Gionee Elife S5.5, World’s Slimmest Smartphone, Launching in India on March 30

World’s slimmest Android smartphone, Gionee Elife S5.5, will arrive in India on March 30. Indian media has already started to receive invitations at the launch event, which will take place at the end of this month. According to GadgetsToUse, the Elife S5.5 will be officially introduced in India on March 30/31, but it might go on sale at a later date. The Chinese company is expected to offer more details at the launch event, but we suspect customers who wish to own the world’s thinnest Android smartphone will have to come up with around Rs 20,000 ($330 / €235) or Rs 25,000 ($410 / €295) upfront. However, it remains to be seen if the amount speculated will be confirmed by Gionee at the launch event, along with the actual availability...

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OPPO Find 7 Specs Confirmed Once Again

Chinese handset vendor OPPO will make yet another Android-based smartphone official in the coming weeks, in the form of OPPO Find 7, and some more info on what to expect from the device has emerged online. The handset has been detailed before a few times, and it seems that some of its specs and features have been confirmed via a post on weibo, at least this is what GizChina reports. First of all, we should note that the device will be indeed launched in two flavors, one with a full HD screen and another one with a 2K display, something that OPPO has been teasing before. Moreover, it appears that the full HD variant of the device will hit the market with a Snapdragon 800 processor inside, paired with 2GB of RAM, while packing 16GB...

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Xiaomi Hongmi 2 Allegedly Confirmed with Octa-Core CPU Inside

Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomi is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a new flavor of its Hongmi smartphone, one that will land on the market with an octa-core processor packed inside. According to GizChina, a source from Wingtech, the company producing the smartphone for Xiaomi, has confirmed that the upcoming device will actually be launched in two versions, with the high-end model packing the aforementioned processor inside. The device is expected to land on the market as Hongmi 2, and might sport a large, 5.5-inch touchscreen display, most probably capable of delivering a full HD resolution. The smartphone will be powered by a 2.3GHz MT6592T processor, yet no official confirmation on the matter has been provided as of now....

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo Allegedly Emerges Online

Following the launch of Galaxy S5 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, info on the possible launch of additional device models has started to emerge, as new smartphone models have appeared online. The latest of them is the Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo, which was reportedly spotted with model number Samsung SM-G800F attached to it. Given the fact that Samsung Galaxy S5 was announced as SM-G900, it is highly likely that the new model will be tightly related to it. The handset has emerged on the website of Zauba, the Indian import/export tracker, and is valued at around Rs. 33,061 ($541/€391), as phonearena notes. A previously spotted Samsung SM-G870A model was said to be the Galaxy S5 mini, yet another version of the flagship...

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G.Skill Launches 16 GB, 2133 MHz SO-DIMM Memory Kit

A decade or two ago, small form factor PCs were seldom bought by consumers, because they were pretty weak, but now there are some really strong ones, and it's possible to even build your own to really great specifications, hence why companies like G.Skill launch products like the new Ripjaws SO-DIMM kit. Designed as a set of two, in dual-channel configuration, the newest addition to the Ripjaws series has a total capacity of 16 GB. Also, the clock speed is of 2133 MHz, which isn't even close to the highest I've ever seen (the 3200 MHz Avexir Blitz Red Dragon comes to mind) but is still pretty high. In fact, it is very high for a set of RAM that is to be used in small form factor PCs, like HTPCs and nettops. Granted, chances are...

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Pipo T9 is a True Octa-Core Tablet with Full HD Display

Over the last year, we have witnessed a deluge of tablet models coming out of China. They arrive in all form factors, sporting mid-range and even high-end capabilities, but they all have something in common. They are friendly on the wallet. And sometimes they bundle really cool features, as the new Pipo T9 will show us. The Pipo T9 is certainly not your usual, common Chinese tablet, but actually one of the first slates on the market to come equipped with a MediaTek MT6592 octa-core processor. On top of that, the tablet bundles an atypical 8.9-inch display with a full HD resolution (1920 x 1200 pixels), so it’s definitely a better than average product. The slate has just been launched in China and will probably prove to be very popular...

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