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Jan 16, 2018

January 16, 2018

The best apps you can only use on iPhones

The best apps you can only use on iPhones



Apple
8 of the best apps you can only use on iPhones

We've selected 8 exclusive  apps + 'plus a game' to enjoy the most of your iOS Gadgets.

1. Apollo — The best way to experience Reddit

Apollo

2. Darkroom — One photo editor to rule them all

Darkroom
8 of the best apps you can only use on iPhones

3. Focos — Tweak images and play with focus range

Focus
8 of the best apps you can only use on iPhones

5. Bear — Take smarter notes

Bear

6. Things 3 — Keep an up-to-date to-do list.

Things 3
8 of the best apps you can only use on iPhones


7. Airmail — Manage your email like a boss

Airmail

8. Life is Strange — A console masterpiece brought to mobile

8 of the best apps you can only use on iPhones
8 of the best apps you can only use on iPhones

January 16, 2018

4 of the best apps you can find exclusively on Android

The best apps you can find exclusively on Android


Android
4 of the best apps you can find exclusively on Android

Most modern apps are developed for the two big mobile operating systems (OS): Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
Android is the more flexible OS of the two, which means that it can be highly customisable with apps that are exclusive to it.
A number of them really permit you to change how ab muscles program performs, in a way. You can find programs like Link Bubble and its special searching experience, for example, or Activity Launcher 3's re-imagination of a house screen. However, choice and mobility also imply that it could be easy to obtain missing in the hundreds of programs present in the Play Store. Here is a collection of nine of good use programs that could allow you to maximize of one's Android device.

1. Action Launcher 3 — Customise the look and feel of your home screen

Action luncher 3
4 of the best apps you can find exclusively on Android


Action 3 is one of several Android "launchers" — home monitor alternatives that allow you to customise the look and experience of one's device's major page. Everything you in the screenshot above may be the "Quickbar," which allows you to look for things on Google along with accessibility applications or actions rapidly with the designs you see towards the top right. I've a mic to activate Voice Search, a secret to the Perform Store, and the three-dot selection key to open Action 3's menu.

One of Action's features is its vertical, alphabetically sorted app drawer


 also offers a clever way to make use of widgets and folders


 keeps up with the Pixel Launcher when it comes to features


2. Backdrops — Treat yourself with a selection of great wallpapers

Backdrops
4 of the best apps you can find exclusively on Android


You will even note that, on my home screen, within the cloud and the widget (more on that later) there's also a wallpaper. It originates from the app "Backdrops." It features a substantial selection of wallpapers ranging from landscape photos to abstract geometries, drone shots, space photos, and everything in between. What I love about Backdrops, however, is that — unlike several related applications — it allows me to "like" the wallpapers I love and never having to acquire the physical image. But the specific angle here includes the following app, previewed in the small "michael" you will see in the underside correct corner...

If you don't like what you see, you can change it


You can set the cycle to change however often you like


3. Muzei — let your phone automatically change wallpapers for you

Muzei
4 of the best apps you can find exclusively on Android

That app is called "Muzei," and oahu is the magic connective structure between Backdrops and Action 3. What it does is straightforward: you decide on a graphic source, and Muzei can pattern images arbitrarily as your history every time (there is also a choice to incorporate some blur you can use). Backdrops features a Muzei "extension," which allows the latter to remove photos from the Backdrops "Favorites" directory we stated earlier. Also, Action 3's "Quicktheme" function analyses your background colors and changes the Quickbar and app kitchen colors to complement and contrast them.

4. DashClock — Information at a glance


Dashclock
4 of the best apps you can find exclusively on Android

The beauty of widgets is that they are like mini-apps you can interact with directly on your home screen.
This one here, "DashClock," doesn't even have a full-blown app. It's just a widget.
Much like Muzei, it features extensions, and it uses them to exhibit you quick data like, in cases like this, enough time, climate, unread tweets and impending schedule appointments. Tapping on the particular point will bring you inside the correspondent area of the connected application: Hitting "Newsroom Meeting," as an example, will bring me to that particular specific event inside Google Calendar.

