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Results: Best Smartphone brand of 2016

By Vaibhav Jain on December 31, 2016

So many things happened in the tech world in 2016! Earlier this year, we saw HTC make its tenth comeback with the HTC 10, while Samsung continued on its Galaxy S success with the S7. At the same time LG tried to claim the "modularity King" title while Motorola gave them a run for their money with the Moto Z series.

Few days ago we asked our readers to choose which brand released the best phones in 2016. Here's how the votes tallied up:

Also this is our last article of the year 2016. TechDroider Team Wishes you all a Happy New Year!

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Moto Z Play Review: You will love this long-lasting "Modular" Device

By Vaibhav Jain on October 28, 2016

This year, Motorola and Lenovo bought us a new Semi-Modular Smartphone series "The Moto Z". Following the launch of Moto Z , Moto Z Force and Moto Mods, Month back Lenovo also announced the Mid-ranged Motorola Moto Z Play with Hasselblad True Zoom camera.

This month, Lenovo launched the Moto Z and Moto Z Play in India. The Moto Z being world's thinnest smartphone, while the Moto Z Play is the one who comes with headphone jack in the Z family. So, Lets take a closer look at the Mid-ranged Moto Z Play-

Design-

In terms of Design, The Moto Z Play features a Flat glass back with an aluminum frame at 7mm thick. There's a huge camera hump at the back. The Smartphone feels premium and the Glass back adds 5 stars to its beauty.

To the back, The Moto Z Play has a Round 16MP Camera with laser and phase detect autofocus and flash which captures great Images. Followed by Camera, there's a flat Motorola's "Batwing" Logo.
The bottom back has a Plastic finish with 16 magnetic pins for connecting the Moto Mods.

At the front, there is a 5.5inch Super AMOLED FHD display with 403 pixel per inch. The Display is not stunning, but its bright and beautiful. The Font top contains a 5MP Camera with LED Flash which takes amazing Photographs (We will discus more about it in Camera section).
There's a Square Fingerprint sensor at the Front bottom which is really quick.

Followed by a Sim and MicroSD card tray, the top contains a microphone too. The Bottom comes with USB-C and Yes there's a headphone jack too.

Overall The Smartphones looks beautiful and feels great in hand.

Specs and Performance

Moto Z Play comes out with 3GB RAM paired with 32GB Storage and MicroSD card support. Under the hood there's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor.

The UI is always fluid, there are no lags. The device handles High-Graphics games smoothly. Moto Z Play has acceptable performance in this price.

Moto Z Play's battery is just insane, the 3510mAh battery can go for 2 days (Or may be 3) with a full charge, if used moderately. The battery takes Approx 1 hour 15 minutes to get fully charged with Turbo charger.

The specifications are not competitive at this price. But The Performance is fast and smooth , Stock Android Marshmallow adds more sweetness to its performance. Though the Device will be getting Android 7.0 Nougat by the end of this year.

Camera

Moto Z Play features a 16-megapixel Rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, laser and phase detect autofocus and LED flash . It has a 5-megapixel front-facing selfie shooter with LED flash.

Admittedly, The Images taken with Rear 16MP camera is not to great as compared with other flagship smartphones, but still they are acceptable.
The Video comes little bit shaky when in hands because of lack of OIS. Yes, You can also shoot 4K videos with Moto Z Play.

Though the Front facing 5MP selfie-shooter shoots good selfies and It has a LED flash too.

Software-

The device comes out with Pure Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with Pre-loaded Moto, Moto File manager and Moto Mods Application. The Moto App contains Moto Actions, Moto Voice and Moto Display.

The Moto Display which shows Notifications at a glance was always been a great feature. The Shrink screen makes the screen smaller for one-handed use.

Pros and Cons -

Pros -

Moto Mods support
Amazing Battery Life
Premium Design, Looks Beautiful
Stock Android
Supports All Moto Actions
Priced Right

Cons -

Camera lacks OIS
Moto Mods priced high

Verdict

As said earlier "The Moto Z and Moto Mods are one of the most iconic device ever designed and redefined how stylish a phone can be".

The Moto Z Play is little brother in Moto Z Family with an amazing battery life and premium looks. All I can say, it is the "Best long-lasting Modular Smartphone, You can buy right now in this price range".

