Tinydeal Multi-language Zone : April 2015

4/29/15

SKG 3114 USB Nano Handy Mist Ionic Sprayer Moisturizer Facial Steamer Humectant

SKG 3114 USB Nano Handy Mist Ionic Sprayer Moisturizer Facial Steamer Humectant
SKG 3114 USB nano handy mist ionic sprayer moisturizer facial steamer humectant
Nanotechnology -Make the water and effective component of the skincare lotion into tiny nanometer
It can atomize the water skin care product on a tiny and quick basis, and form the soft essence skin care spray of the - nanometer anion to spary face.
It can be effectively and deeply absorbed and produce the most excellent effect of skin care and beautification.
Improve the skin absorption of water and skincare lotion (Need according to the proportion of 3:7 dilution)
Amount of fine mist let you enjoy more effective and comfortable skin care
Simply slide the cover to automatically release mist for 30 sec
Portable design - Easy to carry around and use at any time and It Can be applied to body, hair and face etc
Easy to use:
Only by sliding out the slip cover gently, it will release jet stream of micro-sized particles of skin care essence in a flash, it will stop in 60 seconds automatically.
Only 30 seconds using Nano Steamer can achieve sustainable moisture replenishment of 24 hours.
Re-chargeable with USB, free from cost of battery.
9 ML water tank-one water tank water can be used more than 10minutes with big and fine mist.
Spraying Time: 30s each time
Warranty : 2 year
Water Capacity: 9ml
USB charge - Convenient and safe
Power: 2 W
Color: Champaign Gold
Size: 223 x 112 x 66 mm / 8.79 x 4.41 x 2.6 inch
Net Weight: 85 g / 3 oz

Xiaomi Old Camera Mouse Pad Anti-flip Rubber Soft Textile Pad for PC

Xiaomi Old Camera Mouse Pad Anti-flip Rubber Soft Textile Pad for PC
Xiaomi oversize cool mouse pad for optical mouse
Old camera design with different pattern for your choice
Provides you speedy and smooth move
Will not discolor or fade, easy to clean
With non-slip material, very soft
NOTE: Mouse pad ONLY, mouse NOT included
Size: 295 x 245 x 3 mm / 11.61 x 9.65 x 0.12 inch
Net Weight: 100 g / 3.53 oz
Color: As show in the picture

Terios II Version Virtual Reality 3D glasses

Terios II Version Virtual Reality 3D glasses
Lightweight design, easy to carry and wear
Allows you to watch 3D video, movie and play 3D game
Adjustable, satisfying different groups of people
Comes with elastic and adjustable head bands, comfortable to wear
Equipped with professional lenses and high quality sponge, comfortable to wear
Works with Android or IOS system smartphones whose screen is between 3.5-5.6" and the dimension is less or equal to 15.4 x 8.2cm
Built-in suction cup can hold your phone firmly
Makes yourself being an exclusive 3D theater with this unique smartphone glasses
Size: 180 x 80 x 30 mm / 7.09 x 3.15 x 1.18 inch
Net Weight: 70 g / 2.47 oz
Color: As is shown in the picture

Huawei G Play Mini becomes official in Italy

Today Huawei has made a new smartphone official in Italy. It's called G Play Mini for whatever reason, and it's already available to purchase for €229 ($254) without a carrier contract.

The Huawei G Play Mini is rather intriguing, because it has the exact same specs as the Honor 4Cwhich got official in China yesterday, but the design is slightly different. This is most obvious in the upper part of the front side of the two devices.

Why the company chose to pair the internals of the Honor 4C with another design and name instead of simply releasing that in Italy is still a mystery.

Anyway, if you're interested in the Huawei G Play Mini, know that it has a 5-inch 720p IPS touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 5 MP selfie snapper, 2GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable internal storage, and a 2,550 mAh battery.

It's powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 620 chipset, which sports a 1.2 GHz octa-core CPU, and it has dual-SIM support (though no 4G LTE).

