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Wednesday 15 February 2017

Fero Pace Full Specifications And Price

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Fero Pace is a low end smartphone, it comes with 5.5-inch display, fingerprint sensor, 8MP/5MP camera, 1GB RAM and 8GB internal storage. Below is the Fero Pace full specifications:

Fero Pace Specs


Technology

  • GSM: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
  • 3G: HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
  • 4G: No
  • SIM Type: Dual Micro SIM (dual stand-by)
  • OS: Android 6 Marshmallow

Fero Pace specs



Design


  • Dimensions: 153.6 x 79.6 x 10.5 mm
  • Weight: 137 g
  • Display: 5.5-inch, 720 x 1280 pixels (267 PPI), IPS LCD Capacitive touchscreen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3
  • Sensors: Fingerprint, Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity, Compass
  • Build: Plastic
  • Colours: Gold, Space Grey


Hardware

  • Processor Type: Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
  • Processor Name: MediaTeK 6580
  • Graphics Processor: Mali-400MP\
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • Internal Storage: 8 GB
  • External Storage: microSD, up to 32 GB (SIM 2 slot)

Cameras

  • Rear: 8 megapixel, autofocus, LED flash
  • Video recording: 1080p @ 30fps
  • Front-facing: 5 megapixel, LED flash

Multimedia

  • Music Support: MIDI/MP3/AAC/WAV/WMA
  • Loudspeaker: Yes
  • Video Support: MP4/MPEG4/H.263/H.264 player
  • FM Radio: Yes

Connectivity

  • Bluetooth: v4.0
  • WiFi: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
  • GPS: Yes
  • USB: microUSB v2.0, USB Host

Miscellaneous

  • Battery: Non-removable Li-Ion 2800 mAh
  • Announced: January, 2017
  • Availability: January, 2017
  • Launch Price: To Be Announced
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Friday 10 February 2017

How To Add Front Facing Flash To Your Smartphone In Easy Steps

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It could be difficult capturing great selfies with your phone, when your smartphone doesn't come with the front camera flash. Though most manufacturer has started shipping smartphones with front flash but just in case your phone doesn't come with one, this post for users without one who want to take excellent shot in low light conditions or at night.

How to add front facing flash to your smartphone

In order to take a good selfies at night with your smartphone without flash, will be introducing one of the several apps available on Google playstore and Apple's Appstore. Some of this app includes - BestMe Selfie Camera App, Front Flash, Night Selfie Camera etc which are for android users. While for ios users, you can download - Self-shot – Front Flash Camera, Nightly, Take Selfies FREE etc. In order to attain this feat, we will be using Self-shot app available on both ios and android platform. Just follow the steps below





How to add front facing flash to your smartphone – For iOS users

  • Download the Self shot – Front Flash Camera app from the Appstore and install on your device
  • Launch the app
  • After launching the app, it will automatically increase the screen brightness to the maximum with a white backlight.
  • Face your iPhone towards you and take the selfies as you want
  • While using the app, a preview of the selfie is displayed on a small frame at the top right end of the app interface.
  • After taking the selfie, you can now save or delete if you want.
Front-facing flash for android and ios

How to add front facing flash to your smartphone – For the Android OS users





  • Download the app from the Playstore and install on your Android device
  • Launch the app just as in the iOS steps above
  • Follow the same process as explained for iOS users above
NOTE: physical buttons like the volume key or a physical camera button can't be used with this app.

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Gionee P7 Full Specifications | Gionee P7 Price

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Gionee P7 is a stripped down version of the Gionee P7 Max, it's a low end smartphone. It comes with 5-inch display, 4G LTE, and android Marshmallow. Check Gionee P7 full specifications below.

