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Memoirs of the Color - Iaiwai MiniPad AW920 Review

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We have seen dozens of 8 inch tablets this year, but the category gets a new spin with the Iaiwai MiniPad AW920. Iaiwai, the Hong Kong based electronic technology company, manages to pack in a slew of ports and slot in a well-designed, compact model. Iaiwai AW920 also happens to be the first 8 inch tablet entering into the market with Android4.1. However, as most of other peer 8 inch tablets have already received a Jellybean update, this cannot be taken as an advantage.
1. Specs and Design
Iaiwai has really taken its time to bring AW920 to the market without hitting it in a rush. And the extra time shows through in the solid build and exquisite design of this tablet. The most stunning part of the design has to be the colorful metal back cover, which helps the device stand out from its competitions.
The MiniPad’s core has a familiar ring to the Chinese tablet fans: a 1.6 GHz dual-core Rockchip RK3066 processor, 1GB of memory, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, an 8-inch XGA display, and a multi-touch touchscreen. Except its popular pop-up video play function, the Jelly Bean operation system is largely unchanged from version4.0.
A few other things caught my eye: AW920 has a 0.3MP front-facing and a 2MP rear-facing camera, stronger than most other 8 inch tablets which only have a front-facing camera.
Also notable is this tablet’s impressive complement of ports and slots. Along the top edge (when holding the tablet in portrait orientation), you have a Micro-HDMI port, charging connector, and micro USB port, headphone jack. On its left edge you will have a TF card slot that supports cards up to 32GB, a very useful feature for a tablet with only 8GB built-in storage. The tablet's stereo speakers are on its back cover, right near those ports and slots.
All of the buttons are located on the right edge, including the power/standby button and two volume buttons. With Jelly Bean, the permanent status bar on the bottom of the screen already has the back button, the home button as well as the menu button, that's why the MiniPad isn’t flooded with physical buttons.
AW920 measures 9.3mm thick, noticeably slimmer than the 9.65mm thick Cube U9GT3 and 9.5mm thick Ployer MOMO8. It weighs 418g, lighter in comparison to most other similar-sized tablets with a metal back cover.
I found the AW920's display to be a pleasure to view looking straight ahead, color saturation and brightness are really quite good. With the definition being XGA on an 8 inch display, the image also looks pretty sharp.
However, the viewing angle is one of the tablet’s greatest weaknesses, looking from the angle below or right, image fainting becomes noticeable. (Vertical rather than portrait orientation)
2. Operating System and Software
Android4.1 looks and feels like ICS. There's not a whole lot that's clearly different on the outside. At the bottom of the screen, you'll find a permanent control bar that includes virtual back and home buttons, as well as an icon that brings up a list of open apps, which can be closed with a swipe to the right.
Meanwhile, tapping the lower right part of the screen (with the clock, Wi-Fi, and battery indicators) brings up the notifications box, which includes quick controls for turning on/off Wi-Fi, quiet, and screen rotation lock, among other features, plus you can access the brightness setting on the fly and tap into the full Settings menu.
The only thing that clearly separates Jelly Bean from ICS is the Pop-up play function, which allows users to watch videos while browsing the web, reading E-books or even playing games.
In addition to the original jellybean UI, Iaiwai has also designed the uniqueYUI cloud desktop, and offers a batch of new functions, such as a digital administration center, which allows your MiniPad to get access to other internet devices, including your PC, a voice control app which eliminates the need of typing under certain circumstances.
What is most amazing is that it is easy to switch from one desktop to the other by just touching the icon on the home screen. For people more accustomed to the sloppiness of the original ICS UI, the customized YUI desktop will also be an ease to learn.
3. Hardware Capability
Like many other 8-inch tablets coming out this year, AW920 is powered by the peppy Rockchip RK3066 Dual core 1.6G processor (GPU: [email protected]) and 1GB DDR3 RAM @1033MHZ. Although it does not blow anybody out of the water, especially as many tablets are coming out with more powerful quad-core processors and 2GB RAM, it still provides plenty of power to run the device smoothly over a wide variety of applications.
According to numerous benchmark tests, the Minipad performed better than almost all android devices with other dual core processor, the monstrous Mali-400 MP4 that also powers the incomparable Samsung Exynos 4410 really assist in crushing the other competitions.
