The wireless charging feature in devices hasn’t propagated greatly. The main setback for this technological principle is the consumers’ reluctance to invest in a wireless charger while riddled with uncertainty and confusion about what standard to choose.
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Auto root any China phone / tablet MT6592 MT6582 MT6595 MT6732 MT6752 MT6795
There are normally several ways to go about the task of creating CWM / TWRP, creating a backup, or installing gapps on your MT6735 MT6753 MT6755 MT6797 MT6737 MT 6737T MT6592 MT6582 MT6595 MT6732 MT6752 MT6795 phone, but one of the steps that often makes these easier is getting rooted. You might also want to check out auto creating TWRP and Phil’z Touch custom recovery. (more…)
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MLAIS M9 Review – $86 MT6592M 1GB RAM OTG OGS
MLAIS is one of the older China phone brands. They have a good name in China and a loyal following, but have done very little marketing and promotion outside of China.
With the M9, MLAIS has come with an interesting phone — a thin, sub-$100 mobile with an MT6592M SoC. (more…)
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Kyocera at MWC with a Solar Phone
At this year’s MWC, Kyocera will be showcasing an ultra rugged Windows Phone, the Kyocera Torque. The ruggedized aspect of the phone extends to the phone’s usability despite running out of battery.
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Tech Security: Shutdown Malware on Chinese Phones, Lenovo’s Superfish Cure, Hacked SIM Encryption
Shutdown Malware on Chinese Phones
AVG Antivirus has spotted a type of malware that targets phones running Android v4.4 and below.
The malware emulates a phone shutdown sequence, making the user assume the phone is in shutdown, but is actually fully functional and accessible to hackers.
It is reported that phones with root access are less likely to be infected, but users are urged to be extra cautious about download sources of apps. Furthermore, phones running on Lollipop OS will not be affected — a pretty good reason to want for a Lollipop update.
Lenovo’s Superfish Cure
Lenovo has been busy trying to salvage the situation they’ve dropped themselves into. Recent Lenovo laptops have reportedly been installed with the Superfish adware, which was supposed to help users discover new products.
However, the tech company had failed to spot a serious security flaw, wherein users logged onto the same Wi-Fi network as the adwared machine will be able to hack through the computer’s web encryption. This allows the hacker to spy on the user and even feed malware into the infected laptop’s data stream.
Lenovo released a tool that would uninstall the Superfish program as well as remove web browser certificates, and are taking a serious step, working with Microsoft and McAfee to ensure all affected machines will be cured of the bug.
The company said the laptops infected are those sold between September 2014 and January 2015, but give their confidence that no ThinkPads are affected.
Hacked SIM Encryption
SIM-maker and digital security company, Gemalto is currently investigating the claims that the Mobile Handset Exploration Team has gotten their hands on encryption keys of Gemalto SIM cards.
The MHET is a joint force of some of NSA and GCHQ agents. They allegedly spied on Gemalto operations, specifically how the encryption keys were handed off to their wireless carriers partners. The team then intercepted the hand off and have gained access to keys of millions of SIM cards.
With access to encryption keys, users’ calls and messages can easily be accessed and monitored with ease. Furthermore, as SIM cards are simply transferred from smartphone to smartphone, the spies have backdoor access to the phones as well.
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Xposed Framework for Lollipop
Xposed is a versatile tool that gives rooted users access to almost every imaginable mod and tweak to their phones.
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Ulefone Be Pro Lollipop Android 5.0 News – YouTube / Pics / Note
According to Ulefone, Lollipop is right around the corner. While I don’t quite look forward to new OS as some people do, I do understand the desire to have the latest and greatest. (more…)
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ARM Cortex A-72 Processors For Next Generation Chipsets
At the heart of nearly every smartphone out there is at least one ARM processor core. The various chipsets powering Android smartphones are based on ARM Cortex cores.
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Smartphone Batteries with Twice the Capacity
SolidEnergy is a start-up company that specializes in the research and development of rechargeable battery technology. Their main target is the development of batteries powering E-Vehicles. While they are on their way towards that, the company has potentially solved the short life span of lithium-ion batteries by using metal electrodes.
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Ulefone Be Pro Review – 2GB RAM / 720p LG Display
Before there was Elephone, there was Ulefone. They have been in the game for longer than many of the current brands you know and love (or hate). Mostly known for making good clones, Ulefone has now ventured beyond their roots to design their own phones.
update: According to Ulefone’s Facebook, the camera in the Ulefone Be Pro is not Sony. This was a mistake from the marketing department. I have spoken to a Ulefone rep who has stated “the camera uses Sony technology, but is not Sony branded”. I’m not quite sure how to interpret that, but there it is. Nevertheless, the camera is quite good and for the flash sale price of $135 or coupon price of $146 the Ulefone Be Pro is still an outstanding deal.
This motivation comes from wanting to legitimately branch into Western markets. It would be impossible with clones to do this officially, so they have taken the bold step of stepping at least partially out of the clone game.
Regardless of where the motivation comes from, I can only see this development as a great thing.
Notably the Ulefone Be Pro carries with it the new 64-bit MT6732 SoC with the Mali-T760 GPU, 2GB RAM, 16GB ROM, OTG, Hotknot technology, worldwide 3G/H+ and 4-Band LTE. All at a considerably low price point given the specs.
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Raspberry Pi 2 Quad Core at $35
The famous development board from the Raspberry Pi foundation, that has greatly impacted software development, now exists on a whole new level.
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MediaTek Update: MT6753 Mid-Ranger and MT6735
More and more phone models are utilizing the quad-core MT6732 and octa-core MT6752 64-bit chipsets; the latter going into phones under the high-end category, while the former into low-end phones. While the MT6732 is tagged as low-end, its benchmark test results are still quite impressive, and at par with the popular 32-bit MT6592 that carries twice as many cores.
