Technary

10 Best Photo Editing Android Apps

Software

January 29, 2016

Gone are the days when we used to carry a bulky camera with us; every time we go for a trip or something. With the advancement of technology all our entertainment devices like music player, television system, computer, internet, radio, camera etc. all this can be comprised into a single device YES! I’m talking about our smartphone.

Today in the era of selfies where we have found thousands of ways to make our photos more appealing, attractive and beautiful. We have invented pout style, fish gape style, the perfect angles, and our beautiful sides and so on. And how can we forget our photo editing apps.

But there are more than 3000 photo editing apps available on internet so how to choose the best app which can make our photo more appealing and we can get more and more likes on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and so on. So as usual we are there to help you to get the best for you.

10 Best photo editing apps are:

PicsArt Photo Studio

Worlds number one editing tool for smartphones. It have hundreds of photo editing tools, drawing and painting tools with layers, advanced artistic brushes, collage maker. You can really feel the hidden artist in you with this app. This app really enhances your pictures no matter how much messed it was earlier. So this app is very important for everyone who loves to click and edit photos of his/her friends and family and especially for selfie lovers.

It’s a global community of creatives with hundreds of editing tools, filters, effects, drawing and painting tools with layers and so on. It also have features like image sharing, art contests,and we can share pics using #FreeToEdit hashtag

Pencil Sketch

It is an easy app and most useful if you want to edit your photos and transform them into beautiful sketched. Both black-white and colour sketch can be easily created. We can use two styles “Sketch” and “Doodle”. Sketch can be used for more artistic photos and even cartoony style doodles can be enjoyed by using this app. You can use this app to make many funny doodles too.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

If you are really a professional about photography then this app is just for you.

You can use different tones, brightness angles, you can change colour of your clothes, use layers for higher standard editing, and you can use effects and give a professional vfx effect to your photo. You can join the community by using #lightroom and share pics on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. So just stop dreaming and start creating.

Also read : 10 Most Essential Android apps of 2015

Cut Paste Photos

Swap Faces, Cut one face and paste it on other body, remove photo background, cut the people out and put them on another background, use thousands of Stickers, Animal Emoji’s, Face Masks, Baby Stickers, Doodles and Event Stickers including Christmas Stickers and much more. It also includes features like frames, shades, clipart, colour contrast etc.

Heart Photo Maker -collage fun

Want to give a special photo to someone you love really a lot. Then this editing tool really transform your pics into sweet heart frame. These frames are really very creative and seems to be original. Try to impress and express by using the heart photo maker.

Retrica

With Infinite combination of filters, tone, shades, and sharing features .It is one of the most creative and useful app. You can click at the same time and edit too this is the best idea that developed at Retrica. This app have infinite number of features like adjusting the light entering into the frame, night modes and many other just like professional DLSR cameras. And sharing on different social media sites and even through some of Retrica’s channels.

Must read : 10 Best Smartphones under Rs.10000 – December 2015

InstaBeauty – Selfie Camera

The main features of InstaBeauty are-Beauty Camera Beauty. Collage, Beauty Video and Quick Snap

Beauty Makeup
We know that you don’t want to make up every time you click a selfie. So this app helps you to make up your photo In just one click lipstick, eye-brow settings and a lot more you can experiment different make ups and enjoy.
Beauty Camera

It contains large number of features like smoothing, toning, removing pimples and blemishes, SLIM-FACE, BLEMISH, BIG-EYES and much more!

Camera HDR Studio

Camera HDR Studio is the best app to produce or click HDR pictures.

The main idea is to take two photos with different exposures. Then you should fuse them later then when they are processed apply tone-mapping to them to produce the final result. This app have many unique features like time lapse, burst photography etc. it can take almost 30 photos in 10 seconds. Share the edited pictures in just one click.

