tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91784765735464132522024-02-18T21:36:01.651-08:00THE WORLD OF MOBILE PHONEAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-12656264231879098552016-10-20T09:25:00.002-07:002016-10-20T09:25:39.491-07:00Nexus 6P vs Google Pixel XL: What’s the difference between Google’s new and old phablet?<div class="revProduct" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: noto_serifregular; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">
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The Pixel XL is the successor to 2015's Nexus 6P. The names may be different, as is the design, but there's a lot which stays the same. Here we outline the differences between the two phablets. It's Pixel XL vs Nexus 6P</h3>
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NEXUS 6P VS GOOGLE PIXEL XL</h2>
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Last year, the <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/smartphones/google-nexus-6p-review-huawei-audio-2016-uk-3626386/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nexus 6P </a>was launched alongside the smaller alternative of the Nexus 5X. In 2016, we’ve got two more Googlephones, but this time they’re ‘made by Google’ and the smaller Pixel doesn’t have cut-down features. However, while you can check out our <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/smartphones/google-pixel-vs-google-pixel-xl-which-pixel-should-i-buy-3647328/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Pixel vs Pixel XL comparison</a>, here it’s Nexus 6P vs Pixel XL where we highlight how the two phablets differ.</div>
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See also: <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new-product/mobile-phone/google-pixel-uk-release-date-price-new-google-phone-features-specs-htc-3624629/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Pixel XL release date</a></div>
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NEXUS 6P VS GOOGLE PIXEL XL: PRICE</h2>
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The Pixel XL is a far cry from the days of the early Nexus phones which offered great specs at a surprisingly low price. At £719, the Pixel is one of the most expensive phones you can buy. The same price as the 32GB iPhone 7 Plus in fact. It also matches the 128GB version of that iPhone at £819. You can <a href="http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/phones-broadband-and-sat-nav/mobile-phones-and-accessories/mobile-phones/pixel-xl-phone-by-google-128-gb-black-10154225-pdt.html" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">buy the Pixel XL from Currys</a>, plus many other retailers, including Google's online store.</div>
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You can still buy a new Nexus 6P, although the 128GB capacity is less common. Expect to pay around £370 for the 32GB and £430 for the 64GB. Ultimately, it's almost half the price of the Pixel XL. </div>
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NEXUS 6P VS GOOGLE PIXEL XL: DESIGN</h2>
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The Pixel XL (manufactured not by Google but by HTC) is less fussy in terms of design than the Huawei-made Nexus 6P. However, the rear of the phone is still controversial. With the 6P, it was the ugly camera strip which caused offence. The Pixel XL has a weird glass panel covering the top third of the back and surrounding the fingerprint scanner, camera, mic and LED flash.</div>
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Here’s how the two phones stack up for size and weight.</div>
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So the Pixel is a bit smaller and thicker, and weighs a little less than the 6P. On paper (well, on screen presuming you haven’t printed this out) it’s impossible to tell whether those measurements make much of a difference, but believe us when we say the Pixel is a much nicer phone to live with.</div>
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Where the 6P was just that bit too wide for comfort, the Pixel XL carefully balances screen size with the overall dimensions and doesn’t feel any thicker than the 6P. The chamfered edges still feel a little sharp, but the phone is beautifully weighted and feels very much the premium device.</div>
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Where the 6P had great front-facing stereo speakers, the Pixel XL’s front panel is very plain with only the earpiece, camera and light sensor breaking up the otherwise featureless landscape.</div>
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Although it appears to have two speakers on the bottom edge (like an iPhone) the Pixel XL has only one speaker. There’s the same USB-C connector for synching and charging and the headphone port on the top edge, just like the 6P. Power and volume are on the right, with a single nano-SIM slot on the left. There’s no two-SIM option, nor a microSD slot. Again, just like the 6P.</div>
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Plenty had hoped the switch to Pixel branding might mean the addition of expandable storage, but no such luck. Like iPhones, the new Google Phone gives you two fixed options: 32GB or 128GB. The only consolation is that you get free, unlimited online storage at original quality for photos and video – even if you shoot in 4K. And that benefit is certainly worth something.</div>
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NEXUS 6P VS GOOGLE PIXEL XL: SPECS</h2>
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Here’s how the phones compare for key specifications:</div>
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The most obvious difference between the phones is that the Pixel XL gets a newer, faster Snapdragon processor. Hardly a surprise, though. No-one would expect a new flagship phone to stick with last year’s chip. Google has also increased RAM by 50 percent from 2- to 3GB.</div>
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Screen size drops by 0.2in but remains the same resolution and technology, and both panels are protected by the same Gorilla Glass 4.</div>
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We've yet to finish running our battery tests on the Pixel XL, so can't yet say for sure if it lasts longer than the 6P, but it certainly does last. Both phones support rapid charging, and the Pixel claims to offer 7 hours' use from 15 minutes' charging.</div>
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NEXUS 6P VS GOOGLE PIXEL XL: CAMERAS</h2>
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There’s little difference in facts and figures when it comes to cameras. At the rear, both phones have a 12.3Mp camera with an f/2.0 lens and 1.55um pixels.</div>
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At the front of both sits an 8Mp selfie camera with an f/2.4 aperture.</div>
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So what’s new? The Pixel XL additionally gets phase-detection autofocus alongside laser, and it also adds stabilisation for video. Not optical stabilisation, sadly, only software-based.</div>
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NEXUS 6P VS GOOGLE PIXEL XL: SOFTWARE</h2>
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Usually with Android phones there’s plenty to say about software, but when it comes to the Pixel XL and Nexus 6P, both run the un-doctored version. The Nexus shipped with Marshmallow (Android 6), but has now been updated to 7, which is what the XL ships with.</div>
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Now that Android 7.1 is available, the interface has been tweaked slightly, but the 6P will get this too, so the experience of using both phones is essentially the same.</div>
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There's one difference, though: the Pixel comes with the new Google Assistant which pops up when you long-press the home button. It's not yet downloadable as an app on the 6P, but it won't be long before it is. And if you're happy to get your hands dirty, it is possible to hack the assistant to work right now.</div>
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OUR VERDICT</h2>
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It’s hard to get too excited about the Pixel XL given that it’s such a marginal upgrade over the 6P. Sure, it has a new design a couple of extra camera features, more RAM and a faster processor, but it’s also a lot more expensive. It isn’t water-resistant, lacks the 6P’s stereo speakers and still doesn’t offer a microSD slot, while taking away the 64GB storage option. If you've already got a 6P, it doesn't make sense to upgrade and if you're toying with buying one of the pair, the 6P's much lower price makes it the better deal</div>
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Introduction</h3>
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Xiaomi Redmi 3S is the last of the third generation Redmis, soon to be overshadowed by the expected Redmi 4 premiere. Some may say the Redmi 3S is an obsolete addition to the series, but yet Xiaomi managed to position it as one of the best offers on the market right now.</div>
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The Redmi 3S follows the footsteps of its predecessors - a premium metal shell jam-packed with features for a bargain price. Just like the Redmi 3 Pro, the 3S has a 5" screen on top of an aluminum unibody, there is a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a 13MP main camera. The 4,100 mAh battery is a real treat and the Redmi 3S is among the first phones to offer the latest MIUI 8.<br />
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What's different though? Basically, Xiaomi opted for a different chipset -the Snapdragon 430. It has a true octa-core processor instead of two CPU clusters by four cores, and a new Adreno 505 GPU which supports all the latest graphic standards and should offer slightly improved performance.</div>
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The Redmi 2 was chosen by GSMA for the best smartphone under $100 and Xiaomi obviously is running for a similar recognition next year with the Redmi 3 series. So, let's see what the Redmi 3S is made of.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5" IPS display of 720p resolution; 294ppi</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Snapdragon 430 chipset; octa-core 1.4GHz Cortex-A53 processor; Adreno 505 GPU;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">13MP main camera with hybrid phase-detect autofocus; 1080p video capture at 30fps</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">16GB of built-in storage, 2GB of RAM</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dual-microphone active noise canceling</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">4,100 mAh non-removable battery, fast charging</li>
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Cons:</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No NFC</li>
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The omissions are hardly a surprise - they have been there since the first ever Redmi 3. The phones that have spawned in the months to follow - the Pro, the S, and the Prime may have brought some new features and improvements, but the lack of NFC, the non-removable battery and the cheap screen glass are common across all models.<br />
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But then again we are looking at a €120 smartphone, so our expectations have been exceeded by a mile already. If you want to know what got better, or worse, please follow us after the jump.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-56375715171637453332016-10-05T07:44:00.000-07:002016-10-11T07:44:33.426-07:00Safe Ride Samsung Galaxy C5 review<h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: Arimo, Google-Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 1em 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Introduction</h3>
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Navigating through Samsung's ever-growing handset lineup seem to be increasing in difficulty year on year. The fresh new "On" and "C" families are a testament to that. But, like the saying goes, never judge a book by its covers and after we already took the bigger Galaxy C7 through its paces in an in-depth review, we can safely approach the C5 with a bit less doubt and a more hopeful predisposition.</div>
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The fact of the matter is that the former proved to be a quite impressive and interesting offer. One that sort of fills a pre-existing gap for a proper Samsung phablet that is not a "Note" and most importantly, one that comes on a budget.</div>
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The midrange specs and slim all-metal bodies of the new Galaxy C models bring about another quite obvious parallel with the company's "A" family. We used the A7 (2016) and the A9 (2016) extensively as points of comparison for the C7. With the C5 the obvious go-to parallel is definitely the A5 (2016) - a much closer match. At 5.2 inches, the Galaxy C5 looks like a spruced up version of the A5 (2016), bringing about a few notable hardware improvements.</div>
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Samsung Galaxy C5 key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">145.9 x 72 x 6.7 mm, 143g body</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.2" 1080 x 1920px Super AMOLED of 424 ppi; 2.5D scratch-resistant glass</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 chipset, octa-core 4x1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 and 4x1.2 GHz Cortex-A53; Adreno 405 GPU; 4GB RAM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">16MP, f/1.9 camera; 1080p@30fps video recording and Dual-LED flash</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">32GB or 64GB of built-in storage and a hybrid microSD card slot</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dual-SIM connectivity</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">LTE Cat.4 (150Mbps); Dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n; GPS/GLONASS/BDS (region dependent) receiver, Bluetooth v4.2, FM radio with RDS, NFC compatible with Samsung Pay</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fingerprint reader in the home button</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic</li>
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Main shortcomings</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No OIS for the camera</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No phase detection, laser or other advanced autofocus technology</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No 4K video recording</li>
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The Galaxy C5 and Galaxy C7 share most of their hardware. The same will likely be true for the alleged C9 as well, if and when it gets released.</div>
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Design-wise, the Galaxy C5 and C7 are identical and the only feature that has been scaled down (outside of the obvious screen and body size reduction) is the chipset. The Snapdragon 617 is definitely a step down from the Snapdragon 625 used in the Galaxy C7.</div>
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Other than that, both phones have 4GB of RAM, 32GB or 64GB of expandable storage, mostly identical connectivity options and the same camera setup including a 16MP main unit and an 8MP front-facer.</div>
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Samsung's excellent Super AMOLED screen tech is also present and if panel size is anything to go by when making parallels in Samsung's portfolio, the C5 match in the A series has got to be the Galaxy A5 (2016). And while the Galaxy C7 slotted in between existing A-series models in terms of screen size (the A8 2016 was only announced today), the C5 and A5 (2016) appear to be direct competitors. Of course, there is nothing bad about some sibling rivalry.</div>
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It is worth noting that both the Galaxy C5 and C7 were originally announced back in May as models exclusive to the Chinese and Hong-Kong markets. They have since made it to the stores internationally but their availability on the Old Continent is by no mean as wide as that of the A-series smartphones.</div>
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So the slight hardware advantage that the C5 has over the A5 (2016) makes us wonder how exactly does the C5 fit in Samsung's product strategy. Is this move incidental? Is there a change in portfolio ranks brewing? Is there more to the C5 than meets the eye?</div>
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Follow along as we take a closer look at it on the next pages.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-45268296099957634912016-09-13T07:36:00.000-07:002016-10-11T07:37:03.178-07:00Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 review<h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: Arimo, Google-Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 1em 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Introduction</h3>
