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After numerous inscriptions and evidence about violations of privacy by the NSA, two companies have decided to fight back and produce safer smartphone.

According to preliminary tests conducted by the website Tom's Hardware newest Nvidia Tegra SoC chip K1 is better than the competition from Qualcomm and Apple. In the graphical tests, Nvidia Tegra K1 achieved 48 fps, compared to Apple's A7 chip which in the same tests made 38 fps, while Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 was left behind with 24 fps.

Famous co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, has given its support to the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi during a visit to the center of the company located in Beijing. Wozniak said on that occasion that he believes Xiaomi offers very good products that can achieve excellent results in the US market.

Tesco , the British chain of retail and online stores, recorded 400,000 sold copies of their very own tablet called Hudl since September when it appeared on the market. Tesco is currently the second retail chain in the world after Walmart by realized profits.

Apple 's smart watch, or simply iWatch is a product whose release is expected for a long time now, and in the meantime it got a fairly large number of competitors. The long-awaited presentation still has not happened , and the reason are not marketing games from Cupertino, but something completely different . The Information Portal has reported that Apple has certain problems in the production of the mentoned device iWatch.

Consulting firm Gartner released its forecasts for the 2014, related to the sale of mobile devices. According to their data, during this year in the world to will be sold about 1.1 billion of various devices (smartphones, tablets, watches and other) that will have Android operating system. The greatest growth of this OS will be recorded in the Chinese market, analysts said.

On several occasions we had the opportunity to hear that the next Samsung flagship smartphone will be launched earlier than expected. Information is now somewhat confirmed by the head of Samsung's design team.

Lenovo introduced several new smartphones including its first device that supports LTE called Vibe Z. It is also the model with the best specifications, it has 5.5 inch screen with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and 400 ppi. The processor is a quad-core Snapdragon 800 with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. Support for the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi and the aforementioned LTE 4G network is also included. The rear camera is a 13, while the front one is 5 megapixel. The unit boasts with a quality "premium" casing with coating of titanium, weighs only 147 grams, while being 7.9 millimeters thick.  It will be sold at a price of  $549.

After all the bad decisions of the previous administration, the new BlackBerry's CEO John Chen, came up to with the conclusion that the price of their phones could be their main problem. He said for CNBC that their smartphones have a high retail price comparing to the competition, which results in a disappointing sales and constant losses.

According to the New York Times and an analyst Chetan Sharma amount of mobile data traffic in the US market almost doubled compared to last year. Americans in 2013 spent an average of about 1.2 GB of traffic per month on their mobile devices. During the 2012 an average of 690 MB of data traffic was spent per month via mobile devices.