The Facebook-owned media sharing service, Instagram, eyed an opening and has been working on a competitor called “IGTV” for the past few months. It finally went official yesterday at a creator-focused event in San Francisco. There are two glaring differences through which Instagram aims to stand out — IGTV is mobile-first which essentially means you can only post vertical clips. The iOS and Android apps are not even compatible with the landscape mode....

More detail than ever and the zoom makes a difference And these are not just paper tigers. The performance of the iPhone 12 Pro Max backs up those numbers superbly. There are some who have said that its performance is not noticeably different from that of the iPhone 12 (main sensor) and 12 Pro. We are not among them. In our book, the 12 Pro Max definitely raises the bar for phone photography....

Just like the previous years, the Cupertino giant revealed very little information regarding the specs of their iPhone 7 lineup. Rather, not much details were known about the RAM, LTE modems, DACs, Batteries etc. iFixit however solves most of the mystery. The teardown reveals that unlike last year, Apple has used a stronger adhesive sealing strip; possibly to improve the waterproofing of the iPhone 7 Plus. Upfront, the iPhone sports a 5....

A brilliant back Impressive spec sheets have started becoming hygiene in premium flagships, which is why we think that design has assumed new importance in this segment. The iQOO 9 Pro scores heavily in this department. The White Legend takes a page out of the very distinctive design of the iQOO 7 Legend launched last year, with three vertical red, black, and blue stripes on a gently curving glass back....

KDE Slimbook is one such device that has been the resultant of collaboration between a Spanish company called Slimbook and the KDE community. The laptop is priced starting at € 729 and one can also opt for an i7 variant which is priced at a €849. Both the laptops are powered by Intel 6th Gen processor and boast of an FHD display sized at 13.3-inch. The graphics part of the computing is taken care by the Intel HD 520 and the laptop is made out of aluminum....

This is a Tiny Twitter Tip on how to know when your tweets are favorited by someone. As you know, Twitter has the facility to favorite the tweets you like. Favstar is a new service that tracks the most favorited tweets and finds some pretty funny stuff that way. The service will also tell you who’s been favoriting your tweets and tonight it added RSS notification to its features. That means you can now subscribe to an RSS feed showing you who likes your Tweets, even if they didn’t reply, retweet or respond otherwise....

Made-to-order (MyZ) smartphones Lava believes the ‘made to order’ phone will redefine the smartphone industry and enable consumers to pick the smartphone configurations based on their requirements. Consumers get two opportunities to customize their device. They can either do this at the time of purchase using My-Z or can do so post-purchase using what Lava calls Z-Up service. As for customization options, the company suggests that these smartphones can be customized in 66 unique ways with options of changing RAM, ROM, front and rear cameras, and even the colorway....

The Lenovo P2 comes equipped with a 5.5-inch FHD Super AMOLED display offering a pixel density of 401PPi and boasts of a 2.D glass layered with Corning Gorilla. Driving the device is an octa-core Snapdragon 625 clocked at 2.0GHz and paired with 4GB/3GB RAM. On the storage front, the device offers 32GB of inbuilt storage along with a microSD card slot that can further accommodate up to 128GB. Imaging options on the Lenovo P2 include a 13-Megapixel primary sensor with 5-piece composite lens and a standard 5-Megapixel front sensor....

Instead of going with the relatively unknown ZUK branding, Lenovo decided to launch their top of the line smartphone in India under their own badge. It’s a smart marketing move by the company indeed. Despite that, the Lenovo Z2 Plus will face stiff competition in India from two of its other Chinese counterparts in India namely the OnePlus 3 and the Xiaomi Mi5. Both the smartphones have tasted a fair amount of success worldwide including in India, with some even referring to the OnePlus 3 as ‘The Best Android Smartphone of 2016’....

LetterSnap is, essentially a barebones iOS application for extracting text from scanned images. It may sound relatively similar to what other OCR apps already offer, however, the biggest benefit you get with this one, is the speed. The process is, though, quite straightforward – you scan a document or a couple of them, LetterSnap uploads these files to the cloud, performs the necessary operations, and yields a simple text file containing the content you wanted....

