The Science Guy takes you to class “Bill Nye on the Science of Switching to Chromebook” is an almost three-minute-long ad. It starts with Nye (who is known for being a presenter on many science shows and is known as Bill Nye the Science Guy), explaining how fear is our natural evolutionary response to the unknown. How we have developed it cope with the dangerous world around us. And how, now that we are not living in caves anymore, it should not keep us from switching to a Chromebook!...

https://youtu.be/BJq4d1-lHq8 Let there be Portrait Lighting…let there be studio lights! The 39-second long ad, titled “iPhone X — Studio in your pocket” features a young woman at a busy railway station. She looks around, reaches for her iPhone X that is in her pocket and just when she takes a selfie all sorts of professional photography equipment – umbrellas, studio, softboxes, you name it – materializes around her, almost out of thin air....

Encouraging you to zoom in… The campaign called, “Dur se dekha toh” (“when seen from a distance”) so far has two ads in it, both 41 seconds long. The first ad starts with someone’s long wet hair flicking in the sun as the person tries to dry them, while two “gentlemen” look out of their house window from afar, hoping to catch a glimpse of the face of the person, who they assume is a woman (long hair, duh!...

While a mere rating might not be a major deterrent for most users, there are still a handful of people who are nit-picky and take into consideration all the various aspects of a smartphone before making a decision. So, for those who find themselves in this category, here’s a detailed explanation on IP ratings. What is an IP rating? IP or Ingress Protection is the standardized rating used to determine the level of protection that the devices offer against foreign objects....

The convenience of simply installing an app eventually ate up a major chunk of tracking devices’ business. However, there’s still a market for these dedicated utilities primarily for a little more advanced and specific purposes like keeping track of a fleet of taxis, a pet, or even a child who is not old enough to carry a phone around. We’ve been testing one of such tracking devices available in the market — the LT Personal Mega by an India-based company called Letstrack....

LG Velvet: Design and Display In terms of design, the Velvet features what LG likes to call a Symmetrical Ellipse design and has a teardrop notch on the top for the front camera. The back of the device has a triple-camera setup, with three small circular lenses in decreasing order of their size. Towards the front, it has a 6.8-inch Cinema FullVision display with a 20.5:9 aspect ratio. LG Velvet: Performance At its core, the LG Velvet is powered by the Snapdragon 765G processor with Adreno 620 GPU and X52 modem for 5G connectivity....

The Orico power bank also lets you power portable refrigerators, notebooks and offers multi-port charging facility. The Orico Moups offers four USB ports and also supports QuickCharge 3.0 with the maximum rated output of up to 18W. Furthermore, the power bank comes baked in with LED lights which will help you while camping. The Orico Moups is more of an UPS and the 220V AC outlet in addition to the DC outlet will let you charge/power an array of devices....

The app is called “Memoji” and it has been developed by the same team (Lightricks) who’s responsible for the famous photo-editing tool, Facetune. Memoji’s purpose is quite straightforward, it morphs any picture you upload into animated emojis. Currently, the app comes with 11 emoji options, including heart eyes, sunglasses, horned devil, snorting, blowing kisses, unicorn, and more. Memoji also isn’t particularly limited to selfies, you can point it to any face and its intelligent image-processing technology will do the job for you....

The Mi Air Purifier 2 is a compact smart home product from Xiaomi that does exactly what it says. Unlike other air purifiers, though, this one can be controlled directly via the Mi Smart House App. It not only allows you to control the air purifier remotely but also check the quality of air in the room at any given time. Xiaomi claims that their air purifier is capable of removing 99....

And now Microsoft seems got itself back into Selfiestan (thank you for that term, Gionee – really!) with another new app that seems targeted at the selfie-snapping crowd – Sprinkles (or “Sprinkles – Camera With Fun Ideas,” to give it its full designation), which is currently iOS-only. Yes, we said “seems” because Microsoft itself has not said that the app is meant for just selfies but in the age of Snapchat and the like, we see this being very popular in the “go snap yourself” segment....

