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Weekly Events for March 4th - March 11th

Here are some events G&G Members will be involved in during the week. Or just events that I think are really cool and you should definitely go to. If you’re interested in joining these events show up or send a message to Aegir Hlerson or Lirilith Maellan. Or join our discord: https://discord.gg/dCRSWTx Monday - Silvergrace Music Club Karaoke Night @ 8:00pm EST - Goblet W3, P15 Tuesday- Happy Gyuki Healing Clinic @ 8:00pm - 11:00pm EST - Shirogane W10, P25 Wednesday- Bountiful Chest Tavern @ 9:00pm - 11:00pm EST - Goblet W6, P5 Thursday-  Amidst Bending Boughs Pt 3 @ 7:00pm EST - South Shroud Friday - Final Purge Interlude: Back-rank Weakness @ 10:00pm EST - Castrum Aquilonis (Ul’dah) Saturday - Sins of the Mother: Ch 3, Pt 4 @ 3pm EST - TBA Saturday - Little Ladies Promenade @ 8:00pm EST - The Steps of Nald, Ul’dah Sunday - Lifestream Eternal Part 3 @ 3:00pm EST - Haukke Manor (Exterior), Central Shroud Sunday - The Final Purge: Part 4 @ 8:00pm EST - Castrum Aquilonis

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Monday - Silvergrace Music Club Karaoke Night @ 8:00pm EST - Goblet W3, P15 http://for-gold-and-glory.tumblr.com/post/183224482255/whimsicalcuriosity-karaoke-night-hosted-by -Karaoke night hosted by Silvergrace Academy’s Music Club. This is a teen night, so please only bring your teenage characters. Come with song choices for your character! Be as detailed as you’d like with macros, or just emote for fun!As this is a school event, alcoholic beverages will not be served. Status: Open to Teen Characters and their friends!

Tuesday- Happy Gyuki Healing Clinic @ 8:00pm - 11:00pm EST - Shirogane W10, P25 http://for-gold-and-glory.tumblr.com/post/183229188890/fustuarium-balmung-happy-gyuki-healing-clinic -The Happy Gyuki Healing Clinic is a free clinic sponsored by the Garlean embassy, held in the friendly and neutral location of Shirogane. Because the Empire cares about you.Our team of imperially trained medicus offer the latest in cutting edge medical assistance both surgical and aetherial for all of our patience needs. Your privacy and comfort is our greatest concern, though we do ask for some basic information regarding your medical  history and identity, you can be assured that your answers are absolutely confidential. Feel comforted and reassured by our 24-hour staff of armed security guard whose sole purpose is to ensure you safety and please be prepared to relinquish all weapons at the security checkpoint at the entrance. Status: Open RP, please join us! Type: Medical RP GM: Aegir Wednesday- Bountiful Chest Tavern @ 9:00pm - 11:00pm EST - Goblet W6, P5 http://for-gold-and-glory.tumblr.com/post/183222196845/balmung-the-bountiful-chest-tavern-is-open-this Welcome to the Bountiful Chest, the Gold and Glory Adventuring Company’s premier restaurant and lounge! Situated in the Goblet, we are just around the bend from prosperous Ul'dah, and situated to serve not only the most humble of adventurers, but the most illustrious and prosperous of the elite!Originally a hunter’s tavern, the Monetarist brothers Anthony and Maximillian Crawford have transformed this once-humble establishment into a glittering jewel to mirror their beloved Ul'dah.  Status: Open RP, please join us! Type: Tavern GM: Aegir, probably

Thursday-  Amidst Bending Boughs Pt 3 @ 7:00pm EST - South Shroud  - It's finally come... The poachers camp destroyed, and survivors from the attack are missing! The group has found the Blade of Mirrors... But it's the same item the poachers want them to use to end the madness! They have -one- opportunity to either use, or complete their contract... But one of their members may be taking a turn for the worst. Status: Open, Please Join Us! Type: Adventure/Investigation GM: Aedwen Tyrer

Friday - Final Purge Interlude: Back-rank Weakness @ 10:00pm EST - Castrum Aquilonis (Ul’dah) - Revealing the identity of Aurelius oen Albius’ father could have dire consequences for more than just the legionarius. The imperials must infiltrate a high society party in Ul’dah to gather Aurelius’ father and move him out of harms way. But fitting in with the upper class Ul’dahns is easier said than done, especially when there are Sultan Sworn patrolling the halls. The assassin is blending in perfectly, but then, so is the target. Status: Open to members of Fustarium, spots limited. You may only attend one Interlude a week! Type: Investigation/Drama GM: Aegir Saturday - Sins of the Mother: Ch 3, Pt 4 @ 3pm EST - TBA - One sees only light, the other only darkness. The Adventurers moor on an island surrounded by a strange Meracydian sigils barrier. An entity from the center of the island beckons to them. There’s a song playing softly on the wind and an allure like they’ve likely never encountered before.  Status: Open RP (if you would like to join, let me know, I can work you in) Type: Action/Adventure GM: Aegir Saturday - Little Ladies Promenade @ 8:00pm EST - The Steps of Nald, Ul’dah http://for-gold-and-glory.tumblr.com/post/183060307940/balmung-little-ladies-promenade-march-9th-800pm Little Ladies and their Seneschals are invited to debut in the Promenade! The event will begin with parade marching the couples across the streets of Ul’dah to the main stage, where those participating will flourish their gowns and make their presence known as they dance an elegant waltz. Afterwards, everyone will be entertained by a procession of famous and upcoming idol groups who have gathered in Ul’dah specially for this wonderful celebration. Are you a Seneschal without a Little Lady? Or a Little Lady without a Seneschal? Don’t worry, your elbow won’t get lonely, our matching system will find someone to hook your arm around. Note: The Event will gather at 8:00 and the parade will begin at 8:30pm EST. If you need to be matched with a Little Lady/Seneschal please arrive at 8:00! Status: Open, come join us!  Type: Festival/Performance GM: Aegir + Wendy

