With modern manufacturing prowess with the likes of Foxconn, and the growth of top Chinese OEMS based in and around Shenzhen the Chinese tech market is blooming. In fact many of these companies are struggling to meet the demand! There may be many companies you have heard of before and many you haven’t. Either ways we are going to provide you a detailed perspective on the top wonder phones that have taken the world by storm or the way to import them to India....

It might be best known for its iPhones and computers and other cool gadgets, but one of the biggest names in tech, Apple is at the forefront of digitization of education as well. And we got a glimpse of it recently at TechConX, an education technology conference by Canadian International School (CIS) in Bangalore. Today’s students are increasingly digital natives. The way they interact with technology is vastly different from the way their predecessors did....

Another such feature from Apple is sound recognition which was released with iOS 14 – Sound Recognition(not to be confused with iPhone song recognition aka Shazam). As the name suggests, the feature basically listens for certain sounds, identifies them, and then notifies the user. The function is not only useful for people with compromised hearing but can also be useful for those who like to isolate themselves from different noises while in certain circumstances....

iQOO 7: Design and Display The iQOO 7 features a curved design on the rear. Its back has a square camera module that houses the triple camera array, organized in a triangular arrangement. Right below the camera housing, the rear has a flash and the iQOO branding. Moving to the front, the phone has a 6.62-inch FHD+ (AMOLED) display with a 20:9 aspect ratio. The display offers a 120Hz refresh rate and includes support for HDR10+....

According to Sundar Pichai, Google partnered with Reliance Jio to develop a special version of Android OS specifically for India. JioPhone Next will go on sale starting September 10, 2021, on the auspicious festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. JioPhone Next has some custom features like Automatic read-aloud of screen text and language translation aimed to reach the next billion users who are still stuck with feature phones and 2G. They claim that JioPhone Next will be powered by an extremely optimized version of Android co-developed by Google and Jio....

Update: Winner announced When LG announced the G2, many tech experts in the world, predicted that the device would do wonderfully well. For once, a major mobile manufacturer had gone on and taken upon itself to do something different and try and move away from the conventional designs we had come to expect from a smartphone. The LG G2 features a unique design, which sees the volume button as well as the power lock/ unlock button right at the bottom of the Camera lens behind the device....

The most important feature of the app is that it offers the possibility to download a huge number of maps that you will be able to use completely offline. And if you knew this, then you probably also were aware that there was a Pro version that used to cost $4.99. However, back on November, this year, Maps.me was acquired by Mail.Ru and the app was made free of charge....

A lot of older hardware and software were not designed for Windows 7 (or even Vista for that matter), so they may require an update or new driver in order to operate correctly on Windows 7. The decision to provide a Windows 7 driver or update will lie with the developer/manufacturer of the product. The good thing is manufacturers are now releasing Windows 7 drivers for their products. Updating to the latest Windows 7 drivers may help keep your PC running at its best....

Appearance – A tale of plastic and a piece of steel! Both the Mi 4 and Mi 4i are very smart looking devices, but in different ways. While the Mi 4 rests on a metal frame, the Mi 4i is an all-plastic affair. While the Mi 4 has a glossy back, the Mi 4i has one with a slightly matte finish. The Mi 4 has a much more solid look and feel to it, to be honest, but then we can see people liking the much slimmer and lighter Mi 4i – it is 7....

According to a press release issued by the manufacturer, the smartphone received over 9,000 bookings on the very first day its sales opened on the company website, and that’s no mean feat. A quad-core processor, a 5-inch 720p display, and an 8-megapixel camera, all for less than Rs 15,000? Sounds almost too good to be true. It’s the real deal however, and it explains all the ruckus it has caused....

The Lumia 550 will run Windows 10 out of the box and it heralds with entry level specs with mid-range levee pricing. The device comes fitted with a 4.7-inch 720p display and will draw its power from the age old Snapdragon 210 clocked at 1.1GHz and paired with 1GB of RAM. On the storage front, the Lumia 550 offers 8GB of internal storage along with a microSD card slot that can further accommodate another 200GB....

