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The Nest doorbell comes fitted with a “Nest Hello” camera alongside a mic and speakerphone. Needless to say, it will allow the house owners to see who is at the door and also allow the latter to speak up via the microphone. Nest is keeping mum on the pricing, but the company says that the device will be available from the first quarter of 2018. Moving on, the Nest Secure is a motion sensor that comes along with a keypad button....

As per the new data policy which is hidden under fine print, Henceforth, customers will be charged at 4 paisa per 10KB on 3G and 10 paisa per 10KB on 2G when they make voice calls using services like Skype, Viber, Google Hangouts etc. WhatsApp is rumored to start providing free voice calling feature soon. Internet data includes voice data, video data and text data, but never before a carrier has dared to charge extra for one of the types alone....

With the passing of the days, the web-based giant has come with an upgraded variant, which packs powerful hardware specifications and a small, crisp screen, fully equipped with a touch-screen panel and various connectivity ports. And of course, there’s a catch: the price. The New Chromebook Pixel, by Google Getting into details, the newest Chromebook Pixel has preserved the design marks of its predecessor, which can be seen as a rather shy move from Google....

Starting with one of the highlights of the device, the Nokia 6.1 Plus both looks and feels GREAT to hold in the hand. It’s very important to understand this so let’s spend some extra time on the design. The glass back gives it a premium look, while the metallic sides give an assuring feel while using the device. But the most important thing is how easy it is to use the Nokia 6....

No secrets anymore? We can keep some A few days ago, I had written a grumpy piece about how launch events had become reduced to leak confirmations and price announcements. Well, credit where credit is due – most people were totally caught off balance by the spec sheet of both the Redmi Note 7 and the Note 7 Pro. While most were predicting they would be between Rs 10,000-15,000 types, in best Redmi Note tradition, not many expected a main Sony sensor and a Snapdragon 675 chip on the 7 Pro....

And as we’re getting closer to the release of the next-generation OnePlus 2, it seems that the company is more and more interested in getting as many sales as possible from the current one. Obviously, once the next-gen gets released, that’s what consumers will be most interested in. OnePlus will perhaps even further discount the OnePlus One, but the biggest share of sales should be coming from the OnePlus 2....

The premium price meant it didn’t reach as many households as something more accessible and affordable like LED TVs from competing brands and with the U series, that’s precisely what OnePlus is trying to address. We have been using the 55-inch U1 model for the better part of almost 3 weeks now and here is what we feel about it and we’ll tell you if you should get one or not under Rs....

So, the next time you open Gmail on Chrome, you will be greeted with a prompt like the one you see below Once you give it a go, Google Chrome will open all the mailto: links within Gmail! Thanks to some HTML5 code running in the background. There have been several browser extensions and plugins which were doing something similar before, but with the latest update, none of those add-ons are necessary....

Online Shopping: How Good Can It Be? Considering the fact that people today depend on man-made objects (clothes, electrics, electronics, mechanic equipments), there is no surprise that the shopping industry is the biggest in the history of mankind. And how can’t it be, when every single object on the planet is a potential new article for selling and buying? Because that is what shopping means after all: buying an object from someone who is selling it....

Realme 5i: Design and Display The Realme 5i comes with a polycarbonate back with the sunrise design and comes in two color options: Aqua Blue and Forest Green. Towards the front, it features a 6.5-inch HD+ LCD display with an 89.8% screen-to-body ratio, a 20:9 aspect ration, and 1600 x 720 pixels screen resolution with 269ppi pixel density. Realme 5i: Performance At its core, the Realme 5i has an 11nm octa-core Snapdragon 665 processor with Adreno 610 GPU, coupled with 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 64GB of internal storage (expandable up to 512GB with microSD card)....

