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With this in mind, software developers from all over the world came up with digital storytelling – this enables children to write stories of their own, directly on their parents’ mobile phones. The recent increase in the general use of mobile technologies is responsible for the modernization of traditional storytelling, and for it going mobile. For the same reason, we find ourselves holding a tablet or phone more often than we use a pencil, which is why I’m always amazed by the amount of great apps allowing kids to create, imagine, dream, and write....

“It’s a great value for money device.” “The company doesn’t make value for money phones anymore.” These are the usual statements you get to see on social media after every phone launch from a popular brand. But what exactly is Value for Money (VFM)? Who defines it? The company selling the product? The tech experts reviewing these products? The general public on forums and social media voting on one of these polls?...

That is the question we have been asked a number of times ever since Nokia launched the Nokia 7 Plus at a price of Rs 25,999. A few months ago, the question would have provoked laughter. But with the price of the Nokia 8 having been slashed to Rs 28,999, the 7 plus has a sibling as a rival, cue that question with which this article begins. And the fact that the answer is not an easy one is a reflection of just how much technology can progress in a short while....

Cubot J3 Expected Features Being powered by Google’s latest ultralight Android Go OS built especially for low-end smartphones, the Cubot J3 will come with a bunch of special Go apps which will include the likes of Google Maps Go, Files Go, Gmail Go and so on. That said, despite being an ultra-budget sub $100 smartphone, the Cubot J3 packs a quite a lot, especially in terms of design. The handset is said to feature a sandblasted metal body, that will come in three colors namely Black, Blue and Silver....

Online video editing service is far easier to use, and some of them are also free. Still, the best part about it is that it does not require the user to have a very powerful computer, as the video processing is carried out on their servers. The cloud is what makes this happen, and we are very glad that this technology is available. Today, we’ll be taking a look at some of these online video editing services to help you choose the right one for you....

Circa got a lot of users and overworked a lot of their employees. But without a clear monetization plan, it was difficult to survive. They closed shop on June 24th. But Circa was a thought leader in this category and showed us the need for a mobile-first news reading app with just the right balance of notifications. A perfect substitute for Circa doesn’t exist. But there are many apps that come close....

Guardians is said to be developed by a team from Stockholm and India. And it aims to solve the problem of personal safety in the real world, for which it is crowdsourcing safety by bringing family, friends, community, and authorities as potential guardians. How does Guardians work? Guardians requires your location and your contacts to function. It requires you to set your own personal guardians from your contacts. One, who you are comfortable sharing your location with....

In essence, the makers of U-Gym claims that it gives you a real deep tissue message. The U-Gym Mini is designed by a former Under Armor designer and it looks sleek for a massager. Needless to say, the device lets you customize your massage options from the companion app and also store your favourite massage programs. Powering the U-GYM Mini is 18650 mAh Li-ion battery which is rated to provide 6 hours of use for a charge....

The name of the brand might be basic but we had high hopes when it comes to the first ad of the newborn baby of these two telecom giants. Both Vodafone and Idea have had some really brilliant ad campaigns that have not only left their marks on network advertising but advertising in general. The “Wherever you go, our network follows you” Vodafone Pug campaign, the “Vodafone Zoo-Zoo” campaign, and “kya idea hai SirJi” from Idea have been some of the most revolutionary ad campaigns in telecom history, hands down....

Now, it has gone a step ahead and made it even easier to utilize the Android Device Manager option on your smartphone. You can now visit the Google homepage to look up your lost Android device! Simply type in “Find my phone”, and Google will show where your phone is on a map. Assuming you had left it at a cafe or dropped it in a park, this is the best possible way to know its current location....

This professional boxing match between undefeated eleven-time five-division professional boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and two-division mixed martial arts world champion and current UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor is expected to be the biggest PPV (pay-per-view) event rivaling the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight in 2015. However, in case your region doesn’t have a streaming partner, you can use any VPN service such as TunnerBear or ExpressVPN. Watch Mayweather vs McGregor fight online in the US In the US, the Mayweather vs McGregor fight will be televised via Showtime pay-per-view, available through both traditional television providers and various digital services, including the Showtime website and the UFC’s UFC....

One of the latest additions to this feature list is the WhatsApp Call Link feature. As the name suggests, this feature allows you to create a voice call or video call link and share it with other WhatsApp contacts so they can join in with you on the conversation. If you use WhatsApp regularly and rely on voice or video calls for most of your conversations, you may find WhatsApp Call Links quite helpful....

WhatsApp has been testing many features in beta and most often new features keep popping up with every upgrade. Moving on, apart from the one to one conversations WhatsApp Groups is something that has clicked with the users. While most of us use WhatsApp group for the sake of being connected with their family and friend’s others use it as an official channel to communicate stuff regarding work. WhatsApp has now introduced the tagging feature that will let you tag the group members by adding ‘@’ before their name....

Today, Samsung India sent out a brief press release quoting the research and analyst firm, GfK, and claiming to be the top smartphone OEM “by a distance”. This was a clear dig at Xiaomi who has been aggressive with their marketing as being the No. 1 smartphone player in the country for the past couple of months. As you would expect, Xiaomi sent out its own press release within minutes of Samsung sending out their’s, refuting the claims made by Samsung and reiterating their position as India’s top smartphone OEM....

The Xiaomi Hey+ also has a larger OLED 0.95-inch color touchscreen with nearly double the resolution (240×120 pixels) that of the Mi Band 3. The display can show up to ten of your last phone calls as well as messages. The rest of the hardware, however, is quite similar to the Mi Band 3. There’s a 120mAh battery which can last about eighteen days on a single charge and a heart rate sensor through which you can even share your pulse rates with the app....

The AirDots Pro 2s feature a similar design as the older model, and they include a 14.2mm driver with support for LDHC/SBC/AAC codes. The company says the earphones come with semi-in-ear design, which ensures they fit your ear canal and don’t fall off easily, while also being comfortable. Besides, there is support for smart voice controls and an infrared sensor that automatically pauses/resumes music when you take them out of the ear....

Like all other out-of-the-box products from the Lei Jun-led company, this one is not developed in-house by Xiaomi. Instead, the smart electric toothbrush, which now is available for crowdfunding via Xiaomi’s official platform, is made by a company known as Soocare Cassels. Dubbed the Xiaomi Soocare X3, the first electric toothbrush from the Chinese firm makes use of a magnetic levitation acoustic wave motor with swing speeds as high as 37200 per minute to clean every other part of your teeth....

It does tick the boxes in terms of specs – the rear camera is of 13.0 megapixels and is a Sony IMX 135 CMOS sensor, with a F/2.2 aperture, and is made using the five piece Largan Blue Lens Architecture. The front is a 5.0-megapixel affair. But all this is just so much jargon. How do those cameras actually perform? Well, we gave them both a go, sticking to auto mode....

The display of the device shapes up in the form of a 5-inch FHD frameless screen which according to the company can exhibit better display characteristics. We would like to point out that the frameless display is all about the thinned out bezels and should not be confused with the Edge to Edge display. The Speed 7 runs on a blend of Android 5.1 along with the company’s Z-UI. On the imaging front, the device comes with a 13....

But there is one prominent feature that Android had and Apple made famous, and which other Android players tried to get, but could not quite do so. Not yet anyway. We are talking of Face ID – the ability to not just unlock your phone with your face, but literally, make your face your password for financial and other transactions. Made 4 Android (4), made popular by Apple! Unlocking your device using your face was a feature that existed on the Android platform long before it came on an iPhone (it was in Android 4 in 2011!...