HUAWEI MATE 9; A MOBILE PHONE TO GO ALONG WITH OUR EXPECTATIONS

If you are person looking for a smart phone with speed, best camera, great battery performance, Huawei Mate 9 is a best option.

THE SPEED

With the new Kirin 960 processor and intelligent Machine learning algorithm , the great harmony between hardware and software the Huawei Mate 9 is born fast and stays fast.

THE  POWER

The Huawei Mate 9 offers a truly unbelievable  battery performance.  The 4000mAh battery and smart power saving technology, you can use it for two days.

Also it charges in 20 minutes for decent duration (minimum 1 day) of usage.  

Coming with 4GB RAM and  64GB internal storage with an option of further expansion.

The combination of the advanced processor. Ample amounts of RAM and lightning fast UFS 2.1 storage give the unit amazing velocity.

THE FINGER PRINT SENSOR

The Mate 9 has a lighting fast fingerprint sensor, placed just below the rear camera.  After enrolled by a series of taps with the help of fingerprint sensor you can wake and unlock your phone in a fraction of second.  The finger print sensor also serves as a key for return to home, go back

THE AUDIO

The dual speakers are loud enough even below 60% on situates above the display and other at the bottom.

THE PLATFORM

Android OS. V7.0 (Nougat)

THE CAMERA

 20MP LIECA  camera is dual portioned as 12MP RGB sensor and 20MP monochrome sensor.  

The pictures are known to be decent , clear, crisp realistic pictures.

Video turns decent in day light but not in par with that in low light.

SPECS IN SHORT

DIMENSION 156.9 X 78.9 X 7.9 MM ; Weight 190 g ; SIM :NANO

IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 5.9inches ;Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels, Multitouch

PROCESSOR : Chipset: Hisilicon Kirin 960 chipset,CPU: Octa-core (4x2.4 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4x1.4x1.8 GHz Cortex-A53)GPU    Mali-G71 MP8

External:  micrsoSD up to 256 GB

Interna:64 GB, 4GB RAM

NETWORK  GSM/CDMA/HSPA/EVDO/LTE

BAMBOO SPARK, CONVERT YOUR WRITTEN WORDS AND DRAWING TO DIGITAL IMAGES

Its just a folio, a pen . You can scribe your notes or drawings on a paper and transfer it to text or digital graphics with the help of a smart phone.  That is Bamboo spark.

The Bamboo Spark is a smart folio with a smart ballpoint pen. It lets you write by hand saves your handwritten notes locally or within the cloud for editing, archiving and accessing anywhere.

When you finish a page of notes, press the button to save it safely and securely.  It is just a ink to text business.  

THE CONVENIENCE 

The Bamboo Spark can store up to 100 pages even if you are not connected to any other device. So forget worries about the loss of time and effort you spent so far. So next time when you connected the Bamboo Spark will get automatically synced to the device via Bluetooth and Wacom Inkspace App and once you connected to the internet to the Wacom cloud space.

A Wacom ID account opens up all the tools and features of your Bamboo Spark.  You can use it to access your notes on different devices and edit them even after they have been saved.

 

The option to edit can take your notes to limit less options of sharing with different users on different devices of different platforms. On OSs like iOS and Android.  You can also use the Wacom Inkspace web portal to access your notes within the cloud or share them in PDF and JPG formats with third party cloud services , programs and apps like Evernote and Dropbox

The notes you have taken on Bamboo Spark continue to live in Wacom cloud from where you can open , edit , save and present it at any time.

WILL

Universal Ink gives you the best digital writing experience and lets you easily share and exchange ink as simply as text.

THE DIFFERENCE 

Why Wacom making a pen system? Because the glass surface of a mobile or tab give adverse results while hand writing or drawing  while the paper gives best results.   This realization leads to the pen system that not only gives natural writing or drawing experience but also allows to convert to digital copy without using a scanner.

It works by detecting pens movements and sensitivity on the page, storing them in memory and transfer via Bluetooth to the Bamboo Spark App of your device.

What makes Bamboo Spark different from the competitors is ; you can use practically any A5 pad for your scribing . Even though the pad supplied along with the device is 30 sheets thick the 50 sheet thick pad also will work.  You do your work with the pen on the page hit the button and your image will be digitally saved. No need to say it can be used later.

