Nokia Lumia 1020 PureView : The Giant Phone with 41MP camera

Last afternoon’s Nokia’s announcement was not a surprise to nobody, as they officially announced their new smartphone Lumia 1020, which comes with a revolutionary 41MP camera.

The highlight of the phone is the 41MP camera, with 6 lenses as mentioned above, the camera comes with a PureView sensor. Everybody was ready for the announcement, because of the leaked revealing news earlier that day.

The combination of PureView sensor and 6 lenses camera makes everybody a professional photographer. The PureView sensor and the 7 pixels in one in a process called oversampling. This oversampling causes you to get plenty of details even when zoomed in.  

The Nokia Lumia 1020 also shoots 1080p videos and it also has a xenon flash and LED light for shooting in low-light conditions. One of the other features of the camera is that it can take pictures in different focus from a photo that had taken. It also has a HD front camera with 1.2 MP wide angle.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 PureView sports a new Nokia Pro Camera application, instead of the normal camera application in Nokia phones. Through the dual-capture option you can capture a single photo in two different resolutions in same time, one photo of 38MP which is the original and other photo of 5MP for uploading in Social networks.

The optical image stabilisation prevents the phones from shaking, and its good news for those who are having shaky hands. This option will be automatically got on, on the time of video capturing. Nokia says it’s the system of ball-bearings and motors to keep stability when it got moving.

Exposure, focus, white balance Backside-illuminated image sensor , High resolution zoom 3x, Autofocus, Nokia Pro Camera mode and Nokia Smart Camera Mode. Are the other features which the camera sports. As I said above it will make everybody a professional photographer, and the trusty auto settings that will optimise the performance for the clearest picture also help you in being that.

The Lumia 1020 has adopted its square shape chassis from its older Lumia versions.  The Lumia 1020 comes with a 4.5-inch AMOLED HD+ display, and with a resolution of1, 280 x 768 resolutions. Sculpted glass Gorilla Glass 3, PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack, High Brightness Mode, Sunlight readability, super sensitive touch for nail and glove usage, are also the features of the screen. The device has a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor and works with Windows 8.

The phone has a 2GB of RAM and a 32GB internal storage. A SkyDrive cloud storage of 7GB is also offered with this ‘Windows’ phone. The connectivity options in the phone are USB 2.0, Bluetooth, BT 3.0, NFC with SIM based security, WLAN a/b/g/n, A-GPS and Glonass, and 3.5 mm audio connector.

The phone has a dimension of 130.4 x 71.4 x 10.4 mm, and it weighs 158 grams. The phone comes with a 2000 mAh battery; Wireless Charging is also supported in the phone via accessory cover. The phone’s audio setups are IHF speakers, 2 microphones, HD voice compliant, and 3.5mm AV connector.

CEO Stephen Elop, onstage at the New York launch event, was a little cagey about availability - the Lumia 1020 will launch exclusively on AT&T in the US on July 26 with a $300 asking price. 

The Nokia Lumia 1020 PureView will be available in the UK later in the year. CEO said that UK will not have any shortage of the phone as they stock it. If your tastes doesn’t meet 

with yellow white and black are also available.

Nokia’s two models with 41MP camera were released earlier but they didn’t get enough market. Nokia hops that the phone will sail them to the safe zone as they were a failure in the smartphone market. Nokia had taken many efforts but they didn’t get a safe market share as companies such as Samsung, Apple, Sony, and other companies rule market with low-cost phones. Nokia positions the device as a flagship model for the next generation smartphones. Nokia hopes that the new innovative technology of high megapixel camera will boost their sales, with the Windows brand, hopes their CEO Stephen Elop.

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Pebble SmartWatch : The Smartest watch at present

Pebble smartwatch is known as the smartest smartwatch at present. There is also news that Apple is going to launch their iWatch by the end of this year. The iWatch is heard to have many features such as the 3D mind control. But just as buzz-worthy is the plucky Pebble, a Kick-starter darling that persuaded over 70,000 backers to hand over a cool $10m to bring it to life.

