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1. Design and display: Familiar as ever, stunning as ever When it comes to basic design, it seems like the Note 9 has borrowed a few pages from its predecessor’s design book. It broadly follows the same design language as the Note 8 but comes with a few changes. The front of the smartphone is dominated by a 6.4 inch super AMOLED display with 18:5:9 screen aspect ratio (alert: no notch, as Samsung continues to believe in its edge to edge display) and a screen resolution of 1440 x 2960....

Exclusively available for Samsung phones running Android Marshmallow or higher, Samsung Focus does sound quite appealing especially given its wide support for backend services which include IMAP, POP3, and Exchange ActiveSync. Therefore, it can satisfy requirements of most consumers and enterprises which rely on platforms like Office 365, Outlook, IBM Notes Traveler and more. Advertised as a “unified productivity application”, Samsung Focus features five primary pages. The main view which combs through everything and displays detailed cards in a Google Now-inspired feed with appointments, emails....

As the name indicates, the Indy ANC are of the well-known Indy series, and well, they come with the Personal Sound option that customizes the listening experience for every user, provided you use the Skullcandy app for it. Also promised are an “enhanced” fit and the ability to use each bud on its own if needed. Battery life stands at a very respectable 19 hours with ANC running, and the buds come with IPX4 sweat and water resistance....

However, it’s been a little over a month since its inception, and Qualcomm already has a major announcement. It’s a special-edition smartphone, aptly called Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders, designed and manufactured by Asus. Let’s dive in to take a closer look at the device. Design and Display Starting with the appearance, the device features a design that’s reminiscent of the typical Asus-smartphone design. It comes with a rectangular camera module on the rear, arranged in a horizontal alignment, and a fingerprint scanner right below it for authentication....

Danny from The Guardian, for example, found the idea legit for concerts, plays, museums, etc., where smartphone users violate “no photography” rule almost every time. Danny, however, was afraid that a govt. or a police could use the technology to block recording of a protest, for instance. One thing worth noting here is that Apple’s patent doesn’t focus strictly on stopping a user from recording videos at concerts or photographing cool paintings at art galleries....

Just like Samsung, it seems that Sony is experimenting with as many screen sizes as possible. As Brazilian website Techudo informs us, it seems that the Honami might be released on the market with a 5.4 inch size, which should place it somewhere between being called a big smartphone or a phablet. This size makes the alleged Xperia i1 bigger than the Sony Xperia Z but smaller than the Zperia Z Ultra....

In a webpage on their official website related to terms and conditions of usage of the platform, the list of countries where the terms are applicable includes India which indicates that the service is bound to launch in the country, and the effective date on which these terms would be applicable from is mentioned as January 31, 2019, onwards. This further confirms that the launch will take place by the end of this month officially in India....

I have no idea who is the creator of this. In case you are aware of the source, let me know. I need to ask him/her what E, H and Z represent! While we are talking about Alphabet of Technology, here are couple of interesting graphics showing brand logo alphabets. Click on the images for better viewing. I would love to know how you liked these images.

Ironically, Google is blaming the shutdown of Reader on low usage and focus on fewer products, and is suggesting that people should instead use Google Currents & Google Plus. Well, that’s simply not the best alternative for Google Reader. Let’s take a look. 1. Feedly By far the most popular RSS feed reader (other than Google Reader), Feedly has been around for a long time, and one of the few services which has a decent way to import and move your feeds from Google Reader....

ACROSS 1 Forget glass and metal. Forget plastic. Think sedimentary rock made up of grains and minerals. It was on the OnePlus One! (8) 4 Moto has Mods today, but the OnePlus One had a Mod too. (8) 6 Three, four, six, eight…memorable on the OnePlus. (3) 8 Want some VR, OnePlus style? (4) 10 Man’s best friend at OnePlus. Can be used for product launches too. (3) 13 OnePlus devices love to assassinate these....

