However, it’s been a little over a month since its inception, and Qualcomm already has a major announcement. It’s a special-edition smartphone, aptly called Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders, designed and manufactured by Asus. Let’s dive in to take a closer look at the device. Design and Display Starting with the appearance, the device features a design that’s reminiscent of the typical Asus-smartphone design. It comes with a rectangular camera module on the rear, arranged in a horizontal alignment, and a fingerprint scanner right below it for authentication....

But is this actually the case? BARC-Nielsen has come out with a report (“COVID-19 IMPACT, WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE TV & SMARTPHONE LANDSCAPE”) on how the Covid-19 virus has affected the smartphone usage and television consumption in the country. We are taking a closer look at the smartphone section of the report. The research covers smartphone usage in India from 16 – 22 March and compares it with 13 January – 2 February 2020, which it takes as the pre-Covid-19 period....

The mirroring happens once users connect the two devices through an app and apart from mirroring the Superscreen will also allow users to take control of the smartphone, mostly like a screen sharing service. The Superscreen can be operated withing a range of up to 100 feet and offers a battery life of 12 hours. Furthermore, the makers of this screen assure that the content perfectly scales in FHD so you don’t have to worry about choppy graphics or stretched out content....

Surface RT is a worthy competitor for the iPad and other Android tablets, but it has a big minus at the moment – it runs Windows RT, which is a dumbed-down version of the Windows 8. Read our guide to know what are the differences. Also, it lacks 3G, which might be a hindrance for many. But, if we overlook these minuses, can it become a viable choice? Surface RT reviews are in JOEL SANTO DOMINGO, PC MAG The Touch Cover keyboard is one of the most responsive ones we’ve ever used and when installed, turns the Surface into the quasi-laptop....

It is T-Series, an Indian entertainment conglomerate primarily known for its music production business. The channel, at the time of writing this post, stands at 58 million and trails the leader by about 8 million. While that number may seem a tad high to overcome anytime soon, T-Series is forecasted to surpass Pewdiepie in just two months. In spite of what you may think, though, T-series’ astonishing growth isn’t entirely driven by consistent content, there is a flurry of factors at play here....

ACROSS 1 Jumping from 5 to 6 could give your phone two times better drop resistance. (7,5) 5 See through Mi, but don’t believe what you see. (8) 8 Is it Honor-able to be THIS similar to your sister brand? (6) 10 Quad cams are the highlight of this new series from Huawei in India. (4) 11 We can put 48 megapixels on your phone, baby. (4) 12 The racing game’s 9th edition just got Legend-ary status....

Of course, Apple has attempted to rectify this to an extent with its ‘double-tap home button to bring the upper part of the display closer to you’ short cut, but that does not really help typing. For me and many others, the only way of being able to type one-handed on the 6s Plus is to use dictation, which is rather effective, but a trifle loud. Fortunately, Microsoft (yes, we get the irony) has come to our aid with its Word Flow keyboard....

But that is not all that has changed. The past years have also seen the Redmi Note lineup get long. Very long. From a single Note a year, Xiaomi moved to two Notes a year; fast forward to today, the Redmi Note 11 lineup this year already has five different Redmi Note 11s in the series. While this presents users with more choices, it also means buying a Redmi Note phone is not as simple as ‘adding the phone to your cart....

While 5G is still a premium feature found on more expensive phones, Qualcomm is now enabling OEMs to provide 5G capabilities on more affordable phones with the new Snapdragon 480 Mobile Platform. What this can mean for the smartphone market, at least with regards to India, is that we may soon start seeing smartphones even under Rs. 10-15,000 with 5G capabilities. As 5G becomes more accessible to a larger demographic, it becomes vital to have phones with 5G capabilities that are affordable in order to help with the adoption rate....

I must give pause. And also respect That newbie which could make a Calamity of the device’s life. Who would bear the drops and scratches of time, The user’s wrongs, the proud man’s showy cases, The pangs of rejected friend request, the UI’s lags, The compatible insolence of Office suites, and the loading times That our patience unworthily test? When one might himself his tech Quietus make With a bare feature phone?...

As a consequence of this merger, Truecaller will be treated to features from the Truedialer and the company has also tossed in a few additional capabilities. Smart Call History takes control of your call history and replaces the unknown number with the actual name thus letting the users automatically save the contact in the phonebook. Further it also eliminates the need to manually search for an unknown number in Truecaller....

Earlier today, Canonical has made official that a fully-featured Ubuntu sibling will arrive on mobile devices, hopefully, until the end of the year. Until then, developers and enthusiasts of all kinds get the chance to play with a minimalistic demo which will be made available for Android platforms. What is more important than pure dates and crumbles for birds has been already given in full, and today we are going to explore the options, potential and limitations of Ubuntu’s mobile OS....

What to do in such cases? Well, the only viable solution (apart from re-installing the OS) is to restore your computer to an earlier state, when it wasn’t compromised. Sounds pretty simple, right? Well, the problem with this is that most of us forget to backup our system, or even choose not to. After all, the recovery image occupies quite a lot of space and the process is very time consuming and laborious....

Vivo V20 Pro: Design and Display The Vivo V20 Pro features a sleek chassis that comes in at 7.39mm and weighs 170g. It has an AG Matte Glass on the rear, which, as per the company, adds to its look and feel, with an AF (anti-fingerprint) coating on top to protect the device from getting fingerprint smudges. Towards the front, there is a 6.44-inch FHD+ (AMOLED) display with a 20:9 aspect ratio and 408ppi pixel density....

Looks more from Cupertino than from China We said it in our initial impressions that the Vivo V5 Plus wants to be an iPhone when it comes to design. And it manages to pull that off! We used the phone for close to two weeks and there were over half a dozen occasions when we had people thinking asking us if that was an iPhone. This, in spite of scores of iPhone clones and wannabes out there, and folks bored to death looking at them....

What is WebCheck AI? WebCheck AI is essentially a Chrome extension that you can install on Google Chrome (and other Chromium-based browsers like Opera, Vivaldi etc.), just like you would with any other browser extension. It is developed by the people over at Edicratic — an online platform that reviews college essays to help students with the admission process. With WebCheck AI, the company aims to help those who spend a lot of time reading on the internet, by offering them information about the unknowns (words, phrases, terminologies) in an article/post, to provide better context....

One of the latest additions to this feature list is the WhatsApp Call Link feature. As the name suggests, this feature allows you to create a voice call or video call link and share it with other WhatsApp contacts so they can join in with you on the conversation. If you use WhatsApp regularly and rely on voice or video calls for most of your conversations, you may find WhatsApp Call Links quite helpful....

The version number for this WhatsApp beta update is 2.18.179. Apart from the addition of that label, the release is otherwise a minor one. It’ll be a few weeks at least before the company begins seeding this out to every one of its users and platforms. If you’d like to try it today, there are two ways you can do that on Android — either sign up for the beta channel and update the app or sideload the APK file which you can download from here....

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....

Xiaomi has apparently been teasing this product on Weibo for quite some time and hence it’s overwhelming to see it finally being unveiled. Essentially this may be termed as the best companion gadget for the Mi Air Purifier 2. Unlike, the Mi Air Purifier Pro, the last gen Air Purifier 2 from Xiaomi doesn’t come with an integrated display. Thus you would need to check the real-time air quality via the Mi Smart Home app on your smartphone....