Google Pixel XL Specification and Price Featuring Latest Android 7.0 Nougat OS

Google Pixel XL is the more advanced version of Google’s Pixel which was launched some hours ago. The two phones share some similar specs but as expected, the Pixel XL has upper hand in some key areas like battery capacity. See the full specs of Pixel XL below. It's cool

GOOGLE PIXEL XL SPECIFICATION

✔ NETWORK

Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE

2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100

4G bands LTE

Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat6 300/50 Mbps

GPRS Yes

EDGE Yes

✔ BODY DESIGN

Dimensions 154.7 x 75.7 x 8.6 mm (6.09 x 2.98 x 0.34 in)

Weight 168 g (5.93 oz)

SIM Nano-SIM

Colors Blue, Silver, Black

✔ DISPLAY

Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 5.5 inches (~71.2% screen-to-body ratio)

   

Resolution 1440 x 2560 pixels (~534 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4

✔ PLATFORM

OS Android OS, v7.1 (Nougat)

Chipset Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 821

CPU Quad-core (2x2.15 GHz Kryo & 2x1.6 GHz Kryo)

GPU Adreno 530

✔ MEMORY CAPACITY

Card slot No

Internal 32/128 GB, 4 GB RAM

✔ CAMERA

Primary 12 MP, f/2.0, phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash

Features 1/2.3" sensor size, 1.55µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama

Video 2160p@30fps

Secondary 8 MP, f/2.0, 1/3.2" sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size, 1080p

✔ MULTIMEDIA

Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

MP4/H.264 player

MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player

✔ CONNECTIVITY

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot

Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, LE

GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS

NFC Yes

Radio No

USB Type-C 1.0 reversible connector

✔ SENSORS

Sensors Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer

✔ MISCELLANEOUS

Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM

Browser HTML5

Java No

Photo/video editor

Document editor

✔ BATTERY

Non-removable Li-Ion 3450 mAh battery

Fast battery charging

Stand-by Up to 456 h (3G)

Talk time Up to 26 h (3G)

✔ LAUNCH

Announced 2016, October 4

release 2016, October 20

✔ PRICE

Google Pixel XL 32GB $769

Google Pixel XL 128GB $869

Leaked: Infinix Zero 4 Specifications And Price

The infinix zero 4 is coming, though not announced yet. But a leaked specs is available for you here. Its seems infinix is following  the same Tecno phantom 6 strategy. Anyways, infinix will be releasing two devices this year, the infinix zero 4 and infinix zero 4 plus.

Infinix is known to produce cheap, budget friendly, affordable  smartphone, which have earned the company trust especially from Africa countries The infinix zero 4 might come with a 20.7MP rear camera with dual LED flash for photography enthusiasm and 8MP front camera with soft flash. A 5.5-inch screen size, 4 GB RAM, Fingerprint Scanner, 4,000 mAh battery and the latest Google Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box.

Once infinix mobility announces the infinix zero 4 and infinix zero 4 plus officially, we'll update the missing features. Having said that, below is the leaked infinix zero 4 Specifications  and infinix zero 4 plus specs:

Technology

GSM: GSM 900 / 1800

3G: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100

4G: LTE

SIM Type: Dual Nano SIM

OS: Android 6 Marshmallow + XOS

Design

Dimensions:

Weight:

Display: 5.5 inches, 1080 x 1920 pixels (480 PPI), IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass 4

Sensors: Fingerprint Scanner, Accelerometer, Proximity

Build: Curved diamond textured metallic body

Colours: Gold. Silver. Black

Hardware

Processor Type: Quad-Core 1.3 GHz

Processor Name: Helio X20 (Zero 4), Helio X25 (Zero 4 plus)

Graphics Processor: Mali-T7200

RAM: 4 GB

Internal Storage: 32 GB (Zero 4) / 64 GB (Zero 4 Plus)

External Storage: MicroSD card up to 128 GB

Camera

Rear: 20.7 MP rear (5248 x 3936) with dual LED flash

Video recording: Yes

Front-facing: 8 MP front with soft flash

Multimedia

Music Support: mp3, aac, aac+, eaac+, amr

Loudspeaker: Mono

Video Support: mpeg4, h.263, h.264

FM Radio: Yes

Connectivity

Bluetooth: v4.0

WiFi: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot

GPS: Yes

USB: microUSB v2.0; USB-OTG

Miscellaneous

Charging: Fast Charge

Battery: 4,000 mAh

Announcement: Expected November 2016

Availability: November 2016

Launch Price: To be announced

Google Pixel Specification and Price Featuring Latest Android 7.0 Nougat OS

Finally, Google has launched its own full Android smartphone different from Nexus as this one is build by Google from scratch without any 3rd party hand in it. The Google Pixel smartphones comes in two variants - the Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL. Both devices comes with latest Android 7.0 Nougat operating system and other wonderful features. Below is the full specs of Google Pixel

GOOGLE PIXEL SPECIFICATIONS

✔ NETWORK

Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE

2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100

4G bands LTE

Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat6 300/50 Mbps

GPRS Yes

EDGE Yes

✔ BODY DESIGN

Dimensions 143.8 x 69.5 x 8.6 mm (5.66 x 2.74 x 0.34 in)

Weight 143 g (5.04 oz)

SIM Nano-SIM

Colors Blue, Silver, Black

✔ DISPLAY

Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

   

Size 5.0 inches (~69.0% screen-to-body ratio)

Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels (~441 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4

✔ PLATFORM

OS Android OS, v7.1 (Nougat)

Chipset Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 821

CPU Quad-core (2x2.15 GHz Kryo & 2x1.6 GHz Kryo)

