The Nixon Mission smartwatch will have 20 bands and 15 different bezels to choose from so you can completely customize your Android Wear experience. The device just received FCC certification and is expected to be released “soon.” This level of customization will be expensive though, as it has a base price tag of $400 upon release.
Over the weekend, it was discovered that the latest Play Store update reduced the quality of app icon & thumbnails. An official confirmation or announcement has yet to be made, but some feel this will greatly benefit “the next billion” that have to spend a lot of money on their mobile data. Bug, or feature?
Big is in these days, it seems. Coming hot on the heels of its big competitor launching the Mi Max, Huawei’s honor division has launched the bigger and supposedly better honor Note 8.
How big are we talking about here? The honor Note 8 comes in with a display that measures 6.6″ diagonally, with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels. This QHD resolution on such a large display give us a pixel density of 443 ppi. Needless to say, the screen is definitely the main draw here.
But that does not mean that the honor Note 8 skimps on the internal specs either. Underneath the giant display is an excellent HiSilicon Kirin 955 SoC, the same that powers Huawei’s current P9 and P9 Plus flagships. The GPU end of things is handled by the Mali-T880 GPU, which is the same configuration as on the P9 and P9 Plus, except that the display on both of these was still FHD resolution, so it’ll be interesting to see if the GPU holds up (keep in mind it’s less powerful than Qualcomm’s latest offerings). Moving on to the other specs, the honor Note 8 comes in with 4GB of RAM, options of internal storages at 32/64/128GB along with microSD expandability via the hybrid dual SIM slots. The camera setup on the device is a simpler affari with a single 13MP rear camera and a 8MP front camera — there’s no dual camera setup here.
How does the Note 8 stack against the competition, which mainly is Xiaomi’s Mi Max? For starters, the display on the Note 8 is larger (6.6″ vs 6.44″) and the resolution also receives a bump upto QHD. The effects of a larger screen include a larger body and more device weight, so the Note 8 is bigger and heavier than the Mi Max. The SoC on the device is theoretically more powerful, but the Snapdragon 650/652 aren’t slouches either so this area is something that isn’t entirely black and white for the average consumer. Very curiously, the battery on the Note 8 is smaller in physical capacity than the Mi Max (4500 mAh vs 4850 mAh), and with the bigger and more pixel-packed display, battery life is sure to have differences — but you never know, we might be in for a surprise.
The honor Note 8 goes on sale in China on August 9th, with the base variant costing CNY 2299 ($345), the 64GB variant costing CNY 2499 ($375) and the top 128GB variant costing CNY 2799 ($420). Pricing and availability for the rest of the world is unknown at this stage, but the device will likely reach the markets that honor targets its products in.
With a tablet this small phone this big, a sensible thing to do would be to try out the product in hand before you purchase it. Giant screen phones are not for everyone, and most users would be uncomfortable handling a phone of this size. Try one before you buy it, trust me!
Via: Android Central
What are your thoughts on the honor Note 8? Let us know in the comments below!
Big is in these days, it seems. Coming hot on the heels of its big competitor launching the Mi Max, Huawei’s honor division has launched the bigger and supposedly better honor Note 8.
How big are we talking about here? The honor Note 8 comes in with a display that measures 6.6″ diagonally, with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels. This QHD resolution on such a large display give us a pixel density of 443 ppi. Needless to say, the screen is definitely the main draw here.
But that does not mean that the honor Note 8 skimps on the internal specs either. Underneath the giant display is an excellent HiSilicon Kirin 955 SoC, the same that powers Huawei’s current P9 and P9 Plus flagships. The GPU end of things is handled by the Mali-T880 GPU, which is the same configuration as on the P9 and P9 Plus, except that the display on both of these was still FHD resolution, so it’ll be interesting to see if the GPU holds up (keep in mind it’s less powerful than Qualcomm’s latest offerings). Moving on to the other specs, the honor Note 8 comes in with 4GB of RAM, options of internal storages at 32/64/128GB along with microSD expandability via the hybrid dual SIM slots. The camera setup on the device is a simpler affari with a single 13MP rear camera and a 8MP front camera — there’s no dual camera setup here.
