While that statement may be entirely made up, its implication is not, at least in the smartphone industry. If you’re looking for an extraordinarily sized battery, you’ll have to settle with an abnormally sized phone. Smartron, the India-based company which had entered the market with a lot of promises and IoT ambitions, thinks it can surpass those notions. And it’s doing so with a new smartphone it likes to call the t....

However, once the chipset reached consumers, things started to go steeply downhill as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, while powerful, offered sub-par performance with CPU throttling issues and poor battery life. It was determined that this was due to the technical failures that came with using Samsung’s inferior 4nm manufacturing process. To address the damage and shortcomings of the 8 Gen 1, the San Diego-based company announced its latest Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset in May this year, jettisoning Samsung’s far inferior 4nm process in favor of TSMC’s N4 (4nm) manufacturing process....

But these Xiaomi fellows? No way. They won’t make it easy. So today we get a Save The Date (my date needs no saving, incidentally, I am trying to get rid of the leech! I rejected him the moment I went on a blind date and found out that the hound could see) with what looks like two plates on it. And I go “aha! Xiaomi is getting into crockery!...

Also, there are some SSD models which stand out from the rest, and just to get an idea, you should look at the best SSDs on the market, but you can also find budget models with more modest speeds, which are still blazing fast when compared to magnetic HDDs (an example here would be the Silicon Power Velox V20). But even the best SSDs out there need regular maintenance and tweaks, so they operate at peak performance throughout their lifetime, this is where SSD optimization comes into play....

Stuffcool has recently introduced a new wireless charger called the Stuffcool WC 630, which follows the brand’s philosophy. Now you might be wondering what can be unconventional about a wireless charger? After all, it is a product that leaves little to the imagination. Well, there is some out of the box-ness hidden in the WC 630 package. Round, very slim and yet sturdy Most wireless chargers designed with keeping a ‘one phone at a time’ mentality are generally not too bulky, but Stuffcool decided that “not bulky” is not good enough and has taken the sleekness of its wireless charger up a notch....

Today’s giveaway is EASEUS Partition Master 4.1.1 Professional edition. Previously known as EASEUS Partition manager, Partition Master Professional is a comprehensive hard disk partition management tool and system partition optimization software. The professional edition lets you enjoy all the powerful basic and advanced partition functions. It is tailor made for business users who run Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 x32 and x64 and want to optimize the disk usage and better manage disk space....

The lower and mid segments rule Not surprisingly, the top ten phones of the year are mostly from the mid and lower segments of the market. Of the top ten, three (the Samsung Galaxy A10, the Oppo A5s and the Xiaomi Redmi 7A) were from roughly the lower segment, while four (the Samsung Galaxy A50, the Oppo A9, the Samsung A20, and the Oppo A5) were from broadly what can be called the mid-segment....

CDMA in India CDMA as a technology had managed to find a use case in India by acting as substitute for wired landline connections. Wireless Local Loop (or WLL) was widely used by BSNL and Tata to provide landlines that could be used anywhere. Remember Tata Indicom’s Walky? BSNL being a landline operator had lower interconnect charges and WLL operators tried to leverage the same but had failed. After their inability to have the same interconnect charges as that of BSNL, WLL operators tried to convince TRAI that since CDMA required lesser spectrum than GSM, they should be allowed to provide full fledged CDMA services on the spectrum they got for WLL....

GigaOm, in collaboration with the Netherlands based Distimo, conducted a widespread survey of over 350 mobile apps all over Europe and the US. Distimo is an esteemed app analytics enterprise. A look at this detailed survey reveals many recent trends and future possibilities in the field of mobile apps development. Quite predictably, the trends lean towards iPhone, Android and related OS development. The survey also brought in to light some other potential facts....

ACROSS 1 The “mandatory” app that is triggering privacy vs safety debate in India. (7,4) 3 The world has Switched to its console in Covid times. (8) 5 We hear its planning to do its bit for fit kids by getting them a 4G smartwatch later this year. (6) 6 A breath of fresh Mi browsing that allegedly compromises your data. (4) 9 You and I are turning twelve, believe Mi....

