A company called Vtech has come up with Kidibuzz, a phone that is designed exclusively for kids. The KidiBuzz makes use of the KidiConnect app and lets children send texts, paintings, drawings, animates stickers and also voice messages. All of the websites available are clubbed under the “popular pre-approved websites.” The children can also access music and watch videos from these websites. That’s not all, the KidiBuzz features a rotating 180-degree camera that can be used with funny frames and photo effects....

Update: Apple iPad 2 – Specs, Price & release We are now sure about the iPad 2 launch on Wednesday, March 2, at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10 AM PT. The invites for the iPad 2 event was sent out earlier today and few of the tech & gadget blogs will be live blogging from the event. Apple fans have a huge expectations with iPad 2, specially after seeing some stiff competition from tablets like Motorola Xoom, HP Touchbook and BlackBerry Playbook....

The number of mobile subscribers has grown to 5.6 billion, which represents almost 80% of the world’s entire population. Almost everybody nowadays has a mobile phone. Recently, the subject of privacy has been debated a lot all over the world, with netizens, first of all, trying to fight all kind of laws that seem to be intented towards destroying our individual freedoms. A very interesting TED talk from Malte Spitz comes to shed a light on just how much and what kind of data do cell phone companies have on us....

Microsoft debuted the first version of PowerToys with Windows 95. A few years later, it released its second iteration with Windows XP, as a separate download. Later, after a lull for a few years, the company eventually released another update to PowerToys in 2019. With the latest release, Microsoft has made PowerToys open-source, opening the door for developers to collaborate and build better and more functional utilities for the platform....

WhatsApp Business, in addition to that, also features a bunch of tools to help businesses manage their customer base. For starters, it allows creating quick replies, automated messages for when the moderator is away and even set up a welcome message for when a user contacts it the first time. Moreover, there are a few statistics owners can look into such as how many people have read their messages, how many have been delivered, sent, what have you....

Making progress on that front, the company has introduced a new feature dubbed “Low Data Usage” on a recently released beta v2.12.5 of WhatsApp’s iOS app. The description of the feature confirms that enabling this option will lower the amount of bandwidth voice calls consume. “Enabling this option further lowers the amount of cellular or WiFi data used during a VoIP call,” the description reads. The feature, as of now, is only available on WhatsApp for iOS apps and is yet to show up on other clients....

First reported by ZDNet, the details at NewEgg.com reveals the following details – Windows 10 release date is on August 31st 2015, and the pricing for the OEM copy of Windows 10 Home is $109.99, while Windows 10 Pro is priced at $149.99! Update: Microsoft has announced that the Windows 10 free upgrade will be available starting July 29th! You can reserve your free Windows 10 upgrade right away....

Windows 8.1 will sort of bring back the start button that computer users have been asking for ever since Windows 8 was released. Apart from this update, Windows 8.1 will have a number of other upgrades, which shows that Microsoft has payed attention to the user’s demands. New features of Windows 8.1 Even though Windows 8.1 will still be optimized for touchscreen interfaces, as Steve Ballmer said – that this is the direction technology is moving, and Microsoft wants to be in the first line of this technical revolution – the update will make it more accessible for computer users....

Wordle Facts So if you too have been bitten by the Wordle bug (more than 3,00,000 have), here are ten facts about this game: 1. Wordle is actually named after its founder Well, it is actually a play on the name of the inventor of the game, Josh Wardle, who is a software engineer. It is about words, so the name fits beautifully. Incidentally, Wardle was also the man behind the collaborative art project called Place in 2007 and a project called Button at Reddit, where a button had to be pressed by anyone in the world within a minute....

Apart from that, the new Mi TV 4 smart TVs come in three sizes and resolutions — 55-inch 4K, 49-inch 1080p, and 32-inch 720p. All of them have 8GB of onboard storage, 20W stereo speakers (16W on Mi TV 4 Pro), an Amlogic quad-core chipset, three HDMI ports two USB A ports (one of which is 3.0 on the 55-inch model), minimal bezels around the sides, Ethernet, and Bluetooth 4....

