Nokia Technologies is expected to return to the smartphone market sometime next year, but until that happens, it seems that the company has all the resources that it needs to tackle the booming virtual reality market, as well. Ozo is the company’s second hardware product since it has sold its handset division last year to Microsoft. Ozo is an orb-shaped next-generation camera which can capture 360-degree video and audio which is aimed at professional content creators and not regular consumers....

And today marks the entry of its first product in the market, called the Nothing ear (1). Coming in as a pair of wireless earbuds, the ear (1) are a collaborative effort between Nothing and the Swedish consumer electronics brand Teenage Engineering, with an aggressive price tag. Let’s dive in to take a closer look at what Nothing has to offer with these earphones. Design Starting with the design, the Nothing Ear (1) feature a traditional earbud-like design—in-ear style with a stem....

Design innovation varies in direction proportion to phone price If it is a budget segment smartphone, you can expect it to come with little to no design edges. In fact, the design would probably be an extra in this tech film. Move up to the mid-segment; you might see different colors, textures, or patterns on the back. But most mid-segment smartphones adhere to the same design basics, making the design more or less a side character, the sort you do not give a second glance to....

In a blog post, the company announces that the OnePlus 2 will have a fingerprint sensor. Well, it’s not an exclusive feature, as you might guess. There are a plenty of smartphones including iPhone 5s and up, and Samsung Galaxy S5 and up that boast this functionality. But a fingerprint sensor is a handy addition as it facilitates several features. One could, for instance, conveniently use it to unlock the lockscreen....

The OnePlus 3 is fitted with a 5.5-inch FHD Optic AMOLED display contained by the ultra thin bezels measuring up at just 0.75mm. The display is a 2.5D screen along with a protective layer of Gorilla Glass 4. Just incase, OnePlus will also be giving away free screen protectors with the OnePlus 3. OnePlus 3 is powered by the mighty Snapdragon 820 clocked at 2.2GHz and coupled with 6GB of RAM....

The OnePlus Loop VR headset will convert your smartphone into a full-fledged VR device and unlike last time the VR headset will be made out of robust materials and will not come in cardboard. Further the lenses can be tweaked in order to achieve the perfect visual experience. The straps are adjustable and the VR headset also comes with an inner-padding. Last time around, OnePlus had to encounter mixed reactions from its viewers and while most of them were anxious to try out the VR some of them found it to be nothing less than a hype....

To those immortal lines of Julius Caesar, uttered after conquering Gaul, the OnePlus 3 might add “Cessi.” In sum: “Veni. Vidi. Vici. Cessi.” Roughly translated: “I came. I saw. I conquered. I left.” For that is exactly what the third flagship – or flagship killer, to use OnePlus speak – did. It arrived in a storm of expectation (not least because its predecessor had stumbled a bit), delivered in spades, earned the sort of reviews that other brand flagships dream of, became the shadow that hung over every flagship released in subsequent months… And then was quietly consigned to history....

Most of the devices with glass backs are usually considered hard to repair. The chances are that the glass back might crack if more pressure is applied. However, on the OnePlus 6, things take a different turn. According to iFixit, the glass cover on the OnePlus 6 is relatively easy to fix. Once you are done with the glass cover it will lead to the battery bay. This is where the things are kept at its simplistic best....

Cutting back on a case and sound Of course, with that lower price come some compromises. And the most obvious of these is in the sound department. While the OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z does deliver sound at a decent volume, it is definitely a big step down from the Bullets Wireless 2. Yes, there is an attempt to deliver a slightly more bass-friendly sound (something which is assumed to be popular), but this sometimes tends to drown out other instruments and vocals....

A small help is the new Plume Air Report app from Plume Labs which is currently available for iOS and Android users. Described as a urban weather forecast which helps you breathe better, the app is currently covering more than 150 cities worldwide, including New-Delhi, Mumbai, New-York, Paris, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo. The app comes with predictive technologies that allow it to fetch air pollution forecasts which helps the user know how air pollution will change over the next few hours....

