And that’s not all. The device packs in some seriously good hardware, including a Kirin 970 chip, 6 GB RAM, 128 GB storage, a very good 6.1-inch full HD+ AMOLED display, stereo speakers, and a truckload of connectivity options. All this in a design that is very eye-catching. But guess which feature of the device has really – REALLY – impressed us? So much so that we really think every Android flagship should have it?...
In addition to that, some websites do not offer multiple RSS feeds for each category/author. Technically Personal is one of them. Initially I had disabled multiple feeds for some stupid reason, but now I do not remember how I made that change. This is where some free online services come to the rescue. They allow anyone to create an RSS feed of any website. Some are very simple while others are more advanced, so depending on your level of expertise, you are sure to find a tool that can help you get the custom RSS feed you are seeking....
Now, when you make a New Year’s resolution, the easiest thing to do is to forget or ignore it as you get deeper and deeper into the next year. To make sure you achieve and keep them, most of us resort to lists or to pen and paper. But now, our smartphones do almost everything so it makes sense to search for some of the best iOS and Android apps to help you make and keep your New Year’s Eve resolution....
How Does 3D Camera Work? Think of the human eyes, we see the world in 3 dimension (height, length and depth), but the lens on a camera can only see 2 dimensions (height and length), the depth cannot be seen with 1 lens (or one eye for that matter). This happens because we see 2 images (one with the right eye and another one, slightly different with the left eye, then our brain merges the 2 images to create a 3 dimensional image), and the same is true with camcorders and digital cameras....
The C5L is the cheapest one among all, it comes with a 4.5-inches IPS panel with an 854×480 resolution, a quad-core Snapdragon 210 processor clocked at 1.1GHz, 1GB of RAM with Adreno 304 GPU, 8GB of internal storage, Android 5.1 and a slot for Micro SD card that supports cards up to 32GB. On the camera side, there’s a respectable 8MP rear camera with dual-LED flash along with a 2MP lens on the front....
The feature seems to be, however, currently inactive since it’s not being updated in spite of our manual testing. We’re also not sure whether it will be limited to everyone or just Pro subscribers. If you’d like to be an early tester, you can either join the beta programme and update the application to version 9.4.9 or simply sideload an APK file which can be found here. In addition to the profile feature, Truecaller’s Android app now also has a “Local services” tab in the side menu which shows nearby landmarks in various categories such as ATM, hospitals, banks, hotels, and more....
This is a far cry from Q1 2017 exactly a year ago, where Samsung had been the leader with 25.9 percent of the market and Xiaomi had 13.1 percent. Of course, it also shows how dramatically Xiaomi has grown – Samsung has actually managed to increase its market share (26.2 percent from 25.9 percent in Q1 2017), but still finds itself in second place, as Xiaomi has more than doubled its share, going from 13....
We may have exaggerated a little but detangling wire is a struggle and most people would agree. But while Bluetooth might have taken the wires’ spot in this plot, what it brought along was some serious confusion. With wired earphones, things were relatively simple. You had earbuds or over the head headphones to choose from. Bluetooth earphones on the other hand have three major categories or styles of Bluetooth earphones and each category is monumentally different from the other....
The Nest Mini has a pretty similar, puck-shaped design as the Home Mini that has turned out to be one of the key selling points for the Home Mini. It is made with the same polycarbonate material as the Home Mini and has a fabric layer on top, and comes in two color options: Chalk and Charcoal. One of the changes that Google says is noticeable with the Nest Mini is in terms of audio....
Vitek Skop minces no words when he talks about the future of AR. This 28-year old Czech visual designer who has graduated from Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague and studied at New York School of Visual Arts as an exchange student thinks AR needs to grow beyond “it’s promising” phase and actually provide real value to users right now. While many developers have juggled with the entertainment aspect of AR, Skop uses AR for infotainment....
