Author: Chris Eilers

After Xiaomi Mi Note 2, the brand is said to be about release another flagship – Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro. With SND 821 and 6GB RAM, this device is expected to bring huge success to the company.

Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro: another flagship with SND 821+6GB RAM

Not long ago, Xiaomi revealed the teaser hinting a new product of the company. This phone is believed to the flagship Mi Note 2. After that, Xiaomi Mi Note 2 specs were leaked online, which draws many attentions. And now, another flagship smartphone of the company has just shown up-Mi Note 2 Pro. This device could be the successor of Mi Note Pro from last year.

Comparing to its predecessor, Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro specs are renovated a lot. The phone is powered by the newest Qualcomm chipset- Snapdragon 821. This will give the device a 10% better performance. Note 2 Pro will pack a 4/6GB RAM along with a 64/128GB of UFS 2.0 flash inbuilt storage. Being the next flagship, the handset could probably run on Android Nougat.

For photography, you won’t be disappointed with Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro camera. There will be a 12MP camera with either Sony’s IMX260 or Samsung S5K2L1 sensor on the back of the phone. With this camera feature, this Chinese phone can be a tough rival to Galaxy S7. Xiaomi new phone is backed with a 3700mAh battery life. The only step back of this phone is a 5.5 Full HD display when comparing to its forerunner. Mi Note Pro sports a 5.7 Quad HD display.

Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro release date and price

Just in the second half of 2016, there are 2 Xiaomi flagship phones reported to be launched. It seems like this smartphone maker wants to make its phones become the real “nation phone”. With so many powerful specs, the phone from Xiaomi is expected to follow the success of Mi Note Pro.  Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro launch date is reported to be in the second half of August. Until then,  Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro price is still a mystery. The expected Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro is around $600, considering that the Mi Note Pro is already costing $500.

Wheather 1960 mAH battery is enough good for one of the most desired phones in 2016: Apple iPhone 7. Let’s take a look!

Apple iPhone 7 battery- Is it worth for waiting?

We are waiting for the next Apple device which was leaked from many reports. All of them haven’t been finalised, but from “pretty reliable” source, Apple could sport a 1960 mAH battery on Apple iPhone 7. That’s is a good news for many iPhone’s fans when comparing to its predecessor: iPhone 6 with 1715 mAH battery.  But with 1960 mAH battery, Apple iPhone 7 battery can’t still compete with other battery phones in the current market.

As you know, Apple will release iPhone 7 in August. At the same time, we’ll also see its biggest rival: Samsung Galaxy Note 7.  So, whether a 1960 mAH battery could make this phone become a wonderful device in August and compete to its rival? We are not sure iPhone 7 or Galaxy Note 7 will make a hit in August, but from what we know, iPhone 7 will be the great successor of Apple iPhone 6.

Besides a bigger battery life, iPhone 7 is reported to come with more upgraded features, comparing to its brother-iPhone 6. Firstly, iPhone 7 supports iOS 10 which get more premium feature than iOS 9. Next, you will have a combo of 12MP main and 5MP front cameras for photography. This camera combo is expected to own latest camera technologies.

Apple iPhone 7 price and availability

Although there are a lot of leaked information, iPhone 7 price is still a secret. This next Apple smartphone will be indefinitely luxury device. A price tag around $700 could be impossible, based on is specs. Meanwhile, its rival Galaxy Note 7 is priced at $800, more expensive! About Apple iPhone 7 released date, don’t worry, you’ll see this device in August soon. Now, what do you think about the upcoming Apple iPhone 7? And is a new iPhone 7 battery good enough to attract you?

MediaTek processor is more poweful day by day. With “Top Helio X10 phones” list, we’ll show you how powerful MediaTek phones are! Let’s take a look. 

Meizu MX5

Meizu MX 5 is the  cheapest phone in our list of Helio X10 phones. You will be sastisfy with Meizu MX5 price at $280(Rs. 18,000). Not stop there, Meizu MX5 also gets a beautiful design. In the first look, the phone comes with fully metallic unibody that gives it a gorgeous look. Meizu MX5’s design looks similar to its predecessor: Meizu MX4 Pro and iPhone 6. What about Meizu MX 5 specs?

