Pepsi P1s Launched, The Company First Ever Smartphone

Pepsi, one of world's largest beverage maker has marked its entry in the smartphone race with an affordable Android smartphone called Pepsi P1s. The phone comes with decent specs and includes a fingerprint scanner, all for around $110-$175.

Smartphone industry has been bustling with new entrants every day and this time around it’s the beverage giant Pepsi who has come up with its own phone, called the Pepsi P1s. The mid-range phone will be sold at an affordable price tag of $110 to $175 and as an option will come clad in blue color and a Pepsi logo.

At the outset this seems to be a marketing gimmick by Pepsi to enter the smartphone race and at the same time also leverage their brand presence to move up the ladder rather quickly.

Specifications of the Pepsi P1s:

The Pepsi P1s has been launched in China and it comes fitted with a 5.5-inch 2.5D curved glass display and under the hood lies an Octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor coupled with a 2GB RAM and runs dido OS wrapped within which is the Android Lollipop 5.1. The exterior of the phone shapes up as a unibody aluminium housing along with a rear fingerprint sensor . On the imaging front, the Pepsi P1s sports a 13-Megapixel primary sensor and a 5-Megapixel secondary sensor.

Pepsi P1s features connectivity features like 4G LTE, dual-SIM support along with an hybrid microSD card slot . As suspected, Pepsi just takes care of the branding while the phone is actually manufactured by Shenzhen Scooby Communication Equipment Co . The phone will retail in two variants – the basic one being the P1 (without LTE support) and the P1s, which supports FDD-LTE.



Co-branded phones have rarely taken off. The problem with such phones usually is the fact that manufacturers try to push in a lot more branding than necessary ending up making the phone like a billboard that walks and talks with you and this is how they compensate for the low initial selling price. If Pepsi has refrained from any sort of in-the-phone branding, then we would be delighted, else it wouldn’t be a stretch to call it an AD-phone.


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‘Vienna’ Will Be BlackBerry’s Second Android Phone After Priv

Vienna is going to be BlackBerry's second phone to run on a full fledged Android Operating System. The leaked renders point at a fixed physical keyboard along with a large touchscreen.

The Canadian manufacturer is trying hard to make a comeback and thus it developed a new obsession with Android.
BlackBerry seems to be working on another full-fledged Android phone codenamed the “Vienna” after the Priv. The recently ousted renders show the phone in full glory. The first thing that is obvious when we look at the renders is that Vienna is fitted with a permanent keyboard that is placed under the touchscreen, unlike Priv which comes with a slider keyboard. The phone might be large dimensionally as it accommodates both a physical keyboard and a full-size screen.

We experienced the Android on the Priv, thanks to the BlackBerry simulator. The Vienna looks good in the renders and the keyboard seems to be of same size as the Priv, that being said it is still premature for us to judge just by the renders.

The Android bet for BlackBerry seems to be going on pretty well as the Priv has gathered some good reviews from the tech fraternity, but at the same time we just hope the company is not too late to jump on the Android bandwagon.

Surprisingly the BlackBerry still has some patrons left who swear by the physical keyboard but are forced to swap for an Android or iOS due to other shortcomings, the Priv and the Vienna will be a perfect last minute bait to retain these customers.

Moreover the smartphone industry is still devoid of phones with physical keyboards and that will be the only Window of opportunity for BlackBerry. Apparently, BlackBerry is working on Android phones devoid of physical keyboard as well, but for now, their hopes are firmly placed on the ones with physical keyboard.


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Mozilla’s Firefox Is The Most Trusted Browser Among Users According To A Recent Survey

Security vendor Sophos which has been asking users “Which web browser do you trust?” every October for past three years in a survey has made the results of this year's survey public. The results for the 2015 edition of this poll are in and they bring no surprises. As with the previous two years, this year also, Mozilla’s Firefox stole the race over other browsers with 41% of the 3,928 votes polled.



Following it at a distance is Google Chrome with 21%, followed by Opera with 16%, and Safari with 8%. Interestingly the polls closes mirror last years results. Tor with 6%, Internet Explorer with 3%, Chromium and Microsoft Edge, both with 2% also found places in the list.

The surprise fact of the Sophos survey was that Internet users trusted Firefox more than Tor, the anonymous browser. Tor which was made by Edward Snowden and is thought to be the best browser for privacy and security, could score only 6%. Sophos had included Tor for the first time in the survey in 2015 and had anticipated a better score for it. It seems despite its hype, Tor has filed to attract normal Internet users other than journalists, national dissidents, and privacy lovers.

The poll is in no way indicative of how popular browsers are, and as the Browser Trust Gap table seen below shows, many users that have visited the poll page with one browser ended up voting for another browser.



According to the data, Chrome has a -19.6% browser trust gap, meaning that, from the total of 40.78% of users that voted in the poll (via Chrome), 19.6% of them voted for another browser.



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Meet The New Splittable And Programmable ‘Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’

Coders and hackers will love the new splittable ‘Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’
Building a specialized keyboard for coders was the aim of Hungarian startup Ultimate Gadget Laboratories. While some people don’t care much about their keyboard as long as all the letters are in the right place, coders on the other hand, need powerful and functional keyboards. Ultimate Gadget Laboratories looks to meet these expectations with the “Ultimate Hacking Keyboard”

From the outside it looks like just another failed gadget, but there’s a lot under the hood. Mechanical key switches give a tactile feel to presses. It’s “tenkeyless” and “fkeyless,” meaning it doesn’t have the number pad or F-keys, making it more compact. It has a special custom layout that lets you control your media and your mouse without leaving the home row. Gamers and coders can set up macros and application-specific key mappings. And, of course, the whole thing splits in half for better ergonomics.



You can lay your hands on “UHK” somewhere next year. The only glitch is that Hungarian startup Ultimate Gadget has to meet crowdfunding target. Right now it is on the way meeting 30 percent of the target.

You can pre-order a “UHK,” as its creators call it, for $200 if you order now, but like all crowdfunding projects you’ll be taking a bit of a risk in buying into something that hasn’t been publicly reviewed.

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