Gionee P7 Full Specifications | Gionee P7 Price


Gionee P7

Technology

  • GSM: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
  • 3G: HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
  • 4G: FDD-LTE 3(1800) / 5(850) / 40(800)
  • SIM Type: Dual Micro SIM (dual stand-by)
  • OS: Android 6 Marshmallow (Amigo 3.2 UI)




Design

  • Dimensions:
  • Weight:
  • Display: 5.0-inch, 720 x 1280 pixels (294 PPI), IPS LCD Capacitive display
  • Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity, Compass
  • Build: Metal
  • Colours: White, Gold, Grey

Hardware

  • Processor Type: Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
  • Processor Name:
  • Graphics Processor:
  • RAM: 2 GB
  • Internal Storage: 16 GB
  • External Storage: microSD, up to 128 GB (SIM 2 slot)

Cameras

  • Rear: 8 megapixel, autofocus, LED flash
  • Video recording: 1080p @ 30fps
  • Front-facing: 5 megapixel

Multimedia

  • Music Support: MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
  • Loudspeaker: Yes
  • Video Support: MP4/MPEG4/H.263/H.264 player
  • FM Radio:

Connectivity

  • Bluetooth: v4.0
  • WiFi: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
  • GPS: Yes
  • USB: microUSB v2.0

Miscellaneous

  • Battery: Non-removable Li-Ion 2300 mAh
  • Announced: December, 2016
  • Availability: December 2016
  • Launch Price: To Be Announced
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Tuesday 7 February 2017

Navbar Review: The Best Luxurious Way Of Customizing Your Navigation Bar

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We all know that a common way of customizing android device is by using launcher, with couple of theme installed. Even some folks even go further by installing Xposed framework to do more cool tweaks and customization. While some prefer flashing Custom ROM with amazing built-in features. But the Navbar App will further turn your boring navigation bar to an awesome look.
Navbar App

Navbar App review: Adds an extra swag to your navigation bar

Navbar app is an amazing app made just to customize your android navigation bar to an amazing look, with navbar you can turn and tweak your boring android navigation and make it awesome. You can choose to use your custom made image as navbar image, and not just that, there are several Navbar app Features you will definitely love,which make the Navbar App the best luxurious way of customizing your navigation bar.




Navbar App Review: Navbar App Features

With Navbar app features, you can choose to mimic the color of the current app you are using, or you can decide to use the color from the palette. Not just that, you can also set it to show battery percentage. If you like it, you can decide to go premium with a token - this will enable you to select custom made pictures.

Navbar App Features


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Having said that, let me quickly add that with Navbar app, you don't need root access to tweak your android navbar color to make it great again. There is a Google Plus community which you can join HERE, to request for and get more custom made images for your android navigation bar.

Download Navbar App




Navbar app download can be made via Google playstore HERE

Note: This app doesn't support chrome and Huawei Smartphones with EMUI skin

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Gionee F5 Full Specifications And Price:

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The Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Gionee, has just released another smartphone - Gionee F5. The Gionee F5 that have been launched in China, comes with an unusual screen size and powerful battery. It's comes with a 5.3-inch screen display instead of the normal 5-inch or 5.5-inch display most smartphones come with these days.

Gionee F5 has a metal unibody, a physical home button with fingerprint sensor, has 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage that can be expanded to 128GB using a MicroSD slot and its powered by an octa-core processor with a speed of 15GHz.


The Gionee F5 packs a 4000 mAh battery, a 13MP rear camera with auto focus and 5MP front-facing and runs on Android 6.0 marshmallow with Amigo UI layered on top. Its also comes with a Dual sim slot with support for a 4G VoLTE. Below is Gionee F5 Full specifications:


Gionee F5 Full Specifications | Gionee F5 Price


Technology

  • 2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900.
  • 3G:
  • HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100. CDMA2000 1xEV-DO / TD-SCDMA.
  • 4G: LTE with VoLTE. LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 38(2600)
  • SIM Type: Dual SIM (Micro-SIM, dual standby).
  • OS: Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Amigo OS 3.2.
Gionee F5 Specs


Design

  • Dimensions: 150 * 74.5 * 7.7 mm.
  • Weight: 162 g.
  • Display size: 5.3 inches.
  • Display Resolution: 1280 * 720 pixels (HD).
  • Display Technology: IPS Capacitive touchscreen.
  • Build: Metal Unibody Design.
  • Form Factor: Touchscreen Bar.
  • Colours: Gold & Rose Gold.