Starting with the name itself, the Snapdragon 888 is a successor to the Snapdragon 865, which is the current top-of-the-line chipset powering a majority of flagship devices out there, and a successor to the Snapdragon 855. And therefore, going by Qualcomm’s naming trend for the past few years, one expected the successor to the Snapdragon 865 to be called SD875. However, Qualcomm seems to have approached the naming with a different headspace this time around....

Realme Watch S Pro In terms of design, the Realme Watch S Pro features a circular dial with a 22mm lug width. It is built of stainless steel and has a polished finish on the front and a brushed finish on the sides. The watch offers up to 50 meters of water resistance. Upfront, there is a 1.39-inch display that comes in with a 454×454 pixel screen resolution at a pixel density of 326ppi....

In terms of design, both the 10,000mAh and 20,000mAh capacity power banks feature a polycarbonate body with a button at the bottom to view the remaining juice in the bank, which is highlighted using the LED indicators. Besides, the button can also be used to activate the low-power mode for charging low-power devices. To enable low-power mode, all that you need to do is double-press the button, and that’s it....

So how well does the Redmi Note 6 Pro fit those enormous shoes? Well, we would say that it fits them so well that some might indeed even wonder what is so new about it (it had also notched up some very impressive initial sales at the time of writing). We had highlighted the fact that in our first cut where we had felt that Xiaomi had largely chosen not to fiddle with a design and spec sheet that had worked so well for it in the past....

The Redmi Note 8 sticks to broadly the same formula as its Pro-less predecessors. But perhaps does so more effectively than any of them did! Redmi Note 8: Quad cameras (and a 48 MP one) at THAT price The “normal” Notes, in general, used to lag significantly behind their Pro counterparts in the camera department. And well, if you look closely at the Note 8, you will notice that it does too – it does not the 64-megapixel main sensor that the Note 8 Pro does....

Looks like the Redmi Watch In terms of design, the Redmi Watch 2 Lite broadly follows the template of the Redmi Watch, which is not a bad thing. This is a smart-looking watch. You get a slightly squarish display and a comfortable TPU strap with a conventional buckle. We got the blue strap in the box, but there are also pink, ivory, coral, and black options. The body of the watch is sturdy plastic, the display is glass, and the device has 5 ATM water resistance so that it can be taken swimming....

Success can be a tricky thing to handle. Of course, everyone hankers for it, but once you do get it, following it up can be a tough proposition. And that, we think, is what Samsung is discovering with the Galaxy S series of devices. The first Galaxy S made waves because of its excellent hardware and superb display – one could say that it was the first device that really made the most of the AMOLED display....

The smartphone is said to feature a 5.5-inch QHD display, which will put it to fight against such devices as the iPhone 6 Plus, the Galaxy Note 4, the LG G3 and others. The One M9 could feature a Snapdragon 805 processor with 3GB of RAM. According to the original source, HTC is going to drop the UltraPixel camera and will opt for a more market-friendly 16MP rear-facing shooter with optical image stabilization (OIS)....

The renders further showcased all the four color variants of the upcoming smartphones. For those wondering, the Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) and Galaxy J5 (2017) would be coming in Black, Blue, Gold and Rose Gold hues. Externally, these smartphones would come with a rather unconventional rear design. Instead of having horizontal antenna bands, Samsung had decided to make two U-shaped bands on the extreme top and bottom corners of the rear metal housing....

Samsung Galaxy M02: Design and Display In terms of design, the Galaxy M02 appears to have a textured finish on the back and comes in four colors: Blue, Gray, Red, and Black. Towards the front, it has a 6.5-inch HD+ (LCD) display with a teardrop-style notch to house the front-facing camera. Samsung Galaxy M02: Performance In terms of performance, the Samsung Galaxy M02 runs on MediaTek MT6739W, which is a quad-core processor with up to 1....