GPU Adreno 530

✔ MEMORY CAPACITY

Card slot No

Internal 32/128 GB, 4 GB RAM

✔ CAMERA

Primary 12 MP, f/2.0, phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash

Features 1/2.3" sensor size, 1.55µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama

Video 2160p@30fps

Secondary 8 MP, f/2.0, 1/3.2" sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size, 1080p

✔ MULTIMEDIA 

Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

MP4/H.264 player

MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player

✔ CONNECTIVITY

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot

Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, LE

GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS

NFC Yes

Radio No

USB Type-C 1.0 reversible connector

✔ SENSORS

Sensors Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer

✔ MISCELLANEOUS

Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM

Browser HTML5

Java No

Photo/video editor

Document editor

✔ BATTERY CAPACITY

Non-removable Li-Ion 2770 mAh battery

Fast battery charging

LAUNCH

Announced 2016, October

Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2016, October 20

✔ PRICE

Google Pixel 32GB $649

Google Pixel 128GB $749

Find Out The 4G Band Your Smartphone Supports Before Buying or Swapping 4G SIM

That your phone is 4G enabled is not a guarantee it will work on all network or with all SIM cards. Do you know that all the 4G network providers have different Bands and Frequency on which their networks work? So this is my main reason why am revealing this to you beforehand so that you won't regret later when your 4G phone fails to work with a certain network.

I would advise you to carefully check the specifications of the phone you want to buy or the your current phone to find out the 4G band it supports. Popular phone makers like Samsung, Sony, LG make different variants of the same phone. They normally look alike physically but have different features in real sense. For example, Galaxy S5 has up to five variants. These variants usually support different LTE bands across themselves. So, you need to make sure that the variant you are buying has support for the LTE band of your service provider. 

Meanwhile, phone makers like Tecno, Infinix normally have a single variant, and those variant support LTE band 1, 3, 7, 20,. They are most popular bands in Asia, Middle East and Africa. 

4G LTE BAND OF NTEL, MTN, SPECTRANET, SMILE, & GLO NETWORKS

✔ Ntel uses band 3 (1800mhz) and band 8 (900mhz)

✔ Spectranet and Swift both use band 40 (2300mhz)

✔ MTN uses band 7 (2600mhz) and 20 (800MHz)

✔ Smile uses band 20 (800mhz)

✔ Glo uses band 28 (700MHz) 

In other words, LTE bands are scattered across devices and networks. In general, 4g LTE has different network transmission bands which includes 1,2,3,7,20,21,28 etc. While some of the bands are popular among many smartphones, few of them are not really popular and available on most phones and unfortunately Glo 4G band reportedly falls on band 28 which is hard to find as over 80% of popular 4G phones in Africa and Nigeria in particular don't support band 28 including Infinix Hot S 

   

To make matters worse, none of the Infinix or Tecno LTE devices support band 28/700mhz. Glo got this one really wrong.

Meanwhile, if you aren't sure if your device supports band 28/700mhz, send 4G to 400 in an SMS using your glo sim.

GLO just rushed their LTE , they are not really ready. What NTel did is called refirming of the 900 and 1800mhz band to roll out LTE.

WHICH NETWORK OPERATOR HAS THE BEST 4G LTE? 

The only opertaor with LTE on mobile with true LTE coverage is MTN. They are the only one that bided for the 2600 band that u will find on most mobile phones. MTN LTE bands is 800 and 2600 bands and they have more than 1000 sites already. 

If u really want to use LTE without hassles, i recommend MTN or Ntel if you have the service in your location. 

CONCLUSION

Please make sure you check the specifications of your smartphone or the one you want to buy very well. Do a better research before buying as not all phones that supports 4G LTE will work on your SIM. Find out the 4G band support of the phone and also compare it with the 4G support of your preferred network to avoid stories that touches the heart later. Thank you. 

If you have any question, feel free to ask via the comments sections below and also remember to hit the SHARE buttons below as some of your friends might need this information as well.

BlackBerry Stops Production of Smartphones

I am sure you've all been hearing that BlackBerry stopped production of devices like BB 10 and BB Classic, but this time around, the company is completely withdrawing from producing smartphones.

BlackBerry was done with internal hardware design as soon as DTEK50 was launched. That device was based on a TCL reference design, and the leaked upcoming DTEK60 uses the same model as well..

We all knew this would happen, as BlackBerry has been struggling in this smartphone industry for years. Even BB Priv which they thought would resuscitate the company also recorded very poor sales.

Now, Android and Apple devices are dominating and this has caused Blackberry's global market share to be less than 1 percent, chai Remember the good old days when BlackBerry products was a must have. Even China guys created their own BB, the one you'll turn on and 2 nokia hand will shake, lol.


Back in October 2015, CEO of blackberry, John Chen said quote:
"the company would exit the smartphone business, which has been on life support for years, if it cannot turn a profit in 2016."


Unfortunately, it seems BlackBerry didn't actually yield much profit. So they once again made an announcement in their Q2 Fiscal 2017 results:
“Our new Mobility Solutions strategy is showing signs of momentum, including our first major device software licensing agreement with a telecom joint venture in Indonesia. Under this strategy, we are focusing on software development, including security and applications. The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners. This allows us to reduce capital requirements and enhance return on invested capital”.

Now Blackberry will venture into software creation and security applications. I won't blame them from opting-out, BB didn't get all the support they needed:
- Firstly, Facebook turned its back on them by making FB unsupported on the device.
- Paypal also stopped its app from working on blackberry.
- And WhatsApp nailed it all. Imagine, you're using BB and you can't whatsapp, this is trash!

All these and more caused the downfall of this company. But who will blackberry give their hardware development to?