The Nord-ic Challenge…and the Nord-ic Challengers! You can read our first impressions of the device here but in case you missed it or are just in a hurry, the OnePlus Nord is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G chipset which is a fairly new SoC from Qualcomm. It comes in three RAM and storage variants – 6 GB / 64GB, 8GB/ 128 GB, and 12 GB/ 256 GB. The phone sports a 6....

Instagram is mostly focused on celebrities that made it big by using Instagram as an outreach platform. In other words, the focus is more on homegrown celebrities rather than traditional ones. Apart from helping Instagram increase its engagement, the newer videos will also shift the spotlight on the creators. Perhaps this will help the creators leverage their reach in a whole new way. The IGTV hub can also be accessed via a standalone app....

And when we spend so much times glued to our devices, it becomes interesting to know what exactly have we done the entire day. Luckily for the curious out there, there’s a really nice app that’s available for both iPhone and Android users, called Instant- Quantified Self. This is the first app developed by Emberify, a developing team which is also a winner of the Google Fit developer challenge. Described as an app that puts ‘your life on a dashboard, Instant track all your activities automatically and then brings out a report similar to the above image....

As a Twitter user points out, who was attempting to update to beta 2 of iOS 9, the company is introducing a new feature wherein it will allow users to temporarily delete an app and free up some space to get the desired software update. Once the updation process is over, the app automatically installs itself, retaining all the previous data. — Kaleb Butt (@Kaleb_Butt) June 23, 2015 While it may seem like a tiny feature, it could come in very handy for users....

iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini Performance All four iPhone devices come with Apple’s latest in-house SoC which is the A14 Bionic. If performance is of top-most priority to you, both the iPhone 12 and the iPhone 12 Mini will fair very well. The A14 Bionic offers better performance compared to the already very powerful A13 Bionic from last year along with support for 5G networks which is one of the bigger highlights of the new iPhone 12 series....

The Jabra Elite 85h headphones feature 40mm custom-engineered speakers which ensure top-quality acoustic experience, crystal-clear sound with advanced 6-microphone call technology, and 36-hour battery life (with ANC activated). Additionally, Jabra is also including SmartSound and intuitive Voice Assistant Control on the Elite 85h headphones and is claiming them to be the smartest ANC headphones in the market. Jabra says that its SmartControl is based on audEERING’s context intelligence technology, which uses real-time acoustic scene analysis of environmental sounds to detect more than 6,000 unique sound characteristics and use this to adapt audio output to each specific context....

TVOCs are emitted from an array of everyday items including paints and varnishes, wax and cosmetics, cleaning and hobby products, and even cooking. As per Kaiterra which specializes in building AQI monitors, During cold months, many of us would simply close our doors and windows to avoid the smoggy air and crank up our air purifiers to bring down the PM 2.5 values. But guess what? It’s highly suggested to open your windows and air your homes out for a few minutes both when they first wake up and then again at midday, regardless of how smoggy it is outside....

So, to help you keep track easier of things you want to achieve and just to better organize your dreams, wishes and projects, we’ve decided to scout for some of the best Android and iOS bucket list apps. To a certain extent, they are similar to New Year’s resolution apps that we have featured in December. Best bucket list apps for Android My Bucket List (Free) My Bucket List app for Android smartphones and tablets lets you create a list of things to do before you die....

We wish we had a Dollar for every time someone asked us that pair of questions after seeing our first impressions of the BlackBerry Classic, the standard bearer of the ‘proper’ QWERTY keyboard brigade (Hint: we would have made enough to purchase an iPhone 6 Plus 128 GB!) Well, to be able to answer your question properly, we decided to place the last four BB devices that have sported QWERTY keyboards side by side – the Bold 9900 (2011), the Q10 (2013), the Passport (2014) and the Classic (2015)....

The smartwatch is set to be unveiled on September 4th in Berlin during the pre-event press conference at IFA 2013, along with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. For the past few weeks, we’ve been hearing the rumors and leaks surrounding this smartwatch touted to take on the Kickstarter funded Pebble and yet-to-be-announced Apple iWatch. According to VentureBeat, the leaked images are part of an internal marketing video developed by an independent team working closely with Samsung....