Bonfire Photo Editor – Filters

You can use super brilliant features like artificial intelligence algorithm, Remove Blemish automatically and instantly in just seconds, Smart skin-whitening techniques, super black and white HDR filter, and various kinds of tone filters, funk filters, turn you into a comic star, glorifying magnifying glass filters, easily make,blurry face, Pop art filters, including comic and pointillism photo effects, Magic “Fancy” effect, Artistic painting effects and much more with this app.

Perfectly Clear

The best thing about this app is that this is an automatic app. You just need to click once and it will start editing your photo by using 18 different intelligent algorithms which will give a real and a fantastic effect to your pictures. There are many other features like cartoon style, 1000 of filters, HDR of photos, magic cropping, lenses, frames, adjustments of tones, sharing through different social media sites like Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and much more.

So in conclusion I would like to add that these apps not only make our photos more beautiful and appealing but also increases the hidden creativity in an individual. So it’s time to reveal the hidden artist in you click more, edit more share more and make the world more beautiful.

Also read: Asus Zenfone 2 Laser Review – 13MP Camera with laser AF

10 Best Phones for Senior Citizens

Gadgets

January 16, 2016

Fast growing technology, daily new inventions, research and rapidly changing style and you have to run in the race with a hidden fear. Somewhere inside a small corner of your heart because you don’t want to be left behind by others; but after a certain age a feeling to slowing down arises in your mind. Your body and your emotions are now attached towards the products that you have used at the time when you were more enthusiastic and more energetic. Certainly all these feelings are very natural, although these feelings also create a generation gap in the society.

So as the generation changes his/her thought, needs, school, job, profession, business, mood etc. almost everything changes and those changes reflects in his/her requirements. As I always say a phone is more like a companion in today’s life so at this age we (senior citizens) require more reliable phones which suits us in every way, the companion which is always there to help us, to take care of our needs in short at this age we need a problem solver and not something which itself is a huge problem.

So the features which we really require into a phone at this age are more like long lasting battery, loud ringing sound, we still love the key pad system as it was more reliable, we don’t want our phone to be hanging all the time, some of us might want Hindi fonts too, torch feature is a must etc. But searching such a phone nowadays again seems a challenging task. So as always we are here to help you to get you the right product.

10 Best Phones for Senior Citizens

Nokia 105

This phone comprises special features like Conference Call, Loudspeaker and Call Divert. This is a simple phone but if required many other features can be used as Games, 4 Way Navigation Key, FM Radio, Digital Clock, Clock, Calendar, Converter, Alarm, PIN Code Security, Splash-proof Keypad, Calculator, Flash Light, Speaking Clock, Expense Manager, Alarm, PIN Code Security and Splash-proof Keypad. And all these features along with the quality and faith of Nokia.

Price: Rs. 1,199

Micromax JOY X1850

This is an awesome phone at this price range with almost all required features like Marathon Battery 1800, Entertainment, Digital Camera, Bluetooth 3.0, FM Radio and a lot more. With this phone you can enjoy the real JOY at extremely low price.

Price: Rs. 804

Samsung Guru E1200

How can we forget the master of his own times the guru ji with its super cool features like 1.5 inch TFT Screen, 2G Network Support, Alphanumeric Keypad, Anti-dust Keypad. This simple phone also comprises of features like Torch, Alarm, Mobile Tracker, Fake Call, and SOS Message Service. So enjoy all these with Samsung’s reliability.

Price: Rs. 1,260

Nokia 220

As you must have remember the quality of nokia phones. This phone have features like 2 MP Primary Camera, Dual Standby Sim (GSM + GSM), 2.4 inch Screen, Alphanumeric Keypad, and Expandable Storage Capacity of 32 GB. Even the 2MP camera have great clearity and have further features like Fixed Focus, Sensor Size: 1/5-inch, f-number/aperture: f/2.8. This might look simple but have a lot of features like 4-way Navi Key with Select, Alphanumeric Keypad, Call Key, Power / End Key, Vibrating Alerts, System Connectors: Micro-USB-B, Peer-to-peer Sharing: BT Slam, Voice Recorder, Screen Magnification, Calculator, Clock, Calendar, Converter, Alarm Clock, Reminder and a lot more and all this with the quality and faith of Nokia.