There are a bunch of different versions and lately, users can get access to two similar Microsoft products: Office 2013 and Office 365. Not many of them know the differences between these services and maybe neither do you, so we’re about to tackle each one and highlight their features, while lining up any worthy difference. Office 2013 vs. Office 365 Microsoft Office is actually a suite of desktop applications, among which we can find the well-known Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access applications....

While the guts of the Surface Laptop Go that we have been using for almost a month now is still manufactured by Intel, the rest of the hardware choices are still made by Microsoft, the result of which is a premium experience even on an entry-level device that does not break the bank. Starting at a price of Rs. 71,999, is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go your best window to Windows?...

The Motorola One Vision features a 6.3-inch Full HD+ LCD display with an aspect ratio of 21:9. At its core, the device is powered by a 2.2 GHz Octa-Core Samsung Exynos 9609 processor, paired with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (expandable memory up to 512GB with microSD). Other specifications for the device include a fingerprint sensor, 3.5mm audio jack, and dual microphones. The device runs on Android One based on Android 9....

If you are not aware of NavIC, we have a detailed guide coming up soon but for now, what you need to know is it’s a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) like GPS and GLONASS developed by ISRO and will primarily cover India and surrounding countries. With NavIC, consumers can expect more accurate location tracking and faster latching to satellites as compared to GPS and other navigation systems. It all started with Xiaomi India head, Manu Kumar Jain, tweeting about the upcoming Redmi phone being the first to support ISRO’s NavIC navigation system....

Camera NX is essentially a Google Camera mod and is designed to bring its features to older handsets. For the Portrait Mode, you’ll have to sideload a free APK file and that’s about it. The mod doesn’t even require root access, and the initialization process is quite straightforward as well. Surprisingly, the Portrait Mode works for both the front and rear cameras. We tried it on the Pixel (2016) and found the quality to be satisfactory, if not perfect....

In terms of design, the Nokia 4.2 features a compact design with glass on both, the front and the back and a polycarbonate frame around. On the front, it has a 5.71-inch HD+ edge-to-edge notched display with a 19:9 aspect ratio and a 1520 x 720 pixels (295ppi) screen resolution. Talking about performance, the Nokia 4.2 is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 439 processor paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage (expandable with microSD card support up to 400GB)....

For the uninitiated, the PureView technology is a pixel oversampling technique that reduces an image taken at full resolution into a lower resolution picture, thus achieving higher definition and light sensitivity, and enables lossless zoom. We saw this first on Nokia 808, but has been improved further on Lumia 1020. The camera on 1020 couples the 41MP 2/3-inch BSI sensor with Optical Image Stabilization and a high resolution f/2.2 all-aspherical 1-group Carl Zeiss lens....

Nokia is hell bent on (re)capturing the budget segment in the mobile phone market in India. After a series of Asha branded handsets (running Symbian), the struggling Finnish giant has just launched the most affordable Lumia yet, Nokia Lumia 510. The company is yet to announce the actual price of Lumia 510, but has only confirmed that it’ll be below INR 11,000 (approx $210). Nokia Lumia 510 Specs & Features Nokia Lumia 510 features a 4-inch WVGA resolution display with 800×480 pixel resolution, a 5-megapixel camera (with Auto focus), a 800MHz single-core Snapdragon S1 processor, 4GB internal memory and 256MB of RAM....

Nokia Technologies is expected to return to the smartphone market sometime next year, but until that happens, it seems that the company has all the resources that it needs to tackle the booming virtual reality market, as well. Ozo is the company’s second hardware product since it has sold its handset division last year to Microsoft. Ozo is an orb-shaped next-generation camera which can capture 360-degree video and audio which is aimed at professional content creators and not regular consumers....