Is the Indian smartphone market growing or shrinking? Counterpoint is optimistic, claiming that the market’s 37 million units were a second-quarter shipment record, mentioning “single-digit” growth. Canalys, however, placed the shipments at 33 million and said that they actually represented a slight decline, mainly because feature phone users were not upgrading to smartphones, and that the Indian market should brace itself for further sluggish volume growth. Strategy Analytics pegged the market at 35....

Majorly due to the sudden spike in social media users, companies have been testing several ways to ensure that users don’t miss the most interesting updates. Kevin Systrom, co-founder and chief executive of Instagram mentioned in an interview that “On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their Instagram feed, What this is about is making sure that the 30 percent you see is the best 30 percent possible....

Intel Transforms Your Social Profiles Into an Infographic Now, it’s time for the ego to be at the center of this brand new app they are offering. Meet “What About Me?”, a little piece of software that turns your Facebook, Twitter or YouTube account into a visually pleasing infographic. So, you decided you are bored of your mainstream Facebook profile. This is step one. Now Intel comes into the picture....

Thus, if you are looking for a tool in helping you bypass your device restrictions and enabling root access to iOS 9, you can now download for free the iOS 9 jailbreak. If you’re new to the concept of jailbreak, you should know that it will allow you to install apps and customizations which are usually unavailable through the official App Store for iOS. The Pangu iOS 9 jailbreak is only available for Windows users at this time and works with iOS 9....

“We’re gonna turn this industry upside down. Amazing 48 MP is coming.” Manu Jain tweeted, in a tweet that was – rather appropriately – upside down too. Although Xiaomi had announced the Redmi Note 7 in China a few weeks ago, raising eyebrows by offering a 48 megapixel sensor on a device that is super affordable (999 Yuan or Rs 11,000), there had been some concern that the Chinese brand would not bring it to India in the near future, as it had very recently released the Redmi Note 6 Pro in India....

Sony Mobile Communications sustained a profit of $37 million (3.7 billion JPY) in Q2 2016, up from $4 Million in Q1. The company’s restructuring cost it over $500 Million in 2015, however, thanks to the downsizing of lineups and pivot to lesser models harvesting higher margins, things seems to be have patched up at least for now. Selling about 3.5 Million handsets in the most recent quarter, their sales in total, were down by 40 percent year-on-year as Sony axed the majority of budget offerings....

Leica has been building binoculars and military inspired cameras, which sort of means that you can trust them here. Although Leica had been toying around with great optical stuff, they never made a go anywhere rugged camera and the Leica X-U indicates a change of mind. The X-U comes with a 3-inch display at the rear but what is noticeably missing is the view finder. The waterproof feature will let you immerse the camera up to 49 feet for a maximum time of 60 minutes....

Lenovo paid $2.91 billion for the acquisition of the Motorola handset unit from Google, which now allows the company to expand its reach on the U.S. smartphone market. At the end of 2012, Google already sold the Motorola Home business, consisting mostly of the set-top box line, for $2.35 billion to Arris Group. The search was already being clear about its intentions to obtain the rich patent portfolio. However, if you do a quick math here, you see that Google is still ‘losing’ slightly more than $7 billion, but it’s worth taking into account that under the Lenovo deal, Google will retain a significant portion of Motorola’s patents....

Lenovo Legion 5i Pro: Build and Design The Legion 5i Pro comes in an aluminum body with a matte finish. Our variant with the white color looks absolutely stunning and is certainly an eye-catcher as it easily attracts attention. Since most gaming notebooks come in matte black or gray, the Legion 5i Pro offers a white color that breaks stereotypes and appeals to us at first glance. Lenovo also offers a black color option, but we think the white variant certainly looks more appealing in this case....

The choice of changing the Nexus manufacturer, from Samsung to LG has certainly surprised many and left them wondering if the company can pull it off. It would seem that LG has really stepped up and made a device worthy to be in the Nexus line. Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting reviews of the LG Nexus 4 device across the blogosphere and see how others feel about it....