Sunday - Lifestream Eternal Part 3 @ 3:00pm EST - Haukke Manor (Exterior), Central Shroud - The intrepid adventurers made a bold gamble as Anna led them to the large hall where her family stood - to Anna's 'mother' the party offered gifts and everyone accepted her hospitality.  Well, almost everyone, as someone accepted it a little later than most.  Crossing the threshold of the estate, it's time to see what their patron's gifts mean... and what they're going to do about the unfortunate turn of events that strikes. Note: [This RP is horror themed, and comes with warnings for horror, potentially graphic injuries and descriptions, and an aim at psychological unwellness.  Please reach out to Lucien if you have any questions!] Status: Open, please join us. Questions? Send them to Lucien Type: Horror GM: Lucien Korbinius Sunday - The Final Purge: Part 4 @ 8:00pm EST - Castrum Aquilonis - The wall is down and through it the leader of the White emerges. The two factions line up at the end of each battlefield like chess pieces on a board. The opening moves have been made. It’s time to move on to the end game.  Status: Open to members of the Fustarium Type: Action GM: Aegir + ???

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Newly upgraded P25 V2.0, using the latest CREE LED XHP70.3, new appearance, and UI design, adding a variety of practical functions such as moonlight, and SOS mode, making it the most practical lighting tool for your work, life, and outdoor activities.

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Science fiction history【Research】Cyberpunk

Part.2

From the earliest myth to the classical literature, to the Enlightenment, the rationalism extended from the industrial revolution turned the magical imagination into a scientific fantasy.

History of science fiction fiction 

From the earliest enlightenment movement, human beings entered the industrial age, and the literary works at the beginning of the industrial era were imagined with some content that humans could imagine at the time of social science and technology. Such as the earliest seabed 20,000 miles, Frankenstein and so on.

It was the information age when human beings gradually entered the middle and late stages of the technological era, since the late 1980s. Since humans have the Internet, to which the core conflicts of Cyberpunk are related.

Cyberpunk: Cyberpunk runs counter to the mainstream.

William Gibson: Neuromancer: Capitalist Centralized GovernmentCapitalism develops to a certain stage. No labour is required while the brain is the only power. Human in the virtual world virtual world and cyberspace importance of cyberspace in the later stages of industrial development.

Visual expression:

Ghost in the Shell: The interface between people and machines usually refers to the UI

Screen mouse keyboard

Avalon P1-4 Oshii Mamoru

Expression in Cyber Spence  P5

Vacuum tube punk retro sense.

How to enter the cyberspace  pic6-9

The tube appears after the transistor. It displays the numbers and letters.

Orange and green  Main tone

CRT monitors can't display the first order at first, only can display the colour of green, The Thirteenth Floor: Pic10-13 the Mid-1990s

Discharge biological sense: Pic14.15. The signal is transmitted by an electrical signal Windows System Impact Specific visual elements represent a cultural theme. RH7

Green was the representative of the Internet's electronic information at that time, and it was the defining trait of these things at that time. P16.17

The process of TRON enters Cyberspace  Pic 18-21

Take a person as a data centre and enter the virtual network space. Computers can't fully simulate the world, only can generalize it. So the designer designed an easy way to understand.

The film uses a lot of blue and orange light strips, the previous 80s The design language tone was set in the early 1980s, all special effects are film shooting, So all are LED clothes, orange and blue are complementary colours. At the same time related to video games. Pac-Man Pic 22

The Matrix: Pectoral interface P23

Petri dish for matrix P24.

Since then, chest intubation and helmets have changed into an expression of entering the virtual world. （Brain after intubation）

The triple world of the Matrix: The innermost: Green is to express, human and machine fight the world: blue uses light to distinguish different story names. Use light to distinguish different story meanings.

Ito: P Empire: The way paper is punched. Background: During the Victorian period, there are many elements of computer hacking. P25

AR. Often appeared in CyberRuk, Lucas created a very dreamy visual experience Star War Ironman Awtor Pic 26-29

Holographic Projection Helmet pole shadow: such as missile locking... Pic 30

Conceptual design thinking, energy, loss situation, revenue and expenditure, time, horizontal stripes Projection Mirror & Retina - Resolution Ghost in the shell Public security personnel nine lessons: sound wave/scale information Ergonomics and anti-ergonomics Pic 31

The way people compromise with machines.

The development of science and technology and old ethics

Artificial intelligence (AI) robot genetic modification → artificial fire limb

How to express these ideas in visual language

Artificial intelligence has not yet reached the stage of self-awareness. Unable to pass the Turing test. (I, ROBERT 2004)

Can do some work to improve efficiency, CG: neural network There are many relationships between people and artificial intelligence in cyberpunk's work. The most straightforward expansion in the movie is through a form based on artificial intelligence - the robot: Pic 32

According to the proportion of the human body, the proportion of the body is hollowed out, and the steel is strong enough to support the huge body. There is no need to add organs. Colour relationship: the usage of LED light projection screen, visual camouflage & optical camouflage Tachikoma: Can be operated manually / can work artificial intelligence Pic33 (thinking chariots)

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Berlin—February 1st, 2017. I am rushing through the neighborhood of Mitte, slaloming my way through icy mud piles along the streets. Google tells me the sun is setting today at 16:53. I have two more hours of daylight. Just about enough to get a few shots of Errolson Hugh, the Canadian designer behind the Berlin-based performance wear brand Acronym.

