Author: Chris Eilers
FDD-LTE Xiaomi Mi4 for international 4G networks – arrives on Dec 16th
Xiaomi announced today that the long awaited phone Xiaomi Mi4 FDD-LTE will be launched officially on December 16. This is actually a good news whereas you know that the original Xiaomi Mi4 which is supported with FDD-LTD only available inside China. And now, the new FDD modern will be realeased not only on China Unicom but also most international 4G networks. We guess that many of you will be happy for this news.
Until now, Xiaomi will only sell the Xiaomi Mi4 version of 16GB at a price of 1999 yuan. So, needless to say that you still take a little time to wait for its phone of the black and 64GB version. The 64GB black FDD-LTE version still has no official release date or price announced.
It seems that all of specs of the Xiaomi Mi4 FDD-LTE will remain practically unchanged with the Xiaomi Mi4 LTE. It means that its phone comes with 5″ Full HD display, Snapdragon 801, clocked at 2.5Ghz, 3GB of RAM and 16GB internal storage. Additionally, the Xiaomi Mi4 also features with a 8MP secondary shooter and 13MP Sony rear camera. Besides that, it is powered by a battery capacity of 3080 mAh.
The new FDD-LTE Model is made in attempt to work with China Unicom networks but will work on most international 4G networks as well. We can see that the new Xiaomi Mi4 will work with GSM, TD-LTE, GSM and WCDMA too, especially when searching for the TENAA specs
The Xiaomi Mi4 will be priced at 1999 yuan (or PHP14563) and we hope that Xiaomi will have plan to launch officially the Xiaomi Mi4 in more countries.
Top 20 best Chinese Android flagship (updated version 2014)
Chinese smartphone market have had a success year in increasing the number of affordable, high-quality specs. Xiaomi is now the third largest makers over the world and is the leader manufacturer in the local market. More and more outstanding devices of Xiaomi were launched. Lenovo is also expanding its appearance in new market. Next is Huawei that is trying to enter to the hard and competitive US market. With a total of 1.37 billion citizens in population, China is now the world’s largest phone market, having went over the United States last year.And its area is alway including many surprises in tech. New brand likes IUNI that almost of you probably haven’t heard much about, are currently offering top smartphone makers for amazing low prices, even for a Chinese company.
If you are curious about Top 20 best Android Chinese devices, we are glad to show you an overview of the best devices to come out of the People’s Republic. Maybe it’s our subjective assessments, so feel kind to let us know your favorites in the comment part.
#20: Huawei Ascend G7
Besides the quad-core 1.5GHz MediaTek processor, likely with almost Hongmi products. The best outstanding things to make its phone be success is about a quad-core Snapdragon 400 Soc, clocked at 1.6GHz. The remaining specs come with a 4.7-inch IPS display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, an 8MP rear shooter, and a 2,000mAh battery are all on board. The Xiaomi Redmi 1S will arrive with Android 4.3 with Xiaomi own MIUI v5 user interface on top of it.
#18: Vivo XShot
#17: Vivo Xplay 3S
Early this year, the Vivo Xplay 3S be the world’s first phone with a Quad HD display. It features a 6″ display with a high pixel density of 490ppi. It is also sporting a fast Snapdragon 801, a modern 3GB of RAM, 32GB of memory built-in, stereo speakers, DTS sound, and dual-mode LTE connectivity. The 13 MP rear camera is with f/1.8 aperture, and, naturally, does 1080p video, and there is a wide-angle 5 MP shooter at the front for video chat. Vivo has also contained a fingerprint sensor on the back of the Xplay 3S.
#16: Xiaomi Redmi Note
#15: UMi Zero
#14: Huawei Ascend Mate 2
#13: THL 5000
#12: OnePlus One
#11: Oppo Find 7
With a faux-carbon finish, a precisely well-crafted body, and hypnotic Skyline notification light, the Oppo Find 7 wins the heart of lovers of good design and high-end silicon. In detail with the 5.5-inch Quad HD pixel-abundant Find 7, roars a Snapdragon 801 system chip with a 32GB storage built-in. The 13-megapixel camera of the Oppo Find 7, however, might be its true highlight – it captures excellent Quad HD video, and does well with still images.
