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The Suaoki G 500 is currently available via an Indiegogo campaign. Apart from including a 500 watt-hour battery pack, the power station also offers a variety of outlets for plugging in devices. The Suaoki G 500 offers two standard AC outlets, two quick-charging USB-A ports, USB-C port, two 12-volt DC ports and a 12-volt carport. The numerous ports and the large battery life should essentially keep you covered for the entire camping trip....

Swiftpoint GT combines intuitive touch gestures with the precision and convenience of a mouse, being the first mouse in the world to do so. It allows users to swipe or flick using a natural finger and wrist action, without actually having to reach for your screen. This will prove to be especially useful with touch-enabled laptops for hybrid devices. You can use it on a desk, laptop palmrest, and pretty much everywhere you want....

While a majority of the old, traditional home appliances these days are getting replaced with their smart counterparts, there are still some devices that we do not have smart versions for. This is where the smart plugs come into the picture. Syska “expects the smart home segment to grow at a fast pace till 2020 and reach 7.2 percent by 2022.” Both smart plugs, the Smart Plug (16A) and Smart Mini Plus (10A) come with a bunch of features that help you get the most out of your appliances....

WhatsApp Messenger – Taking the PIN out of Ping In the begging was messaging, and lo and behold, the company with two B’s from Canada dominated it, with a PIN that was more aspirational than a pin code. They were the likes of Google Talk who offered some token resistance. And then along came Whatsapp in 2009 and changed that. It was an App Store exclusive for a while – Android got it in 2010, after even that double B company!...

To ensure you have better security on the internet, irrespective of the operating system your smartphone is running and that your data stays protected, you should use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) for all your online communications. In fact, not just smartphones, you should have a VPN client on all your devices, be it tablets, computers, or even smart TVs. But what exactly is a VPN, how does it protect your data, and which is the best VPN service for your iPhone?...

The new Kindle Paperwhite is similar to the older model for the most part except for a few changes. It seems that the company is pretty convinced with the older-generation design and hence wants to stick to what has been working out for them. A possible reason for which seems to be the sheer popularity of the device worldwide and the staggering sales figures that the company has achieved with the model....

If you’re still not quite familiar with the concept, go ahead and read our previous guide on this, called Everything You Need to Know About the USB Type-C, in order to learn more about the new standard. But if you’d rather prefer to go through the most important feature of the USB Type-C and why it will matter when deciding whether to buy a OnePlus 2 or not, here’s what you should know:...

How does it look? Does it not look exactly like the S8+? This is an accusation that we think has been leveled a trifle unfairly at the S9+. A more logical question would have been: does the S9+ look good? Yes, the broad design language is similar to what we had seen in the S8+ with the tall 6.2-inch display dominating the front, tapering over the sides, and button placement (including the Bixby and volume buttons on the left side) being largely similar....

Podcast users are looking for apps that offer ease of access to online content, from music, to shows and news. Also, these apps must have a simple and intuitive user interface, fast downloads and the possibility to create customized podcast feeds. Best Podcast Apps for iOS Unlike Google with its dedicated podcast app, Apple has continued its Podcast service and thanks to this, now it is one of the most used apps in the iTunes Store, for users that enjoy podcasts....

Guest Post by Elena Vakhromova. Are you a devoted Apple fanboy? Or at-least own an Apple mobile device? Then you should be aware of a small inconvenience most iDevices have: because of the support of few video formats (generally MP4 and H.264) it’s a real pain to play any other videos on them. The universal video playing app hasn’t been offered yet, so lots of people still use desktop video converters to adjust diverse video formats to Apple playback....

In a detailed blog post, Carl Pei, the global face of OnePlus has written an emotional open letter to the company’s new customers explaining this mess, which unfortunately isn’t as clear as it should have been. We shall try to do our best in comprehending what the situation is and how this might pan out in the future. Deal between Cyanogen & OnePlus Earlier this year, OnePlus signed a deal with Cyanogen to launch the first ever smartphone running CyanogenMod out of the box and promising frequent updates and support directly from Cyanogen....

Inspired by Ubuntu’s desktop version, MeeGo and even with a flavor of Windows 8, the mobile Ubuntu operating system can already be experienced on tweaked Android smartphones and starting with the upcoming year, people should expect full-state devices. Ubuntu Mobile OS, by Canonical In a market strongly dominated by Android and iOS, a third but proper competitor has yet to reveal itself, even though big names like Microsoft and RIM already exist....

A new system, called UEFI, is here to take its place, but like most new technologies, its implementation is slow and expensive. Users tend to overlook the importance of the low-level operating system, keeping true to the belief that “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. BIOS is reaching the end of its powers and new technologies are not supported any longer by this system, and this is what UEFI tries to fix....

I consider tablets to be used in medicine, architecture, engineering and not so much in the day to day life, maybe because I’m just a bit old school and I like PCs, but nonetheless, regardless of my opinion, the iPad remains the number 1 tablet PC in the world, and it seems the future will see even more tablets. This is just the start of an era that will be around for some time....

That joke might seem like a bad one, but it kinda fits when we talk of fingerprint scanners on smartphones. They started from the bottom after all, and now seem to have reached their home (or so we think). But to understand this better, let’s start from the beginning. Or actually from the bottom. Of smartphones. Starting from the base-ics… Once upon a time, smartphones had to depend on passwords, pin and pattern locks to keep peepy-eyes from breaking and entering....

Anki claims to have earned a revenue of over $100 million last year, but says that toys aren’t what it only aims to sell, indicating their seriousness towards bringing robotic devices into the mainstream market. Over a year after the release of Cozmo, Anki has now showcased a spiritual successor to it named Vector, which is slightly bigger in size than the Cozmo and has a grey tint to it....

Instagram app now allows users to take and edit videos The update to Instagram allows users to take 15 seconds long videos and modify them with custom effects. According to the developers, duration of the video is limited to 15 seconds in order to allow users to quickly capture important moments and share them easily, and also ensure fast downloading by those who want to view them. The user has at his disposal 13 filters created specifically for the video capability of Instagram....

According to the researchers, the WPA2 protocol vulnerability works by intercepting the data at the point of a four-way handshake which uses a passkey called Pairwise. The worst part, however, is that the key can be resent multiple times. This is facilitated by using a cryptographic nonce, an arbitrary number that can be ideally used only once. In this particular case, the cryptographic nonce when sent in a certain manner renders the encryption void....

2015 – 2020: Indian brands, from dominant to dead Sounds hard to believe? Well, five years ago, in 2015, the top five smartphone brands in the Indian market were: Samsung, Micromax, Intex, Lenovo (Motorola), and Lava, as per Counterpoint Research. And that is not all, there were others – Karbonn, Spice, Lyf, iBall, and Celkon, to name a few. Even brands that were known for other electronic products like Onida, BPL, and Videocon had phone divisions....

WhatsApp has been testing many features in beta and most often new features keep popping up with every upgrade. Moving on, apart from the one to one conversations WhatsApp Groups is something that has clicked with the users. While most of us use WhatsApp group for the sake of being connected with their family and friend’s others use it as an official channel to communicate stuff regarding work. WhatsApp has now introduced the tagging feature that will let you tag the group members by adding ‘@’ before their name....