Let’s start off with the build and design. If you’ve been following Xiaomi for a few years now, you’re most probably familiar with their typical design language. Metal chassis, plastic antenna strips to the top and bottom, the usual ports and buttons where you would ideally find them along with an IR blaster of course, and a dual SIM + SD card tray. There’s a rear mounted fingerprint scanner which is fast and accurate and I’m pretty sure you’ll resort to using this most of the time as face unlock is nowhere close to being perfect....

Looks and design – glass clashes with metal This is one of the most lopsided rounds in the contest. The Redmi Note 5 Pro has largely stuck to the Redmi Note 4 design language with its blend of metal back and glass front, with the 5.99-inch display having moved to 18:9 aspect ratio land, making the phone a little taller. It is not a bad-looking device (there is even some similarity to the iPhone X on the rear thanks to the vertical set up of the dual cameras) and is reasonably slim at 8....

Xiaomi takes back the number one mantle from Samsung A 13 percent year on year growth saw Xiaomi take back the number one slot in the Indian smartphone market from Samsung. Xiaomi had a 26 percent market share in the quarter, which the report attributes to strong performance from the Redmi 9 and the Redmi Note 9 series. But even though it got beaten down to number two, Samsung still had a decent quarter and actually recorded 30 percent year on year growth, thanks to its improved online presence and also the strong performance of its mid-tier devices in the M series and A series....

The comments section used to reside at the bottom-most section of the video page on the YouTube app for the longest time. Still, more recently, it has been moved into a collapsible pane right beneath the description section below each YouTube video. On the desktop version, however, the comments section is still in the same place as it used to be despite a change in the layout of the overall YouTube page....

The most recent Android 5.2 update was first previewed at the company’s I/O conference in late May, but at the time Google didn’t disclose the full name for Android M. And yeah, marshmallow does seem to be the obvious choice here, although marmalade wouldn’t have been too bad either. Android versions have been developed under a confectionery-themed code name sine April 2009, so let’s have a brief look back and see how were the previous versions called:...

The display of the device shapes up in the form of a 5-inch FHD frameless screen which according to the company can exhibit better display characteristics. We would like to point out that the frameless display is all about the thinned out bezels and should not be confused with the Edge to Edge display. The Speed 7 runs on a blend of Android 5.1 along with the company’s Z-UI. On the imaging front, the device comes with a 13....

Xiaomi’s vice president Hugo Barra, put down his cup of coffee to ponder the question I had asked him: why did some people treat the word “Chinese” as something negative rather than as a reflection of the nationality of a company? It is interesting that many feel that Barra himself was hired by Xiaomi to make the brand feel “less Chinese.” He laughs at the idea but the perception of Chinese brands by a large chunk of the media is no laughing matter....

The RTM of Windows 7 SP1 [KB976932] is available for Free, but validation is required in order to download it. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) doesn’t include any major new features, but it is a relatively important update that includes previously released security, performance, and stability updates for Windows 7. It also includes new improvements to features and services in Windows 7, such as improved reliability when connecting to HDMI audio devices, printing using the XPS Viewer, and restoring previous folders in Windows Explorer after restarting....

A possible reason for this has to do with the improvements in technology in recent years. This has, eventually, made it easier for smartphone manufacturers to implement fingerprint scanners on entry-level smartphones. From the very first optical-type fingerprint scanners to the capacitive to the newest of the lot, in-display fingerprint scanners, there is a lot that has changed and improved, with the basic idea behind the technology being the same....

Subtle Oppo is now a thing Many might agree that keeping it subtle is not really Oppo’s style when it comes to design. But that actually seems to have changed a bit with the Oppo F19 Pro+. The phone does not come with patterns or textures that jump out at you. And yet it manages to look very striking. The front of the smartphone is bossed by a tall display that carries the front camera in a punch hole on the top left corner....

