Author: chris eilers

Lenovo surprised many with the launch of the Lenovo S90, a complete iPhone 6 lookalike. Now it seems like Lenovo did it again and takes a lot of inspiration from the iPhone 5C Series with their newest phone.

This new Lenovo model was found by users, through the certification of the network license (TENAA) in China for the new Lenovo phone. As you can see in those pictures the new Lenovo phone, is not a exact copy, but comes very close to the iPhone 5C. Similiar to the iPhone 5C, it will come in different colors like cherry pink, lemon yellow etc.

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What is really surprising is that Apple seems not to take any legal action so far. The main reason might be that the iPhone 6 clone Lenovo S90 and the Lenovo iPhone 5C Lookalike are just sold in China so far. Now more and more resellers are offering the phones though, so this might change soon.

In terms of specs this Lenovo iPhone 5C Lookalike to be very similiar to the Lenovo S90 Sisley. It comes with a HD 5″ screen, 1.2Ghz Snapdragon 64BIT 410 processor and 1GB of RAM. It uses a 13MP Rear Camera and a 5MP Front Camera and Dual Sim Support.

This new iPhone 5C Lookalike from Lenovo will also get LTE and will come with a price tag of very affordable 699 Yuan, that is 400RM or 115USD.

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In a new interview with ZOL Mr. Li Nan, vice president of technology Meizu, said that on Monday will announce a new Meizu phone. Could this be the long awaited low-cost Meizu K52 that we reported about earlier?

Before the Meizu MX4 Launch in September this year, Meizu annouced that they are going to launch monthly new high class models. Up till now we have just seen the Meizu MX4 and the Meizu MX4 Pro launching. This is understandable since not even Meizu could have forecasted the huge demand for the Meizu MX4 and Meizu MX4 Pro. Meizu got more then 7Million PreOrders for MX4 Pro alone.

With the recent news and benchmarks about a low-cost Flagship from Meizu, Meizu K52, it is very likely that Meizu will announce this on Monday. The Meizu K52 comes wuth OctaCore 64BIT MT6752 LTE CPU, 2GB of RAM and Full HD Screen. It might have also Dual Sim, but the best thing is really the expected price of of 1000 Yuan, 570RM.

So lets wait till Monday 8.12 to see the big news from Meizu. We are really looking forward to a  potential low-cost Meizu K52 that will directly target the Xiaomi Redmi Series.

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Finally we get good news from Xiaomi. It seems that Xiaomi is planning to launch their newest FlagShip the Xiaomi MI5 with Snapdragon 810, as early as CES 2015 in Las Vegas next month, January 2015.

The plans of Xiaomi to launch the Xiaomi MI5 already on the CES 2015 and to enter the US Market were first reported by the Chinese Economic Daily News and Digitime and later confirmed by Forbes.  This entry in the US Market would mean a major step for the Chinese Manufacturer, which is already the third biggest smartphone manufacturer globally after Apple and Samsung.

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If we judge by the specs of the current flagship, the Xiaomi Mi4, the Xiaomi MI5 will definitely set new industry standards. According to Industry Analyst Sun Changxu the Xiaomi Mi5 will be one of the first smartphones to sport the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Octa Core Processor with the extreme powerful Adreno 430GPU. Additionally the Xiaomi Mi5 will get a huge 5.7″ 2K Screen and Fingerprint Scanner on board. The Xiaomi MI5 will also get a 20.7MP Camera, most likely the same Sony Exmor in the Meizu MX4.

According to the reports Xiaomi will keep the pricing for the Xiaomi MI5 stable at 1999 Yuan or 326 USD off contract in the US, which would make the Xiaomi Mi5 with Snapdragon 810 definitely one of the best deals on the market. It is not unrealistic that Xiaomi will sport the Snapdragon 810 OctaCore Cpu. According to QualComm the Snapdragon 810, will start shipping officially early 2015. Earlier we saw the first development devices with Snapdragon 810 already on Sale for Manufacturers and developers, so its entirely possible that we will see the Xiaomi MI5 with Snapdragon 810 in January already. 

