OnePlus 7 Pro Review

A full-screen beauty with pop up camera.
By Jasmeet Singh Khurana
The amazing OnePlus 7 Pro is pretty much the phone of every techie’s dream. It’s an incredible all-screen smartphone that doesn’t ruin its edge-to-edge display neither with a notch or hole punch front-facing camera—Oneplus has opted to roll out the 7 Pro to a pop-up module instead. Undoubtedly, other phones like the Vivo Nex, Nubia X and Oppo Find X have pulled off the pop-up camera and all-screen more before, but none of these have had the software or specs to match up with the best flagship smartphones currently on the market shelves. OnePlus is definitely going to beat the market of flagship smartphones from renowned Brands with the 7 Pro offering an absurd 12GB of ram memory and 256GB of storage. The fantastic set of cameras and a day-and-a-half long battery life is just the cherry on the cake, making this, one of the best value smartphones anyone can buy right now.

OnePlus 7 Pro – Design and Features

In terms of design, the OnePlus 7 Pro has made quite a high improvement over its predecessor the OnePlus 6T. Most notably, this new handset features a larger and complete 6.67-inch full-screen display with curved sides which imitates the Samsung Galaxy S10.Additionally, the new Fluid AMOLED display, which introduces a resolution bump, inclining up from the OnePlus 6T’s 1,080 x 2,340 panel to a 1,440 x 3,120 screen, and that puts it well on with even the 6.4-inch Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus which has 1,440 x 3,040 display.The 7 Pro’s display is a sharp deviation from the previous 6T’s, which featured a 6.41-inch flat face screen and a tiny dew drop notch to make room for a front-facing camera. This new smartphone is strictly an all-screen phone, so you won’t find a notch or any hole punch on the front of this phone, and to make this possible, OnePlus has moved the 7 Pro’s front-facing camera to a motorized pop-up node found at the top left of the phone. 
The front-facing camera module extends and retracts in a mere second and it can quickly recognize face to unlock the device. This amazing pop-up module also employs some very clever and smart tricks to ensure that it doesn’t break, such as, immediately retracting itself, once it senses itself falling. This retracting pop up camera also acts as a 16MP selfie camera. It’s Unfortunate to mention that the moving camera module also prevents this phone from being entirely waterproof though, it is somewhat splash proof—so don’t even plan to take a shower with it, as you can do with other smartphones on the market shelves with IPS rating.

At the back, there’s the OnePlus 7 Pro’s triple  camera set-up, that includes a 48MP main camera, 8MP telephoto shooter, and 16MP ultra-wide.
As in case of 6T, the company’s previous flagship handset, the 7 Pro also features a glass back with an intricate number of layers to provide it an opalescent, metallic shine, but it’s sad to share that it doesn’t support wireless charging due to the focus on the wired fast charging (warp charger).
Now, returning to the device, it is worth mentioning that the Oneplus 7 Pro doesn't have a visible fingerprint sensor and that’s because it employs an ‘in-display’ fingerprint sensor.
Unfortunately, the in-display fingerprint sensor on this and all other similar devices that have featured one so far—is still too inaccurate, and we found using Face Unlock more reliable and fast.

OnePlus 7 Pro – Performance and Gaming

Powered with the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip found in many latest flagship Android smartphones, the OnePlus 7 Pro is a nippy performer. The OxygenOS-flavored version of Android 9(Pie) glides smoothly on the 7 Pro with all the apps launching instantly. The OnePlus 7 Pro’s display runs at 90 frames per second by default and that makes scrolling and practically doing anything on the phone feels incredibly smooth.
Speaking of the display, the 6.67 inch all-screen experience is quite amazing. The Wide-screen 21:9 movies nearly fill up the entire screen and reading news stories feels like using a tall Kindle, and during gaming, the visuals expand across the phone’s whole visual canvas. The OnePlus 7 Pro’s dual stereo speakers are the clearest and loudest from any smartphone, and that’s with only one of the duo being front facing, as the bottom speaker is pointed out to the lower right side.

In spite of the fact that, it isn’t marketed as a gaming phone as the Asus Razer Phone 2 or ROG Phone, the OnePlus 7 Pro has an enhanced gaming mode, and that can be activated manually in the phone settings, and this specific mode is designed to block notifications, typically enhance haptic feedback, and activate a faux-HDR mode which brightens highlights and deepens the blacks.

