LG sells 1 million Optimus G units and counting

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LG just announced it has sold worldwide more than a million units of its flagship smartphone - the Optimus G. A similar recent announcement put their L-series sales in the range of 10 million.
The LG Optimus G sale numbers come in a stark contrast with Apple and Samsung flagship sales, but then again, there's a reason these guys are high on the list of the top mobile phone manufacturers.


Other reports claim that LG has sold a total of 55 million handsets in 2012 but plans on boosting their sales up to 75 million in 2013.
LG has had some troubles in the past few years, but their last Q3 results have shown the company is back on its feet, ready to fight back the big dogs.
A leak from earlier today, showing the LG Optimus G Pro, may suggest they already have the right weapon in their armory.

LG sells 1 million Optimus G units and counting

Curt Schilling Auctioning Off Baseball Memorabilia To Pay For 38 Studio’s Financial Woes

Baseball legend and would-be videogame entrepreneur Curt Schilling has taken to auctioning some of his baseball-related possessions to ease the financial fallout of his studio’s closure. The big ticket items is his famous blood-stained sock, which he wore during the 2004 World Series, which should fetch more than $100 000.

Formerly on loan to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the sock has been returned, ready for the bidding wars about to commence on February 4th, and later on the 23rd when live bidding starts. Though a valuable piece of sports memorabilia, the sock is unlikely to make up even a fraction of the $50 million of his own money that Curt Schilling has put into 38 Studios and Kingdoms of Amalur, let alone Rhode Island’s $75 million loan to the now defunct company.
By Catalin Alexandru on Friday 18th January 2013 2:52 pm in Gaming, Technology News

Curt Schilling Auctioning Off Baseball Memorabilia To Pay For 38 Studio’s Financial Woes

Best Tech 2013: Coolest new gadgets we want from CES UK Price: TBA (US Price: $800)

Products prepared to seduce your wallet this month

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1. CES 2013: OD-11 Cloud Speaker

Tapping into online music services like Spotify, this wireless speaker has the kind of sleek minimalist look that cements its place on our CES 2013 wish list. Measuring in at 26x26x26 cm the cube shape speaker features Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity with a 100w class D amplifier powering the sound performance. The accompanying remote responds to touch as well as twisting to adjust volume and thanks to power-saving friendly Bluetooth 4.0 should keep running for two years on a single battery.
UK Price: TBA (US Price: $800) | Out: TBA | Teenage Engineering

Teenage Engineering OD-11 Cloud Speaker

We’ve never made an electronics purchase based on the remote. We’ve never seen a TV that was just okay but since it came with an awesome remote, we bought it. The OD-11 Cloud Speaker just might change that. Besides being an awesome way to pump your Spotify playlists, the OD-11 from Teenage Engineering comes with the coolest remote we’ve ever seen. The magnetic knob is wireless, so you can place it where ever you want and twist and turn it to control your volume and press it to control the track selection. You can even assign multiple remotes to different playlists so you can have a whole series of colorful dials throughout your home. (Link)

Best Tech 2013: Coolest new gadgets we want from CES UK Price: TBA (US Price: $800)

The Oppo Find 5 will be making its way stateside for $499 unlocked

Back in October we reported on the Chinese-made Android handset, the Oppo Find 5, which not
only boasted some pretty impressive specs, but had those specs packed into a pretty thin body. At that time it was unclear if the phone would be destined for markets outside of China, but the good news is that if you were planning on getting the phone via gray imports, you might not have to as Oppo USA has announced that the Oppo Find 5 will be making its way to the US and you will be able to pick one up for $499 unlocked. No word on when exactly it will be available, but hopefully those details will be revealed at the company’s Beijing event which will be taking place on the 12^th of December.

Just a quick recap for those who might not be familiar – the Oppo Find 5 is an Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean powered smartphone with a 5” 1920×1080 Full HD display made from Corning’s Gorilla Glass 2. It packs a quad-core Qualcomm processor under the hood clocked at 1.5GHz, accompanied by 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, and according to Oppo USA’s website, the Oppo Find 5 appears to be compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile’s 3G network. So, who’s planning on picking one up for themselves?

OPPO Find 5 is become a hot rumor, this phone will packed with 1080p HD screen sdisplay and good specs of hardware configuration, Sina microblogging was exposed the final design of Oppo Find 5 smartphone and we have a couple picture about those phone.

