Chinese OEMs like Oppo are designing phones with insanely small bezels

Because not everyone can get their hands on flexible OLED displays, Chinese smartphone makers like Oppo are forced to get creative when it comes to their smartphone designs. The latest trend they seem to be focusing on are bezels. Before you get ahead of yourself, we’re not talking about bezels on the the top and bottom — we’re talking about side bezels.

Oppo is gearing up to announce a new smartphone and to prepare for its launch, it appears they’ve been seeding their own leaks to hype it up a bit. The phone — which still remains nameless — was “leaked” to Chinese tech outlets, and shows a phone running Oppo’s Color OS (which, we should add, is in desperate need of an overhaul) with stupid small bezels along the sides. According to an Oppo patent, the manufacturer is further adding to the illusion of a completely edge-to-edge display by using light refraction, similar to something we saw on the Sharp Aquos Crystal and the Moto 360’s displays.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen a device with stupid small side bezels. There was also the Meizu MX4 or last year’s Sharp AQUOS Crystal which manged to also eliminate the top bezel for a phone that looked more upside down than anything. Last week, Gizmochina also uncovered the LeTV X900, another Chinese smartphone with virtually non-existent side bezels and uses a USB Type-C connector.

We’ll have to admit, side bezels have never been a pain-point for us when it comes to smartphone design. Super thick bottom bezels (with black logo bars), really slick phones that slip out of your hand, or rear facing speakers — now those are a few things that really grind our gears. While having a phone with super small side bezels wont actually make it easier to hold or add any functionality in any way (kind of like the curved display on the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge), it sure does look pretty.

[Engadget Chinese | GSMArena]

Chinese analyst: Huawei-made Nexus will have 5.7-inch Quad HD display, Snapdragon 810

While we’ve been dreaming of what a Huawei-made Nexus could look like, one Chinese analyst claims to already know some hard details of the supposed device. Pan Jiutang — who has a pretty good track record when it comes to uncovering the details of Chinese OEMs’ plans — claims on Weibo that Huawei is indeed the maker of the next Nexus smartphone.

The analyst had more than just confirmation of its existence, though. The device will apparently sport a 5.7-inch Quad-HD display and be equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810.

That sounds about par for the course for a smartphone in 2015, though that spec sheet isn’t nearly long enough to satisfy our appetite. We’d expect the next big Nexus smartphone to be compatible with Google’s Project Fi at the least, and we can always expect it to be the catalyst for ushering in the next major version of Android (which recently leaked details revealed might be introduced at Google IO).

[via G for Games]

T-Mobile Galaxy S5 G900TUVU1CNK2 4.4.2 OTA Update Features Chinese language support

If you are rocking T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900T, there is a new update with build number G900TUVU1CNK2 is being rolled out.  Thought maybe someone might thought that it is Android 5.0 Lollipop, it’s definitely not,  not even a 4.4.4 update but still base in Android 4.4.2.  The G900TUVU1CNK2 update brings nothing more any major changes but the Chinese language support.  The update is now available via Over-The Air starting November 24 and it’s  about 41.65 MB in file size if you’re updating from previous 4.4.2 G900TUVU1BNH5. While to those who still stuck in G900TUVU1ANE6 and missed the previous software updates is much likely much heavier of around 141.65 MB in size.

Here are the rundown of T-Mobile Galaxy S5 4.4.2 OTA updates from G900TUVU1ANE6 to G900TUVU1CNK2.

• Add Chinese languange support on this G900TUVU1CNK2 update.


• Brings Free Inflight Texting in G900TUVU1BNH5 update.


• Stabilizes audio and software improvement in  G900TUVU1BNG4 update.


• VoLTE support improvements in G900TUVU1BNG3 update.


• Adding the VoLTE support in G900TUVU1BNF6 update.


• Fixes SMS/MMS & network connectivity issues in G900TUVU1ANE6 update.

Once your Galaxy S5 G900T gets the  G900TUVU1CNK2 it will then knows the Chinese language.   according to T-Mobile support that it is a mandatory software update.  So better escalate to T-Mobile’s support to get any further details – https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-10398

Here are the technical Details of G900TUVU1CNK2 4.4.2 OTA Update:

Android version: 4.4.2
Baseband version: G900TUVU1CNK2
Kernel version: 3.4.0-2621998 dpi@SWDD6113 #1
Build number: KOT49H.G900TUVU1CNK2
Mon Nov 10 15:01:16 KST 2014
SE for Android status: Enforcing

Guide: How to Update the Galaxy S5 SM-G900T to G900TUVU1BNK2 4.4.2

Samsung as well T-Mobile support told users to prepare the following important notes to consider before performing the software update.  I have also added some useful insights why you should follow this procedures to keep your  phone in safe.

Recharge the phone – You should make sure your device is fully recharged before performing the software update. Do not also remove the battery during the software update is in progress. A power failures may cause damaged to your device that might results as we so-called “soft-bricks”. If this happens your device may just stuck on Samsung logo or welcome screen and can’t reboot normally.

Backup important data – Even though it is not as always necessarily but if something might went wrong during the updating process your important data is kept in a safe place.  You should back-up your important files, including contacts, emails, messages, photos, videos, apps and other stuff. Like I said while during software update process is interrupted there is a possibility that your data stored from your device internal SD card may lose or deleted when a sudden unexpected failure happened and it forces you to perform a factory data reset which basically wipes your phone’s memory.

Your Galaxy S5  is not rooted – Your device should not be modified and rooted, there is a certain circumstances that a modified and rooted Galaxy S5 SM-G900T may not accept any official software update anymore or it can accept an update but it might harm your device once the update has made. Learn about the new Samsung KNOX security suite. Most known error that says ‘firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please select recovery mode in kies and try again‘ or “Your device has been modified Software update are not available” you should try to avoid that from happening.

How to Update to G900TUVU1BNK2 4.4.2 via Over-The-Air (OTA)

 This is usually how the carrier branded or locked Samsung Galaxy S5, performs a software update.  This method is Firmware Update through over the air or called as OTA update, which usually a notification message will directly sent to you from your network provider and from  Samsung. It simply notifies you that there is a new software update available to download.  If you did not receive any notification messages you can manually check fro the update instead.  Doing this you may only tap on your Galaxy S5 SM-G900T Settings>>About Device, tap Software Update.

• Find “Software update”


• Slide your finger down the display starting from the top edge of your mobile phone.


• Tap the settings icon.


• Tap About device.


• Tap Software update.

It will automatically tells you that a new update is available or your software is up to date when there is none yet. You can simply tap install now when you want to perform an update or install later.

How to Update to G900TUVU1BNK2 4.4.2 using Kies

The second method is a firmware update through Samsung Kies. You may head-over to your  local Samsung support page from where you can download Samsung Kies from there, and install it in your Windows or Mac computer. Choose the new Kies 3 which supports the Galaxy S5 SM-G900T and other Samsung devices running with Android 4.4.2 and up OS .  Once you installed Kies 3, all you need is connect your Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900T  to the computer using the USB cable, then simply run and follow Kies on-screen software update instructions.

Source: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-10398

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