Category: Smartphones

Sony Xperia Z, 1080p 5″ Android phone

Posted by – January 9, 2013

Sony’s new 1080p phone.

Mobile Film Festival France, 15000€ in cash prizes

Posted by – December 9, 2012

You can make a 1-minute short film using your smartphone camera, edit it in any editing software you want, submit the shortfilm before the 7th of January at http://fr.mobilefilmfestival.com it can be in any language but needs at least French subtitles if it’s not in French, and you can win some of the 15000€ if they pick your shortfilm as one of the best.

Microsoft at LeWeb 2012

Posted by – December 9, 2012

Microsoft is showing off Surface RT, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8, a bunch of devices running these.

Paypal Check In and Pay demonstrated at LeWeb 2012

Posted by – December 7, 2012

Paypal launches a new way to pay for things easily and quickly using a check-process on your smartphone or tablet. Go to the restaurant, launch check in on your paypal app, it launches the restaurant’s menu, you click on the app to order, the server comes with the food, you leave, you’ve already paid. This removes 66% of the waiters effort. Go to a cafe, check-in on paypal, they know you want a cappuccino, you get it quickly and leave, no cash, no confirmation, no anything. You park your car, check in on paypal, that’s it, you’re paying for your car park until you check-out, take the car and leave.

You can watch Paypal CEO, David Marcus’s keynote at LeWeb 2012 here:

Augment app at LeWeb 2012

Posted by – December 7, 2012

Augment is a free application for Android, iPad and iPhone to visualize any 3d model in Augmented Reality. Print the marker, select the model you want to see and the augmented reality happens in front of you. You can upload your own 3d model or visualize one of the 3000 already present in the galleries. You can get the app there: http://augmentedev.com

$249 Nokia Lumia 620, 3.8″ WVGA Windows Phone 8

Posted by – December 7, 2012

Nokia just launched the cheapest Windows Phone 8 device on the market yet. It’s Qualcomm S4 (I guess S4 Play Cortex-A5), 3.8″ WVGA, HSPA+, NFC, Bluetooth and a ton of other features.

Nokia Lumia 920 on Windows Phone 8 at LeWeb 2012

Posted by – December 5, 2012

Here’s probably the top latest Nokia Windows Phone.

ARM Linux Linaro hangout with Zach Pfeffer

Posted by – November 27, 2012

Hanging out with Zach Pfeffer, Android lead at http://linaro.org, they are working to optimize Linux on ARM.

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ARM Keynote: ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57 64bit ARMv8 processors launched

Posted by – October 31, 2012

Full 1 hour 9 minutes video of the ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57 launch keynote here at the ARM Techcon in Santa Clara.

THL W1 4.3″ qHD MT6577, THL W3 4.5″ 720p MT6577

Posted by – October 29, 2012

THL shows a couple interesting MediaTek MT6577 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 based smartphones with decent 4.3″ qHD and 4.5″ 720p screens.

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Walking through the Smartphone market in Huaqiangbei Shenzhen China

Posted by – October 29, 2012

Traveling shot through a part of the huge smartphones and tablet markets at the Huaqiangbei consumer electronics market street in Shenzhen China. These are parts of my favorite areas that I have yet found on the Shenzhen Huaqiangbei electronics market street.

Oppo Finder, 6.65mm thin Qualcomm 8260 Android phone

Posted by – October 29, 2012

This is one of the thinnest smartphones on the market.

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MT6577 phones (Samsung/HTC/Apple clones) by Huida

Posted by – October 29, 2012

Here’s another look at the latest range of MediaTek MT6577 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 phones on the Shenzhen market. Some Samsung copies, some HTC and there’s an iPhone5 clone on MT6575 too.

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Smartphones repair centers at the Huaqiangbei Smartphone market

Posted by – October 26, 2012

Here are some of the smartphone repair booths that you can find backstage at the Huaqiangbei Shenzhen smartphone market.

$40 A13 7″, $137 MT6577 5.3″ at SECCW Shenzhen


Here’s a store selling tablets and phones at the Shenzhen Huaqiangbei market.

picture of business card for members to come here tomorrow.

MT6577 phones at Huaqiangbei Shenzhen market

Posted by – October 25, 2012

Check out these cool looking Android phones based on the pretty powerful MediaTek MT6577 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor being sold on the Shenzhen Huaqiangbei market. Some look like Samsung Galaxy S3, other like the HTC One X, some have original sizes like a 6″ qHD device, you can also get a 7″ MT6575 Tablet for $122.

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$271 Zopo ZP900 5.3″ qHD IPS MT6577, $271 Zopo ZP300+ 4.5″ 1280×720 MT6577

Posted by – October 25, 2012

6 months ago, I bought the $174 Zopo ZP100, at that time one of the first MT6575 single-core ARM Cortex-A9 phone on the market. Since then, it got updated to Android 4.0 ICS, here are some of Zopo’s latest MT6577 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 phones now being sold on the Chinese market and worldwide wherever Zopo gets exported.

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Exynos4412 Tablet and Smartphone by Zhengdongxing


They have the Samsung Exynos4412 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 working on their $220 tablet and smartphone.

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MT6577 5.3″, 7″. 9.7″ 10.1″, Exynos4412 by Link-Create


Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair.

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