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The Chinese company Gionee, known mainly for its thinnest smartphone Elife S5.5 and Elife E5.1, is preparing another interesting device. The device, made in unusual for modern smartphones clamshell, was seen on the website of the Agency for certification of Chinese telecommunications equipment (TENAA). This model will be the world's first smartphone equipped with two screens with a resolution of 1080p. Diagonal inner and outer screens is 4 inches. Given the resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels it gives quite a high density of 550 ppi. The device runs on Android 4.4 KitKat, built on a quad-core processor with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz, equipped with a 13-megapixel main and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory and supports network LTE. The thickness of the model is 14.8 mm, and weight - 172 grams. While nothing is known about when to begin selling Gionee W900 . In any case, the smartphone will be released in China and it is difficult to say whether h...

  Setting a new record as the highest-earning fixed crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo, a total amount of $10,288,472 (approximately £6.6 million) has, thus far, been generated in pledges by London-based developer Canonical for its Ubuntu Edge smartphone. The money raised by the Canonical Ubuntu Edge smartphone in its Indeigogo crowdfunding campaign has surpassed the record set by the Pebble smartwatch last year. Pebble had raised a total of $10,266,845 in its crowdfunding campaign. However, with the Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign scheduled to end on August 21, Canonical is far from its achieving its overall funding target of $32 million. If the developer fails to reach the funding goal, it will have to return all the money to the backers. In case Canonical is successful in achieving the funding target of its Ubuntu Edge smartphone campaign on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website, it plans to deliver 40,000 handsets to qualifying backers by May 2014. Noting that the public intere...

Google has introduced a modular smartphone Project Ara Spiral 2. At the conference for developers Google Project Ara Developers Conference a world-renowned search giant officially introduced its first commercial prototype of a modular smartphone project Project Ara. The novelty is called Project Ara Spiral 2. The device has received from the manufacturer display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels and two 64-bit processor - 4-core Marvell PXA1928 clocked at 1.5 GHz and graphics Vivante GC5000, and 6NVIDIA Tegra K1 with two cores and graphics ARMv8 Nvidia Kepler, which has a top speed of 2.5 GHz. The "initial" set of modular Project Ara Spiral 2 also includes battery, speaker, 5MP camera, and wireless modules 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The smartphone has a fairly simple design that allows its user immediately after the purchase of their own modules to change it, of which there are at present more than 30. Sales of Google Project Ara Spiral 2 will start in the second half of 201...