Micromax Canvas Turbo at INR 19,990

Indian Mobile giant is back with another Canvas series phone. This is their first full-HD display mobile phone.

This is their flagship device and will be available in the market now onwards. New Micromax Canvas turbo comes with a 5 inch full-HD IPS display. It is powered by a Mediatek 1.5 GHz Quad Core processor and 2 GB of RAM. This phone comes with a 13 Mega pixel auto focus camera and 5 Mega pixel front facing camera. According to the company, the camera has various features like panorama, object eraser,. etc.  There is a 2000 mAh battery in new Canvas Turbo, which seems to be some what less for a phone powered by a quad core processor.

Micromax Canvas Turbo

The phone comes with the stock version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean which is loaded with some pre-installed apps like Hike, BBM, M! live, M! Security, M! Live. Same like other Micromax devices this phone also comes with dual SIM support with one regular SIM and another micro SIM. One important point, from which I am disappointed that there is 16 GB of internal memory, but not having expandable memory. This is the biggest drawback of this phone. 

If you are non Indian and do not know about Micromax then you must know that this latest phone Canvas Turbo is branded by Hugh Jackman, who is the worldwide superstar with movies like X Men. So, probably you can understand that at which level Micromax is doing their job. 

Micromax is selling this phone at INR 19,990($325)is their highest price point after Canvas 4 at INR 14,990. So, I am not sure that buyers will go for this price point because they can get Sony Xperia C, Samsung Galaxy Quattro & Google Nexus 4 at same point with much better hardware and customer support. 

HTC One Max : 5.9 inch phablet

Much awaited HTC One Max is now released. Even before the official release date which was scheduled on 16th October in an event at Hongkong. The selling will start at the end of October or November.



This phablet has same hardware specifications which was there in their highly successful HTC One. The phone comes with 5.9 inch full HD LCD display with Android 4.3 version customized by HTC Sense 5.5 UI.

One killer feature this phone have is a fingerprint scanner, same like iPhone 5S. The scanner is located on the backside of the phone. Basic work for this scanner is to allow a user unlock the phone and log in purpose for different uses. What I personally feel is that, the location of the scanner is a bit awkward. You have to flip your phone and put finger on it. Then again flipping it and see that is it worked or not. So it can frustrate you, unlike in iPhone 5S which have a correct position of a fingerprint scanner. 

HTC One Max fingerprint sensor on backside

Another thing I noticed in this phone is, it is powered by a Snapdragon 600 chipset which is a bit older in compare to other devices like Sony Xperia Z Ultra, Xperia Z1 & LG G2. They have Snapdragon 800 chipset. But in the battery department, this phone beats other competitors with 3300 mAh battery. 

The back cover of this phone is removable, but the battery is not removable. So it is not good but this phone leads to those customer who demands bigger display phones. This type of small things is negligible for them. 

Same like HTC One, One Max also bundled with 4 Ultra Pixel camera. The camera results are decent. But in low light conditions and close up shots, the quality is not up to the mark. You can categorize it as one of the best camera phone. 

These were some key points related with this HTC One Max. Other features are just excellent in display quality, performance and software.

HTC One Max size comparison with One

HTC One Max Specifications:

Display:           5.9 inch Full-HD LCD display 

Chipset:          Snapdragon 600 with 1.7 Ghz Quad Core processor

RAM:               2 GB

Memory:         16/32 GB & 64 GB expandable

OS:                 Android 4.3 with HTC Sense 5.5 UI

Sensors:          Gyroscope, proximity sensor, accelerometer, fingerprint scanner, light                             sensor

Camera:          4 UltraPixel HTC camera and 2.1 MP front camera

Battery:           3300 mAh

Samsung Galaxy Round: World's First Curved Display Phone

Just after releasing their much anticipated Galaxy Note 3, Samsung is again generating heat in the mobile phone market. This time Samsung is launching a benchmark phone, which is said to be world's first curved display smart phone. Yes, we were having rumors regarding to this phone before many months that Samsung and LG are in competition to launch this type of smart phone. Now it is a reality with the launch of Samsung Galaxy Round! The concept of having curved display puts Samsung  a step closer to making wearable gadgets.

