Samsung Galaxy S8 Vs iPhone 7: Will it be a blessed year for Samsung?

On 29th March 2017, Samsung has launched its much awaited top-of-line smartphones Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 plus, in an event in New York. As we all know 2016 was an unfortunate year for Samsung due to regretful failure of Galaxy Note 7. Company might have faced the loss of millions of dollars but the loss of its reputation in the market and a faith towards brand in the eyes of its users was more harmful. It was a vital challenge for the company to regain its reputation and consumer base. To do so the Korean tech giant put all its time and efforts to build a holistic piece of technology with best set of features and specification to make up for this huge loss and finally came up with its new launch, the world was having an eye on.

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The question is, would it be enough to reclaim the same control and influence over the market, what the brand used to have? And more importantly, would Galaxy S8 be able to retain its presence against upcoming 10th generation iPhone, which is said to have game-changing features and specifications. Though we are also not sure about it at the moment, the best way would be to have a look at the battle between the sovereigns of Android and iOS to find out the champion of the sector.

1. Design:

Apple has recently added one more eye popping colour option to its colour bucket for iPhone7 and iPhone 7 Plus, The RED Special Edition. Red aluminum finish is one of the coolest colour options of iPhone; you can’t get your eyes off. Apart from, Red iPhone offers silver, gold, rose gold, jet black and matt black colours. Samsung Galaxy S8 has the same glossy metal-glass body, which is reminiscent of its predecessors and offering five colour options which are Midnight Black, Orchid Gray, Arctic Silver, Coral Blue and Maple Gold. But glossy still works as a fingerprint magnet.

iPhone 7plus feels amazing while holding in hand with its slick design having 7.3mm width and 188g weight and the other hand Galaxy S8 Plus is 0.7 mm thicker but surprisingly 37g lighter in weight then iPhone.

Phone has replaced its home button with solid-state key, which can’t be pressed that means it is less prone to failure than its predecessor. However iPhone’s in built Taptic engine offers haptic feedback to the button which gives an impression to the user that the button is actually getting pressed.On the other hand Samsung removed the home button from Galaxy S8 and built a pressure-sensitive display. iPhone 7 has no space for headphone jack but Samsung still has one.

Though both the devices are outstanding with their slick looks, Galaxy S8 is more fresh and futuristic in approach.

2. Display:

Samsung Galaxy S8 offers a 5.8-inch QHD+ (1440×2960 pixels) ((~570ppi Pixel density)Super AMOLED display.S8 gives you a wider space to run your fingers on and sharper than 5.5- inch full HD LED-backlit IPS LCD panel on the iPhone 7 Plus (1080 x 1920 pixels) (~401ppi Pixel density).

The highlighted feature of Galaxy S8 is infinity display which comes with dual curved screen with a wide aspect ratio 18:5:9 and a bezel less design. It’s a first mobile to get Mobile HDR Premium certification from UHD alliance.

iPhone 7 plus’ display is more bright and fine than its predecessors and offers the same smooth 3D touch with more user friendly interface.

3. Performance & Storage:

The Apple iPhone 7 plus has set the benchmark of high performance with its 2.34GHz Quad-core Apple A10 Fusion SoC.The 3GB RAM processor and the Hexa-core PowerVR Series 7XT Plus GPU ensures a high quality gaming experience.

Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are powered with all-new Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC for the American market and International markets (including India) will get Exynos 8895 SoC powered Galaxy S8 & S8 plus.

The all-new 10 nm processor is mated with 4GB of RAM which provides 10%more power to the CPU and 21 % more support to Adreno 540GPU on board. The new chipset makes it the first in the world to feature support for 1 gigabit LTE.

When it comes to storage Samsung Galaxy S8 is packed with 64GB of internal storage, which is further expandable up to 256GB with an external microSD card while iPhone 7 Plus allows no expansion in storage. The company bid a goodbye to its 16 GB variant with the launch of iPhone 7 and now offers 32 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB storage variant.