We get together at his studio in the Mitte neighborhood in former East Berlin, which is now a popular bourgeois-bohemian neighborhood. In his loft-like studio, I almost crash into one of the stacks of the hundreds of shoe boxes that dot the floor plan like Greek temple columns. “Sorry about the mess,” Errolson says in a calm voice, “all these shoes go online for sale tonight.” Inside the boxes is the Acronym Nike Air Force 1 Downtown sneaker, the latest edition of their ongoing collaboration. Like almost everything Acronym puts onto the market, it is in high demand and soon to be #VeryRare. I find out later that night that all 600 sneakers sold in less than 12 minutes online.

I look past the shoe boxes through the massive floor-to-ceiling windows. The sky is grey and darkening at the horizon. We dash out in the backyard to catch the last rays of gloomy light. Errolson grabs a couple of black jackets, among them the J1A-GT, a revamped version of Acronym’s first collection from 2002. “It’s damn cold,” I gasp, and Errolson smiles, replying, “Oh, this is nothing compared to where I come from.”

Born in Canada, Errolson grew up facing another echelon of cold winters. To keep ourselves warm, I ask him if he can show me a few martial arts moves, knowing that he has been a karate pro since he was a kid. He shortly considers, looks around the neighborhood, then says, “Yeah, why not.” Errolson tells me that he and his younger brother both started training together, when they were 10 and eight years old, respectively. The uniform, the karate gi, is a very traditional example of Japanese pattern-making, and its geometry is such that there are no restrictions to physical motion. That was the first time Errolson realized a piece of clothing could limit or enable the way the body works. “I was always driving my mom crazy trying to find pants that I could wear and kick in. Any kind of pants. I’d always be in the department stores in the changing rooms, throwing sidekicks,” he says.

Errolson is dressed in his own collection, wearing black P25-CH pants, exactly those ones he dreamt of as a kid—pants you can move in freely, stay outside in, and practice karate. I ask him what he learned from karate apart from how to do a badass axe kick. “Martial arts fosters self-reliance, and you learn to trust your own judgment. You realize, in a very real, physical way, that you can do more than you think you can. The whole mind over matter thing, mastering situations, all of that has real world application, particularly if you’re an entrepreneur or you’re in a super competitive industry, like fashion.“

Only much later would the designer apply the merits of karate to his work process, design, and brand. Errolson’s parents, Chinese-Jamaicans, moved from the tropical Caribbean to the woodlands of Alberta to study architecture. After graduating, they worked together all over Canada, moving around to wherever the jobs would take them. “For me, Canada was the feeling of alienation and total isolation,“ Errolson says about his up-bringing, “Growing up there was myself, my brother, maybe one other Asian kid at school, one black kid. People wanted to grow up and be hockey players or work in the oil industry, that’s kind of all there was, so being a designer was about as realistic as becoming an astronaut.”

Nobody knew anything about fashion. Errolson remembers one shop, which had a copy of The Face and i-D, that was like a message from outer space. “I think it was my guitar teacher who first gave me an issue of The Face,” Errolson remembers, “That blew me away. Then my dad gave me a copy of Interview magazine at Christmas in 1985. Madonna was on the cover, along with handmade pencil drawings. It was this giant newsprint magazine. I still remember spending the entire day reading. I knew every single page of that magazine by like a week later.” With no internet, those rare magazines were the only channel to see what was going on outside of Alberta.

In 1989, Errolson enrolled at Ryerson Polytechnic University. He graduated, but it was a bumpy road. “They tried to kick me out, twice. I was a horrible student—very disruptive and not respectful,“ he confesses. I ask him if it had to do with his karate mentality, the idea of being self-reliant and one’s own boss. “Yeah, there had always been that outsider perspective,” he answers. “It is still that way with my brand.”

In 1999, Errolson registered the brand Acronym with his partner and former girlfriend Michaela Sachenbacher. From the start it focused on experimenting at the edges of what apparel can be. “Acronym is conceptual,” the designer says, “You take something and make it compact and useable. You express something very complex in a compact way, which is similar to everything we’re trying to do with apparel.”

Michaela and Errolson are both trained as designers. She now runs all of the legal, production, and finances of the company from Brooklyn, while Errolson does all of the Acronym studio work, collaborations with Nike or Stone Island, rotating between Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo. They both design Acronym together. “I’m the visible part, but Michaela is equally strong as far as aesthetics, and Acronym definitely wouldn’t look the same if she wasn’t co-owner,” Errolson says, “She is the person I’ve probably learned more from than anyone else in my life. I’ve known her since we were 18.”

Before establishing Acronym as a fashion brand, Michaela and Errolson had a creative agency in Munich. They were designing and art directing mostly active sportswear, for mountain bike or snowboard brands like Burton. Both picked up on the technology that was there and through friends came across military and industrial apparel, which at some point led to the question, “Why can’t we have all of this for everyday use?” The couple realized that what they were looking for in clothes was not yet on the market. “People were like, ‘Oh that sounds terrible, it’s so difficult, it’s expensive, why would you want to do that?’ So we started Acronym almost out of frustration. We said, ‘Alright, if you don’t want to do it, we’ll do it.’ At first, people didn’t care. It was like five to six years before anybody was interested.”

