Meizu MX3 to Go Official in France on March 6

Chinese mobile phone maker Meizu is expected to make its MX3 smartphone official in France on March 6, and it has already started to send out invitations to a press event that will take place in Paris on that day. The company does not unveil specifics on what will be announced at the event, but rumors on the possible arrival of the smartphone in the country as soon as this week have emerged a few times before, and the event is almost certain to be focused on this unveiling. Following the official launch in France, the Meizu MX3 is expected to become available in some other markets across Europe as well, though specific details on this have yet to be offered. The mobile phone was made official several months ago, and it can already...

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Oppo Find 7 Reportedly Brings a 50MP Camera

Chinese mobile phone maker Oppo is gearing up for the launch of a new high-end smartphone in the form of Oppo Find 7, and it seems that it might pack it with a 50-megapixel camera on the back. The info comes from a sample photo that was published on weibo and that is 8160 x 6120 pixels in size (it weighs 9.7MB), as GizChina has found out. The image, which can be seen in a reduced size above, clearly points at a device featuring a 50-megapixel camera, while the EXIF data attached to it mentions Oppo’s Find 7 smartphone. Give that no official confirmation on the matter has been provided as of now, we’ll take the info with a grain of salt for the time being, though it would not come too much as a surprise if the smartphone indeed included...

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Galaxy S5 Benchmark Result Spotted with 5.2-Inch Screen, Full HD Resolution

Samsung Galaxy S5 was one of the most anticipated smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, but the hardware specifications that Samsung has announced for the device were not in line with what many enthusiasts were actually expecting. To be more precise, Samsung unveiled the new device with a 5.1-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a full HD resolution and with a 2.5GHz quad-core processor inside, while many were dreaming of a 5.2-inch 2K screen and a 64-bit octa-core CPU. While it might seem that Samsung has scrapped plans for very high-end hardware specs inside the smartphone, it appears that things are not quite as such, and that a new flavor of Galaxy S5 might hit shelves later this year. Just...

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Google and Samsung Concerned over Microsoft’s Nokia Takeover

Microsoft is still waiting to get regulatory approval for the Nokia takeover in some large countries across the world, and the company might have to wait a little bit longer in China due to some recent comments made by Google and Samsung officials. Representatives of the two companies are said to be discussing with the Chinese governments over their concerns that a potential deal between Nokia and Microsoft could lead to higher patent license fees, a report by Bloomberg reveals today. It turns out that officials have already contacted China’s Ministry of Commerce and asked for conditions on the deal to make sure that patents that remain with Nokia won’t be sold at a higher price, while Microsoft won’t abuse on the technologies it’s...

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