Through my own personal experience with AW920, the power of RK3066 doesn’t only show in benchmark scores, whether playing video games or browsing the internet, AW920 never disappoints. Fluency and touch control acuteness can be fully guaranteed, the G-sensor is very responsive, too.
When it comes to video playback, AW920 is even more powerful, the RK3066 processor easily supports all format of videos to at least 1080P through hardware decoding. Watching online videos through both applications and webpages with the AW920 is also more pleasurable than most other android devices.
4. Internet and Connectivity
With many Chinese tablets falling short on WIFI connectivity, one may easily make the presumption that MiniPad’s connectivity also disappoint. However, this is nowhere near the truth. AW920’s wifi connectivity is as good as that of Samsung Galaxy tab, streets ahead of the peer competitions such as Cube U9GT3 and MOMO8. The metal back cover which is widely criticized for blocking the connections for U9GT3, is no obstacle for MiniPad at all. Even with a wall between the device and the WIFI router, a circumstance where Cube U9GT3's data reception fails, the MiniPad holds its ground, providing smooth online video streaming and web-browsing.
Only a stock Jelly Bean Browser comes preinstalled on AW920, offering the popular up-tabbed browsing and supporting Adobe Flash 11. Dolphin and Chrome can also be installed to your personal preference, well, it’s android, remember!
5. Camera
As is mentioned earlier, AW920 has both a 0.3mp front-facing camera which is designed for online video chatting and a 2mp rear-facing camera which could be used for taking pictures. As expected, neither camera brings any pleasant surprises. Images taken by the rear camera are far from being sharp, the front-facing camera cannot even provide clear facial images during online video chatting.
6. Battery Life
The AW920 features a 4500mAh Li-Polymer battery, the same with Cube U9GT3. Before discussing the MiniPad’s battery life, I have to throw some stones at the low efficiency of its charging. Fortunately, AW920 can be charged while it is shutdown. During its charging, the indicator lamp will light up in red, the light will automatically extinguish when the charging is complete. Unfortunately, charging while shutdown doesn’t mean high efficiency, at least not for AW920, a complete battery charge can take up to 6 hours with a 5V-2Ah charger.
Like its 8 inch peer, the Cube Cherry, AW920’s battery life does not disappoint, it can offer 6 and half hours of 720P video playing with 50% of screen brightness and full volume on a charge. The MiniPad does not have to be charged more than once a day if there isn't any intense use.
7. Specific Applications
Unlike other Chinese tablet makers who don’t have their own applications, Iaiwai has shown much more R&D capability. Aw920 comes preinstalled with several applications specifically designed for Minipads.
Intelligent Home:
The Intelligent Home app, which has already been seen on the 7 inch Iaiwai AW900, aims to create a more comfortable lifestyle. Lighting, air conditioning and other electric appliances can be controlled via the internet with an Iaiwai tablet. And Iaiwai has set up two test rooms in Shenzhen, China to demonstrate the idea of intelligent home. Imagine turning on your air-conditioner 10 minutes before you get home, or showing just taken photos on your television to family, or turning off all the lighting in your house without leaving your bed....You cannot help but fall in love with this concept.
Voice Search
Iaiwai has taken the famous Google Voice search to a whole new level. With the touch of the voice search icon, located at the bottom of the YUI desktop, you can tell the MiniPad the application you wish to launch. This can save you a lot of time if your tablet is overflowed with applications.
Voice search also works in the Iaiwai Minipad Free Market, where users have the choice of tens of thousands of free applications, you tell the market app what you want, and the search results will be shown within one second.
8. Verdict
Like many of its 8 inch rivalries, Iaiwai AW920 is priced at 127 USD, a very modest pricing for a quite well-known brand. The advantages and disadvantages of this product are all quite obvious. Even with such a low price, I still cannot help but worry about the market prospects of this tablet.
We liked:
Well–designed and solidly built model, sanded metal back cover and lively back colors
A slew of useful ports and slots
Front-facing and rear-facing cameras
YUI desktop and specific applications
We disliked:
TFT display with poor viewing angles (mainly below and right angle)
Only 8 GB built-in storage
Low efficiency in charging
Poor image quality of the rear-facing camera

iaiwai aw920
Hello,
I read the review about the iaiwai AW920. I bought one but what I miss is an Windows USB driver for running the App I made.
Do you know how to find this driver on the iaiwai AW 920 ? Other wise I can't use the divice.
Thanks Peter

