Author: Shubham Luthra

The road to Smart speakers with built in AI is slowly beginning to become crowded as we enter the phase of IFA 2018. The latest company to join the crowd being Anker. Anker is a well known brand in the market of speakers and it recently announced its IPX7 certified Anker Soundcore Flare S+ which comes with the support of Amazon Alexa. As per Christie Chen, brand director of Soundcore, “The most consistent request we’ve received for Flare has been to add a smart assistant.” The Anker Soundcore Flare S+ connects directly to the Alexa app for greater ease of…

We’ve lately been seeing faster websites these days, thanks to the initiatives like AMP and progressive web apps. A new heavy page capping feature has surfaced in Chrome Canary, according to XDA developers. This new feature will allow users to set a maximum size for a webpage. For eg. If a web page exceeds the size set according to you, say 1MB you’ll receive a warning at the top of the screen along with the option to pause loading. This feature however requires web pages to support the “pause sub-resource request”. To try out this feature, you’ll need to download…

Facebook has come up with a feature which would help you to stay away from the spoilers of your favourite movies or TV series. The new feature is being called as the keyword snooze feature. Earlier Facebook had already launched features like See first, Hide, Unfollow and snooze but with the Keyword Snooze you can now control what you see in your news feed. You can find this feature by clicking on the upper right hand menu in news feed. You can temporarily hide posts by selecting the keywords which would hide all the posts containing that keyword for 30…

In this modern era of technology, using the Internet is more of a necessity and we all use the Internet as data packs on our Smartphones. Many times it happens with most of the people that they end up using more data than for what they have paid as data pack and hence end up paying more for that extra data used. To solve this problem a bit Google came up with its own app named Datally which keeps a record of the data being used and apart from that lets the user save some amount of data with few…

We already had the reports of Android Messages coming into the limelight as an integrated web client experience, enabling you to text from the desktop itself. This feature is yet to be launched, but there’s already another news regarding Chrome OS doing the rounds. The news is that Chrome OS will also be getting its own dedicated integration with Messages as well. Although one mysterious thing over here is that when Android Messages is already pre-planned, then what is the need of Chrome OS message integration. After all, the Chrome OS is built upon the Chrome browser itself which will…

Vivo has come up with a new variant of the X21 smartphone which was launched earlier this year. The all new smartphone is known as Vivo X21i. Both the phones share the similar design and features with the main difference being the processing power of the devices and the fingerprint sensor placement. While the X21 came with Snapdragon 660 chipset, the X21i comes with Helio P60 SoC. Also the X21 came with in-display fingerprint sensor whereas the X21i has a rear mounted FP sensor. The Helio P60 chip features an in-built APU for handling AI tasks. Talking about the front,…

Honor, the sub brand of Huawei has announced it’s new flagship which is kind of a successor to the last year’s Honor 8 Pro. The Honor 10 was announced at an event in London and comes with a dual rear camera setup and a notch display. The design of the Smartphone looks very intriguing which features a glass and metal body. It is slightly similar to the Huawei’s recently launched P20 series thanks to the same notch at the top of the display. The Honor 10 also supports AI enhanced cameras which is kind of a USP of the device.…

One of the leading telecom operators of India, Bharti Airtel also known as Airtel has launched a new service which is one of a kind. Known as the Carrier digital platform it makes it easier for global carriers to do wholesale voice business with Airtel at the click of a button. This platform offers paperless sign up to global carriers along with quick voice interconnects and real-time traffic analytics. Airtel will also let the customers propose sell rates for their target markets. Apart from this Airtel also said that it will soon be providing a single window for product discovery,…

The Indian smartphone market has already seen a huge transformation since the entry of Chinese manufacturers in the country. The brands are targeting customers by giving a good quality device at a very cheap price which becomes kind of an irresistible deal. We have many such examples such as Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus, Coolpad and a lot more. Now, is the time for the television market to undergo a transformation and thanks to the new Chinese as well as Indian brands coming in, the transformation is turning out to be a reality. Daiwa, is one of the Indian brands which aims…

Some anonymous sources, which are close to President Trump have revealed some worrisome news. According to the sources, President Trump is thinking about imposing tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports. Out of this, the telecommunications sector will be most affected. Chinese tech giants, Vivo, Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus will have a hard time entering into American markets if the news is true. Lately, Trump had been in the news for not allowing Broadcom to buy the smartphone chips manufacturing giant Qualcomm. Apart from this he also announced tariffs on Aluminium and steel, in an effort to force American…

YouTube rolled out the option to download videos to view them offline in 2014 for Indian users. The latest update of YouTube app seems to cover the largest number of countries by far, totaling to 125 countries. The feature of making Youtube videos available offline is definitely very useful but it has some drawbacks as well. First of all, not all videos support this feature and many can’t be downloaded. Secondly, the videos which are available offline remain only for 48 hours and will be there only if it connects to a network. Also, the videos can be downloaded only…

Sony has been quite active in the ongoing MWC and along with the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact Smartphones, it has unveiled a new pair of wireless earphones. They have launched completely wireless Bluetooth stereo headsets which are compatible with both Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri. The Xperia Ear Duo are a type of smart Headphones which works through gestures. It can recognize head movements like shaking head or a quick nod which can be used to pick up or decline calls. According to Sony, the Xperia Ear Duo offers 4-hour battery life which is better than Samsung Gear IconX…

Bluetooth Audio has become a thing since past two years now. The trend started from Bluetooth Headphones and now it’s just not limited to that. There are multiple smart speakers and smart home ecosystems which are using the same. Many companies and consumers now seek Multi speaker and multi-room systems. Qualcomm recently announced that they will be making streaming the audio through Bluetooth much easier now by adding these capabilities to its Snapdragon 845 Mobile platform. What is this technology about? Qualcomm’s Broadcast Audio enables a single audio stream to be synchronized and shared with multiple devices using Bluetooth. There…

Google recently introduced the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) framework to Gmail through the developer preview of AMP for Email. According to the search giant, the main aim is to make email more engaging, interactive and actionable. With AMP for Email, developers can embed constantly updating widgets and include actionable functions in emails. You can do multiple things like browse content, RSVP to events and fill out forms without even leaving your Email. One will be able to browse and click on images on an email from for eg. Pinterest as you would from Pinterest’s website. The primary function of AMP…

Qualcomm is currently letting the users experience the performance of Snapdragon 845 with a Qualcomm Reference Design Platform before it’s launched in mobile phones. The chip uses new CPU core designs which are based on Cortex-A75 and A55. There are four of each in the processor, but they are no longer split into two separate clusters. This is the first SoC to support DynamIQ, which allows for a finer voltage/frequency control. The previous gen included max frequency of 2.47GHz while the Snapdragon 845 supports max frequency of 2.8GHz. Apart from this, it shows improvements in both integer and floating point…

Cryptocurrency was the new trend we saw emerging in last quarter of 2017. With Bitcoin making news every now and then, many more crypto currencies came into existence as well such as Ethereum. With the increasing prices of crypto currencies, their are people who want to steal them from their rightful owners. One such scam is the fake wallet available on Google Play Store. This week only we saw that cyber criminals have successfully uploaded a fake MyEtherWallet Android app on Google Play Store which asks the users their private key. Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko has posted on his Twitter…