Alleged prototype of Huawei Nexus appears in a video, reveals fingerprint sensor on the back

As is rumored since long, two Nexus devices are expected to be launched this year by Google, one of which will be made by Huawei and the other will be the 2015 edition of Nexus 5. A couple of days back we saw some interesting 3D renderings of the Nexus 5 (2015) leaked in a video and now we have a video showing the Huawei Nexus smartphone.

It is a 10-second video posted by Steve Hemmerstoffer of @OnLeaks who has quite a good track record for leaking information about unannounced devices. The alleged Huawei Nexus smartphone in the video has a matte finish but it is difficult to say whether it is plastic or metal. Nexus 5 has a plastic cover. The camera in the leaked Huawei-made device looks similar to the one present in the Nexus 5.

The handset features a fingerprint scanner at the back and the position of buttons on the right side confirms to the Huawei design language. A port is visible at the bottom which may be the USB Type-C port as is rumored.

Leaked specs of the Huawei Nexus smartphone indicate a 5.7-inch QHD AMOLED display, metal unibody, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 and a 21MP rear camera with Sony IMX230 sensor.

Well, it remains to be seen whether this really is the Huawei Nexus Phone. We will know more soon enough as October, the launching time for Nexus devices is just a couple of months away.

Check out the video below:

Alleged prototype of Huawei Nexus appears in a video, reveals fingerprint sensor on the back

Huawei teases launch of a new “Amazing” Honor smartphone on August 10

Just about two months after introducing its Honor 7 smartphone, Huawei seems ready to launch another smartphone soon. The company has sent out a teaser picture saying that would unveil an “Amazing” new Honor smartphone on August 10. No other details have been revealed by the company.

A few days back, a new Honor handset model number ATH-AL00 was spotted passing through TENAA. The device features a new pop-up module for the cameras. The module has high resolution rear and front-facing cameras on both sides along with their dual-LED flashes. There is a button on the side of the handset that controls the pop-up mechanism. There may be a fingerprint scanner on the button too. Details of other specifications are not available but it is rumored that the device might come with Huawei’s own home baked Kirin chipset along with a 3GB or a 4GB RAM.

Since Huawei is expected to launch its next flagship, the Huawei Mate 8 on September 2, there is speculation that it is this model ATH-AL00 handset with its unique camera mechanism that is going to be unveiled by the company on August 10.

Check out the images of the device  that passed through TENAA showing the pop-up camera:

Huawei teases launch of a new “Amazing” Honor smartphone on August 10

Samsung’s thinnest smartphone Galaxy A8 with fingerprint sensor launched in India

Samsung has launched Galaxy A8 smartphone in India with a price tag of INR 32,500 (About $508). The device was first introduced in China in the middle of July. This latest handset from Samsung is its thinnest-ever smartphone with a thickness of just 5.9mm and it weighs only 151 grams.

The Galaxy A8 features a 5.7-inch FHD Super AMOLED display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and 386ppi pixel density. It is powered by Samsung’s own Exynos 5430 chipset with octa-core (4 x 1.8GHz Cortex-A15 and 4 x 1.3GHz Cortex-A7) CPU and Mali-T628 MP6 GPU for graphics. The Galaxy A8 model that was launched last month in China has 64-bit Snapdragon 615 SoC with octa-core 1.5GHz CPU and Adreno 405 GPU. There is a 2GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage inside. It can be expanded up to 128GB with a microSD card.

Coming to the cameras, the Galaxy A8 has a 16MP autofocus rear camera with f/1.9 aperture to give great pictures even in low light conditions. The front camera is of 5MP with 120 degree wide-angle lens, useful for selfies and video chats. Its 3050mAh battery takes care of the power and the handset comes with Android Lollipop 5.1.1 out of the box with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI on top. The handset sports dual Nano-SIM slots and the second slot can be used for microSD card.

The Samsung Galaxy A8 has very thin metal side bezels. It also has a fingerprint sensor doubling as a home button. Connectivity options include LTE with Band 40 (2300MHz) and Band 3 (1800MHz) support, dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and Glonass. The handset will support 4G networks in India. Airtel customers will get double data for free for 6 months along with this device. The handset is available in Black, White and Gold colors.

Samsung’s thinnest smartphone Galaxy A8 with fingerprint sensor launched in India

Another Plus for OnePlus 2–It Will Have a 4GB LPDDR4 RAM

OnePlus 2 is set to be launched on 27th of this month in an unconventional virtual reality style announcement, touted to be the world’s first such launching for a smartphone. OnePlus has just made another big announcement that its second generation flagship will have a whopping 4GB RAM, 1GB more than its predecessor OnePlus One which has a 3GB RAM.

