Initial sales in the US seem to have borne out our initial impressions of the iPhone 12 mini. It might have made reviewers go “awww sooo chweet and cuuuuttte” but early indications are that the iPhone 12 mini has not got off to the kind of sales start in the US (the iPhone’s largest market) that its reviews had indicated. PCMag’s mobile analyst, Sascha Segan, has written that as per analysts Wave7 Research, the iPhone 12 mini has been the least in demand of the new iPhones....

Moto G was launched back in November last year in Brazil, US and some European countries. Back then, Motorola had promised to bring the budget android smartphone to India in Jan 2014. As we reported sometime back, Motorola had some issues striking a deal with offline retailers and hence they decided to team up with Flipkart and others to have an online-only launch. In markets like India, sub-15k segment has some serious competition, but mostly had Indo-Chinese brands like Micromax, Gionee, Lava/XOLO and Karbonn competing with each other....

Hello, Moto design! 2017 seems to have been a very good year for Motorola in terms of design. The company came out with a very smart and distinct Moto G series, hit a home run with the beautifully crafted Moto X4, and hits the middle ground of these two with the Moto Z2 Force. Seen in isolation, the phone is very sleek and thanks to the round camera unit which sticks out at the back, typically Motorola – that spherical camera is becoming an integral part of the Motorola design language, making all its phones stand out in a very crowded marketplace....

Motorola One Zoom Design The all-new Motorola One Zoom features a water-repellent design to protect it against casual spills and splashes. It has a 3D satin glass on the back, that according to the company, ‘eliminates fingerprints and smudges’. The phone comes in three gradient colour options: Electric Gray, Cosmic Purple, and Brushed Bronze. And for the first time, has an illuminating Motorola on the back, that doubles as an LED notification light, and lights up to notify for incoming calls, texts, etc....

OnePlus 2 is powered by the rather infamous Snapdragon 810 SoC tagged with a staggering 4GB of RAM. The display shapes out in the form of 5.5-inch-1080p display and it is good to see that the company didn’t run after the 2K display which as of now is still an overkill when you consider the impact on the battery life. The company claims that OnePlus 2 comes with a highly adaptable display which is also the brightest display in the market....

OnePlus’ new Bullets Wireless are not the earphones which rise above these stumbling boxes. But they’re close. Very close. Reality Check Like every other OnePlus product, the Bullets Wireless’ cornerstone might seem the price as well. So let’s talk about that first. In spite of what you may think, it’s not groundbreaking. At Rs 3,990, the Bullets Wireless face stiff competition especially from brands like Jabra which has been dominating this price range for years now....

The same single judge has now been asked to hear the case afresh as the bench felt that it was not a case for grant of an ad-interim injunction. The crux of the decision lies in the fact that neither OnePlus nor Micromax eats into the territory of the other. The bench observed it was not proper of the single judge to finally decide the application without giving the parties time to file their pleadings....

Oppo R5 – the world’s slimmest smartphone Oppo has managed to achieve an impressive feat with the just announced R5 – it is the world’s thinnest smartphone at just 4.85 mm. Impressive, you think? As a matter of fact, it is so slim that it doesn’t have a 3.5mm headphone jack. If more companies will start producing smartphones so thin, I guess we’ll need to change the standard for the headset port or make them completely wireless....

Both the models were launched in China back in March this year, and Oppo has brought them to the Indian shores as promised. The better-specced, Find 7 carries a 5.5-inch QHD (2K) display with 1440×2560 pixels resolution, with a pixel density of 534 PPI. The phone is powered by a 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 quad-core chipset with Adreno 330 GPU and a massive 3GB of RAM. It comes with 32GB of internal storage that can be expanded by up to 128GB using a microSD card....

Oppo Reno Ace: Design and Display The Reno Ace flaunts a gradient-finish design language found on most of the smartphones these days and comes in two color options: Blue and Violet. It features a 6.5-inch FHD+ AMOLED display with a 20:9 aspect ratio, 2400×1080 pixels screen resolution, 90Hz refresh rate, and a waterdrop notch to house the camera. Oppo Reno Ace: Performance At its core, the phone has a 7nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus processor with Adreno 640 GPU running under the hood, paired with 8GB or 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB or 256GB of UFS 3....

