Showing posts with label Huawei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Huawei. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 December 2015

Nexus 6P Review

Google is back with its most awaited, feature rich new-generation Smartphone Nexus 6P. Nexus 6P is not like its predecessors - it's far too better.Google has stated that the 'P' in the device name stands for Premium.




The last Nexus device which was really popular was the LG made Nexus 5X which was launched at 2013. even though Google couldn't make a big impact last year, with the launch of Nexus 6P they had made their comeback with a blast. The device was announced and launched this September and the reviews seems to be much satisfactory.

This is Google's first partnership with Huawei. Coming to the design aspect, the device had come with metal body instead of plastic and is made of anodised aluminium with diamond-cut chamfered edges. With a thickness of 7.3 mm and weight of 178 grams, Nexus 6P is not the lightest of the phones available.

The device has a 5.7 inch 2K AMOLED huge display which is the best currently available and with rich range of colours and wide viewing angles. It also has Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. 

It works on Android v 6.0 Marshmallow OS and is powered by a quad-core 2 GHz Qualcomm MSM 8894 Snapdragon 810 processor with 3 GB LPDDR4 RAM. IT comes in 3 variants 16 GB/ 32 GB/ 64 GB internal storage space and there is no option for increasing the Storage memory as there is no external memory card slot.

Nexus 6P has a rear camera of 12.3 MP f/2.0 with laser autofocus and dual-LED flash. The rear camera is placed inside a corning Gorilla Glass 4 enclosure and hence the camera has pop out to a small extend at the top. It also has an 8 MP front facing camera with FULL-HD video recording. Other camera features include HDR+ mode, Panorama mode, Timer mode, lens blur, geo-tagging, face detection and Photo Sphere.The rear camera is capable of shooting 4K videos at 30 fps.

The Nexus 6P also houses a non-removable Li-Po 3,450 mAh battery. The 3,450 mAh battery along with the Android Marshmallow battery new saving feature like doze will provide a long lasting battery life.Nexus 6P has a stand-by time of up to 440 hours and a talk-time of 23 hours on 3G mode.The device also supports USB-C charging port and hence faster charging can be attained in minimum time.

Nexus 6P supports a single nano-SIM slot which supports a 4G LTE SIM card as well. Other connectivity options of this device include Wi-Fi 802.11, Bluetooth v 4.2, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot, GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, NFC and so on. It also Packs sensors such as fingerprint, gyro,accelerometer, proximity, compass and barometer.

Priced at Rs 39,999 for the 32 GB model and 42,999 for the 64 GB model, Nexus 6P is available in Aluminium Graphite and Frost colours. Being a Google device, Nexus 6P will also be the first device to get any ne Android OS updates in the future. 






Saturday, 12 December 2015

Huawei Mate 8 review

The Chinese Telecommunications company Huawei, has launched its new generation smartphone Huawei Mate 8, this November. It comes with a giant 6.0 inch IPS-NEO LCD capacitive touch screen with a resolution of  1080 pixels by 1920 pixels. It supports Dual-SIM cards (nano SIM).




Mate 8 is packed with features. It runs on Android v6.0 Marshmallow .The device is Powered by 1.8 GHz Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor with 3GB /4GB RAM. The phone has 3 variants. One with 32GB internal storage space with 3 GB of RAM, second with 64 GB Internal storage space and 4 GB RAM and the third one with 128 GB internal memory and 4GB of RAM. The device also has a external memory card slot (one slot of SIM card) and memory can be expanded to up to 128GB using external micro-SD card.

The preceder of this device, Mate 7 featured one of the best batteries and also provided more battery life as compared with other similar smartphones. Huawei has stated that the new version Huawei Mate 8 will have 30% more battery life than the previous version.


The Phone packs a 16 MP primary camera with features like optical image stabilisation, phase detection autofocus with dual-LED flash. It also has an 8 MP front camera for taking better selfies. it also has features like face/smile detection, panorama mode and HDR.


The connectivity options of Huawei Mate 8 includes Wi-Fi 802.11, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.2, GPS, AGPS, GLONASS, FM Radio, micro USB v2.0. It also packs sensors like Proximity sensor, Fingerprint, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor, Barometer and Gyroscope.