Enterprise communication and collaboration for many years has been an exclusive Blackberry market, and though Nokia did try with Symbian powered E-series, they could not make much in-road into the enterprise. However how people use phones and the type of phones we use has changed drastically after the advent of iPhone/IPad era, and then the old bastions of Blackberry and ...
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 ...
The E5576 is among the first Cat4 LTE mifi hotspot routers in the market. The key change from Cat3 LTE is that possible download speeds have increased from 100Mbps to 150Mbps, while the uploads speeds still remain at 50Mbps. However mobile phones have now moved beyond Cat4 in recent versions, but you will be hard pressed to the stated speeds with you ...
Nokia in 2012/13 managed to get single to double digit market share in many markets with its Lumia 520. Motorola had been brought over by Google decided to take that concept to the next level in the Android world, and put out the Moto G. Until the emergence of the Moto G, budget android phones were very badly spec’d and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
We live a time where the mobile devices are a central part of our lives. The mobile device is no longer a miniaturized phone, but a device that has also taken away many other equipment we used in the past. The Walkman, the MP3 player, the IPod have fast disappeared as the music and video apps on your mobile device ...
Buying an Android phone has become very complicated as you see the number of models, and the marketed features. However for “smart” buyer a phone that is good enough in most areas is sufficient as long as the latest Android build is available quickly, and the device is well supported for a few years with Android updates, and incorporate a ...
I recently got a LankaBell 4G to supplement my Dialog 4G line… a rather brief but hopefully useful read for any prospective 4G LTE subscribers in SL. Posted on my new blog https://gearlk.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/4g-lte-sri-lanka-lankabell-and-dialog/Filed under: Internet Tagged: 4G, Dialog, LankaBell, LTE, Sri Lanka
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 ...
A rather regular query i am asked by many non-Mazda as well as older Mazda owners is whether the SKYACTIV implementation is similar to Honda and Toyota Hybrid tech. Considering I am currently a Mazda vehicle owner, i decided I should blog on this topic. But for automobile fans this would be rather stale news considering SKYACTIV tech has been in the ...
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 ...
The Sony XB3 is a new series of Portable Bluetooth speakers from Sony that has been geared to take on the JBL Charge/UE Boom market. Sony past models X33 and the X3 were very good speakers that focused as more affordable alternatives to the the Bose SoundLink Mini market, rather than the outdoor friendly market. Sony seems to have made ...
A comprehensive review of the Redmi Note 3, manufactured by China’s No 1 phone manufacturer (yes they outsell Samsung and Apple by a clear margin). While Xiaomi is yet to get public attention in Sri Lanka (as only Dialcom markets this in Sri Lanka, none of the big names have yet taken up this brand), the brand has got superb attention in India, China, and great online ...
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 Nokia 808 was the last and the best of the Symbian powered Nokia smartphones, and featured the pinnacle of camera in a phone. The Lumia 1020 is said to be the next upgrade of the 808, and if so it has to be the new benchmark for camera in a phone. The question to this date remains a hard ...
Compiled a few tips / best practices when buying a wireless portable speaker. If you have any more please do comment on this post! Don’t go by reviews, audio is a personal taste, and speakers are designed to play certain genre’s better than others. So take a collection of your music and try out how it sounds before investing Be ...
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 ...
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 ...
