Motorola Moto E: People's Phone

Just after super success of Moto G, Motorola is back with another super cheap yet super specification based phone Moto E. 

In India price 6999 rupee ($130), Motorola is shouting loudly to buyers that they will get lot more things by paying this amount of price. But still personally I am disappointed with Motorola's strategy by only putting it on just one online eCommerce site. They used same strategy with Moto G and Moto X by putting it only available on their partnered eCommerce site and succeeded in that but this time I am not very much impressed with their move. If you want to make Moto E a real 'people's phone' then you have to make it available offline with mobile phone retailers. 

Now let's find out that if Moto E live's up to our expectations or not?

Design and Looks:

Motorola used similar kind of strategy with Moto E which they used with it's elder brothers Moto G and Moto X.  By design point of view, it is a bit fatter than Moto G and a little heavier. But still considering it's compact size, it will fit in your hands very gently.

The backpanel is made of plastic but still considering its quality, it will feel like a premium quality. Another plus point is you can get total nine color of interchangeable back panels available. 

Colorful Back Covers

Features:

The phone have a heart of Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 dual core processor which is clocked at 1.2 GHz. Another impressive specification is you will get 1 GB RAM and Adreno 305 GPU, which will make smooth multi tasking and lag free use. In our use, we will be able of Most Wanted and Asphalt 8 kind of heavy games very fluently. This is kind of very good specification at this price range.

You will get 4 GB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 32 GB using micro SD card. Another big thumbs up with storage department is, you are able to transfer app data to memory card. So, it means that you can get upto 32 GB internal storage! 

The phone is available with dual SIM facility which supports 3G networks. 

Camera:

 This is the only feature which avoids this phone to becoming All-In-One package like phone in this segment. The phone features a 5 MP fixed focused camera which performs below average and according to me it's woeful camera. The camera does not even have LED flash.

Display:

Moto E have a 4.3 inch qHD display having resolution of 960x540 because on screen button consumes some amount of display. One plus point, you will get Gorilla Glass 3 protection for display and it is kind of rare for a phone in this price range. 

The display is really excellent in colors reproductions but it is average in sunlight visibility and harsh viewing angles. But still this is the best display in it's price range.

Plus Points: 

• Extremely cheap
• Works of latest Android Kitkat
• Excellent and sturdy body design

Minus Points:

• Bad camera
• Display is not at best
• Only availability on eCommerce site, no offline availabity

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

iPhone 5S & iPhone 5C : First Look

Its almost after one year when Apple released iPhone5 last year. There was too much curiosity in the market related to upcoming iPhone. The rumor was also there that Apple will launch two iPhone. Now its exactly same and all prediction become right. So, I will not get too much time and start our review. First of all we will talk about iPhone 5S. Because it is their flagship phone and having latest hardware. 

iPhone 5S

New iPhone 5S is the successor of iPhone 5. It has first ever in the world 64 bit processor. No other phone have 64 bit processor till date. 

• A7 Chip: It is 64 bit chip which is Apple's proprietary processor made specially for iPhone. This chip gives double performance then the previous A6 chip in CPU and GPU related tasks. There is another best combination with iOS7, because they specially made it for 64 bit chip.

• M7 co-processor: This new combination included in this iPhone 5S is like a master-slave combination. Because M7 co-processor works for some miscellaneous tasks like compass, accelerometer, gyroscope tasks. So all this will be done in M7 co-processor and it will directly reduce the burden from the A7 chip. Another huge pro is that, it will increase battery life.

• Camera:  There is no doubt that iPhone will have a great camera. Yes, again its much better improved then previous one. The iSight camera comes with 8 MP auto focus camera. It is basically a five element lens which have hybrid IR filter. The camera provides features like auto focus, tap focus, face detection, burst mode, panorama.,etc. 

• Display: This phone have 4 inch retina display having 1136 x 640 pixels resolution. It provides density of 336 ppi. One huge feature added in this display is this iPhone 5S can support 'finger print' scanning! So you can lock-unlock and even use finger print as password for phone and app store. 

After discussing these key features I must say that they did not invent or bring any hurricane in specification of this new phone. But as per company's brand value, iPhone 5S will also bring big success for Apple. iPhone 5S come with grey, gold and silver of bezel aluminium case. 

iPhone 5C

People were talking about that this time apple is going to unveil another 'cheap' iPhone for some economical users. So that's here. Again with this phone I am not that much impressed. Because the main aim of this phone was to gain good market share in Asian countries like China,India. So they have to keep the price of this phone as low as possible. But that does not practically happening. 

The configuration of this phone is same as one year before iPhone5. To reduce its price they put a poly carbonate cover like Samsung for this iPhone 5C. This phone comes in colors like green, yellow, blue, pink and white color. So this is its biggest plus point. Otherwise same hardware like iPhone5. So I do not want to discuss about it more. Just enjoy its colorful back cover pictures. One thing i noted in this phone is they made its edged with much sharp curve. So it looks really cool. 

Mobile Processors : Quad Core VS Dual Core

There was a time when everyone was fascinating about Mega Pixel of their phone camera, and after that era, Screen size of mobile phone came into the picture. The bigger size phones always fascinate people. But now the benchmark has changed, the number of cores attracts people, and it is the new benchmark for comparing mobile phone.

