Facebook revenue is mostly generated via advertisements. It has become rather less of a social network and more of an advertisement platform nowadays. Sooner or later you have to realize that all you ever were to Facebook was a piece of data that viewed advertisements.
A lot of the Facebo0ks income is generated via advertisements and people spend a shitload of money when it comes to advertising on Facebook. There are more than 800,000 advertisers on Facebook and more than 2million businesses use Facebook Advertisement. Facebook Ads Manager mobile website was launched last year, but it was not every advertisers paradise. To make the task more convenient, Facebook has introduced the Ads manager App for both Android and iOS which allows advertisers to:
Create ads
Track ad performance
Edit existing ads
Edit ad budgets and schedules
Receive push notifications
The app notifies advertisers when their ads are about to end also when they will hit their spending limit. They can also see how much they have spent at any time. This is a crucial app if you are running or promoting your business through Facebook.
Forget about buying a telescope to gaze into the nights sky. You just need a Nikon Camera to do that. Nikon’s Coolpix P900 comes with a powerful zoom that is expandable up to 166x with ‘Dynamic Fine Zoom’. Launched in March, this US$600 camera has a massive 83x optical zoom lens and is able to capture such stunning footage (gif below) with the help of its super zoom.
This two-minute footage has gone viral in YouTube since it was uploaded by a German photographer, shows the moon craters in detail:
Specs:
Apart from the 83x optical zoom, the Nikon Coolpix P900 has a 16 megapixel 1/2.3-inch BSI-CMOS sensor and a 24-2000mm (35mm equivalent) f/2.8-6.5 lens. At the price tag of just US$600, the P900 is a bargain.
Bluestacks is an emulator or app player which ran the android OS on your Windows desktop but better late than never, they have now released the support for Mac as well. Bluestacks for Mac has been designed in a specific way to support multiple trackpad gesture, microphone and sensors.For those who want to experience the android on their PC, Bluestacks has been accompanying them with the PC emulator since 2011. But don’t mistake it, it doesn’t convert your PC into some android device or you have to dual boot these Operating Systems’; it is just an OS which runs on a virtual window. And it has a huge user base of around 90million which is almost 1% of all the android users.
You can do almost anything on Bluestacks that you normally do on your android device, whether if it’s playing games or using some apps for specific tasks. You can do almost everything, this emulator is a complete android OS itself. Bluestacks has accomplished this stability and success all because of the layer cake technology which exploits the computers’ hardware accelerators to improve the performance of Android apps in PC.
But the overall fluidness of this emulator depends entirely on your hardware. It’s certain that Android OS uses a lot of memories itself and if you use even more memory intense apps you surely will feel some lag and app crashes. But if you have a powerful hardware you will have no problems at all. Using it on your PC with a big screen will be a breeze. There are other Android Emulators for both Mac and PC like the Andy OS, Genymotion and Droid4x but without any doubt Bluestacks is the king of the hill.
Meizu, a Chinese manufacturer of smartphone which is taking the world by storm like other brands from China like the Xiaomi and Oppo, which offers flagship phones at an affordable price. We saw the rise of Meizu with the launch of M1 Note and the M2 Note which are just mid-range phones, but when it launched the MX 4, everything changed as it was the most affordable flagship phone. And now, Meizu has revealed it’s flagship for 2015, the Meizu MX 5.
Meizu MX 5 is a beast when you look at the specs and a beauty when you perceive it’s beautiful unibody metal design. What’s really amazing about this phone is the specs it beholds, the Helio X10 64bit chipset, an octa core CPU which competes with the Snapdragon 808 CPU. And comes with 3GB RAM which is pretty standard for the flagship phone nowadays. It also offers refresh rate up to 120 GHZ so you won’t get any glitch on your display. This phone comes with a fingerprint sensor as well. The fingerprint sensor assists in a variety of OS security functions such as unlocking the device or accessing private folders or galleries on your phone.
The device measures just 7.6mm and weighs in at 149g which is pretty thin and light for a phone with 5.5’ inch display. Talking about the display it has a 1080p display with AMOLED screen with 401ppi. So it’s a pretty bright and sharp display. It also comes with the protection of Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
Another great thing about this phone is its camera. It packs a 20MP rear camera with a Sony IMX220 sensor and dual-tone LED flash with laser autofocus. So it’s one of the best-equipped smartphone camera out there. Also, it has 5MP front camera. Meizu has also introduced the new mCharge technology, which can charge the new MX5 from 0 to 25% in just 10 minutes.
