Amazfit Moonbeam review: A band first, fitness tracker second

Introduction Amazfit Moonbeam is a somewhat unorthodox fitness tracker in that it goes about design first and functionality second. There's a lot of sense in making elegance and style your top priorities, let's see how much compromise that involved. As far as capabilities are concerned - Moonbeam counts steps, tracks sleep, and vibrates on calls or alarms. The in-call notifications aren't something every smartband does so it's actually more than we expected. Still, if you are more into the fitness side of the tracker and need heart-rate sensor, GPS or display the Moonbeam is...

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Best Apps and Games of the Week

Meteor Meteor is a speed test app for your phone. But along with giving you download and upload speed information, along with network ping, it also tells you how it will affect popular apps. You can select up to 6 apps and Meteor will tell you how good or bad they will perform on your current internet speeds with a detailed breakdown for each. Android Talon Talon is one of the most popular Twitter apps for Android, and in version 6.0 it's now even better. The update brings a brand new UI, with new layouts for tweets and profiles, viewing tweet threads, advanced...

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Counterclockwise: Galaxy S, LG G Flex, Xperia Pureness and other novel screens

There are two major screen technologies on mobile - LCD and OLED. LCD has been around since the start and while we had seen the occasional OLED, it wasn't around 2010 when the tech truly started to show its potential. The Nokia N8, for example, had excellent sunlight legibility. The Nokia 808 PureView that came two years after it is still one of the highest scoring phones in our test. But back to 2010. That's when the current leader emerged - Samsung's Super AMOLED on the Galaxy S, a new flagship line. It improved on the already excellent screen on phones like the Jet and Omnia II, but...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 11

Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is somewhat of a veteran in our trending chart but even it couldn't stop the could not stop the Moto G5 Plus from claiming the top spot. Interest in the latest Motorola mid-ranger spiked as it started to hit the shelves around the globe. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 also gained a spot this week to complete the podium. The Galaxy A5 (2017) had to settle for the fourth spot this week, while the Galaxy S8 retains fifth. It's the strongest a phone has performed ahead of its actual announcement and shows that plenty of people are watching closely what Samsung is up to....

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Just in: Nokia 6 hands-on

It would be a while until the international Nokia 6 launches in Europe, but we've already managed to sneak in a unit from China. And here are our initial impressions before we send it to the lab for testing. For good or bad, the Nokia 6 is a landmark device. Not because of its design, specs or looks, but because it marks the return of the iconic brand to the smartphone industry. Sure, there is now a new company behind Nokia phones now - HMD Global - but it's headquartered in Finland, and it's managed by former Nokia employees, so we remain positive about Nokia's new smartphone...

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Sunday Q&A

Hello and welcome to this the new edition of our Sunday Q&A! This week we discuss iPhone storage speeds, the Moto G5 Plus camera and the Note5. Oh, and the lack of any capable compact Android smartphones. Aravind: Recently on a YouTube page I saw a video saying that Apple hides a secret from its users that lower memory variant of iPhone have much slower read/write speeds than the expensive higher memory models. Is it legal for apple to hide such an important thing from users (I am not sure if it is mentioned in t&c)? It was actually us that first made that discovery back in...

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