There are numerous software available these days with the help of which we can create comic strips. A series of drawings kept in a connected manner to display brief humor often having some related texts in a box are called as comic strips. From ancient time we have a tradition of storytelling with the help of some sequential pictures. The technological evolution has made it much easier. We can use comic strips in presentations, blogs and in personal life for friends and family....

Before we get started, these hidden MIUI settings are present on Xiaomi, Redmi, Mi, and POCO devices running on MIUI 12 and above. However, some features may not be present on certain Xiaomi phones due to hardware limitations. We have tried our best to sort out the hidden settings that are compatible with maximum devices. Top 5 Hidden Settings in MIUI If you are an MIUI user from the 300 million userbase of Xiaomi smartphones, here are the Top 5 Hidden Settings in MIUI that will help you make the most of your Xiaomi device running on MIUI....

Are you looking for the 2014 Grammy Awards live online / 2014 Grammys online? Eager to find out who will win this year’s Record of the Year prize? Or how about the performance awards? The 56th Annual Grammy Awards / 2014 Grammys will take place on January 26, 2014 (this Sunday) and will be broadcast on live CBS in the United States at 8 PM EST and on ITV2 on Monday at 9 PM in the United Kingdom....

Some of these apps offer a few layers over what Google Maps have, but many of them operate on the Google Maps backbone, so, basically, you will see the same map (most of the times), but with a different level of details. On the other hand, some Map apps use topology maps (a.k.a. topo maps), these have great detail and terrain view, excellent for mountain hiking, but also have city and roads layers....

The wearables scene currently has taken a paradigm shift and Apple Watch has been at the center of it. The Cupertino folks yet again managed to carve a place by positioning themselves as a manufacturer that will cater to the “Premium” requirements of the buyers, especially with the $17,000 top end Apple Watch Edition. On the other hand, Fitbit, Garmin, Goqii, Jawbone and Misfit are tailor made to suit the fitness needs rather than bringing the notifications and apps on the wearables....

The company says, in order to facilitate secure and spam-free communication to its users, it has built an invitation-based mechanism for the Group Chat. By doing so, users get to the freedom to either ‘accept’ or ‘decline’ an invitation for a group chat. In case they decline the invitation, the feature ensures that not even the group admin can directly add them to the group. Furthermore, to offer privacy to its users, the feature hides the contact number of users in the group, unless, they have the other user’s contact number saved on their device, or they request them to see their contact number....

When it comes to video editors, the biggest question that arises is which one you should use? Some of them are very complicated to understand for beginners, whereas the ones that are easy to use compromise on many features. Finding the right balance between features and user-friendliness, we have come across VideoProc Vlogger, a free-to-use video editing software for Windows and Mac systems. What to look for in a video editor?...

Coming from Vivaldi, it might sound unusual that a company, whose purpose is to get people to use the internet, is offering a mode to its users to help them unplug from the internet and take breaks to focus on things that matter more. However, it’s 2020, and with the COVID-19 pandemic upon is, and the way things are reeling, this site is not that difficult to fathom after all....

It does not matter if you are a football fan or not. Super Bowl is kind of a big deal anyway. Super Bowl 46 is scheduled for Feb 5th 2012 and will be fought between AFC champion New England Patriots and the NFC champion New York Giants to decide the NFL champion for the 2011 season. This will be the first Super Bowl to be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis....

So what is RCS, and how can it change messaging on Android? Let us explain! What is RCS and how does it work? RCS (Rich Communication Services) is a communication protocol between phones and carriers that aims to replace the old conventional SMS (Short Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) services with a more interactive messaging experience. The idea behind replacing SMS and MMS with RCS is to make the messaging experience on Android on par with the modern standards, which allow users to enjoy a rich messaging experience, much like Apple’s iMessage or some of the popular internet-based messaging services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger....