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Sony is launching it's next flagship XPERIA XZ. This is a kind of phone what Sony builts. Let's start from the specifications. Display: 5.2 inch Full HD display with Sony's TRILUMINOS technology & X-Reality engine. Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. RAM: 3 GB. Memory: 32 / 64 GB & expandable upto 256 GB. Camera: 23 MP rear camera (1 / 2.3" image sensor) & 13 MP front camera (1 / 3.06" image sensor). Battery: 2900 mAh. Now let's go through a small discussion. Design: The phone is designed quite differently from what Sony does. But the step is really come out outstanding, the phone looks great as it built of ALKALEIDO. The fingerprint sensor is on the side, there is a camera shooter as it is a Sony phone & the display is curved. Performance: With the Snapdragon 820 chipset and 3 GB of RAM, the phone perform quite great. But 4 GB of RAM would be better choice. Camera: There is no question about the cameras. The re...

Huawei launched Honor 8. A great smartphone with great design & specs. Let's find the specs of the phone first, Display: 5.2 inch Full HD display with 1080×1920 resolution & ~423 ppi. Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 950 octa core chipset @ 2.3 GHz. RAM: 4 GB. Memory: 32 / 64 GB internal & expandable upto 256 GB. Camera: Dual 12 MP rear camera (f/2.2) & 8 MP front camera (f/2.4). Battery: 3000 mAh. Now, let's go through some details, Design: It's great phone, the glass design at the back looks nice but makes the phone quite slippery. Performance: Performance wise Honor 8 is quite good as it packs the Kirin 950 processor & 4 GB of RAM. But the GPU, Mali T880 MP4 is quiet a bit disappointment. But overall the performance is pretty great. Camera: The cameras are awesome. The back dual cameras take good looking pictures with nice colour and depth. So, the phone is a good shooter. Battery life: The battery life is quiet good, it will ...

Google Allo is going to be a smarter messenging app. But, why? Because of, 1. Google Assistant: It's the coolest feature of Google Allo. You want to know about something, just ask by typing @google followed by your question. Google will answer it with a Google card. For example, you asked 'Will it rain today?', google will answer it, if you want that to see everyday, google assistant will show you that also even at a particular time, may be at 8:00 AM, if you want. 2. Smart Reply option: There is a smart reply option in the app. If somebody have sent you a picture of her pet, google assistant will automatically predict what you want to write, that can be 'Cute' or something else. Isn't it a great feature? 3. Shout & Whisper: Third reason is this feature. You can shout by Bolding your messenge & whisper by making it smaller by holding the send button and then draging it upwards or downwards respectively. 4. Lot of Stickers: ...

The Gorilla among the glass manufacturing companies for mobile launching their next glass of toughness, Gorilla Glass 5. What is the advantage over Gorilla Glass 4? Gorilla Glass 5 is roughly 1.8 times more durable than Gorilla Glass 4 but with same smooth touch. About 60% people drop their phone from the height of shoulder to waist. And when it falls it gave everyone a heart attack, me too. So, the company works a lot to make your phone safe when it falls. Gorilla Glass 5 survived about 80% when dropping from 1.6 meters on a rough surface. 4.5 billion devices are shipped with Gorilla Glass & the process just increasing. It's a deciding factor when buying a phone for someone. The glass is under manufacturing & will be released soon.

Samsung is launching a Olympic Edition of Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge. Generally they same inside as ordinary S7 & S7 Edge but outstandingly changed outside. The colours of the Olympic rings divided to splash the earpiece & home button round in yellow, volume buttons in green. power button in red & camera & flash round in blue. There is 5 Olympic Rings all in blue on the back. You can expect the rings to pop out in the UI also. They'll come with Gear IconX headphones worth $200 also to make the thing outstanding.   But these edition will launch in South Korea, USA, Germany & China, not in India. So, if you wanna buy one you have to go there. But if Rio Olympic get cancelled, these item will be collector's item. Overall this is a 'Olympic Fan' action by Samsung.

The age of microSD Card is ending, welcome new UFS Memory Card. Samsung launched the first UFS Memory Card. What are the profits? Let's find out. 1. Sequential read speed (53 MB/s) is 5 times higher than a microSD Card. 2. Random write speed (35000 random IOPS) is 350X higher & Sequential write speed (170 MB/s) is 2X faster than the microSD. So, new age new possibilities, movies, pictures & every files will load faster to improve performance. The UFS Memory Cards will range from 32-256 GB. It'll take sometime to get the place of microSD. That's it, keep waiting.

There is so many Photo Editors for Android & each gives other a edge to edge competition making it's tough to choose for a user. I experienced some popular options & giving my opinion to help choosing one or more. 1. PhotoDirector: It's by Cyberlink, so you can hope the editor to be well & yes, it's one of the best. The best feature is to remove a thing from the photo like the 'Patch' tool on Adobe Photoshop PC version with the Removal tool. It's a featured packed one, more than the general. Listing the features below:   Basic Edit: Crop, Rotate, Horizontal & Vertical Flip. Adjust: You can adjust the Tone, Curve, Saturation (which is good to catch eye with more saturated colours), Sharpness & HSL. There is a fish eye option, a removal tool (which I think the best feature the editor & it does the job excellently), Colour Splash option, Blur tool, Pen & Text tools & a Scene tool (which is also a good thing). There is ...