#10: Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro (K920)
The Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro features Quad HD screen that measures 6 inches, a 7.7mm-thin metal body, a quad-core 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 processor, 16MP rear camera with OIS, NFC, and a 4,000 mAh.
#9: ZTE Nubia Z7
#8: IUNI U3
#7: Huawei Honor 6
The Huawei Honor 6 offers the very latest in hardware, including a 3000 mAh battery, all packed into an extremely thin, 7.5 mm (0.3 in) body. The Huawei Honor 6 Plus will due to come with a 5.5” full HD supporting TFT display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080. It is powered by an octacore processor that delivers a clocking speed of 1.8 GHz. It is incorporated with 3 GB of RAM which is par with other flagship devices. Running on Android v4.4.4 KitKat OS, the Honor 6 Plus will sport in two versions: 16 GB and 32 GB storage built-in. Its external storage will support up to 64 GB of microSD. The handset measures 150.4 x 75.68 x 7.5 mm and weighs 165 g. Huawei owns Kirin 925 (octa-core) processor, equipped with a Mali T628 GPU.
#6: Huawei Ascend Mate 7
There’s much about the latest Huawei flagship that sets it apart from the crowd – it’s got a very large, 6-inch screen, a metal body, a speedy new processor, and an industry-leading fingerprint sensor implementation. If that wasn’t enough, the company has also added the Mate 7 with a 13-megapixel rear camera and a massive, 4100 mAh battery, all fitted within a slender, 7.9 mm profile.
#5: Meizu MX4
The Meizu MX4 comes with a powerful octa-core MediaTek MT6595 along with 2GB of RAM. The chipset has two bunch of four cores (2.2GHz Cortex-A17 and 1.7GHz Cortex-A7). The 20.7-megapixel Sony camera at the back is a real extreme number. Lastly, the MX4’s 3100 mAh battery ensures a long time even hard usage.
#4: IUNI U2
#3: Oppo N3
Oppo N3 features a 5.5-inch 1080p display, a 16MP motorized rotating camera capable of capturing videos in up to 4K resolution. The phone is powered by a 2.5 Ghz quad-core Snapdragon 801, incorporate with 2 GB RAM and internal storage of 32GB which can be expected for an upgrade to 128GB via the microSD card slot.
#2: Meizu MX4 Pro
#1: Xiaomi Mi 4
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 – snapdragon 810 variant now in testing
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 comes to us with 2 already processor variants. One runs on Exynos 7 Octa and the other arrive with Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset. And recently, it seems that Samsung is planning to create one more versions with Snapdragon 810 rather than the 32-bit technology used by traditional smartphones. “Our sources have revealed to us that a new variant of the Galaxy Note 4 with a Snapdragon 810 SoC is being tested for some major carriers in South Korea,” SamMobile reports. “These carriers might be LG+, SKT, and Olleh, but we are not too sure about the names.”

Although these are both solid chips, and the Snapdragon 805, is still a frightful chipset – one of the best available for mobile devices. But, it lacks of an important feature. It only features a 32 bit architecture. So, Snapdragon 810 is absolutely a trong push for the phablet’s future proofing. The Snapdragon 810 is a perfect solution in a bid to remedy this problem. It also brings the Adreno 430 GPU to the table, which is also a meaningful upgrade over the current Adreno 420 found in the Galaxy Note 4. It might take a couple of months before this updated variant is released. Earlier this week, there are some rumour news which said that Snapdragon 810 likely be hold over the chip’s arrival date. But afterthat, Job Carvill, Senior Director of Public Relations at the California-based semiconductor manufacture removed all of the suspects and said constantly that the Snapdragon 810 will arrive as scheduled without any troubles.

