Honest Huawei GX8 Review

Huawei introduced the new Huawei GX8 during the fall of 2015. This 5.5-inch smartphone belongs to the new range that could be considered ‘high-midrange’, as we consider the Moto X Play to be. Have these smartphones chiseled out a new class, or are they midrangers disguised as something else? Let"s look at how it stacks up in this Huawei GX8 review.

Good

• Design


• Camera


• microSD slot

Bad

• Weight


• Reflective screen due to 2.5D design

Huawei GX8 release date and price

The Huawei GX8 went on sale in autumn 2015. Although not on sale at Huawei’s official store, you can buy it elsewhere. It is available in 32GB version with 3GB of RAM, microSD slot and three colors: champagne, silver and metal (black). We tested the silver version, which is white on front. It starts at US$350.

Huawei GX8 design and build quality

The Huawei GX8 follows the design trends known of Huawei and Honor. Its appearance is like that of any high-end metal smartphone. It is wrapped in aluminum with two plastic strips on the back, top and bottom, to prevent the metal interfering with reception. The phone is somewhat heavier at 167g. Even like a little brick. To give an idea, it weighs 14g more than a Galaxy S6 Edge+, which has a screen of 5.7 inches.

On front is the 5.5-inch screen covered by curved Gorilla Glass 4, with 2.5D on the edges, and some not very nice black bezels, hurting the phone’s screen-to-body ratio. On front you’ll also find the logo of Huawei and a speaker for calls, front camera, proximity sensor and LED notification light. There is also a pattern of dots under the glass, thanks to the white face.



On his side are power and volume buttons in various metallic finishes. The home button is rougher. This texture wasn’t so easy to notice on my fingertips, but perhaps that’s due to the cold weather in Berlin. At the top are the headphone jack and noise-canceling microphone for calls. At the bottom are speaker grilles, but sound only comes out of one.

At the back is the camera, dual LED flash and fingerprint sensor, plus the plastic bands I mentioned earlier.



The GX8 is an elegant, sober smartphone, but something large and heavy. For those who want a large screen and not spend a fortune on something with premium appearance, clearly it is, next to Honor 7 among the very best.

Huawei GX8 display

The Huawei GX8  packs a 5.5-inch LCD panel in Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) resolution, which gives a pixel density of 401 ppi. It"s a brilliant screen - it’s impossible to see individual pixels - and with good viewing angles as well.

But there are two details that do not convince me: first, the reflections that occur because of 2.5D glass. Another detail that I do not like is the black frame around the outside of the display. This changes the body/screen ratio to 71.7 percent (an LG G3, for example, has a ratio 76 percent).



The display of the Huawei GX8 is great but could have been better for the price, and perhaps 2.5D is not everything, even though Huawei seems somewhat obsessed with it lately.

Huawei GX8 special features

The Huawei GX8 is full of secrets, many of which already exist in other Huawei devices.

Fingerprint scanner

The fingerprint scanner of the Huawei GX8 is very easy to set up. I find only one downside; it looks quite large on the back of this phone. This again is a matter of taste, but it’s a tricky one for me even though I have somewhat large hands.

The scanner also has other functions. It serves as a touch button for various functions such as answer calls, take pictures or video, stop alarm or display the notification panel.

One-handed mode

The Huawei GX8 has a mode for one-handed use. This mode creates a smaller window in either of the two lower corners so you don’t need to reach as far.

Gesture control

Another option that Huawei has added is gesture control. With it, you can draw different patterns on the screen that serve as shortcuts to open an application or access the camera without having to unlock the screen. The can be predefined, or you can set it yourself.

There are dozens of options on the Huawei GX8, but I did not want to stretch this section. Almost everything you look for can be found in this phone. Even more than you need.

Huawei GX8 software

The GX8 brings EMUI 3.1, a Huawei layer over Android 5.1 Lollipop. As with all Chinese phones, there is no app drawer. We also see some changes with, for example, a multitasking square having to slide up or down to close apps. I personally prefer the style of stock Lollipop. The Huawei GX8 will soon enough get an update to Android Marshmallow.



As for pre-installed apps, there are a total of 28. Of the 28, I consider about 15 useful and essential. Don’t bother with the rest, but if so, most can be uninstalled by simply dragging them to the top of the screen.

Furthermore, only 22GB of the phone’s 32GB are free out-of-the-box. Its memory can be expanded via microSD up to 128GB.

Huawei GX8 performance

The GX8 makes use of an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor with a maximum speed of 1.5 GHz for four of its cores and 1.2 GHz for the others. In addition, it houses an Adreno 405 GPU and is backed by 3 GB of RAM.

The Huawei GX8 has been subject to the torture of all our benchmarks and has managed to place itself at a similar level to the new Galaxy A3 and A9. Its performance does stand at around 20 percent higher than the Moto X Play, however, no doubt aided by the extra gigabyte of RAM.

In real world use, as we sometimes get tired of saying, the GX8 Huawei handles both complicated and simple tasks well. There haven’t been any crashes to report, though there has been some lag when multitasking, particularly when going from a game to another app.

But it’s not a serious delay, and it processes even demanding games without major problems.

Huawei GX8 audio

Despite how it looks, the GX8 does not house a pair of speakers: only the right side provides audio. This mono speaker pumps out sound at a suitable volume, with a clean and crisp tone, and little noise. If it needs to be said, the GX8 is not on par with devices with stereo speakers, however.



While the speaker is sufficient, there are also some headphones provided in the box. These add handsfree functionality to the device, but the sound quality leaves much to be desired: it’s the worst I can remember hearing in a pair of headphones.

Huawei GX8 camera

So we arrive that the Huawei GX8’s best feature: the camera. Housing a 13 MP rear camera with autofocus, and a 5 MP snapper at the front, the results of the sensor are generally very good with minimal performance decrease in low light.

The colors are balanced and the HDR mode adds an excellent luminosity. The GX8 even houses a dual-LED flash - a feature not found in most smartphones in this range - to help support even more natural colors.



The automatic focus is fast, as is the selective focusing speed, and it includes manual and automatic modes. Huawei’s camera interface and software make the GX8 a pleasure to take pictures with.

The 5 MP front camera offers a number of different, very Asian, beauty and selfie tweaks (which are quite complicated to understand); it even includes makeup software. In this photo you can see pink lips and eyelashes added by the GX8. It can be quite funny, but not all of these modes will be of use to you.

Huawei GX8 battery

The GX8 Huawei places a 3000-mAh battery behind its 5.5-inch Full HD screen. It is not the best we"ve seen, but you can squeeze a day and a half out of it under normal use (WhatsApp, emails, reading the news, etc.).

In our AnTuTu battery test, the GX8 scored 5518 points, on par with the Meizu Metal, Galaxy S4 and Xperia Z5 Premium: devices that aren’t renowned for their great battery life.



The Snapdragon 615 processor features a fast charge function, but, sadly, this has not been taken advantage of on the GX8. In fact, one of the things that I do not like about the GX8 is how long it takes to charge. The charger that the device comes packaged with transmits 1A and takes about 2 hours to fully charge the GX8. Luckily, I wasn’t in any rush at the time.

The Huawei GX8 includes various energy-saving modes to help you optimize the device’s consumption.

Huawei GX8 technical specifications

• TYPE: Phone


• MODEL:RIO - LO1


• MANUFACTURER:Huawei


• DIMENSIONS:152 x 76.5 x 7.5 mm


• WEIGHT:167 g


• BATTERY SIZE:3000 mAh


• SCREEN SIZE:5.5 in


• DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY:LCD


• SCREEN:1920 x 1080 pixels (401 ppi)


• FRONT CAMERA:13 megapixels


• REAR CAMERA:5 megapixels


• FLASHLIGHT:Dual-LED


• ANDROID VERSION:5.1 - Lollipop


• USER INTERFACE:Emotion UI


• RAM:3 GB


• INTERNAL STORAGE:32 GB


• REMOVABLE STORAGE:microSD


• CHIPSET:Qualcomm Snapdragon 616


• NUMBER OF CORES:8


• MAX. CLOCK SPEED:1.5 GHz


• CONNECTIVITY:HSPA, LTE, Dual-SIM , Bluetooth

Final verdict

The Huawei GX8 leaves me with mixed emotions. On the one hand, its design surprises with its premium appearance and solid build quality, but this doesn’t contrast well with the handset’s poorly integrated screen.

Hardware-wise, the GX8 is more than capable of catering to the average user’s daily needs, with 3GB of RAM kicking about under the hood, and the camera produces great results.

The GX8 does, however, lack some personality. Perhaps the similarity in appearance shared among the whole Huawei 2015/2016 family means new devices simply don’t provide enough surprises. For someone who doesn’t spend their days playing with Huawei’s, however, you will find a mature, nice and solid device, which you can rely on to get you through the day.

 

 

[REVIEW] LG G5 - Don"t Judge The Book By Its Cover

In my surroundings, I am known as the "LG girl." I switched to the brand in 2013 when the G2 was announced and fell in love with the big screen, the great camera, and even LG"s own software additions on top of AOSP. I recall showing friends and acquaintances photos I"d taken with the G2 while hiking, flipping the phone to landscape, and telling them to swipe through the pics. "It"s like holding only a screen, the bezels disappear," was my own way of explaining why I loved the G2 so much. It never failed to impress.

Then the G3 came along. It was bigger, faster, bad-asser. The screen"s colors and outdoor visibility were small drawbacks, but the rest of the experience was just as wonderful. It is up until this day my favorite LG smartphone. When the time came to move on, I did so begrudgingly and gave it to my mother. It"s still in the family, so to speak, and so is my G2 by the way, which moved on to my father.

From the G3, I went to the G4. On paper, it was the G3 on steroids, improving two of the most important aspects of the phone: screen and camera. In the hand, however, we didn"t connect. It was way too large, with weird outward-facing border angles, a palm-unfriendly curved back, larger bezels than what I was used to, and weight distribution that didn"t feel right. Despite my apathy toward the external design, I kept using the G4 for almost a year because it still fit the bill in every other respect. The large, high-resolution display was fantastic and the camera never failed me on hikes, family occasions, or whenever I wanted to capture a moment. And the front 8MP camera was just as nice to have, for those fun selfies.

When the G5 was rumored and then announced, I found myself intrigued by the Friends concept, but it wasn"t the only thing that piqued my interest. I kept wondering about the design and in-hand feel. You can see all the promo shots and real life photos, you still won"t get a feel for a phone until you hold it in your hand. And going as far back as the Nokia E71, my interaction with my phone, this object that I carry around and touch way more than anything else every day, was built on how well it fit in my hand and how much at ease I felt while holding and using it. The G2 and G3 had set the bar high, but the G4 had disappointed me in that regard. I was hoping the G5 would bring redemption.

Then the online reviews started dropping and to say they were mitigated is an understatement. But like any true fan of a brand would do, I refused to make any judgements until I had the G5 in my hand and could form my own opinion. I guess the criticizing reviews, like our own from David, had set the bar so low in my mind, that when I finally saw the G5 in person, I was positively surprised.

Not only did the device look good, in an inconspicuous and unassuming kind of way, but it felt great in the hand. I was so incredibly relieved to sense some ease, and even joy, while holding it for the first time. The rest of my experience, over the past month or so, is chronicled in the review below. And like the introduction, prepare for it to be subjective and written from the perspective of someone who intricately knows and more-or-less loves all of LG"s recent flagships.

Functional and familiar design

There have been plenty of tirades written about how the G5"s design feels a little rushed and incomplete. To me, most of it doesn"t really matter. If the Galaxy S7 Edge appealed to the perfectionist, elegant, and confident side of me, the G5 talks to the shy and underdog side. It"s simple, a little flawed in some respects and quirky in some others — have you seen that surprised robot face on the back? I find that hilarious and even though the cluster of lenses and elements might irk some, I think it looks nice.



The fingerprint sensor"s position on the back actually makes a lot of sense. Contrary to other smartphones (Samsung, Apple, HTC, OnePlus…) that require a mastery in balancing them with one hand to reach below the display to the fingerprint sensor that"s at the far bottom, unlocking the G5 is more natural with the back fingerprint sensor/power button. There are drawbacks to this positioning too, though, especially when I"m trying to unlock it while it sits on a desk or in a dock. I either have to pick up the G5 to unlock it with the back button or leave it, double tap, then enter a pin. It"s inconvenient, but not a deal-breaker.



