A phone that uses Air instead of a battery to power itself might sound impossible, but now it exists. Although, you should note that this phone is only capable of making calls for now.
Nonetheless, it’s remarkable even to have this type of technology. This prototype phone relies on a technique known as backscatter. Here, the device can reflect the radio waves to function. It means that it uses analog technology instead of digital, which they say consumes less power.
The phone doesn’t have the best reception but it still works and that’s the more important part
The same team from the University of Washington in Seattle have also developed the ‘singing poster‘ and ‘passive Wi-Fi system’. These two inventions also rely on the same technology. This technology was inspired from the hidden audio bugs used by the Soviet spies during the cold war.
At this stage of the development, the prototype has a range of only 15 meters and includes a touch sensitive number pad with a small LED display. With the development process in progress, they are sure to improve their product with more and better features. But don’t expect a touch screen to come anytime soon as that would require almost a hundred thousand times more power to operate.
Picture credit: University of Washington
For now, this phone functions just like a walkie-talkie, you have to press a button to switch between listening and speaking. But they have promised the call quality to improve and an E-ink display for text messages for their next generation.
But still, these quirks are worth the benefits we stand to achieve from this device. If you think of the most important device that you don’t want to die on you, that would be your phone, and this promises the same.
The developers have also promised to price this device at a very reasonable rate. But for now, we can hope that progress continues at a steady rate without hiccups. You can read more about it here.
Interland is a web-based game designed to aware the people about internet security. This game is specially designed for kids to warn them about phishing, internet harassment, internet security and other internet safety concerns. This game comes under Google’s “Be Internet Awesome” initiative to help children of today learn the fundamentals of digital citizenship.
Although this game is designed for kids, it is fun for adults too. I played this game for a few hours and found it to be interesting and fun. It is the product of countless inputs from educators, YouTube videographers, internet safety and literacy organizations. In terms of medicine, Interland feels like a syrup rather than a tablet for kids to swallow which is a good thing.
For playing the game, you just log-in to Interland and select one of 4 areas. They are King Kingdom, Reality River, Mindful Mountain and finally Tower of Treasure.
1. King Kingdom
This area makes us aware of the impact of cyber bullies. The beings in this game are called internauts. In this land the internauts are sad and we must share kindness to them in order to make them happy. We must also protect the fellow internauts from bullies. To complete all tasks, you have to either press a button to put a barrier between the sad internaut and the bully or simply report the bully using a microphone.
2. Reality River
Reality River enlightens us about the dangers of phishing. The goal of the game is to cross a river. To cross the river all you have to do is correctly choose the given option. Even if you choose a wrong option, don’t worry because you will get another try. The main initiative of the game is not to trick you to lose but to educate you about phishing. After answering all the questions correctly, you finally get to the river.
3. Mindful Mountain
The objective of Mindful Mountain is to teach us how information is to be shared. It teaches the players to share useful knowledge and discard sharing any junk information. Here you have to bounce light through mirrors to reflect information to the desired internauts.
4. Tower of Treasure
The Tower of Treasure is a password security game. The internaut has to run and collect letters in the form of blocks. They will also have to dodge obstacles using either the right, left control or jump key. It resembles a Temple Run-style endless game.
In a Nutshell
All in all, Interland is a wonderful way to teach kids about the dangers of the internet and precautions one must take while using the internet. Here in Nepal, this is also great for parents and grandparents who are not aware of all the harmful things on the internet. Have you guys tried this game? Have your parents or grandparents played this game? Let us know in the comments below!
One of the awaited phones of the year, the Nokia 6 is finally arriving in Nepal. The phone is finally set to launch in August this year. Nokia has won back lots of fans with their new range of phones, and they expect the same from Nepal with the release of this device.
Nokia 6 Price in Nepal (Expected): Rs. 27,500
Their previous releases in Nepal, Nokia 3310 and Nokia 3 were a fan favorite in Nepali market. Launched less than a month ago, these phones have allegedly sold out. The Nokia 3310 was one of the remakes of the old best selling 3310 giving buyers a feeling of nostalgia. The Nokia 3, on the contrary, provided good specs at a budget.
