Archos"s new range of affordable 4G Helium tablets

Archos , a French electronics retailer has launched a new range of Helium brand tablets.This 4G enabled tablets are the 80b Helium 4G, 101 Helium 4G and Archos 70 Helium 4G respectively.

The first one is a 8-inch display tablet with a 1280×800 resolution, powered by a 1.5GHz MediaTek MT8732 quad-core CPU, 1GB of RAM,2 MP main camera, 0.3 MP front cam and 8GB of onboard storage. It supports dual-Sim and runs on Android 4.4 KitKat OS and a 3600 mAh battery.

The other two have same processor, but the Archos 70 Helium 4G has a smaller, – inch with 1024×600 IPS display, and the 101 Helium 4G ups the screen diagonal to 10.1 inches and the resolution to the same 1280×800 pixels. The 10-incher tablet has better cameras, too – a 5MP rear camera unit and a 2MP front one. In terms of battery competency, the 7-incher has a 2500mAh juice, while the 10-incher has a mammoth 6500mAh.

Apparently, instead of counting on high-end specs ,the Helium range of devices are about to bring fast 4G connectivity to mid-range tablets. No updates about pricing of these are out but we expect a probable introduction of them during CES 2015 shortly.

Archos"s new range of affordable 4G Helium tablets

Technology Behind Alexa Rank

Most of the web-masters are not aware of Alexa Rank (alexa.com). In this article we will explain Technology of Alexa Rank but before that we will give some basic information about Alexa.

What is Alexa?

Alexa is a company which provides web traffic metric. Alexa.com is founded at 1996 and 3 years later, acquired by Amazon. So, they are on-line before most teenagers weren’t even in world. At 2000s, if you were a web-master, you didn’t have much chance to guess traffic data of a website. At those years Alexa was the only source to make such guesses. Now Alexa has some competitors and also some of them gives much more accurate results. But Alexa also growed in last years. Alexa.com gets ~6.5 million views/month.

What is Alexa Rank?

Alexa Rank is a number which Alexa sorts all websites in it’s database. Alexa orders websites sorted by their traffic size. Site 1 is the one who takes the most visitors. 2 is the website with the second biggest traffic and so on.According to Alexa, over 30 million websites already listed at their list.

How does the Alexa Rank works? What is the Technology Behind Alexa Rank?

Alexa takes the traffic data from the toolbars installed on browsers. Alexa toolbar works on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. This toolbar has a popup blocker and a button which connects users to Alexa website. It shows the global Alexa rank of the visited website in toolbar. Alexa takes data from this toolbar unless you are a Alexa Pro Member. Alexa Pro places a code to sites to get verified and tracks the visitors from this code. With Alexa Pro, web-masters gets “certified statistics”. When they show their site to advertisers, they show the Alexa certified statistics also. Alexa Pro gives more accurate data especially on total pageviews and unique pageviews because it takes the data with a Javascript code. Even the visitor doesn’t have Alexa Toolbar, Alexa Pro takes the visitor number and change effects on Alexa Rank

How to rank on Alexa Rank fast?

In previous years it was very easy to rank on Alexa rank because all you need was installing Alexa Toolbar to your favorite browser and visit your website regularly. This doesn’t works much now because there are millions of web-masters are doing the same thing and trying to good positions at Alexa Rank. Today, things changed for web-masters. If you want to rank on Alexa Rank; Alexa forces you to be a Alexa Pro member (starting from $9.99/month). This will bring much more accurate data about your site and it will effect your Alexa Rank very fast.

How to rank Fake on Alexa Rank?

Some web-masters use alexa rank booster to get fake results on Alexa rank. With this alexa rank booster softwares they send fake hits to websites and predict good results from these fake boost scripts. You must to know that all these fake hit generators doesn’t effects your site’s Alexa rankings. This has 2 simple reasons.

1) Alexa is smart enough to know which users are real and which users are software generated fake traffic.

2) These softwares or scripts doesn’t loaded with Alexa toolbar. Alexa takes data from the Alexa toolbar. If the visitor doesn’t have Alexa toolbar, if won’t effect Alexa Rankings. So, as long as the softwares doesn’t have alexa toolbar installed, they will just waste your time and bandwidth.

So, there is no way to rank fake on Alexa rankings. There is no real way to boost Alexa ranks.

Technology Behind Alexa Rank

HTC Sense 7 UI has a new distinct Avatar Maker feature

HTC is going to announce this quarter its flagship smartphone along with newer variant of Sense UI. HTC also announced the same in the first quarters of the 2013 and 2014 respectively. The final name of the flagship is expected to be HTC Hima or One M9. While the newer variant of Sensce will mostly be Sense 7.

Bothe the variants are expected to be launched in March. Meanwhile, we can look at the one of the new features of Sense 7 i.e Avatar Maker. Alike its name , it will allow users to generate personalized profiles. The tipster @upleaks have posted two screenshots showcasing Sense 7’s Avatar Maker without providing much detals.

The screenshots are having 1080 x 1780 pixels, excluding the space used by navigation keys. This concludes its actual pixel resolution taken on device must be 1080 x 1920.

We already know that HTC One M9 features a 5-inch display with 1080 x 1920 p , powered by Snapdragon 810 chipset, 20 MP rear camera, 3GB of RAM and a 2840 mAh battery.

HTC is expecting its current year portfolio of products as the best ever. We are hoping that HTC One M9 and Sense 7 to play a pivotal role in it.

