Charging Mistakes Those Kill Your Smartphone.

Overcharging The Phone

If your palm is sweating after disconnecting the phone from charger when it shows 100% charged, You are overcharging your phone which leads to bad battery performance. Maintaining your phone to 100% always is not an efficient way to keep battery strong. People often connect their phones to charger when its below 90%. Do not charge your phone too often. Let it go below 70% then connect the charger.

Letting Your Phone Die Frequently

Some people starts their day with 30-35% juice and at the end of the day it drops to 1-2%. Frequently letting your phone battery die is bad for Li-ion batteries. For better battery performance the phone should not show "Low Battery" warning too often. If you are switching off your phone for long time make sure you have charged it to at least 50%, if you keep the battery completely depleted then it will get into state known as "Deep Discharge State" which can severely affect battery life. 

Overheating The Batteries

Never keep your smartphone under direct sunlight for too long period. This will overheat the battery and can permanently damage your smartphone. Playing games or watching videos on phone while its on charging can degrade the battery life and performance of your phone. Avoid talking on phone while its charging because it can overheat the phone and it will be harmful to user also. To avoid overheating charge your phone in cool places and remove phone covers while charging.

Battery Banks

Battery banks are very popular as a backup for your phone. But using it too often can lead to bad battery performance and it can damage your battery bank too.

Avoid Using Wrong Chargers

Every smartphone is designed differently, so the chargers came with the box is designed to provide perfect current and voltage rating. Some smartphones chargers have built-in kill power facilities when phone is fully charged. Using cheap or wrong chargers and USB cables can damage your smartphone due to its different power ratings.

For Better Battery Life

• Let your phone discharge completely then charge it to 100% once in a month.
• Keep Wi-Fi, Mobile Data, Bluetooth Off when you are not using it.
• Uninstall useless applications from your phone. 
• Uninstall the applications which overheats your phone while using.
• Clearing caches and rebooting your phone once in a week can help in better performance.
• Keep your smartphone in Flight mode while travelling to long distance as phone will drain more battery for low or no range/ network locations and for searching the network.

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The 'X' Factor : Moto X Play

The pioneer company for processors performing very well in smartphone industry with its amazing products. The 2013 Moto X or popular known as Original or First Gen Moto X was near perfect smartphone with coolest features. Here comes its another successor Moto X Play. Here are some things we like and disliked about this new X.

Thumbs Up:

• The stylish phone comes with Latest Android version 5.1.1 with Marshmallow (Android 6.0) support.
• The 5.5 inch 1080p display is absolutely beautiful with sound enhancement speakers.
• More endurance with water repellent coating by Motorola.
• Perfect features by Motorola like Touch-less control, Active display, Gesture controls and lot more.
• Extraordinary battery life for a smartphone: Motorola claims it will have enough juice for 30 Hours work if fully charged. The phone comes with a turbo charger which can give 8 Hours backup with only 15 minutes of charging.
• Phone has an Octa core processor which is indeed true Octa-core provides amazingly smooth control over phone without any heating issues.
• Motorola developed a very handsome phone with a variety of colors and one can customize the phone in Moto Maker.
• Moto X Play have expandable memory card support upto 128 GB.

Thumbs Down:

• Though Moto X Play have expandable memory card support, its internal memory is 16 GB with only 8.29 GB user available and for 32 GB its 23 GB user available. 
• The camera is 21 Mega-pixel with Sony sensor still it does not perform well in dark condition, the expectations about camera were very high. 
• Selfies are better though with 5 Mega-Pixels. The competitors provide the feature with 4K video recording still X play does not have one. 

Overall Review: 

If you are Motorola Fan and you want best phone under 20000/- then you should definitely buy this stylish phone which comes with perfect software and pure Android experience.

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Samsung Launches Galaxy Note 5 In India at Rs. 53,900.

Samsung has finally launched next generation of Note Series Galaxy Note 5. It features a 5.7-inch QHD (1440x2560 pixels) Super-Amoled display with a pixel density of 515ppi. Galaxy Note 5 is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 SoC with four Cortex-A57 cores clocked at 2.1GHz, and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz among with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM.

Key Specs :

• Display : 5.7-inch QHD Super-Amoled
• Resolution : 1440 x 2560 pixels
• Processor : 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 SoC with four Cortex-A57 cores clocked at 2.1GHz, and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz
• RAM : 4GB
• OS : Android 5.1
• Storage : 32GB and 64GB inbuilt storage, no expandable memory support via microSD card
• Rear Camera : 16-megapixel
• Front Camera : 5-megapixel
• Battery capacity : 3000mAh
• Connectivity options : 4G LTE Cat, 6 modem and support for India's 4G LTE bands, NFC, MST, Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, GPS/ A-GPS, and Micro-USB 2.0

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 will be available in Black Sapphire, Gold Platinum, and Silver Titanium colour variants. Samsung will also be providing 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage for free. Those pre-book the smartphone will also get a free wireless charger, and a one-time screen replacement.
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has been priced at Rs. 53,900 for the 32GB variant, and Rs. 59,900 for the 64GB variant. Pre-orders start from Monday and it will go on sale on September 20.

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Meet The First 'Cloud-First' Smartphone - 'Robin'.

Nextbit company run by Android veterans has come with a unusual idea which is on the paper for now. The product of this company named 'Robin' will be first 'cloud-first' smartphone. This device automatically backs up content on cloud means you will probably never run out of storage on your device. You already have 32GB internal storage but sometimes that isn't enough so this device backs up the content whether it is music, videos, pictures or apps on cloud whenever it detects that device is running out of space. You will have 100GB private box on cloud server.

There is a reason why company claims it as a 'smarter smartphone'. It actually studies how you use your smartphone. It looks at the apps which you constantly use and whenever it detects you are not using app anymore it uploads it to the cloud where you can still access it later by just connecting to the internet. Whenever you are connected to the WiFi, it automatically backs up your data on cloud.

Specs :

- OS : Android Lollipop or Marshmallow
- Processor : 2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 808
- RAM : 3GB
- Display : 5.2-inch Full HD
- Battery : 2680 mAh
- Memory : 32GB internal storage, 100GB cloud
- 13-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash
- 5-megapixel front facing camera
- Connectivity : Bluetooth 4.0 / NFC / GPS, WiFi
- Fingerprint sensor

Robin is available for purchase with $500,000 funding goal. First 1,000 backers will get this smartphone for $299. Others will have to pay $349 to get this smartphone and delivery is estimated by February 2016.

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