The announcement comes from the Xiaomi Vice President and Xiaomi India Managing Director, Manu Kumar Jain, who tweeted saying, “What started as a sub-brand in POCO has grown into its own identity in a short span of time. POCO F1 is an extremely popular phone across user groups and remains a top contender in its category even in 2020. We feel the time is right to let POCO operate on its own now, which is why we’re excited to announce that POCO will spin-off as an independent brand....

While the Android market is filled with great power monitors such as Battery Status Plus and there are a couple of good practices that can also help, from the plains of the XDA forum comes Quad Core Manager, a rather simple software which allows users to disable processing cores, one by one. Aimed solely at rooted phones with quad-core processors, this application can spare some vital battery juice in case you desperately need it....

The intention is to deliver and ease the process of adding dual-cameras on products through a universal technology. Clear Sight is developed based on the way humans’ visualize surroundings – using cones and rods. While the former is detecting colors and details, latter is absorbing light particles. The approach is fundamentally identical to what Huawei has done with the P9, you can read more about it here. Clear Sight will, as a result, utilize two separate camera sensors with same focal length and aperture for mimicking the purpose of cones and rods....

Quoth is a new age social media tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to figure out what the picture is about and suggest a quote related to it, in a way creating a perfect combo that would give you the likes you have always been longing for. According to the maker of the app, Quoth uses computer vision APIs from Apple and Clarifai to analyze the image and determine things like attributes, color, facial information, etc to create a perfect combination of the picture and quote....

The Realme 5 follows in that tradition. Some feel that the device was targeted squarely at the Mi A3 which Xiaomi has launched today. And with good reason. The two devices were launched within a day of each other. And there is no getting away from some of the similarities – the slightly edgy design, the 720p display, the multiple cameras, the big battery and of course, that processor. But comparing those two phones is another story – and one which we are doing!...

You get the idea. The Redmi Note series has seen itself expand into a family of sorts over the past three years or so, with a Pro and a Pro Max being added to the line (we expect a simple Max to join the club at some stage). But the “plain” Note continues to play a key role in its success, being the most affordable of the series that sticks to its core philosophy of maybe missing out on flashy features but doing the basics very well indeed....

Design and Display To start with, the Galaxy A52 (4G and 5G) and the Galaxy A72 both feature a similar design language — a plastic back encased in a plastic frame. All three models come with IP67 water and dust resistance and have a rectangular camera module on the rear. Moving to the front, the Galaxy A52 has a 6.5-inch display, while the Galaxy A72 sports a bigger 6.7-inch Super AMOLED display....

The Korean smartphone giant has added yet another star to their ever-growing Galaxy lineup and this time, it’s for the “On” budget series. The new Galaxy On8 will be exclusively available on Flipkart in India and features impressive specifications such as 3GB of RAM, Super AMOLED Full HD display, all for an affordable price tag. To begin with, the Galaxy On8 flaunts a brushed metal body and measures merely 7....

A College Project Snapchat was initially started as a project for one of Evan Spiegel’s classes in Stanford where he was a product design major. It was originally called “Picaboo” as the core ethos of the selfie-oriented app was to allow users to post ephemeral images. The Reggie Brown Lawsuit Reggie Brown is one of the foundational members of Snapchat, however, for some reason, he was deposed from the company by Spiegel and Murphy....

Twitter is not just about functions and features A big error being committed by the authors of many of these pieces is to evaluate Twitter purely in terms of features. So any app or network that allows you to share or respond to messages with a community is being touted as a ‘Twitter alternative.’ Many even highlight extra features that other apps have – the ability to write longer messages, share longer videos, see fewer ads, and so on....

Just like any regular SDHC card, this smart product can store high amounts of media, while having the big advantage of performing transfers without any wires attached. Moreover, some products even come with advanced options, such as a dedicated application for mobile operating systems (Android, iOS, etc.) which allow the user to view files and share them, right from the camera. How can Wi-Fi enabled SD cards transform your camera?...

The X50 modem focussed mostly on the smartphones and claimed to offer maximum download speed of 5 gigabits, which is less than the newest offering from the company, which promises to provide as much as 7 gigabits of download speed. In addition to the speed, it also claims to enhance the connectivity among devices and also allow for devices of different categories to be connected together. That surely hints to the fact that we can see the new modem chipset not only on the upcoming 5G-enabled smartphones but also on the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that primarily require various devices to be connected together via the internet....

Both these Sony devices run Google’s Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and not the latest KitKat. Also, both devices have been released as single SIM and dual-SIM models. The dual-SIM versions are probably targeted for emerging markets; but at the moment we don’t know their pricing and availability. You will also get 50GB of free Box storage with any of these two devices. Director of Xperia Marketing at Sony Mobile Communications, Calum MacDougall said:...

The lens is made up of sensors which thankfully are equipped with the innate capability of distinguishing between a voluntary and an involuntary blink. The technology would be covering the iris and it will harness power from the motion of the eyelids. This patent application surfaces just days after Google had applied for a patent with regards to a lens that could literally be injected into the eyes. So since it’s just a concept it does come with its own ifs and buts....

While the naming of the Xperia phones can be confusing, the design is ever so identical. The boxy hunk is aiming for more symmetry no matter where you look at it from. As good as this sounds, for a phone with a display size of 5.2-inch, the XZ has a rather big forehead and chin. We compared it to some 5.5-inch phones such as the OnePlus 3 and the Moto Z Play, and the XZ is really as tall as them....

Its Christmas Eve!! Whoa! Day 29 of TechPP Mega Christmas Giveaway and we are almost nearing the end of this campaign. Today, we have another Axialis product – Axialis Screensaver Producer Professional 4 (first one was Axialis IconWorkshop Pro) Screensavers are among the most common pieces of software online, and a host of tools exist to help create them. Axialis Screensaver Producer 4 is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to create and compile redistributable Windows screensavers....

Day 16 of TechPP Mega Christmas Giveaway and we have had some really cool software reviewed and given away in these 2 weeks. Today, we have SWF to video converter from Sothink, which is an excellent and professional Flash converter for Flash SWF to video conversion. It converts Macromedia Flash SWF to AVI, MPEG, iPod/PSP (MP4), 3GP, animated GIF, image series and more other popular formats. This Flash to video converter enables you to convert Flash to video which includes audio, action scripts or movie clips....

In the Android and iOS world of alarms, diversification can be found at each corner. We’ve browsed both markets and found that around 10 names have enough to be deemed worthy. So, today, we are about to talk about the best alarm applications of the moment. The Best Alarm Clocks in the Wild Waking up can be pretty tough. Those that have troubles sleeping usually fool themselves by turning alarms off and getting back in the bad....

(A note: we recommend you take a look at the full-sized images and make your own judgments too. For what is a better photograph often depends on the perspective of the views: for instance, saturated colors appeal to some while others tend to be picky for true to life images. Pick the winner across each segment as you go forth and at the end, you might have a winner of your own....

The ROG Mothership is a 17-inch gaming laptop with a kickstand at the back to make it sit upright (since it weighs 10.3 pounds) and a detachable keyboard. You can either play it as a huge notebook or pull the keyboard out to essentially turn it into a 17-inch all-in-one. The keyboard can even be folded in half for a more ergonomic angle and save some desk space as well....