4. Camera:

On the camera front, the dual 12 MP camera on iPhone 7 Plus gave a considerable edge over the other competitors in range through perfect implementation of technology. 2X Optical Zoom gives you a closer look of the subject without degrading the image quality. For selfies and video-calling, the phone has employed a 7MP f/2.2 shooter.

Samsung Galaxy S8 packs a 12 MP rear camera powered by Dual Pixel technology and aperture f/1.7 and an 8 MP front camera with smart autofocus for selfies and video calling. It allows you to take multi click in one tap so that the perfect shot is not slipped. Expectations are really high with the Samsung’s new shooter.

Also Read: Best camera phones of 2016–17

5. Battery:

The Galaxy S8 packs 3000mAh Li-lon, non removable battery which supports fast charging via both USB Type-C connectivity and wireless charging.

While the iPhone 7 Plus packs 2900 mAh Li-lon, non removable battery which long last under low to heavy usage as per the users reviews.

Also Read: Tips To Improve Battery Life of Your Mobile Device

6. Software & Connectivity:

The Apple iPhone 7 runs iOS 10.3 and comprise fetures 3d touch shortcuts, widgets, lock screen notifications and raise to wake. It is powered with better system applications and updates to Siri (allows to access Siri with the double tap on the home button).

The Samsung Galaxy S8 runs Android 7.1 Nougat. Stock UI has been replaced with Custom UI in the newbie in order to minimise the power consumption. Samsung has also introduced a new virtual assistant to the world called Bixby, which works like Apple’s Siri and Google’s Assistant and reduces the needless efforts and swipes by the user. A saperate button has been incorporated on the phone for Bixby.

Both the Smartphone are loaded with all the latest connectivity options and supports 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth v4.2, GPS, A-GPS and GLONASS amongst others.

While the iPhone 7 Plus restricts NFC usage to Apple Pay, the Samsung in contrary has no such restrictions. The Dual-Audio feature in Galaxy S8 allows the user to connect with two Bluetooth headphones alltogether.

7. Additional accessories:

Samsung announced the launch of DeX mobile-to-PC transition tool that can turn the Galaxy S8 into a desktop and will offer the users an Android-based desktop-like experience.

Apple has launched a wire-free lightning ear pods, Apple AirPods, which can be connected with the phone via blutooth. The Accelerometers and dual optical sensors allow the AirPods to automatically give pause & resume music command when removed and plug back in.

Also Read: Upgrade your smartphone smartly

As we have seen that the Samsung is offering a lot of best features and specification which are currently in demand by the consumers. For now, I’m very much optimistic about the S8 as an all-rounder that will help Samsung to improve its charred reputation. But the true results will be in hand by April 2017 with the finest reviews of the real world users when the phone will be launched in India and that will show how close Samsung has truly come to recover from its loss.

Note: This post was originally published in April 2017 and has been completely revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

Why you should upgrade to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus

iPhone 7 with new lightning EarPods

Hi folks, finally the wait is over! Apple.Inc has unveiled its two new flagship smartphones iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, in San Francisco on Wednesday(7th September 2016) at an event and put an end to the smoky rumors.

“We have created the world’s most advanced smartphone — the best iPhone we have ever created. This is iPhone 7.”

Indeed, a very strong statement by Tim Cook While revealing the first look of the device.

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What do you think, would these newly launched apple delicacies be able to fulfill the above statement?

If you have an urge to know you would have to wait for one more month as the device will be officially out in India in next month(October 7th, 2016). No doubt this one month’s wait is going to be tougher for the iPhone loyalists.

The Apple has categorized the phone in three storage versions, 32 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB and has added two new colour variant in its colour range, glossy jet black and matte black. Of course, the former colours silver, gold and rose gold will also be there. But you should be informed that the jet black and matte black variant will be available only with 128 GB and 256 GB storage versions.The starting price of iPhone 7 is INR 60,000 in India. The detailed pricing of each version is still awaited.