The company had started the watch’s sail in small numbers after long wait. As quoted above it looks like the smartest and fastest smartwatch in the market at present. It’s far above in performance and features than the other smart watches present. The most powerful rivals are Kickstarter, Cookoo, MetaWatch, and Motorola MotoActv . Let’s take a look at the device.

Design

The design of the watch is borrowed from phones and cameras the glossy black rectangular shape which is seen in most of the gadgets today is very common. If strapping one on your wrist feels strange, however, the all-plastic Pebble also comes in white, grey, red and orange finishes.

The pebble has a rubber strap, which is very smooth and seamless. The device is so good for use; it offers the value for money.

The body of the device 10mm thick, it feels so chunky and gives us a sensation that isn’t helped by four oversized side buttons. The body is sturdy and is waterproof up to 5m.

Apps
As it’s only the second week after the Smart watch’s launch, the apps available are fairly low. There are a dozen or so watchfaces to download – the best of which are nicely animated. The thing that makes the watch ‘smart’ rather than just flexible is its ability to pair with smartphones in Bluetooth.

The official iOS and Android apps available for Pebble smartphone at present are the texts, e-mails, tweets and it is able to replace your phone for this uses. Social networking is also easy in the watch and it can be called as a social smartwatch.

Calendar alerts which work on iOS, which are not timers is supported in the watch. There are some problems with the social media usage but they aren’t so big.

Texts show the name of your contact, incoming calls just flash up the number – you can accept or reject the call by hitting a button. There is no option for voice recognition or reply text option for e-mails.

Third party Android applications are limited in the watch, but there are few things for hope that the company promises smartphone GPS enabling.

Screen

E-paper screens are powering the Smartwatch resolution. The dimension is 1.26-inch and the resolution is 144 x 168-pixels. The device’s screen is stunning in daylight as the bursting contrast rocks and allows us to see everything clearly.

To overcome the problems in darker conditions a motion-sensitive                   backlight is used. This feature can be turned off if you feel it so distracted by sporadic flashes of light when moving your arms around.

The device has a very good display and its fine for scrolling text and numerical texts but the analogue display disappoints us as it looks jagged.

The font size of notification can be customized in the smartwatch and the jagging problem can be reduced.

Battery and Power
A USB power cable slips on one side neatly of the watch although no charger is supplied. There is no battery charging or battery full indicator, but the company says it takes one or two hours for full charging.

If the charge is full the power is expected maximum to last up to one week. Although Pebble offers one week battery backup, most probably after three or four days the battery low warning will appear and after a few seconds the device is dead.

If you pair your phone with the Pebble smartwatch, you can clearly feel the difference in your battery. If any phone is paired charge for about an hour is lost.

After Words

Pebble had tried their best to make the device a smartwatch but cannot be said truly a smartwatch. The limited features and hardware problems makes it too buggy.

But we need to consider the point that it is the best smartwatch with the best features and hardware at present. The device can be used for calls and messaging by busy people who have no time to take out mobile and use.

The company starts shipping only now and is very slow. The device costs $ 150. There is no doubt that there will not be any powerful rivals until the launch of Apple iWatch.

Watch this video to know more about the Pebble Smartwatch>>>

    

Which is the best smartphone? Confusion

It’s a great confusion time in the tech world for smartphone buyers. Do you know why? It’s because many phablets with great features are on the market, but which is the best, which is low in cost everyone is confused. Anyway there are some which is the best. In my view some of the best phablets are iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S4, Sony Xperia Z, Nokia Lumia 920, and HTC One. I present a comparison between five of them, and it’s your choice to say which the best is.

The first best is ‘Samsung Galaxy S4’

1. Samsung Galaxy S4

The Korean firm new phablet Samsung Galaxy S4 is one of the most feature-filled phones. The device has a Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 processor and Exynos 5 Octa 5410 chipset.

