Smartphones With the Best and Worst Aspect Ratio

Bezel, the word you most love to hate. Usually the large screen smartphones to mean that the device itself will be quite large. But this changed recently, as manufacturers have succeeded in reducing the bezel and several other tricks, give very good screen-device ratio.

However, not all the manufacturers are doing equally well with the screen to body ratio. The Mobilsiden created an infographic with smartphones which have managed to understand the big screen of the device

The primacy has the Sharp AQUOS Crystal announced that last year in August, while the display occupies 78.5% of the front while the recently heralded Oppo R7 Plus is doing badly in third place with a share of 76.6%. The quintet complement the LG G2 and LG G3 with 76.1% and 75.3% respectively. Instead the newest LG G4 is in 12th place with the device aspect ratio to 72.5%.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is 14th on the screen to occupy 71.7%, and the regular Galaxy S6 drops to 70.6% (22nd place).

Interest are the last places where the featured Apple. The iPhone 5s is last with screen to body ratio 60.9%, second last is the iPhone 6 (65.3%) while two more positions next is the iPhone 6 Plus screen which occupies 67.9%.

Sony Xperia Z3 +: Available for Orders in England

The Sony Xperia Z3 + officially announced only yesterday and is the global edition of the Sony Xperia Z4 which launched in China market. The Xperia Z3 + is a slightly improved version of the Sony Xperia Z3 and started to be available for pre-orders in the UK through the Clove store priced at $ 845.

Shipments will start at the end of next month and the store accepts pre-orders for the Sony Xperia Z3 + in Black, Copper and White. H same as Sony did not define value in the official announcement, and the $ 845 asking the Clove is for the SIM-free and unlocked version and taxes included.

The Sony Xperia Z3 + will have a 5.2-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, oktapyrino Snapdragon 810 2GHz processor and Adreno 430 GPU, RAM 3GB memory and built-in memory 32GB. The camera is the 20.7 Megapixel, the second camera 5 Megapixe, a battery 2930 mAh, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and comes with Android 5.0.

The Sony Xperia Z3 + has IP65 / 68 certified, which means it is resistant to dust and water.

Sony Xperia Z: Started to Upgrade to Android Lollipop

 The Sony promised upgrade to Android Lollipop whole series Xperia Z and he did, now began to come in and update on Sony Xperia Z and Xperia ZR, currently only over the air.
Specifically, the Sony Xperia Z and Sony Xperia ZR upgraded to Android 5.0.2 Lollipop, which has size 700MB. Among others brings new Material design of Google and compatible apps, smart lock screen notifications and settings, support for multi-user profiles and guest mode, the moving apps to SD card option.
To install the update requires at least 1.2GB of free space and the first reports say that it's available in Bolivia, Bangladesh, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Apple Watch: Fall in Half the Estimated Sales

Can the market smartwtches to gain momentum have other gadgets and wearables become the new trend; Many users keep their doubts, saying that there is no utility in such a product, which can be seen in the low sales of those smartwatches were marketed.

Nevertheless, Apple made the step with Apple Watch and was seen by analysts that will make possible sales and give the impetus the market needs, benefiting so other manufacturers.

The KGI Securities said in predicting that Apple would sell 20-30000000 watches, but he sees that the demand for Apple Watch is lower than expected. So it throws its forecast in half, speaking of 15 million shipments and down.

Also KGI its analysis indicates that 80% of orders are Apple Watch for model 42mm. However, we should expect the same to Apple official sales numbers.

Would you buy the Apple Watch or another smartwatch;

Galaxy S6 Edge S6 Flat green and blue

Marked the launch of two special colors, green (Emerald Green) for Galaxy S6 Edge and blue (Blue Topaz) for the Galaxy S5 Flat. These two unique colors, especially prasimo S6 Edge we have seen up close, just the breaks!
The availability of two colors started in some countries and with respect to Greece we have not yet learned exactly when it will be released. When we ask for these period made debut the other colors of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, from Samsung Electronics Hellas had told us that they will come and they sometime.
This moment came the first countries remains to be seen when will release in ours. Which one do you like best?

Sony: Sends calls for press event 26 Μay

 The Sony India began sending invitations to the press event to be held on May 26 in New Delhi. The invitation as usual does not explain us exactly what will be announced, but it gives us some hints to guess what can be seen.

The invitation shall «Block your date» and in the background there is water, that means that we will see a waterproof device, such as the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua that can make his entry into the Indian market.

However, reports indicate that he can see it announced two devices, of which one will be the global version of its flagship Sony Xperia Z4. The Xperia Z4 announced for Japan and some reports indicated that the global version can be announced late May. So there is a possibility that the global movement to start from India.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 5 : Rumors announcement in July to prevent Apple

Traditionally Samsung announced the Galaxy Note in the fall of each year at IFA exhibition which takes place early September. This is because several years in a row does not mean that it is obligatory. Can the Samsung decide to change tactics.

Exactly what support the unconfirmed information refer to announcement of Samsung Galaxy Note 5 late July instead of September. The same rumors indicate that the decision has been helped by Apple. It is said that Samsung wants to prevent the announcement of iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, which traditionally make their debut in September also.

The Samsung wants to impress users with the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, before they get the new iPhone and to persuade them to buy own phablet.

According to what we've heard so far about the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, it appears that it is indeed impressive screen 5.9 inch 4K (something that seems incredible), sounds 4100mAh battery, support for microSD cards up to 256GB

Anyway we keep many reservations both for the date and for the features and we expect that it will become the battle of the phablet with iPhone 6s Plus and Galaxy Note 5 battles.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge: Breaks Record with brightness 933 LUX

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge along with regular Samsung Galaxy S6 is one of the best devices has launched the Korean giant to date. The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge comes with a screen 5.1-inch Super AMOLED resolution 1440 × 2560 pixels and 577 ppi, which seems to break every record brightness.
 

The screen of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge distinguished by eye that is bright enough, but Mobilissimo.ro took a special counter called luxmeter to measure the brightness of the screen. Measurements showed 933 LUX with the display exposed to direct sunlight.
 

To say that unlike the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has Auto +5 mode adds extra brightness. All you have is the Auto mode which is a "hidden" setting makes the screen much brighter under the sunlight, as happened in this case.

Google: Users define what information they see Android apps

According to reports Google is preparing to offer Android users more control over their personal data. The Google will upgrade the platform so users can better determine the information they are to access the Android applications.
According to Bloomberg agency, what will make Google is to add some options above so that each user to decide what he wants to access apps.
Long Android has fewer app permission controls from iOS and Google's change is expected to be announced during the developer conference to be held next month. Already, Google has upgraded the platform of Android so that users know what applications have access, but now they can determine what can "see" these apps.
The audit will be done in areas such as photos, contacts, location etc.

Apple Watch: expected but sell more than the first iPhone

When Apple released the first iPhone a few years ago, many were those who expressed doubts about whether Apple is able to make mobile. Eventually the iPhone became one of the world's most popular gadget, and now there he skepticism around Apple Watch.
The idea of ​​a smart watch worn on the wrist, not only from Apple but also by other companies appeared to thrill the market. But according to a report in the Forbes Apple Watch is expected to overtake the first iPhone sales in the first year of registration.
Based on figures from research firm Statista, the iPhone had sold 5.4 million units in the first year, while according to unofficial data, the pre-orders of Apple Watch is already in 2.3 million. It has already reached about half of the iPhone.
Analysts estimate that the demand for Apple Watch will continue to grow during the year, and especially during the holidays and this will lead eventually to overcome the first iPhone.
Specifically, an analyst at JP Morgan had forecast sales of 26 million only in 2015, something which we can not know now if it will happen.

Huawei MediaPad M2 : Officially 8intso tablet with Kirin 930

The Huawei MediaPad M2 officially announced by France is the next flagship tablet that comes to replace if last year Huawei MediaPad M1. It comes with an 8-inch screen resolution 1200 × 1920 pixels, 64-bit processor oktapyrino Kirin 930, 2GHz, memory capacity and RAM 2GB 16GB which can be expanded via microSD.
Is Camera 8 Megapixel, 2 Megapixel second camera, battery 4800mAh, running Android 5.0 and has support 4G. The thickness is 7.8 to mm. and weighs 310 grams.
Finally, it will be available from this month in France priced at 349 efto, and next month will begin to come in other countries.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5: Information about an issue and all-in-one Exynos 7422

After the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, with which admittedly impressed, Samsung is preparing for the next big thing called Samsung Galaxy Note 5. The announcement of the new high-end phablet will be in September and began to leak first information.
According to the sources of SamMobile, which has proven to be quite reliable, though we would expect two versions of Samsung Galaxy Note 5, as happened with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, finally Samsung may launch but only version which is said has flat screen.
Staying on the screen, the information saying that Samsung still experiencing some pieces as 2K and 4K Super AMOLED panels, to decide what will go in Note 5.
An interesting information is that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 may wear the Exynos 7422, which will be the first all-in-one smartphone chip of Samsung. Samsung has already talked about the new technology which it calls ePoP, and processor, graphics card, RAM, onboard memory and modem, located on a chip. To modem logically will have Samsung's signature and not a third party supplier.
We might not see new high-end Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Edge as we saw last year, but a device with a curved screen that is not level flagship. According to the same information, the new curved phablet will be 5.4 or 5.5 dual-edge Super AMOLED screen, exapyrino processor Snapdragon 808, built in memory 16GB, 16 Megapixel camera with optical image stabilizer, second camera 8 Megapixel and S Pen stylus.

Swatch smartwatch: Prepares killer feature that has no other

The well-known in all our Swatch although initially denied that it will enter the dance smartwatches, he will do and wants to stand out. The very important problem that the current smart watches such as Apple Watch and many others, is the battery life.
Who managed to launch a smartwatch battery that will not need to charge daily, will actually have the opportunity to stand out. The Apple Watch, for example, offers a battery life at around 18 hours, so on a daily basis should be charging.
According to information broadcast by Reuters, the Swatch develops a new battery technology that is suitable for small devices such as smart watches, such as for larger cars.
The CEO Nick Hayek stated battery saying that whoever bring to market a battery not charging takes six months will certainly lead against the competition, and noted that the Swatch working intensively to solve the problem. The Hayek promises that the next year the Swatch goes on sale with a revolutionary battery:
«Whoever brings a battery for a smartwatch to the market that you do not need to charge for six months has a competitive advantage. We're working intensively on this problem with our research group Belenos and battery producer Renata. Next year we will come to the market with a revolutionary battery, not only for watches but also for automobiles ».

Nexus 2015: Leaked specs and construction of Huawei

According to information coming from China next Nexus Google said the smartphone will be awarded to Huawei, although he had heard and LG. Currently the smartphone does not have a name, but if it comes replace 6intso Nexus 6 has the signature of Motorola.
The features leaked refer to 5.7 inch OLED display with a resolution of 1440 × 2560 pixels, will not have the Hi-Silicon Kirin processor Huawei, but the Snapdragon 810 of Qualcomm.
However, the same information shall not preclude and LG to manufacture the next Nexus smartphone. May after a year's absence to see a version with the signature of LG. Please remember that LG had taken the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5.
Currently we hold reservations about that leak.

iPhone 7: Concept renders without bezel and home button

We are in the period that the leaks will start talking about the next Apple's iPhone that traditionally expected in the autumn. They have already released some preliminary information without knowing much, but we can imagine that we would like to be the iPhone 7.
O designer Martin Hajek, puts his imagination to work and envisions a redesign Apple's next flagship. One of the big changes in iPhone 6s or iPhone 7, is the central button for many occupies much space. The Hajek incorporates the screen resulting in greatly reduced the bezel.
Recently Apple had registered a patent for integrating technology fingerprint on the screen, so this could seem feasible at some point.
Other changes we see are non-existent margins and the display goes from side to side and logo on the rear panel is illuminated. Based on the acquisition of Linx from Apple, we may see a completely new approach to the camera.
How about such a next iPhone;

Xiaomi Mi Note Pro: Available with QHD screen, Snapdragon 810 and price "shock"

It was still winter when Xiaomi announced the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro along with the Xiaomi Mi Note, specifically what happened in January but the company delayed several months until they bring it to market. Nevertheless, the Xiaomi begins marketing its new Mi Note Pro in China from May 12 at a cost of nearly 430 euros (about $ 483), very competitive price when you consider what it offers.

