PRODUCT LINK : Xiaomi Mi
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PRODUCT LINK : Xiaomi Mi
The Oneplus 3 is the third from the Chinese manufacturer OnePlus. A company with claims of making flagship killers and a tagline that says “Never Settle”. However, the fist two phones have been compromised in one way or another, even though the OnePlus One was an impact maker, the Oneplus Two failed to deliver on promises. The OnePlus 3 is being projected as a true flagship killer, and while there are many reasons why this statement may be true, Let’s Find out in our Review if this stands True!
Design :
The OnePlus 3 holds the best build quality of the Oneplus line of phones. An all metal shell that reflects a lot upon design and materials from the lineup of HTC phones and it is no way a bad thing. HTC has been one of our favorite manufacturers, and their build quality is a primary reason.
The front of the phone houses Gorilla Glass 4. However, you will only get a protection lip if you buy one of their covers. The included screen protector gets scratched easily and it is recommended that you replace your layer quickly.
We have no complaints with the OnePlus 3 design, in fact, we appreciate it a lot and it speaks a lot about what the company has learnt in the past three years. That being said we are still waiting for the gold color. The fact that the phone is metal, means that dents will be easy to get and so will be scratches.
Performance :
With the latest update just about a month from the launch, OnePlus took care of a lot of the initial snags faced by the handset. Memory management is a whole lot improved, even though we didn’t really face any issues initially.
Scoring upwards of 140,000 in Antutu benchmark, the OnePlus 3 proves that you don’t need an expensive handset to get the power you desire. In fact, it scores the 1st place at the moment on Antutu with a score of 143532 without any mods.
6 GB of RAM is an overkill and OnePlus basically did it to draw attention towards the phone, with no real use of so much standby memory, it just makes the memory hungry apps last out longer. It does give a free buffer to multitask and allow for games to utilise this memory. At any time, however, there is usually awards of 3 GB of RAM free.
OnePlus may launch a 4 GB variant of the OnePlus 3 much like the LeMax 2, which would make more sense for an ordinary consumer and would also bring down the price by about Us $ 60.
Usual bits of daily use are good after one month of use, and especially good after the software update which tends to smooth things out. Switching between apps is easy and quick and the phone plays well when you push it to the limit.
Battery Life :
The OnePlus 3 will take in two nano SIM cards and will work with essentially LTE and 4G networks in the region it is designed for. The Snapdragon 820 chip is quite versatile and a wide array of bands are well supported with the OnePlus 3.
The Network strength is good and so is phone call capability with little effect on the battery life. The earpiece is a tad bit low in volume, but not enough to be bothersome. The microphone is sensitive and noise cancellation good. Overall phone capability stands in the good to excellent region.
Battery life is average on the OnePlus 3, with just a 3000 mAh battery and a lot going on, the OnePlus 3 will require frequent recharges, and its recommended that you carry the Dash Charger. We find the charging living up to its name and claim. After a month the OnePlus 3 still charges quickly and crosses 60% in about 30 minutes.
Talk Time : 4.5 Hours
Browsing : 3-4 Hours
Music Playback : 14 Hours
Video : 5 Hours
CAMERA :
There is only one speaker on the phone and its sharp but sounds tinny. The audio levels are also average and not the best we have seen. You will find yourself looking for portable speakers or headphones to use this handset. Audio through the headphone jack is good and punchy. Also worth noting is the fact that this phone does, in fact, have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Something the Chinese siblings are missing in anticipation of Apple getting rid of it.
HDR and HD mode you will find yourself capturing some great outdoor shots. The usual OnePlus filters are also available and appreciated in the camera app. The camera is genrally faster, sharper and more detailed in capturing images and video.
A full manual mode allows you to customize and set up your shot if you are a photography nerd. The ability to store RAW lets you get a lot more from the images, and removing the processing engine from the smartphone and shifting it to you PC.
Colors and Contrast is on point and saturation is just right. Mostly outdoor images are excellent with the indoor images coming out good to average.
The OnePlus 3 fixes all its earlier nags, it looks great and performs better. The OnePlus 3 does have NFC and a brilliant AMOLED display. The metal build is appreciated and so are the material covers that allow you to go back to sandstone or even the wood finish that everyone wanted on the original OnePlus One. The OnePlus 3 is probably the only phone in this price bracket that is worthy of a recommendation over handsets like the S7 Edge and HTC 10, however, there is a big catch.
