Samsung Z

Samsung Z

There are many features which make Samsung Z unique in the line of Smartphone; Samsung claims that it is the first Smartphone which will run on Tizen operating system. Its arrival in Pakistan is expected by the third quarter of this present year, kernel Linux is the base of this operating system. The phone comes with bright 4.8 INCH huge display screen, the processing power is made faster by the 2.3 GHZ quad core processor which is better than the dual core technology. Battery of Samsung Z holds 2600 mAh; the rear camera is 8.0 Megapixel with combination of 2.1 Megapixel front camera. Samsung has further claimed that the startup time of Samsung Z is less than any other Smartphone of the present time, its support for 2D and 3D graphics make it unique along with some more features among which one is advanced level multi tasking; this advanced multi tasking makes the batter last for few extra hours. This surely is a unique addition to the list of Smartphones.

Samsung Z

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE
	2G bands	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G bands	HSDPA
	4G bands	LTE
	Speed	HSPA, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps
	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes

LAUNCH	Announced	2014, June
	Status	Available. Released 2014, Q3

BODY	Dimensions	138.2 x 69.8 x 8.5 mm (5.44 x 2.75 x 0.33 in)
	Weight	136 g (4.80 oz)
	SIM	Yes
		- Fingerprint sensor

DISPLAY	Type	Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	4.8 inches (~65.8% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	720 x 1280 pixels (~306 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes

PLATFORM	OS	Tizen OS, v2.2.1
	CPU	Quad-core 2.3 GHz

MEMORY	Card slot	microSD, up to 64 GB
	Internal	16 GB, 2 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging
	Video	Yes
	Secondary	2.1 MP

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, hotspot
	Bluetooth	v4.0, A2DP, EDR, LE
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
	NFC	Yes
	Infrared port	Yes
	Radio	TBC
	USB	microUSB v2.0

FEATURES	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
	Browser	HTML5
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
		- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - SNS integration - MP4/WMV/H.264 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/FLAC player - Organizer - Photo viewer - Document viewer - Voice memo/dial - Predictive text input

BATTERY		Li-Ion 2600 mAh battery
	Stand-by
	Talk time

MISC	Colors	Black, Black/brown

Samsung Galaxy Grand Max

Samsung galaxy Grand Max

Galaxy Grand Max launched by Samsung after the rumors of Galaxy Grand 3; The phone has a classic design crafted with plastic body, the front and rear is almost like the previous models; the main changes are made in the position of camera and flash at the rear portion. The back cover is another noticeable thing in the phone’s body which has a diamond pattern across it which makes the phone look unique and beautiful. The thickness of phone is only 7.9 MM which makes it quite aerodynamic. Now talking about the specifications of the phone let’s begin with the Samsung power packed screen which stretches up to 5.25 INCHES and TFT display with a resolution of 1280x720 Pixels. The phone is backed up with 1.2 GHZ dual core processor with 1.5 GB RAM and the battery which powers this beast is 2500 mAh. 13 Megapixel main camera do the capturing for you, while the front camera is 5.0 Megapixel. 4G LTE networks are supported by the new Galaxy Grand Max.

Samsung galaxy Grand Max

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE
	2G bands	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G bands	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
	4G bands	LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800)
	Speed	HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps
	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes

LAUNCH	Announced	2015, January
	Status	Available. Released 2015, January

BODY	Dimensions	146 x 74.8 x 7.9 mm (5.75 x 2.94 x 0.31 in)
	Weight	161 g (5.68 oz)
	SIM	Yes

DISPLAY	Type	IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	5.25 inches (~68.6% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	720 x 1280 pixels (~282 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes

PLATFORM	OS	Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat)
	Chipset	Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410
	CPU	Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53
	GPU	Adreno 306

MEMORY	Card slot	microSD, up to 64 GB
	Internal	16 GB, 1.5 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, HDR, panorama
	Video	1080p@30fps
	Secondary	5 MP, 1080p

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
	Bluetooth	v4.0, A2DP, EDR, LE
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
	Radio	FM radio
	USB	microUSB v2.0

FEATURES	Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
	Browser	HTML5
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
		- MP4/WMV/H.264 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer

BATTERY		Li-Ion 2500 mAh battery
	Stand-by
	Talk time

MISC	Colors	Black, White

Samsung Galaxy Core Lite LTE

Samsung Galaxy Core Lite LTE

The power packed Smartphone comes with 4.7 INCH screen with TFT touchscreen, backed up with 5.0 Megapixel camera capable of producing good quality results. It can support up to 64 GB MicroSD card and comes with an internal storage of almost 8GB. The phone is designed beautifully keeping in mind the comfort and ease of use of the user. Samsung Galaxy Core Lite LTE supports 4G network and runs on the 4.3 jelly bean operating system.  The processing power is supported by the 1.2 GHZ snapdragon 400 processor, the phone is best combination of hardware and software. Feature of 4G connectivity ads a lot to the value of this Smartphone. The rear camera has some features like smile detection, geo-tagging, and several others; the battery is powered with 2000 mAh which gives good battery time of almost 14 hours for continues talk time and 500 hours of standby which is too much.  The phone is suitable for daily use.

