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Huawei Honor 4x launched in Nepal for Rs.26,999

Huawei

Yural Maskey

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June 17, 2015

Chinese smartphone giant Huawei has launched a mid-range Android-based smartphone Huawei Honor 4x in Nepal. The phone is priced at Rs. 26,999 and will go on sale starting today.
Coming to the specifications, The Honor 4X boasts a 5.5 inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display, is powered by 1.2 GHz Huawei Kirin 620 64-bit A53 Octa core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat) with Emotion UI 3.0. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 4G connectivity and packs a 3000 mAh battery.

Honor 4X specifications:

SIM	Dual (micro SIM); 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+
DISPLAY	5.5’’IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen; 720*1280 pixels;
MEMORY	8 GB internal memory; micro SD up to 32 GB
RAM	2 GB
PROCESSOR	1.2 GHz octa core processor
CHIPSET	HiSilicon Kirin 620
BACK CAMERA	13 MP with Auto focus and LED flash
FRONT CAMERA	5 MP
OS	Android v4.4.2 Kitkat; Guaranteed Lollipop Update
CONNECTIVITY	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0
BATTERY	Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery (non-removable)
DIMENSIONS	152.9mm × 77.2mm × 8.65mm
WEIGHT	165 grams
PRICE	Rs.26,999

The Huawei Honor 4X was announced in October last year so it’s certainly taken a while to get here in Nepal from China. Apart from the Honor 4x, Huawei also launched an entry-level phone Y5C for Rs. 9,999 and a tablet Mediapad T1 for Rs. 13,499.
Huawei Y5c is an Android-based smartphone that sports a 4.5″ LCD FWVGA display, 1.3GHz quad core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, 8 megapixel rear camera, 2 MP front camera, Dual 3G SIM slot, and a 1730 mAh battery.

Huawei Mediapad T1 is an inexpensive 8.00-inch tablet powered by 1.2GHz quad-core processor alongside 1GB RAM, 8GB of expandable storage and 5-megapixel rear camera. It runs Android Jellybean and boasts a 4800 mAh battery.

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10 Paid iPhone Apps Worth $40 for Free Today

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June 17, 2015

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10 Paid iPhone Apps Worth $40 for Free Today

These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.

1. Lumen Trails Time Tracker($19.99):

Lumen Trails is an omni tracker. It lets you take notes, make lists and keep track of other things in your life, such as time, workouts, expenses, calories, food, weight, sleep or anything else you can think of. Thousands of people use it every day, and they love it because it truly makes a difference in their lives.

2. My Scans Pro($4.99):

My Scans PRO is the best Scanner and Document organizer for iPhone and iPad! It is super simple to use. Just take a photo of a document, invoice, business card, bill, contract or memo and save it.

3. Orgami($0.99):

Orgami is an extremely versatile writing app. It allows you to visualize your thoughts across five beautiful, minimalist boards.

4. Soonish ($0.99):

A beautiful and simple countdown calendar app which makes remembering dates fun again. Add the upcoming gig of your favorite band, the season start of your most-loved TV show and the beginning of your next vacation to your personal Soonish list.

5. BitTorrent Shoot ($1.99):

Free file sharing via Wi-Fi direct.

6. Calendoodle($1.99):

The app that allows you to write, doodle and mark up your calendar the way you want it!

7. Moody($0.99):

With so much great film and television at our fingertips these days, it can be hard to decide exactly what to watch. Moody makes it easy by giving you suggestions based upon your mood!

8. Analog Film($2.99):

Analog Film is Real film based, film like filters. All you need is the well made preset. It has a Live Filter Preview! You can take a picture with the live filter effects.

9. AirPhotos($3.99):

Air-Photos is a wifi photo Viewer lets you direct view your photos from your computer without sync.

10. Rotational($0.99):

Discover the latest craze in puzzle games! Rotational is an addictive, fun game that everyone can enjoy, but only the sharpest players can master.

SwiftKey Keyboard hack affects 600 million Samsung phones, including the new Galaxy S6

Samsung

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June 17, 2015

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SwiftKey Keyboard hack affects 600 million Samsung phones, including the new Galaxy S6

Samsung, one of the most beloved smartphone out there, and SwiftKey, one of the best keyboard app for Android, when they’re put together it sounds like a great combination, doesn’t it? Actually, it’s not!

A security flaw in the SwiftKey keyboards pre-installed on Samsung smartphones is leaving at least 600 million devices vulnerable to hackers including the new Samsung Galaxy S6. The exploit was recently demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in London by Ryan Welton, a researcher with security firm NowSecure. NowSecure, found that the pre-installed SwiftKey app can be tricked to download language pack updates over a unencrypted connection in plain text. Thus in the presence of language packs, malicious code can be injected to take control of the smartphone.

The flaw allows a hacker to remotely:
1) Access sensors and resources like GPS, camera and microphone.
2) Secretly install a malicious app(s) without the user knowing.
3) Tamper with how other apps work or how the phone works.
4) Eavesdrop on incoming/outgoing messages or voice calls.
5) Give an attempt to access sensitive personal data like pictures and text messages.

