Octa Core MT6592 Huawei Honor 3X wants to Take Down the Xiaomi Mi2S

In its upcoming event scheduled on December, 12th, Huawei will unveil 2 smartphones. We talked about the Huawei Honoc 3C destined to compete against the Xiaomi Red Rice but the second future born of Huawei, the Octa Core MT6592 Huawei Honor 3X wants to attack the mid range market and aim directly to rival the Xiaomi Mi2S and its Snapdragon S600.

Xiaomi "Project Ara" is called Magic Cube !

UPDATE 2013/12/10 : The image has now been removed from Weibo.

We were just talking about Xiaomi's move towards a modular smartphone here and Lei Jeu went on Weibo to publish early sketches of Xiaomi's Magic Cube modular smartphone.

Huawei Honor 3C might the first MT6588 Quad Core Smartphone

After losing grounds to the likes of Xiaomi, Huawei wants to get back into the game in China. So, they will move on from their home SoC K3Vx to MediaTek chips.

The Xiaomi Red Rice (HongMi) has changed the entry level smartphones in China and so far, rivals came up short. But Huawei is saying, behind unofficially that their next smartphone would take the throne when it comes to budget phones.Until December, 12th, here is what rumors are talking about.

Xiaomi might work on its "Project Ara"

The photo represents the actual "Project Ara" sponsored by Motorola. It was mainly inspired by the Phoneblocks buzz.

It is a revolutionary concept build from modular parts which have specific functions like one for the CPU, another one for the internal storage, etc... You upgrade only what you need, for example, if you need more RAM, instead of the 1 GB part, replace it with the new 3 GB part.

Vivo Xplay 3S Pricing is Expensive !

The Vivo Xplay 3S must be the most anticipated heavy weight smartphone this December. It is nearing its launching date scheduled on December, 12th in Changsha. The even is name "Let' Xplay".

Pricing leaked through China Mobile upcoming smartphones listings. On the image below, you can see that there are 4G LTE 32 GB and 64 GB versions. Discover the prices after the break.

Xiaomi is aiming at South-East Asia as first steps towards International Market

This is why Hugo Barra has been brought to Xiaomi : to expand the Chinese company outside of China.
So far, Xiaomi sells devices in China, Taiwan and Hong-Kong. During an official visit in Taiwan, Lin Bin, President of Xiaomi, and Hugo Barra said they would like to open an office in Singapore "as soon as possible".

10 000 Xiaomi Red Rice (HongMi) sold out in less than 10 minutes in Taiwan

For its first flash sales outside of China, Xiaomi manages to repeat its success. Given, it is "only" 10 000 Xiaomi Red Rice (HongMi), but the whole stock sold out in 9 min 50 secs.Customers were able to pay via Paypal and also, if they chose so, to pick up their Red Rice at the local Family Mart convenience store.

Meizu will launch an Octa Core MT6592 4G Device around $330

Meizu, as a premium Chinese manufacturer could move some of its upcoming majors devices to MediaTek chips. Meizu is definitely in attack mode in 2014 and should unveil 4G LTE smartphones sporting the latest Octa Core MT6592 chip and would adopt the same design as the Meizu MX3.

HiLive unveils its Octa Core 2 GHz Smartphone

HiLive comes with its own Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Clone in a brand new Octa Core Hi16 6 Inch Smartphone running at 2 GHz.

ThL T100 Monkey King 2 should launch on December, 10th

ThL T100 also known as the Monkey King 2 is scheduled to hit Chinese's shelves on December, 10th. It is gonna be ThL first Octa Core with a beautiful design and Dual 13 MP Rear and Front Camera. Full specs after the break.