Well First to say, This year, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus came out, and like every time, we techies do not seem to care. Its really a question to me how iPhone is top searched tech device globally (According to Google Search Statistics 2014). Because even non techies and regular Joe can understand Android. Not deeply enough, but to work with, Android is fine enough. Android is of course open source, Can be debugged by user, And many things, but a regular Joe doesn't needs to know all these. Android is pretty easy. But Still iPhone holds both Market value and top searched device. Us Indians are quite responsible for this disaster. How? Because, In our country, iPhone is not a symbol of simplicity or anything. Its just a status. The one who owns an iPhone indirectly tells people "Look, I have an iPhone, which means, I can afford it". To them, Android is cheap, so they won't buy, but they don't realize, that The phone's hardware is the main investment here. Android OS is by itself free. Anyways, If we stop speaking of
wannabes and rich douche-bags, Another reason for apple's top form may be, as follows,
1)Android versions changed and got updated several times within the iPhone 5 - 6 came out.
So time for new ROMs, new Updates, New customizations, and even new Phones. One Techie man buys minimum of 2 - 3 phones within the time iPhone versions change.
2)Android is for many many phone companies. iPhone is only one of its kind. Which means, if suppose 100 people wants to buy iPhone, He goes only for iPhone, But if 100 people want to go for Android, He/She have to choose between various phone companies namely Sony, HTC, Samsung, Micromax etc.
Conclusion - The number of Android OS users is the total number of android phone users. So if we do sum of them, iPhone statically wound't come to the list :)
Anyways, Lets leave talking of stuff techies already know of, Lets talk about some new phones I prefer Phone freaks should buy.
First of all speaking of, - There are already great companies like Sony, HTC etc, But from India, We get Micromax from Gurgaon here with almost as same specifications of Branded imported phones in less than half of their price. But to be honest, as low is the price, is same as low build quality. Micromax serves as the device for all bellow average, average, and fair money income society, thats why Micromax has to degrade some of its quality. For visual problems, The Camera quality, Sound quality, Sound recording quality, Display quality is not given as promised. But when it comes to Hardware, CPU and SoC, Micromax is not under high priced phones.
To me, Micromax is not the phone to serve personal purposes. Its not highly reliable like Sony or HTC. But as I said, this blog is mainly for Techies, So Who cares, Micromax serves for Developers and testers, who likes to play around with ROMs, Recoveries, Partitions, and pure technical stuff. Who needs a good camera to install new ROM? LoL . Jokes apart, Another phone brand came in mind called "XIAOMI", so called the device of all humanity, Low priced and hi def hardware. Later we all came to know that It was pre installed with backdoors, and Many configuration problems, where you have to stay with MIUI ROM, and with viruses. DONT BUY EVER. Anyways,
Micromax spoke of a new phone yesterday, which is yet to be released, named as Yureka.
Owners of Micromax confirmed some days ago, that this new Yu series will be the device specially targeted for developers. They said, that they will provide warranty even after rooting and customizing device. And for Hardware, The phone is packing a BEAST, - Qualcomm 615 SoC. And default ROM from Cyanogen - Cyanogen 11 with just the price of 8,999/- INR. Which will be exclusively sold on Amazon.
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| THE MICROMAX YUREKA |
So for SoC, It packs with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 cored 64 Bit CPU clocked at 1.5 GHz, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, Adreno 405 Graphics Processor, 4G LTE modem.
Next it offers Android 4.4.4 Kitkat within Cyanogen 11 OS, which is optimized for greater battery backup, security and reliability. Micromax promises Android updates in the future.
For other features, Lets talk about Camera. Now I am not fond of Micromax Camera, but What? this time they are offering Sony's CMOS sensor. My favourite brand of all time. Yu is equipped with a 13 Mega Pixel Primary camera, with Sony CMOS Sensor, and 24 FPS full. And a 5 Megapixels camera at front.
Moreover it has an IPS display of 5.5 Inch with a resolution of 720 x 1280, with 267 PPI protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
To note, that to power all of those beast, the power source is not enough. It only packs with 2500 mAH. Where imported phone specifications of even nearer to this phone, packs with 3K + mAH. But as said, Developers, from when did they need great talktimes? LOL.
A very important point for developers, It has an internal memory of 16 GB, where 12 GB is free for internal apps. And rest upto the hands of developers.
So, To me, This is a great phone for developers, and both Personal use to a little extent, with a good build quality too. If I get some money this year, I am going for this phone genuinely.
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