So are you ready to upgrade and flaunt the gracious status symbol?

Still thinking, You should upgrade or not!! Is it worth spending this much money?

Here are few concrete Reasons to upgrade to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus:

1) The Phone has the new design; the antenna lines are now on the sides of the phone instead on the top and bottom of the back panel, to give it a more perfect and neat look.

2) The new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus is water and dust resistant.

3) Now you can have a better photography experience with the improved camera quality of the phone. The iPhone 7 has 12MP rear camera with 6 Element lens, f/1.8 aperture, quad LED two-tone flash and flicker sensor while the iPhone 7 plus has two 12 MP rear camera with 2x optical zoom up to 56 mm. Both the variant also has a 7 MP front camera for selfies and video chat.

4) The phone is featured with stereo speakers with high powered range, one at the top and one at the bottom, which are twice louder than the previous models.

5) The headphone jack has been replaced with the lightning port-based connectors. Every pack of a new iPhone will be having a pair of lightning EarPods and a lightning to 3.5mm audio adapter so that you can use your old headphones as well.

Lightning port-based connectors in iPhone 7

6) If we talk about the performance, the new device is powered by new quad-core Apple A10 processor. The processor has 6-core GPU which is 2x faster than its predecessors. The processor has two cores for high performance and two separate cores for high efficiency leading to longer battery life.

7) The phone has a new touch sensitive home button which uses the tapic engine for quality response.

8) The iPhone 7 has 4.7 Inch Retina HD Display while iPhone 7 plus comes with 5.5 Inch Retina HD display.

Splendid, great feature updates. Isn’t it more than enough to crave for all new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus. So, go get ready to grab your smart piece of tech very soon.

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Note: This post was originally published in September 2016 and has been completely revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

Apple vs Apple

Featuring ourselves in today’s era for status-conscious people is considered to be incomplete if they are not using the Apple product. Apple is consistently upgrading its good-will by discovering new and very astounding features in the apple product.

Moreover the expectation and the curiosity of the users increase to access the cool features of apple. Speaking about specifically of iPhone’s, the upcoming features of the same is creating a sensation in the market.

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Here are top 10 new features of iOS 10:

1) SIRI:

According to recent statistics Siri services over 2 billion requests per week from iOS users. iOS 10 will enable the digital assistance in order to perform many more tasks since it is been opened up to developers which will lead to the ability to interact with the third party applications involving audio-video calls , searching images, booking a ride. Siri in iOS 10 can do photo search feature on third party apps like Pinterest. It can also handle payments with the apps, for instance, square cash.

2) 3D TOUCH:

Adding one more exciting feature to the jar of innovations, iPhone 6s 3D touch makes itself stand apart from the crowd. But checking their potential in this feature has not yet stopped. The iPhone’s force-sensing screen suddenly feels a lot more useful. A widget will also be available in iOS 10 for 3D touching, which relaxes many complexities. For instance, weather forecasting, activity details, calendar, favorite contacts.

3) Tidying Up The Control Center:

The iOS control center adds a dedicated panel for music. Starting from the 3D touch, the feature is now baked into parts of the control center. Music control has been allotted a specific tab with enough tool button, album art, and progressive tool. Also, the panel is recognized and feels a bit less crowded as a result.

4) Changes In Quick Type:

iOS 10 has brought Siri intelligence to the keyboard! Quick type helps to make intelligent decisions and suggestions and it will predict the user’s choice. The deep learning process, relative study basically called as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), to predict the longer content. For example, Siri can make relative responses to the incoming message. You can directly send your current location to someone, who wants to see your exact location. Quick type can frequently access the details from your contacts if you are asked for someone’s contact.

