This thing is like a giant Galaxy S6 or even a S6 Edge. It’s not a bad thing because the S6 was very well spec’d and had a very nice all glass and metallic redesign. So the Note 5 borrowing every element right down to the processor, camera module, design.. it could all work out…
This article was originally published on SCMP. The annual E3 just ended with a bang. If Doom, Final Fantasy 7, Shenmue, ICO, Fallout, Need For Speed means anything to you at all then join the droves of rabid gamers and fanboys across the globe in their screams of joy. Some of the biggest announcements are…
Part 3 See also: Part 1 for Display and Design, and Part 2 for Camera, Part 3 for Software and Features. Performance and Battery +++++ Samsung’s Exynos 7420 is a 14nm octa-core SoC. What regular consumers may care about is the number of cores. Techies however should notice that there isn’t a single mention of Qualcomm Snapdragon in sight. The…
Part 3 See also: Part 1 for Display and Design and Part 2 for Camera Software and features +++++ Samsung further simplifies Touchwiz, taking it one step closer to Google stock experience. The main advantage of this is that the skin no longer feels like a resource hog (but whether it really is or not…
Part 2 Camera +++++ The camera quality is excellent overall. At first glance the photo quality seemed extremely similar to that of the S5 and the Note 4 – which is a good thing because the quality on those last gen devices were really quite excellent. In fact, the photos from the Note 4 can…
Part 1 Part 2 is here! Time to take a look at the S6 Edge’s camera. So everybody’s been worried about or cheering on Sammy’s dip in smartphone sales in the past year. The S5 didn’t do too well- it was a spec update and with more features crammed in without thought. Worst of all, the design…
If you’re a lucky owner of a precious pair of Parrot Zik 2.0 and somehow the app on your iOS device isn’t recognizing it, what do you do? Reset? Re-pair? Battery pull? Uninstall and re-install the app? E-mail Parrot support? Well, I’ve done all that. The best thing I got out of it was a temporary…
We go hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge briefly and compare a few photo samples with the iPhone 6+. The result was pleasant. And surprising. With Samsung finally embracing a more premium build material, and copying the iPhone 6’s design, the gap between beautiful iPhones and ugly Sammys has dramatically been…
If you’ve not read my original article talking about my 10-hour PS Vita, here it is: https://www.ycptech.com/2012/06/playstation-vita-10-hour-mod-battery-life-test/ A YCPTech reader certainly read it, however, and decided he would join the fun and get his PS Vita 2000 modded to the max. I’ve stated and he understood that the road to such a mod would be somewhat…
It takes guts to come up with something new, in this case a new form-factor. This is why practically every single smartphone looks the same – rectangular in shape, a flat slab with the only progress being made in display size. Of course, releasing it is just the beginning, whether it’ll catch on with the…
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