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The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 has big shoes to fill - its predecessor became India's best selling phone online and enjoys great popularity in China. It comes barely half a year since the Note 3 went on sale, but it's not quite a direct replacement - instead both will live side by side, with the Note 4 being a more premium offering.</div>
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The Redmi Note 4 commands a slightly higher price, but a couple of things elevate it from the mid-range status of the Redmi series. First, Xiaomi builds each of these full metal bodies out of an aluminum ingot, something Sony and HTC do for their flagships. And second, not long ago, the Helio X20 chipset was often used to blur the mid-range/high-end line.</div>
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As a bonus, the "expensive" High edition comes with generous 64GB of storage. The quotes are because even the top model is below the €200 price point.</div>
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Key Features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aluminum unibody design</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.5" IPS display of 1080p resolution; 401ppi</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 chipset; 2x Cortex-A72 + 4x Cortex-A53 + 4x Cortex-A53; Mali-T880 MP4 at 700MHz</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android 6.0 Marshmallow with MIUI 8 (Global 8.0.7.0)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Standard edition: 2GB RAM with 16GB of storage; High edition: 3GB RAM with 64GB storage; microSD support, hybrid slot shared with 2nd SIM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 megapixel rear camera, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, dual-LED dual-tone flash; 1080p @ 30fps video, 720p @ 120fps</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5 megapixel front camera, f/2.0 aperture; 720p @ 30fps video</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fingerprint sensor</li>
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Main shortcomings</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Runs heavily skinned Marshmallow</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Non-removable battery</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cannot have 2 SIMs and a microSD card</li>
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Xiaomi's portfolio is getting increasingly confusing lately, especially considering their regional availability varies a lot. Here is how the Redmi Note 4 compares to the Note 3 - as we said, both will continue to exist side by side.</div>
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<a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=8291&idPhone2=7863" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Versus the Redmi Note 3</a></h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">High edition now comes with double the storage (64GB vs. 32GB)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full metal body (higher quality, more elaborate process than before)</li>
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There is also the identical looking Redmi Pro to further complicate things. You can think of the three models as sub-divisions of the mid-range: Redmi Note 3 to start, Redmi Note 4 for the golden middle and Redmi Pro for the "high-end." Our bang for the buck sense is tingling, though - the Note 4 does more for every cent you pay than the other two.</div>
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<a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=8291&idPhone2=8233" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Versus the Redmi Pro</a></h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Same 13MP camera (but without the 5MP secondary cam)</li>
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So do we have a future bestseller on our hands? Looking at the list of disadvantages, there are no deal breakers. For instance, even LG as a major manufacturer opted to remove the app drawer from the G5 and V20 (the first phone to launch with Android 7.0), a style popularized by MIUI and others (a new theme and a new launcher can bring a 90% familiar experience, though).</div>
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Recently, we've been witnessing the appearance of a new niche - near-flagship phones offering a 5.5" 1080p screen, fast chipset and €400-or-so price point that put pressure established flagship lines. These phones themselves now come under fire from the Redmi Note 4 at half the price.</div>
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It's a race to the bottom and a climb to the top - of price and features, respectively.</div>
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We re-review the Google Nexus 5X, the cheapest Google Nexus phone from 2015, almost a full year after launch to see how this LG-manufactured mobile holds up in 2016.</div>
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We're hopefully less than a month away from the launch of Google's new 2016 Nexus phones, dubbed the <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/google-htc-nexus-s1-sailfish-2016-specs-uk-price-release-date" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Nexus Sailfish</a> and <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/google-nexus-marlin-2016-phone-uk-specs-price-release-date" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Nexus Marlin</a>. These HTC-crafted handsets (or so the leaks suggest) should be worthy successors to last year's Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X, and they've come at a good time too. After all, while the <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/huawei-google-nexus-6p-long-term-review-nine-months-2016" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Nexus 6P still holds up well</a> after almost a year, the 5X is starting to look rather long in the tooth.</div>
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The Nexus 5X was the cheaper of last year's two Google blowers, with an asking price of £300 out of contract. That's despite sharing many of the same features with the more expensive Nexus 6P, including a fingerprint sensor and fantastic 12-megapixel rear camera. However, the 5X didn’t impress us enough to earn more than four stars out of five in our <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/lg-google-nexus-5x-review" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">in-depth review</a> back in October 2015.</div>
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Here's our all-new Nexus 5X review after almost a year of use, in case you're thinking of picking it up at a reduced price after the 2016 Google Nexus launch.</div>
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Google Nexus 5X by LG 2016 Re-Review: Design</h2>
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When the Nexus 5X and 6P were first unveiled, it was the 6P which understandably received the most love and attention. After all, that shiny metallic body and distinctive jutting lip on the rear end gave it a serious touch of class that still looks lovely.</div>
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Meanwhile, the Nexus 5X made do with a rather straightforward plastic frame. The black (sorry, ‘Carbon’) model is rather generic and bland but our white model ('Quartz') and the light blue version ('Ice') both look quite sleek, even if the phone lacks the premium feel of rivals such as the <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/samsung-galaxy-a5-6-2016-review" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Galaxy A5 2016</a>.</div>
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After many months of fondling with greasy, sweaty fingers, that plastic backing is still in good nick. Scuffs and fingerprints are difficult to make out except under very close scrutiny, and are quickly removed with a quick spit and polish. The colour hasn't faded over time either, keeping its fresh, clean look.</div>
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The Nexus 5X feels quite compact compared with many recent phones and is also noticeably lighter than many other mobiles, so it’s comfortable to wield and won’t weigh down your pockets. And it's a tough bugger too, putting up with plenty of rough handling without complaint.</div>
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Google Nexus 5X by LG 2016 Re-Review: Screen and media</h2>
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One of my biggest complaints with the Nexus 5X is the fact that there’s no support for microSD memory cards, a regression into Apple territory that’s quite limiting for anyone not living constantly in the cloud.</div>
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The Nexus 5X is only offered in 16 and 32GB flavours, with no 64GB option like the <a href="https://recombu.com/hubs/oneplus-3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">OnePlus 3</a>. Considering our 32GB model only had 25GB of usable space to start with (the rest was taken up with Android and other pre-installed software), I started to feel that lack of expandable storage very early on. If you take loads of high-res photos, download a few games and stick on some music and movies, that space disappears pretty quick. Then you’ll either need to shift your media online or start figuring out what you can delete.</div>
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Still, I don’t have any complaints with the Nexus’ 5.2-inch screen. That IPS LCD display boasts a Full HD resolution which keeps everything crisp and clear. Those natural colours and deep blacks make for good looking images, although rivals like the Galaxy A5 and OnePlus 3 boast richer, more vibrant hues.</div>
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The Nexus 5X's front-facing speaker, positioned just beneath the screen, is perfectly fine for watching videos on the go without plugging in ‘phones. Of course, audio quality is typically tinny.</div>
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Google Nexus 5X by LG 2016 Re-Review: Android OS and features</h2>
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As it’s a Google-branded phone, the Nexus 5X was of course the first mobile to rock Android 6.0 Marshmallow, along with the Nexus 6P. It's a vanilla version of Google's OS with no modified launcher or feature-packed overlay, so you really do get a straight-forward and clean user experience.</div>
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And of course you can expect the Nexus 5X to get an update to <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/best-new-features-in-android-7-nougat" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Android Nougat</a> very soon after the new Nexus Sailfish and Nexus Marlin are launched in September 2016, well ahead of rivals such as the OnePlus 3 and <a href="https://recombu.com/hubs/sony-xperia-x" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Sony's Xperia X</a> (although the <a href="https://recombu.com/hubs/moto-g4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Moto G4</a> probably won't be far behind).</div>
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The Nexus 5X also sports a fingerprint scanner on its back, just beneath the camera lens. This sits naturally beneath the index finger when you grab the phone, so you can unlock the Nexus quickly and securely when needed. It’s impressively fast and doesn’t fail too often, although that rear positioning means you have to pick up the phone or open with a PIN when the Nexus is sat on a desk.</div>
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Google Nexus 5X by LG 2016 Re-Review: Performance</h2>
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A Snapdragon 808 processor is packed inside the Nexus 5X and performance on the whole has been decent over the past year, although I do notice the occasional stutter or pause these days. For instance, loading up an app sometimes takes a few seconds, which is particularly annoying when it’s the camera app and you’ve only got a limited time to capture your shot.</div>
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I've also experienced a couple of crashes, such as the Photos app locking up when I attempted to delete a photo. And the Nexus 5X gets a little toasty at times, especially when using the camera. Thankfully it's not a serious issue, just something that's noticeable compared with many rivals.</div>
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Google Nexus 5X by LG 2016 Re-Review: Battery life</h2>
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As for battery life, the Nexus 5X will just about make it through a full 24 hours these days, as long as you don't hammer it. If you're constantly whipping out the phone to take snaps however, you'll likely find the Nexus dies in a lot less time. Again, compared with phones like the OnePlus 3 and Moto G4 Plus, that's a poor result.</div>
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There’s no support for wireless charging here, but I haven’t missed it at all. And while the fast charge feature isn't a match for OnePlus' <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/dash-charge-review-oneplus-3-battery-review-vs-quick-charge-3-0-test" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dash Charge</a>, at least it means that you get a fully charged phone in roughly an hour and a half.</div>
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I’m enjoying the Type-C USB a little too much, for a fully-developed human being. Trying to stab the charging cable into your phone is suddenly a lot less frustrating and confusing when you’re either exhausted or smashed.</div>
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Google Nexus 5X by LG 2016 Re-Review: Cameras</h2>
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My favourite bit of the Nexus 5X is still the 12.3-megapixel camera, which produces sharp, realistic images in everything but dim light. It’s pretty much the same snapper as the more expensive Nexus 6P’s, although you don’t get a couple of that phone’s features such as 240fps slow motion video capture.</div>
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The Nexus 5X definitely holds up well against rivals when it comes to mobile photography, thanks to the dependable HDR feature which is built into the camera's auto mode. This handles tricky lighting well, keeping your subjects well lit.</div>
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You can also shoot video in Ultra HD 4K resolution, which is something many rival phones around this price point miss out.</div>
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Check out our in-depth <a href="https://recombu.com/mobile/article/google-nexus-5x-camera-review" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3355cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s, color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">Nexus 5X camera review</a> for more info.</div>
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Google Nexus 5X by LG 2016 Re-Review: Verdict</h2>
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Since the Nexus 5X hit UK stores, loads of other excellent Android phones like the Moto G4 Play, OnePlus 3 and Samsung's Galaxy A5 2016 have launched at around the same £300 price point or less. Sadly the Nexus 5X hasn't really dipped in cost in the previous year, with most retailers asking for close to £300. And while you can pick it up for £250-ish from the likes of Amazon, it's hard to recommend even at that price point thanks to the performance issues and poor battery life.</div>
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If you can't afford the excellent Nexus 6P (or don't fancy such a big handset), then check out one of those previously mentioned rivals instead.</div>
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ntroduction</h3>
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Sony's latest flagship, the Xperia Z6 comes with refined design, improved camera, and a due update in specs. Wait, back up a little there - it's actually called the Xperia XZ this time around but, yeah, the rest of that is true.</div>
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When Sony announced the new X-series, some suggested that the Xperia X Performance was meant to take on the likes of the Galaxy S7's and HTC 10's, but we knew that couldn't be the case. Okay, 'suspected' might be more accurate there. Obviously, now we all know that the Xperia XZ is Sony's top-dog for this season, and the Z in its name quickly reveals its ancestry.</div>
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Indeed, the XZ has a lot in common with the Z5. The display, for one, is the same size and resolution as the last generation - not necessarily a bad thing, but the XZ also comes with 3GB of RAM - modern-day flagships will crack a condescending smile seeing that in the spec sheet.</div>
