(Alcatel) Idol 4 worship? BlackBerry no longer makes its own smartphones. That task has been handed out to Chinese company TCL, the company which also makes Alcatel devices. So it is hardly surprising that the DTEK 50 comes infused with design touches that are more Alcatel than BlackBerry – or the Alcatel Idol 4 to be exact. In fact, apart from the fact that it is slightly thicker (7.4 mm to 7....

We are going to split the review into five major components that we feel are vital. They are – Comfort, Ease of Use, Effectiveness, Value and if you really need them to help you sleep better. Let’s begin. Comfort and Physical Form Factor The Sleepbuds are extremely tiny in size and have soft ear-tips with attached hooks that fit snugly into your ear. Frankly, the fit of the Sleepbuds is one of the best aspects of it....

Microsoft notes that it will be offering Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users with the ability to decide when they want to update their system, as well as provide them with the ability to decide which updates they want to install. This isn’t anything new. The company has had always allowed users to have full control over how they want their system to update. But it plans to change that with Windows 10 — at least for some users....

Too good to be true? Well it is. The price tag of Rs 501 is if you’re lucky enough to be chosen in the flash sale, else the phone is priced at Rs 8,000. [Now you know why we have the * next to the price in the title!] First and foremost, let’s get the specifications out of the way, the ChampOne C1 (get it?) features a 5-inch HD IPS panel up front and is powered by an MT6735 Quad-core processor clocked at 1....

But two years in technology land is a long time. Chromecast needs an upgrade. Badly. You see, I have this perfect wireless media center fantasy (as one does) that I’m now realizing might never come true. I want to sit on my couch, use my phone to play something on my TV. And it works. I don’t need to fiddle with settings or restart or curse. This, of course, is a fantasy....

Obviously, this is Corning’s most durable glass ever. Corning says the focus has been to improve drop resistance, specifically the multiple drops that happen at 1m or below. As per a study by Toluna, on average, people drop their phones seven times a year, with more than 50 percent of the drops occurring at 1 meter or below. So the scientists at Corning have developed and engineered an entirely new material to address the challenge of multiple drops....

Cyanogen has now announced on its blog that it’s partnering with Truecaller, believed to be the world’s largest mobile phone community for mobiles. Truecaller can find contact details globally given name or telephone number, and also has an integrated caller ID service to achieve call-blocking functionality. And now Cyanogen is interested in bringing this feature into future smartphones powered by its operating system. The company said the following: This might seem like a minor feature, but at least you won’t have to resort to third-party tools to block unwanted spam calls....

Well, the Windows 8 crowd won’t have to do that. For while, Flipboard itself shows no sign of arriving on the platform, it does have a few handy clones out there. The best of which is News Bento. No, it does not have the kind of social network integration that Flipboard or Pulse have – you cannot get a magazinifed look at your Twitter and Facebook account on it – but if it is plain news you are after, then the app certainly does enough to draw comparisons with Flipboard....

Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multi-player and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation, and has been widely used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely over the internet. The network gained more widespread use after the release of Half-Life 2 in 2004, which was intrinsically integrated into the system. Steam has since expanded as other major publishers, including Eidos Interactive, Activision, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts began distributing a number of their titles over the system....

TrustPort Antivirus USB Edition is a special security software, designed for the protection of portable memory media. Flash drives have become normal means of transferring data and using it on multiple computers. Security of portable media has been unfortunately a widely neglected issue for a long time. TrustPort USB Antivirus comes as a perfect answer to this issue. When installed on the flash drive, it continuously monitors files being copied to the drive, so that no malicious codes can be stored on it....

1. Google Drive Google Drive comes straight out of the biggest search-engine giant, Google. Compared to Dropbox, it is justly new in the cloud storage service game. However, over the years, with consistent updates and the addition of new features, it did manage to garner over a billion users till 2018. The service relies on Google account, so if you have one, you can get started pretty much right away....

While most of us believe that electric toothbrushes are an invention of the modern age, this is actually not the case. The first electric toothbrush was introduced back in 1954. And yes, the comparison between electric and manual toothbrushes goes back to the birth of the oldest electric toothbrush, as you may have guessed. The early years were an easy victory for the regular toothbrush. But thanks to technological advances, electric brushes have caught up and become more affordable and accessible than ever before....

The device is currently available at a price of Rs 8,888 (around $140) which is 11% off its MRP of Rs 9,999. Its most notable feature is its 5.5mm thickness, which is going to impress those looking for a very elegant device. The Elephone G7 also comes with a 5.5-inch HD display with a 1280×720 resolution resulting in a 267ppi density. The device gets its power from a 1.4GHz MediaTek MT6592M octa-core processor which is paired with 1GB of RAM....

As per the leaks and listings, here’s everything we know about the upcoming smartphones under the Mi CC series from Xiaomi. The relevance of Xiaomi’s Mi CC series With the all-new CC series, Xiaomi is aiming to target the selfie-centric audience, majorly, the youth. And therefore the name, CC — Camera + Camera. With an increase in the number of smartphone manufacturers shifting their focus on improving cameras on their smartphones, especially the front-facing camera, and the recent acquisition of Meitu (a selfie app maker) from Xiaomi, this move from the Chinese OEM is not surprising at all....

Creating 360-degree videos will require a camera rig setup like the one offered by Go Pro, or using products like Ricoh Theta. The new mode of video will allow viewers to pan zoom the video and switch to the desirable angle. On the web, this can be done by dragging around your mouse on the video and on Mobile the angle can be controlled by tilting the smartphone, thanks to the inbuilt gyroscopes....

In a statement on Monday, Systrom, CEO of the company, said, “We’re planning on taking some time off to explore our curiosity and creativity again.” He also said they were grateful for “the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team”. Systrom, 34 and Kriegar, 32 have known each other since 2010, when they met to work on a software built by Systrom, to what is today called Instagram....

And that, alas, is something that has been a bit of a pain for smartphone manufacturers. For no matter how good the lens and sensors they place within their cameras, optical zoom has been cited as a shortcoming time and again. Companies have been trying to tackle this in different ways – Nokia tried to bring in lossless zoom in its PureView series, allowing users to crop large resolution images, while Samsung literally added a lens that extended and retracted to the Galaxy Zoom series of phones....

And now YU has released an updated version of the device, titled the Yureka Plus. In best “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” tradition, most things have been kept the same as in the original. The few tweaks, however, are significant. The most obvious is the upping of the resolution of the display to 1080p, making it a full HD one. The second one, which is perhaps even more obvious considering it is visible even when the phone is switched off, is the addition of metal to the chassis, making the phone tougher than before (there’s even a video that shows YU founder trying to break the phone!...

The Edge-to-Edge display is a 5.8-inch OLED screen that blends beautifully with the stainless steel band running along the periphery of the iPhone X. In this segment, we will walk you through some of the best functions iPhone X has to offer. The Display Brilliance The iPhone X comes with a 5.8-inch OLED Edge-to-Edge display and offers a pixel density of 458PPI, the highest pixel density ever offered on an iPhone....

What’s worse is that once your Google Drive storage is full, you will even stop receiving e-mails on your Gmail ID because that too uses your Drive storage. If you are facing a similar situation, here are a few ways by which you can declutter your Google Drive storage and make space for your e-mails and files on G Drive. Now, of course, you can just go ahead and get a Google One subscription and bump up your storage if you are going to store a lot more files on Drive....