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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Samsung Galaxy S5 vs Sony Xperia Z2 vs HTC One M8

Biggest Android phone makers globally has now revealed their flagship weapons. Samsung and Sony launched their phones Galaxy S5 and Xperia Z2 respectively in last month's mobile world congress in Barcelona. Every one has eyes on HTC because they were excited about their new HTC One that how it will compete the other giants. Now after launch of HTC One M8, we can easily compare these beasts face to face. So lets start competition of the year between Samsung Galaxy S5 vs Sony Xperia Z2 vs HTC One M8.

Power

All these three phones are equally powered by latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor. Which is clocked at 2.3 Ghz.

If you look for RAM then Xperia Z2 is one step ahead with 3 GB RAM where Samsung Galaxy S5 and HTC One M8 only have 2 GB of RAM.

So, in power department Xperia Z2 is ahead of the other twos.

Camera

Samsung have put a 16 MP rear camera which is capable to shoot 4K videos.

Sony has integrated their award winning Exmor RS sensor of digital camera technology in this phone same like Xperia Z1, but they have improved it's camera clarity and low light photography functionality.

On other hands, HTC One M8 is having 4 Ultra pixel sensor with dual flash, this HTC trademark technology really gives very good images specially in low light conditions.

samsung galaxy s5 vs htc one m8 vs xperia z2

Display

If we compare display of them then HTC One M8 is having 5 inch display where Samsung Galaxy S5 and Xperia Z2 is having 5.1 inch and 5.2 inch display respectively. But both of them have used different technology like S5 is having Super AMOLED display where Z2 is having IPS display panel.

Software

All these threes are having latest Android KitKat 4.4 OS. Samsung have flavored this OS with their own and newly tweaked TouchWiz interface. Xperia Z2 is also having their proprietary customized KitKat 4.4 OS. And HTC One M8 is also having this OS with Sense UI. Thus all of them having ultimate Android experience.

Verdict

Deciding best phone amongst these three phone is quite difficult, because it is based on you that which phone suits your user experience. But if you are struggling to control your patience then the benefit of the HTC One M8 is that you can buy it immediately, wherees S5 and Z2 will be available in some weeks.So, you have to wait.

You can also refer our full in depth review for Samsung Galaxy S5 here.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Samsung Galaxy S5 : Exclusive Review with detailed features

Samsung officially unveiled their new flagship phone is last week’s Mobile World Congress which was held in Barcelona, Spain. Every gadget and smartphone lover in the world was enthusiastic about this new phone. Without losing time I am directly jumping to the review portion of this post, because no one wants to wait for a review of most awaited phone like Samsung Galaxy S5.

samsung galaxy S5 review with detailed features

Processor and RAM:

Samsung has packed it with latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor which is clocked at blistering 2.5 GHz. Everyone was expecting that Galaxy S5 will come with 64 bit architecture based processor, but it did not become reality. Apple’s iPhone 5S is having this type of 64 bit processors which are said to be future of mobile phone processors. Another drawback of Galaxy S5 is only 2 GB RAM. I am personally using a 2 GB RAM phone and it is more than enough, but for a flagship like Galaxy S5 we always expect mammoth specifications (Samsung’s own Galaxy Note 3 is having 3 GB of RAM). Especially when Samsung’s own TouchWiz Android OS preloads RAM with their own customized apps, which consumes lot of RAM space and gives us least amount of RAM space to use.

Battery Life:

Samsung Galaxy S5 packs a 2800 mAh battery that company claims can run up to 10-11 hours for heavy usage like LTE or video playback. They also included one new battery optimizer feature called Ultra Power Saving mode which can offer 24 hours of standby time when the battery is about just 10%. Another cool feature is you can use your phone in black and white colors, thus it will not consume battery for color reproduction works and give you more usage time.

Storage:

You will get two variants of 16 GB or 32 GB on board storage capacity models of Samsung Galaxy S5. It can be expanded up to 128 GB using micro SD card. Apart from that you will also get free cloud storage provided by Samsung.

Camera:

Samsung Galaxy S5 packs with a superior 16 MP rear camera which is having variety of new features.

