Google Nexus 9

Google Nexus 9 is the first handset designed that is powered by Google’s new release “Android 5.0 Lollipop”. Well, having the new android version, you will be the first one to receive the latest android updates and enjoy all the advanced features and enhancements. Everyone got something to choose for them from over 1 million apps and games from Google Play. Well, now coming to its design, it is a perfectly designed handset for life.

It is a carefully crafted device with metal frame, soft-grip back and provided with unique colors. It has a perfectly sized8.9 inch IPS LCD display that is easy to carry and also big enough on work basis and for entertainment like watching movie, videos or playing games. You can get your work done at home, at office place, or on a move with the nexus 9 keyboard folio that can be purchased separately. Well, one can say that it is designed with keeping you in mind.

Powered by Android 

This android powered device is powered by a 64 bit NVIDIA tegra k1 dual-core processor with 2.3 GHz that equalizes to PC’s power and can perform all tasks like mailing, watching videos, or playing games, or documenting all at once by easily switching across tabs.

Crisp, clear sound that surrounds 

It has a high sound quality. With HTC introducing its front-facing stereo sound speakers, the sounds generated are more immersive, layered and distortion free. This is the most beneficial product that Google has received after tying their bond with HTC to give us the future of smartphone’s-Nexus 9.

Specs 

A handset is rated top based on its specifications. There are some specifications that an android phone must be efficient in and should be considered before buying them. So let’s have a look at some of the specified specs of this handset.

Hardware: 

It runs a processor dual-core 64 bit processor, giving it an anonymous power to perform several task all at once. Besides, it comes with 2048 MB RAM, making the accessibility of the device quite faster with built-in storage capacity of 32 GB.

Camera: 

The next specification that everyone have a look at is the camera pixel. Now-a-days everyone wish to have a high pixelate cams in their android to get a professional click as the trend of clicking pics is on high among this generation and desires to have all the features within one device. Well, it stands up to all the expectations in this field too as it provides 8 megapixels rare camera with LED Flash and auto-focus feature.

Apart from this, you are also benefited with a front cam of 1.6 MP and video recording with 1080p HD resolution.

Battery: 

Any device lags in their battery capacity but Nexus 9 had overcome this issue to with 6700 mAh battery capacity which cannot be found in any of the device. This helps you carry out your whole day with your handset. But the drawback is that this is not a user replaceable battery.

These are the mostly focused specs of every device and all the general specs are same like connectivity, media, internet browsing and all.

From all the discussions made, one can point out the pros and cons of this handset.

Pros: 

Large system memory, i.e. 2048 MB RAM that makes your device fast, effective and efficient.

4G connectivity, which increases the connectivity speed with mobile data.

Cons: 

Lacks in microSD slot, so there is no chance for storage expansion.

Non-replaceable battery.

Different Means of Taking Screenshots on Any Smartphone or Tablet

If you are the person who is looking to show off your new wallpaper, your amazing desktop screensaver in front of their friends or even if you want to show off of your new games and Android widgets that you have experimented with, then what to do you do? No need to think of high end ways to achieve this, you simply need to take a screenshot of the things and be ready to show off. The following steps will help you achieve your aim depending on the type of device you are using:
The users of laptops and desktops:

If you are among the people who still rely on and use any one of the versions of the Microsoft windows, then the easiest option they have is to take the complete screenshot share it with your friends. The user just needs to follow the following steps:

1.  The user just needs to click on the print screen tab on your keyboard of on your laptop 
2.  Open the Microsoft paint and just press the Ctrl+V option. 
3.  You will have the entire screenshot of the desktop and you should be able to save the file at your desired location.

If you are looking for more control over the screenshots then you might want to download IrfanView. This will allow the users to capture take the screenshots by following the below mentioned steps:

1. On a regular desktop the user needs to press the C tab and then you will get the option to select the type of screenshot that you are looking for. The users will get a lot of details and options for better experience. The users will be able to move their mouse over the area they want to be captured as the screenshots, click on start and save your screenshot.

2. Mac users will have to follow 2 commands to take screenshots. They can capture the screenshot by pressing the command as cmd + shift + 3 and if you are looking for, capturing only a part of your screen then just press the “cmd + shift + 4 and it will direct you to, drag and select the area that you might want to capture and save the on the desktop.