DashClock supports a number of extensions


January 16, 2018

Let's talk about LG G6

LG G6 review: chopping corners... Like a pro


Let's talk about LG G6

Introduction

Chopping corners - oahu is the history of the LG G6's life. And we suggest this equally actually and figuratively. Nearly since their exhibit does not have correct views, it's delicate arcs instead. And figuratively because the G6 doesn't are the screaming equipment available in the marketplace, but makes do with a few-months-old chipset and'only'4GB of RAM. What happened to'flagship'? 

What happened is that LG is choosing an alternative rotate on the term. The G6 is the one which can provide probably the most, therefore they have extended flagship to symbolize So while LG held back on equipping the phone with the latest hardware, they've focused on usability. Many may think (a few people here as well) that's just downplaying the fact Samsung won't allow anyone use the Snapdragon 835 before the Galaxy S8 arrives, but let's experience it - LG's marketing group did have to move about the issue somehow.

As for the ultimate in specs, LG says we should look for them in the V-series from now on. How convenient it is that the V20 is due for a refresh in the fall, when the S8 will be in the rearview mirror.

Read on, however, and you'll find out that LG can build a remarkably strong case for the decisions it's made (or the ones being forced upon it) for the G6. Positive, it's only the Snapdragon 821 chipset that's driving the G6 and maybe not the forthcoming S835, but it's not quite a slob, the S821. Also, let's maybe not forget that it is, after all, Qualcomm's still-current prime model. 
LG G6
Let's talk about LG G6
Another eyebrow-raiser is the decision of the Sony IMX258 camera warning, the imager of choice for a couple dozen smartphones, planning as far as couple of years back. Including distinguished smartphone designs as well as designs you've likely never noticed of. They span across a price range of $150-$350, which will be less than 50% of the LG G6's wondering price. It's obviously not really a flagship cameraphone warning, but remember - the term's been redefined. Also the G6 does have two of these IMX258s, so that should count for something.



It's also still the same concept - a crazy ultra-wide-angle camera accompanies the regular one. True, the insurance has been shrunk a little on both, but you now get the exact same 13MP resolution on each of them, therefore the wide-angle shooting doesn't feel like it's finding neglected.
LG G6

But best of all - that display. We all want larger displays, but no one is particularly fond of the extra bulk that goes with one. That's what LG's surveys revealed too, therefore its developers sought out and extended the monitor to cover all the device's entrance - the 5.7-inch 18:9 part screen fits in the same human body impact whilst the G5's (admittedly, the G5 is not a screen-to-body ratio match winner, but still). Oh, and the corners listed here are cut for reasons beyond look, but more on that later.

LG G6 key features

  • Body: Aluminum frame, Gorilla Glass 3 front, GG5 back; chamfered LCD for impact resistance; IP68 certified for water and dust resistance.
  • Display: 5.7" IPS LCD, 2,880x1440px resolution, 18:9 (2:1) aspect ratio, 565ppi; HDR 10 and Dolby Vision compliant.
  • Rear camera: 13MP f/1.8 primary camera with 71° field of view, OIS. Additional 13MP f/2.4 wide-angle camera with 125° FOV, no OIS. 1.12µm pixel size on both. 2160p/30fps video recording on both.
  • Front camera: 5MP, 100° FOV; 1080p/30fps video recording.
  • OS: Android 7.0 Nougat.
  • Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 821; quad-core CPU (2xKryo@2.35GHz + 2xKryo@1.6GHz), Adreno 530 GPU.
  • Memory: 4GB of RAM; 32GB/64GB storage (region dependent); microSD slot for cards up to 2TB (practically up to 256GB).
  • Battery: 3,300mAh Li-Po (sealed); QuickCharge 3.0 fast charging; WPC&PMA wireless charging (US version only).
  • Connectivity: Single-SIM, Dual-SIM available in certain markets (mostly Asia); LTE-A, 3-Band carrier aggregation, Cat.12/13 (600/150Mbps); USB Type-C; Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac; GPS; Bluetooth 4.2; FM Radio (outside South Korea, US and Canada).
  • Misc: Fingerprint reader; Hi-Fi Quad DAC (South Korea exclusive); 2 mics, single speaker on the bottom; 3.5mm jack.

