In sport, we have a term called ‘commentator’s curse.’ As per it, whatever a commentator praises is bound to get the rough end of the stick soon. Well, we have just got a taste of it. Rounding up our year in Hollywood style, we decided to hand a special award at the very end for a product that simple refused to fade out into the tech sunset. We took a leaf out of Frank Miller and called it The 300 Award, which we handed to the Sony PlayStation 2....

We had been impressed with Play’s ANC headphones, the PlayGo BH70 ANC, earlier this year, and well, the T44 TWS are just as impressive in their own manner. Trying for a different sound…and succeeding! And that is because, in a price segment that tends to put sound quality on the backburner and simply turn up the bass, the T44 actually tries to go for what one could call a V-shaped sound....

For the uninitiated, the Plex is a modern version of your set top box, and the Plex Pass with premium features can be had for as little as $4.99/month. In Essence, the Plex blends in Sling TV, DirecTV, Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV along with the usual Live TV Channels that are broadcasted over the air. This is achieved by employing an HD antenna that is supported by Plex....

In this regard, we have lately seen an influx in website builders that promise to simplify website creation and setup. But because most of these tools still demand some design know-how, the barrier to entry has remained high all this time — until Notion came out a few years back and made building websites a lot easier than ever before. However, since Notion is ideally not meant for creating websites, it poses some limitations: you can only create specific kinds of websites with it, and you still have to use a third-party service if you wish to host your Notion website on a custom domain....

Online Shopping: How Good Can It Be? Considering the fact that people today depend on man-made objects (clothes, electrics, electronics, mechanic equipments), there is no surprise that the shopping industry is the biggest in the history of mankind. And how can’t it be, when every single object on the planet is a potential new article for selling and buying? Because that is what shopping means after all: buying an object from someone who is selling it....

Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G Highlights CPU and GPU – the Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G is based on the 5nm process technology. It incorporates the Kryo 670 architecture that promises up to 40% improvement in performance than its predecessor. The chipset promises to offer up to 2.4GHz of clock speed, and for graphics processing, it has the Adreno 642 GPU. AI – in terms of AI performance, the latest Qualcomm offering employs the 6th-generation Qualcomm AI Engine....

The Snapdragon 865 Plus appears more like a refresh to the regular 865, with primary emphasis on gaming and a total of three key improvements. The Kryo 585 Prime core on the Snapdragon 865 Plus is now clocked at 3.1 GHz, which is a 10% increase in the clock speed from 2.84GHz found on the regular Snapdragon 865. Besides, it retains the same architecture, with the same clock speeds for other cores....

The Kirin 970, however, was exclusive to Huawei/Honor devices which meant consumers who use smartphones from a different manufacturer couldn’t experience the AI goodness in completeness. Of course, Qualcomm, one of the largest producers of smartphone chipsets did integrate some AI specific features in their flagship Snapdragon 845 mobile platform with the help of the Hexagon 680 DSP, but there was still a lack of a dedicated NPU like the one found on the Kirin 970....

Getting the looks right Let us take the good stuff first. The Narzo 20A definitely looks eye-catching with its V-shaped designs on its plastic back. We got the Glory Silver variant (there is also a Victory Blue) and while the phone itself is a little bulky at 164.4 mm in length and is definitely on the heavier side at 195 grams, it definitely has a very striking appearance. The front has a 6....

We are talking, of course, of Redmi (Xiaomi’s brand) and Realme. For most people, Redmi vs Realme is THE tech rivalry in the country. Rarely a day goes without some debate on the Web or social networks about which brand is doing better and how each is pushing the other back in one department or the other. The truth, however, seems to be that while both brands are doing well, neither is actually hurting the other too much....

High also was the mountain the Note 8 Pro has to climb. Its predecessor, the Note 7 Pro, pretty much redefined mid-segment phone photography with its 48-megapixel sensor, and also brought a whole new design and splash resistance to the Note series. What could the Note 8 Pro to top that? Note the better hardware Well, for a start, the Note 8 Pro pretty much pumps up all the hardware that we saw on the Note 7 Pro, which incidentally is still less than a year ago....

Given the enormous rise of smartphones and the move to stream content from cloud, data consumption is at an all time high not only in India but all over the world. This has led to ubiquitous wireless broadband coverage (3G/4G) being a necessity for someone to make the most out of their smartphones. India for a long time has lagged other developed countries when it comes to 3G/4G deployment and speeds....

And now sees the successor to the Moto E, the Moto E (2015 or 2nd Gen). Unlike the original, the new Moto E has not just got to shoulder some hefty expectations but also face some very stiff competition. Still a Plain Jane The original Moto E was made for function, not fashion, and its successor follows the same design ethic. In terms of looks, it remains relatively nondescript. Thanks to a bigger display, it is slightly longer and wider than the previous Moto E, and at 12....

In terms of design, the Galaxy A70 feature’s Samsung’s 3D Glasstic design, with a large 6.7-inch Super AMOLED display with a waterdrop notch, that Samsung calls an ‘Infinity U display’. The display offers a resolution of 2400×1080 pixels with a 20:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, the device is powered by an Octa-Core processor, paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage, expandable up to 512GB using a microSD card....

Samsung has finally ditched the polycarbonate built for its budget range and opted for a metal unibody design in the Galaxy J (2017) series. The metal back of all three smartphones features two horizontal antenna bands. While the metal unibody design of the smartphones is quite familiar, but these small tweaks are enough to make the Galaxy J series stand out from the rest of the crowd. Internally, all three smartphones are different from one another....

Samsung Galaxy M01s: Design and Display The all-new Galaxy M01s comes with a plastic back on the rear, with a dual-camera array arranged vertically and a fingerprint scanner in the center. Towards the front, it has a 6.2-inch TFT LCD with an HD+ screen resolution and an (Infinity-V) style notch — to house the front-facing camera. The M01s comes in two colorways: Gray and Light Blue. Samsung Galaxy M01s: Performance Under the hood, the Samsung Galaxy M01s runs on an octa-core MediaTek Helio P22 processor with IMG PowerVR GE8320 GPU....

The Galaxy Note 4 continues to have the same faux-leather back cover, but now has a metal band wrapping running around the edges are now in the same color as the phone itself, instead of silver chrome lining on the Note 3. The new display gives a pixel density of 518 PPI which is just stunning. The S Pen holster is etched into the right corner of the phone and the microUSB 3....

At the office, a smartphone is a great gadget to have. It allows you to check your email, talk, browse the web and many other things, but one place where the potential has remained untouched is for faxing. There are some pretty good faxing apps available for most smartphones and users can try them out and use them for their businesses. Advantages of faxing from a smartphone First and foremost, the biggest advantage you can have is that you always carry your smartphone with you....

The Sharp S3 features a 5-inch FHD IGZO display and is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 paired with 3GB of RAM. On the storage front, the device offers 32GB of internal memory which is further expandable up to 256GB. Camera options on the S3 include a 5-Megapixel front sensor and a 13.1-Megapixel secondary sensor along with LED flash. The physical keys are placed on the right side of the phone and the polycarbonate casing lacks exuberance....

The Sharp Aquos comes equipped with a 5.3-inch QHD display bundled with HDR 10 capability. Sharp also demos how the IGZO display uses higher refresh rates resulting in a better touch sensitivity. Storage options on the Aquos R include a 64GB internal memory. On the imaging front, the Aquos R offers a 22.6-Megapixel primary sensor with 90-degree, wide angle lens, f/1.9 aperture OIS along with a 16-Megapixel secondary camera sensor....