Well, you’ll find a MediaTek Helio X10 under the hood. This processor is very powerful thanks to 2.2 GHz speed. To ensure the performance, you have 3GB RAM and three option of ROM: 16, 32 and 64GB. Besides, there is a PowerVR G6200GPU and 3150AH battery. For photography, it supports a combo of 20.7MP main camera and 5MP selfie shooter.

I’m sure most of you are familiar with Corning’s Gorilla Glass. Many mid-end and high-end devices pack this feature in order to protect the display. Some phone brands even cover their products with glass! Today we’ll show you the pros and cons of glass smartphones.

Glass smartphones: The advantages

First of all, let’s talk about Corning’s Gorilla Glass! This kind of glass is designed to allow capacitivity (touchscreen) and protect the display of the phone at the same time. Such glass smartphones can avoid bumps and scratches. There are also many manufacturers who produce protection glass but Gorilla seems to be the most famous and trustworthy one! More than 3 billion phones in the world feature this Gorilla Glass. And I’m sure this is the main reason why glass adoption is rising so dramatically, aiming to protect not only the screen but also other parts of the phone case.

Second, glass smartphones can be produced in large scale! Glass is the material that can be produced in massive amount! Hence the manufacturers can reduce the cost of making the externals and pay more attention (and money) to the internals of the phone. Now before you are convinced by how great such phones are, please take a look at their disadvantages.

Glass smartphones: The disadvantages

First, glass smartphones are quite limited in design. While plastic and metal can be adapted to many kinds of phone cases such as curved backs, curved displays…; most of the devices with glass cover are flat. Compared to plastic and metal, glass are much less flexible. Smartphones covered with glass are also rare. Sony Xperia Z seems to be the only phone series to feature glass both on the front and on the rear!

Moreover, glass smartphones are quite fragile compared to plastic and metal smartphones. Except the Gorilla Glass, other common kinds of glass can break easily! Plastic can break too, but I’m sure it won’t shatter like glass! So smartphones with glass cover require a careful protection from their owners. But hopefully the OEMs will feature another kind of glass which is not expensive as Gorilla Glass yet survives dropping!

Android smartphones particularly, or smartphones in general, is a big part of our daily life nowadays. But what happened back then before the smarpthone era? These facts will give you either nostalgia or great surprise

Phone battery used to last for weeks

Believe it or not, smartphone battery is one of the most popular problems found among Android users nowadays. And back before Android smartphone era, people never had to worry about their power cell. Although the capacity used to be very small, like sub 1000 mAH, a feature phone can last up to days, or even weeks if you don’t use much besides calling and texting. (And you also don’t have much to do on these phones besides calling and texting either).

Time is changing our world quite considerably. And Android smartphones we know today, with hundreds of cool apps and features, is a gadget many of us can not leave without. A smartphone is not just a calling machine, yet a flashlight, music player, camera, calculator, note pad and so on. Therefore, we use it almost in every minute and the battery is drained out faster than ever. This also explains why, back in 10 years ago, no one would ever think of the production of the so-called powerbank we are all now familiar with.

No headphone jack, no physical home button, iPhone 7 even comes with no mute switch. It seems like Apple wants to bring a new look for iPhone this year. 

iPhone this year with no mute button

iPhone this year is coming with so many new features. It is said to come with no headphone jack, which will make the phone even thinner compared to its predecessor. We won’t see the physical home button anymore. Instead of that, there’ll be a capacity home button. Now, Apple is believed to eliminate another feature of the iPhone series – the mute button.

New leaked images have just been posted on a website. These photos are reported to be iPhone this year: iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Pro. The looks of these smartphone are nearly the same as what we’ve heard so far. The high-end iPhone 7 Pro sports a dual camera on the back and no headphone jack. While the basic iPhone 7 features a huge single camera.

However, you may not notice that there are no silent switches on iPhone this year.  Previously, the US company ditched the mute button on its newest iPad- iPad Pro. One more thing to mention is the Smart connector. It’s hinted in the picture that iPhone 7 could probably have a Smart Connector. With this connector, you can equip your phone with accessories, say, the keyboard.

 iPhone this year: more leaked images?

So, with no home button, how can we turn off the phone’s ringer and the other sounds? Well, it is said that we have to rely on the software of the phone. All we need to do is slide up on the phone screen. We’ll see the Control center where a volume toggle houses. Well, there’s still many times until iPhone 7 launch date. Maybe, there will be more leaked images of iPhone this year. Just wait!

