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Walton Orbit Y21 Review: Budget-friendly phone with a smart look
Walton, one of the best Bangladeshi brands, has been working to deliver quality smartphones. Walton’s Orbit series presents handsets at budget-friendly price points. The new Orbit Y21 also keeps its promise by offering great design and performance at an affordable price. The Orbit Y21 came to market in April 2023 and caught people’s attention. This review will go deeper into its specifications and other details.
Key Specs and Features of Walton Orbit Y21
Design
On first sight, the Orbit Y21 phone captivates with its pleasing shades. Available in three stunning color options, including Sea Blue, Field Green, and Midnight Green, the Orbit Y21 allows you to choose the hue that best complements your personal taste and reflects your unique personality.
Measuring 164.2 mm in height, 76 mm in width, and a mere 9.1 mm in depth, the Orbit Y21 boasts a sleek and slim profile that effortlessly fits into the palm of your hand. Its lightweight nature, weighing just 188g with the battery, ensures a comfortable and ergonomic grip, allowing you to carry it with ease throughout the day.
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The thoughtful placement of the physical buttons adds to the device's user-friendly design. The fingerprint power button, located conveniently on the right side, enables secure access and doubles as volume control, providing quick and intuitive adjustment of audio levels. On the left side, you'll find the SIM card holder, allowing for easy access and hassle-free swapping of SIM cards.
The bottom of the phone houses a speaker, microphone, USB Type C port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. This comprehensive arrangement ensures seamless connectivity and accessibility to essential audio features, allowing you to enjoy your favorite tunes or engage in crystal-clear conversations without any compromises.
1 year ago
OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G Review: What’s special about it?
OnePlus Technology, the subsidiary of OPPO, has steadily expanded to include midrange and budget devices in its product line. The Nord CE series were the perfect mid-range with the Lite being their budget offering. This year, the OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G was released on April 11 2023 in China with a subsequent global release. The CE 3 Lite successes the CE 2 Lite with some interesting developments. Let’s have a look.
Key Features of OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite
Design and Build Quality
The OnePlus Nord CE 3 is a through-and-through budget device. The build material may reflect on that but rest assured, the CE 3 Lite is a well-built hefty device at 195 gm. The phone has a glass front, plastic frame, and back with a glossy finish to emulate the glass-back design. The front glass is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.
The Nord CE 3 Lite moves away from the design elements of its predecessor, the CE 2 Lite. Instead of dual tone back with a separate camera housing, users will be getting a flush glossy back with two protruding camera sensors, much like the iPhone 12.
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However, the quirk is somewhere else. Users would be surprised to see that even though there are two camera cutouts on the back, the official spec sheet mentions triple camera setup. That is because one of the camera cutouts, specifically the bottom one, houses two camera sensors. It’s a unique design choice that helps to keep things minimal at the back.
Coming to ports and buttons, the volume rocker and the sim tray are situated on the left of the device with the power button being on the right. The power button also doubles as the fingerprint scanner on the Nord CE 3 Lite.
Being a budget device, the headphone jack is also present on the CE 3 Lite, right beside the Type C charging port. A single-firing speaker also finds its place at the bottom. The top of the device is flush with just the secondary noise cancellation mic for better call clarity.
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Overall, the design is a slight move towards minimalism from the CE 2 Lite. Whether that is a good thing or bad remains subjective.
Display
The display on the Nord CE 3 Lite is an IPS LCD one. The choice of LCD panel is understandable given the budget it comes at. However, the lack of an AMOLED panel is somewhat made up by the 120 Hz refresh rate and FHD+ resolution. The panel boasts around 550 nits of typical brightness with 680 nits of HBM. Though these aren’t industry-leading stats in any way, it's still decent for its price.
Speaking of quality, the panel is exactly as you’d expect LCDs to be. The blacks aren’t deep black and there are some color shifts in extreme angles. Other than that, the smooth scrolling and accurate color recreation make for a compelling and interactive experience.
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Camera
The Nord CE 3 Lite features three cameras on the back. The main camera is a whooping 108 MP one with the complementing two sensors being a 2 MP macro and depth sensor. It’s clear that the 108 MP sensor is the key player here as it will be doing all the heavy lifting.
1 year ago
Walton NEXG N6 Review: What’s special about the new series
Bangladeshi brand Walton has recently launched a new Smartphone N6 under its latest NEXG series. Walton NEXG N6 is a budget-friendly smartphone that packs a punch with its impressive features like a sleek design, large screen, powerful camera, standard battery, and attractive color options. However, can the latest NEXG series phone stack up against Walton’s popular Primo series phones? Is it worth the investment? Let’s find out the key specs, pros, cons, and price of the Walton NEXG N6.
Key Features of Walton NEXG N6
Design
The Walton NEXG N6 smartphone boasts a sleek and modern design with its slim profile and curved edges. Its dimensions (164.2 mm high, 76 mm width, and 8.55 mm depth), make the device compatible for one-handed use. Weighing 188g (with battery), N6 appears easy to carry.