Disappointment
I bought this tablet in January '13 and for the first month it seemed great except that I could never figure out how to remove the newsfeed and weather box on the homepage that are in Chinese. Then the disappointments set in. The battery wouldn't hold a charge, the system kept locking up. Removing the majority of the apps I'd downloaded made it run a little smoother, but the charging is still an issue. It might have been a good tablet for the price range, but I wish I'd saved a little longer and gotten a Galaxy Tab or a Kindle Fire. Works okay as an E-reader with the BN app and the Kindle app, but not good for much else and the battery life isn't long enough to even be truly effective for that.The best thing about this tablet is the pretty turquoise back.

[Review] THL T6 PRO, MTK6592M Octa-core, 5'' HD IPS Screen, 1GB RAM/8GB ROM

Hello to everyone! I recently received THL T6 Pro smartphone. Seems that some users are interested in its features and more indepth description, so I decided to post a text review here, highlighting all the features, which users asked about in other discussion topics. Mod Edit: Commercial links removed.
So, let's start.
Free shipping was fast and took only 11 days. The packaging was very good and nothing got damaged.
Inside the box one will find: the phone itself, plastic bumper, additional protective film, charger, USB-microUSB cable, headset and starter manual. Now besides this they provide a 8GB SDcard as a gift in the package.
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Highlights:
- OS: Android 4.4.2
- CPU: MTK6592M Cortex A7 Octa-core CPU, 1.4GHz
- GPU: Mali-450 MP4
- RAM: 1GB
- ROM: 8GB (microSD up to 32GB)
- Screen: 5.0" IPS HD 720р, 5 points capacitive multitouch
- Networks: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, WCDMA 900/2100MHz
- GPS + Bluetooth 4.0
- WiFi: 802.11b/g/n
- WiFi Display, Smart Gesture, Multitasking Window
- Rear camera: 8.0MP, AF + flashlight
- Front camera: 2.0MP
- Two SIM card slots
- Battery: 1900 mAh
- Dimensions: 143 x 71 x 9 mm
- Weight: 155 g
The phone has a thin strict body with right angles. There's a metal like edging on both sides with dark plastic inserts inside it.
On the front there are three standard silver touch buttons, a speaker, hidden light and proximity sensors and notification light, which has red color.
The model is called black, and it seems that it is in the dark light, but if you put it under the bright light or sun, you'll see it's body sparkling and actually dark blue.
On the back we have the main camera, flashlight and the speaker at the bottom. The coverage isn't slick and the phone is nice to hold.
On the left side there are the volume buttons, on the right – the power button.
On the upper edge there's a 3.5 mm headphone socket and microUSB port, on the lower edge there's only the mic.
Under the back cover there are two SIM cards and microSD slots, and replaceable battery.
This smartphone has a 5'' IPS HD (1280 x 720) screen with 5 points capacitive multitouch, which work very well and precise.
The colors of the screen are vivid and natural, the white color is real and not blueish or yellowish as in some other devices.
The brightness can be adjusted in a very wide range from really dusk to very bright. You can pick it to your liking or just use the auto-brightness feature. Due to IPS technology the screen is clearly visible both indoor and outdoors, even in bright sunlight. The viewing angles are good.
The phone has a comparatively new MTK6592M Cortex A7 Octa core CPU, 1.4GHz and Mali-450 MP4 GPU. The advantage of this CPU is the new power saving technology: it automatically adjusts the number of working cores according to the process loading, so when the phone is in sleep mode or almost idle only one core is active, and then when needed CPU turns on more cores one by one.
The amount of RAM is 1GB and ROM is 8GB. Internal memory is divided into two parts: system memory partition has 2GB and the user partition has 4.28GB of free space.
The smartphone works smooth and fast, it handles all applications and 3D games without any problems. Here are some general info ant synthetic tests results screenshots:
This phone supports two SIM cards, supported frequencies are GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, WCDMA 900/2100MHz. The signal quality is pretty good, the phone never lost network connection while using it for two weeks now. Both speakers and the mic quality is decent. The back speaker is loud and clear.
WiFi connection is stable, the signal is high in different places of the house.
Bluetooth version is 4.0 and it works fine.
GPS works good. For the first start it took some minutes to find and to connect to several satellites, now the start takes just some seconds. In my location GPS finds 10-11 satellites and maintains the connection with 8-9 outdoors and 4-5 indoors near the window.
This smartphone has such features additional features as WiFi Display, Smart Gesture, Multitasking Window. Due to WiFi Display you can transfer the picture from the phone to supporting devices.
Smart Gesture allows you to light the screen or launch some applications from the locked screen, you just have to tap twice or draw some letter or gesture.
Multitasking Window feature appears like a side menu, which you can move around the screen to the place you like, and allows to launch some applications in the floating window.
You can turn off all these features if you don't need them.
In the stock firmware there are the standard applications, including Google Services, Play Market and Skype installed, as well as several boosting applications as DU Speed Booster, Clean Master. If you don't need any of the third party pre-installed applications you can easily delete any you like from the standard apps management menu.
The phone has a 2MP front camera and 8MP back with autofocus and flashlight. Both cameras are decent for this price. You can make some really good pictures with the main camera if there's enough lighting. This camera also shoots the video up to 1080p, but for now only with 15fps. Maybe it will be fixed in future stock or custom firmwares.
Here are some pictures examples:
Front Camera:
The battery is 1900 mAh. It's average, nowadays many low-end phones have similar or even smaller capacity. Here are results from Atutu Battery Test:
Unfortunately the battery consumption by time graph was removed from the firmware's menu by the manufacturer, but you can use some thirdparty application to see it.
With the average episodic usage the phone lives for about 1 or 2 days on one charge, of course it depends on the ways you use it. If you want to use this phone constantly for a long time you'll need a power bank definitely.
When the phone is idle and in the sleep mode it consumes very little of charge, only several percent a day, which is due to the new power saving CPU.
Summing up, I can say that this new model from THL turned out to be a good one. For now it seems to be the cheapest octacore phone with HD screen.

