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OnePlus 8 Pro: Design and Display From the looks of it, the OnePlus 8 Pro appears to have a similar all-glass design as the regular OnePlus 8, with slim bezels, a hole-punch cutout for the front camera, and 3D Gorilla Glass protection. The phone comes in three colorways: Onyx Black, Glacial Green, and Ultramarine Blue. Moving to the front, the 8 Pro gets a bigger 6.78-inch Fluid AMOLED display with QHD+ (3168 x 1440 pixels) resolution and a 19....

Punching well above their audio weight…and with a bass mode too! And that is because, for Rs 1,999, the Oppo Enco M31 deliver the kind of sound you expect from earphones that cost about two to three times as much. Manufacturers have been trying to deliver more budget-friendly Bluetooth earphones for a while – the likes of Sony, JBL, Xiaomi, Realme and most recently OnePlus, all have devices in the region of around Rs 2000....

The Oppo F1s comes equipped with a 5.5-inch HD display along with 2.5D Gorilla Glass. Under the hood lies a 1.5GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6750 SoC paired with a 3GB of RAM. On the storage front, the device offers 32GB of Internal memory alongside a microSD card that accommodates up to 128GB. Oppo F1s runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop wrapped in the proprietary ColorOS. The F1s is well equipped with the usual set of connectivity features including 4G LTE and VoLTE....

Oppo Find X2 and Find X2 Pro: Design and Display Oppo is taking a different approach altogether with the all-new Find X2 and X2 Pro. Unlike Find X, which came with a retractable module, the newer smartphones rather follow the hole-punch design as can be seen adopted by some of the other manufacturers to offer a larger screen estate. While the Find X2 comes with a Glass and Ceramic back, the X2 Pro offers Ceramic and Vegan Leather finish....

What else is a flagship smartphone? The Mi 10 from parent brand Xiaomi. Yes, Poco is a separate entity now but given that they are rebranding the Redmi K30 Pro and still use MIUI, they are affiliated to Xiaomi in one way or the other, so it makes sense to compare the Poco F2 Pro with the Mi 10 which was recently launched in India. While rumors suggest that the Poco F2 Pro will make its way to India as the Redmi K30 Pro itself, they are basically the same phone so let’s compare the Poco F2 Pro with the Mi 10 and see what you are paying that extra premium for with the Mi 10....

Poco M2: Design and Display In terms of design, the Poco M2 features a two-tone pattern with an anti-fingerprint texture and P2i coating on top. Towards the front, the device comes with a 6.53-inch full-HD+ display with a waterdrop-style notch and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top. Poco M2 comes in three colors: Pitch Black, Slate Blue, and Brick Red. Poco M2: Performance At its core, the Poco M2 runs on the MediaTek Helio G80 running under the hood, which is an octa-core processor based on the 12nm process with up to 2....

We have been seeing a rise in web apps recently and why not, they are lite, cut out the flab while retaining the quintessential features and they don’t gobble up your phones resources. Google has further improved the web apps and has created something called “Progressive Web Apps” which is integrated with the mobile devices and has access to the push notifications. The highlight of the PWA is that they are installed on the home screen of the devices and can be accessed just like any other Android apps....

Realme Buds Q: Design To begin with, Realme says the design of the Buds Q is inspired by the cobble — colloquially referred to as small round stones. And, as already mentioned, have been designed by José Lévy. From the looks of it, the earbuds come with a round-curved design with silicone tips at the end, which is claimed to work in tandem with the curved design to aid with better isolation....

Onion and Garlic. Yes, you read it right, realme has launched realme X variants called master editions, inspired by onion and garlic. We got our hands on the onion edition to find out if the phone looks as onion as it sounds. Did it make our eyes water? Read on… Onion feels? Definitely The onion edition of the realme X will not remind a lot of Indians of an onion, simply because we see a lot more of red onions than golden ones....