Oppo Find 5 using a 5-inch FHD (1920 x 1080 pixe;) the next generation of ultra-pole screen with Sharp’s latest technology, and has stunning 3mm ultra-slim bezel design, this phone is more thicker than Motorola RAZR.
By design, we can see the Oppo Find 5 should be using a one piece aluminum body, the power button design on top of the body, the volume keys on the right side of the body but there is  a dedicated camera key on the side of the body. Oppo Find 5 has a large grid-like handset design, the left side of the earpiece, and 2 megapixel front-facing camera.
On the back body there is a 12 megapixel Sony back-illuminated camera. It is worth mentioning that 6.9mm thickness body is the good effort from Oppo when this phone has been comparewith iPhone 5 by CNN News few days ago.
According to previous news, OPPO Find 5 will be powered by the the Qualcomm APQ8064 quad-core processor, packs with 2GB of RAM + 16GB / 32GB of ROM, screen ratio of 16:9, with Corning Gorilla glass, the thickness is only 6.9mm, and the weight is 149g, Sony back-illuminated camera with 12 million pixels, support 1080P video recording, 2 megapixel Samsung front-facing camera, powered by 2500mAh large capacity battery, both black and white shell replacement color, and support for wireless charging. The price is between 2,998 – 3,298 yuan, we have to wait until Oppo released the official price in the near future.

Oppo Find 5 with 1080 HD screen leaked on the Net

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OPPO Find 5 is become a hot rumor, this phone will packed with 1080p HD screen sdisplay and good specs of hardware configuration, Sina microblogging was exposed the final design of Oppo Find 5 smartphone and we have a couple picture about those phone.

Oppo Find 5 using a 5-inch FHD (1920 x 1080 pixe;) the next generation of ultra-pole screen with Sharp’s latest technology, and has stunning 3mm ultra-slim bezel design, this phone is more thicker than Motorola RAZR.
By design, we can see the Oppo Find 5 should be using a one piece aluminum body, the power button design on top of the body, the volume keys on the right side of the body but there is  a dedicated camera key on the side of the body. Oppo Find 5 has a large grid-like handset design, the left side of the earpiece, and 2 megapixel front-facing camera.
On the back body there is a 12 megapixel Sony back-illuminated camera. It is worth mentioning that 6.9mm thickness body is the good effort from Oppo when this phone has been comparewith iPhone 5 by CNN News few days ago.
According to previous news, OPPO Find 5 will be powered by the the Qualcomm APQ8064 quad-core processor, packs with 2GB of RAM + 16GB / 32GB of ROM, screen ratio of 16:9, with Corning Gorilla glass, the thickness is only 6.9mm, and the weight is 149g, Sony back-illuminated camera with 12 million pixels, support 1080P video recording, 2 megapixel Samsung front-facing camera, powered by 2500mAh large capacity battery, both black and white shell replacement color, and support for wireless charging. The price is between 2,998 – 3,298 yuan, we have to wait until Oppo released the official price in the near future.

Video of Oppo Find 5

The Oppo Find 5 will be making its way stateside for $499 unlocked

ZTE bringing 5.7-inch Grand Memo and a Firefox OS phone to MWC 2013

What will China’s ZTE be bringing to Mobile World Congress 2013? So far the company has teased the 5.7-inch Grand Memo and an unnamed device running Mozilla’s Firefox OS. In the case of the Grand Memo, ZTE is so excited about the upcoming launch that it couldn’t even wait for the Barcelona expo to show it off to members of the tech press.
The Grand Memo (that’s it above next to the Grand S) is part of a new push for ZTE. With a solid presence already established in lower-end devices, the company now wants to move in on the high-end device market. The Grand Memo looks like a good way to kickstart the effort. It’s got a 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor to go along with that 5.7-inch display. There’s also a 13 megapixel rear-facing camera, and ZTE has included a micro SD expansion slot.
Full specs won’t be revealed until MWC, but there are two more details worth knowing. First, that mammoth display is a 720p number. ZTE has decided not to match its competitors with a 1080p panel, and it’s likely a cost-cutting decision. Shaving a few bucks by going with a lower-resolution display will allow ZTE to price its high-end phablet aggressively, and that won’t go unnoticed by consumers. And since you won’t have to hold the 5.7-inch screen right up next to your face to see things, chances are the drop in PPI won’t make a huge difference.
Second, the Grand Memo measures just 8mm thick. That’s hard enough to do with a device this size when you don’t offer any expandability, and ZTE has still managed to squeeze in that micro SD slot.
As for its first phone running Firefox OS, everything’s a mystery at this point. ZTE has been working with Mozilla for quite some time, and it’s had a couple codenamed devices circulating among the Foundation’s developers. The only thing that’s certain so far is that this device will sit at the opposite end of the price spectrum when it launches. Firefox OS phones — at least the initial round — are headed for emerging markets and will sport entry-level price tags.

ZTE bringing 5.7-inch Grand Memo and a Firefox OS phone to MWC 2013

Glove with an embroidered patch of conductive thread

The price of the gloves range from 9.9 yuan to 129 yuan (US$1

.60-20.70), depend on design and what type of materials are made of, buyers are mostly youngsters.

By Carson Cheung, posted Jan 1, 2013 at 3:08 PM, 451 views,

Chinese Smartphone Users Feel it’s Like Magic While Using Touchscreen Gloves

As the weather gets colder in northern China, Chinese smartphone users are beginning to worry about how to operate their touchscreen devices without taking off their gloves during winter. Touchscreen gloves just pop up in time and becomes the most popular accessories right now. For the past Christmas, touchscreen gloves sell like hot cakes in China. You can find it almost everywhere, online stores, accessories shops and supermarkets, and the total monthly sales has gone sky high. The price of the gloves range from 9.9 yuan to 129 yuan (US$1.60-20.70), depend on design and what type of materials are made of, buyers are mostly youngsters. They gave favorable comments online, by saying: “I can really use the touchscreen after putting on this ! It’s magic !” China now is not only the largest market for smartphone, but also the largest market for smartphone’s accessories. Dealers can earn more profit by just selling accessories …
Smartphone users who live in extreme cold weather in China, fall in love with these touchscreen gloves. It’s not only for the protection, most importantly it will give the ability to operate their touchscreen devices. So is it really that magical ? As we know, capacitive touchscreen devices such as smartphones and tablets, consists of an insulator such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor. As the human body is also an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the screen’s electrostatic field, measurable as a change in capacitance. One cannot use a capacitive touchscreen through most types of electrically insulating material, such as gloves. This disadvantage especially affects usability in consumer electronics in cold weather. It can be overcome with a special glove with an embroidered patch of conductive thread passing through it and contacting the user’s fingertip.
Glove with an embroidered patch of conductive thread. Chinese online retailers are having good sales on touchscreen gloves.



SOURCE: life.longhoo.net (Chinese content), Wikipedia

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• porttr
  apple gonna patent this like that magic magnetic cover that has been on the selling in china and hong kong long long ago since the first version of ipad..

Glove with an embroidered patch of conductive thread

Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro – Design, Keyboard base and Connectivity

You might remember the Samsung ATIV Smart PC we looked at a little while ago. That’s the ‘budget’ X86 convertible tablet/laptop in Samsung’s Windows 8 range. The next model up is the 11.6-inch Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro (or 700T1C in model-numer-speak), which replaces the Atom processor with a full-blown Core i5 or i7, and swaps the 1,366 x 768 screen resolution for a lovely Full HD PLS panel. It’s essentially the sequel to the Samsung Series 7 Slate 700T.

Read the full Windows 8 review here

In case this is the first time you’ve come across the ATIV Smart PC range, it’s Samsung’s full Windows 8 version of the Asus Transformer form factor which combines a tablet with a keyboard base to make a laptop. All the ATIV Smart PCs support touch and Wacom stylus goodness.


Where the Atom-based Smart PC is comparable to the Vivo Tab, the Smart PC Pro takes on the Asus Taichi and Microsoft Surface Pro, amongst others.

Wondering which Windows 8 device to get? Have a read of our Best Windows 8 Laptops Tablets Convertibles and PCs roundup

Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro Design and Build

Though the Smart PC Pro is definitely at the premium end of the market, the tablet itself is constructed using plastic, albeit with a nice brushed metal-effect finish. This is to keep its weight down, as because of the power it packs in the tab alone weighs 884g, considerably heavier than inevitable comparisons to the iPad.

Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro Keyboard Base and Cover

However, the keyboard base is made of metal. This lends it a very premium feel at odds with the tablet part, yet again there’s logic behind the difference: this was done to increase the keyboard base’s weight (bringing the entire package to 1.6kg), so that it balances the tablet part and avoids the falling-over-backwards flaw that plagued the Asus Transformer.

Mind you, the dock does not contain an extra battery as does the more budget-oriented Samsung Smart PC’s one, though it does give you extra connectivity. This is a real shame, as the powerful Pro tablet inevitably already offers shorter battery life than its Atom sibling.

The tablet itself is a very svelte 12mm thick, and with keyboard attached matches many Ultrabooks at 22mm. However, if you’d rather have a thinner tablet without losing the physical keyboard, there will be a Microsoft Surface-like keyboard cover that’s a mere 4mm thin.

Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro Connectivity

The Smart PC Pro tablet is well-endowed in the connectivity department. The tablet itself sports a headphone jack, full-size USB 3.0 port and microSD card slot for expanding its storage along its top, plus a microHDMI for video output along with the volume rocker on its left.

A physical rotation lock is a welcome touch too. Wireless is particularly comprehensive thanks to Wi-Fi N, Bluetooth 4.0 and 3G/4G wireless broadband with accompanying SIM slot.

The keyboard dock adds a further two USB 2.0 ports (the data interconnect between tablet and keyboard can’t cope with USB 3.0) to the equation, though alas no full-size SD card reader. This is annoying for photographers, and we can only hope Samsung will bring out another dock down the line with a battery and full SD card slot built in.

Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro – Design, Keyboard base and Connectivity