Price: Rs. 2,799

Micromax X2814

This Micromax phone is just like if you have everything that a phone must have for you it have features like 0.3 MP Primary Camera, Dual Sim (GSM + GSM), 2.8 inch TFT Screen, Alphanumeric Keypad, FM Radio, Bluetooth Support, Expandable Storage Capacity of 8 GB and a Li-Ion, 1400 mAh battery for a long lasting charging.

Price: Rs. 1,500

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Philips E130

Philips have deisghned this phone by keeping in mind that what is the user requirement. So the main features are 0.3MP primary camera ,1.77-inch TFT display with 128 x 160 pixels resolution. Memory is expandable up to 32GB. This is dual SIM (GSM+GSM) phone. It has 800mAH battery providing talk-time up to 8 hours and standby time up to 400 hours.

Price: Rs 1,100

Panasonic GD22

Panasonic is back in race for designing basic phones. This phone have a Display Screen of Size 2.4 Inch, Screen Resolution 240 x 320 pixels, Pixel Density (sharpness) 167 ppi Display Type TFT , Main Camera of 1.3 MP, Flash LED Zoom, Digital Zoom up to 4 x.

Price: 1,599

Iball Avonte 2.4G

Iball have shocked us by providing 2.4G feature at this price range with other features like 2.4 inches screen, 2.0 Megapixels rotary camera with LED flash, Li-Ion 1200 mAh long lasting battery.

Price: Rs 1,580

BSNL Champion Y2-Super Mobile

BSNL is something for which I need not to mention about the height of quality they maintain. Along with the quality and faith it have a lot of features like Dual sim, Keypad, polyphonic ringtone, Hindi & English support and a long lasting battery.

Price: 1,195

Rage PS27N Dual Sim (GSM+GSM) Loudspeakers Mobile with Auto Call Recorder

This phone is just super awesome. You are getting almost everything at this super awesome price range. The features are SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones, Loudspeaker, MEMORY Card slot micro SD{up to 8 GB}, Message 100, Phonebook 500, DATA GPRS, CAMERA Primary 1.3 MP , Games Ninja UP!, Auto call recorder with folder Guard theft , privacy, Call time reminder, Auto redial Sound recorder, Calendar, Calculator and all this with a long lasting battery too.

Price: 1,299

As we all know necessity is the mother of all inventions. So accordingly we should purchase the phones according to our needs not because of pear pleasure. Phone is not a symbol of status, smartness or intelligence as the younger generation is trying to show; more likely it’s a necessity in today’s world. So for all the senior citizens please enjoy the list and choose wisely the best product for you.

Also read : 10 Most Essential Android apps of 2015

10 Most Essential Android apps of 2015

Software

Pradyumna Rawat

December 27, 2015

We all are following the booze of the smartphone but have you ever wondered about what is making your smartphone so smart. YES!!! We are talking about the soul of your smartphone i.e. the applications that you have loaded on your phone. As every person is different because of his/her thoughts in the same way every smartphone is different because of the different types of applications that are loaded on the phone.

But as the person changes his/her thought, needs, school, job, profession, business, mood etc. almost everything changes and those changes reflects in his/her requirements of applications in his/her smartphone. As you are transferred to some new city then Google maps is a must app for you while it might not be that necessary to many other people.

As there are more than 1 lakh applications available on the internet it might be a really confusing task for an individual to choose the most useful apps for his/her smartphone. So as always we are here to help you to choose the best for you. This article covers the 10 most essential apps for your smartphone which can make your smartphone smarter.

10 Most Essential Android Apps for your smartphone :

1. WhatsApp

One of the best app for smartphone is Whatsapp this is one of the main apps which attracted people towards smartphones. This app lets you to send and receive messages (text, audio, and video) free of cost just by using the internet. The new feature of Whatsapp calling let you to call all over the world and all this FREE of cost. Along with this you get the facilities like group chats, 250+ emoticons, offline notifications and much more.

