NOKIA N1

Nokia has created a surprise comeback into the planet of shopper technical school devices with the launch of its new robot pill, the Nokia N1. The N1 runs robot Lollipop version, that is that the latest build of the OS and options a seven.9-inch screen. it'll launch in China 1st in Gregorian calendar month, followed by Russia though it’s not clear if and once the device can return to Bharat.

As so much because the tablet’s look thinks about, several area unit examination it to the iPad mini. As this piece on The Verge notes, “Nokia’s 1st device once Microsoft is associate degree iPad mini clone that runs robot.

Here’s a fast specifications comparison between the 2 tablets:

Design and Screen Nokia N1 features a seven.9-inch IPS show|LCD|digital display|alphanumeric display} display with 2048 x 1536 constituent resolution. Its a zero air gap show and conjointly gets a layer of pongid Glass three layer. Nokia has gone for a unibody Al style that's on the market in Natural aluminium or volcanic rock grey colors.

Where style thinks about because the Verge points out this associate degree iPad clone in each sense of the word. simply verify the video below, the buttons, the speakers at the lowest, even the camera is all terribly, terribly iPad-like.
                 
NOKIA FIRST LOOK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJmthxJV5Q


As so much the iPad mini’s screen thinks about, it’s constant because the Nokia N1 with a 2048×1536 resolution at 326 pixels per in. (ppi) for a seven.9-inch screen. Apple has introduced associate degree anti-reflective coating on the pill to scale back reflection and glare by fifty six %.

If you verify the N1’s style, it'd prompt you of the older iPhone 3GS style, except that after all this screen is way, abundant larger. The Nokia N1’s screen is “fully laminated.” The pill is additionally agent than the iPad mini three and is just half-dozen.9mm thick (iPad mini three is seven.5 metric linear unit thick) and weight 318 grams, whereas the iPad mini three weighs 331 g for the Wi-Fi solely version.

Specs, Processor and property The Nokia N1 comes with a 64-bit Intel Atom Z3580 processor clocked at a pair of.3GHz and paired with 2GB of RAM. It conjointly includes PowerVR G6430 GPU. The N1 offers 32GB aboard storage, however there's no microSD card slot to expand it additional. The property choices embody twin channel 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi with MIMO, microUSB 2.0 and Bluetooth four.0.

Side Key of the Nokia N1
As so much because the iPad mini three thinks about, this one features a 64-bit processor A7 processor with M7 motion co-processor that isn’t associate degree improvement in any respect from the sooner version of the device. The iPad mini three can are available in 3 memory house options: sixteen GB, 64GB and 128GB, that is wherever it's higher than Nokia N1 if you're searching for extra space. iPad mini three conjointly has Wi‑Fi (802.11a/​b/​g/​n); twin channel (2.4GHz and 5GHz) MIMO and Bluetooth four.0. It conjointly comes with a fingerprint scanner on the home-screen, conjointly referred to as because the bit ID by Apple.

Camera: The Nokia N1 beats the Apple iPad mini three here with associate degree eight megapixel rear camera and a five megapixel front camera for selfies. Considering that the iPad camera is five megapixel and just one.2 megapixel on the front, the Nokia N1 is certainly well-ahead. If you wish a pill to click photos with, the Nokia N1 are what lots of individuals would possibly take into account because of the higher resolution.

OS: The iPad mini three runs iOS eight that comes with its own options like HealthKit App, higher notifications, Widgets, improved iMessages, etc. As so much as Nokia N1 thinks about it runs commonplace robot Lollipop. Nokia has another a layer of its own Z launcher to the pill similarly, wherever users will merely scribble a letter to seek out their content quickly. With usage over time, the Z Launcher learns what applications area unit in use, and predicts and highlights the applications customers would possibly need to open.

Nokia N1 throughout the launch. Reuters
Price:  The iPad mini three doesn’t return low cost. The 16GB wireless local area network solely model starts at Rs twenty eight,900 and goes up to Rs Rs forty two,900 for the 128GB version. The wireless local area network and Cellular model starts at Rs thirty eight,900 for 16GB and goes up to Rs fifty two,900 for 128 GB. The Nokia N1 is presently priced at $249 while not taxes that is around Rs fifteen,000. Even with taxes, the value might up to Rs twenty,000. What the Nokia N1 doesn’t have is 3G or LTE property that is commonly a requirement for users.

