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With a custom locker, the Android lockscreen can be set to open certain applications using one-touch gestures or even tweak the phone’s settings from a quick-access menu. Moreover, the background and screen animations can also be manually chosen and picking certain gestures for opening camera or calling a dear friend is accepted. 9 of the Best Android Lockscreens available The market is filled with more than a few variants but the following should help you start quite nicely....

Handing out a masterclass in hype Most brands build hype around their smartphones to get them as much attention as possible. Still, this year, a new entrant in the smartphone league almost weaponized this aspect, generating the sort of hype around its first phone that established brands struggle to get. We are talking about Nothing and its recently launched smartphone Phone (1). While most phones manage to make the headlines in the days leading up to their launch, the Phone (1) was making headlines months before it was launched....

“Apple innovates like no other company on earth, and we are not taking our foot off the gas.” It reminded me of the last time an Apple CEO had to send out a similar letter. It was almost seventeen years ago. The year was 2002 – there was no iPhone or iPad, no App Stores, and the iPod had been around for less than a year and worked only with a Mac....

The upgrade functions more like a dry lease wherein Apple will lease an unlocked phone which can be eventually used with any carrier without the tussles one needs to endure in the case of a locked up contract. The leasing plan starts from $32 and the best part is that the lessee will be able to automatically upgrade to a new iPhone every year. This leasing program is a praiseworthy move from Apple as the carriers are usually more interested in pushing their services rather than the device itself....

Google Home looks like a candle or a piece of artefact that will most probably blend with the other stuff at your home. Also, 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 services including YouTube Music, Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, Tunein and iHeartRADIO....

The Amazfit Bip S, while falling in the former category of not being able to do anything extra other than just track your fitness, retails for just under Rs. 5,000 and at that price point, one can’t really complain. The Amazfit Bip S comes loaded with a big battery, a unique transflective display, and a built-in GPS that’s rare for the price. All of this makes it an attractive package and if you are planning on getting a smartwatch under Rs....

While a mobile phone can be simply used in fitness for its functions and applications, such as distance trackers, diet calculators and other stuff like that, a wide range of fitness accessories has also emerged in the past few years. Nowadays, smartphones can be paired with intelligent sensors, protective cases, specially tailored headphones and even more. Top 12 fitness accessories for smartphones The tools described below should be seen as a helpful addition to your fitness set, some being able of performing wonderful things, while others can help protect your body, or other gadgets....

So how do you choose a router? Like Mini-PCs, routers comes in all shapes, sizes, and features that can usually confuse anybody. The biggest problem is that we end up getting distracted by the features of some routers which actually cheesy, but we don’t need them. In this post, we are not only suggesting which routers are the best in networking town, but also trying to help you understand the basic features of a Router....

Furthermore, many smart faucets come equipped with an Infrared sensor, which turns on when they detect some movement around the Faucet. This comes extremely handy when you have too many things in your hand and cannot turn on the Faucet manually. Smart faucets also help save water as they turn off when you move your hands away from them. In fact, many smart faucets nowadays are voice-enabled. This means you can control various aspects of the Faucet with just your voice....

Recording Sugar Levels is Easy It is surprising that even though we have a Smartphone in hand and we spend a lot of time on Social Networks, we are intentionally lethargic when it comes to health. The dawn of technology we are at now, a smartphone can help you to keep yourself fit. Recording Sugar Levels is easy, thanks to the tons of apps available, and Glucometers which have become smart and connected....

Unlike the Key 2, the Evolve smartphones have a display stretched across the entire front of the device and do away with a physical QWERTY keypad. The display itself is a 5.99-inch FHD+ panel with the now typical 18:9 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. Under the hood, the Blackberry Evolve sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 chip coupled with the Adreno 506 GPU along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, while the Evolve X gets a beefier Snapdragon 660 SoC along with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage....

