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Lenovo has appointed Qingtong Zhou, the current head of strategy and planning, as the company’s new chief information officer (CIO). Zhou replaces Xiaoyan Wang, who becomes senior vice president of a newly created, yet-to-be-named, centralized services organization.
Lenovo announced that both of the executives will report directly to Lenovo Chairman and CEO, Yang Yuanqing. Ken Wong, formerly vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific Emerging Markets region, has been named vice president, strategy and planning, succeeding Zhou. With Wong’s move, Lenovo’s Asia Pacific Emerging Markets (APEM) region and Asia Pacific Mature Markets (APMM) region will be combined into one organization, headed by Rod Lappin, currently vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific Mature markets.
Combining the APEM and APEM regions will help ensure that the company continues to realize greater synergies of scale, increased operational efficiencies and a portfolio balanced for profitability and growth. Lenovo claims that these leadership changes are expected to accelerate its transformation efforts following the recent acquisitions of Motorola Mobility and IBM’s x86 server business, and the formation of ShenQi, a new company in China established by Lenovo to focus on the mobile devices market. ShenQi will take the lead as Lenovo pursues new opportunities in the rapidly ...
HTC's upcoming flagship phone One M9 has been leaked again. This time the phone that is expected to be announced on March 1st at MWC, is spotted in the Dot View case model from HTC.
The leaked image shows the camera and LED flash placement on the One M9. Previous leaks had shown that the phone has rear camera that has a square module than a round one which is seen for the dual camera. The Dot View case looks similar to the ones seen last year and is expected to come in yellow and turquoise colors.
Leaks from last month had showed HTC might launch the One M9 in two variants and also it will have the BoomSound speakers at top and bottom of the display. HTC One M9 is expected to sport a 5-inch 1080p display, a 20.7-megapixel rear-facing camera, an UltraPixel front-facing camera, Snapdragon’s next-generation 810 processor (with 8 cores), 3 GB of RAM, and a 2,840 mAh battery.
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An unidentified smartphone from Sony has been seen on the GFX benchmark. The listing shows the mid range device that has a model number - E2003/E2033.
As per the benchmark listing the phone will sport a 4.6” display with a 540 x 960 resolution, a quad-core 64-bit MediaTek MT6752 with an ARM Mali-T760 GPU, 1GB RAM, a microSD memory card slot to complement the 8GB of internal memory. It will run on Android 4.4.4 KitKat and have a 5MP shooter at the back that does Full HD video recording, a 2MP front-facing camera and also support 4G LTE.
Xperia E4, a budget smartphone from Sony had leaked in December and is touted to be unveiled at MWC. The E2003/E2033 mid ranger might also be announced along with the Xperia E4 at the event.
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We have seen ample amount of leaks and reports about the upcoming Galaxy S6 smartphone from Samsung. A latest leak shows the Galaxy S6 in schematics giving details about the dimension of the phone.
The Galaxy S6 will be 6.91mm thin as per the schematic images. Full dimensions of the phone are said to be 143mm x 70.8mm x 6.91mm thin and the thickness is similar to that of the iPhone 6 which measures 138.1mm x 67mm x 6.9mm. It looks like Samsung has reduced the thickness of the Galaxy S6 since the Galaxy S5 measures 142mm x 72.5mm x 8.1 mm.
Another leak shows the phone is encompassed in a case designed by Verus. As per the images, the phone has a camera bump on the back along with the LED flash and heart rate monitor to the side of the camera sensor. We can also see separate volume up and down buttons buttons on the left hand side.
Samsung Galaxy S6 will be launched on March 1st at MWC in March. It is expected to have, Samsung Galaxy S6 is said to come with 5.5-inch QHD display with 1440×2560 pixels resolution, Snapdragon 810/Exynos 7420 chipset, 20MP rear camera, and 5MP front facing camera. An earlier ...
Google has updated Maps for Android with new features. The company is adding integration for Local Guides service that has users reviewing local businesses and share them with others.
Google renamed the City Expert program to Local Guides last month. It is a platform where Google asks users to provide more high-quality reviews and add photos about places. The move from Google is to compete with the likes of Yelp, Urbanspoon, and others. Users who are contributing to Local Guides are rewarded by Google for their reviews. Guides climb the ranks by the number of reviews they add and a local badge appears after completing 50 reviews.