It would be interesting to see how the Snapdragon 810 version performs when compared to the previous variants of Samsung Galaxy Note 4. But still note that this device is in testing, it doesn’t mean Samsung will take it to market — and if does, it will be available inside Korea, outside or both?
Meizu Blue Charm Note – Direct rival of Xiaomi redmi Note
Do you remember in a speech of Meizu’ CEO – Jack Wong, he said that there will have 3 products in their pipeline in this year. The MX4 Pro was launched last week. So, if Meizu still keep the promise, it essentially means that we will see two more handsets from the company. But honestly, we don’t know exactly he mentioned about the Chinese year (the Lunar year) or the calendar year. But whatever it means 2 Meizu’ products will be arrived this Dec (calendar year) or 2 months later (Lunar year).

One of the remaining products could be the long rumored Meizu Blue Charm Note. Fortunately, we have leaked pics of this alleged cellular. You can easily recognize that this phone similar to iPhone 5C in design, especially in the glossy plastic back and the round corners.
Maybe, in this launch time, Meizu targets to the young users with variety bright colors. As you can see in the below images, the Blue Charm Note have a bigger dimension than the recently leaked K52 (White color we revealed you in the previous article). The Meizu K52 probably sports a 4.6″ screen.
Of course, except for the picture, we don’t have much detail. But reviewing from the earlier leak the Blue Charm Note will compete directly with the Redmi Note. Therefore, we hope that this phone will have many similarities in specs and price with the Xiaomi Redmi Note. So, the Blue Charm Note probably arrive with 5.5 inch 1080p display, powered by MT6752 64-bit Octa Core SoC. Moreover, some additional feature is 2 GB RAM and 16 GB of internal storage.
No matter which phone will be launched next, it is clear that Meizu is creating and trying to launch many more affordable and high-quality device. It looks like the tech war between Meizu and Xiaomi is really fierce. If the alleged Blue Charm Note turns out to be even nearly as good as the Redmi Note, then we have one more affordable option to choose.
So, let wait for its rumour phone.
3 fundamental things to do after getting a new device
Hey, guys, do you feel excited about owning a new modern smartphone, phablet or tablet? Congrate you for your new device. Now, do you wonder what things do you do firstly with its phone? Here are 3 fundamental things we recommended you to do after buying a handset. Pls read carefully and add some more you ideas.
Some items listed here are very frankly for a long-time smartphone users. But for the rest – those who just purchased a device for the first time and the experienced alike, we expect that you will find useful in this articles. Now, here we go.

1. PERSONALIZE
It’s clearly that everyone always want to use their phone like a special, unique one. So, personally, i think customizing is really a important thing and we put it to the first thing to do after having a smartphone. You will see 3 tips to make your phone your own and stand out from the rest.
Install a new launcher. To make your start screen more productive and customizable, why not install a launcher? Not only providing more power over transitions and settings but also let you use icon packs that suit your liking.
Add some new apps. It’s really necessary for you to download some useful apps. It ups to your interest. It can be Gmail, facebook, google maps or something like that. The list of apps available on the app stores are unlimited. Moreover, you will have many choices for one basic function. Sound’s great. Some apps are for free, but the other migh take you a little money. That’s a good start to fill in your device with productivity.
Change the wallpaper. This one is a must. The wallpaper is the first thing touching your eyes when you open your phone. So, apparantly it’s better if this photos is related to you, your photos, your girl/boy friend, your family, etc for instance. But wait for a moment, there are variety beautiful pics on appstore in case you don’t have many favorite.
2. USE PROTECTION
What I mean here is to accessorize your phone. It’s about purchasing accessories that are specifically made for your gadget such as bags, straps, screen protectors, and cases. This kind of things will serve your phone from any harm and damages. It might be your long term investment. And your phone will seem to be still bright, sophisticated one after a long time. You can buy them both offline and online.