The entry states that Asus had convened board of directors meeting and had adopted three motions, one of which was a change of its mobile phone strategy. As per the new strategy, Asus will henceforth, focus on the high profit, high return professional and e-sports mobile game market, targeting gamers and power users in the smartphone segment. This effectively means the end of the value for money Zenfone era. The change in strategy is evidently a consequence of the favorable reviews received by Asus’ ROG phone, even as its other devices find the going tougher against Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo....

Unlike the Huawei P20 Pro, Samsung’s three-camera arrangement won’t set a new benchmark in the industry which is expected considering the price. It consists of a regular 24-megapixel f/1.7 lens, an 8-megapixel wide-angle sensor, and a third 5-megapixel f/2.2 snapper for depth-sensing. On the front too, the Galaxy A7 offers a high-res 24-megapixel selfie camera which the company says is capable of letting in more light by pixel binning. Apart from that, though, the Galaxy A7 is your usual mid-range smartphone....

Samsung Galaxy M31: Design and Display In terms of design, the Galaxy M31 features a plastic body design with a dual-tone finish and comes in two color options: Ocean Blue and Space Black. Towards the front, it has a 6.4-inch Infinity-U Super AMOLED display with a 2340 x 1080 pixels screen resolution, up to 420 nits of brightness, and Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top. Samsung Galaxy M31: Performance At its core, the Galaxy M31 is powered by an Exynos 9611, which is an octa-core processor with Mali-G72MP3 GPU, coupled with 6GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 64GB / 128GB of UFS 2....

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 The all-new Galaxy Note 20 features a 6.7-inch S-AMOLED display with Full-HD resolution and a 60Hz refresh rate. Being a Samsung phone, the display employs the hole-punch cutout for housing the front-facing camera. Besides, there is also an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for authentication and Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top. The Note 20 comes in three colorways: Mystic Bronze, Mystic Gray, and Mystic Green....

The smart-home ecosystem as of now is a tad bit scattered and we do need several devices to control the in home gadgets and this calls for a need to aggregate all the features into a one single device and make it into the Nucleus of the house. Hubs are the devices which would bridge the gap between interconnected devices allowing users to control the devices singularly. The Hubs are nothing new infact smart home systems like WeMo, Wink Hub and SmartThings have been doing rounds in the market and the best part is that it is affordable....

If you are a regular YahooMail user, you might have observed the new interface. The trick involves making use of this new interface. There is no registration, you only need two things: a free Yahoo Mail account and mobile phone number where you want to send the free SMS. To get started, you need to switch from classic Yahoo Mail to new Yahoo Mail – here is the simple procedure:...

Till now, smartphone cameras were able to capture images in portrait mode, but the processing prowess of the chipsets wasn’t simply enough to capture and process videos with depth sensing. During one of the sessions with Indian journalists last month, Google’s Marc Levoy, who heads the Computational photography team for Pixel phones, had explained why it’s not possible to do live depth sensing for an elongated duration which is required to have portrait mode effect on videos....

The Xperia XZs is fitted with a 5.2-inch FHD Triluminious Display along with Dynamic Contrast Enhancer. Powering the device is the Snapdragon 820 coupled with a 4GB RAM. On the storage front, the Xperia XZs offers 64GB of Internal memory along with a microSD card support up to 256GB. The USP of this device has been its imaging capabilities that are almost at par with the more expensive Xperia XZ Premium....

They’re opposites, really. Clarity is as simple as a keyboard can be on the surface. There are no special options, prediction bar or gesture typing. Clarity’s dedication to simplicity is almost to a fault. You have very little control over the typing process. It’s very hard to go back and correct a spelling mistake. And these little things leave you frustrated. Fleksy ($1.99, free 30 days trial available) on the other hand is immensely opinionated when it comes to typing on Android....

The way things are going, we do not think we would be able to attend a traditional, human-packed, person to person launch event any time soon. This is why many brands have taken the online-launch-event route to release new devices and services. Companies like OnePlus, Xiaomi, Vivo, Realme have already had virtual events where they launched new products while brands like Microsoft and Apple are going to host their major annual events like Microsoft Build and WWDC online amid the ongoing crisis....