1. Lenovo’s New Kind of Tablet, the Yoga Book The tablet market is approaching a saturation point and while some OEMs have tried to break the barrier by innovating the dying category, it has been mostly futile until now. Lenovo, although, has taken an entirely different path and has rethought what a tablet can be with its new Yoga Book. The Yoga Book has essentially two core components – the 10....
WatchOS 7 brings some notable improvements and features as well as some minor changes to make the overall experience of the wearable even better. Let’s go over some new features and changes on WatchOS 7 that you will be able to experience on your Apple Watch. WatchOS 7 Features WatchOS is Apple’s operating system for its Apple Watch series which makes it arguably one of the most polished smartwatches in the market....
Mark Fidelman has come with a real cool infographic which compares the top tier location based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Yelp and others with the latest kid monster in the block – Facebook Places An eye-opener for those who were hoping Foursquare and Gowalla to compete and survive in a market which just saw a new entrant with a whopping 500 million (and growing) user-base! [via]Flickr
Truecaller Chat integrates with the existing messaging tab allowing you to switch between IM and the good-ol SMS seamlessly. If you message users who are on the latest build, your conversations will be displayed in a blue bubble and you won’t be charged. If not, you’ll see a green bubble indicating it was dispatched as an SMS. If it sounds all too familiar, that’s because it is. Apple’s iMessage has exclusively offered this for years on iPhones....
77% + of parents worry about their kids speeding 73% + of parents worry about their kids texting while driving 83% + of parents would consider buying a product that can help improve the safety of their loved ones while driving There isn’t currently an option to block texting behind the wheel, but Truvolo plans to add it in the near future. By tracking the performance of your car, it can also help reduce annual maintenance costs....
Twist, in a way, is a lot like Slack. There are channels, sophisticated search options, document support and it’s meant for your professional teams, not friends. However, Todoist has overlaid a slew of new features which transform the platform into a significantly more organized and calmer environment to interact in. For starters, individual channels are categorized into threads. Hence, you can quickly jump into a conversation you’re interested and not swamped by hundreds of unnecessary messages as soon as you launch the app....
Android Security According to M86 Security research, in 2011, smartphones will be a bigger cyber security target, with loads of vulnerabilities like malware-as-a-service and more sophisticated Trojans. Now that there are more and more android tablets pouring in, the security aspect has gained even more ground than before. Luckily, with Android 2.2 (Froyo), the security apps can run in the background continuously while you work on other apps. We are listing out some of the best android security apps which includes anti-virus apps, wipe or recovery apps, automated backups and password management apps....
As part of this effort, starting May 1, the center announced the availability of COVID-19 vaccine doses for people in the 18-44 age bracket to inoculate more citizens. Until now, the first phase of the Coronavirus vaccine drive was available to those above 45 years of age. Checking COVID-19 Vaccine Slots and Booking an Appointment The government of India recently launched the CoWIN website to make checking in on available slots and booking an appointment for vaccination easier....
WeChat pitches the service as “super-low calling rates” and “excellent call quality”, and as rightly pointed out by VentureBeat it will help the company to link customers’ credit cards to their WeChat accounts. So the feature can be accessed by tapping on the ‘+’ symbol at the top right and selecting WeChat out. The service will take some time to import your phonebook post which you can dial the number directly....
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....
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has already issued a safety warning and the woman has told the authority as follows, “As I Went to turn around I felt burning on my face,” she further added that “I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck, I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor.” A loud bang had been heard when the mishap happened....
Future of Home Entertainment We are already in the middle of technological transformation when it comes to home entertainment. Television is not just about Cable or satellite. Video Streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are becoming a standard for on-demand movies, while Television shows have gone social, thanks to tablets, smartphones and the likes. This is where Microsoft is aiming to pitch in and provide you all the entertainment you want, with the people you care about....
Manu Jain, VP, Xiaomi Global and MD Xiaomi India was quoted as follows, “Xiaomi’s high-quality, well-designed products at honest prices have been instrumental in disrupting the Indian smartphone industry. In 2015, we extended our long-term commitment to the Indian market by joining the Make in India programme. Today, we are deepening this commitment with three more smartphone factories and our first SMT plant dedicated towards local manufacturing of PCBA units....
The malware swung into action as soon as the visitors visited the site and secretly dumped files to their systems. It is still unclear on how many people have been affected by this bug but considering the fact that Yahoo’s website receives an estimated 6.9bn visits per month the number of victims can be quite high. The attack was carried out by piggybacking on a Microsoft Azure website. Thankfully, the campaign was stopped immediately after MalwareBytes informed Yahoo of the exploit....
Looks and design: Loud vs classy (and glassy) We often complain that most smartphones today pretty much follow a broadly similar design outline these days. While this somewhat fits the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s design, the same cannot be said about the Poco X3 Pro. Poco has managed to make a smartphone that would most definitely stand out of your average-looking smartphone crowd. The smartphone comes with a circular camera unit on the back which comes as a breath of fresh air in the era of all-things-rectangular, and also brings in a flashy dual-tone finish back....
For the price, it is offered the Tenor G carries a simple but well-working design. In fact, the front look of the phone is exactly the same as its causing the E, including the dimensions. We have the black variant that has some kinda matte finish on its back and is a smudge magnet. Almost everything for the design and build is the same as the Tenor E, but we will take you through it again!...
Give those sides more than a side-glance! And that is because the sides of the iPhone 12 Pro Max are rather different from anything we have seen before on a phone. We got the Pacific Blue variant of the phone, and while the back’s beautifully subtle shade of blue, which almost looks like green from some angles, is going to catch some glances, the shiny straight blue sides are going to twist heads off their necks....
The A9 comes with a price tag of Rs 15,490, and while it does not come with anything that will make your eyes pop in disbelief, neither does it have any major shortcomings, in terms of those two elements (stay tuned for our review to find out about the performance). In terms of design, the A9 is a phone that is smart enough. We would not call it sharp looking or stand-out but it sort of fits right in with most modern smartphones....
Tall, heavy and handsome There is a design pattern book in town and all brands seem to be taking pages off it lately for their smartphones. Samsung is no different. Much like many recent Samsung A and M series devices, the Galaxy A70 also comes with a glass-like polycarbonate back which is reflective and creates different patterns when light falls on it. This one, in particular, has a very prism-like effect and reflects a rainbow pattern when put in light – shades of the A50....
The Snapdragon 712 remains in place, with a slightly smaller battery The hardcore mobile gamers might feel just a teeny bit let down by the fact that the processor powering the Z1x is pretty much the same as the Z1 Pro, the very decent Snapdragon 712 AIE, which is a notch above the Snapdragon 710 and supposed to be more than a match for the Snapdragon 675. It is aided in its efforts with 6 GB of RAM and two storage variants of 64 GB and 128 GB, though alas there is no expandable memory option....
