On the other hand, Google, despite Android’s exponential growth over the years, could never figure this out. Therefore, some users made peace with WhatsApp, some with Facebook Messenger. You get the idea. Google did have its own platform though – Hangouts – but the mobile app’s glaring deficiencies never allowed it to soar. The messaging industry, however, boomed and almost every company wanted a share of it. “Messaging is the future”, “Messaging is the next big interface” were some of the headlines making rounds and they were true in a lot of ways....

The company says, in order to facilitate secure and spam-free communication to its users, it has built an invitation-based mechanism for the Group Chat. By doing so, users get to the freedom to either ‘accept’ or ‘decline’ an invitation for a group chat. In case they decline the invitation, the feature ensures that not even the group admin can directly add them to the group. Furthermore, to offer privacy to its users, the feature hides the contact number of users in the group, unless, they have the other user’s contact number saved on their device, or they request them to see their contact number....

Coming with a solid specs list, Ubik is currently seeking to achieve a crowdfunding goal of $200,000 on Kickstarter for its Ubik Uno smartphone. Ubik Uno is described as a no bezel flagship smartphone which is ‘looking like the best Android Smartphone you’ll be able to buy for the foreseeable future‘. And when you’ll see what these specs exactly are, you’ll give some serious thought to this sentence. The smartphone comes inside an aluminum one-piece frame which is an important part in the unique design of the device....

The average user doesn’t even know what Gorilla Glass is but he sure feels its use in critical situations. But even if the reputed Gorilla Glass from Corning is resistant to shocks and scratches, it’s still not the best product around. Drop your phone with the face down on some concrete and there are big chances that the screen won’t resist. And here’s where another material could jump in, to make our devices even stronger....

Looks more from Cupertino than from China We said it in our initial impressions that the Vivo V5 Plus wants to be an iPhone when it comes to design. And it manages to pull that off! We used the phone for close to two weeks and there were over half a dozen occasions when we had people thinking asking us if that was an iPhone. This, in spite of scores of iPhone clones and wannabes out there, and folks bored to death looking at them....

But nonetheless, the vast majority of YouTubers visit the site to listen to music. However, sometimes videos do not work in some parts of the world due to copyright laws. This can lead to errors that do not let you view those videos. Have you ever encountered the YouTube error which tells you that a certain video is not allowed in your country due to some copyright rules? If so, then you know how aggravating that can be....

The Teen Choice Awards is an awards show presented annually by FOX. The program honors the year’s biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted on by teens aged 13–19. The program usually features a high number of celebrities and musical performers. The winners are given with authentic full size surfboards,decorated with fresh summer time design.This is actually the biggest trophy given in the history of American entertainment....

And now, according to a fresh report from Dutch publication AndroidWorld.nl, it seems that the voice calling function is indeed in the works and looks to be almost finished. However, the website suggests that the calling feature will be separate from the chat function, as there have been published screenshots showcasing dialing, call logs, and contact options. The new details have allegedly been extracted from a fresh build of the app for the Android platform....

A common problem among these that may surface quite frequently is the inability to download media (images, videos, documents, audio files, etc.). Often represented with messages like “Download failed” or “Download was unable to complete” in the WhatsApp app, the problem prompts you to either retry downloading media or ask the sender to resend it. But thankfully, there’s a solution to this problem. And in this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps for the same to help you fix the “WhatsApp media not downloading” issue on your Android or iOS device....

First reported by ZDNet, the details at NewEgg.com reveals the following details – Windows 10 release date is on August 31st 2015, and the pricing for the OEM copy of Windows 10 Home is $109.99, while Windows 10 Pro is priced at $149.99! Update: Microsoft has announced that the Windows 10 free upgrade will be available starting July 29th! You can reserve your free Windows 10 upgrade right away....

Why? Windows 11 is still quite bug-ridden, and one such prominent bug is Windows 11 touchpad not working issue. A touchpad is one of the most integral parts of any laptop as everyone uses it to navigate around the UI, interact with software, and a lot more. Basically, if the touchpad on a PC stops working, then using that PC is a user’s worst nightmare. But to help you overcome this annoyance, we will look at some of the troubleshooting steps to fix the Windows 11 touchpad not working issue....

Well, there are a few things that separate the game from the usual, run-of-the-mill word games. For starters, it is not an app, which may seem absurd in today’s app-centric climate but is played on a browser. Another very interesting thing about Wordle is that you only get one puzzle a day, which is again a little strange considering how all apps and games want users to spend as much time as possible on their platform....

Microsoft just unveiled the next generation gaming console, aptly named Xbox One with some impressive specs and features. What comes along, is the newly redesigned Xbox One controller, which looks absolutely stunning as you can see in the picture above. The Redmond giant claims that the new console gamepad has been refreshed with more than 40 technical and design innovations, including an updated directional pad, thumb stick, integrated battery compartment, and an “ergonomic fit....

One of the most prominent of these was, well, Xiaomi, which makes it ironical or appropriate (depending on which side of the Android One fence you sit on) that the Chinese company is the one behind the revival of the initiative. The Xiaomi Mi A1 is by all accounts, a Mi 5X (released earlier in China), but with stock Android in place of Xiaomi’s own MIUI 9 interface. Look, it is the 5X We have not had the chance to use the Mi 5X (it was not released in India), but all accounts seem to indicate that the Mi A1 is a dead ringer for it....

Display While all of them have a Full HD screen, the differences lie as far as their aspect ratios are concerned. The Mi A2 Lite comes with a notch-equipped which has an aspect ratio of 19:9, the Mi A2 has a more conservative 18:9 display and the Mi A1 features a standard old-school 16:9 screen. Specifications Xiaomi has reserved the majority of specification bumps for the pricier Mi A2. Therefore, you’d be hard-pressed to find differences between the Mi A2 Lite and Mi A1 hardware....

The Mi Air Purifier Pro shares a similar external footprint with its predecessor. The main external difference, however, lies in the presence of an OLED display that shows real-time air quality and the condition of the surrounding including temperature, humidity etc. The circular display is surrounded by a ring that shows three types of colors namely green, yellow and red depending on the air quality of the surrounding. The display comes with an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the panel depending on the external lighting....

The Xiaomi Mi3 comes with some impressive specifications: Xiaomi Mi3 Specifications 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display with 441 PPI resolution with Corning Gorilla glass protection 2.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor Size: 114mm×72mm×8.1mm, weight: 145g MIUI V5 skin on top of Android 4.3 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, Sony Exmor BSI sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 1080p full HD video recording 2MP front-facing camera with BSI sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 1080p full HD video recording 2GB DDR3 RAM, 16 GB internal memory 3G, WiFi 802....

Made of plastic, still looks fantastic We were talking about cutting corners and one place where the company seems to have done so is in the design department. We have generally seen Xiaomi phones with a metal unibody design but the Redmi 4A comes with a polycarbonate plastic body. That said, it looks high quality and does not look cheap. We actually found ourselves in a debate for a brief moment where we could not decide what the phone was made of because of its metal-like appearance....

But the Y1 is not quite like any other budget smartphone that the company has launched so far – it is the first from the Xiaomi stable to be targeted at selfie lovers, with a front-facing camera that has a higher megapixel count than the rear one. Is this is going to be another hit straight off the bat by the company? Or will it stumble in selfieland (we did not say “selfiestan”!...

Yes, you read that right. Thought I was dead, eh? Well, I don’t blame you. For a moment there I thought that it was time to get an obituary printed in the paper, but just when you think your parent has given up on you, you rise back up from the ashes. Okay, okay, I am being a little dramatic but hey, I came back from the dead. How many of you have done it?...