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Asus ZenBook 3 Review
At present, the computers and laptops are available in all different sizes and specs. You can get a ...
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Motorola Moto G, A Cost-effective and Brilliant Android Option
Smart phones are no longer a symbol of ‘elite-ness’. Since the popularization of Android, smartphone ...
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Global Data Converters Market Trends 2018-2025
The report entitled Global Data Converters market provides a proper understanding of the global Data ...
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Micromax New Mobile Release
Over the past few years, Micromax has made quite a name for itself in the smart devices industry, wi ...
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Rise In The Popularity Of iOS App development Than Android Applications
Recent studies on the market has shown that iOS app development job is getting more popular than and ...
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Asus ZenBook 3 Review

At present, the computers and laptops are available in all different sizes and specs. You can get a good performing Laptop under Rs 30000. But if you can spend more, you will get better models with better specifications. A lot of people would opt for Apple MacBook when it comes to laptops. But now, Asus ZenBook 3 is going to make life harder for Apple. Asus ZenBook 3 launched recently. It comes with excellent specifications. And the best part is, it runs on the user-friendly Windows OS. So let us have a detailed look at what this mammoth device is going to offer its users. Here it is!

The looks are just gorgeous. The laptop weighs only 910 grams and it is 11.9 mm thin. The looks are much better than any Apple product till date. The chassis got crafted with the airspace grade aluminum body. This makes the laptop strong. The Asus logo comes with a brilliant metallic finish. It is lightweight. The Zen Book 3 is 9% thinner than the 12 inch Mac Book and 30% thinner than MacBook Air. You will get it in three color variants. They are Rose Gold, Quartz Grey and the Royal Blue.

The Zen Book 3 comes with 12.5 inches Full HD display. This looks sharp. It has got great viewing angles. A corning gorilla glass 4 protects it from scratches. The bezels are thinner than any other laptops, even Macbook! And this makes the device just brilliant in the display. The body ratio is 82%. The bezels are just 7.6mm in thickness. The max brightness is 300 nits. All in all, the display looks sharp and gorgeous. It will be a treat to use.

The ZenBook 3 comes with a backlit chiclet keyboard. And the keyboard is available throughout the entire breadth of the laptop. The keys fit just perfect. Every component in this laptop got designed to fit the ultra-small profile. The keyboard comes with gold lettering and a matching gold backlight. This might be nothing for a lot of you, but it is pretty cool to look at night. The trackpad is good enough to use it daily.

Speaking about the specifications the Zenfone 3 is a powerhouse. It comes with the latest i7 with 7500U Kaby Lake processor clocked at 2.7 GHz. You will have a 16 GB RAM. There is a 512GB hard disk and Windows 10 will be pre-loaded on it. There is also a lower variant for the ZenBook 3. It comes with i5 processor, 8GB RAM, and 256 GB storage. You can opt for any one of them. But if you want the latest specifications, then you can opt for the i7 processor one. According to Asus, the ZenBook 3 is 1.13 times faster than any regular 1866 RAM supported devices. The reason is ZenBook 3 comes with 2133 MHz high-speed RAM. Also, the PCle SSD is 3 times faster than normal SSDs.

The laptop comes with a revolutionary rolling system. The thermal fan is just 3mm thick and the walls of the heat pipe are 0.1m thick. The system directs warm air away through hidden vents. It is great for tackling day to day works.

Asus claimed that the ZenBook 3 offers 10 hours of battery backup. This is pretty impressive. And in regular use, you will get 6-7 hours of battery backup. The charging is just amazing. You will get 60% charge in less than an hour. And the charge will be full in less than 2 hours. The speakers are Harman Kardon tuned and sound quality is just brilliant. There are four distinct speakers available. Two above the keyboard and two at the bottom of the chassis. This drives the sound in a perfect way.

Speaking of graphics, the ZenBook 3 has got Intel integrated HD graphics and a 620 display adapter. It also has an 8GB graphical memory. This is more than enough even for the high-end games and graphic-intensive tasks. The laptop boots in seconds and shuts down immediately. Browsing, watching videos, streaming, social media, photo editing, and drafting article is blazing fast. The connectivity options are not good here. Asus ZenBook 3 comes with a multi-functional USB C port. You can use it for drawing power, connect the USB and the output video. For more USB ports, you will need adapters.