The only two features that I don"t like that much are the side volume buttons and the USB Type-C port. The former are an annoying departure from LG"s signature back buttons for someone who"s been used to them for 3 years (accidental presses happen when grabbing the phone, taking a screenshot requires two hands now whereas it was possible with one on the G2/G3/G4, etc…). And the latter is an unavoidable leap we"ll all have to make, but I just wish I didn"t have to deal with it now and get new charging cables everywhere. My first world problem is that my two EverDock Duos still don"t support USB Type-C so I have to use a regular wall charger for the G5.



In this configuration, the design of the G5 actually reminds me a lot of the company"s Nexus 5X. The materials and style are different, but everything is in almost the exact same place, save for the speaker. It"s a setup that LG is familiar with, and I guess this is why I find it comfortable to hold the G5. It"s the Nexus 5X, but slightly curvier on the edges.



Compared to the S7 Edge, though, it"s a more conflicting story. The G5 is nicer to hold and use, the S7 Edge is nicer to hold and stare at. That boils down to the exceptional materials and finish on the S7 Edge compared to the rough cuts of the G5, as well as Samsung"s stubbornness to put the Back button awkwardly on the bottom right as opposed to Android"s more traditional bottom left that LG follows. The G5 also doesn"t suffer from the usability quirks of the Edge display. All of that makes it a lot easier to use one-handed than the S7 Edge.

Smoothing out the sharp edges

When I first got the G5, the first questions I received online were about the misalignment and gap between the removable battery cover and the rest of the phone, as well as the super sharp edges around the bottom. I was aware of the former, but I hadn"t noticed the latter until it was pointed out to me.



Luckily, the unit in my hand doesn"t have such a wide gap between the battery cover and the phone, and the edges aren"t that sharp. I don"t like that these issues exist in the first place, but I think that most users either won"t notice them or won"t care about them. Besides, I simply put my G5 inside a clear TPU case and I don"t have to worry about any of that again.



I don"t like the implementation of the removable battery though. The first time I tried to dislodge it from the bottom cover, I couldn"t figure it out and had to check the manual. It requires force and a certain disregard to that inner nagging voice that says I"m about to break it. That unease returns when I try to put it back in. Honestly, I would have preferred LG kept the battery non-removable inside the phone and made the bottom cover separate from it. That way you could replace the Friends without having to turn off your phone and you wouldn"t have to worry about dislodging the battery each time. It would have also allowed the engineers to theoretically stick a larger battery than 2800mAh inside the G5.

Dimmed out and not so proud

I was using the G5 for several days before someone asked me about the display"s brightness. It"s good, I replied, but that got me wondering. So I brought it up to full brightness and used the same image on it and the S7 Edge, also at full brightness. I was dumbfounded. The difference in maximum brightness is staggering. I tried to take a photo to show you my point, but the auto-exposure was so different when focusing the lens on the G5 or the S7 Edge"s screens that I had to resort to this shot with an overblown S7 Edge screen (I focused on the G5).

[caption id="attachment_842" align="alignnone" width="534"] Autofocus and auto-exposure on the G5. Both phones on full brightness. Check that difference.[/caption]

A tiny part of the issue, I think, is due to the fact that I have kept the pre-installed screen protector film on the G5"s display, and these can sometimes interfere with brightness, but they can"t possibly be causing this much difference. Just take a look at the photo above with the G5 (with screen protector) next to the Nexus 5X (without), both at full brightness. They look the same, which is a far cry from the S7. And it doesn"t help that the G5 uses an LCD screen as opposed to the S7 Edge"s AMOLED. I usually don"t care either way; I appreciate both the vibrancy of AMOLED and the realness of LCD. But in this case, the tame colors on the G5 just make the difference a lot more flagrant.

Where LG had fixed the G3"s lackluster screen brightness with the G4, we"re back to the same problem with the G5. It mostly affects usability in the sunny outdoors but also forces me to set a higher brightness level than necessary indoors.

Wider, further, better camera

The one feature I am most impressed with in the G5 is the camera setup. As someone who goes hiking fairly frequently, loves nature shots, and likes tinkering with the camera"s features, I find the G5"s photography capabilities awesome, whether it"s on the hardware or software front.

[caption id="attachment_843" align="alignnone" width="536"] A couple of quick shots taken with the G5 in Auto.[/caption]

The wide-angle camera is fantastic for landscapes. It encapsulates more of the scene as if I"d taken several steps back without needing to make a single move. Take a look at this small pond for example. The regular camera couldn"t even fit it within the shot, but the wide-angle lens had no problem showing it all. Again, this is while standing in the same exact spot.

[caption id="attachment_844" align="alignnone" width="535"] Regular lens (left) and wide-angle lens (right) from the same exact spot.[/caption]

This choice of lenses gives me more artistic liberty to work with. Do I want to focus on a super detailed 16MP scene or do I want to fit more information inside a lesser detailed 8MP shot? It"s all up to me and now that I"ve experienced this freedom, I want it in all of my phones going forward.

This versatility of sensors is complemented by a really great camera app interface. I dig the swipe gesture to switch between front and back camera. I also love the choice between different camera UIs: Simple is fantastic if you want to shoot without wasting time (and also for not-so-tech-aware people), Auto is great if you want to choose your focus point and modes, and manual opens up the ISO, Exposure, White Balance, and other intricate settings.

LG also included plenty of modes and options in its app, like slow-motion recording, panorama, HDR, multi-view, image stabilization, but by far the one I like the most is the pop-out picture.

All day long… maybe

The G2 started out with a 3000mAh battery, the G3 and G4 kept it at 3000mAh despite a larger screen, but now the G5 is taking us down to 2800mAh. That sounds ludicrous for a 5.3" smartphone, and I notice it in my use. But not always. See, at first I was appalled by the battery, especially coming from a month with the S7 Edge"s spectacular 3600mAh behemoth, but in day to day use, I didn"t feel the difference was that flagrant.

Sure, I have to watch out more with the G5, especially since I can"t recharge it everywhere because of that Type-C port, but the phone does really well in standby. That"s all thanks to the new Snapdragon 820 processor and the benefits of Doze Mode on Marshmallow. I can easily go above 20 hours away from a charger with a little juice left at the end of a grueling day. But the gist of the story is that even though the battery drains fast(ish) when the display is on, I"m glad I can rely on the G5 not to die on me when it"s at 20% and I have 2 hours to get home. I only need to make sure the display stays off as much as possible, and not worry about changing any other settings. It"ll get me through.