PRODUCT LINK : OnePlus 3
Samsung Gear IconX is the first wireless set of earphones, offering true cord free experience from a big company. But, are they really worth the big price tag, or should you consider something more affordable.
Design and Build :
The Gear IconX is built really well, with a good quality outer casing. The earphones offer up splash and dust resistant P2i Nano coating despite having a fairly wide feature set. They should withstand your sweat incase you decide to use these for your active life or sports.
The included wing tips and in ear plugs come in a total of 4 different sizes for a perfect fit and are extremely easy to switch.
The carry case also has a rubberized coating on the outside and is built to survive several drops, and it does not pop open incase you do drop it.
Performance and Audio :
When you setup your Gear IconX with your phone, the audio is usually set to 50% which is optimised to get you a good battery life.
Audio performance is excellent, while music volumes can be extremely high. Low range and Mids are handled extremely well and audio profiles can be customised using the Gear app on your Android phone.
You can also use a single earbud as a regular bluetooth earpiece incase you like to keep it old school and answer your calls like that.
If you go for your run or go about your fitness routine without your phone, the earphones will still track your health info and heartbeat and then sync up with your phone later.
As wireless earphones they have excellent range and sound and thanks to the snug fit the outside noise is easily cut. The ability to long press and listen to ambient sound means you don’t need to constantly pull the earphones out of your ear.
Hardware :
The Samsung Gear IconX comes with 4GB of inbuilt storage, which can come in handy if you decide to get some music without your phone. Connectivity with your smartphone is via Bluetooth 4.1 (BLE). The Gear IconX also track your fitness via the inbuilt HR sensor and an Accelerometer. The capacitive touch input on both earphones allow for handling and navigating through your music handling calls and listening to the contextual menus.
The Gear IconX come with 2 microphones per earbud, for noise cancellation and audio for phone calls. The Frequency Range is 20~20 kHz, with a Speaker Sensitivity of 89.5 dB ± 3 dB / 1mW and a Speaker Impedance: 16 ohm.
Battery Life :
The biggest downfall of the Gear IconX has to be the battery life, if you increase the volume from the default while connected to your phone, you will need to charge the IconX every 60-75 minutes. Which if you are used to listening to music for long periods is a definite negative.
The carry case will charge both your earbuds a total of three extra times. However, if you leave your earphones in the case they will be charged constantly basically draining the battery of the earphones and the case as well. Which means leaving your earphones overnight will kill them, making them impossible to travel with.
PRODUCT LINK : Samsung Gear IconX
Design :
The Lenovo P2 has a well built and solid, scratch resistant unibody aluminium design which should look good for long periods of time, if you don’t manage to ding and drop your phone a lot. The shell is well built and looks premium. The dual chamfers, one on the front and one on the back along with chrome accents around the camera, led flash and buttons makes the phone look clean and well made. The manufacturing of the phone is in India. So, Make in India for the win.
Design is very reminiscent with the phones we have seen in the past, with placements of the camera and led flash much like vibe phones seen recently, especially the K6 Note. If you liked the design on those phones, then the P2 does offer up improvements.
Performance :
The phone manages heat really well and we did not find the phone heating up extensively even when handling heavy tasks and high end graphics.
Hardware :
The hardware is not top notch, with the Snapdragon 625 chipset based on 14nm tech offering octa-core at 2.0 GHz and an Adreno 506 GPU (similar to the Redmi Note 4) the Lenovo P2, is available in 3 GB or 4GB RAM options with 32 GB or 64 GB of Storage. You can add an upto 256 GB card but you lose the 2nd SIM slot on the hybrid tray (boo). The main camera is 13 MP with an f/2.0 aperture and the front camera is a 5MP shooter and the phone is powered by a massive 5100 mAh battery.
Display :
The Super AMOLED display is a perfect example of technology trickling down to mid range phones. Super AMOLED, which is traditionally restricted to Samsung flagships, is now being used by Lenovo on their P2, giving it exceptional viewing angles and good depth of colour and brightness. The indoor and outdoor visibility is good and Black-levels are deep. The display does over-saturate the colours, a problem with most Super-AMOLEDs, however colour profile options allow for some basic changes. Switching to the Normal display mode in the settings shows some natural colours which definitely are flatter to the eye.
The viewing angles and colour quality of the display make watching videos and movies on the phone a great experience. You also have a decent speaker, but the included earphones are poor. Buy yourself a good pair of headphones (/earphones) to enjoy the good multimedia output from the headphone jack.