This phone claims to have a massive 5.7 inch AMOLED display similar to recently launched Galaxy Note 3. If you feel that Note 3 does not fit in your hand then Round is your solution. It is 7.9mm thick and 154g weighted, Which is lesser than Note 3. The concave shape having slight horizontal curve makes this phone operation very much easier. 

If you look into specifications department then it is almost same as Galaxy Note 3. But as per Samsung's perspective, this phone is just innovation and they are not going to produce it for worldwide users! The phone will be available for only in South Korea, which is their home territory. Even production of curved display is not cheap like regular ones at present stage, so the price of this phone is also very high. It can be counted around $1000 if you buy it in South Korea. So maybe you have reasons to get disappointed, but Samsung promised that their technicians are working hard on reduce the production cost of these flexible displays. So,they can sell these type of phones worldwide. This phone have just curved display. Even though batter of this phone is also a regular one,which is not curved shaped. So not much features for discussion right now.

Samsung Galaxy Round Specifications:

Processor: 2.3 GHz Quad Core

Display: 5.7 inch Super-EMOLED

RAM: 3GB

Memory: 32 or 64 GB variants

Camera: 13 MP front shooter and 2 MP front facing camera

Battery: 2800 mAh

OS Software: Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

You can compare this phone with some other high-end smartphones like Sony Xperia Z1 & Apple iPhone 5S

  

Nokia Lumia 1020 : Super Camera Phone

Last year when Nokia released Nokia PureView 808 with highest ever 41 Mega Pixel lens, it created waves but unfortunately it was a failure for them. But still Nokia is not loosing their confidence in their camera technology bonding with their smartphones. They are back with another flagship phone which is powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. 

                    

New Nokia Lumia also features same 41 MP lens which was introduced in earlier 808 PureView phone. Last month in Berlin, when Sony launched their latest flagship phone Xperia Z1 which have 20 MP camera and they claimed that their phone have best camera among all other phones. So Nokia comes back into the competition with another superior camera phone. Even Samsung also has Galaxy S4 Zoom with very advance camera. So according to me, after competition in display size. It is time to war in terms of camera between these multi national companies. So let's check camera performance of this phone.

Camera Review

The phone have a 41 mega pixel lens but practically you will only get 34 mega pixel resolution to capture a picture for 16:8 aspect ratio. If you want picture with 4:3 aspect ration then they can be captured at 38 mega pixels.

One very innovative feature in this phone is Looseless Zoom,where you can crop your picture from higher resolution picture without loosing any type of clarity of the picture. 

If you compare regular images with 5 mega pixel using this phone. Then I must say that they beats all the phones which have 5 mega pixel or even 8 mega pixel camera. Surely it's a clear winner. 

Other specifications of this phones camera are, 3X digital zoom, optical image stabilization, ISO settings 100 to 4000 and very important shutter speed which offers 1 to 16000, Smart Cam & Camera 360.

The phone captures excellent pictures in normal conditions. But I found out one big issue is, the processing rate of the picture is slow. If you want to picture very quickly one by one, then this can disappoint you.  Another issue is, pictures taken in artificial light and close up shots are above average. They are actually not good. 

So,overall the phone achieves our expectations with having great camera details. So thumbs up for this phone in terms of the camera department.

Rest of all

If you remove the 41 mega pixel camera from this phone, then it is totally Lumia 920. The phone have same hardware specifications and software. The phone heats up when you use the camera for long time. Except that, this phone runs really smooth with Windows Mobile OS.

Conclusion

Now last words, if you actually want a more camera then smartphone then this phone is really a hot choice. But if you want a better mixture of hardware, software and camera then you must consider other phones like iPhone 5 & 5S, Xperia Z1, Galaxy S4. 

Technical Specifications

• 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Dual core processor
• 2 GB RAM
• 41 MP PureView camera
• 1.2 MP front facing camera
• 4.5 AMOLED display with resolution of 768x1280 
• 332 PPI of pixel density
• 32 GB internal storage
• 2000 mAh battery