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For those who were looking forward to the arrival of the Oppo R7, the good news is that the new smartphone is no slouch at the spec sheet. As per the listing, it sports a 5-inch FHD display with 441ppi. It is powered by an octa-core 1.7GHz 64-bit Snapdragon 615 chipset paired with Adreno 405 GPU. Other specification includes 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded using a microSD card should you need more storage....

Bleep doesn’t require any personal information — email address, or phone number — at the time of registration. You can still feed those data, if you want, and it will be used to notify you when your friends have joined the chatting app. But typically, all you’re supposed to do is pick a nickname. The company is touting Bleep’s P2P network reliance that makes it possible for it to function without storing the files on cloud....

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 Mobile Platform The all-new Snapdragon 665 mobile platform adds to the existing lineup of the 6-series of mobile platform from Qualcomm. As claimed by the company, the new chipset promises to deliver a highly intelligent experience when it comes to mobile gaming along with improved camera performance and high security. Snapdragon 665 Highlights With the all-new Snapdragon 665 mobile platform, Qualcomm has included support for the third-generation Qualcomm AI Engine that comes with Hexagon 686 DSP and HVX, to improve AI performance and deliver up to 2x faster processing speeds....

To begin with, the Snapdragon 821’s 14-nanometer chip is 10% more powerful than the 820 and can be clocked up to 2.4GHz from 2.1GHz in contrast to 820’s 2.2GHz with Qualcomm’s Kryo Quad-Core CPU. The Snapdragon 821 is basically designed to act as an interim solution for upcoming high-end devices until Qualcomm unveils their next generation product. Apart from that, the Snapdragon 821 is borrowing essentially every specification from the Snapdragon 820 including the Ultra HD Voice tech for improved call quality, 600 Mbps X12 LTE modem, and Upload+ for faster downloads....

Scratch that. Realme has launched its first pair of truly wireless Bluetooth earphones in the country, the Buds Air. Those of you who have not had a chance to have a look at the Buds Air, might not understand why we confused them with the AirPods above, but a glance (or even a detailed look) at the Buds Air might give you an idea. Realme launched the Buds Air along with the Realme X2....

The megapixels are good, but stick to a dozen, not four dozen! Do not get us wrong. We are not saying that the Redmi Note 7 Pro comes with a bad camera. Far from it. The 48-megapixel rear sensor with an f/1.79 aperture is capable of some amazing photography. It takes 12-megapixel shots by default, using pixel binning (in oversimplified terms, combining four pixels into one), but you can also invoke full 48-megapixel shots....

High also was the mountain the Note 8 Pro has to climb. Its predecessor, the Note 7 Pro, pretty much redefined mid-segment phone photography with its 48-megapixel sensor, and also brought a whole new design and splash resistance to the Note series. What could the Note 8 Pro to top that? Note the better hardware Well, for a start, the Note 8 Pro pretty much pumps up all the hardware that we saw on the Note 7 Pro, which incidentally is still less than a year ago....

The Jio Glass comes with a cable that can be used to connect it to your smartphone in order to access the internet after which it can be used for a variety of purposes. If you’ve heard of Google Glasses which was scrapped or Apple’s rumored AR glasses that are supposed to launch sometime in the future, Jio Glass is something similar that will be made available on a large scale....

Salman Khan is said to have already selected the Chinese company to whom the manufacturing will be outsourced to and has also picked up the smartphone models that will be launched in the first phase. The superstar is also building an operational management team which will be headed by an ex-Samsung and Micromax executives. We are all familiar with the BeingHuman brand that produces apparels, accessories and other garments via several outlets spread across the country....

Tall, dark and plastic that looks fantastic There was a time when the design of the budget segment smartphone was predictable but thanks to the cut-throat competition in the market, phone design in general, across segments, is becoming very predictable. Shiny glossy, glass back, gradient finish, tall, edge to edge display are just some the design features most smartphones share these days and the Samsung Galaxy M30 has not strayed too far away from that template....

