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Reviewing Pl@ntNet - A collaborative app for identifying plants with your smartphone

A while ago, we read about an app for Android called PlantNet, or PlantNet Plant Identification in its extended version. It's an app that promises to help people identify plants by using their smartphones. It's all about taking a picture and letting image recognition software do its job at identifying that flower, tree, or any other plant you've shot. People even compared PlantNet to Shazam and said that it is

Reviewing the TP-Link Neffos X1 - Surprisingly good, at a reasonable price

TP-Link is a company best known for the networking devices that they manufacture. However, they're also present on the smartphone market, and they recently launched a new series of smartphones: Neffos X1 and Neffos X1 Max. Over the last week or so, we tested the Neffos X1 and today, we'd like to share our opinion about this smartphone. Is the Neffos X1 a good choice? What does it have to

Reviewing the Nokia 150 - The return of feature phones?

Ah, Nokia. The brand that connected so many people back in the nineties. The brand that soared so high in the mobile communications market, only to dip to unimaginable lows in the last few years. Under the new ownership of Foxconn and HMD global, the iconic brand has resumed its production of feature phones, the ancestors of current mobile devices. Since many of you are interested in seeing where this

Reviewing the ASUS ZenFone 3 Max - Affordable and good-looking

ASUS has a good thing going on with its smartphone business, and one of the reasons for that is the fact that they have created a wide variety of smartphones, for all budgets. One of their smartphones is made for people who don't necessarily want a very powerful smartphone, they have a limited budget and need a device that has a generous battery life. The ZenFone Max is ASUS's smartphone

Reviewing TP-LINK Neffos C5 Max - An affordable 5.5 inch smartphone

In 2016, TP-LINK has entered the smartphone market by launching several smartphones under their new Neffos brand. One of their best smartphones is the TP-LINK Neffos C5 Max. It's a Dual-SIM device with a screen size of 5.5", an octa-core processor, and 16GB of storage space, at an affordable price. We received this device for testing before the winter holidays and, after more than two weeks of use, this is

Reviewing ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe ZS570KL - Elegance meets powerful hardware!

The Taiwanese company ASUS manufactures quite a few different models of ZenFone 3 smartphones, ranging from the affordable ASUS ZenFone 3 to the true king of their lineup, the ZenFone 3 Deluxe. The latter is the best you can buy under ASUS' brand: it comes with powerful hardware, an impressive build quality and many promises. When it was launched, it was also the first smartphone in the world to offer

Reviewing the ASUS ZenFone 3 ZE520KL - The new king of affordable flagships

The fall season is here and ASUS is ready with a new series of ZenFone smartphones. The company is launching three different models, all in the same generation: the ASUS ZenFone 3, the ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe and the ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra. All of them have solid hardware characteristics and each smartphone covers a different price segment. A few weeks ago, we got our hands on the ASUS ZenFone

7 Ways to test the speed of your internet connection on your Android device

Are you curious whether your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides you the bandwidth that it has promised? Do you want to know how fast is your 4G data connection? Are you troubleshooting a problem with your data connection on your Android smartphone or tablet? No matter what your question may be, there are a couple of ways you can test the speed of your internet connection on your Android devices.

Reviewing the iPhone SE or the iFrankenstein!

The iPhone 6 got more than its fair share of criticism for its size and shape: it was too big compared to the iPhone 5 and the rounded edges and the materials used made the smartphone rather slippery. Lots of Apple fans wanted something a bit more conservative and closer to the design of the last generation, and boy, did they get it. By popular demand, Apple used most of

The Samsung Galaxy S7 review - Great looks, great software, great hardware!

The release of a new Samsung Galaxy smartphone generates such hype that it can only be compared to an iPhone release: everyone's excited about the new features and many want to get the latest installment in the long-running Galaxy series. After owning a Samsung Galaxy S2 for many years, I have been disappointed by the S3-S4-S5 line, so I have completely abandoned Samsung smartphones and was genuinely interested in what

The Huawei P8max review - A giant smartphone that walks amongst us

They say that tablets are done for: more and more technology professionals forecast a quick end for these devices, as their popularity is on the decline. One of the main reasons for this is the appearance of phablets - smartphones with sizes comparable to tablets. These larger handhelds are basically two-in-one devices that make tablets redundant. Huawei's own P8max is one such smartphone: it's definitely big and it can replace

The Xiaomi Mi 5 review - Powerful hardware meets elegant design!

The Chinese mobile devices manufacturer Xiaomi has released their latest flagship Android smartphone: Xiaomi Mi 5. It features impressive hardware specifications and great design that leaves you with a very good first impression. Although it doesn't brag about introducing any " first of their kind" features like being the first water resistant smartphone or the first modular smartphone, or even the first "warp speed" smartphone, the Xiaomi Mi 5 has

Reviewing the ASUS ZenFone Zoom - The smartphone that thinks like a camera

It's been quite a while now since mobile manufacturers tried to design and build better camera smartphones. We've seen Samsung do this and we've seen Nokia doing it, but we didn't yet see ASUS do it. Not until recently that is, because ASUS has entered the competition for the best camera smartphone with their new ASUS ZenFone Zoom. It is a smartphone that promises to offer its users a camera

Reviewing the Lenovo X3 Vibe - Good vibrations in a surprising package!

After acquiring the Motorola brand from Google, Lenovo has been struggling to maintain its share in the mobile handsets market. Even with the two brands mostly aimed at different markets (Motorola for the US and Latin America and Lenovo for Asia and emerging markets), the Chinese manufacturer has decreased its sales substantially, especially in its home country. Surprisingly, it's not the quality of its products that is at fault, but

Huawei P8 Lite review - the balanced performer

Huawei continues its ascent in the sales charts for mobile devices, having only last year surpassed Microsoft's Lumia division. Undoubtedly, the aggressive pricing of its devices is the main reason for reaching third place in the sales chart, and while even top Huawei devices like the P8 do not yet possess the level of software and aesthetic refinement seen in phones from more established manufacturers, they are slowly and surely

Reviewing OnePlus X - Is it the budget flagship killer?

Two years ago, the OnePlus company launched its first smartphone called OnePlus One, promoted as the "Original flagship killer". The One model was designed to compete in terms of performance, quality and PRICE, with the flagship devices released by the well-known companies in the Android market. In the summer of 2015, the manufacturer launched the successor to the OnePlus One, the new "flagship killer", OnePlus Two. Late in the same