Nokia X marks one million pre-orders in China

Nokia X the recently announced Android Mid-range phone has scored one million pre-orders in China just in few days

The news was posted by Nokia on China Weibo site on Friday and later retweeted
By Nokia Twitter account

The phone was announced by Stephen
Elop at the 2014 Mobile World Congress
In Barcelona

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HTC M8 gets leaked in a video

We've seen the pictures, rumored specs but now it's time for a full hands-on for the HTC One sequel, code named as HTC M8. We still don't know what's this phone gonna be called in the market. HTC Two or perhaps HTC One Two. According to @evleaks the phone is to be released before Q1 2014 gets over. The HTC M8 has two camera which may be used for advanced zoom technology. Even though Corephotonics produce dual camera they state that they are not supplying to HTC.

Below is a video by a teenager with the HTC M8

HTC ONE M8 by fakehtcm8

Source: Dailymotion

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Nokia X can run Google apps and services if hacked

Nokia announced it's Android device, Nokia X less than a week ago. The main objective for the phone is to avoid Google's services and promote Microsoft services such as OneDrive, Skype and Outlook. After just a few days of its revealing, hackers managed to get root access to phone's filesystem. Kashamlaga from xda-developers converted his Nokia developer handset to run Google apps in simple 5 steps., suggesting Nokia has not locked down the device too heavily. Apps like Gmail, Google Now, Google Maps and Hangouts appear to be working.

It is not surprising that the Nokia X is able to be hacked to run Google apps as it is Android. When The Verge reached out for comment from Nokia, they stated that that they are actually happy about it. This is only the beginning progress to a full replacement of the Android OS. We are hoping to see a Cyanogenmod version on this device.

The Nokia X is made to completely replace Google services with Microsoft services, they even have their own app store to avoid using Google Play Store.

@KashaMalaga This is awesome! Very excited to see progress is being made - we actually really like @xdadevelopers
— Nokia Developer Team (@nokiadeveloper) February 28, 2014

Source: xda-developers(1), (2)

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Ashton Kutcher to team up with Lenovo to create special edition phones

We've heard celebrities teaming up with tech companies to create an authentic design. Last time when Lenovo teamed up with Ashton Kutcher, they released a poorly designed tablets. A marketing executive told Recode that the company is once again teaming up with Mr. Kutcher to design a special edition line for smartphones. The details for the smartphone is not out yet. They are expected to be released later this year. Kutcher will in fact say something contrary to the smartphone in product design. Chief Marketing Officer David Rodman told Recode that"I know on one level, it sounds corny, but it is real". Also he added "He not only sees himself as an engineer, but he is an engineer. If he sees a problem, he wants to solve it".

We won't be knowing whether this smartphone is to be released under the Lenovo brand, even though Engadget assumed that it would be under Lenovo as it is a special edition phone. Engadget have reached out from comment from Lenovo. if there are more we would let you know it.

Source: Recode

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Meet Boeing's Black phone, which self-destructs its data if cracked open

With the NSA spying on us Boeing releases an entry level smart phone, which is supposed to be released in 2012. The company posted full detail's of it's "Black" phone. The phone is specifically made for people who care about security and defense. The FCC also published the specifications of it's hardware and software, including the self-destruction feature if cracked open.

The Boeing Black is powered by Dual 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPUs. The spec sheet shows that it
comes with a 4.3" qHD display with a resolution of 540x960 pixels. The phone weighs about 170g and is powered by a Lithium-Ion 1500mAH battery. The phone also supports Dual SIM cards along with LTE, WCDMA and GSM. It sports some internal storage and can be expanded with an external SD card if required. Boeing Black is powered by Android which Boeing says will work as the way you'd expect. The phone measures 13.24mm in thickness, 67.6mm horizontally and  131.9mm vertically.

The whole phone is assembled in the US and can be expanded with its back panel to work with biometric scanners, satellite transceivers, solar chargers and other accessories.

However the most likable feature of this phone is its security measure which destroys the stored data when cracked open. The FCC filing spotted by Quartz sheds some light on how this works.

The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper proof covering to identify attempted disassembly. Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable.

Its not exactly clear how this would work, if say the battery is completely depleted. The Verge has contacted Boeing on this case.

The announcement date is not set and mentioned even though WSJ says it's coming soon.

Source: FCC, The Wall Street Journal, Boeing Black

Boeing

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78% of iOS devices are now updated to iOS 7 says a new report

According to Apple 1% of iOS 7 adoption rate are being stolen from iOS 6 every week. They just updated their iOS adoption figures on their developer's support page. Apple first reported iOS 7 numbers based on App Store usage on the first day of December. The pie graph showed that 74 percent of users were on iOS 7, compared to 22 percent on iOS 6, and 4 percent on earlier versions.

Latest report shows that now its stands at 78 percent - with iOS 6 just 18 percent. The measure was taken from the data measured by the App Store during a 7-day period, ebding December 29, 2013. Obviously its a great news for Apple who made a concerted effort to enure iOS 7 adoption since it's release on September 18, even stipulating that all app submissions must be optimized for iOS 7 by February 1, 2014.

It also shows a massive development against Google whose latest version, Android KitKat 4.4 — is running around 1.1 percent of all devices.

Source: Apple

Image credits to Cult of Mac

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Report shows Chinese gamers spend more time on PC than mobile gaming

A Study report from china's GPC (page translated through Google translate) shows that there has been a boom for the gaming industry since the last 12 months giving an amount of  $13 billion to the gaming industry which shows a 40% increase compared to the last years revenue. Even though growth in market maybe a common thing but it might be surprising that Chinese players tend to spend more time in PC

Chinese game market is worth 83.17 billion Yuan

games than just tapping into mobiles in these modern decade of smartphones.

Most of this year’s revenue, 64.5% or about $8.7 billion, was generated through client-based PC games. Browser games took in a comparatively low $2 billion, while mobile games earned just $1.8 billion. Social games–which many developers depend on to spread the word about their products–earned less than $1 billion. Gamers in China states that they have very hard access to internet gaming in mobiles when compared to that of  PC games, this particularly set a loss of about 80% of the revenue.

Gaming companies are trying to take back their lose by figuring  out mistakes and focusing more on fixing them. Companies like Tencent have released apps like WeChat giving highly anticipated gaming platform. Developers are busy trying cope up with challenges distributing and monetizing mobile games in order to take advantage of China's rapidly growing smartphones penetration.

Even though Chinese developers are contracted by foreign companies like Electronic Arts, Gameloft and Glu, domestic game companies seems to be dominating a bigger revenue-$7.8 billion to be exact, or a 30% increase year over year.

Via: TechCrunch
Source: GPC

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LG plans to bring 'knock' to all devices, updates coming soon to LG L series II models

Its been a while after LG released its 2nd model of its flagship device with the knock feature. Initially this feature allowed users to double tap the screen to turn on the device instantly instead of using the power button and LG has seen that people loved this feature. Now, LG has decided to give updates on all LG L II series smartphones in the upcoming month. They have also decided to add this feature on all their upcoming devices, But availability will be depending on region and carrier, so you might have to wait for a bit longer for the feature.

Source: LG

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