THE COMMENT 

So far the users are more satisfied with iOS than Android in the case of  Bamboo Spark were in Android stronger strokes are required to reproduce better images in the digital version.  This deficiency can be overcome  by a suitable update .

The easiness to write or draw in any A5 papers, conversion, edit, reproduction etc make this device price worthy. 

The package 

 The device : Pen looks and weighs like a normal ball point pen. Also the folio is well designed structure looks like a hand pad.  

WRISTBANDS TO MONITOR YOUR HEALTH

If you are fitness conscious here are some best health and fitness wristbands to keep track of your daily activities.

Type of wristbands

Activity tracker (rest, moving or sleeping)

Pedometer or step counter calculates the steps taken and distance traveled

Calories burned, moving and resting time

Sleep monitor lets you see you sleep pattern at night

Set goals (sleep, steps, exercise, calories burned, distance traveled)

Some are  water proof or water resistant  so you can take this to swimming and shows time of the day

log and sends this wirelessly to an App (and/or) Internet portal so you can access your personal dashboard and track your activities either online or via an app

Some models logs heart rate and blood oxygen level.

Best Smart Activity Trackers and Health Monitors

Fitbit Charge HR

Its a heart rate monitor and activity tracker wristband . Rated as the  top model in wristband range from having scrolling OLED display. For the big screen lovers there is the Fitbit Surge and the new Fitbit Blaze, a performance wrist watch.

-PurePulse Heart Rate continuous monitor

-Track Exercise; record workouts and real time exercise stats and summaries

-All Day Activity Tracker: tracks workouts, steps, distance, calories burned, floor climbed and time

-Caller ID and watch with daily stats and time on OLED display

-Battery Life: over 5 days

-Monitor Sleep automatically and set a silent alarm

-Sync  automatically to smartphone and computer wirelessly

Available in different colours

Garmin Vivofit 2

The Garmin vivofit,  and the latest  vivofit 2 does not look very different. All the features are available from the original vivofit. The Garmin Vivofit sWireless Fitness Wrist Band and Activity Monitor is a stylist, lightweight, comfortable and waterproof (50m) health watchband with over 1 year battery life. There is a separate model that includes Heart Rate monitor.

Features

-Displays Time

-Steps taken, Distance travelled, Calories burned and Activity Tracker

-Goal countdown

-Inactivity alert (learn your activity level) with red bars appearing if you sit still for too long

-Monitors your sleep

-Syncs wirelessly via Bluetooth with Online dashboard or Garmin Connect Mobile app

-Water resistance up to 50 meters

-Battery life over 1 Year, replaceable CR1632 coin cells

Misfit Shine

This is wrist band with a typical watch profile . But instead of clock face you will get a shiny metal disc made of air craft grade aluminium with LED indicators arranged in circular fashion.

The Shine tracks your daily steps, calories used during sports such as swimming, cycling, running and football. Available in Black, Topaz, Champagne and Chrome.

Features

-Tells the time

-Calculate steps, distance travelled, calories burned and sleep monitor (light, deep)

-Activity tracker (cycling, swimming, soccer, tennis)

-Water resistant to 50 m

-Syncs via Bluetooth to Shine app (iOS and Android) where you can set goals, view stats, trends and insights

-Battery life 4 months (coin cell battery)

-Colours Available: Black, Champagne, Topaz, Chrome, Coral, Red, Storm

Jawbone

For those who love style here is a wristband , the Jawbone works together with the iOS and Android .  It will give information whether you have reached the goal , motivates to do better compares with performance of other users and track your history.

It also serve vigilant to your sleep and tell how deep was the sleep and duration. The wrist band can set to vibrate as wake up alarm.

Available in small, medium and large sizes with different shades.

Polar loop2

This wristband help you to track the daily activities using motion analysis technology.  You can set targets for yourself by choosing the different levels of activity from low to high intensities and work towards them.

