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Indeed, notwithstanding the almost traditional howls of “it’s too expensive” that accompany the launch of an Apple product, the fact is that Apple’s pricing is not as crazy and over the top as some are assuming it is. Yes, at Rs 59,900 in India (USD 549 internationally), they are significantly more expensive than the likes of the Sony WF-1000 XM4 ( Rs 29,990), Bose 700 (Rs 34,500), and the Sennheiser Momentum 3 Wireless (Rs 34,990), which for many users represent the higher end of the headphone market....

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has already issued a safety warning and the woman has told the authority as follows, “As I Went to turn around I felt burning on my face,” she further added that “I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck, I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor.” A loud bang had been heard when the mishap happened....

Barely half a decade after it revolutionized the Indian mobile market, thanks to some amazing offers from Reliance Jio, 4G has been reduced to being the “lesser” network in India. It has been a while since we have seen a flagship-level phone on 4G – the Poco X3 Pro was perhaps the last one of that breed (in April 2021). Instead, it has been all 5G since 2020. And while this rage began with the premium segment, by 2021, it was dominating the mid-segment as well....

For, in a segment that is obsessed with spec sheets and benchmarks, the Mi 11 Lite dares to fight on something else – pure design. It is what many would call a “lifestyle” product – one whose appearance and design contribute as much (if not more) to its perceived value as its actual performance. And that poses a big challenge for it because, over the past few years, style seems to have become the preserve of more expensive devices, with those in the mid (and even the so-called “premium mid-segment”) battling over specs....

Xiaomi Mi Note 10: Design and Display Xiaomi Mi Note 10: Design and Display The Mi Note 10 features a 3D curved glass on the front and the back with rounded corners and tapered edges to give an ergonomic feel in the hand. Towards the front, it flaunts a 6.47-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display that extends all the way to the edges, with a 2340 × 1080 pixels screen resolution, a notch to house the front-facing camera, blue light filter, and an optical in-display fingerprint scanner....

Similar design, but the magic’s in the cams and chip For, let us get this straight, while there was a sense of underwhelm-ment (if that indeed is a word) about the Note 5, which had a similar processor and RAM/storage set up as its predecessor, such an accusation cannot be leveled at its Pro cousin. No, we ware not going to say that its design is totally different from the Redmi Note 5 (the proportions are so similar with 158....

Design The new Xiaomi Redmi Y2 comes with a rather surprising polycarbonate build with brushed metallic finish that we used to see long back. In comparison, the Redmi Note 5 comes with an aluminum body and metal frame with small pieces of plastic on top and bottom near the antennas. However, the RealMe 1 manages to dramatically stand out here with its unique rear which might seem like glass but is made out of plastic and a polymer composite material....

The company on the other hand seemed to be sure of coping up with the profits as they claimed to have “a game changer” feature that is already built into its smart TVs. The IPO documents further render some insights on how Inscape Data Services manages to capture 100 billion viewing data points from a whopping eight million connected TVs every day. In essence, every Vizio TV is actually tracking each and every stuff you watch/access on the TV and aggregating the same to make some useful deductions about the users....

Sh**t! I smoke, is an application which converts the level of pollution around you and converts it into the number of cigarettes it would take to do similar harm. The app uses your location and Internet connection. It collects air quality data from air monitoring centers around you and works out the number of cigarettes that you are or will be smoking as per your location. And it also explains how it does the math, inspired by Berkeley Earth’s findings about the equivalence of pollution and smoking cigarettes, according to which one cigarette a day is roughly equal to (jargon alert) a PM2....

Let us get one thing clear: the Honor 8 Pro is a very contrary beast from the Honor 8, which remains one of the most gorgeous devices we have seen with that brilliant glass back (especially in the blue edition). Yes, the 8 Pro too has the curved and smooth edges of the Honor 8, but there the similarity ends. The back is all metal for starts. For another, this is a larger device, even though it remains relatively compact....

