Last year Chinese company Xiaomi released its first action-camera called Xiaomi Yi. Compact size, good features and little price of the gadget have made it very popular among users. And now the Chinese manufacturer is working on its next generation of action-camera Xiaomi Yi 2.

Users may be disappointed to learn that new Xiaomi Yi 2 will come with a 12.35-megapixel sensor Sony IMX377, given that the previous generation was equipped with 16-megapixel Sony IMX206 sensor. But do not forget that Sony IMX377 is much faster than its predecessor and has the ability to record video with 4K-resolution.

Moreover, the Chinese manufacturer has decided to improve the performance of the action-camera and set it a processor Ambarella A9, known for its high performance and low power consumption. Thus, the battery life Xiaomi Yi will be quite good, even while recording 4K video at 30fps/s.

Specifications Xiaomi Yi 2

Xiaomi Yi 2 will have 2.19-inch display with a resolution of 640×360 pixels and a density of 330ppi with viewing angles of 160 degrees and the protection of Gorilla Glass. Its battery capacity has increased from last year’s 1010 mAh to 1400 mAh. As a result, a full battery charge camera should last for 8 hours or 110 minutes of video recording 4K-resolution.

Other features Xiaomi Yi 2 are still in question. But certainly new action-camera will provide Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces, and different ports like MicroUSB or MicroHDMI. And, of course, we hope that the manufacturer will have the possibility of expanding the memory with microSD cards. As you can see by the images above, the camera will be available in two colors: white and black.

Release date Xiaomi Yi 2

Xiaomi has already prepared a product page for new cation-camera, so we believe that the camera is ready for sale. As we know, the company has scheduled an event on May 10, during which a new smartphone Xiaomi Max, and most likely a new action camera Xiaomi Yi 2 will be presented.

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Recently, Meizu has released a new wearable gadget – fitness bracelet called Bong 2P. Its design, appearance, function and cost suggests that Chinese company plans to compete with another smart bracelet Xiaomi Mi Band. Today we will compare two bracelets and choose the best.

Design

Both gadgets have a similar design: tracker and silicone strap for fixing it. If Xiaomi Mi Band capsule comes in only gray metallic color, then Bong 2P offers more options – black, silver and pink colors.

Meanwhile Mi Band has a lot of interchangeable straps, the presence of such accessories in Bong 2P has no such opportunity. Mi Band body is made of metal and plastic, while the tracker from Meizu has a ceramic body. We think that Bong 2P more attractive due to a wavy texture, but Mi Band has three LED indicators.

Functions

The first generation of Mi Band is able to measure the steps passed, counting calories, vibrating alarm and notify of missed notifications by vibration and LED indicators.

Bracelet Bong 2P has the same functionality as Mi Band, in addition to LED display. Mi Band works with iOS and Android devices. There is even an unofficial client for Windows Phone.

Meizu works with Android smartphones and the ability to connect to iOS devices is not confirmed yet. Both bracelets are able to unlock Meizu and Xiaomi smartphones – respectively.

Price

Mi Band and Bong 2P has the same price in China – 12-13 dollars. Perhaps resellers will sell the first bracelet from Meizu will cost a bit more expensive, as it will be considered exclusive, but after a while the cost will be the same.

Conclusions

Both bracelets are interesting, but each has its own pros and cons. For example Bong 2P (in our opinion) is more modern and premium due to the use of ceramics and surround undulating pattern. Also smart tracker Meizu offers different colors.

Mi Band is more versatile, since it works with Android, WP and of iOS devices. Also it can be synchronized with Xiaomi weights through MiFit and sports applications like Google Fit.

Mi Band has three LEDs that provide basic information without the need to use a smartphone.

What bracelet would you buy: Xiaomi Mi Band or Meizu Bong 2P?

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Nettops replacing traditional desktop computers on the market. There are several reasons: compactness is always a great advantage, nettops are less noisy, consume less electricity and they do not need a huge uninterrupted power supplies. Of course, the performance of nettop is at a low or medium level. Even gaming devices ROG cannot be compared with the usual gaming PC. However, devices like ASUS VivoMini VC65 are not intended for mounted high-definition video or draw pictures on hundreds of layers in Photoshop.

Nettop is used for watching movies, TV series, internet, e-mail clients, social networking and instant messengers. If you need such device, then let’s take a look at ASUS VivoMini VC65.

