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Micromax Canvas Spark to get official announcement

Micromax

Yural Maskey

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April 17, 2015

Micromax Canvas Spark to get official announcement

Indian smartphone manufacturer is set to announce a new budget phone- Micromax Canvas Spark to compete with the likes of Xiaomi Redmi 2 and Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen). According to the various sources, the phone will be priced around NRs.10,000.

The phone is expected to sport a 4.7 inch screen, quad core MediaTek SoC and 1GB of RAM. The phone is certain to come with Android Lollipop pre-loaded. Connectivity wise the phone will support 2 SIM slots and will also have a MicroSD card expansion.

Here are the speculated specification of Micromax Canvas Spark:

4.7 inch HD IPS display
1.3 GHz Quad core CPU
Mali GPU
MediaTek MT6582
1 GB of RAM
8 GB of storage
8 MP rear camera
2 MP front camera
microSD card slot
Android 5.0 Lollipop OS
Dual SIM

So, What do you think about the Micromax Canvas Spark? Can this phone compete with the likes of Moto E or Xiaomi Redmi 2s? Leave us your opinion in the comment below.

Find My Phone from Google for Android

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April 16, 2015

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Google is probably everyone’s favorite search engine when it comes to searching for almost anything. It is our day to day life saver. Google has now stepped up its search game, and now allows users to search for their ‘lost phone.’

You can just type “Find my phone” on Google and a card along with a map will appear that will assist you in locating your phone and provides the users with options like ring, lock and erase phone. For this feature to work you must have the latest Google app update on your phone, also you have to be logged into the same Google account in your browser as well as your android device. It works better if you have location services turned ON in your device for locating your phone, else you can ring, erase and lock the phone remotely. This feature is more like the Android Device Manager integrated in your browser instead of your phone.

Huawei launches Ascend P8 And P8 max

Huawei

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April 16, 2015

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Huawei has unveiled two of its new flagship smartphones, the P8 and the P8 Max at its global launch event in London. The company said it has a “completely flat” design to make these phones sleeker, stronger and more comfortable to hold.”

Ascend P8:

Talking about the Huawei P8, hardware wise, it offers a frameless 5.2-inch full HD display and a 4-color (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-millimeter thick and weighs just 144 gram. 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.

P8 Max:

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 a 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.

We also hope to see these phones in Nepal soon following the launch on different Asian markets. For more information, keep updated with us.

Gionee gifts Elife S7 to Miss Nepal

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April 15, 2015

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Gionee Nepal, during the launch event of their flagship phone Elife S7, gifted winners of previous seven miss Nepal with Elife S7. Gionee, the co-sponsor of Miss Nepal 2015, dubs the Elife S7 as the sexiest phone thanks to its slim figure measuring just 5.5mm thick.

Ishani Shrestha, winner of Miss Nepal 2013, shows her delight by posting it on Facebook saying:

“Thank you Gionee mobiles for gifting 7 Miss Nepals 7 of the ELIFES7 phone. It is the world’s slimmest phone! What a great end to a super hectic day! ‪#‎happy‬‪#‎ELIFES7‬“

However, she embroidered Elife S7 feature by tagging it as the World’s slimmest phone. The apparent veracity of the detail is Vivo X5Max, with 4.75mm thickness, is perhaps the slimmest smartphone in the world.

Gionee recently has been doing a lot of marketing campaign in Nepal and gifting winners of miss Nepal their flagship phone has been fairly effective. The Elife S7, apart from it’s astounding look and feel, boasts a 5.2 inch Full HD super AMOLED screen, Octa Core MediaTek CPU, 2 gigs of RAM, 16GB of storage, 13MP rear camera, 5MP selfie camera and 2750MAh battery. We shall be coming up with the in-depth review which would reveal its actual performance. You can check out our early hands-on article here in this link.

Vianet comes with Double Your Data plan for New Year

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April 15, 2015

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Vianet comes with Double Your Data plan for New Year

Vianet, one of the oldest and widespread Communications provider of high speed Internet connectivity in Nepal, has recently come up with their New Year scheme.

“Double Your Data”, as the name suggests, is a New Year offer from Vianet, where customers (Both new and existing) get double data package that you’ve subscribed on Yearly Subscriptions only. For instance, if you subscribe for 1 year with 360 GB of data, you would get 780 GB of data and 2 months free.

