on the global economy by 2035 to be $12 trillion. That includes 89% increased productivity, 88% industries to emerge, 85% small business growth and 91% new products and services.

Qualcomm also announced that they had 5G trials with partners like AT&T, Ericsson and SK Telecom, some of the world's biggest infrastructure providers and carriers. Speaking of smartphones, Qualcomm expects that there will be 8.3 billion smartphones that will ship globally from 2016 to 2020 which amounts to 50 smartphones per second. Qualcomm plans to enable these new smartphones with technologies like their new Snapdragon 835 which is the first 10nm mobile processor.

CES 2017 - ZTE has launched a new smartphone - the Blade V8. The specs of the phone actually leaked prior to CES, so there were no surprises there.

The Blade V8 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 435 and comes in two versions - with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage or 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The device features a 5.2-inch full-HD (1920x1080) screen with a curved glass display.

The phone has a dual camera (13MP+2MP) and a 13MP selfie camera. The dual rear camera is also able to take photos from different angles and combine them together to create high-quality 3D photos.

CES 2017 - With their world's first smartphone, the ZenFone AR, that is both Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready, ASUS also unveiled the ZenFone 3 Zoom.

The ZenFone 3 Zoom is a 5.5-inch smartphone designed to excel at photography with a dual-camera system that comprises two 12MP cameras, one with a f/1.7-aperture, 25mm wide-angle lens and a second with a 59mm lens. Users can instantly switch from the 25mm primary camera to the 59mm camera, giving them a 2.3X optical zoom.

The ZenFone 3 Zoom is also the first ASUS smartphone with SuperPixel camera technology that enables it to focus incredibly quickly and capture clear photos at night or in low-light environments.

CES 2017 - ASUS unveiled the ZenFone AR - the world's first smartphone that is both Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready. The ZenFone AR was developed in close cooperation with Google to deliver the best Tango and Daydream experiences.

ZenFone AR is also the world's first Tango-enabled device to be powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor and world's first smartphone with 8GB of RAM.

The phone has a 5.7-inch WQHD (2560x1440) Super AMOLED display and comes with Android 7.0 Nougat.

CES 2017 - Huawei has announced that their Honor 6x smartphone, initially launched in October 2016 only in China, is coming to the US and Europe.

The device is powered by a HiSilicon Kirin 655 processor and comes with 3 or 4GB of RAM and 32 or 64GB of internal storage, which you can expand to 256GB with a microSD. Honor 6x has a dual (12MP + 2MP) camera and a 8 MP selfie cam.

The phone also has a fingerprint sensor, 3340 mAh battery and it comes in three colors - gray, gold and silver.

CES 2017 - NVIDIA has unveiled the next step in their living room take over with the new Shield, with 4K streaming capabilities, HDR support, and even Google Assistant built-in.

Right now, Google Assistant isn't everywhere - but I use it on my Google Pixel smartphone and it's awesome. On top of that,the new Shield can access 4K content from the likes of Netflix, Google Play Movies, and Vudu. There's also support for Amazon Video in 4K HDR, which isn't widespread on Android TV devices. Better yet, NVIDIA said that the current-gen Shield devices will receive these features later this month.

As for the Google Assistant side of the Shield TV, NVIDIA has unveiled NVIDIA Spot - a new Amazon Echo/Google Home-like device that can be placed anywhere, and is capable of voice commands. It requires Shield TV to work, with NVIDIA throwing in integration into the SmartThings smart home hub, which allows you to control various smart home appliances.

CES 2017 - Synaptics is one of the world leaders in fingerprint sensors and other human input devices. They have extensive experience with biometric authentication through methods like fingerprints which have become popular on mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

Synaptics has their own Natural ID fingerprint sensors which the new biometric Fusion Engine is capable of utilizing. The new platform combines fingerprint with facial recognition and using both together is very likely going to be very common in the future much like fingerprints are today.

All of this is centered around the importance of security and having multiple factors of authentication to protect users' data. Biometric authentication like fingerprints and facial recognition are added layers of security that are very likely going to become the norm in the future. Synaptics' multi-factor fusion engine is capable of securely combining multiple biometric authentication sources to determine verification.

With the CES around the corner, a lot of info is leaking about devices that will have their premiere in Las Vegas.

The latest leak comes from ZTE, a Chinese company that will unveil their Blade V8 smartphone.

The Blade V8 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 435 and comes with 3GB of memory and 32GB of internal storage. The device will have a dual camera (13MP + 2MP) and comes with a 5.2-inch full-HD screen.

Foxconn has been pushing into automating its manufacturing process in three of its Chinese manufacturing plants, with plans to "fully automate entire factories eventually" - according to Foxconn's Automation Technology Development Committee General Manager Dai Jia-peng, reports DigiTimes.

Dai said that in the first phase, Foxconn "aims to set up individual automated work stations for work that workers are unwilling to do or is dangerous". There will be entire production lines that will be automated, so that less robots are required for the second phase. In the third phase, Dai teased that "entire factories will be automated with only a minimal number of workers assigned for production, logistics, testing and inspection processes".

Foxconn has already deployed over 40,000 of their Foxbots, an industrial robot that was designed and made in-house by Foxconn. The company is capable of making around 10,000 of these Foxbots per year, as well as industrial robots - Foxconn is also working on medical-orientated robots. Dai added that robotics technology continues to improve, so industrial robots might not be able to completely replace human workers just yet - as human workers can easily switch from task to task, but robots can't do that... yet.

A bunch of fake renders on Microsoft's upcoming Surface Phone have appeared online, with a striking design that I think could be popular - especially in a sea of lookalike smartphones that we've become way too accustomed to.

The renders of the Surface Phone tease a very sharp cornered style, with the rear-camera reportedly hitting 20-megapixels and branded by Carl Zeiss. I'm really digging this look, and I think Microsoft won't play it this left field unfortunately - we'll see something like Google did with Pixel, and make a smartphone that looks ridiculously identical to the iPhone.

But those straight edges on this Surface Phone are rocking my world right now, what about you?

One of the biggest complaints about smartphones is their short battery life, but with the new Gionee M2017 you won't have to worry about that.

The device, available only in China at the moment, comes with a 7,000 mAh battery which is actually two 3,500 mAh batteries in the same body. The company stated that the battery gives you up to 915 hours of battery life in stand-by or up to 25 hours of talk time.

The Gionee M2017 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 653 processor and has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. Other features include dual-SIM, fingerprint sensor and a dual 12MP + 1.3MP camera.

Samsung's S Pen has so far been reserved for their Note Series, but after the Note7 fiasco, the Korean giant might include the Pen with their S Series.

The rumors appear to indicate that Samsung's next flagship, the Galaxy S8, might come with a stylus.

There are many rumors floating around about the Galaxy S8, from the removal of the headphone jack and the physical buttons on the front of the phone to expanding the internal flash storage, and including 6GB of RAM.

Xiaomi has recently freshened up their Redmi Note 4 devices by adding two new colors, blue and black, but it seems that they are now focusing on their Note series.

According to the newest report, the Redmi Note 4X will feature 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The device should be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 653.

The leaked image shows that the rumors about the specs are correct. In the image, you can see the About Phone section, confirming the rumored specs.