The phone comes in two attractive colors, Bluish Green and Sky Grey, giving users the option to choose the one that suits their style. The unique and eye-catching shades set N6 apart from other local smartphones in the market.
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The inclusion of a type c port and a microphone adds to the convenience of the device, making it easier to charge, use for calls, and record audio. The volume rocker and power button are intuitively placed for easy access, allowing users to adjust the volume or power on/off the device without hassle. The sim card holder is easily accessible, making it simple to switch out SIM cards if needed.
Display
The display of the Walton NEXG N6 smartphone is impressive, boasting a large 6.6-inch screen size that is perfect for streaming videos, browsing the web, and playing games. The V-Notch design provides an immersive viewing experience, allowing users to enjoy their content with minimal interruptions.
The display has a 720x1600 resolution. It’s certainly a downgrade from the competitor Walton Primo S8 Mini’s FHD resolution available at the same price range.
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However, N6’s screen is blessed with a 90 Hz refresh rate, which we haven’t seen in the Primo S8 Mini. A high refresh rate makes animations and transitions appear smoother and more fluid, providing a more enjoyable user experience in NEXG N6.
The 180Hz touch sampling rate is another impressive feature of the display, allowing for quick and accurate touch response. This is particularly useful when playing games that require fast reflexes or using apps that require precise touch input.
The display uses IPS INCELL technology with 2.5D glass, which provides excellent color accuracy and contrast, ensuring that images and videos appear vibrant and realistic. The 2.5D glass also adds a premium look and feel to the device.
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Performance and Software
The Walton NEXG N6 phone is running on Android™ 12 operating system with an Octa-Core processor clocked at 1.6GHz, built on the 12nm FinFET process and using ARM Cortex-A75 architecture. However, Walton fans will miss the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 chipset offered in the Primo S8 Mini.
The latest N6 is equipped with Mali-G57 MP1 GPU for graphics processing.
This smartphone comes with 8GB of RAM for smooth multitasking and 128GB of internal storage for storing data. Additionally, the expandable storage of up to 256GB offers even more space for users to store their data.
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1 year ago
realme C55 Review: A Promising Budget-friendly Phone
The realme C55 is a budget-friendly smartphone offering satisfactory camera performance, a unique design, and decent overall functionality. The phone was officially launched in Bangladesh on April 2, 2023. Let's take a look at key specifications, pros, cons, and prices of relame C55 in Bangladesh.
Key Features of realme C55
Design
The realme C55 is a smartphone that boasts a 6.7-inch display with a screen protector applied during manufacturing, which is a nice added feature considering its affordable price range. It measures 165.6 x 75.9 x 7.89 mm or 6.51 x 2.98 x 0.31 inches and weighs 189.5 grams or 0.41 pounds, making it less ideal for individuals with small hands.
The ‘Rainy Night’ or black version has an elegant appearance, especially with the design of the camera system. The back of the phone is made of plastic, which tends to accumulate dust quickly and feels slippery. The phone's left side has only the SIM tray and the punching hole, while the right side has the Power button that doubles as a fingerprint scanner and the Volume rocker.
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On the bottom edge holds a USB-Type C port for charging, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a speaker, and a microphone. Although it lacks Gorilla Glass for display protection and dust or water resistance, the realme C55's design gives an impression of a more expensive smartphone.
Display
The display of the realme smartphone is an economy model and uses a conventional IPS LCD. However, the 6.72-inch display is average, and the colors are easy on the eye. The IPS screen is even better than some newer models in 2023, except for the white color slightly darkening when tilted.
The screen's peak brightness is 680 nits, which is enough to use the phone outdoors on a sunny day. Interestingly, the minimum brightness is only 2 nits, making it perfect for nighttime use without disturbing others. The screen offers several color display modes, including Vivid, Natural mode, and Pro, with two more modes available in the latter for finer color reproduction.
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The screen refresh rate is 90Hz, with three operating modes to choose from: standard 60Hz, 90Hz, and auto mode. However, the auto mode tends to use 60Hz more often, conserving battery life. The screen options include light/dark themes, screen color mode selection, vision protection, auto-rotate, auto-off, refresh rate selection, display/hide front camera cutout, and full-screen mode for non-optimized apps.
Camera
The realme C55 smartphone, despite being a budget device, manages to exceed expectations with its camera setup. It features a 64-megapixel primary rear camera and a 2-megapixel sensor. It also offers an 8MP selfie camera. Both the primary rear sensor and the front sensor perform well under broad daylight.
Switching to the 64 MP mode, there is a slight improvement in capturing details, which may not be noticeable at first glance but is apparent upon closer inspection. The Bokeh Flare Portrait mode and AI Color Portrait mode, however, tend to mess up the edges of the focused objects.
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1 year ago
Vivo brings new budget-friendly phone Y91C 2020
Vivo, a Chinese multinational smartphone maker, has on Thursday unveiled a budget-friendly new smartphone - vivo Y91C 2020.
4 years ago