Xiaomi launches Red Rice, a smartphone 4.7 inch HD less than 100 euros

Technology: Chinese Xiaomi has just announced a new Android smartphone on a budget which, for the equivalent of 97 euros, offers a screen HD 4.7 inches with a quad processor core.

The new smartphone Xiaomi Red Rice was formalized yesterday, confirming the information we we were echoed last May. This model is equipped with a screen 4.7-inch HD 720 p and type processor SoC quadruple heart MediaTek MT6589T clocked at 1.5 GHz. It is supported by 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage (+ microSD card).

Interface House

For the picture, the Red Rice has a sensor 8 megapixel camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It is equipped with a removable 2,000 mAh battery and can receive two SIM cards.

 

Side software, found the House MIUI (v5) interface based on Android 4.2.2. All for a price of 799 Yuan equivalent to 97 euros at the current.

Red Rice will be available from August 12 but sold only in Asia. (Eureka press)

Firefox OS:: Geeksphone launches pre-orders for the Peak +

Open Source: The Spanish manufacturer of smartphones, which had launched the first devices under Firefox OS for developers, is back with a version improved to 1 GB of RAM.

Geeksphone has made on its site a new smartphone on Firefox OS, the mobile OS open source developed by the Mozilla Foundation, in advance. Available from 149 euros, excluding taxes and shipping, the unit should be supplied from the month of September.

His name, Peak +, will necessarily remind something. When it launched the first two Firefox OS smartphones in last April, Geeksphone the had baptized Keon for the entrance of range and Peak for the more expensive version.

RAM multiplied by two

At the time, the two aircraft were especially developers. They were torn off in a few hours, and more no stock is available from. Also Geeksphone resumed the characteristics of Peak, has improved, and handed on the market this Peak + wider target - at least in the communication of the manufacturer.

The appliance has the following features:

Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 DualCore 1.2 GHzEcran 4.3 inch multipoints1 RAM4 GB GB memory stockageBatterie 1800 mAh removable
Connectivity Edge / 3G, WiFi N, Bluetooth 2.1, microUSB, microSD, radio FMDeux cameras: one on the front of 2 Mpx, one on the back of 8 MP with LED flash
Firefox OS in its version 1.1.

Best "look and feel"

Relatively few changes a priori from the Peak, if doubling, welcome the RAM. The device is sold at the same price, and may entice developers failed to get the first version or lovers wishing to test the new operating system at cost of interest.

Manufacturer Announces also that apart from performance improvements that can expect, Peak + consists of better quality materials and will be both more beautiful and more enjoyable to learn. It expected the tests to learn more.

In passing, Geeksphone devices are currently the only can be purchased easily everywhere in the world. For "commercial" Alcatel and ZTE smartphones, they are sold directly by operators in Spain, and should arrive soon in Greece and Poland.

Subject: Firefox OS Smartphone Mozilla

Sony disclaims its Xperia Z in phablette and launches a new smartwatch\r

Sony found the smile in smartphones through a strategy clear and long-awaited: replace into the tracks of the historic values of the nippon, namely design and premium.

With the launch of a high-end very successful, the Z Xperia, Sony seems to hold good end. For its first fiscal quarter, which ended in late March, the Group sold 8.1 million terminals — 82% more than a year earlier.

The giant continues the declension of this model. After a Tablet, Sony therefore announces the Xperia Z Ultra, presenting himself as a giant of its predecessor version. The intent is simple: attack the juicy segment of the phablettes, these terminals to halfway between the smartphone and the Tablet, for the moment dominated by Samsung with its Note (including the 3rd version is expected).

6.4 inches and 2.2 Ghz

This new Xperia Z Ultra is a beast of a racing, it therefore has a TRILUMINOS Full HD display 6.4 asserting itself as the more "end of the world" (6.5 mm thick for 212 grams) and powered by a processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor 2.2 GHz fully integrated, with LTE 4 G (150 Mbps) modem and voice supported by 2 GB RAM HD. There are also 16 GB of memory storage and an 8 megapixel camera sensor, all Android 4.2.

He resumed the successful design of the Z as well as its ability to resist water and dust (IP55 and IP58 certification).

If the entertainment (through including the contents of Sony) and convergence with the other appliances (including the future PS4?) are at the center of the experience, Sony has not forgotten the professionals who are fond of these very large terminals.

Sony Announces so compatible with any pencil and some pens, handwriting recognition. "You can even take notes or make sketches during calls, to capture your ideas at the time," can be read in a statement.

Shows connected: dedicated Android apps

This terminal will be launched worldwide in the third quarter, its price was not communicated.

At the same time, Sony again took position in a promising market, connected watches. While rumors are multiplying around a smartwatch\r Apple, the Japanese announced its Smartwatch\r 2 (SW2).

 

"The future of nomadic devices is incredibly promising since, according to our forecasts, 41 million smart watches will be sold until 2016" said Stefan K Persson, head of Companion Products at Sony Mobile Communications.

Waterproof and NFC, it connects of course to an Android smartphone and made office of second screen (notifications, make and receive calls/messages etc...) and remote control. Its screen offers a diagonal of 1.6-inch with a resolution of 220 x 176. It also allows to run dedicated Android applications.

Sony gives some examples: photo taken remotely by using a smart camera application; pilotage presentations remotely using Presentation Pal; Runtastic for mapping and immediately follow its activities of fitness on the move...

The manufacturer also promises "an intuitive interface similar to Android" and a range of 3 to 4 days. Its price was not communicated.

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Future Telecom launches a shared package employer/employee

Business: When a company team employees in smartphones, personal use of these leads to administrative complications for the employer.

If the BYOD is a strong trend, the classical scheme where a company team employees in mobile devices remain in the majority. However, this feature is often troublesome for the employer.

As recalled by future Telecom, a virtual operator dedicated to SMEs, "personal calls of the employee from a professional mobile line shall be subject to the rules of benefits in kind, which is administratively heavy". These statements also vary depending on the size and the status of the company.

The operator therefore had the idea of launching a "shared" between employer and employees package that allows to bypass these hassles. Specifically, the company is billed the cost of purchase of the terminal and a lump of €29.50 HT per month per line, including dedicated services (free customer service 24/7, a single invoice, commercial Counsellor of proximity).

For its part, the employee enjoys an all unlimited package (3 GB of data, H +) with a phone placed at its disposal by the company for 19 euros TTC per month. "An employee can spend all his calls with the same terminal. For the employee, this offer is one of the best mainstream market offerings (packages of operators low cost does not include the cost of purchase of the terminal) ", explains the MVNO.

This dual approach allows therefore settle once for any question call pro/personal level statements administrative and tax because "the part" of the employee remains fixed whatever happens at 19 euros per month.

Bouygues Telecom launches a new smartphone under his name

Last April, Bouygues Telecom surprised by reviving the principle of the mobile operator branded. We had seen this type of terminal to multiply a few years ago, especially on the side of Orange and so in BouyguesTel with ZTE.

But the approach had been more or less abandoned facing the hegemony of manufacturers like Apple and Samsung. However, Bouygues Telecom considers it a stab, particularly to democratize uses.

Prices without trimming specifications

"We want to enable all of our customers to access the richness of mobile services, by giving them access to high quality priced terminals reduced. We have a great ambition for the range of phones Bouygues Telecom, which is called upon to expand and renew regularly to accompany the evolution of the use of our customers,"explained Olivier Roussat, Director General of Bouygues Telecom.

The objective is to offer terminals to price broke but with standard functions for a smartphone and also to reduce the dependence of the operator against two or three manufacturers who monopolize more than 70% of the market...

Thus, after 401 BS and BS 471, the operator launched BS 351 according to our colleagues Pz10.com. This smartphone 3 G + is equipped with a TFT screen 3.5 inches, a processor Qualcomm 7225 clocked at 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 2 GB of memory storage, a 3.2 megapixel camera, all under Android 4.1 APN.

Faithful to the principle, this terminal is sold at price floor: 109 naked euros or 9.90 euro with any package of the operator.

According to our information, Bouygues Telecom terminals manufactured by ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel OneTouch.