Thursday, June 13, 2013

Nokia Lumia 900 User Manual Guide

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Nokia Lumia 900 User Manual Guide
Nokia Lumia 900 User Manual Guide
Design :
Though something brand-new product, in terms of design nokia 900 is not too new, the design can be referred to take the series in the first nokia nokia n9 and lumia 800, which distinguishes just size alone. dimensions of this smartphone 127, 8 times 68, 5 times 11, 5mm weighing 160 grams. nokia lumia 900 has AMOLED capacitive touch screen measuring 4. 3 inches with a resolution of 480x800 pixels protective coated corning gorilla glass and Nokia ClearBlack technology to screen colors look clear and sharp.
Body of material on the nokia lumia 900 luxury impressed, and contrived form made from Polycarbonate unibody. then, once comfortable grip without so slippery in the hand.
Every corner on this smartphone looks stiff but elegant. from the front, this smartphone does not provide any physical buttons. icon home, back, and search took a touch screen. after that in terms of the physical side there are buttons for volume, screen lock key, and camera. nokia lumia 900 already exist in Indonesia in the colors white, black, and cyan. added recently on the issue of the offer is also in the dark night rises.
Note :
For everyday use, plus take care of the body with a good case has silicone material. there is no external memory slot. This smartphone uses a micro sim card.

Features :
Nokia lumia 900 camera carries the Carl Zeiss lens. rear camera 8 megapixel camera with the power of video recording hd 720p, and a front camera (secondary). 3 megapixel camera for video calling. the camera features we could get a wide choice of settings like flash, autofocus, dual-LED flash, situation mode, shooting mode, white balance, and geo tagging. Unfortunately, there is no night mode, to support the benefits of entertainment, there must lumia 900 nokia music features with formatting options aac, mp3, wma, m4a. on the lumia series, nokia already buried feature noise reduction up tone from the outside no longer disturb the comfort of listening to audio. to be able to read the video player mp4 and wmv format. moreover, lumia 900 also provide internet radio as well as FM radio.

This smartphone comes with people hub applications, nokia maps, bing maps, nokia drive, xbox live, nokia transport and other popular applications like facebook, twitter and whatsapp.

The smartphone also provide internal memory 16gb, wifi 802. 11 b / g / n, HSDPA network support, HSUPA, LTE, Bluetooth, NFC, DLNA, and GPS.
Note :
Download map with wireless may require large data transfers. Your service provider may charge a fee for data transmission. availability of product, service, and features may differ by location. disadvantages of nokia 900 is quite troublesome to pc sync, install zune needed first.
Performance :
Nokia lumia 900 is windows phone 7 smartphone. 5 mango which can run on 4g lte network. nokia lumia 900 processor powered by a scorpion. 4ghz, Adreno 205, and 512mb of ram. lumia 900 can be used to navigate quickly and reliably with processors that give internet explorer 9 html5 support.
Made of lithium ion batteries with a capacity made. 830 mah. This battery is claimed to be able to survive in the increasingly long standby 400 hours, talk time of 8 hours, as well as to increasingly play a song over 60 hours. advantages of single-core processor is a longer battery life than the quad-core. then the more cores, the more the energy is drained.

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Monday, June 3, 2013

April 2013 Entry Level Smartphone Buyers Guide

I start of every month, with a suggestion of the best phones available in the Philippine market, breaking them into different price clusters. Under entry level smartphones, are those priced at below Php10,000. These entry level phones have gotten to the point where, for many consumers, they really need nothing more.

The prices posted are those covered by an official manufacturers warranty.


1. Huawei Ascend Y300 (Php5,490) - Bringing premium features to the entry level



At first glance, the Huawei Ascend Y300 is nothing spectacular. A 4-inch, dual core Android phone for Php5,490 is a dime a dozen these days. There are some very competent phones at cheaper prices. You can find the Cherry Mobile Flare, Burst and Thunder, priced from Php3,999 to Php4,999. You will also find similar phones in the 5K-6K ranger priced offerings from Cloudfone, MyPhone and Starmobile.

