In a detailed blog post, Carl Pei, the global face of OnePlus has written an emotional open letter to the company’s new customers explaining this mess, which unfortunately isn’t as clear as it should have been. We shall try to do our best in comprehending what the situation is and how this might pan out in the future. Deal between Cyanogen & OnePlus Earlier this year, OnePlus signed a deal with Cyanogen to launch the first ever smartphone running CyanogenMod out of the box and promising frequent updates and support directly from Cyanogen....

The option for summoning autorickshaws on the Uber iOS and Android app is available on the extreme left of the carousel on the bottom under “Popular”. It functions just like every other ride option and you can pay with either cash or any other compatible method like PayTM or credit/debit card. In comparison, its direct competitor — Ola charges a marginally higher fee of Rs 29 for the first four kilometers....

Gadgets, which were introduced in Vista are mini applications built using XML, DHTML, and JavaScript. In Vista, though, those gadgets were more constrained to the sidebar. Although you could move them outside the sidebar to other parts of the screen, the bar itself would never really go away. In Windows 7, that has changed. The sidebar is no more and the gadgets can sit anywhere on your screen in either a minimized or maximized state....

Vivo NEX 3: Design and Display The Vivo NEX 3 features a 6.89-inch full HD curved AMOLED display with 2256 x 1080 pixels screen resolution and HDR 10. Vivo calls this, ‘Waterfall FullView’ display and claims it offers a 99.6% screen-to-body ratio. The interesting thing about the display is that it extends all the way to the edges to give a bigger screen estate to enjoy content on the phone....

Vivo Z6 5G: Design and Display In terms of design, the Z6 5G features a 3D curved design with a fingerprint scanner and a rectangular camera module on the rear. Towards the front, it has a 6.57-inch IPS LCD display that offers a 90.74% screen-to-body ratio with a 20:9 aspect ratio and an FHD+ resolution. The device also has a hole-punch cutout on the top right of the display for housing the front-facing camera, and it comes in three different color options: Ice Age, Interstellar Silver, and Aurora Black....

The biggest Bollywood awards ceremony – 56th Filmfare Awards will be held on January 29, 2011 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai which will honor some of the best in Indian film industry for the year 2010. As always Filmfare is expected to be full of action, humor and glittering stars. Usually the Filmfare awards are held on last Saturday of February, but this time, it has been preponed by a month, probably due to ICC World cup 2011....

Last year Youtube had launched the Youtube Shows section with some TV shows and classic movies. So, it is no surprise that they have come out with set of mainstream movies. It’s just a beginning, so my claim of “end of piracy” is bit far fetched as of now. So check out Youtube Movies section and let us know which favorite movie is in there and if possible throw in the link as well for the benefit of others who love suggestions!...

A large part of processing and making video streams less bandwidth and storage hogging is dependent on the video codec standard used, which, just as it sounds, compresses-decompresses video files to reduce the file size. Even though the current standard, H.265, aka High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is fairly promising in this regard with its high efficacy when it comes to offering better compression without adversely affecting the quality, we now have a new video codec called H....

Why? Windows 11 is still quite bug-ridden, and one such prominent bug is Windows 11 touchpad not working issue. A touchpad is one of the most integral parts of any laptop as everyone uses it to navigate around the UI, interact with software, and a lot more. Basically, if the touchpad on a PC stops working, then using that PC is a user’s worst nightmare. But to help you overcome this annoyance, we will look at some of the troubleshooting steps to fix the Windows 11 touchpad not working issue....

The Mi TV Stick has been subject to a lot of leaks for quite some time, and now that it is official, here are the specifications, features, and pricing for the same. Mi TV Stick: Specifications and Features One the software front, the device runs on Android TV and includes support for Chromecast. Moreover, it also brings support for Google Assistant with a dedicated hotkey on the remote. Talking of which, the Bluetooth remote has quick-access keys for Prime Video and Netflix....

