Intel, at MedPi – Monaco – has the opportunity to present an upcoming smartphone signed by the ZTE chinese supplier. Named Grand X2 In, it has the distinction of taking a first Intel Atom next generation. This is the famous CloverTrail+.

Remember that behind the CloverTrail+ code name lies a dual-core Atom processor engraved in 32nm with two x86 cores with active HyperThreading. A SoC that also benefits from a more robust graphical part that consists of two cores PowerVR SGX 544. Details that should give the new smartphone with Intel chips, superior performance.
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2013 is almost half over, and one thing is clear: it will be the year of the Chinese supersmartphones. There, they already outnumber the PCs as the primary device to access the Internet, but end up not being very well known around here, mainly by the geographical difficulty of such releases hit the market. Some brands have left the “xing-ling factor” aside, and decided to heavily invest in products with high technical specifications, precisely to provide a better user experience. And without owing anything to the major global manufacturers releases.
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Let’s show some major Chinese releases, showing that they can be “less Chinese” than you think. These are high-end models, which can well meet the most demanding users, even though they are unknown brands to most of the users.
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The Oppo R809T smartphone is official but it is actually not as thin as presented.

Oppo, the Chinese brand has already tried to play the most thinner game on their smartphones with a thick model of only 6.65 mm. The competition (also Chinese) have announced even better shortly after, it whispered that its new model could try to go even smaller, reaching a wasp waist of 6.13 mm.
The Oppo R809T smartphone is now announced … with a thickness of 6.93 mm, which is still honorable for a mid-range device with a 4.7″ display with 720p resolution (1280 x 720 pixels ) and carrying a MediaTek processor quad core clocked 1.2 GHz with 1 GB of RAM.
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Some (few) smartphones are presented at CES 2013. Yesterday (07), Alcatel has presented what is considered “the world’s thinnest smartphone”. Today, the Huawei confirms the Ascend Mate, which was shortly seen before the event from Las Vegas, and stands out for having a screen with no less than 6.1 inches. Yes … the “phablet” reached another level (in my view, in the limit).

If you thought the Samsung Galaxy Note was already considered the edge between the tablet and smartphone, the Huawei Ascend Mate goes beyond with its 6.1 inches screen. This difference, even if it appears to be minimal on paper, in practice, is something considerable.
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