And the scary thing is hackers can exploit the vulnerability even when the SwiftKeykeyboard is not used as the default keyboard.

There are millions of Samsung devices with SwiftKey keyboard, still vulnerable via this loophole. The list of affected devices includes Galaxy S6, Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S4 Mini, however, NowSecure cautions that this is not an all-inclusive list of impacted devices.

There is no way one can uninstall SwiftKey from the Samsung’s Galaxy range of devices since the app has been whitelisted and deemed to be native. The keyboard which cannot be disabled or uninstalled allows hackers easy access to users’ devices. However, you can always remove a system app simply by rooting your device. If you don’t want to root your device wait till there is a patch released for the Samsung phones. If you own a Samsung device and are concerned about this bug, NowSecure advises that you do not use insecure Wi-Fi networks and do not update your language packages in the mean time.

Microsoft Project Premonition uses mosquitoes, drones, and cloud computing to prevent disease outbreaks

Microsoft

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June 17, 2015

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Microsoft has been one of those rare tech companies in the world that really tries to make the difference by touching the life of millions of people. Not only from the tech point of view but also from the point of humanity. We can see the Microsoft’s sane intentions with the start of Project Premonition.
Project Premonition, a system that aims to detect infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread, with the goal of preventing major health disasters. Microsoft researchers are working with academic partners across multiple disciplines to develop the system, which collects and analyzes mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful diseases are spreading.

For the Project Premonition in action, drones play an important role. Drones that can fly the mosquito traps into and out of remote areas in a semi-autonomous way, rather than having to be constantly directed from the ground. Microsoft researchers are developing ways to make the drones more autonomous. It may sound like the stuff of blockbuster movies, but Project Premonition aims to be fact, not fiction.

Project Premonition seeks to detect pathogens in animals before these pathogens make people sick. It does this by treating a mosquito as a device that can find animals and sample their blood. Project Premonition uses drones and new robotic mosquito traps to capture many more mosquitoes from the environment than previously possible and then analyzes their body contents for pathogens. Pathogens are detected by gene sequencing collected mosquitoes and computationally searching for known and unknown pathogens in the sequenced genetic material.

Usually, health officials only find out about an outbreak once people are already getting sick. This means things like vaccines and health clinics may not be up and running for as long as a couple of months after a disease has begun spreading. Project Premonition could eventually allow health officials to get a jump start on preventing outbreaks of a disease like dengue fever or avian flu before it occurs, whether or not it is a disease spread by mosquitoes, researchers said. The ability to predict an epidemic would be huge and could save a lot of lives.
But this project is far from over, it could possibly take few years before it’s complete. It is a huge step in the field of medical sciences and robotics. Looking at this project one can only predict what we can behold in the future.

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Micromax Canvas 5 Launched in Nepal

Micromax

Yural Maskey

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June 17, 2015

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Micromax will be launching a new flagship handset tomorrow and probably will be named as the Micromax Canvas 5 –their first Canvas flagship since the launch of Canvas 4 in 2013.
Micromax has sent out the product launch invite to tech medias which doesn’t reveal much, except for a teaser tagline “Mystery prisoner found locked in. Can he escape his destiny?”. There is also a mentioning of a JailBreak on the invite photo.

UPDATE: MICROMAX CANVAS 5 LAUNCHED IN NEPAL

As per the rumors, Canvas 5 will sport a MediaTek’s Helio X10 (MT6795) chipset which is a new high-end chipset family that was unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2015. The Helio X10 chipset has eight Cortex A53 64-bit cores; All cores running at a frequency of 2.2GHz. It offers support for 120Hz display refresh rates, as well as slow-motion video capture at 480fps. Helio X10 can allegedly boost octa-core performance by utilizing the cores of the GPU as well for certain OpenCL tasks. The company claims that this increases the performance and reduces the energy consumption.

Other rumored specs include a 5-inch Full HD IPS display, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage with microSD expansion, 18-megapixel rear camera, and 5-megapixel front-facing snapper. Various sources also suggest the Micromax Canvas 5 to come with Android OS backed by CyanogenMod. We will keep you informed on further developments after the phone gets unveiled tomorrow in New Delhi, India.

Samsung Galaxy A8: News, Rumors, Features, Specs, and Price

Samsung

Yural Maskey

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June 17, 2015

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Samsung Galaxy A8: News, Rumors, Features, Specs, and Price

Samsung has already launched 3 metal body A series phones—the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7. Now we are expecting Samsung to add a new smartphone to its A-series codenamed Galaxy A8.

According to leaked benchmark from GFXBench, the Galaxy A8 will offer a 5.7 inch Super AMOLED Display with Full HD resolution, Octa Core Snapdragons 615 SoC, 2 GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, 15MP & 5MP cameras, and Android Lollipop 5.1 out of the box. The design will likely be same as other A-series i.e a metal uniform body.

NOWHEREELSE.FR has posted some leaked pictures of the Galaxy A8 that shows an extremely thin device measuring just 5.9 millimeters in thickness, which is thinner than the Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6. Despite being so thin, the device comes with a huge 3050 mAh battery, which is non-removable since the phone has a unibody design.