The ZenBook 3 comes at a price of Rs 1, 47, 990. And its base variant with the i5 processor comes at a price of Rs 1, 23,990. But there are a few shortcomings that can put off the users. The ZenBook 3 does not have a touchscreen. In this range, Asus should have offered a touch screen facility. The keypad is a chiclet keyboard that lacks feedback. But that might not be a major concern. The connectivity is a major concern. For more ports, you have to depend only on the external adapters.

The Asus ZenBook 3 is just an awesome laptop. All you have to do is deal with the connectivity ports and overlook the touchscreen facility. That’s all. We can assure you this ZenBook 3 is going to deliver one hell of a performance.

Mario 0 likes Apr 15, 2020

Motorola Moto G, A Cost-effective and Brilliant Android Option

Smart phones are no longer a symbol of ‘elite-ness’. Since the popularization of Android, smartphones have become so price competitive that you feel everybody is supposed to have them. We have been hearing about a low price high specs smartphone from Motorlaever since they launched Motorola Moto X. Finally we have that option in front of us in the form of Motorola Moto G. It is arguably the best Android phone in its price range. Many believe that Motorola have hit the right combination.

It is important to establish that don’t let pricing take your eyes off its specs. According to a leaked flyer heading for a retailer the Moto G comes with 4.5″ 720p edge-to-edge display covered in Gorilla Glass and 1.2GHz quad-core processor. Those are some very respectable specs for a seemingly budget device.

Considering its cost, it is understandable that the body is made out of plastic. But many features of its design follow that of the fashionable Moto X. There is also a pleasant option of personalization; changing the back cover with vibrant colors. The options are: black, white, yellow, dark and light blue, red and pink.

This is where it gets really interesting. If we look at the pricing and compare the specs, there is actually a lot on offer against that much money.

Moto G’s 4.5 inch 720 X 1280 LCD with a 329-ppi is a treat for any smartphone enthusiast. There is a Gorilla Glass layer which serves as the protector of screen. The processor is 1.2 GHz quadcore Snapdragon 400 silicon – which is not bad at all. The device’s RAM is 1GB. The back camera is 5 megapixels with autofocus option and LED flash. It’s not that great but nevertheless it serves its purpose. For video chatting and other purposes there is a 1.3 megapixels camera at the front. The battery is 2070 mAH and the official wording is that it gives 24 hours backup with good usage – that’s like most smartphones.

Motorola Moto G is fully equipped with WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, FM radio. The further wording is that there would be both GSM and CDMA versions available in the market. Also, Motorola will launch a dual SIM version of Moto G in the near future.

Moto G will be launched with Android 4.3. There have been few customizations but overlook the general look and feel of Android 4.3 has been retained. Experts say that the device will function smoothly with the OS. The phone is scheduled to be released in January 2014. After a little while Android KitKat 4.4 is set to hit the roads – therefore Motorola have promised an update with KitKat 4.4

After discussing its specifications in detail, it’s time to lift the veil and reveal the surprise. In the US, the phone with 8GB will be sold for $179 off contract. If you want to enhance it to 16GB, the price would still be $199 – still very reasonable.

After hearing the prices, it sounds too good to be true doesn’t it. We’ll have to wait for a few more weeks to get the hands on experience to find out.

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Global Data Converters Market Trends 2018-2025

The report entitled Global Data Converters market provides a proper understanding of the global Data Converters industry. The Report cover-up analysis and forecast for the market on the global and regional level. Furthermore, it analyses Data Converters industry on the basis of its attractiveness and investment feasibility. It also provides a precise explanation of each segment and emerging Data Converters industry trends.

In this report, the Global Data Converters Market is valued at USD XX million in 2017 and is expected to reach USD XX million by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2018 and 2025.

The scope of Global Data Converters Market explains constantly changing market dynamics, growth opportunities, driving factors. Crucial Data Converters industry information is collected from various sources. Then, every Data Converters figure is confirmed to check the information worth with the help of Strengths & Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats analysis. Especially collecting the business sales related to each and every vendor.

