Reliance Jio has now decided to extend its handset portfolio. In partnership with chip maker MediaTek, the telco will be unveiling an entry-level Android Go powered smartphone within the next few months. While that’s mostly good news for buyers, it will be a harbinger of troubled waters for a lot of other companies in various sectors. Before we discuss that, here’s what we know so far from speculations and the official announcement....

I mean, you needed advertising to sell cellphones, dearies. People had budgets running into billions and here were these Chinese saying they would not spend a paisa! What was more amazing, but, was that they sold so many phones actually. Without any major ads in papers. Some of the e-commerce shopping places like that cart that flips and that South American river place did carry their ads and publicised them, but even that was so little compared to what Sammy and EllGee were doing, you know....

Windows 11 Release date: October 5, 2021 – save the date Windows 11 is available to selected users as of now under the Insider Preview Program by Microsoft, on computers supporting TPM 2.0. This is a key eligibility factor for Windows 11 to be installed on any machine. However, Microsoft themselves have confirmed that they will not restrict users from installing Windows 11 on systems without TPM 2.0 support. The process though will take a few steps more as users without TPM 2....

This will put a full stop on all the rumors prevailing about the Windows 8 release date. Windows 8 will be available for purchase to the general public, two months after the release of RTM. The enterprise customers with Software Assurance benefits, will have full access to Windows 8 bits as early as August. During the RTM they will turn on the commerce platform so that developers can start earning money for their apps....

Workplace, to start off, is a desktop website and mobile application that functions exactly like Facebook does conventionally. However, in this case, you’ll be interacting with only your co-workers or employees of any other company in a group (to be added in the future). The news feed will contain company updates, events, and various other posts. It also inherits chatting features, individual groups, live streaming, one-on-one as well as group video calls, reactions, search and trending items....

To remind you, Barra left Google for Xiaomi, back in September 2013 and his contributions to the Chinese company have helped them become (and be recognized as) the world’s most valuable startup. Now it seems that Xiaomi is ready to expand its operations into major international markets, including the US. Xiaomi’s VP said that the company had already filed for 2,000 patents that would help them consolidate their legal position....

The Mi AI Speaker Mini is available for 169 yuan ($27/Rs 1,748) and will start retailing from 3rd April. If we go by the product images, the Mi AI Speaker Mini comes with navigation buttons on the top. These buttons can be used to activate, play, pause and skip to the next. Xiaomi Mi AI Speaker Mini will only be offered in White color option and the company is yet to announce the global availability details....

That question was asked by a very annoyed athlete about German football legend Gerd Muller, nicknamed Der Bomber (The Bomber). In an age of footballing artists like Pele, Tostao, John Cryuff and Frank Beckenbauer (Der Kaiser), Muller was the artisan. Relatively short in height, he was, however, blessed with very muscular legs. He would not turn heads in a crowd, and his football skills were good, rather than exceptional – he did not do fancy dribbles or pirouettes....

For starters, there’s support for 4G radio, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the Qin similar to the JioPhone and some region-specific Nokia feature phones, and guess what? There’s also the over-hyped AI capabilities brought down from smartphones onto the Qin feature phone. The project is currently backed by over 23,000 people just moments after announcement which is mighty impressive. The nomenclature comes as an ode to a famous Chinese dynasty which in English is meant to be pronounced as “chin”....

The company has announced a new cross-border e-commerce platform called ShareSave which lets you buy China-exclusive Xiaomi-backed products in India. The biggest highlight of the service is that Xiaomi is promising complete local service support and home delivery with minimal additional charges. In addition, Xiaomi has included a nifty social feature that allows you to avail a discount if you buy a product with your friend. And if you get enough people to buy something together, there’s also a possibility of 100% discount....

Xolo Black 1X is fitted with a 5-inch FHD display that comes along with a Dragon trail glass protection, and under the hood lies an Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 SoC. On the imaging front, the Black 1X boasts of a 13-Megapixel primary camera unit which comes with phase-detection auto-focus allowing the auto focus to latch on the subject in just 0.15 seconds. The front camera shapes up in the form of a 5-Megapixel sensor and it comes mated with an LED Flash....

Cut from the same Reno cloth Oppo has been one of the few brands in the industry that has dared to experiment with the looks and design of its smartphones. This was exemplified in the Reno, which had a very distinct, premium-looking design, with a shark fin pop up camera, the only one of its kind in the pop-up camera world. The Reno 2, now, is basically the Reno with a few differences here and there....

Mind you, if you get your hands on the yellow variant (called Poco Yellow, and you also get Cool Blue and Power Black) of the device, you will be too busy staring at the device initially. Yellow is not exactly a popular color in smartphones, and we have not seen anyone handle it so well since Nokia with its Lumia series and of course, the “banana” feature phone. The jet black almost rectangular camera unit on the top with Poco written vertically opposite the cameras themselves makes a striking contrast, and also makes this phone the most gaze-worthy device in its segment by some distance, especially from the back....

And yet the man drove into an Indian mall in a rickshaw, got off and shook a very efficient leg as he danced along with his team members to celebrate 50 million Indian users for Opera Mini. And he did so with a smile that clearly came from his heart. There’s more to Opera CEO Lars Rabaek Boilesen than meets the eye. What did meet my eye when I was introduced to him was a tall gentleman in a suit, who had just attended a very formal award ceremony of some sort....

Star Wars: Uprising (Free) Star Wars: Uprising is a new Android game said to be the first Star Wars RPG set between Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You will be able to create your own powerful character and crew, and play real-time co-op with friends. Players will have at their disposal a wide range of abilities, species, visual customizations and classic Star Wars gear....

Photos is one such app. It includes a bunch of useful features such as iCloud Shared Photo Library, Copy and Paste Edits, Undo and Redo Edits, and Duplicate Detection, which let you do more than ever before and eliminate the need to use third-party apps for trivial photo/video editing operations or hiding personal photos/videos on your iPhone. If you’ve updated your iPhone to iOS 16 or are planning to do so, here’s what you can do with the Photos app in iOS 16....

Whether it’s classical, pop, electronic or rap, the most impressive music gadgets in the world feature great advances in technology that allow them to fit any music taste. With that in mind and knowing how hard is to pick from the variety of gadgets available on the market, we gathered 11 of the most interesting ones for you in this article. Mogees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erz-9f4M9B4 Mogees is one of the newest music gadgets, invented by Bruno Zamborlin in the UK....

It’s true that more and more car manufacturers are adding some gadgets and other features that make our ride as comfortable as it can be, but a personal touch makes the car look and feel like a home away from home. Some gadgets can add to a car’s functionality or make it more suited to care for our needs, and today, we’ll take a look at some of the best car gadgets out there....

The biggest cricketing event of the decade – ICC World cup 2011 will be beginning shortly and will be jointly hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The world cup 2011 will begin on 19th February 2011 with co-hosts India and Bangladesh facing each other at Dhaka and the final will be held on April 2nd 2011 at Wankhede, Mumbai. There are 14 nations vying for the cricket world cup – Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, England, India, Pakistan, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, West Indies, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Ireland and Netherlands....

MacBook laptop line-up has been one of the strongest offerings for the company and the sales for the same have been climbing up with last Year-on-Year sale growth at 6 percent. However, as we said earlier the iPad sales seem to have dropped by 23 percent, but again tablet sales have always been fidgety. Also, the iPhone sales usually slow down this time of the year as Apple readies the iterative upgrade for the same, this time around it’s the iPhone 7 which is expected to be released this September....