Nokia 6 Specs:
5.5″ 1920*1080 IPS LCD screen
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
Snapdragon 430 SoC (4 x 1.2 GHz Cortex A53 & 4 x 1.5 GHz Cortex A53) 64-bit processor with Adreno 505 GPU
32GB/64GB ROM with expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD
3GB/4GB RAM
Android 7.1.1 (Nougat)
16 MP back camera with dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, 1.0um sensor, f/2.0 aperture
8 MP front camera with 1.12um sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 84˚ wide-angle lens
Colors: Matte Black, Silver, Tempered Blue and Copper
Nokia 6 Price in Nepal (Expected): Rs. 27,500
The expected price of the phone is Rs 27,500. Do you think the Nokia 6 price in Nepal is noteworthy considering the competition? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.
gWith ever evolving realm of smartphones, improvements on specs is a constant progression. Brands proclaim to have the best of a certain aspect, but, front camera and battery is something less heard of. Today we’ve got the new phone from Gionee, the Gionee A1 Plus which promises us both; a super selfie camera and a durable battery life. Let’s find out if the Gionee A1 Plus delivers what it has pledged.
SPECIFICATIONS OF GIONEE A1 PLUS:
6.0 inches (1080 x 1920) @367ppi
Weight: 226 grams
Amigo OS 4.0 on top of Android 7.0 Nougat
MediaTek MT6757T Helio P25 Chipset
Octa-core (4×2.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4×1.4 GHz Cortex-A53) CPU
Mali-T880MP2 GPU
4GB RAM
64GB Internal Storage, Expandable up to 256GB
Dual 13 MP + 5 MP Rear Camera with f/2.0 aperture, phase detection autofocus
20MP Front Facing Camera with f/2.0 aperture
Non-removable Li-Ion 4550 mAh battery with fast charging
Build:
The Gionee A1 Plus comes with a metal clad body with a hefty weight of 226grams. It looks pleasantly beautiful despite the common industrial design aesthetics. With 6-inch of display, the phone has a huge footprint which has been contributed by its thick top and bottom bezels. The phone feels chunky on the hand and it is impossible for single-handed usage. I really wished the phone was a little less heavy and the bezels were small as this could have really helped in making the phone handier.
Display:
Gionee A1 Plus comes with a 6-inch Full HD display with 367ppi. The display is stunning with bright and vibrant colors. You have the option to change the color composition and set it to be Warm or Cool. Watching high-resolution content and gaming is a joy on this display. There’s no color shift even viewing the display from a different perspective. The display gets bright enough to comfortably use the device outdoors in direct sunlight.
Performance:
With a high price tag and all the other great specs, we expect the phone to come with a powerful chipset. But that’s not the story here! Powering the Gionee A1Plus is the MediaTek’s Octa-Core Helio P25 Processor, where 4 energy efficient cores are clocked at 1.4GHz and four performance cores are clocked at 2.5GHz.
Considering its flagship status, opting for the Helio X20 would have been a better alternative. Even with that, for the daily usage, this phone won’t disappoint you as it crunches through everything you throw at it. The opening of apps are quick, playing high-end games with good frame rate is feasible and any task that requires high performance can be done. Although with its metal construct, playing high-end games for long hours didn’t result in noticeable heating.
The phone comes with 4GB of RAM. Gionee seems to have imposed strict memory management on this phone as most of the recent apps running in the background are killed quite early. Power Management seems to be at play as keeping running apps in the background consumes power. This action guarantees the Super Battery that Gionee promised with the phone. At most, you can switch to and fro between 2-4 apps with ease for a brief period.
Software:
Chinese UI are assuredly cluttered, most of them come with OEM’s own set of apps. Amigo UI based on Android 7.0 Nougat on the Gionee A1 Plus is no different in that prospect. It comes with its own Play Store(GStore), wallpaper app (Mood Wallpaper), calendar, notes and a whole load of Google Apps. I found most of them fairly useless so I froze them right away. And yeah, there’s an inbuilt option to freeze unwanted app! It also has no app drawer so starting with your first boot, your home screen is pretty much full of apps.
