THE INTEL 9 SERIES

In May this year, Intel launched two new 9 Series chipsets, the Z97 and H97. As a result, a slew of newly-minted motherboards based on these chipsets were launched by partner board makers.

SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S 10.5 Review

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S 10.5 draws the eye right away with a stunning 10.5in, 2,560 x 1,600-resolution Super AMOLED screen.

Design

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Microsoft might be interested in acquiring Cyanogenmod

Have you all ever heard of cyanogenmod. I think ofcourse  you have heard of it. After all cyanogenmod is one of the biggest and the most popular custom os in the world. In recent years cyanogenmod have became so much big that the company is turned into Cyanogenmod inc. And the performance and the comfort they are providing to the users is just amazing and getting even better.

Apple introducing new programming language

Years in the making, Swift is a new programming language for ioS and oS X apps. Sprouting modern features, it’s designed to be fast, easy to learn,  and fun to use. 

PhIlIPS BT2500B

Stylish, compact and built for mobility, the BT2500B wireless portable speaker is designed to deliver brilliant sound anywhere you go. 

How to keep using Facebook chat on your iPhone without installing Facebook Messenger

We have seen that Facebbok is forcing users to install a separate iPhone application due to, but there is a still plenty of outrage. So much so, in fact, that the Facebook Messenger app for iOS now has a 1-star average rating in the App Store out of spite.

But if you don’t want to use the separate app to chat with your Facebook friends, There is a very simple trick that will let you keep using the main Facebook app for the iPhone to send and receive messages.

That’s a good new but the bad news is that Facebook will likely to prevent this trick from working in future updates.

The trick that you have to do in order to keep chatting in the main Facebook app for the iPhone:

1.    Open your Facebook app on your iPhone and tap on the Messages tab. The app will prompt you to install the dedicated Facebook Messenger app; click Install.

2.    On the App Store pages that subsequently opens, tap to download Facebook Messenger but stop the download after it begins.

3.    Go back to the main Facebook app and you’ll find that the Messages tab has been restored.

This is a very simple trick and will work for sure. Keep using the facebook app. It rocks.

New Iphone 6 Leaks

We love Phablets but they do have their own drawbacks, you will notice that when you try to handle you Phablet with just one hand. However, we can see clearly in this fresh leaked photos of the iPhone 6’s front panel that shows apple is planning to design larger display phones but that also are easy to use with one hand.

 According to various reports from trusted leaker shows that Apple has made the area around the home button of the phone which is significantly smaller than on the iPhone 5s, thus there will more space for the display without making the change in the phones basic frame and they don’t have to make larger frames that makes phone more slim.

 The reports also shows that how Apple has thinned out the side bezels on the iPhone 6 compared to the previous versions of the Iphone , which which will allow to have phones with larger displays that could still fit comfortably in your hands.

“If you look closely in the photo above at the iphone 6 home button are you will clearly notice that the home button is smaller compared to the Iphone 5s. But we don’t think so.”

There are so many leaks and concepts. We actually don’t know what apple come with it’s new Iphone 6. Well we are very eager to see it.

Latest XBOX ONE update is available to download

The New XBOX ONE might not be the best console in thesailing charts but after each update it's showing how much it is capable compared to other consoles and it is likely to become quickly become the most capable console on the market.  The most exciting new features are not very far, this  August system update gives many additions that users was seeking for from many months .

Microsoft have  launched Xbox Feedback for the members to  preview the program earlier this year and also the most commonly requested feature has been mobile payments. The good news is that from this week, you can purchase games and DLC for your Xbox One on Xbox.com and Xbox SmartGlass. And a very interesting feature that is  if your console is set to automatically download updates, the games will start downloading right away, even if you are not at home.

Microsoft have also added a social functionality to the  Xbox One include an updated activity feed which have the   ability to like and comment on updates and information on your Friends list that also indicates that  how long it’s been since your friend was last online (and what they were playing).

This august update also features the ability by which  users to disable notifications while watching video and enables 3D Blu-ray functionality. Last but not least, the Xbox One will finally let you know when you have a low battery with a new on-screen notification. Check out the system update in action in the video below.

Xiaomi mi 3 the budget Smartphone

If you are thinking of buying a budget smartphone with great specs this amazing Xiaomi mi 3 is just for you. 

