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Now, a fresh report coming from business publication Reuters seems to be suggesting that Taiwanese company Asus could actually be interested in taking over the company. Of course, this is actually a bold statement, but that’s how these deals usually get born – from an idea, a hearsay or somebody’s hot beans spilled all over. This time, it’s apparently Asus’ CEO Johnny Shih who made the comment in response to questions raised at its annual general meeting....

One of the noteworthy points about Asus’ date announcement for Zenfone 7 is that there would not be just one device that the company plans to announce on August 26. Instead, it would be a series, with more than one device, which is pretty evident since Asus is addressing it as the ‘Zenfone 7 series’. According to ReaMEIZU, the Zenfone 7 is currently under development and carries a model number: Z5670KS....

The Audio Technica ATH M50xBT is a wireless Bluetooth-version of the popular ATH M50x that have been around for a few years now. And in fact, have been a very much preferred choice for the people who want a wired headphone under Rs 10000. The headphones are an over-the-ear type of headphones and unfortunately, do not come with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), unlike most other over-the-ear headphones these days. Because of which, people have to rely on the passive noise cancellation, which could only manage to muffle down the sound to a certain extent....

Amidst the non-stop growth of the Android ecosystem and the eternal “premium” feel of iOS devices, RIM hopes to manage to bring back customers that are flocking away. With the launch of the 7 version of BlackBerry Messenger, the Canadian company has added a very appealing feature – free Wi-Fi voice calls with other BlackBerry users. Free Wi-Fi calls with BBM7 And, at first, you’d think that not too many will be convinced by this feature, since you won’t be able to call your grandmother who’s 1000 km away, right, and probably doesn’t have a Wi-Fi connection?...

In addition to that, the phone comes with a whopping 8GB of RAM, 32GB internal memory, and Android Oreo with possibly a custom skin on top. The screen resolution is mentioned as “2160 x 1080 px” which confirms that the phone will have a tall nearly edge-to-edge display with an aspect ratio of 18:9. It managed to attain a score of 270680 points on AnTuTu, which is roughly on par with other similarly specced phones....

Design and Display In terms of design, both the Black Shark 3 vanilla variant and the Pro variant feature a metal and glass design with the fourth-generation liquid cooling system. Towards the front, the regular Black Shark 3 comes with a 6.67-inch OLED display with FHD+ resolution, a 90Hz refresh rate, and a 270Hz touch sampling rate. On the other hand, the Pro gets a slightly bigger display, coming in at 7....

The Passport has been unfairly square-shaped in some quarters. It is definitely not that (the length and width are distinctly differently), but that said, at 90.3 mm, it certainly is one of the widest handsets out there (the Note 4, which seems big, is a mere 78.6 mm!), giving it a slightly slabbish appearance. Whether it looks good or bad, however, is going to be a matter of taste. Those addicted to large touchscreens with sliver like thickness will find it ghastly....

Boat, a brand that is well known in India for selling quality smartphone accessories, especially audio equipment like speakers and headphones, has had a go at a pair of pocket-friendly TWS options. They are called the Boat Airdopes 441 and they retail for a price of Rs. 2,499. We have been using them for about two weeks now, so here’s everything you need to know about the Boat Airdopes 441 before investing your money....

And a term that we can thank this camera couple for making very popular is “bokeh.” It is mentioned every time a company launches a dual camera device, often with the word “DSLR-like” accompanying it. But what is bokeh? And what does this term even mean? Well, sit back because we are going to dumb it down for you! When blurring is in When it comes to photography, the art generally demands the foreground and its subjects to be in sharp focus while the rest of the picture is blurred out....

Well, that was not the intention behind this post. If you remember, sometime back, I had discussed about the Browser War not showing any signs of cooling down and taken my website visitors stats as the case study. TechPP’s visitors come from across the globe and hence it should not be a bad idea to take it as a reference and imply further. 4 months down the line, it will be interesting to have a re-look on how things have changed (if at all!...

And as we’re nearing closer to the release date, Microsoft is busy behind the curtains tidying up and announcing new features that we’re going to see in the final version of Windows 10. One of these features is Device Guard, a new option which is aimed at enterprise customers who are looking to increase the security in their organizations. Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced Device Guard as a new Windows 10 security feature meant for enterprises who want to lock down their desktops....

Download Android 4.3 Images for your device These updates are available for download from the Google Developers page, where users can find other ROMs for different Nexus devices. Also, keep in mind that you will have to manually install these updates. So, for those that don’t want to wait for the OTA update, here are the Android 4.3 ROM Images: Factory Image “mantaray” for Nexus 10 – Android 4.3 (JWR66V) / MD5 Checksum: f80f2251356388b7151ac817cfada671 Factory Image “occam” for Nexus 4 – Android 4....

The phone comes with a 5.5-inch FHD (1080p) OGS display and will draw power from octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor clocked at 1.3GHz and paired with a 3GB of RAM. Intrestingly enough, the Auxus Prime 8000 runs on Android Lollipop 5.0 and the company promises an Android M update as well. Camera department is handled by a 13-Megapixel primary sensor and a 5-Megapixel secondary sensor. The device comes with Fingerprint sensor and is backed by a mammoth 4165 mAh battery pack....

In case you missed to catch up with the event, here’s every major announcement made on day one: Facebook To bring people together and help them connect with people who share the same interests, Facebook is making certain changes to bring groups at the center of its service. A series of such similar improvements in the Facebook app include: A completely fresh design, called FB5, that the company claims is simpler, faster, more immersive, and brings communities at the center....

Facebook is now gradually enabling end-to-end encryption for users with an optional feature titled “Secret conversations”. It works just as you expect it to, like an incognito mode on browsers. Whenever you launch a chat in a secret conversation, messages will be encrypted and only the receiver will be able to read them, not anyone else including Facebook. Additionally, these chats will be limited to the starting device meaning you won’t have the ability to switch devices in between....

The Messenger aims at becoming your one stop shop for messaging needs and will be showing the Messenger notifications in blue and the SMS ones in Purple. The whole idea behind this new feature seems to be the point that Facebook doesn’t want the users to move out of the app for any messaging needs. The caveat though lies in the fact that one should select Messenger as the default SMS app....

Facebook Messenger Launched for Windows warns the official page. One of the advantages the Facebook Messenger brings to the fans is not only the option to keep in touch with friends and family who have Facebook accounts but also keeps users up to date with their news feeds, which could be replaced with Interest Lists soon. With this app, users will get notifications from their favorite Facebook pages as soon as they become available....

Yes, we are talking of the “hands on review” that seems to have become a part of technology writing/videos these days. Where the phrase was coined is doubtful, but anyone who knows the language will tell you that its literal meaning has very little to do with those frenzied videos shot at demo zones. I will use the Oxford Dictionary as a guide. It defines “ hands on” as: And a “review” as: I guess we can dispense with the “newspaper or magazine” part of the definition as well, we do live in the online era, and publications are not always on paper....

It is not just the presence of Android that makes the Priv special. The device also comes with a form factor that was made famous by the likes of Nokia in 2007 – the slider, in which the keyboard slides out from under the display. And it is curved touchscreen display (a la the Galaxy S6 Edge) too – a 5.4 inch AMOLED affair with a resolution of 1440 X 2560, giving it a very impressive pixel density of 540 ppi....

If there is one thing which I like about Ashampoo, then it is their Ashampoo Burning Studio software. It has been a popular free CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc burning or writing software for a long time now. But now you can get Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced for free as well! Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced can be used to create data, video, audio and multi-session CDs and DVDs, in addition to perform disc copying or rip the audio....