Those are the words of an elderly mobile phone seller in one of Delhi’s markets when we ask him if power adapters, or “chargers” as most people call them, will be removed from retail packs of mobile phones. As people start filtering back, generally with masks on, into markets in the Indian capital, not too many seem concerned about the new trend of brands ditching power adapters from their packages, in the name of eco-friendliness....

LinkedIn started building the direct messaging option similar to the ones already offered by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The roll out will be slow and incremental, starting with just “10 percent ramp to English global members.” LinkedIn will be last in line to launch the messaging product and although users could send private messages it was more like a e-mail interface with a not so intuitive interface. The new feature will open up new avenues for the professional networking site and it might also introduce a premium messaging services for the recruiter....

The Android app requires you to sign in using your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram login credentials and this will enable you to record the songs in MP3 or MV format, users will also be allowed to upload their recordings and listen to others recording, thus creating a virtual karaoke club right in your phone. The iSing app also boasts of an option to change the volume of the recorded vocals and change some of the aspects like pitch of the voice....

Pro tip: It is pretty easy as long as you keep saying the gibberish out loud because when you put together it ultimately sounds like the right word or phrase you have to guess. But you have to do all of this quickly because there is a timer. When it runs out you are given the answer. Welcome to Guess the Gibberish, the AR filter that has got so many literally guessing what’s up (on your forehead) on Instagram....

And then it returned in the latter half of 2017, in an avatar that seemed to hark back to its roots. Once again the stress seemed to be on design – albeit a more flashy one, although still compact as compared to the competition – and while the customization option had disappeared, the stress on simplicity and speed rather than specs seemed to be back. It was not super affordable in the way of a Redmi Note 4 but at its starting price of Rs 20,999, it was the second most affordable Moto X ever released in the Indian market (after the X Play, which was a stripped down version of the X Style)....

The Blink Go is one of the first commercial products being released out of the company’s innovation labs which now also houses the resources it acquired from Witworks. With the activity tracker, Myntra is debuting a new wearable platform which, in addition to powering its own line of devices, will be also made available to third-party manufacturers and developers. The goal of designing a new operating system was, as per Myntra, to allow a vast variety of products like shoes, fitness bands to talk to each other and offer meaningful insights to the user....

Users complain about slow Nexus 7 One of the users complains that I/O speeds have droppped especially for write processes, which means more time is spent requesting the data than processing it. Apparently, the applications become very slow to load and the interface gets “jerky”. As many users have noticed, a temporary solution seems to be a factory reset, but unless more space is made available, the issue will persist....

John McLear, the mastermind behind the idea, has brought his NFC Ring project on KickStarter, and, at the moment when this article was published, he had almost met his funding goal of £30,000 with more than 1,100 backers supporting the concept. As there are more than 27 days left, the number of backers will definitely increase.Just like the name hints, NFC Ring is a ring that you wear on your finger and you use it for various purposes, such as unlocking your home door, your Android phone or even transferring information....

Although there isn’t any concrete information about what the new smartphone will carry (or its existence itself), the rumor hints at the newer Snapdragon 821 on board and an IPS LCD display in place of AMOLED screen like on the OnePlus 3. Apparently, OnePlus is facing sourcing issues with the AMOLED screens and hence looking at IPS for the OnePlus 3s. We assume they’d possibly go with the same 6GB RAM on the newer variant as well....

OnePlus 7T Pro: Design and Display The OnePlus 7T Pro flaunts a 6.67-inch Fluid AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 3120×1440 pixels screen resolution, 516ppi pixel density, HDR10+, and Gorilla Glass 5. OnePlus calls it a Fluid AMOLED display, as it offers a 90Hz refresh rate, similar to the one found on OnePlus 7 Pro. The display extends all the way to the edges to give the phone a premium look and feel, and also offers an immersive experience while consuming content....

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!...

Qualcomm is arguably the biggest Global player when it comes to SoC’s, 3G and 4G modems and it is also involved in security space. The NXP purchase will not only help Qualcomm to broaden their offerings but also ramp up its capacity and eventually achieve larger volumes. Also, with the NXP Qualcomm can finally move beyond the mobile ecosystem. Post the deal Qualcomm’s mobile revenue will be decreased to forty-eight percent alongside the Auto and IoT revenue of 29 percent....

Subtle, two-toned design Well, it definitely gets marks for trying to look a little different. The dual tone-ish back of the Realme 7 Pro makes it stand out subtly from the current phone crowd. We got the Mirror Blue variant and what struck us straight away was the slightly different shaded band that ran vertically on the left of the back, which incidentally is carbonate. It does not scream for attention but makes its presence felt when light falls on it, distinguishing it from the rest of the back....

Redmi A1: It’s got the look…of a more expensive smartphone Whatever corners Xiaomi might have had to cut to make the Redmi A1 affordable, the design was definitely not one of them. The Redmi A1 does not look like a Rs 6,499 smartphone. Yes, it has very 2018-level bezels around the display on its front and a water drop notch as well, and its sides and back are plastic. But even then, the phone cuts a very pleasant figure....

At their price of Rs 1,999 (with a special introductory price of Rs 1,499), the Redmi Buds 3 Lite are very good value for money in a segment where performance tends to deteriorate spectacularly with the price decline. In fact, below Rs 2,000, TWS performance generally tends to be memorable for all the wrong reasons – distorted audio, too much bass, poor build quality, unresponsive controls, and so much more....

Redmi Note 9: Design and Display To begin with, the Redmi Note 9 appears to have a similar design as the Note 9 Pro and Note 9 Pro Max, with what Xiaomi calls, the “Aura Balance design” that has a quad-camera setup on the rear and a cutout on the front for the front-facing camera. It comes in three colorways: Arctic White, Aqua Green, and Pebble Grey. Towards the front, the device has a 6....

Sometime back, the iPhone Dev team had released Untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak for Mac OS X via Jailbreak Monte technique, but it was using iOS 4.2 Beta 2 hashes & iOS 4.2 Beta 2 firmware which are available to developers only. Now, with the latest developments, Windows version will be free from such requirements as it will be based on iOS 4.1 jailbreak Monte.

The Jio Glass comes with a cable that can be used to connect it to your smartphone in order to access the internet after which it can be used for a variety of purposes. If you’ve heard of Google Glasses which was scrapped or Apple’s rumored AR glasses that are supposed to launch sometime in the future, Jio Glass is something similar that will be made available on a large scale....

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....

Those were the words of a colleague when they were asked to sign an embargo for a soon to be launched product. And no, they were not the words of a person jealous of a high-profile rival. Sure enough, the product embargo was broken by a few distinguished people. And that once again gave rise to an issue that is being increasingly debated in the Indian tech media: “Does signing embargoes for products or honoring them make any sense?...