Hardware

  • Processor Name/Technology: 64-bit MediaTek MT6750.
  • Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz.
  • Number of Processor Cores: Octa-core.
  • Graphics Processor: Mali T860.
  • RAM: 4GB.
  • Internal Storage: 32GB.
  • External Storage: microSD, up to 128GB.
  • Sensors: Gravity, Accelerometer, Light, Proximity, Fingerprint Sensor, Gyroscope & Compass.

Camera

  • Rear: 13 MP with Autofocus.
  • LED Flash: Yes.
  • Video recording: Yes, 1080p.
  • Front-facing: 8MP.


Multimedia

  • Music Support: AAC, AMR, MP2, MP3, M4A, MKA.
  • Loudspeaker: Yes.
  • Audio Technology: –
  • Video Support: MP4/MPEG4/H.263/H.264 player.
  • FM Radio: Yes.

Connectivity

  • Bluetooth: v4.1.
  • Bluetooth Profiles: A2DP, LE.
  • WiFi: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot.
  • GPS: Yes, A-GPS & GLONASS.
  • USB: micro-USB v2.0
  • USB OTG: Yes.
  • NFC: –
  • 3.5mm audio jack: Yes.

Battery

  • Battery: Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh.
  • Charging: Fast Charge –
  • Power Management: Marshmallow’s Battery Saving mode.

Miscellaneous

  • Extra Features: –
  • Launch Date: February 6, 2017.
  • Availability: February 6, 2017.
  • Sales stores/platforms: Online: TBA. Offline: –
  • Launch Price: China: 1,799 Yuan. India: Rs. 17,600. USA: $260.
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Sunday 5 February 2017

IOS 10 Battery Draining: 4 Working Steps To Improve Battery Life On Apple IOS 10

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The new Apple IOS 10 comes with lot of amazing features that will further ignite and makes you a hardcore Apple fans. But despite this amazing features, some folks still complain about the iphone IOS 10 battery drainage. So if you update your iPhone to IOS 10 and you noticed a significant battery drainage on your iPhone, there is a IOS 10 battery fix for you.

IOS 10 Battery Draining: 4 Working Steps To Improve Battery Life On Apple IOS 10

Without wasting time on long post, i will just go straight to the point on how to improve battery life on Apple IOS 10. before we head to the nail on the head steps to fix IOS battery drain, do note that some of the App you install is also vital to battery usage, which will be highlighted in this post.




How To Improve Battery life On Apple IOS 10


Battery draining Apps

Yes, we all love to install useful apps, be it miscellaneous app, social apps, etc. which have the cool features we want as individual but some of those apps are battery vanpires, they run on the background, they suck and drain out IOS 10 battery juice. An example of such app as we all know is the Facebook app, Facebook app is very unfriendly to your battery because they always run on the background even while the screen is locked.

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Facebook app is not the only battery vampire apps out there, there are lot of them, in order to fish them out, go to settings, click on battery, you will see a list of major battery-draining app and services. It is wise to remove such app or look for alternative for them that does not drain battery and also, turning location service off is another cool way to improve your iphone battery life.

battery draining app




Adjust Your Phone Screen brightness

Some of us are already use to this powerful tricks, when your screen brightness is reduced, you will definitely have more time with your phone without the fear of battery draining. below is how to adjust screen brightness on IOS 10.
  • Go to your Settings app on the home screen
  • Go to Display & Brightness, then click on Auto brightness
  • Toggle the Auto brightness switch off so as to reduce the brightness

Turn on Night Shift

Night shift is another cool features that was embedded on the new IOS 10, what night shift does, however, is to adjust screen display color at night not only will this features safe you from stressing your eyes at night, it will also extend your battery life. 

night shift feature

below is how to turn on Apple night shift on ios 10:
  1. Click on the Settings app on your iOS 10 device
  2. Click on Display & Brightness under Settings
  3. Click on Night shift
  4. You have two options in your Night shift mode: Sunset to Sunrise or Custom schedule – you can select this option to define the time to turn on and turn off this feature automatically.
You can also use your device on low-power mode to improve your battery life on ios 10 as well.