Quick specifications:
  • Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
  • 4-inch WVGA (480 x 800) display
  • 4 GB internal storage expandable via a MicroSD card slot
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 1 GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
  • 5 MP autofocus primary camera with LED Flash
  • 0.3 MP front camera
  • HSPA
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • A-GPS
  • 1730 mAh battery
Despite the higher price tag, I recommend that you make the Huawei Ascend Y300 your point of entry into the smartphone world. It offers several advantages over it lower cost and similarly priced rivals.

The Huawei Ascend Y300 runs Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), while its competition still runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Given that low cost phones rarely, if ever, receive a software upgrade it makes sense to select one with a later version out of the box. Running a newer version of Android is worth a premium of a few hundred pesos in my opinion.

The Huawei Ascend Y300 comes equipped with Gorilla Glass. This, though scratch and shatter resistance glass, is what you find protecting higher end and mid-level handsets. Equipping the Huawei Ascend Y300 with Gorilla Glass now means that lower priced does not have to equate to lower quality materials.

The trend these days is to equip smartphones with larger batteries. The bigger the display, the heavier the power consumption, and hence the need for a larger battery. The "standard" has been to equip lower priced 4-inch phones with a 1500 mAh battery, and larger 4.5-inch phones with a 1700 to 1800 mAh battery. The Huawei Ascend Y300 comes with a 1730 mAh battery. Mated to a 4-inch diaplay, this will give you 15-20% longer battery life than cheaper or similarly price phones.

Basically, while many of the local smartphone brands offer nice low cost phones, the Huawei Ascend Y300 sends the message: It is time to level up.

You can read more about the Huawei Ascend Y300 at this link.


2. Cherry Mobile Flame 2.0 (Php6,999) - Bringing quad-core power into the entry level.

The Cherry Mobile Flame 2.0 should be available in retail shelves in the next two weeks or so. It is a more powerful device than the Huawei Ascend Y300.  But it also takes a few steps back. Compared to the Huawei Ascend Y300, you get a larger 4.5-inch display, a more powerful quad core processor and double the RAM. However, the Cherry Mobile Flame 2.0 does not come with Gorilla or Dragontail Glass to protect the display, and the 1600 mAh battery is small for the phones screen size.

Quick specifications:
  • Android 4.1
  • 4.5-inch qHD (540 x 960) display
  • Dual sim support
  • 4 GB internal storage expandable via a MicroSD card slot
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 1.2 GHz quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor
  • 5 MP autofocus primary camera with LED Flash
  • 0.3 MP front camera
  • HSPA
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • A-GPS
  • 1600 mAh battery
For most users, the 4.5-inch display is probably the main draw. With smartphones now having gone beyond communication, being a hand held web browser, photo and document editor, eBook Reader and gaming device, the larger display is a much more comfortable to interact with. For gamers in particular the quad core processor will be a must have.  The main spoiler is the smaller 1600 mAh battery, but that can be worked around with a spare battery or portable power bank.

Overall, the Huawei Ascend Y300 provides a more balanced device for those whose primary need is a device that can do typical smartphone chores. It is a polished version of last years low cost smartphone. The Cherry Mobile Flame 2.0, on the other hand, is the first of the next generation entry level smartphones.

You can read more about the Cherry Mobile Flame 2.0 at this link.


3. Cloudfone Thrill 430x (Php7,777) - Endurance king

One way to stay on this list long time, is to offer something unique. The Cloudfone Thrill 430x  does so via a 4160 mAh battery. The large battery gives the Cloudfone Thrill 430x two to three times the battery life of other smartphones in this list. It does run on the older version of Android 4.0 out of the box, but if you are after smartphone marathon grade battery life on a budget, this is the one for you. Nothing else matters. Overall, the specifications are better than the Huawei Ascend Y300 too.


