To be Informed Means to be Powerful How are we, the public, going to make informed decision of any kind if we do not have access to hard data and reliable information? The Christian Science Monitor went a little further and published a story called “Are you smarter than a Fox News views? How about a CNN viewer?” The site attached a quiz which includes questions like this: Is it your impression that most economists who have studied it estimate that the stimulus legislation: Basically, what the survey found is that news viewers don’t really get the story straight and confuse critical details regarding economy let’s say, or related health issues....

What’s interesting though is that Google has leaked the Indian pricing for the new Nexus devices. The Nexus 6P starts at a retail price of Rs 39,999 (for 32GB) and the Nexus 5X at Rs 31,900 (for 16GB). We still don’t have the official word on when the Nexus will be up for pre-order in India but our sources are indicating that the pre-orders would start as soon as second week of October – just in time for Diwali (and iPhone 6s launch)....

While he has been in the news mostly all the time, there are still some things that are really out there and are not THAT well-known. Check this list of ten things that we think you perhaps might not know about the controversy magnet – Travis Kalanick: Sharp as knives Kalanick has been into business ever since he was in high school. He sold knives door to door when he was a kid, which we are sure critics would say might account for the some of the things he has done....

In terms of design, the Oppo K3 features a 3D gradient back with an S-shaped curve on the back and a 6.5-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and 2340 x 1080 pixels screen resolution, on the front. At its core, the smartphone is powered by a 10nm-based Octa-Core Snapdragon 710 processor with Adreno 616 GPU, paired with 6GB or 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB of UFS 2....

Oppo Reno Standard Edition The Oppo Reno Standard Edition smartphone features a 6.4-inch full HD+AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and 2340 × 1080 pixels screen resolution. Under the hood, it is powered by a 10nm-based Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 chipset with Adreno 616 GPU, paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of internal storage. The device comes with an in-display fingerprint scanner, 3.5 mm audio jack, Hi-Res audio, and Dolby Atmos....

If you consider the various electronics brands available in the Asian market, Panasonic has pretty much one of the widest product portfolios available. Cameras, home entertainment products such as televisions and Blu-ray players, appliances such as air conditioners and refrigerators, kitchen appliances, personal grooming products including hair dryers and shavers, and even communications devices such as desk phones, fax machines and cordless phones — Panasonic covers it all. It even has a specialized range of laptops called the ToughBook series that includes ruggedized machines designed for extreme conditions, and similarly the ToughPad range of rugged tablets as well....

The chunky keys can be used to type in the amount and instead of the result button, there’s a big purple PhonePe button for confirmation. In addition to that, the device doesn’t require an internet connection on the merchant’s end and connects with the phone through Bluetooth for processing transactions. Here’s how the process works — The merchant calculates the total itself on the calculator and hits the PhonePe button....

Until now, people could just point their camera at the problem which is in printed program and the app’s Optical Character Recognition would spring into action and solve the equations. It is worth noting that image processing algorithm is the cornerstone of this app along with the associated problem-solving algorithms. Photomath has announced an updated Version 3.0 for their app on the iOS app store and this update brings a slew of new features including a much easier way to solve the Math problems....

The Best App, on the other hand, was crowned to an app called Drops which employs image-based exercises to teach 31 foreign languages. However, since Drops isn’t as popular as the other services, it couldn’t bag the Fan Favorite App title which went to Google Pay in India and YouTube TV in the United States, both, of course, developed by none other than Google. Google also picked a couple of winners in a few other specific categories such as the Best Entertaining to TikTok, LightFX Photo Editor, SonyLiv, and the Best Indie Game to Alto’s Odyssey, Hexologic, and more....

The intention is to deliver and ease the process of adding dual-cameras on products through a universal technology. Clear Sight is developed based on the way humans’ visualize surroundings – using cones and rods. While the former is detecting colors and details, latter is absorbing light particles. The approach is fundamentally identical to what Huawei has done with the P9, you can read more about it here. Clear Sight will, as a result, utilize two separate camera sensors with same focal length and aperture for mimicking the purpose of cones and rods....