Random Access Memory or RAM handles current actions of the device such as actively running apps or those running in the background. According to the company, the LPDDR4 RAM offers “faster loading times, smoother gameplay, and never-before-seen energy saving features.” It also consumes less power and improves battery efficiency. The OnePlus 2 RAM will use lower operating voltage of 1.1V compared to the 1.2V of OnePlus One’s LPDDR3. It is also 2x faster with up to 32GB /s of speed.

We already know that the OnePlus 2 will be featuring the octa core Snapdragon 810 chipset, fingerprint scanner and Type-C USB port. The fingerprint scanner will be placed below the camera and LED flash on the backside. The new Type-C USB port in it will allow the user to insert the cable connector any side up. Other expected features of the OnePlus 2 are a 5.5-inch to 5.7-inch screen and Adreno 430 GPU.

As for pricing, there were several speculations but now its CEO Pete Lau has confirmed that the handset “will be priced under 450 USD.”

Another Plus for OnePlus 2–It Will Have a 4GB LPDDR4 RAM

Samsung Galaxy A8: New Photos of Samsung’s Upcoming Thinnest Smartphone, Home Button to Have Fingerprint Scanner

Samsung’s as yet unannounced handset Galaxy A8 has leaked out numerous times through photos and also a hands-on video. Although Samsung has not confirmed its existence, almost all its specs are out. We once again get to see photos of the device on the Chinese website P C Online.

PC Online has thoroughly checked out the prototype of the Galaxy A8 and has presented a report on its looks, features and performance. The Galaxy A series consists of mid-range all-metal frame handsets. Samsung has made the A8 its thinnest smartphone yet, measuring 157.7 x 76.7 x 5.94 mm. Unlike its predecessor the Galaxy A7, the Galaxy A8 has rounded corners and looks somewhat like the Galaxy S6. Although a mid-ranger, its specs are quite decent.

Looking to the specs, the upcoming Galaxy A8 features a 5.7 inches Full HD Super AMOLED 1920 x 1080p display. Its home button has the fingerprint scanner integrated into it similar to Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge. It is rumored that the device will have two variants of the processor – one with Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor and the other with Samsung’s own Exynos 5430 processor. This particular prototype tested by PC Online has the octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor. Memory options include a 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage (expandable). There is a 16MP slimmed down version of the ISOCELL camera sensor at the back, a 5MP selfie camera in the front and a 3050mAh battery. The handset will run Android 5.1.1 with the company’s TouchWiz UI on top.

Rumors say that the Samsung Galaxy A8 could be priced at about 3000 Yuan or around US$ 500. The handset may be first introduced in China but the launch date is not known yet. It is also not known when the device will be available in other markets.

Check out the pics:

Samsung Galaxy A8: New Photos of Samsung’s Upcoming Thinnest Smartphone, Home Button to Have Fingerprint Scanner

Samsung Galaxy Note 5: New Renders and Cases Surface Online

Samsung will probably unveil the next iteration of its Galaxy Note series, the Galaxy Note 5, in September this year. Meanwhile, rumors and leaks about are having a field day and are generating a lot of curiosity about the device. We recently saw some leaked images of Galaxy Note 5 cases. Now a few more images of cases for the devices have surfaced online and these are transparent.

Serial leakster @Onleaks has posted a set of images on Twitter which are supposedly those of the cases for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 5. Two of the cases seem to be holding the device itself but can’t be said for certain. The cases are transparent and have holes cut out at the back for the rear camera-LED flash system. The bottom of the cases has four holes which may be for the speaker, S Pen, headset jack port and charging port. There will presumably be volume keys on the left side and the power button on the right side similar to Galaxy Note 4.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is rumored to feature a 5.9-inch 4K Super AMOLED display, company’s indigenous Exynos 7422 octa-core chipset and its trademark S Pen. The device will probably be 7.9 mm thick. The Galaxy Note 4 is 8.5 mm thick while the Galaxy S6 is 6.8 mm thick.

The images are given below:

PS: The device that can be seen in the 2nd image is said to be only a placeholder and not the actual device.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5: New Renders and Cases Surface Online

Xiaomi Mi 5 Specs Leak, to Launch in November, Sports Snapdragon 820 SoC and 4GB RAM

Latest report suggests that Xiaomi’s much awaited new flagship, the Xiaomi Mi 5 will be launching in November. Apart from this, we almost the entire specs of the upcoming handset codenamed “Libra” have been revealed through various rumors and leaks.

