1. The market leader in India is…Boat! In what might come as a huge surprise to many people, the market leader in the Indian smart personal audio market is an Indian brand, Boat. The brand finished ahead of the likes of Samsung, Realme, Sony, and Xiaomi, and had a 20 percent market share, representing a staggering year on year growth of 168 percent. This would be approximately 0.75 million units, given that the Indian market in this period shipped about 3....

At its developer conference I/O 2015, the Mountain View-based giant announced Android M, the latest iteration to its mobile operating system. The new version brings with it a number of interesting new features including Now on Tap, Chrome Custom View, and improvements to battery life among others. While the company didn’t choose to make a big deal out of it, there is another very interesting feature the new Android version will ship with....

In design terms, the Thump 504 does not do anything exceptional or get anything wrong for that matter. You get the usual earbuds with cable and an in-line controller and mic, both of which are in a single plastic unit, and of course the 3.5 mm audio jack. The earbuds are however made of metal (aluminum alloy, to be exact), which we think is a good touch, and even better is the fact that the cable used to connect them to a device is a flat one, significantly decreasing the chances of tangling and breakage....

The nameless message dropping app which was designed for users to send “honest feedback” (the word ‘Sarahah’ means ‘Honesty’) to colleagues and friends was quietly taken down from the world’s two biggest smartphone platform app stores after an Australian mother of a 13-year-old, Katrina Collins, filed an online petition against the application on Change.org where she asked the app to be removed from Google Play Store and Apple’s iTunes App Store....

The new Apple TV is expected to look larger and thicker than its predecessor and will retain the same plastic casing it comes with. The fourth gen Apple TV will usher new features including Siri support, advanced remote control, an App store tagged with an SDK kit for developers and a revamped user interface. This time around, Apple is also expected to launch a cable TV service rivaling streaming service bundling multiple television channels with subscription prices starting at $40 per month....

The main highlight of the Watch Series 3 is the built-in cellular connectivity. The Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) makes use of a unique antenna design that utilizes the display of itself as both a transmitting and receiving element for LTE and UMTS. Furthermore, it uses an inbuilt eSIM, which according to Apple is one hundred times small than a traditional SIM card. What’s more interesting is the fact that the Apple Watch Series 3 shares the same number as on your iPhone....

The Series 4 Apple Watch revolutionized safety features on a smartwatch/wearable and the Series 5 takes it up by a notch. Features like EKG/ECG, fall detection, higher heart rate alerts and the majority of the health-related features are retained. The ability to make an emergency call when a fall or an irregular heart rate is detected has now been improved and has been made available internationally, meaning the emergency call can be made even to international contacts....

Asus ROG Phone II: Design and Display In terms of design, the ROG Phone II is identical to its predecessor, and when kept side-by-side, it is hard to tell them apart. Asus says it has taken gamers’ perspective into consideration and incorporated gaming ergonomics and tailored solutions in the phone with landscape use in mind. It also says that it has opted for an all-screen design on the phone (with no notch) to offer more room for better sound fidelity and the front-facing camera and to minimize the risk of unintentional touches during intensive gaming....

The company has tried to keep the laptop thin and light while still being powerful enough to handle everyday tasks on Windows 11 without breaking a sweat. The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED features the latest 12th generation Intel Core i7 1260P chipset, an all-aluminum chassis, a substantial 75 Wh battery, and more. But how does the laptop perform in real life? Is the build quality good enough? Is it the ultimate ultrabook at all?...

An emulator is a software (or hardware) that emulates a computer system as another system. In simpler terms, it is a piece of software that imitates an electronic device to behave like another device. To better understand this with the context of this article, consider an emulator as an application that emulates your Android device as a video game console that you can use to play games available on that console....

BitTorrent Chat comes with the purpose of bringing more security to our online communications, so that it wouldn’t be so easy to intercept them, neither by governments or criminals. BitTorrent estimates that in 2013, which hasn’t even ended, more than six million people have been affected by data breaches. And we all know that the NSA is really curious about your messaging activity. As the BitTorrent Chat service is still in private alpha, this means you’ll have to request an email invite to see how the program works....

And the latest entrant, to add to the already crowded TWS space, are the all-new AirBass Propods from Boult Audio. The newest TWS from Boult were announced alongside three other TWS earphones in India last month, all of which target different price segments and cater to the needs of different customers. We have been testing the AirBass Propods for over a week now, and here is what we feel about the earphones....

Light on glass or curving lights on carbonate In terms of design, both devices follow a broadly similar aesthetic – both have 6.3 inch displays with Gorilla Glass 5 with drop notches and backs with cameras arrayed in a vertical capsule formation with a fingerprint scanner in top central position. The biggest difference however is in terms of material used and colours – the Redmi Note 7 Pro has glass on the front and back, while the Realme 3 Pro has opted for a carbonate back....

Ever since Apple released iPhone OS 3.1.3 earlier this month, we have had guides to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 firmware using redsn0w, sn0wbreeze and PwnageTool. But most of the comments so far have been regarding mistakenly upgrading iPhone/iPod Touch to non-jailbreakable firmware versions. Upgrading to the latest firmware iPhone OS 3.1.3 upgrades the Baseband to 05.12.01 which is yet to be jailbroken and unlocked, but iPhone Dev team’s PwnageTool 3.1.5 is available for download to upgrade your iPhone & iPod Touch to OS 3....

Google has announced that as many as 21 phones will be getting the Android 10 Q Beta before its official release. The devices that made it to the list include 13 smartphone manufacturers including Xiaomi, OnePlus and Realme. List of Android Q Beta 3 supported devices Asus Zenfone 5z Essential PH-1 HMD Global Nokia 8.1 Huawei Mate 20 Pro LG G8 OnePlus 6/6T Oppo Reno Google Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL Realme 3 Pro Sony Xperia XZ3 Tecno Spark 3 Pro Vivo X27, NEX S, NEX A Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G, Mi 9...

Mediashow is yet another quality product from Cyberlink that deals with video and photo editing. Cyberlink Mediashow has a slick easy-to-use interface and comes with a range of exciting features. MediaShow is the most comprehensive, one-touch digital media organizer,delivering advanced photo and video management. CyberLink MediaShow is a total solution for user-generated video and photocontent: import, manage, enhance, produce and burn, all with a few easy clicks. Users who love to record videos with their mobile phones and digital cameras will love MediaShow’s media-enhancing features....

At a press briefing, India’s Aviation Minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju highlighted how the drone industry could push forward the country’s development in sectors such as agriculture and oil gas. In addition to that, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha threw in a few hyperboles in the conversation and said, “We want to make India the world’s leader in the use of drones”. As far as the regulations are concerned, here’s what you need to know,...

Unlike tools like Time Rescue, the Effortless is the bare minimum in natur, and it doesn’t offer fancy features like a pie chart that shows where and when you have wasted your time. Instead, the program employs a more simplistic approach. The app makes great use of the top menu bar on the Mac and a rudimentary editor for adding up the tasks. First things first, the program is portable, this means that you don’t need to install Effortless and instead can carry it on a thumb drive and use it on any Mac PC....

When it entered India, Xiaomi was perhaps the first brand ever to sell its products only online and through a flash sale model, with absolutely zero advertising at that point in “traditional” media. No matter the odds against this succeeding (and the criticism from many quarters), it did prove that the not-so-mainstream ways can also work – it is now one of the top smartphone brands in the Indian market, well ahead of the likes of Sony, LG and HTC....