Samsung Galaxy Core

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE
	2G bands	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G bands	HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
	4G bands	LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 8(900), 28(700)
	Speed	HSPA, LTE Cat3 100/50 Mbps
	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes

LAUNCH	Announced	2014, June
	Status	Available. Released 2014, June

BODY	Dimensions	133.1 x 70 x 9.9 mm (5.24 x 2.76 x 0.39 in)
	Weight	149 g (5.26 oz)
	SIM	Yes

DISPLAY	Type	TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	4.7 inches (~67.5% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	480 x 800 pixels (~199 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes

PLATFORM	OS	Android OS, v4.3 (Jelly Bean)
	CPU	Quad-core 1.2 GHz

MEMORY	Card slot	microSD, up to 64 GB
	Internal	8 GB, 1 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection
	Video	720p@30fps
	Secondary	No

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
	Bluetooth	v4.0, A2DP
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
	NFC	Yes
	Radio	TBC
	USB	microUSB v2.0

FEATURES	Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
	Browser	HTML
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
		- MP4/WMV/H.264 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer

BATTERY		Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery
	Stand-by
	Talk time

MISC

Colors

White

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Review

In this world of technology, all the competitors are making up to date and latest mobiles; here is the analysis of most anticipated Smartphone of this time; of course you grabbed it correctly! We are going to evaluate one of the most excellent Smartphone which has been made up till now.

Samsung galaxy S6 edge turns out to be the most exciting phone of this year; Samsung desired to make a great come back this year and Galaxy S6 edge is no doubt the best way to do it.

Design

Comparing the Galaxy S6 edge to Galaxy S6 you can easily feel the difference by holding two phones together, S6 feels more smoother when held in hand while S6 edge lacks a little in this domain. Unlike other mobiles of its rival group, this mobile phone is very light weight and the screen fits wonderfully in the frame though it is 5.1 inch; this keeps the size similar to the iPhone 6 and the customer has to think about the midsized phone or a large screen to play.

Screen

The display of Galaxy S6 edge is something that takes your breath away, it is much better than the display you saw in the Note Edge Smartphone. Both sides of the screen are perfectly placed showing that it is well designed; the phone manages to hold QHD resolution in to the small screen and also bend at the sides. Simply we can say that Galaxy S6 edge comes with a wonderful screen. This curved screen is not enough to convince you on buying the Galaxy S6 edge Smartphone.

Touchwiz

Samsung Touchwiz is still present in this latest Smartphone, Touchwiz has shown some serious growth in past few years and in this smart phone some major development is observed to make use of the curved sides. You can see your notifications on the side screen by just rubbing it off once; Samsung store helps you to download some more edges according to your needs. You can download some themes also which make your phone look different; but let’s not forget that it’s still Touchwiz.

Camera

Samsung has been eminent for making mobiles packed with tremendous cameras. This latest Galaxy mobile phone comes with a tremendous power packed camera of 16 mega pixels, it is better and refined than the camera on Galaxy S5. The aperture sensor is 1.9 which makes it even faster and produces wonderful results in both light and dark situations.

Battery and specs

The phone comes with the company’s own Exynos Octa core chip running inside; the processing power of this Smartphone sets a new target for the rivals. 3GB ram does the back up for this immensely powered beast. Battery is powered up with 50 extra mAh which makes it 2600 mAh when in comparison with Galaxy S5. Non-removable battery and no microSD may be some negatives but it is available in 32GB/64GB/128GB depending on the need.

Galaxy S6 edge successfully makes an impression in this world of Smartphones but the curved sides and elevated price makes people think about buying this massive beast.

Galaxy S6 Review

Galaxy S6 review

After the arrival of Samsung Galaxy S4 two years back Samsung started a new rot which now needed to be changed because most of its competitors have introduced new and elegant designs for their flagship smartphones.  At this point it is no more a secret that Samsung has now introduced something big in form of Galaxy S6, i did not expect Galaxy S6 to be extraordinarily good to this extent. 

There are some points in the GalaxyS6 which stops it from reaching the point of being a perfect phone, Samsung put in great amount of efforts in designing the Galaxy S6 smartphone which looks little similar to the other competitors. The prices are bit high and the battery life is not satisfactory when buying a costly phone like galaxy S6.

