Tapping and Holding on the earbuds will trigger the in-built voice assistant on your phone be it Google Assistant or Siri. This is apart from the support for Alexa of course, which is triggered by the wake word “Alexa”. Alexa on the Echo Buds can answer all the queries that it generally would on a smart speaker and can also play and switch music tracks. The Echo Buds have a claimed battery life of up to 5 hours on a single charge with the case extending it to 20 hours....

The Echo Input Portable builds upon the existing Echo Input device and offers a better battery life and built-in speakers. It includes physical buttons for controlling volume, a power button to turn on/off the device, and a mute button to disconnect the microphones. Besides this, there is a micro-USB port on the device for charging, a 4-LED battery indicator to provide the current battery status, built-in speakers, and a 4800mAh battery that the company claims to offer up to 10 hours of playback and 11 hours of standby time....

2 to 3 times improvement in JavaScript. 2 to 5 times better performance of Android on the same hardware! USB and Wi-Fi Internet Tethering. Microsoft Exchange integration including auto-discovery and remote wipe New services just as data backup APIs for carriers to move your data from one device to another New and improved browser. Compass support for Google Maps in the browser, no need to launch the Maps app anymore for compass support....

And now, we hear from Rovio itself that they company is going to release “Angry Birds Toons”, a cartoons series of 52 episodes that will be available to watch inside all the Angry Birds versions released so far (original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Space, Rio, Angry Birds Star Wars and its spinoff, Bad Piggies). Of course, Rovio wants to expand its business further than just the mobile environment, so they have partnered with a number of TV networks around the world in order to get a broader and bigger audience....

Steve Jobs usually starts his keynote by discussing the sales figures of Apple products and moves on to discuss about some new features or updates relating to the Apple products. He bluffs with some concluding remarks, thanks the attendees, turns to leave the stage, then turns back and says “But there is one more thing…“. More often than not, he is greeted with a huge commotion and cheers from the attendees, who are obviously expecting something big from Steve....

Asus Zenfone 3 Max ZC553KL comes equipped with 5.5-inch FHD display and is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 430 clocked at 1.4GHz alongside 3GB RAM. On the storage front, the device offers 32GB of internal storage along with a microSD card slot that can further accommodate up to 128GB of additional storage. The camera arrangements include 16-Megapixel primary sensor with PDAF, laser autofocus, and f/2.0 aperture while the secondary camera shapes up in the form of an 8-Megapixel sensor and comes with the usual bevy of beautification features....

With the ROG Phone 3, Asus wants to ride on the success of the ROG Phone 2 but in a different price segment this time, thanks to 5G chips from Qualcomm being expensive, increase in GST rates, and the fluctuating dollar value. At Rs. 49,999, the ROG Phone 3 is arguably the most spec’d-out phone one can purchase. But the bigger question is if those numbers on paper actually translate to a good real-world experience....

Before getting into more details of the phones themselves, what SiP essentially means is that unlike the SoC which is the chipset with other components placed around it that work in tandem with the processor, an SiP has effectively every major component soldered onto one single circuit board which is then integrated with the motherboard. This helps to save a lot of space, especially in a small device like a smartphone which has limited space but needs a lot of components to be fitted into....

This feature will be available to customers starting from Aug.10 and this move comes after AT&T took over DirecTV, a satellite company for a staggering sum of $48.5 billion thus becoming the largest television distributor in the States. The merger marked the marriage of countries largest telephone and Internet providers with the country’s largest satellite provider. This underlying aspects of this deal include, creating synergies of television, wireless and broadband services....

From the wired earphones — that required a 3.5mm audio jack to offer the output, to the semi-wired (neckband) ones — that gave up on the direct (physical) connection and instead relied on Bluetooth for connectivity, to the most recent truly wireless counterparts — that do not have any piece of wire running between the buds, it has been a journey for the brands and the consumers over the past few years....

1. Spigen Tough Armor iPhone 11 Pro Case As you can guess by its name, the Tough Armor case from Spigen promises to offer good protection for your phone against accidental drops. It is made with a combination of TPU and polycarbonate that allows the case to offer dual protection to the phone against drops and scratches. The case has raised lips towards the front to protect the screen and the back to prevent the camera sensors from scratching....

Xiaomi Mi LED Smart TV 4A Pro (32) Buy Now from Flipkart Mi LED Smart TV 4A Pro (43) If you want a moderately sized Full HD TV, the 4A Pro is a good option. Comes with the goodness of Android TV and PatchWall with support for all the apps from the Play Store. There is a decent quality 20W speaker on board and there are 3 HDMI ports and 3 full-size USB ports....

As the smartphone is meant specifically for gamers, there are some cool additional perks that you get including a special liquid cooling mechanism, a gaming mode that will overclock the CPU, a dedicated controller attachment and what not. Performance being the criteria of utmost importance, the Black Shark 2 opts for the Snapdragon 855 SoC which is currently the best that Qualcomm has to offer for smartphones. Paired with it is up to 12GB of RAM and up to 256GB of onboard storage....

We are going to split the review into five major components that we feel are vital. They are – Comfort, Ease of Use, Effectiveness, Value and if you really need them to help you sleep better. Let’s begin. Comfort and Physical Form Factor The Sleepbuds are extremely tiny in size and have soft ear-tips with attached hooks that fit snugly into your ear. Frankly, the fit of the Sleepbuds is one of the best aspects of it....

Designed by experts at IIT, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the device was unveiled on Thursday by Indian HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal. This low-cost computing device is designed for students and the government has started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production. It looks like an iPad, only it’s just 1/14th the cost. It is truly wrong to compare this unnamed device with iPad, so let us just look at the specs....

You might not afford, like most of us, to pay a big price for your favorite songs and you will definitely get bored of listening to them only on YouTube. Therefore, the best solution in this case is to use a cheap music download service. But how to know which are the good and which are the rotten apples? We’ve researched and come up with a list of what we consider to be some of the best services to use to download cheap mp3 songs....

The primary difference between the Windows 10 Special Edition and the normal Windows 10 seems to be the lack of consumer apps and services present in the usual Windows 10 version. In an Interview, Microsoft China CEO, Raulph Haupter explained how they created the special edition in partnership with the China’s Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC). We wish that the complete changelog or atleast the set of features was listed out but that might have not been possible considering the high level of privacy needed by the Government agencies....

In the recent past, companies have used different Javascript benchmarking tools to show how their browser is the fastest amongst the competition. Off late the speed of browsing has gained tremendous importance and somewhere most of us had started to forget other important features like memory footprint and security. If we go by the general perceptions, Google Chrome is considered to be the fastest browser. Some believe that the reason for Chrome’s speed is it’s lower memory footprint, which is more of a myth than a fact, as we found out during our tests in real world scenario....

Developed in collaboration with Ari Roisman, the founder of video messaging startup Glide and Shawn Greening, an engineer who was responsible for working on Apple Watch, the all new band takes the experience of the smart watch to a whole new level. The $200 CMRA watchband features a set of 8MP and 2MP camera modules located on a silicon strap. Basically, the 2MP unit located just beside the watch case is intended for clicking selfies and conducting video calls....