This camera is capable to shoot 4K video recording
It can autofocus in up to 0.3 seconds
Real time HDR
‘Live’ image preview
Selective focus for capturing near, far and pan images

So these new functionalities will surely put Samsung Galaxy S5 camera in competition with iPhone 5S, Xperia Z2 cameras.

Fingerprint Scanner:

Same like iPhone 5S, Galaxy S5 having finger print scanner on home button. Unlike, iPhone 5S, you have to swipe down your finger to unlock your phone. Apart from that Samsung have included PayPal payment functionality, which can be done by using fingerprint scanner. So, this will surely improve Samsung Galaxy S5’s security issues.

Water Resistance:

Copying Sony Xperia phones, Samsung have made Galaxy S5 water and dust resistant. Read twice my last sentence, the phone is water resistant. So, you cannot use phone directly into water. So, this is limitation of this phone which is not there in Sony Xperia Z, Z1, Z2.

S-Health Heart Rate Monitor:

One of the stand out element of Samsung Galaxy S5 is its heart rate monitor. Samsung concentrated heavily on health related features for this phone and they included this innovative feature. The sensor is located on camera and you can measure heart rate by putting finger on that. Samsung’s own wearable range Galaxy Gear 2, Galaxy Gear 2 Neo will be capable to integrate with all these health related apps.

Final Verdict:

Samsung Galaxy S5 is undoubtedly packed with all optimum specifications and it will be sold like hot cake because of grand success behind its predecessors Galaxy S series. But still all geeks are not very much impressed with Samsung Galaxy S5 because they thinks that Samsung copied many things and did not included any special feature. So still, Sony, HTC, Nokia would be hoping to dent in Samsung’s market share.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Facebook going to launch 'Digital Newspaper' to challenge Flipboard

Facebook is going to enter in 'digital newspaper' market with its latest mobile app named 'Paper' to compete with digital newspaper giant Flipboard. According to the sources this app will be launched around end of this January month.

Mark Zuckerburg, who is the founder of Facebook and also was the key person behind this new product said that it is an outcome which took a long time to establish and it will digitize news from various status updates and media related companies. He did not reveled that this app would be an integrated part of present Facebook app or standalone app from Facebook app.

There were rumors in market that Facebook is loosing their users and not launching something new and exciting. It was in talks from last years summers that Facebook is doing work on this kind of app service and now they are going to launch very soon.

facebook digital newspaper Paper by Mark Zuckerburg

In case of Flipboard, it was launch in 2010 which aggregates range of articles from various media sources. It presents them in elegant and attractive manner. It is downloaded by more than 90 million users and getting huge success towards their users.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Most Watched Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2013

Popular video sharing site YouTube, which is owned by Google released its list of most watched videos in India. Indians watched everything like, movie trailers, parodies, cricket, short films, and so on.
To download these videos and enjoy them pleasantly you can use Wondershare Free Youtube Downloader. It is amazing tool to use.

Now we are going to share the list of top 10 videos which are most viewed and trended in You Tube India.

most watched top 10 youtube videos of 2013

Top 10 Hollywood Movie Trailers in 2013(By View)

1. X-Men: Days Of Future Past(2014)

2. 21 And Over Trailer(2013)

3. How To Train Your Dragon 2- Official Teaser Trailer

4. Iron Man 3- Official Trailer UK marvel | HD

5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trailer UK- Official Marvel |HD

6. The Hangover Part III Official trailer #1(2013)- Bradley Cooper Movie HD

7. The Wolverine- International trailer

8. The Fast And Furious 6 Official Super Bowl Trailer HD

9. Thor: The Dark World Official trailer

10. Man Of Steel: “Fate Of Your Planet” official trailer

Top 10 Short Films in 2013(By View)

1. The Viva By Sabarish kandreluga( with English Subtitles)

2. The Girl And The Autorickshaw

3. That Day After Every day- Short Film

4. Social Awareness Film- 2^nd Saturday, Say No to Child Exploitation

5. Social Awareness Film- Child Sexual Abuse In Family

6. International Award Winning Short Film- “Tara”

7. Sawaal- The Unanswered Question

8. Romantic Short Film- Gulcharrey

9. Short Film Of Prostitution- A Life Less Fortunate: A Jyotish Menon Film

10. Draw My Life- Sonal Sagaraya

most watched top 10 youtube music movies videos of 2013

Top 10 Original Comedy in 2013(By View)

