Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provide from China unveils the world’s largest screen “Smartphone” (6.1-inch display) at CES today, dubbed Ascent Mate. The giant smartphone will be on sale first at China in Feburary 2013. Head to this link to read the official press release: “Huawei Unveils Smartphone with the World’s Largest Screen“.

Features:

Specs:

There are no official video release by Huawei device yet, but you can get an idea on how massive huge it is from Engadget video below,

The chinese electronics manufacturer OPPO, introduced one of this year’s most mysterious and anticipated mobile products, the OPPO Find 5. As stated at the official Oppo facebook page, other than China and US, Oppo will bring two variants (16 GB $499.00 and 32 GB $569.00) of Find 5 to additional countries on Quarter 1 2013, includes: Canada, UK, Spain, Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, Malaysia, Sweden, Singapore, Finland, Greece, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, Japan and Hong Kong.

Specs:

Check out image samples for it’s 13-megapixel camera that shared in official Oppo forums: OPPO Find 5 camera sample photos (EXIF included)

Oppo Find 5 Official Site:

A new Dropbox Beta version 2.2.2.8 for Android was released. The new update is mostly about new added image related features with a little tweaks as below:

The Dropbox beta version 2.2.2.8 is currently not available on Google Play Store, but you can download and install it from links below.

Dropbox Beta 2.2.2.8 Download Links

There is a minor software update patch (27.98 MB) available for international One X+. The update began to push out on today 22nd December 2012 through OTA. Done the update and using it for a while, but no difference was noticed. You can go to XDA forum for more information: “OTA-update 1.17.401.1“.

Have it update by OTA using Wi-Fi on 08:32pm, 22nd December 2012. To update it manually, go to “Settings”–>”About”–>”Software updates”. Update Detail as below:

According to the official, the One X+ minor software update is about:

Google released a new advertisement on Photo Sphere feature that currently only available on LG Nexus 4 with latest Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS.

Amazing Photo Sphere camera

Up, down and all around you, it’s like no camera you’ve ever seen. With Android 4.2, snap pictures in every direction that come together into incredible, immersive photo spheres that put you right inside the scene. View your photo spheres right on your phone, share them on Google+ with your friends and family, or even add them to Google Maps for the world to see.

Explore incredible photo spheres from photographers around the world.

Tested my HTC One X+ with Android benchmarking tool which downloaded from Google Play Store: AnTuTu Benchmark v3.0.3.

AnTuTu Benchmark: run a full test of a key project, through the “Memory Performance”,”CPU Integer Performance”,”CPU Floating point Performance”,”2D 3D Graphics Performance”,”SD card reading/writing speed”,”Database IO” performance testing on the mobile phone Performance of the hardware to make score.

In reaching the overall and individual scores of the hardware, to judge by the scores of the performance of the hardware. Uploading scores and view your device in the world rankings, allowing points to let you know the level of hardware performance equipment.

HTC One X+ AnTuTu result scores as below:

HTC One X+, equipped with 8-megapixel (BSI sensor) 28mm f/2.0 rear camera and 1.6-megapixel (BSI sensor) f/2.2 front camera.

With the increased speed from 1.5GHz to NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor AP37 1.7GHz, GPU boosted from 416MHz to 520MHz and Sense 4+ Camera app. The user experience on shooting photos/videos does improved because of immediate camera launch, shorter video record start time and speedier auto focus.

Below are some photos samples straight out from the phone’s camera:

Finally, ASUS Malaysia launched the 2nd generation hybrid smart device – Padfone 2, with near two months behind Taiwan (Oct 16th, 2012), and Malaysia is the 3rd country to launch the device. The Asus Padfone 2 Media Gathering event was held on 3:00pm at 7atnine, The Ascott Kuala Lumpur.

Here are some details i extracted from the event:

PadFone 2 Specs

PadFone Station Specs

Click here: “Where To Buy” for dealer list and official annoucement from Asus Malaysia: “[Press Release] Live Life Intuitively with ASUS PadFone™ 2“. Photo Shots from the Asus PadFone 2 media gathering event: