The cameras in smartphones have been steadily improving for years, but what makes the 2019 cameras stand out from the rest are the new possibilities to capture the best and most creative photos. Features such as telephoto lenses, video stabilization, no blur pictures, shot magnification, seamless front to rear shooting, wide capture images, and photo editing tools right there on your screen, make these smartphones tops for 2019:
1. iPhone XS
iPhone cameras have always been some of the best on the market. They are leaders in smartphone camera technology and the XS camera is more than a camera. It comes with a 12-megapixel dual-lens that is capable of wide-angle shots. It also has a lens that is an f/1.8 aperture and a second lens that is a telephoto lens that is an f/2.4 aperture. This is an incredible 3 lens stop up from the previous iPhone X which had a 1.4nm lens.
The three lenses grace the latest iPhone which enables the user to take high-resolution photos and edit them with the latest iSO software upgrade. The lens comes with an image stabilization with and video recording speed has been brought up to 4K resolution. The camera is able to record at 60fps with 1080p recording speeds. This model runs perfectly through the iSO operating system upgrade.
2. Sony Xperia
Sony is introducing its first triple camera lens system as well. They have started to use sensors that give maximum resolutions of 12 MP in each one of the three cameras. It has an ultra-wide camera angle for wide lens photos. It has 12 megapixels with 16 mm length. Its normal lens has 12 megapixels with a 26 mm length, a telephoto lens of 12 megapixels and a 52 mm length and finally a front camera that comes with 8 megapixels and SteadShot HDR feature. The cameras on this phone are best in the daylight. There is almost no blur in the pictures because of the sensors which prevent any movements from affecting the quality of the picture. It comes with a double zoom feature which magnifies the shots and the photos taken are done more quickly. The ultra-wide lens is perfect for the wider shots you want when combined with the camera app. It makes it easy to edit and correct for any distortions in the photos.
3. Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus
You will find a better battery to support the best camera to-date for the Samsung Galaxy line. The latest Samsung Galaxy comes with three cameras on the back and two on the front. This allows for the camera to shift from front and rear shooting seamlessly. There is a 12-megapixel rear camera that is capable of shifting between f/1.5 and f/2.4 shots. This makes the difference in the night and day pictures for ultimate light and angle capture. The phone comes with an ultra-wide lens of 16 megapixels. It has a telephoto lens sensor which is perfect for zooming in and out of a shot. The app that works with the camera adds for a greater degree of editing of the photos being taken. The night features are what makes the camera on this phone is amazing. The sensors attached to them are designed to sense the degree of darkness in the photo and adjust to give you a brighter picture. The lens used to accomplish this is an f/1.5 which gives a wider shot to capture more light.
Did you know the first smartphone was created in 1992? The IBM Simon was technically a smartphone but smartphones wouldn’t become commonplace until the release of the first iPhone in 2008. Since then, smartphones have come a long way and almost everyone owns one. Now they feature high quality cameras and an endless number of apps. Smartphone features and specs get better and better each year.
Here’s a list of the best smartphones of 2019:
1. Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus
The Galaxy S10 Plus features a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display. It has a 4100mAh battery which makes it Samsung’s largest yet. It also has 3 separate cameras on the back, a 12MP regular lens, a 12MP optically zoomed telephoto lens and a new 16MP ultra-wide lens. This is a phone that will likely outperform every other phone on the market in 2019.
2. The iPhone XS Max
The newest iPhone features a 6.5-inch OLED screen. For comparison the iPhone XS has a screen that is 5.8 inches. With a 3174mAh battery capacity and well optimized hardware this phone will have a charge all day long. It also has a 12MP dual-lens rear camera. This lower quality than other phones but along with an A12 chipset and smart HDR, this camera is better than ever.
3. Google Pixel 3
The google pixel 3 sports a 5.5 inch screen and an 18:9 aspect ratio. It also has two front facing speakers which makes it great for on the go streaming. It features a 2915mAh battery which is lacking compared to other 2019 phones. The back camera is 12.2MP and includes Google software optimization, making it one of the best phone cameras on the market for 2019.
4. Samsung Galaxy S10e
This phone comes with a 5.8-inch AMOLED screen making it a little smaller than most other phones. It has a 3100mAh capacity which is not the biggest but will last a good amount of time. The Samsung Galaxy S10e comes with two cameras: the standard 12 MP, f/1.5-2.4 Dual Aperture lens found in the phone’s predecessor and the second, a 16MP f/2.2 ultrawide lens that has a 123-degree field of view.
