Intex Aqua 5.0 Specs, Pros and Cons

Intex Aqua Specs, Pros and Cons

Pros

• If you're looking for a phone with a music playback, this has got to be it. Bass is rendered with a distinct thump, and music sounds fantastically clear and loud.
• This also has a good build quality with a pearl-white back plate and a nice metallic silvery trim around the edge. It feels substantial to hold and definitely seems to be worth more than its price.
• Its touchscreen is quite responsive to taps and swipes. The antenna latches to networks better than any other phone, to be frank. And that results in better web browsing during commutes when you're moving from one tower to another.
• Battery life is good and a full charge will last for 15 hours with Wi-Fi use, gaming,. some GPS, web browsing and phone calls.

Cons

•  The display is dull and colors look washed away and its almost a deal breaker. Legibility in sunlight is not that good and viewing angles ain't that great either.
• While calls sound clear, they suffer from low volume.
• This device's sharp-edged design, devoid of ergonomic curves, makes it slightly unwieldy to use. People with smaller hands might find this device uncomfortable to handle.

 Specs

•  5-inch touchscreen, 800x480 pixels
• 1GHz dual-core
• 5MP camera, VGA front
• 4GB internal memory, microSD up to 32GB
• 512MB RAM, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,micro USB
• GPS, A-GPS, Dual SIM (GSM+GSM)
• 143x80x10.2mm, 199grams, 2000mAh battery (15hr average use)
• Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich

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Micromax A110 Superfone Canvas 2 Specs, Pros and Cons

Micromax A110 Superfone Canvas 2 Pros and Cons, Specs

Pros

• The IPS screen delivers good viewing angles and clear visibility in sunlight, making it comfortable to read books, browse on commutes while walking on the road. Well, you can see a faint at certain grid at certain angles but that ain't a deal-breaker.
• This feels like premium phone. The build quality is quite good, it's surprisingly light and the curved edges and textured back make it easier to hold such a large phone.
• This will get through a full day without needing to charge.
• The camera is decent, although auto mode is not it's strong point.

Cons

• Despite a dual-core processor, this one has a sluggish interface. Even some of the games struggles to work on this phone.
• The phone shutters while multi-tasking between several heavy apps.
• The antenna is quite weak, dropping calls frequently and failing to latch on to 3G in placers where other phones fared well.
• The audio is deplorable. Whether you are talking on the phone or listening music, the volume is too low and the sound quality is bad. And, the bundled earphones are not the best.
• The camera juts out at the back of the phone, so the lens is susceptible to scratches. And, this means that the phone never lies down flat and so has the irritating wobble every time it vibrates.

Specs

•  5-inch touchscreen, 800x480pixcels
• 1GHz dual-core processor
• 8MP Primary camera, VGA front camera
•  4GB internal memory, microSD up to 32GB
• 512MB RAM, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB
• GPS, A-GPS, Dual SIM (GSM+GSM)
• 147x76.5x9.7mm, 168grams
• Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich
• 2000mAh battery (14 hours average usage)

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Wicked Leak Wammy Note Specs, Pros and Cons

Wicked Leak Wammy Note Pros, Cons and Specs

Pros

• This runs on Android 4.1 Jelly bean, the later of the Androids. The interface is smoother, and the notification bar includes features like returning a missed call.
• The battery life of Wammy Note is good with about 15 hours of average usage when used with lots of 3G, Wi-Fi, browsing and reading, and plenty of phone calls. The package includes a second 2500mAh battery, making sure you'll never run out of battery.

Cons

• The screen is a disaster. It's a fingerprint magnet, has washed out colors, and is dull overall. It is not very responsive with touches.
• The phone heats up quickly and it's quite heavy. And this makes it inconvenient to use.
• The antenna is really bad at catching signals ad the call quality - both for talking and listening - is not that good.
• There are small glitches throughout, which piled up to make for an annoying experience. For example, when on a phone call, the red button to hang a call is nowhere to be found. Then there's the built-in analog TV antenna that doesn't seem to catch any channel.
• The camera is pretty much useless, delivering unstable images only in direct sunlight. All other photos are grainy, don't capture the right colors, and are out of focus.

