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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Xperia P was hidden behind its flagship sister phone the Xperia S, but unusually for a phone that is supposedly a mid tier phone it has many features that’s puts it higher model to shame. Sony seems to have tried some features that they want to feature in their next range of phones with the Xperia P. Matching all ...
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 Windows 8 Lumia range in 2012/13 had excellent design, good camera’s and helped start re-building the Windows Phone market, which was accelerated with the super pricing of the Lumia 520 that helped in more than one way to increase the Windows market share. However one thing was obvious, the hardware on these phone was pre 2012, yet Windows seemed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Windows 8 Lumia range in 2012/13 had excellent design, good camera’s and helped start re-building the Windows Phone market, which was accelerated with the super pricing of the Lumia 520 that helped in more than one way to increase the Windows market share. However one thing was obvious, the hardware on these phone was pre 2012, yet Windows seemed ...