5. OnePlus 7 Pro
The OnePlus 7 Pro features one of the best screens of 2019 at 6.67-inches. It has a 90Hz screen refresh rate. It comes with a 4000mAh battery and a warp Charge 30 adapter that allows this phone to go from 0% to 100% in a little over an hour, which is the main selling point of this phone. These features are great but it does lack a good camera. This phone is perfect for someone who doesn’t take many pictures or doesn’t mind that the pictures aren’t the best quality on the current market.
It has been proven by various studies that vibrating tech, while being therapeutic, can also help in relieving muscle pain. The vibrations increase the flow of blood throughout the body, which can speed up the healing time of any injury and reduce the pain experienced. This technology of vibration exercise and rehabilitation is being used in most physiotherapy centres to help patients suffering from a wide range of conditions. Vibrating tech also results in amazing results for athletes who are looking for a boost in their current training routine.
Vibrating tech definitely needs a professional touch; although some home versions of vibration therapy may seem appealing due to the convenience that it offers, it is wise to get professional help before jumping onto a home system. Without the guidance of a professional who has complete knowledge of the technology, you would not know how much of time you would need to spend on the system to get the results that you are looking for. Spending too much of time on the platform could result in spine and nerve damage. The vibrations are only effective when they are administered for the right period of time. A professional understands the delicate balance involved for proper vibration therapy and will also be able to guide you so that you don’t aggravate your existing conditions or develop new ones.
Vibrating tech, apart from curing muscle pain, also helps to loosen up your muscles and joints thereby reducing tension and inflammation; however, it also increases flexibility and helps break down unwanted scar tissue. Studies have also shown that vibrating tech helps to improve material density in the bones thereby helping to increase bone density and strength.
Vibration tech involves a mechanical, vibrating plate, or platform on which the patient stands which is adjusted to a pre-designed frequency to suit the patient’s individual goals and needs. As the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to your body, forcing your muscles to contract and relax a dozen times each second. This helps relieve any muscle pain that you may be undergoing. The body shifts back and forth with each vibration allowing your muscles to contract and relax with each slight shift. Vibration tech has been shown to significantly help reduce muscle soreness and creatine kinase, a blood marker that indicates muscle damage, while improving range of motion. In a study conducted by researchers to prove that vibrating tech reduced muscle pain, a group of physically active men were made to perform a series of strenuous arm exercises. After which the researchers applied fifteen minutes of vibration therapy to just one arm using a tech from Myovolt, a New Zealand-based wearable technology company. The result showed that applying vibrating tech immediately after exercising helped reduce muscle pain significantly.
In this way, one can see the benefits of using vibrating tech to get relief from muscle pain.
The Apple Watch Series 3 is the third-generation model of the Apple Watch, which was introduced on September 12, 2017, and was released alongside the I-phone 8 on September 22, 2017. The Apple Watch Series 3 is elated in every way possible as it acts as a smart activity coach, an enhanced heart rate app, has your favorite playlist right at your wrist, serves as a built-in altimeter and also provides a more responsive Siri experience. Amazing, isn’t it? Right from Apple’s first watch launch to its current series, Apple has made significant changes in terms of better connection through its features. The Apple Watch Series 3 helps you to be more active, stay motivated and better connected at all times.
The Apple watch series 3 has a built-in GPS and a new altimeter that enables to track all your outdoor workouts. The GPS records the speed, speed and route of your outdoor workouts and the altimeter tracks elevation during your highest climbs. A more detailed statistics of your workout is available on your iPhone for your convenience. It comes with an updated app that includes high-intensity interval training and also enables you to auto-set swimming laps. The high-intensity interval training also helps you track popular indoor and outdoor workouts like running, cycling and swimming. This comes in handy when you are doing back to back workouts; you can easily switch from one activity to another and view the comprehensive summary at the end of your workout. You can also pair your Apple watch to any gym equipment with just a tap. This allows you to keep important metrics like heart rate, speed, and calories in sync thereby ensuring that your workout results are accurate. With the Apple Watch Series 3 you will be able to visualize your progress with your workout. Just like all the other activities that you do throughout the day, your workout also counts towards closing your Move, Exercise and Stand rings. You can view your ring and check out your workout history on your iPhone. Moreover, the Apple watch series 3 is swim proof and tracks both pool and open-water workouts. Sound vibrations eject water from the speaker after you are done swimming. The Apple Watch Series 3 as your iPod: With the Apple Watch Series 3 you can carry more music with you wherever you go. Your favorite Apple Music playlists are automatically synced to your watch, hence enabling you to enjoy your music on the go.
