LeEco future looks much safer now after a $2.2B investment

LeEco future looks much safer now after a $2.2B investment

LeEco was having financial troubles recently and the company even earlier in 2017. Today the company secured an investment worth CNY15,04 billion (more than $2.2 billion) from property developer Sunac China Holdings. The real estate company will acquire stocks in three divisions of the tech company. Due to rapid pace of growth, LeEco was having troubles securing payments across multiple branches of its conglomerate. Sunac, through its subsidiary Sunac Real Estate, will invest CNY 6.04 billion (over $918 million) in LeEcos Internet Information and Technology Corp division, or around 8.61% in stocks. Another CNY1.05 billion (almost $160 million) will be invested in Leshi Pictures, the LeEco movie production company. The rest CNY7.95 billion ($1.2 billion) will go for a third of Leshi Zhixin, the smart Internet TV unit of LeEco. Sunac says both companies will cooperate in areas such as intelligent hardware, real estate, and smart homes. The industrial real estate is also an area where the conglomerates will help each other. LeEco, on the other hand, will resolve financial difficulties and will continue its push into the smartphones, film, sports, electric and driveless vehicles markets.

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Upcoming high-end Sony Xperia smartphone to sport Snapdragon 845, benchmark confirms

Upcoming high-end Sony Xperia smartphone to sport Snapdragon 845, benchmark confirms

Sony is getting ready to introduce at least one successor to the most likely at MWC in February. The company's upcoming flagship smartphone has been rumored to finally adopt the bezel-less look that's been so popular in 2017, and a few days ago a for the Sony H82xx device. This will apparently come in four market-dependent versions: H8216, H8266, H8276, and H8296. The H8266 has now been spotted in the Geekbench database, having run the well known benchmark. The listing confirms that at least this model will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845, its premier SoC offering for next year. The Sony H8266 pairs it with 4GB of RAM and runs Android 8.0 Oreo. The phone achieved a whopping 2393 single-core score in Geekbench 4.2, and 8300 for multi-core. Those results are in line with , and it looks like the 845 will not lack in the performance department. While Geekbench hasn't revealed anything else about the new Sony, past leaks had it coming with 64GB of built-in storage, two 12 MP cameras on the rear, and a 15 MP front-facing snapper. It should be kept running by a 3,130 mAh battery. |

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Pixel 2 has the best LTE speeds among iOS and Android phones

Pixel 2 has the best LTE speeds among iOS and Android phones

A full test report comparing the practical networks speeds of the latest smartphones was shared with and the results are quite interesting. The comes out on top as the best performer in all nearly all signal strengths while the was the slowest. For these tests, included two variants of the iPhone X, one that uses an Intel modem, and another that uses a Qualcomm modem. As for the other contenders the , Google Pixel 2, and are all powered by the Snapdragon 835, which includes the current industry-leading Qualcomm X16 modem. These tests were performed on LTE Band 4, the most common band used in North America. Tests were performed in both 2x2 MIMO and 4x4 MIMO. Since the iPhone X doesnt support the latter, the second batch of tests pins three similar devices against each other. So this is where a combination of signal strength and the choice of radio components would put a phone ahead of the others. -85 dBm is the strongest signal and -130 dBm is around where signal is lost. The chart above includes the two iPhone variants and three Android phones. Note that the Qualcomm powered iPhone X was generally slower than the others, though not by very much. Apple has been accused of intentionally slowing down Qualcomms modems in the past. It is said to be to keep network performance consistent between the different modems. The following chart is now phones with 4x4 MIMO enabled. Naturally, both iPhone X models will sit this one out. This network mode doubles the transmitting and receiving antennas used for much higher potential network throughput. In weaker signals, the Pixel 2 performed better than the Galaxy Note8 and the LG V30. Though, they were generally very similar in results. Once you take a closer look at the weaker signal range, you can see that the Pixel 2 was able to get the fastest speeds with the weakest signal. Now comes the question of whether or not Apple slows its modems down on purpose. Wed predict one possible reason to stick to 2x2 MIMO and not opt for the faster connection concerns battery life. Apple phones arent praised for battery capacity, so Apple might need to squeeze it out wherever it can, and that could even mean slowing down its modems . Check out the full report at by going to the Source link.

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Speedtest updates app with new UI and features

Speedtest updates app with new UI and features

Speedtest has released a new version of its app on iOS that comes with a new design and couple of new features. The new UI is consistent with the design that we have been seeing on other platforms, such as the web version, the Windows 10 version and the Apple TV version. Gone is the old, large speedometer with bright colors and glowing textures, replaced by an indigo background and more modern minimal textures with a new condensed font. At the bottom are three tabs, one each for the speed test, results and settings. Settings has the same options as before, including ability to switch between Mbps and MBps, and switch the gauge from 100Mbps to 500Mbps or even 1Gbps. The speed test page now also shows you jitter and packet loss for your network alongside ping. After the speed test is over, you can also rate your ISP. Lastly, the app has a new icon with black background. The new design on mobile is currently only available on iOS.

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