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One of my favorite tech writers, Brian S Hall, had predicted (back in Nov 2012) that Apple will be forced to release a much bigger iPhone this year, owing to the pressure applied by ever-growing Galaxy series of Android smartphones by Samsung, which are getting bigger and better by the day. Apple has always resisted bigger screens for the iPhone, as they hamper “single handed operation”. Well, they had also dismissed smaller iPads, till they announced iPad mini late last year....

Those were the words of a retailer with whom I was discussing the totally wireless earphone (TWS) market in India earlier this year. According to him, the Indian TWS market was at two extremes – the budget segment (around Rs 3,000), where people wanted to experience the wireless trend at a very low price point, and the premium segment (around Rs 10,000), where people wanted either the AirPods or something close to them or were very sensitive to product and audio quality....

Sir, or rather Big Sur, you have such iOS feels! Now, right from the beginning, smartphones have always aspired to be computers. Whether it was Palm, BlackBerry, i-Mate, or Nokia, the ultimate goal of a smartphone was to literally put a computer in your hand or into your pocket. And right from the beginning, computer users scoffed at the idea. Phones, they insisted, were simply not good enough. They were underpowered, their displays were too small, their software was totally different, and were at best all right for messaging and mail, but computers were the REAL thing....

The growth in the Indian market comes as a breath of fresh air for Xiaomi, a company that has been struggling to keep pace with the intense competition in its domestic market. Ironically, Xiaomi’s Q2 in China had witnessed a drop of 38% whilst they registered a staggering 150% Y-o-Y growth when it comes to India sales. Xiaomi claims that the spike in growth is triggered by the expansion in the offline market and also the addition of new online partners for a better distribution chain....

Meanwhile, YouTube users experience lag issues when using the Chrome browser to watch videos or navigate the site; these issues usually do not occur when using other browsers. Your streaming experience is practically interrupted, which is extremely frustrating. In most cases, browser bugs, software malfunctions, and poor Internet connections are the main causes of this problem, which fortunately can be fixed with some simple troubleshooting methods. Now, let’s go over different ways to fix YouTube lagging on Chrome and other details you should know about the issue....

In many ways, it is a clash of two cultures as much as two devices – on the one hand, you have the former leader of the Indian smartphone market, Nokia, which is making a comeback to the mobile phone world, and is relying on its (perceived) core virtues of solidly built devices that go on and on; and on the other you have Xiaomi, the new number one in the Indian smartphone arena, which has consistently grabbed market share by offering well-specced devices at surprisingly affordable prices....

And both come from relatively young brands, one has been in India for less than two years, another that has just made its debut in the market. Indeed, at the time of writing, they are perhaps the best options for anyone looking for a super-powerful phone that does not blow a massive hole in their pockets. But should you go for the iQOO 3 or the Realme X50 Pro? Let’s find out, shall we?...

Well, the iPhone 12 is the new normal. Blast from past: Compact, simple, solid…and so so elegant For, the iPhone 12 is very different from its predecessors. Yes, it remains more affordable than the Pro series, and yes, it shares the same powerful A14 Bionic chip, but that apart, there have been changes. The most obvious of these is in terms of design – after the slightly tall iPhone 11 and XR, the iPhone 12 is surprisingly compact....

Over the past couple of years, Torrents have become a great source of latest Downloads. And be it on my blog or in the forums I am active on, many people keep asking the same questions all the time – How to improve my Torrent download speed? My internet connection seems slow and torrent download speed is suffering. What to do? How to bypass Throttling of torrents from ISP? How to improve, increase, boost, accelerate my Torrent download speed?...

Rapidshare has been dominating the file-hosting web services over the last couple of years. As we know, you can download the files from rapidshare either as a free user or a premium user. The amount of restrictions on using the free service is magnanimous. So, the best way to handle this is to opt for the Premium account! There have been lots and lots of discussion on How to get Rapidshare Premium accounts for free?...

While we do recommend you to move to Windows 8.1, or at least the service pack 1 of Windows 7, the fact that 31% people are still booting their computers to some version of Windows XP, is enough to predict that there are people who are facing a hard time biding goodbyes to their old friend. So whatever excuse you have to stick to Windows XP, we thought if you have to do it, you might as well do it the right way....

Lenovo India’s product manager Anuj Sharma does let his support for English football club Manchester United, seep into some of his similes. And in this case he was talking of the company’s increasing focus on the ‘affordable’ phone segment in India. Unlike other companies that tend to highlight a mix of affordable, mid-segment and high-end devices, Lenovo in India has almost single mindedly highlighted its affordable phone portfolio in 2015 – the last high-end device we heard the company talk about was the Vibe X2, which was in November 2014....

Well, with the iPad mini (6th generation), that changes. In fact, a lot changes with this iPad mini. Rather than being a smaller version of the iPad (which it used to be), it has now graduated to being a smaller version of the iPad Air. Those Airy looks The similarity to the iPad Air (4th generation) strikes you the moment you see the iPad mini. It has the same smaller bezels and straight sides look that the iPad Air has....

https://youtu.be/BJq4d1-lHq8 Let there be Portrait Lighting…let there be studio lights! The 39-second long ad, titled “iPhone X — Studio in your pocket” features a young woman at a busy railway station. She looks around, reaches for her iPhone X that is in her pocket and just when she takes a selfie all sorts of professional photography equipment – umbrellas, studio, softboxes, you name it – materializes around her, almost out of thin air....

HDR HDR is one thing which recently came into the spotlight and most of us just know turning on this setting makes our photographs look better, but is that all? And if so, should you use the HDR mode all the time? Read on to find out. What is HDR? HDR is obviously an abbreviation and it stands for High Dynamic Range imaging, not High Definition Recording as so many assume it does....

Given how many available options are out there, it is definitely hard to pick the one that’s best adapted to your needs. Removing all non-English applications, as well as the ones that are not relevant enough, too pricey or not interesting enough, we got a list of a few good apps that we’d like to share with you. Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series where we dig down and present to you some of the best apps and software tools available for professionals....

As always, the wonderful designers at DeviantArt have come out with some gorgeous looking Windows 7 themes. Below is a collection of the best Windows 7 themes you can get. Update: Best Free Windows 11 Themes Best Windows 7 Themes WoodStock Windows 7 Theme Arturik Theme for Windows 7 Desk 09 Windows 7 Theme Red Windows 7 Theme Heart Windows 7 Theme Dark Knight Windows 7 Theme Only Black Windows 7 theme...

But before throwing your phone in the bin and classifying it as useless, remember it is Android at the end of the day, and Android is known for its customization abilities. What do I mean? Well, using some excellent apps available on the Google Play Store, you can check battery health on Android with ease. So what are we waiting for? Let us have a detailed look at how to check battery health in Android painlessly....

Some of them can be quite addictive, so be sure to have a clock near you! Many of these games are cross-platform, so you will find Android games that will work on iPhone and vice versa. It makes sense for the game makers: distribute it on more platforms and cash in more dough. Android 3D Games I. Racing 1. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit After the launch of Hot Pursuit for PC and console, EA Games saw that it had allot of success and fans wanted more and more....

However, we have all been in a situation where we wanted to watch our favorite videos on YouTube but could not because of a poor network connection. Also, imagine that you are traveling to a remote place or have a long-haul flight and want to watch YouTube videos; what is the best possible way? Well, the best way is to download YouTube videos on an Android phone or tablet and enjoy them later....