Camera Hardware Blackberry has not won and awards or praise for quality and innovation on the photo stills and video capabilities on their smart phones. The Z10 may not set any new standards but it does improve Blackberry standards by a big way and ensures its not multimedia that is taking away the buyer from Blackberry. The Z10 features a ...
While the BB market has been declining rather fast, specially among the enterprise users, I felt i had to try out the Z10 and see what new OS and hardware was capable of, since the Z10 and the new BB10 platform has shown good promise, but to many this maybe a year too late in entering the market. Hardware The ...
While the BB market has been declining rather fast, specially among the enterprise users, I felt i had to try out the Z10 and see what new OS and hardware was capable of, since the Z10 and the new BB10 platform has shown good promise, but to many this maybe a year too late in entering the market. Hardware The ...
While the BB market has been declining rather fast, specially among the enterprise users, I felt i had to try out the Z10 and see what new OS and hardware was capable of, since the Z10 and the new BB10 platform has shown good promise, but to many this maybe a year too late in entering the market. Hardware The ...
The latest generation of Windows 8 Phone OS Lumia phones have got Nokia back into the competition, so how do they stack up compared to the Android competition? Which should you choose? After using the Lumia 620 and then the Lumia 920, i have got a fair idea of the usability and fit of the Nokia Lumia range for 2013. ...
The latest generation of Windows 8 Phone OS Lumia phones have got Nokia back into the competition, so how do they stack up compared to the Android competition? Which should you choose? After using the Lumia 620 and then the Lumia 920, i have got a fair idea of the usability and fit of the Nokia Lumia range for 2013. ...
The 2013 is proving to be the year of Full HD screens, and where quad-core is become a minimal requirement for a flagship. However HTC launched a small scale release of an interim flagship to the HTC One X, when they released the HTC Butterfly, also known as the HTC J and Droid DNA in other markets. The Butterfly was ...
The 2013 is proving to be the year of Full HD screens, and where quad-core is become a minimal requirement for a flagship. However HTC launched a small scale release of an interim flagship to the HTC One X, when they released the HTC Butterfly, also known as the HTC J and Droid DNA in other markets. The Butterfly was ...
I had wanted to try out the Nokia Lumia 800 as many who owned it spoke in praise on who smooth and slick the interface was, and this was truly credible considering similar single core equipped Snapdragon S1/S2 Android phones were stuttering in comparison. However Microsoft dropped the bombshell by stating that none of the WP7 devices going to be ...
A friend of mine had one the Acer W510 Windows Tablet Convertible he had won as well as as the prize for an event conducted and sponsored by Microsoft for students to promote writing apps for Windows 8. He brought the device as he was about to dispose it and move to an Apple Mac (yeah a Mac, supposedly it ...
Sony has had a reputation from the time it entered the Android market that its phones had the design element, but were always a step behind in hardware, and so so on the software side. The Xperia Z (and its sister phone) the flagship for 2013 heralded a first for Sony that the hardware was at the time of the ...
Dialog Telecom made its name when it took the the risky decision (at that time) to go GSM when then the leading provider CellTel had practically monopoly on the mobile market with CDMA but was late taking up GSM by which time Dialog has successfully grabbed the market share. The battle after GSM was the constant battle of who has ...
Normally my reviews have been hands on based on true usage of devices, but have launched a new series of articles featuring releases of key products in the mobile arena. Sony recently launched the cool Xperia Z, which for the first time for Sony featured state of the art processors matched with a nice design and some cool features (water ...
The Xperia S heralded a new design that definitely caught the eye of many, as Sony Ericsson moved out and became Sony. The NXT series of phones was led by the S as its flagship, and the phone’s design stood out of the crop, but faced a stiff challenge when the HTC One Series also came with an outstanding design. ...
I recently got hold of an Samsung Galaxy S3 which was running the 4.0.4 ICS firmware. I then update the phone with the recently released Jelly Bean update (4.1.2) expecting a further boost in performance in addition to to improved tweaks courtesy Samsung with their Nature UX skin. Sadly when i updated it i noticed that the phone seems to ...
The HTC One series, has brought HTC back into the market after a series of bad runs for HTC with the past models mainly with the fact that the designs were not new, and that the rival Samsung phones were featuring far more powerful hardware. The One series was launched in 3 forms the X, S and the V. All ...
I decided to give a shot at taking on the challenge of buying a Korean carrier smart phone and seeing what would be the limitations and challenges faced when trying to use these phones as everyday phones outside Korea, and if there are any real solutions to overcome these. The phone i got hold was Samsung SHV-E110S, the LTE variant ...
The first wave of droids mainly got the interest of the Apple haters, Symbian and Windows Mobile users and techie junkies. The next wave of the droids lead by Samsung @ the forefront is what truly started the crossovers not just from the existing Symbian and Windows Mobile users but also Apple IPhone fans who were getting hampered by the ...
The Huawei G300 is marketed as a mid-tier Android in the local market, though outside in the European markets this is pitched slightly lower to make it compete better. The phone features a design that makes it look like a Google Nexus in design, but feel like an 2011 HTC with its cool metal exterior, the HTC effect is further ...
With the luxury of provider subscribed phones being a rarity in markets like Sri Lanka, many power users will opt to purchase used phones due to the hefty pricing for brand new phones by the official suppliers and even by smaller retailers. However buying used phones, the buyer carries a few more risks mainly, The phone could be stolen phone ...