According to Xiaomi’s CEO it was always the plan to dominate other markets, outside China “You can certainly call this an acceleration. It’s our mission and our belief that this model should be able to achieve some level of success outside of China.”

If Xiaomi really plans their market entry to the US in January 2015 with their newest Flagship Xiaomi MI5 this is a huge step in catching up with Apple and Samsung in the Smartphone Market. Moreover a Xiaomi 5.7″ 2K Smartphone with Snapdragon 810 for 326USD would set new standards and would be awesome for the customers.

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If there is a time to be excited about smartphones then it is clearly now. A 64BIT LTE Smartphone with 3GB of RAM for 1000 Yuan – Well Done Jiayu S3!

Jiayu has been creating the S3 over the last few month and has been quite open about specs and design. The only information we were missing was the launch date and the most important piece – the price!
Today Jiayu announced the price for the Jiayu S3, that will come with 64BIT Mediatek Processor, 4G LTE and 3GB of RAM. The Jiayu S3 will come in two different versions, the 2GB RAM version witout NFC for 899 yuan and the 3GB Version with NFC for 999 Yuan. Those are the prices in China at Launch, so it might cost a bit more at international resellers – but still a very good deal!

The Jiayu S3 further boasts a 5.5″ 1080p Full HD display, Dual Sim, 13MP Sony IMX214 Camera with Dual Flash and 3000mAH battery. The Jiayu phone has 16GB internal memory and is extendable via Micro SD.

Design wise the Jiayu phone definitely does no need to hide. The Jiayu S3 is quite sleek and 8.9mm thick. The overall width of the phone is just at 75.5mm which is very good for a 5.5″ device.

The only detail we are still missing is the actual launch date now. Jiayu says the S3 Flagship will launch on early January. What do you think about the Jiayu S3? We cant wait to actually test it!

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The Huawei Honor 6 Plus biggest selling point is for sure the Dual 8MP Rear Cameras. Huawei is not shy of boasting this function and comparing the functions to other flagships like iPhone 6Plus, Note and HTC One M8.

The Huawei Honor 6Plus has two 8MP Cameras on its backside, one for regular taking for pictures and the second camera for recording of depth perception information. With the extra data about depth, Huawei’s Camera algorithm can determine which objects are close and which ones are far away from you. Most probably this will give the users some awesome ways to play around with their pictures. Additionally it will be able to take 3D pictures as well, similiar to HTC’s Dual Rear Camera.

Here the original picture taken with the Honor 6 Plus before any Modifications

Here is the same image after applying Focus Function, which automatically detected the foreground and blurred the background.

As well you can very easily change the point of focus and could blur out the object in front, to focus on the moutains in the background.

You can tap anywhere on the image to change the point of focus — if we for some reason wanted to blur our extraordinarily handsome subject and focus on the area behind him,

Huawei also gives us some Proof Shoots to compare their Honor 6 Plus to the competition of Apple, HTC and Samsung. Additionally the Honor 6Plus will get new makeover with Aircraft Grade Aluminum Metal. But Have a look at the comparison pics yourself.

We already know that the Huawei Honor 6 Plus is going to launch on 16th December. What do you think of this Camera Centric Beast?

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Xiaomi is at the moment the clear Number 1 Smartphone Seller in China and Number 3 Worldwide. For sure China has quite strong competition for Xiaomi with Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE. Up till Meizu launched the Meizu MX4 and MX4 Pro, we did not have the feeling that anyone could come close to Xiaomi’s Price and Spec Level though.

Meizu is competing fiercely with Xiaomi. In newest reports the low-cost Meizu K52 will compete directly with the Xiaomi Redmi 1S and Redmi NOTE Series, which are selling like hotcakes globally. 2015 will be sure very interesting with intense competition in the chinese market.