As the Apple watch is always with you it can help you be more aware of your overall health by monitoring your heart rate, helping you to keep tabs on your water intake at specific intervals.
Huawei’s Band 2 is a well-reviewed fitness tracker due to its durability and affordable cost. Some of the most notable features that this fitness band provides are GPS, sleep analysis, VO2 Max, mindfulness features, and waterproofing. In terms of design, the Huawei Band 2 is light and stylish with its simple fitness tracker design and can be easily worn with other stylish watches or even worn separately as a watch. This is best suited for both formal and casual wear, and the simple clasp is durable and stays intact till removed. The material it is made of is durable and does not stain with sweat, and the lightness of the watch contributes to an easy wear feeling.
This fitness band is equipped with a vertical display which contains a simple touch button at one end. To navigate through the displays, one has to simply tap on the touch button for toggle. In case, one wants to wear it during swimming, a double tap with the knuckles ensures that the tracker suits up for the swim mode and records the relevant data, and in case of monitoring the start and end of a routine simple taps restores it back to the main menu. The phone connectivity for this band is easy to pair via Bluetooth, and the smartphone app is easy to access as well as store and analyze the data. The display is clearly visible in bright light as the resolution and brightness of the display adapt according to the surrounding light. Further, the band survives close to a week on a single charge and the transfer of data between the band and the smartphone is instant.
The Huawei Band 2 has features which can detect the calculation of steps between running, walking, and steps climbing. The features on this band also include VO2 max and running plans which route the running miles through the embedded GPS. The band is also equipped with calorie counter and burner indications that help tracks fitness effectively, and the smartphone app generates the stats based on these inputs.
The greatest advantage of this fitness band is that the use of TruSleep technology helps monitor sleep patterns beyond the regular sleep and wake times. It helps to monitor deep, light, and REM sleep cycle and converts this into user comprehendible points that aids to understand the appropriate sleep cycle.
The app for this band is available on both Android and Apple play stores and the navigation through the app is simple and user friendly. One can easily pair their band and get onto a working routine without much difficulty.
The Huawei Band 2 is one of the best fitness bands one would use. The Huawei Band 2 will help enhance a user’s experience when they workout.
For a person who is totally in love with their java hit, it is usually difficult to find the perfect cup of coffee while traveling. And that is where portable coffee makers come in handy, as you can make a cup of coffee just like you like it even when you are on the go. Choosing the right coffee maker might prove to be a difficult task, as there are so many options to choose from. Before you pick a portable coffee maker that will suit your needs the best, you need to think of what you are looking for in your coffee maker like for instance what type of coffee you prefer, how much space you have in your luggage and would you like a power or powerless one.
Let’s take a look at some of the best portable coffee makers available in the market:
: The Aeropress coffee maker has become one of the most popular brewing tools. The greatest advantage of Aeropress coffee maker is that it is suited for both home use and travel. It is a very versatile coffee maker and hardly takes a minute for the coffee to brew. The Aeropress is especially suited for making a strong espresso-like brew. It also scores high in portability and is lightweight and easy to clean. It makes a perfect traveling companion.
: The Nomad has an eye-catching design and is one of the best portable coffee makers. You don’t need electricity to operate the Nomad, and yet it produces pressure levels of 8 to 10 bars, the same as any full-size espresso machine. The Nomad has a built-in ‘True Crema Value,’ which enables the device to produce an excellent cup of espresso without tamping. On the downside, this makes it much difficult to clean and is also quite an expensive machine.
: This coffee maker is great for people who make a single cup of coffee. It is one of the best portable coffee makers and is highly affordable as well. But it is designed to be used with the K-cup single-serve coffee packs and hence gets messy when you use ground beans.
: This is a hybrid coffee maker as it has been designed for use with either loose espresso grounds or pre-made ESE espresso packs. Although it looks extremely stylish, when compared to other coffee makers, the Handpresso is quite difficult to use.
: This is a portable French Press. It can be used for preparing coffee as well as storing it. This coffee press is a neat option for coffee lovers. The only downside to it is that it is unavoidable to keep grounds from getting into your coffee.
For all the fitness enthusiasts out there, you have a companion for all your workout sessions. Fitbit has stepped out from its usual fitness bands segment and launched its new wireless earbuds, Flyer. This product is priced at about $130 and is a sporty model designed to provide excellent audio and be sweat-proof during workout regimes. They provide a real competition to other competitors in this segment, including popular brands, by providing a quality product at a reasonable price. These ear-buds are available in two distinct colors, nightfall blue and lunar gray. Both these ear-buds have attractive metallic accents connected to an elegantly designed control box which appears in gunmetal and rose gold options for the nightfall blue and lunar grey models respectively.
