Impressive growth in Q1 2021… Both agencies report growth in Q1 2021. However, the extent of growth differs according to each. As per Counterpoint, the quarter saw 38 million units being shipped, which is the higher ever first-quarter shipments figure, to record a growth of 23 percent. Canalys put the figure at 37.1 million units and a growth rate of 11 percent. The agencies attributed this growth to factors like increased confidence following the start of the vaccine drive, a decline in COVID cases, revival of offline channels, and pent-up demand from earlier times....

Instead of throwing in everything in a single pile, the Explore page now has genres like photography, animals, fashion, and more. These categories are present as huge tiles in a scrollable row at the top. There’s also a “For You” section which is essentially the old Explore page in a different tab. Below that, there are hashtags which have possibly allowed Instagram to curate this endless list of pictures and videos....

It’s not just about the cosmetics, however, with iOS 13. Apple claims app sizes to be reduced by up to 50% and app update sizes to be reduced by up to 60%, saving a ton of bandwidth and app download times for users. FaceID as well is now claimed to unlock you’re your device up to 30% faster than previous versions of iOS. Not just app sizes, but app launch speeds have received a bump-up too and Apple claims 2x faster launch speeds....

iPadOS, which was originally introduced last year as a dedicated operating system for Apple’s iPads, now gets a series of features and performance improvements — and is called iPadOS 14. Here’s everything, including features, availability, and supported devices, you need to know about the latest operating system for iPads that will power the existing (except for some) and upcoming devices. iPadOS 14 Features For the past few years, Apple has been centered at pushing the iPad as a primary work machine for most users, and in some instances, it even aims to replace the MacBook....

All this when it, in fact, is a damn good phone. There, we said it. And at the very beginning of the review as well. For, let us face it, for all the relative spec modesty – the 6.19-inch display is not an AMOLED one, does not even have a full HD resolution (1792 x 828), there are no dual cameras at the back, there is no 3D Touch, the frame is aluminum rather steel and even the water and dust resistance is a notch lower (IP67 to IP68) – the iPhone XR is a staggeringly good performer....

The new Titanium MachOne Plus features a 4.7-inch HD screen, carries a 1.3GHz quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). The smartphone comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash, as well, that can prove to be helpful in low-light conditions. On the software side, the handset comes with some unique features, the most important one being the support for 22 Indian languages including Hindi, Malayalam, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu....

As the industry of imaging products has evolved and completely, Kodak has tried hard to remain relevant. But it hasn’t managed to retain the fame it once had, which prompted the company to explore other markets, even launching its own photo-focused smartphone. And now the company is exploring the market of surveillance cameras. Kodak has released their new CFH-V20 camera as part of the Connected Family Home series. Kodak markets it as a video monitor that has the ability to view a 180° field without any moving parts....

Moving on, Kodak offers two variants for every display size (except for 50-inch), one an usual LED TV while the other one is a smart variant. The 32-inch HDXSMART boasts of USB to USB copy feature, 4GB of Flash storage, 512MB RAM, and Air mouse. Surprisingly all the Smart TV across the lineup are equipped with the similar set of hardware apart from the variation in the display size. On the connectivity front, the TV’s are armed with HDMI, USB and VGA ports and the Smart variants of the TV are driven by ARM Cortex A7 and Android 4....

LeEco changed the Helio X20 internals of their Chinese variant of Le 2, only to replace the chip with a far more powerful Snapdragon 652 SoC. Thus the LeEco is a slightly more powerful device than the Redmi Note 3 on paper, but whether or not that the performance of the two turns out to be different in real world is a topic for some other day. Today however we will be dwelling into the camera performance of the similarly specced devices, and find out which one of the two 16MP cameras gives you a better bang for the buck....

Design wise, LeEco has kept everything similar to the Le 2 Max with a metal unibody and chamfered edges. In terms of raw specifications, there’s a 5.5-inch Full HD 2.5D curved glass display up front and the device, as mentioned before, is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC clocked at 2.35Ghz. Additionally, it comes with 4/6GB LPDDR4 RAM with 32/64GB (UFS 2.0) storage that is not expandable, Adreno 530 GPU, and 4070 mAh battery underneath with Quick Charge 3....

The 4-inch touchscreen of the Superbike takes the center stage and is housed in between the handlebars. The screen is powered by Android and it also comes with the EUI ecosystem which aims at blending with the other LeEco products. Bikes chassis is made out of forged aluminum and the saddle is made from leather. However, the list of novelties just doesn’t stop there as the bike also comes with a music player, a fitness app, bike-bike com and GPS voice navigation....

The Lenovo A5 is constructed out of polycarbonate and is more of a compact device which can be credited to the 5.45-inch HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 18:9. Some people would call this display small by today’s standards, but its nice to see a compact smartphone in a pool of oversized devices. MediaTek’s MT6739 SoC handles CPU duties which is a quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz. This is accompanied by 2 GB of RAM along with 16 or 32 GB of internal storage....

We all have a handful of friends who dedicate a sizeable amount of their lifetime in sending forwards and pictures to all. It is these pictures that snowball and hold the internal memory hostage. In most of the cases we can entertain the possibility that the resulted trash accounts for couple of GB’s. Coming to think of it can be a nightmarish affair to filter and delete each messages individually....

And then, just when everyone had thought that Android One was history, Xiaomi played a key role in reviving its fortunes with the Mi A1 in 2017. The phone was a huge success, as was its successor the Mi A2 a year later. Now, it is the turn of the Mi A3 to don the Android One mantle. How well does it fit? The Mi A3 looks…well, very different The Mi A1 and the Mi A2 were smart-looking devices but on the plainer side....

The mammoth 6.98-inch display is set at HD (720p) and it is complemented by the dual box speaker setup at the front. The Canvas Fantabulet draws its power from an unnamed quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz and paired with 1GB of RAM. On the imaging front, the phablet offers an 8-Megapixel primary camera and a 2-Megapixel secondary sensor. Micromax must have had a hard time to shave off that 0....

A Knight to Ogle There’s no getting around it – the Canvas Knight is drop-dead gorgeous. While we have seen Micromax up the design ante with the likes of the Canvas Turbo and Canvas Turbo Mini, the Knight takes matters to a different level. The company seems to have taken a page out of the Nexus 4 and Sony Xperia Z design books, placing a glass panel on the back of the device....

There are a bunch of different versions and lately, users can get access to two similar Microsoft products: Office 2013 and Office 365. Not many of them know the differences between these services and maybe neither do you, so we’re about to tackle each one and highlight their features, while lining up any worthy difference. Office 2013 vs. Office 365 Microsoft Office is actually a suite of desktop applications, among which we can find the well-known Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access applications....

Windows 10 looks like an amalgamation of Windows 7 and Windows 8. Microsoft has retained the Live Tiles (or Modern UI) of Windows 8, but has brought back the much missed features like Start Menu and shortcuts for Shutdown & restart. “It gives the familiarity of Windows 7 with some of the elements of Windows 8,” said Joe Belfiore. This is how the new start screen looks. You’ll be able to resize the tiles on the Start Menu....

Nemo in a goldfish pond The budget range and the mid-range segment of the smartphone market are pretty much like a pond filled with goldfish – the majority of them look almost the same with little and sometimes hardly any difference at all. However, while you may get confused among other brands, Moto phones tend to be a very different kettle of (gold)fish. The Motos are the Nemo in this pond....

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....