2. UCBrowser

If you are not having an unlimited internet plan than this app is must for you. As I personally know how it feels when we try to download something and the browser shows the result as “downloading failed” at 99%. I will suggest you this app for faster browsing, Fast and stable downloads, AD Block and many other features like night mode, Facebook mode, and smart downloads etc. Even you can choose the settings and decide which site you want in which format as desktop, mobile, and lite.

3. Flashlight

Missing the torch feature in your smartphone? Don’t worry flashlight is an app that enables you to use your flash light as torch. You can use different modes like Strobe, Morse, and Blinking lights. By using blinking lights option you can even give a disco light effect to your dark room (most probably it’s your hostel’s room). This app uses minimum battery and don’t harm your device in any way.

4. Clean Master

Almost 10 MB of junk is produced daily in our phones due to all the apps and our internet usage. In just a few days our phone starts hanging and slowing down due to this junk in our phone memory (which reduces the virtual memory). So to avoid this problem clean master cleans your phone daily. This app is as important as brushing your teeth daily.

5. PicsArt

Worlds number 1 editing tool for smartphones. It have hundreds of photo editing tools, drawing and painting tools with layers, advanced artistic brushes, collage maker. You can really feel the hidden artist in you with this app. This app really enhances your pictures no matter how much messed it was earlier. So this app is very important for everyone who loves to click and edit photos of his/her friends and family and especially for selfie lovers.

6. SHAREit – Connect & Transfer

This is one of the best and fastest data transferring app. Android, Windows, iOS all these different platforms is not a barrier for this app you can transfer your data at a super-fast speed even 200 times faster than your Bluetooth. No need of USB cable, internet or any other thing. Share all your contacts, SMS, MMS, and all other data in just one click. This is a kind of app that all of us need every now and then.

7. MX player

Are you unable to enjoy thousands of your favourite videos on your phone just because your phone isn’t able to play those format than no need to worry now just download mx player app. This app plays videos of almost all formats along with this you get many additional features like zooming, brightness, speed etc. So without this app you will feel as if your phone is missing something in some way.

8. Avast! Mobile security & Antivirus

It is a complete package of security. Viruses, malware, adware and spyware are not a matter of concern for you if you have Avast. This app also helps you to trace your lost phone and the anti-theft package keeps all your data safe. So this is one of the most important app for everyone just download it and feel safe and secure.

9. OfficeSuite + PDF Editor

This apps enables you to create, view, edit any word, excel, PowerPoint document + along with all this you can also view and edit your PDF file. Along with all this you can also convert to/from PDF to/from other formats. So no need to open your computer and laptop for all your small office work.

10. CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator

This is one of the most amazing app than enables your phone to work as a scanner and a fax machine. Now say bye-bye to Xerox shop for every small work .You can scan your important document just with the help of your phone, extract texts from images, advanced editing and a lot more features with this app.

So in conclusion I would like to add that as it is very important to load the gun with the bullets to shoot the target, to load your pen with the ink to write the exam or to load the camera with the real/memory to shoot the film in the same way it’s very necessary to load your smartphone with these 10 apps to make your smartphone one of your best companion.

10 Best Smartphones under Rs.10000 – December 2015

Gadgets

Pradyumna Rawat

December 19, 2015

10 Best Smartphones under Rs.10000 – December 2015

Over 40000 Smartphones, 125 brands, 25 operating systems with thousands of different combinations of processors and features and you want to choose the best for you? Confused? So as always we are here to help you.

As I always say Smartphone one of the best companion in today’s world. So it’s always one of the toughest tasks to choose the right match for you. Whenever it comes to me I feel as if I am in the magical world of Hogwarts and want to choose the perfect owl.

So as we have observed that 10K is a typical price range for all of us. And a lot of good Smartphones of different brands compete in this price range. So for all engineers, students, teenagers, tech lovers, businessmen etc we have filtered 10 best Smartphones according your needs in this price range.