This report summarizes the growth of the Data Converters industry by key companies, upstream & downstream, industry overall development, as well as type segment & market application and so on, plus advances an accurate forecast for the development Data Converters industry forecasts supported analysis. Lastly, analyses opportunities for investment within the business at the end of the report.

Geographically, this report splits globally into several key Regions covering North America(U.S., Canada, Mexico), South & Latin America(Argentina, Chile, Brazil), Europe(U.K., Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and Spain), Asia-Pacific(India, China, Japan, South-east Asia), and The Middle East and Africa(Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Africa).

The study report proposes a synopsis of Global Data Converters market trend by analyzing numerous key segments of this market supported the product types, application, and end-user industries, market conditions. The regional distribution of the Data Converters market is all over the world are considered for this Data Converters business analysis, the results of that are used to estimate the performance of the Data Converters market over the amount from 2015 to forecasted year.

In the end, the Global Data Converters Market report makes some essential suggestions for a new project of good trade before evaluating its feasibility. Overall, the report gives an in-depth insight of 2015-2025 Global Data Converters Market covering all crucial parameters.

Mario 0 likes Apr 5, 2020

Micromax New Mobile Release

Over the past few years, Micromax has made quite a name for itself in the smart devices industry, with its range of adept smartphones that are priced incredibly low. From taking on Hugh Jackman as a brand ambassador to partnering with Microsoft, Micromax have gone from strength to strength; and this is evident even in the products they offer.

In the current season of IPL, Micromax revealed its brand new smartphone- the A102 Canvas Doodle 3. Part of its celebrated Canvas series of phablets. One might say that the Canvas Doodle 3 is Micromax’ finest smartphone yet.

The Canvas Doodle 3 features a bigger 15.24 cm FWVGA screen, which means more detail per inch. This effectively enhances all media playback and gaming on the device. This also opens various possibilities for you doodle away with the M! Doodle App. The screen is said to offer a resolution of 480X854 in 16 M true colours. On its rear is a primary 5MP camera with flash, which offers as resolution of 1280×720 and has autofocus capabilities. The phone also has a 0.3 secondary camera.

Only the finest applications and functions can do justice to a device this capable. The Micromax A102 Canvas Doodle 3 is packed with some incredible apps, some of which include the M! Doodle App, the Opera Mini browser, the Kingsoft office suite, preloaded games such as Rope cut, Marble, Jelly Jumper, and M! Live which gives you access to various movies, music, wallpapers, and more. All of these and more are supported effectively on the phone’s Android 4.2.2, Jelly Bean operating system. The OS is loved the world over for its intuitive and simple interface, and a barrage of great applications and widgets. Running all of the phone’s incredible functions is a 1.3GHz Dual Core processor and 512 MB of RAM, which effectively powers this smart device.

Media in all its forms

The phone is especially known to offer playback of various types of media. It plays conventional formats of audio and video effectively on its media player, and also displays pictures in different forms. Users who prefer carrying their music and video library with them will find the Canvas Doodle 3’s 32 GB expandable memory very useful.

The Micromax A102 Canvas Doodle 3 delivers optimum 3G connectivity, on GSM/GPRS/WCDMA networks. If you prefer being connected to the Internet at high speeds, the phone’s Wi-Fi capabilities will impress you. Users can transfer data via USB 2.0 and Bluetooth as well.

With the Canvas Doodle 3, Micromax effectively uphold its position of delivery quality smart devices that are available for a reasonable price. It stands ahead of the pack, and offers all that it promises and more.

The Micromax A102 Canvas Doodle 3 can be attained in all of its glory here at The Mobile Store, where it is available at great deals. We understand that all proficient devices deserve to be presented to the masses, and that is exactly the Canvas Doodle 3 scores very high in our books.

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Rise In The Popularity Of iOS App development Than Android Applications

Recent studies on the market has shown that iOS app development job is getting more popular than android application among the developers. This information might sound like a bad news for Google but such trend has been observed among the developers. Have you ever thought why your Android phone is not compatible to use few application where are your friend’s Apple iPhone can? Well! Numerous reasons are there that have caused the downfall of the android application than the iOS app development. Unless you learn about this piece of information, accepting this fact will be difficult for you.