With those words, a young PR executive pretty much brought the high-flying iPad Pro crashing down from divinity to more more mortal territory. Not her fault, really. She was following standard protocol in these paper-saving times – handing over information about a product to a writer on technology on that device that all iOS uses hate: a USB drive. Yes, those are the three magic words that inspire terror in the hearts of many an iPhone/iPad user: a USB drive....

Needless to say, the sales and discounts have helped the makers of Essential Phone boost the sales. Now one might dispute the numbers and cast their doubt on how accurate is the 50,000 numbers and how would one arrive at the same. As explained by the folks at Android Police the Essential Camera app can be downloaded only by Essential Phone users and thus the deductions. Moreover, the Play Store usually counts the unique number of downloads....

Betting on user experience in a spec driven segment For years now, those looking to invest sums of money in the vicinity of Rs 15,000 – Rs 30,000 in a smartphone have tended to look at spec numbers. It is one of the reasons why almost every phone launched in this segment goes into a spec hype overdrive prior to its launch. Brands talk of processor speeds, camera megapixels, number of cameras, battery size, battery charging speed, and so on....

That was a remark made during a tech awards ceremony by one of the jury members while discussing the award for the best phone in different price segments in the Indian market. And the person was spot on – most of the categories were dominated by the likes of Xiaomi (Redmi), Realme, OnePlus, Samsung and in the odd case, Oppo. There was hardly any mention of Vivo, the brand which is the undisputed number three in the Indian smartphone market....

Dropbox is not limited to basic actions and those who come to know it, and know it well, can discover some awesome things about it. One of them is that it can be equipped with different add-ons which help users to do a lot of stuff, such as to automatically back up their files on the cloud, host a website, send email attachments, write forms and much, much more.Well, in the following lines we’ve gathered some of those best add-ons or Dropbox apps, as we like to call it, that can help users get the most out of this cloud-based platform....

Well, here are the top ten features announced with iOS 10 that you should look forward to. 1. The Tale of Three: Widgets, Live Updates, and Lockscreen. Apple has entirely revamped the boring old lock screen for the iPhone, it now shows richer notifications or “Live Updates” and users can directly integrate with them with the help of 3D Touch. Additionally, using 3D Touch, you can also expand the notification for operating through a little window....

Nowadays, the best way of managing your time is represented by calendar apps, where users are able to write everything using a computer, a smartphone, or a tablet. The best part of this kind of application is that you can set it up to remind you of the next important appointment you have on your schedule. One of the best examples is the Google Calendar, which can be maxed out with these helpful tips and tricks and organize your life better in the process....

3 Best Amazfit Apps that You Must Try While the inbuilt options in Zepp are reasonable, we wanted to get the most out of our wearable. So, we will do just that. Here is a list of our favorite apps that you should try if you own an Amazfit smartwatch. 1. Notify (Pro) Notify is one of the most popular Amazfit watch apps available. The app is popular because of its ease of use and the flexibility that the app offers its users....

And as we walked around the show floor of the Mobile World Congress, we realized how rapidly the iPhone X plague has spread, at least in the Chinese smartphone market. Hence, in this article, we discuss five iPhone X doppelgangers we managed to found at the MWC. Asus Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 5Z One of the more baffling announcements was Asus’ new Zenfone 5 and 5Z smartphones. The Taiwanese phone maker, in addition to praising iPhone X’s bezel-less design, boasted that its phones have a smaller notch without realizing the Zenfone 5 phones lack special hardware for facial recognition....

Seven budget ANC Headphones you can buy Sennheiser HD 4.5 BTNC – That sound! Rs 9,500 (generally) In terms of sheer sound quality, we would say these are perhaps one of the best options out there. They are also very compact, fold into a small enough carrying bag. The noise-canceling is decent enough although the controls for it are a little fiddly – you will not get the kind of ANC that the likes of the Venue and the BackBeat offer, but it is more than adequate for most users....