 The OnePlus 7 Pro – Camera

The photography on the OnePlus 7 Pro is consistently impressive and outstanding than most smartphones in the similar price segment. Its main 48MP camera shoots stunningly sharp and amazingly detailed images. And it can also be used to shoot high-resolution, stabilized 4K video as well.
The 16MP ultra-wide shooter works upto-the-mark for capturing large scenes with a slightly more dramatic fish-bowled effect.
The 8MP telephoto shooter gives you a surprising amount of reach by emulating the 78mm focal length of a full-frame digital camera, and the photographs clicked are good but don't expect a DSLR quality images.
Night Sight, Night Mode or low-light shooting modes have become an increasingly common feature on smartphones. The OnePlus’ version is named as Nightscape and as it comes across as the most impressive, but sometimes a frustrating implementation of low-light shooting on phones, till date.
Determining by the Nightscape shots of the OnePlus 7 Pro, the smartphone seems to have taken genuine long exposure and then balances the exposure to look like a high-dynamic range shot. The OnePlus 7 Pro captures a more true-to-life images, better than the Huawei P30 Pro which has some big problems with capturing too much light coming off the billboards as a bloom effect.
Considering that the 7 Pro’s main camera has built-in optical image stabilization, hopefully, a future software update will be able to improve the Night Mode shooting more specifically.

OnePlus 7 Pro – Battery Life

At the end of most of the testing days with the OnePlus 7 Pro, the smartphone still used to retain 40% of its remaining battery life, and that even after a full day of heavy usage.This is worth mentioning that this phone that can last you a day and a half, even if you are from a heavy user segment.
And in any case, if you happen to drain the OnePlus 7 Pro’s battery completely, getting it back to 50% charge, just takes 20 minutes of charging when using its bundled Warp Charger brick.
The Verdict
The OnePlus 7 Pro with it’s incredible specs and joyous all-screen experience, is an exceptional smartphone that puts current flagship phones to shame. The incredible battery life also sets the smartphone as it lasts well more than a day. Though,this phone doesn’t have every modern creature comfort, such as wireless charging and complete waterproofing and this is the smartphone that offers much more value than other flagship smartphones on the market shelves, thanks to its lower price and greater specifications.

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Huawei Mate 20 Pro Camera Review

The three cameras and a flash forms a square!!!

The past duo years have been a strong period for smartphone cameras; and the Chinese giant

Huawei has really put its bit to push forward the mobile photography, it has taken a few

considerable years but the esteemed partnership between the company and German optics 

brand Leica, finally seems to be bringing out impressive results. It should be no surprise that 

the Mate 20 Pro has impressive photography skills over its rivals and has improved a ton over 

its predecessor Huawei P20 pro.

The main 40 megapixel f/1.8 sensor, the 20-megapixel f/2.2 ultra-wide sensor and a 

8-megapixel f/2.4 telephoto sensor for zooming; there’s also a dual-tone LED  flash rounding 

out the package that’s organized in a 2×2 grid on the rear of the device, gives a attractive look 

to the handset.

The most obvious change from the Huawei P20 Pro is that ultra-wide sensor, replacing the 

monochrome sensor that Huawei had been using for a while. The reason behind this switch is 

understood: Huawei spokesperson said there’s enough data and detail captured in the 

40-megapixel sensor to make the extra info collected by the black and white sensor useless. 

That seems to be a clever move, and it’s the one that pays off more in practice.

The duo having a normal focal length, ultra-wide and telephoto sensor presents a ridiculous 

level of versatility with your pictures. By default, the Mate 20 Pro utilizes pixel-compressing 

technique to use those 40 megapixels to produce a 10-megapixel image. You’ll get the best 

shots out of the 40-megapixel main sensor and can shoot purely at the same,but this limits the number of features available; for instance, you can’t zoom and leaves you with very large file sizes.

Telephoto sensor: You don’t lose much when you zoom

By default, another option ‘on’ is the Master Artificial Intelligence(AI) system, which alters the look of the picture in the process by making use of the dual 

neural engines inside the Kirin 980 to detect scenes and objects. We found this AI boosts 

colors,smooths faces and adds some minor image sharpening to landscapes; though,nothing 

is too strong, generating amicable pictures.