Other specification suggests the phone has a hybrid dual SIM slot with the second SIM slot working as a port for either a SIM card or a microSD card. There is no official word on when it’s going to be unveiled, but it should be launched in the second quarter of this year.

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Introducing Portal: New File Sharing App from Pushbullet

Apps

GadgetByte

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June 17, 2015

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Pushbullet is one of the fastest and easiest ways to get links, notes, lists, files and addresses both from your desktop computer to your mobile device and vice versa. Now, you can also get your mobile notifications on PC which is really convenient. All of this is done from the Pushbullet Android app, the service’s Web site, or one of the browser extensions for Chrome or Firefox.

Now, Pushbullet has introduced another app named “Portal” that enables us to easily share files via Wi-Fi. Although transferring files via Wi-Fi is not a new thing to us all and we have got plenty of apps lying around that uses the Wi-Fi hotspot to share files. What difference can this new app make? Well, the best thing about this app is its simplicity and usability. These are the two things that Pushbullet always keeps in mind for it’s users. Does this app stand out from the rest of file sharing apps? Well, we have to find that out ourselves.

To use this app:

1. Download this app from the PlayStore

2. Login to portal.pushbullet.com and start sharing your files.

This app has exclusively launched today, give us your opinion if this app is a hit or a miss!

Samsung Galaxy J5: News, Rumors, Features, Specs, and Price

Samsung

Yural Maskey

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June 16, 2015

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Samsung Galaxy J5: News, Rumors, Features, Specs, and Price

Samsung is set to launch a new smartphone to their galaxy family codenamed Galaxy J5. Sammobile.com, a website that usually comes up with rumors and leaked photos related to Samsung, shows up the specs and photos of Galaxy J5.

In the photo, we can see Samsung using the same plastic body build on the Galaxy J5. Hardware specs suggest a 5-inch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC, 1.5 GB of RAM and 13/5MP cameras. Here are the rumored specs of Samsung Galaxy J5 (SM-J500F):

-5-inch 720P display
-Android Lollipop 5.1
-1.2GHz Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor
-1.5GB RAM
-8GB internal storage
-Expandable via microSD card
-13MP rear camera
-5MP front camera
-Removable 2,600mAh battery
-Expected Price: $200

According to the different sources, the Galaxy J5 will make its debut together with the higher end Galaxy J7, which is rumored to feature a 5.5-inch 720p display and an octa core processor. There have been no official words from Samsung on when these devices are going to get unveiled, but we expect it to happen soon.

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Facebook Makes It Easier to Share Photos with its new Moment App

Apps

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June 16, 2015

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With a phone at everyone’s fingertips, the moments in our lives are captured by a new kind of photographer: “our friends.” It’s hard to get the photos your friends have taken of you, and everyone always insists on taking that same group shot with multiple phones to ensure they get a copy. This app is an answer to the person who always asks “Will you send that to me,” or “Will you post that so I can have it?” Even if you do end up getting some of your friends’ photos, it’s difficult to keep them all organized in one place on your phone.

Upon opening the app, it labels two catalogs for you—one of them called “Private” and the other “Synced.” When you start, thankfully, everything is sitting in the “Private” catalog. You are asked whether you want to share the photos in that gallery with the person Facebook has analyzed and determined you were with. . Facebook’s facial recognition tech can identify which of your friends are in the photos, and you can privately send those photos to specific friends in the shot. The facial recognition is dead on, too: In our testing, there were no random mismatched faces and share suggestions in Moments.You can toggle specific photos from the generated gallery, as well, so if you want to sync some of them and keep the others from a friend’s clutches, you can.

The app’s default setting is to create a private album that can be used for sharing the discovered image or images simply with those pictured in them. The idea is that the privately shared album grows organically as both people continue to share new photos through it. Moments arranges the photos on your phone into groups, all based on when they were taken—like at a wedding, or a weekend getaway. “Facebook’s facial recognition tech can identify which of your friends are in the photos, and you can privately send those photos to specific friends in the shot.”

Although the app is exclusively available for USA only at the time, Facebook is planning for global launch of this app very soon. We hope to get our hands on the app and experience the innovative way of sharing photos.

If you spot the global launch early, use the links below to download and install the Moments app:

Xiaomi to launch Redmi Note 2 on June 29

Xiaomi

Yural Maskey

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June 16, 2015

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Xiaomi to launch Redmi Note 2 on June 29

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi is set to launch the successor of well-known Redmi Note on June 29. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 is expected to come with a 5.5-inch 1080P IPS LCD display, a 64-bit Snapdragon 615 or MediaTek MT6752 system on a chip, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of expandable storage. The Redmi Note 2 is said to run on Android 5.1 Lollipop with the MIUI 6 user interface and feature a 3100mAh battery. In terms of camera, we’re looking at a 13-megapixel main shooter and a 5-megapixel front cam.

The smartphone is said to support 4G network connectivity and rumor suggests there won’t be 2 variant this time. Xiaomi is famous for launching mid-range phones with more than decent specs and Xiaomi Note 2 seems to be going in the right direction.

We shall be able to provide you more details as soon as the phone gets unveiled.

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