Dell finally launched the 2020 model of XPS 15 (a.k.a. Dell XPS 9500) a larger version of the XPS 13 model. The Dell XPS 15 2020 model boast an impressive performance, a powerful graphics card and better speaker.
This Laptop packs a new design with 15.6-inch 4-sided Infinity Edge display, comfortable keyboard and touchpad, different pheripheral port for fast connectivity and long lasting battery capacity.
Dell XPS 15 (2020) Key Specs & Features
Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
15.6-inch OLED InfinityEdge Display, 500 nits (Touch or Non-Touch)
FHD+ (1920 x 1200) or 4K UHD (3840 x 2160)
10th Generation Intel® Core Processor
Up to NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6 with Max-Q
Up to 64GB RAM
Supports HDMI v2.0 and DisplayPort
Up to 2TB PCIe Solid State Drive
4W Stereo speakers with Waves MaxxAudio® Pro
Up to 6-Cell, 86 Wh, Integrated Battery
Design
Dell XPS 15 (2020) sports an impressive design. It is stylishly crafted using the platinum silver CNC aluminum material. This captivating laptop has a slim, sleek, strong yet portable design borrowing alot from the XPS 13 model.
With a dimension of 17mm x 357mm x 235 mm the Dell XPS 15 9500 can stand head to head with 16-inch MacBook Pro and other world known slim laptops.
The lid is smooth and slim with the glossy Dell logo perfectly engraved into it. When opened, you are graced with sight of the 15.6-inch new 4-sided Infinity Edge display which means Dell has finally do away with the thick bezel from models.
Even with the extremely tiny bezels all around, Dell was still able to fit a Windows Hello camera above the display.
Furthermore, the Dell XPS 15 laptop comes with large palm rest made of black carbon fiber. In between the palm rest is the smooth texture Precision touchpad sitting right below the ull size, backlit chiclet keyboard.
The keyboard has 1.3mm travel space between each keycap, thus allowing for a professional feel and experience with each touch. The chassis also host a fingerprint reader built into the power button to easily unlock your laptop.
For connectivity and sharing option the Dell XPS 15 (2020) comes with two Thunderbolt 3 ports and Wedge-shaped lock slot on the left.
On the right however, you will find one USB Type-C port (supports Power Delivery and DisplayPort), a 3.5mm headphone jack and an SD card reader. You also get an USB-C to USB-A v3.0 & HDMI v2.0 adapter.
Display
The Dell XPS 15 (2020) display experience the best upgrade compare to its predecessor. This Laptop comes with Dell’s innovative InfinityEdge.
The 16:10 4-sided InfinityEdge display delivers 100% Adobe RGB color in brilliant detail.
In addition, this laptop sports a 15.6-inch anti-reflective touch display which features scratch and impact-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6.
Furthermore, Dell XPS 15 (2020) sports a 3840 x 2400 UHD 4K resolution which offers up to four times the resolution of conventional full-HD laptops, thus, delivers sharper images with more details in immaculate natural colors.
Built on an OLED panel this laptop offers immersive displays with enhanced contrast ratios, and expanded color space.
Similarly, the Dell XPS 15 9500 has supports for multiple HDR formats including HDR10, Dolby Visio thus offering a true-to-life colours and amazing levels of clarity.
With the support of 94% DCI-P3 color and 500-nit panel, the XPS 15 offers a wider color palette than most 4K laptops.
This display also comes with the Eyesafe display technology which reduces harmful blue light and maintains vivid color.
The XPS 15 (2020) also comes with a version with 15.6-inch FHD display with 1920 x 1200 resolution.
Performance
Under the hood, the Dell XPS 15 (2020) is powered by the 10th Generation Intel Core processor.
This 10nm Ice Lake processors offers up to a Core i7 chipset. The 10th Generation Intel® Core i7-10750H is a 8 cores chip with 16MB Cache, thus offering up to 5.0 GHz max turbo frequency.
There is also amodel with Intel® Core i5-10300H 4 cores chipset offering up to 4.5 GHz max turbo frequency.
Furthermore, for better functionality, the CPU is paired with two GPU option. You can choose from either the Intel® UHD Graphics 630 or NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6 with Max-Q.
Similarly, the Dell XPS 15 (2020) offers up to 32GB DDR4-2666MHz (RAM) and up to 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD, so there is enough storage space for your everyday use.
For smooth user experience, the Dell XPS 15 (2020) run on Windows 10 home operating system out-of-the-box.
Other Features
Dell XPS 15 (2020) is the first-ever 15-inch laptop featuring Waves Nx 3D audio a suite of studio-quality voice optimizations build to match the quality of face-to-face communication for clear and uninterrupted voice conferencing.
The Laptop also comes with an up-firing quad speaker design with 2.5W x2 woofers and 1.5W x2 tweeters an, thus offering delivers crystal-clear audio experience.
The new XPS 15 delivers high performance in the same thermal envelope as before. It comes with dual fans and heat pipes, and vents in the hinge to help with airflow and a slight ramp aids in lifting more heat out.
Additionally, this is equipped with GORE Thermal Insulation, which provides thermal conductivity levels lower than air in a thin, flexible format to help keep components cool.
You also get an advanced Wi-Fi 6 technology. it comes with the Killer AX1650 WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 for unlimited connectivity option.
Above all this laptop also offer access to a dual array digital microphones mics to ensure that you’ll be heard clearly on every call you make.
Dell XPS 15 (2020) Price and Availability
Dell XPS 15 (2020) has a starting price of $1,299.99 and goes higher as you configure display, internal storage, RAM, graphics unit, operating system and a couple of other specs.
It is available on Dell official store or site and other third-party e-commerce platforms like Amazon.
Samsung Q950R is one of the best 8K QLED TV thanks to the Quantum Processor 8K intelligently processor that helps delivers impressive picture quality in five different display sizes. Samsung offer choices from 55-inch, 65-inch, 75-inch, 82-inch, to 98-inch screen.
The Samsung Q950R QLED Smart 4K UHD TV also comes with Samsung’s new wide-angle viewing technology, better connectivity, cinematic audio experience and an impressive design.
Samsung Q950R QLED TV Key Features
Flat QLED Panel
8K (7,680 x 4,320) Resolution
55-inch, 65-inch, 75-inch, 82-inch, and 98-inch screen.
4 HDMI Ports and 3 USB Port
Built-in Analog tuner
Quantum Processor 8K
8K AI Upscaling
AI Technology
Tizen OS
Real Game Enhancer
Ultra Viewing Angle
Quantum HDR 4000
Colour Volume 100% by Quantum Dot
FreeSync VRR
Full Array Local Dimming
Samsung OneRemote
Smart TV
Design
At first glance, the Samsung Q950R can be mistaken for the early 2019 last year 8K TV, the Samsung Q900R, thanks to the similar design.
It sports an ultra-slim, sleek and virtually bezel-free design with clean back, hence the flat panel which helps keep your TV perfectly mounted.
Furthermore, around the all glass front Samsung designed a brushed metal trim around the outer edge, and the rear of the panel has textured grooves to hold the screen perfectly.
In addition, this TV comes with two feet that can be installed at either end of the bottom edge, closer to the middle on a narrower surface or hidden in recesses for wall-mounting.
One of the best innovation in the Samsung Q950R design is the One Connect box. This Box minimises cable clutter by functioning as a hub for connecting all of your compatible devices like gaming consoles or Blu-Ray players. The One Connect Box then connects to the TV screen with the One Connect Cable.
This Box comes with four HDMI ports, one of which is fully HDMI 2.1-certified, which means it can officially handle 8K signals at up to 60fps.
The HDMI comes with features such as Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), hence offering a fast refresh rate.
Furthermore, the TV also has 3 USB port to allow you view and play content on your USB drive alongside 1 RF In, an AV in port, satellite tuners, a CI slot, an optical digital input and a LAN port.
Display
Samsung QLED 8K Q950R series delivers the clarity you’ve been expecting on a larger screen.
This UHD TV is built on a QLED panel which uses direct, full array backlighting. This Direct Full Array Elite x16 dramatically allows exceptional viewing in all conditions and gives a perfect contrast of deeper blacks and captivating colour.
In addition, the Q950R also comes with 8K (7680 x 4320) resolution, although, there is limitation to 8K content presently, however, this TV also comes with an 8K upscaler which helps an HD or 4K content into an 8K resolution.
Similarly, Samsung Q950R also got the same Quantum Processor 8K processor of the last year model, which uses machine learning and delivers excellent noise reduction.
One of the best features enhanced by the processor is the Ultra Wide Viewing angle feature which involves extra layers on the panel that reduce light leakage and spread light uniformity, thus resulting to near-flawless viewing angles.
In addition, the TV picture quality is also enhanced by Samsung’s Q HDR4000 which is the highest brightness levels of any TV to date, thus, allowing you to see colour as it should be in the real world. Some models in the lineup offer HDR3000.
Samsung describes it as 100% Colour Volume, where genuine cinematic colour is made from over a billion colours and shades.
The Samsung Q950R QLED TV also comes with a built-in Freesync technology which helps eliminate stutter and screen tearing.
Similarly, the Q950R supports HDR10+, which is an open-source version of HDR that uses dynamic metadata on a scene-by-scene basis alonside HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma), thus promising better picture quality.
The QLED anti-glare also known as moth eye screen coating is designed to reduce glare so you can see vivid detail and brilliant colour even in bright or sunny conditions.
Above all, the TV also has ambient sensors to adjust brightness automatically under changing lighting conditions.
Smart TV
Samsung Q950R boasts the full Samsung smart experience, hence, It offers full web browser access, thus, allowing for accessing the Internet.
The Smart TV runs on Tizen OS user interface, thus, offers as many video streaming services as possible, including, Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, Rakuten, YouTube, Apple TV and more.
Furthermore, Samsung Q950 comes with a built-in voice assistant which allows you to control, or interact with the assistance by using the remote or simply speaking directly to the TV.
Q950 works with the company’s own assistance Bixby and others including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri, thus, providing the TV with a full house of voice assistant devices.
You can use Samsung’s SmartThings app to set-up and control the Q950. This feature serves as an interface to connect and operate all your devices, smart appliances, and security functions.
Above all, the TV is controlled by a sleek and slim all-in-one OneRemote which automatically detects and controls all compatible connected devices and content.
Other Features
Samsung has do away with alot of audio features including Dolby atmos and ARM, instead it feature drivers hidden in the chassis to produce the best sound experience.
It comes with Dialogue Enhancement which enables users to adjust the volume of individual audio elements within a broadcast program.
Samsung also imput a new feature into the TV, the Dynamic Black Equaliser which lets you raise the black level of dark parts of game graphics without affecting the brightness of everything else.
Similarly, the Q950R series is equipped with a double tuner for all digital TV options.
Samsung also added some machine learning to the TV’s audio, with the Intelligent Sound mode to help produce a better defined and immersive cinema audio experience.
For further connectivity option the Samsung Q950R comes with a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection.
Samsung Q950R QLED TV Price and Availability
Samsung Q950R QLED TV price starts at around £2,499.00 and is available in different sizes with different price range.
The Q950R QLED Smart TV is available in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. You can buy these TVs at reputable online stores, leading retail chains, as well as Samsung Electronics stores in your country.
You can also buy these QLED TVs on Samsung Official Website or other accredited dealers.
Samsung Q950R QLED TV Specs
Here are a few specs of the Samsung Q950R:
General Features
Smart TV: Yes
3D TV: No
Colours: Colour Volume 100% by Quantum Dot
Video Engine: Quantum Processor 8K
Dimension (without stand): 1233.3 x 713.3 x 34.9 mm
(55-inch), 1452.2 x 836.4 x 34.1 mm (65-inch), 1677.2 x 964.6 x 34.6 mm (75-inch), 1835.0 x 1055.6 x 34.8 mm (82-inch), 2183.5 x 1249.4 x 39.9 mm (98-inch)
Weight: 21.7 kg (55-inch), 31.2 kg (65-inch), 43.3 kg (75-inch), 51.20 kg (82-inch), 87.1 kg (98-inch)
The Tecno Camon 15 Air is the cheapest among all and the good news is that it comes with those amazing features you will find on its siblings.
Tecno Camon 15 Air Key Specs & Features
6.6 inches IPS LCD Display, 720 x 1600 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~266 PPI)
Android 10, HIOS 6.0
Octa-core Mediatek MT6762 Helio P22 (12 nm)
Android 10, HIOS 6.0
3GB RAM
64GB Built-in Storage up to 128GB Memory Card
48 MP + 2 MP + 2 MP + QVGA Quad Rear Cameras
8 MP Front Camera
Fingerprint Scanner (Rear)
4G LTE Network
Non-Removable Li-Po 5000 mAh Battery
Design and Display
The Tecno Camon 15 Air parades an eye-catching design. It features an appealing gradient color and exquisite textural lines compose on the rear panel. The panel is hosting quad cameras and quad-LED flash.
It measures 164.5 x 76.5 x 9 mm in dimensions and it’s available in good colors variant. On the front, the smartphone has a dot in-display that offers a screen size of 6.6 inches with an IPS LCD display.
It has a resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels, a tall 20:9ratio, and 266 PPI density. It also comes with a corning gorilla glass 3 protection. Overall, the Camon 15 Air will provide an ultra full view experience.
Camera
One of the top-selling points of this Tecno Camon 15 Air is the camera. Tecno mobile equipped the device with a quad rear camera set-up with tons of amazing features on the inside.
The first hole is a 2 MP depth effect, followed by 48 MP main snapper that supports ultra-clear shots, super HDR, and AI scene detection. There is also a 2 MP secondary snapper and lastly is QVGA which is the AI lens.
These arrangements were accompanied by a quad-LED flash for taking bright and clear photos in a dark environment. One of the great features here is the 8x zooming and also the 2 MP macro lens that helps you capture even the unseen thing around you.
Tecno mobile really tried but sadly the camera can only shoot 2K videos. It’s not that bad though considering the price. Selfies lovers will get an 8MP shooter paired with dual-LED flash hiding in the dot-in display, that you can use to take clear selfies even in low light conditions.
Hardware and Software
The Tecno Camon 15 Air has a Mediatek MT6762 Helio P22 chipset with an octa-core processor clocking at a speed of 2.0 GHz. It has PowerVR GE8320 for graphics and comes with 64GB inbuilt storage peg at 3GB RAM for a smooth and stable performance.
Both gaming and multitasking should be faster on this device. However, don’t expect much though. There is a dedicated slot to upgrade the storage. The device runs on the latest HiOS 6.0. Based on Android 10 OS with some added new features.
Battery and Network
Underneath the phone is a 5000 mAh battery that promises to keep it on for days. The juicer does not come with fast charging technology, but with the right charger through the micro USB 2.0, it won’t take long to get full. It comes with a dual SIM that has a 4G network. You will also get GPS, FM radio and WiFi.
Other Features
Apart from the fingerprint scanner, the Tecno Camon 15 Air has a Face ID that unlocks your device in 0.2 seconds. All you have to do is to stare at it. We can’t really say how fast and accurate is this feature.