Specs

•  5-inch touchscreen, 800x480 pixels
• 1GHz dual core
• 8MP primary camera and 1.3mp front camera
• 4GB, microSD up to 32GB
• 512MB RAM, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, micro USB
• GPS, A-GPS, Dual SIM (GSM+GSM)
• 144x89x12mm, 192grams
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS
• 2500mAh battery (15hrs average usage)

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Facebook Open Graph Redirect - Protects your privacy

Most of us use a lot of applications in Facebook. In fact, they are the means of passing time if there's no one online. But before using any app, we gotta do a lot of things that the app asks you to, accept a lot of things and then provide access to our personal information, which is the worst part. Who would like to do all these just for the sake of using an app? And if you install, then when you try opening an applications, you are redirected to several locations, and end up somewhere else. Its kind of irritating. Apart from these issues, this whole process is time consuming. And this forces you to quit the app even though you wanna use it. Even though a person has got hell lot of patience and continues with the process till the end and ends up being successful in using the app, his timeline will be filled with irrelevant posts. I have a good news for all such people who wanna use apps without any of these problems. So, here I go.

Facebook Open Graph Redirect

Here I come with an application called 'Facebook Open Graph Redirect'. It is a Google Chrome Plug-in. So, it doesn't work with other browsers. It allows users to read content shared by applications that enable social sharing. This plug-in allows Facebook users to read the content that is shared by their friends through Facebook enabled applications without going through whole process. This app works with most the Facebook apps that are linked with Washington Post, Yahoo etc.

Firefox Users? Don't worry

Are you a Firefox User? Don't worry because developers have created a similar plug-in for Firefox Browser as well.

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Send Smileys and Pictures in Facebook

Facebook chat, the only thing which we are not contented about, we always want something new. We don't care about the number of features it has (though we use them), we always kind of wait for the new one. Well, we discussed in my previous posts about giving a new customized a new look to Facebook chat. But, there, we didn't completely discuss every single thing. And one such thing is that you can insert images of your own choice in your Facebook chat. Well, you can share pics, videos and other things on your wall and they are public. So, here's the solution to share pics, videos etc. personally.

There are many people who know the missing pieces of Facebook, Youtube, Google Chrome and other major sites and softwares. And these sites and softwares are working hard to provide their users with the best. If you wanna send an image or a smiley or any such things, you can take help of the site Facebook Smiley Chat Codes. Though this site is a smiley devoted website, it has lot more than smileys.

The above image shows the process of sending pctures and smileys to friends. Seems pretty simple, ain't it? And, yeah, it is.

As soon as you enter the site, if you don't get the above 3 steps, click on 'Facebook Smiley Chat Codes' on the top left corner. You can get it there.
The code doesn't come as soon as you select an image and upload it. It takes some time to develop the code. And this depends on the size, quality etc. After getting the code, just copy it and hit enter. That's it.

Here's the video tutorial.

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Integrate your Blogger with your Google Plus

Well, integrating your Blogger with your Google Plus helps you a lot. Every post you publish on Blogger will be published in Google Plus. If anyone likes the post, he might +1 your post and that post gets published in his Google Plus. In this way, it helps you to increase the reach of your posts. Now, many of you might not know how to integrate your Blogger with your Google Plus. Well, don't worry cause I'm gonna say you that.

Here's the process. This is not that tough process though. It's quite simple.

1. Click on the 'cog' icon in your blogger.

2. Click on 'Connect to Google +'

3. Then, accept the 'Terms and Conditions' and Click 'Switch Now.'
4. Select the blogs which you'd like to display on your Google Plus.

That's it you're done. Here's the video tutorial.

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Mentioning in Blogger - The New Feature

Well, here I come with Google's new cool feature. And that is you can 'Mention' people on Google Plus in your blogger posts. Sounds cool, ain't it? Plus, this is an effective way to let the person know that you're referring to them in your post. Seems similar to that of Facebook's tagging, ain't it? The other thing about this is you can tag a person or a Google Plus page even if they don't follow you. But this depends on how they have configured their Google Plus settings. They might receive a notification about mention after you publish the post.

