Xiaomi Mi4i heating issues solved !! Via an OTA Update

Xiaomi recently launched the Mi 4i which is a budget variant of the current flagship of Xiaomi the Mi4, the phone gave heating issues to many users, the phone employs Snapdragon 615 SoC which is a octa core chipset with 1.7 Ghz CPU and Adreno 405 coupled with the same. The phone at the launch was said to feature the 2nd Gen of Snapdragon 615, which will be free from the heating issues, that were found of the original Snapdragon 615.

Unfortunately the same was not seen on the phone, which in fact was heating upto 53 degrees which is insanely high. To have a solution for the same, Xiaomi released a huge update of 804 MB, which upgrades your phone to V6.5.4.0 LXIMICD version, the update is said to control the thermal algorithm of the phone.

According to a statement from Xiaomi India product manager Jai Mani, the update to the Mi 4i will

 "adjust frequency, voltage and the number of cores in use (on the CPU) depending on the chipset temperature." 

So far, there have been no complaints about the performance of updated Mi 4i units.

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Foxconn to enter India with new Manufacturing Plants

You must have heard of Foxconn, which manufactures phones on contract, like they make for Apple, now a rumors point to the return of Foxconn in India, as in Make in India program that Indian government is trying to push out, they are planing a large plant in Pune, Aurangabad, Gujrat, Noida or Andhra Pradesh.

Recently Devendra Fandnavis Chief Minister of state, confirmed that Foxconn is going to invest a large sun in Pune or Aurangabad. This all dovetails with a "Made in India" program that the current government has pushed since its last political campaign.

Devendra Fadnavis, Indian Chief Minister said,

"India has the world’s largest number of cellphones but only 7 percent of these mobile handsets are manufactured in the country. The rest are imported. Foxconn is eager to set up a complete ecosystem with (even) suppliers and not just an assembly line"

Foxconn has hired former Nokia executive Josh Foulger, to set up the plant in India, who years before helped Nokia set up their manufacturing plant in Chennai. So it looks like the plan of Foxconn is really soon to be in reality.

Meizu m1 note Review

Meizu m1 note

 Meizu have been releasing premium looking phones at affordable prices and now they have entered the crowded smartphone market in India,with the launch of Meizu m1 note. The handset is priced at 11,999 INR which is a great deal for such a good handset.
Today we look at the m1 note and see what it has to offer for its price.

Build and Design

Meizu has been late to metal build and most of their flagships are still posing plastic builds with little metal. In M1 note also Meizu has taken to polycarbonate plastic. The phone has lightweight alloy chassis and a unibody plastic body.

It falls in love with the previous generation MX3. The plastic covers the whole phone and there's no visible metal found. Back is curved for better grip and phone feels smaller in hand. The plastic is glossy and looks slippery, but it isn't slippery as it looks and has good grip to hold on.

From the looks we can certainly say that there's a influence of Apple's iPhone here, but Meizu have added some of their unique flavor too. 

The bezels at the front are slim for 5.5" phone , and the halo home button looks similar too iPhone 5's home button but this one is a capacitive home button and has nice look to it with unique gesture controls of meizu's flyme os. Physical buttons located in the same positions for each phone. The power button is on the top right, headphone jack top left and volume controls on the left side. Back she'll isn't removable and single sim slot is provided at the side and there's support for sd card. 

The bottom has grilled speakers with micros USB port on the middle. The rear is similar to a plastic MX4 with wraparound design, camera and a dual tone dual LED flash with Meizu logo at the bottom. 

There's unique optional colors including yellow, pink, blue and green will eventually be made available.

Display

At the front sits a 5.5" 1920 x 1280 full HD IGZO display from Sharp. The display is sharp with 403 ppi and colors pop out brightly. On concern that we found was that at time the display feels warm and there's a slight yellowish tint to it. 

The touch response is fast and accurate. The viewing angles are great, with consistent picture at even extreme angles. 

The display is great and you should enjoy playing games or watching videos without any problems. Meizu has been using amazing displays in their phones and this one is among the top ones out there.

Hardware and performance

Inside M1 note houses a MediaTek MT6572 with 2 GB of RAM. The chipset MT6572 is a 64-bit chip with octa core (8) Cortex a-53 cluster clocked @ 1.7Ghz. Mediatek has been fast progressing in the 64-bit market and this processor is a high performer which can take on snapdragon phones and with more RAM. The performance is top notch with smooth handling and easy multi tasking. Apps open quickly and handles all heavy apps simultaneously with ease. 

In benchmarks the chop performed well with Antutu score of around 41000 and quadrant score of just under 15000. Even with the minor quirks and issues of Flyme os the phone is a very high performer. On gaming and graphic side it has a Mali T760 which can handle high games like asphalt and real racing easily. 