Furthermore, it comes with an additional feature called Social Turbo. This is a kind of WhatsApp Assistant Box that has multiple features. You can use the tool to make your DIY Emoji, save present WhatsApp status, and it automatically opens flash when you have incoming WhatsApp call.
There is also a new dark theme that reduces the screen’s irritation to the eyes, save energy, and improve battery life. It also has a parental control on setting that lets parents restrict what content and how long their child can play.
Tecno Camon 15 Air Price and Availability
Tecno Camon Air price in Nigeria starts at around 54,000 Naira. The Camon 15 Air will sell at a price of 750 Ghs in Ghana and 13,000 Ksh in Kenya.
The Qubo P6 is a mid-range smartphone. The name might not be familiar, however, this brand Qubo is known for manufacturing budget phones under $100. Qubo P6 features a 5.45-inch display, fingerprint sensor, 3G internet, and a 4500 mAh battery.
They are in the same category as iTel, Cubot, Allview, etc. Below are the phone specifications, features, availability, and price.
Qubo P6 Key Specs & Features
5.45-inch HD+ IN CELL Display, 720 X 1440 pixels
Android 9.0 Pie (Go Edition)
Quad-Core Processor
1GB RAM
16GB Built-in Storage up to 32GB Memory Card
8 MP Rear Camera
5 MP Front Camera
Fingerprint Scanner
3G Network
4500 mAh Non-Removable Battery
Design and Display
On the first look, the Qubo P6 is not that beautiful neither is it that ugly. Apparently, this is not a recent smartphone. So it comes with those old designs we are used to before. It has a smooth panel housing the camera, an LED flash, and also managed to squeeze out a fingerprint scanner.
There are also dual antenna lines on the sides. It has a visible bezel on the top of the screen that is hosting the front camera, LED flash, and the speaker. Meanwhile on the bottom of the screen is another bezel but free from any writing.
It has an on-screen navigation button. The 5.45 Inch HD+ Incell display provides a clear and vivid viewing experience. It packs a resolution of 720 X 1440 pixels.
Camera
For photos, the Qubo P6 has a dual-camera configuration. The main snapper is a single 8 MP with an LED for low light conditions. It also features HDR and Panorama which will enhance the overall picture quality. The front camera is 5 MP which is still better than none.
Hardware and Software
The Qubo P6 has a Quad-core processor that is paired with Mali T820 MP1 for gaming and good graphics. The chip is built by Mediatek and it’s accompanied by 1GB RAM.
The onboard storage on the handset is 16GB which is average. The good news is that users are allowed to expand the storage up to 32GB using a micro SD card.
Battery and Network
There is a massive battery capacity of 4500 mAh on the Qubo P6. The company says that the phone is well optimized to last long when fully charged. Well, it runs on Android 9.0 Pie based on Go Edition.
It has dual Nano SIMs with both 2G and 3GB network on the inside for browsing and downloads. You will also get other regulars such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM radio, and micro USB.
Qubo P6 Price and Availability
The Qubo P6 price in Nigeria starts at around 22,000 Naira. You can order the device in amazing colors at any online leading store in the country.
Tecno Pouvoir (a.k.a. Tecno LC7) is the 2020 iteration of the Pouvoir high battery stamina smartphone range. The need to have smartphones with big batteries isn’t far fetched. We all desire a smartphone that is capable of seeing us through the day on a single charge. This has been the mandate for Tecno Pouvoir Phones. The Tecno Pouvoir 4 maintains this mandate. It settles its power-hungry components with a 6000mAh battery.
The design on the Tecno Pouvoir 4 LC7 shows great improvement over last year’s Tecno Pouvoir 3. You have got a more refined chassis design, which is way more appealing.
This design picks up traits from already released Tecno smartphones. The rear is home to a familiar setup coming from the Tecno Camon 15. Where you have a square camera module, an optical fingerprint sensor, and the Tecno branding which indicates its a Tecno Phone.
The batteries aren’t the only massive thing we have got here. The Pouvoir 4 is home to a massive 7.0 inch IPS LCD display with a screen resolution of 720 x 1640 Pixels. This display is home to a drop notch which houses a front-facing camera.
The Cameras
The cameras saw an improvement with the Tecno Pouvoir 4. Tecno stepped thing up a notch by featuring pental cameras as opposed to the dual cameras we saw on the Pouvoir 3. This goes to say you have more features at your fingertips.
The rear camera department is home to quad cameras which comprises a 13MP primary camera, double 2MP secondary cameras, and a low light sensor which helps improves photos taken in the dark.
Selfies are manned by a single 8MP camera, which is supported by a dual-camera flash system for bright selfies.
Hardware and Software
The Tecno Pouvoir 4 doesn’t stray too far performance-wise. It comes packed with a minor spec bump of what we had on its predecessor. It’s easy to say this is a deliberate act to maintain the price category.
Powering the Tecno Pouvoir 4 is a quad-core MediaTek Helio A22 Processor, a PowerVR GE8320 GPU, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, and a non-removable 6000mAh battery.
On the software side, this Android phone runs the HIOS 6.1 on top of the Android 10 operating system.
The Tecno Pouvoir 4 Pro takes things up a notch. It offers a package more premium than that of the standard Tecno Pouvoir 4. It comes packed with more RAM, bigger storage, a faster processor, and lots more. This article covers the Tecno Pouvoir 4 Pro specs and price, which will help you make your purchase decision.
Comparing the design of the Pouvoir 4 Pro its less premium sibling, you get to find that there isn’t any difference to reckon with. Both smartphones feature an identical chassis design.
It’s the same rear setup that bears resemblance to that of the Camon 15. Here we have a square camera module housing quad cameras and a flash. we also have an optical fingerprint sensor and the Tecno branding which indicates its a Tecno phone.
Upfront we have a massive 7.0-inch IPS LCD display with a screen resolution of 720 x 1640 Pixels. This display comes in as a bit of a drawback from last year’s Tecno Pouvoir 3 plus, which had an AMOLED display.
The Cameras
The Tecno Povouir 4 Pro cameras are an upgrade to both the Tecno Povoir 3 plus and the less premium Pouvoir 4. It features more capable cameras, geared towards improving smartphone photography.
The rear camera system is home to a 16MP primary camera, 5MP, and 2MP secondary cameras, as well as low light sensor to improve photos taken in the dark. This camera setup is capable of taking photos in HDR and videos up to 1080p 30fps.
Selfies are manned by a single 8MP front-facing camera, which is aided by dual-LED flashes for bright selfies and video recording.
Hardware and Software
The Tecno Pouvoir 4 Pro gives more relevance to the massive 6000 mAh battery featured on Pouvoir 4 series phones, in the sense that it offers a more capable hardware that makes you appreciates its battery more.
It ditches the quad-core processor we saw on the Pouvoir 4 and opts for an Octa-core MediaTek Helio P22 processor. You also get 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage with an option for storage expansion up to 256GB via SD-card.
On the software side, you have got the same HIOS 6.1 user interface running on the Android 10 operating system.
The iTel A36 is another budget smartphone that supports a 3G network. The device also comes with a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a good camera setup. The battery on the inside is enough and it has a decent body design.
5.5 inches IPS LCD Display, 480 x 960 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~226 ppi)
Android 9 (Pie, Go Edition)
Quad-core UniSoC Spreadtrum SC7731E
1GB RAM
16GB Built-in Storage, up to 32GB Memory Card
5 MP Rear Camera
5 MP Front Camera
3G Network
Fingerprint Scanner
3020 mAh Removable Li-Ion Battery
Design and Display
The iTel A36 comes in a nice body that features a plastic on the rear panel and a glass on the front. The phone is built to be portable. It comes with a single snapper on the panel and also an LED flash.
It’s slim and it’s available in two colors shades names Gradation Blue and Black. On the front, you will notice those bezels on the top and bottom of the screen. The good thing is that it has on-screen navigation buttons.
The notch-free display offers a screen size of 5.5-inch-high-definition that provides 480 x 960 pixels resolution, an 18:9 ratio, and 226 PPI density.
The smartphone will offer good visual experience for watching videos and exploring the internet. Overall, the iTel A36 screen is built to be compact and at the same time offer big-screen experience.
Camera
The camera setup on the iTel A36 is two. The main snapper on the back is 5 MP and it comes with an LED flash and can also record HD video quality. The front camera is also the same 5 MP and it comes with an LED flash for low light photos as well.
Hardware and Software
The budget phone has a UniSoC Spreadtrum SC7731E chipset with a quad-core processor running at a speed of 1.3 GHz and it has ARM Mali T820 MP1 for graphics.
It’s powered by Android 9.0 Pie OS based on Android Go Edition which will ensure a smooth running of apps on the phone. The inbuilt storage is 16GB coupled with 1GB RAM. You can also expand the storage up to 32GB using a micro SDcard.
Battery and Network
The iTel A36 has a 3020 mAh removable and no fast charging. The device gives you plenty of hours of battery and at the same time maintaining a sleek body design. It has dual SIM and 3G network for internet browsing experience. It also has GPS, FM radio, and Micro USB 2.0.
The fingerprint reader on the back has 8 functions. Apart from using it to unlock your phone, you can also use it to take pictures, unlock apps, as well as record videos, and many more.
iTel A36 Price and Availability
iTel A36 price in Nigeria starts at about 25,000 Naira. That’s a $75 price tag. It sells around 400 GHs in Ghana and 6500 KSh in Kenya.
The Q85R is a member of Samsung’s top-tier 2019 QLED TV with Great captivting features. Samsung Q85R comes with a stunning HDR picture quality, an exceptionally sharp 4K resolution, Wide viewing angle support and a powerful smart TV system.
The Samsung Q85R QLED TV is built on a Quantum Processor 4K and has the AI capacity along with immersive audio experience which supports Adaptive Sound technology.
Samsung Q85R QLED TV Key Features
Flat QLED Panel
4K (3,840 x 2,160) Resolution
Direct Full Array 8X³
Ultra Viewing Angle
55-inch, 65-inch, and 75-inch
4 HDMI Ports and 3 USB Port
Smart TV
Q-Solid Design
Built-in Analog tuner
Quantum Processor 4K
Quad Core Processor
4K AI Upscaling
Quantum HDR 1500
Quantum Dot Color
Dolby Sound System
Samsung OneRemote
Vesa wall mount Support
Design
Sleekness is the common factor in the Samsung 2019 QLED TV. The TV sports an impressive design, smooth, slim and sleek, thus, making it a good option for either wall mounting of standing.
Samsung Q85R comes with a trimed frame holding the large glass screen to the body, thus, resulting into a thin bezel aroung the edges.
Similarly, the Samsung Q85R TV measures a dimension of 1230.6 x 708.1 x 61.9 mm for the 55-inch model, hence the seamless elegant and stylish design.
The back of the TV is as smooth as a wall and made of plastic material. It has a brush finishing design with a T shaped stand to make it look like the TV is the air.
Furthermore, this TV comes with an external One Connect connections box on which all the inputs and cables are manage and passed to the screen via a single one connect cable.
Display
The Samsung Q85R comes witrh captivating, high-end display feature. It is an LED LCD TV with a Full Array Local Dimming (FALD) backlight that Samsung calls Direct Full Array Plus which has around 100 separate dimming zones and an advanced dimming algorithm.
Built on a Quantum 4K Processor, the Q85R gives the best 4K picture experience. With a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixel which is 4 times better than an HD display, the TV offers brilliant, crisp and clear picture experience.
It also comes with the Quantum Dot technology which produce its colour rather than the cheaper and more traditional LCD colour filter system.
The processor also allows for 4K upscaling, hence an AI-powered machine learning helps to convert every image details and content at near 4K resolution from HD.
Furthermore, this TV sports Samsung’s Ultra Viewing Angle technology which gives a near-flawless viewing experience.
This Samsung’s QLED TV is certified to deliver 100% colour volume, hence, offering genuine cinematic colour made from over a billion colours and shades.
Unlike others, this TV is able to transform light into breath-taking colour without degradation over time.
Similarly, Q85R also has support for HDR10+ dynamic metadata high dynamic range along with static metadata HDR10 and HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) broadcast standards.
Samsung Q85R is also capable of over 1000 nits consistent peak brightness along with dynamic tone mapping which helps deliver consistently bright and vivid images so you see stunning picture quality.
The Samsung Q85R is available in 75, 65 and 55-inch screen sizes, hence, you can choose the best for your home or offices.
Smart TV
Samsung Q85R QLED TV is powered by Quantum Processor 4K, a quad core chipset with great features.
The TV interface is runs on the Samsung’s Tizen OS platform which is easy to navigate.
It comes with apps and video streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, the BBC iPlayer, Now TV, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, UKTV PlayGoogle Play, Rakuten and also the Apple TV.
Thanks to the Samsung’s universal search and TV Plus features you can now browse the internet and view suggestions.
Samsung Q85R also comes with a built-in voice assistant which allows you to control, or interact with the assistance by using the remote or simply speaking directly to the TV.
There’s support for Amazon Alexa, Bixby and Google Home Assistant.
You can also use Samsung’s SmartThings app to set-up and control the Q85R. This feature serves as an interface to connect and operate all your devices, smart appliances, and security functions.
Above all, to control the TV is a metallic smart, slim all-in-one remote with shortcut buttons for Netflix, YouTube and Rakuten.
This TV comes with the Ambient Mode features which helps turns your TV screen into a decorative feature, displaying useful information, your own photos or blends into its surroundings.
The Samsung Q85R comes with a built-in speaker system which offers a not too good experience on its own.
Samsung Q85R also features a ground-breaking Adaptive Sound technology which analyses the acoustics in the room and outputs dependent on what type of show or movie you are watching, thus, turning every experience into a cinema-like feel.
Similarly, the TV comes with the Game enhancer feature which turns your TV into a pure gaming machine. It gives an additional motion clarity and automatically reduces ghosting and motion blur in fast-moving game scenes.
The Q85R also offers 4 HDMI ports, 3 USB ports, an Optical, ethernet port, hence, you can connect devices to the TV to enjoy your favorite entertainment and media, hence, watch videos, play music, or view photos.
For further connectivity option the Samsung Q85R comes with a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection.
Samsung Q85R QLED TV Price and Availability
Samsung Q85R QLED TV price starts at around £999. It is available in different sizes hence, the different price range.
The Q85R QLED Smart TV is available in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. You can buy these TVs at reputable online stores, leading retail chains, as well as Samsung Electronics stores in your country.
You can also buy these QLED TVs on Samsung Official Website or other accredited dealers.
