Samsung Sales Its Printer Business To HP For $1.05 billion

South Korean giant Samsungis officially selling its printer business to HP for whooping $1.05 billion "to concentrate on its core business areas." meanwhile, HP sees the deal as a way "to disrupt and reinvent the $55 billion copier industry, a segment that hasn't innovated in decades."

By November 1, the Samsung's printer division will become a separate company and then it'll be finally sold to HP.
Statistics shows that the business currently provide work and employs 6,000 people and records a revenue of $1.8 trillion in 2015.

Additionally, according to gsmarena, HP will get Samsung's over 6,500 printer-related patents as well as 1,300 engineers and researchers. Samsung won't stop selling printers with its own brand in South Korea, but they'll be manufactured by HP.

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HP Unveils Powerup Backpack - Charges Smartphones 10 Times, Charges Laptops and Tablets

It's more than just a powerbank, it's stylish, it's fast and it's mobile. Say hello to HP's backpack that is capable of charging your laptop, tablet, as well as your smartphone.

The device is called "Powerup Backpack," it is a canvas bag built wit a 22,400mAh battery inside and the company said it provides a full charge to many HP laptops, charges Smartphones ten times and also charges tablets up to three times.

The powerpack is just like your normal laptop back but carries powerbank inside that charges your laptop even when you are on the road. As a power storing device, chances are that it might get heat up when charging your devices so the company designed it in such a way that you can control the order in which your devices charge.

Another method of controlling the heat is seen with the embedded built-in heat sensor which monitors the temperature to make sure the bag doesn't get too hot.

As a means of protecting your laptop and the powerpack from rain, the bag comes with a rain coat together with other accessories.

Can It Be Recharged?
Yes the back can be recharged via the side-pocket plug-in

Watch The Video Of The Powerup Backpack Bag Below

What Is The Price And Where Can I Buy It?

The HP backpack is priced at $199 (this includes two USB micro cables for Android devices and one laptop cable). At the moment, it's available for pre-order on Amazon, with official launch worldwide set for October 1.

Do you like the bag? Power bank in new dimension.

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Meet HP Elite X3 - The New Smartphone From HP. Checkout The Specs Here

HP is widely known for producing outstanding PC which includes Laptops and desktop of different sizes and capacity but in a period when a company like Dell decided to quit producing Tablets, HP is launching into the smartphone industry with a killer device which is codenamed HP Elite X3

With the popularity of the brand all over the world and the amazing specs of this device, i see it recording a massive sale as soon as it's launched. Below is a statement from HP concerning the device.

"The smartphone combines PC power and productivity, tablet portability, and smartphone connectivity in a sleek and secure device that can dock with your screens and keyboards when you need to work big".

Key Features of the HP Elite X3
5.96″ AMOLED display, 2560 x 1440pixels &

Corning Gorilla Glass 4

Snapdragon 820 (2.15 GHz, 4cores)

4 GB RAM 64 GB internal storage, with Micro SD expansion.

16 MP rear-facing camera, 8MP selfie camera and Iris scanner.

Dual biometrics with Iris recognition and Fingerprint reader.

USB 3.0 Type-C connector.

4150 mAh Li-ion polymer.


FULL SPECIFICATIONS OF HP ELITE X3

NETWORK
Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G bands LTE
Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps
GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes

LAUNCH
Announced 2016, February
Launch Date before end of 2016

BODY
Dimensions 161.8 x 83.5 x 7.8 mm (6.37 x 3.29 x 0.31 in)
Weight 195 g (6.88 oz)
SIM Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
- IP67 certified - dust and water resistant
- Water resistant up to 1 meter and 30 minutes
- MIL-STD 810G - grade salt, fog, humidity, transport shock and thermal shock resistant

DISPLAY
Type Capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.96 inches (~72.5% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1440 x 2560 pixels (~493 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4

PLATFORM
OS Microsoft Windows 10
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820
CPU Dual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo
GPU Adreno 530

MEMORY
Card slot microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot)
Internal 64 GB, 4 GB RAM

CAMERA
Primary 16 MP, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
Video 1080p@30fps
Secondary 8 MP

SOUND
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers
3.5mm jack Yes
- Bang & Olufsen
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

COMMS
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.1, A2DP
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
NFC Yes
Radio No
USB v3.1, Type-C reversible connector

FEATURES
Sensors Iris scanner, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser HTML5
Java No
- Microsoft Continuum support
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.265 player
- OneDrive (15 GB cloud storage)
- Document viewer
- Video/photo editor

BATTERY
Removable Li-Ion 4150 mAh battery


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Honestly, it's a nice device with good specs if you like Windows product but as for an android addict like me, i would still prefer my lovely android phone and keep this HP Elite as a side chick 😪. It runs on Windows 10 and connects to all your windows gadgets perfectly.

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