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Asus ZenPower 10050mAh Power bank Cons and Pros Review
Asus has launched power banks along with Asus Zenfone 2. The USP of these power bank is its compact size. With lot of extra large portable power sources, how these Asus Zenpower power banks performs? We will see a quick review on Asus Zenpower 10050 mAh power bank.

The Asus Zenpower power bank comes in five color variants namely black, silver, gold, blue, and hot pink. The review unit which I received has silver variant. The device measures 90.5mm of height, 59mm of width and 22mm of thickness. The weight of this Asus power bank is 215 grams.

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Asus ZenPower comes with 1USB port for charging devices and one microUSB port for charging the power bank. In the box, we get USB to microUSB cable. The power bank provides an output of 2.4A and input upto 2A for charging.

Asus power bank was able to charge my Moto G for around 5 times which is very good. The charging is very fast. However, as I don’t have the 2A charger, I charged the Asus power bank with normal charger which took almost 10 hours to fully charge. It is better to have a 2A charger if you want this Asus power bank get charged faster.

Asus Zenpower power bank comes with lot of safety features such as short circuit protection; reset protection, output over voltage protection, etc. It also manages to change the voltage and current levels depending upon the device you have plugged in. These are a welcome additions for a power bank.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Asus Zenpower 10050 mAh power bank

Pros of Asus Zenpower 10050 mAh power bank
- Compact in size: This is one of the most compact sized power banks in the market now.
- Set of safety features: As mentioned in the review, this power bank packs lot of safety features which is very good.
- Premium design and build quality: The device gives a premium feel and build quality too very good.
- Fast charging: The Asus Zenpower comes with fast charging feature. This will charge your smartphone or tablet very quickly.
Cons of Asus Zenpower 10050 mAh power bank
- Price is little on the higher side
- Only one device can be charged at a time.
- Long time of charging the power bank: It would have been great, if Asus bundled 2A charger along with this power bank.
Asus Zenpower 10050 mAh power bank Specification
- Battery Type:Lithium-ion rechargeable cell
- Input Power: DC 5V 2.0A
- Output Power : DC 5.1V 2.4A
- Capacities : 3.6V/10050mAh
- Charging Time : 6hrs with 5V/2A standard cable
- Dimensions : 90.5 x 59 x 22 mm
- Load Detection: Auto-detect the plug-in and plug-out of devices
- Safety features
  - Temperature Protection
  - Short circuit Protection
  - Reset Protection
  - input over Voltage Protection
  - output over Voltage Protection
  - Input reverse direction protection
  - Over charge/over discharge protection
  - Output Over Current Protection
  - Cell PTC Protection
  - adapter protection
  - Jeita Protection
- Charging temperature: 0℃-40℃ (TYP)
  Working temperature: -40℃~+70℃
  Weight : 215 g.
July 2, 2015
Huawei Honor 4C Cons and Pros Review
Huawei Honor 4C is a dual sim 3G smartphone within the price tag of 10k. The main attraction of this smartphone is its primary camera. Let us see the Honor 4C review to understand whether it is worth buying or not.

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Huawei Honor 4C is powered by 64-bit 1.2 GHz Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 620 processor with 2GB RAM and Mali 450 GPU. The device has 8GB of internal storage capacity, in that 4GB is available for user. There is also provision for adding microSD card upto 32GB. Phone performance is decent but has issues such as crashing of apps. Honor 4C runs on Android 4.4.2 Kitkat with Emotion UI.

Huawei Honor 4C features 5 inch TFT IPS display with screen resolution of 720×1280 pixels and pixel density of 294 ppi. The sun light legibility and viewing angles are just average. In terms of call quality, Honor 4C does a decent job. However, watching youtube videos using the headphone, the audio quality is not good.

Huawei Honor 4C comes with 13MP A/F primary camera with LED flash and 5MP front facing camera. The phone has lot of customisation options in camera settings. Even with default settings, this dual sim smartphone takes a good images and videos in this price. Some of the customisation option available on Honor 4C are Panorama, HDC, All Focus (lets you change focus point of a picture after you have taken it) etc.

Huawei Honor 4C houses 2,550mAh battery. The battery performance is below average. It drains fast and also gets heated up while charging. The connectivity features of the device are Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS, Wi-Fi , 3G, USB tethering and WiFi hotspot. Unfortunately there is no 4G support. It surprising considering the phones which are priced much lesser than this such as Lenovo A6000, Moto E 4G has 4G support.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Huawei Honor 4C

Pros Honor 4C
- Good camera performance.
- Competitive pricing.
- Decent build quality.
- Good selfie camera.
Cons of Honor 4C
- No Android Lollipop out of the box.
- Battery drains faster.
- No headphone in the box.
- No 4G connectivity
- Only 4GB user available internal storage.
Huawei Honor 4C Specification
- Dual-SIM.
- 5-inch 720p HD TFT IPS display.
- 64-bit 1.2GHz octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 620 processor.
- 2GB of RAM and 8GB internal memory.
- Expandable storage up to 32GB via microSD card.
- 13MP A/F rear camera with Flash, 5MP front camera.
- Android 4.4 KitKat with Emotion UI 3.0.
- 2,550mAh battery.
- Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G.
July 1, 2015
Yu Yuphoria Cons and Pros Review
Yu Yuphoria is the second smartphone from the YU Televentures which is the subsidiary of Micromax. Yu Yuphoria is a compact and less pricier than the Yu Yureka. It will compete with the likes of Moto 2 4G 2nd gen, Xiaomi Redmi 2, Lenovo A6000 plus etc. The Yu Yuphoria price in India is Rs.6999 and available exclusively on Amazon via flash sales.

