Author: Sneha Bokil-Paranjape

BlackBerry announced the Classic smartphone last month in the US for $449. The BlackBerry Classic was originally introduced as BlackBerry Q20 at the MWC 2014 earlier this year. We have already seen the unboxing of the device and now let’s take a look at the hardware of the phone in the form of photo gallery.
The BlackBerry Classic sports a 3.5-inch (720 x 720 pixels) touch screen display at 294 PPI pixel density which is the largest ever on a BlackBerry QWERTY smartphone. Powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, the Classic packs a 2GB RAM, 16GB of inbuilt memory and supports microSD cards up to 128GB. The 2515 mAh battery promises of up to 22 hours of mixed battery life. The phone runs on BB OS 10.3.1 that adds updated icons and an instant action bar.
The BlackBerry Classic has a 2MP Fixed-Focus front-facing camera with 720p HD video recording. It has the earpiece and BlackBerry branding at the center.
The phone has a 35-key QWERTY physical backlit keyboard with wider layout and larger sculpted keys and navigation keys. It comes with the trademark trackpad at the center.
Classic has volume keys on the right side with Mute button in the middle. …

Samsung announced the Galaxy A5 smartphone with all metallic build few months back. We brought you the unboxing and benchmarks recently now let’s take a look at the hardware of the phone in this photo gallery.
Samsung Galaxy A5 has 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display. It is powered by quad-core Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) SoC that has four ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs clocked at 1.19 GHz per core and has Adreno 306 GPU, similar to the Galaxy Mega 2. It has a 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal memory and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5MP front facing camera and Samsung branding along with the earpiece at the center.
The phone has trademark home button and on-screen touch buttons. It is 6.7mm thick and weighs 123g.
The phone has a full metal body and the back cover cannot be removed. It has a 13MP rear camera with LED flash, 1080p video recording.
The Duos branding is seen at the bottom of the back of the phone.
The volume rockers are present on the left.
The power button, SIM and microSD card slots are present on the right.
It has dual nano SIM slots. The secondary SIM slot can also be used as a …

Apple launched the iPhone 6 Plus, the company’s first large screen smartphone in October. We have already seen the unboxing, photo gallery, benchmarks, battery test and review of the iPhone 6 Plus. Now let’s compare the iPhone 6 Plus with Lumia 1520 that was launched last year in October.
The iPhone 6 Plus sports a 5.5 inch Retina HD display screen (1920 x 1080 pixels) and is powered by a new Apple A8 processor. The Lumia 1520 has a 6-inch (1920 × 1080 pixels) capacitive touch screen ClearBlack display with Gorilla Glass 2 protection. It is powered by 2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor.
The iPhone 6 Plus runs on iOS 8 while the Lumia 1520 was launched running Windows Phone 8 and it got updated to Windows Phone 8.1 later. The former has a 1.2MP front facing FaceTime camera with 720p HD video recording. Lumia 1520 has a 1.2MP HD front-facing camera with wide-angle lens.
The iPhone 6 Plus has the trademark physical home button along with the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. The Lumia 1520 has capacitive button on the screen.
The iPhone 6 Plus has an aluminium unibody design and have curved edges and the Apple logo is situated at the …

Apple launched the iPhone 6 Plus, the company’s first large screen smartphone in October. We have already seen the unboxing, photo gallery, benchmarks, battery test and review of the iPhone 6 Plus. Now let’s compare the iPhone 6 Plus with OnePlus One that we have already reviewed and will launch in India soon exclusively on Amazon.
The iPhone 6 Plus sports a 5.5 inch Retina HD display screen (1920 x 1080 pixels) and is powered by a new Apple A8 processor. OnePlus One also has a 5.5-inch (1920 ×1080 pixels) Full HD display with Corning Gorilla glass 3 protection. It is powered by 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor with Adreno 330 GPU.
The iPhone 6 Plus runs on iOS 8 while the OnePlus One runs on Android 4.4 Kitkat-based CyanogenMod 11S ROM. The former has a 1.2MP front facing FaceTime camera with 720p HD video recording while the latter has a 5MP camera.
The iPhone 6 Plus has the trademark physical home button along with the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. OnePlus One on the other hand has capacitive touch buttons below the display.
The iPhone 6 Plus has an aluminium unibody design and have curved edges and the Apple logo is situated at …