The display on the Meizu 16 is an AMOLED panel which is 6 inches in size and has a Full HD+ resolution along with an 18:9 aspect ratio, while the Meizu 16+ has a larger 6.5-inch panel with the same resolution and aspect ratio and a 91.18% screen to body ratio which is common to both devices. Another aspect common to both devices is the chipset underneath which is the top of the line Qualcomm Snapdragon 845....

Meizu M3E, however, isn’t the first phone from the Chinese maker which comes with Yun OS out of the box. In fact, it was the Meizu MX4 that first came out with the brand new OS on top. As expected the Yun OS, also referred to as Aliyun OS comes with its own Cloud services and an App store, which allegedly contains a number of pirated Playstore applications. Coming to the specs, the Meizu M3E sports an all-metal unibody design reminiscent of the company’s recent generation of smartphones including the likes of Meizu MX6, Pro 6 etc....

Speaking of which, we need to state the price of the device at the very outset, for it is, to in Raju PP’s rare forays into Hindi, its Suraksha Kawach (“protective armour”). No matter what the device’s critics say, what cannot be denied is that Micromax has managed to deliver a decent specced tablet and notebook combination at a price of Rs 14,999 (~$235). And before you say, “Well, Asus did the eeeBook for the same price,” we need to point out that that worthy (which incidentally, is a superb device in its own right), did NOT come with a detachable display that could morph into a tablet (well, the and well, there is the little matter of 3G as well – yep, the Canvas LapTab has a 3G sim card slot too)....

“Seeing AI” fundamentally pushes forward how blind users interact with the environment and its objects. It can recognize almost everything from people to documents and read out to the person. In addition to that, it can detect and guess the strangers’ age, emotion and in some cases, what they are doing. For example, “a man sitting on a couch working on a laptop” or “a girl playing frisbee”. These, although, entirely depend on how clear the image is....

From the changelogs, it is but evident that the update is more focused on polishing the current features and bake in the pending business features which were announced at the time of the launch. Microsoft likes to call the update 1511 but will actually show the version as 10586 once installed on the computer. Another catch is that if you have updated to Windows 10 in the last 31 days you are not entitled to get the 10586 as of now, the reason being that Microsoft wants you to upgrade incrementally so that you can roll back the changes....

The Surface Laptop 3 looks pretty similar to the previous generation model on the outside but does have a few subtle changes on the inside. For starters, the Laptop 3 comes in two sizes: 13.5-inch and 15-inch with a machined aluminum finish, instead of its signature Alcantara fabric design. The 13.5-inch model comes with a quad-core 10th-gen Intel Core (i5 and i7) processor, that according to the company, is ‘2x faster than the Laptop 2 and 3x faster than the MacBook Air....

It works just as you would expect, there are two void slots – one on the top from where the camera peeks and an another vertical space on the bottom. There are no connections involved with the phone itself here, the user will have to snap in any supported accessory and that’s it. In some cases, the module will require a lighting port or Bluetooth link. The major drawback it faces right now is the lack of options available as manufacturers have to specifically design their products to work with “Universe”....

Moto G7 The Moto G7 features a 6.2-inch Max Vision Full-HD+ display with a screen resolution of 2270×1080, Gorilla Glass protection, and a waterdrop notch at the top that Motorola calls a ‘U-design’. On the back, it comes with a glass finish and a plastic frame all around the body. Under the hood, it is powered by a 1.8GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 chipset with Adreno 506 GPU, paired with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage (expandable up to 128GB using a microSD card)....

I admit it; my email is my life, my second name, my license plate in the online world. My PayPal account is associated with it; all my online jobs point to that email. I thought that setting up a password of 50 characters long would be enough, but I have chosen only words and numbers. That’s how I almost got hacked. Another huge mistake that I made was to be logged in all the time....

The Nest doorbell comes fitted with a “Nest Hello” camera alongside a mic and speakerphone. Needless to say, it will allow the house owners to see who is at the door and also allow the latter to speak up via the microphone. Nest is keeping mum on the pricing, but the company says that the device will be available from the first quarter of 2018. Moving on, the Nest Secure is a motion sensor that comes along with a keypad button....