After creating a huge buzz and making a sizeable market share in the Chinese market, Xiaomi the Beijing based company has arrived in India with the highly  popular and in budget smartphone the Xiaomi Mi 3 handset.

 It have a powerful Qualcomm’s powerful 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and is considered to be one of the fastest phones in the world in terms of speed of operation. Though it have an older version of Android (Jelly Bean 4.2), the Xiaomi Mi 3 comes with some very good hardware, including a eye popping full HD 5-inch display with a pixel density of 441ppi and a 13.0 megapixel sony camera. 

It boast of 16GB internal storage, supports external micro SD cards of up to 64GB, has 2GB RAM, and also a 2-megapixel secondary camera. It comes with a huge 3,050mAh battery, and this phone is now available in india at a very low price of Rs 14999 at Flipkart.

                                    The Xiaomi Mi 3 is clearly a great phone with great specs in low budget. This phone is current holding the record of fastest online selling phone it outstocked in only 38 mins from flipkart. That’s an awesome news more Xiaomi, Indians are taking huge interest in buying this phone. Are you going to your Xiaomi mi 3 today , let us know. 

Xolo Win Q900s The lightest Windows Phone

This might be a slow start for the software giant but this is the indication that Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is gaining popularity.

 We have that microsoft was initially adopted by nokia but now many manufacturs are taking interest , it is now gaining traction among Indian manufacturs too.Last month Micromax announced its Windows Phone devices  and now we can see that Lava has come out with the Xolo Win Q900s, which runs on the latest Windows Phone 8.1. 

The new Xolo win Q900s is of mere 100 grammes, the Xolo Win is the lightest Windows Phone based device in the world. It features a 4.7-inch IPS display coated with scratch resistant Dragon Trail glass with a screen resolution of 1280x720p and a pixel density of 312ppi. It is powered by Qualcomm’s 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, has 1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory (expandable, up to 32GB) and sports a 8.0-megapixel rear camera and 2.0-megapixel front camera. Xolo Win Q900s is already up for prebooking on Snapdeal.com at an introductory price of Rs 9,999, although its real price is Rs 11,999.

The new xolo win Q900s is quite a good move from lava, making a windows phone with 8 mega pixel rear and having 2 megapixel front at a very affordable price. This is also a good news for the Mircrosoft that it’s widnows phone os is getting popularity in indian phone makers. The new xolo win Q900s have very powerful specs at a good price. This is the best specs you can get at this price. The new xolo win Q900s will give competition to lumia 630 and lower price tag phones. Let’s see what Xolo can do with the Xolo Win Q900s The lightest Windows Phone yet.

Google Nexus 6 Rumours

I know this is a silly question to ask . Do you love nexus smartphones ?

 I think the answer will be yes. Who would not love a high end device comes at an affordable and the device which is guarantee that it will be the first to get the latest Android version. Isn’t it too much good. It seems Google is bringing the nexus fun again with nexus 6 that is coming with the so much popular Android L OS.

After being successful 5 times in a row this time Google is coming with the another smartphone masterpiece the new Google nexus 6. 

Well let’s not getting  a bit too poetic and getting down straight to the point, the nexus 6 one will most definitely be the first to get the Android L update as many Android users definitely want a desperate change. The tentative specifications may follow like those of an iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S5 and have a finger print sensor too. Including a 5.5 inch screen, it is supposed to have a 2560 x 1440 display which most high end smart phones are now trending to adapt. 

The question is whether it will sport a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU or an octa-core LG Odin chip.There will be a 3GB RAM as now that is the standard now for a premium speed. As it would adopt Android L, the entire feel of the Ui would be interesting with the new material design. From  notifications to an added benefit for a 64-bit support will be great to have! Here’s hoping for a good camera and a decent battery life at 3100 mAh battery makes this a good deal. The new Google nexus 6 would be an amazing Smartphone.

Stay tuned for more.

Blackberry Passport Rumours

It’s been a very long time since we have seen any beautiful product launch from the old time favourite “Blackberry”. But this year will be different because according to blackberry they are going to launch the most unique masterpiece in this September 2014 calling it the “BlackBerry Passport”.

                Blackberry is finally willing to offer us some great phone that will do the magic for them and will bring the old magic days for them. This phone might be the premium smartphone with high end specifications. Along with a 4.5 inch screen, it will have a 1440 x 1440 (453ppi) display will be followed a Snapdragon 800 processor and will have a rocking speed at 3GB RAM.