People are talking about single core,dual core,quad core processors. Now even some small companies even launching phones at budget prices having quad core processors. So in this article we are going to learn what is the exact meaning of multi-core architecture of any smart phone.

First of all the basic difference is just simple, a dual core processors can carry out the instruction sets by improved performance. Quad core processors also does the same work, and they are basically four cores which are integrated on a single silicon chip which gives us high performance.
In simple words,quad core processors can carry out same work done by dual core processor at a twice speed!

If you compare the processor with your brain then dual core processor have two brain and quad core have four brain. So, the time required to complete the task by quad core is almost fourth  of the single core. But its not as simple,actual performance depends on memory cache,bandwidth, core clocks,.etc. Thus variation will always be there.

Memory

Typically only a more powerful processor is not always important. Because processor takes help from ROM(read only memory) and RAM(random access memory).

For ROM,the operating system of any smartphone is stored on the ROM. These memory area can not be accessed by the user. If you want to access that area then you must root your smartphone. Mostly in Android phones these situation occurs when you have less internal space for installing big applications and games. The less amount of memory, your phone will become slow. 

Same situation comes in RAM 's case. Where, all the running applications are stores on RAM and that's why processor takes help from RAM. If you have a quad core phone then it maybe having 1-2 GB RAM or other dual core phone having 512 MB to 1 GB of RAM.

So,in conclusion, the amount of RAM is always as important as a processor and it makes big difference in performance. 

Snapdragon processor by Qualcomm

Result of performance

It depends on Architecture of the processor and clock speed. Most of mobile processor are based on ARM architecture. Upon these architecture several companies are licenced to make the type of processors. Few examples of these companies are Qualcomm , Nvidia, Samsung Exynos. They are having licence to produce it, and they make processors based on that. In latest technologies , they are said to be having A5,A6,A8,A15 architecture processors. So if the processor having quad cores but have older architecture then it will be not optimum in comparison with other processors. 

So always go for ARM  architecture of the processor and know about its clock speed.

Power consumption

We have heard that if you have more cored phone then you might be having less battery power to use. But it is not always true because latest Quad core processors come with advanced architecture which consumes less power and even in some conditions they beats the dual core processors. In normal conditions the mobile phone switch off the non used cores and they will be activated when they will actually needed. 

So, battery power depends on the amount of mAh of battery,not totally on processor.

nvidia tegra processor 

Final verdict

At the end of the day, all depends on the price of the phone and in that matter, quad core processors have complex architecture so they are costlier then dual cores. 

If you are going to buy a phone , try to figure out other features like clock speed, RAM, ARM architecture.  

"You can buy a smartphone having Quad core processor at the price of 15000 INR. And even a dual core phone at 18000 INR. So there would be some concrete difference between them"

Sony Xperia Z Ultra review

Before some months Japanese technology giant introduced their flagship phone Xperia Z,which created a lot of buzz and was a trendsetter in WATER proof phones segment.
Personally I own a Sony mobile phone, and  I am obsessed with Sony,so forgive me if I write something more in this post!!!

This smartphone falls in phablet range because it have a whooping 6.4 inch display which have resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixel and more importantly Sony used their new graphics technology called Triluminus which is used in Bravia television.

It a 2.2 GHz Quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor as a heart and having a 2 GB RAM. This phone have a support for SD card, and it can be expanded up to 64 GB.

Just like other Sony Xperia phones this phone also have the latest version of Android JellyBean 4.2 and have many Sony apps like Walkman, PlayNow, TrackID having new fresh looks. This phone comes with 3000 mAh battery which is the con of this phone according to me. The battery could be better because for a 6.4 inch display it is an important requirement.

The most eye catching feature for any Sony phone is known is the camera of that phone. This phone also disappoint us and have a 8 MP Exmor camera and 2 MP front facing camera for video calling.

This phone is not released yet but Sony is planning to start selling from Q3 of this year and also the price is also not disclosed.

Micromax Canvas 4 review

Just before 3 years when my some friends bought Micromax phones and I was wondered that why are they going for such a downcast company. But after that time passed and Micromax consistently launched new phones and they built their position much and much strong.

Before some months ago when Galaxy Note was ruling Bigger Size phone market in India, at that time Micromax introduced first Canvas phone and it becomes blitzkrieg successful.
 After that they launched Canvas 2, Canvas HD, Canvas 3D and much more hit phones.
Now everyone eyeing on Canvas 4. So here are some 'hot' news about Canvas 4.

Micromax will start prebooking of this phone on 28th June. Till than and before its official release we can clearly assume that it will have a 13 MP camera because the teaser of the phone showed that.

One thing which disappoint me a little bit is that, Like other Micromax and Samsung phones this phone doesn't have great looks. The phone looks like other plastic cover phone.

If we believe on other news than the second thing comes into my mind is that this phone will be having a full HD display. But having a full HD display will recommend better battery life and I hope Micromax will increase battery life.

The last and most important topic,price!!! Like other Micromax product, this phone will also come in below rs 20,000.