Unfortunately, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 couldn’t live up to some of its promised claims. Qualcomm soon realized this and introduced a significantly improved Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chipset in the market, which utilized TSMC’s 4nm node instead of Samsung’s 4nm offering to offer better performance and efficiency on high-end smartphones. A year later, at the Snapdragon Summit 2022 in Hawaii, Qualcomm has now introduced a successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1—and the latest mobile platform for premium smartphones—the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2....

Sony WF-1000XM3: Design In terms of appearance, the WF-1000XM3 features a true-wireless design, with the earbuds themselves claimed to be ergonomically designed with three different contact points in the ear to offer a secure and comfortable fit. The earbuds come with a high-friction rubber surface that keeps them snug and aids with noise cancellation. What’s more, the antenna placement on the earbuds has also been optimized to ensure a wider Bluetooth coverage....

So what Spector does is that it captures the image of the object and then hands it over to an algorithm which corroborates the same with the database in order to find the match. As expected, the algorithm breaks down the image into Unicode and other related information which will eventually help it to match the same with the database. Apart from the fonts, the Spector also captures colors and converts it into CMYK/RGB....

Aluminum clashes with Deep Blue In the race to provide the best features at an affordable price, many companies often cut corners on the design elements of the smartphone, but this is not the case when it comes to the Nokia 6 and the Honor 7X. Both the phones can easily turn heads and can be mistaken for a high-end device. The Nokia 6 is made up of a single Aluminium slab....

So if you have got Android 13 on your phone, whether in final or in beta form, there is a lot you can do on your device that you could not in the past. A lot of the changes that Android 13 brings are tweaks below the software surface that need you to do nothing, such as apps now being all super nice and polite and asking permission to send you notifications....

In fact, even as the world tangles with the COVID-19 virus, it seems that the budget flagship segment is dying. Or worse, it is dead! Is Rs 40,000 the new Rs 30,000? We know some of you might object to that statement. After all, OnePlus DID release the OnePlus 8 for a starting price of Rs 41,999 in India. And even before that, the iQOO 3 was released at Rs 36,999 and the Realme X50 Pro at Rs 37,999....

One cannot help but think of those words from the Bible as one sees some of the exchanges between “bloggers” and communications professional (PRs, corp comm, et al.). While there is no doubt that the “say something negative or complain and get a product/attention” culture seems to have gripped a fair number of the blogger community, what also cannot be doubted is that this has to an extent been fanned by the communication teams of different brands....

LIKE is a free Android application that comes packed with a myriad of video-editing tools for creating what the developer calls, “magic music clips.” In addition to that, the app features a social home screen which displays videos from other users in your surrounding. You can like these, leave a comment, follow, share and even contact as well as message the profile. Posts from people you have followed will appear on the “follow” tab present on the left....

Unlike the Huawei P20 Pro, Samsung’s three-camera arrangement won’t set a new benchmark in the industry which is expected considering the price. It consists of a regular 24-megapixel f/1.7 lens, an 8-megapixel wide-angle sensor, and a third 5-megapixel f/2.2 snapper for depth-sensing. On the front too, the Galaxy A7 offers a high-res 24-megapixel selfie camera which the company says is capable of letting in more light by pixel binning. Apart from that, though, the Galaxy A7 is your usual mid-range smartphone....

So it might come as a bit of a surprise to some people that the one Xiaomi phone I am really looking forward to is none of these. And no, it is not the so-called Mi A2 either, the next in the Android One portfolio from the company. The phone I am actually looking forward to from Xiaomi this year is the Mi Max 3. Yep, you heard that right – the Mi Max 3 (not the Mi Mix 3), the next in Xiaomi’s oversized phone/phablet series, unless they decide to call it the Mi Max 2S....

“Anna Assistant”, once installed, can be simply summoned by saying ‘Hey’ followed by the command. I was a bit skeptical about its accuracy and performance initially, however, the extension works surprisingly well even if you speak softly. As of now, Anna supports a dozen actions. These include searching on Google, closing a tab, weather, opening websites and more. It functions in the background. Hence you won’t ever face pop-ups or any other sort of animation at all....

Canonical’s CEO Jane Silber had a chat with The Verge in which she mentioned that The definitions of “specific form factors are increasingly arcane and outdated,”. “I think what’s happening in the industry is the blurring of those segments and the need for a consistent platform and user experience across those,” added Silber. Just like its previous devices, this time, too Canonical hasn’t moved much when it comes to the hardware....

In essence, the Timex IQ+ Move is aimed at users who want to wear a regular watch and at the same time also have access to the activity tracker features. The watch uses a traditional watch face and makes use of Bluetooth to connect with the smartphone and sync the data. The Timex IQ+ Move measures steps, distance, calories and sleep. Well, the best part of it all is that the Timex IQ+ Move runs on the traditional battery which needs no charging....

Hamlet: To Mi or not to Mi That is NOT the question Whether it is nobler for the hands to suffer The stretches and strains of a 6.44 inch display? Or to take in one’s palms a 5.5, aye, even a 5, inch one And by doing so, soothe them? Mark Antony: Friends, Indians, Countrymen Lend Mi your ears (or rather hands, such indeed are the times and the topic) I come here to propose the Mi Max Not to criticise the others....

Last week we talked about the Best Android apps for Kids, and as we’ve seen, they can prove to be quite useful tools in our kids development. Learning the alphabet, simple math or sounds is how they prepare to join this world, and with the use of such apps, they benefit from today’s advances in technologies. Our old animal cards are a far cry from today’s iPads and smartphones that use the power of the Internet to give them useful information and make the learning process simpler and much more fun....

Here are top 11 iPhone appcessories to make your iPhone look even more beautiful or, to add lots of fun to it! 1. AR Drone Parrot I think no one can argue that the AR Drone is the best wireless accessory for the iPhone. It’s the most fun you can have with your iPhone. The Parrot has lots of features that make it a fun app-cessory for anyone. It can be used both indoor or outdoor....

There are a tons of ways you can personalize your phone including wallpapers, messing up with the home-screen using widgets, themes if your phone supports and some more. But you can also change looks of the app icons by simply installing icon packs from the play store. Sometimes the manufacturers offer really ugly icons with their phones just to provide a unique look for their software and that’s exactly where these applications come in handy....

Related Read: How to Buy a Printer [Guide] Because the prices for 3D printers have dropped, they can now be found even in some homes, not only in university science labs. They have bigger resolutions, so they can “print” more complicated designs with much more fidelity, putting them, for the first time in the shopping list of average consumers. Of course, they are still complicated pieces of equipment, and also bigger and slower than most inkjet printers, but on the other hand, they’re about the size of a big, laser printer....

After teasing it for a few weeks, Truecaller is now rolling out a billing platform to its Android beta channel. The app has a new tab on the extreme right through which you can recharge and pay for various bills. At the time of this writing, a total of eight services were available including prepaid or postpaid mobile accounts, DTH, Datacard, Broadband, Electricity, Gas, and Landline. The billing feature is, of course, powered by Truecaller Pay which is designed in partnership with ICICI and plugs into your UPI account....

Now the Swedish company is making use of its huge base of users to launch Truemessenger, a new SMS replacement app for Android users which lets you verify the identify of those who send text messages. At the moment, the app is available exclusively for Indian users and we don’t know when it will roll out to international users, as well. So, if you ever received annoying SMSes from a stranger or just spam SMS from various sellers or companies who are aggressively promoting their services or products, then you will find great use in this app....