Quick specifications:
  • Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
  • 4.3-inch qHD (540 x 960) display
  • Dual sim support
  • 4 GB internal storage expandable via a MicroSD card slot
  • 768 MB RAM
  • 1.2 GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor
  • 8 MP autofocus primary camera with LED Flash
  • 0.3 MP front camera
  • HSPA
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • A-GPS
  • 4160 mAh battery
You can read more about the Cloudfone Thrill 430x at this link.


4. Cherry Mobile Omega HD (Php7,999) - Bringing 720p to the budget level


If you are like the latest generation of Android handset with large screens and high resolutions, but just dont think they are worth shelling out 30K for, you may want to take a look at the Cherry Mobile Omega HD. 

Quick specs:
  • Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
  • 5-inch IPS HD display (720 x 1280) protected by Dragontail Glass
  • 4 GB internal storage, expandable via a microSD card slot
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 1 GHz dual core Mediatek processor 
  • 12 MP primary camera (BSI sensor), autofocus with flash
  • 2 MP (BSI) front camera
  • HSPA
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • A-GPS
  • 2100 mAh battery
This phone offers a lot of interesting technology at a low price. The crowning glory of this phone is that it brings a large and sharp 5-inch HD display to the budget level. It has scratch resistant glass using Dragontail Glass, a technology I am not familiar with. Both the front and rear camera use Backside Illumination Sensors, which should make for better low light performance.

One area of concern would be 3D graphics performance. Mating the 1GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6577 processor with its PowerVR SGX531 graphics processing unit with a 720p display is really pushing the graphics ability of this chipset to the limit. It might not be the best choice for the hardcore gamer.

Four nice choices. So there you have it, at 8K or less, you can have a quad core processor, an HD display or a large battery, and even a nice offering from the world third largest smartphone manufacturer. Not all in one package, but given the asking price, a few compromises are in order.
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Saturday, June 1, 2013

HP DM1 4209AU E 1200


The HP Pavillion DM1-4209AU, the successor to the HP Pavillion DM1-4000AU, is now available in the Philippines. The HP DM1 is a small light 11.6-inch laptop which was launched last year with AMD Fusion APUs or Intel Core i3 processors.

The latest version sports a AMD’s newest Fusion APU, this one coming with a lower end dual-core CPU E-1200. This has a 1.4GHz dual core processor and Radeon HD 7310 graphics processing unit. At the outset the choice of the lower end chipset is disappointing. The AMD E-1200 will not perform better that last year AMD E-450 powered HP Pavillion DM1-4000AU. Also missing from HP DM1-4209AU is a USB 3.0 port.  

Notably, the HP DM1-4209AU competitor is  the new 11.6-inch Sony Vaio E with a faster AMD E2-1800 APU which has a dual core 1.7 GHz processor, more powerful AMD Radeon 7340 graphics and has a USB 3.0 port.

The HP DM1-4209AU at Php20,950 is cheaper than  the 11.6-inch Sony Vaio E which costs Php23,990. The HP DM1-4209AU also comes with a larger 500 GB hard drive, as compared to the 320 GB unit found in the 11.6-inch Sony Vaio E. On the other hand the 11.6-inch Sony Vaio E comes with Windows 7 Home Premium, while the  HP DM1-4209AU comes with Windows 7 Starter.

The new HP DM1-4209AU is not a bad deal for its asking price. But for a little more money, 11.6-inch Sony Vaio E is the more capable device. The HP DM1-4209AU is also not better than last years HP DM1-4000AU.

All in all, I am a bit disappointed about this release.

Quick Specs:

  • Windows 7 Starter
  • 11.6-inch (1366 x 768 display)
  • 2GB of RAM
  • 500GB hard drive
  • 802.11b/g/n wireless
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • USB 2.0
  • HDMI out
  • 3.5 pounds
  • 5 hours battery

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