Xiaomi Mi 5 is the successor of Xiaomi Mi 4 and is rumored to come with a 5.3-inch 1440 x 2560 pixels display and will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset. Under the hood will be a 4GB of RAM, a 16GB or 64GB of internal storage and a 3.030mAh battery. There will be a 16MP primary rear camera and a 6MP front-facing shooter giving great selfies. It is also rumored that the Xiaomi Mi 5 will have a new feature in it: a fingerprint scanner. The device will come out of the box with Android 5.1.1 OS pre-installed.

According to the latest tip, the Mi 5 will be unveiled in November which is in line with the earlier leak that also claimed that the device will be launching in November this year sporting a Snapdragon 820 chipset.

However, its exact release date, availability and pricing are not yet known. We will keep you informed as soon as we get any new details about this Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship.

Stay tuned!

Xiaomi Mi 5 Specs Leak, to Launch in November, Sports Snapdragon 820 SoC and 4GB RAM

Huawei P8 Lite launched officially; India to get Huawei P8, P8 Max, P8 Lite, MediaPad X2 and TalkBand B2 in Q3

Huawei introduced its Huawei P8 and P8 Max smartphones in April this year. A third smartphone Huawei P8 Lite was also expected to be unveiled at the time but that didn’t happen. However, the P8 Lite was later released in Germany and Hungary and was priced at about $270. Now Huawei P8 Lite has been made official by the company at its South East Asia (SEA) launch event held in Bangkok.

At the event, the Chinese giant showcased its latest flagship smartphone P8 along with its two variants P8 Max and P8 Lite as well as MediaPad X2, Watch W1 and TalkBand B2.

The Huawei P8 Lite is a dual SIM smartphone that comes with a 5-inch, 1280 x 720 pixels resolution display and is powered by a 64-bit HiSilicon Kirin 620 chipset with octa-core 1.2GHz CPU and a Mali 450 MP4 GPU for graphics. Inside, it has a 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage. It doesn’t have a separate slot for microSD card but the second SIM slot works as a microSD card slot.

There is a 13MP BSI camera at the back and a 5MP camera at the front for selfies and video chats. The device runs on a 2200mAh battery and comes with pre-installed Android 5.0.2 lollipop with Huawei’s own EMUI 3.1 skin on top. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.1 LE, Wi-Fi and NFC. The Huawei P8 Lite dimensions are 143.0 x 70.6 x 7.7mm and it weighs 131 grams. The handset is available in 3 color options – Black, White and Gold.

At the event, Huawei also announced that the Huawei P8, P8 Max, P8 Lite and the Huawei MediaPad X2 will be launched in India in the third quarter of 2015. According to the company, Huawei P8 will not be joining the price war and will cost about $455 while the P8 Lite is a budget phone falling in the mid-range price segment. The TalkBand B2 which is a fitness tracker-cum-Bluetooth earpiece, is expected to arrive in India in June and cost about $235.

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Huawei P8 Lite launched officially; India to get Huawei P8, P8 Max, P8 Lite, MediaPad X2 and TalkBand B2 in Q3

Sony announces Xperia Z3+, the global version of Xperia Z4 announced for Japan

After Sony launched the new flagship Xperia Z4 only for its domestic market Japan, everyone was wondering what Sony had in store for the rest of the world. Well, the suspense is finally over. The Japanese tech major has quietly introduced its global version, the Xperia Z3+. It is just a change in name but more appropriate really, as it is only an incremental upgrade over the previous flagship Xperia Z3.

Xperia Z3+ has the same 5.2-inch FHD Triluminos IPS display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. However, internally it features several upgrades. The handset is powered by the latest 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 octa-core CPU and Adreno 430 GPU (Xperia Z3 has Snapdragon 801 and Adreno 330).

Memory at 3GB of RAM remains the same. Built-in storage in Xperia Z3+ will be 32GB, the 16GB option available in Xperia Z3 has been discarded. Rear camera is the same at 20.7MP with Sony Exmor sensor but the front-facing camera gets a bump from 2MP to 5MP giving better selfies. Both the cams have 25mm wide angle lenses. The battery has been downgraded from 3,100mAh in the Z3 to 2,930mAh in the Xperia Z3+. Even then, Sony is promising a battery life of 2 days.

Dimension-wise, it is slightly slimmer at 146.3 x 71.9 x 6.9 mm and also a little lighter at 144g. Small changes have been made in its design. The microUSB port is flapless but the Waterproof/dustproof certification of the device remains the same at IP65/IP68. The front speakers of the handset have been shifted to the edges. The handset will come with Android 5.0 Lollipop pre-installed.