Specs of MX 5:
5’inch 1080*1920 AMOLED screen with 401ppi
Runs on android 5.0 Lollipop with Flyme 4.5 UI on top
Mediatek MT6795 chipset with Octa core 2.2 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU
PowerVR G6200MP4 GPU
3GB RAM
Fingerprint Scanner
7 MP( 5248 х 3936 pixels) rear camera with laser autofocus
5MP front camera
Non-removable Li-Ion 3150 mAh battery
Available in Gray, Gold, Silver, Black/Silver colors.
This is another high-end product from Meizu unveiled this year after the M2 Note. MX 5 delivers premium flagship specs at a very affordable price. This phone is a steal with the price tag of USD $290 for 16GB, $320 for 32GB and $386 for 64 GB variant.
We pretty much like the Huawei smartphones under Honor branding. They are inexpensive, powerful and reliable. Last year’s Honor 6 was a powerful device at a mere price tag of Rs.35,000, and now Huawei has announced the latest iteration to its growing Honor portfolio, the Huawei Honor 7 in China.
Honor 7 come with a 5.2-inch 1080p display and is powered by a 64-bit Kirin 935 chipset that has 4 Cortex-A53 Cores running at 2.2 GHz cores and 4 Cortex-A53 Cores running at 1.5 GHz. The phone has 3GB of RAM and 16 or 64GB of inbuilt storage. The storage can be expanded via microSD card slot upto 128GB.
Honor 7 comes with an all aluminum unibody design, much similar to Samsung’s A series of smartphones.
Recently announced Honor 6 Plus had a great camera, and the Honor 7 try to build on that with a 20MP Sony IMX230 primary camera that now has Phase Detection Auto Focus, with an F2.0 aperture, 6-lens module and sapphire glass for added protection. The front-facing selfie shooter isn’t bad either, boasting a 8MP.
Karbonn smartphones seemed to be out of the limelight for quite a some time. With the likes of Xiaomi, Meizu and Micromax in the market selling phones of premium quality at an affordable price, can Karbonn make a comeback with its Mach 2 smartphone (priced at Rs.18,153)? Let’s find out on our review.
Built Quality:
We must admit Karbonn Mach 2 is a very good looking phone. In fact, it is a lot identical to the iPhone 5s if you look it from the side view. The phone we got was black all the way through and it feels really premium on hand. On the front, we’ve got the 8MP front Camera, and the capacitive touch buttons on the bottom but they are not backlit which can be a turnoff for some users. On the right side of the
On the right side of the phone, we have the volume rockers and the power button which are really solid and tactile. On the top, we have the standard headphone jack and the micro USB port. There’s nothing on the left side. And on the bottom we have dual speakers which sound pretty okay, you can’t complain much about a budget phone. On the back, there’s the 8MP rear camera with dual flash and the Karbonn branding.
The back of the phone is also protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 like in the front. We can clearly see how much effort Karbonn has put on the build of this phone and without a doubt this is the best looking Karbonn phone till date.
Display:
Talking about the display of this phone, it’s a 720p HD display and it produces really sharp and vibrant colors. Viewing angles are great and you get a pretty good outdoor visibility. There’s nothing so special about this screen, it just looks nice. And one think I have to mention about the display is that it’s really really smooth, but we’ve been facing some touch issues during our use. It seems like a minor bug which could be solved by a software update. And yes! This phone would be getting a software update to the Android lollipop.
Performance:
Talking about the performance of this phone, it sports a 1.4GHz Mediatek Octacore MT6592 CPU and 1GB of RAM. Which in our experience performed really well. Multitasking was okay in this device. You could do your everyday regular stuff easily with this device. Also, you can play high-end games in medium settings and other casual games with a breeze. And like you may have already guessed this phone has some heating issues as it uses a Mediatek chipset. Device tends to get hot near the camera section while playing games, so you might have to leave the device to take some air once in a while if you play heavy games otherwise there won’t be any heating issues.
Camera:
So this phone comes with a dual 8Mp camera on back and front. It might look good on the specs sheet, but this is where we were really disappointed with this phone. It takes really decent and saturated photos from the back camera, images tend to get grainy if the lighting conditions are just slightly off. And the front camera is even more disappointing, you get pretty grainy and dark pictures like the rear camera. But in good light it takes really good pictures though the images produced seemed a bit washed off. By far, we this is the worst 8MP shooter we have seen.