The Mi 4s draws its power from the hexa-core Snapdragon 808 paired with a 3GB of RAM and Adreno 418 to deal with the graphics. On the storage end, the Mi4s offers 64GB of internal storage which is further expandable thanks to the microSD card slot. Xiaomi has fitted the Mi 4s with a 13-Megapixel primary sensor along with two-tone LED flash along with PDAF, the secondary camera is a 5-Megapixel sensor....

The Xiaomi Mi 6C is expected to sport a 5.1-inch FHD display. While the SoC is not mentioned explicitly, the very mention of Adreno 512 as the GPU helps us zero in on the octa-core Snapdragon 660. The SoC will be clocked at 2.2GHz and will be coupled with 6GB of RAM. On the storage front, the device is expected to offer 64GB of internal storage and most likely a microSD card slot as well....

Xiaomi products have always managed to create a hype and this time it’s no different either, the rumor mills are predicting that the Mi Max will come powered with the company’s in-house processing unit called ‘Rifle’. The SoC is apparently designed by Xiaomi in collaboration with Datang corporation. The Xiaomi Mi Max is also speculated to come equipped with a 6.4-inch QHD display and 6GB of RAM. It is still uncertain on which SoC it will come powered with....

The Xiaomi Mi Smart Mouse Pad comes with support for wireless charging as well as RGB lighting effects based on the lighting effects of its own Mi Gaming Mouse. Xiaomi claims that the Mi Smart Mouse Pad has also won the German Red Dot Design Award in 2018. The Mi Smart Mouse Pad, as stated earlier, features Qi wireless charging capability which has the ability to charge a wireless mouse or a smartphone with wireless charging enabled....

Reuters seems to have gotten hold of an internal document from the company which revealed that Xiaomi had earned $564-million from its Internet services. That being said, Xiaomi had initially set a target of $1-Billion for the Internet services and 100-Million for the number of devices shipped, both of which were out of reach for the company. The internet revenues are a result of the games and the mobile payment apps which surged a 150 percent Year-on-Year growth....

Yu managed to ruffle some feathers as it was the first smartphone from India to be powered by the now defunct Cyanogen OS. The brand tried to emulate the Chinese powerhouse, Xiaomi, by diversifying into non-smartphone products like portable printers and fitness brands. In the initial days, Yu garnered a good response and it was the time when Micromax was leading the sales chart and was ahead of its competitors....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IprmiOa2zH8 Lengthy, but definitely not boring “Homework” is a two-minute-twenty-one second ad which starts with a teacher asking his students to settle down. He then picks five kids, Ivy, Michael, Ryan, Sally and Thomas, and calls them Group Three. The teacher then drops a book on the floor and tells these students that their homework is to explore gravity. Right after this, the school bell rings. As the students start to leave, the teacher reminds them that the project is due on Friday and asks them not to forget their “homework....

https://youtu.be/3qhW1sDPHYI “Throttled” by the iPhone 6! “Moving on”, a one-minute ad starts with a woman walking up to a security check with her iPhone 6 (yes, you read it right!) in her hand to show the boarding pass to the security person. Just when she opens the Wallet app, her iPhone goes blank and takes a few seconds to load the boarding pass, holding her up, and getting her a frustrated look from the security personnel....

LetterSnap is, essentially a barebones iOS application for extracting text from scanned images. It may sound relatively similar to what other OCR apps already offer, however, the biggest benefit you get with this one, is the speed. The process is, though, quite straightforward – you scan a document or a couple of them, LetterSnap uploads these files to the cloud, performs the necessary operations, and yields a simple text file containing the content you wanted....

The light bulb from Philips was the first one to start this fashion, but it looks like it won’t be the only one on the market. Since 2012, when Philips started working on the idea of smart lighting, and it came up with the Hue collection, it became more and more popular. The SmartBulb by Samsung and the SmartLamp by LG are promising to offer even more. Let’s take a look at what each one of them has to offer!...