Author: Aniruddh

Coolpad Note 3 Pros and Cons Review
Coolpad Note 3 is a new entrant into sub 10k smartphone segment in India. It has features which are available on high end smartphones such as fingerprint scanner, 3GB RAM etc. All these features are available for a price of Rs.8,999. Is this great value for money smartphone?. We will learn more on this in our Coolpad Note 3 Review.

Coolpad Note 3 sports 5.5 inch IPS 720pHD display screen and 267 ppi pixel density.Display panel used in this smartphone is of very good quality. The white looks white and there is no yellowish or pinkish tint.Sunlight legibility and Viewing angle are decent. However in extreme angles, colours slightly washes away. Overall considering the price, display is good.

Coolpad Note 3 has 13MP primary camera with LED flash. The primary camera takes good pictures in outdoor conditions. But in low light and artificial lighting conditions, there is a visible noise in the taken pictures. It also has 5MP front facing camera. The front facing camera too, in outdoor condition it takes good pictures. Overall in camera segment, Coolpad Note 3 performance is average.

Coolpad Note 3 is powered by 64 bit 1.3GHz Octa Core processor based on Mediatek MT6753 Soc with 3GB of RAM and Mali T720 GPU. It has 16GB of internal storage and microSD card support. The device runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop with Cool UI. In regular usage, phone performs very well. Due to some bug in the UI, phone tends to freeze while performing certain tasks such as adding widget. The gaming performance is good. But on extended gaming, phone tends heat up. The temperature goes upto 48 degree while playing high end games for longer time. Coolpad Note 3 performance in general is good except heating issue and few UI bugs.

Coolpad Note 3 another key feature is fingerprint scanner. Like Nexus 5X and Nexus 6p, it has fingerprint scanner just below the camera in the back. It is fast and works really well. Using this fingerprint scanner, you can unlock specific apps. Overall it works as desired. Coolpad Note 3 houses 3000 mAh battery.

Useful other post on Coolpad Note 3

How to take screenshot on Coolpad Note 3

Now let us summarize the Coolpad Note 3 review and split into merits and demerits of this smartphone.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Coolpad Note 3

Pros of Coolpad Note 3
- Fingerprint scanner: One of the key feature. It is quick and accurate.
- Good Display Panel: The quality of display panel used in the device is good.
- Good performance: Overall performance on this device is good except few exceptions.
- Lot of features in affordable price tag: Coolpad Note 3 interms of specifications, it offers a lot for the price.
Cons of Coolpad Note 3
- UI Bugs: Though it has very good hardware, the UI in this device has bugs. While using the device it freezes for few seconds at times. Also, LED notification does not work as expected all the time.
- Poor standby time: Though it has 3000 mAh battery, standby time on this device is really bad. Even if you don’t use the device, within 24 hours battery drains out.
- Average low light camera performance: In artificial lighting conditions and low light conditions, camera quality is just average. The pictures taken comes with noise.
- Heating issue: While playing highend games for longer duration, it gets heated up.
- Limited service centers and Android Updates.
Coolpad Note 3 Specification
- 5.5 inch IPS 720pHD display screen and 267 ppi pixel density.
- 64 bit 1.3GHz Octa Core processor with 3GB RAM.
- Fingerprint scanner.
- 13MP primary camera with LED flash.
- 5MP front facing camera.
- 3000 mAh battery.
- 16GB internal storage and support for microSD card.
November 10, 2015
How to take screenshot on Lenovo VIBE P1m
Lenovo VIBE P1m is a newly launched Dual sim Android smartphone. The main USP of this smartphone is its 3900 mAh battery. The other features of the device are 1 GHz MediaTek MT6735P 64-bit Quad Core Processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, 5 inch 720p display screen and 4G LTE. In this post we will learn to perform printscreen/screencapture on Lenovo VIBE P1m.

Lenovo VIBE P1m is runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop along with VIBE UI. VIBE UI offers lot of customisation and useful features. Like any other Lenovo smartphone, in VIBE p1m too we have 2 methods of taking screenshot. So lets explore the different ways to capture screen on Lenovo VIBE P1m.