10 Best Smartphones under Rs.10000

Alcatel Onetouch Idol X Plus

Alcatel is back in the league with its Onetouch Idol X Plus smartphone which is really smart with its IML technology which gives greater resistance to wear and tear. Octa Core2 GHz processor and 2 GB RAM for super faster speed.13 megapixel camera for HD quality of pictures of your friends and family and 2 MP camera for great slefies. Corning Gorilla Glass 2 which protects from scratches, anti-fingerprint oleo phobic coating, and a black crystal touch panel. Wi-Fi Display, proximity sensor, light sensor, G-sensor, and an e-compass to provide the experience of fully featured smatphone for you and all this with 5 inch Full HD 1080P 441 PPI IPS Screen and long lasting battery of 2500 mAh.

Price: Rs. 9,999

Lenovo K3 Note

Lenovo have improved the quality of selfies with its 5 MP front camera and 5.5 inch Capacitive Touchscreen with HD display.1.7 GHz Cortex-A53 (MediaTek MT6752 64-bit 4G LTE) Octa Core Processor for faster speed. Dual Standby Sim (LTE + LTE) now say bye bye to GSM sim welcome LTE for enjoying 4G fast experience of internet. And long lasting battery of 2900 mAh.

Price: Rs. 9,999

Huwaei Honor 4X

Now Honor 4X along with its fast processor(1.2 GHz MSM8916 Quad Core Processor) and RAM is available with the latest Android M (Marshmallow) in Feb’16. 13 megapixel camera for HD quality of pictures of your friends and family and 5 MP camera for great selfies. Dual Standby Sim (LTE + LTE) now say bye bye to GSM sim welcome LTE for enjoying 4G fast experience of internet. Enjoy OTP calibration technique for a smooth viewing of HD movies and also stable 3D gameplay. EMUI 3.0 you can access a search engine by pulling down the screen, no matter what screen you’re at.

Price: Rs. 9,999

Lenovo A7000

Have you heard about world’s first Smartphone with Dolby Atmos. Dolby Atmos gives great audio experience; enjoy best quality of music, videos and games. The headphone experience is truly amazing with this device. And all this with great processor (1.5 GHz + 8-core Cortex-A53 (MediaTek MT6752m 64-bit 4G LTE), Octa Core) and RAM to support graphics and gaming. Wi-Fi Display, proximity sensor, light sensor, G-sensor, and an e-compass to provide the experience of fully featured Smartphone for you.

Price: Rs. 9,199

Micromax Canvas Nitro A311

Micromax have understood the need of multitasking and have come up with this extra ordinary phone which have the capability to do multiple tasks due to 1.7 GHz Tru-OctacoreMediatek 6592 processor and a Quad Core ARM Mali 450 GPU and 2GB of RAM too to make your phone super faster for processing and to let you experience the pleasure of smooth running apps and games. Oleophobic coating for saving your screen from oily fingerprints. Enjoy your 13MP and 5 MP cameras which comes with a Sony IMX134 CMOS sensor and Largan 5P Lens with a Schott Blue Glass filter for clearer photos and all this with the unique features of collage inbuilt in the phone.

Price: Rs. 8,999

Xiaomi Redmi 2

If you love playing games on your mobile than this phone is just made for you to experience a new height of 3D gaming world with its 64-bit Cortex-A53 processor and 1 GB RAM. It is a budget phone with almost all features like Android v4.4 (KitKat) OS, Dual Sim (GSM + LTE). 8 MP Primary Camera and 2 MP Secondary Camera for your gallery to be full of beautiful and HD pictures. MIUI 6 for an enhanced animations experience and all this on such a pocket friendly price.

Price: Rs. 5,999

Nokia Lumia 520

Are you still in love with Nokia? Then don’t worry Lumia 520 is with all the features you need with Windows 8.1 OS. 7GB of Storage on Microsoft SkyDrive, Super-sensitive Screen,1 GHz Dual Core Processor, and 512 MB RAM add motion to your images with 5 MP Smart Shoot feature and all this along with the quality of Nokia.