The collaboration between Paytm and Citi is part of Paytm’s new subscription-based loyalty program, which it calls ‘Paytm First’. With Paytm First users will get exclusive benefits over the regular cashback on transactions. Users can apply for the credit card using the Paytm app. Additionally, they can also track offers through the Paytm First Card passbook. On minimum spending of Rs 10,000 on the credit card within the first four months, Paytm First Card users will be awarded Paytm promo-codes worth Rs 10,000....

Viljami Kuosmanen, a Finnish web developer, and a hacker has discovered that several browsers including Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Opera and utility tools like LastPass can be disillusioned to give away users personal information which the browsers fetch from the autofill systems linked with the profiles. The attack relies on tricking the users when the users enter the information in any of the boxes the autofill will enter other information in any of the other boxes even ones that are not visible on the page....

Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G Highlights CPU and GPU – the Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G is based on the 5nm process technology. It incorporates the Kryo 670 architecture that promises up to 40% improvement in performance than its predecessor. The chipset promises to offer up to 2.4GHz of clock speed, and for graphics processing, it has the Adreno 642 GPU. AI – in terms of AI performance, the latest Qualcomm offering employs the 6th-generation Qualcomm AI Engine....

The Snapdragon Wear 3100’s biggest highlight is a new coprocessor. Qualcomm says 95% of the times a smartwatch sits idle and is only employed for checking the time or date. So it essentially separated all those functions to a dedicated processor. What that does is optimizes the watch’s sensors and ambient display features to use up to 20 times less energy than the main processor would. For the user, that means a longer battery life....

There is no shortage of Wordle alternatives out there, and their number keeps increasing as the interest in the simple puzzle refuses to die down. We covered some of the best Wordle alternatives in an earlier story, but one powerful option has been gaining both attention and popularity since. It is called Quordle. So much like Wordle… What makes Quordle the near-perfect step up from Wordle is its utter similarity to Wordle....

According to Realme, the customized UI (let’s call it Realme UI for now) will include all the features from the ColorOS 7 and will offer users with a smoother gaming graphics, better RAM management, and more customization options for better video and vlogging experience. What’s exciting is that the customized UI will feature a system-wide dark mode, which can be seen across a wide range of smartphones these days. Besides these, the Realme UI will also offer basic customization features such as the ability to change app icons, shape and size, and fonts....

Realme X50 Pro: Scoring on specs It does come with perhaps the most elegant and understated design that we have seen on a Realme device (the frosted glass back finish is so reminiscent of the OnePlus 7T series and the double punch hole in the front is classy), but it is really the hardware that makes the phone a star. The star of the show, of course, is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, which is THE flagship processor in the mobile world at the time of talking, and comes with plenty of RAM and storage to spare – there are 6 GB/ 128 GB, 8 GB/ 128 GB and 12 GB / 256 GB options....

Redmi 9 Power: Design and Display In terms of design, the Redmi 9 Power features an Aura Power design with a rectangular camera module housing the quad cameras. It has the Redmi logo embossed on the rear, vertically-aligned with the camera module. Redmi 9 Power comes in four colors: Might Black, Fiery Red, Electric Green, and Blazing Blue. Towards the front, the device features a 6.53-inch FHD+ (IPS) display with Gorilla Glass 3 on top and a waterdrop notch to house the front-facing camera....

What’s the USP (unique selling point) of the Redmi Note 8? The Redmi Note 8 offers a complete package for a starting price under Rs. 10,000. It has a capable chip, a large Full-HD+ display, quad cameras, glass build, and a large 4000mAh battery to go along, something which defines the Note series from Redmi. If you are looking for the perfect value-for-money device in this price bracket that does it all, the Redmi Note 8 is for you....

Online Image Splitter Online Image Splitter is a web utility that lets you to slice images into smaller segments without any loss in the image quality. In addition to this you can quickly create navigational bars with mouse-over effects. This application also provides HTML tags for pasting the sliced images together. It has lots of features like slicing out any format of images (JPG, GIF, PNG), HTML tagging for pasting slices back together, advanced options to optimize the images, automatic color selection for “no image” slices....