After all, our car should be the biggest gadget that we have, right? Then it only makes sense for it to be smart, too. But until the car-makers themselves take the next step, it’s the smart engineers out there who come up with various ideas. Carvi is one of them, a smart driving assistant made from a smart dashboard camera and your own smartphone. The device uses vision based safety features to gather data from your smartphone and a single lens camera that’s installed on the car....

Light on glass or curving lights on carbonate In terms of design, both devices follow a broadly similar aesthetic – both have 6.3 inch displays with Gorilla Glass 5 with drop notches and backs with cameras arrayed in a vertical capsule formation with a fingerprint scanner in top central position. The biggest difference however is in terms of material used and colours – the Redmi Note 7 Pro has glass on the front and back, while the Realme 3 Pro has opted for a carbonate back....

Of course, as any other curious user, throughout time I’ve searched for deeper ways to dissect the system and change settings so I could finally call that smartphone mine. I’ve first started with CyanogenMod and a couple of other interesting ROMs but just recently, I’ve learned about Chameleon OS, a skin that certainly lives up to its name. Chameleon OS – MIUI at its best MIUI, also known as Me You I, is a highly customizable Android-based system built by Xiaomi Tech, the company who also released two interesting phones, MiOne and MiTwo....

Maintool, a startup based in Paris has come with an idea which can turn your classic watch into a modern gen ‘ ‘smart’ watch. Essentially, they aim to replace the existing band of your favourite watch with their own band called Classi, which apparently is a band with brains. The Classi smart band that’s currently listed on Indiegogo integrates the processor, Bluetooth, Vibration Motor and all the sensors including Acclerometer, Pedometer onto the band....

Does Google store every search I do? Every time I start up my Chrome browser, I find that all the previous searches I have done are stored, whether from the Google search box or when I’m actually on the Google home page. No, it’s not Google who is storing the info, rather it is your browser. How to Delete your Google Search History? The search box on the Google homepage displays query suggestions both from your own previous searches and other relevant queries....

A classy, compact design As its name indicates, the DailyObjects’ Surge 3-in-1 Magnetic Wireless Station is designed to charge three devices together wirelessly. It can charge a phone, a TWS, and a watch simultaneously. Or, to be more exact, it can charge a Qi-enabled phone at up to 18W, a Qi-enabled TWS at 5W, and an Apple Watch at 2W. Those wireless charging speeds are decent but not crazy exceptional....

And that’s the case with WhatsApp Business as well. But we think, for now, you don’t need to worry about your WhatsApp account being swamped with promotional messages. Here’s why. The thing to know about the Business app WhatsApp launched last night is that it’s not the full-fledged enterprise platform a few companies (like BookMyShow, MakeMyTrip etc) have been testing for awhile. Whenever that becomes widely available, you can probably expect a flurry of spam since the Facebook-owned company will reportedly allow businesses to send out “high-volume” messages through that....

Panda Security and Web of Trust (WOT) is currently running a promotion which offers you free full version copies of the latest Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 with license key valid for 3 months. Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 Features The new version of Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 featuring user-friendly interface and more protection against viruses, spyware, rootkits and hackers from the computer. Anti-Virus * Anti-Spyware * Anti-Phishing * Anti-Rootkit * Firewall * Identity Protect * Technical support service(Forums/Email & Web) * Live up-to the-minute update * SOS Virus * Compatible with Windows XP 32-bit and Vista 32/64-bit To grab yourself a free 3 months antivirus protection from Panda Antivirus Pro 2010, simply visit this promo page, then click on the Download Now button to download the setup installer of Panda Antivirus Pro 2010....

TrustPort Antivirus USB Edition is a special security software, designed for the protection of portable memory media. Flash drives have become normal means of transferring data and using it on multiple computers. Security of portable media has been unfortunately a widely neglected issue for a long time. TrustPort USB Antivirus comes as a perfect answer to this issue. When installed on the flash drive, it continuously monitors files being copied to the drive, so that no malicious codes can be stored on it....