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Ten years ago, Nokia was still a smartphone brand to reckon with, Apple did not make Bluetooth earbuds, smartwatches were a rarity, Gionee was the main Chinese brand in India, and Google’s phones were called the Nexus. So yes, a lot can change in ten years. But even by those standards, what OnePlus has achieved in slightly less than a decade (the brand was founded in late 2013) in the Indian market is staggering....

Gionee Marathon M5 will be launching in Bangalore next week, i.e November 24 and to start with, it will retail as online exclusive. We expect the phone to be priced around Rs 18,700 (or in fact a little lesser). The M5 is fitted with a 5.5-inch HD display and draws its power from a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6735 processor coupled with a 3GB RAM. On the storage front, the phone offers 32GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot that can further accommodate 128GB....

Gionee claims that its new smartphone has the largest capacity in the world, and that is probably true, as the single competitor that comes to mind is the little known Innos D600. The Marathon M5 comes with an extreme mode where 5% of the battery life can ensure up to 62 hours on standby. Furthermore, Gionee has equipped the device with dual charging chips for fast charging, as well. The new battery is a welcome improvement over the Marathon M3, which had a capacity of 5,000 mAh....

What is Gmail Priority Inbox? Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules. Gmail has always been top notch when it comes to classifying certain messages as spam. But now, with this experimental feature, it will help you classify and prioritize the non-spam messages as well. Users can help improve the feature by customizing it to their needs and it will learn with the time....

Besides debuting on the three new Nexus devices, Android 5.0 Lollipop will be available on the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, and Google Play Edition devices in the coming weeks, as well. Judging by the new features, Android Lollipop is the biggest visual improvement since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The visual enhancements and user interface improvements have bee dubbed Material Design. Android Lollipop comes with new, more fluid animations, a cleaner design with a bolder color palette, a revamped multittasking menu, and now comes with new ways to interact with your voice....

So, what is Google Buzz? What is Google Buzz? Google Buzz is a new social communication tool which is Google’s take on “status updates” on popular sites like Facebook and Twitter. The best part of Google Buzz is that it integrates right into your GMail account. Google Buzz brings the underlying social network feature of Gmail to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most....

But Google is now apparently interested in improving its Chrome browser, at least for Android users. A fresh blog entry on the Google India website says that the company will be rolling out a new feature to Android devices that will optimize Web pages so they load faster on slow 2G connections. What’s curious is that this will be available only to Indian users, at least for now, as Google is also launching this feature in Brazil soon....

With the exponential rise in 360-Degree and VR content, it is a no-brainer for Google to come up with such an advanced VR camera rig. By the way, this piece of imaging marvel doesn’t come cheap and will leave a void of $17,000 in your bank account. The 16 cameras are arranged along the periphery in a circular manner and all of these can be managed via the Android companion app....

Hence, from now on, users will be able to set multiple stops fabricating a much convenient route. Once the traveller reaches a particular spot, Maps will automatically commence guiding them to the next one and additionally, figure out a suitable track keeping all the stations in mind. Currently, there seems to be no limit on how many spots you’ll be able to input and when the addition will roll out to everyone....

Let’s clear this out right away. Unlike Google Chromecast, HalfTicket TV isn’t meant for streaming content from your smartphone or tablet to your television (although that’s possible as well). Instead, it’s meant to work as a standalone device with Android on board, capable of streaming content from the internet directly on to your television. It’s not too tough to understand why this change of approach. HalfTicket TV is originally a “Curated Video on Demand Megastore” which hinges on “Content Discovery” which is surely a challenge considering how huge the internet as become....

Of course, all is not perfect with them. Nothing is perfect, right? The problem with planar headphones is that they are heavy, bulky, and right now, rather expensive. And not too many brands make them – Audeze and HifiMan are the most prominent (although Oppo does make them too). It is almost impossible to get a pair under Rs 15,000. This is why we are rather delighted to see a pair of surprisingly and relatively new planar headphones for as little as Rs 11,999....

The HitPaw Photo Enhancer is one such photo enhancer. It uses AI and offers a one-click solution to remove noise from images and unblur them. So, if you’ve snapped a blurry photo with your phone, downloaded one from the internet, or got a few old ones from back in the day, you can use the program to remove noise and blur and enhance their quality. Here’s everything you need to know about the HitPaw Photo Enhancer....

As we can see the four propellers are guarded by a caged enclosure made up of Carbon Fiber and this will ensure that you don’t damage the propellers during an accident. The caged propellers also boast of an increased level of overall safety. The company has told Engadget that the Hover Camera had to be built completely from scratch since using off the shelf component for such a small devise would not be recommended....

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However, Microsoft did not add support for Android apps in early beta builds and also the latest public build leaving people wondering if the tech giant had dropped plans for it completely. Thankfully, Microsoft has gone ahead and announced Android app support on the latest Windows 11 Insiders beta build. Today, we will have a detailed look at how you can download these apps on your Windows 11 machine and also run them natively with ease....

By default, any Android phone displays the home screen in portrait orientation and while the portrait orientation suffices in most of the scenarios, some prefer the landscape mode to better accommodate shortcuts and widgets. Now with the new feature, you can set the home screen in landscape mode without the need for a third party app. First things first, in order to set your home screen in landscape mode it is required that you set Google Now as the default launcher....

For the uninitiated, Instapaper and Pocket are two bookmarking apps that allow you to save articles that come across as interesting to you on the internet. Basically, with these apps installed on your smartphones or computers, you can save things that you would like to read/revisit at a later time. And by integrating your accounts on these services with Kindle, you can essentially leverage your Kindle to read the articles from Instapaper and Pocket, in much the same way as you do with eBooks....

With prices on printers going down, in many cases, it’s cheaper just to buy a new printer than to get new cartridges for the old one. Nevertheless, there are ways around this issue, which will allow you to save some money on printer ink and printer cartridges. So, until prices go down on printer consumables, your best bet is to try these methods and see how much money you can save up....

Having a larger number of WiFi connections around often makes the job slightly tedious, wherein you need to switch between saved networks manually to get the optimum data speeds. This problem is especially evident in workplaces or large houses where there are multiple WiFi connections available for every specific area of the place. Living at a time when even daily tasks like setting alarms can be regulated using AI-based voice assistants, it’s quite counter-intuitive to prioritize a WiFi connection manually on an Android phone....

If 2021 was the year of word-based AI language models, 2022 has taken a leap into Text-to-Image AI models. There are many text-to-image AI models available today that can produce high-quality images. Stable Diffusion is one of the most popular and well-known options. It is a fast and stable model that produces consistent results. The process of image generation is still somewhat mysterious, but it is clear that Stable Diffusion produces excellent results....