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Mi Air Purifier 2S The Mi Air Purifier was one of the first non-smartphone products Xiaomi brought to India and after a two-year lull, it’s finally being refreshed. The new Mi Air Purifier 2S’ biggest highlight is the circular OLED screen present on the front so that you don’t have to pull out your phone every time you’d like to check on the air quality. The display can show several tidbits such as the atmospheric particulate matter (PM), temperature, humidity, and more....

This leaves us wondering what might be in Microsoft’s pipeline that the company is boasting about? Well for starters the Tweets by Panos Pranay contained the Surface hashtag. Also, the venue of the event is Shanghai instead of New York. In all likelihood, Microsoft may be lining up the Surface Pro 5 which will come with an update to Kabylake but apart from that we are left with no options but to presume that perhaps the announcement has something to do with the mixed reality....

The design of the new Z2 Force is largely similar to other second generation smartphones the company has unveiled this year which isn’t a bad thing at all. In addition to that, Motorola is now using 7,000 series aluminum to provide a relatively more sturdy frame. Of course, the cornerstone of purchasing this flagship is its unbreakable screen up front. To achieve that, it features a multi-layer design with a replaceable exterior “lens” which essentially means you will be able to swap it out in case it gets scratched up from multiple falls....

The all new Moto G6 lineup isn’t a major overhaul over its predecessor. It’s more of a modest update with the new phones coming with the latest hardware. With that said, the most highlighting improvement in the Moto G6 is in its display. All three devices namely the Moto G6, Moto G6 Plus and Moto G6 Play come with an 18:9 aspect ratio display panel. Albeit, the Moto G6 Play being the cheapest feature a display with a slightly lower resolution....

The financial terms of the deal are yet to be revealed but it is likely that a generous exchange of equity was involved. Nextbit had earlier raised $18 million in funding from Accel, GV, and Dentsu along with another $1.36 million against the Kickstarter orders. In fact, Robin started out as a Kickstarter project and soon rose to fame. Razer will be onboarding 30 of Nextbit’s staff and intends to develop more products with the Nextbit brand as the cornerstone....

Robin is launched on Kickstarter for $299 and it is an overly boxy phone with a 5.2-inch FHD display, USB Type-C and is powered by the hexa-core Snapdragon 808 SoC tagged with a 3GB of RAM. Spec-wise, Robin is at par with premium flagships like LG G4, and if marketed aptly, it might be able to steal the show and also take away some of the LG Nexus & OnePlus 2 audiences....

Opening the Gates to coding when young Unlike most people now who study coding in higher schools and colleges, Gates was a boss at it from quite an early age. He wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer when he was just a teen at Lakeside Prep School. It was kind of like a version of tic-tac-toe where one had to play against the machine (and I probably was still eating dirt when I was a teen… just saying)....

Nokia 6.2 Display The Nokia 6.2 has a 6.3-inch Full HD+ display with a water-drop style notch. While it’s pretty normal for a phone in this segment, the unique factor is the support for HDR content. The display on the Nokia 6.2 is HDR-enabled all the time, meaning irrespective of the content you are viewing, you are going to see it in HDR thanks to active SDR to HDR conversion....

For the past few weeks, the Nokia 8 has been constantly appearing online leaving almost nothing to the imagination. The press renders revealed in a VentureBeat report recently suggested a rather conventional design which Nokia’s existing budget smartphone lineup also comes with. The polycarbonate clamshell body doesn’t seem quite appealing at first glance, although it does allow the company to maintain a common language across all of its smartphones. In addition to that, there will be a fingerprint scanner housed under the front home key and two off-screen capacitive buttons beside it....

I know it sounds crazy, but American multinational food, snack and beverage corporation PepsiCo is apparently working on its own smartphone. PepsiCo has confirmed to Reuters that it will indeed launch a line of Pepsi smartphones and accessories in China: Thus, this means that Pepsi isn’t actually looking to get into the cutthroat market of phone making, but it is instead looking to release a smartphone solely for branding purposes....

Earlier: It came. It unfolded. It unfolded badly. It was criticized. It went back. It disappeared. It came back. It unfolded. It sold a million units. That’s the story of the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The device which many had predicted would kick start a foldable revolution got off to the worst start possible when it was first launched earlier this year. Reviewer after reviewer ripped into the device – some did so literally, peeling off the display itself by mistake because it seemed so flimsy....

Officially, the “small guy trying to beat the big one with speedy innovation” script remains unaltered with the OnePlus 5. However, it is difficult to ignore the fact that the device is also perhaps the first that sees OnePlus try to step away from its identity of David and actually be a bit more like, well, a mini-Goliath if you will, if not a full-fledged one. If that sounds harsh, consider the evidence....

“Master…” “Enter you may, young Padawan.” “We have got you the device, Master.” “Done well, you have. Ah, but so big the box is. Contain it must, a might device…” “Well, Master, if I may speak…” “Of course.” “It is the same mobile phone device they launched last month, Master.” “Launched it again, they have then?” “No, Master. They have added some flourishes from our universe to it.” “Indeed?” “Yes, master....

My first ‘high-end’ smartphone was the N95 8 GB. And this brought a more powerful 5.0-megapixel camera to the equation, and a slightly larger display (2.8 inches was a big deal in those days), but in most respects was rather similar to the N70, although it did bring a slide out keyboard into the equation. Oh and it was slimmer – just 21 mm thick. And incidentally, at that time, I was saving up to buy what many felt was the king of smartphones in the market – the Nokia E90 Communicator....

Plotagraph (or Plotagraph+ Photo Animator to use its full official name) is one such app. It is a photograph editing app that lets you add animation to your picture. And, for those thinking animations has something to do with animated characters or cartoons, let’s just clear the air by telling you: No. By animation, we mean that it allows you to move or bring movement to a static part of your picture....

Does the Poco X3 Pro belong here? That is an interesting question. Typically mid segment… Let us get some things clear: the Poco X3 Pro is a mid-segment phone in many regards. It has the sort of display (full HD+, 6.67-inch) that is a staple mid-segment, and even its 120 Hz refresh rate is no longer something you see only in premium segment devices. The 48-megapixel main rear camera and quad camera arrangement is something that we are seeing even in phones around Rs 12,000 – 108 MP seem to be the new IN thing in the Rs 15,000-20,000 range....

And this is the philosophy behind Prynt, a new startup that is currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter. To put it as short as possible, Prynt is described as the world’s first instant camera case for smartphones. But before you get too excited, at the moment it will work only with the iPhone 5/5s/5c/6 and the Samsung Galaxy S4/S5. But the team behind Prynt says they are working to bring support to more smartphones....

Now the Redmi Note 9 Pro has come along. Looking all sharp, flashy in its own shiny way. And with one teeny-tiny detail that took us back in time, specifically back to 2008. Over a decade ago, Disney-Pixar had created a movie about this tiny but extremely adorable waste-collecting robot who falls in love with a more modern robot and the two take on a journey that ultimately decides the fate of mankind, WALL-E....

And STILL manages to stick out from what is rapidly becoming the Chinese Crowd, thanks to a mix of sheer muscle and nuance. Relatively compact in size We had mentioned in our first impressions of the Q Terra that while it was an unabashedly large phone, it looked compact for its size. At 157.6 mm long, it is well over the half foot size that most use to place a device in the phablet range, and at 79....

In terms of design, the Galaxy A20 features a 6.4-inch, 1560 × 720 pixels HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity-V display on the front. And a fingerprint scanner mounted on the rear of the device. Under the hood, it is powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 7884 chipset, paired with 6GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage (expandable up to 512GB using a microSD card). The A20 runs also includes a 3....