Both Indian smartphone and Chinese smartphone manufacturers have used their own set of disruptive techniques to capture the smartphone market share. Indian smartphone manufacturers started out by contacting several ODMs in China which mass-produced smartphones with certain specifications and these phones were then sold in India by Indian OEMs under their brand name. By all accounts, Indian smartphone manufacturers never did much of R&D or manufacturing in the past, and their focus mainly was on marketing the products and setting up distribution....

Remix IO, is being pitched as a 4K TV set-top box, gaming console, and PC in one. The primary highlight is the Remix OS itself which allows you to run any Android app or game in standalone windows and multitask between them. Additionally, it also supports Android TV and Jide has included a dedicated TV mode for making full use of huge displays. It basically launches any app in its Android TV interface like YouTube or Netflix....

Last year, Reliance announced two new offerings: Jio Fiber and Jio Set-Top box. On the one hand, you have Jio Fiber, a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) internet broadband service that promises gigabit speeds, has seen an increase in adoption across the country, and is still gaining new customers at a rapid pace. While on the other, there is Jio Set-Top Box, which is a media streaming player that offers content from some of the popular OTT platforms in the world....

Dashing yet not-so-different design The Lenovo K6 Power comes with a 5-inch full HD IPS display. Although the design of the phone is not something radically new, but the smartphone looks very good in one’s hand. In terms of basic design, it looks like Lenovo has taken some classes from Xiaomi as the device looks a lot like the Redmi Note 3. Along with the display, the front of the smartphone sports the earpiece along with the selfie camera on the side....

The Lenovo Smart Band HW01 looks like every other smart band with a silicon strap and sports a 0.91-inch OLED panel. The display is capable of showing various alerts including steps, calories, notifications, distance, and more. There’s a dynamic heart rate scanner available as well that can track your vitals every 15 minutes. Furthermore, the band will even notify you when your heart rate reaches a designated threshold or wake you up through the anti-sleep mode that Lenovo says “alerts you of concentration loss or dozing while driving or working at night”....

The Lenovo Watch 9 hybrid smartwatch looks just like any other modern day timepiece at the first glance. It comes with a simple yet elegant dial that is available in either a black or a white finish. Lenovo has matched the dials with a similar colored silicone strap. It, in turn, gives the watch a sporty appearance. To bolster the Watch 9’s sporty outlook, Lenovo has given it a 9H hardness rated premium sapphire glass cover over the dial....

Back in 2015, LG launched the V10, a device with dual cameras on the front and a second screen and while many people questioned the idea back then, the idea of both dual cameras and second screens was picked up by many companies afterward. Fast forward to 2017, LG has added another member to its V series, the LG V30+. But is it going to make the brand visible in a market full of well-established names?...

The majority of hardware is still largely identical — the Surface Laptop 2 has the same 13.5-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 2256 x 1504, a battery life of 14.5 hours, from 128GB to 1TB of SSD, Alcantara-coated interiors, an aluminium build, Microsoft Hello sensors, and a rather weak port selection which includes a standard USB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort, a Surface Connector, and a headphone jack. But it’s now powered by Intel’s 8th Gen processors which Microsoft claims is 85 percent faster than the first-gen model....

The division’s head, Joe Belfiore, recently confirmed what everyone sort of already knew by putting the final nail in the coffin. In a series of tweets, Belfiore stated the company is shifting focus away from Windows Phone (or Windows 10 Mobile, if you care) and as a result, users should not expect any features. So What’s Next? Apart from a few apps, Microsoft’s existence in the smartphone industry can be considered almost nada....

The Surface Neo is a foldable mini laptop which is ultra-portable. The device measures just 5.6mm in thickness and uses what Microsoft claims to be the thinnest LCD panel on nay portable device. The Surface Neo weighs in at just over 650g which again, makes it easy to carry around or even pocket in some cases. Since there are displays on either side, along with the virtual on-screen keyboard, Microsoft is even including a magnetic keyboard which attaches and rests on a part of the display when in use, which puts the other part of the display in use as a trackpad....