5) Images Turning To Memories:

Photos in iOS 10 are smart enough to dig out your images to your library. The application can recognize scenes and common objects. All computations are done systematically which results to put the unwanted data access to the minimum. The facial recognition extends its ability to the next level. Every image that you take, of a person, gets its own album named by him/her. This helps to access the images which you want to see at the best priority. After all, this it is not surprising that it has its own tab. Auto generation of the albums of the events occurred, filter the respective photographs. It’s an absolutely remarkable performance in terms of images that is what conversion of images into memories is all about.

6) Changes In Maps:

Formerly Apple introduced the nearby and the Transit features to maps. In iOS 10 maps has been redesigned. Unlike casual features, it is going to be more active by predicting your daily activities that are performed usually. As you have the daily routine which hardly gets changed, the maps will check all the traffic scenario at that point in time and will give you the update respectively. The contextual menu in the maps will let you know the calendar events of the day and the locations of your meetings or any other occasion. The addition of the dynamic view to the apps will facilitate you more so the navigation information can be more precise. Also zooms in as you take a turn and zooms out as you take a straight road.

The QUICK CONTROL option is to search along the route food and the gas station and will let you know the each update regarding the distance and time. The developers will be able to use maps extensions. Also, Apple is adding a feature in iOS 10 that allow you to book a ride and pay with the Apple Pay and monitor the status of the driver without leaving the maps app.

7) The Lock Screen:

iOS 10 has flooded with many expectations with respect to the redesign of the user interface. For giving a teaser of the complete redesign the lock screen has been introduced. The swipe to unlock has vanished, instead of that now you have to press the home button once to wake up your device and again to get your home screen. The overall fast response of the fingerprint lock is well known by the iPhone users. Specifying in detail, iOS 10 will wake up the screen as soon as we lift up the phone. Without single button press will take you to the notification area. If lift the phone vertically, then only the phone will light up.

8) Change In Apple Music:

Apple is the fastest growing music service in its starting year. They crossed 15 paid million subscribers milestone. In iOS 10, the music app has redesigned from the base level. When you will access the Apple music in iOS 10, the first tab will be the library; from there you can access the playlist, artist, albums, and songs etc which are recently added. Lyrics will appear in the bottom of the screen. At the top of it FOR YOU section is a DISCOVERY MIX which is a personalized section for users based on their favorites.

9) Home App:

Controlling the home appliances through the device, Apple released the home kit, years ago to control the appliances in our home. The INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) problem was also solved, as users download some inappropriate and incompatible apps. Home Kit includes approximately all types of categories including garage doors, fans and so on. In iOS 10 the user will be able to handle the camera and door locks also. When you will open the HOME app, you will see all your house appliances and your personalized wallpaper and the control of the same. You can say the device is just one touch away from you. In iOS 10 you will come across the Interactive notification built in iOS 10.

10) Messages:

The messages section is the all-time favorite of the iPhone users. iOS 10 has received tons of new features. One of the best changes is rich links. Now if you share a website in the message, it will show the image also. Videos can be played within the transcript, whenever you want to send video or audio in iMessage, you will be able to see the contacts of your camera without leaving the transcript. Emoji in the iOS 10 are made three times bigger in the transcript. The prediction will occur as you type. This feature is activated by tapping the emoji after writing the emoji.

The invisible ink feature will help you to share your personal text or the confidential one. The recipients will not able see the message until they slide finger on the particles covering the chat bubble.

The handwritten message will give a personal touch in your iMessage. Also, the digital touch helps you to send the sketches, videos, photos etc.

The JibJab app for iMessage is interactive in a way that lets you add the faces of your friends.

The developer broadcast of iOS 10 is available now and the public beta version will be available in July. The iOS 10 will support almost all the devices of apple starting from iPad (4th generation) to iPhone 6s plus. There is no doubt in saying that Apple is given a remarkable performance in the technology, always coming up with the cool features that give a huge impact across the globe.

Note: This post was originally published in June 2016 and has been completely revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

Apple & Its Surprises!!

