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tphone P: Go for impressive battery, basic Android experience (Tech Review)
By Vivek Singh Chauhan
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Taking on Chinese smartphone players who have captured the budget market in India, Hyderabad-based Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Smartron has launched an affordable “tphone P” for Rs 7,999.
Housing a big 5,000mAh battery and offering basic Android experience (with minimal bloatware), the device gives tough competition to the Rs 8,999 Xiaomi Redmi 4 (3GB RAM+32GB variant) that comes with 4,100mAh battery.
Let us see what works for the device that offers 1,000 GB free “tcloud” storage.
The unibody device with metallic body and plastic sides comes with 5.2-inch HD display that has 1,280×720 screen ratio, making it perfect for reading and watching videos.
It has fingerprint sensor at the back, power and volume toggles on the right, a hybrid dual-SIM card slot on the left and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the top.
The company claims that tphone P’s battery lasts for more than two days on a single charge and also gives the option to charge other devices such as smartphones, smartbands and speakers via OTG support.
On a rigourous usage that included gaming, all-day 4G connectivity, frequent camera usage and video consumption, the battery lasted for more than a day for us.
The “Reverse Charge Technology” worked well but one needs to either have a connector to use the feature or a cable that has USB 2.0 ports (or Type-C) on both ends.
“tphone P” is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Octa Core Chipset processor coupled with 3GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage that is expandable by up to 128GB.
This is the same configuration that Xiaomi uses in its Redmi 4 device. However, the difference comes in the bloatware.
While tphone P runs the basic Android 7.1 Nougat operating system (OS) with a handful of its own custom software, Redmi 4 has MIUI 9 atop Android N that offers more features and customisations but draws more charge — giving an advantage to the Smartron device.
Not only that, with Internet of Things (IoT) “tronX” platform integration, users can also take advantage of Smartron’s connected ecosystem that currently has a few laptops and other smartphones.
On the camera front, the device offers a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and 5MP front camera with low light flash and beautification modes. The “Multi-Exposure” lets users take photos by overlapping one frame over another.
The photos clicked in day-light and well-lit conditions came out well from the rear camera. Photos with flash had a yellowish tone to them.
What doesn’t work.
Expecting too much detail and clarity from both the shooters will disappoint you. The low-light photography was average.
The device is a bit bulky, heavy and the design of the device is too common.
Conclusion: tphone P is for users who look for a massive battery in a smartphone that comes at a pocket-friendly price and this device is Rs 1,000 less than Xiaomi Redmi 4 with almost similar hardware.
(Vivek Singh Chauhan can be contacted at [email protected])
–IANS
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International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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