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Rajeshkiran
Rajeshkiran 23 Mar, 2016

Which is better? Le 1s or iPhone SE?

Apple announced the iPhone SE and the web is going wild about it! The Verge says "The new iPhone SE finally makes a small phone feel powerful", TechRadar says that its "Small but mighty!" and The Telegraph calls it "Apple's secret weapon". Lots of superlatives are being thrown around, as is always the case with Apple products.

So, in the midst of Apple's reality distortion field, I decided to compare it to my Le 1s - that I've been using for more than a month now. The results, at least for me, are very conclusive.

Let's start with the OS. Android and iOS are now at-par on features, freely taking inspiration from each other and the perennial also-ran Windows Phone. However, if you've been using an Android phone, the move to iOS is jarring regardless of preparation. Trust me, having moved from a OnePlus 2 to an iPhone 6S, I know this better than most. If you're an iPhone user already, there is no discussion required. If you're an Android user, then I'd say "Don't even consider an iPhone!"

Moving on to design and build, the new iPhone is, in line with Apple's policy "thinner, smaller and lighter" than the Le 1s. However, the Le 1s has an astounding screen-to-body ratio of 75% that enables single-handed use and the phone doesn't feel too big. After all, within reason, bigger is always better! Both phones offer amazing build quality at their respective price points, so that's not really much of a contest.

On display, if you like smaller screens, the iPhone SE will appeal to you. But for someone who has used a 4+ inch screen device earlier, going back to a smaller display doesn't really work. In this respect, the Le 1s scores with its big but not too big display, and its helped by minimal bezels. Resolution-wise, its a no contest with the Full HD In-Cell display on the Le 1s ruling the roost with its fantastic color reproduction, great viewing angles and almost-zero bezels.

On connectivity, both the Le 1s and the iPhone SE are at par with each other on Wi-Fi and Network compatibilities, but the Le 1s scores with its dual-SIM capability.

When it comes to performance, I believe that specs are just one part of the game. Real-world performance is key. And in this area, despite having lesser amount of RAM than the Le 1s, the iPhone SE performs equally well due to better memory management in iOS versus Android. Its a straight tie!

Camera is another key feature where specs are just one part of the game with actual photo clarity being the key identifier. The iPhone SE uses the much-lauded camera module from the iPhone 6S, so its a given that photos will come out well. The Le 1s on the other hand had a few initial hiccups with photo clarity but they've since been resolved by OTA updates, so overall - its a good camera experience on both smartphones. The Le 1s scores in lowlight clarity and front-camera! Apple, for reasons that defy logic, went with a 1.2MP sensor on the front-camera. Now megapixels might not be everything, but with a 5MP sensor, the Le 1s handily beats the iPhone SE on selfies. Another reason is the smaller aperture size on Le 1s cameras – both front and rear (f2.0) compared to the iPhone SE which has f2.4 on the front camera and f2.2 on the rear camera – in photography parlance, smaller is referred to as “wider”. A wider aperture lets in more light which gives better photos in low-light and indoor situations, and gives you that beautiful blurred “out of focus” effect on wide shots.

With respect to sensors, the Le 1s has an infrared sensor to control home appliances that the iPhone doesn't. Everything else on this front is a tie.

Finally, the "essential spec" in today's world, battery! The Le 1s has almost double the battery capacity of the iPhone SE, with fast-charge built-in! While iOS has better power management than Android, the huge difference in capacity should result in longer standby times with the Le 1s!

Regardless of all technical specifications and performance comparisons, there will still be people convinced that an Apple product is the next best thing since sliced bread! So, to those people, here is a final nail in the coffin. Both the Le 1s and iPhone SE are good phones that do almost everything you can expect them to. Most importantly for a budget-conscious Indian, the Le 1s costs INR 10,999 while the iPhone SE starts at a whopping INR 39,000! That’s three times more expensive than the Le 1s!!! Case closed.

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Dataiphone
Dataiphone Last update 15 Jan, 2026

Huawei Honor 6 Plus review

Honor, if you didn't know, is the brand Huawei uses to sell some of its phones in Europe and it's the name attached to the new Honor 6 Plus. A 5.5-inch Android smartphone with a full HD display, an octa-core processor and a quirky dual 8-megapixel camera, it's got everything you need to cope with your social network and Netflix addiction. And true to the Honor brand's affordable promise, the 6 Plus comes with a low price.