The G Play Mini could be making it to other European countries soon, now that it's gone official in Italy, but there's no information about time frames yet.

Source (in Italian)

Vivo X5 Pro will come with eye recognition tech

For the past couple of weeks or so Vivo has been teasing its next smartphone, the X5 Pro. Alongside the company's teases, we've also seen a purported render of the phonegetting leaked, and now it's time for a new teaser, as you can see on the left.

This time around we're thankfully treated to more than just the contour of the X5 Pro's rounded corners.

In fact, in the Weibo post that accompanies this image, Vivo is talking about this smartphone employing eye recognition technology, or Eye ID. This seems to work through iris scanning, which Vivo claims is going to be more secure than any other authentication method, as the information its sensor sees "can't be copied".

The technology will be used both for securing the phone itself, but apparently you may be able to secure specific apps too.

No more details are available at the moment, yet the X5 Pro could get its official unveiling on May 7, according to some past rumors. If that's true, then we've got little over a week to go until the big day.

The handset will sport a metal build, 2.5D curved glass on the front, a 3,500 mAh battery, a USB Type C connector, and the ability to take 32 MP pictures with its front camera. That is likely to be achieved through some software trickery, and not with a 32 MP sensor, mind you. As for the main snapper, it should come with phase detection autofocus. And at the helm of all this could sit a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset.

Source (in Chinese) | Via

4/28/15

CRUZ Vintage Electric bicycle is my dream vehicle… that I will never buy

CRUZ has come up with a new series of electric bicycles that is my dream come true. These look like beach cruisers, but they have much ore power than their cute exterior suggests. These things can run at up to 36 MPH and can last 30 miles on a single charge.

Recharge time is equally impressive at 2 hours, which means it will be hard to run out of juice as long as you are not traveling far. There is a catch, however. A pretty big one! These bikes cost $4995!

Opinion: Really, guys? That is the price of a scooter or affordable motorcycle! I am sure you won’t be selling many of these, as awesome as they are.

Tesla unveiling the “missing piece”

Invites for a new Tesla event have been sent to press the last couple days, teasing what they are calling “the missing piece”. This event is scheduled for April 30th, so we only have to wait a couple days before finding out what this is all about.

While there is not much to go on, the biggest thing we are expecting Tesla to announce is a home battery CEO Elon Musk has been talking about. This battery is said to have the ability to store solar power, and will be rented, as opposed to sold.

Opinion: Those who know even a bit about solar power can attest to the fact that it is amazingly expensive. Can Tesla bring us an affordable option that could make solar energy mainstream? It sure sounds like it – we just have to find out how affordable this really will be.

LG G4 Mophie Juice Pack in the works!

The LG G4 is an amazingly gorgeous device. I would personally consider it a sin to cover it up with a case, but if you are going to do it, you might as well cover it up with a case that does more than simply protect your phone.

Mophie is making a Juice Pack for the LG G4. It will be carrying a 3450 mAh battery. To put that into perspective, the phone itself carries a 3000 mAh battery. This case more than doubles your phone’s battery life!

You can now pre-order this bad boy for $99.95.

Opinion: I am using a Mophie Juice Pack with my current phone and I can honestly say I don’t want to go back to a regular case. You never quite grasp the importance of these cases until you can go up to 3 days without charging your phone.

LG G4 availability

One thing we didn’t talk much about during our LG G4 coverage is when and where you can purchase it. Worry not, the phone is well on its way already. You won’t have to wait much longer, especially if you are in Korea, where it goes on sale tomorrow (April 29th).

Meanwhile, those of us in the USA have to wait a bit longer. Only T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular have stepped forward and given us a June release window. LG also states the phone will come to AT&T, but there’s no word on pricing and availability. Europeans should also expect it on June.

Opinion: So about 1-2 months. It’s time to start playing the waiting game!

