Recent content by Swapnil Vartak

Well.. The S8 is a better phone... But if have to spend my own money.. Then it would be the One Plus 5... A. Lot more affordable...

Yeah I don't see the point of Digital assistants at the moment. It's weird saying to your phone Hey Siri or OK google in the privacy of your home let alone in a public place. With all the trouble, they actually do precious little. Yeah I know that they can be used to control smart things like...

With all the talk about diagonal lengths and display sizes, I just have a couple of questions.. Haven't we all used, at some point, phones as small as Nokia dumb phones to massive phablets? We've managed to adjust then, why the fuss now?

It's incredible that a 5.8 inch phone is considered too "small" these days...up until a few months ago, people using their tablets for taking pictures were mocked at. In a few months, that may become the norm.. And yeah I do know that without the bezels, this phone is much smaller than the...

For me the price gap is not justified between the two. The only differences are screen size and battery size. Yeah battery is important, but it's only a 500 mah difference which will be somewhat negated by the difference in screen size. As far as the screen size itself is concerned, 5.8 inch is...

If I were to buy one, it would have to be a toss up between the midnight black and the coral blue..

Re: Are you buying the Samsung Galaxy S8? I'm not sure...depends on the price in India. Also, I plan to wait till the iPhone 8 is launched and then decide which one to buy. By that time, hopefully, the price of the S8 would have dropped..

As this is being livestreamed from New York, it will be at a convenient time here in Mumbai (8:30 pm). Apple events, on the other hand,start at 10 :30 pm and run till 12:30 pm, as they are conducted from the West coast...

Well LG beat Samsung on the display ratio front,didn't it. I mean, if Samsung is indeed launching the S8 in the 2:1 ratio or "18:9" and the huge torrent of leaks suggests that it would do so, then we have already seen that ratio in the G6 and it doesn't look bad especially with the software...

I agree...the Note line will have lesser edges than the S line. This should mollify the ones who don't like the pronounced curved display of the S while still keeping those who like the curves interested. I don't understand why edge displays should be deal breakers though I suppose it's just a...

Yeah...but internationally where the phone will be sold unlocked at the full price, the pricing would matter a lot. In India, for example, some models of the iPhone sell for upwards of 1000 USD. If this is in that ball park, most people would rather take the iPhone. Operating systems are not...

You would think that the next major Phone from Samsung after the disaster of Note 7 would warrant every possible care to ensure that it will be a huge hit...That would include the pricing...Samsung has to be careful here...A miscalculation here could mean ceding further ground to Apple, which...

Yeah..and Phone companies bank on such a vicious cycle to sustain and thrive while making us feel like we have achieved a great deal by buying their product while laughing all the way to the bank..

29th of March cannot come soon enough...I hope they price it right though...they have to,considering how much is riding on the success of the S8...

Yeah I get what you are saying...but that new phone feeling lasts for a few weeks at best and I'm not sure if spending $850 or equivalent in other currencies every year or even every other year is justified for that...we are becoming too obsessed with "latest and greatest"...It's just a Phone...