For those from another planet, Apple introduced its first ever wireless earphones– the AirPods along with iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Although they arrived in the market only a few weeks back, ever since Apple took the wraps off the device, AirPods have become the ear (if not eye) candy which everyone clearly does not like but cannot stop talking about. AirPods have been repeatedly criticized and made fun of because of their conventional or as some might call it ‘boring’ design....

Half a minute of consistent messaging The social media platform recently added four ads in the campaign, all of which were half a minute long and had the same basic message. The first ad featured an elderly couple whose daughter lived away from them. In the wake of the pandemic and how it is particularly dangerous for the elderly, the couple gets a strict warning from their daughter to stay indoors....

The most peculiar thing about Messenger is that if you want, it will work as a barebones SMS client but there are a ton of assisting features spread all across the application. To start off, Messenger comes coated with Material Design with a primary green accent. After logging in using your email address, you’ll be directed to the homepage which is quite straightforward – a list of conversions categorized based on time frames and a floating button on the bottom right for starting a new one....

The Meizu Pro 6 has reportedly managed to score a whopping 99,948 AnTuTu score. While this score is indeed impressive we need to understand how the Helio X25 fares against the other flagship chips. While the Helio X25 leaves behind Kirin 950 it is still lags behind the Snapdragon 820 and the Exynos 8890, perhaps something that has to do with the GPU. The Huawei Mate 8 powered by the Kirin 950 SoC scored 94,250....

The Helio X25 is an iterative upgrade to the X20 with a few changes in the core management and an ability to clock at higher frequency. The design aspects of the core is nearly identical with the X20 as even the X25 heralds with a tri-cluster architecture which is based on the 10 cores. The higher frequency we were talking about earlier refers to the Cortex A72 cores which can be throttled all the way up to 2....

The rumour of the JV might surprise some (it did surprise us too) but on closer inspection, you can see similarities between the two companies as regards their household automation aspirations. Xiaomi has been releasing devices like rice cookers and water purifiers, while YU has been trying to bring out software solutions like Around YU and fitness bands. The Famili brand will allow both brands to pool their not inconsiderable resources and bring to the Indian market a whole new array of household automation products....

Today, the Government of India has banned yet another app from Xiaomi and this time it’s the Mi Browser Pro which is essentially the default browser app that comes pre-installed on Xiaomi, Redmi, and Poco smartphones. A few months back, Xiaomi’s Mint browser was under the radar for tracking usage patterns of users even in incognito mode which raised privacy concerns. Now, the Mi Browser Pro has been banned in the country rendering the default browser useless on phones running on MIUI....

The Windows 10 Mobile powered flagship phones are being launched in India within a month of global availability. The smaller Lumia 950 is fitted with a 5.2-inch display and the larger sibling 950 XL comes with a 5.7-inch screen, both the displays offer a pixel density of up to 544ppi. Both devices come with Organic OLED display with an improvised glance screen which lets user take a look at the important notifications right on their screen without waking up the device....

Microsoft says it’s the most substantial revolution the smartphone will encounter and honestly, we can’t argue with that given how far they’ve come with their universal platform agenda. Touting them as “Cellular PCs”, Microsoft has been able to employ the x86 code found with the Windows 10 on the mobile ARM architecture. In layman’s terms, this will essentially allow using the traditional desktop operating system as well as software on mobile processors....

TicPods 2 and TicPods 2 Pro: Similarities The TicPods 2 and TicPods 2 Pro both share a wide range of features in common. To being with, they come with the same onboard touch controls (on either of the earbud stems) that offer easy access to the voice assistant, along with the ability to quickly skip tracks or adjust the volume. Besides this, the two also come with support for AAC and aptX codecs for high-quality audio streaming....

For, the other foldable phones that we have seen thus far have tried to compress a tablet into a phone’s form factor. The idea has been to deliver a bigger display within a normal – or what passes for “normal” these days – smartphone’s frame. Whether it is the much talked of Galaxy Fold or the Huawei Mate X, the core idea has been – a normal smartphone when folded, a tablet when opened....

The VPN service is paid and as of now, in the beta stages, the tariff is $4.99 per month which also includes Firefox Private Network’s browser-level protection. Using a VPN has its own advantages. You get access to blocked websites as well as an added layer of security while browsing the web that can mask your actual location. Firefox isn’t the first browser to come with a VPN service baked in....

Australia did win the Test series 2-1. Brett Lee did not play a single match. Australia, in fact, used a lesser known but more effective bowler called Michael Kasparowicz in his place. But so much hype had been built around Lee that many felt that the Indian team had spent a lot of time preparing to combat him and as a consequence paid much lesser attention to other players. And far from depending on all out speed (as the focus on Lee had indicated), Australia actually opted for a slower, grinding down approach which caught India totally off guard....

Well, those were not exactly the words that were said to Peter Parker by a concerned relative in Spider-Man. But had he been a Techie rather than a Web-slinger, we guess that is exactly what would have been said. For while being talked about is always good, it also does spike off rumors and leaks (alleged and real), and those can be a little bit of a double edged sword....

But according to fresh information coming from Forbes’ Ewan Spence, it seems that OnePlus will be promoting the upcoming handset as the ‘OnePlus 2′. So, this means that it won’t be called OnePlus Two, but OnePlus 2. It’s not such a big deal, but it will help you when you will search online. And, if you ask me, Samsung should’ve done the same thing for the Galaxy line of products straight from the beginning....

Now, replace Ali with OnePlus and Frazier with the Poco F1, and you will realize why we think the clash between these two devices has the potential to be on par with those two sporting legends. On the one hand, you have the very settled Never Settler, the OnePlus, which has made a name for itself by providing not just very good hardware and software but also some eye-catching design, and just like Ali had earned himself the tag of People’s Champion, OnePlus has pretty much made itself the prime option when it comes to budget flagships....

Often referred to as the “flagship killer of 2014,” the OnePlus One is one heck of a great smartphone to ignore. It packs in the top-of-the-line hardware modules coupled with software from Cyanogen Inc. But as impressive as the OnePlus One is, it too comes riddled with a few glitches here and there. As we pointed out earlier this week, there are a number of issues the phone ships with leaving users confused about many a things....

As already mentioned, OnePlus has always been at the edge to deliver some of the most stylish looking smartphones inspired by some of the best-looking racing cars. Following this trend, and taking a leap even further, it has not come up with its concept phone that takes design inspiration from McLaren’s 720S Spider sports car, which is popular for its retractable hardtop that features an electrochromic glass panel to quickly switch between tinted and transparent states....

In terms of design, the Oppo Reno Z sports a similar design language to the other Reno series smartphones, with the 3D curved glass body with Aluminum mid-frame and the same O-Dot point on the rear to protect the device’s camera lens. And a 6.4-inch 2340 × 1080 pixels screen resolution Full HD+ 19.5:9 AMOLED HDR display on the front. At its core, the Reno Z is powered by a 12nm-based Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P90 processor with IMG PowerVR GM 9446 GPU, paired with 6GB / 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB / 256GB of storage....

After the backlash in India, the company is now receiving disapproval from groups in Indonesia, Colombia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe among many other places. Sixty people from digital-rights groups in 28 countries or regions around the world have come together to sign a joint letter addressed to Zuckerberg expressing their dissent to Internet.org’s practices on fairness, privacy and security. “It is our belief that Facebook is improperly defining net neutrality in public statements and building a walled garden in which the world’s poorest people will only be able to access a limited set of insecure websites and services....