Overall the phones octa core chip and 2GB RAM makes fruitful combination to deliver a high performance device at this low budget price.

Camera

On the back Meizu have implemented a 13MP camera sensor from Samsung rather than market popular Sony. It has an aperture of f/2.2 which seems but small compared to flagship devices. There a dual tone dual LED flash which helps in low light. For selfie geeks there's a 5MP front facing unit also.

The camera on the back takes air good images in the broad day light with nice details. The camera performance decrease as light goes down and the flash should help in low light. The camera app is very impressive with manual and auto modes to take great pictures as let your liking. In auto mode the pictures come great at day light conditions. If you have a good knowledge of photography then manual mode give you great control of your pictures. There's also Panorama and HDR modes. Fur video shooting the quality was just god and not that great.

Software - Flyme OS

The whole hardware is run by Meizu's custom made android the Flyme OS which is a completely different looking and beautifully designed OS. The Flyme os on this phone as it's flagships MX4 is based on Kitkat 4.4 and a scheduled Lollipop coming soon. 

On thing to note here is that Meizu uses the same version of Flyme on all of it phones so you are getting all the features that are supported as on a flagship Meizu phone.

The Flyme OS features lot of gesture and features that makes the handling easy. The overall performance and experience is smooth and feature rich. There are some minor issues here and there which should be easily solved with updates.

Battery and storage

There's a large 3140 mAh battery powering the device. The battery was average and not that great as you expect from such large battery. It might be due to software optimizations and should improve with your usage and future updates. 

There's 16GB of internal storage from which 12GB is user available and no expansion possible as no sd card is supported.

Final Thoughts

The Meizu m1 note lives up to its expectations - good build quality, excellent display, great camera, good UI and performance. It seems like an iPhone rip-off but has its own sets of goodies to offer, and the overall package with its looks and performance is quite impressive, especially at the price point.

It is bound to sway some users away from Xiaomi and OnePlus devices. We will soon find out how the Indian market responds to this new Chinese entrant.

Samsung's another Premium Tablet gets caught in Geekbench listing

Samsung also want to get in the line of premium tablets, and hence they are working over new tablets, and a Geekbench listing shows a mysterious tablet which is codenamed as CHOPIN-LTE, the tablet uses a 4 GB RAM to run and 64-bit capable Intel Atom processor with Atom x5-8500.
The tablet boots Android 5.1 Lollipop from the day 1, last year Samsung introduced some high end tablets with its Exynos chipsets, and this time they are having other plans with an Intel chipsets, so let us look forward at Samsung's plan, we will keep you updated with the latest news of the same do follow us on Twitter & Facebook for timely updates.

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Gionee Elife E8 to feature a full metal body

Gionee will soon be announcing the Gionee Elife E8 which recently appeared online displaying its metallic body, which has rounded corners & chamfered edges, which makes the phone stand out and looks premium, the phone will also have a dedicated camera button, as we can see in the renders.

As for the specs of the phone are to be considered they are as follow

• 23MP camera
• 4K video capture 
• 2K AMOLED display
• MediaTek MT5795 SoC
• 3GB RAM
• 32GB built-in storage
• 3,250mAh battery
• 9.6mm
• Amigo 3.0 UI 
• Android 5.0 Lollipop.

We will keep you updated with the latest news of the same do follow us on Twitter & Facebook for timely updates

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HTC budget Tab the Tab H7 gets its specs leaked in Zauba Listing

HTC was said to be working on a budget tablet that they will be introducing soon, recently a prototype of the device was imported in India, and the listing on Zauba.com unveils the specs of the tablet that was inside the package, the prototype i.e. the hardware of the device is ready hence the launch of the device is really soon.


As for the listing of Zauba the tablet will feature following specs

• 7-inch touchscreen display
• 1.2GHz quad-core processor
• 1GB RAM 
• 16 GB internal storage
• dual-SIM

The import data also lists the price of the tablet which is INR 9,565 which falls to $150 aprox. when translated in US$, it is not the final pricing but the final pricing will be around the 12,000 INR mark in Indian currency.

Samsung Galaxy A8 Passes GFXBench, specs leaked

Galaxy A8 is the next iteration of Samsung in the Galaxy A series, the phone is yet to get official but recently their are a number of leaks about the specs of the phone, and now the device just ran through GFXBench which leaked the specs of the phone, and the screen leaked mismatches with the GFXBench listing, the phone has a 5.5 inches of screen while it was claimed to be 5.7 inches.

As listed in GFXBench the specs of the phone are as follow

• 5.5-inch 1080p display
• 16MP camera 
• Snapdragon 615 chipset,
• 8x 1.4GHz CPU
• 2GB RAM
• 16GB Internal Storage

The GFXBench doesn't says that the phone will have a fingerprint scanner or not, still with such big improvements it will be a good mid ranger if priced somewhat near the Galaxy A7.