Main shortcomings

  • Regional limitations on nice-to-have features
  • No stereo speakers
  • No Daydream VR support
  • Priced well into flagship territory despite 'value proposition' claims
If you did a little more than fleetingly read the list of crucial functions, you can not have overlooked the numerous region-specific bits. Why LG, why does the entire world not get wireless receiving (US only) and the Hi-Fi Quad DAC (South Korea only)? And does either of the two make up for the lack of an FM radio receiver, which those particular markets won't be getting?
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We're also still trying to figure out what to make of the 'value proposition' phrase LG used to describe the G6 when we were first introduced to it. The $700 price that's been floating around is very much flagship-grade, and in the classic, pre-redefinition (some word that is) sense of the term. But by the looks of it, the Galaxy S8 will be even pricier, and the Pixel and the iPhone already are too (some versions on some markets, at least) - so LG might have a point there.
You can't, however, judge a product's value for money before establishing its real-world merits first. That's exactly what we intend to do on the following pages, starting with an overview of the hardware.
January 16, 2018

Let's talk about ZTE Blade A3

Let's talk about ZTE Blade A3

 ZTE Blade A3
Let's talk about ZTE Blade A3
ZTE Blade A3 smartphone was launched in New Style calendar month 2017. The phone comes with a 5.50-inch touchscreen show with a resolution of 720 pixels by 1280 pixels.

The ZTE Blade A3 is hopped-up by one.4GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6737T processor and it comes with 3GB of RAM. The phone packs 32GB of internal storage that may be swollen up to 128GB via a microSD card. As so much because the cameras square measure involved, the ZTE Blade A3 packs a 13-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel front shooter for selfies.


The ZTE Blade A3 runs mechanical man seven.0 and is hopped-up by a 4000mAh non removable battery. It measures 152.00 x 75.80 x 8.20 (height x dimension x thickness) .


The ZTE Blade A3 could be a twin SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts Micro-SIM and Micro-SIM. property choices embody Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, USB OTG, FM, 3G and 4G. Sensors on the phone embody Proximity device, measuring instrument, close light-weight device and gyro.


About ZTE

Zhongxing is a  Chinese transnational telecommunications equipment and systems company that is that the world's fourth-largest mobile manufacturer. the corporate has created many mechanical man smartphones and tablets. whereas the corporate principally sells product below the ZTE complete, it's additionally an imaginative instrumentation manufacturer (OEM)


ZTE Blade A3 specs


ZTE Blade A3
Let's talk about ZTE Blade A3


ZTE Blade A3 elaborated specifications


GENERAL


Release date October 2017

Form factor Touchscreen
Dimensions (mm) 152.00 x 75.80 x 8.20
Battery capability (mAh) 4000
Removable battery No
Colours Black, Blue

DISPLAY


Screen size (inches) 5.50

Touchscreen Yes
Resolution 720x1280 pixels

HARDWARE


Processor 1.4GHz quad-core

Processor make MediaTek MT6737T
RAM 3GB

Internal storage 32GB


Expandable storage Yes

Expandable storage type microSD
Expandable storage up to (GB) 128

CAMERA


Rear camera 13-megapixel

Rear Flash LED
Front camera 5-megapixel

SOFTWARE


Operating System Android seven.0

Skin MiFavor4.2

CONNECTIVITY


Wi-Fi Yes

GPS Yes
Bluetooth Yes
NFC           No
Infrared No
USB OTG Yes
Headphones 3.5mm
FM Yes
Number of SIMs 2

