However, Microsoft did not add support for Android apps in early beta builds and also the latest public build leaving people wondering if the tech giant had dropped plans for it completely. Thankfully, Microsoft has gone ahead and announced Android app support on the latest Windows 11 Insiders beta build. Today, we will have a detailed look at how you can download these apps on your Windows 11 machine and also run them natively with ease....

To give you some background, HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) aka HEIC (High Efficiency Image Codec) is a container for individual images and images sequences with improved compression that promises to retain twice the information in half the file size compared to some of the traditional formats like JPEG. Although Apple was the first to adopt the HEIF on its system, it is the MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) that developed the format....

A frozen or misbehaving app is one of such exceptions that can sometimes render your Mac unusable. And although you can try to close this unresponsive app normally by clicking the close button, it’s unlikely to work most of the time. Those familiar with Windows operating system would be very familiar with the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+Alt+Del” to invoke the Task Manager and ‘kill’ the misbehaving application. So what’s the Mac alternative to “Ctrl+Alt+Del” that helps you force quit an app?...

If you are reading a really interesting book that you cannot bear to put down or you want to settle in bed after a long day and just read and relax without disturbing others around you, this is THE feature for you. It allows you to read in the dark without attracting much attention and without putting too much strain on your eyes. How to activate Kindle Dark Mode? It is pretty easy to activate as well....

The caller tune feature has been there for the last few months, but sadly not many people noticed it. Previously, you were required to set a caller tune on your Jio number by sending a text message. The process was similar to offerings from telecom operators like Airtel, Vodafone, and others. Now there’s a much easier way to set a free caller tune. So without further ado, let’s get started....

On the specifications side, the Desire 630 features a 5-inches HD Super LCD panel up front along with a painted-speckled plastic body. There’s a Quad-Core Snapdragon 400 processor clocked at 1.6GHz, Adreno 305 GPU for graphics, 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage which is expandable up to 128GB via a MicroSD card and a paltry 2200mAh removable battery. It runs on Android 6.0 flavoured with HTC Sense 7 UI and additionally, the 630 supports Dual SIMs, Bluetooth 4....

Huami rose to the forefront after it started manufacturing the $15 Mi Band for Xiaomi. The latest Mi Band 2 comes packed with a heart rate sensor, pedometer, sleep tracker and is sold under the Xiaomi Branding. Interestingly Xiaomi is the second company after Fitbit when it comes to global sales rank after having managed to sell 24-Million Mi Wristbands in China since the launch, according to IDC. It all started two years ago when Xiaomi decided to invest in Huami in order to bolster its efforts in creating a range of connected device that would eventually work with in tandem with the smartphone....

The app from the Ahmedabad based outfit had made headlines earlier this year by using AR to offer a digital version of a frog dissection on the iPad, thus acquainting users with the necessary information without harming any living being. In fact, it became the first Indian app to be showcased during the Apple keynote at the Chicago education event earlier this year. Needless to say, the win is a massive achievement not just for Designmate but the Indian app developer community in general....

The Infinix Smart 3 Plus features a 6.22-inch display with a screen resolution of 1520 x 720 pixels and a waterdrop notch at the top. Under the hood, it is powered by an Helio A22 processor, paired with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage (expandable using a microSD card). The device runs on XOS, which is the company’s own UI based on Android 9 Pie and has a 3500mAh battery to power everything....

1. Bill Gates, Microsoft For many of us, Bill Gates symbolizes the very beginning of the modern computer. He is and will remain a role model for everybody that wants to build their start-up. Looking through his biography, you’ll see that Mr.Gates has done pretty much everything one could desire in his life: he was for many years the richest person in the world, he has a great family and currently, he’s a philanthropist, trying to help the poor and those in need....