Realme X7 To start with, the Realme X7 India variant is pretty much the same as the Realme V15, which recently got announced in China a few weeks back. It comes with a gradient finish design on the rear and has a rectangular camera module to house the triple-camera array. Towards the front, the phone features a 6.4-inch (AMOLED) punch-hole display. The display offers an FHD+ screen resolution and up to 600 nits of brightness....

When will it be available? Samsung announced that the technology could be widely available as soon as September, although these displays were first unveiled back in June, but the media seemed to not give them too much credit. Just imagine what kind of cool gadgets could be developed using this technology. As we saw with the flexible displays, the technology has a lot of potential, but there will be lots of development before it will be integrated in more devices....

The Chromebook 3 is powered by the Intel Celeron N3050 and will be made available in both 2GB/3GB RAM configurations. On the storage front, the Chromebook 3 offers 16GB of on board storage. The laptop is well endowed connectivity wise as it comes with Bluetooth 4.0, 720p Webcam, USB 3.0 port, USB 2.0 Port and an HDMI out. The keyboard ergonomics seems something that the Samsung has attended to and as a result the keyboard comes with UL certified keycaps and the display is hinged to offer a tilt of 180-degrees....

However, as of writing this, Apple doesn’t offer automation triggers on the Mac Shortcuts app as it does with its iOS or iPadOS equivalent, leaving users with no choice but to run shortcuts manually on their Mac. Fortunately, there’s a way around this, and it involves using an app called Shortery. In this guide, we’ll check out Shortery and list down the instructions to use it to automate your shortcuts on the Mac Shortcuts app....

Earlier, most of us were accessing Netflix by using a VPN and this way we could enjoy all the content served in the US or UK. While we can still continue to do so, here is a more effortless and effective way of accessing the global catalogue. Smartflix.io is a service which unlocks ALL the content on Netflix, irrespective of the country you reside in. The app is still in beta and as of now it is free, but once it exits beta, users will be charged a onetime fee of $7....

iPhone – The Reason For Sony Ericsson’s Failure in Smartphones? The iPhone 4S has been officially announced and we were actually expecting to see an iPhone 5 totally changed that could make us praise Apple and for a period, close the rumor mill on the Apple vs Android topic. But that didn’t happen and this means that competition can start from where iPhone 4S left; Samsung, HTC, RIM, Sony Ericsson and even Nokia can try and attack iPhone 4S....

Storify app for iPad resembles its web counterpart and enables drag & drop of tweets, photos, videos and other web content into your self curated stories. The iPad app experience is slick and user friendly, except for some minor glitches which we will discuss later. For those who don’t know much about Storify, this explanation from Robert Scoble should be good enough. That sort of a praise coming from someone like Scoble, who excels in content curation should do Storify a world of good....

LifeLock has been working towards developing a diversified range of identity-theft protection services catering to both consumer and small businesses. The products include credit monitoring and alerts. LifeLock’s share prices have skyrocketed this year and reached $20.75 thus bringing the total market value to nearly $1.95 billion. The deal however values the shares at a higher $24, a premium of nearly 16% which also turns out to be its highest in the last 52 weeks....

Creativity goes on and there’s hope Apple is one of the brands that has released an ad during this difficult time. “Creativity goes on” is a minute and a half long ad. It features photographs and small video clips of different people under lockdown at home. Different people of different ages, gender, color, and race (one of whom is Oprah Winfrey) are seen learning things, doing things on different Apple devices ranging from iPads to Macbooks to iPhones....

And one more thing… Guess who got the phone number 888-888-8888? Well, he ended up getting hundreds of wrong number calls, often from babies who ended up hitting those keys while playing with phones. Even Steve Wozniak could not handle that!

Touchscreen phones, minus stylus! No, the iPhone did not herald the touchscreen era in smartphones. Palm, Microsoft and even Nokia had touch-friendly UIs before the iPhone came along, but none of them worked as smoothly and speedily as the iPhone’s did. In fact, almost all of its competitors were designed to work with a stylus – something that Jobs mocked famously in his iPhone presentation. The iPhone was the first touchscreen phone that anyone could use with minimum fuss, and without ever having to lug a stylus along....