After announcing the Fairphone 2 back in June, the company has now made it available for pre-order. The handset will set you back €525 and you should get it delivered sometime in November of this year. According to the pre-order page, it seems that Fairphone is target a goal of 15,000 preorders, which is probably the target that they need to reach in order to become profitable. Bas Van Abel, the CEO of Fairphone, said the following: To order the necessary components to assemble the first phones and to generate the income required to ensure continuous production, we’ve set a lofty goal: We want to sell 15,000 phones by the end of September....

The Phone Case in itself serves multiple purposes apart from offering better lens. The lens can be screwed to the case within seconds and according to Moment, this is the only case that lets you attach the lens on either side the case. The case will also come baked in with a 2,500mAh/3,500mAh power bank that is literally expected to double the battery backup. That said users can either opt for a phone case without the battery....

One such bid — and a very recent one — is the introduction of the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol, which promises to secure the DNS communication by transmitting it in an encrypted manner. While DoH looks promising in theory and manages to fix one of the issues with DNS, it inadvertently brings another concern into the light. To fix this, we now have another new protocol, called Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), which has been co-developed by Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly....

Okay, let’s start off with their most recent venture – Android Wear 2.0 that is in fact, the prime example of Google messing up timelines. The update was delayed by an extensive and tedious period. And throughout this skirmish, the smartwatch market’s popularity and the wrist computer’s reason to exist faded away so fast, hardly anyone cares about Android wear anymore (or smartwatches in general) despite how well it has been designed....

As per the rumor, OnePlus 3T will be unveiled most probably on November 14th at an event in London. It further states that the device will feature Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 821 processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 3300mAh battery. Additionally, the smartphone will be available in two storage variants, one with 64GB, and the other with 128GB (both with 6GB RAM itself). The report also mentions that there will be a black color option for the OnePlus 3T (T probably stands for Turbo here)....

The OnePlus 5 boasts of a 5.5-inch FHD display with a pixel density of 401ppi and an aspect ratio of 16:9. Furthermore, the display is shielded with a 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass 5. Powering the OnePlus 5 is the Octa-Core Snapdragon 835 with a RAM option between 6GB and 8GB. OnePlus 5 is also one of the few smartphones to be powered with an 8GB RAM and this is something that will propel it further in the spec race....

For those who were looking forward to the arrival of the Oppo R7, the good news is that the new smartphone is no slouch at the spec sheet. As per the listing, it sports a 5-inch FHD display with 441ppi. It is powered by an octa-core 1.7GHz 64-bit Snapdragon 615 chipset paired with Adreno 405 GPU. Other specification includes 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded using a microSD card should you need more storage....

That being said, the Realme 1 will come with a single lens camera unit at the back. The design seems to be the forte of the device, the Diamond Black color scheme does look appealing. Oppo claims to have tested the Realme 1 for what it calls “Real Quality” and this test includes 10,000 drop tests, 100,000 button test, 10,000 USB tests and other. As far as after sales are concerned, the RealMe 1 will be backed by more than 500 authorized service centers alongside a guaranteed one hour resolution time....

Starting from today, whenever you look up a flight number, route or airline, Google will display a warning if its algorithms are anticipating a delay. To achieve this, the company will scour through a bunch of historical data to form a pattern. It will consider factors such as the location, weather forecasts, and information from the aircraft’s previous trips. If the outcomes are at least 80 percent sure that the flight will be postponed, Google will throw in an alert in the search results....

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 Mobile Platform The all-new Snapdragon 665 mobile platform adds to the existing lineup of the 6-series of mobile platform from Qualcomm. As claimed by the company, the new chipset promises to deliver a highly intelligent experience when it comes to mobile gaming along with improved camera performance and high security. Snapdragon 665 Highlights With the all-new Snapdragon 665 mobile platform, Qualcomm has included support for the third-generation Qualcomm AI Engine that comes with Hexagon 686 DSP and HVX, to improve AI performance and deliver up to 2x faster processing speeds....