Mentioning others

You can do this in the same way as you mention a person in the comment i.e., Just type '+' or '@' followed by the name or page. As you are typing the name, you'll see a list of names appear below. You can select the person or page that you'd like to mention. This feature's already in Google Plus. If you've configured your settings to share your blog posts to Google Plus, you'll see that the names of the people you've mentioned in your post will be automatically added to the share box.

But, to use this feature, first you've to upgrade your blogger profile to a Google+ profile.

How does it work?

As said, this needs your Blogger's integration with Google Plus. Talking out of the post, this helps you spread your blog and engage with your readers on a more intimate level. I'd suggest you to integrate your Blogger with Google Plus. Coming back to the post, as said, if you want to mention someone or a page in a post, you can do that by using '+' or '@' followed by their name. They'll be able to see the entire post on which they were mentioned even if the post was not shared with them.

This feature is particularly useful when you are on a huge post and you want to mention/address someone specifically, or when you want to add someone to a post.

For instance, if I'm on post about my past and I want to tag a person who inspired me then I would mention the person's page or name in my post.

To mention someone in a post:
1. Type +[person's name] or @[person's name]. You can also type their email address instead of their name.
2. As you type, an autocomplete list of peopel will appear.
3. Select the person you want to mention.

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Adding Favicon In Blogger

In my previous post, I discussed about adding a favicon to blogger. Well, here's the another way. This way is way too simple and a perfect way to follow for beginners. This process may seem a bit silly, but it works :). So here I Go.

First download your favicon in any of the image formats like png, gif, etc. Then upload the image to blogger and copy the link given by it.

 Then, search for

<b:skin><![CDATA[/*

 in your template's html. To edit your template html, First click on the 'upward arrow mark' beside your blog in the control panel and then select 'Template'. Then click on the 'edit html' option. Now you get the html.
Then search for the above code.

Above the code, paste the following code.

<link href='IMAGE URL HERE' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

and replace the 'IMAGE URL HERE' with the url which we copied earlier.
(For Video Tutorial Click Here)

That's it. You're done. Just save the template and now you have a blog with a favicon.

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Adding Favicon In Blogger

I was unable to accomodate video in the post because of so many pics so I posted this video as another post.

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Adding Favicon To Your Blog

Well, I'm back again. Now, I'm working on favicons. So I'm on my way to list all the sites. But before, I thought of making a post about adding a favicon to a blog. Because, it doesn't make sense when you know how to make a favicon but don't know how to use it. So, here I go and, by the way, you can refer my post about creating favicons to create a perfect favicon for your site.

Adding a Favicon

Create your favicon by using one of the tools available. You can directly upload your image or create a new one. After uploading an image or creating a favicon you can download the automatically-converted-icon form of the favicon and save it to your desktop.

Next, you need to upload it to some host like Favicon Hosting and Genarator etc. You can even get a lot of hosting sites online to host .ico files. Once you upload it to a host, you get a direct URL to the favicon file.

Now go to your blogger dashboard > layout > Edit html.
There look for the code

<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>


and add the below code just after the above one.

<link href='ICON FILE URL' rel='shortcut icon'/>
<link href='ICON FILE URL' rel='icon'/>


and replace the 'ICON FILE URL' with the URL of your icon file.
Take care that the code you paste is in between

<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>
Your Code
<![CDATA[/*

If you are unable to follow the above process, here's another way.

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Samsonite Torus Solar Backpack Review

Here I come with this Samsonite Torus Solar Backpack. It recharges your gadgets, carries your things and what more it does this with the help of a solar panel. Sounds cool, ain't it? The primary need of all modern gadgets is battery cause every portable gadget needs one. This Torus Solar backpack, as said, packs a solar charger to power up your gadgets on the move. So whether you are moving about the city or trekking, your gadgets in bag are always charger and ready.

Pros

• The battery reservoir in this backpack works well and charges almost all handsets and cameras to at least 50%
• This bag doesn't need to be facing sunlight all the time. As long as the prominent light source is sun, it'll keep charging, albeit at slower rate.
• The charging unit is detachable, so if you're trekking, you can leave your bulky backpack at the camp while you travel with the solar pack to keep your gadgets charged.