3. SECURE YOUR DEVICE
Last but not the least, this is probably the most initial thing you need to do in a bid to keep your phone safe and be secured all the time. As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure.
Set up a password. If you want only you can access the important data on your phone, it’s necessary for you to set up a password. Private cellphone store many sensitive & individual things, such as: job documents, bank account, private messages, emails, etc. You absolutely don’t want to share with any one without your permission. And if these actually fall into the wrong man, you know what happens next. I don’t want to be too serious, but you might want to put a lock pattern or password to avoid some troubles like that.
Set up security apps and services in your device. What would be more effective to do than to set up location-finding, cellular-ringing, remote-wiping services? Android has the Device Manager, and iOS has its own Find my Phone service. All of this things can support you in case you loose your phone and it’s mightbe easy for you to get the phone back.
And that is 3 basic things you should do after owning a gadget. Maybe 3 things is not enough for you. So, pls kindly share with us your recommendation.
Meizu K52- Xiaomi Redmi 1S competitor appeared thanks to Weibo
In response to reply for the rumor of having a low-price Android phone which will be launched in the Christmas holiday. And now, finally, this rumours were partly came to the end with some photos appear on Weibo.
There will be 4 Meizu products launch this year thanks for Jack Wong’s speech. Therefore, the 3rd could be seemingly closer to users after 2 launched products (the MX 4 and the MX4 Pro). So we guys expected the rumours which claimed a second Mediatek powered Meizu is launching soon. This phone is known as the name Meizu K52 which has been on GFXbench with a 64bit Mediatek, Octa Core processor. Additionally, its phone should also give the phone 4G LTE as well as 3G and GSM support.

These images which showed up on Weibo earlier are rumoured to be of the new Meizu phone. And clearly that this phone has a similar white plastic as the previous siblings – Meizu MX3. The images will let we see a good glimpse at the rear shell which has a similar large space for a glass lens on the main camera, and room for what feature to be dual LED flash.
Like the current MX4 and the MX4 Pro, there is a single speaker and USB arrangement in the base of this phone. We can just make out spaces for physical controls on the left side of the handset.
Lastly, look at these pictures you can realize that there is no NFC. Moreover, it’s a probably good news for Meizu fans with a black framed glass panel.
No matter these pictures are genuine or not, we still need to wait and look forward to the launch of its phone. But, what do you think about all of these alleged leaks?
Snapdragon 810 is still on track H1 2015
Last week we saw an unexpected report from Business Korea concerning about the launch of new generation SoC by Qualcomm. According to this report, it was likely to hold over the chip’s arrival date.
Fortunately, yesterday, Job Carvill, Senior Director of Public Relations at the California-based semiconductor manufacture removed all of the suspects and said constantly that the Snapdragon 810 will arrive as scheduled without any troubles. Although he denied commenting on the speculations themselves, but he said a little about the future of their upcoming chipset:
“I can tell you that everything with Snapdragon 810 remains on track and we expect commercial devices to be available in 1H 2015”
This news is really excellent for not only OEMs but also all of eager customers who have been waited for a long time to get their hands on the next generation of smartphone handsets. This kind of phones will be powered by the 20nm, 64-bit Qualcomm chip. And with Snapdragon 810 feature is already available in the market, it looks like that we will see the next modern consumer phones out in the mid 2015 soon.
Micromax Canvas Selfie comes with 13MP front camera
In a bid to make impressively with all of tennis stars who attended an event in India, MicroMax payed attention by introducing a new Canvas Selfie smartphone. As its suggested name, the dual-Sim device is designed with self portraits in mind. Its phone have a similarity with HTC desire eye with a 13 front-facing camera and room for what appears to be single LED flash.
Micromax Canvas Selfie sports a processor of Android 4.4 KitKat with 1.7GHz octa-core CPU. In addition, it is powered by a 2300 mAh battery as well as a 4.7″ 720p unit covered by Gorilla Glass 3. About the hardware part, its phone has 2 GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable memory.