The device has many other features like the Wireless charging,  S-Voice natural language commands and dictation, Smart stay, Smart pause, Smart scroll, Air gestures, Dropbox (50 GB storage), Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, TV-out (via MHL 2 A/V link),

SNS integration, MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, Organizer, Image/video editor, Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa, Voice memo/dial/ commands, Predictive text input (Swype), Java, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, EDGE and NFC.

The device has Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colours. The device has a dimension of 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm (5.38 x 2.75 x 0.31 in). The device weights 130g.

The device has a 5-inch screen, with 441ppi of quality. The device sports a13 MP camera that’s, 4128 x 3096 pixels with autofocus, and LED flash.

The device totally is a good one and it’s its features which make it the best phablet. To know more about the device read review by technotract.

In my view the second best smartphone is HTC One.

2. HTC One

The HTC One is a very good smartphone that works on Android. The device introduces a new type of camera named ‘Ultrapixel’ camera, but the 4UP camera is not enough to cope with the 13 or 8MP cameras of Samsung or Apple.

The device has a Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors. The size of the screen is 1080 x 1920 pixels that are 4.7 inches with a quality of 469 ppi. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 2 and HTC Sense UI v5.

There is no microSD port in the device; the internal storage of the phone is 32/64 GB. The gadget runs on a powerful Qualcomm APQ8064T Snapdragon 600 chipset and Quad-core 1.7 GHz Krait 300 processor. The sensors in the phone are Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass.

The other features of the phone are SNS integration, Dropbox (25 GB storage), Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, TV-out (via MHL A/V link), DivX/XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player, MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/FLAC player, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Organizer, Document viewer/editor, Photo viewer/editor, Voice memo/dial/commands, Predictive text input, EDGE, Java, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi and NFC.

The phone also comes with common connectivity features like Bluetooth, NFC, and WiFi. A microUSB v2.0 port is also included in the phone. The battery in the phone is a Non-removable Li-Po 2300 mAh battery.

As mentioned above the device has a 4 Ultrapixel camera of resolution 2688 x 1520 pixels, autofocus, and LED flash. The other features of the phone are sensor of size 1/3'', 2µm pixel size, simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, and OIS. The device sports a front camera of 2.1 MP.

HTC One has many features as well as defects but the problems are small and most people don’t care about it. The camera cannot be said so well, but is enough. Read the full review of HTC One by technotract to know more about the phone.

3. Apple iPhone 5

The market leader’s phone is not above the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One but is powerful and the brand power of Apple makes the phone a dream device. Most of the people now think that keeping an Apple device denotes they are rich and no one is considering the features.

The iPhone 5 is a well-made phone. The high cost of the phone makes it away from ordinary people. There are many rumours that iPhone 6 or iPhone 5S will come to market soon, then Samsung will not simply sit, they will launch Galaxy S5 or some other phablets as the rival for the Apple’s device.

The device has an LED-backlit IPS LCD Retina display and , capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours. The screen dimension of the device is 640 x 1136 pixels that are 4.0 inches with a picture quality of 326 ppi. Screen of the device is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass and oleo-phobic coating. The display gives clear and quality pictures.

An 8MP camera is occupied in the phone, which has a resolution of 3264x2448 pixels with autofocus and LED flash. There is also a 1.2 MP secondary camera for video calling. Other features of the camera include Simultaneous HD video and image recording, touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection, panorama and HDR.

The device is powered by Dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, whereas the Galaxy S4 runs on an Octa core processor. The chipset of the phone is Apple A6. Graphics booster of the phone is a triple core PowerVR SGX 543MP3GPU. The device runs on iOS 6, which can be upgradable to iOS 6.1.3. The device has a Non-removable Li-Po 1440 mAh battery with a standby time up to225 h in 2G and Up to 225 h in 3G. The RAM of the phone is 1GB and the device is available in 16/32 and 64GB versions.