Yu Yuphoria is sports 5 inch IPS display screen which comes with laminated glass coating. The screen has a resolution of 720×1280 pixels and pixel density of 294 ppi. There is also Corning Glass 3 to protect the screen from scratches and smudges. The display is sharp. The viewing angles are decent. However, there is slight color shift when you change the viewing angles horizontally. It is also observed that, the screen’s color temperature is skewed towards the warmer side and whites have pink tint. The sunlight legibility is good if you increase the brightness level. But auto brightness is not great.

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Yu Yuphoria is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 system on chip which has a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core processor with Adreno 306 GPU and 2GB of RAM. This same chipset used in Redmi 2, Lenovo A6000 and Moto E 4G 2nd Gen. The device has 16GB of internal storage in that 11.8GB is available for users. Yu Yuphoria runs on Cyanogen Mod 12 ROM which is based on Android 5.0 platform. Out of the box device supports screen recording. You record your on screen navigation with recording registering where you’ve touched the screen as well. This feature is called Screencast.

Yu Yuphoria is a dual sim phone. The first sim has 4G LTE TDD 2300MHz and FDD 1800MHz bands support and the second sim can take 2G or 3G. The connectivity features of the device are 3G, 4G (CAT 4, including TDD-LTE, Indian 4G bands, both sim card slots), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. Cellular call quality and network reception are acceptable. However, WiFi signal reception is bit weak. Also the GPS encountered few issues in the test.

Yu Yuphoria houses 8MP rear primary camera with OmniVision OV8865 sensor with an aperture of f/2.2. There is also a 5MP front facing camera. The primary camera has autofocus and secondary camera is fixed focus. The dayshots are good but low light shots are just ok. 8MP camera takes 4:3 ratio photos whereas for a taking wide angle photos, it drops to 2MP. The front facing camera is decent for the price. The device comes with user replaceable 2230mAh battery. The battery has quick charging features and battery life is satisfactory.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Yu Yuphoria

Pros of Yu Yuphoria
- Decent Battery life: With normal use, battery lasts for a day. It comes with fast charging features which is very handy. This is the only device which has fast charging feature in this price tag.
- Good performance: Overall performance of the device is decent.
- Sound quality and loudness: The quality of sound, the built in speaker produces is good and also the loudness decent.
- Decent Camera: The primary and secondary camera performance is decent. Though there is lack of quality in recording the video as well as low light performance, considering the price, it is ok.
- Value for money: For the price, the device is good. Though there are few improvement areas, it is decent performer.
Cons of Yu Yuphoria
- Issues with Proximity sensor: It may be a software glitch. Some of the issues observed are when making calls, device screen is not switching off, or trouble while disconnecting the calls etc. Hopefully with future software update, it might get fixed.
- Lag in Dialer: This is once again a Cyanogen OS issue. There is a lag observed when the dialer is used. Also while typing messages fast, there is a skipping of words.
- No USB OTG support: This device does not support USB OTG
- No LED notification light:
- Camera could have been better: As mentioned above, video recording on both camera are not upto expectations.
Yu Yuphoria Specification
- 5 inch IPS display with 720p HD resolution.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core processor with Adreno 306 GPU and 2GB of RAM.
- 16GB internal storage and support for microSD card.
- 8MP primary camera and 5MP front facing camera.
- 4G bands, both sim card slots), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.
- Dual sim.
- Cyanogen Mod 12 ROM based on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
- 2230mAh battery.
June 6, 2015
Asus Zenfone 2 with 4GB RAM Pros and Cons
Asus Zenfone 2 with 4GB RAM is a Android Dual sim smartphone. There are many variants are available but in this post, I will be doing the review on 4GB Variant with 32GB internal storage model.

Asus Zenfone 2 is powered by Intel Atom 2.3GHz Quad Core 64 bit processor with 4GB of RAM and Power VR G6430 GPU. This variant has 32GB of internal storage in which 25 GB is available for the user. You can even add microSD card upto 128GB.

Asus Zenfone 2 sports 5.5 inch IPS screen with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels which results in a pixel density of 403 ppi pixel density. The screen to body ratio is 70.1% which is a decent. The screen quality is very good. The viewing angles, sun light legibility are good. The text look crisp and touch responsiveness also good. The device comes with gesture controls which is very useful in using this device.