Features

Tells the time

Steps counter, distance traveled, calories burned, monitor quality of sleep(restful, restless and percentage restful)

Inactivity alert with vibration to get up after 55 minutes of sitting and add active break to daily routines

Activity goals offers practical guides for reaching daily goals, break up activities into five intensity levels; resting, sitting, low, medium and high

Track calories burned based on personal data; weight, height, age, gender and intensity of physical activity

-Smart coaching offers activity guide to reach daily goals, activity benefit for feedback on daily, weekly and monthly activity, smart calories to show calories burned, training benefit for motivating feedback.

-Automatically tracks sleep time and quality and gain insight to sleeping patterns in Polar Flow web service and app

-Battery Life: up to 8 days

-Syncs to Polar Flow mobile app via Bluetooth (iOS and Android)

-Smart notifications for incoming calls, messages and calendar reminders

-Can be paired with heart rate monitor Polar H7: for energy pointer in smart coach for help to get into shape and current heart rate.

EVERYKEY TO SOLVE THE PASSWORD IMPASSE,

It’s an economical budget friendly device that encrypts your passwords and opens the logins automatically.  It makes impossible the identity thieves to steel your passwords.

Nobody can remember the dozens of passwords for the websites.  And it is not advisable to put the same password to all the login requirements especially in the current world where the hackers are more vigilant than the vigilance department. Imaging what happens when you realize that your e-mail, Facebook or even bank account login passwords had been stolen. Or what happens if you want to open a site very urgently and you forgot the password? To counter all those issues there is now a small blue tooth device the “Everykey”.Its a tiny device which will generate unbreakable passwords to your website accounts.

Actually what does “Everkey” do?

-         It automatically logs in or logs out when you are near and away respectively.

-         It automatically creates passwords that are impenetrable passwords for all password protected websites.

-         It uses military grade AES 128-bit encryption to protect those complex passwords, so that the thieves can’t enter.

So forget the passwords, forget the worries about hacking of your security pins or passwords. You don’t have to login and logout ever again.

-Everykey unlocks your phone, laptop, tablet, house door, car door, and other access-controlled devices when you are nearby, then locks them back down when you walk away.

-When you first login to a website, your Everykey remembers that login. The next time you visit that website, Everykey logs you in automatically.

If your Everykey is lost or stolen, you can freeze it through the Everykey App, or by calling the Everykey team. No one will be able to use your frozen Everykey, so you don't have to worry about unauthorized access of  your devices and accounts. You'll still be able to use your old keys and passwords until you find your Everykey and unfreeze it.

EVERY KEY APP

With the Everykey App, you can pair your Everykey to your devices, manage Everykey settings such as the range, and freeze your Everykey if it is lost or stolen. The Everykey App also pushes the latest over-the-air software updates to your Everykey so you can stay up to date on features and security standards. 

KEYBOARD REVOLUTION STARTS WITH OLED STRIP + BEST ANDROID APPS.

MacBook Pro OLED STRIP

With this innovative keyboard the MacBook will be thinner by 40%. 

The new key-board will function with Butterfly mechanism in lieu Scissor mechanism.

Now the MacBook Pro coming out with a OLED strip that have replaced the traditional function keys at the top.

Apple made an intelligent move in restructuring the traditional keyboard by initially restructuring the function keys only as the normal users never bothered about the function keys.

Its just a start. A beginning to the restructuring of the concept of keyboards. The MacBook users will be get trained to the said forthcoming changes being brought to the keyboards.

The news has been circulated that Apple’s buying of a start up company doing interesting experiments on keyboards . So there will be more flexibility and creativity on keyboards including switching between QWERTY and AZWERTY mode.

As Apple products are close combination of  hardware and software this new experiments are best suited to Apple products than others.  

Apple’s work on internal components have not been announced loudly as now.  But they are great in bringing exciting functionalities to the old features. Lets wait and see.

GOOGLE DRIVE.

The extensive popularity of social medias along with more application of graphics prompts the need of more storage space. This has resulted in the creation of virtual storage largely known as cloud storage. Google Drive comes as the best among them.  In GD all new users get 15GB free space by signing up.  The users can buy more if required. The array of Apps coming along with makes the Google Drive more outstanding ie. Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Photos, and Google Keep.  You have every thing for creative accomplishment Also compatibility with Microsoft Office.