There are many other features in the phone such as the Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, Siri natural language commands and dictation, iCloud cloud service, Twitter and Facebook integration, TV-out, Maps, iBooks PDF reader, Audio/video player/editor, Organizer, Document viewer, Image viewer/editor, Voice memo/dial/command, GPS, EDGE, WiFi, and Predictive text input.

Although all this features are in the phone; the Apple’s map is full of defects, and faults, after some months Apple allowed Google Maps to be installed in the phone and solved the problem.  The sensors in the phone are Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass.

Anyway the device is an awesome phone but the high cost is the main problem, but those Apple fans who buy all the Apple phones will surely buy this phone.

The forth best phablet is from the Japanese firm Sony and the phone is Sony Xperia Z.

4. Sony Xperia Z

Sony says it’s ‘best of Sony in a smartphone’, and it’s true. The Xperia Z is a feature-filled phone. Sony has used all their talents to make such an amazing phone. The phone is full enough for its price.

The device has a body that measures 139 x 71 x 7.9 mm (5.47 x 2.80 x 0.31 in), and it weights 146g. The phone is waterproof up 1 meter and 30 minutes, and is also dust proof. The display of the phone is TFT capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colours. The screen of the device is protected by a Shatter proof and scratch-resistant glass, with Sony Mobile Bravia Engine 2.

 Under the hood the things are different, the device has a Qualcomm MDM9215M / APQ8064 chipset and the processor is Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait. The GPU of the device is Adreno 320. The phone ha a 2GB of RAM and has a storage of 16GB, which can be expanded up to 64GB using microSD. The battery of the device is Non-removable Li-Ion 2330 mAh battery.

The device is occupied with a 13.1 MP camera of resolution 4128x3096 pixels with autofocus and LED flash. The other features of the phone are Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, image stabilization, HDR, and sweep panorama. The device has a 2.2 MP front camera of resolution of1080p at 30fps.

The other features of the phone is SNS integration,  TV-out (via MHL A/V link), Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player, MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/Flac player, Document viewer, Photo viewer/editor, Voice memo/dial, Java, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, EDGE, WiFi and Predictive text input.  

From the above features we can say the device is one of the most powerful, handsome, and cute phone in the world. Read the review of Sony Xperia Z by technotract to know more

Let’s go to the fifth phone that’s Nokia Lumia 920

5. Nokia Lumia 920

Nokia Lumia 920 is the only Windows Phone included in this group. It is the last Windows phone from Nokia. It has many good features, within the phone. The windows phones from Nokia hasn’t got very much market.

The device has a dimension of 130.3 x 70.8 x 10.7 mm, 99 cc (5.13 x 2.79 x 0.42 in). The phone weights 185g. The phone has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours, with a resolution of 768 x 1280 pixels that’s 4.5 inches with a picture quality of 332 ppi pixel density. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 2 and Pure-Motion HD+ Clear Black display.

The hardware of the phone also has many features the chipset of the phone is Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon. The CPU of the phone is Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait. The graphics of the phone is boosted by an Adreno 225 GPU. Sensors included in the phone are Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass. The battery of the phone is Non-removable Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery. The device has a 32 GB of internal storage. aThe RAM of the device is 1GB.

The other features of the phone are SNS integration, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, 7GB free SkyDrive storage, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player, MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player, Document viewer/editor, Video/photo editor, Voice memo/command/dial, Predictive text input, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, and EDGE.

The camera of the phone is 8 MP with a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels. There are many features of the phone such as the Carl Zeiss optics, optical image stabilization, autofocus, dual-LED flash, Pure-View technology, geo-tagging, and touch focus. The secondary camera of the phone is 1.3MP.

Read the full specification review of the Nokia Lumia 920 by technotract to know more.

