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

LCD vs TFT vs AMOLED : Display Comparision

These days screen size of any mobile phone is benchmark to compare them. The more it will be big, more you will be impressed. But technology behind that screen in not much known for most of us. Even if the persons who know about LCD, TFT, IPS, AMOLED, SUPER AMOLED will be also confused that which one is better. 

These displays are generally having two main types. First one is LCD & second one is AMOLED. We know name LCD because it is used in the wide range of electronic products. But most of us are not aware about AMOLED. So let's discuss about it. 

LCD:

LCD, liquid crystal display is made of wondrous liquid crystals. In which these crystals are combined between two couple of glasses with the use of the light source. They produce most realistic colors, but they does not represent much wider contrast ratio if we compare them with AMOLED.

TFT & IPS are also based on same LCD technology. TFT which is Thin Film Transistor & IPS is In Plane Switching. 

TFT makes LCD much efficient by making it's wiring reduced and also reduces electrodes per pixel. TFT improves image quality of LCD display.

IPS is improved from TFT by offering much better color reproduction and more accurate viewing angles. 

LCD is used in most of Sony, HTC, iPhone., etc. 

AMOLED:

AMOLED stands for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode. 

It is old technology but gained popularity in recent days. In this technology, a thin layer is made from thin layers which is zapped by an electric current. One major advantage of this technology is, it can create much thin layers and also do not require back light. This means it can create much better black colors and reduces battery usage because the back light is not used. 

Here three major colors Red, Blue and Green are divided in sub category like RGBG color. This is called as a 'pentile display'. But this have a disadvantage also, they can represent lower resolution because of much larger and visible sub pixels. 

Now a days, Samsung is known for their Super AMOLED, HD Super EMOLED displays. But this is nothing but simple AMOLED which is used with just prefix 'super'. They are traditional EMOLED. So do not fooled by these type of names. 

These are the devices which uses AMOLED technology: HTC ONE S, Galaxy series by Samsung.

Conclusion:

Now let's come to the answer that which one is better? So my answer is both LCD and EMOLED have their own strength and weakness. So it is totally dependent on you which one is like by you personally. If you try and phone and you get good resolution, better color reproduction and good viewing angles, then definitely that display is good for you. 

Microsoft Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 : First Look

After getting a new innovative tablets called as Surface. Microsoft is back with another updated device. Microsoft introduced with us, Surface Pro 2 & Surface 2. Actually I do not know what to call it because basically its like tablet and having a virtual keyboard for typing and also comes with an optional cover which works like a key board. So I am confused to call it a tablet or laptop.

Microsoft launched Surface Pro 2 in an event in New York for those professional people who want an experience of a laptop in a tablet like device. According to Microsoft, there is 75% of an improvement in battery life comparing it previous version of the surface tablet. They also give optional docking station and a new cover accessory. The price of Surface Pro 2 is $899 in US market.

The cheaper version called as Surface 2 comes at a price of $499 in US market. But both will be available in the market after 22nd October in US as well as a worldwide market. Both varients come with a 10.6 inch display.

microsoft surface pro 2 with dock

Another interesting thing is, Surface 2 runs on Windows RT operating system which is basically designed for running only application. Wheres Surface Pro 2 comes with a fully functional version of Windows OS.

Specifications:

Surface 2:

Processor:    nVidia Tegra 4

Storage:       32/64 GB varients

Battery:       Maximum 10 hours

OS:             Windows RT 8.1

Surface Pro 2

Processor:    intel core i5

Storage:       64/128/256/512 GB

Battery:       more than 75% previous version of surface

OS:              Windows 8.1

SEO TIPS #2 : Off Page SEO

This is my second article on SEO tips. Before I already written the first article which was based on On page SEO.  On Page SEO is based on some basic things like Title tag, Meta tags & SILO architecture. Now let me come to this Off Page SEO and start the article.

1. Back Links

Back Links are nothing but your blog's relation with other blogs and sites. It means linking of both of you by which visitors can jump to your blog from that link on other blog. Back links can be made by commenting on some other blog or website and putting our blogs link in that comment. So others can notice it and visit our blog also. This linking can be achieved in many ways, but more important thing is the quality of the link.

Quality of Back Links is having these much characteristics:

• Linking with higher Google Page Rank(PR) website: To link your blog with high PR sites you must have an account on top social networking sites like Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter with your respective blog name. By doing that post your articles on that sites so that visitors come from there and you will get very good quality of back links.

• No follow and do follow links: Whenever you link something with your post at that time maybe you have noticed that rel='nofollow' . Meaning of this code is,if you include this code then reputation of your blog will not be passed to the linked blog. This phenomena are called as 'no follow' links and these type of links are not much helpful. Bloogers use it for not flowing their reputation to other blogs.
  Generally most of the premium and reputed websites do not provide do follow options, so that you can build your reputation and fetch some visitors from those sites. But if you do some research and find out sites with do follow option then definitely you can get the good site linking and more visitors. 

• Similar kind of blogs & websites like yours: Just putting your link with a comment on other blogs is not as effective as you put them on correct blog or website. If your link contains article related to technology and gadgets, then you put it on an article of religion or mythological related. It's not going to work. By doing much activities like this and if Google notice it then they can ban your blog in their search results also. So always remember to put links on the right location.

2. Social Vote

This is very very important thing for Off Page SEO. It is also very easy to understand & implement for SEO.Always be an active member on social networking sites. Not for yourself but for your blog and building SEO. Whenever you write a new article then share that article with your Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus friends and groups. This is best and easiest way to drive  a tremendous amount of traffic to your blog. Become an active member of pages, groups and communities with similar niche and share your posts and ideas with others. Trust me, this will demand patience but give you a very good and genuine traffic.  

Introduce social bookmarking widgets on your blog like following you on twitter, facebook, G+, Stumbleupon, Flickr,.etc.  Put share widget on every post, so if a reader like that then he can share it with other friends also. 

Use and be a member of bookmarking site which will save your time to bookmark your blog on every social networking site.

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.

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. 

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.