Please remember that the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro comes with 5.7 inch screen with QHD resolution 2.5D curved glass. H QHD screen is manufactured by Sharp / JDI with dynamic color contrast ratio so as to be clearly visible even under bright sunlight.

Reaching the other characteristics, we would say that indeed Mi Note Pro reminds very simple Mi Note and powered by Snapdragon 810 processor with a quad-core Cortex-A57 CPU clocked at 2GHz, another quad Cortex-A53 CPU at 1.5GHz, Adreno 430 GPU and 4GB LPDDR4 RAM. The Xiaomi emphasizes and insists that is has solved the overheating problems of Snapdragon 810 thanks to a special and smart design of the device, claiming that this desing ensure correct temperature distribution across the width of the interior. Additionally, it has 64GB of storage space, battery 3090 mAh, runs Android 5.0 Lollipop with MIUI 6 which is adapted to support native resolution 2560 × 1440 pixels.

In the back part of observing a digital camera 13MP Sony IMX214 sensor and dual-tone LED flash. For qualitative video and selfies, there is a front camera of 4MP, while according to the specs supported the rapid charging technology from its battery.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge: Coming Iron Man Versions

If you are fans of Marvel and the new Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, come the Iron Man-themed versions of its flagship. The news was confirmed by the head of marketing department of Samsung, Lee Young-hee who said that new versions can come in May or June.
Further confirmed that Iron Man versions of Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, will come in red.
This news does not surprise us since last summer Samsung and Marvel have close cooperation on the global marketing. The Samsung's products appear in new movie Avengers: Age of Ultron.
In March we had heard the information that Samsung will release several Avengers versions of Galaxy S6, but currently we have no confirmation.
Take a look at the following concept renders:

Sony Xperia Z: Upgraded to Lollipop Next Week

In recent days they employ several devices that will get or not Android Lollipop. On the one hand we have the HTC and who had promised to bring the update to the HTC One Mini 2 and eventually canceled, and on the other the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 where there is a confusion about whether to upgrade or not.
Now the news comes from Sony, which last October announced that it will give Lollipop update throughout the series Xperia Z and already has upgraded most smartphones.
Those who have the first Sony Xperia Z does not need to worry that you may not bring the Lollipop, as Sony Philippines through its account on Twitter says the upgrade to Android 5.0 Lollipop will begin to be distributed next week.

LG G4 : Compares the Screen with the iPhone 6 in the Official Page

With the exception of Sony, all flagships big names is the arena to pursue their own market share. Usually when referring to an opponent manufacturers do to show that their own smartphone is best.
Here the LG selects through the official website of the deal with the iPhone 6 Plus and compares the screen to that of LG G4 that has a higher resolution. In the description LG says it has better resolution than the iPhone 6 Plus. With more than 3.5 million pixels at our disposal we can see everything with incredible detail.
«Pixel for pixel, the display on the new G4 has a higher resolution than the iPhone 6 Plus. With more than 3.5 million pixels at your disposal, you can see everything in amazing detail ».
Of course the flagship of LG has better screen resolution 1440 × 2560 pixels Quad HD from 1080 × 1920 pixels screen of iPhone 6 Plus, for it chooses not to refer to other Android flagship like the Samsung Galaxy S6 for example. Furthermore, the display of LG G4 has better resolution and the iPhone 6 is the 4.7 inches with a resolution of 750 x 1334 pixels
Finally, the image emphasizes that the lack of physical buttons, the LG G4 is much smaller than the iPhone 6 Plus.

