Since past month, there have been quite a lot of rumors regarding the upcoming Huawei P8 which is likely to break covers at the 15th of this month at an special event in London. Now further, a tweet from one of the tipster @rquandt has confirmed the existence of this device called as Huawei P8 Lite by showing some of the renders for the device. However, the tipster has said that these are the official renders from the European distributor.
Earlier we has seen the design drawings of the handset getting leaked showing up the dimensions for the device. We would here take back a look at what the device has to offer. The Huawei P8 is likely to have a 5-inch display with 720 x 1280 pixel resolution. Under the hood, there would be powerful Kirin 620 chipset clocked at 1.2GHz. The device would be having a 2GB of RAM memory with 16GB of native internal storage. To its back, the device would be hosting a 13MP of primary camera and the front would be having a 5MP of secondary camera. The handset is said to be just 7.7mm thin and would be weighing 131 grams.
For the time being, enjoy the renders of the handset below.
Chinese handset manufacturer – Vivo, has managed to create much of the buzz in the industry for its upcoming Vivo X5 Pro. The company which currently holds top spot for offering the worlds thinnest handset (Vivo X5 Max) is now all set to release yet another magnificent smart handset. The Vivo X5 is said to be having a front camera capable of shooting 32MP selfies. Additionally the handset is also supposed to have a 2.5D curved glass for its display giving it a different look. Now the company has confirmed the existence of a retina scanner to the handset.
The Vivo X5 Pro is tipped to be having a 6inch display with the powerful Snapdragon 615 chipset on-board. The handset is said to have a superior 3GB of RAM memory. The handset is also said to have a whopping 3200-3500mAh of battery life. The excellent thing will be the presence of the retina scanner security by its camera. However this is not the first handset to come with this technology but it certainly is better option – as compared to the fingerprint scanner seen in most of the flagships this day – offering higher security.
The camera sensor to the front would be employed to trace out the unique blood vessels within the retina offering higher security to the device. We are certainly waiting for an official word from the company and would soon get you with all the official details once they are our way.
Apparently the competition of Apple and Google is not stopping on smartphones only, it is extended to smartwatch. With the Android Wearable and Apple Watch launched recently, each of them has its own strengths and weaknesses and neither one is compatible with the other although there is rumor that Google is working on Android Wear app for iOS. There are a few things that Android can do which cannot be done on Apple Watch.
One of them is that Google allows consumers to design and sell their own custom watch faces for Android Watch whereas Apple Watch only allows 11 watch faces officially, however, it can be more with some complications like using widgets.
To see the time, normally you will need to do a exaggerated motion, which is fine when you are walking down the road but it is a little bit irritating when you are doing something else and you just want to know what time is it while continuing to do your stuff. Android Wear supports an “always-on” feature which switches the device into a low-power state. When the device is in this mode, all the colors are stripped down in order to conserve battery life while keeping it on.
You can receive notification on your Apple Watch from you iPhone by using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. However, both of the devices must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network. With the latest update from Android Wear, you can receive notification on you smartwatch eventhough both devices are not connected in the same Wi-Fi network. Therefore, if you left your smartphone at home, you can still receive notification on your Android Wear provided you can connect to any Wi-Fi network out there.
Recently, SanDisk announced its new microSD card of 200GB capacity for the people who require a lot of space to store data. The newly introduced card is named as SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card Premium Edition.
With the extended storage of 200 GB, it becomes the largest data storing card available in the market to be used in mobile phones.
At the moment, the maximum supported storage of microSD card is 128GB available on mobile phones like Samsung Galaxy S5, LG G3 and HTC One (M8).
Microsoft Lumia 535, an entry-level mobile phone, also features a slot for a 128GB microSD card. SanDisk made it possible to develop a 200GB microSD card by using the technology of 128GB microSD card, and improving its blueprint making the card to install additional bits per die. With a 90Mbps transfer rate, in a minute customers can move 1200 photos.
Vice president of the SanDisk, Christopher Chute, stated that 70% of pictures captured today are done through a tablet or a smartphone. It is expected that by 2019, this percentage will reach 90% and for that users would need extra storage capacity. This is where SanDisk will be coming.
The SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition with 200 GB data storage capacity, will arrive in the second quarter of this year with a price tag of $399.99.
The card has a warranty of ten years. The card will also allow to store FHD video of nearly 20 hours. Every card would be magnet proof, temperature proof, waterproof, and X-ray proof which simply means that user’s memories will stay save no matter what.
FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO – Google, which has been expanding far beyond its original business of Internet search advertising, is changing its operating structure by creating a new holding company called Alphabet.
The company says its new structure will give more independence to many of its wide-ranging and ambitious projects.
Under the plan announced Monday, Alphabet will be comprised of the core Google business — including Internet search, mapping and YouTube — along with newer businesses that will be managed separately, such as Google Fiber, Nest and the investment arm Google Ventures.
Google CEO Larry Page will become CEO of the new entity, with his co-founder Sergey Brin serving as president. Longtime Google executive Sundar Pichai, who has taken on increasingly important roles at the company in recent years, will be CEO of the core Google business.
The change may give investors a clearer picture of how much Google is spending on some of its newer ventures, like its effort to build a self-driving car, develop a glucose-sensing contact lens or install high-speed Internet fiber networks in a number of U.S. cities, said Colin Gillis, an investment analyst at BGC Partners.
But it may not signal much change in the current management structure, since Pichai has already been overseeing many of Google's core operations, Gillis said.
Google Inc. said its new chief financial officer, Ruth Porat, will hold the same title for both Google and Alphabet. Once the reorganization is complete, the company says its two existing classes of publicly traded stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbols "GOOG" and "GOOGL."
The Mountain View, California, company's stock was up about 5 percent in after-hours trading following the announcement Monday afternoon.
How to turn your phone into a 3D hologram projector
Ever wondered how to make a 3D hologram? Follow these simple steps to create a simple hologram using your smartphone, via YouTuberMrwhosetheboss.
The video author used his smartphone and basic household materials to project a ghostly 3D image floating about the phone's display, thanks to a specialised four-way holographic video.
You will need:
Graph paper
A CD case
A pen
A pair of scissors
Sellotape or superglue
A craft knife or glass cutter
Your smartphone
How to make the projector:
Sketch out a basic trapezoid shape on the graph paper using the dimensions 1xm x 3.5cm x 6cm.
Snap off the shallow sides of the CD case and carefully trace around the paper template to cut the shape into the transparent plastic. Repeat four times.
Tape the four shapes together, with the longest sides facing the top of the structure.
Select the holograph-specific video you'd like to project - this is a good example.
Place the shape over a video playing on your smartphone to create a mirrored, 3D hologram.
Holograms have yet to fully make the leap from science fiction to mainstream consumer use. Amazon's Fire Phone was touted to be the first smartphone with fully holographic capabilities, thanks to four ultra-low power specialised cameras and four infrared LEDs within the display. The resulting effect is more of creating the impression the image you're looking at is shifting as you move your head, rather than a projected image.
Microsoft unveiled its augmented reality headset HoloLens in January, which overlays holograms into your real-time environment. Users can create their own holograms within the company’s HoloStudio and 3D print the finished result.
Alex Kipman, who was one of the key developers behind the Xbox’s Kinect sensor, said the HoloLens was the “first fully untethered holographic computer".
9to5Mac obtained images of what appears to be the iPhone 6sPhoto: 9to5Mac
Few events work the technology world into a frenzy quite like an iPhone launch, and this year's anticipated event looks set to be no exception. Read on for the latest rumours, features and specs circulating the internet.
When will it be launched?
There is a significant size difference between the iPhone 5s (L), launched September 2013, and iPhone 6 Plus (R), launched September 2014
New iPhone launches have settled into a regular schedule which sees new models each September. For several years we have seen a major update every other year, with more incremental improvements carrying s or c monikers. For instance, in September 2012 we got an all-new iPhone 5, followed by the updated iPhone 5s and 5c in September 2013.