SIM 1


SIM Type Micro-SIM
GSM/CDMA GSM
3G Yes
4G/ LTE Yes
Supports 4G in Bharat (Band 40) No

SIM 2


SIM Type Micro-SIM
GSM/CDMA GSM
3G Yes
4G/ LTE Yes
Supports 4G in Bharat (Band 40) No

SENSORS


Compass/ Magnetometer No

Proximity sensor  Yes
Accelerometer Yes
Ambient light-weight sensor  Yes
Gyroscope  Yes
Barometer  No

Temperature sensor No


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Things to consider before you buy a smartphone

Jan 16, 2018

Jan 15, 2018

January 15, 2018

Apple slowing down older iPhones

Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones


Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones

Apple has acknowledged what many iPhone owners long suspected: It's slowed older phones.


The tech giant issued an unusual statement of explanation on Thursday, saying so it has used software updates to limit the performance of older iPhones which could have battery problems that would make them switch off suddenly.

Tech analysts and angry customers have reported in recent days that os updates had caused older iPhones to slow considerably, with some suggesting that Apple could possibly be utilising the tactic to encourage fans to buy new phones.

Apple insists the updates were made with an alternative goal in your mind: It said the performance of lithium-ion batteries degrades as time passes, which could sometimes cause phones to suddenly turn off to be able to protect their components.

Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones


The business said its software updates for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6S, iPhone SE and iPhone 7 are created to "lessen" peak power demands, prevent these surprise shutdowns and ultimately prolong the lifespan of batteries.

But the updates can also lead to disappointing speeds.
Doron Myersdorf, CEO instant-charging battery startup StoreDot, said that "smoothing out" means that phones will reorder incoming commands to make sure not all of them are done in parallel.
"The inevitable outcome of it will be an inherent slowdown of the average response times by the system," he explained.
Apple (AAPL) said in its statement that it will continue to use the feature with other products in the future.
The revelation sparked an outcry among Apple fans, with some suggesting they could switch to rival Samsung.

January 15, 2018

Check those things before buying a smartphone

Things to consider before you buy a smartphone


Things to consider before you buy a smartphone
Things to consider before you buy a smartphone



Smartphones today are becoming an intrinsic section of our lives. We use them for communication, taking photos, saving documents on the cloud, internet browsing and even as an electric bank to charge other smartphones.

However, with the wide variety of smartphones available on the market it's never easy to choose which one to pick. It is definitely tough deciding the one that may suit our needs best.

Here's a listing of things you should think about before you decide to buy your next smartphone.

Build quality


Things to consider before you buy a smartphone
Things to consider before you buy a smartphone


Build quality Build is focused on durability of a smartphone. The entire handset market is largely divided in two forms of builds - metal and plastic. There are several that even have glass-coated panels, but those are very limited.

If you're one of those susceptible to dropping your smartphone, it's advisable to choose a metal or even a plastic built handset.

These may sustain drops from 2-3 feet, while glass-based handset are sure to shatter.

​Display


Things to consider before you buy a smartphone
Things to consider before you buy a smartphone


The size and resolution of display depends how you employ your smartphone.In the event that you often supply videos, revise images or videos, or get and see shows, a smartphone exhibit including 5.5-inch to 6-inch, full-HD or QHD decision should be ample for you.

Such a thing bigger compared to a 6-inch exhibit not merely makes the device additional bulky, but in addition hard to hold around. If you are a typical consumer and largely use the smartphone for examining emails, speaking and exploring social media applications, then anything from 5-inch to 5.5-inch HD or full-HD present devices is perfect.

​Processor


Things to consider before you buy a smartphone
Things to consider before you buy a smartphone



The control energy of a smartphone differs from system to some other according a number of facets such as for instance for instance OS variation, UI, bloatware and more.

If you're a heavy user who need certainly to edit images/videos/documents online, play heavy games, stream videos or often use apps in split screen mode, then smartphones with Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 or Snapdragon 820/821 should make multitasking fluid for you.

