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Mediatek recently launched the mt6595 chip with inbuilt LTE modem. It is the first octacore processor with cortex A17 and A7 in big.little configuration from the company. Cortex A17 sits between A9 and A15 when it comes to performance. The chip is capable of some serious tricks including slow motion HD video capture upto 480fps and support for 20mp camera. The benchmark scores are well above the current flagship's which means that some very capable Chinese phones are on its way that are easy on the budget too  Other news you should read with this is the announcement of Android one . It is a new project put forth by Google to bring decent Android phones to the next billion customers in developing markets like India.(“The next billion” is a moniker used for the middle income customers which are more in number in developing countries) The companies complying with Android one will get reference designs from Google and the major benefit for the customers is the fact that it will be

                                  Before even beginning, there is one thing that I need to make clear. I personally use an android phone and am someone who really enjoys the freedom of android platform to its fullest. Still I think the high price tag apple demands is justifiable. The latest addition to the iPhone line up, iPhone 6 will also follow the tradition of bearing a steep sticker price off contract . But what exactly is the reason behind this? Is apple charging a fortune just to tap into the human mindset that “anything expensive = top quality” without delivering? Let us analyse the facts Number game            Think about it, android is shipped in millions of devices made by an army of OEMs on an everyday basis. Whereas IOS is available only on Apple devices. Still it’s Apple products that brings out a trend that everyone else follows. Remember retina screen, touch id etc. it’s simple maths, cost of an individual copy of a product is given by, total development cost

Quality of the builtin camera has become a key selling point for smartphones these days. Samsung Galaxy K Zoom has gone to such extremes that they put a zoom lens on the phone blurring the lines of a standalone cam and camera phone. There are many who doesn’t want to buy the HTC one only because it has a 4mp cam. There are even people who bought the Nokia pureview lineup just for the camera. Today we are going to discuss an old camera tech that could sort out the low light photography problem  current phones face without adding any expensive image stabilization or even compromises on resolution. Before explaining the tech itself, first let’s learn how an image sensor captures a picture. Image sensor is a matrix of photodiodes which can just measure the intensity of light falling on it. Which means it can only generate a black and white picture. To get a colour image, we die the individual photo diodes with a primary colour. There are several layouts in which the dies are a

                   Blackberry is a mobile manufacturer that a lot of analysts predicted would die out by 2020. Some of them still believe that. But I think blackberry is still a force to reckon with. Especially when it’s current CEO John S Chen is called the turnaround specialist. Still there is nothing much that a man can do to sell a product if it is not good. Blackberry is lucky on this because it has one of the most refined and secure mobile OS in its hand. This is the area we are going to concentrate on today.                    Blackberry’s current OS is based on QNX a RTOS (Real Time Operating System). RTOS are used in situations where the computations are to be done in real time, ie when you need to monitor many variables and change many other things in real time. A flight autopilot is the perfect example.           It is not just another version of Linux, in fact it’s not even Linux. It is based on an entirely different concept called micro kernel. Kernel is a low

                                     Moto E is now “The budget smartphone” every other manufacturer is trying to outdo. Everyone has a different approach. Some merely try to match the spec list on paper. Some try to improve the parts Motorola left out. Nokia is the latest to test their luck on this. Before going deep into Nokia X2 , let us look at some of the competitors in india. Lava iris X1           Very good looking. Solid camera with dual flash. But the SOC is a letdown. Anyone who have used the overpriced Samsung grand and the s duos with the broadcomm chips will know what I mean. These chips use subpar videocore gpu’s that are very buggy and even incompatible with some apps. These chips may be the choice for the raspberry p revolution, but its not enough for running android smoothly. Micromax unite 2           Infact this is a good phone overall. The soc is good. It have decent camera. And even though the screen is bigger, resolution is on the lower s

                  The turnaround of Motorola from a money bleeding failed phone maker to a company which now owns six percentage of Europe’s total phone sales last year is nothing short of an unbelievable feat. Everyone from the average Joe to the think tanks behind mega corporate are smoking their heads thinking how they did this. There is no simple answer to this question. Like any other success stories, Motorola is hesitant to tell their secrets. But it’s just a matter of time before someone connects the dots and finds out that. Now let me connect the dots for you. Googliness.. It all started from Google buying the failing brand. A decision which gave Google lot of pressure from the OEM’s who was licensing its mobile OS, android, and ultimately led to the selling of Motorola to Lenovo. (I will write an article on that later). The move made Google directly competing with its previous partners. It was a no-brainer for the customer to choose Motorola against any other OE