Now, here's where it gets confusing: though Honor as a separate brand is supposed to exist only in Europe, the Honor 6 Plus has been on sale since December 2014 in China, but sold as the Huawei Honor 6 Plus. What's more, Huawei does sell phones in Europe with its own name attached -- the flagship P8 , for example, launched in London in April. What's the difference between them all? Not much, really. Strip away the Honor branding and you're left with a signature Huawei phone complete with the same Emotion user interface. That's not a criticism, really, but you shouldn't forget that a phone bearing the Honor name doesn't deliver a unique experience from a Huawei-branded counterpart.


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Like other Honor phones, you can pick up the Honor 6 Plus in the UK, SIM-free directly from Amazon for £300. Yet, the 6 Plus also is the first of Honor's phones to be available through a UK network, showing a definite commitment by Honor (or Huawei) for it to become a recognised brand, selling in stores. The Three network has the phone available on a range of contracts from £24 per month, with a £19 up front charge. In the US, you can buy the Huawei Honor 6 Plus through Amazon for $472.

Design

The design of the 6 Plus is possibly best described as that of a larger, cheaper iPhone 4. The black glass front and back together with the metal-effect band running around the edge are similar to Apple's earlier phone, although 6 Plus' band is plastic, rather than metal, meaning it doesn't feel as solid or indeed as premium.


The back panel has a very subtle criss-cross pattern which you can only really see under certain lights. Honor could have made this a bit more prominent, which would have helped add a bit of interest and separate its design more from the iPhone 4.


With its 5.5-inch display, the Honor 6 Plus is significantly larger than the iPhone 4, measuring 150mm long and 75mm wide. It's comfortable to hold and easy to slide into a pocket, but you'll need two hands to type properly.


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The phone comes with 32GB of storage as standard, which is a generous amount for a more budget-conscious phone. Cheaper phones typically skimp on the storage by offering 16GB or even 8GB of space, so it's nice to see a more healthy offering that doesn't force you to also buy a microSD card. It does accept microSD cards though, which is worth bearing in mind if you save a lot of music and videos to your phone, rather than streaming them.

Display

The 5.5-inch screen has a full-HD (1,920x1,080-pixel) resolution, giving it a pixel density of 400 pixels per inch. That's the same size and resolution as the iPhone 6 Plus, and in terms of clarity, there's nothing to differentiate the two. Small text beneath icons is sharp and easy to read and high-res photos look crisp and sharp.


The Honor's display is reasonably bright, sufficiently countering the harsh overhead office lights in the CNET UK office, although outside in the bright sun it did become a bit more difficult to see, even when set to max brightness. Colours are bold and vibrant, making Netflix shows like 'Breaking Bad," "SpongeBob" or indeed "Power Rangers" look good.

Software and processor performance

The Honor 6 Plus runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat, which is several versions out of date. The most up-to-date version of Android is Lollipop, which you can find on even rock-bottom budget phones, so it's very disappointing to see such an old version of the software on a midrange mobile.


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On the surface you probably won't be able to tell, however, as Honor has heavily skinned the phone with the same Emotion user interface you'll see on most of Huawei and Honor's recent phones. It makes huge changes to the stock Android interface, including the colour schemes and the fonts (which you can alter using various themes), but the biggest change is that there's no app tray. I don't like this change as it forces you to keep all of your apps scattered across the homescreens. Once you throw widgets into the mix, it quickly becomes cluttered and difficult to navigate.


The phone is powered by a Kirin 925 processor -- an octa-core chip that apparently uses four lower-powered processing cores for everyday tasks, and four burlier cores for more intense processing needs. That's backed up by 3GB of RAM. It performed well on benchmark tests, scoring an impressive 4,456 on the Geekbench 2 test, How to transfer app and data from iPad to iPhone 6? although a less impressive 11,982 on the Quadrant test. By comparison, the Sony Xperia Z3 and LG G4 scored over 20,000 on the Quadrant test and the Galaxy S6 managed to achieve over 36,000.


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Still, it was able to play the demanding game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas extremely smoothly, and photo editing in Snapseed was handled without any trouble at all. Everyday essential apps like Instagram were also handled perfectly well, but navigating around the phone's interface was less smooth, with noticeable stutters and lag creeping in -- an issue I would bet is caused by the bloated Emotion software. I'd really like to see how a stock Android version of this phone performs as I'm sure it would be a lot more smooth to use.