Light users will be pleased with handsets that include MediaTek processors. 5 College Degrees That Will Be Extinct In 20 Years  ​

Camera 



Things to consider before you buy a smartphone
Things to consider before you buy a smartphone





Just having higher amount of megapixels doesn't show that the smartphone camera is better. Several specifications such as for instance camera aperture, ISO levels, pixel size, autofocus and more are important as well. A 16MP rear camera does not necessarily be better than the usual 12MP camera.

Same theory goes for the front-facing camera. Higher amount of pixels show that how big is the image is bigger, which becomes more sharper when seen on a small screen.

A shooter enthusiast may need a camera with 12 or 16MP warning below f/2.0 or decrease aperture for speedy photos even yet in low lights. A regular shooting may overlook actually insurance firms an 8MP 0r 12MP camera with f/2.0-f/2.2 aperture.

Battery



Things to consider before you buy a smartphone
Things to consider before you buy a smartphone



The battery usage differs from user to user depending on the way she or he uses the
smartphone. If you're a heavy user and work with apps, play games, stream videos and more then choose a smartphone with at least 3500mAh battery or above. If you're a typical or light user, a handset with 3000mAh battery would be adequate to run for the full day.

User interface/OS version 


Things to consider before you buy a smartphone
Things to consider before you buy a smartphone



User interface/OS version Interface and the OS version too are key factors to take into account while selecting a smartphone. These are the interfaces this one would have to interact with everytime to gain access to anything, so it ought to be easy and simple. You can find the most basic   Android experience in Motorola handsets, Nexus/Pixel smartphones and  Android One devices.

But various interfaces like ZenUI, Xperia UI, Samsung TouchWiz, EMUI and the others provide more neat features to sort purposes and more options in models the business feels customers could find more friendly. But, smartphones by OEMs also come with bloatware and specific programs that you probably will not use ever. So, we recommend to use the phone before you pick one.

A big the main smartphone's storage is recinded from the OS and the programs the unit comes pre-installed with. A 16GB/32GB/64GB or maybe more don't really come with correct stated place. If you prefer to help keep less amount of apps on your devices, you are able to choose 32GB storage.

Security/extra features






Most smartphones today have started coming with extra security features such as for instance fingerprint sensor as well as iris sensors.

These are not just to lock/unlock a handset but as a code to gain access to certain files, documents or apps. While a fingerprint sensor are available in a good Rs 5,000 smartphone, devices with iris scanners are still few.

It's preferable to purchase a smartphone with these extra security features since many of us have personal info on our handsets these days.


January 15, 2018

Kazuya Noshiro erased his face with the iPhone X

A developer erased his face with the iPhone X


 erased his face with the iPhone X
A developer erased his face with the iPhone X

Kazuya Noshiro erased his face with the iphone X


"It is scary. I do not really know what it can be used for," said Kazuya Noshiro.


The iPhone X's Experience ID receptors have shown good prospect of art, gaming and just unusual programs, but a Western builder has taken still another finish with the device. Using Unity, ViRD sport builder @noshipu, aka Kazuya Noshiro, fully deleted his face, aside from his mouth and eyes, as shown in the 10-second show below. Contacting the key "optical camouflage," Noshiro admitted that he has no idea what it can be utilized for. "If you intend to produce that person translucent, we are recruiting," he joked

Noshiro did not say just how the key labored, despite curiosity from his followers. However, one person asked him if he set the camera to pre-record the backdrop, and he admitted "that's correct." So quite simply, he probably first noted what was behind him, then bad out his face - bar his eyes and mouth -- and inserted the background. The iPhone X's action receptors can connect everything with the camera movement. 

The outcome demonstrates the capability of sensor-loaded phones like the iPhone X - which will undoubtedly be more famous with Experience ID-like security - and how ARkit can work with other developer stages like Unity. Certain, it shows up consummately useless, which is the reason it may likewise make a sweet Snapchat channel.