So you can imagine our surprise when we clapped eyes for the first time on the Qiku Q Terra. No, we will not call it a small phone, for it isn’t one. But it definitely does not look like a phone with a 6.0-inch display either. For at 157.6 mm in length, it is a tad shorter than the 158.2 mm iPhone 6s Plus and significantly shorter than the 159....
GSMArena reports that Lenovo has teased the launch event of the device on Chinese social media but has revealed any further details about. As you can see for yourself, the image only shows the date and the word ‘VIBE’ on the background. A hint for the ‘Vibe Z3 Pro’ launch could be the date, which contains two times ‘3’, but this is just my personal assumption. At MWC, we’ve seen the Vibe Shot, and it did sport some features which many assumed to have belonged to the Vibe Z3 Pro....
Yes, we cannot accuse the premium range of being exact copy cats of one another, but there are definitely a number of basic design details that most high-end phones today share – the largely glass build, the notch (size and shape can vary), the edge to edge display and the multiple camera arrangement sit on top of this list. Now, while there was scope for forgiveness in the budget segment as looks are really not the first priority in that range (and resources for the design were limited), things are very different in the high end and premium phone zone, where design, numbers, and performance all go hand in hand....
Hacking Team is known for exposing zero-day vulnerabilities, the loopholes in software which are unknown to the vendor. The loopholes are further exploited by the clients to discreetly inject the target with their software. As a matter of fact, the researchers have also found out several zero-days in the deluge of leaked e-mails since last month. The company’s update labeled MS15-078 has fixed a flaw in the rendering of OpenType fonts which is jointly created by Adobe and Microsoft....
Starting out as a… game boy! He may now be the director and founder of a multi-national company, but Carl Pei’s first job for a company was when he was in just sixth grade at a (wait for it) game store. It was for just a week in Sweden because kids in Sweden are allowed to do different jobs from grade sixth to ninth for just a week. He mentions that he shrink-wrapped games, restocked shelves and ate hot dogs for a week there....
Gionee Marathon M5 will be launching in Bangalore next week, i.e November 24 and to start with, it will retail as online exclusive. We expect the phone to be priced around Rs 18,700 (or in fact a little lesser). The M5 is fitted with a 5.5-inch HD display and draws its power from a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6735 processor coupled with a 3GB RAM. On the storage front, the phone offers 32GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot that can further accommodate 128GB....
Android 4.0 ICS and Battery Management To be honest, Improved Battery Management was the only thing I was looking forward to in Android 4.0. Many users are happy to see new features like ability to take screenshots, new system font, Android beam etc. These are some nice features to have and welcome improvements by Google. But not even once did I hear any Google executive talk about battery performance in Android 4....
When first writing about the Google Fiber service, I was saying that Google needs to fix these issues: price, adoption and equipment. After seeing today’s announcement, I’m now confident they’ve managed to solve all 3 of them or, at least, to have a healthy start. The price and equipment is all set, the adoption depends on how customers react and just how badly they want Google Fiber in their homes....
The New Google Glass will be called “Enterprise Edition” and as expected it does come with an improvised hardware and a redesigned button and hinge system. The folks at 9to5 Google were able to lay their hands on the new Google Glass hardware and they have corroborated that the new Google Glass doesn’t look strikingly different from its predecessor. That being said, the new design seems to offer a greater leeway as it also incorporated the foldable design....
The new ‘lite’ versions of Google Pixel 3 follows the same design cues as their elder siblings and similar camera setup which stand out in the Pixel lineup. Google Pixel 3a In terms of design, the Pixel 3a features a polycarbonate unibody design with a 5.6-inch FHD+ OLED display that has an 18.5:9 aspect ratio with 2220 x 1080 pixels screen resolution at 441ppi. It is an always-on display that shows the time, date, and battery status, and has Dragontail protection on top to protect it against scratches....
Well, yes it would. But then think again. At the very beginning of the year, Google had bought Fossil’s smartwatch technology for USD 40 million, which had triggered the first talk of a “Pixel watch.” And that acquisition had seemed to make sense. After all, Google had the software, Fossil would add the design edge its wearables needed. What’s more, Fossil used Android Wear (or Wear OS) as a platform for its smartwatches....
With Stadia, Google aims to provide users with the ability to stream games directly from the cloud to any of their devices including a desktop, laptop, TV, tablet, or smartphone. To make this possible, games can be streamed using any of the Google services like the Chrome browser, Chromecast, or Pixel device, which manage to be present across the aforementioned platforms. Stadia will roll out soon in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe, later this year....
The new monthly storage plans and their previous prices are as follows: $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB. Google says that one terabyte is enough for you to “take a selfie twice a day for the next 200 years and still have room left over for”. But I’m sure that you have many other important pictures that you will want securely saved on the cloud....
That declaration by Hugo Barra at the launch of the Mi 4 in Delhi surprised a lot of people. After all, for most people (the non-geeky mainstream), Xiaomi is best known for delivering excellent hardware at surprisingly low prices. Take the Mi 3 and Mi 4 for instance – both packed in some very good hardware (excellent processors, lots of RAM, very good cameras) and yet together cost less than most Android flagships (for the record, their combined cost is Rs 33,998!...
Those headlines had surprised us when they first appeared on the horizon in 2014, following the surprisingly quick sales of the Xiaomi Mi 3 and Redmi 1S (we had written about it being a triumph and a tragedy, remember?). Today, we just nod wearily and carry on. For, like it or not, these flash sales where gadgets get sold out literally within seconds of becoming available have become a part of our digital existence....
Why use shortcuts? Apart from giving you quick access to the features that you use regularly and saving you from the trouble of unlocking your smartphone, looking up the feature or app, and then finally using it, having a number of useful shortcuts present on your Control Center can actually help your phone keep private and safe. These shortcuts on the Control Center can also be a massive savior when someone needs to use a certain feature and you do not want to hand them your unlocked phone for them to snoop around....
But not only computer hard disks fail, any other device that stores information can fail, and when it does, you are left with nothing, except if you have a backup of your files. A backup is probably the most important habit you must develop. What a backup means is that you have to have more than 1 copy of your data, on different storage devices or mediums (such as other HDDs, CDs/DDs, Cloud, etc)....
Don’t fret much, because there are some ways to change the background of a picture or a photo without having to do laborious steps. There are online, offline, paid or free applications which will help you through the entire process. This article provides some detailed guides of how to remove or change backgrounds of a picture. Change the background with software applications An image editing software is a collection of different programs that enables a user to manipulate images right on his PC....
If we’ve talked about accessing your media files from anywhere in the house, of about how smart houses are the building blocks of smart cities, today, we’re taking a look at a few methods to make your house smarter, therefore, one step closer to the ultimate goal. What can you control remotely in your home? There are lots of items in our homes that we don’t think of as something we might need to remotely control, for instance, lights, windows or the temperature....
But as it turns out, sharing documents—the ones with images—or image files in the PDF format isn’t wise, as the file size of a PDF file is considerably larger than a regular JPG or PNG file and requires a dedicated PDF viewer to be viewed and edited. So unless you specifically need to have an image in PDF format, your best bet is to convert it into one of the popular image formats, like JPG or PNG....