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No one will laugh at the rest of it, though - top-of-the-line Snapdragon 820 chipset, 23MP camera with a trio of focusing technologies and 4K video recording (one could think the Z is required for that, had it not been for the M5), high-res 13MP front camera, Type-C connectivity, fingerprint reader, IP68 rating, stereo speakers - name one thing missing.</div>
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Sony Xperia XZ key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.2" 1,080 x 1,920px LCD display with 424ppi, X-Reality for Mobile, Triluminos technology; Gorilla Glass</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android OS v6.0 Marshmallow with Xperia launcher</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset: quad-core Kryo CPU (2x2.15GHz +2x1.6GHz); Adreno 530 GPU; 3GB RAM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">23MP Sony IMX300 camera, 24mm-equiv. f/2.0 lens, predictive hybrid laser/phase detection/contrast AF, IR sensor for white balance selection, SteadyShot, LED flash, dedicated hardware shutter key; 4K video recording</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 MP front-facing camera with 1080p@30fps video</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">32GB/64GB of built-in storage and a microSD card slot</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Single and dual-SIM models (DualSIM has a hybrid slot shared with the microSD card)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">LTE Cat.9 (450/50 Mbps); Dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac; GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, Bluetooth v4.2</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic; 24-bit/192kHz Hi-Res audio</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">2,900mAh non-removable battery, QuickCharge 3.0 support, Qnovo adaptive charging, Battery Care smart charging</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fingerprint sensor (market dependent), stereo speakers, USB Type-C port, 3.5mm headphone jack</li>
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Main shortcomings</h3>
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We're yet to see tangible proof that the RAM race leads to actual usability benefits, but if people were to reason that way, the industry would sit still. It would have been great though, if Sony could have gone with 4GB just to keep up with the times and avoid having reviewers write this paragraph and make them look bad. The extra 1GB can't cost that much, right?</div>
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The second count Sony might end up countering with a sequel to the UltraHD Xperia Z5 Premium - 1080p for the mainstream flagship, 2160p for that supposed Premium, and no 1440p at all. Makes sense.</div>
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Finally, once again, Americans are denied fingerprint recognition. The hardware is there, apparently the paperwork isn't, so Sony can't offer the feature on the US market. We do have it on our international version review unit, and we'll test it for the rest of you to know, but not before we take a look at the hardware on the following page.</div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">After Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo and Vivo, Chinese smartphone brand Meizu has made its Indian debut with its M1 Note smartphone. The phone made waves when it was first launched due to its Apple's iPhone 5C-esque design.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">However, looking beyond the form factor, the phone offers a good set of features including a full-HD display and 4G support at a sub-Rs 12,000 price. Does it have the potential to be the best budget smartphone? We try to find out in our review...</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-semibold, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Build and design</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Meizu M1 Note takes inspiration from the likes of the iPhone 5C with its polycarbonate unibody design, rounded corners and edges and colour options. Even the speaker grill at the bottom edge and the pill shaped plastic buttons remind us of Apple's low-cost iPhone. It comes with a bigger, 5.5-inch display though, which also leads to a much bigger footprint.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">We got a white coloured unit of the M1 Note that sports a glossy finish which is slightly prone to smudges but feels soft and nice to touch (the curved wrap-around panel is non-removable). The back sports a camera lens and a dual-LED flash and some Meizu branding.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Meizu M1 Note is able to fit a large 5.5-inch display without looking like a giant slab thanks to the narrow bezel at the sides. We still don't like the placement of the Power button that sits at the top edge. It's difficult to reach and makes one hand use difficult. The 3.5mm headset jack is also placed at the top while the micro-USB port is at the bottom. The hardware keys offer good tactile feedback.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Unlike most Android smartphones, the Meizu M1 Note has a single capacitive touch Home button just below the display (no prizes for guessing where we've seen this before). The sim card tray is at the right edge and has slots for two micro-sim cards (only the first slot supports 4G sims).</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">While the design is not really original, we have to admit that the Mezu M1 Note is a well built device that scores well in the looks department.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-semibold, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Display</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Meizu M1 Note sports a 5.5-inch Sharp/AUO full HD (1920x1080p) display with IGZO technology and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. We have to say this is one of the best displays we've seen at this price point. The colours looked vivid and natural, and viewing angles were really wide. Text and graphics looked crisp and sharp and sunlight legibility was optimum. Brightness levels were also impressive.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-semibold, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Software</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Meizu M1 Note runs Flyme OS 4.2 which is essentially a heavily customised version of Android 4.4 KitKat.Just like most Android UI skins on Chinese devices, the Flyme OS lacks an app drawer and instead all app icons are spread across the home screens.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">If you're coming from stock Android, you'll find the difference in UI more stark. Navigation works in a slightly different way on Meizu's OS. There are no back or menu or app switcher keys on the home screen. You see the back button only when you're inside an app placed on a white band at the bottom of the screen. With third party apps this looks odd and makes the UI appear inconsistent.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Home button takes you to the home screen and long tapping it locks the screen.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">There's no app switcher button and to see the running apps menu you need to swipe from the bottom of the screen. There's no visual cue for the same which makes the UI unintuitive.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">At some places, Meizu has tried to distance its UI as much as possible from stock Android. For instance, the settings menu has unconventional placement of sub-menus. The UI can be themed but the themes store is in Chinese. Also, a number of Google apps including Gmail are not pre-installed on the phone and Meizu also bundles its own app store called AppCenter in addition to the Play Stoore.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-semibold, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Meizu M1 Note sports a 13MP rear camera with dual-LED flash and a 5MP front facing camera. The camera app lets you swipe through manual mode in addition to Panorama, Auto, Light field (HDR), Slowmotion and beauty modes. The manual mode offers granular settings for ISO, focal length, shutter speed, and exposure compensation.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Images captured by the camera in day light turned out decently well with little noise and good contrast. At times it did miss out on detail and white balance was a little off.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Images shot in low light had more noise but managed to capture more light.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The front camera takes decent pictures and can also make you look good in selfies thanks to beauty settings for eyes, slim face, smoothing (sic) and whitening modes which have individual sliders so that you can make the right amount of adjustments. There's even a Dressing room feature to apply more effects!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The phone camera can shoot up to full-HD video and the output was above average.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-semibold, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Meizu M1 Note is powered by a 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6752 processor with 2GB RAM. The phone is extremely responsive and snappy with its Flyme OS software being optimized for the hardware.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">We did not experience any lag whatsoever while navigating through the home screen and menus, launching apps and switching between them. Scrolling was smooth and the phone was able to play Full HD video files without any problems.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">We were able to play games like Subway Surfers, Asphalt 8 and Riptide GP 2 without encountering frame drops or freezes.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">In synthetic benchmarks, the phone scored 40,664 in Antutu, 14,781 in Quadrant, 10,684 in 3DMark's Ice Storm Unlimited and 57 in Nenamark 2 benchmark tests. Some of these scores are much better than phones with MediaTek octa-core processors priced similarly. However, we do not recommend a phone based solely on benchmarks as real world performance is different at times.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Of the 16GB internal storage, about 14.5GB is available to the user. Unfortunately, you can't expand the storage as the phone doesn't come with a memory card slot which is such a pity. However, you can plug in a flash drive with a USB on-the-go support.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Meizu M1 Note offers Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, 4G and GPS connectivity options. It offers good call quality and signal reception and we did not encounter issues while making calls even in areas where cell signal is relatively weaker. The phone was able to lock to GPS without any hiccups. While the phone only supports FDD LTE Band 3 4G, we were able to latch on to a 4G signal in Delhi as Airtel has deployed its network on two bands. If your city has only 2300Mhz TD-LTE 4G network then the M1 Note will not support it.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The phone also doesn't offer FM radio functionality. However, we were able to play most popular video and audio file formats.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The external speaker outlet on the phone is located at the bottom edge and we found the sound output to be too soft. At times we ended up missing calls when the phone was not in our pocket. It is not stereo and there was slight distortion at higher volume levels.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The phone is backed by a 3,140mAh battery (non-removable) and will last you a full working day (11-12 hours) if you put the screen brightness at the highest level and use 4G data all the time. You'll be able to make about 1-2 hours of phone calls, play some casual games and browse the web in this time period.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-semibold, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Verdict</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">At Rs 11,999, the Meizu M1 Note offers a plethora of features. In fact, it's one of the most loaded offerings with a full-HD display, octa-core processor and 2GB RAM, available under the Rs 12,000 price point.</span><br />
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The iPhone 5S has been replaced by the iPhone SE. You can still find good deals on an iPhone 5S though, but is it the right choice if you're buying a smartphone in 2016. Read our iPhone 5S review to find out.</h3>
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APPLE IPHONE 5S REVIEW</h2>
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The iPhone 5S is no longer part of Apple's <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/smartphones/18/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">smartphone </a>lineup. That's now comprised of the<a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/mobile-phone/3572532/iphone-6-review/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">iPhone 6</a>, 6 Plus, <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/mobile-phone/iphone-6s-release-date-specs-new-features-uk-price-today-confirmed-video-preordr-storage-2gb-8am-3436742/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">iPhone 6S</a> and 6S Plus. Effectively the iPhone 5S has been replaced by the new <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/iphones/apple-iphone-se-review-3637829/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">iPhone SE, reviewed </a>(and shown in the video above). We've updated our iPhone 5S review in the light of the iPhone SE. (Much of this review was originally written in September 2013, then fully updated in September 2015.)</div>
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You can still buy a brand new iPhone 5S, though. You'll pay around £250 for the 16GB version or around £350 for the 32GB model. Alternatively, you can get it on contract for around £15 per month and a £60 upfront cost.</div>
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Typically, you'll only find it in Space Grey or Silver. Gold has been dropped, and there's no 64GB version any more. All versions can be found in various conditions on ebay, Gumtree and other sites of course.</div>
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The 5S originally cost £549 (16GB) and £629 (32GB). Apple then cut these prices in 2015 to £379 and £419 respectively. A<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">lso see: </span><a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/buying-advice/internet/best-mifi-2016-uk-best-mobile-wi-fi-buying-guide-3637018/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Best MiFi 2016</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">.</span></div>
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IPHONE 5S REVIEW: TWO YEARS ON</h2>
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It's September 2015 and we've had our 5S for two years, so we're experts in its strengths and weaknesses. Fortunately, any downsides are more than outweighed by benefits and the 5S is still a truly great smartphone.</div>
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Screen sizes have moved on quickly from the 4in display bestowed upon the iPhone 5S and it now feels dinky compared to even the 4.7in iPhone 6S let alone the 6S Plus with its 5.5in screen. However, not everyone wants a huge smartphone and the 5S slips into a pocket with ease, whereas Apple's latest phablet does not.</div>
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We've also no issue with performance. We've been running iOS 9 for a few short days, but as with iOS 8, apps still run as quick as ever. This is partly thanks to the fact that the A7 processor is a 64-bit chip. As we said at the 5S's launch, this makes it more future-proof than the iPhone 5 and 5C which have 32-bit processors.</div>
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You will miss out on some of the new features in newer iPhones, though. The 5S has the useful TouchID sensor for unlocking the phone and making purchases with your finger, but it doesn't have NFC which you need for Apple Pay and it doesn't support 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Perhaps the biggest difference is that it doesn't have the 3D Touch screen of the <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/mobile-phone/iphone-6s-release-date-specs-new-features-uk-price-today-confirmed-video-preordr-storage-2gb-8am-3436742/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">iPhone 6S </a>so you can't use the new context menus in iOS 9.</div>
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IPHONE 5S REVIEW: DESIGN</h2>