Microsoft Lumia 640 : From the first to get Windows 10 update

Through a video of Scandinavia General Manager of Microsoft, Ossi Korpela we learn that Microsoft Lumia 640 will be the first smartphones that will receive the upgrade to Windows 10 for Phones, later in 2015.As we said in a previous article which you can read here, the upgrading of smartphones will come after Windows 10 for PC is scheduled to be carded summer.The Korpela calls the Microsoft Lumia 640 an "economic high-end device." The smartphone was announced along with his big brother Microsoft Lumia 640 XL at the recent MWC 2015 and has a 5 inch screen 720x1280p, 294ppi, quad-core processor Snapdragon 400 1.2GHz, memory RAM 1GB, 8GB built-in memory that can be expanded up to 128GB via microSD. Moreover, it has 8 Megapixel camera and battery 2500mAh.Although, as we said we still have many months ahead of us to bring the update, Microsoft wants to promotional right now the devices will be upgraded.

Sony ; Easier installation of new operating systems on mobile

Those who belong to the category of users who like to "tease" their smartphones, know that Sony was not very friendly in this regard. You can not boot from «recovery partition», which is one of the basic requirements to install and start custom ROMs.
This made it very difficult to install the CyanogenMod and other informal operating systems. However the following users can more easily "play" with the software of the mobile.
Sony has quietly gives bootloaders that allow you to boot from «recovery space», which opens the door to install custom Android ROMs and on different platforms such as OS Firefox or Ubuntu Touch.
But what is the problem? That, at present, the only devices that support the specific bootloaders are low-end models like Sony Xperia E3, Sony Xperia M2, Sony Xperia T2 Ultra and Sony Xperia T3.

LG G4: With Snapdragon 808, Emphasis on Design and Photography

The LG G4 officially announced by London and comes with 5.5 inch screen resolution Quad-HD, exapyrino processor Snapdragon 808, camera 16 Megapixel sensor with color range and unique design with a choice of leather caps in different colors. 
Snapdragon 808 With the 64-bit exapyrino Snapdragon 808 LG and Qualcomm XLTE incorporate support for higher data rate, good performance combined with good management of the 3000mAh battery which bears more than a whole day.The LG stated that he worked with Qualcomm to customize the SoC which has achieved the highest performance Exynos 7420 in daily tasks. Furthermore we have 3GB RAM and 32GB built-in memory which can be expanded via microSD.As stated by LG, the removable battery and memory expansion wants to offer freedom to users and not to restrict them to save a few millimeters.



 Camera The the 16 Megapixel camera of the LG G4 optical image stabilizer is a piece of flagship which wants to distinguish the LG. With a f1.8 aperture lens camera has a new manual mode with which you can adjust even the shutter speed while pressing twice the volume button the camera is activated. Next to the flash is a color spectrum sensor that helps to better and more accurate color representation. The front camera is 8 Megapixel. 
Design The LG make shift in design using retro-chic leather which is used in high quality bags. This skin needs to process 12 weeks and using natural methods without chemicals. Used by luxury goods and is only 10% of leather goods on the market.However, do not go all models of LG G4 with leather cap, but there is also the option for plastic cap that comes if you want to change the battery. The lids are ceramic white, gray, shiny gold leather cap comes in black, brown, red, blue, beige and yellow.Also, there is a slight convexity which in accordance with LG helps to better grip the movable and increases by 20% rigidity.
Screen In the other specifications have 5.5 inch QHD screen to 538ppi, LG is particularly emphasized in Quantum LCD panel which gives much greater color accuracy, 20% better color reproduction, 25% improvement in brightness and 50% higher contrast compared to LG G3 .The LG G4 is wireless charging, which we see adopted by manufacturers slowly but needs lid to charge the removable battery.It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box with UX 4.0, has dimensions of 148.9 × 76.1 × 6.3 mm. (At thinnest point) to 9.8 mm the thickest point and weighs 155 grams.The new LG G4 will begin global mood on April 29 in Korea and gradually will go from about 180 providers worldwide. Details about the price and make it available will be announced separately in each market. In the Greek market LG G4 is expected to be available by early June.