The Great Suspender is not a new extension of its kind, but it is definitely amongst the best and that’s why we’re covering it. This Chrome extension lets you manually suspend tabs but keeps them available in the tab bar without draining your CPU usage. Ever tab that you load in your Chrome browsers takes up memory, and even if you don’t use it, it becomes inactive but still slows down your brows and the entire system....
At the 42nd annual general meeting in Mumbai, Reliance Industries chairman, Mr Mukesh Ambani, made a series of stunning announcements around Reliance Jio and Jio Fiber Home broadband services. Here is a list of announcements: Reliance Jio Fiber Details The base plan of Reliance Jio Fiber will have a speed of 100Mbps and will cost Rs 700 per month. Mr Ambani stated that the average speed of home broadband services in the US is around 90Mbps and India will soon have access to high-speed home broadband very soon....
Those were the words of a colleague when they were asked to sign an embargo for a soon to be launched product. And no, they were not the words of a person jealous of a high-profile rival. Sure enough, the product embargo was broken by a few distinguished people. And that once again gave rise to an issue that is being increasingly debated in the Indian tech media: “Does signing embargoes for products or honoring them make any sense?...
The Galaxy J2 is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core Exynos 3475 SoC paired with a 1GB of RAM and a 4.7-inch WVGA display. Smart Manager is a new real time optimisation feature from Samsung, which will monitor the smartphones performance on real time and optimises it accordingly, thus saving up on precious RAM memory. The storage department is handled by a 8GB internal storage as opposed to the paltry 4GB on its predecessor, the microSD card slot can accommodate up to a staggering 128GB of memory, which is a rarity in this segment....
The Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime 2 packs a 5.5-inch FHD display and is powered by an Exynos 7 chipset that is clocked at 1.6GHz and coupled with 3GB of RAM. As far as storage is concerned Samsung is offering 32GB of internal memory which is expandable up to 256GB via the hybrid microSD card slot. Imaging options on the Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime 2 include a single 13-Megapixel rear camera setup with LED flash and a 13-Megapixel selfie/front camera....
Unabashedly big and bulky Yes, it does come with other gifts too. As we observed in our first cut, the phone is neither super slim (9.7 mm) nor lightweight (211 grams), but it is built on excellent lines. The kind of solidity that makes you worry about the surface it landed on rather than the phone itself when it takes a fall. It is susceptible to dust and water, though, so we would recommend being a little careful in that regard....
Since the Samsung Pay is not exactly a cross-platform feature one needs to own a Samsung device. The list of eligible Samsung Galaxy smartphone includes Galaxy S7 Edge, Galaxy S7, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A7 (2016), Galaxy A5 (2017) and also Galaxy A7 (2017). The Samsung Pay works on three levels of security including fingerprint authentication, card tokenization and also the Samsung KNOX. How to use Samsung Pay?...
The listing has been removed since then, but you can see in the above screenshot the cached page. It’s quite weird that the device has first popped up at a place where one would usually expect camera equipment to be up for sale. The listing describes the Galaxy View as Samsung’s biggest Android tablet & movable media display, which speaks about its destined use. Here are some more details from its description: The slate is priced at $600 for the 32GB version, which is apparently WiFi only....
The Galaxy S10 series is expected to be one of Samsung’s most significant upgrades as it marks the tenth anniversary of the lineup. Much of that has already been leaked, courtesy of the countless reports over the past few weeks. While the majority of glass exterior is said to remain identical, the Galaxy S10 phones will feature Samsung’s new Infinity-O display which essentially means the front sensors like selfie camera will be tucked away in a tiny little notch at the top-right corner....
What is VoIP? How you can use it to reduce Telephone bills? Although, to use an internet system such as VoIP, you will need a smartphone connected to the internet or a telephony adapter, for your phone back home (this TA plugs into your DSL modem or cable and into the phone), but, nowadays these are all over the place, and you can get them at reasonable prices, it’s not that much of a drawback....
1. Sony and Microsoft making portable versions of consoles The gaming world is getting mobile with a vengeance but you would not guess it if you observing the two console behemoths. Even as Nintendo is racking up record sales with a console that can function both as a traditional console as well as a portable one, both Sony and Microsoft have stuck to their “a console has to be plugged into a television” guns....
The Snapdragon 700 series by Qualcomm slots right below the flagship 800 series and is generally used in higher mid-range smartphones. The newly announced Snapdragon 720G caught our interest since Snapdragon 710 (and 712) which was a staple for brands launching phones in the Rs 15,000 to Rs 18,000 segment is now quite old, and the next chip in the series, which is the Snapdragon 730G jumps up a tier in terms of price due to superior performance....
The front camera also comes with a Superior Auto mode, which automatically adjusts photos for the lighting conditions. Even more, there’s an auto scene recognition function and a few selfie camera apps that can be used to add fun graphics and animations to their images. This smartphone puts a big focus on its camera features, that’s why it also comes with Portrait Retouch, which lets users to perform real-time makeover of up to two people....
The IMX318 is the first mobile 1/2.6-inch stacked CMOS sensor with inbuilt hybrid autofocus capable of locking focus in 0.03 seconds and 3-axis electronic image stabilization. It has a maximum resolution of 22.5-megapixels (5488 x 4112-pixel count) and Sony says that the IMX318 will start shipping in May this year which falls just in line with the possible Xperia Z6 announcement (probably at IFA 2016). Sony also mentions that the IMX318 is manufactured using the smallest unit pixels (measuring 1....
Sony has always been top-notch when it comes to its flagship ANC headphones. They added USB Type-C and improved comfort with the XM3 and then followed it up with the XM4 with even better ANC and multi-device support. The Sony WH -1000XM4 was a clear recommendation with its excellent sound and comprehensive features. Now that more and more people are moving to hybrid work models, ANC with Bluetooth headphones is more important than ever....
Top 10 Android Dictation and Voice Recording Apps And if you own an Android smartphone, then the following list will most certainly catch your eye. Some of these apps are more than simple voice recorders, some offer the possibility of voice to text. Keep in mind that speech to text apps are still in development. Even the best apps will make some mistakes and will not understand at some point, so don’t be too judgemental....
Right, so what is a Chromebook? Simple. It is a notebook that runs on Google’s Chrome operating system (OS). Chrome OS + Notebook = Chromebook Wait, Chrome is an OS?! I thought it was a browser. Yes, it is a browser. But it is an operating system too. The first Chromebooks were seen in 2011. So, means it is like Windows and Mac OS? Well, to be honest, yes and no....
ACROSS 1 The Honor 8 Pro hashtag that took a poke at the OnePlus 5. (4,2,6) 4 The phone is still around, with a 5.2-inch display that would do a Kindle proud. Yoda would approve. (4,5) 5 Step aside, Apple’s Rose Gold, there’s a new rose shade in Taiwan from Samsung. (4) 7 This pod won’t sprout into an Apple tree, but it will sit nicely in your home and play music....
A simple answer would be: great specced products at relatively affordable prices. But that is way too simplistic. If a low price tag blended with decent specs were all that mattered, a number of companies – many of whom have spent far more on conventional advertising and distribution channels – would have been where the Chinese brand is today. No, the “affordable price” theory is only a small part of the Xiaomi success equation....
If you’re still not quite familiar with the concept, go ahead and read our previous guide on this, called Everything You Need to Know About the USB Type-C, in order to learn more about the new standard. But if you’d rather prefer to go through the most important feature of the USB Type-C and why it will matter when deciding whether to buy a OnePlus 2 or not, here’s what you should know:...
