Huawei Honor is 6 Plus in China

The Chinese mobile specialist Huawei Honor smartphone today 6 Plus officially unveiled in the domestic market. The name is of course not randomly chosen: The Chinese want with the new Android device of Honor series by his own admission, even Apple’s seemingly all powerful iPhone 6 Plus defy. In addition to a very large full-HD display Honor therefore can otherwise come up with premium hardware 6 Plus.
A highlight of the newest member of the known in Germany Honor family is undoubtedly the 5.5-inch display, which like the iPhone 6 Plus with 1 920 x 1080 pixels dissolves. The frame on the left and right of the touch screen is also a mere 1.85 millimeters wide.

The chassis of Honor 6 Plus measures according to the data of Huawei 150.4 x 75.68 x 7.5 mm, which makes the smartphone a very slim figure. In the case of the manufacturer, the octa-core SoC installed”Kirin 925″, which is a proprietary development is 64-bit capable and Mali T628MP4 GPU integrated.

The chip is assisted by 3 gigabytes of RAM and 16 or 32 gigabytes of flash memory that can be upgraded at via microSD card of up to 128 gigabytes. In addition, the smartphone can score with a relatively large 3600 mAh battery and LTE support.

Beyond this premium equipment under the hood is also the view of the back of Honor 6 Plus interesting.

The Chinese block there is a dual-sensor camera solution to the HTC One M8 recalls. In the case of Huawei model launch, however, solves each of the sensors with 8 megapixels, which both can take pictures with a resolution of up to 13 megapixels together according to official figures.

In addition, the second sensor can also be used as the One M8 to shoot photos with depth effect.

An update for Lumia models is distributed in Germany

Microsoft has begun, the so-called denim Update extradite for Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone 8.1. That gave the software giant on its Lumia Conversations blog known. The software update brings several new features for the mobile platform as well as significant improvements for the camera software. Also in Germany already received some supported Lumia models the update.

The Denim Update Microsoft’s Windows Phone closes a little closer to competing platforms, however, are the most important new features of the software the more expensive models like the Lumia Lumia 830 , Lumia 930 and Lumia 1520 reserved. To obtain this, a revised camera software with which photos can be significantly faster than before shooting. Furthermore, the application provides, inter alia, a better HDR mode and new imaging algorithms. On the Lumia 930 and Lumia 1520 is now also the option to record video in 4K quality at 24 frames per second.

For all Lumia models, where the denim update can be installed , is that the digital assistant Cortana just like Google or Apple’s Siri Now can now be activated by voice command. In addition, Microsoft has improved, eg SMS messages app and the mobile operating system support for VPN connections and the ability to organize apps into folders added.

According to Microsoft, the last few months available cyan update is required to play the denim update on the Lumia-compatible models. The latest update to the company distributes as usual in waves. It can take a while until the world’s truly all supported devices were operated.

Moto X Lollipop update comes in Germany

German owner of the many places acclaimed Moto X (2nd generation) can look forward, following the announcement for the US about a month ago Motorola has now begun in Germany so, aka Android 5.0 “Lollipop” deliver the premium smartphone.

In addition to Google’s own Nexus family thus the Moto X is one of this country to the first device ever to get the latest version of Android, with its fresh design and several new features.

The details of the website Android-Port.de after wearing the new firmware for the Moto X version number 22:21:19 and is now distributed “over the air (OTA)”, which means users can update the software directly via wireless Internet connection their smartphone downloaded at.

As usual in such cases, however, to note that the update from Motorola sorted by region and mobile operators is distributed in waves. The Moto-X owners in Germany so get Lollipop, not all at the same time.

The final source code of Android 5.0 has been released by Google in early November. The new Android version brings a striking innovation a refurbished user interface in the “Material Design”.

There are also numerous tweaks and improvements, an advanced notification system, including the ability to interact with alerts directly on the lock screen, and new features such as an operating mode that can extend the battery life.

Sony indicated in new teaser video Xperia product

Sony is at the beginning of January, taking place Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2015 have a presence, as far as we know for sure. However, it is still unclear how big this fails or exactly what the Japanese company will show in Las Vegas.

Industry insiders expect due to the last leaked technical details of mobile devices, the Xperia Z4 family in any case smartphone and tablet news. Sony itself has now towards the weekend released a promotional teaser video for the upcoming show.

