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Vernee Apollo 2 with Helio X30 and 8GB of RAM launching at MWC

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February 16, 2017

Vernee Apollo 2 with Helio X30 and 8GB of RAM launching at MWC

Vernee is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer which rarely anyone has heard of, but it is one of the first mobile brands to feature a phone with 6GB of RAM. Vernee Apollo made some huge waves last year as 6GB of RAM was something insane and now we’re somehow used to it. Continuing the trend of fitting more RAM on a smartphone, Vernee Apollo 2 will feature insane 8GB of RAM and that’s twice the RAM I’ve on my laptop. However, it is not the first phone with that much RAM, we already have a phone with 8GB of RAM, Asus Zenfone AR.

Vernee Apollo 2 besides having 8GB of RAM will also be the first phone to be powered by Helio X30 SoC which is a deca-core chipset with two 2.8 GHz A73 cores, four 2.2 GHz A53 cores, and four 2 GHz A35 cores. X30 also supports eMMC 5.1 and UFS 2.1 which means faster read/write speed for storage and supports a camera up to 28MP which the Apollo 2 could feature as the first Apollo had 21MP Camera. Taking performance into consideration, X30 goes head to head with the Snapdragon 820.

The phone will also feature a QHD display, although the size of the display is unknown. Apollo 2 will be coming in two configurations: one with 64GB storage/6GB of RAM and another with 128GB of storage/8GB of RAM. Despite this, not much has been revealed about the phone.

The first gen of Apollo came with all sorts features from Force Touch display, USB Type-C, Fast Charging and much more and we can expect the same features this time as well. Despite all the features, the pricing of the Apollo 2 will be really competitive and could come in the price range of OnePlus 3T.

Apollo 2 will be launching on MWC which will be held in Barcelona from 27 Feb to 2 March.

Meizu Officially Announces the M5s

Meizu

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February 15, 2017

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Meizu like any other Chinese smartphone manufacturer provides insanely great hardware at a cheaper price. For the past few years, Meizu has been doing a great job launching aesthetically beautiful products and the same continues with the announcement of Meizu M5s which is the successor the Meizu M5. The ‘s’ on the back of a predecessor model always means significant improvements and the M5s has got a bit of both slight upgrades and downgrades from the M5.

Meizu M5s sports a unibody metal design with a fingerprint sensor embedded in the home button, up-front it holds a 5.2inch 720p display with 2.5D curved glass making the phone look seamless on the edges. The 720p panel can be a major letdown for many users as we are used to a full HD panel on mid-range phones. The phone is powered by a MediaTek MT6753 SoC clocked at 1.3Ghz and is coupled with 3GB of RAM. The processor may not be that powerful compared to others but it will be enough to get through your daily needs and on top 3GB RAM is plenty to fly through anything you throw at it. Storage-wise, the phone offers only 16GB and 32GB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 256GB. The Meizu M5s features a 13MP Rear Camera with f/2.2 aperture, PDAF and 5-element lens for high-res images. On the front, the phone comes with a 5MP shooter.

The only drawback of the phone is that it’s running on Flyme OS 6.0 which is based on Android Marshmallow. Backing up the phone is a decent 3,000mAh of battery which comes with fast charging where within 10 minutes the phone can be charged up from 0 to 19%. Given the specs of the phone, the 3,000mAh battery should be plenty enough to give you a full day of usage.

The phone will go on sale on February 20 where the 16GB variant will cost CNY 799 (around Nrs.12,400) and the 32GB variant will cost CNY 999 (around Nrs.15,500).

Deals: Colors Elite E15 and E20 gets a Price Drop

Colors

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February 15, 2017

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Deals: Colors Elite E15 and E20 gets a Price Drop

Nepalese smartphone brand has slashed the prices of its older Elite series of smartphones for the month of love. The Elite E15, previously priced at Rs. 13,995, is now available for Rs. 10,495. The Elite E20, previously priced at Rs. 15,695, is now available for Rs. 11,995.

Both these phones are a good deal considering what you get in a sub-12K price tag. The Colors Elite E15 has a 5-inch HD display, while the Elite E20 comes with a bigger 5.5-inch HD display. Both of these phones are powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor and has 2GB of RAM. Storage wise, both these phones comes with 16GB ROM with microSD support.

If you are more into photography and selfies, the Colors Elite E20 might fulfill your needs as the phone features a 13MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera. The Colors Elite E15, on the contrary, has an average camera with 8MP and 5MP sensors. The Colors Elite E15, however, boasts a decent 5000mAh battery that provides a full 2 days battery backup. The Colors Elite E20 houses a 2500mAh battery. Both these phone is running on Android 5.1 Lollipop, and will not receive any further updates.

Check out our review of the Colors E15 and E20:

SONY Pikachu spotted on GFXBench

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February 15, 2017

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A new smartphone from Sony has been spotted on GFXBench. The new phone is codenamed Sony Pikachu. The spec sheet shows a 5″ 720p screen and a MediaTek Helio P20 SoC with an octa-core 2.3 GHz processor.