But then, as we all know, the S20 Pro did not quite live up to its potential, being bugged by focusing issues (oh, the irony) and a few other issues. Can the S21 Ultra do better? Dem cameras, dat zoom…much wow! Well, it does do better. And by a colossal distance. So much so that we can confidently call the Galaxy S21 Ultra the best camera phone in Android, and that is including the much-vaunted Pixel range....

The biggest highlight of both the phones is something called “variable aperture” for the cameras. The feature will essentially allow the user to switch different aperture sizes — f/1.5 and f/2.4 — for clicking better pictures in both daylight and low light scenarios. Both of them sport a 12-megapixel lens on the rear and an 8-megapixel f/1.7 selfie camera on the front. In addition to that, the larger of the two, the Galaxy S9+ will have a secondary 12-megapixel optically stabilized sensor for possibly accelerating focus speeds and producing depth-of-field effects....

The all-new Samsung QLED 8K TVs come in four screen size options: 98-inch (247 cm), 82-inch (207 cm), 75-inch (189 cm), and 65-inch (163 cm), and have 33 million pixels, which offer sharper resolution and true-to-life picture quality. For those wondering, the TVs offer 4 times the resolution of 4K UHD TVs and 16 times that of a Full HD TV to provide consumers with an immerse experience. Samsung says that their new QLED 8K TV is a must-have for all luxury homes, which combined with Real 8K Resolution, 8K AI Upscaling, Quantum Processor 8K, and Quantum HDR offers a stunning 8K experience....

As a part of the offer the users of certain Samsung smartphones (detailed below) will get unlimited HD Voice & Video calling, unlimited SMS, unlimited High-Speed Data and a host of Jio Premium apps like JioPlay, JioOnDemand, JioBeats, JioMags, JioXpressNews, JioDrive JioSecurity and JioMoney free for three months. Samsung is expected to make the official announcement this week itself. List of Samsung smartphones eligible for Jio preview offer Following is a complete list of Samsung smartphones that will be eligible for the Jio preview offer....

What’s not there! Comments about the headphones generally begin with: “Rs 30,000 for a pair of earphones? With no big earcups!” Followed by: “They do not even have ANC!” “Forget ANC, they do not have a mic!” “Forget a mic, they don’t have Bluetooth! They are wired and need a 3.5 mm audio jack.” “They do not have a volume or track control panel!” “You cannot make calls from them!...

So, if it can happen to a well-known security company whose job is to protect customers from all over the world, then this means we are exposed to the danger in any moment. Of course, this only means that tech companies need to beat the hackers at their own game and seriously improve their current protection technology. But until that happens, we have another fresh report which talks about a major security breach in Apple’s yard....

To make its new Apple Music service a reality, the Cupertino-based company has resorted to some well-connected individuals in the industry, such as Jimmy Iovine, Dr.Dre, and others. And to prove that it really means business with Apple Music and it wants it to be a universal service even for cross-platform users, the company announced that it will be bringing it to Android users this fall. Naturally, when Apple announced its new service yesterday, or most likely well before, music streaming services like Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, and others were already of ways to prevent its current users from switching to Apple Music....

Different SoC vendors have different approaches to their products. In this article, we will be discussing about some of their efforts: Apple To start off, we have Apple. Currently the most valuable company on earth, Apple has made some of the best SoCs in the world in recent times consistently topping benchmark charts. For Apple, the focus is to create an SoC that suits their products which in this case are the iPhone and iPad predominantly....

Smart Light from Indian lighting company, Syska, is a smart RGB LED light bulb with support for up to 3 million unique color shades. The bulb has a wattage of 7W and an intensity of 480 Lumens. The LED bulb connects to your phone through an app which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store and utilizes a Wi-Fi connection in order to control the bulb....

ACROSS 1 The new version of the planet from the master of search. Takes you places and now also tells you stories. (6,5) 4 What a To-Do, Microsoft, just to give an alternative! (10) 6 Microsoft just added some machine learning and AI to your selfie donuts! (9) 10 This company believes that fitness trackers are all very fine. As long as they look like a good old watch. (5) 12 Dear ads, get ready to get booted off this browser....