Karthik MS

Unlike many other tech experts, I will not be going to bluntly judge +Samsung  and say they've made an S6s or an extension of the S6, because every single move Samsung has made towards the S7 is of progress and in the process delivered what the consumers needed and asked for           Starting with the IP68 certification, which is just not getting enough attention and limelight as it can single handed be the key to success for the S7 and the S7 edge. The fact that this beautiful looking and performing device can be submerged under water, 5 feet deep for 30 mins is a sheer winning proposition when compared to the rivals in the business.           Samsung is on the forefront when it comes to groundbreaking camera technology and the predecessor S6 already had a beast of a camera, the S7 & the S7 edge, with the 'eyebrow-raising' aperture of f/1.7 and 1.4-micron pixel sensor, dual pixel lens made me smile ear to ear. This r...

LG, in the smartphone business, was always an underappreciated company, even when it had best in class camera, a leather design even James Bond would fall in love with, curved display and what not!           When the rest of the world is catching up with catering to the needs and necessities of the public, LG goes out of its way to make a modular-ish phone, which comes with removable or rather replaceable parts. The bottom part of the phone pops off delicately at the push of a button, out of which comes the 2800 mAh battery, attached to the lower part of the phone and said part can be replaced with other parts like a camera module that has a shutter button, a ring to manually zoom in and out, a video recording button and a camera wake up button as well. The upside to this module us that it houses a 1200 mAh battery that adds to the already reasonably good one. yay for more battery This is just one, among many modules out there and private companies can jump ...

TECH SPECS: 1. 1450 mAh Battery 2. 4 Inch qHD Display with a 540x960 pixels resolution 3. 1.3 GHz quad-core processor 4. 8 GB internal storage with expandability up to 32 GB via MicroSD card 5. 1 GB RAM 6. 3.2 MP rear and 0.3 MP front camera 7. Android 5.1 Lollipop Operating System (No GPS, NFC, Compass, 4G and omits a lot of other sensors) Name of the company: Ringing Bells President: Ashok Chadha Managing Director: Mohit Goel I always like to answer the questions that need be answered so with these above things in mind let's start with the blog. The following are the questions, the President and the MD of Ringing Bells answered recently and I am going to do my best and paraphrase them for you in layman's terms. Q1. How does the company make the profit, selling the phone for a mere 251 INR? ($4 USD) AC: "The price is based on 4 pillars. a) Technology. b) The economy of scale. Which means that by producing a high volume of handsets, we can reduce the...

          Everyone expected Samsung to pull a rabbit out of the hat with its new releases, the Galaxy A5 (2016) & A7 (2016), but Samsung has yet again "pulled-an-iPhone", if you will, with the pricing of their new phones. I agree the phones look beautiful with their Galaxy S6 ish glass finished glossy front and back, aperture f/1.9 on both front and rear cameras, a fancy fingerprint sensor and all such bells and whistles even small time companies are mastering lately, a Chinese giant by the name of "Coolpad" is all set to release their phone ( +Coolpad   note 3 lite) with a fingerprint sensor to a throw-away MRP of 7,000 INR on  +Amazon.com           Samsung has outdone itself by pricing these phones (A5 2016: 29,999 INR & A7 2016 33,400 INR) way above everyone's fathom. Websites like phonecurry.com who had estimated a price value of 20,000 INR for the A5 (2016) when it launches ought to be scratching ...

          No matter where we all live we are pretty much aware that Samsung and Apple lead the mobile phone market and the said companies are the ones that have taken the risks, made mistakes, blunders at times and their sales have reflected likewise                   For a company like Samsung to prevail as the leader, let alone thrive in a market like our own, (India) need to take huge chances and risks in the entry level segments i.e, starting from 5,000 INR. Samsung knows the nice here and has also catered to the demand with the likes of their new arrivals, the ON7, ON5, J2, J5, and J7. The company still falls short to compete with fierce rivals like #Lenovo, #Xiaomi, #Asus, #OnePlus and #Huawei with their extremely aggressively priced cheap phones with high-end specs, so much so that a phone with fingerprint sensor and fast charging starts from a price of mere 10,000 INR which translates to roughly $150. ...

So, LiFi (Life Fidelity) is this innovative new wireless communication technology that uses LEDs to provide us with internet service within our houses and offices. In times where everyone including Apple is getting hacked, WiFi that penetrates walls and doors are open gates to hackers to practice their skills or even the common joe who can take advantage of an open WiFi network,  LiFi comes in handy to make internet more secure, substantially faster and Innovative. Professor Harald Hass from the University of  Edinburgh is said to have invented the LiFi technology to eliminate the use of radio spectrum to transfer and receive data. In his TEDGlobal talk in 2011 he discusses the advantages of LiFi over WiFi and it is pretty significant. In recent studies, scientists have found that pureLiFi can provide users with speeds upto 100 times the speed (2GB movie downloaded in mere seconds) of a WiFi signal but only when your device is exposed to said LED light direc...