1. Made for Web- Top Original Comedy

2. Gangs Of Social Media- Valentine’s Day Q-tiyapa

3. Emotional Atya-Charge: Recharge Q-tiyapa

4. AIB:It’s Your Fault

5. Rowdies 9: Sab Q-tiyapa He

6. Caller Naina: Mobile Q-tiyapa

7. Rowdies XXX: Extra X, Extra Q-tiyapa( feat Aayushmaan Khurana & Kunal Roy Kapoor)

8. Bhagwaan Zameen Par: A tribute to Sachin

9. IAS Durga: Independence Day Special

10. Gana Wala Song: The Q-tiyatic Version

Top 10 Kids Channels by Subscribers in 2013

1. Hooplakidz

2. Appuseries

3. CybervillageSolution

4. KidsCamp

5. eDewCate

6. HooplaKidzTV

7. RajshriKids

8. TheChuChuTV

9. Kidszone

10. Childrenrhymes

Top 10 “How to...”(General) videos in 2013

1. Women self-defense technique

2. How to turn water into eyes in seconds

3. How to dance Gangnam style

4. How to make a hit YouTube video

5. How to Solve a Rubik’ cube- Part 1

6. How to palm a coin- Coin tricks

7. How to tie a tie for beginners- Double Windsor how to tie a tie

8. How to Break an apple in half with you finger…and fist

9. Tell me about your self- job interview question. Good/bad answer.

10. Dating tips- kissing types

Top 10 “How to…” videos in beauty category in 2013(By views)

1. 4 Cute Back to School Hair Styles(Promise Phan)

2. 12 Quick and simple hair styles

3. How to Lighten Dark lips naturally

4. Dark underarms – natural ayuredic home remedies

5. Feather waterfall & Ladder Braid combo | Cute 2-in-1 hairstyle

6. Volumized Poytail Hair Tutorial

7. Get Rid Of Dark Circles Fast | Home Remedies for removing under-eye dark circles

8. Heena Mehndi design by Elegant Heena #1

9. How to create quick hairstyles for girls

10. Natural Home remedies for shiny shite teethes

Top 10 “How to…” videos in cooking category in 2013(By views)

1. Hyderabadi chicken biryani

2. Pav Bhaji by master chef Sanjeev Kapoor

3. Vegetable hakka noodles by master chef Sanjeev Kapoor

4. Butter Chicken – Sanjeev Kapoor’s kitchen

5. Paneer Butter masala

6. Mumbai Mast tomato pulav

7. Punjabi Samosa

8. Eggless cake in pressure cooker

9. Quick rava idlis by Tarla Dalal

10. Golgappa recipe – Pani Puri recipe

Top 10 “How to…” videos in fitness category in 2013(By views)

1. 4 yoga poses to reduce belly fat

2. How to get a fat stomach with Simple easy yoga

3. Get 6 pack abs in 12 minutes, this workout works

4. Obesity- natural ayurvedic home remedies

5. How to lose stomach fat in a week!

6. Exercises to lose belly fat- Best two exercises to lose belly your fat

7. 7 Yoga poses for Glowing skin

8. Biceps workout- 3 Bicep exercise for mass

9. Home bicep & triceps workout

10. The real way to lose belly fat

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Reasons to update or buy Windows 8.1

If you are using still Windows XP, Windows 7 or upgraded to Windows 8, then you have much reasons to upgrade Windows 8.1 (It is totally free for Windows 8 users).

windows 8.1 start screen

These are the advantages or reasons or improvements or pros of Windows 8.1:

1. Ease of Search:

It is one of the major improvements which brings Windows 8.1 more closer to present user requirements. Just type anything using Start button and you can search anything from your PC or even on web. This is actually a Smart Search which is using Microsoft's default search engine Bing.

windows 8.1 search screen

2. Superfast Multitasking:

In windows 8, there was an ability to do multitasking. But major problem with that feature was that, it did not have re-sizing applications according to your requirements. Even it was supporting maximum two apps. But Windows 8.1 brings major improvements my bringing it more user friendly like, you can re-size them with your needs. So it is quite similar to Samsung Galaxy Note series multi-window feature.

windows 8.1 mutitasking window

3. Less storage space:

If you are using Windows 8 right now then you may be quite wondering that your C drive consumes lot of space by just with Windows 8. Even you are not having more space in C drive for other applications. But Windows 8.1 is consumes almost 10-15% less hard disk space, even it gives us more features compared to previous version.

