Fire TV Stick: The new and powerful video streamer for HDTVs

The retail giant in internet marketing, Amazon has launched a streaming device, the Fire TV Stick for your HDTV. This media device is a small dongle that sticks to your HDTVs and streams videos and other media files.

You can simply connect the device and browse over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, hundreds of games and millions of songs. The instant streaming ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction) facility of the Fire TV Stick doesn’t let you wait for the videos to buffer. The ASAP facility adapts to your viewing habits and instantly streams videos without wasting time on buffering.

The dual core processor along with a devoted VideoCore4 GPU makes the Fire TV Stick a powerful media streaming device. This Amazon product comes along with dedicated remote and applications for your easy use. To facilitate navigation and searches, the Fire TV Stick comes along with Amazon Fire TV Remote. This remote helps you to navigate, search and play games conveniently. This device is suitable for 1080p HD stunning videos and allows you to listen to crystal clear vibrant surround sound with Dolby Digital Plus.

The Fire TV Stick is an easy to use device which you just need to plug in to your HDTV and wall outlet and get it connected to Wi-Fi. Since the Fire TV Stick is connected to your Amazon account, you can easily access photos, personal videos and slide shows that you have saved in Amazon Cloud Drive.

The Fire TV Stick is compatible only with High-Definition television that has HDMI input. As reviewed by iYogi, this device is also compatible with Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime Instant Video, YouTube and many more. You can easily browse through these sites and enjoy unlimited music. The Fire TV Stick is equipped with 1GB internal memory and 8 GB Flash storage memory.

Now get unlimited access to your favorite videos with the all new and powerful video streamer, the Fire TV Stick.

iYogi Reviews: BlackBerry Passport – Small in Size, Different in shape, But Boasts Intelligent Features

Have you ever thought that you can also hold a square like phone in your hand? With BlackBerry Passport, you can actually dream of owning a square-shaped phone in your hand. The BlackBerry Passport can be considered as a pure productivity machine designed by the business oriented mindsets of the company. It comes packed with a very powerful hardware, a slew of clever features, and the BlackBerry OS 10.3. The latest OS from Blackberry can surely be a chase for iOS and Android.

To find out the details of latest production from BlackBerry in the form of a Passport, check out the review by iYogi:

Design and Specifications

The size of the BlackBerry Passport is very much similar to the shape and size of a US passport, which is 4.5 inch. The squat square shape of this latest invention by BlackBerry is surely going to be the attention seeker for many, especially when you’ll be holding it in your hands. Weighing at 6.9 ounces, the phone gives the feather like solid feel. It is 3.5 inches wide, which is surely wider than other phablets like – 5.7 inch Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the 5.5 inch iPhone 6 Plus.

And, if you are fond of BlackBerry, or you are one of those who find it quite difficult to operate the phone without a physical keyboard, the BlackBerry Passport is the one for you. The QWERTY keyboard incorporated in the Blackberry Passport looks really sharp if we go by its contrast. It holds the capability to give you a premium feel with its sturdy stainless steel frame, which fits very easily into your pockets.

It comes with a gorgeous screen as it has a 1,440x1,440-pixel resolution, with a pixel density of 453 pixels per inch. In simpler words, the latest product line of BlackBerry in the shape of a Passport is highly responsive, texts are crisp and you can get almost everything on the screen without flipping over to a wider landscape. Isn’t that awesome?

Software

The BlackBerry Passport runs BlackBerry OS 10.3, which even lets you run quite a few Android apps too. To get apps on your phone, you will have to refer to the Amazon Appstore, which comes preinstalled. If you are interested in staying with BlackBerry’s ecosystem, you won’t regret it even later. You would never ever give that disappointed look as BlackBerry Email and messaging has always been the BlackBerry’s true asset.

Performance

BlackBerry Passport comes packed with highly powerful hardware – 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 CPU combined with 3GB of RAM. The Passport’s CPU is very much similar to the one incorporated in the powerful Samsung Galaxy S5. As good things come in small packages, similarly, the Passport from BlackBerry might look small, but it boasts highly advanced features including a good storage space of 32GB and supports up to 128GB MicroSD cards. So, you don’t have to think much before bringing all your phones on your pocket size phone.

Camera

The BlackBerry Passport’s camera is the most surprising element of the entire package. It was hard to believe that it came up with a good quality camera that includes smart autofocus feature that lets you chose until you find the best one. You can switch to Time Shift mode, which captures several shots of faces from which you can get the right one clicked.

Conclusion

The BlackBerry Passport is undoubtedly a good phone, which boasts unlimited quality features. It has come up with brilliant features, sturdy finish and ultimate keyboard that do help in making the process of texting a very light thing. 

The BlackBerry Passport priced at $599.0 is currently available on Amazon.com.

Tap and Scroll Bug Issue in Lumia 1520

Nokia Lumia 1520 had been suffering from tap and scroll issue, which was a minor bug that haunted this device few days ago. This phone was announced last year and was given a Lumia Cyan update featuring brand-new Windows8.1. But after that, this high-end device was apparently affected with the scroll and tap issue. The bug randomly occurred when scrolling the display using a swipe, whereas the device registered it as ‘Tap’ (hardware misreading).However, this bug affects only those users who put pressure on the display while operating the device.

It has been recently discovered that it’s a consequence of a hardware design flaw, related to the size of the display. This problem arises when the digitizer behind the display becomes misaligned because of screen flex. This usually happens when the phone is kept with the display down. As a result, the device flexes downwards bringing about the centre contact to miss the connection.

We can now just hope that Nokia will soon accept this fault and bring around a fix for it.