Cons

• The time taken to charge up the built-in battery is excruciating. Samsonite claims it takes 4 hours for a full charge, but it, more or less, takes 16 hours when outdoors.
• The battery is too small to power-up laptops and high-end tabs fully.
• Having slots for every type of gadget makes the Torus big and bulky. And the place left for other stuff is little. The solar charger is not light. So, you might end up having a heavy backpack that may not let you carry everything you need

Specs

• Special slots for laptop, tablet, mobile, camera
• Detachable solar panel zip pouch
• 1600mAh battery
• Connectors for micro USB and two other common pin sizes for laptops, phones and tabs
• Made from 900D and 1680D polyester, lined with high-density polyester

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Protonixs Electropen Specs, Pros and Cons

Protonics has made device which converts your scribbles into an image and PDF file when you connect it to your computer. You can use this as your computer mouse even. This is an instrument that takes what you write and transforms it into a high-tech digitalizer. Pin the receiver onto the paper you are writing on, switch it on and you're ready to go.

Pros

• When used with PC, this instrument can be used as a mouse, complete with a button to click.
• The pen's battery is tremendous. It just goes on and on.

Cons

• While you're using this, the only thing to be careful is to not have anything come between the pen and the receiver.
• This device is not pressure sensitive. So you can't sketch using this device as a stylus.
• The rechargeable base unit need to be recharged about every 8 hours of use.
• This device doesn't work if you use wider or longer paper (than A4 sheet).
• It is kind of weird to pin the base unit on a notebook, as it makes it irksome to turn pages. Also, when  you're done writing on a page, you have to press the On/Off button on the base unit to save the page. Not only does it disrupt your flow, but if you forget and start on the next page, you might lose your data or mix it up.
• The bundled Note Manager software fails to turn handwriting to text. The point of this Electropen is to digitalize notes. But you still get your get your handwriting in an image file or PDF but not as editable digital text.

Specs

• Ultrasound and Infrared connection
• Works only with A4 sheets
• Standard Refill (67mm long, 2.35 mm diameter)
• About 8 hours of continuous writing with Receiver
• About 30 hours of continuous writing with pen
• 12gm

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Sony Smart Watch Specs, Pros and Cons

Sony's smart watch is a device that lets Android phone owners can use to check for missed calls, read messages and see social networking updates without taking their phone out.

Pros

• Good build quality, the aluminum frame around the watch adds to the aesthetics in its design.
• Setting this watch is very simple. Just install the smart Connect app from Android play store on your phone and pair it with the watch.
• A whooping three day battery-life under normal use.
• The smart watch comes in handy for geeks who jog or exercise. Using the Endomondo Sports Tracker, it allows a user to access info like distance covered, speed and location etc.

Cons

• This watch has a poor screen with low resolution of 128x128 pixels and touch response is on the slower side.
•  It uses mini apps which connect to main apps installed on your phone. Not many apps are available for this device. 
• This watch depends on smartphone for its functionality and this limits the usefulness of this watch.

Specs

• 120Mhz ARM CPU
• 128KB RAM
• 1MB flash storage
• Bluetooth3.0
• 1.3inch capacitive touchscreen, 128x128 pixels resolution
• 110mAh battery

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Epson Moverio BT100 Specs, Pros and Cons

Epson Moverio BT100 is a futuristic device. Wear this and you're bound to grab eyeballs. This device makes you look like a blind man from future. This gadget is a personal entertainment system  on which you can watch movies, browse the net and a lot more. The wired glasses become your display. The base unit is Wi-Fi capable and has a rechargeable battery, storage, memory slots, track pad and directional buttons for navigation. You can even watch 3D content.

Pros

• This unit plays FullHD 1080p videos and its Dolby-enhanced sound make for clear audio. It plays 3D content well.
• Although you're viewing a micro-projection LCD, the perceived image is close to the 80 inches that Epson states in its spec sheet.
• Transferring content to the device and navigating through its user interface is simple.
• The headset and the base unit are sturdily built. BT100 comes with a durable protective case and this makes it easier to carry.

Cons

•  This device can't play MKV format.
• Surfing internet using its touchpad and directional keys is a bit troublesome.
• The battery life of this device which is around 4 to 5 hours is inadequate.
• This device runs on Android but there's no Play Store. You can copy APK's applications onto a memory card and use them though. But it's a long and roundabout process.
• It is heavy. Wear the headset for an hour and you start feeling the weight on your nose. You cannot move your head freely for fear of the unit falling off.

