Fujitsu lifebook Review!

I wanted to review the Fujitsu lifebook as soon as we were presented with it, but then I thought it would be only appropriate if I first use it extensively before commenting and rating it! So, after about a fortnight, hold your breath, as I review Fujitsu Lifebook LH530!

(This review will be on 7 aspects - built, configuration, performance, display, sound, connectivity and miscellaneous)

1) Built - the laptop is made fully of plastic, with hardly any metal used. Even after so, the weight of the laptop is much heavier than metal made laptops! At 2.2kgs expect a good exercise for your shoulders and back! Made of plastic means low guard against damage, handle with out most care! Coming to the keyboard, the keys are well spaced and of decent size but it feels like a toy! Blackberry phone has keyboard which feels more sturdy than this keyboard, the keys of which if pressed with too much pressure may pop out, as u feel they are attached by strings underneath! The trackpad is atrociously small! I don't know what were they thinking while sizing the trackpad, if the laptop will be used by kids with tiny hands,fingers and palms! Its annoying to use it, and my fingers still pains because of extensive use to trackpad for just an hour! As of now, laptop doesn't heat up that much, but while gaming it does reach its highest heat! The looks of the laptop is also not that great! Overall built quality is below average!
rating - 4/10.

Configuration - The laptop flaunts intel i3 2.4Gz processor, but doesn't know its outdated now! though if u compare with the dual cores, you can feel good :) 4gb DDR3 ram is a good and commendable upgrade! The college has provided for genuine windows for genuine reasons :P but nevertheless its useful! It has 320GB hard disk, which can cater to your lifelong presentations and word documents :P The laptop has 512mb Radeon HD graphic card, so you can enjoy your fifas and GTAs.. but don't expect it would run your call of duty or assassin creeds (do you get time to play? I don't :( ) Overall the Configuration is not that disappointing, only question is why not i5?
Rating - 6/10

Performance - performance is mainly depended upon the configuration, so Fujitsu lifebook works well! Also maybe because these are young days of my laptop and I would need to maintain a good upbringing of my lappy to ensure good performance even after few months! On full charge, which it takes around 2 hours, laptop runs for around 3 hours! This will be deteriorating for sure! So always carry your charger along! Apart from this, the file transfer speed is fast, the start up takes about a minute, applications open on time and runs smooth, some times it gets confused but it recovers the commands in few seconds. Satisfying performance, if u aint used to something way better!
Rating - 7/10

Display- Display is the best thing of this laptop! It has 14.1inch 1366 * 768 resolution display! It has a superfine HD backlight LED display! the colours are well saturated and bright enough indoors, outdoor it tones down by half, but still not that bad! Though this kind of LED displays have become common, its still good to have a standard good display pleasing your eyes! Also the display can be pushed to 140degrees, giving you great viewing dimensions! but obviously the viewing angles are not that great, so its suggested that always keep the display at a perfect angle in front of you than crooked!

Rating - 7.5/10

Sound - It would be better if I just skip this part. Because even the company has just skipped the speakers part in this laptop! There can not be worse speakers than those tiny holes either side, which struggles to achieve decent volume, clarity or anything resembling quality. I'd advise you to bring your own speakers or headphones if you intend to listen to music, as these speakers are merely functional at best. Or just live believing laptops don't have speakers, and hence your awesome laptop too has none!

Rating = (-2)/10 ( -1 for the guts of Fujitsu for actually providing such beep-beep speakers & -1 for the way it annoys me everytime )

Connectivity - The laptop has Bluetooth, WiFi, 4 USB ports for day-to-day connectivity. Apart from this, it has HDMI out which is a good and logical inclusion! Also has VGA out for projectors and monitors! and it has a card reader, situated next to the headphone jack! It also have a DVD writer for burning DVDs. So basically all basic connectivity is provided, in case if you don't feel like dieing alone with your laptop :P

Rating - 6/10

Miscellaneous -

1) The laptop doesn't have back-lid keyboard! So if you like to be in dim light, make sure you put on night-vision glasses!

2) It says it has spill resistant keyboard, but please never ever try to test it!

3) In case you try out point no2, your laptop has 1 year international warranty! and 2 years from MET :)

4) The laptop bag is cheap ( raste ka maal saste mein! ) Its a shame that we aint given the fashionable leather bags provided to the earlier batch! nevertheless please buy a backpack to cradle your delicate laptop!

5) The windows performance score is average and as below-

- Performance - 6.4

- RAM - 5.9

- Graphics - 4.8 (lowest)

- Gaming graphics - 6.1

- Hard Disk - 5.8

Summary - It is a decent laptop if your computing needs aren't that great!

Good - Display, Battery life, very less noise, Less Heat

Bad - Speakers, plastic body, trackpad.

Overall rating - 5.5/10

In the end I would like to say, ' If a man is not content with what he has, he will not be content with what he wishes to have '. Thank You :)

5 reasons Why Android is better than iOS!

Stating 5 reasons why Android is better than iOS was difficult... Because there are way more than 5 reasons :P But still I tried to come up with basic 5 reasons, which even a layman would understand, which makes Android better than iOS!