A1 Plus UI
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UI Update App
Desktop Setting
Gionee Weather App detail
Gionee Weather App
Home Screen
Launcher Menu
Settings
System Manager
Also, the quick toggles from the bottom are hard to get used to. Often, I’d just scroll the content on my display when summoning the toggles panel swiping up. Swiping down from the top will give you the notification panel. Diving inside Settings, there are few notable features like:
Edge Bar: quick access to your important apps by swiping left or right on the fingerprint scanner.
Eye Protection: cuts off blue light from the display by applying a yellow tint.
Suspend button: floating bubble for navigation actions and shrinking the display for a one-handed mode.
Power Manager: Switch between power saving modes.
And Chinese UI wouldn’t be complete without a System Manager app. The one in this phone lets you clean up the cache, scan for virus, and control networking.
The fingerprint scanner on the Gionee A1Plus is blazingly fast. Compared with the OnePlus 3, it was a tad faster without exception. As the fingerprint sensor also acts as a home button, it has to be hard pressed instead of touch to function. I found it really troublesome and wished it was touch enabled instead of a hard press.
Hardware:
The phone houses capacitive navigation keys, where the centered home button acts as a fingerprint sensor. On its sides, back and recent buttons have a minimal dot indicator. These buttons can also be swapped.
On the right side, it holds volume buttons and power button with tactile feedback. The power button has a distinct orange tint making it easier to turn on the phone on low light. On the bottom, it has micro USB port and speakers. Gionee A1 Plus comes with Maxx Audio enabled, so the audio experience with its speaker and earphone is good.
Gionee A1 Plus comes with Maxx Audio enabled, so the audio experience with its speaker and earphone is good.
Camera:
Gionee market their phones as the Super Selfie phone and they are among few OEM’s that put effort into bringing forth a plausible selfie camera. Gionee A1 Plus houses a massive 20MP Camera on the front, which sounds superior compared to its primary 13+5MP Camera which doesn’t even sum up to 20! But the quality of photos has more to do with aperture, the size of the sensor and many aspects than just the megapixel count. So, putting the front camera to test, I had great results with it. The images were bright and natural, they contained plenty of sharpness and details to make them worthy of social media uploads.
At low light, the images look decent but they contain few grains and dark spots which the front flash fixes to an appreciable amount. The camera also comes with face beauty mode which I found ridiculous. It’ll revamp your face making it look unnatural. But despite that, looking at the camera’s output, the Gionee A1 Plus is worthy of the tag Super Selfie.
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Dual Camera is not a rare scene on smartphones anymore. They serve different purpose ranging from wide angle shots, digital zoom and bokeh effect. The Dual Primary Camera (13MP+5MP) on the Gionee A1 Plus assists in taking images with Bokeh effect.
In general, photos have good dynamic range, colors are close to natural and the details are soft. The shutter speed is fast and the default setting gets you great results, so most of the time you can just pull out your phone, take the photo and walk away with a great result. Images at the low light are not that great with loads of grain and lack of sharpness.
For Bokeh photos, there’s portrait mode. You can adjust the aperture to maintain the level of depth on photos. The results were jumbled with the Portrait mode. With few photos, I had perfect bokeh on the subject where the subject’s outline was properly maintained and with others, the blur intruded the subject itself, going inside bounds. So, for the perfect photo, you might have to experiment with the portrait mode a few times.
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The camera comes with a bunch of modes that will prove helpful. You have a dedicated professional mode which provides options to fine-tune shutter speed, White Balance, Exposure, and ISO. There’s also night mode, time-lapse, slow motion, GIF, card scanner and even translation. These features eliminate the need of third-party apps that provide similar functionality.
Connectivity:
For Connectivity, Gionee A1 Plus comes with dual nano-SIM tray with support for 4G LTE. It has standard connectivity options like WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and has USB OTG support. The phone also has got IR Blaster which is accompanied by the Peel Remote app. Sensors-wise it has got a compass, Proximity, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, and Magnetometer.
Battery:
Coming down to the second feature highlight of the phone, the Gionee A1 Plus comes with a befitting 4,550mAh battery. As we’ve mentioned earlier, the phone has been heavily optimized in terms of memory management and equipped with different power saving options to provide the best battery life possible. With regular use, the battery can last for two whole days. If you are a power user with constant engagement on the phone then it will provide 6 to 7 hours of screen on time. The phone comes with an 18W charger which charges the phone from 0 to 100% in little under 2hours.
