Saturday, 31 May 2014

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Motorola Moto E Vs Micromax Unite 2

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Motorola Moto E or Micromax Unite 2

( War For The Budget Android Solution)


Can Micromax Unite 2 beat Motorola Moto E in overall terms?

Hi I am Sourav Patra welcoming you to the mobile war of two companies one is The Google Company-Motorola with their budget android solution to the world "Moto E" and on the other side of the ring The Indian Brand Micromax with their strong reply "Micromax Unite 2".



In this review comparison between the two smartphones are based on the 3 factors
  • Box Contents
  • Hardware Specification
  • Benchmark Results


Box Contents:

Motorola Moto E: Travel charger, Standard headphones.

Micromax Unite 2: Travel charger, micro USB 2.0 cable for data sync. & charging, Standard headphones


Hardware Specification:

Motorola Moto E:
  1. Network: 2G, 3G (micro sim)
  2. Display: 4.3 inch TFT LCD, 540 x 960 pixels, 256 ppi, Gorilla Glass 3, 5 Point touch
  3. Memory: 1GB RAM, 4GB Internal (2.12 GB user accessible), up to 32GB via microSD
  4. Camera: 5MP rear Fixed Focus, recording at480p, No Flash, No Secondary camera
  5. Data connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA, WLAN, Bluetooth-4.0
  6. OS: Android 4.4.2, Upgrade to latest android os
  7. CPU: 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 Duel core
  8. GPU: Adreno 302
  9. Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity, Light Sensor
  10. GPS: A-GPS, GLONASS
  11. Battery: Non-removable 1980 mAh Li-ion
Micromax Unite 2:
  1. Network: 1st sim(Normal Sim, 2G, 3G), 2nd sim (Micro Sim, 2G)
  2. Display: 4.7 inch IPS LCD, 480 x 800 pixels, 199 ppi, 2 Point touch
  3. Memory: 1GB RAM, 4GB Internal, up to 32GB via microSD
  4. Camera: 5MP rear Auto Focus, recording at720p, Flash, 2MP Secondary camera
  5. Data connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA, WLAN, Bluetooth-4.0
  6. OS: Android 4.4.2, Upgrade to latest android os
  7. CPU: 1.3GHz Mediatek MT6582 Quad core
  8. GPU: Mali-400MP2
  9. Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity, Light Sensor
  10. GPS: A-GPS,
  11. Battery:  2000 mAh Li-ion

Benchmark Result:

  • Quadrant Benchmark: Motorola Moto E- 5314, Micromax Unite 2- 8794
  • Antutu Benchmark: Motorola Moto E- 12467, Micromax Unite 2- 17448
  • Nenamark 2: Motorola Moto E- 48.7, Micromax Unite 2- 63.4

So we have some good things and some bad things for both the mobiles, so now start the war

1. On the basis of box contents Micromax Unite 2 is the winner with a USB 2.0 data sync. and charging cable inside it which Moto E lacks and all other the same.

2. Now coming to the 2nd point Moto E available in 2 colors Black & White and with 9 different color back panels, and Micromax Unite 2 available in only Black color and with 4 different color back panels.

3. Now on the basis of Hardware specification we saw that both are 3G devices with duel sim support, same number of sensors,A-GPS support, 4GB internal memory, 1GB ram, 32GB MicroSD card supported