Software joys and woes

LG"s software layer is very familiar to me by now. I"ve lived with it day in and day out for three years, so I know my way around. Say what you will about "pure Android," I still like that there are manufacturers out there trying out new ideas. As history has told us, many of these changes will even eventually get implemented in AOSP.

You may find LG"s interface boring or irksome, I find joy in some of its features. I like the Capture+ (previously Q-Capture and QuickCapture) quick setting toggle that easily lets me annotate and crop part of any screen, then share it without taking a screenshot first.



I love the double tap to wake the phone, and even better, I love double tapping on the notification bar from any app to turn the display off. I also appreciate the built-in clipboard that keeps my last copied items handy for whenever I need to paste something, no third-party needed. Plus, I dig LG"s idea of customizing the navigation bar and I always set the fourth button for the notification drop-down. As a matter of fact, many of you have asked me over the past years what that fourth button on my nav bar is. It"s so I can easily drop the notification shade or pull it up, without having to raise my finger to the top of the display. Classic laziness syndrome, but super handy.

And I applaud LG for sticking with the InfraRed blaster. Why other manufacturers have taken it out, I couldn"t tell you, but it"s super convenient to have. LG"s QuickRemote app is also fantastic for setting up remotes and assigning them to different rooms. My only grief is with the removal of the QuickRemote toggle and mini-app from the notification shade. That was practical.

However, the downside of this familiarity with LG"s software is that it no longer surprises me. Almost everything works the exact same way it did in 2013, it only changed color hues and looks more modern now. But where Google"s Material Design shines with its white and colors, LG"s interface looks duller and flatter than necessary. And I"m starting to get bored with it functionally too. Very few radical changes have been introduced since 2013, and even those that did were more annoying than useful.



The removal of the app drawer? Just no. The insistence on using LG"s own app update system instead of uploading its apps on the Play Store for easier installs? Not a fan. The duplicate features of LG Health and the in-house Calendar and Music apps? Pass. And the fact that you have to learn new emojis compared to WhatsApp and Google"s? Come on! Why fix what ain"t broken?

The only thing that made me raise my eyebrow was the new Smart Settings section that lets you automate a few actions, and the surprising support of IFTTT for an "LG Smartphone" channel.

Once connected, you can create all kinds of automation recipes between your phone and hundreds of other services. The phone can act as a trigger or as an action, so you can for example send new screenshots to Dropbox or turn NFC on when you get home.

LG G5, misunderstood, underestimated

I like the LG G5. I like it a lot more than I did the G4, but I"m not sure I"ve reached a stage where I can say I love it as much as I did the G3. It fits much better in my hand, it"s easier to hold and use one-handed, it"s more balanced externally and internally compared to the G4. It"s a big departure from LG on the hardware side, and part of me can"t help but wish it had the same departure on the software side. Its Android interface is in need of a major overhaul: some items are worth keeping around, but others need to be abandoned or rethought.

But whether in its modest appearance or in some of its moderate specs, it"s easy to discount the LG G5 as one of the least impressive flagships of this year, especially if you don"t care about the Friends ecosystem. (Speaking of the Friends, I"ll try to post my quick thoughts about them separately in a few days.) The unassuming design is a little bland in places and peculiar in others (again, surprised robot face!). Some seams and joints and alignments are nowhere near the clean lines we"ve seen from the G2, G3, and G4. The battery is smaller, the display is smaller and even duller, and the removable battery uses a very quirky mechanism.



But, my past month with it has taught me that there"s a lot more to love about it than what is on the surface. The wide-angle camera provides more artistic freedom than I"ve had in any recent flagship, the battery can last me — with my superuser needs — a full day (almost reliably), and the software has plenty of useful additions that I only learned to appreciate with time or when I had to do without them.

Honestly, before I got the LG G5, I thought the choice between it and the Samsung S7 Edge was cut and dried. From waterproofing to stunning design and excellent hardware, Samsung had ticked so many boxes right that it"s hard to argue with the appeal of its current flagship. But after the honeymoon period of both phones settles, the difference is a lot less obvious in average day-to-day use. The S7/S7 Edge have perfected their approach for wider appeal, but the G5 talks to a quirkier userbase that could be craving something a little different.

You may notice that my conclusion is quite divergent than anybody else"s, maybe it"s because I try my best to approach everything from different and balanced perspectives, maybe it"s because I appreciate LG"s idiosyncrasies more than he does, and maybe it"s because I still carry the love of the G2 and G3 in my heart. Regardless, in my opinion, the G5 is more capable and deserving than its unpretentious looks would have you think.

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[REVIEW] Opera Mini

Opera Mini for Android is first and foremost for those of you who want and/or need to conserve data, just like its "bigger" counterpart, Opera Max. Maybe you have a very limited allotment or maybe you"re on a pay-as-you-go plan. Either way, Opera Mini"s High and Extreme data saving modes can save you gigs and cash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfIMocS8m-c

That"s great, but does it offer a good experience beyond the data savings? After all, it"s about the journey, not the destination. And, for the most part, it is a decent browser; however, if you"re someone who likes to enjoy absolutely everything the internet has to offer, warts and all, then Opera Mini might not be for you.

With the latest iteration of the browsing app, Opera has added two new features: a built-in ad blocker and the ability to make web apps. These might sound great in theory, but do they really add much to the overall user experience?

The overall layout is incredibly user-friendly.

To start, the ability to search the web, images, video, news, and Amazon, and scan a QR code right from the home page is wonderful. You get where you want to go without having to go through the motions.

Having local news on the homepage is also a boon to Opera"s interface, since there"s no need for Googling and you can also add news based on your interests through the customization feature. I also like the ability to sync your Opera browsers across devices. This way, you can seamlessly go from desktop to mobile without having to go back and find your place again.

Switching between tabs feels very fluid and is visually great, and you have the immediate option to choose a private tab if you so desire. The overall layout, in fact, is incredibly user-friendly. None of the settings are cumbersome to find, and the layout is full but not overwhelming in the slightest.