The Master AI will also suggest at appropriate times when the user should switch across the assorted modes available. Pointing the camera at a person, will enable portrait mode; pointing it at a bridge,will automatically switch to ultra-wide. We’ve been rigorously stirred by, that how well it adjudges the subjects presented to it in ‘my viewfinder’.

At occasions, the Master AI makes so many unnecessary changes to an image, often making 

greens and reds look unnatural, boosting blues in the sky too far. Though, some might 

probably prefer these “Instagrammable” specific changes.

There’s an option to turn the feature off completely, if one really dislikes the AI changes, yet it

will be advisable against the aforementioned, since it really leaves your snaps lacking in 

dynamic range and color and flat in appearance.

Ultra-wide adds some more versatility to your shots. These shots can suffer from some loss 

of details around the edges but in general, colours and details are great. The only one of the 

bunch to be optically stabilized is the 8-megapixel telephoto sensor (the all others rely on 

Huawei’s software-based EIS) and that is what helps to minimize hand-shake when taking 

portraits. Furthermore, the results are mostly very good, with precise cut-outs around 

everything out there.

Videography

The Mate 20 Pro camera is less efficient in video capturing and selfies. Video recording, is 

nothing more than adequate. The front camera,too, that’s a 24-megapixel shooter delivers 

relatively poor selfies; it feels as all those high rated megapixels are being wasted. There’s no 

4K at 60fps and the image stabilization is less effective in this segment.

Low light photography

Low-light shots from the Mate 20 Pro really  impressive, as the colors are kept intact and look 

great. The dedicated Night mode for capturing a photo of still objects or building at night 

generates amazing output.even with the Night Mode off you will get a more natural shot and 

that would still look great. In dark situations, even zooming works well, thanks to the Telephoto 

sensor for the same. Night Mode can struggle a bit with movement.

To sum up, Huawei Mate 20 pro is an excellent camera phone with great features and above 

all an efficient processor that makes it a  perfect choice for the users, but beware it comes with 

a hot price tag!!!
To get more information regarding Huawei mate20 pro please visit wikipedia.

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Samsung Galaxy S10 Camera Review

The three cameras in a lane

Samsung Galaxy S series is known for the high-quality optics phones, and the S10 is not an exception. The handset has a very nice 12-megapixel camera with optical image stabilization(OIS), an ultra-wide-angle 16-megapixel camera with a 123-degree field of view and a bonus 12-megapixel telephoto lens which enables 2X zoom.


Likewise LG’s similar V40 phone’s cameras, one can swap between these lenses with a finger touch at a button. Samsung will also save your efforts as you can simply scroll in and out more like a traditional camera, and the smartphone will automatically switch the lenses as appropriate. The interface is more easy to grasp and comes loaded with modified extras, including an enhanced panoramas and a Pro mode. There’s even a setting that allows Samsung’s algorithms to work automatically to suggest a better angle.

In-short, you won’t need the plethora of extra modes to click a great photo. The Galaxy S10 captures better shots than almost any phone out there in the market. It's in the same league with the handily outperformed: the OnePlus 6T iPhone XS and Google Pixel 3.

Though, the Night shots cannot match the Pixel 3’s new Night Sight mode, but they’re comparably far better than most else. The combination of lenses did a great job pulling in more light and color than we expected on a particularly brisk evening walk through a park.

The automatic scene effects did let us down in a few shots, for instance, Samsung's algorithms decided that each and every street lamp must sparkle like a star. At first that was charming, then we had to turn off the camera's Scene Optimizer to eliminate the sparkles.

On the contrary, we had fun with the Live Focus mode, which worked particularly great for selfies. Particularly, it finds your face and lets you blur the background in different manners.

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Is Apple iphone 6s still a smartphone that you should buy in 2019?

Will the apple iphone 6 , 6s and Se be getting ios 13???

In the present scenario, when all the smartphone companies are in a rush to introduce new

features and infinite( edge to edge) display, Apple iPhone 6s is still has that spark to stand

tall in the que. The smartphone was launched in September 2015. The phone comes with a

4.70-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 750 pixels by 1334 pixels at a PPI of

326 pixels per inch. Apple iPhone 6s is priced in India from Rs. 23,399* on limited e-commerce

 websites.

