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OnePlus Pad Design and Appearance: Sleek, stylish, and square-ish OnePlus has been rather bold with the design of its first tablet. The OnePlus Pad is very likely to stand out from the crowd of Android tablets and is nothing like the iPad either. This is mainly because of its very distinct dark green shade, which OnePlus calls Halo Green. The metallic back also has a slightly unusual camera placement, with the rather prominent camera unit being placed right between the upper and lower corners of the left side....

So you can imagine how pleasantly surprised we were to see the folks at Opera (those who gave us tabbed browsing, remember), suddenly dip into their design reservoirs and come out with what they termed a “concept browser” because praise be, it looks like no other browser out there. And this hits you from the moment it launches. For unlike other worthies which promptly present you with a white box and an address bar, Opera Neon gives you… well, bubbles....

I already hear someone saying “What’s in a name?”! Origin of Famous Company Names 1. APPLE COMPUTERS It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock! Good that his favorite fruit wasn’t a WATERMELON! 2. CISCO It is not an acronym as popularly believed....

Apple’s Hybrid Notebook Tablet The patent filing includes details of an ultra cool display with a retractable magnetic mechanism that hides itself once detached from the MacBook’s main body. This is similar to the existing Windows 8 hybrid devices, but Apple’s design points towards rotatable display which may pivot from an open position to a closed position. Patently Apple, which caught hold of the patent fresh from USPTO talks about the hybrid’s touch display:...

Before we even get into the review, we need to get the devil off our backs. Philips Hue is pricey, and there are no two words about it. At Rs 16,995 in India ($200 in US and €179 in Europe) for the starter kit with 3 LED bulbs, and Rs 3,500 for every extra Hue bulb, it’s hard to justify the price if you’re looking it to replace your home lighting....

Although many full-fledged image editors let you do this with complete control over different aspects of the image, using these tools isn’t easy and requires you to go through a steep learning curve. Not to mention, it isn’t ideal when you want to remove backgrounds from multiple images at once. Web-based or online background remover tools are better suited for such use cases. And PicWish happens to be one such tool that promises to remove background from images in under 3 seconds, for free!...

Is the Poco X2 a successor to the Poco F1? While the Poco F1 was a budget flagship, the Poco X2 slots into the premium mid-range segment in terms of specs. The Poco X2 belongs to a completely different series so don’t confuse this to be the Poco F2 that everyone was eagerly waiting for. What’s the USP of the Poco X2? The Poco X2 offers a price to performance ratio that’s really impressive....

Several benchmark tests have shown that Samsung-made Exynos 7420 processor, which powers the company’s latest flagship smartphones Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, is more powerful than the Snapdragon 810. But it seems Qualcomm doesn’t have to look outside the company to find a processor that outpaces its flagship chipset. The Snapdragon 620, the mobile processor announced earlier this year, which despite being in the 600 series for mid-range devices, apparently is a top powerhouse....

Before we begin, this is not a laptop you would be happy to carry around or shove in your crowded backpack but instead, think of Razer as a miniaturised version of a fully blown gaming rig. Well, even Razer is advertising the product with a slogan that says “The Desktop in your Laptop.” The Maxed Innards Razer Blade Pro is propelled by a 2.66GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU. The list starts getting better with 32GB 2133MH DDR4 RAM, 17....

Realme 6i: Design and Display The Realme 6i features a gradient-finish back with a quad-camera array, arranged in a vertical alignment. There is a fingerprint scanner, fused within the power button on the right-hand side, for authentication. The device is available in two color options: Eclipse Black and Lunar White. Towards the front, the 6i has a 6.5-inch FHD+ display with a 90.5% screen-to-body ratio. The display offers a 90Hz refresh rate and a 120Hz touch sampling rate....

While there’s no confirmation yet as to if and when the Redmi K30 Pro will come to India (or if it gets rebranded to Poco F2), the phone is launching on March 24 in China and as with every phone, there are plenty of leaks floating around on the internet. We have compiled all of them for you in one place so that you know what to expect from the phone....

The reason why we rank the Note 11S a notch above the Note 11 and the Note 11T is good old performance. As we remarked in our reviews of the Redmi Note 11T 5G and the Redmi Note 11, both devices were good in their own ways, but neither had anything compelling about them. This was very odd by Redmi Note standards. Both were good phones, but neither really stood out from the competition....

And STILL manages to stick out from what is rapidly becoming the Chinese Crowd, thanks to a mix of sheer muscle and nuance. Relatively compact in size We had mentioned in our first impressions of the Q Terra that while it was an unabashedly large phone, it looked compact for its size. At 157.6 mm long, it is well over the half foot size that most use to place a device in the phablet range, and at 79....

The W2019 is a high-end smartphone by all means. For starters, both displays are Samsung’s signature Super AMOLED panels which stretch 4.2-inches diagonally and carry a Full HD resolution and have the conventional 16:9 aspect ratio. The premium design will be available in two different paintjobs to choose from – Gold Extreme Edition and Platinum Golden Collector’s Edition. Since the W2019 is a flagship-grade smartphone, it runs on the Snapdragon 845 mobile platform along with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage which expandable through Micro SD up to 512GB....

Here is a list of six phones that we think can prove to be a headache for the OnePlus 8: 1. iQOO 3: It has the IQ(OO) to Unsettle! With a starting price of Rs. 34,990 (although it was launched at a slightly higher price tag), the iQOO 3 is perhaps the most affordable phone that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor in the market at present. This is paired with 8GB RAM and 128 GB storage....

Slack will also be revealing the number of active users on its platform which seems to be pegged at 2-Million, a rather healthy number for inducing new features, tools and earning revenue. It is but obvious that Slack wants to create a rack of premium features in order to broaden the Gap between its paid service and the free ones. Botkit Slack has been working with Howdy, a start-up focused on building chat-based Slack apps and they would be soon releasing the Botkit under an open-source license....

Converging Towards a Common Goal From startups like Pebble to industry leaders like Apple, every step towards building a wearable gadget now involves a keen focus on fitness. Up until now this year, companies have released thicker smartwatches when compared to previous generations to make room for crucial components such as dedicated GPS chips. For instance, the new Apple Watch is about 0.9mm thicker and 4.2 grams heavier and these type of stepbacks never happen unless they’re the only option to justify a product’s proposition....

The Snapdragon 865, though, is a flagship SoC and Qualcomm wanted to make 5G accessible to mid-range smartphone users too, and hence they launched the Snapdragon 765G earlier this year. However, phones with that chipset haven’t made their way to the Indian market yet probably because the hardware itself is expensive and 5G, as we mentioned earlier, will need at least 2-3 years to commercially roll-out. The upcoming OnePlus Nord or OnePlus Z is expected to be the first smartphone in India with the Snapdragon 765G but we need to wait....

As you can already relate from the name, the Sony Xperia X Compact is the smaller of the two siblings and is the latest addition to the company’s Xperia X lineup. To be precise, the Sony Xperia X Compact is a trimmed down version of the flagship Xperia X launched earlier this year. Rather it sports a markedly smaller 4.6 inch display with a resolution of just 1280x720p. While this might appear puny in today’s world but this display size has been a part and parcel of the Xperia Compact lineup for quite some time now, ever since those Xperia Z days....

When a watch is missing from the wrist and you tend to spend a lot of time around the computer, the best option is an online alarm clock, one with a full, synchronized timer and which will notify the user using sound messages. There are more than a couple of websites capable of delivering this service and a bit more, but we’ve taken some time to check out the best, right here....