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2015 – 2020: Indian brands, from dominant to dead Sounds hard to believe? Well, five years ago, in 2015, the top five smartphone brands in the Indian market were: Samsung, Micromax, Intex, Lenovo (Motorola), and Lava, as per Counterpoint Research. And that is not all, there were others – Karbonn, Spice, Lyf, iBall, and Celkon, to name a few. Even brands that were known for other electronic products like Onida, BPL, and Videocon had phone divisions....

Usually, these updates are mainly for security fixes, but this time, the Windows 11 update added a strange new feature for the lock screen that was rumored for Windows 11 2H22 (the sun valley 2) version. Microsoft Rolled Out Spotlight Feature For Windows 11 This Windows Spotlight feature will switch the Windows 11 lock screen to different images every time. With high-resolution images wallpaper, it will also show you some details....

If various reports are to be believed, replacement Galaxy Note 7 units across the world are also exploding. The first such incident of a replacement Note 7 unit exploding was reported early last week, but since then multiple reports have popped up from across the world from different customers. A replacement Note 7 unit burnt in the hands of a 13-year-old teenager in Farmington Minnesota, while two reports from South Korea have also emerged where replacement Note 7 units caught fire....

Chinese consumer electronics major Xiaomi was under the scanner last week after testing revealed it hamstrings the performance of everyday apps. At the same time, benchmark apps and some games are allowed to run unrestricted. This paints a misleading picture of the performance Xiaomi phones offer, much like Samsung’s Game Optimizing Service (GOS) fiasco that got its devices delisted from Geekbench. To get you up to speed, reports based on independent testing last week found Xiaomi phones were throttling performance, possibly in the better interest of their smartphones’ thermal performance and battery life....

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....

Through the whole process of deactivating your current line and activating your new one, you have probably wondered, “what happens to my old number?” With phone numbers being a finite resource, they are more often than not recycled. Tap or click here to see how hackers can exploit your phone number. That means your old number isn’t deleted off the network and put out to pasture. Mobile numbers are recycled within the system, being assigned to new users as they sign up....

After rolling out selectively to users worldwide for more than a month, WhatsApp today seems to have started rolling out its voice calling feature to all Android users. As being reported by users across online forums, the latest version of WhatsApp that is being rolled out through the Play Store is automatically enabling the calling feature for many. For others, downloading the APK from WhatsApp’s website and sideloading it on their device has worked....

Now, it looks like the company is ending support for more devices. WhatsApp has again planned to end support for devices that are no longer important according to them. WhatsApp is now owned by Facebook and the instant messaging app is used by a majority of users worldwide. Recently, the company announced in one of its blog post that it will end support for Blackberry, Microsoft Windows, and Nokia. So, if you are running Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8....

The infestation of cicadas has been very loud and severe in the D.C. area. The pesky bugs infested a press airplane scheduled to follow the president through his European tour and grounded it. Just how bad has it been? Well, the giant swarm is so large that weather radars are tracking it. Dubbed Brood X, the almost biblical emergency has also been the cause of a car crash in Cincinnati....

Xiaomi today announced its latest Redmi handset in China, the Redmi 4. The latest budget wonder from Xiaomi will be available in two different variants, with different specifications. Like the Redmi 3S before it, the Redmi 4 features a unibody aluminium finish that has been further improved on the handset. The standard Redmi 4 variant comes with a 5-inch 720p display that is protected by a curved 2.5D glass. It is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 430 chipset and sports 2GB RAM along with 16GB of internal storage....

The technology in oject Tango is designed to allow phones to map their environment in 3D, something that hasn’t yet been possible with a consumer-grade gadget up until recently. This isn’t the first time NASA has used Android phones in space: back in 2011, NASA sent up the Nexus S to power its SmartSERES, which help the astronauts conduct various tests up in space. ’s oject Tango is way more technologically advanced than the 4-year-old smartphone, it’s time for NASA’s little helpers to consider an upgrade....

The ZenFone Max Pro M2, just like ZenFone Max Pro M1, features a fingerprint scanner at the rear which you can use to unlock the phone. That’s not all though. You can use it to unlock locked apps as well. Wondering how to do so? Read this guide. In this guide, we will tell you to how to lock apps on your ZenFone Max Pro M2 and then unlock them using the fingerprint scanner....

This malware used to be a persistent threat for banks and financial institutions in 2015 and seemingly died out. As of December 2019 (and especially after the COVID-19 pandemic), Zeus Sphinx has seen a marked resurgence and been observed taking advantage of the pandemic to spread its maliciousness. This article will detail the Zeus Sphinx malware with regard to its recent resurgence. We’ll explore what it is, how it works and how you can prevent becoming a victim yourself....

The final release of Android 8.0 Oreo is finally here after multiple Developer Preview releases from Google over the last few months. At first glance, it might seem like that Android Oreo only comes with a handful of major new features but that is not the case. Dig deeper and you will see that the OS comes with plenty of new features that are worth trying. In its official announcement, Google only highlights a handful of new features in Android Oreo which means it is up to users to find all the changes in the OS....

In the upcoming update, the company will bring a new feature where the user can pause and resume recording a voice message from where you stopped. Currently, if you start recording a message, you have to send it; you can’t continue to the same message. But soon, you will have an option to pause the voice recording. WhatsApp Users can Pause & Resume Voice Recording According to WABetainfo, the messaging app is still developing the feature and is not yet available for beta testers also....

There’s no one reason or aspect of the Mate 20 Pro that makes me want to go back to it each time. Rather, it’s the fact that Huawei managed to perfect almost every key attribute of the Mate 20 Pro which work in tandem to provide one of the most complete smartphone experiences. Let me explain. That Beautiful Design Right from when you pick up the device, the Mate 20 Pro screams premium....

Relying on the kindness of strangers only goes so far, though. Many teachers dip into their bank accounts to buy classroom supplies. A 2021 study shows teachers spend about $511 of their own money each year. Luckily, she was skeptical “I was trying to figure out, Is this a scam? Or is this going to waste my money?” she said. “They range anywhere from $29 to $99, and they guarantee that you’ll either get an iPad or a phone or something in there that’s worth the amount....

Also: Public Wi-Fi safety tips you need to know The basic concept behind a VPN is simple: software running on your PC encrypts every bit of network traffic before it reaches your PC’s network adapter, then it sends that encrypted data to a remote server that’s operated by the VPN service. That remote server sends the data to the public internet. The encrypted “tunnel” between your device and the VPN server is what makes the network both virtual and private....

WordPress is basically for all users now it is used by 58.7% among all web-sites and the content management system are well known. The most recent information originates from W3Techs, which measures both use and piece of the overall industry: “WordPress is utilized by 58.7% of the considerable number of sites of which we know about content management system. This is 25.0% of all sites.” While these numbers actually vacillate throughout the month, the general pattern for WordPress has been moderate however unfaltering development....

The new Leaks shows its official images, and we come to that Xiaomi Redmi 5 is going to be powered by the Snapdragon 625 and Snapdragon 630 which will be in two different variants. Also, there are going to be two different version for the Xiaomi Redmi 5 having different RAM configurations and processors. It is Expected that one of the variants will power up by the Snapdragon 625 with clocking speed of 3GHz having 3GB of RAM....