Samsung Q85R QLED TV Specs
Here are a few specs of the Samsung Q85R:
General Features
Smart TV: Yes
3D TV: No
Colours: Colour Volume 100% by Quantum Dot
Video Engine: Quantum Processor 4K
Dimension (without stand): 1230.6 x 708.1 x 61.9 mm (55-inch), 1449.5 x 831.2 x 61.9 mm (65-inch), 1675.2 x 960.9 x 62.0 mm (75-inch)
Weight: 18.0 kg (55-inch), 28.2 kg (65-inch), 40.5 (75-inch)
Built-in Camera: –
USB Playback: Yes
Panel
Display Type: Flat QLED Panel
Screen Size: 55-inch, 65-inch, 75-inch Screen
Screen Resolution: 4K Ultra HD (3,840 x 2,160)
More Screen Features: Ultra Viewing Angle, Direct Full Array 8x, Quantum HDR 1500, HDR10+, Moth Eye
Smart TV Features
Platform: Smart TV with Bixby Voice, AI Technology
Processor: Quad Core Processor
Multitasking: –
Built-in PVR: –
Voice Command: Yes, Bixby Voice, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, SmartThings
LG unveiled the world’s first rollable OLED TV. The LG R9 Rollable OLED TV is the very first of its kind which is why th company refers it it as a Revolutionary TV. This LG signature TV not only looks gorgeous but sound incredible, offers a cinematic display experience and packs every modern TV features.
The LG R9 Rollable OLED TV is equipped with the second generation of the Alpha 9 processor, LG’s webOS software, LG ThinQ AI, a 4.2-channel 100W sound system and many more futuristic features.
LG R9 Rollable OLED TVKey Specs & Features
65-inch
LG ThinQ AI | Google Assistant | Alexa
4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) Resolution
LG OLED Display
4K Upscaler
2nd Gen LG α9 Intelligent Processor
Perfect Black (Infinite Contrast)
4K Cinematic HDR
4 HDMI ports, 3 USB ports
webOS Operating System
100W 4.2 Channel Speaker with Dolby Atmos
Stand Included
Magic Remote Control
Design
The LG R9 Rollable OLED TV design looks magical which is flexible enough to roll up and down with a push of a button on the remote.
This Rollable TV brings about a new turn in the area of design for LG’s OLED TVs. The TV lives inside a large aluminium stand from which it retracts when needed.
LG R9 Rollable OLED TV is thin, flat and sleek with display that runs from edge to edge all over the glass screen thanks to the near bezel-less design.
When turned off, it looks like nothing but a furniture box, with low-slung stand supporting a sleek silver box.
Furthermore, there is a motorised sliding door cover on the top which rolls over to conceals the screen when not in use and slid back to allow the TV come to view.
At the back, there is a brackets which held the TV place to prevents it from wobbling when upright
LG R9 has three different modes for your personal viewing form and entertainment enjoyment, these include;
The Full View which delivers a large 65-inch screen viewing experience revealing the full extent of the contrast and depth of the TV.
Similarly, there is the Line View which means the TV is the display will roll down with only about one-fourth of the panel showing.
In Line View, users can choose from features such as Clock, Frame, Mood, Music and Home Dashboard to display on the reminant screen.
Lastly, the Zero View which means all 65″screen will be rolled down, tucked away in the base.
Although, the TV is not visible in this view users can still enjoy music and other audio content which emanate from the sound system.
Display
The LG R9 Rollable OLED TV comes with a large 65-inch UHD Screen.
Built on a OLED technology, this TV achieve amazing light control, thus offering picture quality to look even better with high brightness, vibrant bright colors and the same perfect black levels.
Thanks to the OLED Technology this TV is inherently lighter, thinner, and more flexible allowing them to be deposited onto a variety of substrate materials. This allows to be more flexible with display form factors.
Furthermore, this TV comes with 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) resolution which is four times clear and sharper than the regular HD TV, thus, delivering sharper images with more details in immaculate natural colors.
The LG R9 Rollable OLED TV also comes with 4K upscaler, hence it will convert an HD content to fit into the 4k screen.
Similarly, this 4K TV support both HDR10 and Dolby Vision with a nice indicator that pops up in the top right corner of the TV to indicate which HDR standard is currently on screen.
The LG’s 4K Cinema HDR offers immerse cinematic images with major HDR formats including Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG, Advanced HDR by Technicolor and HDR10 Pro.
Thanks to the Alpha 7 Gen 2 processor this TV uses machine-based deep learning and a database with millions of data points to perform upscaling and other video-processing chores.
The processor also helps utilizes the 6-step noise reduction which helps brings images, action and color to new life.
This TV also comes with other display features including Wide Viewing Angle, Dynamic Colour Enhancer, AI Brightness feature and many more.
Smart TV
Built on the webOS 4.5 operating system, this TV offers smart functions which makes it easier and quicker to enjoy a world of on-demand entertainment.
The support of the LG α9 Gen 2 Intelligent Processor alongside the powerful OS this TV offers access to app stores and upgrades, thus you can access apps including Amazon Prime Video, HBO, Netflix, and YouTube.
In addition, the LG R9 features the ThinQ AI capabilities which offer access to voice recognition to make controlling the TV with your voice smarter, hence, making it easy to navigate the TV.
You have access to assistance like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant built-in, and compatibility with outboard Echo and Google Home devices.
In addition, the The LG R9 Rollable OLED TV offer access to AirPlay 2 which lets you effortlessly share movies with your TV through your phone.
Therefore, you can even play music on every LG AI TV and other AirPlay 2 compatible speakers in your home at the same time and all in sync.
The LG R9 Rollable OLED TV also comes with the Magic remote to control your TV, even at far proximity, thanks to the Bluetooth sensor.
Finally, the full web browser allows for accessing the Internet. Thus, users can get more apps and other types of content from the LG Content Store.
Other Specs and Features
For the best audio experience the LG R9 Rollable OLED TV comes with Dolby Atmos 4.2 audio system with 100 watts RMS.
Similarly, LG has implemented a new AI Sound mode that really upgrades the forward-firing speaker’s audio performance by virtualizing it for a larger space.
Like most OLED TV launch in 2019, LG R9 Rollable OLED TV comes with WiSA which stands for Wireless Speaker & Audio.
It enables wireless connection to a WiSA-compatible speaker without the need for speaker cables or passthrough via an AV receiver.
The TV also is embedded with AI Picture which is a two-step process whereby the TV consults an internal database of content and uses it to compare to the incoming signal before it decides how best to process the picture.
Around the back, sits four HDMI 2.1 ports which will support 4K120 playback once it’s available via an update later this year. HDMI 2.1 also includes support for HFR content.
For connectivity option this TV also offer Wi-Fi Certified 802.11ac connection technology with Bluetooth 5.0 technology.
LG R9 Rollable OLED TV Price and Availability
LG R9 Rollable OLED TV price starts at around $60,000. You can buy these OLED TV at reputable online stores, leading retail chains, as well as LG Electronics stores in your country.
The TV is also available for purchase on LG official website at competitive price.
LG R9 Rollable OLED TV Specs
Here are a few specs of the LG R9 OLED TV:
General Features
Smart TV: Yes
3D TV: No
Colours: Intense Color, Billion Rich Colors, Advanced Color Enhancer, True Color Accuracy Pro
Voice Command: Yes, intelligent Voice Recognition, Amazon Alexa, AI Home, Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, Google Home, LG Smart Speaker, Google Assistant, Speech to Text, LG Voice Search
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper TV is the iteration of LG’s Wallpaper OLED TV launched in 2019 with design meant to bring an artistic finishing to your room. The OLED display offers a truly cinema experience at home.
The LG’s 2019 OLED W9 Wallpaper TV is built on the company’s most powerful 4K processor which uses 4-step noise reduction to enhance images, action and color.
It comes featuring the LG ThinQ® AI feature, impressive sound system and faster connectivity technology.
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper OLED TVKey Specs & Features
65-inch, 77-inch
LG ThinQ AI | Google Assistant | Alexa
4K Ultra HD (3,840 x 2,160) Resolution
LG OLED Display
LG α9 Gen 2 Intelligent Processor
webOS
Dolby Vision | Dolby Atmos
60W, 4.2 Channel Sound System
4K Upscaler
4 HDMI Port, 3 USB Port
Custom HDR Tone Mapping
Design
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper TV sports a modern, sleek ultraslim and durable design, thus the wall paper.
At first glance, the W9 for 2019 looks identical to the 2018 flagship model, which is expected been from the same model, however, the W9 has a much thinner profile of 3.81mm, hence it can sit perfectly on your wall and blend the with design perfectly.
This “Wallpaper” or “Signature” model is designed to be hung on a wall in a lavish pad, since, comes with a thin bezel which enables the TV to blend perfectly with the wall.
Furthermore, the comes with a Dolby Atmos soundbar which hosts all the wires for connections to keep any unnecessary gubbins away from the back of the thin screen panel. it definitely gives the illusion of a beautiful art display.
In addition, the LG Signature W9 Wallpaper TV comes with 4.2-channel audio system which has eight speaker drivers and a total of 80W of amplification.
Display
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper TV brings the most immersive viewing experience possible, all powered by the LG’s second-generation Alpha 9 processor which uses machine-based deep learning.
This Processor has a database with millions of data points to perform upscaling and other video-processing chores.
Furthermore, this TV has a two dispaly screen including the 65″and 77″ with OLED display which helps enhance black levels and virtually infinite contrast.
The OLED Panel also enhances better contouring between areas of bright light and darkness.
The TV features a native UHD 3840 x 2160 resolution and 4K upscaler which converts lower-resolution video sources for near-4K quality for augmented clarity.
Similarly, this 4K TV support both HDR10 and Dolby Vision with a nice indicator that pops up in the top right corner of the TV to indicate which HDR standard is currently on screen.
The LG’s 4K Cinema HDR offers immerse cinematic images with major high dynamic range (HDR) formats.
It also comes with support for Dolby Vision content which creates a more detailed sound experience that appears to come from everywhere for a wonderfully realistic, immersive experience and HDR from the cinema.
Similarly the 4K panel offers support for HDR10 and HLG with LG’s advanced tone-mapping technology that provides scene-by-scene optimization.
The processor also helps utilizes the 6-step noise reduction which helps brings images, action and color to new life.
Smart TV
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper TV is built on an LG α9 Gen 2 Intelligent Processor using LG’s ThinQ AI interface to access lots of streaming apps within the webOS operating system.
The ThinQ technology brings internal smarts to the TV that allow for voice-control and context-related search via the included Magic Remote.
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper TV is integrated with different assistance including Alexa, Google Assistant, Bixby and compatibility with outboard Echo and Google Home devices.
The OS offers access to app stores and upgrades, thus you can access apps including Amazon Prime Video, HBO, Netflix, and YouTube.
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper TV also has the AirPlay 2 which lets you effortlessly share movies with your TV through your phone.
The AirPlay allows you play music on every LG AI TV and other AirPlay 2 compatible speakers in your home at the same time and all in sync.
Above all, to control the affairs of LG W9 is the sleek and slim all-in-one Magic remote which automatically detects and controls all compatible connected devices and content.
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper OLED TV components are connected to the soundbar.
It has a total of four HDMI inputs and three USB ports. Similarly, you have access to a LAN port, a CI slot,and an optical digital output.
Furthermore, this LG OLED TV supports wider bandwidth for higher frame rates, so you can enjoy fast-paced games by minimizing input lag, even offering VRR to deliver fast-action content with enhanced responsiveness.
There is also a built-in WiFi (802.11ac), Bluetooth (5.0) for perfect connectivity technology.
Above all, the LG Signature W9 Wallpaper OLED TV comes with WiSA which stands for Wireless Speaker & Audio.
It enables wireless connection to a WiSA-compatible speaker without the need for speaker cables or passthrough via an AV receiver.
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper OLED TV Price and Availability
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper OLED TV price starts at around $5,999.99 for the 65-inch and $9,999.99 for the 77-inch display.
You can buy these OLED Wallpaper TV at reputable online stores, leading retail chains, as well as LG Electronics stores in your country.
The TV is also available for purchase on LG official website at competitive price.
LG Signature W9 Wallpaper OLED TV Specs
Here are a few specs of the LG W9 Wallpaper TV:
General Features
Smart TV: Yes
3D TV: –
Colours: Intense Color, Billion Rich Colors, Advanced Color Enhancer, True Color Accuracy Pro
Video Engine: α9 Gen 2 Intelligent Processor 4K, Deep Learning AI Picture
Dimension (without stand and AV Box): 56.9″ x 32.4″ x 0.15″ or 1446 x 823 x 3.85 mm (65-inch), 67.8″ X 38.9″ X 0.23″ or 1721 x 989 x 5.96 mm (77-inch)
Weight (TV only): 14.8 lbs or 6.7 kg (65-inch), 27.1 lbs or 12.3 kg (77-inch)
Voice Command: Yes, intelligent Voice Recognition, Amazon Alexa, AI Home, Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, Google Home, LG Smart Speaker, Google Assistant, Speech to Text, LG Voice Search
The iTel A56 is a budget smartphone from iTel that comes with large screen size. The phone also has dual cameras and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. iTel A56 sports a 6.0-inch display and 4000 mAh battery.
6.0 inches IPS LCD Display, 480 x 960 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~242 ppi)
Android 9.0 (Pie, Go Edition)
Quad-core UniSoC Spreadtrum SC7731E (32nm)
1GB RAM
16GB Built-in Storage up to 64GB Memory Card
8 MP + 0.3 MP Dual Rear Cameras
5 MP Front Camera
Fingerprint Scanner (Rear)
3G Network
Non-removable Li-Ion 4000 mAh Battery
Design and Display
The iTel A56 is a nice phone and one of the iTel phones that many will love to have. The handset packs a compact and slim design that looks classy and elegant. It has a rear glass effect and a bright mirror frame with deep reflections and also an elegant gradient effect.
The panel is built with premium plastic and it houses the cameras and an LED flash. The iTel A56 has body dimensions of 159.7 x 77.7 x 8.9 mm and weighs just 164 grams. Overall, the slim body and also the curved edge further makes the device easy to operate and hold in one hand.
On the front, it has some bezel on the top hosting the front camera, an LED flash, and the speaker. The phone offers a 6″ IPS Full-Screen Display. It has a resolution of 480 x 960 pixels and 242 PPI density.
The 18:9 aspect ratio delivers the best viewing when watching movies or gaming. The phone also has 500 nits for a super-bright display.
Camera
As for the camera setup, the iTel A56 is blessed with a combo rear camera of 8 + 0.3 -megapixel which is paired with an LED flash for nice shots even under low light condition. The camera has some internal features as well and it can record HDR video quality.
The front camera on the device is 5 MP and it comes with Face ID and an LED flash. This means the facial unlocking is always successful even under low light background.
Hardware and Software
The iTel A56 has a UniSoC Spreadtrum SC7731E chipset that based on 32nm process technology. The chip comes with a quad-core processor running at a speed of 1.3 GHz.
It has ARM Mali T820 MP1 for graphics and runs on the Android 9.0 Pie operating system but based on Go Edition. With the 16GB inbuilt storage, users will have enough space to store favorite games, music, and movies.
In case the hard drive is not enough, you can still expand the storage using an external micro SDcard up to 64GB.
Battery and Network
The iTel A56 is powered by a massive 4000 mAh battery but it does not come with fast charging technology. iTel says that the battery along with Android’s smart energy-saving chipset will last long.