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Just as the iPhone 4S was almost indistinguishable from the iPhone 4, the 5S has only its rather understated golden finish and TouchID to differentiate it from the iPhone 5. The similarities are largely superficial, though. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: noto_serifbold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">See also: <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/apple/3467976/iphone-5s-vs-iphone-5-comparison-review/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Apple iPhone 5S vs iPhone 5 comparison review: What's the difference?</a></span></div>
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The iPhone 5S's dimensions are 123.8x58.6x7.6mm, and it weighs just 112g. That's the same as the iPhone 5.<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: noto_serifbold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> See also: <a href="http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/features/apple/best-iphone-5-5s-cases-covers/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Best cases for the iPhone 5S and 5">Best cases for the iPhone 5S</a></span></div>
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The 4in Retina display has the same 1136x640 resolution as the iPhone 5 (and 5C) and is a decent screen. However, compared to the larger, much higher resolution displays of the iPhone 5S’s rivals, the screen does feel cramped.</div>
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We've mentioned the lack of 802.11ac Wi-Fi but, with 802.11n on board, the 5S should still be quicker than your broadband connection, and 802.11ac routers are still relatively few and far between - you probably have an 802.11n router at home. The 5S doesn't support as many LTE bands as the newer iPhones, but you'll still be able to use it in most countries on 3G.</div>
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IPHONE 5S REVIEW: TOUCH ID</h2>
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If you're upgrading from an older iPhone the first thing you notice about the iPhone 5S is its Home button. The Touch ID fingerprint scanner lets you unlock the phone in an instant by touching it. It's a convenient feature which is more secure than the four-digit passcode most iPhone owners use.</div>
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You can register up to five fingers, and set restrictions based on the fingerprint. This is handy as it means you could, for example, register your child's finger and disable access to the App Store and Safari as well as set age-appropriate limits on music, TV shows and films. It still falls short of proper user profiles, but it's one step in the right direction. Each stored fingerprint can have an attached name so you remember whose is whose.</div>
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Using Touch ID doesn't preclude using a passcode. In fact, you need to set up a passcode in order to use Touch ID, and enter it before registering a new fingerprint.</div>
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Touch ID isn't only for unlocking the 5S: you can also use your finger instead of your Apple ID password. When you purchase an app, for example, you'll be prompted to touch the scanner. This is an option you can disable in the settings, though, restricting fingers to unlocking the iPhone only.</div>
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IPHONE 5S REVIEW: STORAGE AND PERFORMANCE</h2>
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The iPhone 5S has a 64-bit A7 processor and a motion co-processor – the M7 – which is used by fitness apps, including Apple's own Health app. It means the 5S can replace the likes of a <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/activity-trackers/fitbit-charge-review-3584377/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Fitbit Charge review">Fitbit</a> or <a href="http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/features/gadget/withings-pulse-review/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Withings Pulse review: an activity tracker with a heart-rate monitor">Withings Pulse</a>.</div>
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In our benchmarks, the 5S completed the SunSpider test in just 417ms. The iPhone 5 (running iOS 7), meanwhile, took 721ms, and the Samsung Galaxy S4 922ms.</div>
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Similar gains were found in Geekbench 3, with the iPhone 5 scoring 721 points, and the 5S managing 1,076. Running GLBenchmark 2.7 (Egypt HD), the iPhone 5S managed 53fps, compared to the iPhone 5’s 41fps. However, a bigger difference can be seen using the T-Rex HD test, where the 5S scored 37fps versus the 5’s 14fps. That’s more than twice the performance.</div>
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We don't yet have benchmark results for the new iPhone 6S or 6S Plus, but they will be roughly twice as fast again. To see how the iPhone 5S stacks up against the current competition (it still fares very well) then see <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/mobile-phone/whats-fastest-phone-2015-uk-august-3515533/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: noto_serifbold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">What's the fastest smartphone?</span></a></div>
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Storage options are limited to 16- or 32GB, but don't forget some is used up by system files. So you lose 3-4GB straight away. We don't think many people will be happy with 12-ish gigabytes for all their apps, videos, music and photos, which means you'll need the 32GB version since there's no card slot to expand storage as with most Android phones.</div>
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IPHONE 5S REVIEW: BATTERY LIFE</h2>
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The 5S has a 5.92Wh battery which is built-in and non-removable. Apple says the iPhone 5S will last for up to 250 hours on standby, and 10 hours of talk time. Web surfing is 8 hours on 3G, and 10 hours on LTE and Wi-Fi. Apple claims 10 hours for video playback and 40 hours audio playback, for the iPhone 5S.</div>
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Such figures are usually taken with a pinch of salt, but Apple's claims are typically close to the mark. In our video-looping test, the 5S lasted an impressive 11 hours, which compares well with an iPhone 5 (running iOS 7) which managed just shy of nine-and-three-quarter hours.</div>
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As we always say, your mileage will vary depending on how you use your phone. You <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">should</em>get a day's use out of the 5S with no worries about saving power, but constant 3G and 4G use will drain the battery much faster. And, of course, there's the new low power mode in <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new-product/apple/ios-9-release-date-rumours-today-9-september-upgrade-icloud-video-today-now-3585613/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">iOS 9</a>.</div>
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The iPhone 5S has a front-facing FaceTime HD camera and a rear-facing 8Mp camera. The specifications work out as follows.</div>
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The iPhone 5S iSight camera has what Apple describes as a 'better 8Mp sensor' than either the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 5C. It has ƒ/2.2 aperture and a True Tone flash which has two LEDs, one of which is amber. The FaceTime camera takes 1.2Mp photos at a resolution of 1280x960, and offers 720p HD video recording.</div>
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Photos taken in dark conditions have much less noise than the iPhone 5, but camera tech has moved on in the last two years and the 5S doesn't do as good a job as the <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/feature/mobile-phone/best-phone-camera-of-2015-3612824/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(205, 9, 18); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">best phone cameras</a>.</div>
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In good light, you won’t see a huge difference between images from the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6. We fully expect the new 12Mp camera in the 6S and 6S Plus will put the 5S's photos in the shade, though.</div>
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Here are two photos, the first from the iPhone 5, and the second from the 5S. The difference is subtle, but noticeable.</div>
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In good light, there's not much difference, until you look up close.</div>
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Below are 100 percent crops showing that the 5S resolves a little more detail than the 5:</div>
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There’s a 10fps burst mode which should ensure you don’t miss the crucial moment in the action. Hold your finger on the shutter button and the 5S will keep taking 10 photos per second.</div>
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For photos and videos, the 5S relies on electronic stabilisation. It does a decent job at reducing camera shake. Two extra features you'll find in the Camera app are Time-lapse and slo-mo video. With slo-mo, the 5S shoots at 1280x720 (720p) at 120fps. This is half the rate of the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. You can choose in the resulting clip where to drag the two sliders to apply the slo-mo effect. There's a smooth change in speed at those points as you can see in the example clips below</div>
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Things made in China often carry a bad rep: after all, being affordable is often given as their first and foremost virtue. You can't deny that being competitive in terms of price is what Chinese companies are great at, but recently they have picked up the pace when it comes to innovation. Just look at the chart of the world's biggest phone makers in 2015: <a class="previewtooltip" data-id="79187" data-type="article" href="http://www.phonearena.com/news/The-state-of-the-smartphone-industry-in-2015-top-10-phone-makers-the-losers-and-winners_id79187" style="color: #218cc3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">7 out of the top 10 are from China</a>. This is no coincidence: the Chinese market has grown hugely, but it is also international buyers that appreciate the work done by Chinese Android phone makers.</div>
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With rising stars like Xiaomi and Meizu working along with the heavyweights from Lenovo and Huawei, there is quite a lot of exciting new Chinese phones that you should know about.<br />
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We bring you just that: these are the best Chinese Android phones in various price tiers: from the premium, top-tier phones to the affordable ones. Take a look.</div>
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The OnePlus 3 is the first OnePlus phones to truly feel mature: gone are the experimental sandstone finishes, gone is the extremely annoying invitation system and coming to replace them is a phone that feels well-built and very solid. The OnePlus 3 might not have any gimmicky features that would make it espcially unique, but it does have that special $400 price tag in a world of similarly-specced $800 phones, and it does feature one solid and fast performance.<br />
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Huawei had phenomenal growth last year, finishing as the world's third-largest phone maker behind giants like Samsung and Apple.<br />
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<a class="previewtooltip" data-id="10068" data-type="phone" href="http://www.phonearena.com/phones/ZTE-Axon-7_id10068" style="color: #218cc3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">ZTE Axon 7</a> | <a class="previewtooltip" data-id="10222" data-type="phone" href="http://www.phonearena.com/phones/ZTE-Axon-7-Mini_id10222" style="color: #218cc3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">7 Mini</a></h3>
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ZTE is serious about entering the US market and this year it's introduced not one, but two phones for the US market: the 5.5" ZTE Axon 7 and its slightly smaller sibling, the 5.2" Axon 7 Mini. You can already buy the former for $400, a delicious price given the generous specs: Snapdragon 820, 4GB of RAM and a whopping 64GB of storage, while the latter is up for pre-order at a still enticing $300 price. There is one important thing that users have to consider when thinking about getting either one of these: the Android custom skin used on both is plenty different from most others and takes some getting used to. Plus, camera performance seems to be just slightly below the like of the OnePlus 3, but is still not bad by any means. The remarkable thing about the Axon family is the dual front-facing speakers that produce clear and loud audio, great for those YouTube and Facebook video addicts, as well as for those who listen to music via the speakers.</div>
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<a class="previewtooltip" data-id="10185" data-type="phone" href="http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Meizu-MX6_id10185" style="color: #218cc3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Meizu MX6</a></h3>
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The Meizu MX6 is a thin and stylish phone made out of aluminum and priced competitively when compared against mainstream flagships. Still, for a Chinese phone, it is not a cheap device, but there seems to be good reason for it. It performs well, has a smooth and stutter-free interface, as well as a seriously impressive battery life, but is not particularly outstanding in terms of camera performance and has a few peculiarities in the menu system. Also, 4G LTE band support is extremely limited, so chances are that this will only work as a 3G phone in many markets. Nonetheless, it's a device worth looking for,</div>
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LeEco Le Pro 3</h3>
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LeEco is something like China's Netflix, except it also makes its own hardware, and in the past couple of years it has been making phone. The Le Pro 3 is the first phone that will actually be available in the United States, and that's a big step for the company. So what makes the Le Pro 3 special? It's certainly the value: at $400 this is yet another phone offering incredible value for the money. The phone is also thin, stylish and very good looking. It's in fact one of the first phones to come with the latest and most powerful chip by Qualcomm: the Snapdragon 821, along with 4GB of RAM and a generous 64GB of storage. Unfortunately, the Le Pro 3 has fallen victim to the no-3.5mm headphone jack trend, and you will only be able to use its USB-C port to connect headphones (if you have ones that support USB-C connection).</div>
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Xiaomi, China's most talked about tech prodigy, seems to have fallen a bit out of grace in the past year or so. Its phones generally offer great value for the money, but they also have very limited 4G LTE band support and fail to deliver push notification for many messengers, both significant issues that make dealing with them a big hassle. Still, if you're interested in the Xiaomi ecosystem, its Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus both provide the firepower in terms of adequate specs at a great price.</div>
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Nonetheless, if you want to save those few bucks, the Mi 4s is not a bad phone: it offers a fingerprint scanner on the back and solid performance with the MIUI custom interface. It lacks the super fast auto-focus from the Mi 5 and a few other premium features, so we would really advice you to spend a few bucks more and get the higher-end Mi 5, it's worth it.</div>
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The Mi Note is the best phone of one of the fastest growing phone companies in the world - Xiaomi.<br />
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Once known for making Apple knock-offs, Xiaomi's flagship phone is an original design that not only looks great, but seems to be the inspiration for others (that's only a theory, but just look at how similar to it the new Galaxy Note looks!). The Mi Note is an exceptional value for the money: it has that sharp visual style, but also a very-well polished MIUI skin with tons of features and a very smooth performance, it has a great camera, and very good battery life. The big issue with it is that it's not officially available in the United States - you can import it for a slight premium, though, to have a phone unlike any others.<br />