How does the Note 8 stack against the competition, which mainly is Xiaomi’s Mi Max? For starters, the display on the Note 8 is larger (6.6″ vs 6.44″) and the resolution also receives a bump upto QHD. The effects of a larger screen include a larger body and more device weight, so the Note 8 is bigger and heavier than the Mi Max. The SoC on the device is theoretically more powerful, but the Snapdragon 650/652 aren’t slouches either so this area is something that isn’t entirely black and white for the average consumer. Very curiously, the battery on the Note 8 is smaller in physical capacity than the Mi Max (4500 mAh vs 4850 mAh), and with the bigger and more pixel-packed display, battery life is sure to have differences — but you never know, we might be in for a surprise.
The honor Note 8 goes on sale in China on August 9th, with the base variant costing CNY 2299 ($345), the 64GB variant costing CNY 2499 ($375) and the top 128GB variant costing CNY 2799 ($420). Pricing and availability for the rest of the world is unknown at this stage, but the device will likely reach the markets that honor targets its products in.
With a tablet this small phone this big, a sensible thing to do would be to try out the product in hand before you purchase it. Giant screen phones are not for everyone, and most users would be uncomfortable handling a phone of this size. Try one before you buy it, trust me!
Via: Android Central
What are your thoughts on the honor Note 8? Let us know in the comments below!
We’ve talked about how important the successor to the LG V10 is to LG. The LG V20, as it stood, had reports coming in that the device would be preponed in its release. With the new iPhone coming in this year that will not be an incremental “S” upgrade over the previous generation, it makes sense that OEMs are avoiding a conflicting date.
Samsung is holding its Note event early, with the launch of the Note 7 being just hours away. So the early reports of LG prepping their V20 event were not surprising, really.
But it seems that LG does not wish to be forgotten so easily amidst the launch of new devices from competitors. So they did what they could to steal the show: they have made the LG V20 official, a nice way to steal just a bit of Samsung’s thunder ahead of their unveiling.
In an announcement in their Korean newsroom, LG has posted a few details of the upcoming device before leakers get a chance to spread the information. The LG “V20” is now official, with that specific name instead of V11. The LG V20 will also launch with Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. And the LG V20 will be launched in September of 2016, a month earlier than last year’s LG V10 launch in October.
LG’s announcement post does not go into deep details regarding the inside of the device, or even to the outside of the device for that matter. For an official announcement, it is pretty bare. After announcing the name, release month and OS of the V20, the announcement then went on to state a few of the V10’s stand-out features, including the dual-camera setup, the second “ticker” screen above the primary front display and the presence of a 32-bit DAC on the device. There’s a good chance that these make a return in some capacity on the V20 as well, with a good focus being towards the multimedia experience as it was with the V10. But LG hasn’t officially said so (or maybe it was lost in translation), so we will refrain from painting a confident picture on these aspects.
With the Android 7.0 Nougat update reportedly coming in a few days (but the Note 7 launches before the update goes public), the LG V20 is likely to be the first device outside of Nexus to sport the new update out of the box. The release dates of the new Nexus are still up in the air along with the chance that they may not be made official alongside the new OS update, but it’s nice to know OEMs are starting to ship phones packing the latest software so soon. We just hope LG nails the execution of the V20.
What are your thoughts on LG teasing their device release? Let us know in the comments below!
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One of the most flaunted features of OEMs in recent years has been charging speed, with seemingly everyone looking to demonstrate the fastest and most efficient method of giving your device juice.
The OnePlus 3 launched with a charging solution known as Dash Charge, unencumbered by power heavy tasks such as gaming. Dash Charging will charge the OP3 to 63% in just half an hour, incredibly useful for those of us who are cursed by heavy usage and only short breaks throughout our day. OnePlus have generously offered one lucky reader the chance to take home a OnePlus 3 for free! All you have to do to enter is to answer this question via tweet:
“what would you do with the extra time in your day not spent charging your phone?”
Whether it would be spending that time modding your device, taking selfies or dominating gyms in Pokemon Go we want to know. Just be sure to use the hashtag #DaysPowerHalfHour and for an extra shot at the prize simply leave a comment below.
