Ever got stuck with no upgradables for your car in Need For Speed – No Limits? There are plenty of re-playable races in the campaign, each giving a chance to get an upgrade material. Here is a quick lookup of which upgrade material lies where. This works for both iOS and Android.
Continue reading »The Shield K1 tab was quite a masterpiece of its time. An excellent 8 inch display with a 1900X1200 resolution IPS panel with dual front facing speakers, an okayish front and rear cam combo (both 5 MP with HDR), a mini HDMI out(upto 4K output), an OTG compatible micro USB port, a micro SD card slot and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
The exterior is nothing to complain about. The speaker grills are covered with rubber and the back is plastic with a rubber finish too, for a great grip. All this external interface is built around an NVidia Tegra K1 processor with 192 kepler cores for graphics with an ARM Cortex 2.2 GHz CPU, attached to a 2 GB memory. Storage is 16 GB which was not bad for a 2015 device. The 128 GB supported micro SD card slot allows one to use a memory card as internal storage which can be quite handy.
Continue reading »When you think about anything gaming, you get a little bling in mind. Come on, yes you do. Well, I do. The design language is sure to include some good red and shininess, some sharp highlights and some more.
The Acer predator in its 8 inch 1920X1200 (16:10) goodness flaunts an IPS LCD screen, a memory card slot, a volume rocker, a power button topped up by 2 Gigs of RAM, 32 gigs of storage and an Intel Atom processor (X7-Z8700).
These aside I want to particularly mention the 4 speakers on the 4 corners of the device. Sharp to touch and hear they pack a good punch in the audio department. Watching movies and YouTube, listening to music on device or online, are a treat. Whats more, the tab has a vibration motor, not seen in many, if any tab(which doesn’t have call functionality).
Continue reading »I have used the ROG phone 2 as my daily driver for a month now and it is about time I give what I feel like would be a minimum usage period to understand what you just bought. As I said in my earlier post on the unboxing and early impressions, there should be a follow-up, and here it is. The first impression was a bit neutral and perspective ridden. More so it is after a month of use.
In the first week I was into a lot of buyer’s remorse. So much felt like selling it someone interested. The main reason for that was its bigness. It doesnt fit into medium size pockets and since the protection isnt much, you have to be very careful when carrying it. There were no cases or screen guards available at that time and it was a bit hard handling the device.
Game play was hard too, fitting the hand to cover all trigger actions ideally, calibrating the sensitivity, changing the controls in pubg, whew, it is hard work. But now that I had spent the cash to buy it, I decided to learn to use it.
By the second week I was kinda used to the phone’s size and hardships involved, so much so that I had then started liking the size. Believe me, this isn’t where the liking started cause there are some discoveries which made me question my choice in buying the phone. At the end of the second week I found out about the red tint problem with the amoled screen and with a lot of experimenting and online discussions it was clear that this is with all devices and at low brightness over a grey colour background. Based on some local nerdy conversations it felt that the calibration of the screen on how it should output grays at low brightness settings needs to be tweaked at the kernel. But hey, “local” “nerdy”. And I am no expert in screen calibrations.
Continue reading »Yay!!!! I waited for this day since long and wow has it been a wait. Nevertheless, the day has come, the phone is in my hands and I am ready to tell you about what to expect when you unbox this phone (beast apparently). Also,a disclaimer, there are lots and lots of videos and posts on the unboxing, reviews etc. I will try not to go deep into areas already covered.
Let me start this by saying that my daily driver is a S10e, and so I am used to a 5+ inch screen with an AMOLED display and an extreme frame rate in PubG. Yeah, I’ll delve into it later on. Just the first impressions for now.
The box is a regular cuboid with a tightly packed phone, case, and the charger with a type A to type C cable. Mind you. This is the cheaper version available on Flipkart, the 8GB/128GB one and Asus has made sure to skimp on everything, other than the phone. What you see with most YouTubers is NOT what you get. I guess the company had to do it to make the phone more affordable but I felt, meh. I would have shelved 2-3k INR more if I would have gotten better in-box contents. But that’s me. There isn’t even a sim card ejection tool, so yeah, cost saving.
The big phone is really big. It spans 6.6 inches corner to corner and it should be called a phablet. A gaming phablet. Not a phone. It will not fit in your pockets well, and there are no cases aplenty right now to safeguard its glass make. And yeah, even if you manage to find a bumper case with reasonable cushioning effect, I seriously doubt the pocket-ability. It is bitter sweet that you will need protection, and the case they provide isn’t that strong. Flimsy too while at it.
Now that my rant on the box and dimensions is over let us look at the phone more carefully. The device has two USB C ports, one 3.5 mm jack, one sim port with two sim cards support, a two camera setup, a dual tone LED flash, a front camera, a dual front speaker setup and a mostly glass body. Phew. That’s the externals. There is also an in-display fingerprint sensor, which is based on light and is not ultrasound. It differs slightly from other devices due to the two air-triggers on the side and the glowing logo at the back. Sneak-peek to my next post, the air-triggers are so awesome. The vibration and feedback……whoa, not going into too much. Let me save it for a dedicated gaming feedback post.
Starting the phone up now. The huge screen lights up with the ROG and DTS X inside logo. I was greeted by a nice vibration and sound, the first sound I liked after my old predator tab. Both of them are so good at their audio department but I’ll get to it later. There is the usual setup process after which you follow your backup restore transfer process. A few hours later, your device is all setup for use.
Before you go to buy this device, I suggest you to hold it in your hand in case you have access to it. The sheer size can be off-putting to some, not all. There is no good quality screenguard available at the time of this writing, if you are into it, and the device is a fingerprint magnet, as expected with a glass body. Get ready for some scratches unless you are careful. For now, I will game a bit more on it and give you some more inputs on how it really fares with the gaming experience. Hoping to give you much more in my review post.
Ergonomics starts with a good chair. Back and neck support are the two places where any neglect will cause pains during long work or gaming sessions. I learned that the hard way when going through regular 4 hour stretches of TAB.
The Circle CH70 gaming chair comes with the typical gaming flair- the car seat design, adjustable height and angle, a back support pillow and a neck support pillow. It uses a good amount of memory foam (density grade 30) to ensure there is no permanent deformity. Honestly, I would recommend this chair even at offices if it were up to me. Sigh, it isn’t though.
It comes in three colors – black, red and green and the specifications are available pretty clearly on their website and hence I will concentrate on the experience part.
Continue reading »Yes, you heard it right. Rockstar games is offering free copies of GTA San Andreas for a limited if you download their games launcher. This is an application similar to origin PC or steam but will contain Rockstar specific offerings, may be for now.
This launcher currently hosts downloads for the games below:
