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The report by Silicon Valley Business Journal hasn’t revealed the precise financial details of the acquisition. Last year, LeEco had paid Yahoo a whopping $250 million for acquiring this property and it’s very unlikely that the Chinese firm has sold it for anything less. Recently, we had reported that LeEco is in talks to sell off this plot to another Chinese developer called Genzon Group. Industry analysts were then speculating a resale price of $260 million....

I spend the better part of my day on a document editor rambling about technology. And in most of these instances, I don’t touch any of the formatting tools or tweaks available. My weapon of choice until now was Google Docs, primarily because of its offline capabilities, and omnipresent availability. But for the past two weeks, I’ve been using Dropbox’s new Paper and I gotta say, its minimalistic approach has definitely stumbled my affection towards Google’s productivity suite....

They sound good Do they succeed? Well, largely. The Levi are in my book the best sounding TWS below Rs 5,000. Of course, they do not sound as good as the more expensive Tevi, but they are well ahead of the likes of the Realme Buds Air Pro, the OnePlus Buds, and even the Oppo Enco W51. And the main reason for that is the fact that their sound is remarkably detailed and clear....

Meizu 16T: Design and Display The Meizu 16T features an all-glass design and comes in three colors: Green, Orange, and Blue. It has a glass back on the rear and a 6.5-inch (2232 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ Super AMOLED display. The display offers up to 600 nits of brightness and supports 100% DCI-P3 color gamut. Since there is no fingerprint scanner on the rear, the display has a Super mTouch in-display fingerprint scanner integrated into the display for authentication, which, according to the company, takes only 0....

When it comes to design, the company says, the Surface Earbuds are designed to offer ‘all-day comfort and stability.’ As soon as they are positioned in the ear, the four individual anchor points lock them securely (without blocking the ear canal) to give a snug fit. Apart from the look and fit, the earbuds are designed taking into consideration Microsoft’s Office 365 platform. As a result, while giving a presentation, the speech can be translated into more than 60 languages and a text-translation for the speech can also be displayed in real-time....

The fresh update brings the following new features: Weather information for your location Option to select your home wallpaper as the lock wallpaper Ability to hide the system status bar Better integration with the default device lock on Samsung devices running Kitkat Performance improvement and bug fixes I have downloaded the app on my Android smartphone and can gladly recommend it to anyone. It’s one of the best free lockscreen apps currently available on the Play Store, so if you’re looking for such a tool, there’s nothing that can stop you to get it....

Small wonder then that when the first update for the device was released (the one that took the device to Cyanogen OS 12.0 – YNG1TBS2P2), one of the issues that it claimed to address – apart from heating (something we did not really face) and the usual bug fixes to ‘improve performance’ – was the camera. We were told that the update would improve close ups and low light performance....

Moto G9: Design and Display The Moto G9 comes with a plastic body with a water-repellent design and features a fingerprint scanner on the rear, right below the camera module. Talking about which, the device has a square camera housing for its triple sensors and flash. Towards the front, there is a 6.5-inch MaxVision HD+ display, which comes with a teardrop style notch to house the front-facing camera and offers a 20:9 aspect ratio....

Now the Moto M has been once again ousted after the latest bunch of live photos surfaced thanks to Nowhereelse. The pictures show the device being held along with a few Moto mod lying on the background. Furthermore, the images also show off the metal build along with the rear Fingerprint sensor. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the Moto M abides by the family traditions when it comes to the design aspect despite the minute deviations....

The financial terms of the deal are yet to be revealed but it is likely that a generous exchange of equity was involved. Nextbit had earlier raised $18 million in funding from Accel, GV, and Dentsu along with another $1.36 million against the Kickstarter orders. In fact, Robin started out as a Kickstarter project and soon rose to fame. Razer will be onboarding 30 of Nextbit’s staff and intends to develop more products with the Nextbit brand as the cornerstone....

