The Vivo V5 Plus comes equipped with a 5.5-inch FHD display along with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and narrow bezels which the Vivo claims is crafted for better ergonomics. Powering the device is an Octa-core Snapdragon 625 clocked at 2GHz and paired with 4GB RAM. On the storage front, the Vivo V5 Plus offers 64GB of onboard memory. The camera arrangements on this phone include a 20-Megapixel dual front camera (Sony IMX376) with f/2....

The mother of all cricketing events is here – ICC World cup 2011. The 43 day extravaganza begins on Feb 19th and ends on April 2nd with the finals at Wankhede, Mumbai. 14 countries will be taking part in this edition of Cricket world cup. ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket have bagged the exclusive rights to broadcast the world cup 2011 matches. But one might not have access to the television all the time....

We wish we had a penny for every time we have been asked that question every time someone has updated their device to a new version of an OS. Yes, there is the usual bug-busting and the ironing out of rough spots and “performance enhancements”, but when a major OS update is rolled out, the first thing that most people want to know is what exactly is new about it....

For revenue, WhatsApp is starting slow right now. The company will only charge businesses for a message if they take more than 24 hours to respond. That highlights how WhatsApp is approaching monetization and making sure its forthcoming bigger revenue plans work — it’s urging companies to reply quicker so that people would prefer WhatsApp for customer service inquiries over other channels. In addition, the API will help these businesses share “shipping confirmations, appointment reminders or event tickets....

We always knew that iPhone users will soon get the WhatsApp voice calling feature, but didn’t know how soon. Brian Acton, WhatsApp’s co-founder had promised late last month that iPhone users will get the voice calling feature within a couple of weeks and he has almost kept his word. The world’s most popular messaging platform recently announced that it has hit 800 million monthly active users. No wonder it takes weeks and months to roll out a major feature like Voice calling to all the users on all the platforms....

With a net worth of roughly $6.5 billion, Acton currently overlooks the company’s engineering team and is expected to hand off his duties to other engineers. In the post, he stated plans for developing a non-profit which will be primarily focused “at the intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications.” In a lot of ways, though, this is what WhatsApp had always stood for before Facebook acquired it three years ago....

Why Simplenote? Simplenote is everything note-taking apps are supposed to be – they should digitally resemble the experience of a notepad in the most sophisticated way possible. There are no superfluous animations, coloring, or features I don’t necessarily require to feed the information. It’s merely a list of your notes, comes with tagging abilities so that you can categorize them, has a recovery option in case you would like to restore a deleted file, even has a dark theme, and most importantly, manages multiple platform sync ideally....

More Notes than ever before We have no problem with the brand deciding to extend the Redmi Note branding to different phones. The series is so popular that if it were an independent brand in its own right, it would be the third-largest smartphone brand in the market. So perhaps it makes sound commercial sense to diversify it and spread some of that Note series goodness around. The more, the merrier, right?...

We are referring to the first quote by Mi India MD Manu Jain in the press release on the launch of the Mi 10i yesterday. With the Mi 10 i, Mi gets into the Redmi zone Now, the Mi India MD had dropped indications of this a few times in the past, stressing that Mi and Redmi would operate as two different brands, with different teams dedicated to their cause....

Mid-segment with a number of premium touches Mind you, there’s very little that’s mid-segment about the appearance of the Mi 10i. As we had mentioned in our first impressions, the phone looks very premium with a (Gorilla) glass front and back, and a spherical camera unit that gave us very Poco X2 and OnePlus 7T feels. Yes, it is definitely on the large side and at 215 grams is not lightweight, but it is capable of grabbing attention – and the Pacific Sunrise variant with its blue upper portion blending into a peach lower part will turn heads!...

The Mi Sports Bluetooth Earphones Basic is a lightweight earphones with neckband design. It is IPX4 splash and sweat proof and aimed at active sports users. Xiaomi claims a battery life of up to 9 hours on this. The Anti-slip adjustable hook design should provide a comfortable and secure fit as per Xiaomi. As one expects the Mi Sports Bluetooth Earphones Basic will come with in-line smart remote and microphone, and has a 3-button design to control music, answer/reject calls and three-way calling as well....

The Xiaomi Mi TV 4C features ultra slim 0.9cm black bezels on the sides. This apparently is a notable difference over the Mi TV 4A. The all-new TV comes in two display variants. One rocks a 43-inch display whereas the other features a 55-inch panel. As expected, the smaller 43-inch variant has a Full HD (1,920 x 1,080p) resolution whereas the 55-inch one supports 4K HDR. Internally, the Xiaomi Mi TV 4C rocks a new hardware....

As per a recent report from IMRB, Xiaomi India has been awarded for providing the ‘best in class’ service delivery in India and is currently rated amongst the top five smartphones in India when it comes to terms of service delivery. The repair rates for Xiaomi is pegged at 95 percent within a working day. Thankfully the company is also opening up service centres in tier 3 and tier 4 cities which I always believed lacked adequate customer support....

ZTE announced this phone at the ongoing IFA 2015, and the company has also unveiled a more premium Axon Pro version which is designed in U.S and will be sold in the U.S market. The Axon Pro is being billed as a premium offering which is punchy enough to take on other premium flagships at a seemingly affordable price point of $450. The Axon Elite comes with a fingerprint sensor at the back just below the camera unit....

Looks: Sass vs Class, Ethan Hunt vs James Bond This is a very tough one for us. We like the design of both phones, but for very different reasons. Both phones have glass front and backs, but the Mi 10i has a more distinct camera unit (a spherical one) while the Nord goes with a more conventional capsule-shaped one. The OnePlus Nord (especially the Gray Ash variant) is very subtly classy, but the Mi 10i (especially the Pacific Sunrise variant) just turns heads the moment you look at it....

Looks smart enough The watch gets most design basics right as well. The Redmi Watch comes with a large-ish 1.4-inch 2.5D curved glass display of 320 x 320 resolution. It has rather prominent bezels around it, which might bother some, but did not annoy us all that much. And the reason for that is that the display is rather bright. Yes, 350 nits might not sound like much, and this is not an AMOLED display either (it is a TFT LCD), but it certainly is good enough for seeing content, even in bright sunlight....

So, how to know what exactly crashed your computer? Answer is – WhoCrashed. WhoCrashed shows the drivers which have been crashing your computer with a single click. In most cases it can pinpoint the offending drivers which have been causing misery on your computer system in the past. It does post-mortem crashdump analysis and presents all gathered information in a comprehensible way. Going by the traditional way, one would have to resort to Debugging tools to debug and analyze what caused the crash....

So, as the design wizard bids goodbye to Apple, we take a look at fifteen of his most memorable quotes. Fifteen quotes that reflect the man, his work and his values. And finally, his response to an on-stage Steve Jobs who called him when he was unveiling the first iPhone in 2007 and asked “Jony, do you have anything to say about the first phone call?” We will end with Jobs’ response: “It’s not too shabby....

Here then are the highlights of the report: Everyone stumbles… The global smartphone market fell by 14 percent in the quarter as compared to Q2 2019, one of its most steep falls in recent times. Shipments fell from 331.8 million units in Q2 2019 to 284.7 million units in Q2 2020. India, the third-largest market in the world, went down by 48 percent while even the partially open Chinese market fell by 7 percent....

These were the lines on the back cover of a book on Steve Jobs that my editorial mentor gave to me. But unlike many books on Steve Jobs, this one was a little different. Umm… actually this one was very different (appropriate, isn’t it, for the founder of the company that claims to Think Different). Steve Jobs, I think, was the first person who became a celebrity in the tech world....