Specs

Headset

• 16:9, 0.52-inch  poly-silicon TFT Active Matrix Color LCD
• 960x540 pixels, 24-bit color
• Removable lens shade for privacy
• Dolby mobile, 1.5MW sound output (2.5mm Mono x 2)
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• 240grams

Controller

• Capacitive single touch track pad, individual navigation buttons
• Android 2.2
• 1GB internal memory, supports microSD (2GB max) and microSDHC (32GB max)
• micro USB, Wi-Fi
• Lithium polymer 2530mAh
• 165grams

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Search for Images of exact size in Google

Previously, Google Images had an option to search images of particular size or resolution. For example, if you're searching for a wallpaper and nothing fits your screen, you can select the resolution or size of wallpaper you need. It just displays the images with those exact dimensions.

But the new Google Images have no such option to search for images of particular dimensions. But don't worry cause there's a solution. You can limit your search to an exact size by doing the following. While searching for an image, lets say, of resolution WidthxHeight, search for "IMAGENAME:WidthxHeight".

For example, if you wanna search for Eminem's images to use them as your wallpaper and your screen resolution is 1920x1080 then search for "Eminem:1920x1080". Results of the search are given in the pic below.

Here's the video tutorial.

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Facebook Pretty Chat - Tutorial

You might have gone through the previous post about Prety Facebook Chat. Now you're gonna see about the settings, options smileys and all. As soon as you install the extension, you get a red bubble at the corner of the status bar. Starting with the movable chat box, you can get it by just clicking in the little red button beside the chat box, and you can move it anywhere but the drawback here is you can't use it while you're out of Facebook tab. You can chagne the size of the chat box. First click on the red bubble present on the right corner of the status bar. You can change the size of the chat box there. In the chat box you have many options at the top.

We will see about the options one after the other starting with smileys. These smileys include memes and all the other animations and emoticons. So, you have a little meme or a pumpkin or a smiely icon beside the settings button in chat box. The icon for smiley options changes depending upon the theme you chose. For example, if you go with the Meme theme, you have the meme icon, if you go with the Hallowen, you have Pumpkin.

Next Coming to the colour of the text, you can choose any of the colors provided. Just click on the red bubble in the status bar. You can get the colors options along with other options and you can choose there.

On clicking the red bubble, you can change the size of the text, you can change the Chat box size, Text color, Text font and shadow of the chat box. You can also choose among various themes like Meme, Hallowen, Hallo Kitty etc.

Well, these are all the settings that you can use with the Pretty Facebook Chat Here's the video tutorial.

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Customize Facebook Chat

Since the launch of Facebook chat, no major change was made. Many of us have been waiting for some cool features in FB chat where we can send messages with a new font, change size, move the chat box around etc. Many users are looking for other alternatives like Skype, Yahoo, Windows Live etc. But managing several messengers at a time is hell of a work. The major problem is with the passwords, cause you keep on forgetting them. But wait, here's a solution for our problem. This allows you to enjoy fundamental features that are part of any chat box with a simple and quick process where all you need to do is to download an extension and start chatting with your friends on FB.

This extension is provided by Google. And that means that you need to have a Google Chrome browser already installed in your PC. Log in to your FB account, and then visit Google Chrome Webstore. Search for 'Pretty Facebook Chat'. This is an extension that provides you many features if used with Google Chrome.

Download : Pretty Facebook Chat
Here's tutorial for you.

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Samsung Galaxy Camera Review and Specs

Samsung, one of the leading electronic devices' manufacturer, has now come up with a new camera and its called Samsung Galaxy Camera. This camera runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Operating System with 3G and 4G connectivity. And this means that users can share their photos or videos to any social media from the camera itself without uploading them to a PC and then share it. You can share any of the recorded videos or captured photos to any Wi-Fi connected device.
This camera sports a 4.8-inch HD LCD touchscreen and that makes it easier to use. You can easily switch to any mode, go through the pictures, edit photos and a lot which makes photography fun.