Nokia 7.2 Cameras Let’s begin with what appeals the most in the Nokia 7.2, the cameras. The new circular design of the module houses three camera lenses by Zeiss. The primary sensor is the now-famous Sony IMX 586 48MP shooter with an aperture of f/1.79. The secondary lens is a wide-angle shooter with a resolution of 8MP, and the third camera is just a depth sensor for portrait shots. It would have been nice to see a telephoto lens instead....

And it’s not RED. This special edition OnePlus 5T comes in gorgeous white color on the back with red accents for the alert slider. As you would expect, there is also a Star Wars logo etched in red on the back. We didn’t get to see the OnePlus 5T Star Wars edition phone in person, but OnePlus played a teaser video at the event. As per our sources, the phone is expected to launch on December 16th, a day after Star Wars: The Last Jedi gets released....

The price tag. Both start from Rs 24,999 So it was hardly surprising that notwithstanding the projected differences in positioning, people were asking how the brand new OnePlus Nord compared with the slightly older Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro. Well, let us find out, shall we? Design: Distinct meets divisive In terms of design, the Redmi K20 Pro and the OnePlus Nord come from two very different schools of thought. We got the relatively subtle black shade of the K20 Pro for this comparison, but the phone also comes in shades of red and blue that grab attention like few phones have in recent times, thanks to the flame-like gradient patterns on the back (check some product shots in our review)....

The Oppo F5 comes in a characteristic metal unibody design that features horizontal antenna lines at the bottom and the top end of the phone. To the front, lies a huge 6 inch Full HD+ Full Screen 18:9 display with minimal bezels on the forehead and chin. Apparently, the new age 18:9 display has allowed Oppo to accommodate a pretty large display in a rather small form factor. The upcoming Oppo R11s and the OnePlus 5 is said to come with similar display technology, albeit they will come with slightly smaller panels....

The device sports a touch button cordoned with a 12 color LED that will indicate the pollution status in the last 12 hours without actually having to rely on the companion app for the same. The flow tracker is designed to work both outdoors and indoors and will be able to detect particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide, ozone, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), temperature and also the humidity. Flow tracker comes with a leather strip and can be tagged along conveniently....

So how does it fold? Ah, prepare to have your mind blown. Razer has opted for a butterfly design and the two displays have a motorized hinge that puts them in the edge positions whenever required and neatly slides them back under the main panel when closed. It’s definitely one of the greatest pieces of engineering advancements we’ve witnessed at this year’s CES but as I said, it’s still a prototype and won’t be available to purchase anytime soon....

And for the most part, the cameras so far have lived up to the Realme tradition. We have been snapping pictures with them for a few days and the results have by and large been impressive. Mind you, we really think that one is better off taking pictures of places rather than people with them, as textures get captured beautifully. Human subjects, on the other hand, seem to suffer from a bit of smoothening, courtesy the software and AI, we suspect....

The concept here is quite straightforward, you invite one of your nearby friends to collaborate, record individual videos and the app will automatically stitch them both together without any frame drops or lags. Duomov employs a peer-to-peer WiFi mechanism for ensuring quick transfers and hence, works without any connection to the internet whatsoever. Ofcourse, your partner will need to be in a close location for it to work over WiFi....

Redmi 9A: Design and Display In terms of design, the Redmi 9A appears to have an Aura 360 design, similar to some of the other Redmi smartphones. However, unlike the Redmi 9, which has a square-shaped camera module on the rear, the 9A features a vertical camera setup, with a vertical strip following along to the bottom. Towards the front, the device has a 6.53-inch IPS LCD with a dot notch for the front-facing camera....

And this year has been no different as regards the iPhone 6. The loyalists have hailed it as revolutionary, while the critics have claimed that it represents Apple giving in to popular demand rather than mapping out its own innovative route. What, however, cannot be denied is that the iPhone 6 represents one of the most radical overhauls of the iPhone since its launch, certainly more significant than the increase in display size two years ago with the iPhone 5....