A couple of times, I was not able to book a cab back home since the internet connectivity at that particular place was not up to the mark and the Uber app took forever to open, it is times like this that the dial an Uber feature will come in handy. Moving on, request a ride for others is yet another useful feature that was launched in U.S some time ago....
The iOS app, though, is heavily limited by comparison (and, of course, Truemessenger can’t even exist on iOS). Truecaller can’t really scan calls or actively look at your call log. But if you’re using iOS 8 and up, there is one simple way for looking up any unknown number from your call log. Or any contact that you copy to your clipboard. This is nowhere near as helpful as Truecaller just flashing all the details while you get the call, but it’s something....
Instagram app now allows users to take and edit videos The update to Instagram allows users to take 15 seconds long videos and modify them with custom effects. According to the developers, duration of the video is limited to 15 seconds in order to allow users to quickly capture important moments and share them easily, and also ensure fast downloading by those who want to view them. The user has at his disposal 13 filters created specifically for the video capability of Instagram....
Vivo currently operates in a number of countries apart from its homeland. These include Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia and more. The company which was founded alongside Oppo marked their first global expansion with the entry into Thailand back in 2014. For the uninitiated, Vivo regards among the top 5 smartphones vendors in the world by Gartner. It is in fact, the official sponsor of the upcoming two FIFA World Cups....
The Vivo XPlay 5 Ultimate Edition houses a Snapdragon 820 under the hood and is clad in a Aluminium-Magnesium alloy casing which apart from imparting the looks will also render a higher degree of strength for the phone. The XPlay 5 Ultimate Edition comes equipped with a 5.43-inch Super AMOLED display with 2.5D glass and Gorilla Glass 4 protection. The XPlay 5 is powered by the mid-range Snapdragon 652 along with 4GB of RAM....
It does not matter if you are a football fan or not. Super Bowl is kind of a big deal anyway. Super Bowl 46 is scheduled for Feb 5th 2012 and will be fought between AFC champion New England Patriots and the NFC champion New York Giants to decide the NFL champion for the 2011 season. This will be the first Super Bowl to be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis....
The Teen Choice Awards is an awards show presented annually by FOX. The program honors the year’s biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted on by teens aged 13–19. The program usually features a high number of celebrities and musical performers. The winners are given with authentic full size surfboards,decorated with fresh summer time design.This is actually the biggest trophy given in the history of American entertainment....
What is a VPN and how does it work? A VPN or Virtual Private Network is a service that allows you to access the Internet securely and anonymously as if you were connected to a private network. It was primarily developed for corporate use where companies required getting their sensitive data in-and-out of their servers on a public network using remote-access. However, as more people are starting to take Internet privacy and security seriously, the use of VPN is increasing noticeably....
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....
For the longest time, people have been keying-in user credentials across all their devices manually. And to keep things simple, they have been using the same password for all their accounts, which is a bad practice and leaves your account vulnerable. Therefore, it is always advisable to choose a strong, complex, and different password every time you signup for a new service. With hundreds of services available on the Internet and people owning dozens of accounts across these services, it becomes tough to remember passwords for every individual account....
Xiaomi Mi 10S: Design and Display The Mi 10S features a long, vertical camera module on the rear to house the quad-camera array and an LED flash and has VC liquid cooling to dissipate heat. On the front, it has a 6.67-inch full-HD+ curved AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and HDR10+. The display offers a 90Hz refresh rate and comes with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top....
In terms of design, the Redmi 7A features a polycarbonate body on the back with P2i splash-resistant coating and a 5.45-inch HD+ display with 1440 x 720 pixels screen resolution and 18:9 aspect ratio, on the front. At its core, the smartphone is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 processor with Adreno 505 GPU, paired with 2GB or 3GB of RAM and 16GB or 32GB of storage (expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD)....
In its circular, the IAF had accused Xiaomi of sending user data to remote servers located in China. The note was prepared by the intelligence unit based on the inputs from Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), and quotes several reports in the past which have put question marks over Xiaomi’s handling of user’s private data. “F-secure, a leading security solution company, recently carried out a test of Xiaomi Redmi 1s, the company’s budget smartphone, and found that the phone was forwarding carrier name, phone number, IMEI (the device identifier) plus numbers from address book and text messages back to Beijing,” the IAF note says....
On the hardware side, the Mi Max flaunts a gorgeous smooth metal finish that is just 7.5mm thick and weighs about 203 grams (which is little above iPhone 6s Plus). The display is a Full HD panel with a pixel density of about 342 ppi. Specifications, there’s a bit of complication with three variants in total. The cheapest model sports Snapdragon 650 backed up by 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage....
Samsung and Xiaomi each had an equal share of 23.5 in Q3 despite it being a record quarter for the former. The Korean smartphone giant registered a 39 percent quarter-on-quarter rise. Xiaomi, on the other hand, tripled its shipments year-on-year. Analysts suggest the key factor in Xiaomi’s exponential growth is its expansion to offline channels across the country. The Chinese smartphone vendor has been consistently bringing in phones in disparate price brackets for serving every customer there is....
Many aren’t aware of the fact that the MIUI was the first product from Xiaomi. The company which is now a commendable face in the consumer electronics business having started off as a software company. Xiaomi reveals that seven years down the line, its MIUI ROM has amassed over 2.8 million downloads from 142 countries. Besides, the MIUI 9 now supports 55 languages. Needless to say, that the MIUI 9 has a number of cosmetic and underlying changes over its predecessor....
For starters, Mi Notebook Air flaunts an admirable all metal build with edge-to-edge bezel aesthetics measuring merely at 5.59mm and a Full HD 13.3-inch panel up front. Furthermore, the device weighs only 1.28 Kilograms making it a hair beefier than Apple’s Macbook Air, although, Mi Air packs all the necessary ports including a standard HDMI, 2x USB 3.0 and a single Type-C slot. In fact, the laptop shares a close resemblance with Microsoft’s Surface Book which isn’t really a bad thing....
The caveat, however, is that the Radar app is not yet available for Android and yet another let-down is that the app would work out best for people who use Yahoo as their primary mailbox. The Radar app seems to be taking a cue from the AI interfaces as a result of which the app heavily relies on the chatbot-like interface. Yahoo Radar borrows a feature or two from the Google Now, the application digs deep into your mailbox and skims the travel information stored within....
Realme C3 vs Redmi 8A: Plastic that looks fantastic Both phones come with plastic backs. And both still manage to look striking, mimicking the gradient-ish finish that we see in many glass-backed phones. But there the similarities come to an end. We got the red variants of both devices and while the C3’s rising sun design (with ray-like patterns coming from the camera capsule) is very striking, we think the Redmi’s subtle textured back with a single slimline showing its branding looks well, more classy....
Those sentences sum up the challenge Nokia has been facing ever since it made its comeback in the Indian market more than two years ago. The brand has released a number of phones in this period and while most have got positive reviews, they always seemed to stumble in a vital department – that of price. Nokia’s devices, for all they delivered, always seemed to cost a fair bit more than those being offered by the likes of Redmi and Realme, which offered comparative (and sometimes superior) hardware....