Being launched for a long time, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 VS Oppo F1 are still hot and I find it quite interesting to compare these two. Who’s the winner? Let’s check!

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 VS Oppo F1: Specs fight!

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 VS Oppo F1 both flaunt massive displays. But Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 screen seems larger with 5.5-inch size compared to 5.0-inch size of Oppo smartphone. Android Lollipop is supported inside Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 VS Oppo F1 metal body. Talking about their performance, both smartphones feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon. While Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 runs on 650 version, Oppo F1 has 616 model in tow. They also sport 3GB of RAM. There is another 2GB of RAM regard to Xiaomi Redmi Note 3.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 specs also include Quad-core 1.4 GHz and Dual-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A72 processor. Whereas, Oppo F1 owns a Quad-core 1.7 GHz and quad-core 1.0 GHz processor. Along with two options of RAM, there are two ROMs: 16GB coupled with 2GB RAM, 32GB of ROM paired with 3GB RAM under the hood Xiaomi Redmi Note 3. As for Oppo F1, there is only an option of 32GB of ROM. The similarity between Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 VS Oppo F1 is that such types of ROM expandable up to 256GB via microSD.

These are not the end of Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 VS Oppo F1 specs. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 packs 16MP/5MP cameras on the back and front, meanwhile Oppo F1 mounts 13MP/8MP rear camera and selfie snapper. A 4000 mAh battery is seal in Xiaomi smartphone, which is bulkier than 2500 mAh cell of Oppo F1. Besides that, Xiaomi also supports its samrtphone with Fast Charging technology.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 VS Oppo F1: Price comparison

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 specs seem better than Oppo F1 specs. How about their prices? Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 price lands at $243 (RM 974). In terms of Oppo F1 price, it may cost you an amount of $254 (RM 1018). To me, I think Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 is worth winning the battle, because it sports specs-wise and cheaper price than its counterpart. Do you think so?

You are looking for a smartphone for under Rs 30000, you may want to have a look at this list below. With such amount of money, your handset will be as cool as you wish. 

1. OnePlus 3

To begin the list of under Rs 30000 smartphones, I want to introduce OnePlus 3. The smartphone was launched last month and immediately become superstar.  This phone sports a 5.5″ Optic AMOLED HD display with the pixel density of 401ppi. The screen is also protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4. It is decorated by two models: Graphite, soft gold, which are elegant and luxurious, but OnePlus 3 price now lands at Rs 27999.

Under the hood, there is a Snapdragon 820 chipset to take care of the performance. Besides, OnePlus 3 is powered by two dual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & 1.6 GHz Kryo processors, along with Adreno 530 GPU. On the rear, there is a 16MP Sony IMX298 rear camera, assisted by OIS technology, phase-detection AF, LED flash and 4K video recording. The selfie snapper of the front comes at 8MP, featuring Sony IMX179 sensor and 1080p video capturing. The highlight point from OnePlus 3 specs is its massive RAM of 6GB! Moreover, OnePlus 3 is backed with 64GB of ROM and a 3000mAh battery.

The day that Samsung Note 7 comes out is close. With the new product, Samsung will shape the phone with a dual curved screen configuration, not the flat one like usual. This Note promised to be the most awaited product of this year.

Samsung Note 7: dual edge configuration

It’s just a few more weeks until the newest product of Samsung -Galaxy Note 7- is launched. And there’ve been so many leaked images and specs of this phone online. This makes Note 7 become on of the devices having so many leaks of the company. According to the latest leaked image, Samsung Note 7 showed up with a dual curved-edge display. And this will be the only screen version of the phablet. There will be no “flat configuration” model as we usually see.

Samsung Note 7 will give a new user experience with the TouchWiz UI. On the front of the device, you can see the two dots on the upper right corner. These seem to be the front camera and the Iris scanner. So, the eye scanner leak is probably true. Not only the Irish scanner, the waterproof feature is also believed to be added on the handset. An Indiana website had confirmed this. So, these awesome features will make Samsung Note 7 be one of the most awaited devices this year.

In terms of Galaxy Note 7 specs, it is believed to be powered by the slight new version of SND 820- Snapdragon 821. Or it can run on Exynos 8893 processor. To ensure the performance, Samsung will add a 4GB of RAM paired with a 64GB of inbuilt storage. Besides this 4GB RAM, there’ll be another RAM option: 6GB. The phone will come with a 2K 5.7-inch Quad HD display.