Conclusion: wherever specs and style area unit involved Nokia N1 feels like a worthy competition to the iPad mini three, a minimum of on paper. however given the decline of the pill market, this won’t be a straightforward comeback for Nokia.

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Android 5.0 Lollipop Features List: What's new?

Key Android Lollipop 5.0 Features to look forward to

Android 5.0 Lollipop is Google’s latest operating system update for smartphones, tablets and even Android Wear-running smartwatches. It's arriving in the coming weeks and the newly announced Motorola Nexus 6 and HTC Nexus 9 tablet will be among the first devices to run on it.

It’s also set to be available for smartphones and tablets before the end of 2014 with new HTC and Sony smartphones set to be among the first devices to get the new Android treatment. The Nexus 4, Nexus 5 as well as Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets will also get to benefit from the new Android features.

So what can Android users expect? Well, there’s actually quite a lot. We run down what makes up one of the biggest revamps of Android since it first launched.

New look, dubbed Material

The first thing you'll notice about Android 5.0 is that it looks quite different to the current Android 4.4 Android, and it's not – as we once thought – like the experimental Experience UI used in the Nexus 5.

Google has come up with a new interface look, called Material. It's a lot more vibrant that current Android, and it makes much more use of interface layers. This is quite the opposite of recent trends in UI design, which have all been about making interfaces as flat and simple as possible. Material may be simple, but it's not flat.

As part of the new Material interface, Google is also introducing two new widgets. The first is a more power-efficient RecyclerView widget, which can be used for features like scrolling through Contacts. The second is a new CardView widget, which has a very Google Now-inspired feel and should ensure widgets run smoother.

Real-time Shadows

The depth is not just about the way the interface is laid out, either. Android 5.0 introduces real-time generated shadows for interface elements.

This should really help to spruce-up the look of Android, giving it some of the visual tactility of iOS 7. We have seen attempts at this kind of more substantive look in some third-party custom interfaces before, but they generally don't get it right.

Others end up looking busy, and there are often performance hits to any visual flashiness. But we don't expect any of that with Android 5.0.

Redesigned nav soft keys

The look of the nav buttons that are a key part of Android have been changed as well. Their functions seem to be the same as ever – back, home and recent apps – but the look seems to have been pilfered from a PlayStation controller.

A triangle, circle and square do manage, strangely enough, to encompass what each of the soft keys are for well enough, though. And the extra simplicity of this is no doubt all a part of the Material look.

Dynamic 'heads up' notifications

Another element of Android 5.0 that we've seen in some third-party Android interfaces is heads-up notifications. These pop-up on top of whatever you're doing, meaning you don't have to go to an app or drag down the notifications bar to find out what's going on when your phone beeps.

More coherence across tablets, phones and PCs

Google is keen to big-up that the Material look is going to be fairly consistent between phones, tablets, desktops and laptops. It wants to offer that smooth cross-platform feel that you get when you really buy into the Apple universe, with an iPhone, iPad and MacBook.

Of course, on the PC front Google is only really going to have access to the Chrome interface – it can't reskin Microsoft's Windows. But the look on a laptop isn't a million miles removed from the tiles of Windows 8.

Redesigned Gmail

It's not just the Android interface that has been given a refresh. The Google apps have too. Much more colour has been injected into Gmail, and the look of the app is both a lot cleaner and more modern.

The square avatar pics of current Gmail have also been traded-in for circular ones.

It seems highly likely that you'll have control over what apps can send you these pop-up notifications. As otherwise they'll become very, very annoying.

Expanded notifications

This is something Google introduced in recent Android updates and now users will be able to view notifications in more detail in three different ways. There's text, inbox and image all of which can provide you with additional context for the notification. It's something that Android Wear smartwatch owners are also going to benefit from greatly as well.

The idea is to evolve one of Android's core features to be more useful and deliver the information when you really need it.

New lock screen notifications

Notifications also have a real spot on the lock screen. And, again, this is something that has been common for some time in many custom Android interfaces.

Each notification shows up as a little bar across the screen in high-contrast fashion, making them super-clear. It looks as though four different notifications can be displayed on the lock screen at once on a normal-size phone.