Unlike the usual undersigned cables in most models, the cable acting as a connector between both the earpieces are flat and sleek in design and is equipped with a cable lock clip that is adjustable. This adjustable feature ensures that the wire does not flap around and reduces slack during rigorous activity.
In most of the wireless ear-buds that are available in the market today, the power button and the pairing button are usually integrated into a single button and placed on the remote that is attached to the cables. Fitbit has taken their design to a unique level by placing the control box near the ear-piece. This control box consists of three buttons, where one is set to adjust the volume, function button is to scroll through the playlist, and one for answering calls. The power/pairing button is built on the surface of the right earpiece.
Fitbit’s Flyer wireless ear-buds’ box contains a micro USB charging cable, easy to replace ear tips in various sizes, customizable wings and fins, and a protective pouch for carrying around your ear-buds without damaging them. The fins attached on the ear-buds by default are shaped to sit snugly in the ear’s ridge. The replaceable fins are designed for tighter fit based on different ear ridge sizes. The most notable feature of these fins, which are usually a little troublesome in some other models in terms of comfort or fit, is better designed on the Fitbit model to ensure there is no pressure on the ears or slippage during a longer duration use.
Although this is Fitbit’s first venture into the sound arena, the Flyer wireless ear-buds provide a remarkable experience for the listener. It is programmed with two sound options, power boost, and signature. The former one is best suited for those who enjoy good bass effectuated workouts, and the latter is designed for a more ambient listening.
Fitbit’s Flyer wireless ear-buds are an all-round winner in the workout-headphones category in terms of both design and specs.
Fitness trackers have gained popularity as the best tool to monitor one’s health regime. The use of these trackers enables data to be converted into understandable statistics to view on the smartphone or computers can help understand one’s physical activity, heart rate, and the effect of any fitness regime that one is following. It is best for fitness enthusiasts. It also helps to keep an individual’s physical body in shape and more importantly fit.
The heart rate monitor sensors integrated into these fitness trackers help determine the best regime for a workout session and plan the remaining physical activity through the course of a day. These sensors detect the heart rate through the pulse points in one’s wrist, hand or chest. While the maximum heart rate depicts the maximum pulse rate recorded during extreme exercise or physical activity, exercise, heart rate evaluates the general pulse rate when the individual is doing a certain specific exercise for a set period of time. Resting heart rate is the general heart rate of the individual’s body when they carrying on their normal chores before or after exercises. The difference between the maximum exercise heart rate against the resting heart rate evaluates one’s fitness level and determining the average heart rate and steadily monitoring this during your workout regime ensures an optimum result that is achieved.
Apart from being a heart rate monitor, some of the other reasons why fitness trackers enable a better lifestyle is:
Most people tend to pick up a regime and drop as quickly because they assume they do not visibly see any benefits. The use of a fitness tracker, be it to count the steps taken on an average day or to keep a tab on the calories burnt, helps to keep one motivated to keep progressing without dropping a regime. The chore of workouts becomes a fun-filled activity because the user can compare their stats over days, weeks and see the different signs of progress. Moreover, the app used to pair these fitness trackers to one’s phone also has the function of connecting with friends or even strangers who follow fitness regimes and therefore boosts one’s morale to perform better and stay physically fit.
While social media connection is an advantage, one has to remember that the ultimate goal is to compete with oneself. The trackers help to monitor your average level and using any one of the preprogrammed modes or your own workout regime. An individual can focus on staying healthy by minimizing their resting hours and allow oneself to push themselves only within safe limits. These trackers also have calorie counters, to help watch what you eat, a snooze alert to let you know when you have to move if your work is restricted to a computer or sit in a chair without being active for too long.
Gamification, a process of implementing gaming strategies and tactics to boost up productivity through a sense of competition, has become a norm in different forms of business due to its proven success methodology. This strategy is not entirely new because both bank cards and the airline industry has been implementing this process under the banner rewards system for its customers. While most companies have implemented this strategy successfully or in some cases mimicked accomplished corporates to avoid going through a trial process to check its success rate, gamification as a process has quite a lot to offer than just instilling a sense of competition among the employees.
Some of these benefits are:
While these points listed are business oriented, gamification has proved to be successful in the educational sector as well. Through the process of education teachers instrument credit systems to engage the current “tech savvy” generation to be interested in a wide foray of topics beyond the curriculum.
The art of gamification has proved to be an excellent tool in the online marketing of a product or a service.
