Author Archives: Loknath Das

Mobvoi TicWatch C2 unveiled: $200 Wear OS watch with almost everything

Mobvoi just unveiled the TicWatch C2, a sequel to the TicWatch 2. It’s a Wear OS timepiece that includes most of the features you might want from a smartwatch while keeping the price in check. You can pre-order it right now at $200/€200, it will ship on December 6. The TicWatch C2 has a 1.3” AMOLED screen (360 x 360px), ... Read More »

Fresh renders show the Honor Magic 2 in three gradient colors

Honor, Huawei’s sub brand, is gearing up to release the Honor Magic 2 on October 31 but there will not be that much left to reveal by the time the announcement comes. The latest leak leaves almost nothing to the imagination. It features press renders of the Honor Magic 2 in three gradient colors – Silver, Blue and Pink – ... Read More »

Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) Review

The Amazon Echo Dot has been the runt of the litter among the Echo lineup. It’s the most affordable model and the easiest way to get yourself in the world of voice assistants. And because all the Alexa smarts are based in the cloud, the Echo Dot could do almost everything that the bigger and more expensive models could. This ... Read More »

Weekly poll results: the LG V40 ThinQ gets more love than the G7

LG strategy seemed all over the place, but the scattershot approach has hit the bullseye – the LG V40 ThinQ got the approval of our readers in last week’s poll, the vote was 3:1 in favor. The company’s firm commitment to the 3.5mm headphone jack and the hardware that makes it awesome (the 32-bit Quad DAC) have not gone unnoticed. LG’s other passion, ... Read More »

Android Confidential: Just how big is that notch on the Google Pixel 3 XL anyway?

The notch. By now it’s become a fairly commonplace feature on premium phones. Even some budget handsets are starting to get in on the act. But the Google Pixel 3 XL reignites the notch frenzy. Why? Because it’s so damn big. Google didn’t just add a normal screen cutout to the top of its latest flagship phone, it added the ... Read More »

Huge Huawei Mate 20 Pro leak outs all details, including UK pricing

Huawei is preparing a big event in London for the unveiling of its Mate 20 and Mate 20 Prosmartphones (and possibly even a Mate 20X gaming handset) next week. But today a huge leak out of Germany may have spoiled everything that’s going to be presented on stage regarding the Mate 20 Pro. Some new official-looking press renders were leaked too, alongside UK pricing. ... Read More »

Research: Foldable phones need more than just flexible displays to impress users

According to a research carried out by the Display Supply Chain Consultant, next year’s smartphones with flexible displays will ship 3.1 million units. That’s just going to be the tip of the iceberg though, as the report estimates that in 2022, the number will grow to a whopping 63 million units generating revenue of $8.9 billion. That’s a pretty big ... Read More »

Apple releases iOS 12.0.1 to fix XS charging issue

Apple has released iOS 12.0.1, which fixes one of the issues users had reported. It fixes the problem where connecting the charger cable to the iPhone XS would occasionally not start the charging until the display was turned on. iOS 12.1 change log Apart from that, the update also fixes a couple of other issues, including a Wi-Fi issue where the iPhone ... Read More »

How a German Social-Media Company Tamed the Trolls

  When German social-media app Jodel was five months old, its founder Alessio Avellan Borgmeyer noticed a potential problem: while more people were logging on, a small number of users weren’t the community he had hoped to attract. They were posting offensive comments and pressuring other users to submit naked photos. Apple Inc. also saw a problem. The naked photos ... Read More »

AMD’s Dynamic Local Mode for Threadripper promises almost 50 percent more performance

If you’re lucky enough to have one of AMD’s high-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs 2990WX (or the soon-to-come 2790WX) , AMD has just given you a cherry for the top of your sundae. A new piece of software called Dynamic Local Mode will boost performance on some tasks by rerouting loads in Windows. Robert Hallock of AMD introduced Dynamic Local Mode in ... Read More »