The problem was that the phone around the Pixel’s cameras tended to be erratic and expensive in equal measure. Leading some of us – Yours Truly included – to refer to the Pixel as a camera hidden in the body of a phone. Indeed the hashtag “TeamPixel” was almost always seen on photographs because that was what really marked the Pixel out most starkly – not the stock Android or the little software touches, but the staggeringly good camera....

The Indian market has registered an impressive 17.5% on quarter growth and an 11% on-year growth in the July-September time frame. The spike in the numbers can be attributed to the festive season and the mega online sales by all the major e-commerce destination. Samsung seems to be unaffected by the Note 7 debacle or maybe the announcement of other smartphones balanced the act. The year-on growth for Samsung is an impressive 9....

ThinkPad X1 Carbon The ThinkPad X1 Carbon comes with a 14-inch IPS display and the chassis is made up of four layers of carbon-fiber reinforced material alongside a magnesium alloy roll cage for better resilience. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon weighs at just 1.1KG and on the connectivity front, the device offers Thunderbolt 3, LTE, Wireless WAM along with WiFI. The X1 Carbon offers of up to 15.5 hours of battery life and the fast charging are rated to charge the device from 0-80% in just one hour....

The 6.8-inch FHD display boasts of 326 ppi pixel density which is pretty good considering the size of the screen. Lenovo PHAB Plus runs on the octa-core Snapdragon 615 clocked at 1.5GHz and paired with a 2GB LPDDR3 RAM. On the imaging front the PHAB Plus features a 13-Megapixel primary snapper and a 5-Megapixel secondary sensor. The storage department is managed by 32GB of internal memory and an expandable memory card slot....

The ThinkPad P52 is a mobile workstation which demands a lot of power and the P52 doesn’t disappoint. It includes the newest 8th generation of Intel CPUs with up to 6 cores (including Intel Xeon options) and also RAM of up to a whopping 128GB for the first time, likely utilizing the new 32 GB SO-DIMM modules by Samsung. It can probably be compared to a gaming laptop except for the fact that mobile workstations are used to perform more CPU and GPU-intensive tasks....

Look, Feel and Design The rear of the phone has glossy pebble design which will attract a lot of attention. Our Indigo unit just looks beautiful, delivers premium quality, and we will never think of grabbing a case for it. It also comes in White and Gold colors. The next thing to notice about the phone are the curves. There are no sharp lines anywhere, and the screen in the front blends really well with the frame....

LG K61 Display The all-new LG K61 features a 6.5-inch FHD+ FullVision display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and a punch-hole cutout to house the front-facing camera. It is MIL-STD 810G compliant and comes in three color options: Titanium, White, and Blue. Performance At its core, the device comes with a 2.3 GHz octa-core processor coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB / 128GB of storage (expandable up to 2TB with microSD card)....

Link is a teeny-tiny cube by Fasseto, a Wisconsin-based cloud start up and is being showcased at the ongoing CES in Las Vegas. The Link is capable of storing up to 2TB of data wirelessly and it also comes baked in with its own operating system, powered by a quad-core ARM processor and 4GB of RAM making it pretty similar to a tiny computer box without a display. The Link can be used by any Wi-Fi/Bluetooth compatible device through a companion app or even the device’s browser....

The Xiaomi Yeelight Voice Assistant comes in a white colored cylindrical form factor. The speaker bears control buttons flanked by machine drilled speaker holes on the top. On the inside, the Yeelight Voice Assistant comes with a single 2-Watt speaker and a set of six microphones. At the heart of the speaker lies a 64-bit enabled 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex A53 chip, 256MB RAM, and similar sized internal memory. Yeelight claims that its smart speakers come with an advanced wake-up algorithm which helps turn on the device from a 5-meter range....

Below is the complete statement issued by Micromax to Technology Personalized. The statement is vague to start with, but sort of indicates that Micromax acknowledges the existence of such an issue and willing to address it openly. The company claims to have taken immediate steps to put constant surveillance across their systems, and plug any “unknown potential gap” soon. Micromax is probably hinting that the adware published by Adups is probably being installed without the company’s knowledge....

Vineet Taneja had joined Micromax in July 2014 and he came with a strong experience in the telecom sector including heading Nokia, Bharti Airtel. Micromax is facing a crisis in senior management level as many of the officials are resigning from the company. Senior level executive told TOI that “The promoters want to control the business and have not left much free space for the professionals, which has led to so many exits....

That being said, apparently, Microsoft has worked on the hinge and the Surface Pro can now handle the extreme tilt angles in a much better manner. Needless to say, the Surface Pro comes with updated innards including the Intel 7th Gen Kaby Lake processors and the enhanced battery life of 13.5 hours. The battery life seems to be one of the positive effects of employing the Kabylake processors which are touted to score better when it comes to frugality....

The free Movie Creator app lets you create movies by using up to 25 of your own smartphone videos and photos. And it’s really easy to use, as you just need to select your footage, choose a theme, add music, and pick a few titles. You can also edit the length of your footage, move clips to different places on your video timeline, add text cards, captions, and various filters....

Microsoft further explained how the Windows 10 S laptops would be designed to support STEM learning and in a way will democratize the education. It’s worth noting that one cannot sideload an app and if they try doing so the Windows 10 S will suggest the same or similar app from the Windows app store for download. Furthermore, the operating system is capable of running a diversified range of hardware including that of entry-level notebooks and Surface Book....

These are the questions that aren’t easy to answer. Motorola has come up with a pretty interesting idea, which may even seem awkward at first – they’ve created a smartphone to function as the “heart” of a laptop. Motorola Atrix is the name of this unusual device and it can be bought in USA for 200$ (AT&T plan). It has a very powerful processor and uses Android as operating system....

As per the listing, the Moto E features a 4.3-inch display with Corning Gorilla Glass, 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor, 5MP rear camera and runs on Android 4.4 KitKat. The phone will also come with 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, microSD card slot and 1980mAh battery. These are nominal specs, but Moto E is expected to be a budget smartphone with a price tag less than $150 (Rs....

Users will be able to personalize just about every aspect of the operating system, such as the font, the boot animation and much more. However, at the moment this seems to be a preview of what the app will be, since it isn’t yet available on the Play Store. Cyanogen is actually holding a contest where it invites content creators from around the world to submit themes to Themes Studio....

In terms of design, the Nokia 2.2 features a polycarbonate design with Glossy nano-coating (on top), on its rear, and a 5.71-inch HD+ display with a notch at the top and a 19:9 aspect ratio that goes edge-to-edge and offers up to 400nits of brightness. At its core, it has a 2GHz Quad-Core Mediatek Helio A22 chipset running under the hood, paired with 2GB / 3GB of RAM and 16GB / 32GB of internal storage (expandable up to 400GB with microSD card), with 3000mAh battery, and Android One (based on Android 9 Pie), running on top....

Nothing Ear (1) Review Even the looks have “transparency mode” Rather unusually for TWS, which are considered to be eyesores (“EarPods with the wires cut off,” “accessories for Frankenstein’s monster,” and so on), a lot of talk around the Ear (1) has been around their design. And well, they definitely do look very different from other TWS. Whether they look good or not is going to be a matter of opinion, but they do stand out....

Right now, the WhatsApp Web is live on https://web.whatsapp.com/ and you’ll need to open that in the Google Chrome browser, scan the QR code (from WhatsApp) that it displays with your phone and you are good to go! That pairs the phone and your web browser. Make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of WhatsApp on your phone before trying this. This new web client will NOT work with iOS devices, which WhatsApp claims is due to Apple’s restrictions....