“Yeah, why?” “So, I was planning to buy a new phone and just couldn’t understand why I should pay a ton of money when I can get roughly the same hardware at a significantly lower price?” “It’s not that straightforward, and honestly, I’m not even sure I can aptly summarize the difference considering how massive the price gap is. Therefore, I’m gonna an article about it; you should wait for that to come out....
Aside from just being a nuisance, spam calls and messages can sometimes also put you at risk of identity and digital theft. Ergo, the need to be vigilant. One of the easiest measures to outsmart this situation is to block phone numbers that make spam calls and texts. Follow along as we break down phone number blocking and the steps to block a phone number on your iPhone. What Happens When You Block a Number on iPhone?...
Whether it is in your pocket or just sitting on a table, it is easy to turn the volume up without meaning to. This can be especially frustrating if you are in a quiet environment and suddenly your phone starts blasting music. Blocking the volume keys can prevent accidental changes to the volume levels and save you from a lot of frustration. In this post, you’ll learn how to disable volume buttons on Android devices, remap the buttons, lock the volume settings, and why volume buttons change on their own....
Of these, one such problem is when you have to deal with multiple PDF files — that too individual ones — where you need to edit and transform them into a single PDF, or where you need to extract some part of a PDF file and merge it into another PDF file. In either case, though, if you are a Mac user, you have a few different ways to combine PDFs....
Although it’s this simplicity that makes Keep appealing to beginners, the lack of essential note-taking features has caused it to trail behind other popular note-taking apps on Android in the past. However, recent Google Keep releases have introduced some much-requested features, like the ability to format text, as part of an effort to make Keep a full-fledged notes app. Now, following the release of these formatting features, Google has added yet another useful feature to Keep....
Generally speaking, the very first thought people usually have as soon as their iPhone (or iPad or iPod Touch) comes in contact with water (or any other liquid) is whether they should turn it off or leave it as is. The dilemma in action arises since turning off the device requires unlocking the water damaged iPhone for a brief stint, which imposes the doubt if doing so would short the circuitry and cause permanent damage to the device....
macapps.link is an online service that allows you to install apps in bulk on your Mac, saving you from manually installing each app. Not only that, with macapps.link you can not only set up a new Mac during initial setup, but also install apps as needed later. Follow this guide to install Mac apps in bulk with macapps.link. What is macapps.link? macapps.link is an app installer that allows you to install multiple apps on your Mac at once unattended....
A possible reason for people not being able to manage their subscriptions is the tedious process involved, resulting in users spending money on subscriptions for services that they hardly use. Until very recently, things were quite simple, with as many as a few handful apps to look after for subscriptions. However, with data tariffs becoming inexpensive and the subscription-based revenue model catching up among smartphone users, we now see subscriptions for a wide variety of services like news, books, music, video, TV shows, and movies....
When we talk about maximizing battery life, it does not necessarily imply increasing the battery life on a smartphone to make it last you through x number of days. Instead, it means discussing the different ways in which you can improve (not increase) the lifespan of your phone battery. For, at large, the way we use our smartphone and charge its battery on a regular basis plays a crucial role in the battery’s overall health....
Backed up by the country’s Unified payment interface — UPI, Google Tez securely connects your phone with your bank account and allows you to transfer and receive money without the hassle of topping up a wallet first. Here’s how it works. How to Setup Google Tez Google Tez, like every other UPI-based app, requires your phone number for adding the bank account. The app will also request the UPI ID if you’ve created it in the past....
As the names suggest, the Slate 6 VivoTab and Slate 7 VivoTab come with 6-inch and 7-inch displays respectively. Both of them will run the Android 4.2 JellyBean OS and will come with quad-core processor. It’s still not clear which SoC is powering the phablets, but what’s known is that both of them will come with 16GB of storage, extendable upto 32GB via microSD card. HP exited the smartphone space back in 2011 after selling the webOS division, and had negligible presence in the tablet space....
During the event the company said that in the last two years they have sold over 15 million Kirin-powered smartphones, trying to prove that smartphones powered by their own in-house chip are getting more and more popular. It’s also worth pointing out that Kirin-powered devices are currently being sold in Asia and Europe as the US-based ones come with Qualcomm’s chips. Huawei also said that their Kirin chipsets are ready for VoLTE and that the Kirin 950 will be the first chipset to receive the CMCC VoLTE certification....
The latest budget laptop from iBall comes with a 360 ° rotatable hinge thereby making it versatile for use in various conditions. In fact, this capability helps the iBall CompBook Flip X5 double up as a portable tablet. It’s lightweight exteriors ease things up even more. As for the display, the iBall CompBook Flip X5 makes use of an 11.6 inch Full HD IPS display that sadly misses out on touchscreen functionality....
The Nord-ic Challenge…and the Nord-ic Challengers! You can read our first impressions of the device here but in case you missed it or are just in a hurry, the OnePlus Nord is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G chipset which is a fairly new SoC from Qualcomm. It comes in three RAM and storage variants – 6 GB / 64GB, 8GB/ 128 GB, and 12 GB/ 256 GB. The phone sports a 6....
Instagram is mostly focused on celebrities that made it big by using Instagram as an outreach platform. In other words, the focus is more on homegrown celebrities rather than traditional ones. Apart from helping Instagram increase its engagement, the newer videos will also shift the spotlight on the creators. Perhaps this will help the creators leverage their reach in a whole new way. The IGTV hub can also be accessed via a standalone app....
And when we spend so much times glued to our devices, it becomes interesting to know what exactly have we done the entire day. Luckily for the curious out there, there’s a really nice app that’s available for both iPhone and Android users, called Instant- Quantified Self. This is the first app developed by Emberify, a developing team which is also a winner of the Google Fit developer challenge. Described as an app that puts ‘your life on a dashboard, Instant track all your activities automatically and then brings out a report similar to the above image....
As a Twitter user points out, who was attempting to update to beta 2 of iOS 9, the company is introducing a new feature wherein it will allow users to temporarily delete an app and free up some space to get the desired software update. Once the updation process is over, the app automatically installs itself, retaining all the previous data. — Kaleb Butt (@Kaleb_Butt) June 23, 2015 While it may seem like a tiny feature, it could come in very handy for users....
iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini Performance All four iPhone devices come with Apple’s latest in-house SoC which is the A14 Bionic. If performance is of top-most priority to you, both the iPhone 12 and the iPhone 12 Mini will fair very well. The A14 Bionic offers better performance compared to the already very powerful A13 Bionic from last year along with support for 5G networks which is one of the bigger highlights of the new iPhone 12 series....
The Jabra Elite 85h headphones feature 40mm custom-engineered speakers which ensure top-quality acoustic experience, crystal-clear sound with advanced 6-microphone call technology, and 36-hour battery life (with ANC activated). Additionally, Jabra is also including SmartSound and intuitive Voice Assistant Control on the Elite 85h headphones and is claiming them to be the smartest ANC headphones in the market. Jabra says that its SmartControl is based on audEERING’s context intelligence technology, which uses real-time acoustic scene analysis of environmental sounds to detect more than 6,000 unique sound characteristics and use this to adapt audio output to each specific context....
TVOCs are emitted from an array of everyday items including paints and varnishes, wax and cosmetics, cleaning and hobby products, and even cooking. As per Kaiterra which specializes in building AQI monitors, During cold months, many of us would simply close our doors and windows to avoid the smoggy air and crank up our air purifiers to bring down the PM 2.5 values. But guess what? It’s highly suggested to open your windows and air your homes out for a few minutes both when they first wake up and then again at midday, regardless of how smoggy it is outside....
