Satisfying the urge!

Don't worry its a tech blog and everything will be tech related ;)

No matter if you are an Apple fanboy or an Android freak or even a Windows geek, there is always this urge to test other tech products from companies which were once pioneers of smartphone. Yes, I'm talking about Blackberry specifically. Blackberry was once the only brand which came in mind when talking about smart handheld units and that was not long ago, maybe 5 years before (which btw just swooshed past). Their devices had everything incorporated into the devices, from email client to private messaging platform, BBM. And in this piece of tech was quite expensive thus was mostly owned by corporate bankers, stock brokers etc thus was dubbed a businessman's phone. There were other factors in play but i guess this was the reason blackberry topped the smartphone market.

Darkness falls upon thee! In 2007 Blackberry was hit by a major player which entered the mobile market Apple. The market became even more fierce when android entered the race. Apple with its great app ecosystem and user friendly design took the world by storm and the phone makers knew they had to evolve fast to stay in market. The competition became even more fierce with androids blazing fast development which soon started to catch up to Ios (and now maybe has surpassed it). Like Nokia, Blackberry took a bump too which knocked then into darkness. They had to innovate and show their customers they were still in the game.

In 2013 blackberry made an entry into the already competitive and fiery market with windows phone in 3 place with its Z10 smartphone. It was pretty late for blackberry to make a move but they went all in. It had a new software (i have to say a bit complicated one) which blackberry overhauled completely to make Z10 the phone of today. But unfortunately this was not enough and the hype calmed down quickly. Although it gave blackberry a little jerk ahead it was not enough. Blackberry went back and back in the race to survival until it is now reduced to a mere side company which not many people talk about other than Blackberry's loyal customers from their times of glory.
Having used android and Ios, i have started to feel this urge to use and experience the world of Reality In Motion and capture its true spirit. I am aware that it wont keep me occupied for a long time but i hope it will be an experience to remember! What do you guys think? Can blackberry make a revival? Or will it just remain as it is now? Hit me below in the comments section with your thoughts!

 

Images taken from blackberry.com 

 

We love to deliver premium products, but we are still Samsung!

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the latest and greatest addition to the Galaxy Note series, saw much appreciation at its launch. It has a very advanced combination of software and hardware amongst the most top tier phones in the market.

In hardware, it rocks an Exynos 5420 octa core chipset (yes 8 cores which is still pretty huge), a 13 megapixel camera at the back and a 2 megapixel shooter upfront. It holds a 5.7" super AMOLED screen which gives a 1080p display with a pixel density of 386 ppi which is just an eye candy to look at. Its software is the Touch wiz skinned Android 4.3 (Jelly bean) which provides an almost lag free experience. It also contains many goodie apps from Samsung such as S-Health, My magazine, Scrapbook and S-Finder etc to make our lives easier. It also hosts something which is exclusive to the Note series of the Galaxy devices the S-Pen which has been completely overhauled in terms of hardware and software with amazing new features for as Samsung says 'Design yor life'. It helps you take notes, prepare presentations, simply just draw or even write directions with just a flick (flicking out the S-Pen).

Optimizing and advancing in each of the above mentioned features, this time around Samsung gave a considerable amount of thought to the actual design of the device and as seen on the keynote, they pretty much aced it as well with the textured leather back and aluminium sides. Although they said textured i prayed for the back to be actual leather (or maybe pretty close to it). But when i saw and felt the actual device it was all just a cheap mind trick to play the customers trying to show them that they have changed.

Now whenever i hold the device i can hear it saying that "We love to deliver premium products but we are still Samsung!". It is like every child story, no matter how much you decorate a child's room and put toys and stuff in it there will always be that one closet which scares the hell out of them, in this case being the cheap materials used to make the Note3. (Don't take it in a wrong direction i love note series and am using the Note 2).

For me this is somewhat of a deal breaker. What do you think? Is everything else enough to over power the cheap trick? Hit me below in the comment section with your thoughts. Thank you. 

Images taken from Samsung.com

GTA: San Andreas, up for grabs on mobile!

 GTA has been around since the times of the gamming revolution in the computers. It has been bringing great joy to many die hard fans and gammers alike. This was maybe the first free world game with the elements of crime, gangs, driving and flying (in some of its parts).

Well the good news, Rockstar announced on 26th november that they will launch San Andreas part of the game on handheld mobile devices this december. They even announced a full gaming controller support on iOS 7 devices (iPads, iPhones and iPods). They said an i quote:

"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for mobile also comes equipped with full controller support, including Made for iOS controller capability on iOS7. It will be available for select iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle and Windows Mobile devices."

Rockstar also revealed some improvements over the previous mobile version of their classic, GTA: Vice City:

"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas also features brand new touch controls including contextual control options to display buttons only when you need them and three different control schemes for driving and maneuvering, as well as a reworked checkpoint system for easier progression."

It still has to be seen what those improvements will mean and either this brings the same fame like it did on consoles and PC to Rockstar in mobile devices. 

I think yes. What do you guys think? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.