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Future of Home Entertainment We are already in the middle of technological transformation when it comes to home entertainment. Television is not just about Cable or satellite. Video Streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are becoming a standard for on-demand movies, while Television shows have gone social, thanks to tablets, smartphones and the likes. This is where Microsoft is aiming to pitch in and provide you all the entertainment you want, with the people you care about....

The Xbox One has a lot of innovation on its side. Microsoft has tried to provide all the multimedia needs of the user in one device. They have managed to make the Xbox console an All-in-One Home entertainment device, which can stream live television, as well as attend your gaming needs. And while we can’t get down and dirty, and play some games on these two consoles yet, to compare the gaming experience, we can take a look at their specs and their features....

Mi Electric Toothbrush T300: Design The Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 comes with an IPX7 waterproof design, obviously, and consists of a plastic brush head cover case to make it easy to store the toothbrush upright. It comes with three different color base rings to allow for easy identification among family members and includes an anti-slip design to prevent it from slipping. The toothbrush comes with DuPont Tynex StaClean Antimicrobial Bristles, which the company says are soft, thin-tipped, and designed with the help of dentists....

According to analyst Sun Changxu, Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship device could feature super specs, such as a 5.7-inch 2K display, a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC with the Adreno 430 GPU, and a 20.7MP camera. If you’ve been following the news, then you know the Meizu MX4 has the same camera. There’s been talk of fingerprint scanner for the Mi5, which is definitely not impossible, considering how popular this feature has become....

Manu Kumar Jain, Global VP of Xiaomi tweeted the official teaser image with the confirmed date of launch and apparently seven hints related to the smartphone hidden within the image. Since the device was already launched in China sometime back, we more or less have the confirmed specifications of the device, except for a few region-specific changes that Xiaomi might make, like different RAM/storage variants. Mi Fans, mark the date!...

Xiaomi RedmiBook 13: Design and Display The RedmiBook 13 has a metal body, and it measures in at 17.8mm thick and weighs 1.23 kg. There is a custom wing fan inside the laptop that helps increase the air volume by 25% while also trying to reduce noise by 2dB. It has a 13.3-inch with 1920 x 1080 pixels screen resolution and 4.65mm thick bezels that help it achieve an 89% screen-to-body ratio with a 178° wide viewing angle....

While Mi Home products including the Mi Air Purifier 2, Mi Cooker, Smart LED bulbs etc have been exceedingly successful in China and surrounding markets, Xiaomi had delayed the Indian launch so far. That said, Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra had however hinted about the company’s plan to launch the Mi Air Purifier in an around Diwali during the Mi Max launch in India. Now the upcoming YouTube stream stating a “breath of fresh air” makes it even more clear, leaving very little doubt in our minds that the launch in question is that to the Air Purifier....

If you are in the market for power banks, you’ll see that several manufacturers are offering power banks in various shapes and sizes, and in variety of price segments. With such a heavy surge of local and international brands, it gets immensely tough to pick and choose a reliable power bank. Over the past few weeks, we have been testing the Zook ZP-PB10000, so how good is it? Let’s find out....

ZTE also unveiled its ZTE SmartHome platform which allow its users to communicate with home devices such as light switches, baby monitors via wireless protocol, ZigBee, and as well as 4G LTE connections. As for the new smartphone, here are its main specs and features: 5-inch 720p IPS touchscreen 13 MP rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, an 88-degree wide-angle 5 MP selfie snapper (beautification options, smile shutter function, high definition continuous shooting, auto panorama and more) 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage, expandable via microSD card MediaTek’s 64-bit MT6735 SoC with a 1....

To be fair, though, the brand has not just been randomly increasing its price tag. There have been changes made to the device, ranging from new displays to better cameras, larger batteries and of course the design itself. And it is the design that hits you right away about the OnePlus 6. The most significant change, of course, is the fact that the brand is using glass backs in the variants it has released....

A Premium friend that is not Matt le Bland The OnePlus 7 Pro looks like it has taken a few pages off Samsung’s flagship look-book. The minute that tall display on the OnePlus 7 Pro is turned on, a strong Samsung flagship-like display vibe might hit you. And with good reason. The display of the OnePlus 7 Pro curves out on the edges which is one of the USPs of Samsung’s flagship smartphones....

Looks like new… Once considered to be more about function than style, mid-segment smartphones have stepped up their design game, adding shades of premium-ness of late. Oppo K3 is just one of those devices. The face of the phone is all about that tall 6.5-inch display which is surrounded by extremely thin bezels from three sides. There is a relatively thicker chin that sits below the display. The display also holds the in-display fingerprint scanner....

Back-ing them OnePlus feels Take the design for a start. We have no hesitation in saying that the Realme X50 is the most premium looking device we have seen from the brand, easily surpassing the Master Editions of the X and X2 Pro, and those two devices themselves. The front is fairly predictable – a large 6.44-inch Super AMOLED display with a 90 Hz refresh rate and a Full HD+ resolution, although this time, there is a dual punch hole notch on the top left corner....

Odd that looks oddly good In a world full of smartphones with glossy glass backs, frosted glass backs, glass backs that look like polycarbonate backs, polycarbonate backs that try hard to look like glass backs (succeeding sometimes, failing at others), Samsung has launched a device that is unabashedly and unapologetically polycarbonate. We received the Awesome Blue color variant of the phone which is sky blue to put it simply. The matte polycarbonate is unlikely to invoke premium feels but that does not mean the phone looks bad....

I myself fall victim to this problem, and I was very pleased to know that my Nexus device could use some form of external storage. Now I’ll show you how you can add external memory to your device. This will be particularly useful for Nexus 7 users, because the tablet, apart from not having SD card support, it has only 16GB or 32GB memory, but after formatting the tablet, you are left with a bit over half its size....

In this tiny tutorial I’ll show you how to get by the Android pattern lock if you had set it up on your Android smartphone and now it’s now working or if you forgot your pattern (the face unlock feature, as you saw can be very easily bypassed). Keep in mind that this method is only experimental and so, it might not work for some devices. What do you need?...

Canonicalization remains to be one of the most challenging issues for bloggers aiming for good organic traffic from search engines. Now a days, search engine algorithms are claimed to be smart enough to handle the duplicate content of blogs but still it is wiser to be safe than sorry. URL canonicalization deals with redirecting www to non-www URLs or vice versa. Popular blogging platforms like Wordpress has seen several plugins which claim to handle URL canonicalization for the webmasters using the 301 permanent redirect....

https://youtu.be/MzR222WKaUI Short, simple and dry “Behind the Mac – A.R. Rahman”, is a 52-second ad that begins with Rahman working behind a MacBook Pro while sitting between two huge speaker arrangements. After this, the ad shows him brushing his fingers swiftly on a piano creating a soft tune while his monologue begins in the background. In his monologue, he talks about how music has given him respect, love and how it is a spiritual zone for him....

What prompted you to write the book? I moved to India in early 2014 as the CNN bureau chief reporting in Delhi. One of the things that struck me when I moved here was that, on a lot of TV commercials that I saw here, the smartphone was dominating the advertising and commercials in some way or the other. All of the ads were either of smartphones or Internet companies....

The Android ecosystem gets more support and promotion artillery from its maker, Google. Recently, the Mountain View company has announced that they are starting the Android retail strategy in India, by opening a few Android Nation stores sometime later this year. Let’s have a look at the best new Android apps for this week. Instagram (Free) At the recent Facebook event, the company now having control over Instagram has announced support for video, clearly rivaling Vine, a company that was also later acquired by an online mamoth – Twitter....