The users of tablets and Smart phones

Irrespective of what device you are using, Windows Phone, Android phone or even any apple series, the user just has to press the power button and ensuring that the home button is also pressed at the same to time to get a screenshot of the entire screen. But if you have an older version of Android (less than 4.0) then you can follow the below steps:

 Holding the power button for a long time might give option to take a screen shot apart from reboot and shut off.

If not, then when pressing the power button, press the volume button and you might get the option to take screenshot. This feature has been enables in Samsung Galaxy and Sony Ericsson Xperia phones.

Moto X Voice Commands

Once your Moto X is trained to recognize your voice, you can use several different voice commands and it does not need you to touch your phone. Simply say the command together in one phrase and Touchless Control will process the command and does the relevant thing.

To enable Touchless control, open the notification panel by swiping down from the top of your Moto X screen, and select the option Touchless Control. You will then enter the Touchless Control setup and then train the Touchless control with your voice. First and the most important command you got to keep in mind is “ok google, help me” - say this to open a set of commands you can say to the phone.

First, you need to train your phone in a quiet place and then the phone will recognize you when you speak either in a quiet place or in a noisy place. This is achieved through a software called crystal talk. Some of the commands are

• Call “contact” - to make a phone call to a person, replace the contact in the command with the name of the person.
• Navigate to “location” - to get directions to the location name given in the command.
• Text “contact” - to send a message to a person, replace the contact in the command with the name of the person.
• Remember “meeting tomorrow at 2″ - to set reminders
• Schedule “an appointment on the 21st of this month at 3 p.m.” - Schedule appointments
• Play “song” - Play music & movies
• Set “alarm for 6 in the morning” - Set alarms
• Open “calendar app” - Opens google calendars application
• Post to Google + “blah blah…” - Post Google+ update
• Goodnight - Turns on the Sleeping do-not-disturb mode in Moto Assist
• Take a selfie - This will turn on the front-facing camera and count down from three.
• Talk to me - Will read incoming calls and texts for half an hour.
• Take a photo - Starts the rear camera.

You can ask questions like “what is the temperature today?”, “where is googleplex?”. This machine has the answer to most of your questions.

The “What’s up?” command reads out aloud the notifications from the notification bar. After reading the items are marked read. If the “what’s up?” command did not work as expected, try saying “Read Notifications” command.

If you are worried that your notifications are being read aloud when you are out hanging with others, you can reduce the detail of reading the notification by activating the Notification details and turning off the setting. The Moto X’s Touchless Control can be useful when your hands are busy or when you want to remember something important and you are in a situation of need of information.

Many examples are there when the Touchless control will be useful. Some of them are while driving a car, when you want to find your phone, to set reminders when your hands are busy with some other work or when you are in a position to not to be able to use your hands to touch the phone and mostly will be useful for blind people.

Sony Xperia Z2 - A Smartphone from Sony

Sony has distinctively established their self in the designing of waterproof models with the Sony Xperia Z series.

Within this series Sony Xperia Z2 is another addition comes with waterproofing capability and facility to record video in 4K resolution. Sony Xperia Z2 comes with fast processor, with more sharpness on screen, high resolution camera.

The 5.1 inches screen comes with 1920x1080 pixels and it provides full high definition very sharp picture quality. The brightness is 455 cd x /m2. More over the screen has more lateral viewing angle. The display quality increased more from its predecessors.

Since Sony removed additional screen protector the colors displayed are better. The 20.7 mega pixel camera is sufficient for taking photos for taking photos in rapid movements.

The timeshift video and Burst records helps the Smartphone to record slow motion videos and can shoots up to 60 frames per second in Full HD.

The SteadyShot feature offers more quality and the software based image stabilization removes the imperfection in the video quality while doing hand held videos.

Sony Xperia Z2 on boards a Snapdragon 801 which is one of the fastest processor with 2.3 GHz clock with 3 GB RAM. The less battery life is a big issue with the most of the Smartphone, but battery of Sony Xperia Z2 can last longer for atleast 13 hours with apps navigation and internet usage.

The Z2 comes with simple menus and easy operation and certain apps will start automatically when charging cable is connected. Z2 is equipped with NFC Smart Tags to do certain tasks automatically like navigation apps.

Sony Xperia Z2 housed with LTE, NFC, and Bluetooth 4.0, super fast Wi-ac (2.4 and five gigahertz) HDMI, FM radio as well as the operating system "Android 4.4.2 KitKat" and all other features of a regular Android smart phone. Sony Xperia Z2 is sealed against water and dust of standard IP57.

LG G3, The Hottest Smartphone!

The LG G3 is going to be one of the hottest new arrivals of this year. From the beginning of July this year comes LG's flagship model LG G3 to the market. LG G3 comes with super sharp display with metal like plastic housing with the screen size of 5.5 inches (the predecessor G is of 5.2 inches); with this screen size it is actually a Phablet.

With this model LG G3 the Koreans have given a Phablet with extremely sharp display, easy navigation and with beautiful design. The screen frame of LG G3 is narrow and the cabinet edges are beautifully carved round and it aptly fit will in the hand. The LG G3 display is of monstrous 1440x2560 pixels with the vast pixel density of 538 ppi. Currently no other Smartphone is available with this much sharpness. The contrast ratio is 139:1.

The LG G3 is brighter with 503 candelas per square meter and hence it could display more natural colors beautifully. The LG G3 visually makes a very impressive shape. The build in quality is great, the Quad-HD display extremely sharp.

Because of the more pixels the graphics processor may consume more energy but LG promised that the power consumption will be in check hence the LG G3 battery power may last longer for at least 10 hours. With Snapdragon chip 801 (Quad Core 2.46 GHz), Android 4.4.2 and Adreno 330 graphics the G3 works very quickly.

 The operation with the controls are quite simple and easy to operate, most of the people will like the menu more particularly. The tool bar of the LG G3 can be hidden automatically using the setting so that we can get the entire screen space for operation. The user can arouse the phone by simply top knocking; this is similar to that of the G2 version.

The user could predefine the knocking patterns for various operations like locking, unlocking etc. The user can adjust the size of the key board and the space bar to suit their fingers. For certain apps such as Youtube, the browser can be used with a split-screen mode and you can the smart phone similar to a pc for some applications and the small window can be minimized.

In The LG G3, the digital assistant "Smart Buyer" is the brilliant innovation. It observes the cell phone usage in the background and logs every now and then and advises in case of imminent downpour or to reminiscent of missed calls. The LG G3 is not using a normal MHL adapter for HDMI connection; instead it uses the rarer SlimPort.

It is equipped with WLAN ac, Cat4 LTE, HSPA +, NFC and an infrared transmitter. The LG G3’s main camera offers a 13 megapixel and can take a photo with dual flash light and with optical image stabilizer. The laser autofocus does good job.

Snapshots are noticeably faster than any other Android Phones. The optical image stabilizer prevents blurring photos despite long exposures. The photos impress with high sharpness and vibrant colors. No wonder the LG G3 successer of LG G2 is really great Smartphone. LG offers G3 in two different memory variants. There is a version with 16 GB of internal memory with 2 GB of RAM, which currently goes for around 540 Euros over the counter and the version with 32 GB of memory and 3 GB of RAM on offer, which will cost 599 Euros according to the manufacturer.

ZTE brings thin Smartphone Grand Memo 2 LTE

ZTE launches its Grand Memo 2 LTE, a new Android Smartphone with a large display in the market. The focus of the manufacturer is to use the Smartphone easily; in addition the device has the latest version of Android and LTE support. The Chinese manufacturer ZTE has unveiled a successor to its Smartphones Grand memo. The Grand Memo 2 LTE has an even slightly larger screen than its predecessor, an improved front camera and the new user interface Mifavor 2.3.

With only 7.2 mm, it is one of the thinnest Android Smartphones available in the market. The 6 -inch screen has a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels, giving a pixel density of 244 ppi. Inside the Smartphones Snapdragon Qualcomm processor 400 is there, but it is not clear which model how many cores are working. The clock rate also has not announced by ZTE.

The Grand Memo 2 LTE has 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of built-in flash memory. Whether the Smartphone has a slot for micro SD cards, two slots are available in total. One could for the SIM card, and the other may be for a memory card. The device supports UMTS on frequencies 900 and 2100 MHz, and LTE on unknown bands.