We have reviewed five best phones in the world. It’s your choice to elect which is the best; from this five also there is confusion. And the last question is which the best from the five is?

Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini : An affordable & good phone

Samsung released their most rumoured phone Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini. It is the smaller brother of the phablet Samsung Galaxy S3.The device was announced on October 2012, but arrived only on last month Indian markets.

On the first look, it looks like its elder sibling Galaxy S3. The similarities will feel only on the first look. After viewing the phone deep, everybody will ask one question; is the smaller one more beautiful? The device has a very less similarities with its brother Galaxy S3.

The hate thing that is found in the phone is the lack of 4G LTE and the problem of a slow CPU. The device is for those who were waiting for an all-feature, stylish and small and low-cost Galaxy.

The phone is a Mid-Range Android in the crowded market. The device has S voice and DLNA as a high end features, which can be seen in a very few Samsung phones.

There hasn’t been any announcement from Samsung about the price or availability. Samsung has released mini versions of their high-end phone like Samsung Galaxy SII before. Let’s take a look at the phones specs and features.

Design

The phone shows the real talent of Samsung. As we all know phones below 4-inch and 4-inch is now known as mini smartphones. The Mini S3 sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED WVGA display with 16M colours, which are 800 x 480 pixels. The screen has a curved design with the 4 edges as curved.

The device gives 233ppi quality display, where the S3 has 305.96ppi. The resolution is good within a 4-inch phone. The body of the phone is 121.6 x 63 x 9.9 mm. The phone weights 111.5g.

The Galaxy S3 Mini looks almost identical to the Galaxy S3. The original S3’s design is glossy but sleek. The S3 mini comes in two colour variants white and purple blue.

Performance and features

The device is a copy of the S3 in design. Under the hood the mini S3 is totally different. The phone has a 1 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 processor. The original has a 1.GHz processor, but the 1GHz is enough for a 4-inch phone but the CPU totally is slow.

The device uses Android v4.1. The chipset used in the phone is NovaThor U8420. GPU of the phone is Mali-400

The speed of the phone is enough for more users but is not on a top speed. The 2GB RAM in the original S3 is replaced by a 1GB RAM. The device has choice for storage as 8GB and 16GB. It also allows microSD up to 32GB.

The camera in the mini S3 is 5MP, which is 8MP in the original S3. But it still comes with LED flash and auto focus. The camera is 2592x1944 pixels.

The front camera has gone down to a VGA camera from 1.9MP in the S3. Samsung has used 5MP camera before but this is somewhat different. It gives more clear pictures and the quality of the images taken is good.

Video at 720p with 30fps can be captured with the camera. The other features of the camera are Geo-tagging, touch focus, and face detection.

The device comes with connectivity such as Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, LE, and EDR. The data transfer speed of the phone is HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps. The phone comes with WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, and WiFi hotspot.

NFC is also included in the phone. The battery of the phone is Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery, which is 2,100mAh in original S3. The battery provides a stand-by up to 450 h in 2G and Up to 430 h in 3G. Talk time provided by the battery is up to 14 h 10 min in 2G and Up to 7 h 10 min in 3G.

The sensors in the phone are Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass. Other features of the phone are SNS integration, MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, Organizer, Image/video editor, Document viewer, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa, Voice memo/dial/commands, and  Predictive text input (Swype).

The phone also supports Java via Java MIDP emulator. GPS with A-GPS support and GLONASS are also included in the phone.

OS and Software

The device runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which is the second latest Android OS. The device comes with Samsung Touch Wiz interface.

There are many other Apps and Softwares. The device comes with many other extras such as the photo-sharing features among networked phones, and S Beam, used for file-sharing using NFC.

S Voice is also included in the phone. The S voice is the answer by Google with Samsung to Apple’s Siri. But the S Voice disappoints us; it doesn’t perform well, when compared to Siri.