Errolson is well-connected in the fashion world, having lived in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York, but for years the brand remained something like an outsider, a well-hidden secret. Another reason Acronym stayed detached from the fashion system is the way the company and the studio work. “We operate in parallel with it, and sometimes we intersect with it,” the designer says about the industry at large, “but for the most part our process and the way we work has almost nothing to do with the way everyone else works. This is our strength and it’s also obviously our weakness. The strength of it is being so outside of the system you develop your own independent way of doing things, and it really gives you an individual approach and a fingerprint. Then the negative part obviously is to interface with the system at play. You’re not limited by the limitations of the system, but you also don’t get to benefit from the advantages of being in the system.”

From the beginning, Acronym was focused on soft and light shell fabrics like Gore-Tex, a lightweight, waterproof, breathable fabric membrane designed for all-weather use. A lot of what Acronym does is taking an unattractive or not obviously stylish fabric and finding a way to make it look good. It always starts with the function of the apparel. There is a lot of thought that goes into each design and an obsession with details. The architectural influence from his parents comes into play with Errolson’s approach to materials. “The whole form follows function thing, fitness to purpose, all of those broad architectural concepts. My brother and I grew up with those all around us, and so it was very natural for me to apply that to apparel.”

Acronym’s collections never have more than 15 pieces, an indication of the painstaking detail that goes into each design. It took three years to work on the brand’s first collection, named Kit-1. It was released in 2002 in an edition of 120, consisting of a jacket, a bag, and accessories. The industry noticed, liked it, and the Fall/Winter 2003 collection was picked up by concept stores like Colette in Paris.

There is a misconception in the fashion world that Acronym limits its number of pieces on purpose to create artificial scarcity. In fact, there is so little of Acronym because it is so hard to make. It is very difficult to find a factory that can meet the technical criteria to produce it, Errolson explains to me while pouring himself a glass of Coca Cola. “There’s always a very specific reason for the things that we put in, and those things happen to be expensive, and that’s why it’s expensive. We’re not trying to create something purposefully scarce or purposefully luxurious, we’re just trying to make the best possible thing we can. It’s not a marketing strategy.”

Until 2009, Errolson and Michaela were the company’s only employees. They got so used to working by themselves and for themselves that when people started knocking at their door, they were surprised. Errolson wondered, “Wow, where did people get our number? Why do you call us?“ Even today, it is still kind of like that. There is no PR, no marketing, hardly any events. It was not simple to reach Errolson as he travels and focuses more on work than doing publicity. Yet the team has grown slowly over the years. “I basically hired all of my friends. We joked that all of the lost children of Berlin end up in our office. In other cities, people talk about being cool, because it’s actually a bankable commodity. The way they describe it, that kind of cool actually exists in Berlin as a real thing. People are legitimately cool here, and it’s not about knowing it. I think that also comes because it’s the least materialistic city I have ever lived in. People just aren’t about money. They just don’t care. I think that’s super healthy.”

Only in the past few years has the visibility of Acronym increased. One factor being the cultural shift in the industry in favor of their aesthetic and the rise of high fashion performance wear. Acronym pioneered the introduction of technology as its own category of design aesthetic, and their moves have paved the way for many brands’ ready-to-wear collections in recent seasons. Today, technology is one of the industry’s big trends, blending traditional sportswear with high fashion. Dubbed athleisure, active wear, or performance wear, it is casual clothing designed to be worn both for exercising and for day-to-day use in the cityscape. Fitness and athleticism has become one of the defining cultural paradigms of contemporary urban life, similar to the powers of street culture, that has turned the fashion world upside down in the last decade.

When I ask Errolson about his relationship to streetwear, he says it is hard for him to have an objective view on that, because he knows those guys, and through his work with Burton snowboards, way back in the day, met a lot of the people who invented what everybody calls streetwear today. In Tokyo, he met people like Nigo, Jun Takahashi, and Hiroshi Fujiwara. “Everything we take for granted as streetwear today,” the designer says, “started there organically. They’re all friends. They worked together. They invented the idea of collaboration.”

Acronym itself slowly began working with very carefully selected partners. After five to six years, they realized that trying to do it all by themselves was not possible. “You can’t change the industry as a single brand,” Errolson admits. Among the collaborations are well-established sportswear and streetwear brands that were part of Acronym’s growth. When Paul Harvey retired from his job as creative director at Stone Island, the Italian brand approached Errolson to be a part of that team, a partnership that gave birth to Stone Island Shadow Project. “That’s been super amazing because we get to do things ourselves,” Errolson says. “That’s the only collection we’ve ever worked on where you get to design not only the pieces but also the fabric of those pieces in the collection. They’re so up for trying different things, difficult things, and stuff no one else would even attempt. They’re like, ‘Yeah, let’s add these three processes on top of it and see what happens.’ And you just don’t get that anywhere else.“

Since 2013, Acronym has had another mutually successful partnership with Nike. Both brands worked together to create iconic sneakers, among them the Lunar Force 1 and recently the Presto Air, which has helped Nike develop an avant-garde feel and reach out to the premium menswear segment of the sneaker market. Both companies also worked together on another line, relaunching ACG (All Conditions Gear), Nike’s iconic mountaineering-inspired offering. “It’s the first time we’re really able to work at a scale where we can take an idea and put it on the street in a way that’s much more accessible to more people than we would with Acronym,” Errolson reflects. “Working with Nike means that you’re really working with pop culture. It’s not just a product or a collection. It’s so ingrained into so many people’s histories.”