Specifications ASUS VivoMini VC65

For the basis of system performance was taken Intel Core sixth generation. The manufacturer has not called all processor variants, but we think that will be used Celeron or Pentium. Processor performance is enough for usual tasks. If you need something more powerful, you do not need to look at nettops. ASUS VivoMini VC65 has 4GB of RAM. Also, the manufacturer did not mention the maximum number of RAM, but it seems to us that 4GB will be enough. Of course, 8GB of RAM required for games or work with video, but ASUS VivoMini VC65 is positioned as multimedia device.

Design ASUS VivoMini VC65

The body of nettop is made of black plastic with a matte finish. As you remember, the last devices have smooth lines on bends, but new nettop has clean lines and bold design. On the front panel there are two USB 2.0 connector, power button and optical drive. On the side faces is located air grille and on the rear panel are connectors for connecting peripherals. At the top end it is logo ASUS and light texture.

Benefits ASUS VivoMini VC65

The great bonus of ASUS VivoMini VC65 is a possibility to install four 2.5-inch drives. You can buy HDD to four pieces of 1TB and get a huge space to store your favorite movies, photos from holiday, music and so on. You can install SSD for faster system start. On the back panel there are HDMI and VGA connectors to connect a monitor. Also there are four USB 3.0 ports for high-speed content transfer and many other things.

Conclusion

Price ASUS VivoMini VC65 is a secret, but the manufacturer has confidence in future success. We agree with it. ASUS VivoMini VC65 is very stylish gadget. You can use it as a multimedia set-top box to TV, which will store a lot of movies and you can watch them without flash drives and Internet. It is better to buy a good display and enjoy high-quality color reproduction.

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Last year, the Chinese manufacturer Pipo showed the concept mini-PC called X8. The device was a mini-PC, which combines powerful hardware and touch screen.  It seems that such devices have a fairly high demand, as the company released a new version of its hybrid device Pipo X9S.

Today, the company introduced the successor Pipo X9S with better hardware equipment.

Pipo X9S mini desktop has 8.9 inch touchscreen display with a resolution 1920×1200 pixels. The special feature of X9S is that the device is not a tablet, but rather PC for the desk. Mini desktop has little angled position of the screen which makes it easy to read. However, we think that built-in display is better to use as second screen and connect larger external monitor to use as the main.

Pipo X9S received a significant upgrade of equipment. The main improvement is processor. Now mini-PC uses new Intel Atom Z8300 x5 “Cherry Trail”, instead of old Intel Bay Trail. Furthermore, the device has a more powerful graphics unit on board.

New Pipo X9S comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of flash memory – a doubling compared to the previous model. Actually, according to Intel, processor Z8300 supports only 2GB of RAM, but Chinese manufacturer was able to increase to 4GB. In fact, it is good news for users because 2GB is not enough for daily work of Windows 10.

Pipo upgraded its Mini-PC even with HDMI output, Ethernet port, 4 ports USB 2.0, microSD card reader and built-in speakers. Unfortunately, you’ll have to forget about USB 3.0 port, from which the company refused because of the expensive price. However N-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 are available again.

Pipo X9S runs on operating system Windows 10. You can buy Pipo X9S at Chinese stores that specialize in worldwide shipping. Price of the device is about $200.

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At the moment, when the market of smartwatches is on the stage of initial development, concepts such as “women’s smartwatches” or “men’s smartwatches” do not exist. All wearable devices can be attributed to the category of “unisex”. However, soon the situation in this area may change.

The first generation of Huawei Watch has a big dial and the thickness of 11 mm. Of course, such smartwatch is inconvenient for the girl’s thin hands, so the company Huawei decided to release a female version of watch.

According to reports, Huawei plans to introduce a female version of its smartwatches Huawei Watch in early January at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. What will be the device?

The changes will affect only design of the watch, which will be the more “feminine”, while characteristics of smartwatch Huawei Watch for Women will not differ from the current model of device. As we know, the technical characteristics of Huawei Watch are as follows:

• Screen: 1.4 inch, AMOLED matrix resolution of 400×400 pixels;
• CPU: 4-core Qualcomm MSM8926 Snapdragon 400;
• Graphics: Adreno 305;
• RAM: 512 MB;
• Built-in memory: 4GB;
• Wireless modules: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 4.1 LE;
• Sensors: accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope pulse sensor;
• Battery: Li-Ion 300;
• Dimensions: 42 x 42 x 11.3 mm;
• Battery life: up to 48 hours.

Most likely, the female version of Huawei Watch will have dust and water resistant, that can withstand immersion in water to a depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes.

