Destination Asus Zenfone Sell 40 Million in 2017

Asus is Destination sales in 2017 to 40 million units - Asus name in the smartphone industry in the past two years have increasingly taken into account, it is not tied to the success Zenfone 2 and Zenfone 3. Throughout 2016 and Asus managed to sell nearly 20 million units of smartphones. For this year's first vendors to take part in the PC industry has a more ambitious target Zenfone targeting sales of 40 million units.
Asus hopes to sell 35 to 40 million units of smartphones throughout the 2017's. The benchmark rose about twice that of the previous year Zenfone sold about 20 million units. Although impressed by the ambitious targer still fairly realistic. Because Asus is indeed more productive lately releasing new products.

At the 2017 CES event recently in Las Vegas, USA, Asus released two series of smartphones at once, ie AR and Zenfone Zenfone Zoom. According to the grapevine news circulating Zenfone 4 series will soon launch in the second quarter of this year. So far there are six variants of the family complements Zenfone 3. Each is Zenfone 3 standards, Zenfone 3 Deluxe, Zenfone 3 Ultra, Zenfone 3 Laser, Zenfone 3 Max, and 3 Zenfone Zoom.

Of all the variants Asus Zenfone 3 each has advantages that target markets with different needs. Asus is not random in creating variants of the Zenfone 3. Varian Zenfone Deluxe for high-end, Zenfone Ultra for big-screen lovers, Zenfone Laser to the budget class, Zenfone Max for more battery-powered, and Zenfone Zoom which has a dual camera.
To find out if Asus Zenfone be scored sales to 40 million units, it can be ascertained at the end of 2017 or in early 2018. Asus with different variants and has particularly advantages of each in every variant is expected to Asus will print the target until the end of next year.

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BlackBerry Prepares Rp 1 trillion to Develop Cars Otonomos

Ottawa - BlackBerry reported more and more seriously penetrated the automotive business. After ensuring no longer produce its own smartphone, now a Canadian company that plans to invest in the development of vehicles otonomos.

According to a report by Reuters on Tuesday (20/12/2016), the BlackBerry will berinvetasi approximately US $ 75 million or around Rp 1 trillion for the development of this technology. As a long-term investment, BlackBerry will use most of the money to support the technical work.

According BlackBerry CEO John Chen, the company will hire more engineers over the time. According to the plan, the company wants to add up to 650 engineers for the development of this program.

The unit is now called QNX that, previously named the BlackBerry QNX, now has 400 engineers. Overall, the BlackBerry itself now has 5,000 employees.

Through this investment, BlackBerry hopes to sign as a vehicle pembesut otonomos that counts in the world. Moreover, the company has advantages in terms of security, not only for users but also the system used.

To that end, the company has started cooperation with component suppliers such as PolySync, and semiconductor company Renesas Electronics Corp. Blakcberry also took Univesity of Waterloo in this otonomos vehicle project.

For information, the BlackBerry is not the only technology company that also has a development plan otonomos vehicle. A number of other technology companies, such as Google and Apple is known to have had a similar project.

In fact, specific to Google, lines otonomosnya car development has been established as a separate entity. The company named Waymo are now under the auspices of the Alphabet, parent company Google.

While Apple is still not openly discussed the development of the smart car system that was working on.

The Cupertino-based company still store information about Project Titan meeting touted a car project otonomos Apple.

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BlackBerry Mercury Ready to Show Superiority at MWC 2017

For the record, TCL a deal with BlackBerry Limited to produce smartphones with the BlackBerry brand. Thus, the latest BlackBerry smartphone is handled by TCL.

Furthermore, BlackBerry Mercury is visible in the video that has a QWERTY keyboard with USB Type-C port.

"Enjoy the first official video of the latest BlackBerry smartphone. For more details will be announced at MWC," said Cistulli Twitter account @SteveCistulli.

Although Cistulli not provide other details such as screen size and processor, some of that information has been widely circulated on the Internet. Some of them are Android 7.0 operating system Nougat, 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1,620 x 1,080 pixels, batteries 3.400mAh, octa-core Snapdragon chipset 625 and Adreno 506 GPU.

The smartphone was also predicted to have 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory, 18MP rear camera, front camera and 8MP.

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Snapdragon smartphone with 835 Ready to Present First Half 2017

Las Vegas - Qualcomm still sealed information about the first smartphone powered by the new processor, the Snapdragon 835.

This is so because the Snapdragon 835 debut precisely on glasses Augmented Reality (AR). Device called R-8 and R-9 are dibesut by Ousterhout Design Group (ODM).

To Tekno Liputan.com, Friday (06/01/2017) local time, Qualcomm ensure that orchestrated the first smartphone with the Snapdragon 835 will be ready to present this year.