5) Removal battery and USB storage - If you have an iphone, you can not remove your battery, nor can you remove an sd card (simply because there is no sd card option/slot in iphone). So it becomes difficult to reboot ur iphone, and also with no SD card option, you have to SYNC with Itunes everytime you want to transfer every single file! Thats 1 of the reason people hate Iphone. Android gives you the easiest way to transfer your files onto ur card or phone, with no troubles what so ever! Also with removable battery, u can always have a battery backup!

4) System wide file management - In Android, the entire user partition can be accessed by file managers. You can view all the files in your phones, along with system to user files, drive wise! You can easily manage your files, cut, copy, paste, new folder, new file, etc. Iphone sadly has nothing like this!

3) Interface - Android has ever increasing number of live wallpapers, widgets, home screens, customizing options.. Notification bar of Android is such a useful thing, even iOS 5 will have it in future. Thus Interface of Android is way better and exciting. for instance, download GO Weather app, n its themes and your phones interface will sync with the weather of ur city automatically, and it will rain in your phone if its raining outside, snow in your phone if it snows, or it will be sunshine in your phone if its outside! :)

2) Connectivity - Android has all the possible connectivity! Obviously it has Bluetooth, but its not so obvious to have Bluetooth for iOS. apart from it, Google account is integrated so you got your GMAILS, GTALK, SKYPE, Yahoo, Wassap, and possibly every messenger. Also you got Opera Mini browser, so your net browsing experience is uncompromising! Also unlike Iphone, android has the universal USB, iOS on the other hand needs peripherals for everything!

No 1 reason) Hardware options ( So many cellphones! ) - This reason is solely enough to state android is better than iOS. Not everybody can afford a smartphone, but everybody deserves a smartphone! Thats what android believes in! thats why android has a wide range of phones, from entry level to Executive! Also, android has phones from variety of companies like Samsung, LG, SONY, HTC, Motorola, etc.. Hence its the user making the END choice for himself. Which company phone he wants, what screen size, if he doesnt want a virtual keyboard he can opt for a qwerty or slide on keyboard as well, or if he wants a multi media android phone with high end camera, or he wants a regular size but still an android, he will have all his demands met, because unlike iPhone, the USER has every increasing choices!

Thus Android, if not better than iOS in terms of OS, but is definitely better in terms of satisfying the user ( which I believe determines which OS is better. Thus Andoird > iOS )

Top/Best apps for Android - 01

I think everyone who was Android are continuously browsing the Android Market and downloading new stuffs every now and then. I also do a comphrehensive search whenever I get time. Hence I thought I shall make it a lil easier for you by sharing atleast 5 apps for you to download this week onto your android device. So lets begin..

1) 3G Watchdog (app) - 1 of the basic needs of an adroid phone is a net connection. I am sure because of the high rates of 3G, many of us are still using GPRS plans on their handsets. Now, if your GPRS plan has limited or fixed usage limit, then how would you check the usage and utilise it maximum! 3G Watchdog does it for you! Install it, and set the usage limit, set the period from 1 day to 1week, 1fortnight, 1 month.. and it begins the countdown by keep a track of your usage. It works also like a WIDGET, so you can get it on your home screen and it will show you the usage and percentage of usage all the time! its really useful.

2) Bathing Cat (app) - In reality I would refrain from owning a pet, but Bathing Cat is not only a pet cat, but its a battery indication app as well! Its a Widget basically, with a cat all the time in a tub! The water level of the tub is the amount of battery left in your phone! The cat is very very cute. At all times she speaks to you via a message, for eg - right now its 2.30am and she is saying, ' Go to sleep I need you tomorrow! ' When the battery is charging the water level increases and that makes her very happy. If your battery is low, she reminds you that you need to take care of her, and when battery goes below 15% she would throw tanturms and even cry, which would really melt you and make you charge your phone! Also you can feed the cat, milk her, change her tub, make her wear some hats n scarfs and all.... basically the cutest battery indicator ever ( wait let me give her some milk, as she says ' you are working at so late, and not concerened abt me! )

3) FireFlies Live Wallpaper ( LIVE Wallpaper ) - Live wallpaper is 1 of the best features of android phones! The 1st impression of your phone is via a cool wallpaper, and if you want your phone to look really really cool then you MUST have the BEST live wallpaper, FireFlies Live Wallpaper developed by DEV. it has a black background and then flies flies all around your screen, but the flies have tail of different colours and they keep changing, making your screen glow! I simply love it, Its amazing! you need to download it to believe it.

4) Advanced Task Killer (app) - I am pretty sure every1 has a task killer to kill i.e close all those apps they started! But I recommend advanced task killer, as its the simplest of them all.I always have it on my homescreen, 1 click shows me all the apps running, and 1 click can kill all the running apps. I can check/uncheck apps I dont want to kill.

5) T20 Cricket Fever (game) - Mindblowing. The best cricket game ever! The graphics are so good, cant believe them. As good as a PC game! Better than any other online cricket games! Seriously get it if you are a true cricket fan like me!

So, get these 5 apps on your device, they all for free, and they are really worth downloading. I hope you are beniffited by this! Thank you for reading, I would continue posting apps to be downloaded every now and then. Enjoy :)