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Beidou is close to release a budget phone on par with the HongMi. The so called "Spring Onion" from Beidou sports a 5 inch 720p display, a quad core MT6589T, dual sim, 1 GB Ram, 8 GB Rom, 8 MP rear camera with a 2000 mAh battery. The Spring Onion is compatible with the international 3G network, WCDMA and PhonAsia will offer this phone at the staggering price of $199 in the coming days.

All the power you want all day long…but no Retina display! The new MacBook Air has finally arrived with an incredible change to battery life thanks to the new fourth generation Intel Haswell processor, however, we will still have to wait for the Retina display upgrade. All of Apple‘s other high end devices (the iPhone 5, the MacBook Pro and the iPod touch) all have the Retina display, so why can’t  we have this wondrous visual feast in the new MacBook Air?  Well it all comes down to this: with the new Haswell chip installed, it was a trade off between extended battery life and the Retina display.  The battery life won, hands down, with the new processor on board, the focus was on battery longevity.  And with such a fantastic display anyway, do you care? The 11-inch MacBook Air’s display measures a mere 4.86 millimetres thin and features a resolution of 1366×768 pixels, while the 13-inch model has a resolution of 1440×900 pixels!  Both sizes have L...