Wireless dominates the Smartphone of 802.11a/b/g/n at both frequencies 2.4 and 5.0 GHz; also the new fast standard ac is supported. Bluetooth runs in version 4.0, a GPS receiver and an infrared transmitter are installed. The camera on the back has 13 megapixels and a BSI sensor from Sony. The front camera has been upgraded by ZTE, it is now has 5 megapixels instead of 1 as the first Grand memo and hence it is suitable for self-portraits.

ZTE has installed on the Grand Memo 2 LTE a good camera app with numerous setting options. Good like us have also aids such as the scale at which the user can align the viewfinder image correctly. The quality of the photos we could not be conclusively assessed without an external monitor. The Grand Memo 2 is also known as LTE comes with Android in the current version 4.4.2 Kitkat and runs smoothly through the menus.

The user interface of ZTE is more colorful than that of a pure AOSP - Androids and provides the user with some advanced configuration options also. Apart from a special child mode and a glove mode, there is the possibility to record telephone numbers in a blacklist and block the incoming unwanted calls. Thus, the user is protected against unwanted and annoying calls. About an authorization manager the user also has more control over his data, even an Adblocker is preinstalled.

The housing of the Smartphone measures 161.5 x 83 mm and is 7.2 mm thin. The distance between the display and the edge is very less, according to ZTE; it utilize for the LCD screen of almost 80 percent of the front of the device. The built-in battery has a nominal charge of 3,200 mAh; according to ZTE, the battery consumption has fallen by 30 percent.

An HD video to be played up to 16 hours, which is not clear how this value was measured. The Grand Memo 2 LTE offers some interesting features and a large screen. Especially the camera software and the advanced security features we liked. A price for the device has not yet mentioned by ZTE, the launch will take place in April 2014 first in China.

Moto G Review

Motorola to regain its position in market has launched Motorola G. The best making of Motorola experienced at Moto G at affordable price compared to the previous one Moto D. Motorola join hands with Google and Google stamps prevails all over them to share surprise in common. For all you Motorola lovers, this will be a best choice to afford.

Fundamentals: 

• Display resolution is 1280x720 at 4.5-inch, 326ppi Display.

• Memory storage up to 8 or 16G, therefore you can play with app in market and many more music.

• A good camera quality produced at 5MP rear camera and supports 1.3MP front-facing.

• To deal up with Wi-Fi connection it provides 802.11n, supports HSDPA over mobile internet.

• Bluetooth is configured at version 4.0.

Pros

• If you afford to get excellent mobile at low price, this with no surprise offers you the best.


Design

At first it is not going to offer a comfort zone, but on usage it offers you the best and similar to the model of iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G. The problem prevailing with Moto G states that, it is hard to remove back case whenever you need to switch to different. Micro USB port is really hard to middle up.An average customer feels it annoying unless he is used to it. Else other than this it feels a good design is offered.

Features

Moto G is not compromised with the features available in it. If offers many unique features such as Moto Care, for instance that offer technical support through message or phone. This tends to provide Driving, meeting, sleeping at different mode that surely excites you.

Motorola Migrate offers to get old setting, text message, call history, media and lots more once you change over to another phone.

Performance

This isn’t that smart compared to other phone but while using it, offers really smooth and quick OS operations. Considering this speech recognition also works out in same manner availing with accuracy. Owing to this advantage the cons of this product is it lags speed while using the browsers.Camera on Moto G isn’t that good, but sense as if ok on normal instance.

Display

Motorola has really worked out to bring a better screen at instance. It is not full HD, but clarity provided is worthwhile for money you offered to get that. 326ppi Display is used which looks similar iPhone 3G. High bar pixel density is provides as Apple has provided in iPhone 5s.

Battery

Battery backup decides to be the braking factor to purchase a phone. This situation is made ease by Moto G offering a good battery backup. It seems phone has got around three days on average which seems really to be crazy for smart phone.

Bottom Line

Motorola has really proven its potential on designing Moto G. Though it performs less than Moto X released by Google, Moto G makes a surprise mark in place of Moto X owing to its price. This phone may not be a priority to others, but consider while traveling it is better to prefer for Moto G.