There are other great features in the phone, including the app that keeps the screen lit when you glance at the camera. DLNA is the phone helps to share files like videos and photos between devices such as TV.

All this features uses lots of battery power and it also slows down the phone, this one of the main cause for the slow CPU.

After Words

The Mini S3 is packed with lots of features. The device is totally good and affordable for mid-range people. The smaller device is a good idea by the company. The device is less powerful, but I don’t think it is such a big problem for those who were waiting for a tier brand’s feature-filled phone.

The 4-inch small screen is one of the highlight of the device. The device is not at all a big challenge for Apple because they don’t have such small phones. My only opinion is that if the company make the device more powerful, it would be a good thing. Any way the device is a good choice and the affordable price of Rs 18,190 attract people.

Watch this video to know more about the phone>>>

 

Sony Xperia SP : The low-cost Xperia

After the launch of the Sony Xperia Z phone and tablet the company is unveiling their new smartphone Sony Xperia SP. Sony has worked very much for their phone Sony Xperia Z. The accomplishment of the hard work can be seen in their new smartphone Sony Xperia SP.

The Sony Xperia SP is a handsome phone, with its design and look. Some of the specs in the Sony Xperia Z cannot be seen in the new phone, and some new features are also added.

Many smartphones are arriving on market every day; here is where a company make their true market. All the Sony phones have been made for taking up this challenge. The Xperia SP is a good phone that makes everybody to make a look on it.

Sony has given some clues about the price; the tech technicians say it will be available in low cost. The release date of the phone is not out. If you are looking the company website you can see the phone as ‘Coming Soon’.

Sony has been planning to launch two Xperia brothers; Sony Xperia SP and Sony Xperia L. The Xperia L’s release date is also not out.

The introduction a little bit long, sorry for boring you; let’s go to the specs and features of the phone.

Design

The Sony Xperia SP has a plastic body, which is 10mm thick. The dimension of the body is 130.6 x 67.1 x 10 mm.

The weight of the phone is 155g. The design of the phone is very impressive. The body is same like most of the Xperia phone rectangular in shape.

The phone is available in bed, black, and white colours. The Xperia phone has an LED strip in the bottom of the phone. If you are playing music, the LED shines in the colour of the screen. It also helps you to get notified about the updates, messages, and more.

Screen

The phone sports a 4.6-inch screen, with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. The display quality is 319ppi. The phone has a TFT capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colours.

Multitouch is also allowed in the phone, up to 10 fingers. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. The Sony Mobile Bravia Engine 2 also used in the phone.

The display of the Xperia SP is little smaller than the other flagship models from other makers. Most of the flagship models today have a display of 5-inch or above.

The 720p resolution is less than the 1080p resolution of the Sony Xperia Z. The images look pretty sharp. The display has nothing to say remarkable. The contrast, viewing angles, and colour reproduction is decent.

Features

The phone has many features some of them are SNS integration, TV-out (via MHL A/V link), Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player, MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player, Document viewer, Photo viewer/editor, Voice memo/dial, Predictive text input, Java via Java MIDP emulator, GPS with A-GPS support and GLONASS, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, and Wi-Fi hotspot .

The device also has a micro-USB 2.0 port. NFC is also featured in the phone.

Performance

The Sony Xperia SP runs on Android OS, v4.1 Jelly Bean. The phone has an interface similar to Sony’s other Android phones. The phone has a good interface and is user-friendly.

The mobile is also featured with Sony’s soft-wares such as Video and music apps. The Sony Xperia Z allows free download of music from Sony Music, and free video streaming from Sony Television, we hope this will also be allowed with the new phone.

The UI of the phone doesn’t slow-down the phone. The chipset of the phone is Qualcomm MSM8960T Snapdragon. The CPU of the phone is Snapdragon Dual-core 1.7 GHz. The phone has 1GB of RAM.  The GPU of the phone is Adreno 320.