4. UI friendly Start Screen:

Many Windows 8 users were shocked with not having Start button in bottom left of task bar. But Windows 8.1 have Start menu back in action with latest Microsoft Windows symbol. One more surprise improvement is that, you can use Start menu even with your default desktop background. This is quite minor change, but traditional users of old Windows UI may feel some joy.

5. App Updates:

In today's condition, your every gadget have so many apps. Even they require updates after some time. So if you are tired of being busy in such boring tasks. Then Windows 8.1 have features to update apps automatically. Even they will be updated in background.

6. Better personalized lock screen:

In Windows 8.1, you have options to use multiple slideshow like images with your lock screen. You have option to check Emails, use calender,. even without unlocking the lock screen. It is quite user friendly and good improvement.

7. Skydrive integration:

Windows is looking for Cloud storage, and Skydrive is one step to achieve that integration. By using Skydrive, you can save your file on your computer and access it from anywhere. So it is like iCloud which is working on Apple devices.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

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

Saturday, October 5, 2013

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.

Nokia lumia 1020 with 41 mega pixel camera

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

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Samsung Galaxy Gear Vs Sony Smart Watch 2

IFA 2013 which held in Berlin, Germany bring some exciting new electronic gadgets in our world. Most of the people are talking about new smart phones like Galaxy Note 3, Xperia Z1, Iphone 5S & iPhone 5C. But one another news was not much noticed that both Samsung & Sony launched wrist watch which is really exciting gadgets called Galaxy Gear & Smart Watch 2 respectively.

Design

First of all if you look at the basic dimensions and size, you will notice that Galaxy Gear is more rectangular, and Smart Watch 2 is square shaped gadget. Gear is weighted 74 gram and Smart Watch 2 is having 123 gram with a metal strip. Both gadgets are made from metals. Smart Watch 2 having an aluminium body whereas Gear have a stainless steel body.

Galaxy Gear vs Smart Watch 2 size comparision

Display & Processor

Both gadgets come with a 1.6 inch display. Gear having a 1.63'' inch Super EMOLED display with a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels and 278 ppi density. Smart Watch 2 having 1.6 inch Transreflective display with 220 x 176 pixels and 176 ppi density. This means that Gear has much sharper and bright display very close to latest smartphones.

I believe that processing power is not much important in these type of wrist watches. But if you are really looking for high power then Gear have 800 MHz Samsung Exynos processor while Smart Watch 2 have ARM cortex M3 processor with 200 MHz.

Battery Life

This is the department in which Smart Watch 2 over shadows its rival by a huge margin & for wrist watches this is the key factor. Gear having 25 hour plus batter life which is really bad for a gadget like this. Wheres Smart Watch 2 having 3-4 days of batter life as per company said. Thanks to its just 200 Mhz processor and display which improves its battery performance. So if batter life matters for you then you definitely have to go for Smart Watch 2.

Other Aspects

Gear having a facility to answer your phone call. Which is not available in Smart Watch 2. But one horror fact is that it is just compatible with Galaxy Note 3, which is not released in all the markets yet. On other side Smart Watch 2 is compatible with all Android powered smart phones and provide notification related your phone. Both gadgets are not compatible with any of the iPhone.

Gear have a 1.9 MP camera which is fitted on its wrist band whereas Smart Watch does not feature any camera.

Smart Watch 2 is NFC facilitate & Gear does not have this facility.

Price & Release Date

Both gadgets are plan to release in closing of September this year.

Gear will be available at $299 in USA market & INR 21,000 in Indian market.

Smart Watch 2 will be available at INR 14,000 in Indian market & I am not sure about USA market but it will be available at around $220 as per my views.