Now, the ad blocker ... or, what purports to be an ad blocker. I tried over and over again with various sites and still saw plenty of ads. Most sites that rely on advertising will have native ads that bypass ad blockers, but I was even getting pop-ups. I tried on both Extreme and High mode, just to see if there was a difference. Of course, Extreme eliminates many of the photos and banners that you see in High mode, but that"s the way it works anyway.



The second "new" feature is the ability to make web apps. For those of you who don"t know, a web app is a home screen shortcut to a website. Opera claims that this new feature is wonderful because web apps take up far less space than native apps. No duh.

Web apps are new to Opera Mini but have been around for years.

At this point, the term "web app" is altogether misleading. Web apps may be new to Opera Mini, but Chrome"s had that ability for years and Apple"s been doing it since before apps were apps (iOS 1.2). In the age of expandable memory for many Android users, this doesn"t seem valuable; they should"ve had it from the get-go. The only thing a web app saves you is having to open the browser and tap the shortcut in your Speed Dial.

Now let"s talk about speed. For starters, the app is a bit sluggish on open. With Chrome, I can open it, tap the search bar, and the response is immediate. With Opera Mini, it takes a few seconds for it to figure out what"s what.

Opera Mini claims to get you to websites faster than other browsers thanks to data compression. Maybe my maple syrup Canadian LTE is lightning quick, but I haven"t seen any difference in speed, even in Extreme mode. To its credit, my apparent data savings are a whopping 83% – I only received 2.3MB out of a possible 13MB – which is unheard of with other browsers that employ compression. If you"re wanting to keep a close eye on your data, in real time, then Opera Mini will be your best buddy. That is… So long as you"re OK with seeing half of the internet.



Extreme mode compresses sites to the point where Facebook looks like it did when it first launched. YouTube videos won"t even play within the browser; Opera Mini shirks the blame by automatically opening the YouTube app, so keep a close eye. The YouTube app won"t save you anydata.

In Extreme mode, you"ll be saving buckets upon buckets of data, but you"ll feel like a second-class internet citizen. Even if my monthly data were cleaved in twain, I still don"t think I could handle it.

At the end of the day, Opera Mini feels relatively similar to Chrome and if it was the only web browser installed on my phone when I bought it, I"d probably be using it exclusively right now. If you"re tight for data, then definitely consider Opera Mini. (Remember: Opera Mini achieves these features by moving your traffic through a proxy server, as many other companies do.)

Even if you"re not tight for data but still have a monthly cap, you should consider Opera Mini. Yes, Extreme mode is a little hard to get used to, but High mode will still save you bundles (well, in terms of percentages). Basically, if you data is of any concern to you whatsoever, then Opera Mini is the browser you"ve been waiting for.

In fact, you can go download it right now.

Are you using Opera Mini as your exclusive browser? Sound off in the comments below and let us know about your experience!

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[Sport Review] Moto 360

The state of wearables in 2016 can be boiled down to two types of devices: smartwatches and fitness trackers. Most smartwatches attempt to be fitness trackers, but if you’re serious about fitness, you still need a dedicated device.The Moto 360 Sport is designed to bridge the gap. It’s a smartwatch that puts fitness first, not just a tacked on after thought. Can the Moto 360 Sport bring fitness to Android Wear? Let’s find out.

Hardware & Design

The Moto 360 Sport looks like what you’d expect a fitness device to look like. It has a sweat-resistant silicone band and a slightly raised metal bezel. The silicone used in this band is very smooth, almost like velvet. It has the perfect amount of elasticity, which makes for a great fit on your wrist. The Moto 360 Sport is easily the most comfortable smartwatch I’ve worn.

In the 2 o’clock position is the standard Motorola button. It’s a very solid-feeling button. You can actually hear it click when you press it. The silicone surrounds the button and all sides of the device (save for a microphone cut-out). It’s not possible to swap out the band for a different color. It comes in black, white, and orange. You’re not going to want to swap for a different material, but it would be nice to have more color options.

Inside the watch is a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 processor, 4GB of storage, and 512MB of RAM. For the most part, this is a speedy device, but there are definitely moments of lag. Performance is on par with any other Android Wear device. It gets the job done. That’s the story of the overall design, as well. We wouldn’t call it the most attractive smartwatch, but for a fitness watch, it looks great.

Display

The display is 1.37-inches with 360×325 resolution. Motorola calls it the “AnyLight” display. It’s a hybrid LCD panel that reflects natural light so it can be more readable outdoors. There’s a layer of reflective material underneath the display. When bright light is detected, the display switches to a monochrome color scheme. The “white” pixels are actually transparent, which allows the reflective layer to show through those spots.

The AnyLight display works amazingly well outdoors. It’s easy to read the display in even the brightest of light. In fact, since it’s reflecting light, the display is sometimes easier to read outdoors than it is indoors. When the display is active, it uses the traditional full-color LCD with backlight. Ambient mode uses the reflective layer, which doesn’t use the backlight. This makes it really hard to read the ambient display when you’re in a low-light situation because there’s no light reflecting off the display.

Even considering the woes with Ambient mode, the AnyLight display is awesome. Outdoor visibility is great when you’re running outside, but it’s also nice to have when you’re just walking to your car.

Fitness & Software

Before we dive into fitness features, let’s talk about the software. The Moto 360 Sport is running Android 5.1.1 out of the box. Android Wear works the same on this watch as it does on every other Android Wear device. You can change the watch face, read notifications, do voice commands, and all that good stuff. For this review, we’ll be focusing on the fitness aspects of the software.

For the majority of this review, we’ve been calling the Moto 360 Sport a “fitness watch.” In reality, it’s a more of a “running watch.” Motorola has included two special apps for the Moto 360 Sport: Moto Body and Moto Running. You can use these apps to record your heart rate, track your steps, and start a run. But that’s it. If you want to track a bike ride or a hike, you’ll need a 3rd-party app. The good news is Moto Body can connect with a few popular fitness services.

Does it, at least, do a good job of tracking runs? Starting a run (indoor or outdoor) is very quick and easy. You can start the Moto Running app directly from the default “Sport” watch face. Moto Running allows you to choose a goal for your run. One day you might want to run for a certain amount of time. The next day you might want to run a certain distance. Moto Running lets you choose a goal every time, or just “Quick Start.”



