Huawei unveils world's largest smartphone

Chinese automaker introduced the Ascend Mate, a smartphone with a screen of 6.1 inches. We approach more tablet!

Huawei wants to impose on the market tabphones these devices halfway between tablet and smartphone. He has conquered with his share of Ascend Mate he has unveiled at the largest exhibition of consumer electronics, the CES in Las Vegas.

To dethrone Samsung's Galaxy Note 2, Huawei has focused on the size of the machine ... Ascend Mate has indeed a screen of 6.1 inches with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. This makes it the largest smartphone in the world. By comparison, the Note 2 has only a 5.5 inch screen, while the tablet Google Nexus 7 features a 7-inch screen. It also features the dimensions of 16.51 x 8.63 x 1 cm to 198 grams. It will therefore have very large paws to manipulate such a device.

Big battery also

Under the hull, there is a home Hi-processor Silicon quadcœur, clocked at 1.5 GHz, an 8-megapixel camera on the back and another 1 megapixel front. A huge 4050 mAh battery will power the smartphone led by Android 4.1. Chinese manufacturer promises that this autonomy of 13 hours call is provided (two days in normal use).

The Ascend Mate is available in black and white and will be available in China from February 2013. Huawei has not yet communicated its price or its availability.

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Free Unlimited Mobile extends the DOM

Free Mobile has announced that unlimited calls to terminals in the overseas departments (excluding Mayotte) are now included in their packages.

The inhabitants of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Reunion can now be more easily contacted on their mobile. Free Mobile has announced that there is more overhead for calls to the DOM, except for Mayotte.

Calls to landlines as mobile phones are included in the offers unlimited calling. This includes Free Mobile customers and also those of the Freebox Revolution.

"Subscribers to the Freebox V5 or unbundled fiber subscribe or have subscribed to the "Calls to mobiles" benefit from this new service under this option," says Free Mobile in a statement.

As for the package to 2 euros per month, the operator indicates that calls to overseas departments prove taken into account at no extra cost in the limited time available.

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Samsung: Still more benefits

According to an analysis from Reuters, Samsung is expected to announce a net profit of € 6.3 billion for the fourth quarter of 2012. An impressive result achieved thanks to strong sales of its Galaxy Tab 2.

Every minute, 500 Samsung sells phones in the world. A pace that has made ​​him the number one worldwide in this sector last month. According to Reuters , the Korean giant has broken all records, recording a profit of 8,800 billion won (about 6.3 billion) in the fourth quarter, nearly 89% more than the year Previous. Samsung should confirm this amount by announcing its quarterly results on January 25.

This colossal figure, he owes it to its mobile division, including that of smartphones. The Galaxy S3 is indeed sold over 15 million units between October and December 2012. Note that the high-end Samsung did better the previous quarter, with 18 million units sold.

S4 in February

In fact, it is thanks to the Galaxy Note 2 Korean boosted sales. Popular overseas, it exceeded 8 million deliveries in the fourth quarter. By including 37 smartphones from Samsung, the manufacturer has passed a total of 63 million phones in three months, against 56 million in the previous quarter.

Sales S3 should, however, continue to falter, but the Korean has already anticipated the move. A new generation of high-end smartphone should be presented during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. The Samsung Galaxy S4 and should make its appearance. According to analysts quoted by Reuters, Samsung will continue to grow at 35% and widen its lead over Apple in 2013.

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The App Store passes the 40 billion downloads

Apple announced that it had crossed the symbolic threshold of 40 billion downloads recorded on its store applications.

Apple still has an edge over Google. The Apple brand has announced that it surpassed the 40 billion applications downloaded via its online store. In total, the Cupertino company has paid developers to 7 billion dollars.

The App Store has particularly strong growth last year, Apple said. Indeed, in 2012, the group recorded nearly half of total application downloads for iPhones, iPads and iPods.

Play overtaken by Google

Moreover, the online store has a new record last December, with nearly 2 billion copies of purchased software. "This has been an incredible year for the community of developers for iOS" Eddy Cue, the One of the leaders of the App Store.

Present in 155 countries, the Apple Store now has over 500 million active accounts and 775,000 applications available. For its part, the Google Play remains slightly above applications with 800,000, but announced that it has surpassed the 25 billion last September (against 20 billion in June). The number of downloads should have exceeded 30 billion early this year. If Apple still maintains its leading position in this field, the gap is narrowing gradually.

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CES 2013: Samsung Keynote is now!

Samsung is live from CES 2013 tonight. The first conference in a few minutes (23:00 French time). Interventions are also pre views throughout the day January 8, and a lecture by Dr. Stephen Woo, Samsung's System LSI Business President Wednesday, January 9th at 18:00.

We suggest you follow the live video of the Keynote directly on our platform: CES 2013: Samsung Keynote

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The SuperSpeed ​​USB 3.0 to 10 Gbps password

The organization of standardization of USB transfer protocol announced a new standard for the SuperSpeed. Rates will be doubled to 10 Gbps (Gigabits per second) from mid-2013.

The 10 Gbps ports Thunderbolt is a selling point for Apple. But soon, the merits of this technology will be put into perspective, since the USB 3.0 to 10 Gbps will be finalized by mid-2013, advance The Verge.

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, the standardization body ensuring the USB transfer protocol, has just announced a new specification for SuperSpeed. Currently 5 Gbps transfer speed of USB 3.0 will be equal to the Thunderbolt was developed by Intel for Apple.

Democratization in 2014

According to The Verge, the first aircraft with a speed of 10 Gbps could land mid-2014. Meanwhile, there are about 720 certified devices USB 3.0 (5 Gbps) on the market. The new standard should prevail among the various manufacturers, including Intel. The USB port has indeed many advantages, including its quality standard and backward compatibility.

"We recognize that more applications computer general public will need faster transfers to devices", reacted Alex Peleg, vice president of Intel's announcement of the new specification.

Users are actually more fond of very heavy media data (Full HD, high definition pictures, etc..). Between the increase in storage capacity and file size, transfer of these could become a bottleneck.

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CES 2013: Nvidia announces the Tegra 4 and its handheld console

The graphics card manufacturer has announced its new generation of chips, Tegra 4, at the CES in Las Vegas. He took the opportunity to present the Project Shield, the first handheld console.

Nvidia gives La. During the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the manufacturer of chipsets and graphics cards unveiled its first portable game console and its new generation of System on a Ship (SoC) The Tegra 4.

The latter has four Cortex A15 CPU cores, 72 cores and GPU incorporate 4G LTE. Which provides 6 times more power than the Tegra 3 level visual processing, saving energy 45%. Nvidia even says that his system is the fastest mobile processor in the world. We can therefore expect to see many smartphones and tablets equipped with upscale such a chip this year.

Game streaming

Incidentally, the CEO of the firm, Jen-Hsun Huang introduced the first home console Nvidia dubbed Project Shield. It is a kind of joystick, with a 5-inch screen (1280 x 720 pixels). Hosted by Android 4.2, it has obviously Tegra 4 and a TV output HDMI. With its chip, the console will be able to read 4K video (high definition). A USB port, a microSD slot and a Wi-Fi antenna will complete the connection of the Project Shield.

Beyond its enticing features, Project Shield remains primarily a streaming platform games: Nvidia users get the most out of their PC games through the Tegra 4 of the console. Simply connect the Project Shield to his computer with a GeForce recently. Jen Hsun Huang was able to play the latest Need for Speed, installed on a computer, on the Project Shield.

For now, the manufacturer has not specified yet prices for new products that will arrive in spring 2013.

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