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Linshof i8 smartphone

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Looks like another Chinese company disguising as a European company for image reasons. Have a look at their logo: http://www.linshof.com/ Now take a look at the logo of this real German company (established 1887): http://linhof.de/index-e.html (It's almost the same name except for the s)

Coincidence, huh?

Agreed, the whole thing is completely dodgy.

Ah, now the number 8 (see my posting further down) makes sense, too. Its one of the chinese lucky numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Eigh...

So, they're planning a phone and a tablet with the same processor / RAM / storage:

Smartphone: 3100 mAh, no expected life listed

Tablet: 9000 mAh, "over 9 hours" claimed

I find the fact that they don't give a phone estimate concerning even though the difference in screen size implies that it should be better than 3 hours.

Assuming it actually scaled like that, if the tablet had a battery life of 9 hours with 9000mAh and the phone had ??? hours at 3100mAh

5" at 16:9, screen area = 11.076.23 == 68.9661 cm^2

10" at 4:3, screen area = 15.2420.32 == 309.6768 cm^2

Rough battery life = 9 hours * (310/69) * (3100/9000) == ~14 hours.

I guess this calculation is sort of meaningless though, given that it has assumed battery life ∝ (battery capacity/screen size), and that it has not factored in different pixel densities, display technologies, usage patterns, other hardware etc

It feels and looks wrong: their website is a mess and the devices look no better.

Their domain has whois privacy enabled, and it was just registered this year. News of this product are spreading quickly, but I can not find anything else about this company on the web. Also, their Wikipedia page was removed today.

Has anybody heard of Linshof before?

Never heard of them, but here is some interesting verbiage for something that has not launched yet: "New ‘Battery Saver’ mode" -- How is it new if we haven't seen the old.

It also seems pretty unlikely you would launch 3 separate devices at the same time, but maybe they are that talented in Vienna.

Battery Saver mode is a new feature in Lollipop that does exactly what the name says. It turns on when battery life reaches 15%, or you can turn it on manually.

Not sure if what they advertise is just the vanilla Battery Saver from Lollipop, or a modified one.

They look like an asian company that decided to adopt a vaguely european name (most likely a take on Linhof). The design looks like asian knockoffs I've seen.

An Android phone with a system health display (CPU, Ram, etc.) installed by default? I wish they'd be more forthcoming with the details of what's on there software-wise. If this is a phone that is built to not treat the user like a child (as is the norm for all other android phones) i'd actually be interested.

So the phone:

- is called i8

- has 8 corners

- has an 8-core cpu

- has 80 gb flash

- and a camera sporting 8 megapixels.

Plus it has a square logo that looks like the writing above an old-established viennese pastry shop. Whats not to like? Maybe there'll be a Swarovsky edition someday.

Very authentic that said pastry shop hired the boss' son who "knows photoshop" to craft their new logo!

They don't seem to specify what the processor is. Maybe a variant of the MT6752 or the MT6595?

"Octa-core processor, 8 x 2.1 GHz - Eight cores with power-saving technology and a fully customizable overclocking feature."

Could be Mediatek, but I think there's a small chance it's an Exynos chip. Samsung sometimes sells Exynos to low-volume OEMs.

no mention of google play store/play services.. but i see a google icon on the tablet screen..

http://www.linshof.com/tablet.html

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