Mi 11X and Mi 11X Pro The Mi 11X and Mi 11X Pro are essentially rebranded versions of the Redmi K40 and K40 Pro+ smartphones, and they share much of the same specifications. Starting with the display, the two devices feature a 6.67-inch E4 AMOLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 360Hz touch response rate. Both models feature an ultra-small punch-hole cutout to house the front-facing camera. In addition, there is also support for MEMC, HDR10+, and DCI-P3 color gamut....

Xiaomi Mi 4 Specifications 5-inch Full HD 1080 Display 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 Processor Adreno 330 GPU 3GB LP-DDR3 RAM 16/64GB eMMC 5.0 internal storage 13 MP rear camera with f/1.8 8 MP front camera with Sony CMOS sensor 3,080 mAh Li-Ion battery Wifi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0 LE TD-LTE support IR Blaster Just for the reference, the current Xiaomi Mi 3, which just went on sale in India, comes with a 2....

The Mi AI Translator features a 4-inch touch screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio and weights in at 134gm. At its core, it is powered by a 12nm 2GHz multi-core processor, paired with 2GB or 3GB of RAM and 16GB or 64GB of internal storage. The device runs on a 2200mAh battery with 25 days of standby time and also has dual microphones and loudspeaker. It comes in two variants: WiFi and 4G + WiFi, with the 4G + WiFi variant coming with SIM support, along with the WiFi hotspot sharing option....

A recent report coming from China reveals Xiaomi is looking forward to incorporating the tri-bezel less design of the Mi MIX 2 into its upcoming Mi Max 3. For starters, the Xiaomi Mi Max lineup constitute of its mid-range phablet offering. As evident from the name, these smartphones sport the largest display among all of Xiaomi’s lineup. And guess what, Xiaomi is prepping to take the game even further by packing a humongous 7-inch display in its Mi Max 3....

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S comes equipped with a 6-inch FHD+ display. Design wise the new Mi Mix 2S borrows heavily from its predecessor. The curved ceramic back and the aluminum frame blend in beautifully and the display seem to sit flush within the panel with no inconsistencies whatsoever. Thankfully, Xiaomi has decided not to go for a front notch and this means that the front camera unit still sits in the bottom jaw of the screen....

A new leak coming from China has now revealed most of the specs of the alleged smartphone. Incidentally, the Mi Note 2 is expected to come in three variants and just in case you are thinking that the difference between the three is in the RAM or internal storage, then you are wrong. Rather there’s a lot that differs among these variants – starting from the display to the build quality....

The Redmi lineup of devices from Xiaomi has really matured over time. From those flimsy polycarbonate shells, the Redmi series have now graduated to boast of a metal unibody design. It looks markedly more premium than the first gen model. Rather every model has been a huge step up over the previous gen, especially in terms of aesthetics. The cheaper of the two, dubbed the Xiaomi Redmi 4 Standard Edition sports a metal unibody design with a curved back and a 2....

The rise of Zoom COVID-19 snuck up on us and made all of us stay home in order to stay safe and with personal contact coming down precisely to zero, people had to discover new ways to stay connected with each other and slowly move the “at halt world.”.One of the biggest beneficiaries of this “no in-person contact” approach to flatten the COVID curve has been video calling apps and Zoom tops that list easily....

One such company is ZunRoof, which is a home-tech startup that started with its solar rooftop business back in 2016, and then later — a few months back — went on to foray into the IoT space with the launch of eight new products under the Zunpulse brand. Most of these products are essentially the smart equivalents of the regular ones and aim to simplify the user experience. Of these, the one we are reviewing today is the Zunpulse Smart Doorbell, which is a Wi-Fi-enabled wireless doorbell with smart features like motion detection and two-way communication....

The new Zenfone 5 that Asus has launched today at the Mobile World Congress is nothing like its younger self. It’s moving out of the affordable segment to play with the big, premium guns. Being a high-end product, the Zenfone 5 features every bell and whistle from face unlock to an edge-to-edge screen. We got to spend a brief time with the phone and here’s what we think of it....