Its promise to last up to 21 hours of calls, 54 hours of music playback, and 8 hours of video playback. This is almost a whole day when fully charged. It has dual SIMs with 2G and 3G networks. There is GPS for location, wifi, micro USB, and FM radio.
iTel A56 Price and Availability
The iTel A56 price in Nigeria starts at around 27,500 Naira (around $70). The phone will cost 375 GHs in Ghana and 7500 KSh in Kenya.
The iTel A56 Pro is the bigger version of the iTel A56. The budget phone maintains a similar body design with its sibling but comes with bigger inbuilt storage and RAM. Apart from the storage, it still maintains the same camera, battery, and many more.
6.0 inches IPS LCD Display, 480 x 960 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~242 PPI)
Android 9.0 (Pie, Go Edition)
Quad-core UniSoC Spreadtrum SC7731E (32nm)
2GB RAM
32GB Built-in Storage up to 64GB Memory Card
8 MP + 0.3 MP Dual Rear Cameras
5 MP Front Camera
Fingerprint Scanner (Rear)
3G Network
4000 mAh Non-Removable Li-Ion Battery
Design and Display
On the body, the iTel A56 Pro still comes in a compact body design that has a rear glass effect and a bright mirror frame with deep reflections. The phone is built to look premium and attractive as well.
The body is slim and also has curved edges making it stay comfortably in one hand. On the rear panel, it has a vertical camera setup with an LED flash below and then the logo and the speaker at the bottom.
The entire body measures 159.7 x 77.7 x 8.9 mm in dimensions and it weighs the same 164 grams. The iTel A56 Pro ditched the popular notch but packs some visible bezels both on the top and bottom of the screen.
It has a screen size of 6.0 inches IPS LCD display with a resolution of 480 x 960 pixels and 242 PPI density. It also has an 18:9 aspect ratio that provides an immersive viewing experience to users. There is a scratch-resistant glass on the screen and it has a 73.2% screen-to-body ratio.
Camera
As for the camera setup, the dual 8 MP wide with another helper of 0.3 MP on the phone will ensure beautiful photos. The camera is further paired with an LED for capturing bright photos even in a low light environment.
It can also record full HD video quality. The front camera is 5 MP and its equipped with safe advanced facial recognition.
With the infrared light sensor and an infrared camera, users can unlock the phone using their face even under low light conditions. iTel says that the Face ID is safe and convenient.
Hardware and Software
Underneath the iTel A56 Pro is a midrange UniSoC Spreadtrum SC7731E SOC that is based on 32nm process technology. The chip has a quad-core processor with a clocking speed of 1.3 GHz.
It has ARM Mali T820 MP1 for graphics and gaming. Booting the budget iTel phone is Android Go Edition. The internal storage has been upgraded to 32GB and it now pegs at 2GB RAM for a smooth performance. You can still expand the storage using a micro SDcard up to 64GB.
Battery Power and Network
The iTel A56 Pro is backed by a massive 4000 mAh battery. The battery does not has fast charging but will last a full day. Its promise to last up to 21 hours of continuous calls, 54 hours of music playback, and 8 hours of video playback.
The network availability on the handset is a 2G and 3G network. Sadly it lacks 4G LTE network. Other features on the phone include GPS, FM radio, wifi, and Micro USB 2.0.
iTel A56 Pro Price and Availability
The iTel A56 Pro price in Nigeria starts at around 34,000 Naira, which is around $87. Meanwhile, in Ghana, it will cost 500 Ghs and 800 Ksh in Kenya. You can buy the phone in Aqua Blue, Champagne Gold, and Deep Grey colors.
The LG BX is a more affordable 2020 series OLED Smart TV that offers basically all you can expect of an offering from a major player around the same price point. It promises great picture quality and a variety of features that should make it appear like good value, including HDR Pro support.
This new member of LG’s B Series, the company’s cheapest OLED entry-level series TV uses the Alpha 7 Gen 3 processor, runs on webOS and offers the latest smart and AI features. It is a successor to the LG B9.
LG BX OLED TV Key Specs & Features
55-inch, 65-inch
Flat OLED Panel
α7 Gen 3 Processor 4K
webOS Operating System
4 HDMI ports, 3 USB ports
LG ThinQ AI | Google Assistant | Alexa
4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) Resolution
4K Upscaler
Smart TV
40W, 2.2 Channel Speaker with Dolby Atmos
Stand Included
Magic Remote Control
Design
The South Korean tech company continues with their trend on ultra-slim design by perfectly building the LG BX OLED TV to look similar to the company’s B9 counterpart.
This TV flaunts a thin bezel and sleek modern premium design aesthetic. By modern, i mean a simple yet elegant design which fits perfectly in any room positioned, thus, enhance your viewing experience.
If you choose to place the TV on a table or cabinet, there is a plastic stand which is flat, thus perfectly fit to support the TV while standing.
There is also a wall bracket for easy attachment to walls without having to worry about the shape or cables dangling around. However, the wall mount and stands are sold separately.
For peripheral connectivity, at the back of the LG BX sits two HDMI port and another 2 at the side.
Similarly, at the back sits two USB port at the back and one by the side,as well as, an analog audio/headphone out, a RS-232C port, an optical digital audio out, an AV in port, an Ethernet jack, and a cable antenna (ATSC, Clear QAM) at the rear.
Display
LG BX is available in two different screen sizes including option from 55-inch and 65-inch display.
This TV is Built on an OLED panel that boasts 4K Ultra HD resolution for excellent clarity.
Similarly, the OLED panel uses LG’s self-illuminated OLED panel, which uses individual light-emitting pixels instead of the separate backlight used in traditional LCD TVs.
The pixel-level dimming enables each of the panel’s 8.3 million pixels to brighten, dim, or power off completely, for exceptional detail and absolute black.
You also get a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixel coupled with a 120Hz refresh rate, made up of 10-bit colour depth and infinite contrast ratio, thus promising an immersive viewing experience.
In addition, LG BX OLED TV comes with the 4K upscaler, hence it will convert an HD content to fit into the 4K screen.
The BX also include LG’s new Face Enhancing processing technology, to better represent skin tones and help faces to stand out from backgrounds.
Furthermore, the LG BX 4K TV has a HDR panels, and support the dynamic Dolby Vision HDR format which uses a light sensor built into the TV to measure the ambient light in the room and adjust the Dolby Vision dynamic tone mapping accordingly.
LG BX also comes with the new Filmmaker Mode, which automatically adjusts the picture settings, turning off motion smoothing for a Cinematic experience.
Above all, the panel also enable a wide viewing angle which allows you to view your TV colour and brightness up to 178 degrees.
Smart TV
Running on LG’s webOS 4.0 platform which offers a simplified design to allow users effortlessly switch between all of your favourite apps and devices in three or fewer steps.
It also offer full web browser access for unlimted Internet exploring.
With this Smart TV you can play games and stream content on YouTube and other online sources, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO.
In addition to the preloaded apps, more can be downloaded from the LG Content Store.
It also comes AI features which enables the use of voice control on Google Assistant, Alexa, and also and compatible with outboard Echo and Google Home devices. hence, you can control your entire connected home, and enjoy personalized entertainment.
Similarly, the LG BX OLED TV also has the AirPlay 2 which lets you effortlessly share movies including Dolby Vision titles, TV shows, photos and more on your LG AI TV right from your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Above all, you also get the Magic Remote that lets you navigate around using voice commands, amongst other features.
LG BX comes with 2.2-channel audio system with a 40W of amplification and support of Dolby Atmos surround sound which helps create a more immersive and quality audio experience.
In addition, the C9 also comes with an AI Sound system which help improve the audio experience,
You also get Bluetooth 5.0 and WiFi 802.11ac for fast connectivity.
For gamers, this TV comes with the best best feature including VRR, ALLM, 4K/120Hz and an extremely low input lag.
LG BX is also NVIDIA G-SYNC compatible for better PC gaming experience. It is free from screen tearing or other distracting visual artefacts.
The BX will also feature the HDR Gaming Interest Group’s HGiG Mode so gamers can enjoy high quality visuals as game creators and developers intended when playing HDR games via consoles on their LG TV.
LG BX OLED TV Price and Availability
LG BX OLED TV price starts at around $1599.99 for the 55-inch and $2,299.99 for 65-inch model. You can buy these OLED TV at reputable online stores, leading retail chains, as well as LG Electronics stores in your country.
The TV is also available for purchase on LG official website at competitive price.
LG BX OLED TV Specs
Here are a few specs of the LG BX OLED TV:
General Features
Smart TV: Yes
3D TV: No
Colours: Intense Color, Billion Rich Colors, Advanced Color Enhancer, True Color Accuracy
Video Engine: α7 Gen 3 Processor
Dimension (without stand): 48.3″ x 27.8″ x 1.8″ (55-inch), 57″ x 32.7″ x 1.8″ (65-inch)
LG CX series, which is a member of the 2020 OLED series is one of the most affordable LG 4K OLED TV with amazing display features for true cinema experience, and powerful Alpha 9 Gen 3 processor with AI ThinQ software.
Flaunting a captivating design, the LG CX OLED TV also offers a top notch sound capabilities with excellent smart TV features thanks to the webOS and best gaming features.
LG CX OLED TV Key Specs & Features
48-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch and 77-inch
Flat OLED Panel
webOS Operating System
4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) Resolution
4K Upscaler
Smart TV
LG ThinQ AI | Google Assistant | Alexa
2nd Gen LG α7 Intelligent Processor
G-SYNC Compatible
40W 2.2 Channel Speaker with Dolby Atmos
4 HDMI ports, 3 USB ports
Stand Included
Magic Remote Control
Design
LG CX OLED TV series can easily be mistaken for the last year’s LG C9 at first glance. It sports a thin stylish frame, thus resulting into the flat design.
The top half of the CX is very thin, but it gets thicker at the bottom where the inputs are housed.
Beautifully crafted from a plastic material which wraps perfectly around the side screen with thin bezels around the screen, hence, the almost edge to edge display.
With a dimension of 57.0″ x 32.7″ x 1.8″ for the 65-inch model, the LG CX OLED TV is perfectly structured to complement your living room, reception or offices.
Above all, LG CX sits on a wedge-shaped stand design which looks just as elegant as the rest of the TV and provides a slight contrast with the darker finish of the TV cabinet.
Although the TV can also be wall mounted using a standard VESA 300 x 200 bracket.
Display
LG CX is one of the best OLED TV available in three display sizes including, 48-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch and 77-inch, all offering captivating display features.
Furthermore, the OLED panel uses LG’s self-illuminated OLED panel, which uses individual light-emitting pixels instead of the separate backlight used in traditional LCD TVs.
Featuring a 4K Ultra HD 3840 x 2160 Resolution which equates to over 33 million self-emissive pixels alongside an infinite contrast ratio, thus promising an immersive viewing experience.
LG CX also comes with the 4K upscaler an AI technology which convert an HD content to fit into the 4K screen.
Similarly, the TV supports dynamic HDR10 and Dolby Vision at up to 120 frames per second for 4K UHD content.
The Dolby Vision IQ which is making an appearance for the first time on 2020 LG TVs helps optimise compatible video content for varying levels of room brightness.
Similarly, the Tv can be put in different Mode to offer your preferred picture quality.
It includes the new Filmmaker Mode, which produces images as close to the original picture as possible by disabling video processing effects like motion smoothing and reinstating the original movie’s aspect ratio, colors and frame rates.
Furthermore, this OLED TV offers a wide viewing angle which gives access to an extraordinary details and intense color. Similarly, this TV sports an AI Brightness feature which uses a light sensor to detect ambient light, and optimize it to improve the visibility in darker areas of the picture.
LG also introduces the new LG’s TruMotion features which helps in smoothing motion by increasing the speed at which your TV shows a new picture, thus, giving a cinematic quality.
Smart TV
LG CX OLED TV comes with latest smart features. It is processed by a quad core processor which makes the LG SMART TV three times faster than conventional TV, thus, allowing smoother multitasking, faster web browsing and quicker boot-up.
To perfect the smart feature, LG CX Series smart TV runs on webOS 4.5 operating System which gives access to stream content on YouTube Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO and other online sources.
LG also supports popular apps like those from Hulu, Disney+, Showtime and Apple TV, but it doesn’t offer the extensive array of apps offer by Android TV-based.
Furthermore, this TV comes with the AI Preview features, which offers highlight on recommended content above an icon, much like the preview function found on other TV platforms.
LG’s ThinQ smart TVs also offer built-in support for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and compatibility with outboard Echo and Google Home devices.
Similarly, the LG CX OLED TV offer access to AirPlay 2 which lets you effortlessly share movies with your TV through your phone.
LG CX still comes with the standard ‘Magic Remote’ the motion-enabled remote that remains unchanged (still made from glossy, black plastic).
The Remote comes with shortcut button for easy navigation.
LG CX TV comes with 2.2-channel audio system with a 40W of amplification and support of Dolby Atmos which helps create a more immersive sound stage.
The TV also comes with additional audio features for immersive audio experience.
This includes an AI Acoustic Tuning setting that uses the remote control’s microphone to calibrate the sound and tailor the audio to your particular room.
The LG CX OLED also supports Dolby Atmos and two LG Bluetooth speakers to connect simultaneously, and up-mixes 2.0 channel sound to virtual 4.0 surround sound for more immersion.
For game lovers LG also introduce a new Sports Alert mode, therefore, you can choose to follow your favourite teams in a handful of sports and get alerts for fixtures, score updates and highlights.
In addition, the TV has the AI Picture Pro picture-processing technologies with improved image enhancement, reducing noise and increasing sharpness. For connectivity, LG CX OLED TV has access to 4 HDMI port, 3 USB port, 1 composite video input, an Optical digital audio output, 1 RF (antenna) input, 1 RS-232 port and an Ethernet (LAN) port.
LG CX also comes with the standard Wi-Fi support (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac); Wi-Fi 6 technology and Bluetooth 5.0 for fast connectivity.
LG CX OLED TV Price and Availability
LG CX OLED TV price starts at around $1499.99 for the 48-inch, $1,799 for 55-inch model, $2,499 for 65-inch model and $3,299 for the 77-inch size
You can buy these OLED TV at reputable online stores, leading retail chains, as well as LG Electronics stores in your country.
The TV is also available for purchase on LG official website at competitive price.
LG CX OLED TV Specs
Here are a few specs of the LG CX OLED TV:
General Features
Smart TV: Yes
3D TV: No
Colours: Intense Color, Billion Rich Colors, Advanced Color Enhancer, True Color Accuracy
Video Engine: α9 Gen 3 AI Processor
Dimension (without stand): 1071 x 618 x 46.9 mm (48-inch), 48.3″ x 27.8″ x 1.8″ (55-inch), 57.0″ x 32.7″ x 1.8″ (65-inch), 67.8″ x 39.1″ x 2.2″ (77-inch)
As a content marketer, you have a lot of tasks to accomplish. You need to create and manage your content marketing funnel, create amazing content, manage your outreach campaign, and as well manage a team. And on most occasions, you have to multitask to get these things done.