Price: Rs. 6,750

Samsung Tizen Z3

Bored with android? Then this is the perfect phone for you with TizenvTizen 2.4 as Operating System. 1.3 GHz, Quad Core, 1 GB RAM for fast processing and smooth experience.
8 MP camera with HD display of 1280X720 Pixels and all this with 2600 mAh long lasting battery.

Price: Rs. 8,699

Nokia X2 Dual SIM

If you want to enjoy both the features by windows and android than Nokia X2 is the best solution of all your problems. 2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 Dual Core Processor and 1 GB RAM for fast processing speed. 5 MP rear camera and a VGA camera for selfies. If you remember Nokia then you must remember the ideal long lasting phones without any problems like hanging, battery problems etc and all this along with the quality of Nokia.

Price: Rs. 9,499

Coolpad Note 3 (White, 16GB)

Are you a tech lover and want to enjoy all the feature of android then this phone is just made for you. Advanced built in fingerprint sensor, 13MP primary camera and 5MP front facing camera for HD pictures and selfies, Android v5.1 Lollipop operating system with 1.3GHz Cortex-A53 MT6753 Mediatek Octacore, 3GB RAM, for super faster experience. 16GB internal memory and dual SIM and all this with a long lasting battery of Li-Ion 3000 mAh.

Price: Rs. 10250

As nowadays technology is getting cheaper day by day. So gone are the days when we were amazed by the phones used by our NRI relatives. It’s time to enjoy the technology to its full extend.

Smartphones are getting more and more important to our daily life to enjoy each and every moment of our digital life. By using a Smartphone an individual not only enjoy his/her digital life but also improves his/her technical and social knowledge. So don’t let others be ahead of you in any field. Get a Smartphone ASAP and join the digital world along with your friends.

Tata Zica Review – Elegant Hatchback

Automobiles

Nikhil Narkhede

December 13, 2015

A new upcoming hatchback from Tata Motors is Tata Zica. We were fortunate to drive this latest product from Tata Motors in Goa. Well we have enjoyed a ride of 50+ kilometers on this vehicle and there is too much to say about this car in the Tata Zica Review.

This car is set to launch in the first week of 2016. It is a unique car from the company when we look at their portfolio. So let us talk about all the details of Zica.

Design

The first look of the car is very important. The word elegant is the best to describe the design of this hatchback. Let us have a look at the various aspects according to exterior and interior parts of the automobile.

Exterior

This is where people look at the car. In the front view of the car we get to see the hexagon grill in glossy black. There is a Tata emblem which looks stylish. The headlamps are looking nice. There are fog lamps below the headlamps and there is also a lower grill. From the front, this car is surely an attention seeker. There are integrated indicators for the rear view mirrors. There is also a shoulderline which goes till the tail lamps. You can see this in the sideview of the car. If we talk about the gap between the tyres and the wheels it did seem to be perfect for Zica.

On the rear view there are tail lamps and the boot lid is angular. The bumper of the car is also good. Overall length of the car is 3746mm. The height of the car is 1535 mm. On the external side, the door knobs are having an amazing arrow type design. This makes it look elegant. As said earlier the shoulderline in the sideview till the tail lamp looks nice.

Interior

This is what you see when you are inside the car. Get inside this hatchback and you will be surprised with the impressive interiors and much to talk about. The finishing in the cabin looks good. There were times where I used to feel that I have entered a sedan or what? They have made sure to keep space for your devices. Like in front of the gear lever there is space for keeping a smartphone with ease.

As there is charging near to it, so keeping a smartphone there is a smart move.(Unless you don`t need GPS navigation). Just behind the handbrake lever there are two cup holders. Also you can keep a couple of half litre bottles in the door pads. There is also a cool glovebox which is useful for keeping water to be cooled.

