Asus Zenfone 7 and 7 Pro: Design and Display In terms of design, both Zenfone 7 and Zenfone 7 Pro appear to have a similar design, with a glass back covered in Gorilla Glass 3 and a flip camera module that doubles as a front-facing camera. Towards the front, there is a 6.67-inch AMOLED Full View display (with no notch) and a 90Hz refresh rate. The display also supports HDR 10+ and comes with Gorilla Glass 6 protection....

Sound? Give it a wave! Sound is basically created by vibrations traveling in a medium. This medium could be solid, liquid, or gaseous. These vibrations travel in waves called sound waves, which are like real waves with high points (Highs) and low ones (Lows). These waves also have a frequency which depends on vibrations’ speed. An average human ear is capable of hearing frequencies as low as 20 Hz and can go up to as high as 20,000 Hz....

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To be fair on Facebook, it is only making this data available to the apps if you, the user, specifically approve it. Moreover all those apps you have already installed won’t have automatic access to these information. So, next time you install a Facebook app, look out for the “Access my contact information: Current Address and Mobile Phone Number” permission request. Facebook’s obnoxiously huge valuation is because of the data – the personal data of millions of users, all fed manually by the users themselves....

Microsoft notes that it will be offering Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users with the ability to decide when they want to update their system, as well as provide them with the ability to decide which updates they want to install. This isn’t anything new. The company has had always allowed users to have full control over how they want their system to update. But it plans to change that with Windows 10 — at least for some users....

VPNs prevent others from spying on your internet usage. They protect your computer from hackers and allow you to access websites without attracting the attention of marketers and local government agencies. They also help you access your favorite sites when you’re traveling abroad, without geographical restrictions. And there are even situations where choosing the right VPN can make your internet run faster, but that needs a little explanation. A lot of the time, using a VPN will reduce your connection speed If you start with a fast and strong internet connection and then add a proxy server and encryption, you would expect your internet speed to decrease Most of the time that is exactly what happens....

IDC Analyst has already confirmed to The Verge that the “Chrome OS overtook Mac OS in the US in terms of shipments for the first time in 1Q16.” According to the IDC estimates Apple’s Mac shipments is pegged at nearly 1.76 million last quarter which quite literally says that all the brands including Asus, HP and Lenovo have cumulatively sold 2 million Chromebooks in Q1 this year. As we said earlier, Chromebooks have been popular with the schools in US and this seems to be the epicenter of the surge in demand....

How did this Convergence start? It all started with content related acquisitions that two of the largest telecom operators in the US have been making. It’s important to note that there is quite some difference in the intensity of acquisitions of these two telecom operators which are Verizon and AT&T. Verizon started by acquiring AOL and Yahoo. AOL was acquired for its ad tech and Verizon is now in the process of acquiring Yahoo which still gets hundreds of millions of page views every month....

Angry Birds has been hugely popular and that too on multiple platforms. It is still the best selling game on Apple’s iOS and one of the most downloaded games on Google’s Android as well. Few months back, Rovio, the developer of Angry Birds announced that the game will be made available for Windows PC through Intel’s AppUp center, a marketplace for Windows apps. But it was not available for free though....

Apple hopes claims that this firmware update will resolve all the iPhone 4 reception issues. Now, that we know that the press conference later today is related to iPhone 4, we are still left guessing on what Apple has to say. Below are the download links for the iOS 4.0.1 firmware Download iOS 4.0.1 ipsw for iPhone 4. Download iOS 4.0.1 ipsw for iPhone 3GS. Download iOS 4.0.1 ipsw for iPhone 3G....

But besides these major news, Apple will obviously come up with other interesting new features and products, such as company’s HomeKit initiative. Introduced with the launch of iOS 8, HomeKit is a framework for communicating with and controlling connected accessories in a user’s home, as Apple informs. It seems that it took Apple more than a year to finally be able to partner with manufacturers for the sale of the first products which support Apple HomeKit....

And if you are a BlackBerry follower, the first thing that will strike you about the device is not the QWERTY and touchscreen combo, but that single row of keys right below the 3.5 inch display which have a touchpad, a call receive and call end button, and the BB icon button for menu. That apart, this is the classic BlackBerry key layout, with three rows of alphabets and one for shortcuts and the spacebar....

1. New Phone Every Month Well, to be frank, I was skeptical of the monthly update and it seemed so much similar to what Nexus and the Cyanogen OS already get. But the thing is that updates for Fuel OS are much more than just security updates or bug fixes. They try to involve the users and use the interaction for the updates. Believe me, every time my Nexus 5X gets updated I rarely succeed in figuring out the changelog....

A hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The “ikee” worm, as it’s being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of “alpine,” and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and then tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network....

Smartphone sales dipped in Q4 2020 While IDC had said that the final quarter of 2020 had witnessed 4.3 percent growth in the smartphone segment, Gartner paints a slightly grim picture. As per the report, smartphone sales actually shrank by 5 percent in Q4 2020 as compared to Q4 2019. In all, 384.62 million smartphones were sold in Q4 2020 as compared to 406.64 in Q4 2019. This is a bit of a surprise to us given all the talk about “holiday season spending....

The Chromecast 3 looks pretty similar to its predecessor with a circular design and built-in HDMI cable. The Chromecast 2 had apparently some WiFi related issues which Google has fixed on Chromecast 3. It comes with Dual Band 802.11ac WiFi. For the uninitiated, Chromecast is used to make your dumb TV smart. In addition to the support for streaming apps like Netflix, YouTube, Hotstar, SonyLiv and others, Chromecast 3 can be used to control your TV from your Android/iOS device....

More importantly, Google Fit can work as a standalone health tracker. The app can monitor your walking, running, and cycling (no swimming, though). Goals based on duration or total steps can be established, with Fit keeping you aware of your progress throughout each day. Third-party apps (like Runtastic) and fitness trackers (like Fitbit) can also tap into Google’s platform and input your health data. Confirmed partners at launch earlier this year included Nike, HTC, LG, Withings, Motorola, Noom, Runtastic, RunKeeper, and Polar....

On the Home, Google offers a swappable lower bottom so you can choose the one that suits your home décor. The device also doubles up as a full-fledged wireless speaker and lets the users access music from various streaming services. Google Assistant has been amusing so far, the contextual approach and the way it links up with the Google Knowledge graph are laudable. It is capable of comprehending queries like “OK Google, Play that Shakira song from Zootopia” and figure out the title of the song all by itself and play the same....

Post the update; whenever you capture a screenshot inside the Google app of pages such as the Feed, search results, or follow-up links viewed through Chrome Custom Tabs, the app will bring up a panel from the bottom. You can choose to either share the image or edit it. The editor is relatively straightforward and features only a handful of options. You can crop the screenshot or doodle over it....

The new ‘lite’ versions of Google Pixel 3 follows the same design cues as their elder siblings and similar camera setup which stand out in the Pixel lineup. Google Pixel 3a In terms of design, the Pixel 3a features a polycarbonate unibody design with a 5.6-inch FHD+ OLED display that has an 18.5:9 aspect ratio with 2220 x 1080 pixels screen resolution at 441ppi. It is an always-on display that shows the time, date, and battery status, and has Dragontail protection on top to protect it against scratches....