For all of you who don’t know what GFXBench is, it’s a free, cross-platform and cross-API 3D graphics benchmark that measures graphics performance, long-term performance stability, render quality and power consumption with a single, easy-to-use application.

The phone seems to have 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage with 22GB available for the user. It also has a 21MP back and 7MP front camera and the software running on this device is Android Nougat 7.0.

This new rumor goes hand in hand with previous rumors about Sony releasing five smartphones at the Mobile World Congress this year. You can check the spotted smartphone here.

Gionee Marathon M5 Lite Gets a Price Drop

Gionee

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February 14, 2017

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Gionee Marathon M5 Lite Gets a Price Drop

Teletalk Pvt. Ltd., the authorized distributor of Gionee smartphones in Nepal, has announced a price drop on the Gionee Marathon M5 Lite for the Month of Love. The phone comes with a metal build, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB ROM, which carried a price tag of Rs.19,999 now comes with the new price tag of Rs. 17,999.

Talking about the specification, the marathon M5 Lite sports a 5-inch 720P display with Asahi Dragontrail glass, 1.3Ghz quadcore MediTek MT6735 processor, and a microSD expansion slot up to 128GB. It has 8MP rear camera with autofocus and LED flash while there is a 5MP shooter up front.

The highlights of the phone, however, is the 4000mAh battery rated to provide 32.7 hours of talk time and 450 hours of standby. Despite the whopping battery size, the phone is just 8.5mm thick, but the phone is on the heavier side weighing 183gms. The Marathon M5 Lite supports dual SIM with 4G LTE, USB OTG, and can also charge other phones. It is now available from retail stores all across Nepal.

Gionee Marathon M5 Lite Handset Highlights:

5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.
Asahi Dragon trail Glass protection upfront
Metal Build
1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit Cortex A53 processor
Mali-T720 GPU
3GB DDR3 RAM
32GB inbuilt memory, expandable memory up to 128GB via microSD
Android 5.1 Lollipop with Amigo UI 3.1
8MP rear camera with Autofocus, LED Flash, and 1080p video recording
5MP front-facing camera
Dual SIM with 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, USB OTG
4000mAh non-removable battery

Ncell set to offer free Facebook to all its users

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February 14, 2017

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Ncell set to offer free Facebook to all its users

Yes, you read the title right. Ncell is set to offer free Facebook to all of its users. The Ncell Free Facebook offer will start tomorrow (starting 12:00 AM on Wednesday). This step comes following the telecommunication company’s collaboration with the social media giants.

But there are a few catch. While users can like, comment, post status, share different posts and upload their pictures freely, they won’t be able to view pictures posted by other people. Also, chatting via Messenger isn’t free. So, Ncell users will have to use their mobile data for chatting and viewing pictures.

Ncell has been teasing its users for the last few days citing their ‘Internet for all’ campaign.

In the last several days, Ncell has brought few offers for its users, ranging from ‘Valentine offers’ to Ncell’s very own app market where users will be able to download unlimited apps for Rs. 15 per week. The company had previously made Twitter free.

Read More: Ncell launches Ncell App Market

Read More: Ncell Launches New Data Packs

Women Technopreneur – 5 day all girls tech workshop in Nepal

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February 14, 2017

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Women Technopreneur – 5 day all girls tech workshop in Nepal

Robotics Association of Nepal (RAN) has announced to initiate a 5-day tech- workshop for girls. The workshop has been scheduled to be held from February 15-20 at iHUB, Kathmandu. The program will also be conducted in other major cities of Nepal- Biratnagar, Bhairahawa, Dhangadi, Illam, Pokhara, and Surkhet.

RAN has been gaining popularity by providing a platform in the field of robotics to students and enthusiasts all over Nepal. It has also been involved in research and development in the areas like power management systems, embedded systems, automation, robotics, and so on. It has been encouraging participation of students and youths towards ICT.

RAN has formed a team “Miss-Tech” with the vision of encouraging women in the technical field. It is a team of women for women. They have been developing a platform for women in technology to share their technical knowledge so that they can make a difference. Miss Tech has been religiously organizing seminars, workshops and code camps to help students learn coding and multiple other skills required in the technical field.

Miss Tech 2017 has conceptualized the idea of “Women Technopreneur, Women’s Empowerment through Technology”. Statements released have stated that – the main aim of the workshop is to bring leadership and self-confidence in each participant and help them scale-up their technological insight. Throughout the workshop, the participants will be taught about hardware interfacing, programming, game development, social networking, and entrepreneurship. The program details for the workshop has been stated as follows –

Day 1: Game development through Scratch (Feb. 15)
Day 2: Android app development through MIT App Inventor (Feb. 16)
Day 3: Hardware interfacing through Arduino (Feb. 17)
Day 4: social networking through Blogging (Feb. 19)
Day 5: Entrepreneurship through Business Model Canvas (Feb. 20)

If you are interested, you can fill up the registration form using the link below or contact the officials for any query.

