Now, I wouldn’t have done this if any other smartwatch would have been on sale mostly because of two things – Pebble smartwatches have long-lasting battery lives, a week in the case of Pebble 2, and second, they get the job done without being too superfluous. The Pebble 2, especially, has most of the hardware components you’d expect from a “smart” watch – heart rate scanner, an easily readable display, a rich developer community, and more....

Google also recently joined this consortium with the launch of its all-access Play Music subscription in India and while I was not particularly impressed with its methods initially, I now move completely decamped from Saavn Pro to Google Play Music as my primary source of music. The Not-So-Saavn Experience The most glaring impediment with existing services like Saavn for me were their radio algorithms. I’ve been using Saavn for over a year and in this extensive period, their radio feature never even came close to what I could term as “satisfactory”....

This will put a full stop on all the rumors prevailing about the Windows 8 release date. Windows 8 will be available for purchase to the general public, two months after the release of RTM. The enterprise customers with Software Assurance benefits, will have full access to Windows 8 bits as early as August. During the RTM they will turn on the commerce platform so that developers can start earning money for their apps....

Perhaps, fragmentation can be adverted with a trick which most users may hate at the first sight, but accept it at a second look: paying for Android updates. Spending a few bucks to get that pricey but now almost useless smartphone out of Google’s sandbox may worth the trouble, because carriers and even the search engine giant itself refuses to develop such updates, as a marketing strategy. But let’s emphasize on that....

It might come as a surprise for some, but this is not the first time Xiaomi has delved into upping its charging-game. Earlier this year, it demonstrated its 100W charging technology in a video, which would compete against the likes of Huawei and Oppo that come with 40W and 50W charging rate, respectively. In the video, Xiaomi compared its charging technology with Oppo’s 50W Super VOOC charging technology that managed to charge a 3700mAh battery to 65% in 17 minutes....

The Redmi 2 Prime is cosmetically identical to the Redmi 2 and as a matter of fact, it is sporting the exact same innards except for the bumped up 2GB RAM and doubled 16GB of onboard memory. Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime features a 4.7-inch 720p display and a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 and a 2GB of RAM. Camera department is well taken care of thanks to the 8-Megapixel primary sensor and a 2-Megapixel secondary camera....

Redmi K40 The vanilla Redmi K40 features a 6.67-inch (AMOLED) display with an FHD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and 360Hz touch response rate. It has a 2.76mm punch-hole cutout, touted to be the smallest on a smartphone. The phone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor running under the hood, paired with 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of onboard storage. To power the internals, there is a 4520 mah battery with 33W fast charging support....

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S comes equipped with a 6-inch FHD+ display. Design wise the new Mi Mix 2S borrows heavily from its predecessor. The curved ceramic back and the aluminum frame blend in beautifully and the display seem to sit flush within the panel with no inconsistencies whatsoever. Thankfully, Xiaomi has decided not to go for a front notch and this means that the front camera unit still sits in the bottom jaw of the screen....

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun took it to Weibo earlier today to showcase the design for its upcoming smartwatch. He added that the watch will come in two color options: Black and Silver. In addition, Mijia, one of Xiaomi’s sub-brands, also revealed the design on Weibo, which showcases the watch from a different angle, highlighting the presence of a 3D curved glass on top and a crown on the top-right, along with a mic in the middle and a power button below it....

To give you some background, Zunpulse has been available commercially since March earlier this year, and it is now that they are opening their product portfolio to consumers for use at home. All the Zunpulse devices operate on the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band and can be controlled using the Zunpulse app, available for download on both Android and iOS, on their respective app stores. Zunpulse’s portfolio currently includes the following devices:...

Yes, when The Matrix was released in 1999, smartphones were not quite the rage, although PDAs were making their presence felt (hey, Apple had one, remember!). But The Matrix trilogy used mobile phones pretty much the way it used sunglasses – to look cool as hell (yes, we know that sounds weird) rather than as super futuristic devices. Of course, the first film in the series used the Nokia 8810, first seen when it was delivered to Mr “Neo” Anderson, letting Morpheus warn him about the agents in the building (see video below)....

As always, we have gone with auto mode on all the shots, as that is the mode in which most consumers use their devices. We would advise you to take a look at the full resolution shots of the images we have used (just click on them – it is that simple) to get a better idea. Let’s get the hardware part of the camera out of the way! OnePlus 5T: Primary Camera: 16MP f/1....

Oppo says that the Reno series of devices is going to be targeted at the youth. That may be the case but its design would appeal to a wide spectrum of users. The front and back are glass, Gorilla Glass to be exact (6 in front, 5 at the back, if you are a version junkie) and at a time when most phones seem to be following near identical design templates when it comes to glass, Oppo has taken a very different route with the Reno....

Those traditional golden oldie looks (minus a gold shade, though) The latest iPad seems to be a bit of a blast from a very golden past in terms of design. Yes, the display at 10.2 inches is slightly larger than the 9.7-inch one on the first seven generations of the iPad, and the bezels are more narrow, but this is a chip off the classic iPad design block, with curving sides and a home button which also serves as a fingerprint scanner, below the display....

That was the chant that used to ring out in cricket stadia around the world when Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was batting. It has been a while since it has been heard as Tendulkar has retired from the sport he adorned, leaving behind a series of records (most runs, most centuries) that is going to take some breaking, no matter how talented the likes of Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers might be....

Of course, you would not guess it by looking at the man who heads Qualcomm India. Larry Paulson is one one of that rare breed of company heads who always greets people with a smile. In fact, I hardly ever remember seeing him without his trademark grin. And it was very much in evidence when I sat with him. “I hope you don’t mind if I grab a quick lunch while we talk“, he quips....

https://youtu.be/d8LJXcQhD0k The one minute eight second long ad, titled “Color Flood” is basically a video where a LOT of people, dressed in solid colored jumpsuits (some in the colors that the iPhone XR is available in) running, jumping, and somersaulting (basically parkouring) around an empty town space to the sound of Cosmo Sheldrake’s “Come Along.” Towards the end, text on the screen comes up, “Make room for more color” followed by an iPhone XR and more text reading, “Liquid Retina Display....

However, many dual-SIM iPhone users have lately reported running into an issue where they get a “Last Line No Longer Available” error when attempting to call someone from the Recents log in the Phone app from their default phone number. If you, too, are seeing the “Last Line No Longer Available” error message on your iPhone when trying to call someone using the default phone number, here’s what it means and how to fix it....

This problem is really annoying as it makes your phone unusable and you can’t receive calls or SMS or even access the Internet. However, the “No SIM card” message shouldn’t worry you since you can usually fix it with a few simple troubleshooting methods, depending on the cause of the problem. In this article, we’ve prepared a set of solutions that will help you fix the “No SIM card installed” error on iPhones and Android, considering all possible causes....

Last week’s list with the best Android applications, in our opinion, isn’t precisely obsolete, so do check it out. Let’s check out how productive this week has been in the Android apps world without further ado! We have a lot of games this time, which means more fun. Please let us know in the comments section if you also spotted some worthy mentions. Google+ Hangouts (Free) Last week, the Google+ Hangouts standalone app was released at the Google I/O conference....