4/26/15

Samsung explains what makes the S6 Edge’s screen better than LCD

While opinions on the Galaxy S6 Edge’s design, battery life, or software features vary, almost everyone agrees that the S6 Edge and the regular S6 feature some of the best (if notthe best) screens in the industry.

Now Samsung Display put out a press release that gives us a little peek at how the S6 Edge display is made and what makes it so good.

It all starts with the substrate: the S6 Edge is Samsung’s third curved screen phone, after the Galaxy Round and the Note Edge, and features the same polyimide substrate as its predecessors. Polyimide is a type of plastic that offers several benefits compared to the glass substrates typically used on LCD and non-curved OLED displays. Obviously, polyimide can flex, but it’s also highly resistant to shocks and can be processed into sheets that are half as thick as similar glass sheets. That leaves more room for other components and enables thinner designs.

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While the 2013 Galaxy Round had a pixel density of 386 ppi, Samsung Display upped its game for the S6 Edge to a much more impressive 577 ppi, by depositing 3.6 million organic subpixels on the phone’s 5.1-inch display.

Samsung boasts about the rich color gamut of the S6 and S6 Edge, which means the phones can show more colors than a regular LCD screen: almost 100% of the Adobe RGB gamut, compared to 70%. (However, we should note that quantum dot LCD panels can display more colors than standard LCD, as seen on Sony’s latest phones or on Amazon’s Kindle tablets.)

The Galaxy S6 Edge display, Samsung claims, is much faster than LCDs, with response speeds of 0.01 milliseconds, compared to 8 milliseconds. But – and this is a big “but” – taking advantage of that speed requires other components to be just as fast, as Samsung admits when it specifies “once new application processors are introduced.”

Finally, like any AMOLED screen, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge display can save power by lighting up just some of their pixels, as opposed to LCD, where the entire backlight module has to switch on even for a small number of pixels. Samsung claims that using this capability to light up just the curved sides on the S6 Edge reduces power consumption by 20 percent in its current form, though there’s potential for more.

Purported HTC Butterfly 3 specs revealed in new benchmark test

So far this year, we haven’t heard too much regarding HTC’s new Butterfly 3 flagship. We’ve heard whispers that the Asia-centric handset will tote a 5.2-inch Quad HD display(just like the One M9+), but that’s the extent of it. Now we’re getting a few more hints at what the device will bring to the table, thanks to a recent benchmark test over atCompuBench.

The benchmark test reveals that the HTC Butterfly 3 (J Butterfly HTV31) will have a slightly smaller 5.1-inch display with a 2560 x 1440 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor backed by 3GB of RAM, and an Adreno 430 GPU. The benchmark reveals it also has 32GB of on-board storage, a 20MP rear-facing camera and a high-res 13MP front-facing camera. It’s also running Android 5.0.2 Lollipop.

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Traditionally, HTC has only launched the Butterfly series in Asian markets, so folks in North America probably won’t get a chance to see this device. We should try to remember that, no matter how probable the clues are, nothing has yet been confirmed by the company. But if these specs are correct, the Butterfly 3 is turning out to be one heck of a flagship.

Sony Xperia Z3 re-added to T-Mobile’s lineup with a price reduction

It wasn’t too long ago that we saw T-Mobile remove Sony’s Xperia Z3 from its lineup, no longer offering the device through its online store. Even a T-Mobile representative confirmed the removal through Twitter, stating that the Z3 will no longer be offered by the carrier. It looks like the representative gave us some false information, because in a recent development, T-Mobile has, for some reason, re-added the Z3 to its online store with a pretty nice discount.

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When the phone was available through T-Mo previously, it would run you a hefty $630 without a contract. Now if you’d like to get your hands on the device, it will only run you $499.92 off-contract, or $20.83 per month over a 24-month span. This price drop likely has a lot to do with Sony’s recent announcement of the Xperia Z4 – an iterative take on last year’s flagship.

We’re not sure how long the phone will be available on the Un-carrier, so you may want to take advantage of this deal before it’s too late. Head over to the source link below if you’re interested.

