Some of you might not know but i wrote a post sometime ago about not being able to find a decent laptop with full HD display even for Rupees 50,000. I was just searching or you can say doing ‘window shopping'(more like drooling over stuff i can’t buy) at that time though with really no intention of buying. But all thanks to my old laptop’s(HP Pavilion DV4-3145TX) right hinge which broke. Yes, literally in two pieces. I had to sell it.
Notion Ink tried to revolutionize the tablet market with their Adam tablets. But unfortunately that didn’t go as planned and their Android tablets failed miserably. And now they are back with Windows tablets. This time they aren’t trying to revolutionize anything this time they are just trying to sell a good product. And after using Cain 8 i think this time they could succeed. Because it is actually a pretty good product available at a very good price. Cain 8 is a Windows tablet, runs on full Windows 8.1, it couldn’t replace your Laptop or Desktop PC. But it could go very well with them. In short it’s a portable desktop for 10,000 Rupees just not powerful as an actual desktop but much more convenient for people on the go.
So this is what was inside the black box that Nokia was teasing. A tablet. And that too a tablet based on Android 5.0 Lollipop. And it looks pretty good. It has an 7.9 inches IPS LCD display of 2K resolution with Gorilla Glass 3 and it is fully laminated(which is a big thing in India especially when it comes to mobile phones). Although it is not announced for India yet. It is announced to be available in China first at the price of $249.
Notion Ink Cain is a company that is known to make ‘Adam’ tablets. But their Adam tablets weren’t that successful because of pricing and heavily customized Android OS. So now they are making tablets with Windows 8.1 before Cain 8 they launched Notion Ink Cain 2 in 1 an ultrabook/tablet hybrid at a very reasonable price of 20,000 Rupees.
HTC Desire 820 is a very good update over HTC Desire 816. Which should have been never launched around Rs. 25,000 in the first place. It was just the matter of chip-set in case of HTC Desire 816 too, i mean like how could they launch such a good phone with such a pathetic chip-set and then ask a premium price for it? I just can’t get it out of my head. But anyway, that’s past now. And HTC has done a very good job with its successor HTC Desire 820. That’s all that matters.
As you can see in the photo above HTC Desire 820 scored almost 28,000 points in Antutu benchmark all thanks to the new Snapdragon 615 chip-set. It is not a bad score for supposedly upper mid-range phone. It even beat HTC One in ‘Multi-core’ and ‘Metal’ test of Vellamo benchmark and in benchmarks like Quadrant and Nenamark 2 the frames were like fixed at 60 frames per second. This is the first mid-range chipset from Snapdragon that has performed this well in benchmarks. Otherwise chip-sets like Snapdragon 400… don’t even want to remember.
HTC Desire 820 is the successor of HTC Desire 816. Cosmetically they both look almost same but both the phones are very different from the inside. Where it matters the most. HTC Desire 820 comes with new 64-Bit processor from Snapdragon. And on top of that it’s an octa-core chipset. Snapdragon 615 comes with 4 Cortex A53 processors clocked at 1.5GHz and 4 more Cortex A53 processors clocked at 1.0 GHz and the updated Adreno 405 GPU.