HTC Sense 7 UI has a new distinct Avatar Maker feature

Alcatel One Touch announces its new PIXI-3 OS-agnostic supporting three different OS

It’s just a matter of day as the CES 2015 is to start and handset maker Alcatel is all set to announce its handset in the third iteration of the PIXI lineup the PIXI 3. We saw a smartwatch that is too on the cards from the company and is expected to be unveiled at the CES 2015.

Well, the good thing is that unlike the previous two generations of PIXI handsets that just supported the Android OS the handsets for PIXI-3 are believed to be OS-agnostic meaning that the handsets are said to be compatible with three different mobile operating systems that include the Android, Windows and Firefox as suggested by the official press release.

No further details regarding this have been unveiled by Alcatel at the moment however, we can expect some affordable handsets with different screen sizes. We will get you with more details as things get official at the CES 2015.

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Alcatel One Touch announces its new PIXI-3 OS-agnostic supporting three different OS

HP Stream 8 with Windows 8.1 launched in India for Rs 16,990

The HP Stream 8 that was earlier launched in the international markets back in September 2014 along with its sibling Stream 7 and now the tablet has paid its visit to the Indian markets. The device comes with an affordable price tag of Rs 16,990 and is available on online retail website Flipkart.

Looking to the specs for the device, needless to say it hosts a 8inch IPS display with some very good viewing angles and the good thing is that is has a micro-SIM card slot that comes with 3G connectivity. Under the hood lies a quad-core Intel Atom processor clocked at 1.8GHz and runs the latest Microsoft Windows 8.1 OS.

Additionally, it has also got a Intel HD graphics card for graphics support. The memory options for the device include a 1GB of RAM with 32GB of internal storage along with a microSD card slot for 32GB of expandable memory. The camera options include a 5MP primary camera to its back and a 2MP secondary camera to its front. The dimensions show the tablet to be having a 8.9mm of thickness and comes with a battery capacity of 4000mAh.

The device tips the scales starting at 388 grams. In terms of connectivity, you can expect standard fare such as Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi and as we mentioned above, 3G support. Apart from the new tablet, the company has also released offerings like the HP 7 VoiceTab, Slate 6 VoiceTab II and more into the Indian market.

The device comes with some good connectivity options on-board like GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G support. Take a look at the promo video below.

HP Stream 8 with Windows 8.1 launched in India for Rs 16,990

Xiaomi Redmi 2 goes official with 64 bit chipset: Official Images

As per the scheduled date for January 4^th, yesterday Chinese handset manufacturer Xiaomi finally launched the much awaited Xiaomi Redmi 1S successor officially named as the Xiaomi Redmi 2.

Looking straight away to its specs, the Xiaomi Redmi 2 comes with a 4.7inch display having 720×1280 pixel resolution. The chipset has now been replaced with the more powerful variant that is the 64-bit Snapdragon 410 supported with a topped up Adreno 306 GPU. The RAM memory still remains the same with 1GB and internal native storage stands to 8GB with a 64GB of expandable memory via microSD card slot. The camera options have been kept same with 8MP of primary camera to its back and 2MP of secondary snapper to its front. The handset comes with Android 4.4.4 KitKat pre-installed and has a battery back-up of 2200mAh.

The company has worked up a lot on the connectivity options for the handset with multiple carrier LTE connectivity networks. The good thing is that the handset supports LTE FDD, GSM, WCDMA and TD LTE. The handset will be made available in multiple color options like blck, white, yellow, green and pink. You can choose the best that suits your style.

The smartphone can be currently pre-ordered for a price of $112.60 USD. The handset would be launched officially on January 9^th. Take a look at all the official images of the device.

source: GizmoChina

Xiaomi Redmi 2 goes official with 64 bit chipset: Official Images

ViewSonic V55 to be the first phone having Iris Recognition Technology

In the beginning of 2014, there were rumors that Samsung Galaxy S5 and LG G3 would come equipped with iris scanners. However, it was not to be and both the smartphones came with fingerprint sensors instead. Now it seems that ViewSonic, a relatively small fish in the huge smartphone market, may be incorporating the iris recognition technology in its new smartphone.

ViewSonic’s upcoming V55 smartphone will supposedly have iris scanners that will scan your eye for biometric identification. Iris patterns for every individual are unique which makes it quite a secure method of identification. Once the owner’s iris is scanned and stored in the smartphone, only he can unlock and access data from it. No one else can unlock the phone. The iris scanner protects files and folders present in the handset. So if by chance someone else manages to unlock the phone, even then, he/she will not be able to access the information easily.

The iris scanner will be located on the top right-hand corner of the ViewSonic V55 smartphone but will be hidden with a sliding cover unlike the fingerprint scanners which are permanently exposed. To unlock the phone, you have to slide open the cover which will activate the scanner. A light will indicate that the scanner has been activated. Then you will have to scan your eye with the sensor and as it matches the iris image stored in the device, it will unlock. The iris recognition technology will perform certain other authentication functions too but we will know more about them during the official announcement.

Body of the ViewSonic V55 is probably made of plastic, with a metal frame and very thin bezels.   It will also have several separate lenses that could be fitted on its camera. Other specs include 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080p display, 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core Snapdragon 410 CPU and Adreno 306 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage and a 13MP Sony camera at the back which can be fitted with additional lenses as mentioned above. The phone will support 4G LTE networks to enable high speed browsing. Battery capacity is not known yet but it will be of high capacity in view of the iris scanner and 4G LTE support.

ViewSonic is expected to launch the handset sometime this month. Its price has not been revealed as yet but it will have to be competitive if it wants to survive the cut throat competition in the smartphone market.

Check out the video below:

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ViewSonic V55 to be the first phone having Iris Recognition Technology