Camera

On the back of the phone are two 8-megapixel cameras. One takes regular shots, but the second allows some interesting depth of field effects and also lets you refocus a scene after you've taken it. I'll start with testing the phone's standard photo quality.


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Honor 6 Plus camera test (click image to see full size) Andrew Hoyle/CNET


I was pleased with this first shot of the London Eye. There's a great balance in exposure between the bright sky and the River Thames and a nice rich blue colour in the sky as well. There's a lack of clarity on the fine details when you zoom right in, but it displays full-screen well, making it great for Facebook.


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This second shot of a fruit stand is not bad either,transfer candy crush to new iphone although the white garlic has been rather overexposed. Again, when zooming in there's a noticeable fuzziness to the picture.


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Dataiphone
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How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Water Damaged iPhone 6S

Summary: Do not panic if you lose contacts when your iPhone is water damaged, iPhone Data Recovery can help you recover deleted contacts from water damaged iPhone 6S .


As we all know, letters for contacting and communication has withdrew from our life for many years. With the rapid development of science and technology in the modern society, we are in favor of iPhone 6S and always enjoy the convince that mobile phone bring to us, as long as you have someone’s contact number, you can take up your iPhone 6S to click his contact number and begin to talk to him or her, no matter how far this people is from you.


As a result, it is obvious that contacts are very necessary to store in your device and so we do. I bet nowadays, no one will be so “hard working” to write the contacts down on the notebook,How to Transfer Music from Android to Another Android because that is really troublesome and inconvenient. Everyone are used to directly store the contacts in iPhone 6S.


Here, sometimes unavoidably, trouble comes to you, especially the device is really waterproof as some other electronic products, such as Tank007 flashlights IP68. I mean, it often occurs that our iPhone 6S are water damaged when we bend down in the bathroom, when we go walking along a small river, when we wash our hands in the kitchen, etc. And then you will be crazy about the following results. All the contacts in your device are lost, including your sweetheart’s, your families’, your best friends’, your important customers’, your colleagues’, etc.


“Oh, my god, what a big loss caused by an small accident! Shit!” Ok, good guy, If you are just keeping sad and annoyed about that, than you can only be regretful; But if you come to us, then all this messy condition can be solved with an amazing tool from us—-iPhone Data Recovery.


This tool is absolutely multi-functional and perfect choice for you to save your loss, such as contacts, messages, photos, videos, call history, notes, reminders, bookmarks, music, documents, etc. Do not think that this can just be believable in magic suppositional world, or just think I am fooling you around. You may think how can it recover something that doesn’t exist in your device any more. No, not exactly. Let me explain to you. In fact, your iPhone 6S data have not truly get away from your device, but secretly hidden in some invisible place. What you need to do for recovery is to draw support from outside tool to scan your device and find them out.
Ok, let me tell you how you can make it!


How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Water Damaged iPhone 6S


Step 1: Take up seconds to download iPhone Data Recovery and set up this software system in your computer. Then your device need to be connected to computer by USB cable.
Step 2: Focus on your iPhone 6S device and choose ”Recover”, then all the categories of your device turn up.
Step 3: Choose “ Contacts “ category, How to Manage iTunes Transfer Easily then click the “Scan “ buttom to scan all your contacts.
Step 4: Carefully selecting the contacts which you think are essential and want to be get back.
Now you can see the surprise. So in the future, no matter how many contacts you have stored in the iPhone 6S and unfortunately your device are water damaged, just follow my above step, then you can be completely satisfied and feel happy again.


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Melanie Clark
Melanie Clark 07 Jul, 2020

What are the benefits of e-commerce app development?

E-commerce has revolutionized businesses, and the increase in online sales has witnessed the significant growth in mobile app solutions. Customers require the freedom of buying their desired product from anywhere, anytime. It helps companies to endorse their products and services across the world.

Yet, most online shoppers prefer online apps than websites. E-commerce businesses have realized that online presence is essential. Thus, app development companies hire
android application developeras well as the iOS developer to deliver the best solutions to the e-commerce businesses.

There are tremendous benefits of e-commerce app development that can help you to boost your business. Here are the few essential ones.

  • The app can increase brand awareness.
  • It can grow businesses organically through content marketing.
  • E-commerce mobile apps integrate with social platforms to make the appearance of the business prominent.
  • It personalizes the online experience and enables easy payment methods.
  • It can reach the maximum target audience.
  • A mobile app provides a user-friendly experience, boost sales, and encourage the customers to shop from your brand.

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