Therefore, let’s take a look as to why iOS application has achieved such high popularity?

• It’s all about profit earning and piracy – When a developer shows less interest towards android application, it’s not about their time and money spend over this platform to develop it. Rather it’s the profit they will earn after the platform is developed and this profit amount is quite low. Secondly, piracy is a major issue for Android apps. The developers working on paid Android apps have observed that most of the Android users get access to these paid applications that actually buying it from Google store. As a result, the paid games suffer from piracy. Considering these factors, iOS application is considered more profitable for the developers.

• Prejudiced towards iOS applications – Many people simply prefer to stay in Apple’s good book or they take the least interest about Android apps. These people primarily go with the brand name. So, when they see the brand name Apple associated with this application, obviously they turn their interest towards it. On the other hand, it’s the advanced technical features of iOS app that attracts developers from all over the world.

Now, as the question has arisen about the features of iOS application, learn about what type of applications can be developed using the iOS application platform.

What type of applications can be developed using this platform?

Nowadays, Smartphone users want to access every information in their phones. In order to compensate such huge demand, iOS app development program has updated itself to develop few necessary applications like :-

• ECommerce based application – This application is primarily developed for the shopping websites with complete data security service. Its expert skill considers a user’s requirement and then produce eCommerce feature rich application.

• Marketing apps for iPhone and iPads – Considering the basic goal and requirement of the business, this application is being used. This application augments a company’s profit earning rate and the market share. Infact, this app helps the company to influence consumers to turn into customers.

• Multimedia app – Gathering enough knowledge on the multimedia technologies, this application is being developed to meet up the parameters set by the buyers. The developers develop this application by adding high end features like hyper interactivity to make the application apt for Apple iPhones and other Smartphones.

• Social networking app – Social networking has become an essential platform for the business field. Keeping this requirement in mind, this highly cohesive application is being developed. A company who is planning to expand their marketing network in online, this app will be perfect to do the work successfully.

Adding this mobile app development program in a business structure can bring remarkable profit to the owner. Hence, paying attention to the iOS application more than the Android application can bring a certain level of improvement in the business structure.

Mario 0 likes Mar 25, 2020

Samsung Galaxy S5 Specifications, Features, Release Date, Price-Rumors

After the good success of S Series, rumors of Samsung Galaxy S5 area unit coming back. Suggesting that this smart phone can feature a brand new metal body in step with company style three strategies, this can be as a result of its varied competitors like HTC, SONY and Nokia have tried to take advantage of Samsung’s disadvantage by emotional varied metal smart phones like the HTC One, Xperia Z and Lumia 925.

It is conjointly same that Samsung is presently performing on Samsung Galaxy S5 field officer motto create it a phone for next generation. But we have a tendency to don’t expect to envision any news concerning this smart phone close to 2014 once the device is to be free. But it’ll not stop the humanoid enthusiast’s client from dreaming of their ideal Galaxy S5 specifications.

With these rumors from our sources it’s to be notified that the new Galaxy S5 comes with a water-resistant atomic number 13 back cowl. This not solely proposes a tool fabricated from metal however conjointly dust-proof, just like the smart phone soon-to-be-released Galaxy S4 Active. Also, per style idea Screen buttons also are being provided which might provide the smart phone a seamless and funky look on its five in. AMOLED and show.

Designer Bob Freaking shares his views for the Galaxy S5 in a very video that means that it might have sixteen MP rear camera with optical image stabilization and 6x lossless zoom. Conjointly it might have improved low-light performance. These are one in all the special options of Samsung Galaxy S5.

Galaxy S4 is full of thirteen megapixel Camera whereas rumors counsel that thirteen or sixteen MP camera for Galaxy Note three. It might add up that new Smartphone camera will dwell this vary. This could conjointly provide America a plan, considering that Samsung recently unveiled the Galaxy S4 Zoom, a phone with a sixteen MP camera and 10x optical zoom on the rear aspect of a Galaxy S4.

Getting into hardware, Bob Freaking (Designer) thinks of an influence house machine with Associate in Nursing eight-core Eryngoes six processor operating in at two Gc and a 64-core GPU. Allow us to consider the sooner Samsung models. Within the Galaxy S4 I9500, the processor is Eryngoes five Octa, that works in between one.6 Gc and one.8 GHz, whereas the I9505 model packs with the Qualcomm flower 600 processor, that works at one.9 Gc with four-cores.

Qualcomm’s flower 800 runs a lot of quicker at two.3 Gc on four-cores, thus we will simply assume that Associate in Nursing eight-core processor acting at two Gc appears affordable for the S series. per rumors four GB of RAM and sixty four GB of internal memory ar specs any client would love to check within the Samsung Galaxy S5. but lack of memory was the most disadvantage of the previous S series smart phones as a result of Samsung creates apps that ar a lot of memory overwhelming that’s RAM and ROM.

Now days, there are rumors concerning the coming robot software package as Google has not confirmed any of the planned robot four.3 or robot five.0 (Key Lime Pie). However its feature doesn’t match with Associate in Nursing updated bit whiz UI. The idea of the Galaxy S5 conjointly includes a Google Edition operational a pure robot system.

Current smart phones includes 3G, 4G and 4G LTE, Freaking proposes 4G LTE capability further as compatibility with 5G wireless networks in S5. This is often associated in nursing admirable plan. However, 5G isn’t on the market up to 2020.

Another vital feature of Galaxy S is lightweight weight of one hundred twenty grams and seven millimeter in thickness further like an outsized power battery of four,000 mAh. We tend to imagine that these are areas during which Samsung can aim to boost its future device.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is a hundred thirty grams in weight and seven.9 millimeter in thickness and contains a two,600 mAh battery, specifications that adjust slightly from the Samsung Galaxy S3, that have 133 grams weight and eight.6 millimeter thickness and packs with a two,100 mAh battery.

We know that Samsung will work on Associate in nursing a lot of diluting smart phone, however I believe the Galaxy S5 probably won’t be a lot of lighter than its earlier phones and should have a lot of powerful battery.

There is no official announcement of Samsung Galaxy S5 nevertheless; however this convenience can have worth varied of $650.

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Top Free Great Features of Windows 8

The most important and great features of windows 8 is its presence of windows store through which user can download their favorite apps without visiting the third party website just like Linux and Apple.

By the use of windows store you are not only getting your favorite apps with just a click (as it is quiet easy to install) but you are also getting them without virus and spy ware so you see there is a double profit to get apps from windows store.

There are many other apps which can be downloaded from apps and that too free of cost.

1. Skype :The most common method to do video, voice and text chat if you want to talk to your friend living in another town and see them face to face Skype is the best software for you you can get this piece from windows store without any charge.

2. Twitter : You are following someone and just can’t wait to hear his view opinion on some subject then no need to wait you don’t have to following the cumbersome process of going to the browser address bar and type Twitter.com instead you just have to clicked installed apps from windows store Twitter and you are ready to view and express yourself freely.

3. Audible :You simply loves book but don’t have the patience or enough time to read it on the screen don’t worry this apps is going to help you free of charge you just have to install this apps from windows store and browse through the title and this book is going to read the book for you.

4. Adobe photo shop express :You love taking and editing pictures but don’t have enough money to but expensive photo editing software than this free apps from windows store is there for you through it you can edit you pictures as per your choice it the best fun fast on the go free photo editing software.

5. Netflix :The most popular free apps on windows store with a subscriber base of 30 million. Netflix allow you to get you movies and TV show fix. It tab show three categories top 10, popular on Netflix, New releases,Recently added and Genres. Clicking on a thumbnail brings up the movie page, which is informative and interactive, letting you rate, play, and see who starred in it. While playing a movie, you can use the app bar to pause, scrub, change volume, or disable/enable subtitles if available.

6. Wikipedia :You are the sought of person who is interested in almost anything that happens under the sky well then these fee apps is for you because it has got almost 20 million article to quench your thirst for knowledge.

