If you consider the various electronics brands available in the Asian market, Panasonic has pretty much one of the widest product portfolios available. Cameras, home entertainment products such as televisions and Blu-ray players, appliances such as air conditioners and refrigerators, kitchen appliances, personal grooming products including hair dryers and shavers, and even communications devices such as desk phones, fax machines and cordless phones — Panasonic covers it all. It even has a specialized range of laptops called the ToughBook series that includes ruggedized machines designed for extreme conditions, and similarly the ToughPad range of rugged tablets as well....

“You gotta be kidding. It is called the Realme 6 Pro…” “Yes, yes, but that is actually just nomenclature. This is actually the successor to the Realme X.” “What! Wait, but wasn’t that the Realme XT?” “No, that was just an extended version…” “Oh and what of the Realme X2 Pro?” “A budget flagship, my dear chap.” “And the Realme X2?” “Oh come on, look, Realme insists this is the sequel to the Realme X....

Modern, mainstream design The Realme 6 ticks all the design boxes a smartphone in this price range is expected to tick. The smartphone comes with a tall, punch hole display, surrounded by thin bezels on three sides and a slightly thicker chin. A glass-like plastic back with color gradient and light patterns and a long capsule-shaped camera unit. The design of the Realme 6 is pretty routine apart from the power/lock button placed on the right side of the phone....

Subtle, two-toned design Well, it definitely gets marks for trying to look a little different. The dual tone-ish back of the Realme 7 Pro makes it stand out subtly from the current phone crowd. We got the Mirror Blue variant and what struck us straight away was the slightly different shaded band that ran vertically on the left of the back, which incidentally is carbonate. It does not scream for attention but makes its presence felt when light falls on it, distinguishing it from the rest of the back....

A 64-megapixel camera, the first of its kind of a phone in India. A quad camera set up. A full HD AMOLED display, with an in-display fingerprint scanner. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 processor. 4 GB, 6 GB and 8 GB RAM options. Storage of 64 GB and 128 GB, both expandable using a dedicated micro SD card slot. A 4000 mAh battery with a 20W charger with support for VOOC fast charging....

A Note shaped hole in the sub-Rs 10,000 segment First off, there came the arrival of two Redmi Notes, and both came with suffixes – the Note 9 Pro and the Note 9 Pro Max. They were also slightly more expensive than their predecessors. But there was no sign of the “simple, basic” Note. A few weeks ago, that appeared as well – the Redmi Note 9. And well, it broke a tradition by being the first Note in a while to come at a starting price that was in five figures – Rs 11,999....

Do you think the Redmi K20 is overpriced? The Redmi K20 has the latest Snapdragon 730 chip which provides great performance and if benchmarks are something to go by, it’s just third in terms of rankings after Snapdragon 855 and Snapdragon 845. This means performance is right up there with the flagships. Not just the chipset, but there’s a beautiful AMOLED display with bare minimal bezels, a pop-up camera, triple rear cameras, In-display fingerprint scanner, and a glass body....

At the 42nd annual general meeting in Mumbai, Reliance Industries chairman, Mr Mukesh Ambani, made a series of stunning announcements around Reliance Jio and Jio Fiber Home broadband services. Here is a list of announcements: Reliance Jio Fiber Details The base plan of Reliance Jio Fiber will have a speed of 100Mbps and will cost Rs 700 per month. Mr Ambani stated that the average speed of home broadband services in the US is around 90Mbps and India will soon have access to high-speed home broadband very soon....

Ironically, in all the aforementioned labour harassments cases, the exploited workers were mainly immigrants; and it’s the same in this case. As per the report, most of the workers working in the supply chain of the two of the largest electronics brands are from Nepal. The workers are mainly involved in manufacturing and assembling of household electronics including microwaves. The report alleges that while the work is back breaking and requiring inhumanly long hours of labour and patience, the pay isn’t really up to the mark....

