It is the first time Apple is allowing any third-party devices the access to its iTunes content, except for Windows PCs. All iTunes’ TV Shows and Movies will be available in 100 countries on the supported 2018 and 2019 smart television models. To avail and serve this content, a dedicated app will soon make its way on these smart televisions. This app is expected to have hooks for Samsung’s proprietary voice assistant, Bixby....

Jio vs Airtel vs Vodafone If we have to go solely by the price, Jio seems to be offering the cheapest packages with updated tariffs, whereas Vodafone and Airtel have very similar prices. Considering the more popular recharge for 84 days, Jio offers an updated plan for Rs. 555 which provides the user with 1.5GB of 4G data along with an FUP for off-net calls of 3000 minutes. Both Airtel and Vodafone have unlimited plans for 84 days that are priced Rs....

According to Sundar Pichai, Google partnered with Reliance Jio to develop a special version of Android OS specifically for India. JioPhone Next will go on sale starting September 10, 2021, on the auspicious festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. JioPhone Next has some custom features like Automatic read-aloud of screen text and language translation aimed to reach the next billion users who are still stuck with feature phones and 2G. They claim that JioPhone Next will be powered by an extremely optimized version of Android co-developed by Google and Jio....

Lava, a brand that was once popular in the Indian budget-smartphones and feature phones scene some time back seemed to have vanished into oblivion for some time but is now trying to gain some relevance back in the ever-so-crowded Indian budget smartphone market, and the Lava Z62 is one such attempt. Coming in at around the Rs. 6,000 mark, the Lava Z62 competes against the likes of Xiaomi and Realme, two of the most popular brands in this segment....

The Digitizer pad can be used by designers to create the graphics and one could also scribble away their notes on it which is then saved to the OneNote. The best part of the digitizer pad is that it lights up to become a fully lit keyboard (touch) that can be used to a normal keyboard. We wonder how it is to switch from a usual keyboard to the Halo keyboard as key travel has been one of the important aspects of keyboard feedback....

The LG Q7, on the front, has a 5.5-inch tall screen with a resolution of 1080p and an aspect ratio of 18:9. Underneath, it draws power from a MediaTek octa-core chipset and a 3000mAh battery which does support fast charging through a USB Type-C port. In addition, there’s a measly 3GB RAM and 32GB of onboard storage which can be expanded with a MicroSD card. LG has skipped the dual-camera trend and instead, the Q7 features a single 13-megapixel lens on the rear....

LG V30 packs a 6-inch QHD OLED Full Vision 18:9 display, however, LG has managed to decrease the footprint of the V30 as opposed to its predecessor. The LG V30 is 8mm shorter and 3 mm narrower than its predecessor and weighs in at 158gms. The device is also pretty thin at 7.3mm. LG touts the V30 as “the lightest among smartphones in the 6-inch and over category.” The device is powered by Snapdragon 835 and paired with a 4GB RAM....

Up front, the Meizu M5 packs a 5.2-inch FHD display with a 2.5 Curved Glass on top. The latest budget smartphone sports the characteristic Meizu design with a polycarbonate shell to the back, that curves gently towards the edges. Just like recent generation Meizu smartphones, the M5 doesn’t come with any antenna lines on the rear. The front, however, features an mTouch 2.1 fingerprint sensor that’s integrated with the rectangular home button....

Much like Xiaomi’s MI, Micromax YU will offer software and services, and a customised experience to the users. To achieve this, Micromax has tied up with Cyanogen Inc, the makers of hugely popular Cyanogen OS based on Android. The new brand, in partnership with Cyanogen, will focus on working with various companies to build a layer of services into the operating system itself, much like what Xiaomi is doing with its MIUI....

Ah, the third dimension! It’s been conquered in cinema theaters and on television screens, and encroached the smartphone arena a while ago. And while the technology has its naysayers, it’s here to stay, at least on the big screen. On phones however, it’s a different set of rules that come into play in deciding how well it’s received (not to mention totally different technologies and different measures of success). As far as the user is concerned, the idea is all about making the media and gaming experience more immersive of course, apart from its perceived coolness and the flaunt value....

