LeTV / LeEco Le 1s First Week Review

With the arrival of the LeTV / LeEco Le 1s sometime in January, the standards for budget smartphones have changed radically.

What we are looking at is quite possibly the best budget smartphone so far to ever be released. What makes the Le 1s so special, such that the phone manufacturers ran out of stock in the first 15 minutes of their first three flash sales on Flipkart?

After spending my first week with the phone, I believe that I may be able to answer that question.

LeEco has held nothing back in the manufacturing of the Le 1s, ranging from a beautiful and sleek full metal unibody to a mirror coated fingerprint sensor with a staggering recognition time of 0.1 seconds, the Le 1s has everything you'd expect from a top-of-the-line flagship smartphone.

Although it may appear that some of the design and software are similar to Apple, who doesn't like Apple's aesthetics, right?

The Le 1s sports a MediaTek Helio X10 chipset, giving the phone an extremely powerful 64 bit octacore processor that can clock upto 2.2 GHz alongside 3 GB of RAM to provide smooth transition between applications and a snappy gamer experience.

The Le 1s has three touch buttons on the bottom metal of the phone, not on the screen.

The camera might be a bit of a let down after all those impressive specs, although it's a 13 MP snapper in the rear, and 5 MP in the front. The main reason for this is the unsatisfactory photos the Le 1s takes in low light due to its tiny flash. Daylight photos are crisp and clear though and the camera's auto focus speed is alright.

As for video recording, the Le 1s can record videos in upto 4K video quality and even record in slow-mo to playback at 4 times or 2 times slower real time speed.

In terms of connectivity, the phone supports all Wi-Fi bands and has a dual sim option with 4G/LTE support on both the sims.

One slot is a micro-sim slot and the other is a nano-sim slot.

The Le 1s offers regular security options plus its super fast Fingerprint sensor, which can also be used to make quick payments with the help of certain apps.

The phone also has an IR Blaster (InfraRed Blaster) located at the top edge of the phone, right next to its headphone jack.

The phone does appear to heat up occasionally, but that''s probably the consequence of the full metal body and the super fast processor that the Le 1s boasts of. Also, the heating doesn't go to uncomfortable levels and will seem fine once you get used to it.

The Le 1s has two speakers on the bottom side of the phone, where the charging port is located, and the audio quality is high and pleasing to the ear. so far, there have been no complaints about the speakers.

The 32 GB storage that the Le 1s offers is sadly not expandable,

but this does not pose much of a problem as most phones of today still offer the standard 16 GB storage, and 32 GB should last you pretty long.

The Le 1s houses a massive 3000 mAh Li-Po battery (for a phone) which powers its 5.5 inch FHD screen (1080x1920) with a Pixel Density of 403 PPI, which displays some pretty impressive colors, even in bright sunlight. 

Li-Po stands for Lithium Polymer, a type of battery not very different from the standard Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) batteries found in most devices. Li-Po batteries can't store as much charge as a Li-ion battery, but their upside is that they don't degrade in performance like Li-ion batteries do. Moreover, 3000 mAh is more than you'll ever need with today's applications, and the phone worked just fine for me two days straight with varied usage.

The Le 1s' charger has the new standard USB Type-C cable on the phone end that, along with its Quick Charger, supports faster charging, and soon enough, phone-to-phone transfer over a wire.

The other end of the cable is a rather unusual, modified USB Type-A port, that works such that you can attach it in to the adapter without worrying about which side is up, just like the Type-C port. This makes charging your phone less of a hassle and shows that LeTV / LeEco really did think of the little things.

Based on my experience, the Le 1s charges about 2 percent every minute if you're not using it while it charges, and can thus charge from an empty to a full battery in less than an hour, and will easily last for more than a day. Seeing as battery life is something we consider no matter how good the phone, the Le 1s sure doesn't let down in that field.

Besides all that, the phone supports Bluetooth 4.1 and A-GPS, all must haves. What the Le 1s does NOT have is support for FM Radio, rather shocking , to be honest, but not much of a problem. I don't use the Radio anyway. Move on.

With that, we pretty much clear up all the technical aspects of the Le 1s, and the bottom line is that is is pretty much the Best Budget Smartphone ever released, and is a must buy if you are looking for  a premium phone with budget pricing.

Thanks for reading my review, and don't forget to share.

-The Guy With Random Stuff

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...Random Thought...#20 / The Past Can't Hurt You

If the pain from your past

prevents you from progressing into the future,

You should know that

memories can't hurt you.

-The Guy With Random Stuff

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How to DragHo (Clash of Clans War attack strategy guide for TH8) With Dragons

As I'm still stuck at Town Hall 8 (nearly maxed), I've been experimenting some more with random attack strategies and happened to come across this one.

 The DragHo strategy is excellent for Dark Elixir Farming and trophy pushing alike, and with a minimal number of flaws, it seems to be the best Town Hall 8 Attack Strategy I've ever tried. It uses a fine mixture of Dark Elixir and Elixir resources and doesn't deplete your storages at all if you use it right.