The offer is significant to yearly subscription only. However, for 3/6 months subscription, you get 25/50% extra data and 1 month of free subscription. The offer is valid till 31st Baishak 2072. You can call at 9801046410, 01-5546410 (24×7) Support, for additional information.

Sony rolls out lollipop update to other Xperia devices

Sony Xperia

Yural Maskey

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April 14, 2015

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Sony rolls out lollipop update to other Xperia devices

After successfully rolling out Lollipop update to their flagship phones of 2014– Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z2, Sony has announced that they are rolling out Lollipop update to other handsets like Xperia Z3 dual, Xperia Z1, Xperia Z1 Compact and Xperia Z Ultra.

Sony also confirms that they will be rolling out Lollipop update to their 2 mid-range phones– Xperia T2 Ultra and Xperia C3 (including dual SIM variants) starting next week. After that, the lollipop roll out will begin on older Xperia Z Series; Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR and Xperia Tablet Z.
[UPDATE :The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra and Xperia C3 for both dual SIM variants are getting the Android 5.0 Lollipop update as part of phased rollout.]

Sony also confirms that there won’t be lollipop update for other midrange and entry level devices like Xperai M2, Xperia E3, Xperia C,etc.

Have you got the Lollipop update on your Xperia?

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Gionee Elife S7 launched in Nepal at Rs.37,999

Gionee

Yural Maskey

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April 13, 2015

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Gionee Elife S7 launched in Nepal at Rs.37,999

Teletalk Pvt. Ltd., the authorized distributor of Gionee smartphones in Nepal, has launched their flagship phone for Rs.37,999. The phone is now available for purchase all across Nepal.
(Update: Gionee S7 now priced at Rs.31,999)

Gionee Elife S7 is one of the thinnest phone measuring only 5.5mm thick, yet premium since the phone is build by aviation-grade alloy and a stainless steel sheet with nano-molding plastic making the phone solid and durable. It’s uni-body design consists of Gorilla glass 3 on the front and rear. The body has grooved sides, something Gionee calls a U-shaped skeleton.

In terms of display, Elife S7 sports a 5.2” AMOLED screen with 1080p resolution. It’s ACL screen technology is said to reduce the power usage by 25%. The 2,750mAh battery of the Gionee Elife S7 is aided by a number of power-saving features based on its research. It is powered by Mediatek’s new 64-but 1.7Ghz octa-core processor with 2GB RAM and 16GB of storage. It is a dual sim phone with 4G LTE capability.

On the software front, Gionee Elife S7 is the first phone to come with new Amigo 3.0 user interface that is based on the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop. The device is powered by MediaTek MT6752 chipset which is made up of a 64-bit processor with eight 1.7GHz Cortex-A53 cores and Mali-T760 GPU with 2GB of RAM. Gionee says that the HPM technology enables the processors to run at a high speed allowing the performance on this phone to be smooth with very few lags here and there.
Gionee Elife S7 comes with a 13MP rear camera with Gionee’s new “image+” image processing system which enables the phone to capture 6 pictures in 1 second which is really impressive. What is even more impressive is that it can capture a picture with only 500 milliseconds, and its focus time is only 300 milliseconds. On the front, it has an 8MP selfie camera. The S7’s 8MP front camera incorporates intelligent Face beauty 3.0 technology with which the device can estimate peoples’ gender and age, and recommend the best over the face beauty effects for more natural selfie photos.

S7 offers superior sound quality with an instinctive Hi-Fi standard sound system that features sound restorations. With the built-in tailor-made speaker and Smart PA, users can enjoy music accompanied by louder and richer sounds, bringing a home theater system like experience to an ultra slim phone with DTS audio enhancement.

About the battery life, Gionee says that they have added a lot of optimization to this phone for better battery life with its 2750MAh battery. ACL technology used in its display reduces power consumption by 25%. There’s also a Dark theme, which further drops power draw by 30% compared to the default theme. A new sensor hub enables the CPU to wake up 20% less. Gionee estimates they have improved battery life by 32% and the phone should go for two days. Gionee has also included an extreme mode in case of emergencies, which restricts the phone features and gives 33hours of standby by freezing functions except calling and text messages to ensure basic communications on just 10% of battery. Gionee claims that they have broken the stereotype that a thinner phone always has a poor battery life, but we shall tell you that as soon as we get the review unit. So stay tuned!