For a refresh, Micromax launched the Canvas 4 back in 2013. The company has since added a plethora of smartphones in its Canvas premium smartphone lineup, but all of them come equipped with low- to mid-range specs, targeted at users looking for an affordable device. We have learned that the smartphone in question is its latest flagship smartphone. The name, however, isn’t known yet. The company could go with either Canvas Selfie 2 or the Canvas 5....

The new Yu Ace is powered with MediaTek MTK6739 quad-core chipset and has 2GB of RAM. A 3GB RAM variant, which will cost Rs 6,999, is expected to arrive later. It features a 5.45-inch HD+ screen with an aspect ratio of 18:9 and 2.5D curved glass. There’s 16GB of onboard storage which can be expanded with a MicroSD card. In addition to a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, the phone also offers a software-based face unlock feature....

For starters, the Windows 10 Cloud may be referred to as a reincarnated Windows RT. Many won’t be remembering Windows RT though; as the shrunken down version of the OS never gained its deserved success. With that said, the latest report coming from ZDNet reveals that the Redmond giant is on its way to make a comeback again with their latest OS. While the Cloud name may make you believe that it has something to do with cloud computing, the only difference between the full blown Windows 10 and Windows 10 Cloud is said to be in the app compatibility....

Thus, Microsoft hopes that it will convince users to jump to the most recent Windows OS. Basically, the Windows 10 upgrade process will download and start automatically if the user choose to install Windows 10. Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s head of Windows and devices, said that Microsoft will ask users this question only once. If you are on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and you use a metered connection, then you will have to turn off automatic updates to prevent the Windows 10 installer from downloading automatically....

1. Essential UI changes Xiaomi has made a series of changes to its UI with the MIUI 12, ranging from a new dark mode to new gestures, a cleaner UI, new animations, to a set of new static and live wallpapers. i. Dark Mode Xiaomi introduced the dark mode with MIUI 11, and with the MIUI 12, it has revamped it with a bunch of improvements. To start with, the new dark mode comes with wallpaper dimming, which works by dimming the wallpaper depending on the daylight throughout the day....

For, the other foldable phones that we have seen thus far have tried to compress a tablet into a phone’s form factor. The idea has been to deliver a bigger display within a normal – or what passes for “normal” these days – smartphone’s frame. Whether it is the much talked of Galaxy Fold or the Huawei Mate X, the core idea has been – a normal smartphone when folded, a tablet when opened....

To an extent this was understandable. After all, the Nokia 1 was the most modestly specced and designed device of the quartet that was showcased that day. It came with no claims to being carved out of a block of metal or with Zeiss optics. And it had no internals that would set benchmarks on fire. And yet. And yet it could very much be THE device that delivers what matters most to many phone companies – volumes....

Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip, the Nubia Z11 falls in the league of the OnePlus 3, Asus ZenFone 3 and ZUK Z2 Pro. Incidentally, the Nubia Z11 is yet another smartphone from a Chinese OEM that comes with a 6GB RAM variant. The existing smartphones that boast of such a huge RAM under the hood include ZUK Z2 Pro, LeEco Le Max 2, OnePlus 3 among others. It’s worth noting that the Nubia Z11 comes with a 4GB RAM/64GB memory variant too apart from the 6GB RAM/128GB option....

The OnePlus 3 is fitted with a 5.5-inch FHD Optic AMOLED display contained by the ultra thin bezels measuring up at just 0.75mm. The display is a 2.5D screen along with a protective layer of Gorilla Glass 4. Just incase, OnePlus will also be giving away free screen protectors with the OnePlus 3. OnePlus 3 is powered by the mighty Snapdragon 820 clocked at 2.2GHz and coupled with 6GB of RAM....