Let me start by saying that google played smart by making the 5X in LCD and the 6P in AMOLED. If the Nexus 5X made by LG had an AMOLED screen it would have clearly taken the throne for being a better phone ergonomically. But there is one more major factor that differentiates the 5X from the 6P that is the SOC. Unless one has used the 6P they can just not tell the difference in performance between the two devices. The 808 chipset on the 5X is plenty fast if one knows how to maintain a smartphone. Having said that, there is noticeable difference in the battery life of the two phones, the 6P clearly beats its little unidentical twin here. The 6P has a good battery in it which lasts a day for a heavy user, it comes with a great camera which google boasts of, having a 1.55 micron pixel sensor which makes sense on paper a lot more than a 21mp odd camera, the camera performs really well in low light conditions as well (when held steadily). It has a negligible bump that houses the camera, m...

As hardly as #Apple is trying to catch up to the competition with #Google, they just may have done one better in terms of innovation with their new "3D touch". It makes a lot of sense to peek into apps instead of opening them each time and going back. The new #RoseGold color addition to the lot will surely be a hit among women and expect to see a lot of celeb selfies holding this. They have tried to pull a gimmick with the front camera that takes pictures along with a flash, but wait, there is not flash but the retina display pops up a quick white screen, lighting up ones face along with the camera shutter, can't say for sure how effective this will be in the real world. Apple always made the best cameras on cell phones and it is good to see the new phones can record 4K video with their 12MP cameras. Having said all this, Apple was raving about Android users are gradually migrating to the iPhone, i cant wait to see what Google has up its sleeve, given that all Ap...

Narendra Modi government's Digital India initiatives come up with the 2MBPS basic broadband scheme and it is my dream come true. I am not an avid downloader so i could work with 2MBPS until 8GB, after which the bandwidth was throttled to 512KBPS. Now that #BSNL has made 2MBPS standard it is amazing for the country in which only around 20% of the populous use the internet. Faster speeds is definitely going to increase the numbers substantially. This was more of a 'necessity' than a luxury for the second biggest populated country on the planet.  State-run telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) on Monday decided to upgrade landline broadband speed to minimum 2Mbps at no additional cost for broadband customers on pan-India basis from October 1. Its all in our favor considering that we'll be paying  800/month ($12) for an unlimited 2mbps broadband plan is stupendous. 

OnePlus 2 Camera Review!: http://youtu.be/VDiOv9148gc Tech genius +Mkbhd reveals the camera specs of the underdog company Oneplus's new 'two' and is quite strict about it or should i say bluntly honest. ;) He had previously taken heat for talking about the oneplus a little more than he does about other phones but this review shows us he's the man to rely on for honest to earth reviews.

Original pictures of all our planets in the solar system, FINALLY :) 

Large Hadron Collider discovers new pentaquark particle

      With the leaks going around with the new Moto G 3rd Gen, running the new Snapdragon 610 CPU and what not, its only about time people get to know the truth about the company that made a kick-ass comeback in 2013.       I am not here to talk cliches or make news, i am here to address the short comings of the new  +Motorola  range of phones, right from the 1st Moto G in 2013 to their  +Nexus  offering the  +Nexus 6 . Lets face it, the camera sucks in all these devices and the battery is weak. these are for sure the elephants we need to address about. Without fixing these 2 issues 'big time' Motorola is going to wind up bankrupt again. They need to skip a level in Optics and get help from samsung and entertain giants like  +Intel  to make them SOC's. Lets not forget Intel chipsets are found to give a lot better batter back up, compared to the likes of +Qualcomm  & +Mediatech     ...

+OnePlus   took a smart way of revealing the details of their new flagship the  +OnePlus Two  gradually to the public but now we can safely say the rabbit is almost out of the box. The 'two' comes with the new monster from +Qualcomm  ,  +Snapdragon  810 v2.1 CPU and a 5.5 inch screen, USB Type-C connector for data transfer and charging, active virtual reality launch, finger print scanner, 4GB DDR4 RAM, 3300 mAh battery. These are the confirmed specs but the question about expandable storage, screen resolution & camera specs and optics details still remais a mystery. Oneplus also gave disappointing news that they are going to retain their 'invite system' of sales because it "worked out well" for them with the 'One' but not so much for the buyers around the world who are eagerly waiting to get their hands on the 'two' without much hassle. Oneplus still remains the underdog ergo a favorite among the masses who listen to the expectations of...

I was really curious about this new phone lenovo was set to launch and i registered a week before the release, on flipkart and the news here in India says there were 5,00,000 registrations for the phone and what happens, the phone goes out of stock within 30 seconds. Q1. +Lenovo  knew they had overwhelming amount of registrations and did nothing to supply the numbers required. Why? Q2. Why do flash sales like these when flipkart is more than capable now to deliver any number of orders they receive? Q3. +Flipkart  fails to give the disappointed customers, the next date of availability. I am a customer. I really don't care about the e-commerce strategies. Giants like Flipkart and Lenovo must be a lot smarter than this. right?