Verdict:
Before looking into any aspects of the Gionee A1 Plus, first, you have to consider its size. Large phones are not for everyone, they are clunky and hard to manage. If you are cool with this aspect then you can begin to weigh in its pros and cons.
Pros of Gionee A1 Plus:
Big and Beautiful Display:
With a huge display, consuming content is more fun and interactive. Watching movies, and playing games is an absolute joy with this phone. Also, a large display provides you with options to get more creative. Editing videos, creating music and multitasking becomes seamlessly easy on a big display.
Amazing Camera:
With a bold tagline of Super Camera, Gionee has managed to deliver what it has promised. Both the rear and front camera are well capable of producing great results. For Selfie Lovers, this is the phone you can’t go wrong with! Also, the added functionality of the camera enables you to be more innovative with your photos.
Superb Battery Backup:
Carrying a huge phone basically, means sacrificing a proportionate amount of battery to your display. Gionee has managed to provide optimal battery backup with economic backlighting on its display, strict memory management and battery saving options. You can fully charge the device and forget about the battery for two whole days. Despite the durability of battery, the best part is how fast it gets juiced up. Even with heavy usage if you manage to drain your battery, you can fully back it up within 2 hours.
Audio and Fingerprint Sensor:
Inaccurate fingerprint sensors are annoying! You don’t want to repeatedly force your finger to unlock the device only to get a fingerprint error. That’s not the story with the Gionee A1 Plus, it has one of the fastest fingerprint sensors I’ve used and it has never failed to recognize my fingerprint.
The phone also comes with Maxx Audio enabled making the audio experience much better via both loudspeaker and earphones.
Cons of Gionee A1 Plus:
Chipset:
For what it’s priced at, a high-end chipset would have been more sensible. It’s not that the phone is slow or anything but a more powerful SoC would have been more pragmatic. With a similar price tag, the OnePlus 3 provides the higher end Snapdragon 820. Even opting for a MediaTek’s Helio X20 would have made it just that better.
Footprint and weight
The size of the phone is a personal preference and this might not be a con for everybody. But size plays a vital role as you’ll be using the device on daily basis. Usually, a handy and more manageable phone is better preferred.
With a large footprint, the phone is seemingly heavy. Samsung’s C9 Pro with similar size and configuration is almost 40grams lighter than the Gionee A1 Plus. Along with size, the weight of the phone also determines the ease of use on daily basis.
So, to sum it up, different smartphone excels at different aspects. The Gionee A1 Plus delivers what it has promised for, an awesome camera and durable battery backup. But you’re getting more than just that, it has an amazing display, swift fingerprint sensor, and a premium build. For those who love big displays, admire taking lots of photos and want a solid battery life, then the Gionee A1 Plus would be a great pick. But if you want something portable which would deliberately have better performance then you might have to look at other alternatives.