How is it holding up now that you've had it for a while - particularly call and data quality?

FoneWatcher said:
How is it holding up now that you've had it for a while - particularly call and data quality?
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Hi. Everything runs well and no glithces or breaking occured yet.. Been using it for a month already.

FallenAngela said:
Hi. Everything runs well and no glithces or breaking occured yet.. Been using it for a month already.
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That's good to hear. I'm really on the fence because this would just be purely a backup phone, but one with octa core, but a 120 bucks is still 120 bucks.
I don't see any other device listed under your profile, so have you compared it to other high-end, quad-core phones? I see the benchmarks, but can you really feel and see a difference in speed of apps, etc. or is 8 cores just mostly a marketing gimmick (even if it is a solid phone otherwise?)
TIA

[Review] CUBOT S200, MT6582 Quad-core, 5'' HD IPS Screen, 1GB RAM/8GB ROM, 3300 mAh

The shipping went smooth and my package arrived in an excellent condition. Mod Edit: Commercial links removed.
In the box you will see: the phone itself, clear plastic bumper, additional protective film with a cloth, charger, USB-microUSB cable and starter manual. Here's how it all looks:
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Highlights:
OS: Android 4.4.2
CPU: MTK6582M Quad core CPU, 1.3GHz
GPU: Mali-400
RAM: 1GB
ROM: 8GB (expandable with microSD)
Screen: 5.0" IPS OGS HD 720р, 5 points capacitive multitouch
Networks: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, WCDMA 850/2100MHz
GPS + Bluetooth 4.0
WiFi: 802.11b/g/n
OTG, Hot Knot, Smart Gesture, Air-Shuffle WiFi Display, FOTA
Rear camera: 13.0MP, AF + flashlight
Front camera: 5.0MP
Two SIM card slots
Battery: 3300mAh
Dimensions: 144 x 71.7 x 9.45 mm
Weight: 173 g
The phone has a nice appearance. I would say especially the white version, which I have and which would be to most women and girls liking. The black one will definitely suite men also.
The phone is not so thin as some of the modern models tend to be, but remember we got an increased battery capacity here, which I think is really worth it, and besides the difference isn't that much really.
The body has a metal like edging he buttons on the side are also made to suite it..
On the front we can see three standard silver touch buttons, a speaker, hidden light and proximity sensors.
On the back there's a flashlight, main camera, and a speaker next to it, at the bottom there's the company logo. The back cover really looks nice. It's made of plastic but is shaped like a leather covering with stitching around it, the surface isn't slick ll and the phone is very nice to hold. This type of covering also prevents annoying fingerprints which can be seen on many other models with smooth surfaces.
On the right side there the volume buttons and the power button. The left side is clear.
On the upper edge there's a 3.5 mm headphone socket and microUSB port, on the lower edge there's only the mic.
Under the back cover there are two SIM cards (standard and micro) and microSD slots, and replaceable battery.
This smartphone has a 5'' IPS HD screen, resolution is 1280x720. It also adopts an OGS screen technology, due to which the image on the screen is closer to the surface and looks more real.
Touch panel is capacitive and recognizes 5 points of touching, work very well and precise.
The colors of the screen are saturated and natural.
Brightness can be adjusted in a wide range to your liking from dusk to very bright. There's also the auto-brightness feature available. The screen is clearly visible both indoor and outdoors, even in bright sunlight, due to IPS technology and it's viewing angles are close to maximum of 180°.
The phone has a MTK6582M Quad core CPU, 1.3GHz with Mali-400 GPU. This platform is still frequently used in smartphones as it's power is enough for almost any application or game.