LG Velvet: Display In terms of design, the LG Velvet appears to have a sleek design with 3D arc edges. Towards the front, it has a 6.8-inch Full HD+ OLED display with a 20.5:9 aspect ratio and a 2340×1080 pixel screen resolution. The display has a waterdrop-style notch to house the front-facing camera. LG Velvet: Performance At its core, the LG Velvet runs on the Snapdragon 845 chipset, which offers up to 2....

I spend the better part of my day on a document editor rambling about technology. And in most of these instances, I don’t touch any of the formatting tools or tweaks available. My weapon of choice until now was Google Docs, primarily because of its offline capabilities, and omnipresent availability. But for the past two weeks, I’ve been using Dropbox’s new Paper and I gotta say, its minimalistic approach has definitely stumbled my affection towards Google’s productivity suite....

The new Surface Book 2 comes with a Nvidia GeForce GPU update and a battery of increased capacity. The Surface Book 2 is rated to offer 17 hours of battery life with the 15-inch variant and the processing is taken care by choice of 8th Gen Intel dual and quad-core processors. — Microsoft Surface (@surface) October 17, 2017 The Surface Book 2 looks pretty much identical to its predecessor but Microsoft claims that they have improvised a great deal on the backlit keyboard and the singular flexible hinge....

Essentially, the new Tab will allow users to group the tabs in a much better way. The feature will be available for Windows 10 Preview users and Microsoft is currently calling it “Sets.” It is quite likely that the new tab integration will be limited to the Universal Windows apps, at least in the beginning. Microsoft will conclude how well the beta goes and the feature is likely to undergo several rounds of tweaking before it goes live for the general public....

A few weeks ago, Microsoft has unveiled the first Technical Preview of Windows 10, finally bringing back desktop features that disappeared with the release of Windows 8. By doing this, the company hopes it can drive mass adoption to the new operating system especially from Windows 7 and Windows XP users, who still represent the majority of Windows users all over the world. And now by discontinuing Windows 7 sales, it will further help drive consumers to Windows 10....

The first beta build, with version 8.7.5 is currently supported on these devices – Mi 6, Mi Mix 2, Redmi S2, Redmi Note 5 Pro, Mi Mix 2S, Mi 5, Mi Note 2 and Mi Mix. Do note that in order to flash the MIUI 10 Global Beta build, your phone needs to have an unlocked bootloader, as you will need to flash the ROM through fastboot. If you’re already on a beta ROM from MIUI 9, then you can flash this build right from your updater app....

If I had a Dollar for every time I have been asked that question from late 2014 till his recent, surprising departure from the company he played a major role in making a household name in India, I would have accumulated a small fortune. They say that no media person should ever get too close to his subject. Well, a reflection of how close I am perceived to be to the former Xiaomi Global Vice President can be gauged by the fact that when he stepped from his post a few days ago, I was being asked: “Do you know what your Hugo has done?...

To make things easier, the team behind Memoto has arranged a cloud service where your pictures are being uploaded to. Also, an Android and iPhone app will be made for a better management. The Memoto camera is a little tech wonder and you can support it on Kickstarter if it seems like an appealing concept to you. Tiny GPS camera that takes photos as you go It’s a very simple camera to use, as it has no buttons at all!...

John McLear, the mastermind behind the idea, has brought his NFC Ring project on KickStarter, and, at the moment when this article was published, he had almost met his funding goal of £30,000 with more than 1,100 backers supporting the concept. As there are more than 27 days left, the number of backers will definitely increase.Just like the name hints, NFC Ring is a ring that you wear on your finger and you use it for various purposes, such as unlocking your home door, your Android phone or even transferring information....

For starters, the new Nokia 6 is powered by the latest Android Nougat operating system and features an aluminium unibody design which is a big deal according to HMD as it takes “55 minutes to machine a Nokia 6 from a block of 6000 series aluminium”. There’s a Full HD 5.5-inch panel up front that is protected by 2.5D Gorilla Glass and underneath, a Snapdragon 430 octa-core processor keeps things running along with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of inbuilt storage which supports microSD cards of up to 128GB capacity, Adreno 505 GPU, and a non-removable (sigh) 3,000mAh battery....