No, they aren’t animated characters. They are human beings who were made to wear body suits. To be specific, they are women theater artists from Mumbai Cape Town. The design of the characters is such that one gets fooled into thinking it is animation. This was achieved using special material wrinkle free cloth which made the body suites look smooth (like in animation) and the ads were shot at slower than normal frame rate so that the movements look swift but funny....

If there is one brand that knows how to work a glass back, in different patterns, textures, designs or colors, it has to be Huawei and its sub-brand Honor. The two brands have given us smartphones with distinct backs, not just once or twice but multiple times and the View 20 is no different. We got the Sapphire Blue color of the smartphone where the glass back of the smartphone creates a V-like light pattern when held at a certain angle....

Xpress-ing the Lumia Love The Nokia 1’s exterior, in a lot of ways, reminds us of the company’s now discontinued Lumia series. It comes in bright, jaunty shades and features a curved polycarbonate shell that feels surprisingly pleasant to hold. The shell — which Nokia calls Xpress-On covers — can be swapped with other colors. Although the company has not announced how much each of them will cost. The phone itself is only available in two colors, Warm Red, and Dark Blue....

For that is exactly what has happened. A few hours ago, Xiaomi took the wraps off the Redmi Note 7S, whose starting price of Rs 10,999, is easily the lowest for anyone looking for a phone with a 48-megapixel sensor, dipping well below the Rs 13,999 starting price of its cousin, the Redmi Note 7 Pro. Them Note looks Mind you in terms of appearance, it is closer to the Redmi Note 7 than its Pro avatar, even though all three phones share EXACTLY the same dimensions – 159....

May be plastic, but looks fantastic The Galaxy M series clearly comes with a theme. The glossy polycarbonate backs, the drop notch displays, vertical camera units on the top left and the oval fingerprint scanner, all have been the trademarks of the design language of the series. And the M30 speaks the same language. Most of the time anyway. it, if not exactly the same. The smartphone comes with a glossy polycarbonate back but unlike the other two M series smartphones that have relatively plain backs, this one comes with a gradient finish, with a shade of silver-greyish blue at the top blending into a darker blue shade on the lower part, giving the elder brother a slight design edge over its younger siblings....

Now, because the smartphone comes with a 48-megapixel sensor, it might have some believe that it takes 48-megapixel shots by default but that is not the case. The OnePlus 7 Pro, much like many 48-megapixel sensor bearing smartphones takes a lower resolution photograph by default (12 megapixels, to be exact). And these are very high-quality shots as well. But what if you want to take a 48-megapixel shot with your OnePlus 7 Pro?...

Couple of months back, Google finally launched Google Play Gift Cards in India. But, there was a catch. They were only available in “select” outlets, only in a couple of metro cities in India. Google had partnered with chain stores like Vijay Sales to carry them out. But it wasn’t clear which showrooms would carry the cards. When I went to the Vijay Sales outlet closest to my home, there were no Google Play Gift Cards in sight....

His track record pretty much speaks for itself – he has been at the helm of OnePlus ever since the brand came to India in 2014. And in this period has made the brand one of the leading players in the premium segment of the smartphone market – seeing off challenges from not just traditional heavyweights like LG, Sony and HTC, but also weathering storms from newer players like Xiaomi and Asus – indeed at the time of writing OnePlus was right alongside the likes of Apple and Samsung in the premium segment in India....

I admit that even I don’t use this feature a lot, for two big reasons. One is that when I need to make a video call, I am usually near my computer, at home. If I need to urgently make video call to somebody and am outside the house, I just don’t feel comfortable smiling at the phone and attracting curious looks from everybody around me. So, if you want to make a video call using your Android smartphone, you shouldn’t make the same mistakes I do....

Watch Golden Globes Live. Watch 68th Golden Globe Awards live online. Golden Globe awards live streaming for free. Watch Golden Globes 2011 live streaming for free. The 68th Golden Globe Awards will be telecast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 16, 2011 by NBC, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (PST) and 8:00PM – 11:00 PM (EST) (01:00-04:00 Monday January 17 UTC). This year, Golden Globe awards is hosted by Ricky Gervais....

