After many leaks and teases, the OPPO N1 has finally been unveiled in Beijing. The N1 has plenty of features, but probably the biggest standout is the 206-degree rotating camera. Also included is Pure Image, which is a hardware and software photography solution. It includes six physical lenses, a 1/3.06 imaging module, and f/2.0 wide aperture. The N1 also includes a light-diffusing LED flash, which includes a normal flash for back facing shots and a softer diffused light for front facing shots. Users can also adjust the brightness. Opening the camera app fast has always been an issue, but not with the N1. Users can open the camera in just 0.6 seconds from a sleeping screen via a simple 120-degree rotation. Lastly, the N1 supports long exposure photography of up to 8 seconds.

The N1 features O-Touch, which is a rear touch panel that allows you to operate the phone with one hand more easily. It’s at the back of the device, and with one finger, you will be able to slide up or down, left or right, tap, double tap and long press for different functionality.

The rest of the specs include a 5.9-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS display at 377 ppi, a 1.7 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 CPU, an Adreno 320 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage, 13MP rotating camera with dual mode LED for both front and rear shots, 3,610 mAh battery, USB OTG, Bluetooth 4.0, GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, WCDMA: 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz, and Android 4.2 with OPPO Color UI.

If quality matters to you, then you will also be happy to know that the frame is made with metal aluminum alloy, which is produced over a 20-day period along with a 14 step polishing process involving more than a dozen suppliers. The phone body is made with a ceramic-like material, which is smooth to the touch and will keep it free of fingerprints.

The N1 also comes with the O-Click Bluetooth remote control. You can attach it to your keychain and it will allow you to send remote commands to your N1 or force it to ring if you’re not sure exactly where it is.

As was teased, Cyanogen was on hand at the event. OPPO will offer both a Color version of the N1 as well a limited CyanogenMod Edition, which will come with CyanogenMod pre-installed. Users who own the Color version will also be able to flash CyanogenMod from stock recovery if they wish.

The N1 will be available in white this October in China for a price of CN¥3,498 ($570) for the 16GB model. No pricing was specified for the 32GB version. The N1 will become available internationally in December.


www.talkandroid.com/176167-oppo-n1-officially-unveiled-promises-to-redefine-smartphone-photography/

Microsoft's Surface tablet was supposed to usher in a new generation of Windows RT products, targeted to compete more with iOS and Android tablets than full-featured laptops. The lukewarm reception Windows RT received meant that we've seen very few RT products since, and the Surface tablet itself was outshone by the superior Surface Pro, a slightly heftier version that ran full Windows 8 with an Intel Core i5 CPU.

Both halves of the Surface line have been refreshed just in time for the 2013 holiday season, but it's the Surface 2, still running Windows RT, that has undergone a more complete makeover.

This updated Windows RT version of the Microsoft Surface features a slightly slimmer body, an updated 1.7GHz Nvidia Tegra 4 processor (as first reported by CNET), and a higher-resolution screen than the original Surface. Both the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 share the same 1,920x1,080-pixel-resolution screen now, and it's been color-tuned for greater accuracy. Surface 2 also has improved front and rear cameras (3.5MP front, 5.0MP rear) for Skype and other Webcam use.

While the Windows 8 Surface Pro 2 still comes in a slatelike black, the Windows RT Surface 2 is now a lighter color, more of a silver/magnesium (and the bodies of both are made of mostly magnesium).

The logo branding on the back panel is different, reading "Surface" rather than "Microsoft," and the built-in kickstand now adjusts to two different angles, making the system easier to see from different positions. The original one-size-fits-all kickstand made the screen hard to see and interact with unless you happened to be sitting at precisely the optimal angle. MS says the new angle is 40 degrees, while the original is about 24 degrees.

Both the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 will be available starting October 22. The Surface 2, with Windows RT, starts at $449, but the previous model Surface RT, will still be available for $349. The Surface Pro 2 starts (as the original Pro did) at $899, but the internal storage can be upgraded to a 512GB SSD.


http://m.cnet.com/reviews/microsoft-surface-2-windows-rt/35827900

moonraker:


Yet, peeps would be so quick to the judge the closed eco system and high standards of apple. Can you blame them?? If anything should happen while installing any app, it would come back and bite apple in the ass one way or the other.

While i like the openess of the droid world, i believe that Google should have placed some checks and balances on the system. Maybe because

droid is free to begin with??

How i wish apple would just give me a 4.7inch screen for an iphone, i would even think twice about that POS called droid.

Yea, sentiments shared.
Like I saw this coming.
I would own an iDevice if there was one with a 5.5" screen. IMO when it comes to sweets and apples, the open/close thing is overemphasized

Deeone_bangin!:
Fandroid Boiz, which level nah? Just hailing

*passing by

Envy....much

Shame on you Google

stephano100:
andriod is open-source,customizable nd advanced,ios is restrictive,non-innovative,uncustomizable,less advanced
#teamandroid

Aye. One look at the playstore confirms it. Everyone knows it's chaos. Apple has done a better job of arranging the appstore. They own that field
I own a droid by the way

Shame on BlackBerry.