7. Word Web : Interested in building your vocabulary and improve your pronunciation than this free light apps from windows is definitely a must have for you it search definitions, pronunciations, usage, translations, and more but only catch is you should not take more than 12 oversea travel to use this software freely.

Mario 0 likes Mar 15, 2020

Article Submitting To get Highest Website traffic

Submitting articles to directories is a very popular strategy for boosting traffic. It has been used since the beginning of Internet marketing and is still an effective traffic generation strategy.

Submitting articles to the article directories is a often used method for enhancing traffic. It has been popular since the early days of the Internet and is still an effective traffic generation tactic even in our high tech times.

Marketers always query the quickest techniques to submitting articles for the most effective results. Which are the most effective methods?

To start with, you can submit your articles to the most powerful article directory, EzineArticles. It has a well deserved reputation of being the preeminent in the world. Because of this marketers love it, as does Google.

Some marketers get angry because of the overly complex submission guidelines and long time it can take for approval.

However, if you read their rules and stick to them, your articles will get through without a hitch.

When your article are in EzineArticles you immediately receive benefits from it. Articles submitted to this directory frequently rank well in Google, even without any backlinks pointing to them.

Gather some backlinks and suddenly you find your articles are ranking in the top ten for moderately competitive keywords. Frequently you don’t even need backlinks to rank well.

When your article has been published you need to do some easy backlinking to it to help it rank well in the search engines.

To begin with, take your EzineArticle author RSS feed and submit it to RSS directories. There are tools that will do this for you, or you can do it manually. If you are doing it by hand, just choose the top ten directories in a Google search and that will be good enough for now. You can always submit to more later on, so make sure you keep track of which ones you have added your feed to.

You can ping your article at one of the many ping sites. You will give EzineArticles some benefit, but it will also help your article.

You could also social bookmark your article. You can either use a tool or do it yourself. A well written article could be submitted to Digg or Stumbleupon to get added links and traffic.

There are many other article directories you possibly will use, but none of them are as good for ranking as EzineArticles. Google Knoll is doing very well with gathering favor from marketers. At the moment though, these are not appearing to be ranking as well as Ezinearticles, but it is a fine method to get the Google to notice your sites.

For the other article directories it is not worth submitting articles by hand to them, except maybe the top dozen significant directories. Many of the rest get minimal traffic and are only worth it for the backlink. Hence you should outsource or automate all submissions to these directories.

If you are article marketing then you need to ensure they are on Ezinearticles for maximum traffic. Add in some backlinking to your article and you you will get traffic from you good rankings.

Mario 0 likes Mar 10, 2020

Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Chromebook Review: The Work Friendly Laptop

Late Chromebooks have got recognized as good pieces of a laptop, especially if you are in college or internship. The Chrome OS platform continues to evolve, and that makes it lucrative to purchase Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Chromebook. Besides getting them at fixed prices, you are also left with useful features, making it a budget-friendly deal.

Talking about prices Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Chromebook is not as cheap as other Chromebooks. The prices start from $395.10 and cost about $600 for the higher end variant. So should you spend this much for this Chromebook? Let’s find out!

As a reviewer, I feel the keys should be talked about first. So when we were testing Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Chromebook my hands automatically started to touch type. You’d be happy to know the keypad is good and comfortable. It takes about 62 grams of force to type, and they are spread at a comfortable 2 millimeters.

The keys are responsive and accurate enough. For prolonged writing, this keyboard is excellent however one might find it at a disadvantage because of the backlight’s absent. Also, the Windows 10 classic ThinkPad track point is absent here.

As we already mentioned, it comes with three processor choices

These are in order of low to high price range. Although some features are absent, those are not necessary either. You don’t use something that takes up a lot of processor work here. It is predominantly a browser based system. So unless you are playing heavy games, then the specifications are just right.

The 2.4 GHz of Intel Core with 8GB RAM and 32GB internal memory (one of the few options available) worked decently with the chipset. Apart from this, it contains a 720p front facing the camera and Intel Integrated graphics card attached.

The Chromebook can handle some multitasking but don’t expect it to be a heavy lifter. However, we could easily open ten tabs before we started noticing the lag. You work best with this when you are online. One reason for it is that majority of your files are stored online in Google Drive.