Thanks to the fact that our smartphones are almost all the time connected to the Internet, software developers have created ways for us to send text messages for free, over the Internet, thus cutting down the cost of our phone bill. Free messaging apps have started to appear some time ago and they have evolved continuously, and today we have a wide range of such dedicated services that we use all the time....

1. Named after face book! Where does the name Facebook come from? Well, it is derived from the “face books” that were given out by universities in the US to familiarise students with each other at the start of the academic session. These were directories that contained pictures of students and their names. 2. Mark could not see red or green…so…Blue! What is the reason for Facebook’s primary blue color?...

IFI Claims Patent Services has just published the list of Top 50 US Patent assignees which throws up some interesting stats and facts. While IBM has retained its top position for nineteenth year in a row, Microsoft has dropped from third position to sixth position in the list. These two are the only US companies amongst the top 10 Patent assignees. Samsung vs Apple The Korean consumer giant, Samsung Electronics stands second in the list of top US patent assignees with 4,894 patents received in 2011....

Soon enough, these became a hit among the public owing to the price to performance ratio and its stunning good battery life. Apple has now tried to live up to people’s expectations with the second generation of its silicon chips. The trillion-dollar company has now launched not one but two new chipsets – the M1 Pro and M1 Max, which according to them, is the best chipset on any notebook so far....

With Windows 11, Microsoft upped the ante and included support for copying images, emoticons, and other symbols to make the clipboard more versatile. However, despite these feature add-ons, the native clipboard manager on Windows 10 and Windows 11 still falls short of what it should be: it’s inconsistent and often fails to copy certain elements. Not to mention, managing clipboard history on the default clipboard manager is still problematic. So if your work involves copy-pasting a lot of text between apps and you wish to have advanced features like autosave, hotkeys, plugins, cloud-syncing, etc....

Let’s take a look at the top seven features of the Helio G90 and G90T and why should be excited about it if you’re into mobile games. CPU Architecture The G90 and G90T are based on the 12nm manufacturing process and are clocked at up to 2.05GHz. The G90 has two powerful Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2GHz and six power-efficient Cortex A55 cores also clocked at 2GHz. The G90T, on the other hand, gets an ever-so-slight boost in terms of clock speed and has two Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2....

Clicking and grinding sound is coming from your hard-drive If your computer has started making clicking or grinding sound lately, there is a good chance that your hard-drive is taking its last breath. Your hard-drive is a mechanical device, which consists of a platter and a motor. As with all mechanical devices, your hard-drive’s life is limited too. Take a backup of all your important data while you still have time....

Budget Fitness Tackers have multiple use cases Budget Fitness trackers are bought for many reasons, and fitness tracking is just one of them, and it’s probably the least important one. Many want it to get notifications from apps and calls as their primary usage, while others use it for sleep tracking, and very few use it for step counting. Also, they are cheaper compared to smartwatches and high-end trackers making them an obvious choice for those who would like to have few features of expensive trackers and smartwatches....

The Amazfit SmartWatch 2 features a 1.39-inch AMOLED display with a 454 x 454 pixels screen resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top. It is powered by a 1.1GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2500 platform with 512MB of LPDDR3 RAM and 4GB of eMMC storage. The watch runs on AMAZFIT OS and comes with support for Android 4.4 or iOS10.0 and above. It runs on a 420mAh that claims to offer up to 28 hours of battery life on 4G....

Several workout modes, in-built GPS, steps and sleep tracking, a heart-rate monitor, essentially features aimed towards fitness enthusiasts. Right from the beginning, we have been vocal about smartwatches that are not essentially smart and are just glorified fitness trackers with bigger displays packed into the body of a smartwatch. What this means is that if you don’t mind a wearable on your wrist that looks like a band, you can save a good amount of money by getting yourself a fitness tracker that does most things minus a few here and there....