The phone has an internal storage of 8GB. In this 8GB only 5.8GB can be used by the user, the remaining memory is used by the Soft-wares, which is not seen in any other phone before.

Camera

The phone sports an 8MP rear camera. The resolution of the camera is 3264 x 2448 pixels. The camera allows autofocus, and LED flash.

The other features of the camera are Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, HDR, and sweep panorama.

The sweep panorama can be seen in the new Sony Xperia tablet Z. The camera allows 1080p video capturing at 30fps with video stabilization.

The phone has a VGA front camera. Just for the user’s sake. It’s the time when many of the phones are having front camera of 1megapixels or more.

After Words

The phone is totally good. The dual-core processor phone aims middle class people, who need a branded smartphone.

The phone is cheap as it costs £299.99 with SIM. Sony wants to go down to ordinary people some they come with a cheap phone. The phone’s specifications are enough to do that. We can say it’s one of the good and cheap branded phones available today.

Watch this video to know more about the phone>>>

Asus Padfone 2 : A Mobile in a Tablet!

Phones are becoming bigger and bigger, now a days. This will change the mobiles into tablets in future. Asus also is taking a step to it. The new Padfone 2 slides on the back of a tablet. Get surprise by reading the previous line? Yes, it’s a phone in a tablet. We can say that it’s an offer; buy one tab get a mobile free.

The idea of Asus is very good, because you can save your money, space, and weight the new Padfone. There are many rivals for the tablet as well as the mobile. The phone is sliding in the back of the tablet as shown in the below picture.

One of the main problems of the tablet is that, if we take away the phone the space is empty blank. But I know many of you will no t take it as a big problem.

The main rivals of the tablet are iPad 4, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 or the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. Let’s first take look on the phones specs and features and after the tablet’s.

Mobile Phone

Size and build

The phone has a 4.7-inch Screen. Its OS is Android 4.1.1 Jelly bean. The dimension of the screen is 137.9 x 68.9 x 9 mm which means 5.43 x 2.71 x 0.35-inches. It weights only 135g.

The device fells very secure in hands. The white glossy front is in contrast to a matte. It has a very long battery life, which is half of a tablet.

The design of the phone is very good to handle, and is very beautiful. Different from other phones the SIM card slot is placed on the top edge of the Padfone. The slot seems to be a tightly sealed unit. But it’s very easy to open and close with your nails.

The non-removable battery is placed inside the phone, so there is no need to open the phone until it wants to be repaired.

The body is not as good as the body of other phones such as HTC One or iPhone 5.

The phone is not thick as of the Lumia phones. It’s only has a standard height, weight and fat. It’s not so wider, but it satisfies a premium user.

The 4.8-inch display is one of the noticeable features of the phone. Although it’s comfortable in hand, it’s not a slim-beauty like the iPhone 5 or Galaxy S4.

The display is awesome, though it doesn’t have a full HD display like that of HTC One, and Sony Xperia Z. The resolution is little lesser than the LG Google Nexus 4.

Screen

The phone presents a rich, glossy, and colourful display. The phone has a display of Super IPS+ LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours. Its display offers a quality of 312 pixels per inch density.

It also allows multitouch. Its display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. The colour reproduction and the contrast of the display are very good. The screen resolution is 720 x 1280 pixels.

Camera

The camera of Padfone 2 stands with the LG Optimus G, Sony Xperia Z, and Samsung Galaxy S4. It is of 13 Megapixel. The camera performs well in low-light conditions.

It has a position that’s far ahead from HTC One’s camera which’s 4 Ultrapixel. There are some difference between both; the HTC One’s sensor produce bigger pixels to suck more light.

The image taking in the phone is somewhat similar to the older Nokia smartphones. If you want to capture a full screen image, you need to reduce the quality o 10MP from 13MP. 

The ratio so has black bars at the ends of the display.

The features such as the Scene settings and the HDR are very useful. The photos taken are sharp and crisp.