Also, there are reports that the Chinese company is already working on the second generation of Huawei Watch. We expect to see smartwatch on the market not before the second half of 2016.

It’s all available information, but probably Huawei Watch 2 will support networks of mobile operators that give its owners the opportunity to make calls and send / receive text messages, without the help of a smartphone.

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The Chinese company Elephone has a lot of different products in its catalog, including smartphones, cameras, power banks or even electric cigarettes. The market of wearable devices has become especially popular in the last year, and Chinese manufacturer plans to unveil its own smartwatch Elephone W2.

As you remember, at the beginning of this year, the French company Withings has released a stylish classic watch Activité Pop with smart features. Elephone develops similar smartwatch with a classic design.

Despite the fact that the external Elephone W2 looks like the most ordinary, in fact, it has a lot of useful features. The round dial is made of metal. As we mentioned, the main feature of the watch will be a classic style.

Another important feature of the watch is the heart rate sensor. Other functions of Elephone W2 are a standard set of other smartwatches, for example, features a fitness tracker, alarm, receive notification, monitor sleep and much more.

The watch Elephone W2 has a classic dial and additional scale to display the percentage of the daily result, for example, the distance traveled, the quality of sleep or changes in heart rate. Elephone W2 will work together with the smartphone app. The user will be able to control the watch by three mechanical buttons.

At the moment, it is all known information about Elephone W2. The price is unknown, but it is definitely lower than Apple Watch and Activité Pop.

We should note that earlier the company has already released its first smart watch Ele Watch. It has a screen with diameter of 1.5 inches (38 mm) and resolution of 320×320 pixels, 512 MB of RAM, internal memory of 4 GB, as well as the receiver of satellite navigation system GPS. The main feature of watch is that it works on Android Wear.

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To accompany a beautiful smartphone, you have a beautiful helmet. But it is difficult to distinguish the segment of in-ear. OnePlus achieved this with a new headset called Icons and whose position reflects that of OnePlus X.

 Yesterday we introduced you to the OnePlus X third smartphone in Chinese start-up Carl Pei and Pete Lau. A launch under the sign of design and feel, with beautiful materials for touch, including zirconium to dress the hull of the more expensive models, and technologies meant to flatter the eyes, as the AMOLED screen, the photo sensor ISOCELL and 8-megapixel webcam. The rest chose OnePlus security with a chipset that he knows quite well, since it is the Snapdragon 801 quad-core that animated his first “flagship killer.” The OnePlus X goes on sale in a week at a starting price of 269 euros (add a hundred euros for zirconium version).

 But that was not the only product that the young company unveiled yesterday. It accompanies its new smartphone in fact a design-ear headphones also licked and called Icons. Inspired by the organ, the asymmetric design of this headset is very characteristic. Visible branches are composed of aluminum and the helmet body has an angle of 51 ° to enter the ear canal. The diaphragm that creates the sound measuring 11 mm, for low rounder. Inside the cable which is 1.25 m (to a weight of 15 grams), the connections are made of enameled copper. And a three-button remote with microphone is integrated there.

 Among the few technical features to remember, the sound level of the headphones is 110 decibels, the impedance is 32 ohms and the frequency range is 20 Hz to 20 kHz (which is purely classical, as it is frequencies audible to humans). OnePlus promises a harmonic distortion of less than 0.5%, which is quite low, even for an in-ear headphone. Remain vigilant vis-à-vis the latter. However, the helmet will certainly minimum: a good sound, sufficient sound insulation (3 pairs of tips will be delivered), a satisfactory level of comfort and the convenience of a headset. As many criteria as headsets offered by most manufacturers do not provide.

 We come to the price. For the OnePlus X, like its predecessors, does not come with a headset. The Icons will cost 50 euros, 15 euros more than the in-ear developed in partnership with JBL (E1 + Earphones). And just under 40 euros more than the Silver Bullet, the first headset of OnePlus. The young start-up clearly goes upmarket in its accessory offer. Logic: this is above it spent most of its margin. Still unavailable to date, the Icons should be marketed (uninvited) along the OnePlus X or in a few days.

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Announcing the router OnHub last August, Google said its new device would be entitled to two versions, one built by TP-Link and the other by Asus. This is the version of that mark which is presented today.