The Xperia Z3+ looks to be a stop-gap arrangement to appease ardent Sony fans. The next flagship will be a real top-of-the-shelf model which may be expected later this year. The new Xperia Z3+ will be released in June but its pricing has not been revealed yet. It will be available in four colors – Black, White, Copper and Aqua Green. A dual SIM variant will also be available at a later date.

Sony announces Xperia Z3+, the global version of Xperia Z4 announced for Japan

Google to launch 2 Nexus devices this year, a phablet by Huawei and a smartphone by LG

Google will apparently launch two new Nexus devices in 2015 – a phablet manufactured by Huawei and a smartphone made by LG. However, Google doesn’t seem to have any plan for releasing a new Nexus Tablet.

Several rumors have been floating around since the last few months regarding who will be manufacturing the next Nexus device for Google and most claimed that it would be a Chinese company. Some rumors suggested it would be Huawei, while others claimed it could be LG. One rumor did say that this year, Google will be releasing two Nexus devices and the two companies manufacturing them would be Huawei and LG. Well, it looks like this rumor may be true after all.

The Huawei-made Nexus device would be a 5.7” phablet codenamed ‘Angler’.  This will be a successor to the Nexus 6 but slightly smaller. According to reports, phablet Angler will have a Snapdragon 810 chipset and a 3500mAh battery.

The Nexus smartphone manufactured by LG will be a 5.2 inch affair codenamed ‘Bullhead’. Sources say that LG is planning the same hexa-core chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 which it has used in LG G4. The Bullhead will have a battery with capacity of around 2700mAh but it hasn’t been finalized yet. This will be the third Nexus device manufactured by LG for Google after Nexus 4 and Nexus 5.

Both the Nexus devices would be released by Google as usual around October this year. As far as Nexus tablets are concerned, it is said that Google will continue to sell Nexus 9 this year too as no new Nexus tablet seems to be in the works.

Google to launch 2 Nexus devices this year, a phablet by Huawei and a smartphone by LG

New images of bezel-less Sony Lavender smartphone leak online

Images alleged to be those of the upcoming Sony Lavender smartphone have leaked online. They show the front panel of the device having a bezel-less display. These images are in line with the render of the handset leaked earlier. Details about Sony Lavender’s specs were also leaked last week.

The unannounced Sony Lavender is supposed to be a mid- to upper-range selfie-centric device boasting of a 13MP front-facing camera with Sony’s IMX214 Exmor sensor and LED flash. It will also have a 13MP rear camera with LED flash.

The handset will apparently have an FHD display bigger than 5.5-inches and its resolution would be 1080 x 1920 pixels. It will be powered by a 64-bit octa-core MediaTek MT6752 CPU clocked at 1.7GHz and a Mali-T760 GPU for graphics. The device will have a 2GB RAM inside and will come with Android 5.0 pre-installed. It will also have a dual SIM version.

A report by French website Nowhereelse says that the upcoming Sony Lavender is under full-fledged production and the first batch will be out by June. So the official unveiling of the device by the company is “imminent”.

We will keep you informed about any new developments in the matter.

New images of bezel-less Sony Lavender smartphone leak online

Sony to introduce a new flagship next week, could it be the global variant of the Xperia Z4?

Sony Mobile is preparing to hold press conferences in Taiwan and Hong Kong next week. According to the local media reports, the company would be unveiling a new flagship there. The press event in Taiwan is scheduled for May 27 while the one in Hong Kong will take place on May 28.

In Taiwan, Sony is expected to unveil the selfie-centric Xperia C4 and the Xperia Z4 Tablet. ePrice Taiwan says that at both the events, Sony will also be introducing a new flagship which it calls the Xperia Z3 Plus, a smartphone basically like the Xperia Z4 that the company released in Japan last month. This Z3 Plus (or Z3+) is probably the flagship variant of Xperia Z4 meant for the rest of the world. At the time of its release in Japan, there were rumors that the rest of the world would get the flagship in May, which seem to be coming true.

Sony has also sent out invitations in Hong Kong for a press conference to be held on May 28 to release “The new Xperia flagship product” which has “Top shot, screen, sound, water and design all in one.” The device will also apparently have a new color. Reports also say that four product development engineers from Japan will be sent to the Hong Kong press conference to give info about the new models.

Sony India is also holding a press conference in India a day earlier i.e. on May 26 where it is likely to launch the mid-ranger Xperia M4 Aqua. It is not known whether the Japanese smartphone maker will launch the new flagship Xperia Z3+/Z4 there.

We will keep you informed about it as soon as we know more.

Sony to introduce a new flagship next week, could it be the global variant of the Xperia Z4?