Nissan has Introduced the Official Crossover Olympics

Nissan introduced the small crossover Kicks - the official car of the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil. 

Dimensions model - 4295 mm in length, 1590 mm in height, the wheelbase - 2,610 millimeters. Thus, Kicks 160 mm longer Nissan Juke, 25 mm and has a higher relative to 80mm large wheelbase.

The novelty is constructed on a platform of V, which is the basis of the new Micra, Sentra, Sunny and Note. While the car will be sold with just one engine - a 1.6-liter atmospheric gasoline engine producing 114 horsepower. But the box, you can choose either a 5-speed manual or CVT X-Tronic. Drive to the front wheels only. 

Externally, the model is very similar to the concept of Kicks, which has been shown in Brazil and a half years ago. The expensive equipment innovations will include a 7-inch screen, the system circular view, the system of detection of moving objects around the vehicle. 

Collect the model will be at the plant in Mexico, in the state of Aguascalientes. The first car will have buyers from Brazil. 2017 Kicks will be produced in Rio de Janeiro, in the enterprise, which by that time will be invested US $ 192 million and hired 600 new employees. In addition to new items on it is planned to collect models of March and Versa. 

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Coolpad Note 3 Plus: PHABLET with Full HD & Fingerprint Scanner

The Chinese manufacturer Coolpad smartphone announced inexpensive PHABLET Note 3 Plus, having enough advanced technical equipment.

Novelty has a 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD) and scratch-resistant glass. The hardware foundation selected 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 eight-processor with a clock speed of 1.3 GHz and a graphics accelerator Mali-T720 MP2.

Volume of memory and storage capacity is 3, and 16 GB respectively. Last expands due to removable microSD storage, the capacity of which can reach 64 GB.

For the main camera manufacturer has chosen a 13-megapixel sensor for the front - 5-megapixel. Phone supports wireless communication technologies, such as 4G LTE, 3G HSPA +, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. There is also a fingerprint scanner, and two slots for SIM-cards.

Product dimensions up 151.9 × 77 × 9.3 mm, weight - 168 grams. The smartphone installed battery capacity of 3000 mAh and the operating system Android 5.1 Lollipop with a proprietary software shell Cool UI 6.0. Coolpad Note 3 Plus will be sold in white and gold options appearance. Product pricing in the Indian market will be about $ 135. About the availability of the device in other countries has not yet been announced. 

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Tesla Model X Crossover Overtook Ferrari in Drag Racing

Crossover Tesla Model X P90D attended the first for yourself drag racing. Crossover was faster than a sports car

Only three of arrival has been made, each of which is an electric crossover supercar broke away from immediately after the start. According to unofficial data, the passage of Model X dregovoy distance of a quarter mile (402 meters) - 11.7 seconds.

Tesla Model X P90D is equipped with two electric motors: 259 hp, front and rear 503-horsepower. Together with the optional regime Ludicrous Mode crossover accelerates from zero to 96 kilometers per hour in 3.2 seconds. Its maximum speed is limited to 250 kilometers per hour.

Supercar Ferrari F430 Spider is equipped with a 4.3-liter eight, which develops 490 horsepower and 465 Nm of torque. Roadster reaches 96 kilometers per hour in 4.1 seconds and its top speed is 311 kilometers per hour. Dvuhdverka overcomes a quarter-mile in 12.5 seconds.

Earlier it was reported that in Australia, Tesla Model S to compete with the Boeing 737.

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Acer has introduced 5.5inch Smartphone Liquid Zest Plus

The Taiwanese company Acer held on April 21 in New York City press conference at which he presented a number of novelties.

In particular, the event was announced mid-level smartphone Acer Liquid Zest Plus with a powerful battery at 5000 mAh. According to the company, the battery capacity is sufficient for the two days of battery life. It also reported on the smartphone support fast charging technology. 

Diagonal touch Liquid Zest Plus screen is 5.5 inches, resolution - HD (1280 × 720 pixels). The rear 13-megapixel camera is equipped with a system of «tri-focus», which means you can use when taking pictures of three types of auto focus - laser, and phase contrast. Resolution front camera with a wide angle lens is 5 megapixels.

The smartphone uses a 64-bit system on MediaTek MT6735 chip with quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 processor and graphics accelerator Mali-T720, as well as 2 GB of RAM. Capacity of a flash drive is 16 GB.

Smartphone Acer Liquid Zest Plus runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Soon the novelty will go on sale in the US for about $ 250.

