Daily Archives: January 21, 2016

vivo X6SPlus gets detailed through TENAA certification

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Back in November of last year, Chinese smartphone maker vivo outed its latest handsets, the X6 and X6Plus. And now it seems like it’s already working on a successor to the latter.

That’s because the vivo X6SPlus has just been certified for sale in China by TENAA, the country’s FCC equivalent. However, unlike in the case of Apple devices sporting “S” in their names, the vivo X6SPlus isn’t so different from the non-S model on the inside.

Basically there are only two differences between them, at least as revealed by the Chinese regulatory authority. First off, the new phone has a 1.8 GHz octa-core CPU, whereas the X6Plus boasts 100 MHz less. It’s not clear what chipset the new model employs though. And finally, the X6SPlus has a 16 MP rear camera, up from the 13 MP unit in its predecessor.

Everything else seems to have stayed the same when it comes to internals. So the vivo X6SPlus also has a 5.7-inch 1080p AMOLED touchscreen, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and an 8 MP selfie snapper. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop.

As for the outer shell, the X6SPlus looks like it’s got an identical design to the non-S iteration. That said, the dimensions have changed ever so slightly. The new handset measures 158.16 x 79.94 x 7.7 mm, and it weighs 190g. That makes it shorter and narrower than the X6Plus, but thicker and heavier. Based on this, we assume there might be a beefier battery inside than the 3,000 mAh cell in last year’s model, but TENAA data doesn’t list that so nothing’s certain just yet.

Speaking of which, there’s no telling when the X6SPlus will be launched, or if it will ever make its way out of China.

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The Two Things To Note In The DOE’s Solar + Storage Initiative

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The Department of Energy doled out $18 million in grants this week as part of an effort to drive down the cost of solar plus storage down to less than 14 cents a kilowatt hour. The DOE, under its SunShot program, has long had a goal of driving down the cost of solar alone to 6 cents per kWh by 2020.  So far, the program has hit its milestones.

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I Finally Bought ‘Ark: Survival Evolved’ On Xbox One, And I Want A Refund

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I’ve never quite understood the whole early access thing. I’ll play the thing once it’s done, I figure, and I certainly won’t pay for it until that point. I get it from a developer perspective: it helps fund development, provides constant testing and all that, but it’s just never appealed to me all that much from a payer perspective. Ark: Survival Evolved, however, has piqued my interest for a little while, and I figured I’d give it a shot now that it was out on Xbox One. In case you didn’t get the gist from the headline, it didn’t go all that well.

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E*Trade Partners With TipRanks: Clients Can Now Track Performance of Pundits’ Recommendations

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With all the excitement surrounding robo-advisors and automated investing advice, it’s easy to forget that there are people out there who still prefer to manage their own investments. It’s a sizable group, too. According to Statista, there are 14 million people living in U.S. households that used an online investing/stock trading service within the past 12 months. That number has grown 20% since the spring of 2008. Just as recent technological advances by startups like Wealthfront and Betterment have enabled the automation of basic asset allocation, do-it-yourself investors have also been privy to a significant upgrade in the tools they use to pick stocks.

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