"We can not disclose where the smartphone vendors that will use the Snapdragon 835. But, we can be sure of this smartphone will be available the first half of 2017," said Cisco Cheng, Director of Marketing Qualcomm during a media session at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Las Vegas.

According to information circulating, Xiaomi Mi-6 will be the first smartphone with the Snapdragon 835. It is based on speculation from an analyst, Kevin Wang.

The Xiaomi Mi 6 mentioned will run on Android 7.0 or 7.1 Nougat with MIUI 9, with a curved display 2,5D and 6GB RAM.

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Qualcomm Denies Smartphone at CES 2017 is Nokia 8

Jakarta - Event Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017, which expired last week it still remains a mystery. The reason is, there is an exhibition of products at Qualcomm booth managed to attract the curious public as touted as Nokia 8.

Although already forbidden to take pictures, in fact, a number of the visitors managed to capture these products in video format and pictures. Responding to the rumors, Qualcomm finally spoke.

Through a spokeswoman, Catherine Baker, an American company has denied these products is Nokia 8. The device was actually the same as any other visual items that are usually used Qualcomm annually.

"The news about Nokia 8 was not true, demonstration of the chipset 835 exhibited virtually identical to the demos of the latest products Snapdragon every year," Baker said, as quoted by Phone Arena, Sunday (15/01/2017).

Thus, the statement that called the rumors broke the props it is Nokia Nokia Series 8. 8 is indeed predicted the premium products from Global HMD, brand licensees Nokia.

Nokia 8 will reportedly come in two versions with different chipsets, the Snapdragon 835 and Snapdragon 821. Snapdragon 835 version has 6GB of RAM and a 24MP rear camera with OIS + EIS.

For the front camera, smart phone is equipped with a 12MP sensor. Global HDM provides two options of 64 or 128GB of internal memory, expandable with a microSD slot.

While Nokia 8 Snapdragon 821 version using a RAM size of 4GB. However, it could not be ascertained about the other specs of the device are expected to be introduced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017.

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Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro Officially Launched in China

China - After rumors about the presence of Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro got crowded on the internet. Through the official website of China, Samsung finally introduced information about the latest smartphone.

Quoted from Digital Trends, Sunday (15/01/2017), the specification that carried this smartphone is not much different from the leaked information circulating over the years. One is a landscape screen C7 Galaxy Pro is 5.7 inches.

To support the performance, the smartphone is equipped with Snapdragon 625 chipset and 4GB of RAM. Samsung provides 64GB of internal memory expandable with microSD up to 256GB.

The South Korean company also pinned 16MP resolution camera, to the main camera and front camera. Therefore, this smartphone is predicted to deliver results that fairly slick selfie photo.

Another feature is also included on this smartphone is a fingerprint scanner on the home button. Just as the new smartphone releases this year, Samsung has included a USB Type-C at C7 Galaxy Pro.

The plan, the sale of pre-orders for this smartphone will begin on January 16 in China. Could not be ascertained the price of these devices, as well as their availability for the global market.

In addition C7 Galaxy Pro, other devices are also anticipated C5 Galaxy Pro. But on this occasion, no information about the successor to the Galaxy C5 release last year of the.

Nevertheless, there has been some information about the device on the internet. Some of them are Samsung embedding Snapdragon 625 chipset with 3GB RAM for the model.

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Best Action Cameras in 2017

Camera action (action camera) users an easy indeed. Besides having a mini body, this camera also allows users to use it in various fields. It made him interested in a lot of people. This year a variety of vendors also set up the latest action camera. As reported by Tech Radar, Thursday (01/12/2017), the following action best camera in 2017.

GoPro Camera Hero5 Black weighs 118 grams. Like most action camera, GoPro series is able to survive in water with a depth of 10 meters. Then GoPro Hero5 Black equipped with a lens with a resolution of 12 MP and a resolution of 4K video 30/25/24 fps.

TomTom Bandit
Carrying a 16 MP resolution, this camera is capable of recording videos in full-HD 60 fps and 120 fps HD resolution. The device is also able to survive even though exposed to splashing water.


Olympus TG-Tracker Not only can record 4K video at 30 fps quality, this camera is even able to survive in water with a depth of 30 meters. Olympus TG-Tracker is also equipped with a battery that can last for three hours.

Olfi
With a weight of only 75 grams, this camera is equipped with 16 MP lens. As the ranks of action cameras in general, this camera can survive in water with a depth of 30 meters. In addition, this device can also record video 4k 24 fps.

Garmin Virb XE Equipped with 12 MP lens, this camera has a weight of 152 grams. Though unable to record video up to 4K quality, this camera can survive in water with a depth of 50 meters.

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