1. “Glass back apart, haven’t we seen you before?” You have often heard us complaining about similar, repeated design in the budget and mid-range segment smartphones but the disappointment increases exponentially if a smartphone with a premium price tag follows the trend. And in this case, it is no other device but the Godphone itself. We will not be exaggerating if we said that Apple has not REALLY changed the design of the iPhones since the iPhone 5/5s....

At this point, we really shouldn’t be relying on the department at Qualcomm dedicated to numbering their chipsets because we all know that the Snapdragon 675 was supposedly better than the Snapdragon 710 and the Snapdragon 720G was a slight improvement in some aspects over the Snapdragon 730G and in both cases, the numbers indicate otherwise. Don’t get us wrong, the Snapdragon 732G is of course, better than the Snapdragon 730G but we are not sure if the improvements that we will discuss hereon are worth launching a separate mobile platform....

While many artists and companies seem to have understood this principle, the vast majority of corporations and even governments entirely have proved to be run by muggles. The curiosity itself strikes me right from the heavens and makes me wonder why some, after failing with SOPA, ACTA and the rest of those threatening acts, try another censorship scheme. Judging by Google’s own sayings, this year in December, humanity may once more have to battle against internet censorship and all of its devious consequences....

The problem was that the phone around the Pixel’s cameras tended to be erratic and expensive in equal measure. Leading some of us – Yours Truly included – to refer to the Pixel as a camera hidden in the body of a phone. Indeed the hashtag “TeamPixel” was almost always seen on photographs because that was what really marked the Pixel out most starkly – not the stock Android or the little software touches, but the staggeringly good camera....

The Indian market has registered an impressive 17.5% on quarter growth and an 11% on-year growth in the July-September time frame. The spike in the numbers can be attributed to the festive season and the mega online sales by all the major e-commerce destination. Samsung seems to be unaffected by the Note 7 debacle or maybe the announcement of other smartphones balanced the act. The year-on growth for Samsung is an impressive 9....

ThinkPad X1 Carbon The ThinkPad X1 Carbon comes with a 14-inch IPS display and the chassis is made up of four layers of carbon-fiber reinforced material alongside a magnesium alloy roll cage for better resilience. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon weighs at just 1.1KG and on the connectivity front, the device offers Thunderbolt 3, LTE, Wireless WAM along with WiFI. The X1 Carbon offers of up to 15.5 hours of battery life and the fast charging are rated to charge the device from 0-80% in just one hour....

The 6.8-inch FHD display boasts of 326 ppi pixel density which is pretty good considering the size of the screen. Lenovo PHAB Plus runs on the octa-core Snapdragon 615 clocked at 1.5GHz and paired with a 2GB LPDDR3 RAM. On the imaging front the PHAB Plus features a 13-Megapixel primary snapper and a 5-Megapixel secondary sensor. The storage department is managed by 32GB of internal memory and an expandable memory card slot....

The ThinkPad P52 is a mobile workstation which demands a lot of power and the P52 doesn’t disappoint. It includes the newest 8th generation of Intel CPUs with up to 6 cores (including Intel Xeon options) and also RAM of up to a whopping 128GB for the first time, likely utilizing the new 32 GB SO-DIMM modules by Samsung. It can probably be compared to a gaming laptop except for the fact that mobile workstations are used to perform more CPU and GPU-intensive tasks....

Look, Feel and Design The rear of the phone has glossy pebble design which will attract a lot of attention. Our Indigo unit just looks beautiful, delivers premium quality, and we will never think of grabbing a case for it. It also comes in White and Gold colors. The next thing to notice about the phone are the curves. There are no sharp lines anywhere, and the screen in the front blends really well with the frame....

LG K61 Display The all-new LG K61 features a 6.5-inch FHD+ FullVision display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and a punch-hole cutout to house the front-facing camera. It is MIL-STD 810G compliant and comes in three color options: Titanium, White, and Blue. Performance At its core, the device comes with a 2.3 GHz octa-core processor coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB / 128GB of storage (expandable up to 2TB with microSD card)....