Vivo Nex and Nex Ultimate Features The Nex smartphones sport a large 6.59-inch 19.3:9 Super AMOLED Ultra FullView display with an incredible screen to body ratio of 91.24% which hasn’t been achieved earlier. To achieve this look, Vivo had to move the front-facing 8MP camera to the top housed in a mechanized enclosure which will pop up when the camera app is opened. The Nex and Nex Ultimate also sport a fingerprint scanner embedded into the display region, using the same technology as we saw on the Vivo X21, but is touted to be 50% more accurate and 10% faster....
Audio-Technica ATH-M50x: Seven years young! We are talking about the Audio-Technica ATH-M50x headphones. Or to give them their full official designation – the ATH-M50x Professional Monitor Headphones. Audio-Technica officially unveiled them on January 23, 2014 (you can read the press release here if you find that difficult to believe). And they were an upgrade to the very popular ATH-M50, which itself had been around for a while. And they got to be SO popular that Audio-Technica actually conducted a campaign earlier this year around a poll about the color of the next Limited Edition of the headphones should be....
There have been reports of Jio producing a VoLTE feature phone. Some people have expressed their thoughts on why they think a VoLTE feature phone from Jio makes no sense at all. To some extent, they’re right, after all, a 4G network and a feature phone are diagonally opposite. On one hand, a 4G network is the very best in telecom technology whereas a feature phone seems outdated like the 2G networks they run on....
The world knows Carl Pei as the person behind OnePlus. But tell us, how on earth did he get into technology in general and mobile phones, in particular? I got interested in technology relatively late. In 1998, my family got our first computer, a Dell laptop, and it was my first encounter with the internet. I remember being gifted Warcraft II but was too scared (or young) to actually play it....
The Start Menu has undergone a significant design overhaul with the latest version of Microsoft’s desktop operating system – Windows 11. As a result, the Start Menu now features quick app suggestions and improved search functions, unlike previous versions. While there are ways to move the Windows 11 taskbar, the problem with the non-functioning Start menu is every user’s worst nightmare, as it has been an integral part of Windows since the Windows XP days....
WiTricity Bringing Automatic and Wireless Charging in Our Homes I can only imagine how awesome it would be if we could leave our smartphones, tablets just where they are, not having to bother at all about their battery life, about cords and all that. While being outside, we could use the sun light to recharge and in-doors, we could rely on wireless energy transfer. That would be possible by embedding a magnetic coil inside smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices that would generate a magnetic field, creating the physical process of magnetic induction....
The Mi VR does come with a slew of optimization as opposed to its predecessor and this also includes a hardware-level motion sensor. As one might have noticed usually the affordable VR headset depends entirely on the smartphone for the hardware requirement but the Mi VR comes bundled with its own motion sensor and a 9-axis inertial motion controller. Xiaomi claims that the hardware-level motion sensor is 16x more sensitive and when coupled with a high-performance phone the results are expected to be more than satisfactory....
In essence, the Mi Box builds on the idea that, over time, regular TVs or even older smart TVs for that matter succumb to the growing demands of users and fail to deliver and live up with the pace of ever-growing technology. And that, while some people may upgrade to a newer smart TV, there are others who prefer some workaround to avoid the extra cost and still get a decent experience....
The leaked screenshot is allegedly taken from the upcoming Xiaomi Mi Note 2 Pro and reveals many a vital information regarding the internals of the smartphone. As per the screenshot of the ‘About Phone’ menu of the Mi Note 2 Pro, the device comes powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chip with four cores clocked at 2.6GHz. This apparently, corresponds with the previous leaks that revealed the presence of this new Qualcomm chip inside the Note 2 Pro....
From the looks of it, the Mi True Wireless Earphones 2 appears to have a similar design language as the Mi Air 2, which are again, also similar to the Apple AirPods. However, unlike the AirPods, the earbuds appear to be slightly thicker and have a boxier case. The earphones come with a 14.2mm dynamic driver and suggest to offer support for LHDC (Low Latency High Definition) audio codec to provide high-quality audio over Bluetooth....