However, the laptop does not get too warm anytime soon. The WebGL Aquarium Test for graphics performance showed that it could show pictures at 60fps. This is much higher than what Dell Chromebook 13 or HP Chromebook 14 showed.

The Battery Life is sustainable. Carry it without any worries in your 9 to 5, and you will still have some juice left at the end of the day. At a stretch, the laptop works for about 9 to 10 hours with rapid working over Wi-Fi. It is better than HP or Acer’s Chromebook but still lesser than Dell’s Chromebook. However, compared to an average it surpasses the market average for Chromebook’s when it comes to longevity in a single charge.

The package comes with a standard one-year warranty from Lenovo. Overall the entire package is very workable. The battery lasts for one whole working day, and the keyboard is a delight to work with. The display is so, so. If you want to go with it, spend a hundred dollars more and go for the Windows version.

Mario 0 likes Mar 5, 2020

ZTE Axon 7 Mini Review: Is It Good For Its Price?

With ZTE Axon 7 the brand has already made heads turn. Their next smart move is to release ZTE Axon 7 Mini at a lesser price now that they already have people’s attention. This will help them create a greater impression in the long run. Having said that, the market is highly competitive – will ZTE be able to save itself with Axon 7 Mini?

If you have seen Axon 7, you won’t be surprised – both the phones are the same in their looks and have the same unibody metal design. However, since it is called Mini, you have a smaller 5.2inch screen here to justify its name. Since it has a smaller screen now, it is easier to grasp.

The resolution is dialed to 1080p on its screen. The AMOLED display gives a sharp contrast, and the brightness is at its best at full HD. 1080p works well with this phone because a phone of this size is not compatible with Google Daydream VR headset.

For the audio part, ZTE Axon Mini 7 is aided with Hi-Fi DAC and ADC audio chipsets which enable super quality sound. It won’t be a letdown from its previous versions that is for sure.

The phone comes with a 617 Snapdragon CPU and a 3GB RAM support. Given the 617 power of chipset, the 3GB RAM support is superfluous. The performance, however, is very good for a phone of this price range ($299), but it is certainly not at par with OnePlus 3.

Once we get to the octa-core processor part, we realize the true use of the 3GB RAM support. The GPU is fairly average with only Adreno 405, and all are Cortex-A53s. We tested it at the Geekbench 4, and it scored 2127 points. So we were relieved! Anything less than this would make it a really bad deal.

When playing high-end games like Asphalt 8 (which max out the graphics), you notice that the frame rate isn’t quite as high as that of the most powerful of phones. But for this price, we’d say ZTE Axon 7 Mini is giving us enough juice.

The rear sensor has 16MP with f/1.9 aperture. The shutter lag is minimal during the daylight. So the camera feels quick to use. The sapphire lens also keeps the camera protected. However, the lack of 4K video shooting and dual LED make it a little disappointing. The photos are noisy and blurry in the low-light situations. Plus there is a delay when you are shooting in low light. The 8MP front camera doesn’t give you much detail either. You can expect just about as good as a 5MP shot from the front camera here.

ZTE Axon 7 Mini runs on Quickcharge 2.0 instead of 3.0. So you can expect a quick 50% charge in 30 minutes. The battery life is not that great. The phone stayed on for 5 hours and 3 minutes in our tests during which they were operating at maximum brightness and VOLTE. It is a pretty average performance for its price range and lower performance compared to its predecessor.

The manufacturers have used MiFlavor UI to make the Android experience smoother. This is why this phone does not lag. But we suspect that it might have something to do with the overall slowing down of the OS. However, our experience with Moto G4 Plus was far better with the same specifications, so we doubt it.

You can also tap the fingerprint sensor to take a selfie or accept calls. Based on 6.0.1 Marshmallow Android software, this phone runs smoothly overall. However, a Nougat update is expected soon.

ZTE Axon 7 Mini has almost the same features than its predecessor but costs $100 less. There are certainly many limitations this phone has. We suggest if you love cameras then don’t go for this phone even in this price range. But if you like an overall well-performing average phone, then it’s not a bad call.

Mario 0 likes Mar 1, 2020