 A promise is due, Google has unveiled a new version of router OnHub, this time built by Asus Taiwanese. Basically, nothing changes. This is always a router design work so that it was not too ashamed to display it on a cabinet of his house. Its cylindrical design also has another advantage: it contains a small fifteen antennas that provide a diffusion of the best WiFi signal within the home. Add to that an application designed to make installation and management easier and you have an idea of the reason for existence of such a router.

 So what changed between TP-Link version and the Asus version? You can edit or manage WiFi signals by performing gestures on top of the unit. It is thus possible to prioritize the signal for a particular device by wave with his hand. The Asus OnHub would incorporate not one of said antennas previously present in the TP-Link router but it would still be an antenna for analyze network congestion. Little change as possible, except the prices, which rose from $ 199 to $ 219.99 dollars.

 As for the first OnHub, this new version is only available in the US for now. In fact, as we explained in our article announcement of the device, due to the dominance of box operators (making core routers office), there is little chance that one day OnHub crosses the Atlantic.

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Xiaomi is the famous Chinese manufacturer of smartphones, tablets and other accessories for mobile devices, but we also find larger appliances in the brand’s portfolio, such as smart TVs and the system of green little robot. And the newest bet Hugo Barra house is the Mi TV 3.

 The new member of Smart TVs line the Xiaomi is the Mi TV 3, which has as attributes a 60-inch screen with 4K resolution (panel manufactured by LG) and an extremely thin (for a TV of course) 36.7 mm at its thickest part and 11.6 mm at the thinnest part. All this in an aluminum body with metal back.

 To drive all the resources that offer the new TV integrates an MStar 6A928 processor with Cortex-A17 and Mali T760 GPU. Also brings 8GB eMMC memory for internal storage that will be managed by the Android system MIUI interface. On the side of connectivity, we have three HDMI ports, two USB ports, a VGA port, an Ethernet port, an AV-in, a subwoofer output, and a standard RF modulator. On the front for the audio we have the Virtual Surround technology that promises deeper bass.

 According to Xiaomi, the acoustics for Mi TV 3 was designed by Luca Bugnardi (winner of the Grammy Award) together with Wang Fuyu (former head of acoustics research at Philips). Including also announced a speaker in bar format sold separately for about $ 160, consisting of four mid-range and a 2.5-inch subwoofer.

 The Mi TV 3, and prior televisions Xiaomi, debuted in China for an amount equivalent to US $ 650. There is no information on its international availability, but remember that the company plans to sell some of its products in the US and other regions.

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Bluboo, Chinese society active – in the past – in the smartphone sector, tries this time to surprise the world with the first smartwatch Chinese Android Wear, its sporty Bluboo XWatch. It will be a Christmas best buy?

 Bluboo is a Chinese company maybe unknown in the Western market technology but who has decades of experience in making smartphones for mobile operators OEM of various nations.

 Last month, it was just September 17, 2015 Bluboo emerged from anonymity OEMs announcing a first product with his own band, the smartphone Bluboo fire that stood out to offer a good technological equipment (quad core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB HDD, 2,750 mAh battery and dual camera, 8 megapixel rear and front 5 megapixel). All this, along with 4G connectivity, being marketed at just 80 euro!

 Given the success that the previous device has obtained, BluBoo tries again with another technological device that belongs, however, to a different category. Let’s talk, this time, the Bluboo XWatch, the first Chinese smartwatch implemented by Android Wear, adaptation of Android to wearable devices (it is not clear, however, whether it is a stock version of Android Wear or an adapted version).

 The Bluboo XWatch has a metal ring, a bracelet in different colors and a circular display full size without black bars or spaces for LEDs. Among its technical characteristics, at least among the few that are currently leaked, we can distinguish between elements that denote the vocation “sports”.

 Bluboo XWatch, in fact, altimeter, barometer and GPS to accurately identify its position beyond the path, even trekking, that you were taken. And this, of course, the pedometer, the pulse sensor on the back and a monitoring mechanism of sleep in order to assess the quality.

 Do not miss, then, also mirrors the notifications of text messages, and phone calls received through the pairing, we presume in Bluetooth, with your smartphone.

 Overall, it is a good device, not as elegant as an Apple Watch (but, on the other hand, the segment of reference is different!), But definitely for those who love the movement and adventure: in this sense, his most next rival would be a smart watch from similar forms, the Moto 360 Sport Edition 2015 (always Chinese, Motorola is Lenovo) which, however, will certainly have a greater cost.

 Here, the price: do not know it but do not be surprised if it was in line with the many gadgets cheap and good quality that often come from China and around…

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