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XA2's Rear camera structure - (Xperiablog) Sony has officially announced their new mid range lineup for 2018 . The Xperia XA2 , XA2 ULTRA and the L2 sit below their XZ series brethren ,but new spec upgrades make these mid rangers easily capable of taking on phones of their same class . XA2 Ultra's new Dual front camera layout (via Xperiablog) Sony Xperia XA2 and XA2 Ultra . XA2 Ultra  The XA2 and XA2 Ultra are basically the same phone internally . Both phones have a metal unibody and are both designed with the Xperia SP aesthetics . The XA2 , which is the smaller variant of the two features a smaller 16:9 5.2” display with a 1080p resolution (424 ppi) . The screen is protected by a sheet of Gorilla glass 5 and it also houses a slot for the 8 MP front facing camera which has a f/2.4, , the sensor is said to be 1-4” model . The rear sensor , which is basically borrowed from the Z5 Compact - has a 23mp count (f2 1-2.3” sensor) and has HDR and 4K video bu...

Nvidia has officially anounced its in car supercomputer called Nvidia Drive PX 2 . The system , designed to give self driving cars the next generational push it need is set up using Nvidias new Pascal gpu which boasts of 8 tflops - this power however comes from 2 pascal GPU cores and 2 ARM based Tegra cores .details about the two tegra cores are not listed , but all we can say is it is based on ARM's 64bit cortex A57 architecture and each of them are configured as a quadcore Soc . The two Pascal processors on tbe other hand are designed using a 16nm FinFet technique and they generate the same power as 150 macbook pro's while remaining the same size as a meduim size lunchbox.  Via -Nvidia The system , equipped with its own cooling system ,the platform requires 250w .But considering that automakers will add this system to the cars battery , it will not be a issue at all .Volvo is said to be the first automaker out to make use of the Drive PX car computer  .Th...

Acer has unveiled a new budget friendly tablet - The Acer iconia One 8 . Priced at a convenient $99.99 , the chewp tablet is not what you call flagship speced but it will surely get the job done as it features Android 5.1 out of the box as well as a kid friendly u.i with features such as a kiosk for ebooks and child friendly games .The Iconica One 8 features a 1280x800 resolution  8" IPS display ,16gb of internal storage +microsd expansion , 1gb of ram and a camera combo of 5mp on the rear and 2mp on the front .The tablet is powered by a quad core Mediatek SOC and it will go on sale starting this February . Written by Rakitha for MasHD SOURCE - Slashgear

HTC has unveiled a new member to the Desire family today at CES 2015 . The new phone is said to bring a slight software refresh to the Desire 310 from last year and most significant change comes in the form of Android 4.4 which now leaves the user with only 1.5 GB free from the 4GB of onboard storage . The new phone however is very cheap and is sold in Canada (right now) for $99 (prepaid) .or $70 on Telus HTC Desire 320 DarkGray by HTC on Sketchfab Display - 4.5" 480x854p TFT display OS - Android 4.4 with Sense 6 UI Design - 132.4 x 68 x 11.3 mm ,140g Connectivity -GSM,HSPA+ 3G, WIFI 802.11 b/g/n , Bluetooth 4.0 MicroUSB 2.0 GPS + GLONASS Processor - Quadcore 1.5Ghz  Mediatek processor ,Cortex A7 GPU - Mali400MP2 Ram -1GB Storage - 4GB Onboard +MicroSD expansion slot Camera(s) - 5MP rear camera LED flash , HD video recording at 1080p - VGA front camera,480p recording Battery - 2000Ah Battery(removable) Other - Price -  Canada ...

HTC's upcoming flagship - AKA HTC Hima is said to go live in the first quarter of next year .The phone is said to have the latest high end specs such as a 64bit processor , improved cameras and of course - a aluminum unibody . Right now, rumors about the phone vary from one website to the next - Some websites list a dual camera setup while others have different opinions , but now all those confusing rumors can be given a rest as specs of the said HTC Hima (M9)  are out , and since this is a a Antutu screenshot , we can be sure that this is not some guesswork . The upcoming phone - HTC Hima  is said to have the Octa-core Snapdragon 810 chip which has a clock speed of about 2Ghz . The processor is backed by 3GB of RAM and it has a Adreno 430 GPU . The phone is said to retain a 5"display with 1080p resolution which means the device will run like a beast thanks to its high capacity hardware and lower screen resolution (when compared to phones with 2K -QHD resolution displays) ...

We had a idea for a magazine since last year ,but we had no way of actually doing it ,but our next door neighboring Android Blogsite  said that they will be supporting us with it , so here is our first issue of MasHDroid Magazine ,coming out every month ,this covers every major Android incident throughout the month , we hope to publish a Sinhala (For the SriLankan Readership) edition of the Magazine next week ,till then ..cheers   you can GET IT HERE .... Editor in Chief , MasHDroid Magazine