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Bavarians have released special version of BMW 7-Series

BMW has unveiled a limited edition sedan 7-Series - The Next 100 Years. There will be created no more than a hundred copies of these machines.

The company reported that each customer limited BMW 7-Series The Next 100 Years will be sent as a gift a Montblanc pen exclusive, made ​​of white gold.

Exclusive sedan will be sold in three trim levels. In particular, 740Le version with 326 hp power unit, M760Li with an engine of 600 hp (V12 to 6.6 liter), and the 750Li V8 has 400 horsepower. All power units will be paired with all-wheel drive system "xDrive".

The new car will get dvadtsatidyuymovymi Disk "Individual", a specialized high-quality upholstery ash-white skin. Inside the cabin there are logos "1 of 100". The cost of the car and when it will be available for order, are still unknown.

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Moto X Force is Available for Sale with a metal frame

At Moto X Force metal frame of complex shape, which gives the body ergonomics. Business Card device - body design of ballistic nylon. The housing is curved, so the size is indicated in the thinnest portion and the middle, where the maximum thickening. Dimensions - 149.8h78h7.6-9.2 mm, weight - 169 grams. 

The phone has five microphones, they make noise reduction system, which is one of the best on the market. The device is perfectly filters your voice even in a noisy environment, it is necessary to pay attention to all who need to talk on the street, at the production noise or other unfavorable conditions.

At the top you can see the 3.5 mm headphone jack, and a number - the SIM-card and memory card. MicroUSB connector is located on the bottom. On the front panel, in addition to the light sensor, located infrared sensors that sense that you put your hand to the screen and activate it. 

Technical characteristics of the screen - 5.4 inch, QHD 2560x1440 pixels, 540 ppi, AMOLED. In addition to detailing his many other advantages: high contrast, consistently bright image when viewed at any angle and deep blacks.

The phone ShatterShield technology, its essence is the special design of the screen and its components. The display is similar to a sandwich: Lower aluminum substrate on it - the flexible OLED-panel dual-touch layer and the top protective panel.

Features built-in Li-Ion batteries are as follows: 3760 mAh, total charge time with supplied charger - about 1.5 hours. The phone has TurboCharger technology, with which the battery can be fully charged in about one and a half hours.

Phone can work up to 48 hours in a mixed mode, which means the active use of it will last for two days. Video playback time - up to 13-14 hours. 

Moto X Force "charged" to the fullest and to cope with all tasks. The phone has 3 GB of RAM, internal memory of 32 GB, also has support for microSD memory cards up to 2 TB. The device is equipped with 8-core Snapdragon processor 810, 2GHz, graphics accelerator - Adreno 430. cordless communication presented: BT 4.1, Wi-Fi 802.11a / b / g / n / ac, dual band, dual-band 2x2 (MIMO). The phone has NFC, USB version - 2.0.

The capacity of the device will be enough to cope with a dozen applications running at the same time, a plurality of tabs in the browser, the most voracious games from the Android Market at maximum graphics settings. 

The front camera has a resolution of 5 megapixels. A main camera - 21 megapixel (f / 2.0). In the camera module 192 using the phase focus sensor, it simplifies and speeds up autofocus. 

The estimated cost of Moto X Force - 18999grn.

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Cube iWork 12 Tablet with a 12.2 inch Screen

Network retailers have started receiving orders for the tablet Cube iWork 12, which will come with a dual-boot system - Windows 10 and Android 5.1.

New endowed with IPS-display with a diagonal of 12.2 inches. The resolution is 1920 × 1200 pixels, which corresponds to WUXGA format. At the rear of the housing is provided Foldable.

The tablet is based on the Intel Cherry Trail hardware platform. The device received the 14-nm processor Atom x5-z8300, which has four processing cores and Intel HD Graphics controller. The clock frequency can dynamically increase with nominal 1.44 GHz to 1.84 GHz. Chip operates in tandem with 4 GB of memory.

The equipment includes a flash module with a capacity of 64 GB, microSD slot with support for cards up to a capacity of 128 GB, wireless adapters Wi-Fi 802.11b / g / n and Bluetooth, camera with 2-megapixel and 5 arrays. Nutrition provides the battery capacity of 9000 mAh. Dimensions are 302,9 × 194,9 × 9,2 mm, weight - 930 grams. The tablet costs around $ 360. 