Galaxy Note 7 price

Are you excited about this phablet yet? If the answer is yes, you don’t have to wait longer. It’s just more than two weeks and you can witness this masterpiece. Galaxy Note 7 launch date will be officially on 2nd August. And if you want to own this amazing handset, you’d better save from now. Because Samsung Note 7 will be the most expensive product with the Galaxy Note 7 price of about $910.

Vivo X7 Plus VS Huawei Mate 9: here we come to the battle between two camera monsters. Besides the impressive camera, these two phones also have some strong specs like 4GB RAM. Let’s see who will win this battle!

Vivo X7 Plus VS Huawei Mate 9: camera battle between 2 4GB phones

Recently, the Chinese company-Vivo- has just launched its flagship- Vivo X7 Plus. Before announcing, this brand had brought so many the new phone’s teasers with so many strong specs. And now, the phone is officially confirmed. Besides many impressive specs like 4GB RAM and 64GB inbuilt storage, the most highlight of the phone is its 16MP camera on the front and back. Another smartphone with the impressive camera is also about to show up in the market. This phone is a product of Huawei- Huawei Mate 9. Like Vivo device, the upcoming phone from Huawei also packs a 4GB of RAM and a 64GB of internal storage.

Besides those similarities above, Huawei Mate 9 specs are better than Vivo X7 Plus specs. Mate 9 runs on a Kirin 960 processor and Android Marshmallow.  The processor and OS on X7 Plus are SND 652 and Android Lollipop . Despite the same 64GB ROM, this memory can still be expanded up to 256GB on Huawei handset. While on Vivo representative, you can’t do that. Although the front camera of Mate 9 is smaller with 8MP, the phone still defeat its rival with a 20MP primary cam with dual LED and OIS. The new phone from Vivo sports a 5.7-inch Full HD display. It’s 6-inch display with the resolution of 1440 x 2560 px in Huawei phone.

Vivo X7 Plus VS Huawei Mate 9: it seems like that Mate 9 beats X7 Plus in almost every aspect. It has a stronger chipset, a newer OS, a larger screen and a better primary camera. The new phone of Huawei is a real deal. So, if you want a smartphone contains all the good specs, Mate 9 is your proper choice. However, with such a phone like the one from Huawei, you will have to pay more. And this price will definitely be higher than Vivo X7 Plus’s.

Vivo X7 Plus VS Huawei Mate 9: price and release date

Vivo X7 Plus VS Huawei Mate 9: we got a winner now. However, if you decide to choose it, you may want to concern about Huawei Mate 9 price. It will be more expensive than Vivo X7 Plus price. Both their prices are still unknown. So, we have to wait until they are launched. Vivo X7 Plus  launch date and Huawei Mate 9 launch date are expected to be on July 2016 and Q1 2017 respectively.

From the first Galaxy Note Edge to the upcoming flagship of Samsung, Galaxy S7 Edge, both appear with two curved sides. Have you ever wondered why Samsung decided to feature a curved edge smartphone? 

Curved edge smartphones: for the only purpose of beautiful design or else?

Galaxy Note Edge made its debut in 2014 at IFA. Samsung gave a curved edge smartphone to the tech world as a big surprise. Some said that it was useless and just for being innovative. They even believed that Samsung was making a new trendy design to challenge the standards set by Apple. All I can say is that is just a half-truth. Rather than starting a new age of smartphone design, this curved edge smartphone was praised for purpose.

The inspiration behind the gently curved edge smartphone is a very modern affliction – fear of missing out, or FoMo. FoMo is defined as a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing, for example, obsessively checking of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to keep in touch with what everyone else is up to and living in fear of missing a call. FoMO is also defined as a fear of regret or the fear of having made the wrong decision on how to spend time. Moreover, it is believed that making movements with your phone’s screen when you are in a conversation is impolite.

The curved edge smartphones were born from the notion that the users could check their phones in such social situations or in some urgent circumstance. Working on this purpose, Samsung smartphones allow users to register five contacts with individual colours. Furthermore, when these curved edge smartphones are placed face down, the curved sides will light up with the appropriate colour of the contact who is calling. Therefore, users can discreetly check their phones without interrupting the conversation.