Gadgets Archive

Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro Price in India Reportedly Slashed

Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro price has reportedly been cut again in India. As per an established Mumbai based mobile retailer, the Galaxy J7 Pro is now available in the country at Rs. 16,900. The Galaxy J7 Pro was launched in June last year alongside the Galaxy J7 Max. Both the smartphones

Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) Android Oreo Update Reportedly Causing Random Reboots, Battery Drains

Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) got an Android Oreo software update last month, however it seems users of the smartphone aren’t particularly enjoying the update after all. Some users are reporting significant issues with the handset after the major update, including battery drain, random reboots, and UI freezing issues. Previously, Samsung

Vivo X21 Is India’s First Smartphone With an In-Display Fingerprint Sensor: Price, Specifications, and More

Vivo X21 has been launched in India at an event in New Delhi on Tuesday. The smartphone’s biggest highlight is of course its under-display fingerprint sensor (aka in-display fingerprint scanner), making it amongst the first production smartphones to offer the feature. Other highlights of the Vivo X21 include

Alcatel 3V With 18:9 Display, Dual Rear Cameras Launched in India: Price, Specifications

Alcatel 3V has been launched in India, at an event in New Delhi on Tuesday. The smartphone was first unveiled at CES 2018, before being launched at MWC 2018. Alongside the Alcatel 3V, the TCL-owned brand had announced several other phones at the two trade shows, including the Alcatel 1X, Alcatel 3, Alcatel 3X, and Alcatel

Snapchat’s New Lens Reacts to Sounds

Snapchat has rolled out its first Lens that reacts to sound. “It’s a cute animal mask overlay for your face, with ears that pulse and glow, and eyes that move based on the sounds it hears. Snapchat says it’s just the first of many,” Engadget reported late Monday,

Qualcomm to depose Apple services chief Eddy Cue

Qualcomm Inc can depose Apple Inc’s services chief Eddy Cue in addition to Chief Executive Tim Cook, a magistrate judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of California has ruled, part of the chipmaker’s effort to determine whether Appleworked with Samsung to focus regulatory scrutiny on Qualcomm. The access

Paytm Tap Card Launched, Allows Offline Payments in Less Than a Second

Paytm has launched a new payment mode, Tap Card, that it is promoting as India’s first “truly offline payments solution.” It is a card that uses NFC to transfer money on company-authorised Point of Sale (PoS) terminals, and is aimed at non-Internet users. The Paytm Tap Card uses enables safe

‘Security gadgets installed in prisons’

The State government has enhanced security measures in prisons by deploying a slew of advanced equipment to further strengthen the existing arrangements, Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons C.Ve. Shanmugam said on Thursday. Security-related gadgets such as scanners, cell phone jammers and closed circuit television cameras, besides

Say goodbye to Alexa and hello to gadgets listening to the voice inside your head

A prototype device called AlterEgo, created by MIT Media Lab graduate student Arnav Kapur, is already making this possible. With Kapur’s device—a 3-D-printed plastic doodad that looks kind of like a skinny white banana attached to the side of his head—he can flip through TV channels, change the

Twitter bans ads from Russia’s Kaspersky Lab

Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has banned ads from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, saying the cyber-security company’s business model conflicts with advertising rules and citing U.S. government claims that Kaspersky has ties to Russian intelligence agencies. Twitter confirmed the ban in an email to Reuters after Kaspersky Lab