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Huawei is now the top smartphone in China, dislodge Xiaomi

Huawei Technologies Co, has dislodged Xiaomi from the top in the lucrative China Smartphone market. Huawei topped Xiaomi in the 3rd quarter and posted its 1st year-over-year in phone shipments, based on a new survey.

Xiaomi’s phone shipments is down by 8% in the 3rd quarter while Huawei’s jumped 81%, according to research firm Canalys on Thursday. In the 2nd quarter, Xiaomi had a 15.9% share of the market, while Huawei had a 15.7% share, according to the report.

The Sina news report Huawei was able to sell a total of 27.4 million devices for the 3 months ended September 30, compared to the 18.5 million devices sold by Xiaomi during the same period.

Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 in Pink Gold

Apple's iPhone 6s will hit the stores of South Korea on October 23, and the battle between the smartphone giants is set. Samsung announced that they will be releasing the Galaxy Note 5 as an answer to the iPhone 6s. The Galaxy Note 5 will be available in two colors, titanium silver and pink gold. Noticed the new pink gold color directly competing with Apple's rose gold iPhone 6S. The color pink gold is identical to rose gold.

Samsung said that the new color variations for the Galaxy Note 5 will gradually be expanded to other Asian countries but release details are still being worked out. There are no news if it will actually make it to the U.S.

The Galaxy Note 5 titanium silver and pink gold models will join the existing Note 5 gold platinum, black sapphire, and white pearl color options.

ASUS Zenfone Go India Launch Price, Specs and Features

Taiwanese tech giant Asustek Computer Inc launched ASUS Zenfone Go in India, it is their first “affordable” smartphone    in the country. They want to enter the budget smartphone market in the 3rd largest smartphone user in the world.

The company said that India is a critical market for them and they want to give cutting-edge products to consumers seeking the power-packed design sensibilities of a high-end smartphone at competitive prices.

The ZenFone Go is priced at 7,999 rupees or US$121 and available now at Flipkart, the number 1 e-commerce website in India.

The ZenFone smartphone runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop-based ZenUI. Under the hood it got 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6580 quad-core processor, Mali 400MP2 graphics. The display is at 5 inches with HD resolution of 1280 x 720, and 2GB of RAM.

In terms of connectivity, there is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 3G (HSPA+) network access and a microUSB port. It is powered by a 2,070mAh battery and comes with dual-SIM support. However, the smartphone does not have 4G LTE support just 3G.

The smartphone is equip with an 8-megapixel rear camera sensor with LED flash and a 2-megapixel selfie camera sensor on the front.

The Zenfone Go comes in Pure Black, Glamour Red, or Ceramic White color. It comes in 16GB and 32GB internal storage options, which can be further expanded via MicroSD card.

Asustek chief executive officer Jerry Shen said last month that they have plans to launch one or two low-priced ZenFone Go smartphones each year in emerging markets, like Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Thailand.

Samsung Produce the World's largest hard drive 16 TB capacity with 3D V-NAND tech

Samsung presents the world's largest hard drive at 6 terabytes (TB) of capacity. The Samsung PM1633a HD is a 2.5-inch solid state drive which has 15.36 TB of storage. It is not the conventional magnetic hard drive, but rather a Solid State Drive which is tougher and faster. Seagate and Western Digital offers only 8 to 10 TB of storage. 

They were able to achieved this taking advantage of a new technology called 3D V-NAND. The new hard drive has 48 layers of 3D V-NAND memory cells, whereas it was only 36 last year. They squeeze in the capacity with the use of its new 256 bit (32 GB) NAND flash die, which is twice the capacity of 128 bit NAND dies.

They inserted 48 layers of 3-bits-per-cell (TLC) 3D V-NAND into a single die. The Samsung hard drive uses between 480 and 500 of the new NAND flash chips. The company also showed off a server with 48 of the new PM1633a SSDs installed for a total of 768 TB.

This hard drive is expected to cost around $8000.

