Just like its younger sibling, the DTEK 60 too is made by Alcatel. In fact, it’s a slightly modified version of the flagship Alcatel Idol 4S. While the externals remain the same, BlackBerry has tweaked around with the internals to make their flagship device even more powerful. The BlackBerry DTEK 60 sports an all glass exterior with metal to the sides. Up front, the flagship device sports a 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display which is the same as the one seen in the Alcatel 4S....

The rest of the story of KEYone, though, is quite standard as far as Android phones are concerned. The design itself is indeed, impressive featuring an aluminum unibody, and a soft textured back that should help while banging on those physical keys. It comes with a 4.5-inch IPS LCD display sporting a resolution of 1620 x 1080 which, considering the size, should be able to produce sharp content. The TCL hardware includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor running underneath along with the Adreno 506, 3 GB of RAM, 32GB internal storage with the ability to expand via a microSD card, and a sufficiently large 3,505 mAh battery with QuickCharge 3....

Call of Duty: Mobile offers a free-to-play version of the game with inspiration from the Black Ops and Modern Warfare franchises. It is being developed by Activision and Tencent and will be available in different Beta phases across Europe, North America, and South America. For which, interested users can sign up for the Beta on their official website. The game would be available to download for Free on both Android and iOS and will feature different game modes like – Free4All, Search & Destroy, Team Deathmatch, and Frontline....

Of course, as any other curious user, throughout time I’ve searched for deeper ways to dissect the system and change settings so I could finally call that smartphone mine. I’ve first started with CyanogenMod and a couple of other interesting ROMs but just recently, I’ve learned about Chameleon OS, a skin that certainly lives up to its name. Chameleon OS – MIUI at its best MIUI, also known as Me You I, is a highly customizable Android-based system built by Xiaomi Tech, the company who also released two interesting phones, MiOne and MiTwo....

Available on the Windows Store, MINE for Facebook (yes, that is the complete name of the app) is a 1.84 MB download and installs without any hitches. Once you have logged into the app using your Facebook username and password, you get a screen with two sections – Your Personalized Feeds on the upper portion, and Notifications below them. The Personalized Feeds area has three sub-heads: Your news feed, Status and picture feed and the quaintly named Top friend link and info feed....

By requiring US Internet service providers, advertising networks, Internet payment gateway providers and search engines to blacklist copyright violators, the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) seeks to bring The Pirate Bay and other similar foreign sites into their knees. Met by strong opposition from liberty advocates and internet giants like Google, Facebook and Youtube, SOPA will authorize the Department of Justice to seek court order and require ISPs and search engines to blacklist infringing websites or web pages....

In terms of design and build, the Osmo Action is claimed to have an intuitive design with rugged construction, which allows it to handle extreme conditions and be dustproof, shockproof, and waterproof. DJI also says that the design allows the camera to operate in sub-freezing temperatures. Coming to specifications, the Osmo Action comes with two color screens on both the front and back to allow users to better compose a scene while on the move....

It supports two video modes which can both capture the entire screen, a program window or a custom region defined by the user of the program. Both modes support microphone input. Though not as comprehensive as Techsmith’s SnagIt or Camtasia studio, Ashampoo’s Snap 3 impresses with its easy-to-use interface and ability to capture screenshots as well as videos. The 2 modes have specific uses. The first one has been specifically designed for program demonstrations and user instructions....

Loads of new features have been introduced which were long wanted by the users and several improvements and enhancements have been made it to the existing features present in iTunes 8. iTunes 9 Features Improved store navigation, including persistent navigation menu. # Full window iTunes store. For times when that sidebar is just too much. # Previews from anywhere in the store — don’t have to drill down to preview....

Which is why Apple’s idea of delivering alerts in case of increased heart rates seemed like such a good idea. The Apple Watch would use the heart rate sensors to measure your heart rate and its other sensors to work out whether you were active or not. The alert would go out only if the app sensed that your heart rate was high for a period of ten minutes AND you were relatively inactive....

Popping a bulky fitness capsule The Fastrack Reflex is mainly a capsule that tracks your activity encased inside a broad silicon band. The silicon band of the smartband is dual colored – with a different color on the outside and a different one inside. We received the purple unit which was purple on the outside and black on the inside. The device has a dual notch to lock the band on your wrist....

Fortunately, for users who are yearning for that good ol’ Instagram experience and escape its toxic numbers-driven influencer culture or the stories’ format hostile takeover of your feed, there’s finally a solution. It’s called Filtergram and it’s a web app that’s designed precisely for Instagram users who despise what it has evolved into. The idea here is simple. Filtergram gets rid of all the modern Instagram elements such as stories, advertisements, the explore page, the algorithmic feed, and more....

If the Classic and the Passport had seen BlackBerry’s design department in overdrive mode, the Leap stays in more comfortable territory. In fact, seen from a distance, it is almost indistinguishable from BlackBerry’s previous all-touch phone, the Z3. Like that phone, the Leap comes with a 5.0-inch display and at 9.5 mm, is only marginally thicker than the 9.3 mm thick Z3. Both the Z3 and the Leap share the same width – 72....

The Garmin Speak Plus pairs with your smartphone over Bluetooth for fetching data online. The voice assistant supports most of the primary skills including turn-by-turn directions, music playback and more. Being a dash cam first, the Speak Plus also rocks a camera sensor through which it records incidents, warn you if you’re too close to a car, and even send an alert if you’re drifting out of your current lane....

Interpreter mode is a new feature that is said to roll out as an update over a couple of weeks on Google Home devices and smart displays. If you’re in a foreign county or meeting with a person who does not speak the same language as you, the Google Assistant can be used as a translator, or more so as an interpreter in order to get real-time translations of words and sentences as and when you speak in the form of voice output as well as text on screen to aid the conversation....

If you’re not yet running version 9.12, wait for it to be rolled out around the world or grab the APK and update manually. Custom names for places is an upgraded version of Stars (which is still around). You can give any location on the map, a name (which, of course, is private). Even an unknown location that doesn’t have a name in Google Maps. You can then easily search for this place in the Maps app....

As mentioned, the Pixel Buds have a small, circular design with a stabilizer arc to hold them in place. The smaller design does not stick out of the ears and offers a clean and flush look. According to Google, the Pixel Buds come with a hybrid design that seals the ear for bass and has a ‘spatial vent’ that isolates outside noises. It also comes with an interesting feature, called’ Adaptive Sound’, which dynamically adjusts the sound as you move between different environments....

There have been multiple reports that Google will be killing the Nexus brand and replace with Pixel, indicating a massive change in strategy. Unlike Nexus phones, Pixel is expected to be premium, with prices expected to start at $649. The tweet too shows a Google logo, not a Nexus logo. The 2016 Pixel smartphones are believed to be produced for Google on behalf of HTC, which also made the first ever Nexus phone....

This makes the Google Play Music one of the most affordable streaming services in India, Apple music is currently priced at Rs 120 while the other players including Gaana and Saavn are priced at Rs 99/month. Since the cost difference is very less, it’s mostly the catalog, features and the content that will help users in deciding the best streaming service for them. The Google Play Music Unlimited is free for the first 30-days post which the amount would be charged on the recurring basis to your card....

Google had announced Project Abacus at the last years I/O which collects a ton of data about you including the locations on which you would actually use the app, maps your face and also matches your voice to ascertain if it is really you that is using the Google services. The eventuality of all this information is the trust score, which is somewhat like a credit score but only much simpler....