The P2 does not have Dolby support, and possibly the only phone in Lenovo’s arsenal to miss this out, Strange!
Battery Life and Charging :
The included fast charger is speeds up to the point where it delivers an impressive 12V 2A charge making the phone charge to a full in around 1.5 hours. When compared to Dash Charge, the Lenovo P2 may stay back in percentages, i.e achieving 40% vs 60% on the OnePlus 3 in the same time.
However, in real life numbers, it charges 2040 mAh of battery in the same time the Dash Charge charges 1800mAh and that too on a micro USB port. Lenovo has some interesting battery capability here.
Talk Time : 14 Hours
Screen On Time : 20 Hours +
Internet Browsing : 15 Hours +
Video : 10 Hours +
Camera :
Colors can turn out flat, and images look definitely better on the Super-AMOLED display of the Lenovo P2 than they do on a LCD or LED panel at your home. The main camera also captures 4k video at 30fps, which allows you to get some high resolution video with a chipset that most manufacturers have restricted to Full HD. You also get electronic IS for video which is good for shaky hands, though, you lose some resolution and field of view once you enable this feature.
The front camera is good only is proper lighting, otherwise shots are over processed and noisy. For selfie-lovers the beauty mode cleans up most post processing needs. However, we found turning this off worked better for more natural and sharper looking images. Video on the front is restricted to 1080p and will come in handy for basic usage.
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BATTERY AND PERFORMANCE :
We have seen a lot of Chinese smartwatches with MediaTek chipsets and well, the Domino DM368 is not an exception at all as it features the MediaTek MTK6580 Quad-Core chipset that is clocked at 1.3GHz. Coming to other memory aspects, we have 512MB RAM and 8GB internal storage. The RAM might disappoint you but believe me, at regular usage, this smartwatch works smooth. The only downside is the use of MediaTek instead if Snapdragon, which in my case is much faster than MediaTek.
the Domino DM368 Smartwatch so there is a 400mAh battery that can provide talk time of 2 and a half hours as per the company. Well, 400mAh is surely not a big battery so you can expect a difference in the standby time in reality as compared to that mentioned by the company.
The Domino DM368 could be a good choice under $89,99 due to its fantastic looks and features. But, there are some situations where you might now like to buy it. Let us suppose if you like sports in which it is necessary to have a track of your running, monitor heartbeats and maybe not even miss a call while listening to music; then this is not the product for you. Anyways, do let us know about your opinions about this smartwatch in the comments section below. Cheers.
PRODUCT LINK : DOMINO DM368
A review of the Elephone S7
If you’ve been waiting for a Note 7 replacement that won’t catch fire, Elephone S7 has you covered. Everything from the impressive design to the powerful hardware has been covered, and in some cases, it performs even better. Let’s take a look under the hood and see what makes it tick.
First Look :
When we first pulled the Elephone S7 out of the box, we couldn’t help
but notice the similarities between it and the Samsung S7. The main
difference is that it comes in two different versions. You’ve got a 5”
version – the same as the S7, and a 5.5” version which puts it firmly in
the phablet category. Generally, phones are condemned for appearing as
little more than a copy of another brand. But given the problems that
Samsung has had with its latest platform, we’re excited to see how they
have improved the design.
Performance :
When you’ve got an affordable phone that looks like a flagship, you
want to make sure it performs like a flagship as well. The Phablet
version of this phone uses the latest Helio X20 10-core CPU, putting it
among the highest performers on the market. Each core runs at a blazing 2
GHZ, ensuring that even the most demanding apps run at top speed.
Some consumers might not care about the internal memory, but will care about the storage. In that case, there is no need to worry. The phone has a second SIM card slot, something that’s not particularly useful in North America. However, the second SIM card slot can be used for an SD card up to 128GB. This should hold all the media you would want.
Fingerprint Sensor :
The fingerprint sensor, as we’ve already noted, is located on the front
of the Elephone S7. It’s located in the physical home button, which
makes the phone look even similar to Samsung’s offering. But the
fingerprint sensor isn’t as good as what Samsung offers. Part of this is
due to the fact that the button doesn’t really move that much. So
pressing it is a bit tougher, seeing as the button believes you are just
touching it and not pressing it (since a touch just makes it go back,
instead of home). However, in terms of actually recognizing your
fingerprint, it’s spot on. I didn’t have any failed attempts at
unlocking the Elephone S7, which is actually really impressive, and also
becoming very common these days.