Battery:
And the battery is yet another thing that bothers us about this phone. It packs just 1900mAH of battery and it’s terrible. Manufacturers are sacrificing battery in almost every device nowadays for the sake of design and thinness of the phone. And as you might have notice it’s a sleek phone and battery has been terribly compromised here. With normal usage, you might hardly get a day of usage and if you check your phone regularly you might have to grab a charger few times a day.
Connectivity:
Talking about the connectivity of this phone, it comes with dual micro Sim with 3G support. The phone also comes with Wi-Fi, Hotspot, and GPS. All the connectivity works perfectly fine on this phone, and you will not have any problems with that. Also we made some calls through this phone and it worked just fine, signals were good, call quality was nice.
Verdict:
And once again this is the best looking phone Karbonn has designed till date. You’ll just love holding this device and looking at it. Apart from the design aspect we don’t see anything special going around with this phone. We really appreciate the design, but the camera of this phone is bad, not to mention its average performance, they could have got a snapdragon 400 or 410 chipset which is a standard for the device at this price point, also the audio is just fine for dual speakers. Everything is just mediocre, except the design and built quality. If you’re looking for a really good looking phone with the best protection you could get, this is the phone for you in a budget, that won’t hurt your pocket. To summarize, here are the pros and cons of the smartphone.
If you want a simple rule for buying a high-end smartphone on a cheap, it’s this: Grab a slightly cut-off version of the flagship phone a year or so after it goes on sale. That way you get all the high-end features for less than the price of the very top model. Yes, we are talking about LG G3, which is company’s flagship handset of 2014. It’s still a proper high-end heavyweight, boasting a 5.5-inch 2K display, a Snapdragon 801 mobile chipset and 3GB of RAM.
M.K Tradelink is currently selling a brand new seal packed 32GB LG G3 for Rs.45000. But be quick, the deal will only last for few days. This is a great deal for anyone looking for a solid phone at this price point.
Huawei is going to unveil a new device in honor family tonight. Dubbed as Huawei Honor 7, the device features a premium metal build and a fingerprint sensor.
As per the leaks, Huawei Honor 7 will sport a 5 inch Full HD display and will be powered with in-house Kirin 935 chipset. The phone comes with 4GB of RAM, 20MP rear camera, 8MP front-facing snapper, and 3,100mAh battery. It will run on Android Lollipop 5.0 with Emotion UI 3.0.
VIDEO LEAKS:
Some rumor also says there could be two different versions of the Honor 7. The high-end model, which we saw in the video above, features full metal body. The lower-end Honor 7 could have a plastic back and an affordable price tag. The high-end model is said to be priced at around US$435 while the lower-end variant would cost US$322.
There has been several leaks and rumors regarding Motorola’s upcoming budget oriented phone MotoG 3rd generation. According to the photo leaks and YouTube video, the Moto G (3rd gen) looks quite similar to its current iteration, the Moto G (2nd gen), although the new version has a textured back.
The phone is equipped with a 5-inch 720P resolution screen with Gorilla Glass protection, a Snapdragon 64 bit quad core 410 processor, and 1GB of RAM — all the specs that don’t look very impressive.
A 13-megapixel camera and a 5-megapixel camera may feature on the rear and front respectively. There is 8GB of inbuilt storage that can be expanded via a microSD card. The phone packs a bigger 2470mAh non-removable battery. Motorola is always known for providing regular updates to their phones, and the MotoG 3rd gen ships with Android 5.1.1 and should get Android M in the near future.
Some report also claims that the Moto G 3rd gen will come in two variants: 8GB inbuilt storage with 1GB of RAM, and 16GB storage with 2GB of RAM. Hopefully, this will be true because everyone wants to see MotoG finally having 2GB of RAM. Many MotoG first gen and second gen users are complaining about having less amount of free RAM after updating Lollipop and thus affecting the performance during multitasking. So, we really hope MotoG 3rd gen has at least 2GB of RAM.
Motorola has started sending out invites for an event on July 28, most probably regarding the launch of its new Moto G (Gen 3) smartphone. Motorola might also release MotoX 3rd gen and is said to sport a 5.64-inch QHD (1440×2560 pixels) resolution display; run Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, and be powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor coupled with a 3GB RAM. Moto X 3d gen might also support USB Type-C support.
