Romdhane Marble

NETWORK Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE LAUNCH Announced 2016, May Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2016, June BODY Dimensions 144 x 69 x 8.2 mm (5.67 x 2.72 x 0.32 in) Weight 147 g (5.19 oz) SIM Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) DISPLAY Type IPS capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size 5.0 inches (~69.4% screen-to-body ratio) Resolution 720 x 1280 pixels (~294 ppi pixel density) Multitouch Yes, up to 4 fingers Protection Scratch-resistant glass PLATFORM OS Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow) Chipset Mediatek MT6735 CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 GPU Mali-T720MP2 MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 200 GB (dedicated slot) Internal 16 GB, 1.5 GB RAM CAMERA Primary 13 MP, autofocus, LED flash Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama Video 1080p@30fps Secondary 5 MP SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones Loudspeaker Yes 3.5mm jack Yes COMMS WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot Bluetooth v4...

Apple’s iPhone SE has been on sale for just over four weeks now… or is it four years? The lineage of this device reaches back to the September 2012 launch of the iPhone 5. Then the design represented the future, with the new lightning connector debuting on the 5 and both the TouchID sensor and 64-bit computing appearing on the iPhone 5S. In that sense the iPhone SE is simply the next step in a long production line of handsets, with the 2016 model taking everything that worked before and updating the processor, camera, and memory. I’d argue that this is new ground for Apple. Rather than redefine what it means to be a smartphone every two years (with the mid-term course correction of the ‘S’ handsets), the iPhone SE is an iterative approach to handset design from Cupertino. The existing handsets were working well before, so just give them a little nudge in specifications and keep selling the handset. Apple iPhone SE (image: Ewan Spence) By virtue of the new name – SE – t...

KEY FEATURES 5.7-inch 1080p screen Snapdragon 820 6GB RAM 20MP camera USB-C Manufacturer: Asus Asus Zenfones seem to be popular in every country that isn’t the UK. Asus has apparently sold 30 million of the things in 30 territories in three years, which is modestly successful. Asus excels in the mid-range portion of the market, but at   this year the company went big on luxury, launching the Zenfone 3 Deluxe alongside the regular Zenfone 3. It’s all about luxury here. There’s an all-metal, super-thin design with fancy-sounding camera tech and a range of colours. Asus was also insistent at its press conference that we should care about the ‘invisible’ aerial, but I find it very hard to raise my care-giving levels quite that high. Still, it might appeal to some. At the rear of the device, under the camera hump, is a fingerprint reader. It was placed just a little too high for my tastes, and I have fairly normal-sized hands so the smaller-handed might ...