LeEco was the first smartphone brand to unleash a Snapdragon 820 chipset handset, the Le Max Pro at the start of the year. In April, LeEco introduced a new flagship smartphone called Le Max 2 that features Snapdragon 820 chipset and 6 GB of RAM. The newly launched OnePlus 3 also features the same chipset and RAM combination.
Being the largest smartphone company in the world, Samsung is expected to capture every segment of the smartphone market. However, it has been noticed that the South Korean giant is losing hold of the budget smartphone segment that is being captured by companies like Xiaomi, Lenovo, and LeEco.
LeEco is a force to reckon with in the Indian and Chinese markets thanks to its feature rich budget and mid-ranged offerings. What makes it different from other companies is the fact that it offers content to the customers in addition to hardware. It seems like the company's ambitions don't end with India as LeEco has just announced its intentions to set up base in the U.S. markets, starting later this year (Q4 2016).
The competition in the budget smartphone space in India is getting interesting. Companies are regularly launching new models to compel buyers and gain dominance in the market. Along with an effective, low-cost price tag, these budget smartphones offer great value for money with premium specifications and great features. Motorola has announced that it will start selling its affordable Moto G4 in India on June 22, bringing challenge to the likes of LeEco Le 2, Le 1s Eco, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, YU Yunicorn and others.
Nvidia has launched its Pascal architecture-based Tesla P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe servers. The company claims that the Tesla P100 GPU accelerator "delivers massive leaps in performance and value compared with CPU-based systems."It enables the creation of "super nodes" that provide the throughput of more than 32 commodity CPU-based nodes and promises to deliver up to 70% lower capital and operational costs.
People are quicker to share than read news on Twitter, according to a new study which found that 59 per cent of all links shared on the website went unclicked, and presumably unread, even by people who shared them. The tiny fraction of headlines that news editors push out on Twitter draw a large share of eyeballs, but it is the stories recommended by friends that trigger more clicks, the study found. In what may be the first independent study of news consumption on social media, researchers at Columbia University and the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) found that reader referrals drove 61 per cent of the nearly 10 million clicks in a random sample of news stories posted on Twitter.
Who doesn’t love thin laptops right? Apple started the trend. HP's Spectre 13.3, which offers top-notch performance and a reasonably good keyboard in a body that lays claim to being the “thinnest laptop in the world.” Determining a laptop’s thinness can be tricky since laptops aren’t uniform blocks, exceptions for Google Pixel C of-course. The 2015 MacBook 13’ for example, is 13mm thick at its rear, with the front lip getting down to 4mm. The Spectre 13.3 is, for the most part, 10.4mm to 10.5mm, with the back end measuring about 12mm. Given such variances, probably the best way to determine thinness is by eyeballing it.
Huawei's off-shoot brand Honor may launch the budget phone Honor 5C in India on June 22. The company seemed to be on a teaser-spree off-late, taking to social media channels, to tease the phone in question. That said, it is yet to confirm that it would launch the Honor 5C here on the said date.
Xiaomi is one of the many manufacturers that haven’t yet launched a water-resistant smartphone yet, and their founder Lei Jun has revealed the reasons for not launching one. Jun said that any damage to the handset will deteriorate water resistance and with time it won't be able to resist water. Further, Jun also added that making a water-resistant device will make the device costly.
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