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Android Lollipop is a major facelift since Android 4.0 ice-cream sandwich. It’s been years since Android staying on 4.x version with Android 4.0-4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich(2011), Android 4.1-4.3.1 Jelly bean (2012) and finally 4.4-4.4.4 Kit Kat(2013). October 2011 Ice Cream Sandwich was released; the milestone Google made to the success of the most popular mobile platform Android. Until Ice cream sandwich Android was just another mobile platform in the mobile market dominated by Nokia’s Closed Source Operating System, Symbian .  Even if Google tried to more features to Android platform with Gingerbread at 2010, the system was couldn’t utilize the precious hardware and had a lagging interface. But unlike Symbian OS, Android was growing very rapidly with tons of new feature with each updates.  Android Ice cream Sandwich could bring more visual appeal and better performance than its predecessor but the platform was not as smooth to work on. Thus Google star...

September 2014 at IFA 2014 LG unveiled the world’s first complete round watch, LG G Watch R . Since Motorola’s beautiful round watch Moto 360 , round watches are the trend for smart watch. As an original Android wear partner LG’s first smart watch G watch was announced at Google I/O this year. But the LG G watch was as simply square display watch running Android wear. It had no big feature than one the fist smart watch to run Android wear like other competitors like Samsung at the point. LG has returned to smart watch business with it new LG G Watch R. R for round, yes it’s a round watch. Unlike Moto 360 , LG G watch R has a perfect round display. Design LG have worked well on the design on the new LG smart watch. It has a black round brushed metal finish with black rough plastic back . The watch has a larger bezel than the small Moto 360 bezel but the bezel gives it a premium look. Most mart watches until now, comes with a good look but does it good enough to wear...

3 rd September 2014 at IFA 2014 Sony released its third generation smart watch Sony Smart Watch 3 running Android Wear along with SmartBand . Sony is one of the most valuable electronic manufacturing companies of all time. But since last few years Sony struggles lot to grip into smart phone market with it Xperia Z series. Sony smart phone sales are falling tremendously with a unhealthy UI and high price. Sony decided to siege the new emerging smart watch market with an early entry with Samsung. Sony made its own platform to power their smart watches. As the smart watches work parallel with smart phone to delivery for functionality, the platform was build such that all smart phone with Android 4.3+ are compactable. Still Sony smart watch didn’t work out well as much as Samsung products did. Thus Sony has to have breaking news to jump back into the smart watch market as lot companies like Pebble, LG with G Watch R and Motorola with Moto 360 came with better products by ...

Back at March 18, 2014 Motorola announced Moto 360. The most anticipated Smart phone that was delayed lot to come to market. Moto 360 has changed the face of Smart Watch industry with its intrusive design of all time. Design Samsung was the first player in the Smart Watch market but much of its product didn’t work out very with it shabby design with a square screen. When Motorola designed it Smart watch they went back into few decades when round watches came became trendy and even it persist now. Most of the major watch maker still makes a ton of classy round watches. Android wear is made for square faces so the as the initial players Samsung opted square screens for their smart watches but it didn’t look great. Motorola bought Moto 360 as the first round Smart Watch in the market. Motorola scarified many to go for round screen but even before Moto 360 was out in market, people where in love with it.   Moto 360 has a stainless steel body which substituted cheap pl...

On 16 th October 2014 Apple announced iPad mini 3 along with iPad Air 2 and new iMac 5k. Design The new iPad mini 3 has the exactly same design as its predecessor iPad mini 2. The body is an aluminum unibody, comes with three color silver, gold and space gray.  Apple have almost nothing to improve the iPad mini. Display It has a 7.9 inch IPS Retina display with 2048x1536 resolution (326ppi) exactly like the older iPad mini. Unlike the new iPad Air 2, new iPad mini display was not laminated. Apple made thinner display for iPad air 2 by combining three components LCD, touch sensor and cover glass into a single layer which reduces internal reflex and give a more enhanced touch screen experience. The iPad didn’t even the the anti reflexive coating over the display that iPad Air 2 has.    Chip Even Apple didn’t look into to bump up the performance of the new iPad mini. It has the same old generation A7 with motion co processor M7. Camera...

16 th October 2014 Apple announced the new iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 and all new iMac . Soon after the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus announcement event on 19 th September 2014, Apples upgrades its tablet series with pretty sweet features. The new iPad mini 2 is the slimmer version of the original iPad mini. As the hit Apple product Original iPad, iPad mini also hit the tablet market very well making a good money flow into Apple. Still iPad mini have a lower configuration that its big brother iPad which make power used to go for iPad or other compitator with slimmer tablets than iPad mini. Design and Display As its predecessor iPad mini 2 have a unibody aluminum body . The device is so thin than another other iPad apple had; Apple says iPad mini 2 is the slimmest tablet among all others including the competitors. Its 18 percent thinner than the Original iPad mini, It has a gorgeous 9.7inch Retina Display with 2048x1536 capable of showcases 3.1 million pixels in a w...