The images taken with flash aren’t bad. The low-light situations are the worst time to take images in most mobile cameras. To avoid this HTC One is featured with an Ultrapixel camera. There is no physical camera button, but the camera option is available in the lock screen.

The phone has a front facing camera of 1.2Megapixel resolution. The front facing camera is hidden when placed on the tablet’s docking section. To avoid the lack of a front camera in the front of the tablet, it has its own 1MP camera.

The rear camera of the phone acts as the tablet’s main camera. When the phone is docked the rear camera is exposed off.

The Padfone shoots video at 60 frames per second at 720p resolution or 1080p if you settle for 30fps.

The other features of the camera are Geo-tagging, touch focus, and face detection.

Performance and features

The Padfone 2 is powered by a Qualcomm 1.5 GHz quad-cores chip. The CPU is Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait. The GPU of the phone is Qualcomm GPU. These specifications are enough to run the phone smoothly and fast. The multiple tasks are good in the phone.

The device is available in 16, 32, and 64 GB. The device has a 2 GB of RAM. Gaming on the phone doesn’t upset us, it gives good results. The multiple tasks done on the phone doesn’t get stuck off.

There are many features in the phone such as the SNS integration, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, TV-out (via MHL A/V link), ASUS Web Storage (50 GB storage), MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player, MP4/H.264/H.263 player, Organizer, Document viewer, Photo viewer/editor, Voice memo/dial, and Predictive text input (Swype).

The sensors of the phone are Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass. Java can be used in the phone through Java MIDP emulator. GPS with A-GPS support is also included in the phone.

Asus also offers features such as Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP and WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, dual-band, and Wi-Fi hotspot.

Docking Station-tablet

The Padfone 2’s phone docking station is very impressive and quite smart. It is a tablet. 

The phone can be fitted on the backside of the tablet. There is no chance for a fear that, if it will slip from the docking station, because its design is enough to hold the Padfone 2.

One of the main features of the tablet is that, if we dock the phone in the tablet it will not bulk up the device’s back. The 724g tablet and the 135g phone makes the device heavier. Totally it weights up 859g.

Holding the device landscape orientation, it makes a doubt in the user that it may slips and fall. The design of the tablet is good, and it’s made for phone to keep.

The tablet’s body and the performance are very smooth. Take a look at the docking station-tablet’s specs and features.

Screen and Performance

The tablet’s display is good enough but no other extra features or special display, because Asus had taken more care to make the phones display.

The image quality of the tablet is only 149ppi, which is far behind the phone’s display which is 312ppi.

The dimension of the docking station is 273 x 176.9 x 13.55 mm. The tablet is 10.1-inches in size. It comes with an IPS LCD display.

Asus haven’t taken care to make the tablet a better one, as a result, for sound the tablet only have a single speaker which is not enough for such a tablet.

The processor of the tablet is same as that of the phone- Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 8260A Dual-Core 1.5 GHz. The RAM and storage is the same.

The processor in the tablet is not enough to perform heavy multiple tasks in such a large device. Small multiple tasks are supported by the tab with less or no difficulty.

The battery offers a stand-by up to 352h and a talk time up to 16h. The power management of the tablet is good, as it tries to save maximum charge.

Software    

There are many apps in the phone and the tablet. You can find many special extra apps in tablet such as the Pad only, though most work on both phone and tablet.

There are other apps like Buddy-Buzz, which collect social networking information from Twitter and Facebook.

There are also apps which help you to switch between the tablet and the phone quickly. There are other apps that shares posts across social networks.

After Words

There may be many questions, when we see saving, money, space and weight this way. There are many tablets and mobiles that are available in this price.

Everybody may think “what is the need of such a thing”? This question wants to be asked to the company itself. But this is a well designed, smart, and powerful device. The price of the device is £599.

Anyway this is a good offer from Asus, for those who need a tablet and a phone, that can be easily carried anywhere without any troubles.

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