Here’s the truth – to scale your content marketing, you definitely need tools to automate your work. You cannot do it all by yourself when it comes to content marketing. And to your best interest, there are countless content marketing tools to make your work easier.
At this point, I believe you must already know the full potential of content marketing and how it can impact your business.
Here are the 45 Best Content Marketing Tools
In this post, I reviewed over 40 best content marketing tools to help you with your content marketing tasks. Here in the list, you will find some of the best email marketing tools, landing page tools, scheduling tools, outreach tools, keyword research tools, and many more.
Absolutely, you wouldn’t be needing all the tools written here. But an average content marketer combines 5 to 7 content marketing tools depending on their task.
Not to waste a bunch of your time, lets get started with the best content marketing tools in the market; there’s a lot to cover.
1. ClickFunnels
Clickfunnels is one of the best content marketing tools and is targeted at building highly effective sales funnels. It is one of the best funnel builders available in the market. Founded in 2014, Clickfunnels was created to help you build a website and a sales funnel to boost your product sales.
The founder, Rusell Brandson, is one of the greatest content marketers with amazing results and has been the reason behind the smart increase in the sales and growth of ClickFunnels. And the achievements made in the six (6) years in the industry, is enough reason to use ClickFunnels.
Still, Wondering what ClickFunnels can do for your business?
To start with, as a content marketer you definitely need a sales funnel to help you target your audience and boost conversion rate. And that’s exactly what ClickFunnels solves for you.
ClickFunnels has amazing features to help you build an effective sales funnel without having to start from scratch. There are templates and beautiful designs for your product website. Moreover, ClickFunnels isn’t lacking in blogging. Websites built by Clickfunnels are well optimized for Google ranking.
Offering different solutions to convert your customers, ClickFunnels offers a one-click upsell feature that allows you to increase your customer value by adding additional products to the cart for customers.
Their membership areas let you create amazing membership pages that host your premium content or subscription content. Definitely you can sell a membership program on a one-time fee or a subscription fee.
Other conspicuous features that you can find in the ClickFunnels dashboard are sales funnel builder, affiliate center, autoresponders, follow-up funnels, and many others.
Where ClickFunnels beat their competition is their tutorials and courses for entrepreneurs and marketers. As a matter of fact, their free and paid courses are next to nothing.
Needless to say, ClickFunnels seems to have a steep pricing, but if you know what you are doing, you will get good value for money. The founder Rusell Brandson has put together this free 3-day summit that provides a 30-day action plan to help you succeed with your marketing.
ClickFunnels pricing starts at $97 per month for the basic plan, $297 per month for the platinum plan, and $1497 for the collection plan, which is the most expensive plan they offer.
The last word for ClickFunnels is that it’s one of the best assistants for content marketers to build effective sales funnels. Obviously, ClickFunnels is quite expensive, but you will get value for your money.
2. SharpSpring
Another amazing content marketing tool you might need is SharpSpring. Founded in 1998 and one of the old marketing tools, SharpSpring has grown to become a strong alternative for its competitor, Hubspot.
Rather than being just an email tool, SharpSpring is a full suite marketing automation tool; that allows you to monitor your different marketing campaigns and also track what’s working.
The ability to track what’s bringing results in your marketing campaign is the foundation of SharpSpring according to its founder, Rick Carlson.
Among many features, SharpSpring allows you to send out emails, build landing pages with a library of templates, create forms, design your emails, lead nurturing, automation, lead scoring, and many more. SharpSpring offers different solutions for small businesses, agencies, and enterprises.
Notably, SharpSpring offers flexible pricing plans for different categories of businesses. They offer services for small businesses, agencies, and enterprises.
SharpSpring offers a month to month flexible billing that’s flexible enough to get started easily. The month-month pricing removes the word “commitment” from the pricing, and allows you to stop using the software anytime.
For the small business package, SharpSpring offers three different pricing plans which include the basic plan that costs $550 per month supporting not more than 1500 contacts to reach out to, the second plan that supports 10,000 contacts costs $850 per month, and finally the premium plan that costs $1250 per month offering support for up to 20,000 words.
3. Buzzsumo
Not knowing what content to create, is normal for most content marketers.
Not a sign of unseriousness, but an occurrence every marketer does have. And it was on this basis that BuzzSumo was created.
BuzzSumo is your content marketing tool for carrying out content research. BuzzSumo curates the best and most performing blog posts on every topic you search, giving a heads-up on the type of content to produce.
Rather than just doing a keyword search, BuzzSumo allows you to plug in a domain name ( your competitor’s domain name) and then curate their best content alongside a rating of the social media shares and links.
Absolutely, BuzzSumo is one of the best content curation software to have as a content marketer. BuzzSumo helps you to discover trending topics, evergreen topics, keywords, and many more.
You can also narrow your check on the top-performing content on YouTube, Facebook, and the Web. Moreover, you can discover key influencers interested in chosen topics, and many other content researching features.
BuzzSumo is a must-have tool for an average content marketer who cannot shy away from creating contents and a bulk part of your work involves creating content.
As per the pricing , BuzzSumo offers four different pricing plans; Pro, Plus, Large, and Enterprise plan.
The pro plan costs $99 per month. The plus plan costs $179 per month. While the large and the enterprise plan costs $299 per month and $499+ per month respectively.
Definitely there are restrictions on the Pro and Plus plans. But there are only fewer restrictions on the Large plan and absolute zero restrictions on the enterprise plan.
4. MailChimp
MailChimp is one of the best email marketing tools in the industry. It can also be regarded as an all-in-one solution, but email marketing remains its strength. It is one of the best content marketing tools for handling your email marketing.
Although MailChimp offers other services like running Facebook ads campaigns, Twitter ads, etc. the services aren’t as good as the email marketing service they offer.
Equipped with all you need to collect and manage emails, MailChimp can be regarded as an all-in-one solution when it comes to email automation.
MailChimp allows you to manage your customers by slicing and dicing them into segments based on their interests.
For a start, MailChimp offers prebuilt segments to put your customers.
With MailChimp software, you can create signup forms to collect information, put them in segments, and then send them a targeted mail based on their interest.
And that’s the major use of MailChimp as a content marketer.
MailChimp offers behavioral targeting feature that enables you to send certain messages to your targets based on set triggers.
The trigger could be purchasing equipment. Immediately after purchase, MailChimp automatically sends transactional emails to the buyer.
Other services that MailChimp offers are landing pages, postcards, shoppable landing pages, custom domains, tags, and report analytics.
As good as it sounds, MailChimp offers a forever free plan with limited functions and features.
The remaining three plans: essential, standard, and premium plan comes at a monthly fee.
The essential plan starts from $10 per month, while the standard comes at $15 per month, and finally, the premium plan costs $299 per month.
5. SEMRush
SemRush is your go-to SEO tool for keyword research and backlinks research. It is undoubtedly one of the best content marketing tools for researching content.
Best known for their keyword research tool, SemRush provides a detailed analysis of keywords with their difficulty score, monthly search volume, related keywords, and sites already ranking for the keyword.
SemRush earns the medal for being one of the best keyword research tools to use; with different filtering options available.
An important filtering feature for better and accurate research is the country filter. SemRush allows you to narrow your keyword research to a country.
When narrowing your keyword research, SemRush provides unique, different and accurate results.
To content marketers, the ability to carry out keyword research and know what your audience is search for is a plus.
The user base of SemRush includes bloggers and content marketers as the majority.
Beyond keyword research, SEMRUsh is an all in one marketing tool for content, SEO, advertising, and social media marketing.
Needless to say, SemRush offers a backlink research tool that enables you to carry out deep research of the sites linking to your site alongside their domain authority, spam score, links gained and date, and links lost plus date.
However, SemRush allows you to run a project website that SemRush analyzes every month to give you a report on SEO performance and drawbacks.
You also get SEO site audits that enable you see if there are issues with your website that prevents it from ranking high on search engines. Some plans targeted at SEO agencies offer white label site audits.
Excellent. The cost?
SemRush presently has three standard recurring subscription plans; pro, guru, and business plan.
The pro plan costs $99.95, the standard plan costs $199.95, and the Business plan costs $399.95 per month.
And for agencies or companies in need of a custom plan, SemRush has this available as an enterprise plan.
6. Mobile Monkeys
One of the best content marketing tools that got its fame recently.
Not your regular tool like a marketing automation software. Mobile Monkey helps you integrate chatbots alongside live chat on your site.
Founded by Larry Kim, the founder of WordStream, Mobile Monkey lets you connect with your customers on live chat, SMS and Facebook messenger.
It can be regarded as the only tool of its own kind, Mobile Monkeys does well in providing an Omni-Channel experience for your customers.
Definitely a must-have tool for content marketers in the E-commerce niche. There’s nothing better than having a live chat with your customer on your website, and then sending SMS to complete the chat.
Although sending an SMS to continue a conversation can be expensive for small businesses, the Facebook messenger is a big win for businesses.
Switching among live chat, SMS, and Facebook messenger is a blessing to content marketers.
Interestingly, Mobile Monkey offers flexible pricing plans that are affordable and reasonably cheap for the kind of value they provide for customer management.
Mobile Monkey offers the Pro plan that costs $6.75 per month, the Pro unicorn plan costs $14.25 per month and the team plan that costs $199 per month.
However, I’d not want to miss out from the forever free plan.
Absolute Yes!
Mobile Monkey offers a forever plan with limited functions. However, it’s a great start to understand the tool and also see if it’s a good fit for you.
Finally, Mobile Monkey is best for content marketers in the e-commerce niche and businesses selling high priced products.
7. PerfectAudience
PerfectAudience is a solution born out of needs created in the content marketing space. A product by SharpSpring (parent company: NowSpot Inc. ), Perfect Audience is built to help you make the best of your paid ads.
What’s more painful than your ads campaign stopping even before you’re able to convert any of your audience?
SharpSpring created PerfectAudience to solve this need. PerfectAudience helps you collate all your retargeting advertising into one application.
Rather than having to switch interfaces and transferring data to collate results of your retargeting advertising, Perfect Audience helps you gather all your retargeting advertising to build that “Perfect Audience”.
A perfect audience helps you to gather retargeting audiences from the Web, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, mobile, and cross-device.
Definitely, with Perfect Audience, you can retarget lost visitors on your website with your ads and get a better conversion rate.
Interestingly, Perfect Audience is used by some of the best brands on the internet like Eventbrite, AppSumo, New Relic, 99Designs, and many more.
Surprisingly, Perfect Audience does not have a fixed pricing or a fee. Perfect Audience charges you based on the CPM you spend on retargeting ads.
In addition, they offer a two weeks free trial or a free trial until your ad spend reaches $100.
8. Ahrefs
Ahrefs is your go-to backlink research tool that is second to Moz (only). It is really an industry leader in SEO and backlink research.
Ahrefs comprises amazing features and tools for effective SEO monitoring. Apart from the tool itself, Ahrefs provides advanced SEO tutorials on their blog and YouTube channel.
And that makes them a resource and a tool for every content marketer.
Ahrefs allows you to track broken links on your site, spam links, anchor texts for links, and many other SEO insights to check.
Perfect for running website SEO audits, Ahrefs gives you insights on how to better optimize your website for search engines.
A look at Ahrefs dashboard, Ahrefs has site explorer, keyword explorer, site auditor, rank tracker, content explorer, domain comparison, link intersect, SEO toolbar, and WordPress plugin.
Ahrefs pricing starts from $99 per month apart from some other features that are added as an add-on to the package.
While Ahrefs is one of the best content marketing tools for backlink research, it offers other features like keyword research, SEO site audit, search rank tracking, and content research.
9. Yoast
If you’re a WordPress user or you’re a blogger, then you must’ve heard of Yoast at least once.
For bloggers, Yoast acts as their SEO assistance on their WordPress blog.
Curious what Yoast does?
Yoast is the most popular and most downloaded WordPress SEO plugin by WordPress users. A glance at the excellent result Yoast produces will give an answer to the popularity of the plugin.
Not just an SEO plugin, Yoast SEO also helps in formatting your posts properly and improving its readability.
With more than a decade in the industry, Yoast has grown to offer different plugins as a child of its main software.
Presently, Yoast offers Yoast SEO plugin, Video SEO plugin, Local SEO plugin, News SEO plugin, and woo-commerce SEO plugin.
Yoast SEO offers different products and training each with its price tag.
The first package that includes all Yoast SEO WordPress plugins costs $159 per year. And the Yoast SEO plugin plus training courses come at $479 per year.
If you’re interested in their training courses, Yoast SEO training courses come at a standalone price of $399 per year.
The regular and most used product is the standalone Yoast SEO WordPress plugin that costs $71 per year for one site.
In the end, Yoast is a must-have for bloggers interested in ranking high on search engines. For details, click here.
10. HubSpot
Hubspot is an all-in-one solution for marketing automation, sales, and customer experience ( CRM ). Founded in 2006, Hubspot has been regarded as the best inbound marketing tool for content marketers.
Referring to its tools as hubs, Hubspot offers free CRM hub, sales hub, CMS hub, marketing hub, and Services hub.
Each of the hubs is a tools and features offered by Hubspot software.
Notably, the forever free Hubspot CRM allows you to manage your customers at no extra cost to you.
The free CRM includes a reporting dashboard, company insights, deal tracking, pipeline management, email tracking and notifications, prospect tracking, meeting scheduling, and live chat.
The CMS is the most recent addition to the tool. Hubspot CMS is a content management system with a drag and drop interface, contact attribution reporting, adaptive testing, and SEO recommendation.
11. Grammarly
When creating content in the form of blog posts or Ad copywriting, you definitely need to double-check your sentences and blog post to correct Grammatical errors.
Definitely, if you’re a content writer; you need Grammarly.
Grammarly is one of the best writing tools to have as a blogger and content marketer. It helps you to check for any grammatical errors present in your craft.
And the most interesting part of it is that you can use Grammarly free with only a few restrictions compared to the premium plan.
But as expected, the premium plan is the best for content marketers; because it gives more direct and well-optimized suggestions for your words.
Grammarly premium plan allows you to switch from US English to British English. Suitable for both nonnative English speakers and native English speakers, Grammarly allows you to check for errors in your document.
Moreover, Grammarly provides a chrome extension that double-checks your Google Docs while working online. Plus, you can upload your word document to Grammarly and check if its free of errors and mistakes.
As for pricing, the premium plan costs $30 per month. It is the best content marketing tool for checking grammar and spelling.
12. LeadPages
LeadPages is created for the main purpose of helping you grow your email subscriber lists. Not your regular email marketing tool, Leadpages does not support sending of regular emails to your list; but is concerned about collecting more emails.
Here’s what LeadPages does. Leadpages has a library of templates for building highly converting landing pages, which you then use to collect emails from your audience. Interestingly, Leadpages has a website builder that allows you to build a custom landing page with a custom domain you own.
Alternatively, you can download the LeadPages WordPress plugin and install your lead page landing page into your WordPress site to make it easier to integrate with an already-prepared site.