For queries, contact: 9802972075

Micromax Ultra M1 with 3GB RAM, 4000mAh battery Launched in Nepal

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Yural Maskey

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February 14, 2017

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Micromax Ultra M1 with 3GB RAM, 4000mAh battery Launched in Nepal

Pashupati Tradelink, the authorized distributor of Micromax mobiles in Nepal, has launched a new smartphone in the Nepali market. Known as the Canvas Ultra M1, the handset is priced at Rs. 22,899 and is available from offline mobile stores of Nepal.

The Micromax Canvas Ultra M1 features a 5.5-inch fullHD (1920×1080) IPS LCD display with 2.5D curved glass. However, the company hasn’t mentioned what kind of protection it has. It is powered by an octacore processor and 3GB RAM. The octacore processor is from an unspecified chipset, but we assume it’s a 64bit Cortex A53 Mediatek. In terms of storage, it has 32GB ROM with microSD support upto 64GB.

As far as optics is concerned, it has a 13 megapixel back camera assisted by LED flash and Phase Detection Autofocus for faster focus. The front-facing camera is 5 megapixel. All this is fueled by a commendable 4000mAh battery. It is currently running on an older version of Android 6.0 Marshmallow and looking at the Micromax poignant history regarding updates, this phone might not receive the Nougat update. Hardware wise, the Canvas Ultra M1 houses a full metal body and sports a fingerprint scanner on the rear.

Huawei teases the new P10 for MWC Launch

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February 14, 2017

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Huawei teases the new P10 for MWC Launch

Huawei P lineup is the flagship series from Huawei. The yearly improvement we’ve been seeing in the Huawei flagships are commendable. We’ve used the older Huawei P7, P8 and P9 and each iteration has been taking positive leaps. Huawei unlike in the past has been penetrating European market specifically with the Honor 8 which has been getting immense positive reviews and some are even calling it the flagship killer. In the time of such high spirit, Huawei has decided to tease the users with its upcoming flagship phone, the Huawei P10.

Rumors about the Huawei P10 and it’s bigger sibling the P10 Plus has been going on for a while now and the leaks of the P10 proves to be true with this official teaser. Nothing much has been disclosed about the phone except the name “Huawei P10”, its launch date, 26.02.17 which is during the Mobile World Congress. Huawei P9 with a dual camera was teased with the slogan “Change how you see the world” and now the P10 comes with the slogan “Change the way the world sees you” meaning the phone will have something special for the selfie lovers, maybe dual front cameras?

Based on the leaks, the Huawei P10 will feature a 5.5inch QHD display (1440 x 2560 pixels) with 534 PPI pixel density. The phone will be running the latest version of EMUI 5.0 based on Android 7.0 Nougat. The phone will be powered by HiSilcion Kirin 960 SoC and will come equipped with either 4GB(32/64GB Internal Storage) or 6GB of RAM (128GB Internal Storage). Optics wise the camera is said to be equipped with Dual 12MP Rear Camera with 1.7 aperture and front 8MP Camera.

The battery size and other details still remain a mystery so we just have to wait till MWC 2017 to see what Huawei has got stored for us.

CAN InfoTech 2017 and Mobile Expo coming along in Pokhara from 16th of February

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February 13, 2017

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CAN InfoTech 2017 and Mobile Expo coming along in Pokhara from 16th of February

CAN InfoTech 2017 and mobile expo is going to kick off in Pokhara from February 16 (Falgun 5). The four days long event will face the closing on 19^th of February (Falgun 8). This event is going to happen under the collaboration of Federation of Computer Association in Nepal (FCAN), Kaski and Pokhara Electronics Dealers Association (PEDA), Kaski. FCAN is acting as an organizer in the event whereas PEDA is assisting as a co-organizer. Pokhara Exhibition Center is chosen as the venue for the event, which lies in Naya Bazar, Pokhara.

Pokhara is one of the cities in Nepal with tech-savvy residents. In order to provide information based on the communication and information technologies to such enthusiasts, FCAN has always been an aspirant. And this CAN InfoTech is the 8^th attempt made by FCAN after the previous seven successful endeavors. In the InfoTech, along with the awareness of advancements in the technological arena, technology-related gadgets will be also kept for the trade. So, different kinds of Software, Hardware, Networking devices and solutions, Mobile Solutions, Security Solutions, ISPs, Wireless Solutions, Banking Solutions, etc can be seen in the InfoTech. There might also be the launch of some new Products.

According to the FCAN, a total of one hundred and fifteen stalls will be there in the CAN InfoTech 2017 and Mobile Expo. And the number of visitors are expected to be around one hundred thousand. This InfoTech is not only focusing on the tech exhibition but also is organizing ICT Conference, Typing Competition, Quiz Contest, Free repairs of mobiles and computers, etc in the event. In addition, locally developed productions related to communication and information technology will also be given a special priority for the showcase in the exhibition.