HTC One M9 Camera Shootout

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HTC may have things figured out when it comes to design and build quality, but one aspect the company has had issues with when it comes to their flagships is the camera experience. HTC has been working hard to change that reputation, with a slew of devices aimed at showcasing their camera prowess, leading up to the current flagship.

The HTC One M9 packs a traditional 20 MP rear camera, while moving their Ultrapixel tech to its better-suited position up front. We’ve already seen an overview of the camera performance in the comprehensive review of the device, but now, we take an in-depth look at the camera in this HTC One M9 camera shootout!

Like most other smartphones out there, most of the good shots this camera was able to take were in broad daylight. All of these photos are taken at the full 20 MP resolution, and as you can see, the color saturation is quite good, but may not be as saturated as what you get with some of the other players in the Android world.

Oppo’s upcoming bezel-less smartphone shown off in yet another video

What has perhaps become one of the most leaked smartphones in the past few years, Oppo’s upcoming bezel-less smartphone is shown off yet again in a new video. In this three minute long clip, we get our best look at the phone’s user interface, chassis, and most importantly, the tech used to achieve this bezel-less look.

The technology used by Oppo was detailed a few weeks ago in a leaked schematic, explaining exactly how the company achieves the illusion. There’s actually an extremely thin border that surrounds the display, making it seem like there are no bezels on the right and left sides of the device.

Aside from this near bezel-less look, the unofficially named Oppo R7 is turning out to be quite the premium device. A few previous rumors suggest that it could feature a 5.5-inch display, a 64-bit octa-core MediaTek MT6795 processor, a 20.7MP rear-facing camera and measure just 4.85mm thick.

One thing to keep in mind is that none of this is yet confirmed by the company, so we should approach this with some hesitation. However, now that there are two video clips among a plethora of leaked photos, we can be certain that the device is real, and that it might eventually make its way to market.

The way of the Chinese tech company: ‘openly fight Apple, secretly battle Xiaomi’

Late last week, executives from Xiaomi and LeTV butted heads on Weibo over LeTV’s claim that it has the first “borderless” smartphone. It started with Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun mocking the borderless claim since LeTV’s phone does have thin black screen borders. After a rebuttal from a LeTV executive, LeTV CEO and founder Jia Yueting chimed in with this apparent message of peace:

I hope Chinese companies can work hard together to overtake the iPhone hand-in-hand, push forward progress in the industry, and create greater value for consumers.

This message of unity is a frequent refrain in China’s domestic smartphone industry. It’s also a complete sham.

In actuality, most outside observers would agree that LeTV’s true intent is to compete with Xiaomi. Its smartphone pricing is far closer to Xiaomi’s than Apple’s, and in fact LeTV is even making a similar claim to one Xiaomi once made: ‘our goal isn’t to profit from hardware sales.’ LeTV’s true strategic approach is often summed up in the Chinese press with the expression: “openly fight Apple, secretly fight Xiaomi.”

This isn’t a LeTV innovation, it’s actually a tried-and-true approach that’s pretty common in China’s tech industry. The general format is that a company openly fights a foreign competitor in its market, loudly attacking it the way LeTV has attacked Apple. But less publicly, the company’s actual goal is to defeat domestic competitors.

This PR approach – ‘openly fight major foreign brand, secretly battle domestic competitor‘ – allows Chinese tech companies to get some press attention by connecting themselves with a global brand like Apple, and score some PR points for being a home-grown company with the guts to stand up to foreign juggernauts. But because their attacks on these global brands are so ambitious, nobody takes them all that seriously. Companies that make these claims don’t really have to stick to them, so it’s a win-win: you get your press coverage from taking potshots at Apple, but the domestic press still won’t deem your product a failure when Apple outsells you.

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This photo of Xiaomi founder Lei Jun, released prior to the Xiaomi M1 launch, shows him standing in front of lots of photos of Steve Jobs.