Asus ZenPad tablets

Asus ZenPad tablets replaces the MeMO Pad series. Asus ZenPad comes in different screen size variants 7" inches, 8" inches, and  10.1" inches.

The variants are ZenPad C 7.0 (Budget), ZenPad S 8.0 (Premium), ZenPad 10 (Optional Keyboard).

ZenPad C 7.0 specification:

Display: 7.0 inches 600 x 1024 pixels with 170 ppi pixel density.
Operating System: Android OS, v5.0 (Lollipop)
CPU: Quad-core, Intel Atom x3-C3200. with Mali-450MP4 GPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 8/16 GB, microSD, up to 64 GB
Camera: primary 5 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels or 2 MP, 1600 x 1200 pixels
 -secondary: VGA
Battery: Non-removable Li-Po battery (13 Wh)

ZenPad S 8.0 specification:
-it is 6.6mm-thick, 298g metallic slate
Display: 2,048 x 1,536 (324 ppi) IPS display; 4:3 aspect ratio
CPU:  Quad-core Intel's 64-bit Atom Z3580 chip with PowerVR G6430 GPU
Memory: 4GB of RAM,
Storage: 16/32 GB, microSD, up to 128 GB
Camera: primary 5 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels
 -secondary: 2 MP
Battery: Non-removable Li-Po battery (15.2 Wh)

* IT has front-facing stereo speakers that are enhanced by DTS for virtual surround sound.
* Optional Z Stylus, which supports up to 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity.


ZenPad 10 specification:

Display: 10.1" LED Backlight WXGA (1280x800) Screen IPS Panel
- Corning® Gorilla® Glass0
Operating System:  Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
CPU: Intel® Atom™ Z3560 Quad-Core, 64bit
Memory: 2GB
Storage: 8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB microSD, up to 64 GB
Camera: primary 5 MP Rear Camera
 -secondary: 2 MP Front Camera
Battery: Non-removable 9 hours battery life; 18Wh

HTC Desire Lineup

HTC, a Taiwanese based smartphone manufacturer is aiming to revive its performance after the disappointing sales of the "One M9" with their new smartphone lineup Desire that features colorful casing. The company's new smartphones are called Desire 626 and 626s, 526 and 520.

HTC's new Desire smartphones may be budget devices, but they all offer LTE connectivity, as well as expandable storage. 

HTC is tageting the low and medium range market that are budget conscious. All the four devices run on Android 5.1 Lollipop with HTC’s own Sense 7 UI.

Desire 626 And 626s

Desire 626

The Desire 626 is their high-end smartphone among the lineup is equipped with a 5-inch 1,280 x 720 display, 1.5 GB of memory and 16GB internal storage, with 8 MP rear sensor and 5 MP front sensor cameras. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor, clocked at 1.1 GHz. That's a quad core chip, but certainly not one of the company's fastest. The desire lineup also supports external storage with a microSD card slot and a 2,000mAh battery.

The Desire 626s has the same size and specification of the 626 the difference are RAM 1 GB, front camera at 2MP and internal storage at 8GB. Colors for both Desire 626 And 626s are Blue Lagoon, White Birch, Marine White, Marshmallow White, and Gray Lava.

Desire 526

HTC Desire 526

Sports a 4.7-inch qHD panel (960 x 540 resolution). It is thicker compared to the other Desire lineup. It back with a quad core chip Qualcomm MSM8909. The front camera is 2MP, while the back camera is 8MP. Internal storage is at 8GB. It has 1.5GB of RAM.

Desire 520

Desire 520

The cheapest among the line-up and it has a smaller display at 4.5-inch with a 480 x 854 pixels resolution. It is equipped with 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage. It offers LTE connectivity and a expandable memory through microSD slot. The main camera is 8 MP while the front-facing shooter is 2 MP.

The HTC Desire Lineup will be sold by major carriers in the US. Availability and pricing has not yet been announced.