Recently Apple has added one more apple in its bucket which is iPhone SE. With the launch of this new compact mobile, Apple again left the apple loyalist in cold by doing an unthinkable event like they did way back in 2014 with the launch of iPhone 6: A first big screen mobile of Apple. Everyone has a different opinion about this compact & smart piece of technology.

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Basically the new iPhone SE is a return to the classic design of the iPhone 5S with new upgraded features of iPhone 6S. So, if you’re in the market for a new phone, here are the pros & cons for you to decide whether you should buy the new iPhone SE or not.

Pros and Cons:

Pros:

• Fast Processor: The latest iPhone SE has a fast A9 processor, with 2GB RAM. It also supports the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standards and faster LTE which is up to 15 bands and can go to 150mbps. It has the latest version of iOS 9.3 and functions remarkably faster with multitasking. In other words, it is closer to iPhone 6 than iPhone 6s, but still ahead of iPhone 5s. Basically, the iPhone makers have tried to make a device just like our lives, faster and advanced.
• Smart Camera: People has the misconception that the iPhone SE camera is similar to the iPhone 5s, but actually iPhone SE has an up-to-date, really good 12 mp iSight camera with a developed feature of retina flash, which would add extra brightness to your clicks — pretty much commensurate with iPhone 6s. There’s also an advanced Apple A9 image signal processor (ISP), with which you can capture movement & sound along with the moment. Yes, The Face Time camera is of the same resolution as iPhone 5s which is 1.2 mp , for this reason it may not be a good selfie phone but it is brand iPhone which has iSight camera and is totally extraordinary.
• Long Battery Life: As compared to the other iPhone models, SE has much longer battery life. A smartphone’s display is one of the major reasons for the power drain. So having a smaller display is an added advantage for SE’s battery life. Apple says that the SE has the best battery life of its entire iPhone range.
• Cool Software: There is nothing surprisingly new in SE when it comes to its software. But it has apps such as Apple Pay, Live Photos & Touch ID, available on it. The Night Shift feature of the SE is one of the best features which automatically change the screen color at night thus it reduces strain level on your eyes in night.
• Compact Size & Light Weight: SE is one of the best pieces of tech. for those who like to keep a compact, lightweight and easy to carry mobile. SE has 4 inch display screen and is 30 grams lighter than iPhone 6/6S which makes a surprisingly large difference to make it more portable. That is why it is easier to carry around and lighter in your bags or pockets.
• Classic Hardware: When it comes to SE’s hardware, it can give a neck to neck competition to all the previous top line models of iPhone. It has a symmetric design with an elegant matte finish to the chambers hence it would last long. Also it comes with sans antenna and bulges which evenly augment the look of the phone.
• Royal Brand Name: “Classy means iPhone”. Yes, millennials are getting more brand conscious now a days and owning an iPhone means owning a class itself. So if we look at SE, connecting it with it’s luxury brand name, its worth compromising on its few drawbacks.

Cons

• Price: The major reason for anyone not to go for iPhone SE would be the price tag it comes with which is INR 39,000. The fact is, this price tag not only makes iPhone SE an unapproachable dream for most of the buyers in India but also makes it a direct competitor to iPhone 6S and other potential android smartphones.
• Small Screen: iPhone SE comes with a 4 inches small screen which is too small for the Indian buyers in this price range. So in India, SE might not get that strong hold in the market.
• Missing 3D touch: SE doesn’t have 3D touch feature: The most amazing & newest feature of iPhone. That mean the iPhone SE users will not be able to use the new app navigation tool which Apple has integrated into its top smartphone.
• Design: iPhone SE has the same old design like iPhone 5 & 5S. Only Rose gold color comes with the distinguishable feature, matte finish on the chamfered edges.
• No New feature: Basically despite being the newest apple of Apple there is nothing new and outstanding in this phone which separates it from the rest.

Note: This post was originally published in April 2016 and has been completely revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.