In the usual Sony-style video advertising initially seems very cryptic and meaningless. On closer inspection, however, fall then but a few things on that as evidence of one or several new mobile devices can be interpreted quite the same. Thus, at the outset in a setting the profile of a product to see which is very likely to be a smartphone or tablet. Also the Apply brilliant colors makes perfect sense in this context.

Moreover, it is obvious that the girl with lollipops, which is displayed for several seconds in the video, an allusion to the latest version of Android 5.0 aka “Lollipop”, the be pre-installed with security at the upcoming Sony hardware factory will. Law much more can be derived from the spot but then also not pull out. So let’s just wait times, whether the consolidated until early January still scatters more information.

For the first quarter of 2015, Sony has also Lollipop fixes for a number of existing Xperia-Z models otherwise announced . Current flagship smartphones like the Xperia Z3 and the Xperia Z3 Compact are to be operated by then the manufacturer first.

Galaxy S5 Samsung starts distribution of Android 5.0

Samsung has begun to distribute Android 5.0 “Lollipop” for the European model variant SM G900F the Galaxy S5. Although an official confirmation from the South Korean manufacturer is still out, but SamMobile has already received the update plus the appropriate information in the fingers.

The distribution of the new software should be according to the website initially started only in Poland, but other European countries are likely to follow very soon.

How SamMobile informed, bears the update to Android 5.0 for the Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F) version number “LR21T” and comes just a month after Google has released the final Lollipop source code therefore.Notwithstanding Google’s “pure” Android 5.0 Samsung has, however, made ​​as expected own modifications to the latest version of Android.

The new material design guidelines of Google have loud SamMobile encouraged to revise all the proprietary, factory-installed system applications Samsung. You have therefore been given a new coat of paint and detail improvements.

Furthermore, brings Android 5.0 for the Galaxy S5 of the Site following among other things the new lock screen with lollipop, can interact on the right with notifications and there is also a new Clipboard Tool and the Smart-Lock feature. The South Koreans have even written a new driver for the fingerprint scanner, now by the detection should work much better.

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: Apple warns of accessories with metal parts or magnets

Apple warns accessories manufacturers currently before, products for the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus iPhone prepare or offer containing metal parts or magnets. The details of the Californian company after may adversely affect 6 Plus and NFC connections for both current iPhone models and thus lead to unpleasant problems this kind of components of both the optical image stabilizer of the iPhone. How 9toMac informed, Apple has recently sent the notice to members of the MFi (Made for iPhone) program.

It should be noted in connection with this report that problems with the optical image stabilizer actually can occur only on iPhone 6 Plus, since the iPhone 6 does not have this technology. As for NFC connections, both new iPhones are equipped with the same chip and can be disturbed in the same way. The NFC module is, however, currently used exclusively for the payment service Apple Pay, which is not yet available in the US only.

Finally, it must be noted that in this country, especially owners of iPhone 6 Plus have to watch for that case or other accessory you choose. Just magnetic camera essays often seem to be a reason for interferences that can manifest itself in hazy or blurred shots themselves.

iPhone 4S Better performance thanks to the new iOS 8.2 beta 3

Apple has recently released the Beta 3 of the upcoming iOS 8.2 for registered developers to download. The site Redmond Pie has this new pre-release version worried and on a iPhone 4S installed to find out whether it is possible to determine any significant performance boosts for the elderly, but still widespread iPhone model compared to the currently latest version of iOS 8.1.2 ,

Apple users who still have to hold on to an iPhone 4S or want, it is not easy for since the release of iOS 8. Apple’s new iOS edition seemed immeasurably to overwhelm the device on publication last September. With iOS 8.1, the California company announced for special optimizations for said iPhone, which should improve performance, but until today there are many problem reports.

The upcoming update to iOS 8.2 brings so again hope for iPhone 4S owners with that Apple once again can be a bit screwed to the underlying performance of the device. As the video published by Redmond Pie reveals now that iOS 8.2 Beta 3 8.1.2 actually seems to make a subtle but quite noticeable difference compared to iOS. The reaction times are a bit shorter and loading operations predominantly run faster.

Despite a very positive Ersteindrucks Yourself iPhone 4S owners should not celebrate too soon now. Really informative tests on this subject will allow only the release of the final version of iOS 8.2. The latest information according to Apple iOS 8.2 will probably deliver sometime in January.