The amount of RAM is 1GB and ROM is 8GB. Internal memory isn't divided into two parts as usual, but has one partition with 5.9 GB space, which is all available for installing applications or saving your own files to it. If you insert a microSD card to extend the phone memory you can also choose it to be the default option for installing applications.
There's only one notice: to see the internal phone memory when connecting to your PC one should choose an “MTP” connection option. If you choose the usual “USB Mass Storage” you'll only see the SD card if you have it installed. But it's not so much of inconvenience I think.
The smartphone's interface works smooth and without any lags, it handles many applications and 3D games with ease. It doesn't overheat under any load.
Here are some general info and synthetic tests results screenshots:
This phone supports two SIM cards in dual stand-by mode, supported frequencies are GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, WCDMA 850/2100MHz. The signal quality is pretty good, it copes with network connection even in distant places. The front and back speakers are both loud and clear.
WiFi connection is stable, the signal is high in different places of the house.
Bluetooth version is 4.0 and it works with low power consumption due to this protocol, so you can use your accessories more often and for a longer period of time for the same amount of charge.
GPS works good in this model. For the first start it did took some minutes to find and to connect to satellites, now the start takes just less than one. In my location GPS finds 10-11 satellites and maintains the connection with 8-9 outdoors and 4-5 indoors near the window even on a cloudy day.
This smartphone has Android 4.4.2 KitKat installed and it supports the FOTA or wireless firmware update. There are already several firmwares release by the manufactures and available for update.
The manufacturer changes the standard Android interface. In this firmware some additions were made and some standard programs changed.
The firmware includes Google services and Play Store by default. There's also the Beauty Center application which allows to change many aspects of the interface appearance.
This smartphone supports Smart Gesture feature, which is very convenient and allows to turn on the phone or launch some applications by using gestures on the touch panel. There's also the Air-Shuffle function due to which you can control some applications by moving your hand over the phone.
There's also the Hot Knot function available in this smartphone. It's a special protocol with application which allows to share your files with other supported devices fast and convenient.
It also features the OTG function which can come in handy and allows to connect external devices to your phone, such as external memory or a gamepad/keyboard, etc.
The phone has a 5MP front camera and 13MP back with autofocus and flashlight, which are interpolated from 2MP and 8MP correspondingly. The flash is really a bright one and allows to make some night photos. Both cameras are decent for this price and you can make some really good pictures with the main camera if there's enough lighting. This camera also shoots video up to 1080p with 30fps.
The battery has an increased capacity of 3300mAh. It's more than average amount installed in similar smartphones nowadays and this is really convenient, when you can use your phone for a longer period of time without charging.
The smartphone is capable of 7 hours of continuous Youtube video playing or of 4.5 hours of 3D gameplay.
Under the average episodic usage the phone lives for about 2-3 days on one charge, of course it depends on the ways you use it it can last really even longer.
When the phone is idle and in the sleep mode it consumes very little of charge, only several percent a day, so in the time of need it can last more than a week if you'll use it for the calls.
So all in all this model from CUBOT appeared to be a good choice. It's not only pleasing to the eyes but also has decent specifications.