When Errolson says this, we both glance at the hundreds of shoe boxes in the studio, holding the latest much-anticipated collaboration between Acronym and Nike. By the time the interview ends, the sun is down, leaving this part of the studio in the shade. It is hard to imagine that all the sneakers will be gone soon. Other parts of the studio show pieces of older Acronym collections and accessories, most of them designed from black materials. I ask him if that color is a fetish. “According to my dad, I used to wear all black when I was 10, which is kind of strange to me because that’s before Yohji and Comme des Garçons, which I never would have heard about anyways. He thinks it’s from being influenced by Arata Isozaki, who is a Japanese architect, which kind of makes more sense because there were definitely a lot more architecture books around. But with Acronym later, and the size of production that we used to do, black was the only color that all of the suppliers would have on stock, and that you could order and expect to look sort of okay. That’s why everything is black.”

Besides the underlying constants of dark colors, select materials, and a focus on functionality, in recent seasons, Acronym started to concentrate on pattern-making and how the garments move on the body. As with everything, Acronym takes its time. It’s a culture of methodical tactility. When Errolson mentions this shift, I am reminded of his karate gi and how it sensitized his perception of fashion and empowered him to become a better fighter. “That’s why fashion is so powerful,” Errolson says. “It’s that intersection of design, communication, and identity. It’s a large part of who you are, how you define yourself, how you present yourself to the world. So people definitely get attached to that. Plus, it’s just hard to find a pair of pants that fit you perfectly. It’s actually quite difficult.”

Before leaving his studio, I ask Errolson what was the last mind-opening thing he learned from someone. He tells me about his daughter and seeing her grow up: “It’s amazing to see somebody discover everything for the first time and it’s a good reminder that there can be magic in the most banal things.”

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Infinix Zero 5 Pro Review

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Infinix Zero 5 Pro Review

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The Zero 5 Pro is the latest smartphone from Infinix, a Hong-Kong based company. Infinix has been selling smartphones in India for a little while now, and the Zero 5 Pro is its current flagship device. What is interesting about this smartphone is that it offers 6GB of RAM, 128GB of internal storage, and dual rear cameras with optical zoom at Rs 19,999. Those specifications sound impressive for the price, but should you jump at the chance to buy this phone? We review to find out.

Infinix Zero 5 Pro design

The Infinix Zero 5 Pro is a big phone, with a screen measuring 5.98 inches. Infinix has used an LTPS IPS display with a full-HD resolution. It doesn’t have the new 18:9 aspect ratio that is becoming popular, and sticks to the traditional 16:9 format. It has thin borders on the sides but thicker ones on the top and bottom. There’s 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for protection. Above the screen, you get a metal earpiece that sits flush with the glass panel, and a 16-megapixel selfie camera along with its own flash. 

The top of the back has a panel similar to the ones on some Huawei phones such as the Nexus 6P and the Huawei P9. This is where the dual cameras are placed. There’s a 12-megapixel camera module in addition to a 13-megapixel one, plus a single-LED flash. The fingerprint scanner on the Zero 5 Pro is positioned at the back and has a bronze ring highlighting it. The sensor is well positioned, and despite the Zero 5 Pro being a bigger device we had no issues when using it, though your mileage may vary. Though the scanner is quite accurate, we found it to be slow to unlock the phone.

The Zero 5 Pro has a metal unibody with antenna bands running along the top and bottom. The body also has a bronze-coloured chamfered border around the front which shines when light reflects off it. The rounded corners and curved sides at the back help improve grip, but it’s still large and heavy.

The phone weighs 197 grams which is definitely noticeable, but the weight is at least spread out well. Not everyone will find this phone easy to use. It packs in a 4350mAh battery and has a USB Type-C port at the bottom, alongside the 3.5mm headphone jack. Infinix has been thoughtful and thrown in an 18W charger that works quickly, as well as a Micro-USB to Type-C adapter.

Infinix Zero 5 Pro specifications and features

The first thing to grab your attention on the Infinix Zero 5 Pro is the display. The 5.98-inch LTPS panel is vivid and has excellent viewing angles. You get options to tweak the output to suit your liking. It sports a full-HD resolution and can get really bright, making it easy to see under sunlight. While stereo speakers would have done better justice to this screen, the single downward-firing speaker is loud enough when watching videos and playing games.

Powering the phone is a MediaTek Helio P25 processor, with four cores clocked at 1.7GHz and the other four clocked at 2.4GHz. There is 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and if you manage to fill that up, the Zero 5 Pro can also accept microSD cards of up to 128GB. In terms of connectivity, the smartphone has Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi b/g/n, USB-OTG, and a Type-C port. The Zero 5 Pro is a dual SIM device and has two Micro-SIM slots. It has support for 4G and VoLTE but only one SIM can access the 4G network at a time.

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Infinix has the custom XOS Hummingbird UI running on top of Android Nougat. The UI is tweaked to some extent but is functionally similar to stock Android with a few additions such as gesture control. It shouldn’t take long to get used to using this phone. However, the look isn’t as clean as stock Android, and there’s some preinstalled bloatware including TouchPal keyboard, PHX Browser, and a Service app.

There is Dual Apps support through an app called Multi Account. You also have the option to lock an app using the fingerprint scanner. The software has a few nifty additions such as Freezer, which freezes apps that you don’t use frequently to prevent them from consuming resources. Another such addition is Sleep Cleanup which kicks in to free up memory when the phone has been left idle for a while.

Infinix Zero 5 Pro performance, battery life, and cameras

We found the performance of the Zero 5 Pro to be good, and we did not have to deal with any lag or stutter. With 6GB of RAM at its disposal, the phone can multitask easily while holding apps in memory. We played games such as Shadow Fight 3 and Clash Royale which the phone ran without breaking into a sweat. In Antutu, it managed to clock 67,826 points, and also scored 858 and 4083 respectively in Geekbench’s single-core and multi-core tests.

