Huawei Mate 7 Compact Announced at MWC 2015?

 

 

 

 

Huawei is already announced that the show it at MWC 2015 will be held on March 1, but it is still not known what kind of products will be introduced on the occasion. According to the site from Italy, HDBlog, Huawei will introduce a smaller version of the Ascend Mate 7 are likely to be named Huawei Mate7 Compact. As previously rumored, the brand is no longer visible Ascend stick in the name of the new product. Product is expected to offer a 5.5-inch screen size, processor Huawei Hisilicon Kirin, and offer a body of metal material.

This rumor true? Let's wait just in time.

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ZTE Blade S6, First Android with Octa-Core Snapdragon Worth $ 250

 

Chinese manufacturing is known often release a smartphone with qualified specifications but priced at an affordable price. Even the late great manufacturing are already feeling the impact ie the erosion of their market share.

It is known that ZTE released the latest smartphone with the name Blade S6, specifications offered include laminated HD screen size of 5 inches, octa-core processor 64-bit Snapdragon 615, 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal storage expandable via microSD slot, rear camera 13MP, 5MP front camera, a battery capacity of 2,400 mAh, and operate using the Android 5.0 Lollipop. The phone will be available globally on 27 February, priced at $ 250 (no contract).

Huawei Sell 75 Million Smartphones in 2014, Revenue Up 30 Percent

 

Huawei Consumer Business Group a few moments ago has released its latest financial statements. Division of Huawei's consumer devices are able to record a large increase in revenue in the financial year 2014 and has achieved record revenue of more than 10 billion dollars for the first time to 12.2 billion dollars, up 30% over the previous year.

Consumer devices division noted that there are 138 million devices have been sold in 2014, up 7.8 percent compared to the previous year. A total of 75 million devices sold are smartphones, up 45% compared to a year ago period.

The increase in sales of Huawei smartphone supported by sales in the upper middle class that began in 2012 ago. The company is able to sell 4 million units Ascend P7 within 6 months since its launch last June 2014. Meanwhile phablet 7 Ascend Mate able to sell 2 million units since last September slide.

Consumers are also more and more attention in recent Huawei brand. From the survey, 65% of respondents in 32 countries have been familiar with this brand, rising from 52% in the previous year. This increase was also supported by the opening of 630 new stores at the end of 2014 Huawei ago.

Currently Huawei are competing with several other vendors to occupy the position 3 of the global smartphone seller. Xiaomi compete with Huawei, Lenovo, and LG to pursue Samsung and Apple are still dominate the global smartphone market.

Via  GSMArena, Huawei

Bug in Wi-Fi Direct Android Implementation Causes Denial of Service

A vulnerability in the way Android handles Wi-Fi Direct connections leads to rebooting the device when searching for peers to connect to, which can be anything from other phones, cameras, gaming devices, computers, or printers.

The Wi-Fi Direct technology allows devices capable of wireless connection to establish communication directly, without the need to join a local network.

Security company insisted on proper coordination for a fix

The vulnerability allows an attacker to send a specially crafted 802.11 Probe Response frame to the device and crashes it due to an unhandled exception occurring on the WiFi monitoring class.

Core Security discovered the flaw (CVE-2014-0997) through its CoreLabs team, and reported it to Google back in September 2014. The vendor acknowledged it but classified the glitch as having low severity, with no timeline for a fix being provided.

The same answer was received by Core Security each time they contacted the Android security team to inform of a timeframe for rolling out a fix. The last reply of this kind was received on January 20, meaning that there is no patch for the time being. On Monday, the security company made their findings public.

The security company created a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the validity of the results obtained during their research.

According to the technical details of the vulnerability, some Android devices can be induced a denial-of-service condition if they receive a malformed wpa_supplicant event, which makes available the interface between the wireless driver and the Android platform framework.

Google is not in a hurry to eliminate the problem

The relaxed stance from the Android security team regarding the issue may be on account of the fact that denial-of-service condition occurs only for a short period of time, when scanning for peers.

More than this, the result is not severe in nature as it consists in rebooting the device. There is no risk of data exfiltration or an attack that could lead to this, which would make it unappealing to a threat actor. On the other hand, a patch should be provided regardless, in order to mitigate any potential future risks.

Core Security says that the issue was not detected on Android 5.0.1 and above, and among the devices affected they found Nexus 5 and 4 running version 4.4.4 of the mobile operating system, LG D806 and Samsung SM-T310 with Android 4.2.2, and Motorola RAZR HD with build 4.1.2 of the OS.

For the time being, mitigation consists in refraining from using Wi-Fi Direct or updating to a non-vulnerable version of Android.


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Ubuntu Touch Apps Running in Unity Desktop – Video

Unity 8 for Ubuntu is coming along and Mir is also making good progress. One of the byproducts of all these improvements is that some of the apps that are designed for the Ubuntu Touch are also working on the Ubuntu desktop, with very little help.

The idea of converging the Ubuntu platforms into a single one must have seemed pure madness just a couple of years ago, but that thought is now making more sense than ever. It's now possible to get an application from Ubuntu Touch and run it on the desktop. Sure, it's only a handful of applications and the implementation is far from perfect, but the difficult part has been solved.

A video put together by Popescu Sorin features all the apps that are currently working cross-platform, although this term will soon become irrelevant. You can see stuff like the Calculator, a file manager, and a music player. As you can see from the video, the interface scales very well and all the functions work as they should.

Some of you will comment that the apps look a little too much like the ones for the phone, but there is a simple reason for that. The fact that they can run on the desktop hasn't been taken into consideration just yet and they are not working in a Unity 8 environment, where they fit much better.

You can download the Ubuntu 15.04 Daily Build and test the apps for yourself.

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Meet KDE Plasma 5.2, the Beautiful Future of the KDE Project

The KDE Community announced that Plasma, the desktop for the KDE project, is now at version 5.2 and the developers have made a number of important changes and improvements.

The KDE project now has a different face. The Plasma component is actually the desktop that greets the users and it's the most easily recognizable piece of software. Sure, some of the other KDE components might be more important and complex, but the vast majority will care about the improvements made to the desktop.

The one thing that you will definitely notice is the facelift, which will probably divide the community into users who like it and users who don't. The impact of the newly released Plasma desktop can't be quantified yet because there are very few distros that actually adopted it. KaOS is one of them and Arch Linux users have access to it from the repositories. Kubuntu, which is the most used operating system with this desktop, will get the next update in April.

KDE Plasma 5.2 is impressive

Even if it's possible that some of the users won't like the new direction, it's hard not to observe the hard work poured into the project and we're not talking only about the artwork and some of the more obvious changes. The fact is that you really need to run it and see for yourself, you can't really get the right impression from screenshots.

Some of the biggest improvements are the addition of new apps and functionalities, like SDDM, which is the new login manager, Muon to install and manage packages, a tool for multiple monitor support called KScreen, a new library, KDecoration, that makes it easier to build themes, and a new module lets you configure theming of applications from GNOME. And all of these are just scratching the surface.

The new KDE Plasma update will take a while to land in repositories, but Arch Linux and Kubuntu (the Plasma 5 edition) should be among the first to get the new desktop. You can also download the latest KDE Plasma 5.2.0 source packages from Softpedia or you can tryKubuntu 15.0 Alpha 2 as a Live CD, if you want to see what the fuss is all about.

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