                      According to the reports the internal memory is said to be at 32GB and can be expanded to a whooping 64GB. BlackBerry Passport will run on their latest BlackBerry 10.1 OS. The specific camera features haven’t yet been officially announced.  

The phone has gained a lot of attention because of its unique body structure and built. More detailed specifications haven’t yet been disclosed. Well, we eagerly wait for this BlackBerry product to release and see if even today, it can attract the masses.

Well we thing the Blackberry passport is going to a great hit. It looks very unique and stylish and on the hardware end it is backed up by whopping specs. Well let’s see what blackberry will do with this marterpiece.

This phone will be launched in september in an event at london and will go on sale in Q4 of 2014. 

Stay tuned for more.

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review

 Microsoft have maded a quite changes in the new Suface Pro 3 and maded it more hard to differentiate it between a laptop and a tablet. The new Microsoft Surface pro 3 is very sylish and is a real power house.

Deisgn

Microsoft’s Surface Pro is getting very close to become the laptop and pc replacement. The newest model, the Surface Pro 3, has taken along with one giant leap. You’ll immediately see a larger display, which is 12 inches in diagonal width and the display is 38 percent bigger than the screen of the Surface Pro 2. It have an eye popping 2160-by-1440-pixel resolution display, an improvement over the Surface Pro 2’s 1920-by-1080 resolution, is breathtakingly crisp and amazingly sharp. Just as important, Microsoft’s shift to a 3:2 aspect ratio adds 1.12 inches of vertical real estate to what already is a wider tablet. It feels more luxurious, useful work space—and that’s critical when you’re multitasking in a desktop environment. Despite having a 12inch display, the Surface Pro 3 is quite slimmer than its predecessor, its designers having trimmed 0.23 inch of width and 0.24 pound from the Surface Pro 2.

Performance

Still Microsoft is making it a powerhouse including a Core i7 that somehow manages to live happily in a 0.3-inch-thick slate. Mircrosoft have made it in five configurations. We got our hand on, containing a Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage, costs $1300. The low-end Core i3 model costs $800, a price that’s against the other laptops present in the market. But a high-end Core i7 model costs more than $2000 after sales tax, and any other future enhancement will make it price even more, mircrosoft have to take care of the price for the better sales of the Surface pro.The new Type Cover costs another $130, and it’s a must-have. Microsoft also moved to a new charger, breaking compatibility with earlier models. And if you bought a docking station for the Surface Pro 2, it won’t work with the Surface Pro 3 due to a port reconfiguration.

Surface Pro running

The most amazing and interesting thing about the new Surface Pro 3 is it’s boot speed. It boots very fast fast—so fast that I got confused that I have putted it on sleep mode or I have shutted down it. Yes, I’ve been reviewing a clean machine, and improved SSD technology plays a role, but boot-to-password was on the order of 3 to 4 seconds. (You will notice it just hold the power button a bit longer than normal on first boot, however, as a quick press doesn’t seem to trigger it.) Microsoft claims 8 hours of battery life during casual use, but in our battery tests, which entail a little works on the office use and video playback, brought the Surface Pro 3 battery to its knees after 4 hours, 18 minutes. Which is quite lower time period than the surface pro 2.

                                                    Microsoft describes the chip as a “tuned” version of the Core i5-4300U, the upgraded processor that Microsoft adopted midway through the Surface Pro 2 life cycle. The Surface Pro 3’s WorldBench 9 score, however, was just 72, whereas the Surface Pro 2 achieved a score of 74.  Microsoft has moved to the faster 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, which increases potential wireless throughput. The new tablet also sports a 5 megapixel front and rear camera that is enough for full 1080p Skype chats. The Surface Pro 3 retains the MicroSD slot of previous generations, as well as the single USB 3.0 port and Mini DisplayPort connector. The upcoming docking station will include three USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 connectors, as well as gigabit ethernet.