The Moto Body app collects all of your activity data. The heart rate sensor is used to continuously check your heart rate and show “Heart Activity,” which basically means doing something that gets your heart rate up. Moto Body also tracks steps and burned calories. All of this data is presented in graphs that can be viewed on your watch or with the phone app. Moto Body also sets goals for you. They’ll seem ridiculous at first, but over time they will adjust to your activity level.

The last bit of fitness goodness is the built-in GPS. You can go on runs and track your distance without carrying around a phone. If you use supported 3rd-party apps, you can use the built-in GPS to track other activities as well. We found the GPS to be just as accurate as our phone, but it does deplete the battery quicker. Most of us have big phones these days, so it’s very nice to not have a heavy device swinging in your pocket.

Battery Life

Battery life is a big concern when it comes to smartwatches. The original Moto 360 had notoriously bad battery life, but the second generation is much better. The Moto 360 Sport has a 300 mAh battery. I’ve been impressed with the battery life on this watch. On most days I’m putting the watch on the charger at night with around 30-40% left. That’s with “always-on” display and “tilt to wake” enabled.

The great thing about the reflective display is you can keep the display on at all times and lose very little battery life. We already talked about how ambient mode doesn’t use the backlight. This makes it hard to read in some situations, but it’s also great for battery. Now, if you go on very long runs you’ll find battery life will take a hit. The fitness tracking sensors use more battery life than if you’re just sitting at your desk.

Conclusion

The Moto 360 Sport is a smartwatch trying to be a fitness tracker. It does a pretty good job of bridging the gap. Every Android Wear device has some sort of fitness tracking capability, but the Moto 360 Sport takes it to the next level. The problem most people seem to have with the Moto 360 Sport is that it’s heavily geared towards runners. The built-in Moto apps are mainly for running, but saying this watch is “only for runners” ignores the plethora of great fitness apps in the Play Store.

The AnyLight display and built-in GPS should be enough for most fitness geeks to appreciate this watch. Motorola’s running-heavy suite of apps are nice, but it’s not mandatory to use them. Any number of fitness apps in the Play Store can be used to count steps, record heart rate, and track activities. This is a device that’s a lot smarter than your average Fitbit, and when you’re not running, it’s a fully capable smartwatch to boot. It’s not the perfect marriage of smarts and fitness, but it’s darn close.

The Good

• Display is great in sunlight


• Great run-tracking apps


• Built-in GPS is convenient


• Comfortable design

The Bad

• Moto software is mainly for running


• Ambient display is sometimes hard to read

The Bottom Line

The Moto 360 Sport is Android Wear’s first major attempt at a full-blown fitness tracker. Motorola has done a great job with the hardware features, but non-runners may find the fitness apps lacking.

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[REVIEW] Samsung Gear Fit 2 - Great Fitness Wearable

The fitness band world has some very entrenched incumbents, but Samsung wants to get in on the party.

The quick take

Samsung learned a lot of lessons with its Gear S2 smartwatch and applied them smartly to the Gear Fit 2, its newest fitness tracker. The light, comfortable, powerful and nice-looking wearable handles all your fitness and activity tracking needs, while also adding in a little bit of the experience you"d expect to find on a fully fledged smartwatch. The software can be a bit more than some will want to deal with, and not everyone wants to use S Health for their data tracking, but the price is right and Samsung has put together a great total package.

THE GOOD

• Dedicated GPS


• Smartwatch-like notifications


• Great display


• Solid hardware

THE BAD

• Too big for small wrists


• Screen shape isn"t ideal for notifications


• Less battery life than other fitness bands


• Some won"t want to use S Health

Samsung Gear Fit 2 Full review

With a seemingly infinite number of smart wearables in the world today, we"re quickly getting into situations where we have more tech than body parts on which to put it. On your wrists alone you might have a smartwatch on one arm and a fitness tracker on the other ... with overlapping functions that quickly turn into an annoyance.

The smartwatch certainly looks nicer, has a bigger screen and lends itself to interaction, while the fitness tracker is more comfortable, gets better battery life and has vastly better activity tracking. Rather than fully giving into our cyborg future by having connected doodads on both our wrists, why not try to split it down the middle and get just one device? A single wrist-bound wearable that tracks your activity every single day, while also allowing you to receive notifications and get other information on the same display.

Samsung is attempting to do just that with the Gear Fit 2, a refresher to the fitness-focused Gear Fit of 2014 and a sibling to the Gear S2 smartwatch of last year. The Gear Fit 2, as the name would suggest, is designed for fitness tracking first and foremost. But what the name doesn"t reveal is what else you can do with its 1.5-inch screen — it also offers notifications and interaction features you"d expect in a smartwatch.

So does it strike the balance of fitness tracker and smartwatch perfectly? Or does it come up short trying to do too much? We answer these questions in our full Samsung Gear Fit 2 review.

About this review

The Gear Fit 2"s software version was R360XXU1APE4, and was not updated during the course of the review. The Fit 2 we used was a review unit provided to us by Samsung.

Samsung Gear Fit 2 Hardware

It"s easy to see a lot of the design DNA from the Gear S2 in the Gear Fit 2, despite the end result being a different form factor than the thin-and-round smartwatch. It"s sleek, understated (at least in the black color I have) and put together amazingly well — just as we"ve come to expect from Samsung in the past couple of years. You"ll even find the same button layout, with a small home button and larger back button together on one side.

Samsung"s expertise in display technology is clear to see here, with the rectangular 216x432 resolution, 1.5-inch curved SuperAMOLED display taking up a large portion of the front of the Gear Fit 2. The display is expectedly great, with colors that really pop off of the primarily black interface — it"s even visible in sunlight, though you"ll have to crank up the brightness to see it.

 

The display is covered in Gorilla Glass 3 that flows smoothly into a nice bit of anodized aluminum. The main portion of the body around the sides and back are hard plastic. At roughly 12 mm thick, 25 mm wide and 52 mm long, the Gear Fit 2 lands near the top of size amongst fitness trackers — larger than something like an Under Armour Band, but notably smaller than a Fitbit Surge. But with its curved design and rectangular form the Fit 2 sits on my wrist nicely, and is quite a bit sleeker than a round smartwatch.

The Fit 2 looks rather gargantuan on smaller wrists, however. Samsung does offer both a "large" and "small" size ... but that"s a bit of a misnomer, as the only difference is the length of the band.

It"s like they took a Gear S2 and squeezed in the sides — in a good way.