A few days ago Chinese Analyst Sun Changxu, shared some very interesting details about an alleged Xiaomi MI5 coming up. According to him the Xiaomi MI5 will come with 2K QHD Display, Snapdragon 810 Octa-Core CPU with Adreno 430GPU. All of this awesome specs for 1999 yuan as the current Xiaomi Mi4. This is a bit hard to believe, but after all it’s Xiaomi!

After that it did not take long till we heard first rumors about the Meizu MX5, the direct competition of the Xiaomi Mi5. The first Concepts of the MX5 appeared on the chinese news-site Weibo and were posted by the Android Engineer @Deelie. According to this reports the MX4 will sport a 2K display, Fingerprint Scanner, and wait for 41 Megapixel Nokia Rear Camera!

What do we make of these news? While we know that the Meizu MX4 and MX4 Pro are very camera centric, a 41MP Nokia Camera on the Meizu MX5 seems a bit hard to believe. But then again who thought Meizu could be serious competiton for Xiaomi before the Meizu MX4? Lets sit back and wait for more news on the launch!

Following the news and rumors there is new information on the HTC M9 Specs and Hardware which will launch probably in Q1 2015.

According to MyDrivers the HTC M9 will get a QHD 2K 5.5″ Screen and will sport a Snapdragon 805 processor with 3GB of RAM. The Camera will be upgraded from 5Ultra Pixel now to a 16MP Camera with OIS and it will run on Android Lollipop. A bit disappointing here, that we will not see the Snapdragon 810 on the M9, but after all these specs might not be the finished version.

If you combine those specs with an elegant Aircraft Grade Aluminium Design, this sounds like a very good deal. Additionally the M9 is allegedley getting Dual Front Speakers an BOSE Sound to complete the package. The Phone will be sold in three different versions.

Lets see how large the HTC ONE M9 will be though. The trend is clearly going to >5.5″. With Dual Front BoomSound Speakers, 5.5″ Screen the M9 might likely get bigger compared to the HTC ONE M8. That is one critique point that many users had compared from the M7 to the HTC ONE M8.

Xiaomi’s new Redmi NOTE 4G is going on Sale officially the first time next thursday 11th December at Xiaomi’s Official Mi Store.
The Xiaomi Redmi 4G will retail at a price of RM589. That is 80RM more then their current Xiaomi Redmi Model without LTE.

Xiaomi changed the Redmi Note 4G version compared to the current Redmi Note version. The biggest change on the new Redmi Note is the Snapdragon 400 Quadcore Processor clocked at 1.6GHZ instead of the Mediatek Octa-Core proessor in the current Note. Also the Redmi Note 4G will have only a Single Sim Slot, instead of the Dual Sim on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3G.

The Rest of the Specs of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G stay the same with 13MP Rear Camera and 5MP Front Shooter, 2GB RAM and a huge 3200mAh Battery, to power the big 5.5″ 720p Display.

Infographic Xiaomi Redmi Note vs Galaxy Note 3Neo

Which Note do you like more? Do you rather keep the Mediatek Octa Core Processor and Dual Sim or get LTE 4G and the Quad-Core Snapdragon 400? If you decide to buy the new Redmi Note 4G be prepared for next thursday.

Asus is definitely a force to cope with, especially the Asus Zenfone Series is very popular in the low- to mid-tier segment. So far Asus has been using only Intel Chips for their Zenfone Series. This seems to be about to change with the newest Asus X002 using Mediatek’s 64BIT LTE CPU.

Mediatek is currently the dominant CPU for 64BIT in mass production and it seems Asus is adopting the 64BIT trend with their new Asus X002. As you can see on the pictures design wise the new Asus phone will be very similiar to the current Asus Zenfone Series with a very classic, nearly understated design.

As you can also see on GFX Bench the New Asus phone will include the 64BIT MEdiatek MT6732 clocked at 1.5GHZ, a 5.0″ display with HD resolution, 8Megapixel Rear Shooter and 5MP FrontShooter. OF course the 64BIT Mediatek is from the newest generation and will support 4G LTE, 3G and GSM Networks. The Asus X002 will have 2GB RAM and will run on Android 4.4.1. Asus is relatively fast with the updates on Android L for their Zenfone Series.