Infotainment System

The user can easily sync his smartphone with this system and run navigation signs on the small screen. Apart from this, step by step audio commands can be heard using the car`s speakers. So there is no need to continuously look at the screen for navigation. This is one of the best systems I have seen in an entry level hatchback. The user can load the songs using the smartphone`s playlist and play it in the car or use the Jukecar App.

So you can directly connect your smartphone and play the music from it directly in the car. This hatchback is using Harman speakers. The sound quality amazed me everytime. The bass, treble and voice was crystal clear. I enjoyed the drive with my favourite songs and it is always great to have good speakers in the car. This infotainment system is also useful when you get calls on your smartphone. So you are like handsfree talking to your dear ones while driving.

When you sit on the driver seat it feels the same as when you sit at the passenger seat. Though sitting on the driver`s seat is like sitting on a commanding position. Most of the activities can be done from the driver seat. Example is handling the door lock system. Also there are a lot of indicators which gives important information to the driver. The Average of the vehicle in km/l. Apart from the odometer, RPM gauge and fuel gauge there is also much information for the driver.

On the steering wheel itself the driver is able to tweak volume up/down or mute the infotainment system. Headlamps of the car can also be operated with easy switch system. There is a switch for the eco mode as well. Other information like current time and the trip distance can also be seen on the display which is sandwiched between the RPM and odometer gauges. Also the driver is able to see in an indicator if all the doors of the hatchback are properly closed or not. The air conditioner`s air vents for the driver and co-passenger are placed at the right place.

Though there is no separate air vent for the rear seated passengers, but due to the central air conditioning system it wasn’t a problem as such for the rear seated passengers. For opening the doors from inside, the door knobs look premium due to its unique design and finishing. The seats are comfortable. There is a decent headroom for everyone in Zica. Legroom for the rear seats was surprisingly good. The engineers from Tata Motors seem to have built the interiors thinking about the User Experience a lot. The boot space of Zica is 242 litres. This is enough boot space for carrying limited luggage for all the people in the car. The overall interiors of the car impressed me for sure.

Performance

There are two 3 cylinder engines for this car. Revotorq and Revotron are the names of these engines. Revotorq is for 1.05 litre diesel version and Revotron is used for my favourable 1.2 litre Petrol version. This hatchback is carrying a 1047cc engine. This is a bit heavy hatchback, especially the diesel version as it weighs 1080kg. So while driving the diesel car the acceleration at times was fine. Tata Zica is fun to drive above 1900 rpm for sure. This will make the car feel sturdy and catch up speeds with ease.

The petrol version of the car is more favourable while comparing both. Driving the petrol version was fun indeed. There is a 5 speed manual transmission in Zica. There are two modes to drive. One is City and another is Eco Mode. So if you want to drive in economy(to get better average) you can use the Eco Mode. Though when you start the hatchback it starts with the City Mode by default. It is fun to drive on City mode though.

While steering it does feel light and was able to perform a U-turn with a single hand. Driving the petrol car was fun and it performs best in good speeds. Once started, the car surely gives a good momentum and is like a companion for long drives. Talking about the suspension it worked fine. No dangerous jerks, it went smoothly. We drove this car on the Goa roads and it did give an overall good performance.

Safety

When we talk about safety of a car, the first thing pops up our mind are the Airbags. So yes there are dual front airbags in Zica. There is also ABS with EBD. Though some of the features will be available in higher variants. There is a Corner Stability Control System while maneuvering the car in the turns. There are other features like the clutch lock and speed sensing auto door locks. The Zica also gives indications for low fuel, driver seatbelt, doors open(if any) and gear shift indicator. All these features help in the overall safety.

Final Verdict

Tata Zica impressed us with the classy interiors, infotainment system and the performance. The price of the hatchback is not yet revealed. Though the price of petrol version will be around INR 4 lakh and diesel version will be around INR 5 lakh. A very strong hatchback in this price range, favourable for youngsters will be launched in first week of January 2016. Let us know your thoughts about Zica in comments below.

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