Buy it from Flipkart (It comes with a Free Style Mod ;)

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Motorola Moto E3 Power hands-on: Decent phone, but priced high

By Vaibhav Jain on October 05, 2016

Motorola Moto E3 Power hands-on TechDroider

Weeks back, Lenovo launched the Motorola Moto E3 Power in India for ₹7,999. The Device is exclusively available on Flipkart and as reported earlier, One hundred thousand units of the smartphone got sold withing few minutes.

The Mediatek powered Lenovo-Motorola Smartphone comes with a bigger battery. I spent some time with my new Moto E3 Power and here are my first impression.

One of the great feature that Motorola Moto E3 Power offers is the 3500mAh battery, plugging it in for 15 minutes will give you up to five hours of battery life with the 10W charger.

Starting with the Box, It contains the Moto E3 Power itself, battery, charger, USB cable, Earphones, Manuals and a Screen Protector. The box has same design and dimensions as G4 Play box.

Out of the box, The Moto E3 Power is really a light and premium design Smartphone.

At the front the device has speaker grilles both above and below the display. The 5-inch screen makes this phone feel taller than the original Moto E and Moto E 2nd gen. There's a 5 MP front facing camera.

At the back there's a secondary microphone, a 8 MP rear camera with flash and a not so deep "Moto" Dimple. Inside removable back cover, there's two sim tray, a microSD card slot and removable battery slot.

With the metal frame, the device feels quite premium. The volume and power buttons are on the right, while the left is blank. The 3.5mm audio jack is on top, and the Micro-USB charging port is on the bottom.

The Device is powered with Mediatek MT6735P chipset paired with 2GB RAM. You get 16GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot that accepts cards of up to 32GB in capacity.

Overall the Moto E3 Power is a Decent Smartphone with nice specification. The high priced smartphone is not a budget king, but its a great device.

Snapchat Announced Some Big Changes

By Unknown on September 25, 2016

Some big changes were announced by Snapchat on Saturday. The company is changing its name to Sanp Inc. ; The reason behind the name is that the company would bring some more products in near future.

Snapchat is going to release its first hardware product , Called Spectacles . You can record videos with it ! . Don't be serious no one can spy on you as, right by the lens there is a light that turns on which alerts people that the glasses are recording .

By pressing the recording button one can record video for 10 seconds. You can use it for maximum 30-seconds of recording at once , you can tap the button three - times to record a 30-seconds video. No issue of battery , it will run all day. There consist of Portable charging case

Price to be expected at $129.99, Spectacles will be offered in black, teal or coral. Snapchat's CEO "Evan Spiegel" calls it a toy, but also mention that it is different than using a smartphone camera to shoot video for several reasons. It uses a wider 115-degree-angle lens. Videos can be wirelessly sent to smartphones thats good enough to share it on social media sites .

Spiegel says that Snap is planning on a slow rollout. "It’s about us figuring out if it fits into people’s lives and seeing how they like it".

We will let you know , as soon as Snapchat Inc. launches it. Stay Tuned.

[Guide] Change Chrome Address bar & Status Bar color to Match Website Theme

By Vaibhav Jain on July 30, 2016

Android Lollipop/Marshmallow and Nougat comes with A new API that allows apps to color the status bar to match their overall theme.

This works with Google Chrome too, You can actually Change Chrome Address bar & Status Bar color to Match Website Theme.

[Guide] Change Chrome Address bar & Status Bar color to Match Website Theme

Here's How to do it-

Step 1. Edit your Website template.

Step 2. Just add this meta tag in the head of your template.

<meta name="theme-color" content="#880000">

It should Look Like This -

<head> ... <meta name="theme-color" content="#880000"> ... </head>

Step 3. Just change the color code "#880000" according to your website theme.

Just save the template and enjoy!

Don’t Miss These Tech Stories: January 2016

By Vaibhav Jain on January 31, 2016

So , 2016 started with many News , Rumors and Concepts about Smartphone's and other Gadgets .

This month we got our first look at Xiaomi Mi 5 ( Features , and Images ) , Samsung Galaxy S7 , OnePlus 2 mini and a leaked Nokia Android Smartphone .

Many of the Products and Software got released ! Jide announced Remix Os based on Android 5.1.1 for Desktops and Mac , Moto G 3rd gen and 2nd gen got Android 6.0 Marshmallow update and more .

We also got some news , Motorola the name dying this year , 2016 Lenovo Moto Device will feature Fingerprint scanner and will get launched in July , Flipkart announces "Top 10 2015 selling Smartphones " and more -

Leaked Smartphones -