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Announcement of New Smartphones, LeEco Le 2 | Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2

As expected, the Chinese company LeEco, formerly known as LeTV, presented the new smart phones, including the top-level model. Devices were named Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le 2 the Max.

The flagship of the family, LeEco Le Max 2, equipped with a 5.7-inch display Quad HD (2560 × 1440 pixels) with 95 percent coverage of NTSC color space and brightness of 450 cd / m 2 . The "heart" of this PHABLET is 2.15 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor with a graphics accelerator Adreno 530. The device will be available in versions with 4 or 6 GB of RAM and a flash module with a capacity of 32 and 64 GB.

Model LeEco Le Max 2 is endowed with a 21-megapixel main camera with a Sony IMX230 sensor, two-tone LED-flash, an optical image stabilizer and autofocus phase. In the front part there is an 8-megapixel camera. Provided ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. Nutrition provides the battery capacity of 3100 mAh that supports Quick Charge 3.0 technology. Dimensions are 156,8 × 77,6 × 7,99 mm, weight - 185 grams.

Step below is LeEco Le Pro 2 smartphone. It differs from the use of the flagship 5.5-inch format Full HD screen (1920 × 1080 pixels) with 80 percent coverage of NTSC space and 10-core processor MediaTek Helio X25 graphics Mali-T880 MP4. The volume of RAM is 4 GB capacity flash module - 32 GB. Present camera with 21- and 8-megapixel sensor, as well as the traditional fingerprint sensor. Battery capacity is reduced to 3,000 mAh. Dimensions and weight are 151,1 × 74,2 × 7,5 mm and 153 grams.

Finally, the youngest of the new products, LeEco Le 2, has on-board 10-core chip MediaTek Helio X20, Full HD display size of 5.5 inches diagonally, 3 GB of RAM, flash module to 32GB Camera with 16- and 8 megapixel matrix, as well as a fingerprint sensor. Dimensions and weight - 151,1 × 74,2 × 7,5 mm and 153 grams.

All smart phones support the work in wireless networks Wi-Fi 802.11ac / a / b / g / n (2,4 / 5 GHz) and Bluetooth 4.2, as well as mobile 4G / LTE networks. It is curious that the devices do not have a standard 3.5 mm audio jack - the sound is output from the balanced port USB Type-C. As a software platform used by the operating system Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with add-EUI 5.8.

As for the cost of new products, it will be from 170 to 390 US dollars. Admission pre-orders start today, April 20. 

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Renault has Revealed official Pictures of New Crossover

Renault has announced the premiere of a new large off-road vehicle, which will retain the name of its predecessor - Koleos.

Previously it was assumed that the car will be called the Maxthon.  The public premiere of a novelty will take place at the Beijing Auto Show, which opens on April 25 this year.

Production of  the new generation Koleos  will establish in China for Renault and Dongfeng joint venture company. According to preliminary data, the value of the crossover in the local market will be from 150 to 190 million yuan (23 to 29 thousand US dollars).

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Toshiba hs Fired 30% More Staff Than the Planned

Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba announced an increase in redundancy programs by 30%, due to the mass sale of assets. It is reported by business publication Nikkei.

Toshiba initially intended to eliminate about 10,840 workstations worldwide. However, in reality, 14,450 people were laid off: 8430 - 6020, and in Japan - in other countries.

Approximately 25% of laid-off employees left the company as part of the program for early retirement, which could benefit under the age of 40 years, employees who have worked in the Toshiba is not less than 10 years.

The largest reduction - 7610 people - occurred in the division Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services (among other things, engaged in the production of consumer electronics and computers). In the semiconductor companies of 4590 employees were laid off.

Reducing the number of employees in droves cost Toshiba 42 billion yen ($ 386 million), which included costs for benefits and assistance program of new work places for laid-off employees. These costs were taken into account in performance over the last fiscal year ended in late March.

Recall a year ago, Toshiba was at the center of a scandal with inflated revenues, as a result of which the company was forced to change direction and start restructuring involves the sale of assets and a reduction in staff. Previously, Toshiba sold the units for the production of medical devices, image sensors and appliances. Now the fate of the computer business.

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Nubia Z11 Mini 5 "Full HD display and 3GB RAM

April 19 was officially presented smartphone Nubia Z11 Mini, which comes to replace the model of Nubia Z9 Mini, ZTE announced the company about a year ago.

