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Jio offers the best 4G network in the country with the lowest latency and also beats rival operators when it comes to 4G availability across the 22 telecom circles in India, says Open Signal’s latest Mobile Network Experience Report. The report, which was compiled using data from 1.7 million devices between June 1 and August 29, reveals that Jio is neck to neck with Airtel and Vodafone when it comes to offering the best video experience on its network. Airtel emerged as the operator which offers the fastest download speed while Idea was crowned the winner in the upload speed category. When it comes to 4G availability, Jio left rival operators far behind with an average network availability score of 96.7%, while second-placed Airtel could only score 73.17%. Jio topped the 4G availability in 10 out of 22 telecom circles scoring 97% in those regions, with OpenSignal calling Jio’s 4G availability score ‘particularly remarkable’ for a relatively new 4G LTE market like India. ...

WhatsApp has announced a tie-up with Invest India to promote Indian start-ups and said it would organize a start-up challenge in the country with the aim to invest in the top five participants of the competition. “WhatsApp will invest quarter of a million dollars as seed funding to the top 5 winners of the WhatsApp Start-up Challenge,” an official statement said. Also, the company would invest an additional $2,50,000 to a select few firms from the entrepreneurial community to promote their WhatsApp business number on Facebook. Speaking on the occasion here, Union Minister of Commerce and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu said that the start-up community is the future of India and it will be the platform through which “millions of youth of this country will be gainfully employed”. Commenting on the partnership, Deepak Bagla, CEO, Invest India – the national investment promotion and facilitation agency – said: “India adds over three new start-ups a day, ranking it amongst the top start-...

Clearing the air on Facebook’s monetization efforts towards WhatsApp , the mobile messaging service’s Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company is going to put advertisements in its “Status” feature. “We are going to be putting ads in ‘Status’. That is going to be primary monetization mode for the company as well as an opportunity for businesses to reach people on WhatsApp,” Daniels told reporters here. Daniels, however, did not give any timeline to this development that has been in the news for some time. WhatsApp has over 1.5 billion users globally, including more than 250 million in India. There were media reports earlier this month that the Facebook-owned messaging app is planning to allow advertisements to be displayed in the “Status” section of the app. WhatsApp’s “Status” feature allows users to share text, photos, videos, and animated GIFs that disappear after 24 hours. According to media reports, the advertisements would be powered by Facebook’s native ad...

While most phone makers are now focusing their resources on the development of slider mechanisms (seen on the Mi Mix 3 , Honor Magic 2 ) to avoid the notch trend, Nubia has gone a totally different direction Specs and Features Launched today in China, Nubia X is the company’s latest smartphone and it has dual displays and no front-facing cameras. Nubia has opted to add two screens on its device, the main screen on the front and a secondary screen on the rear panel , to avoid the widespread notch trend. As you can see in the image attached above, Nubia hasn’t made any sort of compromises and included a color display on the rear as well. It’s not jsut an e-ink display either. The rear display has huge bezels but that’s probably by choice as it offers you a great viewfinder for selfies. The screen only turns on when you flip the phone, which looks quite cool. It will again be switched off when you flip to the front. Another interesting addition is the presence of two finger...

The recently launched OnePlus 6T is just a minor upgrade over the OnePlus 6, bringing just a couple of new features over its predecessors. Among these is a larger 3,700mAh battery which is a significant improvement over the OnePlus 6’s 3,300mAh battery. The device still ships with the same 5V/4A fast charger in the box, which has proven its fast charging capabilities with older OnePlus devices. While it’s quite obvious that the newer OnePlus 6T will have a better battery life than the OnePlus 6, we’re here to find out just how much of an improvement does the larger battery bring. But before we get to our battery tests, lets take a cursory look at the charging performance. Charging Test As mentioned earlier, the OnePlus 6T comes with support for OnePlus’ fast charging technology (which isn’t called Dash Charge anymore, despite the charging brick still featuring the logo) and ships with a 5V/4A fast charger in the box. In my testing I found that the OnePlus 6T not only comes wit...

Apple has just released the Shortcuts 2.1 update and there are a ton of new features coming with this update. For starters, Apple has fixed the iCloud syncing problems of Shortcuts which used to be quite buggy. Apple also improved the sharing action in Shortcuts. Now it allows users to delist a shortcut by deleting its link and associated data from Apple’s servers. Apart from these miscellaneous improvements, Apple has also introduced two new shortcut actions. The newly added Clock and Weather actions allow users to set up timer and alarms and get weather data for their locality. In this article, we are going to show you how you can use these actions to create your own nifty shortcuts: Using the Clock and Weather Actions As I said, Apple has introduced two new actions with the Shortcuts 2.1 update and these actions are really good. Before the update, users had to depend on Siri suggested shortcuts to either create or enable alarms. However, with the new clock action, users can set ...

First shown off at IFA 2018 along with  the Kirin 980 , Honor has now officially unveiled the much-anticipated ‘Magic 2’ in China. Honor Magic 2 comes with a full-screen display, a sliding mechanism for the front camera, and a total of six cameras. It also has its very own AI voice assistant, at least for the Chinese market. Price and Availability The Honor Magic 2 comes in three different configurations and has been priced starting at 3,799 yuan  (~ Rs 40,000) for the 6GB+128GB variant. You’ll, however, need to shell out 4,299 yuan (~ Rs 45,000) for the 8GB+128GB variant and 4,799 yuan (~ Rs 51,000) for the 8GB+256GB variant. The Honor Magic 2 will be available in blue, teal and red – with a gradient added to it, like is the case with most modern phones these days. It will go up for pre-order tomorrow and will be available for purchase starting November 6 . Specs and Features In an attempt to extend the screen to the edges, phone makers are now going back to the slidi...

Samsung debuted dockless DeX support with the Galaxy Note 9 to allow users to switch over to a desktop experience without having to use an accessory, i.e. the DeX Pad, as a mediator to connect your smartphone to a display or keyboard. Well, first spotted by XDA Developers , this handy feature will soon be made available to Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ users with the upcoming Android Pie update. Samsung is currently testing dockless DeX support for these devices in the latest beta update, which will also bring the sweet-looking Samsung Experience UI 10 to its devices. The Galaxy Note 9, if you remember, enables users to directly connect a display to their device via the USB Type-C charging port. You’d no longer need the DeX Pad but instead, only an USB-C to HDMI dongle is enough to connect a display and extend to the desktop environment to carry on with your work. You could then choose to connect a mouse or keyboard via Bluetooth or simply turn the screen into a trackpad if you’re c...

There’s no doubt that Google Maps is the best navigation tool that you can use today. While there are many competing navigation apps out there, there’s none that matches the accuracy and universality of Google Maps. Apart from bringing exceptional navigational features, Google Maps also bring a plethora of tiny features which enhances the overall experience of the app. For example, Google Maps automatically turns on dark mode while navigating during the night. The dark mode is a really cool feature and many people have asked me if there’s a way to make it the default option. Well, believe it or not, Google Maps does allow you to use dark mode during navigation all the time. In this article, we are going to show you how you can activate dark mode on Google Maps on Any Device: Enabling Google Maps Dark Mode on Android and iPhone Once you go through this tutorial, you will be able to use dark mode as your default navigation interface. That being said, remember that the dark mode only w...

Google introduced ‘Mini’ stickers or ‘Minis’ in Gboard back in August, allowing users to convert their selfies into stickers that were available in two different packs called ‘Sweet’ and ‘Bold’. Google has today introduced a new Gboard Mini sticker pack called ‘Emojis’, which as the name suggests, lets users create personalized emojis that are highly customizable and can be tweaked to express a wide array of emotions in different scenarios. The process of creating personalized emojis remains the same, with Gboard employing a combination of machine learning, neural networks, and artist illustrations for making an emoji that looks more like you. The Minis ‘Emoji’ sticker pack is now available on Gboard for Android and iOS across the globe. Here’s how to create an Emoji Mini sticker: 1. Open Gboard, go to the stickers section and tap on the ‘create’ button. 2. Scan your face and click a selfie to create a personalized emoji template. 3. Once the template has been created, you ca...

Samsung has officially announced two new 0.8-micrometer (μm) pixel image sensors that will likely be used in smartphones next year. The first one is the massive 48MP ISOCELL Bright GM1 , while the other one is the 32MP ISOCELL Bright GD1 . In a press release, Samsung claimed that the “the GM1 and GD1 can deliver light sensitivity equivalent to that of a 1.6μm-pixel image sensor at 12MP and 8MP resolution, respectively” . The sensors also support Gyro-based electronic image stabilization (EIS) for blur-free images. Both the GD1 and GM1 have backside illuminated (BSI) CMOS sensors with Samsung’s ISOCELL Plus pixel isolation technology as well as the so-called ‘Tetracell’ technology that helps better illuminate low-light images by merging four small pixels to create a bigger one. Both sensors support gyro-based electronic image stabilization, although, apparently only the 32MP GD1 supports real-time HDR photography. Samsung expects the ISOCELL Bright GM1 and GD1 to go into commercial...