Design

With the manufacture of Galaxy S6 Samsung managed to transfer their plastic body look to metal body, this year’s flagship smartphone consist of metal body which seems to be inspired by this year’s Alpha series which was expensive phone with less features.  The device is available in different colors but it’s a shame again for Samsung that white color looks parallel to those old devices, colors except white give a luxurious shine from the rear part of the phone. It is good to hold the device with 5.1 inch screen and metal body, the phone stands in the line of other smartphones like iPhone 6, HTC ONE M9 and others.  The bottom of the phone looks somewhat identical to the apple’s design which makes it a little risky for Samsung. The volume buttons on the left and power button to the right are very well positioned like all the previous devices plus the home button is fixed in perfectly which gives user a solid feel when clicked.

Galaxy S6 Review

Screen

When it comes to the screen we must not forget that Samsung has always managed to give out their best in this area, and once again Samsung has managed to use the super AMOLED display which offers much sharper and clear display as compared to the previous gadgets by Samsung. Best feature of the screen is dark against whites which mean the darker areas of the screen are also shown very clearly. The display is somewhat similar to the Galaxy Note 4 but this time the PPI is 557 with resolution of 1440x2560 which is no doubt the best display available in the market for now.  The screen used in Samsung Galaxy S6 is simply marvelous and the high level of outdoor visibility gives a new strength to this flagship smartphone.

Extra features

Samsung has been well known for giving some extra features in their smartphones, but from few previous devices we have noted that they have introduced a heart rate monitoring app, finger print scanner and few more. The heart rate monitor is just a useless application for an average user, but still Samsung manages to improve the accuracy because in previous models it was just useless and the results were not closer to facts and reality. Now talking about the finger print scanner we were disappointed by the Galaxy S5 scanner because of its requirement to slide and continues failure, we thought that apple holds the responsibility for providing best fingerprint scanners but Samsung just changed this though by introducing Galaxy S6 fingerprint scanner. The scanner used in Galaxy S6 even recognizes the lightest touches and works accurately with less chances of failure. Samsung’s smart manager enables you to manage several things from one single place including your battery life, RAM usage and few other things; it’s nice to have an application which keeps track of your device all at one single place.

Performance and Interface

In Android 5 the touch Wiz is also updated and this update has turned out to be very impressive because it has changed whole look and feel of the Samsung smartphone. The icons look more flattened and give a wonderful look to the phone, Samsung managed to reduce the number of menus which was a difficult task for them. I am personally a fan of touch Wiz UI and once again I have fallen in love with the interface, whole notification panel and the settings screen has been optimized giving much attractive and pleasanter look. Messaging and call interface has also been altered by Samsung this time and it has been made more colorful and attractive, plus addition of some quick and clever gestures make the device stand alone in some scenarios.

Battery and Camera

The battery which powers up this beast is just 2550 mAh which is not enough to give you the best battery backup, it is one of the negatives about this wonderful smartphone that the battery does not last much longer. The camera present at the rear is just a wonderful combination of power and performance; you can easily manage to produce outstanding results using different creative modes given in the camera.  Front camera gives a selfie mode and wide angle selfie which allows more people to fit in! But I would recommend you to prefer the powerful rear camera.

Apex Review

Apex review

The Steel Series Apex keyboard is the largest that has been made so far. All sorts of features have been added to this keyboard to make it the best possible form. Some unique features include extra wide space bar, additional arrow keys as well as 88 macro keys with different combinations having dedicated buttons. The might be a good tool while writing video games reviews. SteelSeries Apex is one of the better keyboards for gaming purposes. The keyboard is of huge size measuring 1.18 by 20.5 by 8.7 inches. It is wide and broad. The palm rest is not huge though.

SteelSeries Apex keyboard has 140 buttons having a standard QWERTY set up along with a numeric 10-key pad. This will definitely help you to write good video games reviews. Moreover, it has 12 function buttons, six arrow keys as well dedicated multimedia controls. Along with four regular arrow keys, two additional arrow keys, up/left and up/right have been added which is a perfection gaming combination. The space bar is wider almost double the width of a regular space bar. Some programmable buttons are also available on this keyboard. In addition to standard macros on a regular keyboard, this one has 22 additional macro keys.

Switching from one macro combination to another is as simple as pressing a button. On the far right side of the keyboard, media controls are placed. These buttons offer standard media controls through the keyboard including volume, pause/play, forward and back. This can easily be done without using any function key. Some additional features are also added that are particularly helpful for gamers. For example, Windows key can be disabled during gaming by a simple keystroke. Anti-ghosting option is also available on this keyboard that enables you to press six key combinations simultaneously without locking the keyboard or dropping a keystroke.

The keys on the keyboard are not only backlit but they have been arranged in four different light zones. SteelSeries calls this action zones. These different colors help to distinguish it from other macro keys and choose the right one. The extra glowing colors on the edge of the keyboard create a cool atmospheric effect when the keyboard is used in a dim or dark room. For video games reviews, the W key has two raised dots providing a sensory distinction from a standard keyboard which has dots on F and J keys only. They keyboard is connected to a PC through a USB port.