The Helio P25 is powerful enough for day-to-day tasks, and efficient enough to last over a day and a half with light to medium use. The 4350mAh battery managed to last for close to 18 hours in our HD video loop test. The supplied charger is an 18W unit and works quite quickly considering the capacity of this battery.

The dual camera setup on the Infinix Zero 5 Pro comprises of a 12-megapixel sensor with a wide-angle lens, and a 13-megapixel sensor with a telephoto lens. The camera app is easy to use and has most common modes including a professional mode which gives you a wide range of parameters to control. Landscape shots have a decent amount of detail but are slightly grainy, and the camera could do with better light metering. Macros are sharp but the camera occasionally takes a little too long to lock focus. In low light, the camera switches to night mode automatically and delivers usable shots. The Zero 5 Pro manages to keep noise under control but the output is a little too grainy for our liking.

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  Selfies are good and the front flash does come in handy. You can alter the intensity of the flash to get a better shot. Beautification is also available and lets you smoothen the output. The Zero 5 Pro is capable of recording full-HD video with both its front and rear cameras. Beautification mode can also be used when recording a video.

Verdict The Infinix Zero 5 Pro is loaded with features. We liked the display for its vivid output and found the battery life to be more than sufficient. The processor is capable of running day-to-day tasks and is frugal when it comes to power consumption. The dual cameras with a wide angle lens and a telephoto lens give this phone an edge over competitors at this price level. However, the camera software could do with a bit of fine-tuning to improve the final output. For Rs 19,999 the Infinix is a good pick if you can live with its camera performance.

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Gionee A1 Plus: Smartphone offers little to justify Rs 26,999 price tag

social networking Chinese smartphone manufacturer Gionee on July 25 launched the Gionee A1 Plus, the updated version of its Gionee A1 smartphone, in India at Rs 26,999. A large-screen device focused on imaging, battery life and multimedia capabilities, the smartphone offers better specifications, features and design than its predecessor.

 Business Standard used this device to see how it fares on key performance metrics. Here are our observations on the Gionee A1 Plus:

 Design

  The Gionee A1 Plus features a metallic build with round edges and curved sides. It has a 6-inch full-HD 1920 x 1080 in-plane switch (IPS) screen. The screen is protected by a 2.5D curved Gorilla Glass 3. The side bezels are limited Latest Technology News, but the top and bottom ones are huge and unnecessarily increase the smartphone’s dimensions.

 The device sports capacitive navigation keys, along with home button embedded with fingerprint scanner, at the bottom bezels of the front. At its back, the Gionee A1 Plus’ prominent Gionee logo at the centre at first looks like a fingerprint scanner. The dual cameras and dual LED flash are placed at the centre right above the logo. The vertical placement of the dual-camera module is apt for its usage.

 The antenna lines at the back, polished in glittery silver, are very prominent. They do not look odd; instead, they improve the look of rear. The 3.5mm audio jack finds a spot at the top, and the microUSB port, speaker and microphone sit at the bottom of the smartphone. The device is on the bulky side, with an overall thickness of 9.1mm and weight of 226 g.

 The Gionee A1 Plus has a single speaker at the bottom but it turns its earpiece into speaker during horizontal use. The phone gives stereo audio output, and that is a nice addition, even as the overall sound quality is just about okay.

 Hardware and software

 The smartphone is powered by the MediaTek Helio P25 processor, which features octa-core that runs at frequency shooting up to 2.6 GHz. The processor is enough to power the full-HD screen but the smartphone still shows signs of lag, even during regular tasks. The performance remains top-notch in terms of graphic rendering and processor utilisation during heavy tasks and multitasking. The lags and slowdowns that we noticed here and there could be because of software and might go away with future software updates.

 The Gionee A1 Plus comes with a 4 GB RAM and 64 GB internal storage, expandable with microSD to up to 256 GB. The smartphone supports a hybrid card slot that can support either two SIMs, or one SIM and a microSD.  

 The Gionee A1 Plus runs Android Nougat out of the box under the Amigo 4 skin, heavily customised by Gionee to offer optimal performance by adding multiple utility-based features to it. The Amigo skin allows split screen for multi-tasking, AmiClone for dual apps and several other features that improve the device’s functionality, super screen shot for extended screen capturing and reading mode that reduces blue light glare for extended reading time without any strain on eyes.

 Camera

 The Gionee A1 Plus houses dual-camera set-up at the rear. The set-up features a 13-megapixel (MP) sensor with f/2.0 aperture and a 5 MP fixed-focus sensor with f/2.2 aperture. There is a dual-LED flash to assist the camera at the rear during low-light photography. On the front, there is a 20MP fixed focus camera with f/2.0 aperture.

 While the primary 13MP camera at the rear takes regular pictures, the secondary depth-sensing 5MP fixed-focus camera comes handy in blurring the background. The cameras work optimally under bright conditions but fail to impress in low-light scenarios. The focus stutters and the blur just goes haphazard. The camera also takes some time to focus on a subject, so it is not the quickest that we have seen. In day light, the pictures turn out good with enough details and balanced colours.

 The performance of the front camera is almost the same. In day light, the lens takes stellar shots, but it fails to impress in low light. Also, the huge 20MP moniker for front camera does not justify the quality.

 Battery

 The Gionee A1 Plus has a mammoth 4,550 mAh non-removable battery that delivers exceptional usage. The phone stays up for more than a day and a half, even on heavy use. The addition of ultrafast charging technology does reduce the charging time a bit. The phone charges from 0-100 per cent within 3 hours, which is on par with chargers that do not support any quick charge technology.