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Review Bluetooth Headphones with Bone Conduction and NFC -> Digicare DO

Hi all, I have recently acquired that gadget and this is my experience
I must start this review confessing that I am a quite intensive user of headphones, either it's radio, podcast or music.
For that reason, I found very interesting the opportunity to try this device, not only for being wireless (they use Bluetooth), but also for their bone conduction tecnology (the same used by the famous and expensive Google Glasses). The sound is transmitted through our bones and not through our ears cavity.
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External Appearance
They are made on plastic and the touch is very agreeable. On the right side can find the “Play/pause” button, on the left one, another button for calling (hang up, down and voice assistant). Finally in the rear part the is a microUSB adapter for charging, the On/Off switch and two small buttons for volumen and track change.
Specifications
Bone conduction technology
Bluetooth V3.0+EDR with profiles HFP, HSP, AVRCP, A2DP
NFC Connectivity
Stereo sound, with high sensitivity microphone
High-speed data transfer (24Mbps)
Intelligent power saving system
DigiCare splashproof design, suitable for outdoor sweaty sports
Ergonomic and including and adjustable band for different head sizes
Only 50 grams of weight
Working distance 10 meters
Frequency 20-20Khz
Impedance 32Ω
Receive sensitivity 88dBm
Battery de 260 mAh
My experience
Between the different advantages present on this technology, the first one that could be highlighted is that, since we don't introduce anything into our ears, the potential damages are clearly reduced, so less intrusive than traditional earphones.
In addition, it prevents of having bacteria inside the ears, and, something that surprised me, it doesn't block the sound while talking or listening to music, so if you are on the street, you continue hearing other sounds like traffic.
After using them continuously for more than one week, I can clearly say that the advantages mentioned on the above paragraph has fully convinced me. Specially because I guess my ears are quite special and so, I find uncomfortable almost every earphone... or they fall all the time.
In the past week and something, I have used those Digicare DO walking, running and riding the bike and, they didn't fall down at any moment, and the sound was always good.
The quality of the audio is very good, not only listening to music, but also during calls, even while going on the bike.
The battery duration is most than acceptable, it has last for several hours (like promised) using for music and doing long calls (more than 1 hour).
Another aspect I was a little bit doubtfully was the position of the buttons, BUT at the end the user experience has been great, very easily accesible all of them, the ones next to the ears (play/pause and calls) respond very quick to a simple touch, and the ones in the back are very easily identifiable, even wearing gloves.
Last the Bluetooth works excellently, the pairing was the quickest I've seen in the last gadgets I've tried (other earphones, speakers or between phones,…) and even when we change to another phone, once the Bluetooth enabled it connects really fast. The other good point here is that we can connect 2 phones simultaneously.
Points to improve
For sure not everything is good on this review, so here some aspects that Digicar should improve for future updates or versions.
The NFC is clearly improvable, it worked... but sincerely it wasn't quick, neither simple. I tried with 2 different smartphones (including Galaxy S4) and I only could detect the headphones with one of them.
They come on universal size. I have a small head, so I feel like I have too much "hanging behind" and it is a little bit uncomfortable with the coat or scarfs. It's true that the elastic belt to adjust it works well, and the position for a good audio quality, but still too much plastic hanging... maybe it would be a good idea to have two different sizes.
Voice assistants (Siri, Google Now, Cortana...) work but, sincerely don't help, or at least I couldn't make them understand as well as when you talk directly to the phone. I worked very well to sat "Call number 123456789", it dialed and the conversation quality was very good. But when asking about football results, or something to add to my calendar, it captured other noises in addition to my voice (I guess the micro is really sensible also for that) so Siri didn't finish capturing.
I suppose using it more often, Siri (or the others) will "learn" to understand us, and it will work better, but for the moment it's not so comfortable, I go much faster with the fingers
Conclusions
Some months ago, I was looking for Bluetooth earphones and I finally took the traditional ones (inside the ear), first because I didn't know anything about that bone conduction technology and secondly for the price, the difference was considerable.
After trying those ones... I trully think the price is justified. In fact I haven't used the other ones anymore since I receive the Digicare DO, just a question of comfort.
They are currently in promotion at Geekbuying using the promo code PNALFZGX . That's where I got them