At this point of time, it looks like Google is interested in number of reviews and not the quality of it. Interested users can sign up to the Local Guides page here and start reviewing. The latest update bumps Google Maps to version 9.4. Last month Google Maps received voice lane guidance in 20 Indian cities and prior to this Maps for iOS and Android were updated with Material Design.
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Microsoft has updated Office Lens for Windows Phone that allows users to convert pictures of paper documents into PDF files. Users can also convert Word and PowerPoint files to PDF with Office Lens.
The Office Lens app is updated to version 1.4.3727.0. Users will have to click a photo of the document that needs to be scanned via their Windows Phone and then click Save followed by the PDF option. A PDF file is automatically saved to your OneDrive, so you can access it on any device,
"PDF conversion by Office Lens includes OCR (optical character recognition), so you can extract text information from pictures. You can search the content in a file with the text and you can also highlight or copy part of the page (depending on the capability your PDF reader app)."
posted Office on company blog.
In addition, Office Lens has also introduced a new feature called as auto-classifier. Built using machine learning technology, it analyzes what you have captured and automatically switches to the best mode. Launched in March last year, Office Lens enables Windows Phone users to go paperless by converting images of whiteboards and documents into Word and PowerPoint files, and saves the images to OneNote. In December Office Lens ...
Xiaomi introduced the Redmi 2 smartphone, the second generation budget smartphone in the Redmi series in China last month. The Redmi 2 packs a faster 64-bit Snapdragon processor and also comes with 4G LTE connectivity, compared to the Redmi 1S that has Snapdragon 400 SoC and 3G connectivity. We managed to get one from China, here is the unboxing.
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Box Contents
Xiaomi Redmi 2 in Dark gray
2-pin charger
Micro USB cable
2200mAh battery
User manual
Coming to the specifications, the Redmi 2 has a 4.7-inch HD screen similar to the Redmi and Redmi 1S, but this looks better and has narrow bezels compared to its predecessor. It runs on MIUI v6 on top of Android 4.4 (KitKat) and is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916 ) 64-bit processor with Adreno 305 GPU. It has Dual SIM support with 4G LTE support in both the SIMs that includes TDD B40 2300MHz and FDD B3 1800MHz bands for India.
The design of the smartphone is similar to the Redmi and the Redmi 1S smartphones. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has 1GB RAM, 8GB internal with expansion slot, but the company has promised to release 2GB RAM variant with 16GB of internal storage.
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Lenovo has appointed Qingtong Zhou, the current head of strategy and planning, as the company’s new chief information officer (CIO). Zhou replaces Xiaoyan Wang, who becomes senior vice president of a newly created, yet-to-be-named, centralized services organization.
Lenovo announced that both of the executives will report directly to Lenovo Chairman and CEO, Yang Yuanqing. Ken Wong, formerly vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific Emerging Markets region, has been named vice president, strategy and planning, succeeding Zhou. With Wong’s move, Lenovo’s Asia Pacific Emerging Markets (APEM) region and Asia Pacific Mature Markets (APMM) region will be combined into one organization, headed by Rod Lappin, currently vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific Mature markets.
Combining the APEM and APEM regions will help ensure that the company continues to realize greater synergies of scale, increased operational efficiencies and a portfolio balanced for profitability and growth. Lenovo claims that these leadership changes are expected to accelerate its transformation efforts following the recent acquisitions of Motorola Mobility and IBM’s x86 server business, and the formation of ShenQi, a new company in China established by Lenovo to focus on the mobile devices market. ShenQi will take the lead as Lenovo pursues new opportunities in the rapidly ...
Micromax has launched two new feature phones, Joy X1800 and Joy X1850. The main highlight is that these Joy series of smartphones come in pouch packaging rather than box. This is the first ever pouch packaging phones in the Indian market claims Micromax. Both these smartphone have a 1.77-inch (128 x 160 pixels) QQVGA colored screen, dual SIM support, a rear camera, Bluetooth 3.0, expandable memory up to 4GB, FM Radio, Flashlight and more.