Business as Usual Before diving deep into the details, the first and foremost thing you should know that the Vu ActiVoice isn’t trying at all to undercut Xiaomi. It starts at Rs 36,999 for the 43-inch model and goes all the way up to Rs 55,999 for 55-inch. So, yeah, given the enormous price gap, Vu is clearly is not interested in playing the price card. In fact, the company even went on to say that it doesn’t think Xiaomi is a competitor since its (Vu) offerings reside in the premium range, not the budget....

Xiaomi is kicking off 2018 with a bunch of announcements, two of which are upgrades to India’s highest selling phone in the last year and third, a new segment — televisions. The China-based company introduced the Mi TV 4 today in India and like always, it’s trying to win you over by features that relatively outweigh the cost it’s priced at. It’s a 4K television which is available in only the 55-inch size and comes with all the bells and whistles of a smart TV....

Editor’s Note: Though we love to get as many ‘Likes’ on Facebook for our posts, we would still want to inform our readers of all the available options. No wonder we have had so many posts on Facebook Privacy and also an extensive article on ad blockers! Nowadays, you can hardly find any blog without a Facebook like-button next to each post. While Facebook provides an easy way to share content, the like-button is raising more and more privacy concerns....

Extracting images in .DOC based documents involved dragging and dropping of images onto the desktop or by saving the document as .HTML, but things are much easier with .DOCX documents. Related Read: 10 Ways to Open .Docx Word Files Extracting Images with Word 2007 As I mentioned earlier, .DOCX is an xml based format and when you save a document in Word 2007’s default DOCX format, you are in effect saving a zip file that contains all the elements of the document....

We will tell you how to add the third option – To record internal audio of your Mac. 1. How to screen record on Mac with internal audio: Native method The steps are pretty much straightforward, and all you need is a third-party plug-in and some modifications in sound settings, and you’re good to go. Let’s begin. Download Soundflower from this link and install it just like any third-party app....

It was the equivalent of tech doomsday for many, and the air (in India at least) was rife with predictions that Huawei was in big trouble. Yes, Huawei did have massive resources in software and hardware, but even then, how on earth could the brand survive in the smartphone market with a cloud hovering over the very OS on which its phones were running? The company did talk of working on its own OS, which would not need Google’s apps, but the broad consensus across most tech quarters was that Huawei was in big trouble in the smartphone business....

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHFlHpPjgk70W5LbPJOfpec8WJo2fEoB7 The Campaign: A Tale of Two Windows The latest ad campaign by Apple for the iPhone is called “Why Switch”. So far there are eight small ads in the campaign that try to tell the users why they should switch from their phones to an iPhone. All the eight ads show different reasons for switching to an iPhone, highlighting eight different features, such as security, smoothness of operation, contacts, music, photos, speed, and privacy....

The ad: Two people, one city…and a phone that empties it https://youtu.be/waTteMeg4Ag iPhone 7 Plus – The City – Apple is a one-minute eleven-second ad and showcases a young couple walking through a city (Shanghai). The couple is placed in a busy market street but the man soon switches to the iPhone 7 Plus’ Portrait Mode and well, makes everyone else disappear. The couple walks around different places. Now, anyone who has been to Shanghai or knows the city will be aware of the fact that it is extremely crowded....

As always, the wonderful designers at DeviantArt have come out with some gorgeous looking Windows 7 themes. Below is a collection of the best Windows 7 themes you can get. Update: Best Free Windows 11 Themes Best Windows 7 Themes WoodStock Windows 7 Theme Arturik Theme for Windows 7 Desk 09 Windows 7 Theme Red Windows 7 Theme Heart Windows 7 Theme Dark Knight Windows 7 Theme Only Black Windows 7 theme...

YouTube is the best place for sharing videos. You can also make money from YouTube using simple marketing tricks. YouTube can drive a lot of traffic to your websites and thereby you can make $$ from it. Today let us see the 15 secrets for successful YouTube marketing. Before getting into the topic, I tell you why should one choose YouTube for effective marketing. YouTube is free for all and anyone can upload videos, So generally many people will be using YouTube....