How to take screenshot on Lenovo VIBE P1m

Method 1: Default Android or Power button+ Volume down Key: This is the standard method which works on all latest Android smartphones. For taking screenshot using this method follow the step given below.
1. Go to the screen on which you want to take screenshot.
2. Press and hold volume down and power button simultaneosly.
3. The screenshot will be taken.
4. The taken screenshot will be saved on Gallery->Screenshot folder.
Method 2: Using the quick settings option

Like we have seen on Lenovo A6000 and Lenovo K3 Note, on VIBE P1m also we can take the screenshot using quick settings options. For using this method of screen capturing, follow the steps given below.
- Go to the screen on which you want to take screenshot.
- Access the quick settings option by swiping down the screen.
- In quick settings, you will find Screenshot icon.
- Tap on to it. Screeenshot will be taken.
- Taken screenshot will be saved on Gallery->Screenshot folder.
Lenovo VIBE P1m currently available only on flipkart in India. The price of this device is Rs.7,999. Normally you need to register and buy this Lenovo smartphone from flash sale. But on Diwali offer, this smartphone is available on open sale.

Video Guide on How to take screenshot on Lenovo Smartphones
November 9, 2015
How to take screenshot on Samsung Galaxy E5
Samsung Galaxy E5 is a budget Dual sim Android smartphone. The key features of this smartphone are 5 inch Super AMOLED display with 720pHD resolution(294 ppi pixel density), 1.2GHZ quad core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage, microSD card support upto 64GB, 8MP primary camera, 5MP front facing camera and 2400 mAh battery. This post we will focus on how to take screenshot on Samsung Galaxy E5.

For performing print screen on Galaxy E5, there are 2 different methods available. The first method is default android method and the other one is through palm swipe method. The palm swipe method of taking screenshot at times didn’t work as expected. So I am providing both screen capturing methods.

Recommended Reading:

Samsung Galaxy E5 Review

How to download PC Suite for Samsung Galaxy E5

How to Take Screenshot on Samsung Galaxy E5

Default Android Method or Power+Volume Down Key method

For taking the screenshot using this method follow the steps given below.
- Go to the screen on which you want to take the screenshot.
- Now press and hold volume down and power button simultaneosly.
- Screen will flicker and shutter sound will be heard. This confirms the screenshot on Galaxy E5 is taken.
- The taken screenshot will be saved in Gallery->Screenshot folder.
Palm Swipe method of taking screenshot on Galaxy E5

For using this method of screen capture on Galaxy E5, follow the steps given below.

Enable Swipe Gesture:

You need to enable swipe gesture before using the palm swipe method. For that go to Settings->”Motions and Gestures”. Screen down, you will find “Hand Motion”, then enable the box “Palm Swipe to Capture”.
- Now whenever, you want to take screenshot, just go to the screen on which you want to take the screenshot.
- Now for taking screenshot, just swipe your hand from left to right or vice versa to take the screenshot.
- The taken screenshot will be saved in Gallery->Screenshot folder.
As mentioned before, the swipe gesture way of taking screenshot on Galaxy E5 sometimes does not works. In Galaxy E7 it works without any issue. It requires bit of practice.
November 5, 2015
How to take screenshot on Coolpad Note 3
Coolpad Note 3 is a affordable phablet with fingerprint scanner. At the time of writing this article, probably this is the only Android smartphone with fingerprint scanner within the price of 9k. In this article, we will learn how to take screenshot on Coolpad Note 3.

How to take screenshot on Coolpad Note 3

There two methods through which you can perform print screen/screen capture on Coolpad Note 3. First method is through default android method and another is three finger screenshot.

How to take screenshot on Coolpad Note 3 through default android method
- For taking screenshot using method, press and hold volume down and power button simultaneously. The screenshot will be taken. The taken screenshot will be saved on gallery->Screenshot folder.
How to take screenshot on Coolpad Note 3 through three finger screenshot method

UI on the Coolpad Note 3 offers lot of customisation. It offers many swipe gestures and fingerprint scanner customisation. There is also provision to capture screen on Coolpad Note 3. For performing this method of print screen, follow the method mentioned below.
- Go to Settings->Smart Control-> Action and Screen.
- In the list of options, enable Three Screenshots by selecting it.
- Now whenever, you want to take screenshot on Coolpad Note 3, swipe up or down with three fingers at your desired screen on which you want to capture will take the screenshot.
- The taken screenshot using method will be saved in Gallery->Screenshot folder.
Coolpad Note 3 though is a budget Android smartphone, it offers a lot of features to the user. With many customisation, useful tricks you can make many tasks with simple time saving methods.