Apple launched the iPhone 6 Plus, the company’s first large screen smartphone in October. We have already seen the unboxing, photo gallery, benchmarks, battery test and review of the iPhone 6 Plus. Now let’s compare the iPhone 6 Plus with Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in a photo gallery.
The iPhone 6 Plus sports a 5.5 inch Retina HD display screen (1920 x 1080 pixels). It is powered by a new Apple A8 processor. On the other hand the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 sports a 5.7-inch (1440 x 2560 pixels) QHD Super AMOLED and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset with quad-core 2.5GHz Krait 450 CPU, Adreno 420 GPU. The iPhone 6 Plus runs on iOS 8 while the Note 4 runs on Android 4.4 KitKat.
The iPhone 6 Plus has a 1.2MP front facing FaceTime camera with with 720p HD video recording while the Note 4 has 3.7-megapixel front-facing camera with f/1.9 aperture.
The iPhone 6 Plus has the trademark physical home button along with the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. On the other hand the Samsung Note 4 has the company’s signature home button with built-in fingerprint sensor. It has backlit capacitive touch buttons on either sides.
iPhone 6 Plus has an aluminium …

Along with Micromax and Spice, Karbonn launched its first Android One smartphone last week. Dubbed as Karbon Sparkle V, the phone is priced at Rs 6,399. We unboxed the smartphone recently. We had already seen photo galleries of the Spice Dream UNO and Micromax Canvas A1 smartphones, here we have the photo gallery of the Karbonn Sparkle V.
Karbonn Sparkle V sports a  4.5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) IPS display and is powered by 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor with Mali-400 GPU.
The phone has a 2MP front facing camera and a circular earpiece in the center.
There are three on screen buttons at the lower end of the phone.
At the back the phone has the Karbonn branding in the middle and followed by Android One branding. The loudspeaker grill is in a rectangular shape and not circular unlike the other two smartphones.
The 5MP rear camera is situated at the back along with the LED flash.
At the the top we can see the 3.5mm audio jack.
The micro USB port is situated at the bottom.
The power button and volume rockers are situated at the right hand side.
The phone comes with a removable back cover.
It has two micro SIM card slots next to each other and a micro SD …

Huawei announced the Ascend Mate 2 at CES 2014 in January this year. We have already brought you Hands On, Unboxing, benchmarks and photo gallery of the Ascend Mate 2. Now we are showing you the comparison of the Mate 2 which is a successor of the original Ascend Mate that was launched last year.
Both the phones sport a 6.1-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display and come with Corning Gorilla glass protection. The Ascend Mate 2 is powered by 1.6 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU while the Ascend Mate has a 1.5 GHz quad-core Hi-Silicon K3V2 processor with 16-core GPU.
The Ascend Mate 2 has a 5MP HD front-facing camera while the Ascend Mate sports a 1MP HD front-facing camera.
Both the devices have on-screen buttons.
A the back the Ascend Mate 2 features a 13MP auto focus rear camera with LED flash below the camera lens. On the other hand the Ascend Mate has a 8MP auto focus rear camera with LED flash that is to the left of the camera lens.
The speaker grill on the Ascend Mate 2 is situated at the rear end in the middle, while it is to the right end for the Ascend Mate.
The Ascend Mate …

Sony is planning to debut two wearable devices at the IFA 2014 along with other smartphones and tablets. According to a report from 9to5Google, Sony will launch Android Wear powered SmartWatch3 and SmartBand Talk at an event this week.
SmartWatch 3 which is the successor of SmartWatch and SmartWatch 2, will run Android Wear and sport a 1.68-inch 320 x 320 display. It will be IP58 certified dust and water resistant, says the report. Earlier reports had suggested that Sony’s next smartwatch will run on comapny’s own SmartWatch OS and not Android Wear. No other details about the watch are known as of yet.
Moving on, the second wearable expected to be announced is the SmartBand Talk which is the successor to the SmartBand SWR10. The health monitoring fitness tracker device will likely feature a curved E Ink display and support Bluetooth connectivity. The report has released photos of the wearables under the label “Renderings of Sony’s new SmartWatch 3 and SmartBand Talk’. However, there is no official word from Sony regarding the same.
Sony is also expected to announce a complete line of Xperia Z3 products including the Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact at the event.
via:9to5Google

Microsoft officially launched Lumia 530 Dual SIM in India for Rs 7,349 earlier this month, while the Lumia 525 was launched in January this year. The Lumia 530 is the cheapest dual SIM Lumia smartphone. Lets take a detailed look at both the devices in several photos.
The Lumia 530 Dual SIM has 4-inch FWVGA (854 x 480 pixels) display while the Lumia 525 has a 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) IPS display.
Both the phones do not boast of a front facing camera and also do not have LED notification light on the front. The Lumia 525 has proximity and ambient light sensors, but these are absent in Lumia 530.
The Lumiia 530 has on-screen virtual buttons instead of the capacitive ones on the Lumia 525.
The Lumia 530 Dual SIM runs on Windows Phone 8.1 while the Lumia 525 was originally shipped with Windows Phone 8. However, Nokia announced Cyan update in July which updated the Lumia 525 with Windows Phone 8.1.
Lumia 530 Dual SIM is smaller in size and has curved bezels while the Lumia 525 is a bit longer in length and has more of flat edges. The former is available in Dark Grey, Orange, White and Green colors while the latter is available …