Category: new hardware

Motorola’s New and Improved Droid Razr M Android Smartphone

Fahad Majidi

Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX 4G Android PhoneMotorola has never been on my list until the release of Motorola Razr M. when I first bought my Android based Motorola smartphone Clig XT it was a terrible experience. It was an underpowered good for nothing smartphone which was soon abandoned after its release. Running on Android 1 point something it never got upgraded to next level and in the end all I was left with was CyanogenMod which gave it life for another few months or so.

The Droid Razr M [Affiliate Link]is a good entry to the Motorola’s Droid Razr lineup and far better than the Clig XT. It is slim and light and a robust step towards the future of Droid Razr franchise. Not imitating any of Apple’s features the device accounts for number of reasons why you should go for Android.

One of the facts that accounts for the success of Android is affordability and Droid Razr M certainly among the cheapest of the smartphones out there. It costs around $149.99 at Verizon with a two year contract and $99 if you for mail-in rebate. As far as design of the device in concerned it is compacted and light weighted and but at the same time it is integrated with large display which makes web browsing, movie watching and mail reading much more of a delightful experience. It manifests what Motorola and Google can do as a whole.

Handset is extremely slim measuring around 8.4mm at its thinnest and at its thickest the device accounts for 1cm, clinging to the old but successful approach by keeping the handset as thin as possible. Integrated irremovable 2000 mAh the device sits pretty comfortably in hand with its 12.2 by 6.1cm dimensions. Scratch resistant Gorilla Glass is provided with 950 x 540 pixel display and to further augment things display has been corroborated with eye popping colors and brightness. Clubbed between rear and front camera providing you video recording at high definition 1080p and also provids you with videoconferencing. On the inside the phone is runs on a 1.5 GHz dual core processor which is supported by RAM of 1GB and a storage capacity of 8GB is given. And out of the box it also holds the NFC support as well, so it has all the things that a high end handset has to offer but comes with price tag of just $149.99.

Droid Razr M [Affiliate Link]runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and does not possess any skins or integrated apps by manufacturers or carriers, which is pretty good because most of the times you do not really want all that stuff but you can remove it either. Battery life of the device is pretty brilliant even on 4G LTE of Verizon the battery lasted for complete one day and a bit more. It is all because of the Motorola’s power conservation system called Smart Action which depends extends battery life and depends on number of situations such as physical location or time of the day. For instance, when it comes to me I have custom set the Smart Action which disables the 4G data after 8 p.m. switches to Wi-Fi which is then turned off after midnight. You can set it according to your own schedule.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Competing with the iPad

Fahad Majidi

If there is anyone out there that can compete Apple in the realm of tablets it is Samsung. And the reason behind that is Samsung has been making some pretty good tablets because the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 android based tablet was considered to be the best tablet after iPad. On the other hand believes Samsung has made patent violation which led to the stoppage of Galaxy Tab in US in June. But the two tech giants are still battling on the patent infringement as Apple’s believes Samsung has violated iPhone’s patents.

Now Samsung has come up with something which is even better than Galaxy Tab, the company has released Galaxy Note 10.1 which is based on more powerful engine, you can draw and write on the screen with the help of stylus and it also has a handwriting recognition program that works pretty well. You can also perform multitasking which enables you to perform several actions at the same time. Overall it is a nice device but not nicer than iPad.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 [Affiliate link] comes with a price tag of $499, same as the iPad, for Verizon with 16 gigs of storage capacity where as the 32 gigs would cost you $549. The device is covered in plastic and made solid but not as solid as iPad’s metal casing. On the front two stereo speakers are integrated on the top, there is also MicroSD slot on the upper edge of the device which kicks in additional 32 gigs of storage capacity, something that iPad does not offer.

Galaxy Note 10.1 also comes with an infrared emitter which lets you control TV sets with your tablet. iPad have the similar option which it requires wi-fi home network. But in case of Samsung you do not need any wi-fi just configure your built-in software with your TV set there you go, your tablet become a TV remote.

Adding the extra memory slot and making your tablet as double for TV set is nice but it is not something that will make iPad user upset because iPad does not have these things Thing that would make them upset is if you take away their high resolution crystal clear display, it called Retina display by Apple. In case of Samsung, it provides you with a standard display which is not that bad but certainly nowhere near the iPad’s Retina display.

But Galaxy Note 10.1 does have an upper hand on iPad because of its multitasking. iPad does not allow you to run more than one app at a time. You either have to shut them down or rum them in background whereas Galaxy Note 10.1 lets you perform multiple things at a time. The device gives you the feature called Multiscreen which enable to several apps at the same time including web browser, email program, video player etc. So for instance on one side of the screen you can put a movie on download and on the other side you can read reviews and fun facts about it on Wikipedia.

Fahad Majidi is a Paid Contributor for the Paulstechtalk.com website.  Any views of his is his own and not of the website.   Any Links in this article are affiliate links to products mentioned to help support paying for the contributor.

Is Spore Worth 49.99?

Paul

So I been doing a little digging and trying to find out what the heck people are complaining about and I found some great reviews telling me exactly why people hate EA.  They don’t necessarily hate Spore or Will Wright, but the Security around The Spore game.

So In a couple of these comments.  These reviews talk about Creating the creatures and All.  I’ll submit some of the reviews that I thought was relevant and let you decide for yourself.  I would however wonder the one big question?  Is Spore Worth the Money?   Here’s the details that I know of right now:

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  1. You can only install it 3 times before you have to call EA to get an override code.  (Although I heard rumors that if you unistall it, you will get a credit for an Install)

  2. You can not Install new hardware or upgrade your hardware because if you do, it’ll count as an install, According to this one person.

  3. The game only allows 1 login per Install.  So you can’t have more than one character and one universe according to this person.

  4. Part of the Copy Protection prevents you from taking your saved games off your computer and taking it over to your friends house, according to this Person.

  5. On the Mac Version, it tends to breaks subsequent versions of the system services according to this one person.

According to Amazon the reviews aren’t pleasant.  I tend to agree does this mean there are going to be even more people pirating it because they don’t want the DRM or Is EA going to send out a patch to fix this.  I am curious as to see how EA responds to all this NONE TOLERANCE to DRM.

After seeing all these reviews of Spore, I tend to agree with everyone.  I’ll probably wait and see before I buy my copy.  All the reviews however don’t look promising or even makes the games look like it wouldn’t be fun.