And the outstanding feature is that this phone has a secondary camera is 13 MP with a single LED light. It is a good things for selfie lovers. Besides that, the main camera of the Canvas Selfie is a 13 MP Sony sensor with dual-LED flash.
As expected from a selfie-centric handset, Micromax Canvas Selfie will offer a number of software tricks that will help customers edit the photos they captured of themselves. Some of the features contain Eye Enhancement and Face Slimming among others.
Micromax Canvas Selfie will release in India in the middle of January in two colors – Angelic White and Mystic Blue. The last price don’t be announced now. But it seems it will be revealed near the launch.
So, with all of you, selfie fans, will you wait for this phone?
Micromax Canvas Selfie specifications
- 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display with Gorilla Glass 3 protection
- 1.7 GHz Octa-Core processor
- 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
- Android 4.4 (KitKat)
- Dual SIM (nano SIMs)
- 13MP rear camera with dual LED Flash, Sony Sensor
- 13MP front-facing camera with LED flash
- 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
- 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS
- 2300mAh battery
OnePlus disclaimed “refurbished phones” rumors
It looks like there have been many complaints recently about “Refurbished” OnePlus One. In order to make it more clearly, finally, the company decided to explain about this matter to put it to rest.
In a forum post, OnePlus mentioned about the seven cases (you can see it in the related links). When the buyers said that it seems that they received a refurbished unit. In fact, some units had open boxes, scratches on the unit, already photos in the phone, the OS already setup out of the box, and in one case as well as an extra screen protector on the unit.

Although, OnePlus One is trying to prove that the phone couldn’t be refurbished. And, they are still checking up on the matter. The fairly reliable explanations were given, but it seems that the main thing they want to show is that there is no point did they ship a refurbished unit for customer. There was also some doubts regarding whether or not the displays on the OnePlus One were actual Gorilla Glass 3 as the claim of the company. And there is also some satisfactory answers for this questions, including an image of the blueprints of the phone with the name of the glass supplier mentioned on it.

To have more deep understanding about this news, please kindly read some news in the below links
Lenovo iPhone 5C Lookalike -S60-t gets Certification
Lenovo S90, a completion clone of iPhone 6 took many of us a surprising. And now, it looks like that Lenovo planned to launch another newest iPhone lookalike, but this time takes inspiration from iPhone 5C series, called Lenovo S60-t.
This phone was pass through the careful test to get the TENAA certification. It’s easy for you to find that there is no much differences between this phone with iPhone 5C, of course, is not an exact copy. But it seems that this phone take inspiration much from iPhone 5. So, it’s understandable why Lenovo S90 comes with some different colors: cherry pink, lemon yellow, etc. Maybe this time, Lenovo aimed to the “young people” in this types of phone.
Another addition surprising is that Lenovo didn’t take any legal action. Actually, maybe cuz of almost products clone are just sold in China so far. Now more and more resellers are offering the phones though, so this might change soon.
What’s about Lenovo iPhone 5C lookalike specs? In fact, this phone has many similarities with its siblings – S90 Sisley. It sports a HD 5″ screen with a 1.280 x 720 pixel resolution, 1.2Ghz Snapdragon 64BIT 410 processor and 1GB of RAM. Besides that, it features a 13 MP main camera and 5MP secondary camera and support Dual Sim. From the dimensions point of view, we get to know that Lenovo S60-t weighs 129,5 grams and measures only 7.77 mm in thickness.
This new iPhone 5C Lookalike from Lenovo will also get LTE. Moreover, it priced at super cheap, impressive price at 115 USD, which is equivalent to 5134 Philippines peso.
Lenovo Sisley Vs UMi Zero: The winner is?
Lenovo, as you know, is one of global smartphone giant and Umi, a new flagship maker based on Chinese. Chinese phone manufacturers are really shaken up the market with many thin, stylish phones that offer both great looks and design. In addition, most of them are being packed with high-tech.