The band is attached to the body using the same proprietary connector found on the Gear S2, meaning itcan be swapped out (for another color or size) later on down the road, but only for those approved and designed specifically for the Fit 2. That"s a smartwatch-like perk that you don"t find on most other fitness trackers, even if most people aren"t likely to swap bands. The included band is a very soft and comfortable elastomer material with a classy carbon fiber-like pattern on the outside and some bumps on the inside to hopefully keep it from sliding around too much.

You attach the band to your wrist by looping one end through a hole in the other, then securing a metal plug into one of 10 holes to fit just the right size. The loop helps the Fit 2 stay on your wrist even if you happen to snag it on something while you"re working out and pull the plug out of the hole — safety first.

Samsung Gear Fit 2 Software

The Gear Fit 2 is running Tizen, and not Android. That"s been Samsung"s Samsung"s operating system of choice for wearables — and pretty much anything that isn"t a phone or tablet. Just like the hardware, it"s clear that the Gear S2"s software evolved to the Gear Fit 2 — and that"s not a bad thing at all.

Samsung quickly figured out with the launch of the original Gear Fit that a screen of this size and orientation actually lends itself better to a vertical screen rather than horizontal. It takes a little getting used to, but if you"ve spent time interacting with a smartwatch you"ll feel right at home here — and once you use it for a bit, you realize it"s much easier on the eyes.

The software will be familiar if you"ve seen a Gear S2, and easy enough to pick up if not.

Just like the Gear S2, the Gear Fit 2 has a set of horizontal-scrolling "home screens" of sorts, with each one corresponding to a built-in function (or app, if you will). Without the rotating bezel of the Gear S2 you simply swipe between the panels, with your only other interaction paradigm being the "back" and "home" buttons on the side of the body. You can also cover the screen with your palm to turn it off.

The main screen is your watch face, flanked by notifications on the left and then a set of user-defined screens on the right. You can swipe down from the top of the display to reveal a screen to see your battery and Bluetooth connection, as well as quickly toggle Do Not Disturb, change the brightness or launch the music player. As for the customizable screens, there are eight you can add and organize in any order — here"s the quick breakdown:

• 24-hour log: Shows a linear progression of your activity for the past day — periods when you were inactive, active, sleeping or didn"t have the Fit 2 on at all.


• Exercise: Lets you explicitly start an activity or workout — set your activity type, time goal and a few other parameters, then start tracking. You can also view a log of previous activity.


• Steps: Shows your step count, and how close it is to your daily goal.


• Floors: How many floors of elevation you went up/down today, with the ability to view historical data for the week.


• Heart rate: Displays your most recent heart rate reading and when it was taken, as well as your high and low heart rate for the day. Tap to view historical heart rate data for the week.


• Water: Record how many cups of water you"ve consumed today.


• Caffeine: Same as water, but for caffeine.


• Together: Set up step count challenges with friends, and see how you"re doing compared to them today.

Beyond those screens, you can press the home button while on the clock to pull up Music Player, Find My Phone, Timer and Stopwatch apps, which are about as basic as you can get. Samsung has chosen to keep a rather kludgy amount of settings available to tap and scroll through on the tiny screen, which is where you have to go to find things like GPS, Wi-Fi, vibration and more.

The Fit 2 does everything you expect, and displays more than the competition.

Despite many similarities the Gear Fit 2 understandably does less than the Gear S2, but in this case that"s a good thing — I was rather critical of the Gear S2 for trying to do too much, even though it did less than the Gear S and Galaxy Gear. When you"re inside each of the pre-installed apps you aren"t going to go more than two levels deep into the interface, and at the time of writing the only third-party apps available to install are three weird watch faces, and a Spotify app that can sync playlists over to your Gear Fit 2.

One thing that was roughly translated over from the Gear S2 is the notification experience. The Gear Manager app can monitor for notifications on your phone and pass them to the Gear Fit 2. You can choose which apps from your phone send notifications to the wearable, which is important because you can only act on a select few of them.

Apps like Gmail and Samsung"s own text messaging app have options to archive email or reply to messages, but most apps simply will show you content to read and give you no options to act. Part of that is due to the small and narrow screen, but also because of the lack of a microphone for any sort of voice commands or dictation. Unfortunately the situation in the end is a lot of buzzes that aren"t all that useful, so it"s worth your time to be very selective with which apps can send notifications to your wrist. It"s definitely useful to have the option (hey, you could turn off notifications altogether, too) but this isn"t a full smartwatch-like notification system.

The Gear Manager app

The Gear Manager app is the conduit for connecting your Gear Fit 2 (or previous Gear wearable) to your phone, and it"s available for pretty much every Android phone running Android 4.4 KitKat and higher. (Though because Samsung had yet to update its app in the Play Store to work with the Gear Fit 2 during my review period, I used it in conjunction with a Galaxy S7 instead.)

It may not be pretty, but Gear Manager does its job.

Gear Manager is a simple tool, and while it may not be as pretty as the Android Wear app from Google, it gets the job done. In Gear Manager you can hit all of the big tasks you wouldn"t want to manage just on the Fit 2, and a few others that you can do on the Fit 2 but are easier on a big screen. You can manage which apps can send notifications to the Fit 2, change your quick message replies, switch and customize watch faces, change the layout of apps, and install more apps when they become available.

You can also use Gear Manager to pull local music files from your phone for local playback without your phone when you"re working out, which is important when you consider the standalone fitness tracking (including GPS) on the Fit 2. If you happen to misplace your Gear Fit 2, you can also use Gear Manager to vibrate it so you can find it, or remotely lock it from being reactivated with another device until it"s found.

Samsung Gear Fit 2Tracking and fitness

Even with some of its smartwatch-like features, the Gear Fit 2 is focused on tracking your activity, and doing it just as well as products from Fitbit, Jawbone, Under Armour or any other company out there — that means it"s doing a whole heck of a lot more than your average smartwatch.

It"s always tracking, and is ready for additional input from you as well.

At the base level, the Fit 2 is always paying attention to your movements, automatically tracking your steps, flights climbed and heart rate throughout the day to determine your calories burned. Because it is always tracking movements, it can automatically categorize your activity level throughout the day — so even if you don"t explicitly start tracking a workout, the Fit 2 can categorize that movement as a "healthy" portion of your day.

