HTC’s virtual reality headset, the HTC Vive, will be available for pre-orders from 29th February 2016. This news comes from CEO Cher Wang, who confirmed this in an interview with The Telegraph on HTC’s refocus on virtual reality.
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In a classic example of why not to buy devices from carriers, Verizon has finally started rolling out the Android 5.1.1 update for the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 on its network. This update brings Android for Work, upgrades to Samsung Knox and security and bug fixes to the Galaxy Note 4. Other carriers had already updated their devices by the end of November 2015.
Microsoft just published an application called Cellular Data in the Windows Store that potentially reveals upcoming plans for not only selling their own SIM cards, but also selling cellular data plans. The plan will be associated with your Microsoft account and it will only work on Windows 10 devices. This information seems to hint that Microsoft plans to become an MVNO like Google recently did.
Lenovo and Motorola are offering a £196 discount off the Moto X Pure Edition right now in the Moto Maker store. This discount is only available for the 32GB variant and they’re even including free wood or leather backs for free. Certain customization and color options aren’t available though, like red leather backs, so you’ll have to dive into Moto Maker to see what’s available.
The Fitbit Blaze is said to work on iOS, Android and Windows smartphones and one of the advertised features of the Fitbit Blaze is the ability to receive call and text message notifications. Fitbit tells us that Microsoft doesn’t provide a GATT server to developers, and they leverage this technology to offer this feature. So the two companies are working to provide an alternate solution.
Reuters recently reported on Google’s alleged plans to bring Google services back to China and this week Lenovo has reaffirmed exactly that. The President of Lenovo Mobile, Chen Xudong, was recently interviewed by Sina Technology and while he didn’t reveal a date in which these services will be back in China, Chen did mention that they was currently on track to come back.
HTC CEO Cher Wang was at CES last week and she talked a lot about the future of the company when it comes to VR, smartphones and wearables. Cher says, to create a “natural extension to other connected devices”, virtual reality is going to be more important than a smartphone. This seems very ambitious since smartphones are the hub of most connected devices right now.
It has recently been revealed that Xiaomi missed their sales target of 80 million smartphone sales in 2015. This, coupled with China’s economic slowdown, a turbulent stock market, an increase in competition in China from the likes of Huawei and the slowing of China’s smartphone market in general is making some investors question Xiaomi’s $46 billion valuation.
The Gionee Marathon M5L comes with a 5-inch 720p display, MediaTek MT6735 SoC, 3GB RAM, 32GB of storage and a microSD card slot to expand the storage up to an additional 128GB. There’s an 8MP rear camera and a 5MP front-facing camera, aviation-grade aluminium as the build material, a big 4,000 mAh capacity battery and it uses the Amigo 3.0 OEM skin, which is based on Android 5.1 Lollipop.