 Verdict

 Priced at Rs 26,999, the Gionee A1 Plus is on the costlier side, considering that the device fails to show perfection in any department. The camera works fine but fails to compete with its direct competition Micromax Dual 5, which also sports a dual-camera set-up at the rear and is available in the same price segment. In terms of screen size, multimedia capabilities and battery life, the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Max 2 offers better performance than Gionee A1 Plus.

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Flagship Gionee S10 Launched with Four Camera, 6GB of RAM and 64GB Storage

Gionee has finally launched the much awaited Gionee S10 flagship smartphone. It is one of the top-end models from the company this year and comes with four cameras in total, making it unique among the other dual camera flagships in the market. So, the S10 comes with dual cameras on the front as well as at the back to ensure the phone is capable of capturing amazing selfies as well as bokeh photos from both the camera setups.  The Gionee S10 has been priced at CNY 2,599 (roughly Rs. 24,400). It is currently unclear if the storage is expandable and Gionee has not confirmed the Android version on the smartphone.

Gionee S10 Design

There’s no denying that the Gionee S10 takes inspiration from the iPhone 7 Plus. The basic design is very similar to the Apple model, including the horizontal arrangement of the dual camera setup at the back. The phone is made out of metal unibody and the back looks refined thanks to the antenna lines that are hidden along the top and bottom edges. It’s thin at 7.35mm but heavy at 178 grams. There are four color options available for the phone right now — Cherry gold, dark night black, indigo gray blue, primrose green. Even the front is quite iPhone-like. You have dual cameras on top as well as a soft LED flash. Down below the display, you’ve got a fingerprint sensor.

Gionee S10 Specs

Specs have never really been the highlight of Gionee’s top-end smartphones. The company tends to go with mid-range processors with generous RAM and storage. The same strategy has been applied here, as the Gionee S10 comes with a 2.5GHz Helio P25 octa-core chipset inside with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. Now, note that the P25 isn’t really a flagship chip and we have seen many mid-rangers from local Chinese companies like Elephone (Elephone P28) and Doogee (Doogee Mix) feature this chipset. It’s pretty good for a mid-ranger but how good will it be handling the requirements of a flagship phone like S10 is something we’ll have to wait and see.

The Gionee S10 comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p IPS LCD display. Also, there’s a pretty decent 3450mAh capacity battery inside, which should be good enough for a day with P25 powering the phone.

As for the software, the phone comes with AMIGO 4.0 with Android 7. AI is integrated into the software, but we aren’t sure how exactly it would help users in day to day life.

Gionee S10 Cameras

The camera is definitely the highlight of the Gionee S10. The company has included four cameras in total, two at the back and two up front. The rear setup consists of a 16MP primary sensor + an 8MP secondary sensor. Other features include 6P lens and f/1.8 aperture. The company notes that it has worked on the sensor to improve low-light photography significantly. So, you can expect less noise in the night time pictures.

Up front, the phone comes with a 20MP + 8MP setup. There’s a selfie flash beside the front camera setup as well.

Now, expect to capture some great bokeh images with the cameras on the Gionee S10. The company wants you to take SLR level depth of field pictures with its camera, but we’ll have to play with it first to see how good the cameras are.

Gionee S10 Price & Availability

The Gionee S10 is not a cheap flagship, as you will have to shell out as much as 2599 Yuan for the 6GB +64GB model. That comes to nearly $380. That’s the territory of a number of super flagships including the Xiaomi Mi 6.

Note that there are two more variants of the device announced, the Gionee S10B and the Gionee S10C. To be honest, they are not the best names for variants of a flagship model, but they are supposed to provide additional options to customers at different price points. Their specs and details are given below:

Gionee S10B

5.5-inch 1080p IPS LCD

Helio P10 MT6755

4GB + 64GB

REAR CAM: 13MP + 5MP

FRONT CAM: 16MP

3700mAh

Android 7

2199 Yuan ($320)

Gionee S10C

5.2-inch 720p

Snapdragon 427

4GB + 32GB

REAR CAM: 13MP

FRONT CAM: 16MP

3100mAh

Android 7

1599 Yuan ($233)

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Gionee A1 Plus vs HTC U Play: two sub-$500 smartphones that you can lay your hands on

On one corner, we have Gionee A1 Plus which is about its immense 6-inch screen and on the other – there's HTC U Play which is about being playful.A1 Plus had quite recently hit the market, and there's been a great deal of positive reaction up until this point. Give us a chance to start by investigating its specs according to underneath:

6-inch Full HD IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 1080 x 1920 pixels or ~367 ppi pixel thickness

Metal body

Unique mark sensor

Mediatek MT6757T Helio P25 chipset, Octa-center (4x2.5 GHz Cortex-A53 and 4x1.4 GHz Cortex-A53) processor, Mali-T880MP2 design and 4GB RAM

Double 13MP + 5MP essential camera with f/2.0 gap, stage location self-adjust and LED streak

20MP auxiliary camera with f/2.0 gap and 1/2.8" sensor estimate

64GB interior stockpiling + microSD extension opening up to most extreme 256GB

Android Nougat 7.0

Non-removable Li-Ion 4550 mAh battery with Fast battery charging

Double sim and 4G LTE

April 2017 discharge date

449 Euro or ~$484 USD sticker price

As a matter of first importance, you ought to observe that the A1 Plus is without a doubt colossal. With its scary 6-inch Full HD IPS screen, you need to test it out first and see whether you are available. There's no point getting a phablet this enormous, yet experiencing difficulty taking care of it. Two-gave operation is unmistakable unless you have truly enormous hands.

