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Many have been mesmerized by Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man, he is the complete package: wealthy, genius, handsome, and charming. Not only that, he also wields the most sophisticated and powerful man-made armored suit. In sum, he is probably what many men would aspire to be.
Central to Mr. Stark’s jet-set lifestyle is J.A.R.V.I.S (stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System), an artificially intelligent digital personal assistant which helps Mr. Stark’s run his multi-billions businesses and assists him in designing his iron suits. More than just intelligent, J.A.R.V.I.S is able to converse and understand Mr. Stark and execute his commands to control everything from his iron suit down to his personal computer. So much for a science-fiction movie.
Today, not just in science-fiction, one can actually get a taste of living up the Tony Stark lifestyle by having a J.A.R.V.I.S-like digital personal assistant. At the forefront of such technology is Apple’s Siri with speech recognition feature that can be utilized to control, activate, and deactivate different features of Apple devices such as iPhone. More recently, Apple has brought this technology to a new a height. Catching-up on the trends of internet of things (IoT) and smart-home appliances, Apple launched HomeKit, an iOS framework that allows users to configure and control their smart-home appliances through Apple devices. Along with the launch of HomeKit, a number of third party vendors release smart-home appliances that are compatible with iOS.
If you combine Apple’s HomeKit framework, smart-home appliances and Siri, you will find yourself closer than ever to having a real-life J.A.R.V.I.S that not only controls your phone but also your house. One cool yet simple HomeKit device you could try and play around with is the Phillips Hue Lights. The hue light is able to emit different shades of colors of lighting. If you install a number of these hue lights together in a room, you can produce a particular lighting effect to create a certain ambience and help you ease into a particular mood.
In order to control the hue lights using Siri through your iPhone, you have to connect your iPhone and the hue lights to an intermediary device called Phillip Hue Bridge. You can actually use any of your Apple devices (iPod, iPad, and even Apple Watch) to control the hue lights as long as they are connected to the hue bridge and iCloud. Phillip’s in-built software also allows you to assign the hue lights into different groups for control purposes. You can then put lights that are placed in the same room under a group and control them simultaneously.
Here are some cool commands you could try out with the set-up:
“Turn on/off the lights in the living room.”
"Turn the living room lights all the way up."
"Make the lights blue in the bedroom."
"Hey Siri, set my reading scene."
You can now start living out your Iron Man dream!
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The quest to 98% screen to body ratio.
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Vivo's Apex concept phone with a 91% screen to body ratio OLED display, pop-up selfie camera and OLED panels that vibrate to create the sound for your videos, calls and gaming is coming on June 12, 2018.
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I have been using the Razer Phone for 4 months as my everyday phone. Is it a good phone? Yeah, to a certain extend as some of the quirks can be a tad irritating.
Pros
120Hz UltraMotion display - What this translates to is a wonderfully smooth gameplay experience, which is especially useful in action-packed titles like Titanfall Assault or Final Fantasy XV. Outside of gaming, sifting through apps and scrolling down long webpages look smoother and more natural than on other devices. Once you see this super-fast refresh rate in action, you'll wish it was the smartphone standard rather than the exception.
1440p Display - With the option to upscale your display to 1440p, you are able to see and do more with your phone.
Forward Facing Speakers - Probably the best speakers I've heard on a smartphone. Each has its own amplifier and, with Dolby Atmos for Mobile and put any other smartphone speakers to shame - especially those with bottom firing speakers. There's hardly any distortion even at high volumes.The audio is loud, immersive and an absolute treat when playing games, watching Youtube/Netflix or streaming Spotify/Tidal.
Hardware - Equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, an Adreno 540 GPU and 8GB of RAM makes the phone pretty future proof.
Battery Life - A massive 4,000mAh battery with the support for the latest Qualcomm QuickCharge 4+ technology allows me more than a day’s worth of juice from normal usage and the ability to charge the phone from 0% to 85% in less than an hour is sometimes a lifesaver.
Project Linda - The possibility of using the razer Phone as a on-the-go laptop will be a dream come true for many travellers.
Cons
Display - While it's perfectly usable indoors, the display is, unfortunately, hard to see in bright daylight.
Vibration - The vibration module is located near the bottom of the phone, and feels absolutely cringeworthy each time you get a notification. It feels like the vibration module is loose.
1440p Display - Some apps are not suitable and most will go into tablet mode. Which means the layout is just not suitable on the screen size of the phone.