Samsung claims to be using an Infinity flex display in the construction of the Super AMOLED curved panel used on the foldable smartphone which according to them required the use of a special type of foldable adhesive which would hold all the layers of the display intact despite folding and unfolding the device multiple times. The way the mechanism works is that there is a primary display on the front like a regular smartphone which is quite regularly sized as per smartphone standards, but the magic happens when you unfold the book-like structure which reveals a huge 7....

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 The all-new Galaxy Note 20 features a 6.7-inch S-AMOLED display with Full-HD resolution and a 60Hz refresh rate. Being a Samsung phone, the display employs the hole-punch cutout for housing the front-facing camera. Besides, there is also an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for authentication and Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top. The Note 20 comes in three colorways: Mystic Bronze, Mystic Gray, and Mystic Green....

As per the report coming out from the research firm, Canalys, Micromax now has 22% share of the total smartphone market in India, ahead of Samsung at 20%. Samsung has been at the helm of affairs in India for several quarters. As per Canalys, (Also Read: But Seriously, It’s Time to Show Micromax Some Respect) It’s also interesting to note that in Q4 2014, 23% of shipments in India were of devices priced under US$100 (Rs 6,000), while 41% were of devices in the US$100 to US$200 bracket (Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000)....

HTC One A9 has been making rounds in the Internet, for not so right reasons as you might have deduced from the picture. The One A9 looks like a cheap iPhone 6s clone, just like the innumerable Chinese companies trying to clone the iPhones after each iterative upgrades. The new bunch of pictures were accidentally published by European wireless carrier Orange and this seems to be a contingency plan by HTC to come out of the mess due to its One M9 Flop....

One device promises to give everyone a means of obtaining information about their bodies instantly, and use it to have healthier lives. The Scanadu Scout Medical Tricorder is a medical gadget that will allow everyone to have a medical laboratory in their pocket. The secret behind the Scanadu Scout Medical Tricorder The Scanadu Scout Medical Tricorder owes its power to the cutting edge hardware that powers it, as well as to the complex algorithms that make it work....

Showing your wares off was never as easy as it has been made by Screencasting. A screencast is a movie of your computer screen that is habitually used to demonstrate how specific features of a software are used. Showing people your product will boost its popularity into people’s memory and catch their attention. It is like test driving a car or tasting your favorite sweets before buying them. Here are five tools that will put the spotlight on your product and make screencasting easier –...

We have rock n rolled onto the tenth day of the TechPP Christmas Giveaway and most of the softwares we reviewed and gave away were something popular for daily use. And today, we present a professional video editing software, Cyberlink’s PowerDirector 8. PowerDirector 8 is a powerful video editing solution with numerous features to satisfy both amateurs and professionals alike. It has been rated Very Good by PC World and many others....

Measuring 72 mm and costing $35, Chromecast works with several types of devices – from smartphones to tablets and computers to TVs, the device can be used to enjoy music and movies remotely. By simply plugging it in and connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot, the device allows you to search through the several TV shows, films and videos available and play whatever you like. The gadget can also be tweaked and altered according to your needs, if you have the proper knowledge....

Enhanced Navigation Bar Here, you can use navigation bar in three ways. Since there is no physical navigation bar, it is interesting to see how well they had been implemented to cater a wide audience. Using Fingerprint Sensor The Honor View 10 houses a fingerprint sensor on the front. You can double down to use it as a navigation bar. You will have to swipe left or right to bring up the multi-tasking window, one single press to go back, and a long press to go to home screen....

Note: If you are not seeing the crossword box below, click here. ACROSS 1 A breath of Windows Air, from Xiaomi. (2,8) 4 Not a group of ships, but floating on top of Twitter. (6) 7 Take this cab and get a message from the next rider, free. (4) 10 This brand wants to find you an (e)X. (4) 11 The latest Adobe Photoshop takes photographs. (6) 13 This Apple event is open for all comers this time around....

We are talking about the phone’s display, of course. It has been expanding at a rate that would make the East Indian Company in the nineteenth century really jealous. A dozen years ago, it shared the pride of place with keyboards when it came to importance on phones. Then it became THE most dominant feature on the front of phones. And now, judging by what we have seen in the Mi Mix Alpha from Xiaomi, it is all set to extend all the way to the back of phones....