If you have any of the Nokia’s X series phone. You might have already heard about the word ‘sideloading’, but if you have not heard about it. Don’t worry i am here to tell you. First of all, sideloading is not even a word. Second of all sideloading is nothing. Yes it really is nothing. To explain more, i would have to take in the past. When Symbian phones were a thing.
Micromax has just remembered that it forgot to advertise, its best smartphone till date. And also forgot to made it available at a store near you. The phone i am talking about here is Micromax Canvas Knight or Micromax Canvas A350. The phone which has become almost impossible to find in the market.
Microsoft has launched its 2014 version of Surface Pro tablet. Named Surface Pro 3. Microsoft is selling this tablet with a tagline that says. ‘Tablet that can replace your laptop’. That’s a good thing. It’s only 9.1mm thick. And now it has 12 inches screen with a resolution of 2,160 x 1,440. I would say thinnest full powered PC in the world. It is going to be available in three variants. Core i3, 64 GB, 4GB of RAM for $799, Core i5, 128GB-256GB, 4GB-8GB RAM for $999-$1,299, Core i7, 256GB-512GB, 8GB RAM for $1,549-$1,949. Available to buy in the United States of America only.
Panasonic has been teasing this phone for a few days. And now it’s available online to buy for the price of Rs. 17,999. Not a bad price looking at the specs of this phone. You are getting 5.5 inches IPS LCD display of HD resolution. Mediatek MTK 6592 SOC, which has a combination of Octacore Cortex A7(clocked at 1.7GHz) and Mali 450MP GPU. 8GB of internal memory(expandable up-to 32GB), 1GB of RAM. Android 4.2 Jellybean. It is only 7.9mm thick.
Nokia XL is not worthy of Nokia’s name and the price it is available at. People that only want a phone just to take photos of themselves and other things might like this phone. But, people that want performance out of this phone might not like it. I am the kind of guy that likes performance. And i don’t like it. It can not perform a single task without stuttering. It has more RAM than its little brother Nokia X. But it doesn’t matter ’cause it still performs horribly.
If there is a phone in this world that has the most accurate name out of all. It’s this Nokia XL. It totally deserve that name. And that is not a good thing. I can understand that its name is derived from Nokia X’ name. Its little brother. But that doesn’t mean you make a phone this big! Seriously. Its bezels are so big. It’s not at all comfortable to hold. I think the aspect ratio of Nokia XL’ screen is 4:3 otherwise there’s no reason of the phone to be this wide.
Well, Motorola is advertising this phone as a rugged everyday phone. They didn’t say you can play cricket with it. But what can i do? The curiosity or you can also call it the itch inside me always wins. So i went ahead and played cricket with it. Used it as ball. And what happened after that? You can see it yourself in the video below. This phone has Gorilla Glass which encouraged me even more to test its durability. I wanted to see how many shots it could take from my bat before it gets shattered into pieces.