KPH tech blog

Call Quality, and the default Dialler app, isn’t as important as maybe the camera or the media viewing experience, in a smartphone as these days, I often use my phone as a mini, handheld computer rather than as a phone. Looking ahead, however, it could still hamper the overall experience of using the phone if the call…

Another topic of interest, not directly associated with a phone’s internal specifications of hardware, are accessories. This includes chargers and adapters, as well as any peripherals that can be used with the device. It’s the extra cost that you’re often forced to spend when manufacturers miss something out of the product box, like a fast-charger or…

We love using our phones for multimedia. We can’t put them down. We watch videos on YouTube, listen to music or stream it off Spotify, take selfies on Snapchat, and take group photos and share them on Facebook and Instagram. Our phones have to be able to keep up with us and our daily lives,…

Now that I know what I want in a smartphone camera, and some of the technology that makes mobile photography possible, it’s time to browse the market… When studying the current crop of smartphone cameras, the phones that stand out to me, are the Huawei P9/Honor 8, iPhone SE, LG G5, Samsung Galaxy S7, and the Sony Xperia X Compact. Of…

Before I even set about writing this post, I had to do a bit of research into what makes a smartphone camera click. I’m talking about the technology that allows a phone’s camera lens to produce a fine quality image, and also the software and hardware that helped make that happen. I’ve never really understood…

If there’s anything that’s changed the most in my opinion, it’s my knowledge of photography. I’ve always loved taking photos, way back to when I got my first camera some time in the mid-90’s (it was a film camera). It was my love for photography that was probably the reason my parents got me a digital camera for my 15th…

In my previous post, I briefly looked at the benchmark set by the internal specs of my current device while mentioning that I wouldn’t be settling for anything below that benchmark. Although I mentioned battery capacity, something I didn’t talk about was the more important topic of battery life. When I say battery ‘life,’ I mean both how…

I’ve just published Part 3 of this new series, and have just finished a draft of Part 4. But I still feel like I’ve missed out on something. Looking through my past blogs, I realised what this was… In the past, I’ve often been fooled by impressive specs or gone off on a ‘I’m going to…

Following on from my previous post, the devices I’m considering must at least be equal to, if not better than, the benchmark set by my current device, the HTC Desire Eye. That means I’m not considering any devices that fall below that threshold. I realise that’s a big chunk of devices, but if it came…

It was inevitable, really, that a device like the Note 7 would be pulled from the shelves before it ever really launched. At first, reports of some devices catching fire were treated with disdain. Maybe these people were simply victims of ‘faulty units.’ But then Samsung made a huge move, one that shook the smartphone…