Mircosft surface pro 3 ink pen

  The Surface Pro 2 came with 200GB of free One Drive storage, the Surface Pro 3 does not. Ditto for the year’s worth of Skype Premium calling and Wi-Fi access that the Pro 2 offered. The Surface Pro 3 ships with a chunky new N-trig pen that features what Microsoft calls decreased parallax; the digital ink works very well white it is closer to the screen. And the quite attracting trick is you can rouse the tablet from sleep by holding the button on the top of the pen, which launches a new OneNote note without requiring a password.  Either you like digital ink or you don’t, and the Surface Pro 3 is still too heavy and awkward for long-term one-handed use. Microsoft wants Surface Pro 3 as a digital work pad, but doing so requires setting the tablet down on a table. The pen’s storage loop in the new Type Cover also needs work, as it makes removing and stowing the pen too difficult. Securing the pen within the tablet would be a better solution—though perhaps unfeasible, given that the Surface Pro 3’s internals are already packed to capacity with components. One of the selling points of the line. In the service  of improved lapability, Microsoft has reworked the kickstand and the  Type Cover for this model.

The New Cover

The tablet still clicks back to the 22-degree angle, but beyond that the kickstand and its “friction hinge” can support any angle up to 150 degrees. Microsoft says it has tested the hinge to hold up over repeated use. I used the Surface Pro 3 on a plane from New York to San Francisco, flying in coach. The Surface Pro 3 fit fairly well on the tray table, with a bit hanging off the edge. Typing was no problem. In key travel and spacing, Microsoft claims, the Type Cover 3 is essentially the same as the second-generation model, and the keys are still backlit. I can’t say, however, whether the Surface Pro 3 will remain  comfortable to use if the person ahead of you reclines the seat—the passenger in front of me slept with the seat in the upright position. 

Thanks to  Microsoft , you will be able to use the Surface Pro 3 with the Type Cover comfortably on your lap, and I typed on it for extended periods. The best thing about the new Microsoft Surface pro 3 so-called lapability lies in a tweak that Microsoft  made to the Type Cover 3. Click it in, and it resembles the previous generation’s keyboard. You’ll notice, however, a narrow strip on its long, connected edge that uses a second magnetic connection. When you fold it down, this strip raises the keyboard to a slight angle, and it reinforces the Type Cover’s connection across the entire tablet. Earlier Type Cover designs feel flimsy on your lap, but the additional support of the Type Cover 3 stabilizes the whole unit. The Type Cover 3 works with earlier Surface models, too. 

Comfort

                                 When I used the Surface Pro 3 , the new tablet-keyboard combination offered enough stability, flexibility, that i was totally get in love with it. I did encounter two bugs. First, after I folded up the Surface Pro 3 and then reopened it, the touchpad wouldn’t work and the cursor vanished. Rebooting solved the problem. Second, when I snapped the Type Cover 3 onto my older Surface Pro 2 to check connectivity, it worked fine—but after I reattached the Type Cover 2 to the Surface Pro 2, the Type Cover 2 failed to connect, even after several reboots. Another, older Type Cover failed to work as well. Microsoft says software updates will fix such issues with the covers. Third time’s the charm? For all of the Surface Pro 3’s attractive qualities, you may be better served by exploring other Windows 8.1 options, be they hybrids or traditional laptops. These competitors may not have the Surface Pro 3’s gorgeous display, but they will likely cost a few hundred dollars less, boast longer battery lives, and maybe face the challenges of the airplane tray table with greater aplomb. Here is no doubt what Microsoft has accomplished with the Surface Pro 3, however. The new model represents an improvement on all fronts. The original Surface wasn’t much of a tablet. The Surface Pro 3 certainly is.

PROS:

• Larger screen offers 38 percent more real estate • New Type Cover is much more stable • Stated battery life of 8 hours.

CONS:

• Pricing still gives one pause • No more free One Drive cloud storage • Stylus holder is awkwardly placed.

BOTTOM LINE:

 Microsoft Surface pro 3 is a very impressive and attractive replacement to the laptops and the tablets. It is quite competitive for the laptops and tablets of this range, the new surface pro 3 pro offers a very impressive ink pen which very useful as a note pad. And on the performance line the new surface pro 3 is very fast and amazingly fluid and the  

LG G3 Review

The LG G3 is big and packed with features, with an astonishingly good screen the highlight from the premium end’s new flag bearer.

The new LG G3 is quite simply the most feature-rich handset to be launched world. It has a stunning array of features that put it right at the head of the pack in  terms of technical capabilities, and for the most part, we are very impressed indeed.

 Infrared

Infrared is becoming quite a popular addition to  tablets and handsets, and LG couples it with an app that lets you remotely control your range of IR-supporting TVs  and other equipment

Lightly skinned

LG has skinned Android 4.4, but with a reasonably light touch. There are a few added apps and these are useful rather than simply bloat.