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Turn Off Raise to Wake feature

This feature is said to be available on iDevices running on M9 processor such as iPhone 6s and iphone 6s Plus. What this does, is to turn on your iphone device when you raise it up, as cool as it is, it can aslo drain your battery. So it is advisable to turn it off. 

raise to wake ios 10 feature

Here is how to turn off raise to wake feature on your IOS 10 iphone:
  • Go to Settings, then click on Display & Brightness
  • Toggle the Raise to Wake switch off to turn off the feature
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Wednesday 1 February 2017

How To Watch Big Brother Naija 2017 Online Free - #BBNaija

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Big Brother Naija, #BBNaija - is an adult reality Tv show that will makes you stay glue to your Tv set. As we all know, you can only watch the show on cable Television, it will be aired live only on DSTV channel 198 (Ghana 129) and GOTV Plus Nigeria channel 29. 


Watch Big Brother Naija 2017 Online Free - #BBNaija

The presenter is the former Big Brother house mate Ebuka Obi-Uchendu and he is muscle behind the mic of the "biggie".

Payporte - an online retailer store sponsored the Big Brother Nigeria 2017, lot of music artist will be performing live in this year BBNaija, the likes of Yemi Alade, K9, Flavour and much more tonight. Do not that the Big brother Naija 2017 which has already begun will only last for Ten weeks.



Having said that, let go back to the main, on How to watch Big brother Naija 2017.

How To Watch Big Brother Naija 2017 Online For Free - #BBNaija


If you are on the Go or at work, or any place where you don't have access to a TV and you don't want to miss this show, then the only option to watch the Big brother Naija show non-stop 24/7 online is via your smartphone and tablet/PC.

Just like these two Youtube channel below, then you are good to go.


With that, you will not miss any Big Brother Naija episode
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Nokia P1: With Stunning Design, Feature | Nokia P1 Specifications (Video)

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Nokia Mobile, A brand that is known for quality is working on a premium and stunning design smartphone dubbed Nokia P1. Nokia P1 might be a threat to other OEMs because of its amazing premium built, and following the release of Nokia 6 smartphone that got sold out in less than a minute when the sales was opened which show that nokia coming back to phone and tablet is not a wasted effort, it is certain that, a lot of smartphone lovers will be waiting for Nokia P1 release date.
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Nokia P1 will be equipped with snapdragon 834 chipset couple with a quality quad HD IGZO display from sharp, a 5.3-inch display that make it more portable. With the leaked Video below, Nokia P1 just as the Nokia 6, is spotted with a uni-body chassis with a premium appeal, with a massive 22.3 megapixel rear camera with triple led flash, 6 GB of RAM, 256 GB internal storage.

Watch the Nokia P1 Video below rendering the concept on what a premium quality smartphone should look like.





Nokia P1 Specifications | Nokia P1 Price | Nokia P1 Release Date


ModelNokia P1
Security fingerprint sensor (probably)
Operating SystemAndroid 7.0 Nougat
Color  –
Internal Memory‎256GB
RAM6GB
Processor TypeSnapdragon 835 chipset
Display Size5.3-inch
Rear Camera22.3MP with flash
Front Camera
Connectivity4G , Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Battery3500mAh battery
Having said that, the Nokia P1 price is not known yet but for a premium quality smartphone from Nokia, you can expect affordability. We will keep you posted once the full Nokia P1 specs is out.
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