The form builders are one of the greatest weapons of LeadPages. LeadPages form builder allows you to create a form with irresistible offers to draw your audience into your list.
Ultimately, Leadpages tutorials and courses will be of help in putting your lead pages in order. Their tutorial is in-depth enough to get you started easily.
13. GetResponse
GetResponse is an all-in-one solution for email marketing and definitely not your regular email marketing software. It does more than manage your email list, it provides a webinar solution to host webinars.
Founded in 1998, GetResponse is regarded as one of the oldest and best email marketing service providers in the industry. GetResponse has a library of email templates to help you get started with engaging your subscribers.
The tagging and segmentation tool allows you to slice and dice your list based on their interest in order to send highly targeted emails to your subscribers. GetResponse autoresponders automatically send your subscribers emails based on a trigger. The trigger could be anything from replying to your emails, buying your product, and many more.
GetResponse also houses a library of landing page templates that lets you build a landing page to collect emails from your audience. The landing page templates are advanced enough to help you include attractive offers like videos and webinars on the page.
However, where GetResponse beats the competition is its webinar hosting platform. Rare to see email marketing tools that allow you to host webinars, GetResponse does.
For eCommerce marketing, GetResponse offers abandoned carts, payment processors, automation, store, reporting, and integrations.
The abandoned carts remind customers of all abandoned carts when they’re about to leave your store. The payment processor unlocks different payment gateway for integration on your eCommerce store.
Finally, the pricing plan. GetResponse offers four different pricing plans which are; basic, plus, professional, and enterprise plans. The basic plan starts from $15 per month offering email marketing, autoresponders, and many more features.
The plus plan starts from $49 per month offering all in the basic plan plus contact scoring and tagging, 5 sales funnels, automation builder, and webinar funnels.
And at $99 per month, the professional plan offers all in the Plus plan together with unlimited automation builder, paid webinars, and on-demand webinars.
Finally, the enterprise plan offers all in the professional plan together with transactional emails, account managers, and dedicated IP addresses.
14. Fiverr
This is a freelance marketplace that serves as a middleman between freelancers and clients. Fiverr lets you hire a freelancer to help your work on or with you on a project.
As a content marketer, your task involves managing a project and scaling a business through content. If you’re working on a project, then it might be necessary to hire other marketers to work with you. And this is what Fiverr does.
There are loads of services on Fiverr to help you succeed with your content marketing. You might be good in certain areas, but may have challenges in others. A tool like Fiverr will offer a pool of skilled freelancers that will deliver value and allow you focus on your own core expertise.
Fiverr offers the cheapest price for getting a task done, starting from $5. And the interesting point, Fiverr offers different categories and services to choose from.
You’re not billed monthly and neither does Fiverr offer any of the services on their platform.
Small businesses and individuals are the providers of the services you find on Fiverr.
And this makes the pricing of Fiverr services different and negotiable depending on the freelancer you’re hiring.
Where Fiverr comes in is to hold your payment and only pay the freelancer when you confirm that the service is okay.
That said, Fiverr offers a pro service that offers premium service by professionals and this comes at a premium price. Not the $5 service but ranges from $100 and above.
Definitely, with the Fiverr pro service, you can be sure of getting a quality job done for you. Plus, Fiverr examines their freelancers through a test depending on their niche to ascertain the level of their skills.
Definitely, Fiverr will always find its place as one of the best content marketing tools considering the great solution it provides for content marketers.
Absolutely, as a content marketer, you don’t need to do all the tasks yourself. You can outsource some of your tasks to qualified freelancers and have it done for you at a cheaper price, thanks to Fiverr.
We added Fiverr to this list of best content marketing tools because it provides you with a platform to higher talent that will help you succeed in content marketing.
On Fiverr, you will find writers for your blog posts, sales copy, email copy, etc. You can also find experts that will help you with SEO, social media, editting, etc.
To Learn More about how to sell your skills or for opportunities for growing your business on Fiverr, Click Here.
15. Aweber
Aweber is an email marketing tool like GetResponse. Unlike GetResponse, Aweber focused majorly on majorly providing email marketing services.
To start with, Aweber offers an AI-supported designer that allows you to design beautifully branded email templates in a few seconds.
Plus, their drag and drop builder for email marketing and landing page allows you to do more (customize) with your emails without having to write a code at all.
Although designing emails isn’t difficult thanks to Aweber smart designer. Aweber provides Built-in/pre-designed email templates to get you started.
Aweber offers a powerful automation tool. For starters, Aweber lets you attach triggers and flows to your emails that deliver based on actions.
Apart from email automation, Aweber allows you to segment your list based on interests and what brings them into the list. Plus, it provides detailed report and analytics of your email campaigns.
The ability to integrate Aweber with other popular applications and apps is a plus. Some popular applications Aweber integrated with are: WordPress, PayPal, Etsy, Eventbrite, Shopify, wooCommerce, and Facebook. Learn More.
16. SendInBlue
SendInBlue isn’t just an email marketing tool, it’s a communication tool that fosters communication and relationship between you and your customer.
Started as a digital marketing agency, SendInBlue discovered the need for a marketing tool that enhances relationship with customers, and this was the start of SendInBlue as a tool.
SendInBlue lets you collect, manage, and engage your email list with the information they need.
To start with, SendInBlue equips you with an editor and templates for signup forms. You have the option of integrating the signup form with your website. The email elements are customizable like color, images, and texts.
Just like Aweber, you get to enjoy email automation, tagging, and segmentation. SendInBlue allows you to group your list based on their interest.
However, unlike most email marketing tools, SendInBlue gives you the option of sending SMS to your customers.
While there are possibilities of your customers not receiving email notification on their phone, the SMS gets to them immediately.
17. Diib
Diib is an advanced analytics tool that gives you growth insights for your website analyzing your website to see what you’re doing right and wrong.
For me, understanding the problem Diib solves was high on my priority list. At first, I thought it is an analytics tool that gives insight on speed.
But getting to use the software personally, I discovered firsthand that Diib is not just an advanced analytics software that compares your site with other sites in your profile displaying areas for you to improve in.
Diib performs SEO audits to see how you’re faring on Google. Moreover, with Diib you can monitor your social media accounts and get insights to grow your social media channel.
For content marketers, Diib provides an external tool to analyze your website for a better web presence, giving you instructions and suggestions in simple English you can understand on how you can earn more from your website.
Offering two pricing plans, a free plan, and a pro plan. The free plan only supports one site and does not include the SEO & keyword audit and social media channels monitoring.
The Pro plan starts at $19 per month offering all the features in the free plan plus growth plan, support up to 30 websites, social media monitoring, SEO & keywords monitoring, and 24/7 professional help anytime.
18. Contently
Contently is the solution for your content needs. Housing thousands of freelance writers from various niches, Contently makes it easy to hire a writer.
As content marketers, we live and breathe content. Without content we are powerless, as our gospel is good content brings results.
From blog posts, infographics, poems, press releases, videos, images, ebooks, and many more; they’re all the backbone of content marketing.
And here’s where Contently plays in. Contently is a content marketing agency that let you hire freelance writers for your content marketing projects.
Instead of going through the stress and risks in hiring a skilled and knowledgeable freelance writer, Contently maps you to a suitable writer for your tasks.
Moreover, freelance writers on Contently have a portfolio section that contains all their writing samples and previous projects accomplished.
Definitely, as a content marketer (read : client) you have access to the portfolio of freelance writers.
Likewise, as a freelance content marketer, you have access to a pool of high paying clients. All you have to do is set up a profile and update the profile with your previous projects. Then, Contently matches you with a suitable project that you can handle.
Looking at record, Contently has paid more than $40 million dollars to their freelance writers’ community. And this is a massive revenue similar to those of Saas tools.
Definitely, even though Contently isn’t a tool per se, it’s a must-have for content marketers. Learn More
19. WordPress
WordPress is one of the best blogging platform for bloggers and content marketers looking to build an online business.
Not just one of the best, WordPress powers the largest share of the websites on the internet. It is undoubtedly one of the best content marketing tools if you want to build a website.
And what makes WordPress a better option for bloggers, content marketers, and entrepreneurs is the flexibility that WordPress provides.
For a start, you’ve the options of doing a complete redesign of your website, countless WordPress plugins to install on your website and never-ending WordPress themes to choose from.
The number of WordPress plugin creators is ever increasing which leads to more and better options for WordPress users to choose from.
However, WordPress isn’t a free solution. It’s a paid solution that comes at a fee depending on your hosting company and the bandwidth you use a month.
Unlike free blogging platforms like Blogger that offers a forever free plan with little flexibility; WordPress stands out and is seen as a professional tool for professionals.
Although WordPress also offers a forever free plan on their other platform, their best service so far is their paid plan; as expected.
To get started with WordPress, you need a custom domain and a paid web hosting service that you can rely on.
With so many web hosting companies to choose from ( with different price tags), the cost of starting a WordPress blog varies depending on the domain registrar and web hosting company. Learn More.
20. Canva
As content marketers, we are known to create different forms of content. And among many of the content we create, Infographics and images are one of the common visual content to create.
Creating an infographic can be technical if you’re creating them on a desktop graphics software like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw. Plus, creating web images is quite different; as you need an image that’s light and fit the resolution.
And that’s exactly what Canva solves. Canva houses a lot of templates to create the different forms of content you need. From social media images, eBook cover, Infographics, Instagram stories, and many more, Canva has a template for nearly everything.
In essence, Canva is online graphic design software that helps you create the visual content your business needs to complement your content marketing strategy.
Multiple businesses use Canva to create infographics and social media images. Definitely, as a content marketer, it’s unlikely that you have knowledge on how to use the regular graphics design software ( Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw) and that’s another solution Canva provides.
You definitely don’t need any tutorial or experience in graphics design to get started with the Canva app. Canva is as simple as ABC. Everything is written in simple sentences for you to understand.
Navigating the platform isn’t hard. Plus, Canva provides some free stock images to choose from and paid images as well. In addition, you have the option to choose an image format between Jpeg and PNG for the free plan.
Canva offers a free plan that gives you permission to design anything. The major restriction and setback you’ll encounter on the free plan are the royal images you need to pay for. However, you can always upload your own images to Canva.
Absolutely, Canva isn’t without a paid plan. Canva pro plan costs $9.95 per month offering over 60 million premium images, 1000+ fonts, brand kit, unlimited folders, resizing to any format, premium animations, and priority support.
21. Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest is a tool owned by Neil Patel. Very likely that you must have the name before. Ubersuggest is a freemium SEO tool that lets you carry out SEO research on your site. The tool allows you to perform keyword research, backlink research, SEO audit, and much more SEO analysis.
Absolutely one of the best, UberSuggest started as a free tool and alternative to popular tools like SemRush, Ahrefs, and Moz. However, a paid plan has been added to the tool with restrictions placed on the free plan.
For content marketers, we know how important it is to know what your audience is searching for. And with Ubersuggest, you can diagnose what keywords your audience are searching.
The keyword research includes the competitive score, the average DR of sites ranking for the keyword, and many more. Learn More.
22. ContentCal
ContentCal is a tool that provides a content marketing calendar for you to organize and plan your tasks. Founded in 2014 by Alex Packham, ContentCal was started as a social media agency which led to the online collaboration and content marketing tool.
ContentCal allows you to create a marketing calendar to plan your tasks, it allows you to collaborate with other content marketers by sharing your calendar with them.
Although new in the industry, ContentCal has gained recognition as one of the best collaboration and scheduling tools for content marketers.
To start with, ContentCal provides a product tour to let you understand what their product solves for you.
For collaboration, ContentCal provides tools to enhance collaboration with other content marketers. The approvals feature allows you to send posts for a single or multiple click approval. With tagging, you can group your content or processes for easy tracking.
Other features include pinboard, publish times, Grammarly, post previews, web clipper, and many more.
However, ContentCal isn’t a free tool. They offer four different pricing plans, Pro plan, Company plan, Premium plan, and Agency plan.
The Pro plan costs $17 per month, best for individuals managing social. The Pro plan includes 1 user and calendar, 4 social profiles, and other basic features included.
The Company plan costs $47 per month supporting 2 users and calendars, and 8 social profiles. The Premium plan costs $79 per month offering all the features in the Pro plan including custom social profiles and supports more than 2 users and calendars.
Finally, the agency plan allows you to manage your client content marketing calendar all in one place. The agency plan includes onboarding, training, support priority, and other features in the premium plan. However, the agency plan comes at a custom pricing.
23. Trello
As a content marketer, we curate and share ideas with our marketing team, client and partners.
Whenever you’ve new ideas or content marketing strategies you’d like to implement on a project, jotting them and sharing them is the next best thing to do.
Trello is your collaboration tool for working and sharing ideas effectively with your team.
Just like CoSchedule and ContentCal, Trello helps you collaborate and plan well with your team beforehand.
And where Trello beats the competition is it’s easy to use interface and amazing collaboration features present in the dashboard.
Trello provides built-in workflow automation with Butler. The automation simplifies some of the tedious tasks that collaboration requires.
For a start, you need to set a deadline when working with a team, in order to show seriousness and also Meetup with the plan. And sometimes you might need to send a reminder to your team to remind them of the close deadline.
You don’t have to do this yourself. Trello allows setting due date command for the automatic reminder.
Other automation provided by Butler on Trello are rule-based triggers, custom cards, board buttons, and calendar commands.
As expected, Trello has a library of templates to choose from and get started with managing your collaboration in few minutes.
To get started with Trello is free. Not a free trial but a forever free plan. The forever free plan includes unlimited personal boards, unlimited cards, lists, 10 team boards, automation by Butler, and 2 factor authentication. Finally, the free plan does not support more than 10MG per file.
Definitely, Trello isn’t without a paid plan. Trello offers two different paid pricing plans, the business plan and Enterprise plan.
The business plan costs $9.99 per month, while the Enterprise plan costs $20.83 per month.
24. Adobe Marketing Cloud
Adobe marketing cloud is adobe’s marketing web analytics software. Just like Google analytics and Diib, Adobe Marketing Cloud provides web data and analysis of your website performance.
The Adobe marketing cloud makes it easy to manage content, execute campaigns, and personalization.
The marketing analytics provides analytics across all cross-channels. Learn More.
25. HootSuite
As its name implies, Hootsuite is a suite that allows you to manage and update your social media channels all from one place.
Founded in 2008, HootSuite has moved up the chain to become one of the best social media management tools available in the market.
Equipped with tools to help you track and monitor your social media channels.
Rather than logging to all of your social media channels, all you’ve to do is log in to your HootSuite account.
From your HootSuite account, you can then give HootSuite access to all your login details for the different social media channels you have.
And right from there, you can schedule and post updates, tweets, pictures, to your various social media channel.
As content marketers, we are already busy with our daily tasks. Adding the task of managing various social media channels can be tiring and overwhelming.
You’d rather seclude a day to schedule a full month or two months content on HootSuite and let them keep updating automatically.
