FreakTab is a growing community of developers that focuses on development for the less fortunate devices, such as those coming from China.
Not only TV boxes, the FreakTab community have done some great work for tablets and other Android devices as well. A few devs from the very community recently came together to launch their own hardware – the Freakbox.
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Xiaomi’s ever-so-affordable Mi Band is finally going to go on sale, albeit only in its home country of China.
Continue reading “First batch of $13 Xiaomi Mi Bands to go on sale 18th August in China”
Chinese makers cloning international devices isn’t exactly news. However, some Chinese clone-makers are up to something special, as they’ve started cloning devices from their own country!
Continue reading “OPPO Find 7 clone from China costs more than the real thing!”
iberry might have won accolades for launching the apparently cost effective Auxus Note 5.5, but we believe there’s more to it than meets the eye about this interesting phone. Being a keen follower of Chinese electronics, the Auxus Note 5.5 instantly rang a bell in my mind. I had seen the phone previously… but it launched only yesterday. What was it then?
Continue reading “This phone from China bears uncanny resemblance to the iberry Auxus Note 5.5”
Announced as the ‘Hongmi’, the Xiaomi Redmi made waves in the Chinese industry as the cheapest quad-core smartphone from an international brand. At the time of its launch, the Redmi came with the 1.5GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589T CPU, but things have changed since.
Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi LTE to go on sale 16th August in China”
OnePlus have always maintained their unique marketing strategy, which has often landed them in controversy. The latest ordeal that the company got into has a nice ring to it – Ladies First.
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The Xiaomi Mi 2 was the device that really brought Xiaomi on the world map, with its high value proposition at the time of its launch. The device was later followed by the Xiaomi Mi 2S in 2013, one that I’m still using!
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Chinese OEMs first started out as clone makers. Then came the Meizus and the OPPOs that transformed the market into one that’s a lot more original. But, old habits, as they say, die hard.
Continue reading “Not able to get the OnePlus One? Get this clone from China for just $115!”
As usual, quite a lot seems to be happening at the Samsung camps of late. We’re saying this because another Samsung phone (phablet? You decide) just got spotted thanks to a benchmark tool.
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Xiaomi managed to get some bad press of late, when a report from Taiwan claimed that the Chinese maker was gathering sensitive user data through its phones. The report said that Xiaomi Redmi Note was found to be sending information to Chinese servers without any such requests from the user.
Continue reading “In the wake of privacy concerns, Xiaomi makes cloud messaging optional”
Google’s Android has turned out to be a prolific piece of software for a wide array of electronics, including smartphones, tablets and more recently, wearables.
Continue reading “Now run Android KitKat (stable) on your x86 PC”
Meizu’s always been lauded for their design, right from the M9 to the soon-to-be-replaced MX3. I would’ve mentioned the M8 there as well, but the device bore too much of a resemblance to the iPhone to make it an original design.
IUNI is far from a household name in countries other than China, but the wily maker has been making a lot of noise since late last year.
The company launched the IUNI U2 earlier this year amidst huge fanfare. Why the anticipation for a virtually unknown maker, you wonder? Well, that’s because the U2 promised to be an HTC M8 killer with the VFM proposition it brought on board.
Continue reading “Beast from the East: IUNI U3 to launch 26th August!”
Xiaomi drew a lot of flak for not meeting the demand that their first India launch, the Mi 3 saw. Along with the Mi 3, Xiaomi announced a couple of other devices including the cost-effective Redmi 1S and the octa-core monster, the Redmi Note.
OPPO had been teasing the N1 mini via their social feeds through the past week or so. The N1 mini, as the name suggests, is the mini version of the OPPO N1 that happens to be the Chinese phone maker’s first phone in India, launched back in January.
Continue reading “August 11 is when the OPPO N1 mini will launch in India”