We have already seen flagship phones from Samsung i.e. the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge launched in Nepal, but apart from that other smartphone brands are yet to unveil their flagship phones of 2015. Things are finally getting back to normal after the devastating earthquake of April 25 and now we expect new phones to be announced in Nepal soon. Here we round up 3 of the best new phones that are soon to be announced in Nepal. So, Let’s start:
1. LG G4
LG ‘s previous flagships G2 and G3 did well in the Nepali market, and we expect the same with the G4. LG has emphasized more on its Camera specification in the G4 more and touts its performance as a professional-grade DSLR. The phone comes with 16 megapixel 1/2.6-inch CMOS sensor with F1.8 aperture lens. The phone now sports an improved optical image stabilization system with 3 axes. In addition, the G4 comes with laser AF for better focus and a new color spectrum sensor that reads RGB color and Infrared in order to recognize objects in a scene and their color. The raw data is then processed to optimize white balance and color processing. At the front, LG has opted for an 8MP sensor combined with an F2.0 aperture.
In terms of Display, LG G4 has a new IPS Quantum Quad HD display, which is quite similar, yet better than G3. There is a slightly unusual processor inside the LG G4- the hexacore Snapdragon 808 processor with 4 Cortex A53 Cores and 2 Cortex A57. Obviously, this processor is less powerful than the latest Octa Core Snapdragon 810 seen in the HTC one M9 or the Exynos 7420 of the Samsung Galaxy S6, but LG says the hexacore processor is destined to save more power and will give better battery life. The phone boasts a 3000 mAh battery which can be removed as well. The body of the G4 is slightly curved, nothing like the G flex 2, but the curved design means it’s easier to grab in the hands. The G4 runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system with the new human-centric UX 4.0.
2. Huawei P8 and P8 max
Huawei unveiled two of its new flagship smartphones, the P8 and the P8 Max at its global launch event in London on April 16. Both these phones are already available in most markets. Lately, Ascend Series from Huawei has not been able to compete with other flagship but the Huawei P8 is a flagship smartphone worthy of some attention.
Talking about the Huawei P8, hardware-wise, it offers a frameless 5.2-inch full HD display and a 4-colour (RGBW) 13-megapixel camera with OIS and dual flash along with an 8MP selfie camera. Under the hood is an octa-core chipset using Kirin 930 64-bit processor along with 3GB of RAM. P8 carries a huge 2,680 mAh battery on a very thin body.
The phone is just 6.4-millimetres thick and weighs just 144 grams. The P8 runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box, with Huawei’s EMUI 3.1 on top. The handset will be offered in Champagne Silver, Gold, Grey, and Black. The standard version of the P8 is due to go on sale in more than 30 countries priced at €499 (16GB storage), or there’s a ‘premium’ version (64GB storage) that will cost €599.
The larger version of the P8 is the p8 max phablet, which rocks an incredible 6.8-inch full HD display and a huge 4,360mAh battery. It also has 3GB of RAM like the p8. While the screen might sound pretty huge but the P8max is only 6.8mm thick and weighs in at 228 grams.
The P8 Max also runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box, with Huawei’s EMUI 3.1 on top. The handset will be offered in Champagne Silver, Gold, Grey, and Black. The standard version (32GB) of P8 Max will cost €549 while the premium (64GB) will cost €649.
3. Gionee Elife E8
Gionee, the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, is set to announce Elife E8 in Nepal. It is company’s flagship phone of 2015 and offers new high-end specs which we all have been waiting to see since the launch of Elife E7 back in 2013.
The major attraction about the Elife E8 is its 23.7 MP rear camera, which is able to produce photographs up to 120 megapixels in resolution. And it will also be the first Android smartphone to offer lossless zoom. The camera app launches in just 0.8 seconds and using a phase-detection autofocus system, Gionee claims the Elife E8 focuses in 0.08s to 0.2s. The camera sensor is also equipped with optical image stabilization, which corrects shakes up to 1.5 degrees in angle. Gionee aims to make it as the best camera phone in the market, but again we shall wait and see.
Apart from that, Elife E8 boasts a huge 6-inch QHD display, MediaTek Helio X10 SoC, 3GB RAM, 64GB storage, fingerprint sensor, and 3500mAh battery.
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