The new handset is likely to be launched during a keynote speech by Apple chief executive Tim Cook, with additional speeches from senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller and senior vice president of internet software and services Eddy Cue, who helped to showcase the 6 and 6 Plus last year.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was announced on September 9, 2014, the 5s and 5c on September 10, and the 5 on September 12, so the second week in September is a good bet. The last two events have been on a Tuesday and the 5's announcement was a Wednesday, so September 8 or 9 appears the most likely announcement date. According to reports, Wednesday September 9 has been pencilled in.
The new model will run iOS 9, the newest version of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch software which was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June.
Updates and features include Siri becoming more proactive in recognising your behaviour, longer battery life and improvements to existing apps including Maps and Notes. The new News app aims to provide an experience akin to reading a magazine, with big glossy visuals.
What will it be called?
A popular concept image for the iPhone 6
Good question. Going by the above pattern, and assuming that Apple keeps a small (4.7-inch) and large (5.5-inch) version, designating the latter 'Plus', we'll have the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.
However, there are also rumours that we will get a third phone this year - an iPhone 6c. Earlier in May Apple appeared to leak a picture of what could be the iPhone 6c on its site - what looked like an updated iPhone 5c with an Touch ID sensor on its home button. However, it's more likely this was a poorly-rendered picture of an original 5c, and the image has since been removed from the site.
Despite all this, Apple could choose to buck its own naming convention and go straight in with the iPhone 7. We'll just have to wait to find out.
When will it go on sale?
The iPhone 6s' sale date has been given away in a leaked internal email from Vodafone. The email reveals the newest handset will go on sale on September 25, with pre-orders being accepted from September 18. The memo, seen by Mobile News, does not clarify the exact name of the model, called simply 'the new iPhone'.
If it is announced on September 8 or 9, this release date would tally with the usual pattern of an announcement in the second week of September, followed by a release two weeks later.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple has asked its suppliers to producea record number of new models - between 85 million and 90 million compared to last year's 70-80 million, suggesting strong faith the new generation of iPhones will outsell its predecessors.
One thing we can expect is to see the return of the queues snaking around Apple stores across the globe. For the launch of the Apple Watch, Apple decided on a soft 'online-only' launch, meaning the April 24 date effectively only meant some models started shipping that day and were not available to buy in the shops. Retail chief Angela Ahrendts told staff in a memo seen by the Telegraph that not every new Apple product would be launched in this manner. "We all love those blockbuster Apple product launch days - and there will be many more to come," she said.
So regardless of when the new phone goes on sale, we're likely to see the same old faces at the head of the queues.
What new features can we expect?
How designer Martin Hajek envisions a home button-less iPhone
The Taptic Engine and Force Touch from the new MacBook and Apple Watch are rumoured to be making an appearance on the new iPhone, giving users new ways of interacting with their handset. Force Touch detects how hard the user is pressing and allows different actions to be carried out accordingly. Press the fast-forward button in a video player, and you can vary the speed at which it skips by pressing lighter or harder, for instance.
In late June it was reported that initial production had started on two 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones, both equipped with Force Touch technology.
The next version of the iPhone will see the “biggest camera jump ever”, offering quality to rival a DSLR, according to blogger John Gruber. He reported in November that the new device would include a "weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.” What exactly the “two lens” system refers to is unclear, and is likely to remain so until the launch. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities claims the next camera will receive a welcome bump up to 12MP, with the front camera capable of recording 1080p video at 60fps, 240fps in slow motion mode and flash support.
According to research from Barclays, the 6s will sport a new near-field communication (NFC) NXP 66VP2 chip, up from the 65V10 used in the 6 and 6 Plus. Another new STMicro chip is also likely for inclusion, which could be used for any function requiring data security, including soft SIM, health or biometric data, secure multimedia streaming, Enterprise authentication, or Automotive.
The composition of the iPhone 6 camera lens
Sapphire glass - a scratch resistant material used in screens - is another likely feature. It was widely slated for an appearance on the iPhone 6 butmanufacturing problems reportedly got in the way.
There could also be a new processor - the A9 - produced by Samsung. It will be smaller, faster and use less power, just as you'd expect from a new chip. The current A8 series use a 20nm process and the new ones would use 14nm. RAM is also likely to be upgraded to 2GB from the current 1GB.