Here are few alternatives of the Gionee A1 Plus:
OnePlus 3
5.5-inch Full HD Optic AMOLED display with 2.5D curved
Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection
2.15GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon 820 64-bit processor with Adreno 530 GPU
6GB LPDDR4 RAM with 64GB (UFS 2.0) storage
Android 7.1.1 (Nougat)
Dual nano SIM slots
16-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Sony IMX298 sensor, 1.12-micron pixel size, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, OIS, 4K video recording at 30 fps, 720p slow motion at 120fps
8MP front-facing camera with Sony IMX179 sensor, 1.4-micron pixel size, f/2.0 aperture, 1080p video recording
Dimensions: 152.7×74.7×7.35mm; Weight: 158g
Fingerprint sensor
Bottom-facing speaker, dual microphone for noise cancellation
4G LTE with VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac dual-band (MIMO), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS + GLONASS, NFC, USB Type-C
3000mAh battery with Dash Charge
Price: Rs. 39,999
Oppo F3
5.5-inch (1080 x 1920 pixels) Full HD 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection
1.5 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6750T 64-bit processor with Mali T860 GPU
4GB RAM, 64GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD
Dual SIM (nano + nano)
Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) with ColorOS 3.0
13MP rear camera with dual-tone LED Flash, PDAF, 1/3-inch sensor, 1.12um pixel size, f/2.2 aperture
16MP front-facing camera with 76.4-degree wide-angle lens, 1/3.1-inch sensor, f/2.0 aperture and secondary 8MP front camera with 120-degree wide-angle lens
Fingerprint sensor
Dimensions: 153.29×75.24×7.3mm; Weight: 153g
4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS
3200 mAh battery
Price: Rs.32,990
Xiaomi Mi 5
5.15-inch (1920×1080 pixels) Full HD display with curved glass
1.8GHz Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor with Adreno 530 GPU
3GB LPDDR4 RAM with 32GB (UFS 2.0) internal storage
Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with MIUI 7
Dual SIM (nano + nano)
16-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, Sony IMX298 sensor, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, 4-axis OIS, 4K video recording
4MP front-facing camera with 2um pixel size, f/2.0 aperture, 80-degree wide-angle lens
Fingerprint scanner, Infrared sensor
Dimensions: 144.55×69.2×7.25mm; Weight: 129g
4G LTE with VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band (MIMO), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC, USB Type-C
The biggest drawback of the Samsung Galaxy S8 was its fingerprint sensor placement. The technology to put the fingerprint sensor under the touch screen was just not possible by then. But now Qualcomm has officially announced the new Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that works through glass screens.
Qualcomm says the fingerprint sensor will work through surfaces like OLED displays, metal, and glass surface. We will start seeing devices with this technology from early 2018 and they claim it will be compatible with all Qualcomm devices as well as some other platforms.
Based on the Piezoelectrical Effects, the Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor will also be able to detect your heart rate and blood flow making it more secure. And it works underwater as well. This new sensor can scan through an OLED panel that is of 1200 µm thick, metals of up to 800 µm thick and front glass cover of up to 650 µm of thickness. This is huge step comparing that with traditional fingerprint scanners that can only scan up to 400 µm of thickness.
This tech works by sending ultrasonic sound waves through the finger’s skin, allowing it to capture a 3D image of the user’s fingerprint and unlock the device.
According to Qualcomm’s schedule, manufacturers should start receiving samples of this new technology from this month. Likewise, devices should start releasing with this new fingerprint from the first half of 2018.
With bezel-less trend on the hype these days, manufacturers like Samsung and LG will benefit greatly with the release of this new technology. And with the ability to detect your blood flow and heart rate, it will also be more secure. Remember the hackers who used the photo of a man’s fingerprint to unlock their phone? They are going to have a harder time cracking this one.
As the leak suggested, Chinese brand Vivo already has a working prototype that was showcased at MWC Shanghai. The two companies, Vivo and Qualcomm, worked together to make this possible.
With a rate of constantly evolving and inflating digital technology, the world as we perceive has become more concise. We’ve arrived at a point where we can’t divorce oneself from the ever improving digital trends. Our brains are always under the influence of latest gadgets like smartphones, tablets, etc.). People can have real-life experience with the modern advancements in Virtual Reality, and the coolest games that are available now, and finally the Internet. Everyone, aging from children, teens to adults spend a considerable amount of time involving in these new digitized widgets. Since our brains are adaptive to the environment itself and go on developing, changing and, in some cases, eventually degrades with age, the surrounding environment plays a huge role in its development. After all, we are a species whose brain functions with response to external stimuli; or the environment.
In this modern era, where information is so cheap and easily accessible, we rely more on our smart devices and the Internet rather than thinking independently for ourselves. Children spend most of their time indoors with their devices which make them less attached to nature. Teens nowadays involve more in social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) comparative to having real conversations and social interactions. Google, Facebook, and Wiki are the top most visited sites in the world and there are about 3.5 billion users across the globe with internet access. Search engines like Google hold around 10-15 exabyte (an Exabyte equals 1million terabytes) of data which is a formidable amount of information impossible to be accessed in a single human lifespan.
So, is the modern technology altering our human identity? Let’s see what science has to say about these contradictions and how digital technology really affects our brains.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada involving around 700 people, carried out a study on human behavior and rate the results in the areas linked to perception, memory and brain function of their volunteers. These studies showed that the people who intend to use their smartphones most of their time in a single day were showing cognitive failures and low spatial reasoning. Also, researchers claimed that ‘these smartphones were making us less able to think for ourselves’ and also it made people lazier than ever. And on top that, they added, ‘Googling information we don’t know is replacing our natural curiosity’.
