Dual Cameras The Galaxy Note 8 is Samsung’s first smartphone to come with a dual rear camera setup and considering how late it has hopped the bandwagon, the company added a couple of nifty hardware bits in an attempt to outrun its competition. For starters, there are two 12-megapixel shooters on the back, one is a f/1.7 wide-angle lens and other is a f/2.4 telephoto. While this arrangement, just like every other implementation out there, will allow you add depth-of-field effects to your pictures, Samsung also included Optical Image Stabilization to the secondary camera....

The smartphone revolution that followed in the wake of iOS and Android brought in standardisation as regards audio and charging ports – we saw almost all manufacturers accepting the 3.5mm audio jack pretty much as a standard for audio and the micro-USB port for charging and data transfer. This did uncomplicate life, mainly for multiple gadget toting geeks who could now carry a single pair of headphones and a charger and use it across multiple devices....

But that is not all that has changed. The past years have also seen the Redmi Note lineup get long. Very long. From a single Note a year, Xiaomi moved to two Notes a year; fast forward to today, the Redmi Note 11 lineup this year already has five different Redmi Note 11s in the series. While this presents users with more choices, it also means buying a Redmi Note phone is not as simple as ‘adding the phone to your cart....

And then in 2014, along came the Moto G, followed by the Chinese. Things would never be the same again for not just the Indian brands, but almost all brands in the market as consumers tasted high-end specs at surprisingly low prices. The days since have seen a number of Indian brands hold their own against the “invaders” (so to speak), but a number have faded away too. And as their own traditional “low price, good specs” market has been under attack, recent days have also seen Indian brands try to move up the value ladder, trying to mix it with the best at higher price points, trying to offer their own innovations in software and UI and trying to match the hardware muscle of their better-known counterparts....

The Alibaba Tmall Genie X1 is powered by a Genie AI assistant. The intelligent voice assistant can be triggered by simply saying ‘Tmall Genie’. Just like the Alexa on Echo and Google Assistant on Home, Alibaba’s AI service is capable of performing a wide range of tasks. Currently, the assistant can play music, search weather, take down notes and set reminders. It can even control smart home appliances. Alibaba believes that the assistant will also make it easy for users to shop on it e-commerce portal....

1. Of course, the Under Display Fingerprint Scanner Fingerprint scanners on phones have come a long way. Even though the Motorola Atrix had it some time ago, what popularized it was Apple’s TouchID implementation which paved way for other OEMs to include it in their phones irrespective of the price point. Fingerprint scanners have conventionally been placed to the front of the device underneath the screen, which seems to be the most convenient position....

If email and messaging is your most critical need then a Blackberry mobile is the best solution. iPhone and Android can be ahead in terms of look and feel of UI, apps, games and multimedia but when it comes to work (email, messaging, call and battery life), Blackberry is far ahead. Simply put, iPhone and Androids can give you thrill but it is the Blackberry which gets the work done....

The C5L is the cheapest one among all, it comes with a 4.5-inches IPS panel with an 854×480 resolution, a quad-core Snapdragon 210 processor clocked at 1.1GHz, 1GB of RAM with Adreno 304 GPU, 8GB of internal storage, Android 5.1 and a slot for Micro SD card that supports cards up to 32GB. On the camera side, there’s a respectable 8MP rear camera with dual-LED flash along with a 2MP lens on the front....

The LOOP SDK from Microsoft claims to get location pings from the users all the while being frugal on the battery life. What Trip Tracker does is that it assimilates the data from the LOOP SDK and puts it forth in such a way that one would make sense out of it. The app is capable of recognizing the start and end time of each trip along with the path taken and duration as well....

As a consequence of this merger, Truecaller will be treated to features from the Truedialer and the company has also tossed in a few additional capabilities. Smart Call History takes control of your call history and replaces the unknown number with the actual name thus letting the users automatically save the contact in the phonebook. Further it also eliminates the need to manually search for an unknown number in Truecaller....