What do you think about this switch from Asus from Intel processors to 64BIT Mediatek?

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Yesterday we reported that Meizu is working on a new Low-Cost phone with 64Bit Mediatek CPU and LTE that could be launched this month already for RM580 (165USD). With that in mind, we might have already Meizu K52 Benchmarks from Geekbench.

We know already that Meizu has a very close connection with the Taiwanese Mediatek SOC producer. The popular Meizu MX4 was the first smartphone to sport the powerful Octa-Core MT6595 for example. Meizu MX4 won the Antutu Top List with that processor, even before Galaxy Note 4.

Probably Meizu’s new Low-Cost Meizu K52 will further cement this collaboration with Mediatek and could sport the 64BIT Octa Core MT6752. Now a report appeared on Geekbench about a mystery phone with Android Lollipop 5.0 and sporting exactly this MT6752 processor appeared.

The test of the phone show a very strong multi-score of 4260. The OnePlus One for example, could just achieve 2689 points on Android Lollipop 5.0 for the same test. Of course this is just a benchmark and we can expect the Snapdragon 801 on the OnePLus One still to be stronger in many applications.

We yet have to see if this is really the new Meizu K52 64BIT phone for RM580 in this benchmark, but it is very likely. We know for sure though that Mediatek is upping their game and really look forward to some exciting Mediatek powered phones for 2015.

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Earlier in November we reported about the Honor 6X getting certification in China already. Now Huawei announced to launch the new Huawei Honor 6 on 16th of December, most probably as the Honor 6 Plus.

The phone specs leaked already on ANTUTU pre Launch. The Huawei Honor 6 Plus will sport Huawei’s own Kirin 925 Chipset, with 1.8 GHz 8-Core CPU and a powerful Mali-T628 GPU. The Kirin 925 has four Cortex A15 cores and four Cortex A7 cores. Huawei’s Kirin CPU’s are actually quite strong in terms of raw processing power.

The Kirin 920 in the Honor 6 was able to beat the Snapdragon 801 easily in Benchmarks, was lacking in the GPU department though. Lets hope the new GPU will be stronger. Other specs include a 5.5″ screen with Full HD resolution of 1920×1080. Also you get 3GB of RAM and LTE Cat.6 networks support.

The main attraction and unique selling point of the Honor 6 Plus is the Dual Rear Camera Setup though. The Honor 6 Plus will get two 8MP Rear Cameras with Dual LED FLash. We need to wait till launch to see how the Dual Cameras are integrated, but it could be like HTC DUO Camera with extra depth-of-field effect or 3D effect for your pictures.

According to the Chinese Media the Huawei Honor 6 Plus will be priced at 3299 Yuan, which is around 536 USD or 1840RM and would be a strategy change for Huawei. At the moment the Honor Brand is for the more affordable and hip smartphone series and 536USD is quite expensive, especially compared to the competition of Meizu and Xiaomi.

After having quite some troubles with their K3V2 CPU, Huawei own produced processors the Kirin 910, 920 and 925 have been proven to perform very well. In fact in terms of raw processing power the Kirin 920 can easily beat the Snapdragon 801.

However all of those Kirin Processors are 32-Bit, while the 64 Bit CPU’s are fast getting the standard in smartphones. Today Huawei released a very interesting picture on their Micro Blog. Judging by the picture we may seen Huawei’s first 64Bit Processor very soon.

In the picture Huawei uses two walnuts with a big Number 64 next to it. Very likely this is hinting at new Huawei 64Bit CPU Launch and of course this CPU might run on big.LITTLE technology.

A lot of users on Huawei’s blog are suspecting to see the new Huawei 64BIT CPU launch n the Honor Play 4X first. The Honor 4X is a midrange model, so probably the Huawei 64 BIT CPU performance will not be Flagship type and Huawei’s is testing the waters first with their first CPU in that range.

The launch of the new Huawei 64BIT CPU will be on 3rd December in two days time.