Thursday, May 17, 2012

Baidu shows smartphone with 100 GB of storage in the cloud

If Google has the Android, it is now the turn of the "Chinese Google" to have their own phone. The Baidu Chinese search engine market leader in country, showed earlier this week Changhong H5018, simple smartphone designed for success in the country.


At first glance, the weapons that the player has to face the Androids and other smartphones generic entry that exist in  yard are modest. The H5018 Changhong has under its hood of a processor MTK6573 modest 650 MHz clock, has WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, GSM and WCDMA (yes, two), FM radio and 3.5-inch display with 480 x 320 pixels. All decorated with a slim body that resembles the Nokia N9 and that can come in various color options.

If the specifications do not help in trying to put the H5018 in the hall of fame phones unforgettable, your software tries a little more. The machine dispenses the Android version to run a "highly modified" the little robot's operating system, called Baidu Cloud OS. The biggest advantage of the program are the 100 GB of cloud storage for all customers, without payment of additional fees or something.

By comparison, the figure is 50 times greater than the basic plan of Dropbox, 20 times larger than the Google Drive and iCloud, four times larger than Microsoft Skydrive and two times higher than the big guy Box.net. And rumors raised by The Verge site indicate that "the future" may be a version that will have no less than 300 GB available to its users happy.

In China, the model is selling for 899 yuan.