Of course for the best tracking you"ll want to explicitly start a workout, which can be accomplished with just a couple of swipes and taps. You can choose the usual workouts like walking, running, hiking and cycling, but you can also choose things like step machines, exercise bikes, rowing machines, ellipticals, lunges, crunches, squats, pilates and yoga — and if none of those categories fit your workout, you can always do the general "other workout," which would be best for something like a varied gym regimen. Unfortunately there"s no defined workout choice for wearing the Fit 2 while playing team sports — or, more specifically for me, soccer — so I"m using "other workout" for that.

After you select a type of workout, you can select what you"d like your goal for that workout to be. The choices vary depending on which type you choose, but for example if you"re going on a run, you can set your target to be a certain pace, duration, distance or calories; you can also choose to have no goal, if you"re going to just be taking it easy. Once you start a workout, the Gear Fit 2 gives you a surprisingly high density of information — a heads-up display of sorts so you can track your progress. The Fit 2 can even read out status updates to your headphones at a pre-determined interval.

Speaking of headphones, the Gear Fit 2 has local storage (I had about 2.1GB free) available for storing music (or, maybe podcasts) to play directly to Bluetooth headphones. After transferring music over from Gear Manager, you can browse tracks or make playlists and listen locally without a phone. The Fit 2 connected quickly to my Bluetooth headphones, and worked flawlessly with play/pause and volume controls as well.

You can do everything independent of your phone, if you wish.

At just 30 grams the Gear Fit 2 weighs one-third less than the Gear S2, and less than a beefier tracker like a Fitbit Surge. It"s also rated IP68 water- and dust-resistant, just like the Galaxy S7, meaning it"s good for 30 minutes spent in up to five feet of water — in other words, get it as sweaty as you like, or take a shower with it, but it isn"t advisable to go for a long swim with the Fit 2 on.

Being used to wearing a light and comfortable Under Armour Band it was a little bit of a step up to having the larger Gear Fit 2 on my wrist 24 hours a day, but I quickly got used to it. Even though the Fit 2 is rather thick, it"s so light that it didn"t bother me.

Getting into S Health

Though you wouldn"t know it when first setting up a Gear Fit 2, setting up the S Health app on your connected phone is a huge part of the experience of this wearable.

Once connected, S Health can display everything that the Gear Fit 2 collects, and also open up even more possibilities for data input — like your weight and food intake — through the phone. The S Health app is quite good and displays information well, but this is perhaps the one area that will be a sticking point for some — if you"ve previously owned a fitness tracker and have a wealth of data stored elsewhere, you may not want to transition to S Health. There"s no way to import.

S Health is good, but some people may not want to switch services.

The only thing that"s somewhat confusing here is the separation of functions between the Gear Manager app and the S Health app. While you could use the Gear Manager to manage the connection of your Fit 2 to your phone and never touch S Health, there"s very little chance you"d do so ... conversely, few people are going to use S Health without a connected wearable of some kind, so why not bake the device management into S Health?

Because the Gear Fit 2 is designed to work independently and not necessarily rely on S Health on a connected phone (despite the few people who would do so), it creates an odd disconnect between what you"re doing on the wearable and how you check it in S Health. For example when I set up my Gear Fit 2, there was actually no mention of S Health in the setup process — I was only instructed to download Gear Manager.

Keeping charged

Samsung claims you"ll get three to four days out of the 200 mAh battery in the Gear Fit 2. There are lots of factors here that can have huge impacts on battery life, though — how bright you set the screen, how often you"re using it for workouts, if you turn on GPS, whether you use the always-on display mode and so on. With screen brightness set to 8/10 and leaving always-on display off, but turning on GPS, auto heart rate monitoring and notifications from 20 apps, I was averaging out to getting three days of battery life out of the Gear Fit 2.

Battery life isn"t spectacular, but at least it charges quickly.

That"s not quite as long as other dedicated fitness trackers that push closer to a full week, but then again most of those don"t have a 1.5-inch display or give you notifications and lots of interactive experiences. If you want to take things extremely easy on the Gear Fit 2 (including the "Power saving" mode) you could probably get five days out of the battery, but then again there"s no real reason to hamstring its capabilities just to do so.

The Gear Fit 2 comes with a somewhat-large USB charging dock that you rest the wearable on, aligning it horizontally with magnets to press onto two gold contacts on the back. A recharge takes just 90 minutes, which is yet another reason you shouldn"t be too worried about its battery life. The charging dock is kind of cumbersome, meaning it isn"t totally ideal to carry around if you travel a lot. Even though the charging dock presents the Gear Fit 2 nicely on the table, I"d prefer a smaller charger — and considering you may be using the Fit 2 for sleep tracking you aren"t likely to leave it displayed on the charger all night, either.

Samsung Gear Fit 2 Bottom line

Though in some respects the Gear Fit 2 tries to masquerade as more of a general-purpose smartwatch replacement with its larger screen, it doesn"t quite fit the bill — and that"s right in the name; this is the Gear Fit 2. It can show more information on the larger-than-average screen, pull in notifications from your phone and in some cases let you interact with them, but the display size and shape don"t lend themselves well to these sort of tasks. Further, the baked-in software doesn"t reach beyond fitness applications.

For those who want a wrist-bound wearable focused on looking like a watch and providing you with more information and potential for interaction, the Gear S2 is available amongst a slew of other smartwatch options.

Instead, the Gear Fit 2 should be judged for how it handles all of the fitness and activity tracking functions you expect from a wearable nowadays. It can track every aspect of your movement throughout the day, including regularly checking your heart rate. If you want to go further, the Fit 2 is also equipped with a nice display, standalone GPS and constant heart rate tracking for runs and all sorts of other activities without the assistance of a phone. Together with a little bit of your own input, the Gear Fit 2 can give you a really solid picture of your fitness in S Health, so long as you"re okay with building into that ecosystem.

Should you buy it? Yes

At a retail launch price of $179, the Gear Fit 2 considerably undercuts the top-end Fitbit Surge, and competes strongly with sub-$200 fitness trackers that don"t offer a full screen or possibilities with non-fitness functions. At the same time, the Fit 2 checks all of the boxes when it comes to a fitness tracker. Not only can it track everything you want, it can display a whole lot more than the competition while you"re using it. If you"re willing to give S Health a try, the Gear Fit 2 is a fitness tracker to look at.



 

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