now coming on what is different on each of them
  • Moto E features a 4.3 inch TFT screen with 256ppi and Gorilla Glass on it where Unite 2 has a 4.7 inch IPS panel with 199ppi
We have seen that the Moto E have a crisp display where Unite 2 have a brighter bigger IPS display but one thing i have to tell you that you will not notice any pixel drop in Unite 2 unless you see the display of both mobiles side by side and Moto E has Gorilla Glass protection on it so their is no need to worry about scratches and also equiped with anti smudge coating but who want to go for a bigger display they can go with Unite 2, another difference is in the build quality Moto E has a better build quality but I an not discouraging Unite 2 it also has a good build quality.
  • On the CPU and GPU performance, Moto E has a entry level processor on it but Unite 2 has a medium level processor, but both the phones work fluid when day to day usage is concerned you will not notice any lag in both of the mobiles
  • Now coming to the camera part I have noticed that the 5MP auto focus camera in Unite 2 beats the 5MP camera of Moto E. The pictures captured in Unite 2 is slightely better than Moto E. Not only that Unite 2 has a Front facing 2MP FF camera for video calling and chat or for self pic which Moto E lacks.
  • On the Battery part I personally don't prefer the Non-removable battery. If your battery runs out then if its user replaceable you can replace it easily but for Moto E you have to go to the Service center to get it replaced.
  • One of the added advantage of Unite 2 is that apps can be directly installed in the MicroSd card but a Move option is available for Moto E but you can't install very large games on Moto E if its size exceeds the internal memory
Now coming on the benchmark scores you have seen the chart and its telling that Unite 2 beats the Moto E in benchmark scores. One of the biggest problem of Moto E is only one re-seller is selling the handset in India and most of the time it gets out of stoke but many re-sellers are selling Unite 2 so its not a problem for this mobile. So its upon you decide it whether you want a solid build quality device with pure android experience or you want a device with big brighter screen, good camera and slightly higher processor.


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Thursday, 29 May 2014

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GORILLA® GLASS TECHONOLOGY

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GORILLA® GLASS – A marketing strategy or Reality?


At present most of the premium & high end devices comes with the Gorilla Glass protection for example the Lumia devices, Motorola devices, Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy S5, I-Phone devices, not only that mobile manufacturers try putting the Gorilla Glass protection on the low end & budget devices also. So question comes, is this deserves what you are paying or just a marketing strategy to grab attention of the consumers.

                                 I am Sourav Patra putting light on today’s discussion about the Gorilla Glass – a strategy or fact!



                                 Starting our discussion from a simple story when we enters into a mobile shop and the sales-person talking about the features of a mobile showing the mobile in his hand and at some point he tells that the device comes with Gorilla Glass protection that is it is scratch resistant and damage resistant if it drops from your hand or from a table.



So all we know from that sales-person that this particular Gorilla Glass is more damage resistant than an ordinary glass then the question comes,
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  1.       What is actually a Gorilla Glass?
  2.       Is it really true that it can hold more damages than a normal glass?
  3.       What are this Gorilla Glass 1, 2, 3 means and which should I choose?


Now coming to the 1st question
        

         1. What is Gorilla Glass?


         It is an alkali-aluminosilicate sheet toughened glass. It is manufactured by              Corning Inc. under the registered trademark name “Gorilla Glass”.



Now we know that what is Gorilla Glass now entering into the 2nd question

          2.  Is it really true that it can hold more damages than a normal glass?


         Yes it do, Corning claims that it is highly scratch resistant due to a protective           layer on it and have high hardness to withstand damages than an ordinary             glass.



          3.   What are this Gorilla Glass 1, 2, 3 means and which should I choose?


         Gorilla Glass 1: Don’t know the exact date of introduction of it into the mobile          market it is somehow around 2010. At that time approximately 20 percent of            the total devices have Gorilla Glass protection on it. Lumia 900, or I-Phone            have this Gorilla Glass I on it.

         Gorilla Glass 2: The 2nd generation of Gorilla Glass was introduced in the              4th quarter of the year 2012.Corning claims that it is 20% thinner than the              1st generation of Gorilla Glass.

          But I have heard people complaining that 2nd generation has been a                       downgrade in quality, there are scratches on the screen. Certainly it is not             actually it has an oleophobic coating on it (not in 1st generation) so                         scratches are on the coating not in the glass.

                             



         Gorilla Glass 3: The 3rd generation was introduced in 2013. Corning claims            that it to be three times more damage resistant, 40% more scratch resistant            and more flexible than the 2nd generation of Gorilla Glass.


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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

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Mobile Display Technologies

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Now a days mobile display technology is rapidly changing users want their mobile screen to be more sharp, more vivid more accurate in colours to increase their viewing experience. Companies are spending lots of money to the R&D of mobile display technology to give their users a next level of viewing experience on their mobile screens.

                        I am Sourav Patra introducing you to the amazing development of the mobile display technology featuring a wide discussion over the performance and visual experience of the mobile display technologies.


STN(Super-Twisted Nematic) LCD

I am sure that 90% of the people didn’t heard about this mobile display technology before, remember your 1st phone, people used to call them black and white display mobile phones. Yes some of them have a black and white display but most of them are not that is some of them they have a yellow-black display.

