Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus launched at Rs 8,499 in India; features metal body, 5-inch full HD display

Lenovo has launched its recently-announced K5 Plus smartphone in India at a price of Rs 8,499. The new phone will be available via open sale exclusively on Flipkart from March 23.

Encased in a metal body, the Lenovo K5 Plus features a 5-inch full HD display, 13 megapixel rear camera, and a 5 megapixel front camera. The phone weighs 142 grams and has a thickness of 7.9mm.

Under its hood is Qualcomm's Snapdragon 616 64-bit octa-core processor paired with 2 GB of RAM. It has an internal storage of 16 GB (expandable up to 128 GB via microSD card).

The dual-SIM, dual LTE phone includes stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos, OTG support, and a 2750 mAh removable battery. It will come in a choice of three colors - silver, gold, grey.

The Vibe K5 PLus comes with Lenovo's TheaterMax technology, which is said to convert any multimedia content on the Vibe K5 Plus into an immersive one, thereby giving users a virtual large screen cinematic experience when viewed through a VR headset.

The new Vibe K5 Plus will compete with the likes of the LeEco Le 1s, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and the Honor 5X.

Lenovo's Vibe K5 Plus was first unveiled to the world at MWC 2015 last month.

Flexible Camera Developed That Can Be Wrapped Around Objects

A team led by an Indian-origin professor at Columbia University has created a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more conventional cameras. "Cameras today capture the world from essentially a single point in space. While the camera industry has made remarkable progress in shrinking the camera to a tiny device with ever increasing imaging quality, we are exploring a radically different approach to imaging," said Shree K Nayar, computer science professor at Columbia University. "We believe there are numerous applications for cameras that are large in format but very thin and highly flexible," added Nayar who graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, in 1984. Nayar's team designed and fabricated a flexible lens array that adapts its optical properties when the sheet camera is bent. This optical adaptation enables the device to produce high quality images over a wide ...

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo back Apple in its fight over encryption with FBI

The nation's leading tech companies joined security experts, independent programmers and civil liberties advocates who filed court papers backing Apple in its fight with the FBI over an encrypted iPhone used by an extremist killer. Several law enforcement groups, meanwhile, filed briefs in support of federal authorities who are seeking Apple's help in hacking an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino mass shooters. These "friend of the court" briefs come in advance of a March 22 hearing in which Apple is asking U.S. Magistrate Sheri Pym to reverse an order requiring Apple to create a software program that overrides iPhone security features. That program would let authorities try to unlock Farook's phone by guessing its passcode; Apple says it would make all other iPhones more vulnerable to future attacks. Relatives of five people who were killed, along with one survivor of the December 2 attack, also filed a brief saying the FBI's ...

BlackBerry updates BBM with enhanced privacy, more content control

Canadian mobile manufacturing company BlackBerry on Monday launched a new BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) update that will provide users enhanced privacy and control over messages and content. The update, rolled for iOS, Android and BlackBerry smartphones, is available without any subscription fees. "The new release provides unmatched level of privacy and control to BBM users without any subscription fees. Keeping control over the messages and content that they share, BBM users can be ensured that what they share is always theirs to control," Matthew Talbot, senior vice president (BBM) at BlackBerry, said in a statement.

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