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JiaYu G5 teardown
The guys over at JiaYu have taken some time out of their busy schedule to take about the stainless steel JiaYu G5 and give us a sneak peak on the inside.
Purported Octa-core HTC One with 3GB RAM in the works
Do you have your bags of salt ready? Good, because reports from Greece claim that their is an Octa-core HTC One on the way with 3GB RAM!
Coolpad Grand, 5.9-inch and Nvidia Tegra 4! On sale October!
Just ahead of the Oppo N1 launch, Coolpad launched their CoolPad Grand also in Beijing featuring a 5.9-inch display and 1.8Ghz Nvidia Tegra 4 CPU.
Vivo working on camera-centric phone with rotating main camera?
A couple of images have shown up on Weibo today both of which showing a possible rotating main camera arrangement on a future Vivo Android smartphone!
9 Chinese tech stories you have to read!
What an amazing week for Chinese technology fans! We have seen next gen phones, seen amazing collaborations and more!
How to drive Mediatek closer to custom ROM developers
The question put up by Andi, whether Mediatek should embrace GPL (or at least offer more tools to custom ROM devs) can, in my opinon, be easily answered with “Yes”. If you buy a device, its always great to have the opportunity to fiddle around with it and change things. Theres already a lot possible, once you acquire root rights on your Android system, but if the hardware base is open too, the possibilities are even bigger.
Should Mediatek honor GPL or shall Chinese phone makers use rival processors?
Chinese phone makers are finally looking to offer their phones to the international community, but with very little developer support available for MTK phones should we push Mediatek to honor GPL, or push manufacturers to rival processors.
Oppo N1 roundup!
With only a few days to go before the official launch of the Oppo N1, we thought this would be the perfect time to roundup all the rumours, leaks and details!
How to install new “Smart View Flip Cover ZP990 firmware” with Flash tool
Zopo international forum has published a very interesting guide on how to update new Zopo ZP990 C7 Captain S phablet to the latest firmware. Whit this new firmware will be activates and allows FLIP Cover use with phone in standby mode (style Samsung Galaxy S4) . To understand what we are talking about, look at these sample pictures below:
iPhone 5S clone, GooPhone i5C specifications and hands on video
GooPhone managed to beat their previous record this year by launching an iPhone 5C clone before Apple had chance to unveil the real thing! Here are the full GooPhone i5c specifications plus hands on video.
Baidu launch their own Google Chromecast dongle
Chinese search giant Baidu aren’t shy of the fact that they simply follow Google’s lead, which had resulted in the company launching it’s own Chormecast type USB device.
UMi Cross rear panel and chassis hands on, UMi X3 on the drawing board!
UMi look like they are ready to launch their 6.44-inch UMi Cross tablet, and although we haven’t had chance to get a hands on (yet) we did get to see the rear case main chassis.
Poll: Which Chinese phone maker do you want to see team up with Cyanogenmod?
Cyanogenmod is now a company! The team have funding and they will be working with a hardware maker which will run their excellent ROM! So if you had a choice of Chinese phone maker who would you like to see work with them?