Different STN LCD Displays
                       A super-twisted nematic display (STN) is a type of monochrome passive-matrix liquid crystal display (LCD). This technology was invented at the Brown Boveri Research Center, Baden, Switzerland, in 1983.
                       
                           Now the question comes how this display works, let me explain it to you most of you aware of the pixels, this display technology also have pixels which emits only one light so doing a combination that certain amount of pixels light up and the rest is off a picture can be created in the display.

                       Now come to the performance and visual experience part STN LCDs are less costly and more power efficient than TFT LCDs. STN displays have a lower image quality and slower response time than TFT displays. However, STN LCDs can be made purely reflective for viewing under direct sunlight.

CSTN ( Colour super-twisted nematic)LCD

It’s a colour form of passive-matrix liquid crystal display developed by Sharp Electronics. It uses Red, Green & Blue filters to display colours.
                      
On Left STN&on Right CSTN
                       Now coming to the performance and visual experience parameters those are same as that of the STN LCDs but newer CSTN LCDs offer better response time of 100ms (TFT LCD displays gave 8ms or less)





TFT(Thin Film Transistor) LCD

It is one of the best display technologies giving good colour reproduction and quick response time. It is an active-matrix technology giving a transistor located next to each pixel, allowing the pixel to switch on or off individually. For example Samsung Galaxy Star Pro, HTC Desire 310 uses TFT LCD screens.
                       
                       Talking about the performance and visual experience it has a faster response time and great colour contrast but it also consumes more power than the other display technologies. It is costly too.


IPS (In-plane switching) LCD

                       
This is a quite new technology used in mobile devices. IPS LCDs are a little bit different from the TFT LCDs. In an IPS LCD there are two transistors located next to each pixel while in TFT there is only 1 transistor for each pixel and IPS displays requires a bit powerful backlight which gives the advantage of more accurate colour and wide viewing angel. For example Nokia Lumia devices use this display.
                      
                      In the performance and visual section an IPS display delivers more accurate colour with wide viewing angle. But it has a downside also it consumes more power than a similar size of TFT display.

Retina Display

It is nothing but an IPS LCD display with higher resolution. It is a brand name or marketing technique by Apple that retina displays are those displays with higher pixel density that human eyes can’t identify each pixels from a standard viewing distance. For a mobile device Apple has decided that 326ppi (Pixels Per Inch) will do the work that human eyes can’t identify individual pixel.


                         Coming to the performance and visual experience as the pixel density is high so the texts, images looks sharper delivering a greater viewing experience.


AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode)

High End mobile devices like Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy S5 uses this technology. This Display technology is developed by Samsung. Actually the parent technology is OLED, it has two subparts one is Passive-Matrix OLED another is AMOLED.


                         
                        AMOLED has added advantages over its counterpart PMOLED in higher refresh rates and less power consumption. Samsung develops this technology for the mobile devices where power consumption is a critical factor to the battery life.


                        People may heard of Super AMOLED, Super AMOLED Advance, Super AMOLED PLUS etc. these are some of the marketing terms used by the mobile device manufacturers. Super AMOLED is a display with integrated digitizer and Samsung says that Super AMOLED reflects one-fifth as much sunlight compared to the first generation AMOLED.
                        
                        
                       Major advantage of OLED displays over the LCDs are they produce their own light where LCDs require a bright backlight.


Now entering into the conclusion section

Does the AMOLED performs as said or not?


Yes, it do it got a great colour reproduction with good colour saturation, wide viewing angels, better direct sunlight readability and consumes less amount of power than the other display technologies. The downside is its costly too that’s why only premium devices or high end devices comes with this display.

P-OLED (Plastic OLED)


 As of now only one mobile device have the technology inside it that is LG G-Flex. This technology is putting an OLED screen on a very thin flexible plastic sheet. Lightweight and flexible are the key features of this display technology.

LG G-FLEX
                             Samsung is also developing this technology under the brand name of YOUM Flexible calling it Flexible OLED. 

Flexible OLED by Samsung

                             It has all the advantages that a OLED display have that is great viewing angels, power efficient, sunlight readability, good colour saturation. In addition this is lightweight and bendable.