NTC brings New Year offer for CDMA and Postpaid Users

Telecom

Yural Maskey

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April 12, 2015

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NTC brings New Year offer for CDMA and Postpaid Users

Nepal Telecom Corporation (NTC) is celebrating the new year by providing their customers with special offer on recharge. Unfortunately, the offer only stands for CDMA and Postpaid users. Almost 75 %of NTC users use Pre-paid SIM, and yet they are left empty handed.

CDMA USERS:

PACKAGE	AMOUNT	TIME LIMIT
200 MB	Rs.75	1 month
500MB	Rs.175	1 month
1GB	Rs.325	1 month
3GB	Rs.850	2 month
5GB	Rs.1180	3 month
10GB	Rs.1800	6 month

*Offer stands starting 1st of Baisakh,2072

POST PAID USERS:

PACKAGE per Month	AMOUNT
2GB DATA + Rs.500 Talk time	Rs.900

*Offer stands starting 1st of Baisakh,2072

However, NTC is providing 50% discounts on SMS for all the GSM users including pre-paid users. The SMS discount is valid starting today (30th chaitra) to 2nd Baisakh.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Rooting your Android Phone

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Yural Maskey

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April 12, 2015

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Android is one of the most popular mobile platforms for smartphones and tablets everywhere. Since its release, Android handsets have constantly been “Rooted”, a process similar to the jail breaking of iOS devices. The main idea behind rooting a device is to simply change how part of the device works to do more than one could before.
“Rooting” is the process in which the restrictions are removed and full-access is allowed. Once rooted, the Android phone owner will have more control over many settings, features and performance of their phone. Basically, “rooting” means to get to the root of the operating system and to have the ability to make comprehensive changes. This includes things like unlocking a carrier locked phones, installing a tethering application to act as a router, or disabling a Default manufacturer’s UI and installing a new one.

Advantages of Rooting:

1. Bloatware

Bloatware infects the vast majority of Android phones. Custom UI’s like Samsung Touchwiz, HTC Sense, Huawei Emotion UI or Xiaomi MIUI usually consumes a lot of RAM than the Stock UI. For eg. Samsung Touch wiz UI on my Galaxy S4 consumes around 1GB of RAM, and that effects the overall phone’s performance. Moreover, there are lots of Samsung’s in-house apps that cannot be uninstalled. By Rooting your phone, you can uninstall these Bloatware apps and free up your RAM, which of course isn’t possible without Rooting.

2. Overclocking

When you root your Android, you gain some control over the hardware components, making overclocking and under Volting possible. It’s not uncommon to overclock a 1GHz Android CPU up to 1.6GHz, of course with a greater tendency toward instability. Several root-only apps available in the Android Market handle both overclocking and undervolting, such as SetCPU and Voltage Control.

3. Custom ROM’s

There are hundreds of custom ROM’s out there on market that changes the entire look and feel of your phone. I recently installed a custom ROM called “Cataclysm” on Nexus 5, which looks insanely good.
Another custom ROM that you can try is Cyanogenmod. It is the most popular ROM that exists for the Android OS. It has tons of customization options, and is extremely stable.

4. Moving Apps to SD card

When you install an app on your phone, it is stored on the phone’s memory. “Rooting” allows you to move installed applications to your SD card, thus freeing up system memory for additional files or apps. This feature can be very useful for smartphones that are low on internal storage.

5. Apps for Rooted Phones Only:

There are majority of useful apps that are exclusive to Rooted phones only. Here are the top 30 Rooted Apps you should know.

