OnePlus Nord Watch Review: Looks of a premium smartwatch The biggest ace that the OnePlus Nord Watch has up its sleeve is its design. It is easily the best-looking smartwatch we have seen in its price segment. Although it went with a circular dial with its OnePlus Watch, OnePlus has opted for a square shape in the Nord Watch with a crown bang in the center of the right side....

The same Russian folks have got their hands on the Google Pixel 3 Lite which seemingly comes with a 3.5mm audio jack, unlike both the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. While it carries the same design language on the back (now plastic instead of glass) and textured power button, this is a relatively smaller phone with a 5.56-inch IPS display at 2220×1080 resolution. As with the Pixel 3, there is no notch to be seen, thankfully....

Poco X3 NFC: Design and Display In terms of design, the Poco X3 NFC appears to have a new design, with a circular camera module on the rear and two vertical lines running close to the sides. The design also includes the Poco branding — a design change that can be on some of the other smartphones lately. Poco X3 NFC comes in two colors: Cobalt Blue and Shadow Gray....

Poco X3 Pro: Design and Display Starting with the design, the Poco X3 Pro appears pretty much identical to the regular Poco X3: it features a Poco branding at the center and the same circular rear camera housing. On the front, the device has a 6.67-inch IPS LCD display with FHD+ resolution and a centered hole-punch cutout to house the front-facing camera. The display is HDR10 and Widevine L1 certified certified, and it offers up to 450 nits of brightness with a 240Hz touch sampling rate and a 120Hz refresh rate....

Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 870 builds upon the success of the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 865 Plus. It touts its latest offering as a successor to the Snapdragon 865 Plus, which was announced back in mid-2020 and had a fairly good stint. CPU Talking about what the SoC has to offer, the Snapdragon 870 builds on a 7nm manufacturing process, similar to the Snapdragon 865 Plus. It includes an octa-core processor that is based on the Kryo 585 cores, with up to 3....

The chip making company has now announced the Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 technology will be featured in its next line of Snapdragon processors, including the Snapdragon 820. The new technology comes with a couple of important improvements that add even more value to Qualcomm’s chips. Quick Charge 3.0 is using for the first time a new algorithm called ‘Intelligent Negotiation for Optimum Voltage (INOV), which “allows portable devices the ability to determine what power level to request at any point in time for optimum power transfer, while maximizing efficiency,” as Qualcomm puts it....

This can become a painful exercise, and unclear vision has often lead to accidents. Rainpal is a new product that wants to solve the helmet visibility problem in rains with its wiper mechanism for the helmets. The automatic wiper system has been engineered in India, designed in Czech and is currently being manufactured in China. The wiper comes as an attachment that can be clamped to any helmet visors almost instantly....

And this time they are clashing in the Rs 17,000-20,000 price segment. The contenders are the newcomer Realme 7 Pro and the bestselling Redmi Note 9 Pro Max. The Realme 7 Pro starts at Rs 19,999 while the Redmi Note 9 Pro Max starts at Rs 16,999, but has its top variant at Rs 19,999 as well. This makes them both candidates for anyone in the market for a smartphone with a budget of about Rs 20,000....

Looks: some might go yikes but we…likes! The design of the Redmi 9 Power is going to be polarising. Some will see shades of Realme in the shiny plastic back with ray-like light effects seemingly emanating from the camera unit, and also the large Redmi Branding that is vertically arranged and in line with the cameras. We, however, just like the way it looks. Is it too blingy? Well, perhaps, but it is going to turn heads, which is kind of a rarity in a phone at this price point – it is available in Mighty Black, Blazing Blue, Fiery Red, and Electric Green....

New customers and current ones which are not a part of the Prime subscription will still have to pay Rs 99 if they intend to ever. One of the key highlights of being a Prime subscriber is certainly the tempting offers (for monthly recharges) which are usually not available for non-prime users. In addition to that, it offers access to the telecom operator’s entertainment suite of services including JioMusic, JioTV, JioCinema, and a couple more....

Technically Personal has been doing quite good off late and as part of spreading this goodwill I am holding yet another contest. And this time, I am sponsoring the contest myself! Unlike last time, where $400 worth of gadgets were given away, the rules for entering the contest won’t be so tough. All you have to do is subscribe to the RSS feed of TechPP Win Free Rapidshare Premium Accounts Initially, I was planning to give away at-least 5 premium accounts with validity of 1 month, but then decided to make it interesting and now I plan to hold this contest EVERY MONTH....

At a time when everyone seemed to be moving away from the stylus – even Microsoft had come up with a finger-touch-friendly Windows Phone just a year ago – Samsung’s decision to go with a stylus was a bold one. In fact, many – this writer included – wrote off the first Galaxy Note because it simply did not seem to conform to what seemed to be tech common sense: devices were supposed to be compact, and to paraphrase Steve Jobs, who used a stylus, for God’s sake!...

The Galaxy C9 Pro comes with a metal unibody design that’s made out of an aircraft grade aluminum alloy. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 octa-core processor that’s mated with Adreno 510 GPU. As for the storage, Samsung has managed to fit in a big 64GB eMMC storage which can be further expanded to 256GB via the dedicated microSD slot. As for the cameras, the Galaxy C9 Pro comes with a 16MP f/1....

Samsung Galaxy F62: Design and Display The Galaxy F62 features a glastic back with a gradient-finish back and a square-camera module to house the quad-camera array. Towards the front, it has a 6.7-inch sAMOLED+ display. The display comes with a 20:9 aspect ratio and offers an FHD+ screen resolution. And, it has a hole-punch cutout in the middle for the front-facing camera. The Galaxy F62 is available in three colorways: Laser Green, Laser Blue, and Laser Gray....

This comes after numerous reports of Apple working on its own Smart Watch (iWatch), with almost 100 designers in the team. The recent success of Kickstarter projects like Pebble, which raised over 10 million last year, has spruced up the demand for Smart Watches. The rumors of Samsung smart watch started back in February this year, when mockups of a gadget codenamed Galaxy Altius surfaced on a Korean website. It shows a squarish interface with live tiles showing you different apps and functions....

It is believed that all these OLED displays, that are reportedly being sourced from Samsung, would be brought to use in Apple’s upcoming iPhone 8. The latest contract signed by Samsung Display and Apple is, in fact, worth $4.3 billion. For those unaware of the development, Apple is rumored to be moving away from the IPS LCD panels for their iPhones and iPads in favour of contemporary OLED panels. In fact, Apple has been quite late to join the OLED bandwagon, as by now most smartphone manufacturers has already started using LED panels for their flagship devices....

And interestingly, the main reasons for their success have nothing to do with experience, spec sheets or apps, the three perceived pillars of success in the mobile computing space. There is nothing exceptional about the Chromebook experience – it is exactly like using a Chrome browser. You open sites and services on different tabs and browse away. And the hardware that delivers this experience is not much to write home about....

Sony has always been top-notch when it comes to its flagship ANC headphones. They added USB Type-C and improved comfort with the XM3 and then followed it up with the XM4 with even better ANC and multi-device support. The Sony WH -1000XM4 was a clear recommendation with its excellent sound and comprehensive features. Now that more and more people are moving to hybrid work models, ANC with Bluetooth headphones is more important than ever....

Similar to the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, the Sony Xperia XZ2 comes with the latest processor from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 845 mobile platform The all-new chip makes the Xperia XZ2 the fastest smartphone from Sony’s stable till date. This is clubbed with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. There’s also a slot for memory expansion via a microSD card. Designers at Sony has taken some design cues from the Xperia XZ1, and have modified the rest while making this all-new flagship....