Stunning screen

The quad HD resolution screen is  super-sharp, bright  and clear. It is as good for watching movies as it is for reading ebooks, and its 5.5 inches is  packed into a surprisingly slim  chassis. It make the LG G3 the smartphone with the best display in the market. The LG G3 have the hightest resolution display compared to other smartphones rocking a 538ppi screen due to which the screen looks amazing.

Multitasking  help

 The ability to run two apps side-by-side, and to pop up some mini apps on top of what you are doing will be very useful to anyone who likes multitasking.

Design

LG has really worked hard to make LG G3 this beautiful and on it’s design so that it can be easily fitted in out pockets. The 5.5-inch screen is quite big and is just a few millimetres away from the long edges and very close to the short edges too, so that the overall size of the phone is relatively small. Yes, it is still difficult to reach across for one-handed use, but as handsets with large screens go the overall size is impressively svelte. The Android buttons take up screen space rather than being on the chassis, so that there is a loss of screen area for apps, but a gain in terms of keeping the chassis size small. The power and volume buttons are on the back of the chassis. We first saw this arrangement in the LG G2, and here the buttons seem better designed. There is a sight indent on the volume buttons and a slight raise to the power button that sits between them, and this helps you fi nd all three by touch alone. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it is a neat idea that means the sides of the phone can be largely clear. You can set the volume up and down buttons to launch LG’s QuickMemo and Camera apps respectively when the screen is off. The LG G3 is available in black, gold and white shades. It has to be said that for a flagship handset we’d have liked a more premium quality feel to the design. The backplate has a brushed metal look but is made from plastic, and when compared to the superbly built HTC One (M8), the LG G3 seems second class. But then so does every other handset.

Screen

The most amazing thing about the new LG G3 is it’s super HD and amazingly beautiful screen.The size we have already noted. It is sharp, bright and clear, and immediately shines out at you as something quite special. In fact it is a quad HD screen that packs in 2560 x 1440 pixels. That gives it a massive 534 pixels per inch, putting every other handset currently available in the UK in the shade.  Our We often say that pixel count alone is not enough to make us enthuse about a handset’s screen. An we hold to that here.  The screen is certainly a cut above the average, but we aren’t convinced that all those extra pixels make a huge difference to the clarity and quality of what you can see when compared to, say, the 1920 x 1080 pixels of the 5.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S5 and five-inch HTC One (M8). 

                                               As this pixel count becomes more widespread we may see apps that really take advantage, though. We’ll hold judgement for a while. Other plus points for the screen include its very  good viewing angles and brightness levels, both of  which add to its appeal. Yes, it is very good and whether you are watching a movie or reading an ebook, playing a game or writing email, the screen’s high resolution and general quality is definitely a plus point that’s not to be ignored. This is just about as good as it gets.

Performance and battery

The LG G3 is a really powerhouse.  The processor behind the LG G3 is a top-of-the range 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, which is supported by 2GB of RAM in our 16GB version of  the handset. If you can get hold of a 32GB G3 then  there’s 3GB of RAM in support. Despite these  superb specs, but some of its users have reported a slight  lag using the LG G3, but this was not our  experience. In fact, our 16GB review handset  turned in top performances against our benchmarks, delivering an AnTuTu score of 35226, just a shade below the HTC One (M8), and showing off a blistering 23407 in the Quadrant benchmark. The other specifications are as high-end as you would expect with NFC and 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac all in the mix. The USB On The Go facility means we were able to read data, including music and video, from a USB stick. And, of course, this is a 4G phone. 

                                               A handset like this is probably going to have to do a lot more work than your average phone, delivering catch up TV, music, GPS-based navigation and more in an average day’s work. It is driven by a power-hungry processor and a greedy screen. It is an unfortunate trade off that it takes more power to run the LG G3’s superb screen than it would a smaller, lower quality one.  So there is inevitable effect on battery life. And  the brighter you have the screen, the more power it. take care with the manual screen settings. Overall, the 3000mAh battery was an average rather than a stunning performer, and we often needed to give it a power boost in the late afternoon or early evening to survive.