To be fair, the phone does look rather premium – it looks a lot more classy than the Pixel 2XL. The front has an AMOLED 6-inch display with 18:9 aspect ratio, with a tiny notch in the middle for good measure, housing a 24.0-megapixel camera, and some sensors too. The bezels on the side are narrow, but the one below the display is a bit on the larger side, mainly because Huawei has squeezed in a fingerprint sensor below that display....

It is not as if it looks like a “cheaper” avatar of the iPhone, though. Unlike the iPhone 5c, which took flak for its plastic-y look, the XR stays in the premium zone when it comes to appearance. It has got glass in the front and back, with the glass on the back said to be tougher than the one on the iPhone X, if not quite as strong as the one on the iPhone XS and XS Max....

Getting those Mi 10 feels in looks…NOT In terms of design language, the Mi 10T Pro is very different from the Mi 10. Yes, you get the glass front and back with a metal frame and the premium feels, but there the similarity ends. Whereas the Mi 10 had a curved display, the Mi10T Pro has a flat one. It also has a fingerprint sensor on the side rather than under the display as in the Mi 10....

Those lines might have been made famous by rock group AC/DC in its iconic Back in Black number, but they could well be applied to YU, the sister brand of Micromax. After making a high-profile debut in 2014 and making a name for itself as an affordable phone brand for geeks, the brand (like Micromax) seemed to slip under the radar in the latter half of 2016. So much so that some even began to speculate that the brand had been laid to rest....

The recent article by WSJ reveals that this very problem has been troubling the Google Researchers in the Silicon Valley. Apparently, one in three smartphone users in India was running out of the space on their phones every day. The issue was promptly traced down to a bunch of good morning messages, memes, cute cats and other such chirpy forwards. It so happens that the millions of Indians who are getting online for the first time take it upon themselves to send greetings from their phones....

So, how to know what exactly crashed your computer? Answer is – WhoCrashed. WhoCrashed shows the drivers which have been crashing your computer with a single click. In most cases it can pinpoint the offending drivers which have been causing misery on your computer system in the past. It does post-mortem crashdump analysis and presents all gathered information in a comprehensible way. Going by the traditional way, one would have to resort to Debugging tools to debug and analyze what caused the crash....

As you’d expect, the new Outlook.com carries the Windows 8 metro looks and comes with tighter social integration. Microsoft is clearly aiming to consolidate its Office 2013 branding by clubbing its native Outlook email client on PCs with the webmail service. The user interface is in-line with Windows 8 Metro UI and even claims to be the first email service to integrate Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Skype. If you are keen to understand the new features, check out the videos at the end of this article....

https://youtu.be/3dJCroCMBPM 2 minute 53 seconds of sheer mushy vibes “Share Your Gifts” is a 2-minute-53-second long ad that is all animation. The ad revolves around a young woman who lives with her dog. It begins with the woman working on her MacBook, creating something. She then prints it out, looks at it and puts it in a box and locks it. The ad then builds the personality of the protagonist, her life at work, travel, meetups with friends, and then brings it all back to her home again, where she is always seen creating something on her MacBook (on another day, we would have wondered if she does not think that the iPad Pro is computer enough but shush, just sense the mush)....

Jai Mani does not give interviews. Xiaomi India’s Lead Product Manager, very much like rebel warrior Katsumoto in The Last Samurai, likes a good conversation. And revels in discussions – he is not a man overfond of his own voice, although that does not stop him from using some rather long sentences. Introduced to the Indian audience on stage during the Mi 4 launch in early 2015 by Xiaomi’s then Global Vice-President Hugo Barra (who insisted on calling him “handsome” every time he referred to him), with whom he had earlier worked in Google (a lot of mediapersons still refer to him as the “Google Guy at Xiaomi”), Mani has evolved into being the “geek” face of the tech company, the person with whom one discusses the tech side of the company’s phones, be it processor design, camera algorithms or his favourite subject, UI and software....

Over time, Google has developed many games you can play while using its services, but very few people know about them. Most of these free games by Google are free to play and are hidden in Google Search and other Google services like the Play Store and the Google app. Some of these games require an Internet connection, but you can play most of them without one. You don’t have to worry about accessibility because you can play this game on any of your devices....