3D multitasking

A minor visual tweak of Android 5.0 L is the new multitasking menu. It still shows your 'recent' apps, but rather than being displayed as a 2D scroll of apps, it's now a 3D cascade of app tiles.

It looks quite similar to the tabs screen of the Chrome browser for Android – no surprise there. The look of the Android take is better, though – sharper, simpler and with good use of those new realtime shadows.

Direct links to apps from Google searches

Developers will now be able to have links to their apps take the place of websites in web searches. What this means is that you'll be able to head directly to a specific part of an app right from the Chrome browser on your phone.

This feature has been accessible to a handful of apps to date, but now it'll be available to all developers. If you're worried about being launched from Chrome into some dodgy app, don't be. Just as lesser sites don't tend to feature too highly in your search results, ropey apps won't either.

64-bit CPU support

One new feature we knew was coming – support for 64-bit CPUs. As 64-bit CPUs clearly designed to work with Android devices have already been officially announced, this one was obvious.

As well as letting many more instructions take place simultaneously, having a 64-bit CPU really lifts the lid on how much RAM Android phones/tablets can actually make use of. With a 32-bit processor the limited address space means that only so much RAM memory can be accessed at once.

Android TV

While not a core part of the Android system, Android TV is a huge development in the Android universe. It's a version of the platform designed for your TV, and it'll eventually be built into set top boxes and TVs.

You'll control the thing with your Android phone, and will be able to play Android games, watch video and do pretty much anything you can with your Android phone.

Improved GPU support

Google has improved the coding of Android's execution of graphics, allowing for much more advanced visuals. It has been dubbed an 'extension pack', and will finally make top-end processors start to make a bit more sense.

The extension pack enables tesselation, geometry shaders, computer shaders and ASTC texture compression. The latter is an advanced image compression algorithm that will allow for highly effective reduction in the size of art assets.

ART runtime is in

Android 5.0 L switches over to the ART runtime. something people with recent Android phones have been able to try out for themselves for a while.

At present Androids use the Dalvik runtime as standard. ART is significantly quicker, but uses a bit more storage space for apps. It's a fair trade off in our opinion.

Smartwatch as authentication

One of the funkiest little additions in Android 5.0 L is a new way to bring your phone out of standby securely. Android Wear watches will work as an authentication tool, meaning you won't need a password to unlock your phone if you're wearing your watch. We're not quite sure yet exact what tech is used to do this. But it is neat.

BUT, of course, if you get mugged your attacker is probably going to nick your Android smartwatch as well as your shiny new Galaxy S6 mobile phone. But it should at least stop your friends from being able to tweet on your behalf should you nip of to the lav for a minute.

Support for USB audio

One of the new APIs of Android 5.0 L is USB audio. This means you'll be able to transmit digital audio right from a phone's microUSB port, bypassing the DAC stage used when you listen through a headphone jack.

What will this mean? It opens up an Android phone to being a genuine audiophile source when paired with a decent outboard USB DAC, and could mean we start to see USB headphones – something Apple is rumoured to be working on through Beats. The Nexus 5 supported USB audio output, but it is not native to all Android 4.4 devices.

Battery efficiency optimisation

Android 5.0 L gets some new battery features, including a reworked Battery Saver mode. Android 4.4 falls well behind the competition in this respect – where phones like the Galaxy S5 have extreme power-saving modes on tap, the basic Android 4.4 battery saver is rather rudimentary.

The lock screen will also tell you how long your phone will take to charge when plugged in – a clever little tweak that seems so obvious now it's in place.

Bluetooth 4.1 support

Android 5.0 L offers native support for Bluetooth 4.1. Top-end phones have Bluetooth 4.0 these days, but what's the difference?

Bluetooth 4.1 doesn't clash with 4G signal like Bluetooth 4.0, and it gives manufacturers much more control over the timeout times of the connection. This gives much more scope for controlling power consumption. Bluetooth 4.1 also improves connectivity, letting Bluetooth peripherals talk to each other more easily.

Android Auto

A major new bit of Android 5.0 L is Android Auto. This is a bit like Apple's CarPlay – it's an in-car system that runs off your Android phone.

You jump into your car and your Android 5.0 L mobile will start transmitting Android Auto to the screen on your car's dashboard. Its interface looks quite a lot like Google Now and Android Wear, and will of course let you GPS navigate to wherever you want to go. We imagine it'll be a lot more open than CarPlay too.

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