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The MX5 is a device with a sturdy all-aluminum frame that exudes a premium feel, it features a very typical for Meizu design and the clean and good-looking Flyme user interface (now running on top of Android 5 Lollipop). The Meizu MX5 is a great value for the money: it's a 5.5-inch phone with a (not so great) AMOLED screen, and it's powered by the MediaTek Helio X10 system chip - an octa-core Cortex A53 affair clocked at up to 2.2GHz, and with 3GB of RAM. The phone features a 20-megapixel main camera and a snappy fingerprint scanner as well. While we do have some gripes about this phone, it remains an extremely solid choice for price conscious buyers.<br />
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 3</h3>
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The 5.5-inch Redmi Note 3 phablet arrived just several months after the launch of the otherwise identical in terms of specs and silicon Redmi Note 2. Unlike its predecessor, though, the Redmi Note 3 features a much better-looking metal design at the same price point, plus it comes with a fingerprint scanner.</div>
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Under the hood, it has the MediaTek Helio X10 system chip. You can get it in either its 16GB storage / 2GB RAM version, or beefed-up 32GB storage / 3GB RAM model. It's not just the processor that catches the eye in the Redmi Note 3, though. It's also got a 13-megapixel camera with ultra-fast phase-detection auto-focus, a feature previously reserved for costlier devices.</div>
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Honor, a sub-brand of Chinese Huawei, delivers a stylish metal phone with a 5.5" 1080p display, a fingerprint scanner and the very decent Snapdragon 615 system chip for a very alluring price. </div>
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The only downside to this phone is the somewhat unusual and a bit clunky user interface, but for all else this is a really good-looking device that packs much more style than other affordable phones and is worth consideration. </div>
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The Meizu M3 Note is a re-fresh on an already familiar Meizu design. With a great-looking 5.5-inch 1080 x 1920-pixel display with the traditionally fast Meizu interface, and with a well-performing camera, the M3 Note checks all the essential boxes. Plus, it has very good battery life.</div>
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The Xiaomi Redmi 3 is a beastly lil' thing: while a 5-inch 720p display does not sound like cream of the crop, when you pair it with a massive for this size, 4,100mAh battery, the result is truly outstanding battery life. The handset also looks good: it's made out of metal, comes in a choice of three iPhone-like colors, and looks very stylish, especially when you consider its price tag. </div>
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The new Meizu m3 is a direct answer to the stellar Xiaomi Redmi 3. And boy, what an answer: with a similar price, the m3 has a very refined and likable design, and adds the fingerprint scanner many Meizu phones don't have. It runs the custom Meizu skin that is particularly fluid and runs well, it offers a very good camera and great iconography. Not bad for such an affordable phone, is it?</div>
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Xiaomi's contender in the ultra affordable phone space is the Redmi 2 Pro. It is a much needed upgrade to the original Redmi 2, as it arrives with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, and that ensures much faster performance and better experience over the original 1GB RAM/8GB storage model. The Redmi 2 Pro has the MIUI custom skin on its side - a powerful, feature-rich skin that runs impressively smoothly, and it captures great looking images. Plus, it features above-average battery life for nearly two-day longevity.</div>
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Android is by far the most popular smartphone OS - 7 out every 8 phones run some version of it. And yet its purest form, a Nexus device, is anything but dominant in the marketplace. A rebranding effort sees the "Google phones" change the name to Pixel in the hope to change the popularity as well.</div>
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The Pixel and Pixel XL maintain the 0.5" difference in screen size, but drop to 5" and 5.5" respectively. Aside from screen size and the battery, the two metal body phones have virtually the same hardware.</div>
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Both now use AMOLED screens - this is a requirement for Daydream VR, they can change pixels faster with minimal ghosting. The screen has to have at least 1080p resolution, further the phone needs 4GB (or more) of RAM and run Android Nougat. This is essentially the 5" Google Pixel.</div>
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Google Pixel at a glance:</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Body:</b> Metal unibody</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Screen:</b> 5" 1080p AMOLED screen (441ppi); Gorilla Glass 4</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">OS:</b> Android 7.1 Nougat; Android Assistant</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chipset:</b> Snapdragon 821</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Memory:</b> 4GB of RAM; 32GB or 128GB storage</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Camera:</b> 12MP (f/2.0, 1.55µm); EIS, 8MP selfie camera</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video:</b> 2160p</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Connectivity:</b> LTE (Cat. 9-12); Wi-Fi calling; USB Type-C</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Battery:</b> 2,770mAh (32h talk time, 552h standby); Fast charging (7h talk time in 15min)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Misc:</b> Fingerprint reader</li>
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The larger Pixel XL goes up to QHD resolution and a higher pixel density. It has the same amount of RAM and storage options, though - 32GB or 128GB. Before you ask, there's no microSD slot, but Google Photos can free up storage by moving photos and videos to the cloud.</div>
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The LG V20 may have been the first phone with Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box, but the Pixels one up it - literally, they come with 7.1 Nougat. Google Assistant is Google Now's more talkative, more pro-active sibling. It promises to learn the more you use it and become more helpful in time.</div>
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Google Pixel XL at a glance:</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Body:</b> Metal unibody</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Screen:</b> 5.5" QHD AMOLED screen (534ppi); Gorilla Glass 4</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">OS:</b> Android 7.1 Nougat; Android Assistant</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chipset:</b> Snapdragon 821</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Memory:</b> 4GB of RAM; 32GB or 128GB storage</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Camera:</b> 12MP (f/2.0, 1.55µm); EIS, 8MP selfie camera</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video:</b> 2160p</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Connectivity:</b> LTE (Cat. 9-12); Wi-Fi calling; USB Type-C</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Battery:</b> 3,450mAh (26h talk time, 456h standby); Fast charging (7h talk time in 15min)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Misc:</b> Fingerprint reader</li>
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The cameras use 12MP sensors with 1.55µm pixels behind an f/2.0 aperture - it sounds just like the Nexus 5X/6P camera, which was excellent. It's not a verbatim copy, new Electronic Image Stabilization is present.</div>
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The talk around town is that Android and Chrome OS will merge in the near future, but product branding is already merging - Pixel was used for the premium Chromebooks and later for a first-class Android tablet. However, this is the first time it embodies a phone.</div>
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HTC is the company manufacturing the Pixel and Pixel XL - a 5" and a 5.5" version of mostly the same hardware. The Taiwanese company is going back to its roots of an ODM - a Pixel is a "Phone by Google", there's no endorsement of HTC's involvement. Google is about hardware now and it's only braning we'll see from now on on these devices.</div>
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This stands in stark contrast to the Nexus line - they were branded "Nexus" and with their manufacturer's logo. But the Pixel phones are not the new Nexus phones - Google is rebooting the entire lineup. The search engine company is no longer a software company - it's now in the consumer electronics business as well.</div>
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The Pixel and Pixel XL are the children of Google's new hardware division and this is a key selling point.</div>
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And they can connect to a Google Wi-Fi router, interact with the Google Chromecast Plus and other devices in the fast-growing eco-system of G-branded products. But as phone buffs, we jumped on the Pixels first.</div>
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Introduction</h3>
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Asus has been making phones for a few years now but the company hadn't quite managed to leave a mark on the market and the consumers' mind. That changed a bit with last year's ZenFone 2 series that offered unheard of specs at incredible prices, which made them quite popular among the budget conscious users.</div>
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This year the ZenFone 3 series is a bit different. Asus seems to have no interest to appeal to the budget market and is going straight for the flagship segment.</div>
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The first phone in the series to be launched is the simple-named ZenFone 3. Okay, calling it 'simple-named' downplays the fact that there are in fact two distinct model names - the<a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_3_ze552kl-8106.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ZE552KL</a> and the <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_3_ze520kl-8197.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ZE520KL</a> - and that's without counting the extra Zenfone 3 phones in the family - <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_3_max_zc520tl-8207.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Max</a>, <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_3_deluxe_zs570kl-8129.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deluxe</a>, <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_3_laser_zc551kl-8206.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laser</a>, and <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_3_ultra_zu680kl-8130.php" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ultra</a>. Confused enough? Well, don't be, these models will likely never be available on a single market simultaneously, so it's only websites that cater to several regions that need to make sense out of it.</div>
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Today we're previewing the Asus Zenfone 3 ZE552KL to be more precise. It's got a bigger screen, more memory and storage, and larger battery than its similarly named sibling and yet, with a price around $300-350, it costs less than the other Zenfone 3 phones.</div>
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Here's a brief version of the complete specs list before we continue.</div>
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Asus Zenfone 3 ZE552KL at a glance:</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Qualcomm Snapdragon 625; 2.0GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, Adreno 506 GPU</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">4GB RAM, 64GB storage with microSD expansion</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dual SIM support (hybrid slot)</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">16 megapixel rear camera, f/2.0, laser/PDAF, OIS+EIS, 4K video, dual LED flash</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 megapixel front camera, f/2.0</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rear-mounted fingerprint reader</li>
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We spent a few days with the new ZenFone 3 to get a feel of how Asus's smartphone lineup is looking this year so join us on the next page for our impressions. Spoiler alert: It's looking pretty good.</div>
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Look, it's the Nexus 6P! But smaller. Well, not really - it's the Huawei nova. It's a star in the making, and you can find it in the mid-range cluster of the company's mobile universe. The nova takes after the flagship-grade Nexus 6P, which unsurprisingly, is also Huawei-made.</div>
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The Huawei nova is a new take on the mid-range smartphones introducing a pinch of premium feel over the mandatory hardware minimum. And Huawei has never been about just ticking a few boxes; instead, they always strive to find a way to add a twist here and there for a richer user experience.</div>
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Indeed, the nova is as stunning as the P9 because both share similar looks, but its 1080p IPS display has been trimmed down to just 5". The chipset has been swapped with the energy-efficient Snapdragon 625, which is an excellent choice for the class and a wise decision for an optimal battery performance.</div>
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Finally, there is a single 12MP camera on the back, which may be single and without the Leica branding, but it's as promising, at least on paper. Before we continue, check the full specs of the Huawei nova.</div>
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Huawei nova key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5" IPS LCD display of 1920x1080 pixels resolution, 441ppi</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full metal unibody design out of airplane-grade aluminum</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset, octa-core 2.0GHz Cortex-A53 CPU; Adreno 506 GPU</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
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The lack of any information on the screen protection is as disturbing as it was a few Huawei smartphones ago. We have already confirmed that a few of Huawei's latest displays are easy to scratch, and that's probably the nova case, too. And it's beyond us why the Huawei nova lacks dual-band Wi-Fi support as the chipset natively supports it.</div>
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The sooner we let go of those two omissions, the sooner we'll jump onto our traditional hardware checkup.</div>
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Xiaomi is a privately owned company that designs, develops, and sells smartphones, an Android-based OS, and other consumer electronics. Xiaomi also makes fitness trackers, TVs, air purifiers, and tablets. It has a skin for its Android phones and tablets – MIUI. The company largely sells its phones via flash sales in India.</div>
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<tr class="firstrow" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: none; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Release date</td><td style="border-top: none; color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%"><span itemprop="releaseDate">August 2015</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Dimensions (mm)</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%"><span itemprop="height">152.00</span> x <span itemprop="width">76.00</span> x <span itemprop="depth">8.25</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Weight (g)</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">160.00</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Battery capacity (mAh)</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">3060</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Removable battery</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">SAR value</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">NA</td></tr>
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DISPLAY</div>
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<tr class="firstrow" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: none; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Screen size (inches)</td><td style="border-top: none; color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">5.50</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Touchscreen</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Resolution</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">1080x1920 pixels</td></tr>