Another study shows how sat-nav (satellite navigation system a.k.a GPS) has helped a motorist on their journey but also, affected their memory as they remembered less about the journey and struggled to find their way out without the use of sat-nav. Similarly, relying exclusively on search engines led individuals to remember superficially about the information they obtained considering they could easily access that information later whenever they use these sites. Evan Risko, a professor of cognitive psychology refers this malfunctioning in the brain as ‘cognitive offloading’ or using these smart devices in order to save our memory power. Since smartphones are helpful to overturn our cognitive limits and save memory spaces in our brain, another study claimed that most of the museum goers carrying digital cameras often forgot the objects they remembered when they have captured apart from others. But what less can we do, it’s a tough task to turn around our head upside down to look into an object or scenery. A smartphone can easily capture that image, or imagine a quad copter that captures an entire 360degree spatial image. However, they couldn’t explain the long-term consequences of frequently offloading our reasoning in this hi-tech environment.
Although, it is true that these smart devices have made most of our lives so easier by assembling all the remainders, phonebooks and managing our identity in social media. World gaming industry growing day after day and the Internet, helping us to connect friends and families across the world and easing the tasks of many employees, workers, and even a laborer, but it does not eliminate our ability to interact with outside environment and maintain out interaction with nature itself. Given a certain time, we can memorize all those contacts saved in our Android or iPhones or do complex mathematical calculations or memorize any book with ease but instead, we use these devices as a means to free up memory spaces in our brains and use it for other important tasks. Our brains still function the same as our ancestors did centuries ago, though it is now adapting to a new information-rich modern environment. It is now up to us and how we use these technologies to create a better environment for ourselves and our future generations.
Ncell, a telecommunication company, has lately been partnering with smartphone brands in launching smartphones. Last month they partnered with Samsung to launch S8 and last week with Huawei to launch P10 Plus. This time it’s for the Apple fans and you shall be getting discounts on the latest iPhone 7/7 Plus and the older iPhone 6s/6s Plus.
iPhone 6S
With this exclusive Ncell offer, you can get the iPhone 6s (16GB) at Rs. 48,000 (Rs. 68,000). You will also get 100 mins talk time, 500MB data, 300 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks. For the 64GB version, it costs Rs. 58,000 (Rs. 78,000). With this, you get 300 mins talk time, 1500MB data, 600 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks.
iPhone 6S Plus
For the iPhone 6s Plus, 16gb version is out of stock. However, for the 64GB variant, it costs Rs. 68,000 (Rs. 78,000) which comes with 300 mins talk time, 1500MB data, 600 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks
iPhone 7
In case of iPhone 7, 32 GB variant which will cost you Rs. 78,000 (Rs. 92,000) & you do get 100 mins talk time, 500MB data, 300 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks. The 128 GB is now available for Rs. 88,000 (Rs. 108000) & you will get 300 mins talk time, 1500MB data, 600 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks. And finally, for the 256 GB, the offer price is Rs 98,000 (Rs. 122000) with 600 mins talk time, 3000MB data, 1200 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks.
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 7 Plus for 32 GB variant is at Rs. 92,000 (Rs.1,13,000) which will get you 100 mins talk time, 500MB data, 300 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks. Also for the 128 GB variant, it will cost you Rs. 100,000 (Rs. 1,27,000) 300 with mins talk time, 1500MB data, 600 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks. And Finally for the 256 GB variant, the cost is Rs. 108,000 (Rs. 1,38,000). All you get 600 mins talk time, 3000MB data, 1200 SMS within Ncell network every week for four weeks.
After months of speculations, Huawei has finally launched the ‘Premium Edition’ of the Huawei GR5 2017. The device is simply a beefed-up variant of the regular Huawei GR5 2017 which has made its name for the dual cameras on its back.
