'Cheapest smartphone' Freedom 251 ready to deliver

Indian technology firm Ringing Bells has announced that the first 5,000 units of the "world's cheapest smartphone" are ready to deliver.

The Freedom 251 handset costs just 251 rupees ($4, £3) but many people have questioned whether the price is too good to be true.

One of the BBC reporter Shilpa Kannan went hands-on with one of the first completed devices in India.

We will publish the specs very soon. :-)

Infinix HOT 3 Smartphone From Infinix Mobility

Infinix Mobility started making great success starting from the likes of Infinix Hot to theInfinix Hot 2, and it is the turn of the Infinix Hot 3. Infinix Mobility shared a teasing photo of their Infinix Hot 3 on Facebook and Twitteryesterday which suggest that something great is coming this year from Infinix.
The Infinix HOT series is the most popular series of Infinix Mobility. The very first version was a best seller in 2014, surpassing all the “big players” in terms of sales volume.

Last year, the No.1 online smartphone brand in Africa captured West African market with the release of Infinix HOT2 as ‘African’s first and only Android One smartphone’.
The upcoming Hot 3 is tagged“Selfie with soft flash makes life colorful”, which translates that the smartphone is designed for selfie lovers and should come with massive resolution front-facing snapper mainly for taking perfect selfies with the new lifestyle from Infinix Mobility

        General Information
2G Network : GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network : HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G NetworkLTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 7(2600), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500)
SIM : Dual mini SIM
Status : Announced April 2016

Body

Dimensions
Keyboard Touchscreen
Colors : White, Black, Grey, Gold, Pink, Blue
Cover : Plastic

Display

Type : IPS, capacitive, touchscreen with 16,000,000 colors
Size : 5.5 inches, 1080 x 1920 pixels, 401 pixels per inch

Memory And OS

Card slot : MicroSD, up to 128GB
Internal : 16GB
OS : Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Processors : 1.2GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 & 1.5GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU, Qualcomm MSM8929 Snapdragon 415 chipset, Adreno 405 GPU
RAM : 2GB

Audio

Alert types : Vibration, MP3 ringtonesLoudspeakerYes
Audio port : 3.5mm jack

Connectivity

2GGPRS – up to 85.6 kbps;
EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps
3GUp to 42 mbps downlink; Up to 5.67 mbps uplink
4GUp to 150 mbps downlink; Up to 50 mbps uplink
WIFI : Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Version 4.1
GPSA - GPS
NFC : No
USB : MicroUSB v2.0

Camera

Primary13MP, up to 4128 x 3096-pixel pictures camera with LED flashVideo1080p@30fpsSecondary5MP, up to 2592 x 1944-pixel pictures

Battery

Capacity : 3000mAh Li-Ion battery
Stand-by
Talk time
Music play

Other Features

SensorsAccelerometer, Proximity, Messaging, SMS, MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser : HTML
Java : No
Miscellaneous–
FM Radio
– MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
– Image viewer and editor
– Document viewer and editor

Price

Price levelAbout 120 USD

Infinix Launches X-Band SmartWatch

Infinix Mobile has launched their first smartwatch called the Infinix X-band (XBO1). It has a very sleek design featuring a detachable screen and is IP55 certified which means it is dust and water proof. The x-band has several features including a fitness tracker, phone call receiving, phone notifications display and can be used a Bluetooth device.

The X-band is built to work with any Android smartphone so long as you have the smartwatch’s app installed on the phone.

Infinix X-Band Specifications

The Infinix X-Band smartwatch has an ultra thin smart touch P-OLED screen and operates on Infinix’s FreeRTOS operating system. It has 500 KB internal memory and comes with an 8 MB external flash drive. It has 96 KB RAM and uses an STM32F401CEY6TR 84MHZ processor. It uses a battery which can last for up to 7 hours talk time and 150 hours standby time.

Infinix X-Band Price and Availability

The Infinix X-Band is available in Infinix dealerships nationwide and the price is 25,800 Naira ($90 approx.).