Let have a quick look at two devices. And which handset will you choose?
Lenovo Sisley
I guess that when you set this phone in hand, you will have a feeling of touching an iPhone. Apparently, Lenovo Sisley have a same appearance with iPhone6 and can probably call it a iPhone clone.
Even if the touch buttons up front do look a little out of place, the phone will not offer a slim, and attractive all alloy body. However, a 5-inch SUPER AMOLED display give us a good viewing.
Besides that, the phone sport with a Snapdragon 410 processor from Qualcomm which runs at 1.7 Ghz. But the RAM storage is at 1 GB RAM. It powered by 2300 mAh battery capacity and has a weight of 129 gram ( much lighter than Umi Zero).
UMi Zero
While Lenovo is a global maker who just bought Motorola from Google, UMi is still quite a unwell-known brand who is inan effort to build its brand.
The Umi Zero is an outstanding in order to show UMi’s desire to change. It features an all alloy construction (rumoured to be made in the same factory as the chassis of the Meizu MX4 and MX4 Pro). Moreover, it features glass front and rear for a slim, stealthy look.
The Umi have the same screen with Lenovo, at 5″ display but this time is around at a higher resolution, 1920 x 1080 FHD (Lenovo is at 720 x 1280 FHD). Additionally, all of them is supported with MT6592T chipset. Umi Zero’s features include 2GB RAM and a processor of 2.o Hz. And although there isn’t LTE there is room for either dual SIM or a single SIM and micro SD. This phone is powered by a lighter battery capacity than Lenovo, at 2780 mAh.
A plus for Umi is a quite lovely packaging with a screen protector, fancy alloy USB cable, case and Texas instruments fast charger.
Lenovo Sisley Vs UMi Zero : which would you choose?
Umi have more advantages than Lenovo sisley. It priced at only $199.99 ( nearly 8930 PHP). In comparison to Lenovo, Umi is much more beautiful to the eye. And a fast charger makes much sense.
In conclusion, we can see that Umi Zero is at lighter price, more powerful battery, better appearance, better processor. Plus as far as we can tell Lenovo aren’t actually officially marketing the Sisley outside of China, while UMi are attending going international market.
Based on listed things, which phone would you choose? The Umi Zero or Lenovo Sisley?
Today’ announcement of Meizu K52 – 64 BIT, LTE for 7143 PHP
In recent time, we provided you two articles which mentioned about a new device of Meizu, probably called Meizu K52. And finally, we got the official confirmation about this rumour news. According to the interview with ZOL Mr Li Nan, Meizu’s vice president of technology , said that today (8th Dec) will be the official announcement of its phone. So i’m wonder that could this be the “low-cost” Meizu K52 we waited for a long time?
Although any detail informations didn’t be provided, it’s surely that this is the device which recently showed on the GFX Bench database. Whereby, the handset will arrive with a MTK6752 CPU 8 Cores are clocked at 1.7Ghz supplemented 1.9G + 12G memory. Apparently, the MT6752 is not as strong as the Meizu’s MX4 MT6595 CPU, but at least you get 64BIT and LTE Support. The screen is 4.6inches screen with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixel is also confirmed. It runs on Flyme based on Android 4.4.4 Kitkat. This phone is expected to be priced at around $ 160 (or PHP 7143).
The Meizu MX4 and the MX4 Pro, featuring 5.36-inch and 5.5-inch displays, respectively, met a huge demand on buying. As you know that, Meizu got nearly 7 Million Pre Orders for MX4 Pro alone when it went on sale in China.
In addition, Meizu VP also mentioned that the company won’t introduce MX Mini models because they don’t feel the need to do so. He believe that Meizu MX4 and MX4 Pro (5.36-inch display and 5.5-inch display, respectively) fit basically everyone, even those who love smaller flagship




