LeEco Le Max Review

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Smartphones have gotten a lot bigger since the introduction of touchscreen phones years ago. The original Apple iPhone with a 3.5″ screen was considered to be huge at the time and so was the Dell Streak which had a 5 inch display. However, since then, the ideal smartphone display size has grown larger and larger and most flagship smartphones have screens northwards of 5 inches. Although a few brands did experience with 6 inch and above in terms of display size, not many of them did well and few pushed it as much as Letv are pushing their 6.33 inch Le Max smartphone. Specs wise, the phone is a beast and the smaller bezels mean that you have a larger than 6 inch display on a smartphone without the phone being too difficult to manage. But will it be able to sway customers out of buying sub 6 inch phablets and if so what can it offer that they can’t? Let’s find out.

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LeEco (Letv) Le Max Camera Samples

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The LeEco (Letv) Le Max comes equipped with a 21 Megapixel primary camera with a Sony IMX230 sensor. It also has OIS, PDAF, f 2.0 aperture and a dual-tone LED flash to help. Up front, you have a 4 Megapixel Omnivision OV4688 sensor with 2 micron pixel size. Now that we have the specifications out of the way, lets take a look at the photos in detail and see what the phone can capture.

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Motorola Moto X Force Review

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Up until 2014, Motorola had a maximum of 3 or 4 devices on their portfolio at any given point of time. Last year, Moto basically expanded their lineup by introducing not one, but two smartphones in the X lineup. The X Style and X Play were touted as being affordable flagships. While they did offer quite a good package and performance at a relatively low price point, they still did cut corners here and there. Early on in March 2015, Moto introduced the Moto Turbo in India which was a proper flagship by most rights. The only issue was that the smartphone was released in international markets by end of 2014 and as a result, most of the specifications seemed outdated by the time it hit our shores. In 2016, we get the update to the Moto Turbo in the form of the Moto X Force which was announced late last year as well but made its way to Indian territory much sooner. It also seems to hold its own weight against the newer flagships from LG and Samsung. So let’s dive into the review to take a look at how well it performs.

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LeEco (Letv) Le 1s Camera Samples

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LeEco (formerly Letv) launched the Le 1s smartphone in India at Rs. 10,999 earlier this year exclusively on Flipkart. We already brought you the unboxingbenchmarks and the battery life test results, here we have camera samples from the smartphone. The Le 1s has a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, ISOCELL sensor, PDAF and single LED flash. It has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with Samsung S5K5E2 sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 1080p video recording and 85-degree wide-angle lens. Continue reading “LeEco (Letv) Le 1s Camera Samples”

Sunil Lalvani – President, Qualcomm India on Make in India

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Qualcomm is looking to help make India a hub for design capabilities for smartphones, tablets and IoT. The company is also looking to leverage India’s engineering talent to scale innovation for both local consumption, and rest of the world. On those lines, Qualcomm is setting up an Innovation Lab in Bangalore, India to provide technical and engineering support to the home grown companies.

In the very recent past, Qualcomm had also hosted the Design in India Challenge in association with NASSCOM to accelerate the creation of a product and hardware design ecosystem in India for healthcare, education, banking, agriculture, automotive, wearables and smartcities.

We at FoneArena had a chance to speak to Sunil Lalvani, the President of Qualcomm India at the Make in India week, which took place in Mumbai last month. Here’s the transcript from our talk..

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LeEco Le 1S Gold Photo Gallery

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LeEco (formerly Letv) launched the Le 1s smartphone in India at a competitive price tag of Rs. 10,999 in January. We have already seen unboxing, battery test and benchmarks of the phone. Now let’s take a detailed look at the hardware and specs of the Golden colored variant of the smartphone in this photo gallery. Continue reading “LeEco Le 1S Gold Photo Gallery”

Top 10 Smartphones under Rs. 10,000

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Some of the most common questions we get involve phones under Rs. 10,000 and particularly about which one of them to get. While, the perfect smartphone for you will depend on your particular requirements and use cases, we have shortlisted 10 devices that fall in this price range that we feel offer maximum bang for buck. You can use this list and to narrow down and find your ideal smartphone.

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 (Pro) Review

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Has Xiaomi lost its mojo? Is India no longer as big a priority for the messiah of the affordably priced quality smartphones? We’ve personally had quite a positive outlook towards the upstart but we’d be remiss not to mention that the public sentiment has been ebbing to a degree thanks to the proliferation of competitors from the land of the Red Dragon. Clearly these sentiments weren’t lost on Xiaomi as was evidenced by the rather emotional monologue by Hugo Barra, face of Xiaomi India, at a recent event in Delhi. The man who has rapidly become a bit of an icon in the technology world in India led an emphatic if not a rather circuitous presentation answering these concerns and more by announcing the launch of the Redmi Note 3, more specifically the version that is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset. While the audience cheered, our thoughts veered more towards the handset itself and its role in an ecosystem that is much larger than from two years ago when the Redmi 2 was a trendsetter. We’ve had access to the device for a couple of days now and with the pricing revealed, are now in a position to give a more nuanced opinion on the Redmi Note 3. Read on for our review of Xiaomi’s latest. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 (Pro) Review”

Mobile World Congress 2016 Coverage

The biggest platform, the biggest trade show in the mobile industry is upon us. This year’s iteration of Mobile World Congress has kick started today and just like every year, the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain will be hosting the event.

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The MWC is one of our main schedules in our calendar and this is perhaps the only time of a year we don’t grant leaves to any of our crew member. This event is that important mainly because all the key players in the mobile industry will showcase their new innovations. Continue reading “Mobile World Congress 2016 Coverage”

LeEco (Letv) Le 1s Benchmarks

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LeEco (formerly Letv) launched the Le 1s smartphone in India at a competitive price tag of Rs. 10,999 last month. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks.  It is powered by MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795) SoC with 8 ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit CPUs clocked at 2.16GHz per core and has 700MHz PowerVR G6200 GPU. It packs 3GB of RAM, 5.5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop) with LeEco’s own EUI 5.5 on top. Check out the synthetic benchmarks scores. Continue reading “LeEco (Letv) Le 1s Benchmarks”

LeEco (Letv) Le 1s Unboxing

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LeEco (formerly Letv) launched the Le 1s smartphone in India at a competitive price tag of Rs. 10,999 at an event last week. We already checked out the phone at the announcement in China back in October last year. We finally managed to get hold of the smartphone, here is the unboxing.

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LeEco (Letv) Le Max Photo Gallery

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LeEco (formerly Letv) launched its flagship Le Max smartphone in India starting at Rs. 32,999 earlier today. We recently posted the unboxing of the phone and now let’s take a look at hardware and specifications of the phone in this photo gallery. Continue reading “LeEco (Letv) Le Max Photo Gallery”

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Teardown

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We are extremely thankful to our readers for the overwhelmingly positive response to our first teardown of the QiKU Q Terra. To follow that up, we are now bring you our second teardown with the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3.

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