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Miami-based BLU announced today the launch of its Studio Energy smartphone on the US market. The smartphone was unveiled at CES in January alongside a number of budget friendly devices, targetting specific niches. Its headline feature is the huge 5000mAh battery, currently the highest capacity in the smartphone realm, the company claims. That amount of juice translates into 45 days of standby time or 4 days of regular use, according to BLU's calculations. Thickness has been kept at a manageable 10.4mm, but weight may be more disturbing at 180g. The BLU Studio Energy features a 5-inch display of 720x1280 pixels resulting in a 294ppi density. Computing power comes from a quad-core processor, clocked at 1.3GHz, coupled with 1GB of RAM. An 8MP camera on the back is responsible for capturing the world, while a 2MP front snapper takes care of selfies. The newly launched smartphone will boot Android 4.4 out of the box, but the company promises a Lollipop update in June. The device is av...

Lenovo has made a new smartphone available in China today. It's called P70, and it's a midranger with the battery capacity perhaps being its main claim to fame. The P70 comes powered by a whopping 4,000 mAh cell, which the Chinese company says may last you up to 34 days on standby. That's quite an achievement for a smartphone in this day and age, though the number does only refer to 2G standby. It goes down to 30.5 days on 4G, and 29 days on 3G. Still, respectable nevertheless. Aside from that, the Lenovo P70 boasts a 5-inch 720p IPS touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, as well as a 5 MP front-facing unit. Running the show is MediaTek's MT6752 64-bit chipset, coming with a 1.7 GHz octa-core CPU and a 700 MHz MaliT760-MP2 GPU. The handset has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, dual-SIM functionality, and 4G LTE support (Cat.4, up to 150Mbps download and 50Mbps upload). It's being offered in "midnight blue" only. It r...

Microsoft is gearing up to launch Windows 8, a version that marks a significant departure from previous incarnations in that it supports ARM processors. The Redmond-based company is quite excited about what it has achieved with Windows 8 RT (that’s what the ARM version is called) and the kind of hardware it and its OEM partners have designed. One of the biggest advantages of ARM over Intel or AMD made x86 processors is energy efficiency. Windows 8 RT was designed to reduce power usage to capitalize on that, but also allow for smaller batteries, which in turn means thinner and lighter gadgets. One of the power-saving features is Connected standby, which is the answer to the dilemma of choosing between putting your computer to sleep or keeping it on to receive notifications. Connected standby is like sleep mode but Windows keeps an active connection and checks for new events. It uses a lot less energy than just keeping the computer on. Here’s some battery life figures of a Windows 8 RT ...

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos S6802 is part of Samsung’s growing dual-SIM Android lineup. The hardware inside the phone is mostly the same as in the original Ace, save for the second SIM slot, of course. We don’t have many dual-SIM phones in our battery test database, so we’ll be testing the Ace Duos using only one SIM to make its results comparable. When it comes to talk time on a 3G network, Samsung advertises 7 hours of battery life. In our tests the phone came close to hitting that mark with its battery dying after 6 hours and 53 minutes of real-world call time. That puts it at the bottom third of the chart, so maybe you should consider sticking to 2G networks – according to official numbers, the Ace Duos should last for more than 18 hours of telephony on those. Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX 20:24 Huawei Ascend P1 12:30 Samsung Galaxy Note 12:14 Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam 11:58 Samsung Wave 3 S8600 11:07 HTC One X (AT&T, LTE) 10:35 Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III 10:20 HTC One V 10:00 Meiz...

The Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam is a fairly unique device with its built-in pico-projector. Samsung has put a big 2000mAh battery inside the smartphone, which is almost as big as the one on the Galaxy S III, and given that there’s only a dual-core processor and a smaller 4? LCD to feed we expected it to fare quite well in our test. We put the Galaxy Beam through our usual battery testing procedures and we are now ready to share our findings with you. On a 3G network, the Samsung Galaxy Beam rations its battery very carefully and lasted for the almost unbelievable 11 hours and 58 minutes. It managed to beat the official estimate of just under 10 hours by quite a bit. Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX 20:24 Huawei Ascend P1 12:30 Samsung Galaxy Note 12:14 Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam 11:58 Samsung Wave 3 S8600 11:07 HTC One X (AT&T, LTE) 10:35 Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III 10:20 HTC One V 10:00 Meizu MX 4-core 10:00 HTC One X 9:57 HTC One S 9:42 Samsung I9103 Galaxy R 9:40 HTC Sensation XL 9:30 Noki...

Posted in: Android, Battery tests, Featured 16 hours ago by Peter The Meizu MX 4-core is a revamped version of the ambitions MX smartphone, which challenged both the iPhone and its Android kin alike with a heavily customized OS. The MX 4-core, as the name suggests, uses a quad-core Exynos chipset from Samsung (like the one in the Galaxy S III) and also has a slightly bigger battery than its predecessor – 1700mAh vs. 1600mAh. What other changes has Meizu done under the hood to improve battery life? The Chinese haven’t gone into specifics, but we saw improvement across the board. The original MX posted a pretty respectable talk time endurance, but the Meizu MX 4-core beats its achievement by over an hour. That makes it one of the best performers in this category and puts it within 20 minutes of the Samsung Galaxy S III (which packs a far larger 2100mAh battery). Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX 20:24 Huawei Ascend P1 12:30 Samsung Galaxy Note 12:14 Samsung Wave 3 S8600 11:07 HTC One X (AT&...