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Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Free Domain Names | How To Get a Free Domain

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What is Free Domains

         A domain name is an identification that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control on the Internet.Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name.
        Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. In general, a domain name represents an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, a server computer hosting a web site, or the web site itself or any other service communicated via the Internet.
        A free domain works similarly as Paid domain name but it has several disadvantage as well as advantages.Main advantages is you Do not have to pay for it. Its completely Free.Now i will tell you the Sites which will give you Free Domains names.

        Cu.ma is a free domain name registration service. This company offers 20 free domain names for a customer with DNS support. Their features are given below:
  1. You can register up to 20 domains for free.
  2. You will get a great Domain Panel to manage your domain names in few clicks.
  3. All your DNS changes are instant. No more 24 hours waiting.
  4. NO ADS and we are not going to add them in future. 
  5. Manage your nameservers and point them to your web hosting account!
  6. It's also known as free URL forwarding or domain forwarding service to redirect your free domain name to your real website address.
  7. You can start your own custom domain name based website. eg. mycompany.cu.ma
  8. You can publish contents in it. - you can use use for your own website (whether it's Personal, Social Networking, Business, e-commerce, and everything).
  9. When you register a free domain it will expire in 1 year from the date you register. You can renew the domain for free.



         Dot TK is a FREE domain registry for all websites on the Internet. It has exactly the same power as other domain extensions, but it's free! Because it's free, millions of others have been using .TK domains since 2001 - which makes .TK powerful and very recognizable.

        Dot TK  provides .tk websites with the option to join a network called TiKinet, a close-knit network that links sites to each other based on key words called TiKilinks. The network is expected to increase traffic to the websites, many of which are personal sites and blogs operated by individuals who otherwise would have no way to advertise their sites.
You have to give 30 hits in 90 Days to get active in their service.


        MM.AM is a free domain name registration service. You can register up to 5 domain names for free. Use the search box in their sites to find a subdomain name is available at our free domain name registration. Now you can also register a internationalized subdomain (IDN).
        You can register all available domain names instantly. MM.AM offers the best free domain registration with dynamic dns service. they provide in addition to our domain names a free DNS service with full MX, CNAME, A, SOA, TXT and AAAA records. Now also prosible to use subdomains with Google Apps or Microsoft Live.

        The Point ML Registry acknowledges that .ML domains can have an important social impact on the lives of the people in Mali and abroad. The mission of both AGETIC and the Point ML Registry is to increase the use of internet in Mali and the awareness of Mali in the world. Point ML directly funds AGETIC's efforts to improve the population's access to internet.
        .ML Stable and Secure.


      .cf is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Central African Republic. It is administered by the Central African Society of Telecommunications. Dot CF is an initiative of the Societe Centrafricaine de Telecommunications (SOCATEL) in Bangui, Central African Republic in partnership with Freenom (Previously known as Freedom Registry). The domain has been made available for free at the Freenom site.

      .ga is the country code top-level domain for Gabon. It is administered by Gabon Telecom. Gabon Telecom in 2013 made a partnership with international domain registrar Freenom to offer registrations of this domain for free.


      CO.NR Free Domain Name project was developed to provide free domain names or free subdomains with .CO.NR domain extension to those who wish to get a cool and totally free website address, i.e. a free short URL that looks exactly like a real paid domain name.

From this site you will get the following Domain names for free

  1. Usa.cc
  2. flu.cc
  3. nut.cc
  4. ibiz.cc
  5. igg.biz
  6. tld.cc

        .free (dotFree) is a proposed new top-level domain (TLD). It is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be a free top level domain. According to the dotFree Group s.r.o. organization .free will allow every individual to register free domain names under .free [1] Along with TLDs such as .travel, .asia and .eu, .free and other proposed TLDs fall into the new category of GeoTLDs.

From this site you will get the following Domain names for free

  1. uni.me
  2. cz.cc
  3. mac2.org
  4. oapg.org
  5. 11r.biz
  6. 11r.us
  7. 3vt.info
  8. wsse.us
  9. co7.us
  10. b3g.biz
  11. avli.biz
  12. iilz.biz
  13. vqtel.net
  14. hyd.me
  15. leue.biz
  16. tidl.net
  17. letup.org
  18. smoz.us
  19. cns-cs.com
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