One unusual update could be a safety feature that uses the vibrating motor, "air foils" or ejecting batteries to spin the handset in mid-air if it's dropped and ensure that it always lands screen-up. The company claims that this will reduce the chance of cracked displays, and has been granted a patent on the idea.
Another rumour that has persisted for some time is the idea of Apple doing away with the home button altogether, to create a more streamlined device with a larger display. To do so, however, the company would have to find a way of integrating its Touch ID technology into the entire display, rather than just within the home button's sensor.
Apple has filed numerous patents around this, including one which would allow the phone's display to identify multiple fingerprints at once. It's pretty unlikely we'll see this development in iPhones for a couple of years, however.
Another feature that may take a few years to make it into final models is Apple replacing the iPhone's current LED-backlit Multi-Touch display with a new organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen - also used in the Apple Watch. It effectively means we could see flexible-screened iPhones by 2018 as suppliers are already working towards production of the new displays, according to reports.
We've known that Apple has been interested in bendy devices for a while now - several patents have been granted in recent years.
What will it look like?
Images of what is claimed to be the iPhone 6s were leaked to 9to5Mac in early July, showing internal and external views of silver metal casing, which looks very similar to the anodised aluminium used in the iPhone 6. However, in reality this could be the Series 7000 aluminium alloy used for the Apple Watch Sport - a new strengthened composite.
9to5Mac obtained images of what appears to be the iPhone 6s
The casing appears to be the same width as the 6, suggesting Apple is indeed planning to keep to the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch dimension precedent.
iPhone 6s schematics: slightly thicker than the 6
However, schematics leaked by a source with a Chinese supply line toEngadget Japan suggests the iPhone 6s will be 0.2mm thicker than its predecessor at 7.1mm, a potential concession to Force Touch given the capactive glass surface and the internal taptic engine used within the recently-released 12-inch MacBook and refreshed 15-inch MacBook Pro.
How Force Touch works within a MacBook trackpad
A small rectangular hole cut into what appears to be the underside of an iPhone 6s display panel (according to 9to5Mac) could be a space for the taptic engine required for Force Touch.
The small rectangular hole in the underside of what could be the iPhone 6s' display panel
Steve Hemmerstoffer of Nowwhereelse.fr has sourced what appears to be CAD renderings of the purported iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, with the same dimensions of 7.1mm thickness. The 6S Plus appears to be 7.3mm thick, extending to 7.8mm thanks to the protruding camera.
CAD renders obtained by Uswitch suggest the same dimensions
The mounting points are in a slightly different position
Internally the frame sports newly-located mounting points to support a new logic board. The speaker holes, headphone jack, microphone and lightning charging ports remain in the same places.
The camera may still enjoy an internal upgrade, but the hardware looks to be the same size as the iPhone 6
The charging port remains in the same place
Designer Antonio De Rosa envisions the next iPhone as taking on theApple Watch's digital crown on its right hand side - an unlikely but nonetheless good-looking concept.
Will the next iPhone sport a digital crown? Almost definitely not.
Designer Martin Hajek's vision of a rose gold iPhone, pictured next to a rose gold Apple Watch Edition
Is this what the iPhone 6s will look like?: in pictures
Apple's iPhone: a history in pictures
Kuo again claims the iPhone 6s will come in a new rose gold hue, and that Apple is planning to stick to the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch size conventions established by the 6 and 6 Plus, scotching previous rumours a 4-inch version was in development.
Chief executive Tim Cook has said that the company takes Chinese consumer tastes into account when it designs many of its products, and considers details including colour palettes to suit local tastes. The decision to offer a gold iPhone in 2013 reflects in part the popularity of that color among Chinese users, he added.
It's unknown whether the new model would be rose gold-coloured anodised aluminium, like the current iPhone 6 and 6 Plus' gold option, or actual 18-carat rose gold like the luxury Edition Apple Watch, which is priced from £8,000.
How the new iPhone 6s line up could look
Apple filed a patent which could potentially see the end of the thin plastic strips which run across the width of the iPhone 5 upwards back in December 2013. The filing, which was published on June 18, details how the company is developing a metal composite to replace the plastic strips, which are necessary for the phone's antenna to send and receive signal. Future iPhones could see a complete anodised alumnium unibody design.