Apple and Samsung were initially rumored to be closely working on this technology. The Cupertino giant is, in fact, expected to include this technology in its upcoming iPhone 8. Chinese analyst Pan Jiutang, however, believes that Vivo will outrun the companies in launching a smartphone with an optical fingerprint sensor. He claims that Vivo will be the first to introduce it, but the launch would possibly be exclusive to China....

Both the Vivo X9 and the X9 Plus sport a dual front-facing camera. The primary camera shapes up in the form of a 20-Megapixel Sony IMX376 sensor offering f/2.0 aperture along with an 8-Megapixel sensor. The phones come equipped with a 16-Megapixel front camera with PDAF. The Vivo X9 is fitted with a 5.5-inch FHD Super AMOLED display and is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 clocked at 2GHz and paired with 4GB of RAM....

Just a few days back, Vodafone introduced two new prepaid plans offering 2 or 3GB data per day for a tenure of 3 months and they’re now offering new RED plans for postpaid customers aimed at users who consume a lot of media on their phone, hence the name RED Entertainment pack. The war between telecom operators seems never ending with each provider offering new packs every single day to counter its rival....

As you are about to see, even the most oldest smartphone can take the role of a more common device and replace additional gears such as a GPS, a camera or even a jukebox. And with a bit of tweaking, their limits can be pushed beyond boundaries. Most ideas were gathered from the web and inspired by imagination-filled users, which simply cannot live with the idea of throwing a good gadget away or, destroying it....

However, many users soon complained online that the new Windows 11 search bar stopped working after the latest updates. Launching applications, searching for files, or changing Windows settings without a search bar is difficult, resulting in an unpleasant PC experience for the end-user. But what if we told you that you could easily fix the problem of the Windows 11 Search bar not working by following the steps below? Sounds reassuring, does not it?...

Sir, or rather Big Sur, you have such iOS feels! Now, right from the beginning, smartphones have always aspired to be computers. Whether it was Palm, BlackBerry, i-Mate, or Nokia, the ultimate goal of a smartphone was to literally put a computer in your hand or into your pocket. And right from the beginning, computer users scoffed at the idea. Phones, they insisted, were simply not good enough. They were underpowered, their displays were too small, their software was totally different, and were at best all right for messaging and mail, but computers were the REAL thing....

The Redmi 2 Prime is cosmetically identical to the Redmi 2 and as a matter of fact, it is sporting the exact same innards except for the bumped up 2GB RAM and doubled 16GB of onboard memory. Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime features a 4.7-inch 720p display and a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 and a 2GB of RAM. Camera department is well taken care of thanks to the 8-Megapixel primary sensor and a 2-Megapixel secondary camera....

The new Mi Max 2 takes cues from the Mi6 in terms of the back panel and opts this time for rounded edges which Xiaomi says provides much more comfortable one-handed use. Of course, despite all those promises, you won’t be able to operate the Max 2 with a single arm considering the whopping 6.44-inch Full HD panel up front and off-screen capacitive buttons. Moreover, the battery has been bumped up to 5300mAh battery that the company claims can run for two days on a single charge....

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S comes equipped with a 6-inch FHD+ display. Design wise the new Mi Mix 2S borrows heavily from its predecessor. The curved ceramic back and the aluminum frame blend in beautifully and the display seem to sit flush within the panel with no inconsistencies whatsoever. Thankfully, Xiaomi has decided not to go for a front notch and this means that the front camera unit still sits in the bottom jaw of the screen....

Xiaomi Mi Watch Color: Design and Display As already mentioned, the Mi Watch Color comes with a circular design with a round dial, much like a traditional watch that has a 1.39-inch AMOLED screen with 454 × 454 pixels screen resolution. Its display offers 326ppi of pixel density and comes with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top. The watch comes in two color options: Stylish Silver and Elegant Black, with six different color options for straps....