Commenting on the launch, Vineet Taneja, CEO, Micromax Informatics Limited, said,
We introduce products which offer great value to the consumers. With the launch of Joy series, we have taken a lead yet again by offering a unique combination of innovative packaging and great value through our offerings.
The Micromax Joy X1800 has a durable body, dust-proof keypad and packs a 750mAh battery that promises standby time of up to 235 hours and 3 hours of talk time. The Micromax Joy X1850 has a 1800 mAh battery that promises 25 days standby and 7.5h talk time.
The Micromax Joy X1800 is priced at Rs. 699 and is already on sale, while the Micromax Joy X1850 comes at a price tag ofRs. 749 and would go on sale across India in ...
As Samsung's March 1st Unpacked 2015 event gets closer several leaks regarding the upcoming Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have started flowing. CNET Korea have got hold of images of both the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Edge smartphones with and without cases. We had seen several leaks of the Galaxy S6 earlier from the case markers and the design schematics that were leaked recently revealed that the Galaxy S6 would be just 6.91mm thin.
The new leak also reveals the Galaxy S6 Edge's curved edge screen that is curved on both the sides that was already rumored. The rear camera with LED flash and the heart rate sensor are clearly visible in both the smartphones. According to these images both the smartphones might come with metal build, similar to the Galaxy A series, however the sides and edges are curved compared to sharp edges on the A series smartphones.
According to earlier rumors the Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge are rumored to come with a 5.5-inch Quad HD displays, Snapdragon 810/Exynos 7420 chipset, 20MP rear camera and a Touch based finger print scanner on the home button.
We should wait till the announcement to find out if Samsung plans to bring metallic unibody design to ...
Lava has launched the Iris X8, the company's latest smartphone in officially, a day after it was revealed on Flipkart. It has 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Lava promises Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for the smartphone It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 3-megapixel front-facing camera.
It has dual SIM support with smart swap technology that allows the user to switch SIMs on the go, without the need to restart the handset. It packs 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal storage with expansion slot and a 2500mAh battery. It has Smart Wake-up and Gesture controls which allows consumers to directly jump to applications from the locked screen.
Commenting on the launch Navin Chawla, Vice President & Head Product, LAVA International said,
We are proud to announce the launch of a new member to the hugely popular Iris X series. Over the last one year we have been strengthening our smartphone portfolio under Iris sub brand and have launched some great devices under the X series. The Iris X8 has been carefully designed after understanding requirements of consumers who are looking for a good looking powerful smartphone which allows ...
Samsung launched the Galaxy A3 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 20,500 and Galaxy A5 for Rs. 25,500. We have already seen unboxing and photo galleries of both the phones, now lets compare the two phones.
The Samsung Galaxy A3 has a 4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) qHD Super AMOLED display and Galaxy A5 on the other hand sports a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display. Both these smartphones are powered by quad-core Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) SoC that has four ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs clocked at 1.19 GHz per core and has Adreno 306 GPU. The A3 has 1GB RAM while A5 comes with a 2GB RAM. Both the phones have 16GB internal memory, expandable up to 64GB with microSD. Both the phones run on Android 4.4.4 KitKat with Touchwiz UI on top.
Both the phones have a 5MP front facing camera along with the proximity and ambient light sensors and earpiece.
Both the phones have a the traditional home button below the display, that is seen on Samsung devices along with the capacitive touch buttons on either sides.
The micro USB port, 3.5mm audio jack and microphone is present below both the phones. The Galaxy A3 measures 30.1 x 65.5 ...
Micromax has announced that it has appointed Shubhajit Sen as its Chief Marketing Officer. He will replace Shubhodip Pal who was the company's CMO since December 2012. Shubhajit Sen previously served as Executive Vice President - Marketing of Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Health Limited for 21 years. He is an Economics graduate from SRCC, Delhi University and an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad. He will focus on leading all marketing efforts for the company across markets while strengthening the overall brand communication, said Micromax.
Last year Micromax appointed Vineet Taneja as the company's CEO who had previously been country Head for IT & Mobile businesses of Samsung India.