HUAWEI Location Kit, Providing Your Apps with Powerful Locating Capabilities

In the mobile Internet era, locating is now required everywhere for situations such as calling a taxi, ordering takeout, sharing a location, and finding out information about a tourist spot, all of which require precise user locations. HUAWEI Location Kit provides your app with powerful locating capabilities so it can provide your users with more convenient and precise location-based services.
What Is HUAWEI Location Kit?
HUAWEI Location Kit triangulates your app user to a precise location faster and more accurately through GPS, Wi-Fi, and base stations, extending your reach to even more and diverse users from around the world.
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What Are HUAWEI Location Kit's Open Capabilities?
Currently, HUAWEI Location Kit opens three main capabilities to you: fused location, geo-fencing, and activity identification. What are their strengths?
1. Fused location: fast, accurate, and precise
The fused location capability combines super GPS, Wi-Fi, and base stations. It provides a set of simple and easy-to-use APIs for your app to locate your user quickly and precisely. Locating takes less than a second and boasts a success rate of 99%. In addition, the power consumption of your app can be significantly reduced through offline locating.
2. Super GPS for superb accuracy
Fused location uses the industry-leading super GPS technology, which can locate the exact side of the street where the user is located. As skyscrapers become increasingly omnipresent in cities, a superb locating accuracy is a necessity for taxi-hailing apps in order for users not to miss their taxi just because it is on the other side of the street. HUAWEI Location Kit is a good choice to solve this problem due to its superb locating accuracy. If your app is a navigation or taxi-hailing app, Location Kit powered by super GPS can hugely improve user experience. For users wanting to get a taxi or find out how to get from one place to another, an app integrated with Location Kit is perfect for seeing which side of the street they are on and improving its accuracy even further.
3. Geo-fencing for location awareness
The geo-fencing capability enables you to specify a particular area and configure rules for it in your app. When the app user leaves, enters, or stays in this specified area, your app can send notifications to the user to provide a more tailored experience. For example, you can specify a business district in your app and when the user enters the business district, your app can send the user a greeting or information about an in-store promotion. Geo-fencing is also applicable for attendance check-ins that would allow the user to check in and register their attendance when they enter the specified geofence area. In addition, Location Kit supports on-chip geo-fencing, which consumes 35% less power than app processor geo-fencing.
4. Activity identification for detecting the status and changes of the user's activity
Activity identification is particularly useful when integrated into health, fitness, and lifestyle apps. Huawei devices have multiple sensors, such as gyroscopes and acceleration sensors, which can provide low-power signals for your apps to identify user activities, such as when they are standing still, walking, running, cycling, and driving. Your app can adjust the UI based on the user activity status to provide users with tailored and precise services.
Locating Experience Improvement for Global Developers and Users
HUAWEI Location Kit has so far covered transport, food, lifestyle, tourism, and accommodation scenarios, just to name a few. In the future, it will be continuously optimized for multi-scenario and multi-mode locating to provide more precise locating services for developers and users. In addition, apps integrated with Location Kit in HMS Core are continuously increasing. Take OneMap as an example. An authoritative national map app from the Singapore Land Authority, OneMap provides detailed map information for local users. After integrating Location Kit, OneMap can locate its users quickly and precisely with a success rate of 99% and can provide transport information for users based on their location, considerably improving user experience and its popularity among users. Wongnai, a lifestyle app in Thailand, can be used to order takeout and find restaurants, hotels, and tourism attractions, as well as for other lifestyle services. After integrating Location Kit powered by the super GPS technology, Wongnai can precisely locate its users even when they are located near skyscrapers, considerably improving the overall efficiency of the takeout delivery. In addition, Wongnai can easily satisfy user requirements for finding good restaurants nearby or ordering delicious food from restaurants a bit further away. Huawei welcomes you to integrate Location Kit into your app to build a global locating capability so you can provide fast and precise locating experiences and services for your users around the world.
How Can I Integrate Location Kit?
Detailed guides are available on the HUAWEI Developer website. If you have any questions during HMS Core service integration, you can submit a question on the website for our technical personnel to answer.