The Apple iPhone 6s is powered by 1.84GHz dual-core processor and it comes with a RAM

of 2GB. The phone packs 32GB (as Apple recently discontinued 64GB variant) of internal

storage that cannot be expanded. As far as the cameras are concerned, the Apple iPhone 6s

packs a 12-megapixel (f/2.2, 1.22-micron) primary camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel

front shooter for selfies, that clicks excellent photos and selfies even in 2019.

The Apple iPhone 6s runs iOS 9 and is powered by a 1715 mAh non removable battery.

It measures 138.30 x 67.10 x 7.10 (height x width x thickness) and weighs 143.00 grams.

The Apple iPhone 6s is a single SIM (GSM) smartphone that accepts a Nano-SIM.

Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Lightning, 3G and 4G (with support

for Band 40 used by some LTE networks in India). Sensors on the phone include Fingerprint

sensor, Compass/ Magnetometer, Proximity sensor, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor,

Gyroscope and Barometer.

Apple inc. to end software update support for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and more

Apple’s iphones' always had an advantage over Android phones, which is updates. The company which provides updates to even a 5-year-old smartphone, however, according to the recent reports, is going to replicate it's competitor Samsung, by stopping software update to it's iphone 6 and 6s handsets and a few more of their siblings.

The Apple iPhone 5s user was really lucky because the phone came out with iOS 7

and is currently running on iOS 12, which means that 5s got around 5 major updates during the cycle. On the other hand, the iPhone 6S, which came out in 2015 with iOS 9, will not get its fourth major update.

According to an Israeli website The Verifier, Apple will not roll out the update for  iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE. It was also quite understandable that the Apple iPhone 5S would not be updated as iOS 12 was called its last update at its rollout.

The report further suggests that even the old iPads including iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Mini 4, iPad Air and iPad Air 2 will also have to settle for the iOS 12. As for the iPods, the iPod 6th generation is the only iPod running on the latest version of iOS, which will also soon change as it will also not receive the upcoming update.

Apple has seen a decline in sales due to the rapid expansion of older iPhones. Preventing updates for older iPhones can help the company to increase sales slightly.

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 LAUNCH DATE REVEALED 12 February

According to a new report, Xiaomi Redmi Note 7’s India launch date is February 12, 2019. The Redmi Note 7 Pro is widely expected to launch in India alongside the Redmi Note 7. As anticipated, the Redmi Note 7 smartphone's biggest highlight is its 48-megapixel camera sensor at an affordable price tag. At this point, it's little doubtful whether the Redmi Note 7 will only launch or the Redmi Note 7 Pro might unveil alongside.

As per the last month’s tweet by Manu Kumar Jain, Global VP Xiaomi and MD Xiaomi India, hinted that the Redmi Note 7 is coming soon to India and we might finally have a launch date. As per the image shared by 91 Mobiles and claims that the Redmi Note 7 is the new Redmi-series launching on February 12. The launch invite posted by 91 Mobiles shows "Redmi Smartphone Launch" below the phone’s animated image that looks like the Redmi Note 7. Tagline that reads "Apna time aayega." which is further posted on the launch invite which falls on 12th february 2019.It's worth mentioning that Xiaomi is yet to start sending media invites for the launch event.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 expected price in India

About the crisp pricing, the Redmi Note 7 price in India might start at Rs. 9,999 while the Redmi Note 7 Pro could start at Rs. 13,999. It's widely expected that the Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro could be exclusive to Mi.com and will be also available via Mi Home offline stores. The Redmi Note 7-series is likely to be exclusive to the e-commerce giant ‘Flipkart’.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 specifications

Talking about highlights, the Redmi Note 7 features a Xiaomi debut dewdrop notch 6.3-inch display. It’s powered by the Snapdragon 660 processor. A 4800mAh battery backs the Redmi Note 7, and it comes with Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 support for fast charging. And thankfully the smartphone also comes with USB Type-C port and a 3.5mm audio jack.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 sports a dual camera setup. There's a 48-megapixel rear camera which is one of the biggest highlights for the price it carries while there's a 5-megapixel secondary sensor.

The Redmi Note 7 comes in two storage options - 3GB RAM and 32GB storage, and 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. It's widely expected that the Redmi Note 7 Pro will sport 6GB of RAM and come with 128GB storage. The smartphone will support expandable storage via microSD card up to 256GB. Recent reports have claimed that the Redmi Note 7 Pro could be powered Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 processor.

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