Commenting on the appointment, Vineet Taneja, CEO of Micromax Informatics Limited said:
As Micromax opens a new chapter in its growth trajectory, we welcome Shubhajit on board with us as the new CMO. He will prove to be a great asset to the Micromax leadership team. Being one of the best marketing veterans, he has a proven ability to create strategic clarity, drive innovation and growth, ensure disciplined execution, and deliver results. We believe that his passion for technology will help ensure that Micromax continues to deliver innovations that have a great impact on people's lives.
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Almost every handset announced since the launch of the first iPhone back in 2007 has been referred to as the "iPhone killer" or "iPhone copycat" at some point but mostly these claims are unfounded. In the case of the Galaxy Alpha however, Samsung have delivered a handset that shares many hallmarks with Apple's latest iPhone 6 but exactly how close are these two handsets?
The iPhone 6 follows Apple's past design philosophy but is the second largest iPhone ever made (surpassed only by its bigger sibling the iPhone 6 Plus). The front is dominated by a 4.7 inch LED-backlit Retina Display with 750 x 1334 pixels resolution (which equates to approximately 326 pixels per inch density).
In comparison, the Galaxy Alpha also has a 4.7 inch display with 720 x 1280 pixesl resolutions which is roughly 312 pixels per inch density. The key difference between the two however is that the Galaxy Alpha sports a Super AMOLED pentile display - whilst the Super AMOLED technology is market leading, the use of a pentile display detracts away from the quality but despite this, the Galaxy Alpha display appears better than the iPhone 6.
The Galaxy Alpha was announced in August and released in September ...
Xiaomi announced the Redmi 2 smartphone in China last month. It is a budget smartphone from the company that supports 4G LTE connectivity. We have seen the unboxing of the phone and now let's take a detailed look at the hardware of the phone in our photo gallery.
The Xiaomi Redmi 2 has a 4.7-inch HD screen present in Redmi and Redmi 1S, but this is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC. Running on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with MIUI 6 on top, the phone comes with 1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, micro SD support up to 32GB.
It has a 2MP front-facing camera that supports 720P HD video recording and earpiece at the center.
There are three red capacitive buttons below the display for menu, home and back.
The volume rockers and the power button is present on the right side of the phone.
At the top we can see the 3.5mm audio jack.
The primary microphone and the micro USB slot is present at the bottom.
The Redmi 2 has a 8MP rear camera with LED Flash with Omnivision sensor and supports 1080p video recording. Above the camera there is a secondary microphone while the loudspeaker grill is present on the right side of the camera lens.
The removable back cover ...
Samsung launched the Galaxy E5 smartphone in India for Rs. 19,300 and Galaxy E7 for Rs 23,000 last month. We have already seen unboxing and photo galleries of both the phones, now let's compare the hardware of the two phones.
Galaxy E5 sports a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display and the Galaxy E7 on the other hand has a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display. Both these smartphones are powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit processor. The E5 has a 1.5GB RAM while the E7 has 2GB RAM. Both the devices have 16GB of internal storage and expandable up to 64GB with microSD also both the phones run on Android 4.4 KitKat.
Both the phones have 5MP front facing camera along with the proximity and ambient light sensors and the earpiece.
Both the phones have the traditional home button that is seen on Samsung devices along with the capacitive touch buttons on either sides.
Both the phones have primary nano SIM slot, a hybrid SIM / microSD slot and a power button on the right side.
Users can either use the secondary SIM card slot as a nano SIM or as a micro SD card slot.
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It wasn't long ago that HTC was reporting successive losses each quarter but the company's switch to producing more high-quality low-end handsets seems to have paid off with the reporting of their third successive profitable quarter. The comeback started last year and their latest quarter showed increased profits as a result of a growth despite predictions of declines throughout 2014.
Revenue during the quarter grew 12 percent year-on-year to a total of NT$47.9 billion ($1.524 billion( in the fourth quarter but whether the rise is due to increased handset sales or higher margins is uncertain. The back-end of last year saw interest in HTC's lower-end smartphones increase by a significant amount and it's likely that the additional unit sales at the lower-end of the pricing scale contributed a large degree towards to the revenues.
Alongside the increased revenues, the company reported a quarterly net profit of NT$0.5 billion after tax (which equates to NT$0.57 per share) with a gross margin of 20.4% and an operating margin of 0.4%.
Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, said:
“HTC finished the year with a third consecutive quarter of profitability, and is well-positioned to build on that solid platform in the year ahead by ensuring our portfolio is highly ...
Honor may be a young company but they're taking the market by storm by picking up where the Nexus range left off in offering flagship handsets at a very competitive price point. In its short existence, the company has managed to sell 30 million handsets with their current flagships - the Honor 6 and Honor 6 Plus - offering premium specs with an affordable price tag.
Yet to truly make a mark, you need a fan-base of ardent followers who are actively engaged with the brand and Honor is adopting this strategy in a bid to challenge the established brands. At last week's 100 Days of Honor event in London which saw the Honor Holly launched in Europe with a unique fan-first pricing structure, we spoke with Honor Vice President of Handsets, Lars Weisswange, for a few minutes about the brand, marketing strategy and the fan-first approach.
In the following, my questions are represented by NG and Lars' responses by LW. [Quotes in italic] describe his reactions to my questioning.
NG: How is Honor aiming to change the perception of the Huawei brand in Western Europe or is it being treated as a separate brand?
LW: From a [Go To Market] approach, it’s a separate brand. You ...
It looks like Samsung is working on two new tablets. A report from SamMobile is stating that the South Korean company is making GalaxyTab A and Galaxy Tab A Plus tablets.
Specifications of the two new tablets states that both the tablets will comes in 8-inch, and 9.7-inch versions. Screen resolution on the 8 inch version of the tablet will be 1024 x 768 pixels (and 4:3 aspect ratios) and it will be powered by a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 410 quadcore processor. Other specs include 2 megapixel front and 5 megapixel rear camera, 16GB onboard storage and a 4,200mAh battery.
Galaxy Tab A Plus will be the first tablet outside of the Note series to come with the S Pen.The 9.7-inch models will have more or less the same specifications however, it will come with a 1.2Ghz Qualcomm APQ8016 processor and 6,000mAh battery. Both the tablets will be 7.4mm thin and will come with both Wi-Fi-only and LTE-enabled variants. Considering the specs of the tablet, it looks like upcoming tablets will be mid rangers. In December, a report stated that Samsung is working on a 10 inch Galaxy Tab 5.
OnePlus and Amazon have announced the first-ever open sale of OnePlus One smartphone in India only for one day on February 10th. Even though OnePlus introduced pre-order system back in October and had conducted several open sales since then, OnePlus has finally decided to introduce the system in India to celebrate the successful completion of 10 weeks of OnePlus in India. It was launched in India on December 2nd for Rs. 21,999 and it requires India-specific invite to purchase the smartphone on Amazon.in.
An Open sale lets you purchase the OnePlus One smartphone without any invite, so if you are waiting to get the smartphone, this is the time to grab one. The sale would be for limited quantity which is expected to stock out quickly given the high demand for the phone, says the company.
The OnePlus One open sale in India starts at 10AM on February 10, 2015, tomorrow on Amazon.in. We already know how fast smartphones sell out during flash sales in India, so get ready to buy the smartphone immediately after the sale opens tomorrow since the stocks are limited.
iBall is all set to launch Slide Brace X1, the company's new tablet in the Slide series and Xotic smartphone soon. The iBall Slide Brace X1 has appeared on the official website and the iBall Xotic smartphone has been revealed by Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom. The Slide Brace X1 has a 10.1-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) IPS display, similar to the Slide 3G Q1035 that was launched back in December last year, but this is powered by an Octa-Core processor, runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) and comes with dual chambered speakers that promises load and clear sound.
It packs 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal storage with expansion slot and a 7800 mAh battery, but it is not clear if the smartphone has SIM support.
The Xotic would come with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage. It is likely to come with expandable memory. Other details are not available yet, but the retailer confirms that it would be priced at Rs. 7,999.
iBall Slide Brace X1 specifications
10.1-inch (1280 x 800 Pixels) capacitive multi-touch IPS display
1.7 GHz Octa-Core ARM Cortex A7 processor
2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with micro SD
Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS
13MP rear camera
8MP front-facing camera
WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, micro USB
7800 mAh battery
The iBall Slide Brace X1 comes in silver color and the iBall Xotic comes in Black ...