Poco F1, one of the best value for money phones today, is slated to get Android Pie update by the end of this year . But today, we’re able to see the user experience on the first beta build of Android Pie-based MIUI for Poco F1 . Ever since my encounter with Android Pie on the Pixel 3 XL , I have been itching to get the Poco F1 running on the latest version of Android too. After trying a bunch of popular custom ROMs like the unofficial LineageOS and Resurrection Remix, I am returning to MIUI because Xiaomi dropped the first beta of MIUI 10 based on Android Pie . This is especially exciting as Xiaomi is preparing to bring the stable version of MIUI 10 based on Android Oreo to Poco F1 users this week. However, MIUI’s beta builds are mostly stable too, so I decided to go ahead and explore what are the new features in the ROM. Before I begin, I want to express my gratitude for Recognized XDA developer  yshalsager  who dug up the ROM from MIUI Forums even before the official a...

Chinese tech major Huawei plans to bring new tablets and PCs to India in addition to the planned launch of its flagship Mate 20 Pro smartphone, a top company official said at its headquarters here. In the smartphone business in India, Huawei has so far pushed its sub-brand Honor to compete in the affordable segment, but by bringing more Huawei-branded phones, it is now eyeing a greater pie in the premium segment as well which is currently dominated by OnePlus, Samsung and Apple. It is not just the smartphone market in India that the Consumer Business Group division of Huawei is now focusing on. “ India is now a Tier-1 country for us and we will make new investments in the country to bring to the Indian consumers the benefits of new technology as early as possible, ” Jim Xu, Vice President, Huawei Consumer Business Group, told a visiting group of journalists. Huawei Matebook Coming to India “ We are making strategic investments in the PC business. In the smartphone segment, Honor...

As we had anticipated, Apple also  launched its tiny Mac Mini computer alongside the new iPad Pro models and the refreshed MacBook Air  at its hardware event in Brooklyn. Apple has refreshed this tiny machine after a good four years, and it’s a great big upgrade too. So, without further ado, here’s a quick look at the specs sheet, pricing, and availability details of the new Mac Mini: Specifications The new Mac Mini now comes in a Space Gray finish on the outside – with a similar design to its predecessor. It’s still the same flattened cube with rounded corners, an LED on the front, and a myriad of ports on the rear. The Mac Mini now boasts of the latest internals, starting with quad-core 8th-gen Intel Core processors and going up to hexa-core processors from the same family. It is the first time Apple has offered the latter on the Mac Mini. The 8th-gen processors are coupled with up to 64GB of 2666MHz DDR4 RAM and 2TB of SSD storage. There’s no hard drive or Fus...

Alongside a bunch of other products, Apple brought the MacBook Air back to life with a new variant that features Retina display, Touch ID, etc. Here’s a quick rundown of the specifications, pricing and availability details of the new MacBook Air. Specifications Dimensions 30.41 x 21.24 x (0.41-1.56) cm Weight 1.25 kgs Display 13.3-inch Retina, with 2560 x 1600 display resolution Processor 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 617 RAM up to 16GB Internal Storage up to 1.5TB Webcam 720p FaceTime camera I/O ports 2 Thunderbolt 3 USB-C, 3.5mm headphone jack Connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2 Battery 50.3Wh Colors Space Gray, Gold and Silver The new MacBook Air has a slightly new design. It now has slimmer bezels around the display and is powered by the 8th generation Intel Core processors. The new MacBook Air has 13.3-inch Retina Display  with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. The ...

Apple today unveiled two completely redesigned variants of its iPad Pro tablet and they’re all-screen (well, almost), backed by a powerful new A12X Bionic processor, and bezels tiny enough to not be able to fit the home button, and Face ID from the iPhone X, among several other exciting things. The Cupertino giant has upgraded its iPad Pro lineup after a couple of years and it has brought a number of significant upgrades, so let’s see how it compares to the previous-generation iPad Pro: Design and Display Starting off with the biggest and most noticeable change, Apple has given its iPad Pro lineup a much-needed, modern revamp . It has tried pushing the screen to the very edge to now include rounded corners and an equally-sized bezel on all sides, a tradition that began with Apple iPhone X. This has enabled the company to pack a larger 11-inch display in the same footprint as your previous-gen 10.5-inch iPad Pro model and  considerably reduce the size of the larger 12.9-inch v...