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HARDWARE</div>
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<tr class="firstrow" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: none; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Processor</td><td style="border-top: none; color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">2.2GHz octa-core</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Processor make</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">MediaTek Helio X10</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">RAM</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">2GB</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Internal storage</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">32GB</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Expandable storage</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Expandable storage type</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">microSD</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Expandable storage up to (GB)</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">32</td></tr>
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CAMERA</div>
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<tr class="firstrow" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: none; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Rear camera</td><td style="border-top: none; color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">13-megapixel</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Flash</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Front camera</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">5-megapixel</td></tr>
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SOFTWARE</div>
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<tr class="firstrow" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: none; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Operating System</td><td style="border-top: none; color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Android 5.0</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Skin</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">MIUI 7</td></tr>
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CONNECTIVITY</div>
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<tr class="firstrow" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: none; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Wi-Fi</td><td style="border-top: none; color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Wi-Fi standards supported</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">802.11 a/ b/ g/ n/ ac</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">GPS</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Bluetooth</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes, v 4.00</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">NFC</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">No</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Infrared</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">USB OTG</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Headphones</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">3.5mm</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">FM</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Number of SIMs</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">2</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td class="spec_head" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;"><strong>SIM 1</strong></td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;"> </td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">SIM Type</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Micro-SIM</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">GSM/ CDMA</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">GSM</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">3G</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">4G/ LTE</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Supports 4G in India (Band 40)</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td class="spec_head" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;"><strong>SIM 2</strong></td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;"> </td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">SIM Type</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Micro-SIM</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">GSM/ CDMA</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">GSM</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">3G</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">4G/ LTE</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Supports 4G in India (Band 40)</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
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SENSORS</div>
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<tr class="firstrow" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: none; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Compass/ Magnetometer</td><td style="border-top: none; color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;" width="50%">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Proximity sensor</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Accelerometer</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Ambient light sensor</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Gyroscope</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">Yes</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Barometer</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">No</td></tr>
<tr style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); padding: 5px 10px;">Temperature sensor</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-weight: 600; padding: 5px 10px;">No</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-91453875616783780672016-07-05T07:48:00.000-07:002016-10-11T07:49:53.918-07:00Twice as bright LG V20 review<h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: Arimo, Google-Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 1em 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Introduction</h3>
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If the LG V20 was a superhero - and we're not convinced that it's not - its superpower would be to have two of everything (or more!). Two screens, two cameras, four DACs, two apps on the screen, the list goes on and on.</div>
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The LG V20 is an exploration into the future of smartphone multimedia. It continues LG's pioneering work with dual-cameras (the wide+normal kind) that a certain market leader recently adopted. It's a pocket music studio too. Its mics can record the loudest rock concert with perfect clarity - 24-bit/192kHZ FLAC audio. Playback is stellar too, it can drive studio-quality high impedance headphones with its four DACs.</div>
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One day we'd certainly remember the LG V20 as a pioneer in many respects. It sure is the first with Android 7.0 Nougat, but what else? Here's the full specs list to get you started.</div>
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Key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aluminum AL-6013 body; MIL-STD-810G shock resistance</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.7" IPS LCD display, Quad HD resolution (513ppi); Secondary 2.1" display (160 x 1040px)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Snapdragon 820 chip: quad-core Kryo processor (up to 2.15GHz), Adreno 530 GPU, 4GB of RAM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">16MP (f/1.8) + 8 MP (f/2.4) main camera setup; OIS; laser autofocus; LED flash, 2160p video capture with lossless sound, SteadyRecord 2.0, 5MP (f/1.9) selfie camera (wide and normal modes)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">First phone with Android 7.0. Nougat with Optimus UI 5.0</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">32GB/64GB built-in storage plus microSD card slot</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quad DAC; 24-bit FLAC audio recording; B&O Play headphones bundled in some markets</li>
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Main cons</h3>
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LG overengineered the V20 in the best sense of the word, other phones will be playing catch up to some features well into 2017, not to mention the physical durability of the phone.</div>
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It is built with high-quality aluminum and its durability measures up to military standards, yet it keeps the removable back and battery (coveted features few flagships offer).</div>
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The V20 audio credentials are insane. The camera too finds a way to one-up the competition and is the first to use Qualcomm's digital image stabilization that augments the optical system.</div>
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And did we mention it launches with Android 7.0 Nougat before even the new Google Pixel phones are announced let alone available? Oh, yeah, we did.</div>
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In many ways, the LG V20 is a preview of what features other flagships will have next year. But there's no need to wait - the future came early. Join us in exploring it on the following pages.</div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Note: This review is based on a pre-production LG V20 unit and certain aspects of its performance might change. We'll update this review as soon as possible once a retail-ready review unit is available.</i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-21139376922554547172016-06-07T07:50:00.000-07:002016-10-11T07:51:38.669-07:00Jacked up Apple iPhone 7 review<h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: Arimo, Google-Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 1em 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Introduction</h3>
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On the seventh day the designers rested. In came the engineers. And the master of controversy struck again.</div>
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Apple is proud of the bold move of removing the audio jack. But in pretty much every other aspect they've seemingly taken the conservative route. On the outside, the new iPhone looks basically the same as the iPhone 6/6s.</div>
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Well, it's not as easy as that. The iPhone 7 is in many ways a better phone. We can see some of the issues we had with the last iPhone sorted and, no, we are not claiming credit for it - simply acknowledging the fact.</div>
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Waterproofing, stereo speakers and, finally, reasonable storage options - and that's on top of the usual performance upgrades we've come to take for granted every year. Think this is the story of the iPhone 7? Apple's first water-resistant handset, first quad-core processor, first pair of stereo speakers on a phone.</div>
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Not trying to build suspense. The story has been hijacked and you know it. But we're going to tell it anyway.</div>
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Key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Water-proof metal unibody with redesigned, less-obtrusive antenna strips</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.7" 16M-color LED-backlit IPS LCD of 750 x 1334px resolution, 326ppi, wide color gamut, 3D Touch tech</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pressure-sensitive Home key powered by a brand new Taptic Engine</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quad-core (2+2) 64-bit Apple CPU, hexa-core GPU, 2GB of RAM, Apple A10 Fusion SoC</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">12MP F/1.8 camera with a quad-LED flash, optical image stabilization, phase detection auto focus, wide color capture, face and body detection; 2160p@30fps video recording</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">7MP F/2.2 front-facing camera with BSI sensor and HDR mode, 1080p@30fps video</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Comes in 32, 128, and 256GB of built-in storage</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Second-gen Touch ID fingerprint sensor</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">4G LTE Cat.12 (600Mbps); Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac; Bluetooth 4.2; Lightning port; GPS with A-GPS and GLONASS; NFC (Apple Pay only)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">1,960mAh battery</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No 3.5mm audio jack (ships with a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No microSD slot</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No dual-camera of the iPhone 7 Plus</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">NFC functionality limited to Apple Pay</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still no fast or wireless charging, no IR port or FM radio</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No user-replaceable battery</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scratch-prone Jet Black model</li>
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Once you wrap your head around the missing audio jack (it's not the end of it, you can get a designated adapter for your favorite headphones), the Apple iPhone 7 is a major upgrade. IP67-certified water-resistant body. Bigger and brighter camera with OIS. New FaceTime cam. Stereo speakers. Faster processor and 50% GPU performance increase, more RAM. New pressure-sensitive Home key powered by a new taptic engine. Revised storage options.</div>
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The new Home button, rather the lack thereof, is nearly as controversial as the missing audio jack. Apple used the same taptic engine behind the MacBook's trackpad, so things might actually turn out better there.</div>
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Apple doubled the storage capacity on all three flavors, so it finally starts at 32GB, the other two being 128GB or 256GB. Unfortunately, fast or wireless charging still doesn't mean anything to Apple, which is a shame in 2016.</div>
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Anyway, the iPhone 7 is ready to get unwrapped, so let's get to it. Head to the next page for our traditional hardware and exterior checkup.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-3808121422220755652016-01-21T03:47:00.000-08:002016-10-11T08:31:45.014-07:00The GSMArena tablet buyer's guide<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
It's that time again - the summer edition of our tablet buyer's guide is up so you can go slate-shopping the right way.</div>
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Since the last issue back in February, a lot of new devices have hit the market and we've done our best to include the right ones complete with their price tags and relevant alternatives.</div>
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Just like before, the list of suggested tablets is broken down in three tiers: compact, mid and full-size. The devices in each category are sorted by price, low to high. There are cheap gadgets that are a worth a look (in our humble opinion) and it's entirely up to you whether you'll make a move for the premium offerings or some reasonably-priced options.</div>
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The list of compact tablets welcomes back some golden oldies like the Nexus 7 (2013) which has had another price cut, while others have failed to stay competitive and therefore had to go.</div>
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The mid-sized tablet market remains the busiest and it's here that we saw the most meaningful price reductions. Some notable newcomers such as the Nokia N1 and the Dell Venue 8 7000 are rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Lenovo Tab S8, Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact and Nvidia Shield, which have gotten cheaper.</div>
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As for the full-sized tablet market, things have remained mostly unchanged save for a few tablets that have had a slight discount.</div>
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As usual, at the end of our guide we look at what didn't make the cut. We have some very big names there that you'd think are a cinch to recommend but it isn't actually that simple. Stay tuned for that one.</div>
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As usual <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">we don't feature Windows tablets</b> as we have very few of them in our database and we generally feel they are outside our focus. They're practically PCs and not the web and multimedia oriented tablets we deal with here.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-32896585775270863362016-01-04T09:28:00.000-08:002016-10-11T08:30:19.273-07:00Asian shadow Vivo X5Max review<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