The Surface Pro 2 still carries the 10.6-inch ClearType HD display, but with additional 46% color accuracy. Microsoft claims that Surface Pro 2 is faster than 95% of laptops today, but that’s clearly due to Intel’s Haswell processors inside the VaporMG casing of Surface Pro 2. As we know, Haswell greatly enhances the battery life with its low power requirement while increasing the graphics performance by 50%. The new Docking Station accommodates the Surface Pro 2 with the power cover attached, and is loaded with three USB 2....

As far as titles are concerned, Jeff Weiner will be staying as the CEO reporting directly to Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft. The Redmond tech giant also stated that LinkedIn will be functioning as its own brand, culture, and independence as of now. Microsoft is expecting to amplify its services social integration with the professional network providing customers better consistency and synchronization across both platforms. LinkedIn will be benefiting by reaching a vast audience with Microsoft’s immense corporate software ecosystem ameliorating their diminishing growth....

Right off the bat, the e5 Plus does indeed look good. The display up front is now an 18:9 panel and the bezels appear to be pretty slim, except for the chin which has a prominent branding reminding you that you’re using a Motorola device each time you look at your phone. We wish they instead made the bottom symmetric with the top which would give the device a much sleeker look....

Motorola One Fusion+: Design and Display In terms of design, the phone features a plastic back and comes in two colorways: Twilight Blue and Moonlight White. Upfront, it has a 6.5-inch Full HD+ Total Vision IPS LCD panel that offers a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The display is HDR10 certified and supports the DCI-P3 color space. Performance Talking about performance, the Motorola One Fusion+ is powered by the Snapdragon 730G, which is an octa-core chipset, clocked at 2....

“Evolutionary, not Revolutionary” The inimitable Lauren Goode, senior writer at Wired held up iPhones XS and XS Max in a video after the event explaining that the phones were not that different to look at from the iPhone X. “It does have strengthened glass, which is supposed to be the most durable for an iPhone, which is what I’m probably going to need because I dropped a couple of these and they do shatter, and scratch....

Nokia 5.3 Starting off with the Nokia 5.3, which falls in the mid-segment (under-200 USD price point), the latest offering from the company comes with an all-glass design, similar to the Nokia 8.3, with Corning’s Glass protection on the front and the back. Towards the front, there is a 6.55-inch HD+ display with a waterdrop-style notch for the selfie camera. The display offers a 20:9 aspect ratio with a 1600 x 720 pixels screen resolution....

Starting off with what stands out when the device is held in hand for the first time, that amazing build quality. Nokia is known to build their phones like a tank and the 6.1 is no exception. The body is carved out of a single block of 6000 series Aluminum with chamfered edges giving it a premium look. Even though the smartphone looks and feels great, the back has a very smooth matte finish which makes the device extremely slippery in the hand, and the sharp edges just add to misery....

Right, let me get this off by stating that I am going to miss being in the market, as I am on the way out. And it has been great being here and I would like to thank Carl, Pete and… Bro! Do you mind? I am trying to make a statement here! But bro, this is about me, right? I mean this review is really about me. Review? I was told it was an interview… No really....

The Oppo Enco Free follows the ongoing trend of truly-wireless earbuds and adopts a similar design language, except for the added silicone ear tips. Instead of offering a single kind of ear tip, the Enco comes with two distinct designs: in-ear tips for a more secure fit and semi-in-ear tips for offering some breathability. One of the interesting highlights of the earbuds is the Binaural Simultaneous Bluetooth transmission, which claims to offer a synchronized audio experience by delivering sound to both ears simultaneously....

Punching well above their audio weight…and with a bass mode too! And that is because, for Rs 1,999, the Oppo Enco M31 deliver the kind of sound you expect from earphones that cost about two to three times as much. Manufacturers have been trying to deliver more budget-friendly Bluetooth earphones for a while – the likes of Sony, JBL, Xiaomi, Realme and most recently OnePlus, all have devices in the region of around Rs 2000....