Talking about the smartphone, the Huawei GR5 2017 Premium Edition comes only with two changes. Its Octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 655 processor is now coupled with 4 GB of RAM. In terms of storage, the device will now come with 64 GB of internal memory which can be expanded up to 128 GB via a microSD card. Huawei has priced the GR5 2017 at Rs. 35,000, and with its purchase customers get a 12,500 mAh power bank, a Bluetooth speaker and a selfie stick for free.
The uplifted RAM in the Huawei GR5 2017 Premium Edition could indeed help in a better performance. It hasn’t been long until the regular version of the device received Android v7.0 Nougat update. Since these are the same devices with the difference being bumped-up RAM and ROM, it will be upgradeable to the latest software Google offers.
The Huawei GR5 2017 Premium Edition has finally hit the Nepali smartphone market albeit a bit later than expected. Nonetheless, the device is finally available for Nepali customers. Whether or not the device can vie against other smartphones in its price range is yet to be seen.
Huawei GR5 2017 Premium Edition in a nutshell:
5.5 Inch Full HD IPS LCD Display
Android v6.0 Marshmallow, upgradable to v7.0 Nougat
If you are willing to buy a smartphone but befuddled with thoughts to choose the right one, then you are in luck as the General Mobile GM 5 Plus is currently on sale. With the 20% off on the rated price of Rs. 24,999, General Mobile GM 5 Plus is now available at Rs. 19,999. This is a limited time offer from Thulo.com, which expires until the stock remains.
Overview of General Mobile GM 5 Plus
5.5″ IPS LTPS Full HD (1080×1920 pixels), 2.5D Display
Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 Octa-Core 64 Bit
Android 7 Nougat (upgradable to 7.1.1)
3GB LPDDR3 RAM
32GB Storage (expandable up to 128GB)
Rear Camera: 13MP AF with Dual-tone (Dual-LED) Flash
Front Camera: 13MP AF with LED Flash
Type-C connector, GM Turbo Charger
Hybrid Dual SIM tray
Non-replaceable Li-Po 3100mAh Battery with Quick Charge 3.0
Verdict on General Mobile GM 5 Plus
When most of the smartphones in the price range are limiting themselves with HD display, General Mobile GM 5 Plus is a great device with Full HD display yet with the Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. The performance on the phone too is snappy with the decent Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 SoC and 3GB RAM combination. In addition, the phone takes good photos with a 13MP sensor on the rear. The rear camera, aided with autofocus has Dual-LED flash to evade the degradation of picture quality on the low lights. The front one too fails to disappoint by taking remarkable selfies. The front camera indifferent to the rear bears same megapixel count of 13MP with autofocus but with mono-LED flash.
The phone though has Quick Charge 3.0, which juices up the battery up to 60% just in 30 minutes, though, the battery capacity of 3100 mAh seems mediocre. Despite providing greater specs, the phone failed to add a fingerprint sensor, which the users find the most reliable means of security on the phone these days.
Remarkable display, snappy performance, and outstanding camera are the plus point on the phone. Also, the phone comes with the Android Nougat and promises timely updates on the software after the official release from Google. So, to sum it up, the phone seems a good buy for the price of Rs. 20,000 if you are good without a better battery backup and a fingerprint sensor.
Ncell, the largest ICT service provider in Nepal has built fame in providing offers and packs to satisfy its customers when its competitor, Nepal Telecom seems quite aloof in the matter. And continuing the tradition, Ncell has brought another new offer with the name ‘Ncell Monsoon Offer.’ The new offer includes gifts for every Ncell users (prepaid and postpaid) without any cost in the activation.
Types of gifts in Ncell Monsoon Offer
The gift includes 100 MB data, 20 MB data, 10 MB data, 15 minutes talk time bonus, 15 minutes night talk time bonus, 10 minutes day talk time bonus and 20 bonus SMS. After the activation, users can get one gift among the bunch, which can be data pack, talk time or SMS.
How to activate?
The activation is easy. For the activation, you just need to dial *17124# or send a message to 17124 typing ‘A’(without the inverted comma). After a moment, you will receive a notification that confirms the activation. In addition, you will get a message, which will mention the type of gift you received.
Validity of the offer
The gift you receive will expire at midnight. However, as this is a 30 days offer, the gift will be renewed after every midnight for next 30 days starting from today.