Coming to the camera's hardware, it has got a 16.3M image sensor and a 21x optical zoom. As said, it has a 4.8-inch (121.2mm) HD LCD touchscreen. It has a Voice Control. Sounds cool, ain't it? It can record fullHD 1080p videos in AVI, MP4/3GP, WMV, FLV, MKV, WEBM formats and audios in MP3, AAC, AMR, WMA, OGG, FLAC, 3GA/M4A and WAV and has a video frame rate of 30 fps. You can use applications like Instagram, Paperartist, dropbox, Gallery, Photo Wizard, Video Editor, AllShare Play, S-Suggest, S-Voice and a other Samsung apps. It has got a huge battery stand by time up to 280hours (3G).

This phone, as said, can run applications like Instagram, which makes photo sharing easy. Photo editing is made easy by apps like Photo Wizard and video editing on the go can be done with Video Editor. So, while you're on a vacation, and you wanna edit your pictures, there is no need of a laptop, you can just fo it with your camera. And the cool feature is that you can backup your photos in Cloud automatically. Plus, it allows you to access Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Latitude, Google Play Store, Google Plus, YouTube, G-talk, Google Local, Google Navigation, Google Downloads, Google Chrome Browser, Google Play Books and Google Play Movies

Coming to the Capture and Recording features, I can say that this gadget has got 'em all. You have an option called Smart Pro Mode. If you select this mode, you are presented with various special modes (we can even say weird modes) like, waterfall trave, through which you can take a perfect picture of a waterfall, Light trace, which allows you to capture the red tail lights and white headlights of cars on road, Action freeze, that allows you to capture high-speed scenes and a lot of modes. Coming to the videos, it has got a worth-a-discuss feature called Slow Motion Video which allows you to capture a video and then plays the video in slow motion. It captures your videos at an amazing 120 frames per second and 720x480 resolution and ,as said, plays them back slowly. It has other modes like sunset, panormaa, including burst, macro and 15 other impressive modes.

This phone packs in a 1,4GHz quad core Exynos processor. The camera has 8GB storage in-built and can accept microSD cards up to 64GB. It has a 1,650mAh battery. This device make photography fun and brings out the professional photographer in you.

Specs

• 16.3MP BSI-CMOS 1/2.3" sensor
• 1.4GHz Exynos 4412 Quad-core processor
• 21x optical zoom 23-481mm
• 4.8inch HD Super Clear Touch Display
• Full HD Video recording at 30fps, 720p 120fps
• ISO range - 100-3200
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
• 8GB internal storage, 1GB RAM, microSD up to 64GB
• GPS with A-GPS and GLONASS
• HSPDA, 21 MBPS, HSUPA, 5.7MBPS
• 128.7 x 70.8x19.2mm
• 300g
• Li-ion 1650mAh battery

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HTC 8X Review, Specs, Pros and Cons

Here comes another device that you would love to have. Its the HTC 8X. Well, starting with the operating system, it runs on Windows Phone 8 (WP8). The WP 8 is a work of art and this device is a perfect representation of what Microsoft is bringing to that market with its updated mobile OS. Just like the previous versions WP 8, looks beautiful using simple fonts and lines to create a simple 2D user interface that's defined by lots of square boxes that Microsoft call tiles. These so called tiles, which replace icons, are much bigger and can also display nuggets of information. For example, the Mail tile can show number of unread emails.

This one scores on design, both in hardware and software. Windows 8 is a beautiful and intuitive for people who didn't use smartphones and are using them for the first time. For Windows 8 PC users, this handset will offer tight integration especially with cloud services like SkyDrive, the People app, etc. If you're looking for a phone with great camera, this is definitely not it. The app store doesn't compare to that of iOS or Android. Power users will be unsatisfied with the lack of robust notification system and proper multitasking. Overall, this phone falls short of comparably priced phones like Samsung Galaxy S III or the HTC One X.

Pros

• This is a stylish handset. The most beautiful part about this phone is its tapered edges. This makes it look slimmer than it actually is. Build quality is top class and the phone feels premium.
• The 2.1MP front cam has an ultra-wide lens. If you video chat very often, you will love how much it can accommodate in its scope.
• WP8 is fast. There is no lag when you open apps or fire up the camera. Web-browsing is smooth, Maps app, for which Microsoft is using Nokia's data in India, is detailed and covers all well-known areas.
• The design and interface in WP8 is unique and beautiful. It is also quite intuitive and apps like Mail, SMS or People (contacts) are easy to use.

