As the number in the name of the product would suggest, the Echo Show 5 sports a 5.5-inch display which is almost half the size of the 10.1-inch display on the original Echo Show. The front-facing camera for video calls is still retained though, and the speaker seems to be very similar to that of the Echo Dot. The Echo Show 5 will be available in two colors – Charcoal and Sandstone and will retail for $89....
The Dash Wand joins the Echo Show, and the Echo Look Alexa devices that were released recently and the Dash Wand is shaped like a little remote control that fits snug in your palm. The device is equipped with a central trigger button surrounded by a LED ring. Apart from scanning barcodes, the Wand will let users access Alexa by just pressing the button and ordering the things. Furthermore, one can also use the Wand to access other Alexa skills including the one wherein you can call anyone with just voice commands....
The attack comes as a response to the near-countrywide blocking of popular torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and video sharing websites like Vimeo. Since yesterday, major ISPs like Airtel, Reliance, MTNL and You Broadband have blocked several websites following a John Doe order by the Madras high court. This didn’t go well with much of the internet user base in the country and social media sites like twitter & facebook have been abuzz with people crying foul over the murder of internet freedom in the country....
Here’s what Sensor Tower had to say about the growth in the revenue of the Apple’s App Store in the third quarter of this year. According to the report, the total revenue generated by Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store for the third quarter of this year equals $18.2 billion, which is a 22.7% increase over the $14.8 billion generated from the last year’s third quarter. In addition to this, Apple also extends its lead over the Google Play Store with its App Store generating approximately 94% more revenue in this quarter....
As per the report, the rumored headphones will have noise-canceling capabilities and will sit in the high-end price segment. This will essentially raise concerns for brands like Bose, Sony and Apple’s own Beats by Dre who currently have a strong foothold in the premium market with their range of noise-canceling audio products. In addition to that, the report says the new Apple headphones were scheduled to launch sometime at the end of this year....
Developed by SmarterApps Ltd, AutomateIt is the simplest and most compelling Android automation application which we could find on the market. It allows the user to set various rules for almost any task at hand, while offering a simple-to-use interface and criteria which can be understand by 90% of the population. Rules can be defined in just a few taps and while the service is running, when the desired trigger is met, BAM: the phone reacts instantly....
However, what’s new with this year’s list is the expansion of awards to apps and games on tablets, Google TV, and Wear OS, as well. Google says this is to encourage innovation across Google Play and introduce users to never-before-seen experiences. Follow along as we dive in to check out the winners for Google Play’s Best of 2021 awards across multiple categories. Best Android App of 2021 Starting with the most popular category, Google suggests 2021 saw high demand in personal growth apps, just like the previous year....
Just like its younger sibling, the DTEK 60 too is made by Alcatel. In fact, it’s a slightly modified version of the flagship Alcatel Idol 4S. While the externals remain the same, BlackBerry has tweaked around with the internals to make their flagship device even more powerful. The BlackBerry DTEK 60 sports an all glass exterior with metal to the sides. Up front, the flagship device sports a 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display which is the same as the one seen in the Alcatel 4S....
The rest of the story of KEYone, though, is quite standard as far as Android phones are concerned. The design itself is indeed, impressive featuring an aluminum unibody, and a soft textured back that should help while banging on those physical keys. It comes with a 4.5-inch IPS LCD display sporting a resolution of 1620 x 1080 which, considering the size, should be able to produce sharp content. The TCL hardware includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor running underneath along with the Adreno 506, 3 GB of RAM, 32GB internal storage with the ability to expand via a microSD card, and a sufficiently large 3,505 mAh battery with QuickCharge 3....
Call of Duty: Mobile offers a free-to-play version of the game with inspiration from the Black Ops and Modern Warfare franchises. It is being developed by Activision and Tencent and will be available in different Beta phases across Europe, North America, and South America. For which, interested users can sign up for the Beta on their official website. The game would be available to download for Free on both Android and iOS and will feature different game modes like – Free4All, Search & Destroy, Team Deathmatch, and Frontline....
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....
Available on the Windows Store, MINE for Facebook (yes, that is the complete name of the app) is a 1.84 MB download and installs without any hitches. Once you have logged into the app using your Facebook username and password, you get a screen with two sections – Your Personalized Feeds on the upper portion, and Notifications below them. The Personalized Feeds area has three sub-heads: Your news feed, Status and picture feed and the quaintly named Top friend link and info feed....
By requiring US Internet service providers, advertising networks, Internet payment gateway providers and search engines to blacklist copyright violators, the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) seeks to bring The Pirate Bay and other similar foreign sites into their knees. Met by strong opposition from liberty advocates and internet giants like Google, Facebook and Youtube, SOPA will authorize the Department of Justice to seek court order and require ISPs and search engines to blacklist infringing websites or web pages....
In terms of design and build, the Osmo Action is claimed to have an intuitive design with rugged construction, which allows it to handle extreme conditions and be dustproof, shockproof, and waterproof. DJI also says that the design allows the camera to operate in sub-freezing temperatures. Coming to specifications, the Osmo Action comes with two color screens on both the front and back to allow users to better compose a scene while on the move....
It supports two video modes which can both capture the entire screen, a program window or a custom region defined by the user of the program. Both modes support microphone input. Though not as comprehensive as Techsmith’s SnagIt or Camtasia studio, Ashampoo’s Snap 3 impresses with its easy-to-use interface and ability to capture screenshots as well as videos. The 2 modes have specific uses. The first one has been specifically designed for program demonstrations and user instructions....
Loads of new features have been introduced which were long wanted by the users and several improvements and enhancements have been made it to the existing features present in iTunes 8. iTunes 9 Features Improved store navigation, including persistent navigation menu. # Full window iTunes store. For times when that sidebar is just too much. # Previews from anywhere in the store — don’t have to drill down to preview....
Which is why Apple’s idea of delivering alerts in case of increased heart rates seemed like such a good idea. The Apple Watch would use the heart rate sensors to measure your heart rate and its other sensors to work out whether you were active or not. The alert would go out only if the app sensed that your heart rate was high for a period of ten minutes AND you were relatively inactive....
Popping a bulky fitness capsule The Fastrack Reflex is mainly a capsule that tracks your activity encased inside a broad silicon band. The silicon band of the smartband is dual colored – with a different color on the outside and a different one inside. We received the purple unit which was purple on the outside and black on the inside. The device has a dual notch to lock the band on your wrist....
Fortunately, for users who are yearning for that good ol’ Instagram experience and escape its toxic numbers-driven influencer culture or the stories’ format hostile takeover of your feed, there’s finally a solution. It’s called Filtergram and it’s a web app that’s designed precisely for Instagram users who despise what it has evolved into. The idea here is simple. Filtergram gets rid of all the modern Instagram elements such as stories, advertisements, the explore page, the algorithmic feed, and more....
If the Classic and the Passport had seen BlackBerry’s design department in overdrive mode, the Leap stays in more comfortable territory. In fact, seen from a distance, it is almost indistinguishable from BlackBerry’s previous all-touch phone, the Z3. Like that phone, the Leap comes with a 5.0-inch display and at 9.5 mm, is only marginally thicker than the 9.3 mm thick Z3. Both the Z3 and the Leap share the same width – 72....