Asus Zenfone 2 has 13MP primary camera with LED flash and 5MP front facing camera. The camera performance on outdoor comes out very well. But low light camera performance is below average. The device houses 3000 mAh battery. The connectivity features of the device are 4G, 3G, 2G, WiFi, Bluetooth, microUSB.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Asus Zenfone 2 with 4GB of RAM

Pros of Asus Zenfone 2
- Great overall performance: The overall performance of the device is excellent. Even high end games like Asphalt 8, Nova 3 etc plays without any issues.
- Very good display screen: The 5.5 inch 1080P display is very good. It has good viewing angles and sun light legibility also decent.
- Zen UI with Android 5.0 Lollipop: The customized ZenUI has lot of features. The features like Zenfone motion, quick settings, managing startup apps etc are very useful. Though it is a highly customised UI, it is not effecting the performance of the smartphone.
- Attractive price: Though it has specification which is kind of flagship, price of the device is very competitive.
- Fast charging feature: Fast charging feature of Zenfone 2 is very useful.
Cons of Asus Zenfone 2
- Average Camera: The primary camera of the device is not great. The low light performance is below average as the images taken has noise. The video quality also not great.
- Non user replaceable battery.
- Mobile data on only one sim: Zenfone 2 is a 4G enabled dual sim smartphone. Most of the smartphones allow data on both the sim. In Zenfone 2, you can use data only on sim 1. There is no way you can enable mobile data on sim 2.
- Cellular call quality could have been better: The voice on this device is not smooth. Also if you are in noisy place, the volume feels little low. If the other side person speaks fastly, voice does not feel clear. All other features are excellent. The signal gain on this device is excellent, There is no call drop experienced in my last 15 days of usage.
- No LED back light for navigation buttons.
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML with 4GB RAM Sspecification
- Dual sim with Dual Active
- Android 5.0 Lollipop with ZenUI
- Intel Atom 2.3GHz Quad Core 64 bit processor with 4GB of RAM and Power VR G6430 GPU
- 32GB of internal storage in which 25 GB is available for the user
- Support for microSD card upto 128GB
- 5.5 inch IPS screen with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels
- 13MP primary camera with LED flash and 5MP front facing camera
- 3000 mAh battery
- 4G, 3G, 2G, WiFi, Bluetooth, microUSB connectivity features.
June 4, 2015
Samsung Galaxy Grand Max Cons and Pros Review
Samsung Galaxy Grand Max is a dual sim Android smartphone. Once Samsung was known for over priced smartphones with heavy touchwiz UI. But, now it has changed a lot. Samsung started providing a decent specs smartphones under affordable price range. They trimmed their Touchwiz UI and Bloatwares. So is this smartphone worth? We see in the Samsung Galaxy Grand Max review based on pros and cons of the device. Samsung Galaxy Grand Max price in India is 12,900 and available exclusively on snapdeal.

Samsung Galaxy Grand Max sports 5.25 inch IPS LCD capacitive touch screen with a screen resolution of 720×1280 pixels. This results in ~282 ppi pixel density. The screen to body of this device is ~68.6%. The viewing angles are good. The touch responsiveness of the device also decent. It has 16GB inbuilt storage and supports microSD card upto 64GB.

Galaxy Grand Max

Samsung Galaxy Grand Max is powered by 64 bit 1.2GHz quad core Snapdragon 410 processor with 1.5GB of RAM and Adreno 306 GPU. The device sports 13MP primary camera with LED flash and a 5MP front facing camera. The connectivity features of the device includes 2G, 3G, Bluetooth, WiFi ,USB, WiFi hotspot and USB tethering.   Samsung Galaxy Grand Max houses 2500 mAh user replaceable battery.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of  Samsung Galaxy Grand Max

Pros of  Galaxy Grand Max
- Good performance: The overall performance of the device is pretty decent.
- Good battery life: The device has 2500 mAh user replaceable battery and provides good battery life.
- Excellent cellular call quality: Cellular call quality on this device is good
- Decent camera performance: Both primary and secondary camera on Grand max performance decent enough in this price segment.
Cons of Galaxy Grand Max
- No Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box: Samsung is not shipping this device with Android Lollipop update out of the box. Also thee is no communication on future update as of now.
- No USB OTG support.
- No LED notification light
- No 4G support
- Display contrast could have been better: This display not AMOLED also there is no corning gorilla glass protection.
Samsung Galaxy Grand Max Specification
- Dual sim with Dual standby
- Android 4.4.4 Kitkat
- 64 bit 1.2GHz quad core Snapdragon 410 processor with 1.5GB of RAM
- 5.25 inch IPS LCD capacitive touch screen with 720HD resolution
- 13MP primary camera and 5MP front facing camera
- 16GB internal storage and microSD card support
- 2G, 3G, Bluetooth, WiFi ,USB, WiFi hotspot and USB tethering
- 2500 mAh user replaceable battery.
May 18, 2015