Cons

• While WP 8 is a define improvement over WP 7.5, in many ways it remains the same old OS. It still lacks a proper multitasking system. 
• The apps, barring a few like Music and SkyDrive, don't run in the background. In WP 8 apps are suspended. In other words, they are paused. For apps like Rowi, which are supposed to run continuously to keep you updated with tweets, it doesn't work.
• There is no proper notification center in WP 8. The home screen is limited to show notifications from six apps - and to see or clear these notifications, user has to go into those respective apps.
• Only handful of apps and games when compared to those available on iPhone or high-end Android phones.
• The battery life is average. On 3G, the phone lasts for around 9 to 10 hours when used for making an hour call, some gaming, email, Twitter and some photography.
• The primary shooter is below average. The pictures captured through 8X had excessive smoothening and lack details.

Specs

• 4.3-inch SLCD-2 Screen
• 1280x720 pixels, 342 ppi
• 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB RAM, Micro USB v2.0
• 2.1 MP front cam, 1080p FullHD video, 8MP primary cam, 1080p FullHD video
• GPS, A-GPS, Bluetooth v3.1, 3G, Wi-Fi, NFC
• Micro-sim, No microSD card slot
• 1800mAh battery, 9-10 hours of average usage
• Windows 8

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Google Plus Followers gadget for Blogger

One of the best perks of using Google is, it has products that seamlessy integrate with each other to provide an easy and comprehensive interface to users. For instance, images you upload in your blog also get added to your Picasa albums and Google+ albums. Well, Google has just introduced a brand new feature, the Google Plus followers gadget for blogger blogs. This new gadget for blogspot blogs will provide another layer of integration between your Google Plus profile and your Blogger/Blogspot blog.

About the gadget
Connecting your Google Plus profile with your blog is a great way to enhance your readership by increasing your followers and engaging better with your audience. You can auto-publish your blog posts on your Google Plus stream so as to deliver your content right where your readers want it delivered.

This new Google plus followers widget is another step towards enhancing your readership. This will tell the world how many people are following you, and will also show them some friendly faces. It also has a follow button by default, which lets users follow your Google Plus profile page with a single click. This will help in getting your content across multiple streams, and to reach more readers on a more personal level through your blog.

Adding this widget to your blogger is really simple. But for it to work, you first have to connect your blogger profile with your Google Plus account. Once done, visit the 'Layout' tab on your blogger dashboard, and select 'Add A Gadget'. You will then be able to see and add this widget easily to your blog.

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Share Blog updates on Google Plus

Social media promotion is every blogger's need to spread its readership. And this is the reason why bloggers need to share their awesome content so that people around the world can know about it. Now, Google's Google Plus came up with a new feature. Google recently realeased the Google takeout service that lets you merge two Google Plus accounts together. Now, you can connect your Google Plus account with Blogger to easily share your posts and also gain recognition for your work on social media. A share box will automatically appear when you publish a post which lets share your content. Here comes the worst part, it works only for blogger blogs and is not available for WordPress or TypePad or any other publishing platforms.

Getting started
This trick will work only if you have your Google Plus and Blogger profiles under the same Google Account with a common name. If both your profiles are under one account, then you are lucky. Simply log in to your blogger account, and go to your blog dashboard. In the top-right region of screen, you will see a cog icon. Click on the Cog and select the option 'Connect to Google+'. Click on that and you will see a confirmation screen. Now, you are ready to make the switch. Just check the 'I've read........' box and click switch. If in the future, you want to disconnect the two accounts and revert to your blogger profile, you can simply disconnect by using the settings option (Cog option).

Sharing posts
Once your posts are linked, you will see an option to share your posts right from your Blogger dashboard. This will also let you share posts whenever you want, without having to deal with auto pop-ups. Besides this, whenever you publish a post, you will see a pop-up box appear that has sharing options. You can add a comment as you like. You can also choose which circles you want to share the post with. By default, the option will be set to public.

Disabling Share Box
If you don't like this sharing box, you can simply disable it by going into Settings and then to Posts and Comments.

Note :- This feature will not be available to you if you have adult content on your blog.

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