New made in metal housing, is endowed with a 5-inch touchscreen display format Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels). When selecting the hardware platform developer focused on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor, which has eight cores ARM Cortex A53 processor with a clock frequency of up to 1.5GHz. Video subsystem includes a graphics controller Adreno 405. There LTE Cat 7 integrated cellular modem.

The equipment includes 3 GB of RAM, flash module with a capacity of 64 GB (expandable due to the microSD-memory card), dual-band wireless adapter Wi-Fi, and a fingerprint sensor for user identification by fingerprints.

The main 16-megapixel camera performed on the sensor Sony IMX298, endowed phase autofocus and flash. In the front part there is an 8-megapixel camera.

Nutrition provides the non-removable battery capacity of 2800 mAh. Dimensions of the smartphone make 141,9 × 70,4 × 8 mm, weight - 138 grams. In the device installed operating system is Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with a proprietary add-Nubia UI 3.9. In the sale of novelty will arrive before the end of April at a price of about 230 US dollars. 

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Volkswagen has Begun Testing Seven Seater Crossover

Company Volkswagen brought to the final production version of the tests CrossBlue concept.

Photospies managed to shoot the car during road tests in Arizona. According to World Car Fans, seven-seat crossover will start production later this year at a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. car sales will start in early 2017. The main competitors of new items called Toyota Highlander and Ford Explorer.

The crossover will be built on an elongated platform MQB and be equipped with a third row of seats. The design will be repeated CrossBlue prototype. The vehicle will be more and chic concept, as well as others will be equipped with bumpers and a modified grille. 

All specifications crossover is kept secret. According to unofficial data, in the range of engines will include four cars and six-cylinder petrol turbo. Also not ruled out the emergence of hybrid versions of the crossover.

Concept CrossBlue packaged with a diesel engine in volume of two liters and two electric motors located in the front and rear of the vehicle . Three engines were given a total of 302 horsepower. However, the production version of the car diesel engine, is likely to be replaced by a petrol equivalent. 

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Huawei P9 Max: found evidence of a 6.9-inch PHABLET

This month, Huawei has unveiled its flagship smartphone family P9 is, but it is possible that soon we are waiting for another new product with the same alphanumeric index - P9 Max.

The other day in the benchmark test results were GFXBensh unknown machine based HiSilicon Kirin 950 platform, equipped with a 6.9-inch display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. If we recall that in last year's series P8 so monstrous screen P8 had only the Max, we can assume that now it is a question of the heir apparent, Kojima announced P9 Plus in fact is not, as it is set at a diagonal matrix much.

Other features of the smartphone , which we tentatively will be called P9 Max, include 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal flash storage, 16-megapixel main and 8-megapixel front camera. During testing, the prototype is running the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system.

Recall that GFXBench database repeatedly became the source of information about the characteristics have not yet issued mobile devices, although the emergence of the information on any device does not mean that it necessarily will enter the market.

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The Network "lit up" Racing Aston Martin Vantage

Photospies managed to shoot the racing version of the sports car Aston Martin Vantage during testing.

The photos Aston Martin Vantage with GT8 prefix presented without camouflage. The novelty will soon be presented to potential buyers.

The car body is made of composite materials. This car will be much easier to model V8 Vantage S, which weighs 1610 kilograms.

Presumably, the sports car will complement the 4.7-liter petrol V8 engine with 450 horsepower. The engine will run in conjunction with the seven-speed manual transmission or automatic transmission. Up to 100 km / h the vehicle can accelerate in 4.5 seconds. The main competitor of the car will be the Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

The model will be released in limited edition of about 150 copies.

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Samsung Sold 1 Million Curved Monitors

The South Korean company Samsung Electronics announced that global sales of more than 1 million of its curved monitors for all the time of their presence in the market.

The first curved computer monitor Samsung has become a model SD590C, will be available in September 2014. It has a concave 27-inch display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, brightness of 350 cd / m 2 , contrast ratio of 3000: 1, the matrix 4 ms response time and 178-degree angles for viewing the image horizontally and vertically. The official Samsung store in Russia SD590C model costs 24 thousand. Rubles.

According to Samsung, the realization of 1 million monitors took about one and a half years. In this market the company controls more than 85 percent share, according to data analysts International Data Corporation (IDC) for the fourth quarter 2015.

The latest at the moment curved monitor Samsung are the 27-inch model CF591, as well as machine CF390, submitted 23,5- and 27-inch versions. These display devices have a curvature radius of 1800 mm. The "first-born» SD590C the figure is 4000 m.

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