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Review Huawei P10 lite - A mid-range smartphone of very good quality

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Huawei is one of the biggest names in the smartphones industry. That must mean that the smartphones the company produces are good, not just marketed very well. We recently got our hands on their latest mid-range smartphone, namely the Huawei P10 lite, and we were curious to see if it is an excellent choice for people who want a well-balanced smartphone at an affordable price. After using it for two

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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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 ASUS ZenFone 3 Max - Affordable and good-looking

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

Get to know more about your emotions and moods, with Daylio

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  • Radu Tyrsina
In the last few months, one of my friends went through a severe period of depression and needed the help of his friends and family as well as that of his psychologist. During his treatment, he was asked to keep a mood log, so that he could understand his emotions better and create a baseline of how he feels and deals with depression. For this exercise, the doctor recommended that

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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

Security for everyone - Reviewing Norton Security and Antivirus for Android

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Android devices have taken the world by storm and so did mobile malware. Because of that, we need to virus-proof not just our computers, but also our Android smartphones or tablets. Just like most security vendors, Norton also offers a security app for Android devices. It is called Norton Security and Antivirus and it bundles many security features like web protection, anti-theft, call blocking and more. If you want to

Security for everyone - Reviewing Kaspersky Safe Kids for Android

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  • Radu Tyrsina
If you worry about your child's security online and you do care about the information he or she has access to, then you probably considered installing a parental controls app on the devices your child is using. Kaspersky is one of the security companies that creates such apps, both for computers and mobile devices. If you want to protect your child while his or she is using Android devices, read

Security for everyone - Reviewing Kaspersky Antivirus & Security for Android

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Kaspersky Antivirus & Security is the mobile antivirus product for Android smartphones and tablets, developed by Kaspersky Lab. It's a security app that promises to offer top-tier security, a series of anti-theft tools that will help if you lose your Android device(s) and a range of additional features that should protect your data and your privacy. After using and testing it for more than week, today we are ready to

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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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.

"Stick to the Google Play store!" says renowned information security expert at ESET

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  • Radu Tyrsina
A couple of days ago, I was at a security conference called ESET Security Days. There were quite a few interesting sessions and I've met quite a lot of smart people who work in information security. One of them is Nick FitzGerald, Senior Research Fellow at ESET. He takes care of security in the Android ecosystem and we were lucky to have him as a guest in an interview about

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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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!

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

6 Best free Android apps for quitting smoking

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Smoking cigarettes is one of the best ways to make sure that you will have health problems sooner rather than later. You could develop lung cancer, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), all kinds of heart diseases, stroke, asthma, diabetes and all the other types of cancer you can think of. It's quite a gruesome picture if you think about it. But despite all that, some of us still hold on

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

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  • Radu Tyrsina
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

The Huawei W1 smartwatch review - Stylish technology

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  • Radu Tyrsina
If you haven't been living under a rock in the last couple of years, you have surely noticed that more and more objects are getting "smarter": first came the television set but nowadays you wouldn't be surprised to see smart toothbrushes as well. Some of the most popular smart objects are smartwatches: these easy to wear gadgets range from simplistic fashion accessories with a couple of features to complex technology
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