 Software

 The LG G3 runs on Android 4.4 making it bang up to date. You’d expect that from a flagship phone. LG has always been keen on skinning Android and that remains the case here. The net result of all the software additions is that the 16GB of installed memory is reduced to 10.4GB.  While LG adds an awful lot to Android it feels quite light. The skin design is pleasant to look at and nothing feels over the top. There are plenty of detail tweaks to be found through the settings area. You can, for example, as we’ve seen before from LG, fiddle with the Android hotkeys so that they are in your preferred order. And there are facilities to change the position of the dial pad and keyboard to make them hug the left or right of the screen for easier one-handed use. 

                                                Gesture controls are plentiful with recognised staples like answering an incoming call by lifting the phone to your ear and turning the LG G3 face down to silence incoming calls being accompanied by using that same face-down motion to pause video or stop an alarm. There are several multitasking features. You can open a number of apps from a QSlide menu so that they sit in a window on top of what you are doing. The range of apps supported includes a calculator, internet browser, phone dialer and more. You get to the QSlide menu from the notifications area.  You can also split the screen and view two apps at once. Not all apps are compatible, but the range includes plenty that are useful such as maps, YouTube, email and web browser.

             Looking at two apps at once is a bit of a squeeze on the 5.5-inch screen, but it might be useful at times.  And, of course, LG adds a few apps to the  Android standards. It is nice to see an FM radio  here as a basic addition. QuickMemo+ is the note-taking app of choice and you can either type or draw with a finger to make notes. There’s a separate task manager called, erm, Tasks, which lets you set due dates and issue reminders. A fi le manager is useful for keeping track of all your bits and pieces, and an app called Quick Remote lets you use the built-in infrared as a remote control for your TV and other equipment. It is easy to set up multiple ‘rooms’ and multiple devices.

 Camera

The LG G3’s cameras are both very nice. The back-facing 13-megapixel camera has a new laser focus. The Laser focus measures the distance between the object and the lens that allows the LG G3 for much faster focusing. This also can help with taking shots in gloomy locations.There is also a dual LED flash for the low-light situation and it works really well. Optical image stabilisation helps improve the clarity.

                                          LG has taken a ‘less is more’ approach to  working with both cameras, with the screen left  pretty much clear to act as an unobstructed view finder. The Dual mode is one of the few camera options available, allowing you to take a photo with front and back cameras simultaneously. You can resize the smaller of the two images – which by default is that from the front camera – and invert the smaller image to be that from the back camera by tapping the screen.

Verdict

 The LG G3 is a lovely phone. Yes, it is expensive, but it does have a very strong mix of features that come togeter in a tiny package. The screen, obviously, is a highlight, but the well thought out  and small set of software additions, good overlay to Android, impressive cameras  and hassle-free performance are all  endearing too. If only the  chassis quality were better. It would be the best smartphone in the market, personally the Samsung galaxy s5 screen looks a little better than it. Well it’s your choice LG G3 is a superphone that everyone wants to own. It looks really premium in it’s class and it’s quite big and beautiful that will catch the attention of everyone.

 Stay tuned for more.

Windows phone 8.1 virtual assistant Cortana

Microsoft virtual assistant Cortana

The new Microsoft digital assistant in Windows Phone 8.1 is more fun than Siri and Google Now put together.

Well anyone of you have tried the new microsoft virtual assistant Cortana the virtual digital assistant from Microsoft. You’re supposed to ask Cortana questions, so I asked a lot of question from cortana the new windows phone 8.1 soul. Based on its answers, I have seen that it’s answers are far better and logical than the google now and the apple’s iphone siri. It’s clear that Windows Phone’s digital assistant has taken the customised awareness of Google Now and the chatty personality of Siri, and raised a quite competition. Cortana spits out clever responses on topics ranging from Android to Siri. It makes jokes and explains its Haloinspired lineage. Here are some of the funniest answers  we’ve found. And remember: Cortana is still in beta. It may get even sharper before it reaches its final form. After all it’s a tech giant’s work to put this marter piece in the windows phone.

Microsoft virtual assistant Cortana is suprisingly more smarter than Google now and apple' siri. Cortana's answers are more logical and it shows quite interesting phrases. It also uses STAR WARS phrases as well, it's fun to use cortana. You can see how logically it gives answeres to your questions.

Stay tuned for more we are coming the massive review of LG's new beat the G3.

Dell XPS 15 the lightest and the fastest

We all love Dell laptops for classic designs, and today's trend of gaming laptops is catching fire. This Dell XPS  15 laptop might not be the Alienware  but it's performance quite good for gaming. The design is quite simple but's it's screen is to gorgeous and beautiful.