The battle against domestic competitors, in contrast, is generally played out in the background. It’s never a total secret, and sometimes it’s pretty obvious (particularly if you follow the founders’ Weibo accounts), but it’s also never a major feature of the company’s PR drive. For example, at the LeTV smartphone launch event, the clear focus was on attacking Apple, despite the fact that Xiaomi is a much more important competitor for the same market (tech-savvy white-collar twenty-somethings) at LeTV’s price points.

A few years ago, we saw a similar battle play out between Xiaomi and Meizu. Although the bad blood between the two companies – particularly their founders – was no secret, Xiaomi’s PR focus prior to the launch of its first phone was on drawing comparisons to Apple. The first Xiaomi phone was launched publicly for the first time at around the same time as Apple’s iPhone 4S in China (the 4S hit China on December 16, the Xiaomi went on sale publicly on Dec 18). It was often branded in the media as “China’s iPhone-killer,” despite the fact that at the time, Meizu was a more significant competitor for Xiaomi’s potential market than Apple, whose phones cost three times as much.

Of course, the ‘publicly fight foreign company, privately battle domestic company‘ approach does lead to some confusion, especially in the Western press where challenges to global juggernauts are often taken at face value and dismissed out of hand. Prior to Xiaomi’s launch many observers thought the company’s apparent Apple fixation was nothing more than a ridiculous pipe dream, and wrote the company off as a failure waiting to happen. And while Xiaomi didn’t beat – or even compete with – Apple right out of the gate, it did snatch up a big chunk of the low-end smartphone market from domestic competitors. After years of building from there, it actually has been able to beat out Apple domestically, but that was not the immediate goal back in 2011, despite the PR push suggesting the contrary.

Destroying Apple isn’t really LeTV’s immediate goal either. The next time you hear a Chinese company take this kind of aggressive stance against a foreign brand prior to a big product launch, remember: this is just a PR strategy. The great Chinese strategist Sunzi once wrote that all warfare is based on deception, and if a Chinese tech company is attacking a seemingly unassailable foreign brand in public, there’s a good chance that they’re quietly far more interested in beating out a domestic competitor.

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Robin Li: VCs are trying to coax employees of China’s top tech firms to do startups

China’s startup boom is in full swing. So much so, in fact, that according to Baidu CEO and founder Robin Li, China’s VCs are camped out in coffee shops looking to convince skilled employees at China’s top tech firms to quit and do startups instead. On Friday, Li spoke at China’s Securities Regulatory Commission, and had this to say on the subject of startups (our translation):

Everybody knows that right now the startup scene is very hot. All kinds of VCs are camped out in the coffee shops around Baidu HQ, talking with our employees and trying to get them to leave and do startups. What do they think a golden startup team is? It’s a Baidu tech guy, a Tencent product guy, and an Alibaba operations guy. For those kinds of people, getting startup funding is very easy.

Li’s comments on the startup scene were just a sidenote in his speech, serving the broader point that Baidu has a reputation for being China’s leading firm when it comes to pure tech development (a claim that would be hard to dispute given the company’s Institute of Deep Learning and its penchant for working on future tech like autonomous cars and artificial intelligence). But if what he says is true, it certainly speaks to just how crazy China’s startup scene is right now, and how easy it can be to get funding if you’ve got a team with a pedigree like the one Li laid out.

(Source: Sina Tech)

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Sony Xperia Z3 back on T-Mobile!

That was a good one, T-Mobile! Despite being discontinued a couple weeks ago, time has proven that dreaded announcement wasn’t the death of the Sony Xperia Z3. The phone was meant to come back, and with a lowered price point!

The new price is set at $500, a good discount over the original $630 price point. You can get it straight from the T-Mobile website!

Opinion: We are not sure if this was the plan all along, but we are glad it happened. The Sony Xperia Z4 wasn’t exactly the most stunning device we have seen announced. It was quite underwhelming, so if you are a fan of Sony smartphones (like us) you may want to consider going for a Z3 and saving some bucks. You won’t be missing out on much, anyways.