Disadvantages of Rooting:

1. Rooting immediately voids your phone’s warranty
2. Rooting involves the risk of “bricking” your phone
3. Rooting and installing a unstable ROM can effect the performance of the phone.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Price in Nepal

Samsung

Yural Maskey

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April 10, 2015

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Price in Nepal Talking Point

IMS, the authorized distributor of Samsung smartphones in Nepal, is set to launch the new flagship Galaxy S6 alongside the Galaxy S6 Edge. The official unveiling will take place on 16th of April, 2015 and only 32GB version will be sold. The Samsung Galaxy S6 price in Nepal will be approx. Rs.77,900, and the Edge variant will cost Rs.94,900. But the variant 128GB Galaxy S6 price has not been revealed yet.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are the flagship device that comes with Android 5.0.2 Lollipop operating system out of the box. To be cut and clear it is the rival to the apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus running on iOS 8. The South Korean manufacturer has manage use of more premium materials (glass and metal) in Galaxy S6 compared to Galaxy S5 which is plastic built.

Display

The new Samsung Galaxy S6 models feature a 5.1-inch 2K AMOLED display (2560 x 1440 pixels) . The pixel density goes up to 572ppi, much more higher than the 326ppi as in the iPhone 6. The device display also features a coating of Corning’s Gorilla Glass 4 ensuring your device remains scratch-less.

Processor

Samsung, this time has parted ways with Qualcomm’s processor tech for its latest flagship and is instead using it’s own Exynos silicon. The Samsung Galaxy S6 has been designed with Exynos 7 Octa-core processor which contain two quad-core processor clocked at 2.1 GHz and 1.5GHz respectively, coupled with 3GB RAM. Samsung has also planed some Qualcomm Snapdragon variants of the Galaxy S6.

RAM

The Samsung Galaxy S6 has the super-fast LPDDR4 3GB RAM. 3GB can run the device without too many lags and along with the new Exynos chip it could deal better with the TouchWiz.

Camera

The Galaxy S6 features a 16-megapixel rear camera with an aperture of ƒ/1.9. The secondary camera’s resolution is 5-megapixel that comes with an aperture of ƒ/1.9, which makes it an ideal device to take low-light selfies. The additional imaging options of the handset include optical image stabilization, auto HDR, 4K video capture, dual video capture and IR white balance detection.

No Removable battery

A change that most users may not like can be Samsung’s decision to fit in a non-removable battery.The Samsung Galaxy S6 removed the replaceable battery found in the Galaxy S5 and almost all Samsung smartphones, but now allows you to charge the smartphone wirelessly. It supports WPC and PMA wireless charging using Samsung’s own charging pad.

On using a traditional microUSB cable, According to Samsung ,50 percent battery can be charged in a half hour. It comes with a 2,550mAh battery.

No Expandable storage

Another change that most users may not like is the exclusion of additional storage.The company’s minimum storage capacity model has been upgraded from 16GB to 32GB. Samsung has also pulled out support for microSD card slot which had been a feature that set Samsung phones apart from the iPhone. Personally I don’t think this is costumer friendly approach.

Samsung S6 Edge and Samsung Galaxy S6 Price in Nepal

Samsung has announced that they will be dropping the price of the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge all over the world due to poor sales expectations.

The press release reads:

WHILE THE IT & MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (IM) DIVISION IS EXPECTED TO FACE A DIFFICULT BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, THE SALES MOMENTUM FOR HIGH-END PRODUCTS WILL BE MAINTAINED BY ADJUSTING THE PRICE OF THE GALAXY S6 AND S6 EDGE AND INTRODUCING NEW PREMIUM SMARTPHONE MODELS.

According to the latest rumor, the price drop will be around 15-20%. The galaxy S6 costs Rs. 77,900 and if the price drops, then the new price in nepal will be around Rs. 60,000. However, we are not quite sure whether Samsung Nepal will follow the global strategy since they have recently come up with a new scheme i.e. Buy a Galaxy S6/S6 Edge and Get a Core Prime for Free.

Summary

The Samsung Galaxy S6 is a flagship phone that runs Android 5.0.2 Lollipop OS
Its curved screen variant is called as the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge
The device has a 5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen with a pixel density of 577 PPI
The smartphone has a 16 MP rear camera with OIS and dual tone flash and a 5 MP front cameraIt is powered by a 64-bit
Octa-core (2.1GHz + 1.5GHz) Samsung Exynos processor paired with LPDDR4 RAM 3GB RAM
It has 32GB internal storae. There are 64GB & 128GB variant too.
Connectivity options include LTE Cat 6, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.1, Infrared, NFC and microUSB 3.0
The smartphone is powered by a non-removable Li-Ion 2,550 mAh battery

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