More Shame on Google. Anyone can pose as a company and upload apps for people to buy in the playstore. They only root out fake apps at the request of the company being impersonated

dahmylolah: Is it only me... Or bbm on andriod has stopped functioning as of this morning ..pings aren't delivering msgs also hanged... .. Guessed their server crashed or something... Don't know why they didn't plan for the massive influx of people on their various servers. RIM... Get ur A game on

They did plan. Y'all just had to skip the queue

Deeone_bangin!:


iOS is always the boss over android. Bbm was supposed to be available for android first then iOS 24hrs after. It's a pity I got bbm on my iPhone earlier than the fandroid boiz. Still not in the google play store. Na wa oo

Apple for Life

It's expected. Android is chaos, iOS is more "civilized"

ewizard1:

Actually settings do save changes here

Okay status report: Still on. A friend has been disconnected though.

Leopantro: GOODNESS!! within the span of one hour 7 fake BBM apps appeared in playstore. look and read very carefully before you download anything

by the way, the fake BBMs are all malwares. apart from telling you to rate the fake app with 5 star, activate droidwall and log the ip addresses it trys to connect to. do a "who is" on the address

Not just 7 o

Tricky devs. They want you to hive a 5 star before anything else so more folks ll be fooled

23 pages

stephano100:
well u since u guys no believe,lemme kip on enjoyin ma bbm,ma pin is 235ae6b by d way lol

pin abi

Deeone_bangin!:
Them dey use una catch trips I swear down, Lwkmd! Fq BBM. I love whatsapp. Lol @tecno fan boys, na them i pity pass

that tweet had me rolling

adaobi123:

I think its by country by country. I'm still waiting too.

LOL. I'm off. Will check in an hour. MUST'VE landed then

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i got it 1st

Looney bin?

adaobi123: Anyone in new Zealand ? You have bbm now

So much for priority in Africa

Rumour has it that 4500 disgruntled ex BlackBerry employees have convened at ijebu to delay the launch of BBM

Jeffy1206: see una don feel am before me nw :-

Chill.
It's just 240 minutes

lillaowow:

Thank you gaaann!!!!!!!
It worked fine and perfect.
Then messages stop delivering
D version is 1.0.0.0.42

That was the final version though. An employee uploaded it and it has been deleted

adaobi123:

You still have the unofficial version. You have the beta version thats been going around the Internet. I think when the original is released, I think the beta version will stop working. I'm not sure.

Chap might be right. The version that leaked this morning worked fine unlike previous leaks. The link was taken down after an hour or so and those who had connected reported being disconnected

A working version was leaked early this morning but it was pulled after an hour. Also those who logged in were logged out

Lord_Reed: Can anyone venture to opine on whether swiping is faster than just typing?

If you use a lot of abbreviations, it won't be. Else, it's faster. For me though.

In other news the Oppo N1 is set to be Cyanogenmod's "nexus". Great move by Steve and Koush

^^^face palm

hustla:


If it is how expensive your phone is or the kind of phone you use that gives you self esteem ...bro..you need to see a psychiatrist.. You have really lost it..
No ..seriously... Ah!

For real? Was that the message you got? Well I won't be drawn into exchanging words.

Consider this:
You take a cheaper item "A" to a gathering of people with more expensive items "B, C & D", NO ONE CARES HOW MUCH YOU GOT IT. But when you start screaming how yours is cheaper and better, that spells insecurities. Still NO ONE CARES.
Hope you catch the drift.

Chomzy19: I Really Do pity Techno Users, they try Soooo hard to convince others that they re wasting money one begins to Wonder?... U don't see Appple, Samsung or BB users making such Noise Ever
Its lyk Cos d Phone is Cheap they really HV to prove it blongs to others Or is all this Noise because is mostly Kids that Use it...

Well Coins do make noise, Notes Don't

It's just insecurities for some reason I don't understand.

My rule number 1 "Do not feed the trolls"

chinaman666: This has got to be one of the few remaining places in the world where people still care about Blackberries. C'mon, Nigeria, Blackberries are like so 2008.

For real?

Leopantro:

will only utilize it if you give me your needle. or is it pin?

in other news, I'm tinkering with xpi files, trying to figure out why one will install and the other doesn't. here's what I do.

download a file from firefox, change .xpi to .zip, extract, copy out the install.rdf file, change .rdf to .txt then open it with a word processor.

why am I doing this?

firefox has a ton of wonderful pluggins but firefox mobile reminds me of Windows mobile : promising on the outside but boring in the inside. so far all I see are scripts in the files, nothing spectacular. it might work with some tweaking.

Notepad++ makes it quicker

Like I said in the other thread, no one can (honestly) deny they did well with this phone

caukerzee: $1000 For a phone with early 2012 specs, fat bezels, outdated hardware and software This is late 2013 BB. I can now safely RIP BlackBerry. Smh

You all keep saying outdated hardware and software but fail to give reasons for the claim

Is the iphone 5s' hardware outdated too?

Godvilla: I didnt bother 2 read through the end of ur epistle cos u are day dreaming!!!

@OP,Snapdragon S4 pro chip was released last yr Jan(Almost 2yrs ago).

The one used in the Z30 was released this year Q3

Leopantro: Has anyone noticed this before? Install google chrome or Firefox Mobile on your phone. Use it for a few minutes. Don't download, bookmark or save any page. Now recall when downloading it the file size was 25MB. Go to settings, manage app and check on the file size again.

I always clear data for Firefox because I never use it (it's for anyone who wants to access the Internet with my phone) chrome is off limits to anyone else

My chrome app is currently occupying 430MB