This is not the eye-catching convertible design of its stablemate, the flipping-screen Dell XPS 12 , but the 3200x1800 display of the latest version of the XPS 15 is too good and ensures that it provides plenty of visual attention of its own. It's very light with having the weight of only 2.1kg. The best thing of this beauty is that it is one the lightest 15.6inch laptop available in the market. It makes it very handy to use.

It's  partial-aluminium casing in the sides and it's eye catching Retina-style screen gives a quitely comparable to  Apple’s Retina MacBook Pro , and its super light weight and very slimmy 18mm thickness are also very  identical.  The Dell XPS 15 has some quite unique features that outguns the MacBook Pro in a number of respects. The first thing about the Dell’s laptop is that it makes a good impression even before you turn it on. The aluminium casing is both light and sturdy and it looks very eye catching and appealing, and provides good support for the 15.6in screen.

The other good thing in this laptop is the stylish keyboard, with trackpad and surrounding panels all have a pleasant ‘soft-touch’ matt-black plastic finish makes it smart and feels very comfortable to use. The Dell XPS 15 is very slim due to this  slimline design it forsakes an internal DVD drive, but few people will complain about that if it means the XPS 15 can lose some heft compared to most 15in laptops. 

There is a big drawback that it have  no ethernet port for a wired network connection, but one of the three USB 3.0 ports and one USB 2.0 could accept an adaptor. Both HDMI and Mini DisplayPort provide good connectivity for external monitors.  However, it’s Dell’s ‘QHD’ screen that’s the real eye-opener and the real deal. With a resolution of 3200x1800 pixels and 235ppi, it has a suprisingly higher resolution than the Retina display of the MacBook Pro, at 2880x1800 and 220ppi.

 It looks terrific, as it have a beautiful th IPS panel which is very bright and colourful, and have strong contrast that ensures that blacks look very black, while the pristine white backgrounds of many web pages help accentuate how dull the colours are for many other laptops. The screen is enough touch-sensitive, too, although we found ourselves reluctant to mar the brilliant and shiny screen with our fingerprints.  The big problem is with that high-resolution display is that Windows programs don’t work properly. The adjustable scaling technology in Windows works well enough on the main desktop, allowing you to adjust the size of text and icons to enhance visibility.

Due to very high screen resolution it doesn't always help with interface elements within individual applications, which remain at the screen’s native resolution. This means that toolbars, icons and buttons in some third-party applications appear so small that they’re almost unusable and creates many problems. And, ironically, it’s often graphics applications such as the Adobe Photoshop Elements program we tried that suffer the most here, because of their reliance on graphical-based tools. It feels very bad to switching to a lower resolution for tasks such as photo or video-editing; which rather defeats the point of paying for the QHD display in the first place. In our view it's microsoft's fault not the dell's that it cannot provide a solution to this quite a big problem, although it’s you as the latter’s customer that has to put up with it. 

Despite of the resolution issue with windows 8.1.There are areas where the Dell XPS 15 gives better performance and value for money than its big rival the MacBook Pro with Retina display. Currently there are two versions of the Dell XPS 15 currently available, with prices starting at £1,249 for a model with a quad-core Intel Core i7 running at 2.3GHz, 16GB memory and an Heavey Nvidia GeForce GT 750M handling graphics duties. Note that the model we tested had a 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-4702HQ; Dell’s website now lists a 2.3GHz Intel Core i7-4712HQ, after Intel’s running processor upgrade. Our review model included a 512GB solid-state drive, which bumped this price up to £1,499.

That compares favourably to a starting price of £1,699 for the 15in MacBook Pro, which has a 2GHz processor,  8GB of memory and 256GB solidstate storage. This entry-level model of Apple’s notebook also relies on Intel’s Iris Pro integrated graphics  rather than a discrete GPU.In Lab performance the Dell XPS 15 proves to be  good, with a score of 5833 points in the general purpose PCMark 7. This  suggests that the XPS 15 can provide  desktop-PC levels of performance  for a wide range of software.  Performance in the Home and Works suites of PCMark 8 wasn’t  quite so strong, but scores of 2699  and 2800 points respectively are  still solid enough for all but the most demanding of tasks. It can handle a fair bit of gaming action too, easily breezing to 68fps( thanks to the superfast Nvidia Geforce 750m)  when running our Stalker: Call  of Pripyat casual gaming test at 1920x1080 resolution.