It's not every day we have a true record holder in our hands, and that's exactly what we were getting ready for waiting for the vivo X5Max to arrive. The slimmest smartphone in the world for more than six months now, the 4.75-mm X5Max snatched a crown that had been tossed between the Gionee Elife S5.1 and the Oppo R5, each of them holding it for a fleeting month or so.</div>
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You can then imagine our disappointment when it turned out we have the global version, which is "only" the third-slimmest phone in the world. A fraction of a millimeter thicker than the China model, the vivo X5Max is an extraordinarily slim device nonetheless, most certain to impress with a profile you wouldn't normally attribute to a smartphone.</div>
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It really looks almost like a planar object, its two dimensions much greater that the third, so to speak, in math terms.</div>
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In terms of hardware, the X5Max is less exciting, relying on the now ubiquitous midrange Snapdragon 615, coupled with the equally commonplace 2GB of RAM. It doesn't skimp on features though sporting a 13MP primary camera behind a fast f/2.0 lens, as well as a 5MP front-facer.</div>
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A 5.5-inch FullHD display helps keep thickness in check thanks to the Super AMOLED tech, while providing the signature colors and contrast. The extra 0.33mm thickness have allowed designers to fit a larger-capacity battery, though it still looks underpowered on paper for its screen size.</div>
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Key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dual-SIM dual-standby capability, microSD slot shared with second SIM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.5" 1080p Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 401ppi</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU (4x 1.5GHz plus 4x 1.0GHz), 2GB of RAM, Adreno 405 GPU; Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">13MP autofocus camera, f/2.0 lens, single-LED flash; HDR, Panorama, Night, Pro mode with long exposure (up to 32s)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">1080@30fps, 1/4x slow motion video recording, 10x speed timelapse</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">16GB of built-in storage</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
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Another in a long line of designer Chinese smartphones, the vivo X5Max relies on the proven formula of striking looks and all-round capable hardware. We don't expect it to outperform flagships, but its priorities lie elsewhere and the X5Max scores high on style. While it will certainly be on the short list of anyone looking to stand out, the smartphone needs to prove it has enough substance to match its upmarket exterior.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-24671723201985603842015-12-28T07:22:00.000-08:002016-10-11T08:28:44.740-07:00Changing course Oppo R7 review<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Once the world's slimmest smartphone, the Oppo R5 has found a worthy heir in the face of the new R7. With the crown already forfeited, the company chose to walk out of that fight and made the R7 a touch thicker, but it still has every bit of the upmarket feel of the R5.</div>
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Although it may have lost the wow factor of the razor-thin R5, the R7 is an equally fine-looking smartphone, if not even more so. The metal back with the etched Oppo logo flows into the surrounding frame forming a unibody construction, and the front glass, gently curved at the edges (what has become known as 2.5D), is a pleasure to touch and behold.</div>
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By the way, we don't consider the R7 to be a replacement of the R5, as plenty of their hardware is practically shared. It's simply a more balanced device, its priorities gently guided in the right direction. Frankly, the push for slimness at all cost has never been our thing.</div>
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Hope you don't get this wrong, at 6.3mm the Oppo R7 is not exactly what you'd call bulky. The extra thickness has allowed for a welcome increase in battery capacity, a major weakness of the 4.85mm R5.</div>
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Rumors prior to launch hinted at a bezelless or edge-to-edge display, but this proved not to be the case. The R7 Plus is somewhat closer to that description, although it still doesn't truly amaze.</div>
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Instead the R7 packs a 5-inch AMOLED display, a careful step back from the 5.2 inches of the R5. This was perhaps done to clearly separate the R7 from its bigger brother, the 6-inch R7 Plus. Plus, as we said, battery life is now a priority and a slightly trimmed screen should help there, too.</div>
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The 3GB of RAM is another notch on the score sheet, and so is the introduction of a microSD slot - most welcome really given the rather limiting 16GB of built-in storage. It's the increasingly more common type, where the memory card shares a slot with the second SIM card - not the most convenient solution, but a compromise most will be willing to make.</div>
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We have Snapdragon 615 in charge, and that keeps the R5 firmly grounded in the midrange, regardless of how much RAM Oppo fits, or how spectacular the body looks. That said, the chipset is a proven performer in its class.</div>
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The primary camera remains at 13MP but now uses a Samsung ISOCELL sensor instead of Sony's in the R5. It's now graced with a Schneider-Kreuznach-branded lens, though it's gone a bit dimmer. On the front you get a new 8MP shooter, the highest pixel count in the company's lineup, if you leave the rotating N-series out of it.</div>
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Key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.0" 1080p AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 445ppi, Gorilla Glass 3</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU (4x 1.46GHz plus 4x 1.11GHz), 3GB of RAM, Adreno 405 GPU; Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">13MP phase detection autofocus camera with Samsung ISOCELL sensor, f/2.2 lens, single-LED flash; HDR, Expert, RAW, Panorama, Long exposure (up to 16s), Double exposure, 50MP UltraHD modes</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">1080@30fps, 1/4x slow motion video recording, 10x speed timelapse</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">8MP front camera, 1080p video recording</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">2,320mAh battery capacity</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
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You'd also be happy to learn than the R7 can take standard 3.5mm jack headphones, while the R5 sacrificed that feature in the push for thinness. There's still no FM radio to be found on the new model, but that's more of a niggle than a serious omission.</div>
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Oppo says it's working on a Lollipop build for the R7, but it was obviously not ready in time for launch, and we'll try not to hold that against it. ColorOS, on the other hand, has seen a few polishing touches in its 2.1 version, but in essence remains a heavily customized, iOS-inspired Android overlay.</div>
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As you can see, there's plenty to explore underneath the pretty shell, but in typical GSMArena fashion we'll start with the unboxing and hardware overview.</div>
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The summer isn't always the best time to get a new smartphone. Most people have other things on their mind and even the makers are taking a break after a busy start of the season. CES, MWC and a couple of major one-off launches have filled in the blanks as far as flagships go. The next major event is IFA, a couple of months from now.</div>
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So, to buy or not to buy? This sounds like the right question right now but there's more than one way to look at it. The current season's flagships will only be getting cheaper from now until Christmas but the prices have at least somewhat settled after the post-launch euphoria.</div>
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Last season's best have stepped down the food chain and their prices have responded accordingly.</div>
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In the midrange, some fresh offers are joining, with post release's sales momentum just settled down.</div>
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As usual for our shopping guides, this summer edition will be driven by price tag. We'll warm up with a look at the sub-€100 category first, and each chapter to follow will raise the bid. There's plenty on offer for every budget, taste and need.</div>
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The entry-level segment is where the picture is the most diverse - there are different shapes and sizes, camera specs and operating systems. As you move up the budget scale, you start stumbling upon former flagships, long past their glory days but with still enough to offer the right users. The expensive premium categories are growing thinner but we've tried to find the right picks in each.</div>
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While we strived for variety and value, it's important to note that we only listed phones of reasonably wide availability. Single carrier or single country phones did not make the cut. Of course, many phones didn't get a nod either as others were cheaper or better, or both. Check the final chapter for what was left out and why.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-53573885021135213892015-11-26T01:07:00.000-08:002016-10-11T08:25:39.687-07:00HTC One E9+ review<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
If you want HTC's highest-specced, big-screened QHD smartphone, the One E9+ is very likely the one you're looking for. Only the lack of the signature all-metal unibody saves the company's reigning flagship a good deal of embarrassment.</div>
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It's quite hard to actually decide which precise model sits atop HTC's 2015 One lineup, and there may well be more than one correct answer. You have the M9, obviously, which has Qualcomm's latest chipset inside and the metal design to appeal to your sense of style, but sticks with a FullHD 5-inch screen.</div>
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Midway up the size ladder, you'll find the 5.2-inch QHD M9+, which retains the metal unibody and adds a second camera on the back, as well as a fingerprint sensor, but opts for an arguably inferior Mediatek chipset. There's an almost identical ME version, which comes with a single rear camera, and comes with a polycarbonate body.</div>
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All that builds up to the HTC One E9+, which has finally landed in our hands. It has the largest 5.5-inch QHD screen of the bunch (so, not to be confused with the E9, which is apparently a China-only 1080p 5.5-incher), a slightly downclocked version of the same Mediatek chipset and a polycarbonate build.</div>
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With the family relations (somewhat) settled, let's move on to the list of key specs.</div>
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Key features:</h3>
<ul class="article-blurb article-blurb-features" style="background-color: rgba(230, 230, 230, 0.498039); border-color: rgba(88, 160, 22, 0.498039); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 60px; padding-bottom: 1.4em; padding-left: 30px !important; padding-right: 30px !important; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 727px;">
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Polycarbonate body, soft matte finish, thin and light for its size</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.5" 1440p capacitive touchscreen with 534pi; Corning Gorilla Glass 4</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mediatek MT6795M (Helio X10) chipset with a 2GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, PowerVR G6200 GPU, 3GB of RAM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android 5.0.2 Lollipop with HTC Sense 7 UI</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 & 5 GHz); DLNA, WiFi direct, hotspot</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">20MP AF camera with a 1/2.3" BSI sensor; 27.8mm f/2.2 lens; single-LED flash; 2160p@30fps video capture, 720p@120fps slow motion</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">4MP fixed-focus UltraPixel front-facing camera with a BSI sensor; 26.2mm f/2.0 lens; HDR; 1080p video recording</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">32GB of built-in memory; microSD card slot; 100GB of free Google Drive storage for 2 years</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dual nanoSIM slots, LTE Cat.4, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, NFC, Bluetooth 4.1, FM radio; microUSB 2.0 port, MHL, USB host</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Active noise cancellation with a dedicated microphone</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Front-facing stereo speakers with BoomSound and Dolby Audio</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">2,800mAh battery</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tall for a 5.5-inch phone, massive top and bottom bezels</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Non-removable battery</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chipset looks more suited to a mid-ranger</li>
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You can see why one might get confused. The HTC One E9+ has all the makings of a modern day high-end device, albeit in a rather understated package. And it's not like HTC hasn't done it before, last generation's E8 was just that - a flagship in disguise. Only, now HTC is giving you even more options and it's not a simple price-vs-looks dilemma.</div>
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It is, however, the first time we get to see the Mediatek MT6795 in action (also going by the PR-friendly Helio X10). It's an interesting decision by HTC part to equip all its QHD smartphones so far with the Mediatek top-of-the-line solution and reserve the Snapdragon 810 for the FullHD One M9.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-78493638645330180772015-11-10T02:36:00.000-08:002016-10-11T08:24:15.253-07:00The triathlete Samsung Galaxy S6 Active review<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Once again its June and time for Samsung to present us with a rugged version of its latest range-topping smartphone. This year, once more exclusively for AT&T, it is Samsung Galaxy S6 Active that enters the spotlight with camouflage livery, gobs of tech, and tough build.</div>
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For a second year in a row, Samsung has made sure that the Galaxy S6 Active is not simply a rugged version of the incumbent flagship by adding unique features to it. Last year, the Korean giant added a customizable shortcut button for quick access to an Activity app.</div>
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This year, in addition to the above feature, Samsung Galaxy S6 Active also packs a massive 3,500mAh battery. The latter is roughly 40% larger than the 2,550mAh unit found in the regular model and promises to be a boon for the device's target audience.</div>
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Key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">MIL-STD-810G certification for salt, dust, humidity, rain, vibration, solar radiation, transport and thermal shock resistance</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">IP68 certification for dust and water resistance (submersible up to 1.5 m of water for up to 30 minutes)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5.1" Super AMOLED of QHD (1440 x 2560) resolution, class-leading ~577ppi, Corning Gorilla Glass 4</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Exynos 7420 64-bit chipset, octa-core processor with four 2.1GHz Cortex-A57's and four 1.5GHz Cortex-A53 cores, Mali-T760 MP8 GPU, 3GB of RAM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android 5.0.2 Lollipop with TouchWiz UX</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">16MP camera, f/1.9 aperture, 4K video recording, LED flash, optical image stabilization</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5MP front-facing camera, f/1.9 aperture, QHD video, HDR</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">32GB of built-in UFS 2.0 storage</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Active noise cancellation via dedicated mic</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Customizable shortcut button</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">LTE Cat.6, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, NFC, IR port, Bluetooth 4.1, ANT+</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heart-rate sensor, barometer, SpO2</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">3,500mAh battery; wireless charging (Qi/PMA)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No price premium over the regular model (on AT&T)</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
