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05:41PM EST – Low voltage backlight, Apical-style CABC for sunlight visibility
05:39PM EST – 500 charging cycles supported, won’t catch fire apparently
05:39PM EST – 3340 mAh battery, 680 Wh/L power density
05:37PM EST – Standard EmotionUI features like split screen, screen recording, and scroll capture
05:37PM EST – Up to 4 devices can connect to the Honor 6X
05:36PM EST – So the Honor 6X acts as a WiFi repeater to try and extend coverage
05:36PM EST – « Wi-Fi Bridge »
05:35PM EST – This is carried over from Mate9, seems to be an EmUI feature
05:35PM EST – Night mode to reduce color temperature and reduce brightness of the display
05:34PM EST – Advertising CABC and what seems to be saturation boost in video
05:33PM EST – 5.5″ FHD display
05:33PM EST – Claiming that their app launch performance is better than the competition
05:32PM EST – This is shared with Mate 9
05:31PM EST – « Smart file system »
05:31PM EST – Claim 65% performance increase over 5X
05:31PM EST – Kirin 655 16nm octa-core
05:31PM EST – MicroSD, dual SIM
05:31PM EST – 32/64GB eMMC 5.1
05:30PM EST – 3/4GB RAM
05:29PM EST – Honor 6X will be able to use a « Honor Tripod Selfie Stick ».
05:26PM EST – Camera has f/2.2 aperture it looks like
05:25PM EST – 12MP sensor is 1.25 micron pixel size
05:24PM EST – They’re showing a demo photo with some obvious defects in how it’s being blurred…
05:22PM EST – Dual lens is 12MP, 2MP, 6P lenses, PDAF
05:20PM EST – Three colors gold, silver, gray
05:20PM EST – Front glass is 2.5D curved glass as is popular in smartphone design right now
05:19PM EST – « Bezier curve-inspired design »
05:18PM EST – Dual camera, fingerprint reader, looks to be aluminum unibody sandblasted finish, microUSB 2 still
05:17PM EST – Honor 6X « Double or Nothing »
05:15PM EST – Best selling phone during Black Friday for Amazon Germany, 15k sold in US, etc
05:14PM EST – 1.5M Honor 8 sold in 50 days
05:14PM EST – 11M Honor 5X sold globally
05:13PM EST – Note
05:12PM EST – During Chinese Black Friday, 320M in sales, 40% increase from last year
05:11PM EST – « We are glad iPhone 7 Plus has dual camera »
05:10PM EST – Dual camera, smart key, octa-core with LTE cat 6
05:10PM EST – Discussing the various new things Honor have introduced
05:08PM EST – Announcing Honor 6X
05:07PM EST – « We studied the global young people »
05:06PM EST – Claims Honor is the leading smartphone e-brand
05:05PM EST – Claims brand satisfaction is higher than Apple and Samsung
05:05PM EST – « Our customers become Honor promoter »
05:04PM EST – « Honor ‘net promoter score’ on par with Apple in China »
05:03PM EST – « 100M fans and users worldwide »
05:03PM EST – Last year they launched the Honor 5X here in the US
05:03PM EST – George Zhao takes the stage
05:02PM EST – The Honor brand stands for those who are brave enough and bold enough to be themselves – MC on stage
05:02PM EST – We don’t really have video so I’ll just settle by saying that there’s a lot of epileptic video and bass
05:00PM EST – Looks like the Honor 6X is getting announced here.
04:59PM EST – Funky guitar solo as we lead up to the start – very millennial.
04:50PM EST – Venue is basically full
04:49PM EST – Event is set to start at 2pm
04:48PM EST – We have a group interview with George Zhao, CEO of Honor, later today. Submit your questions…
04:47PM EST – Ian on pictures, Josh on text
04:47PM EST – Double is referring to cameras
04:46PM EST – We’re here at Honor’s CES event, Double or Nothing

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A lot of cool technologies are coming to Intel’s latest NUCs, which are powerful mini-desktops that now boast the company’s latest Kaby Lake chips.
A NUC packs all components tightly in a small PC that is light enough to be held in one hand. These mini-PCs are easily customizable and considered desktop replacements.
Some of the new NUCs have Thunderbolt 3 ports, Intel Iris Plus graphics for 4K video, and are ready for Intel’s superfast Optane storage.
Intel has announced three new « tall » NUCs with 7th Generation Core i3, i5 and i7 chips, and two « short » NUCs with Core i3 and i5 chips. The « tall NUCs » are slightly larger and more powerful than the short NUCs.
The primary use of the Kaby Lake NUCs is for home entertainment, video editing, mainstream gaming and as a smart home hub, an Intel spokesman said.
The NUCs with Core i3 will be available shortly after CES, while others with Core i5 and i7 will ship later in the first quarter.
The new NUCs are being announced alongside new Kaby Lake chips, which are being used in dozens of new laptops. The Kaby Lake chips are between 5 to 15 percent faster than Intel’s older chips code-named Skylake.
The tall Core i7 unit is new, while the others are succeeding older NUCs with Skylake chips. Intel hasn’t announced a successor to its popular NUC called Skull Canyon, which has a Skylake chip.
The mini-desktops with Core i3 will serve as entry-level units, but Core i5 and i7 units are powerful and loaded with Thunderbolt 3 and Intel Iris Plus graphics.
All the tall NUCs — the NUC7i3BNH with Core i3, NUC7i5BNH with Core i5 and the NUC7i7BNH with Core i7 — will also be ready for Optane. Optane is a new class of memory and storage that could replace conventional SSDs and DRAM in PCs. The short NUCs — NUC7i3BNK with Core i3 and NUC7i5BNK with Core i5 — will not support Optane.
Optane will initially be available in the form of low-capacity flash storage that will help speed up applications. Optane, which is based on 3D Xpoint technology, will later be available in the form of high-capacity SSDs and memory DIMMs. Intel has shown Optane SSDs being 10 times faster than conventional SSDs, and denser than DRAM. Laptops like the ThinkPad T570 are already being announced with support for Optane.
All the mini-PCs will support HDMI 2.0 for 4K video. Details on other ports in the NUCs weren’t available, but will be shared by Intel on its website.
But one can expect the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The Thunderbolt 3 port will carry out the functions of a standard USB-C port. Thunderbolt 3 will make it possible to attach portable storage, external graphics cards and monitors to NUCs with communication speeds of up to 40Gbps (bits per second).
The NUCs will support DDR4 memory.
The prices of the new NUCs aren’t expected to be very different than those of its predecessors, the Intel spokesman said. With that in mind, the tall Core i3 NUCs could be priced at around US$300 and the Core i5 units at $400. The tall Core i7 unit could be priced at around $500.

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