However, that’s not all; Qualcomm has two more major announcements at this year’s summit. One of these is a brand new gaming platform called Snapdragon G3x Gen 1, while the other is a handheld gaming developer kit developed in partnership with Razer. Let’s dive in to learn more about the all-new Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform and the Snapdragon G3x Handheld Gaming Developer Kit in detail. Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Qualcomm says the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 is designed to offer “cutting-edge performance and the entire arsenal of Snapdragon Elite Gaming technologies to run all Android games, play cloud gaming libraries, stream games from a home console or PC, and enjoy entertainment from your favorite Android apps“....

Plastic CAN look fantastic! Some people think that a phone with a plastic back cannot look premium. They clearly have not used the realme X. For, there is no denying that the X looks premium from the word go. The phone is available in two shades – Polar White and Space Blue (there are also the famous Garlic and Onion special editions, which will be released later). We got the Polar White edition and it looked downright gorgeous....

Design and Display Starting with the design, both the Realme X3 and X3 SuperZoom feature a curved-glass back design and comes in two color options: Arctic White and Glacier Blue. Towards the front, the two phones share the same 6.6-inch IPS LCD display with an FHD+ resolution. The panel offers a 90.5% screen-to-body ratio and a 120Hz refresh rate — something that is increasingly been seen across many newer devices....

But while most smartphones face competition from other brands, the Redmi Note 5 Pro has a bigger problem to tackle. It not only faces fierce competition from other brands but also from its own siblings. The Redmi Note 5 Pro stands right against not just one but two Xiaomi devices, the Mi A1 and the Mi Max 2, both of which are priced exactly at Rs. 13,999 (the Mi Max 2 for the 4 GB/ 32 GB edition)....

Jio Summer Surprise Plan Under the “Jio Summer Surprise” plan, customers who participate in their Prime services by paying a sum of INR 99 and recharge prior to 15th April using Jio’s Rs 303 plan (or any higher value plan), will get services for the initial 3 months on a complimentary basis. This essentially means, your balance won’t be deducted until the first of July and you will be able to use all the available Jio services for free including 1GB of 4G data every day, unlimited calls, SMS, entertainment apps such as JioCinema, Music, Magazine, TV, and more....

As we had reported exclusively earlier this month, the JioPhone is a feature phone that comes with an alpha numeric keyboard and a 4-way navigation pad. The phone comes with equipped with a 2.4-QVGA color display. The phone also comes with an SD card slot, Torchlight, headphone jack, FM radio and a basic camera. The JioPhone also supports 22-Regional languages and it comes with a voice assistant that seems to work flawlessly....

The evil that people do Lives after them The good is oft Interr’d with their bones And so it has been with Stephen Paul Jobs His critics have called him arrogant and insensitive And if it were so They were grievous faults And Jobs is no longer here to answer them, Here, I speak with the leave of his critics For they are honorable people. Come I to speak on the death anniversary of Steven, He was intelligent, innovative He changed the world He changed phones He brought tablets He changed computers His changes made technology easier for everyone But his critics call him arrogant And of course, they are honorable people....

No doubt that it will be a fierce fight, but Samsung has gone to great lengths to make the Galaxy S4 one of the best smartphones that the Android world can offer. Also, they’ve installed the newest Android Jelly Bean operating system, ensuring that everything works smooth and flawless, however, it also has the hardware to back it up. Without further ado, let’s see what the Galaxy S4 brought to the daily growing mobile industry!...

If it is a Samsung Galaxy, it has to look like one! And the Galaxy On Nxt doesn’t stray too far from Samsung’s iconic smartphone design. That home button on the front with a capacitive button on either side for back and recent apps respectively, a power button on the right and volume rockers on the other side, they’re all intact just as expected. The Galaxy On Nxt is a delight as soon you pick it up, fits so well in the hands thanks to the subtle curve on the rear edges, the 2....

Samsung Galaxy F41: Design and Display In terms of design, the Galaxy F41 features a polycarbonate (glasstic) body with a rectangular camera arrangement on the back and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. Towards the front, there is a 6.4-inch Infinity-U Super AMOLED display with 2340×1080 pixels screen resolution and 420 nits of brightness. Galaxy F41 comes in three colors: Fusion Black, Fusion Blue, and Fusion Green. Samsung Galaxy F41: Performance On the inside, the Samsung Galaxy F41 runs on Exynos 9611, which is an octa-core processor with up to 2....