Sure that sounds nice. And that’s the solution HootSuite provides for all content marketers.
Other than managing your social media accounts, HootSuite provides a detailed analysis of how well your social media account is thriving in their respective channel
Plus, the analytics provided are for each of the social media channels you integrate on HootSuite.
Aside from social media, HootSuite can also serve as a collaboration tool for your team.
As good as the offer sounds, HootSuite is a paid tool. HootSuite offers four different paid plans, professional plan, team, business, and an enterprise plan.
The professional plan costs $19 per month offering essential tools. The plan supports 10 social media accounts, unlimited scheduling, and 1 user permission.
The team plan costs $99 per month supporting 20 social media accounts, unlimited scheduling, and 3 users permissions.
The Business plan costs $599 per month supporting 35 social media profiles, unlimited scheduling, and 5 users permissions.
Finally, the Enterprise plan offers custom pricing and custom solutions for large businesses.
For the professional and team plan, HootSuite offers a free trial. While the business and enterprise plans allow you to request a demo.
26. CoSchedule Headline Analyzer
Absolutely, headlines play an important role in content marketing. The headline is the magnet that attracts readers to click your content.
CoSchedule Headline analyzer provides a tool for you to run your possible headlines and pick the best for your content.
CoSchedule does this by studying successful blog posts titles. So, this is one of the best content marketing tools for writing that captivating headline. Learn More.
27. Hemingway Editor
Hemingway Editor is your best partner as a content writer. Writing of articles, blog posts, eBooks, and many more works can be interesting.
But unless you run your articles on an editor, you won’t have the error-free article you need.
Hemingway Editor is a free app that corrects your sentences and spellings by highlighting them with different colors.
A yellow highlight shows a sentence is too lengthy and complex. To solve this, you need to split the sentences
Your sentence will get a red highlight if it’s too dense and complex. Adverbs and weakening phrases are shown in blue for quick and easy edits. Check it out here.
28. Feedly
Feedly gives back the control to you. You are in control of the type of information you want and how you want to consume them.
Rather than getting overwhelmed by the millions of information on the internet, you can train your robot assistant, Leo to research, curate, and organize your favorite content.
Feedly is one of the best tools for bookmarking wonderful stories that cut your interests.
As content marketers, we love to read great content that cuts our interest and also adds value to use. But at the same time, we are one of the busiest set of people.
We can be buried in work for a month and not being able to keep with industry news and information.
However, with the help of a Feedly robot, we can use a tool to curate and also filter the information we digest.
Under the name Leo, Feedly robot helps you carry out the task by asking you questions based on the kind of information you love (read: interests).
Instead of being just a web platform, Feedly chooses to be everywhere and compatible with all devices. Feedly has an Android app and an iOS app for mobile users.
Although Feedly offers a free version, they offer a premium version that starts from $6 per month.
29. Pocket
Similar to Feedly, Pocket allows you to research and save content into their app.
As expected, there are times you would come across amazing content that you’d like to read.
But you’re very busy and need to get back to work. All you need to do is save the post into your pocket app.
In essence, pocket allows you to keep knowledgeable information in your Pocket.
30. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the best free analytics tool in the industry. Although there is numerous analytics tools that you can use, Google Analytics provides a far better in-depth analysis for your audience.
It comes along with traffic analytics to analyze your website traffic and visitors. Google Analytics is capable of tracking the address of your content marketing.
Apart from Web traffic analytics, Google Analytics allows you to track the performance of your advertising.
Google Analytics provides you a code that you need to add to your site in order to give Google analytics permission to track your site and monitor your growth.
Their detailed analytics is a plus. Google Analytics allows you to track your customers’ demographics, interests, and behavior.
Google Analytics also gives a report on conversion rates based on your goal with your web traffic.
As expected, Google analytics is a free product. You can access nearly all the features with the free plan.
However, for more advanced and in-depth features, Google analytics charges a small amount to access.
31. CoSchedule
CoSchedule is one of the best management tool. It provides built-in templates to plan and schedule your content marketing.
Best for bloggers, CoSchedule has a blog calendar to help bloggers and content marketers maintain their publishing schedule.
Apart from the blog calendar template, CoSchedule provides a marketing calendar to manage all your marketing tasks.
With CoSchedule, you can collaborate well with your clients and also coordinate your team properly. Learn More.
32. VidYard
Vidyard is an online video platform that allows you to create, host and share videos with your team
Not your regular software for a webinar, Vidyard is best for business purposes that require more communication and involve a lesser number of attendees.
The Video Platform allows you to record your screen, use WebCam, edit your videos, and integrate with Gmail, Outlook, and other business tools.
Where VidYard finds applications are software demos, marketing videos, customer onboarding, customer support, analyst briefings, employee communications, new hire onboarding, project status updates, and many more business purposes. It is one of the best content marketing tools in this category.
Vidyard offers five pricing plans for businesses. The first plan is their forever free plan that does not require any payment. The free plan lets you upload and share unlimited videos, and embed up to 5 videos on your website.
The second, Pro plan, costs $15 per month and allows you to upload and share unlimited videos, embed up to 20 videos, remove VidYard branding, add a logo and CTA, and email support.
At $150 per month, the starter plan provides hosting and analytics, interactive call to action, share and embed videos, and email support.
The Plus plan costs $850 per month offering all the features on the starter plan plus A/B test thumbnails, advanced analytics, SEO, custom user permissions, and automatic transcriptions.
33. Airtable
Airtable works like a spreadsheet and makes it easy for you to organize your tasks and also collaborate with your team.
The tool simplifies setting up your spreadsheet to suit your needs. Moreover, there are a lot of templates to get you started in a few minutes.
Airtable offers four different pricing plans, free, plus, pro, and an enterprise plan.
The forever free plan is a good start. The free plan includes unlimited bases, 1200 records per base, 2GB attachment per base, and 2 weeks revisions, and snapshot history.
The Plus plan costs $10 per month offering unlimited bases, 5000 records per base, 5GB attachment per base, and 6 months revision and snapshot.
The Pro plan costs $20 per month offering unlimited bases, 50000 records per base, 20GB attachment per base, and 1-year revision and snapshot. Learn More.
34. HotJar
User experience is as important as the content on your site. HotJar helps you optimize your website for a better user experience.
It provides heat maps that analyze the part of your site readers are engaging with. HotJar is an analytics tool for discovering the content your readers are engaging with the most. Founded in 2014, HotJar has grown to over 550,000 websites worldwide in 180 countries.
How HotJar does this is by painting the most interacted part on your site with a color. And you get to see the content performing best and the links being clicked.
35. Google Optimize
Google Optimize is Google’s conversion rate optimization tool. Built on the noses of Google analytics, Google optimize provides a more detailed analysis of your audience’s behavior and helps you make the best of your traffic.
With Google Optimize, you can increase your customers conversion rate and definitely increase the value of your visitors.
Unlike other conversation rate tools, Google optimize is a free tool that doesn’t charge you anything to use the tool.
36. Unsplash
Unsplash is a platform that houses several free stock images under common creative license. With Unsplash, you can obtain high-quality images at no extra cost to you.
With over 1 million stock images, there are a lot of free images to choose from. Unsplash lets you search for images based on their keywords.
37. Evernote
As content marketers, we value ideas. And note-taking is an essential part of our work. We keep notes for various reasons. Evernote is your tool for taking and organizing your notes.
Evernote makes taking notes easy to do and effective. Also, Evernote helps share your note easily with others.
As a content marketer, you can use Evernote to jot your marketing ideas, business meetings, and also share it with your team. Learn More.
38. Adobe Photoshop
Credit: Adobe Photoshop
Having discussed Unsplash as the platform for getting free stock images, nothing beats designing your own imagery yourself.
If your content marketing strategy revolves around visual content, then you cannot miss out Adobe Photoshop as a tool for creating visuals.
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics design tool for creating fliers, online ads, infographics, images, and any other visual content you can think of apart from Videos.
Unlike most of the tools listed here, Adobe Photoshop isn’t an online tool but software that requires installation on your computer. It is one of the best content marketing tools for imaging and graphic design.
39. GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Serving as a free and open-source image editor, GIMP provides tools and interface for retouching your images.
Plus, you can make free form drawing with GIMP.
Unlike Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is a simpler and free design solution. Where Adobe Photoshop has four healing brushes, GIMP has just one. Learn More
40. Easel.ly
Easel.ly is a powerful web-based tool for making visuals like infographics.
While content marketing is about creating both written and visual content, you need tools to create those content.
For visual content, infographics, Easel.ly is a good alternative and solution for infographics.
Very affordable for everyone, Easel.ly pricing starts from $2 for students. Learn More
41. SimilarWeb
As a content marketer, metrics are essential for us. Metrics help us know the result of our content marketing campaign and how our website is performing.
While I use Google Analytics for tracking my site traffic, Google Optimize for optimizing my site for a better conversion rate, there are many other metrics that we keep up with as content marketers.
One of the metrics is checking how our site ranks against our competitors. SimilarWeb provides web analytics for businesses. SimilarWeb ranks your website and shows you the keywords you’re ranking for alongside how you rank against your competitors. Learn More.
42. inVideo
InVideo is an online video editor that helps make the best of your video content. As usual, creating great videos is essential for better engagement.
To start with, you can edit your YouTube videos before uploading them on YouTube for better quality. With InVideo, you can add intro and outro, especially into your videos. Facebook ads and slideshows are just one of the places inVideo comes in.
Plus, inVideo makes it easy to convert your YouTube videos to mp4 and mp3 with little to no stress. Pricing for inVideo starts from $10 per month best for businesses. And the second plan offers unlimited solutions at $30. Learn More.
43. Frame.io
If videos are a churn part of your work, then you need Frame.io. Frame.io makes it easy to work on video projects and also collaborate with others on it.
As expected, collaborating on a video project requires sharing videos with your team and getting their feedback on it.
Before Frame.io, you’d need to save your videos in a platform like Dropbox, then email your team with the link to the dropbox. And to be frank, this sucks. Communication will be very slow because you would need to send emails and they would need to download the file and then upload it once again.
Now with Frame.io, you can collaborate on video projects easily. Frame.io allows you to upload your video on the platform, and your team or clients can view it and give their opinion right away on the platform.
In essence, if you’re a content marketer and work with video projects quite well; Frame.io is a must-have for you. Learn More.
44. Zoho
Just Microsoft office, Zoho is an Indian web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and many more tools you can find in Microsoft office suite.
However, Zoho offers many more tools for a better office experience for business owners. To start with, Zoho offers a customer management tool, webinar conferencing tool, etc
As expected, an office is always equipped with the necessary equipment and tools needed to do your regular work. For Zoho, this is true. Zoho suite is equipped with different tools for performing the necessary office tasks.
In addition, Zoho integrates well with a lot of apps both mobile and desktop apps. Zoho integrates well with sales and marketing apps, email and collaboration tools, business, finance, IT, and the Help Desk app. Learn More.
45. Systeme.io
Systeme is an all-in-one business solution that allows you to manage your email marketing campaigns and also launch your membership sites all from Systeme.
Rather than being just an email marketing tool, Systeme also serves as a sales funnel builder. Systeme provides templates for building effective sales funnels.
The email marketing features autoresponders that makes it easy to engage with your audience. That said, Systeme allows you to build paid membership sites for your online products.
Remarkably, Systeme equips you with a shopping cart solution. That said, Systeme offers order bump, payment integration, coupon codes, A/B testing, and a webinar platform.
46. UberFlip
Uberflip isn’t your regular content marketing tool, Uberflip gives your content a lift by providing a better content experience.
Instead of giving your audience content in a poor experience, Uberflip packages your content and services to your audience in an attractive way.
Above are some of the best content marketing tools. You will not need them all, but a few of them in your content marketing arsenal will lead to great results.
The Tecno Spark 5 Pro comes in as the most premium smartphone in the Tecno Spark 5 series. It packs in a 4GB RAM, 64GB of internal storage, support for 4G VOLT LTE, and lots more. In summary, it offers a package that appeals to enthusiasts who needed something better than the other members of the series.
The Tecno Spark 5 Pro shares the same design as its siblings. Telling these smartphones apart is near impossible. In summary, you are going to love this design if you were a fan of the design of its less premium siblings.
The rear panel of this smartphone is home to a gradient pattern that offers two shades of a color. You also get a capacitive fingerprint sensor and a square camera module housing quad cameras and also the Tecno branding which indicates its a Tecno smartphone.
Upfront we have a 6.6-inch IPS LCD display with a screen resolution of 720 x 1600 and a screen density of 266 PPI. This display is home to a circular cut out that houses its front-facing camera.
The Cameras
The star feature on the Tecno Spark 5 Pro cameras, is its 16MP rear camera, which is tops the 13MP camera on the Spark 5 and the Tecno Spark 5 air.
Other cameras in the rear camera department include a 2MP macro camera, a 2MP depth camera, and a QVGA camera. This rear camera setup is capable of shooting 720p and 1080p videos at 1080p. You also have HDR and Panorama mode for photos.
Selfies are manned by the same 8MP camera on the less premium Tecno spark 5. You also get a 1080p video record and HDR for photos.
Hardware and Software
The Tecno Spark 5 Pro brings a spec bump to the spark 5 series. The new spec combo is geared towards reducing lags that are accrued during tasks.
Powering this Andriod phone is an Octa-core MediaTek Helio A22 Processor, a PowerVR GE8320 GPU, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage, and non-removable 5000mAh battery.
On the software side, it runs the HIOS 6.1 user interface on top of the Android 10 operating system.
Connectivity
The Tecno Spark 5 Pro features a 3.5mm jack and micro-USB 2.0 port. It also features Wifi and Bluetooth.
Internet connectivity on the Tecno Spark 5 Pro is capped at 4G LTE, due to the absence of 5G support.
Tecno Spark 5 Pro Price and Availability
The price of the Tecno Spark 5 Pro wasn’t known as at the time this article was written. This price section will be updated once the price is made known.
Tecno Spark 5 Pro Specs
Here are a few specs of the Tecno Spark 5 Pro:
General Features
Platform: Android 10, HIOS 6.1
Processor: Octa-core Mediatek MT6761 Helio A22
GPU: PowerVR GE8320
Memory: 4GB RAM
Colours: Ice Jadeite, Spark Orange, Seabed Blue, Cloud White
Dimension: 164.7 x 76.3 x 8.8 mm
Weight: –
SIM Type: Nano
SIM Count: Dual
Display
Display: 6.6-inch IPS LCD, 720 x 1600 Pixels, 20:9 ratio (266 PPI )
Qubo P19 is a low budget smartphone designed to meet the needs of enthusiasts in need of the market for smartphones that don’t place a burden on the wallet. Despite being a low-cost Android phone, the Qubo P19 tries its best to touch on some features that make smartphone usage enjoyable.
