Author: Bharadwaj

LG G Flex, the pioneering flexible phone with a curved screen, was officially launched in India yesterday. This is out and out a technological showcase product from LG, with innovations like a flexible display, body and battery brought to the table. It also features all the high end features that one would expect from a flagship device, but is also a phablet with a 6″ screen. Basically, this is the pinnacle of LG’s engineering prowess, which might actually end up setting the precedent for a whole lot of devices in the future. The Indian variant we have here, is priced at a sky high Rs.69,999/- which is unattainable for most. With that price tag, apart from the device itself, what does the G Flex pack in terms of box contents? We unbox the device to find out –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFASnC7qD6M
As you can see in the video, there is not much to say about the box contents, they are pretty standard for a high end phone, but it is still good to note that it ships with the Quad Beat in-ear headset. Here are the box contents laid out in a single pic –
Box contents
LG G Flex in Titanium Silver colour
Micro USB cable
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Notion Ink Adam II Review
Notion Ink is a name that most of us remember for various reasons. Some of us remember it for the innovative wannabe product, a world’s first Tegra 2 chipset on board with an innovative Pixel Qi dual mode display and a rotating camera, that too way back in 2010 when Android 2.1 was doing the rounds. Some of us remember it for the lengthy delays in production and the overall failure to meet expectations due to sub standard retail hardware and experience. Suffice to say, it was deemed a failure.
But the company is now back with another product, the Notion Ink Adam II which was recently released in India for a starting price of Rs. 16,499. We had unboxed it a while back to find out if the device redeems itself from its predecessor’s failure. We were initially impressed, but now after about a week of usage, is the Notion Ink Adam II really worth our time and money? We find out in our full review.
Unboxing
The Adam II comes with a big box with minimal number of components. A surprising addition was the DIY kick stand made of card board, here are the box contents laid …

Round 2 of the SmartFone 2013 championship had begun yesterday with a really close competition between the LG G2 vs Nokia Lumia 1020, and today it’s the turn of Google Nexus 5 and the Sony Xperia Z1 to fight it out in our battleground. After winning massively over the iPhone 5s, the Nexus 5 is in contention with the Xperia Z1 which initially trailed so close with the Note 3 and later pulled a massive lead out of the hat. Both these devices are flagships and have their own advantages and disadvantages, so which one do you want to vote for? Time to decide!
Google Nexus 5 Review | Sony Xperia Z1 Review
Both being flagship devices, the specifications are obviously packed to the brim, but with the price of the Nexus 5, there has been some cost cutting involved. Here are the detailed specifications of both the devices below –
Google Nexus 5 Specifications
4.95 inch 1920×1080 full HD IPS LCD screen – 445 PPI
Comes in White and Black Variants
8.59 mm thick and 130g weight
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 2.26 GHz Quad Core processor with Adreno 330 450 MHz GPU and 2 GB of RAM
WiFi b/g/n/ac BT 4.0 and NFC with Qi wireless charging in-built
8 …

The mid range smartphone market in India is insanely competitive to say the least. We have been seeing tons of companies make affordable phones with some of the specifications that are usually only reserved for the top end phones. But due to the same cut throat competition, we have also been seeing many similar devices, with common attributes like the display and the chipset. In that sense, the current market trend is this – a 5 inch 1080p display and a MediaTek 6589T processor. The Gionee Elife E6, the Micromax Canvas Turbo and of course, the Intex Aqua i7 are all part of this trend, improving upon the 720p screen based phones earlier. But is it really worth the effort and upgrade? We find out in our review and are going to see if the Aqua i7 delivers the usual promise of “more for less”.
Box Contents
Intex Aqua i7
In-ear earphones with mic
Micro USB cable
Travel Charger
Flip Cover that replaces the back
User guide and Warranty card
The box contents are the usual except for the Flip Cover that we increasingly notice in big screen phone boxes these days. Here’s our unboxing video of the same –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmJUUpl5sLM
Hardware Walkthrough
The design of the Intex Aqua i7 is …

It’s been a week since we started our blind test polls for the “Best Smartphone Camera of 2013” and we have decided to reveal the line up and the results today. Why today? Well there are a couple of reasons for that. One, You, the readers have unanimously voted for Lumia 1020 as the best of the lot. Two, today is 10-20-2013(MM-DD-YY), and Nokia have decided to name this the International Mobile Photography day. So, we couldn’t find it any more befitting that the results be announced today. So, here you go, the line up and the results of our “Best Smartphone Camera of 2013” polls and all the full resolution samples.
The Line Up –
As you know from our first post, the lineup we announced there was random and not with respect to the numbering of the photos in our crops. So, here it is, the 6 phones that represented the numbers!
1 – Apple iPhone 5s
2 – Nokia Lumia 1020
3 – LG G2
4 – HTC One
5 – Samsung Galaxy S4
6 – Sony Xperia Z1
Did you guess right? Lets now move on to the full resolution samples of each photo.
Sample 1
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In this image, the Nokia Lumia 1020 and …

2013 has been an eventful year for cameras on Smartphones. We have seen oversampling algorithms take advantage of huge sensors, increased pixel sizes subverting the megapixel race, optical image stabilization enabling great low light imaging and general widespread adoption of stacked CMOS sensors, making it one of those years when companies made their camera efforts serious. This also means that the traditional gap between the best and the rest has gotten a lot more closer. So, which is the best smartphone camera of this year? We have brought a number of flagship devices together to find out, in a blind test.
As you can see from the image above, these are the devices that are part of our blind test –
Samsung Galaxy S4
LG G2
HTC One
Apple iPhone 5s
Sony Xperia Z1 – 8 MP Oversampling mode
Nokia Lumia 1020 – 5 MP Oversampling mode
The Blind Test
Ok so this is what we have done. We have taken a total of five photos, with several parameters and lighting conditions in mind. The frames are almost similar between all the models with the only deterrent being the actual field of view of the lens. Some of the phones have a narrower view, while some have a wider …