<ul class="article-blurb article-blurb-disadvantages" style="background-color: rgba(230, 230, 230, 0.498039); border-color: rgb(237, 157, 157); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 60px; padding-bottom: 1.4em; padding-left: 30px !important; padding-right: 30px !important; padding-top: 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 727px;">
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Available with only 32GB of onboard memory</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No microSD card slot</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Battery is not user-replaceable</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No stereo speakers</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No fingerprint sensor</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Available only for AT&T (at least for now)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gobs of carrier bloatware preinstalled</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not exactly a looker</li>
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As you can see above, Samsung Galaxy S6 Active is the same technological powerhouse as its regular sibling, but with with added water, shock and dust resistance. After a quick glance, some might even argue that the newcomer is the pick in the Galaxy S6 range thanks to its aforementioned quality and the massive 3,500mAh battery.</div>
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Limited availability and memory capacity are the handset's biggest drawbacks at a quick glance, though Samsung might remedy both should it decide to launch an global variant of the device. The lack of fingerprint sensor is arguably another downer, though the target audience for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active will likely appreciate the sturdier navigation buttons better.</div>
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As always, we are going to kick the review off with unboxing, followed by our take on the design and build. Head over to the next page for a closer look at the Samsung S6 Active and its camouflage outfit.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-43846908893223145992015-10-30T01:30:00.000-07:002016-10-11T08:22:37.996-07:00Nokia N1 review<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's Devices & Services division was one of the toughest tech breakups. Nokia has sort of a comeback to consumer devices though by licensing their brand for Foxconn to use in a co-designed product - the Nokia N1 tablet. It runs Android and has an all-aluminum body, plus it's among the first devices with USB Type-C, which shows the Nokia team hasn't lost its drive to innovate.</div>
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This isn't quite the old Nokia though, all the engineering talent for mobile devices went over to Microsoft. Still, Nokia oversaw the design while Foxconn (better known in the West for manufacturing stuff for Apple) will do the actual building.</div>
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Speaking of Apple, the Nokia N1 is very clearly positioned as an Android alternative to the iPad mini. It's not the first, but at least it nails the aluminum unibody. Other similarities include the 7.9" screen with 4:3 aspect ratio and the reversible plug.</div>
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While it may have borrowed the form factor, Nokia beat its own path with a customized Android. The result is a mish-mash of Android styles ranging from Gingerbread (seriously) to Lollipop. The base OS is Android 5.0 Lollipop, but Nokia's custom apps need work.</div>
<h3 class="article-blurb-title blurb-title-features" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgba(88, 160, 22, 0.498039); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: Arimo, Google-Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 20px !important; padding-top: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; width: 727px;">
Key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aluminum unibody, 6.9mm thick</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">7.9" IPS LCD, 1,536 x 2,048 pixels, 324ppi; Gorilla Glass 3</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android 5.0 Lollipop with Z Launcher</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intel Atom Z3580 chipset with 2.3 GHz quad-core processor, PowerVR G6430 GPU, 2GB of RAM</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">8MP camera, LED flash, 1080p video recording</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5MP front-facing camera with 1080p video recording</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">32GB of built-in storage, no memory card slot</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">USB Type-C connector (a first in a tablet)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stereo speakers (x 0.5W); Wolfson WM8958E codec</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">5,300mAh battery</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Software feels unpolished</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">No built-in 3G option</li>
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Note that we got our Nokia N1 unit brought from China so it doesn't have Play Store installed, but the international version, which is reportedly under way, will have proper access to Googles' store. Nokia's app store is obviously not up to par.</div>
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The one piece of software that is actually good is the Z Launcher. It simplifies launching apps by using handwriting recognition - you scribble a letter or two to search for an app. The launcher will learn which apps you use the most and offer them on the homescreen. If that sounds cool, you can try it out on any Android device by downloading the Z Launcher from the Play Store.</div>
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The Nokia is at the forefront of the inevitable move to the superior USB Type-C. The company also played it safe with the choice of chipset, going with Intel instead of troubled Qualcomm - the Atom Z3580 will age better than the Snapdragon 810 if you ask us.</div>
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Nokia's return to consumer products brings a mix of excitement and disappointment, but we certainly hope we'll even more products from the Nokia/Foxconn partnership - why not even phones.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-63659090852705837992015-10-02T08:19:00.000-07:002016-10-11T08:20:54.221-07:00LG G4 vs. Samsung Galaxy S6<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Sometimes the biggest rivalries are between neighbors. The newest additions to clan LG and clan Samsung are from two different worlds - the organic LG G4 and the industrial Galaxy S6. One is curved with soft leather, the other is a cool glass and metal sliver.</div>
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Samsung had a misstep with the S5 so it had to reboot the design for the Galaxy S6. Meanwhile LG G4 is an evolution from its well-received predecessor. Both flagships took steps towards a luxury design though they are on very different paths.</div>
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The LG G4 opted for premium leather and a slightly curved design (to stand apart from the Moto X). Samsung took the popular route and designed a slender metal frame sandwiched between two panes of glass.</div>
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LG G4 over Galaxy S6</h3>
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Samsung Galaxy S6 over LG G4</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More compact, much thinner</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faster chipset - more CPU cores and better GPU</li>
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Consumer sentiment is highly important in this business and this time it seems like it's on LG's side. Users stuck with homely Galaxys because they were practical - light durable plastic, user-serviceable storage and battery. The Galaxy S6 design while beautiful introduced more glass that might get scratched and worse, it locked up the back panel.</div>
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There were plenty of furrowed faces when battery and storage access was taken away so LG scored brownie points with the G4 that gives you full access to both. It has some longevity worries of its own though, Moto X's leather backs age pretty badly. It will be months before we know if the G4 will suffer the same fate, but at least you can always change the back with a fresh one. Not so with a scuffed Moto X or a scratched Galaxy S6.</div>
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An overview of the two phones quickly reveals the points of contention. The LG comes with the bigger screen, but Samsung has perfected Super AMOLED. The G4 has unique camera features and a retooled camera software. The Galaxy S6 focused on getting the fingerprint sensor right and improving the health-tracking hardware.</div>
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The Samsung also has the upper hand in processing muscle, thanks to Samsung's semiconductor fabs, while LG had to work around Qualcomm's difficult transition to next-gen processors.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-48734153671122171052015-09-23T08:18:00.000-07:002016-10-11T08:19:28.804-07:00Kickstarted Pebble Time review<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arimo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Almost three years after its predecessor took Kickstarter by storm, the Pebble Time crashes the smartwatch scene with an even louder bang. The newcomer became the most successful Kickstarter project to date only a few days after its launch and ended up with more than $20 million in funding.</div>
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Of course, three years is a hell of a long time in the tech industry, and the Pebble Time arrives in a totally different landscape compared to its trailblazing predecessor. An Apple Watch backed by a monstrous marketing budget and an army of Android Wear devices are as serious a competition to face as it gets.</div>
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To face its competitors, the Pebble Time comes with a color screen, voice control, and a brand new OS. It is also the most water-resistant smartwatch available at the moment. See the device's full list of key features below.</div>
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Key features</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.25" 64-color LCD e-paper display with memory-in-pixel technology and LED backlight; 168 x 144 pixels (182ppi); curved Gorilla Glass 3; superb sunlight legibility and power efficiency;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">ARM Cortex-M4 CPU; 256KB of RAM; 16MB of storage</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Built-in microphone for voice replies</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samsung-made 150mAh battery, a week worth of battery life</li>
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Main disadvantages</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">The display lags behind the competition in terms of colors, resolution, and performance indoors</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 30px; position: relative; text-indent: -6px; vertical-align: baseline;">iOS device functionality lags behind the one for Android</li>
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With a color screen and more capable hardware, the Pebble Time is unsurprisingly a massive upgrade over the first generation. The new model has also retained the key features that made the original Pebble such a success, headed by mind-blowing battery life and ease of use.</div>
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Despite being an update over its predecessor in terms of design and hardware however, the Pebble Time lags behind the Apple Watch and the Android Wear army on this instance. Competing smartwatches from Apple and Google look more stylish and boast better screens, internals, and app ecosystems, thus meaning that the Time will have to rely on ease of use and battery life to gain followers.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461709586775748688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9178476573546413252.post-54404926160777854452015-09-08T08:15:00.000-07:002016-10-11T08:17:57.082-07:00A trip down memory lane GSMArena.com turns 15<h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: Arimo, Google-Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 1em 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Taking a trip down memory lane</h3>
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Remember the times when the most exciting feature of your new phone was the number of pre-installed ringtones? Or the times when we measured storage by the number of entries the phonebook would take? Or the times we judged display quality by the color of the backlight and the number of lines it had? Well, we do. And if you do too, you sure gonna enjoy the video showcase that we've come up with in order to celebrate the 15th birthday of GSMArena.com.</div>
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It may sound strange to the younger ones among us, but there were times not so long ago when you could literally take the battery off one model and put it on another from the same manufacturer and it would be a perfect fit.</div>
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These were times when mobile accessories were extended batteries and snap-on external camera modules; times when we had to punch in manually notes just to get a new phone ringtone. There were times when we only had a fixed number of games in our phones and these were not much prettier than the mixture of straight lines and rectangular shapes they were drawn by.</div>
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It was in 1983 that Motorola came up with the first truly portable commercial mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. It was a symbol of a new way of communicating and doing business and it was absurdly expensive. And thus it became a status symbol.</div>
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The phones that came out in the following twenty or so years were no different, meaning we still regarded them as status symbols. With prices of mobile telephony and the corresponding terminals remaining high through most of the 90s, the mobile phones of these years were often objects of unfulfilled longing and had a soul-binding appeal that only elusive, out-of-reach objects of desire could have.</div>
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Phones back served a limited set of purposes and yet we didn’t approach them with the utilitarian mindset we have today. They weren’t just tools for us. Their distinct designs and the limited choice of models meant owning a phone created an emotional attachment - a bond, if you will - that you can hardly get with an everyday object today. It's this bond with our mobile phones that inspired the creating of GSMArena.com in the first place.</div>
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Today we live in a disposable-everything culture and while the advancements in technology make it exciting times to live in, seeing the faces of these chaps - the Nokias, and Siemenses, Motorolas and the Ericssons of old - we will always going get that sweet-and-sour memory in the back of our heads.</div>
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Indeed, most of them look like they've seen better times, but meticulously collecting all of these phones can be nothing but a labor of love. We’ll be more than happy if by showing you this collection we get you some of those sweet memories.</div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thanks to Momchil Nechev - Maxx for sharing his collection with us and our readers. Don't miss <a href="http://blog.gsmarena.com/like-collect-old-phones-interview/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b3c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the great interview with have with him</a> what it's like to collect old phones.</i></div>
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