POCKET

Pocket allow you to return to a web page after you have done with other applications of your system. This having great use now a days as we used to visit number of sites along with face book or gmail and to go back to the page we earlier visited. What makes POCKET special is its ease in usage. The flexibility of Pocket is so marvelous in sharing the pages with various applications like Face Book and Flipboard and lot more. Having Desktop versions Pocket works with computers also.

POCKET CASTS

This app will allow you to download and make use of numerous Podcasts . It features audio only and video so that you can be avail of any information. Comes in both very attractive light and dark theme you can sync the Prodcasts across your devices.  POCKET CASTS can be considered as one of the best  Android App of the time.

SWIFTKEY KEYBOARD

SWIFTKEY Keyboard is one of the best virtual contemporary keybords in the market. It had  undergone several transformation since its launch years back.  Can be downloaded free.  The special features include a dedicated number row,  For gesture typing there is a SwiftKey Flow, cross-device syncing options etc. Now SwiftKey is a part of Microsoft and still going well. 

PIXEL :- MOBILE PHONE FROM GOOGLE WITH SURPRISING FEATURES

Google launches the phone that you have been expecting  since long time. Does  PIXEL fulfill the expectations of that long waiting?  Let the people decide.  But undoubtedly 

There is lot of potential embedded in this handset.

This phone aimed at depicting best of Android and Google as it is a hardware from Google.

Most attractive of the features that made me curious are :-

                                                              2,770 mAh battery

Standby time (LTE): up to 19 days

Talk time (3g/WCDMA): up to 26 hours

Internet use time (Wi-Fi): up to 13 hours

Internet use time (LTE): up to 13 hours

Video playback: up to 13 hours

Audio playback (via headset): up to 110 hours

Fast charging: up to 7 hours of use from only 15 minutes of charging


Also features

Processor

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 821 (MSM8996 pro)

Quad Core 2x 2.15GHz / 2x 1.6GHz

OS

Android 7.1 Nougat

Two years of OS upgrade from launch

Three years of security updates from launch

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4GB RAM

32 or 128GB storage

Android 7.1

Google Assistant

Pixel Launcher

12MP and 8MP cameras w/ OIS

USB-C and fast charging

2,770 mAh

Daydream VR ready

Manufacturer: Google

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DISPLAY

5.0 inches 1080p display 

FHD AMOLED at 441ppi

2.5D Corning® Gorilla® Glass 4

Size

5.6 x 2.7 x 0.2 ~ 0.3 inches

143.8 x 69.5 x 7.3 ~ 8.5 mm

CAMERA

Rear

12.3MP , Large 1.55μm pixels

Phase detection autofocus + laser detection autofocus

Front

8MP   1.4μm pixels

f/2.4 Aperture

Fixed focus

Video

1080p @ 30fps, 60fps, 120fps

720p @ 30fps, 60fps, 240fps

4K @ 30fps

Design

Aerospace-grade aluminum unibody

Glass shade with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 4

4GB LPDDR4 RAM

Proximity / ALS

Accelerometer / Gyrometer

Magnetometer

Pixel Imprint – Back-mounted fingerprint sensor for fast unlocking

Barometer

Hall effect sensor

Android Sensor Hub

Advanced x-axis haptics for sharper / defined response

Display Characteristics

100% NTSC

100000:1, super contrast ratio

True black level

Full 24-bits depth or 16.77 million colors

Less than 40% brightness decrease at 30 degree viewing angle

Storage

32 or 128GB

Charging

USB Type-C™ 18W adaptor with USB-PD

18W charging

Ports and Slots

USB Type-C™

USB 3.0

3.5mm headset jack

Single Nano SIM

Media

Single bottom-firing speaker

3 Mics

Noise Suppression

Connectivity

Supports up to CAT 12 (600Mbps DL / 75Mbps UL) depending on carrier support

GPS

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2x2 MIMO

Bluetooth 4.2

NFC

OS

Android 7.1 Nougat

Two years of OS upgrade from launch

Three years of security updates from launch

Device Variants (SKUs)

Quite Black, Very Silver, Really Blue

Hearing Aid Compatibility

M4/T4 HAC rating

In box

USB Type-C™ 18W adaptor with USB-PD

A-C cable (USB 3.0)

C-C cable (USB 2.0)

SIM tool

Quick switch adapter