CAMERA :
If you’re a photo junkie, you’ll love the cameras built into the
Elephone S7. Even the front camera, typically the worst performer,
outpaces most competing phones on the market. It runs at 5MP, capable of
taking print-ready shots with the touch of a button.
Battery Life :
As mentioned already, the Elephone S7 sports a 3000mAh battery inside, which is fairly common for smartphones with this size display. It’s powering a 5.5-inch 1080p display, and with the MediaTek Helio X20 inside, the Elephone S7 should definitely get you through a full day, and it sure does. Remember, the biggest reason for the Helio X20 to be a deca-core processor is so that the device can use even less power in standby, when it is polling different apps for data. Mix that with Doze that is part of Android Marshmallow and you get some incredible standby time, which is what we get here with the Elephone S7. You can let the Elephone S7 sit unplugged overnight and lose just 1-2% over an 8-hour period. That’s pretty incredible, to be honest. Standby time here is no joke, but if it gets updated to Nougat, it could get even better.
Standby is only one part of the equation that equals good battery life. The other is how well the smartphone puts up with you actually using the phone. And we’re happy to report that the Elephone S7 was able to get us around 3-4 hours of on-screen time, consecutively. Now does that mean it has the best battery life? Certainly not. But it is very impressive, and battery life won’t be an issue for anyone looking to buy the Elephone S7.
The Elephone S7 has become a pretty popular device, largely due to how similar it appears to the Galaxy S7 Edge. But there’s much more inside than just the curved display, that Elephone has here. There’s that saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” and that’s definitely true here. And if it weren’t for the camera being pretty slow, I would probably say that this is a great alternative to the Galaxy S7 Edge, especially for those looking for a stock Android device. Being much cheaper, and offering stock Android on-board.
Product Link : Elephone S7
Teclast H10 was yesterday’s talk, now it is Teclast H30, the new smartband from Teclast. With its products like H30, Teclast is expanding much more from just a tablets brand. Under its H series smartbands, the Chinese manufacturer step into the wearables market. That too at a knockdown price offering tough competition to Xiaomi Mi Band 2 or own Cubot V1.
Teclast H30 – Quick Look At Specifications
- Sensors – Pedometer, accelerometer,heart rate
- Functions – Alarm, anti-loss phone, reminder calls, heart rate monitor, monitor physical activity (calories burned, distance traveled, steps walked …), remote camera control, sedentary reminder, sleep monitor, notifications apps, watch.
- Colors Black
- Materials Bracelet is Silicone and case is TPU
- Screen – OLED 0.86 “
- Resolution – 96 x 32 pixels
- Compatibility – Android 4.3 and iOS 7.0
- Connectivity – Bluetooth 4.0
- Battery – 55 mAh Lithium-Ion
- Dimensions – 22.60 x 1.60 x 1.20 cm
- Weight – 17 grams
- Waterproof – Yes
- Language – English, Chinese
Design of Teclast H30
Its unisex design makes it clear that is
designed for both female and male, adapting well to both in appearance
and length of band. To that, it promises to cover between 17 and 22 cm.
Identical to its most basic model, the
H30 Teclast presents a smart bracelet made of silicone tips and TPU with
metal hook . Its screen is slightly oval in shape that protrudes
slightly on the sides. Its 0.86 inches are enough to give us a line of
text information. Its OLED technology makes a good result despite its
small size.
Screen, as most of the devices, is removable and is carried through a micro USB port located at one end. Its battery is something that one really will stop and think about. For smartbands, battery life is one of the things that we like to be really good. While the inclusion of a screen always tend to lean hard on the battery, Teclast H30 promises on paper around the month of battery duration. It also includes port to fast charge 55 mAh of charge.
Functions
For functions like display time, receive alarms, locate the phone if you do not know where we left off, remember the calls that we have pending, view notifications of certain apps like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp or control the camera remotely and monitor sleep or monitor our physical activity. Also, if spend much time sitting, we can establish that give us a notice to that we stretch the legs and we move a little.
Monitoring physical activity is probably the main reason why we decided to acquire a SmartBand who already have one on your wrist. In this case, we count calories burned, distance traveled and the steps taken.
Box contents
1 x Teclast H30, 1 x USB cable, 1 x user manual in Chinese and English
Design and H30 Teclast Battery
Design and H30 Teclast Battery
Price
Teclast H30 smartband are presented as
one of the cheapest devices now with the smartband trends, with a nice
design and a range of set functions. So, it seems to be a smart buy to
order Teclast H30 with its price at $17.61
Product link : Teclast H30
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