The A1 Plus is wrapped up in an excellent metal body that likewise accompanies a unique finger impression sensor. This is by all accounts the standard nowadays.

In the engine of the A1 Plus is the top of the line Helio P25 chipset matched with a quick octa-center processor, incredible representation and 4GB RAM. This combo ought to end up being sufficiently capable to run pretty much anything that you toss at it, and still have some extra left in the tank.

The highlight of the show is certainly on its stunning camera setup. The essential camera accompanies a 13MP+5MP double camera setup with all the typical treats that is certain to catch probably the most astonishing photographs around. Not content with that, a 20MP selfie camera is there to give you a chance to shoot a portion of the best selfie shots. With the A1 Plus, you defeat both universes in one gadget.

Proceeding onward to capacity, 64GB of inside capacity is accessible which gives you a chance to store huge amounts of photographs in high-res and introduce bunches of applications and recreations that you like. In the event that you require more space, simply fly in a microSD card which can without much of a stretch lift it by 256GB.

An immense 4550 mAh battery is accessible which can without much of a stretch catalyst the phablet for no less than a day or two in the middle of charging.

To wrap things up, the most recent Android Nougat 7.0 OS is accessible. This implies all its equipment ability is supplemented with the most recent working framework which realizes the most recent elements, capacities and enhancements.With that secured, how about we turn our thoughtfulness regarding U Play. It is the energetic 5.2-inch cell phone that fits flawlessly in your grasp. It reflects U, with a modern new fluid surface. It tunes in to U, adjusting sound to your interesting hearing. It catches the best U with its Ultra Selfie cameras. Also, it even gains from U, turning into a sidekick that develops and becomes more acquainted with you better after some time.

Such strong words turning out from HTC's site, how about we investigate then at its specs according to takes after:

5.2-inch Full HD Super LCD capacitive touchscreen with 1080 x 1920 pixels or ~428 ppi pixel thickness

Metal and Glass body

Gorilla Glass security

Unique finger impression sensor

Mediatek MT6755 Helio P10 chipset, Octa-center (4x2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 and 4x1.1 GHz Cortex-A53) processor, Mali-T860MP2 illustrations and 3GB RAM

16MP essential camera with f/2.0, 28mm, OIS, stage recognition self-adjust and double LED (double tone) streak

16MP optional camera with f/2.0, 27mm and 1 µm pixel measure

32GB inward stockpiling + microSD extension opening up to 256GB greatest

Android Marshmallow 6.0

Non-removable Li-Ion 2500 mAh battery with Fast battery charging

Double sim and 4G LTE

February 2017 discharge date

$499 USD sticker price

On the off chance that you are vigilant for a cell phone that isn't so huge, then maybe a 5.2-inch size may very well fit you. It additionally presents another and wonderfully formed fluid surface that is intended to mirror the best you. Hold it up and you will welcome the cell phone's symmetrical development and the way it changes light as you turn it around. To accomplish this unprecedented look, HTC has built up a completely new process where hues cling to the glass in different layers to reflect light perfectly - including splendor and profundity from each point. At that point the glass is shaped equally around the sides and edges, utilizing outrageous weight and warmth to emulate the characteristic surface strain of fluid; collapsing and bowing the surface to make a flawless mix of metal and glass.

In the engine of the U Play is in the mid-run territory, with the accessible Helio P10 chipset, an octa-center processor, great illustrations and 3GB RAM. This ought to join well to give you a strong execution with no real issues.

Camera-wise, the U Play is furnished with a 16MP-16MP camera mix that gives you extraordinary delight in taking photographs. The cell phone highlights Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) for double the shade time with less obscure. PDAF accelerates self-adjust so you don't miss a minute. There's likewise Auto HDR which makes taking troublesome illuminated shots shockingly simple.

Proceeding onward to the selfie camera, U Play lets you effortlessly switch in the vicinity of 16MP and UltraPixel™. Presently you can pick between the unparalleled 4x light affectability that UltraPixel offers (ideal for candlelit suppers), and the high-determination detail that 16MP gives.

One final thing important is the presentation of HTC Sense Companion. It is your own buddy that will dependably be gaining from you. It can recommend that you dress hotter and leave somewhat prior for work if snow is gauge in your general vicinity. What about a suggestion to bring with you a power bank on the off chance that you are going for longer excursions? Or, then again an eatery to prescribe for the end of the week and make the booking reservation for you?

U Play additionally has an implicit voice acknowledgment. It will have the capacity to perceive your voice and react to it appropriately. Simply say the word to open your telephone, take or reject approaching calls, nap or expel a caution, send messages and even start without hands route. Extremely advantageous, right?When you are spending near $500 USD, you would hope to have a considerable measure of things out of the cell phone. Here you can locate a huge 6-inch Full HD screen with incredible metal body, noteworthy equipment, extraordinary double 13MP+5MP camera, astounding 20MP selfie camera, huge 64GB stockpiling, tremendous 4550 mAh battery and the most recent Android Nougat 7.0 OS to give you a phablet like no other. It is additionally marginally less expensive by $15 USD which makes it much all the more encouraging.

Gionee A1 Plus is relied upon to be accessible soon for around 449 Euro or ~$484 USD. It is said to be accessible in Gray and Mocha Gold shading.

HTC U Play is about needing to give you genuine fun playing with the cell phone. It is likewise one that will become together with you, the additional time you spent on it. With extraordinary look and feel, great equipment and awesome camera; you ought to consider getting it on the off chance that you need something little in size however huge in elements.

HTC U Play is as of now accessible for $499 USD and there are four hues for you to browse - Brilliant Black, Cosmetic Pink, Ice White and Sapphire Blue.