The Le 2 is priced at Rs 11,999, it packs a 5.5-inch FHD display and draws its power from the deca core Snapdragon 652 coupled with a 3GB of RAM. On the storage front the device offers 32GB of internal memory however, the absence of the microSD card slot is expected to become a bummer for some. Camera offerings include 16-Megapixel primary sensor and 8-Megapixel secondary sensor. The device would be running EUI overlay on the Android Marshmallow....

The LeEco M1 10,000mAh powerbank comes in a compact polycarbonate shell with a dimension of 147.5 x 92 x 17mm. A part of polycarbonate housing bears a textured pattern for improved grip while the top one third features a matte finish. It comes in a variety of color including white, black, goose yellow and mint green. As obvious from its name, the LeEco M1 10,000mah powerbank bears four cells with a cumulative capacity of 10,000mAH....

I hope this finds you well. It has been so long since I heard from you. Or you heard something through me, to be accurate. I am writing this from exactly where you left me – the dusty old corner of your drawer, where all the old batteries from remote controls and broken charging cables come to die. Us residents of the drawer like to call it the Castle of the Tangled, because wires, you know....

Here is the WTF news of the day! ET talks about the top Chinese PC maker, Lenovo, being interested in buying the Finnish Mobile & networking major, Nokia. But Gianfranco Lanci, who runs Lenovo’s operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa has dismissed the rumors, by calling it a joke. Nevertheless, Nokia’s shares have jumped up 11 percent today on the basis of these rumors. This comes after Nokia’s shares tumbled to an all-time low of €1....

LG W10 Alpha: Design and Display In terms of design, as already mentioned, the LG W10 Alpha features a 2D Arc Design and comes in only one color option: Black. Towards the front, it has a 5.71-inch FullVision display that includes a RainDrop notch at the top, which is LG’s equivalent of a teardrop notch, housing the front-facing camera. The display offers a 19:9 aspect ratio and comes with an HD+ resolution....

Logitech’s X100 Mobile Wireless Speaker is priced at $49.99 (Rs.2249) which sounds like a great deal for the features it offers. In addition to music playback and decent battery life, it comes with speakerphone capabilities. The small cylindrical box gives it a nice retro look, but option of various colors makes it look cool as well. The X100 weighs around 161 grams, which is like holding a large smartphone (say, a Galaxy Note 3)....

The Helio X25 is an iterative upgrade to the X20 with a few changes in the core management and an ability to clock at higher frequency. The design aspects of the core is nearly identical with the X20 as even the X25 heralds with a tri-cluster architecture which is based on the 10 cores. The higher frequency we were talking about earlier refers to the Cortex A72 cores which can be throttled all the way up to 2....

We had featured the Bamboo Notepad which was a pressure sensitive notepad with a companion pen, the Bamboo Spark transferred the notes to the cloud. This notepad too came with a few drawbacks including the need to charge and the need to replace the pen, which can be an expensive affair. Rocketbook Wave is a much more simplified yet effective cloud connected Notebook. The most interesting part of the Rocketbook Wave is its simplicity, the notebook comes with a glossy surface and at the bottom it has some symbols stacked up....

Appearance – A tale of plastic and a piece of steel! Both the Mi 4 and Mi 4i are very smart looking devices, but in different ways. While the Mi 4 rests on a metal frame, the Mi 4i is an all-plastic affair. While the Mi 4 has a glossy back, the Mi 4i has one with a slightly matte finish. The Mi 4 has a much more solid look and feel to it, to be honest, but then we can see people liking the much slimmer and lighter Mi 4i – it is 7....

Windows 8.1 with Bing, upgradable to Windows 10 OS 10.1-inch IPS display with a WXGA (1280×800 pixels) resolution 1.83GHz quad-core Intel Atom Z3735F processor coupled with 2GB of DDR3L RAM 32GB of inbuilt storage, expandable via a microSD card, 1TB of cloud storage on Microsoft’s OneDrive 2-megapixel rear and front-facing camera 7700mAh battery, with a usage time of 10 hours 210.8×124.2×9.95mm, weighs 1.1kgs, available in Black colour variant Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4....