Coming to the specifications of Coolpad Note 3, it has 720p HD 5.5 inch display screen, 3GB of RAM, 13MP primary camera, 5MP front facing camera, 16GB internal storage and 3000 mAh battery. For the connectivity it supports 4G LTE. The device runs on Android 5.1 and the company’s own Cool UI skin.

I will be making few more tips and tricks posts and review on Coolpad Note 3 in the coming days. If you have any specific queries and issues with the device, then share it the comment section below.
November 2, 2015
Huawei Honor 7 Pros and Cons Review
Huawei Honor 7 is a stylish feature rich Android smartphone with affordable price tag. It has fingerprint scanner, 5.2 inch IPS full HD display, metal finish design, 20MP primary camera, 8MP primary camera and dedicated smartkey. Huawei Honor 7 price in India starts at Rs.22,999.

Huawei Honor 7 sports 5.2 inch full-HD IPS-LCD screen with 424 ppi pixel density. The display panel used in this device of good quality. It is bright and offers great viewing angles and good colour reproduction. The screen to body ratio is 72.4% and has on-screen soft keys and narrow borders. Overall, it feels good to hold it in hand. Unlike a big 5.5 inch phablets, this feels more convenient for me.

Honor 7 is powered by octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 935 SoC(four cores operating at 2.2GHz and the secondary four cores at 1.5GHz) with 3GB of RAM and ARM Mali-T624. The device runs on Android 5.0.2 with Huawei’s Emotion UI 3.1 on top. The UI offers lot of customisation for practically every function including the navigation bar, smart key, motion control, and one-handed operation. The day to day performance is excellant. Even gaming performance is good. However, highend graphic intensive games at times shown bit of lag. Overall performancewise, it is good.

Honor 7 sports 20-megapixel primary camera with dual-tone flash and an 8-megapixel front camera with single-tone flash. Both camera supports full HD video recording. It takes excellant outdoor images. The indoor performance also decent. But as it doesnot have optical image stabilisation, when taking images in low light hand should be steady. Otherwise images tends to washed out.

Huawei Honor 7 available in India is single sim variant. The connectivity features of the device includes 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.1, IR blaster, WiFi, WiFi tethering, USB tethering and USB OTG. The internal storage capacity of the device is 16GB and supports microSD card upto 128GB. Honor 7 houses 3100 mAh battery which with heavy usage lasted for a complete day in my testing.

So lets summarize the Huawei Honor 7 review with its merits and demerits.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Huawei Honor 7

Pros of Honor 7
- Responsive and fast Fingerprint scanner: Huawei also provides gesture customisation for fingerprint scanner such as accessing notifications, multitask page etc by swiping.
- Good cellular call quality and network reception: The call quality is loud and clear.
- Very good design and Build quality: The metal finish design gives premium feel to the device.
- Good camera performance: Both primary and secondary camera performance were satisfactory.
- Good Display: 1080p 5.2 inch display is good.
- Good overall performance: Overall the device performance is very good.
Cons of Honor 7
- No Dual sim variant in India: Honor 7 which is available in India supports only single sim(nano sim).
- No optical image stabilisation.
- Outdated Android version: The device runs on Android 5.0.2. That is 2 generation old version.
- No 4K video recording capability.
- Non user replaceable battery.
Honor 7 Tips and Tricks

Download PC Suite for Honor 7

For downloading the official PC suite for Honor 7, you can read my detailed instruction post How to download Huawei PC suite.

How to take screenshot on Honor 7

For taking screenshot on Honor 7, you can press and hold volume down key and power button simultaneosly. Another method using the dedicated smartkey.

Huawei Honor 7 Specification
- Octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 935 SoC with 3GB RAM and ARM Mali-T624.
- Android 5.0.2 with Huawei’s Emotion UI 3.1
- 5.2 inch 1080p IPS display.
- 20-megapixel primary camera with dual-tone flash and an 8-megapixel front camera with single-tone flash
- IR blaster and Fingerprint scanner.
- 3100 mAh battery
- 16GB internal storage and support for microSD card upto 128GB.
October 30, 2015