We tried Batman: Arkham City  at the full 3200x1800 resolution  – which looked terrific, but only gave us 21fps. Dropping down to  1920x1080 allowed the XPS 15 to hit a smooth 50fps even with graphics details set to High. Battery life is disappointing.  Dell quotes a life of ‘up to 11 hours’,  but in our usual test we only just  managed fives hours of streaming  video with the XPS 15. Apple’s entry-level 15in Retina  MacBook Pro lasted more than 50 percent longer in the same test,  running for eight hours, 14 minutes. 

Verdict

Despite of the disappointing Battery life , especially as the Dell XPS 15 is intended as a lightweight Ultrabook, although as a desktop replacement system, . It provides outstanding display with 235ppi screen quality and high-end performance rocking a nvidia geforce 750m at a competitive price, while still being slim and light enough to slip into a bag for the occasional business trip or weekend away. It makes Dell XPS 15 a real marterpiece to buy, the people who like very high visuals will have to busy this beauty.

System requirements

 15.6in (3200x1800) gloss IPS touchscreen display;

  2.2GHz Intel Core i7-4702HQ (3.2GHz Turbo);

 Intel HD Graphics 4600 & nVidia GeForce GT 750M (2GB RAM); Windows 8.1 (64-bit); 16GB DDR3L RAM; 512GB mSATA SSD; 802.11b/g/n/ac; Bluetooth 4.0; 1x HDMI 1.4; 1x Mini DisplayPort 1.2; 3x USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0; SDXC card slot; 720p webcam/ microphone; 1x headphone socket; 91Wh lithium-ion battery; 372x254x18mm; 2.01kg.

How to Buy the OnePlus One without an invitation

You don’t actually need an invite to buy the OnePlus One, although there are risks and you won’t get quite as good a bargain. Third-party vendors such as MobiCity.co.uk and AliExpress.com claim to have stock that they are willing to ship to the UK. There are other sites listing OnePlus One phones as being in stock.

 Some of them are via Amazon, too. This o­ffers an additional layer of protection. We’re not recommending this route, or any of the sites listed here. But it is an option if you are keen. AliExpress is up front about the fact that it is shipping from China. It charges $495 for the 64GB OnePlus One, and there are additional fees for shipping. 

You may well be charged import duty by Customs and Excise, too (I had to pay £31 – since refunded – to import my OnePlus One via OnePlus). Be aware also that the spec may not be exactly the same as the UK version of the phone. You won’t have a UK charger, for instance, although any USB charger will work. 

And you will want to check that the correct LTE bands will work in the UK. Finally, AliExpress is to be credited for being upfront about delivery times. It claims that you may have to wait three weeks or more to get your OnePlus phone. MobiCity quotes a UK price of £367.19 inc VAT for the 64GB OnePlus One. 

In the specs it states: ‘Please note that this is the Chinese variant of the mobile, with CyanogenMod and Google Play installed prior to order fulfi lment.’ Delivery times are estimated as ‘Dispatched in 7 working days’ with an additional box that states: ‘This item is being restocked or is located in a secondary warehouse.

 Such items can take up to 3-7 days to be dispatched. Once shipped tracking details will be emailed to you.’ I would expect that you would have to wait a good couple of weeks to get hold of the OnePlus One – at the earliest. With all of these there are a couple of caveats. For one thing, whenever you purchase from an online store with no UK street address you are running a risk.

 Mitigate these risks by using a credit card – if the purchase goes wrong it is the bank’s money. Also read all the small print to make sure you know exactly what you are getting. Both of the sites mentioned above are clear that they are selling Chinese-spec phone handsets. Be sure that is what you want. (You may also wonder from where they are getting their stock.)

 You are also overpaying somewhat. The OnePlus One is great, principally because it is a high-calibre smartphone at a bargain price. The 64GB model sold in the examples above retails from OnePlus for £269 inc VAT and delivery. AliExpress’ $495 is £290 before delivery and import tax. MobiCity’s £367 is probably about where you’d end up from AliExpress. 

There’s nothing wrong with this, per se. The vendors are charging a premium for grey imports of in-demand products. But by overpaying you are reducing the reasons for choosing the OnePlus. Which leads us on to...

Oneplus one is really a powerhouse smartphone if you willing to buy it this is the best you can try.