So now, here's how to go about it : 

Stuff you'll need : 

8 Lvl 3+ Dragons

8 Lvl 4+ Hog Riders

2 Lvl 5+ Lightning Spells

1 Lvl 5+ Heal Spell / Rage Spell

1 Lvl 1+ Earthquake Spell

CC - Hog Riders Lvl 5 + Poison Spell [CC not required]

Execution : 

Start of with identifying the kind of base you are attacking. If the Air Defenses are near the sides, then there's no need to worry at all. even if they're near the center, you can pull it off easily. 

As a matter of fact, Air Defense positions rarely ever matter in this strategy, what matters more is the amount of resources you're getting. 

I use this strategy myself only for raiding where I take more than 2500 Dark Elixir in a single raid. It's great for saving up DE.

So to start off, you will drop the 2 lightning spells on the most centrally located Air Defense. If all Air Defenses are on the sides, take down the one closest to the Wizard Towers, as your hogs will have trouble with those.

(NOTE : This will work only on Lvl 6 and below Air Defenses, unless your Earthquake spell is Lvl 2)

As soon as the first Air Defense is down, drop all eight hogs on the Air Defense closest to maximum number of Archer Towers, the Heal Spell is for your hogs, heal them until they die. 

If you're lucky, the hogs will go ahead and take down the second Air Defense as well, in which case, you've practically won the raid.

This entire procedure shouldn't take more than 40 seconds.

Once you're through with that part, the real raid begins. Drop one dragon close to each standing Archer Tower, you should have maybe 3 dragons left, drop them to assist the first set you put down, and that's pretty much it. The raid is all yours.

It's a bit more tricky at Town Hall 9, with an extra Air Defense and higher level archer towers, but I've 3 starred many of those before with this strategy, ,so it should work.

Complications : 

The usual stuff, builder's huts in the corners, CC troops  etc. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about the builder's huts in the corners, except save two dragons and take out two of them opposite in direction to where the dragons are heading, to save time.

As for CC, only your CC can counter that. You should have a poison spell in there if this is a war attack. Besides that, CC doesn't really matter as they can't harm your dragons, just worry about your hogs.

Modifications :

If you're a really skilled clasher, try splitting the hogs into groups of four, one for each Air Defense, that's how I do it sometimes. If you can successfully pull it off, the raid is definitely complete...

You could also try increasing the number of hogs by four for one less dragon, to make the raid easier. It all comes down to if you're pushing trophies or saving DE.

That's all for this great strategy, try it out and if it works don't forget to share this post!

Other attack strategies you should check out:

- HoWi

- GiWiPe

- DragLoon

- HeWiPe

- Dragonion/DAM

- Mass Dragons (Modified)

- PekArch/APE

- Attack strategies for Town Hall 7 (TH7)

Thanks for reading!

-The Guy With Random Stuff

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What's Music Mean To Me?

What does music mean to any of us? A passion? A hobby? A getaway? 

A sense of freedom?

Looking into the past year, I think all the different varieties of beautiful sounds I was lucky enough to hear made me what I am. 

Those pieces of music, all mixing up into each other, silently, never wavering, tried their best to turn me into what they were; Simply beautiful.

They play in the background, opening different windows in your soul, giving you feelings you never knew you had, making you feel light, above the rest of the world.

As I listen to music, I realize that my heart is beating in a sort of fascination, excitement, pleasurable anticipation, a waiting that never ends, for the perfect piece of music, until you realize that every one of them is perfect.

Just like humans, every piece of music is perfect in its own way, and these perfect pieces of music are what make you feel perfect as you listen to them, they make you feel innocent, guileless, like nothing could ever go wrong again.

I have a thought, a certainty rather, that listening to music is a feeling that's incredibly close to being with GOD. Maybe that's why people praise GOD with music, opening doors for GOD to enter their hearts, to purify them completely.

Here's the music I was listening to as I wrote out this article, listen, enjoy, and share it for the good of others as well...

Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HxKTty1WU

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!

~The Guy With Random Stuff

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Reality Scares

Hey guys this is a poem about...well life in itself. Sometimes it can all be a bit overwhelming and at times like that I think all we can do is keep trying.

try to be good, try to succeed, try to be amazing.

we don't need to be terrified because someday we will touch the sky. :)

Reality Scares

Do you always catch yourself staring at the stars?

Because you don't know how to hide those scars?

Somehow you are stuck where you are

And the finish line is still pretty far.

You scream, you push

It's all just a rush.

You just want to cross that bridge

Lunge and jump off that ledge

But what do you do?

Where do you go?

Do you look upto the skies

Or down to the lies?

Is it easier to fake it

Or braver to face it?

It's terrifying to be lost

But it's fearsome to be real!

The world's a big place,

With big people who always ace

I'm a little shy, a little quiet

Maybe I'm too polite?

Or maybe I'm too bright?

All I know is it's going to be a fight,

A fight between me and I,

Between staying put and touching the sky.

Until it's time for me to succeed,

Time for me to take the lead.

-XXXBeckyreckons

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A Smile (Poem)

She locked herself in, screaming and crying,

And the thunderstorm raged on outside,

As he tried to reason with her,

To just open the door.

Even so she kept on weeping,

As the rain fell harder,

But he wouldn't give up on her,

He kept knocking on her heart's door,

Soaking, drenched in the rain, until finally,

Something he said made her heart melt,

And the rain was gentle till just a drizzle,

And she opened the door just a little,

A smile and a rainbow,

Both worth waiting for...

-The Guy With Random Stuff

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