Qubo P19 Key Specs & Features
5.5-inch IPS LCD display, 1280 × 640 pixels
Android 9.0 Pie
Quad-Core MT6739WA Processor
3GB RAM
32GB Built-in Storage, With SD Card Support
8MP + 0.3MP Dual Rear Camera
5MP Front Camera
Fingerprint Scanner (Rear Mounted)
4G LTE
5200 mAh Non-Removable Battery
Design and Display
The Qubo P19 design is the first low-budget smartphone indicator. A lot of the design elements here have been ditched by Android phone manufacturers. However, you can count it as a shortcoming you must endure when purchasing smartphones in this category.
Upfront on the Qubo P19, we have a 5.5-inch IPS LCD display with a screen resolution of 1280 × 640 pixels. This display is surrounded by chunky bezels. The top bezel is home to a camera flash, earpiece, and a proximity sensor.
On the rear, we have a dual texture finish, which comprises plastic and leather grain. This rear panel is home to a dual-camera setup, a capacitive fingerprint sensor, and the Qubo logo which indicates its a Qubo smartphone.
The Cameras
The fact that you are dealing with a low budget mobile phonemeans you will be settling for low-end cameras. Qubo didn’t leave any surprises here.
The rear camera department is home to a dual camera which comprises an 8MP primary camera and a 0.3MP depth camera for taking portrait shots.
Selfies on the Qubo P19 are manned by a single 5MP camera, which is supported by a camera flash for brighter images in low light conditions.
Hardware and Software
Putting the Qubo P19’s price tag into consideration, you get to find out that it offers one of the best specs sheets for the price. It may not anywhere near mid-range or high end, but has the capacity to basic tasks with little or no lags.
Under the hood is a quad core MT6739WA Processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal stroage, and a 5200mAh battery.
On the software side, it runs its interface on top of Android 9 Pie operating system.
The Infinix Hot 9 Pro is unarguably one of the most powerful smartphone from Infinix’s Hot series. It breaks out from the norm we saw in the past few years. The Infinix Hot 9 Pro comes packed with a 4GB RAM / 64GB storage combo. It also offers a 48MP rear primary camera, which somehow comes as a bonus considering the price category it belongs.
The design of the Infinix Hot 9 Pro is an exact replica of what we saw on the standard Infinix Hot 9. Both smartphones share the same chassis design.
On the rear, we have the same curved edges we saw on its less premium sibling. we also have a square camera module housing quad cameras and a camera flash. We have a circular capacitive fingerprint sensor and the Infinix and Hot branding which indicates its an Infinix phone.
Upfront we have a 6.6-inch IPS LCD display that houses a punch-hole camera. This display has a screen resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels and a screen density of 266 PPI
The Cameras
The Infinix Hot 9 Pro took a giant step in changing the status quo of cameras on smartphones from the Hot series, which in turn sets the Hot series on a higher pedestal.
The rear camera department has in its arsenal a 48MP primary camera, a 2MP macro camera, a 2MP depth camera and a QVGA camera for taking photos in low light scenarios. This setup is capable of shooting 1080p videos at 30fps. You also get HDR and Panorama for photos.
Please note that the Infinix Hot 9 Pro is totally incapable of utilizing its 48MP camera to its full potential, which is due to the fact that Helio P22 chipset lack support for a camera sensor as big as 48MP.
Selfies are manned by a single 8MP which is also capable of shooting 1080p videos at 30fps.
Hardware and Software
Infinix Hot 9 Pro brings a jump in the specs sheet. As discussed in the introductory paragraph, it is one of the most powerful Infinix smartphone to have come out of the Hot series.
It packs in an Octa-core MediaTek Helio P22 processor, a PowerVR GE832 GPU, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage, and a non-removable 5000mAh battery.
On the software side, it runs the XOS 6.0 user interface on top of the Android 10 operating system.
Connectivity
The Infinix Hot 9 Pro features a 3.5mm headphone jack, a version 2.0 Micro-USB port, wifi, and Bluetooth 5.0.
Internet connectivity on the Infinix Hot 9 Pro is capped at 4G LTE. which means downloads and streaming will be capped at 4G speeds.
Infinix Hot 9 Pro Price and Availability
The Price of the Infinix Hot 9 Pro X655F was not known as at the time this article was written, however, the price will be updated once it is made known.
The Infinix Hot 9 Pro was announced on May 29th, 2020, and is expected to be on sale in June 2020. It comes in Violet and Ocean Wave
Infinix Hot 9 Pro Specs
Here are a few specs of the Infinix Hot 9 X655F Pro:
General Features
Platform: Android 10, XOS 6.0
Processor: Octa-core MediaTek Helio P22 (12 nm)
GPU: PowerVR GE8320
Memory: 4GB RAM
Colours: Violet, Ocean Wave
Dimension: 165 x 76.8 x 8.7 mm
Weight: 185 g
SIM Type: Nano
SIM Count: Dual
Display
Display: 6.6 inch IPS Display, 720 x 1600 pixels, 20:9 aspect ratio (266 PPI density)
A foreigner who desires to invest in the Nigerian economy or a Nigerian that wishes to engage the services of a foreign expert must make certain that a business entity is registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission as a Limited liability Company (LTD)
Aligned with the conditions of the above assertion, it will be pertinent to take a critical look at the step by step guide, requirements and cost of processing an Expatriate quota application, Subject to Regularization (STR) Visa and Combine Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien card (CERPAC) after the completion of an incorporation process.
The essence of fusing all three processes in an article is consequent from the fact that none of the process can stand alone. Any company that commences the process of an Expatriate quota application must finalise it with a residence permit in that order.
STEP 1: Expatriate Quota
The First step a wholly Foreign company, a joint venture Company (between a Nigerian and a Foreign) or a Nigerian company wishing to have a Foreigner in its employment will take in order to secure an officially permitted residence permit for its foreign employees are as follows:
An application for an expatriate quota and Business permit (For a joint venture Company) addressed to the Permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Interior, Old Secretariat, Garki, Abuja, FCT.
Certificate of Incorporation issued by CAC upon the completion of the registration process.
Form CAC 2A and 7A or 1.1 (For samples of the Forms Click Here)
Memorandum and Articles of Association of the company evidencing its nature of Business.
Feasibility report assessing the practicability and viability of the projects of the applicant company.
Tax Clearance Certificate (TCC) issued by FIRS. The original must be presented for sighting.
Bank reference letter showing financial capacity of applicant.
Lease agreement confirming the applicant’s right to the use of a property for its business.
Joint Venture agreement( In case of a foreign partnership)
Evidence of capital and Machinery importation
Proposed salary, job description and academic qualification of the Expatriate(s)
Breakdown of Expatriate Quota and Business Permit Fees
S/NO
Item
Fees
1
Online registration/Automation
₦51,000
2
Processing Fee
₦30,000
3
Business Permit
₦100,000
4
Single Quota Position
₦30,000
(See reference for link regarding breakdown of expatriate quota and Business permit fees)
After the grant of an expatriate quota by the Minister of Interior, the next step to take before a Nigerian green card is issued is to apply for a Subject to Regularization (STR) VISA from the Nigerian Embassy in the country of origin of the expatriate where he or she has been residing for the last 6 months and the requirements and cost are:
STEP 2: Requirements for the Processing of a Subject to Regularization STR VISA
Valid Passport with a 6 months Validity
Letter of employment from the employer of the expatriate.
Credentials of the expatriate
Proof of online payment of Visa.
Total processing Fee: ₦70,000.
STEP 3: CERPAC (Residence permit application)
After the grant of an STR Visa, the expatriate can come into Nigeria and Regularize the Visa with the following documents and fees
Purchase of CR (Concessionary) Forms
Four(4) Nos 2×2” passport photograph on white background.
Application on the letter headed paper of the employer indicating acceptance of Immigration Responsibilities I.R endorsed by the Nigerian High Commissioner.
National passport of the applicant with STR Visa endorsement and photocopies of relevant data pages.
Letter of appointment and acceptance of the offer by the employee.
Expatriate quota approval of the company issued by the Minister of Interior.
Photocopies of applicants credential
Duly completed forms IMMA 2.1 and E.20
Particulars of incorporation documents as contained in the requirements for expatriate quota application.
Qualifying certificate and Resume of expatriate
Company Profile of the applicant.
FEES
Cerpac fee – 2,000 Dollars (US) per expatriate. (The new rate was introduced by the Minister of Interior since 2018)
DURATION
After submission of the application, a temporary card valid for one year will be issued pending when the permanent card is ready (usually for a period of 2-3 months)
The application is submitted at the office of the Comptroller-General of Immigration (immigration HQ, airport road Sauka, Abuja)
The presence of the expatriate is required.
The expatriate can travel in and out of Nigeria with the Temporary card pending when the original would be ready for pick up.
Okpi, Ibe Chinedu is the Principal partner in the Law Firm of Ibe, Chido and Associates ( www.ibechidoassociates.com ) with an extensive knowledge in Corporate and Commercial Law Practice. He can be contacted via phone: 07069279374 or email: info@ibechidoassociates.com.
The Taiwanese tech giant launch of its new futuristic Dual screen laptop “ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo” with a 15.6-inch 4K OLED touch display and another 14-inch-wide display above the keyboard. It shares the dual-display design with the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 This brilliantly designed laptop is also one of the best portable workstation money can buy you at the moment.
ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo window 10 laptop comes with the Core i9 processor, Nvidia graphics and two 4K screens ready for multitasking, thus offering an ultimate edge in workflow efficiency.
ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo Key Features and Specs
9th Generation Intel® Core i9 Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
Windows 10 Home.
15.6-inch UHD OLED 4K (3840 x 2160) Display
14-inch (3840 x 1100) Touchscreen (ScreenPad plus)
Up to 1TB SSD
Up to 32GB DDR4 RAM
IR webcam with Windows Hello support
Array microphone with voice-recognition support
VR Ready
Wi-Fi 6 – 802.11ax
Built-in Speakers with Smart AMP technology
71Wh 8-cell Rechargeable Li-Polymer Battery
Design
The ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo features a unique design. It is slim and sleek with round edges at the corners.
This innovative slim-bezel NanoEdge design allows a larger panel to fit into its compact chassis for immersive visuals.
Similarly, the captivating display design provides a 92% screen-to-body ratio and 16:10 aspect ratio that supports 97 percent of the DCI-P3 wide color space for immersive visuals.
Constructed from sturdy aluminum with shiny Asus logo at the right of center.
Furthermore, on the inside upon opening the lid is the 15.6-inch display screen and right below it and above the keyboard on the chassis is the second 14-inch display Asus’ ScreenPad.
Although the Screenpad occupy half of the entire chassis but the laptop still sport a full-size keyboard which resides in the remaining space typically reserved for the palm rest, with the touchpad/Num Pad positioned in the lower-right corner.
Furthermore, ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo come with the ErgoHinge design which raises the second display slightly upwards when the lid is opened.
This laptop also comes with an innovative cooling design which comprised of an aerospace-grade titanium vapor chambers thermal module and a lid that lifts to elevate the rear of the notebook up to allow more cool air inflow.
In addition, for connectivity, situated at the right side, is a USB Type-A 3.1 Gen 2 ports, Thunderbolt 3 and an audio jack. while on the left, you have another USB Type-A port, a full-size HDMI 2.0 port and a DC-in port.
Display
The ZenBook Pro Duo dual screen setup is the biggest selling point, and its most noticeable feature.
It sports a 4K UHD Pantone-validated display for high-resolution. The main display sports a 15.6-inch OLED touchscreen with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160, thus, resulting in simply stunning image quality.
Furthermore, this panel supports 100 percent of the AdobeRGB color space with 120Hz refresh rates.
Asus ZenBook Pro Duo also supports Windows HDR which enhances the dynamic range, resulting in richer colours and better contrast.
Second Display: ScreenPad plus
Below the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo main 15.6-inch display is the 14-inch ScreenPad plus trackpad which serves as a second screen.
The new ScreenPad plus upgrades the traditional laptop experience, adding an interactive secondary touchscreen that enhances your productivity with more possibilities.
This screen features a 3840 x 1100 resolution and 178° wide viewing angles, thus offering a crispy display to deliver seamless, intuitive multitasking and endless ways to optimize your workflow.
Asus has also included its own software that can be used with the Screenpad Plus. The software allows bring up a menu to let you pin app shortcuts on-screen with just a tap on the button.
Furthermore, this screen can be used to view additional windows, house a variety of quick-access applications, and even digitize your handwriting, thanks to touch support.
The screen can extend the screen, split windows, show vital information and controls and even house entire apps of its own
On the Screeenpad plus are a lot of quick controls buttons such as App Switcher, ViewMax and Task Swap make interactions between the main display and ScreenPad Plus seamless.
With the Task Group you can open multiple tasks with the touch of a button such as disabling the keyboard. Additionally, you can drag apps or in-app toolbars onto ScreenPad Plus, so you can work freely on the main screen.
Performance
Asus ZenBook Pro Duo delivers next-level performance, with its latest Intel processors and NVIDIA graphics.
It is powered by the 9th Generation Intel® Core i9 eight-core processor, alongside the latest gaming-grade NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card.
This processor is designed to handle complex, multithreaded applications and take mobile computing to another level, easily outperforming previous-generation offerings to give you incredibly smooth and responsive multitasking.
Furthermore, the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card provides major improvements in performance, memory bandwidth, and power efficiency over its predecessor, the Pascal architecture.
Moreover, it features dedicated Ray-Tracing cores for enhanced graphical quality and life-like images.
In addition, to support the gaming experience, Asus ZenBook Pro Duo is packed with up to 48GB DDR4 RAM capacity and 2TB of SSD storage.
Keyboard
The keyboard and trackpad is on of the captivating features about the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo.
An edge to edge backlit chiclet keyboard is positioned below the second screen with 1.4mm travel distance, hence, allows for full-size functionality.
Furthermore, the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo keyboard also boast of fast-actuating key switches, like the N-Key rollover and Overstroke technology, which helps registers every keystroke for faster responsiveness. ZenBook Pro Duo also features the latest version of the ASUS NumberPad6, an LED-illuminated numeric keypad integrated into the touchpad.
The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo comes with an infrared camera with Windows Hello to login, hence, enabling hands-free login on your laptop for privacy purpose.
For ultra fast connectivity, the laptop also features the latest Intel Wi-Fi 6 with Gig+ (802.11ax) alongside the bluetooth version 5.0 which takes wireless speeds to the next level, for super-smooth connections to the world.
Furthermore, Asus ZenBook Pro Duo has a built in 2 channels 4W speakers with Harman Kardon and smart amplifier technology that delivers louder sound with no distortion and finely tuned software to give you sound like no other laptop.
It also comes with an Array Microphones with integrated voice assistant like Alexa and Cortana to make work easier.
Above all, the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo has an 8-cell Rechargeable Li-Polymer 71Wh battery which, can last between 8 hours to 12 hours on in light usage, minimal brightness, and other factors.
It also comes with a 230W Power Adaptor which offers fast charging for the system.
Asus ZenBook Pro Duo Price and Availability
The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo price starts at $2,999. However, the price increases based on the configuration of your preferred model.
It is available for purchase on ASUS’s official store or website and other third-party e-commerce platforms like Amazon.
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