Joining this Chinese retailer is yet another retailer from the same nation, which even tells the exact price that the Cupertino will charge for its new iPhones. If the numbers are to be believed, the entry level 4.7-inch iPhone will set you back by 5288 Yuan ($860), whereas, the 32GB is priced at around $999, while the 64GB variant costs roughly $1120. It’s probably worth noting that the China Mobile’s page doesn’t actually say iPhone 6 anywhere, but it does mention 4G and alongside an Apple....

I know some of you are already pointing me towards the accompanied software provided by some of these new gen scanners. But more often than not, the software suite they provide are heavy. Why to bother when iCarbon can do exactly that for less than 2 MB of your hard disk space? Once you download iCarbon (from here), you can use it on any Windows computer. No installation is required and you can run it even from a USB drive....

Facebook users has always wanted a “dislike” button as the “like” button doesn’t always fit certain status updates and situations, say a death in the family or a crisis. Facebook though has resisted creating it, fearing it would sow seeds of discontent on the world’s most popular social network. But looks like Zuckerberg has finally relented to the popular request: It’s important to note here that Facebook might not be calling it “dislike”....

Last year, the iPhone 6 pricing started at Rs 53,500, while the iPhone 6 Plus started at Rs 62,000. Since then the Indian rupee has depreciated by around 7% to US Dollar, but even considering that, the new prices are rather steep. For reference, the iPhone 6s starts at $695 (including taxes) in the US which roughly translates to Rs 45,500. We should also consider that the Indian government recently increased the import duties of smartphones to around 12% (from 6%) in order to push the ‘Make in India’ campaign....

We got the gold variant of the phone and boy it does NOT look like a Rs 6,999 phone! That pair of metal rails that go all around the phone shine out. The back of the phone has a subtle curve to it and coming at 143gms, the phone is quite good to hold in the hand – thanks to the matte finished metallic back the phone doesn’t try to slip away....

For some people, the release of Microsoft’s MS Office suite on the iPad removes the last barrier that stood between a tablet and productivity. Yes, there have been mobile office suites around for more than a decade now, but for many, it ain’t Office unless it comes from Redmond. Well, the iPad now has MS Office. The suite comes in the form of three apps that can be downloaded separately – MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint....

There are lots of reasons fabricated to undermine the electric car, but most of them are completely false. First of all, electric cars are just like normal petroleum based cars when it comes to prices: there are those exceeding $100,000 and those that cost $5,000. To address the other issue about electric cars, that they are complicated and need continuous maintenance, that is not true. Just think of a normal car, with its motor, gearbox and the other parts it consists of, there are thousands of moving parts, many of them moving parts that break down fairly easily....

No need to worry InterfaceLift comes as a rescue which provides you more than 2183 high-resolution wallpapers which can be easily downloaded and applied to your desktop. Some of the features of InterfaceLift are: Save High Resolution Widescreen Wallpapers directly on your local hard disk. Download wallpaper according to screen resolution. Option to download the wallpaper according to the tags of your choice. Navigation Menu allows you to find the wallpapers according to your favorite artist....

Of course, there are various other apps which can make your driving safer or some that can tell you more regarding the state of your car. DriveFlo is another app that you can add to your collection if you want technology to help you in becoming a better driver. Somewhat similar to Waze, the app comes with a point system that challenges you to beat your top score every time you’re on the road....

Let’s start off with the design – it is the same as the original Zenfone 2, volume rockers and speaker grille at the back, power button and the audio jack at the top, charging port at the bottom. The front consists of a 5.5 inch IPS LCD display coming in at a resolution that pack around 267 ppi, protected by Gorilla Glass 4. And the set of three capacitive buttons at the bottom are not back lit....

Sub Rs 15,000: More than basics on a budget Moto Z2 Play (Flipkart) – Nothing “mod”est about this one Rs 9,999 The jury might still be out on whether mods are a “thing” or not, but even keeping the modular argument aside, there is no doubting that the Moto Z2 Play at Rs 9,999 (it was launched at Rs 27,999 but has since dipped to being in the vicinity of Rs 14,000) is a formidable deal....

Survival Online GO Beginning with a game that usually costs $7.49 – Survival Online Go. As the name suggests, it’s an adventure-action multiplayer game where you’re supposed to explore islands, craft weapons, and build a powerful character for invading somebody else’s island and engage in an online war. The game features high-definition 3D graphics, hence, you make sure you enough available storage and RAM to run this. Survival Online Go is completely free right now (although there are optional in-app purchases) and is available for both iOS and Android....

Smart Compose, with the help of machine learning, will try to predict what you’re about to write in an email and suggest phrases accordingly. This can be anything from an address to a common sentence like “See you there“. For instance, say you’re sending a new email to a person named “Jessica“, Gmail will automatically ask if you’d like to input “Hey Jessica” at the beginning. You can simply select these by pressing the tab key or continue writing your email....

Bokeh what, ask thee? Well, we have explained the concept in some detail in our Tech Detox section on Aperture, but a quick summary would be: those photographs where some part of the picture is in sharp focus and the remainder blurred out. This blurring out of the background is referred to as Bokeh by many photographers, although some also refer to it as Depth of Field. And making this possible is the ability to change the aperture in the V5 Plus – something we have not seen in a front facing camera yet....

As shown in the example screenshot above, these quick action button appear next to certain types of messages in your Gmail inbox like responding to your friend’s party invitation or rating the restaurant you visited last night. These small tasks can now be done without having to moving away from your inbox. Few weeks back, Google introduced an experimental Compose box which lets users to create new emails without losing sight of their inbox....

Thanks to the update, Google Photos will now offer a star-shaped “Favourites” button and a heart-shaped “Like” button. The “Star” button will only appear in your own photo gallery and is aimed at allowing you to mark a favorite photo. Meanwhile, the app will also populate a separate folder for all of your Favourite photos. The Heart Icon on the Google Photos is more of a revamped version of the “Like” button....

The new products include Acer Chromebook Spin 11 and Asus C213. The Asus Chromebook Spin 11 comes equipped with an 11-inch HD IPS display layered with corning Gorilla 3 and a 360-degree hinge that facilitates various configurations. The best part is the Wacom Electromagnetic Resonance stylus and the MIL-STD 810G US military standard rating. The military standard rating, however, doesn’t come as a big surprise since Google has been encouraging the same to ensure the greater degree of durability for the harsh usage conditions....

Google has managed to design astonishingly tiny radar chips that can be directly embedded into devices like a smartwatch or a Bluetooth speaker. What this does is that users will be able to control their gadgets using precise hand gestures without actually touching the display or pressing any button. The smartwatch demo they showcased involved a couple of hand flicks through which the digital watch face could be moved. You can perform hand pinching gestures in air to manipulate a Bluetooth speaker’s actions....

With the ‘Shopping Tab’ available on Google Search, users can search for any product across any category, and the results will get displayed on a separate tab, next to Images, News, Videos. On tapping the ‘Shopping’ tab, users can get personalized shopping offers, pricing, and recommendations from various retailers. Additionally, users can post any queries that they happen to come across in both, English and Hindi. If you do not wish to go that route and want an isolated shopping experience without any distractions, you can check out the ‘Shopping Home Page‘ from Google....

When this happens, the system just hangs. Even the task manager fails to respond. Then the only way to get back to work is to Power off the PC and then start it back. A few days back, Microsoft had acknowledged this issue and said that this problem was rectified from their internal Pre-RTM builds, and now they have come up with a hotfix for the rest of us using Windows 8 Release preview or Windows Server 2012 RC....