Few months ago we spotted Asus Zenfone 2 in Nepal, but the eminent 4GB version was not available at that time. However, one of the top smartphone retailer M.K.Tradeline, who is renowned for bringing top gadgets in Nepal, has made the flagship 4GB variant available for the Nepalese audience. For those who are not aware, ASUS has released different variants of ZenFone 2. These models vary slightly from one another in terms of Processors, RAM, battery capacity, as well as the screen size and resolution.
ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML/ 4GB) is powered by a 2.3GHz 64-bit Intel Atom processor Z3580 and has 4GB RAM to deliver up to seven times faster gaming performance than its predecessor Asus Zenfone 5. Other specification includes a 5.5-inch Full HD and a (1280x1920p) IPS display, 32GB internal storage, microSD support up to 64GB, a 13MP camera with an f/2.0 wide-aperture lens, a 5MP front-facing camera with a wide 85-degree field of view, and a non-removable 3000mAh battery with fast charge technology. The phone is priced at Rs.35,000 and the readers of this article will get 2.5% discount.
M.K.Tradeline is also selling 2GB variant of the model ZE551ML. This variant comes with the same 5.5-inch FHD display, but boasts a less powerful 1.8GHz 64-bit Intel Atom processor Z3560 and 2GB of RAM. It features the same high-end camera with a 13-megapixel rear and 5-megapixel front sensors. The phone is priced at Rs.29,000 and you will be getting Rs.1000 discount as well.
M.K.Tradeline will also provide you a standard one-year warranty which will cover for parts and service fee if anything happens to the smartphone within the warranty period.
Colors Smartphones is the highest selling Nepali Smartphone brand among other competitors. Colors-budget and mid-range phones have taken over a lot of market share as consumers have appreciated their quality products and services. And now it has launched another budget phone Colors X113 Quad which might be the cheapest Quad Core phone we’ve seen in Nepali market till date. It is a small device with decent specs, performance and other neat features.
Specification of Colors X113 Quad:
4.0′ WVGA (480*800pixels) IPS Display
Mediatek MT6582V/X Chiset
1.3 GHz Quad Core CPU
512MB RAM
Runs on Android 4.4 Kitkat
4GB Internal Storage Expandable upto 32GB
5MP Rear Camera with LED flash and 0.3MP Front Camera.
Dual SIM
1600mAh of Battery Backup.
Note that, this is not the most good looking budget phone out there but it’s a reasonable phone with the price tag of just Rs.9,500. It will perform well with the specs it holds but you can’t expect more from this device. You get a free screen protector and one year of warranty if anything goes wrong with this device.
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.
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