Camera - Don’t expect much from the camera function. The Razer Phone's built-in camera is very basic, with the ability to toggle flash, HDR and a few extra features like a visual grid and a timer, but not much else. The photo quality of the rear camera were OK but not great. Pictures taken in daylight were sharp, but colors were a bit muted and definitely not rich enough. Low-light photos looked fuzzy and noisy most of the time.
Size - The square edges makes the phone quite difficult to handle with one hand. Even though the size of the screen is around the same as other phones like the OnePlus 5T, the OnePlus is so much fitting compared to the Razer Phone.
Overall, the Razer Phone is an exceptional phone with good hardware that will not make the phone obsolete any time soon. Are there better phones out there? Definitely, but the speakers and the 120Hz refresh rate makes it very attractive. If Razer release Project Linda, this will be my phone of choice for a long time.
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After using the iPhone X for almost half a year, I'm still longing for the home button with touch ID. Although the touch ID home button on other iPhone models isn't flawless in the sense that a wet finger will not play well with the touch ID recognition, it still offers the great advantage of unlocking the phone by just lifting your finger as opposed to having to position your head almost directly over the iPhone X front camera (Face ID); especially in situation when your phone is affixed, mounted to a holder, or simply just lying on a table. Not to deny the fact that doing away with the home button frees up a tremendous amount of screen real estate, I'm just not quite ready to trade that off with the tactile feel of a button and a click to return to home screen. Call me old school if you want but I'll choose a good old volume knob over a touchscreen control on a stereo any time of the day...
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Today Smartphones are getting equipped with better and better camera’s and we want best of them. So today let’s have a look at top 3 best camera centric smartphones of the year and their specifications.
>Google Pixel 2 XL
The Pixel 2 XL from Google is termed best when it comes to camera centric smartphones. It comes with a 12MP main shooter and a 8MP selfie camera. It outshines all other android smartphones and iPhone X too by a little margin. It is one of the most dependable smartphones when it comes to photos and videos. Pixel 2 XL is the best camera phone anyone can get right now all thanks to the intelligent camera algorithm used by Google and the stock Android that makes experience lag free and the UI much more smoother than ever. This phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 which is coupled with 4 GB of RAM and 64/128 GB of storage.
>Apple iPhone X
Iphone X comes with two 12 MP shooters at the back and one 7 MP shooter for selfie. Both the cameras give excellent results. The iPhone X is the best camera smartphone till date by Apple and only loses to Pixel 2 XL in terms of camera quality. It is indeed the best camera phone when we talk about the dual camera setup. The only place where iPhone X outclasses other smartphones is the 2X optical lossless zoom. Iphone X is really fast, sexy and offers great battery life. The whole phone is powered by the Apple A11 bionic chip that also helps it in AI aka Augmented Reality. This powerhouse is coupled with 3 GB of RAM and 64/256 GB of storage version.
>Samsung Galaxy S9+
Samsung Galaxy S9+ the definite successor of the last years Samsung’s most successful flagship device is also one of the best when it comes to the camera’s. It comes with two 12MP rear shooters from which one of them can change its aperture size depending on the environment and lighting. The selfie camera of the device is good too with 8MP sensor it is capable of taking some crisp and beautiful images. All in all both the camera’s are highly capable and this could have been the year when we would have said that Galaxy S9+ is having the best camera of them all but still Samsung is Samsung folks and the algorithm they use for image processing makes the images more punchier and increases the contrast thus altering the natural beauty of the subject. We hope Samsung fixes it soon and comes out with more better camera centric smartphone next year. And coming to the specs this phone is powered by a Snapdragon 845/ Exynos 9810 depending on the region where you live. This SoC is coupled with 6 GB of RAM and 64/128/256 GB of storage to perform all kinds of task and keep it running effortlessly.
>Huawei P20 Pro
The camera of Huawei P20 pro is also a worthy competitor. As the pics and videos taken by it are also full of depth and details but for now we can't say much about it until we get a full hands on the device itself. It is having triple camera setup at the back (40MP + 20MP + 8MP) and it is the first device to have such a unique configuration. For selfies it is having a 24 MP shooter. This phone is powered by a Hisilicon Kirin 970 chipset which is also a Huawei product and this SoC is coupled with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage to keep it running.
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12.2 MP (f/1.8, 27mm, 1/2.6", 1.4 µm, Dual Pixel PDAF), OIS, phase detection & laser autofocus, dual-LED flash, check quality
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Are camera upgrades the deal breakers for smartphones now?