Google Home vs Amazon Echo India focus comparison

Like some of the other inventions in recent times, such as smartwatches and tablets, home assistants is a category of products that often sees mixed reviews. Those who like them swear by them and can't imagine not having one in their life anymore. Others feel they don't need one and can just get by fine without it. The category came into existence when Amazon launched the Echo series of products back 2014 and then Google followed last year with the Google Home. After a while of absence, both these products are now available in India, with Amazon launching the Echo series last year in...

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iOS 12 - our hopes and expectations

Yesterday we briefly looked at how iOS has evolved over the past decade, so now it's time to look forward to what comes next - iOS 12. It may be stating the obvious, but iOS has changed almost beyond all recognition as it competes with its main adversary - Android, while meeting the increasing expectations of us, the users. Under the hood things have evolved immensely. When the original iPhone OS was developed it had to only support only one device, the original 2G iPhone. Now it supports a multitude of devices including iPhones and iPads all with various screen sizes with different...

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Week 15 in review: OnePlus 6 tops the chart in a week of leaks and announcements

As we close the page on the 15 week of the year, we can mark it as a good one. It had a few announcements and it brought some nice leaks, so a little from everything. The top of our most read list goes to the OnePlus 6 and its first full-frontal image. Then we got some juicy tips about the upcoming Galaxy Note9 and found ourselves once again facing the OnePlus 6, this time in case renders that featured both front and a portion of the back. The next most popular story was once again the work of renders but this time the focus was on the LG G7 ThinQ and its five upcoming colors. The...

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Just in: Nokia 6 (2018) hands-on

HMD's debut Nokia trio was lead by the original 6 - a mid-range phone that was largely led down by its chipset. The company's somewhat alternative strategy of prioritizing stock Android still paid dividends, but it's also keen to show that it's no slow learner. So the second generation is part of Android One program but brings major updates throughout the specs sheet A Snapdragon 430 device with an asking price of over EUR 200 was a tough sell last year, but the Nokia 6 (2018) comes with an up to date Snapdragon 630. Mid-range Qualcomm offer this might be, but it's also the one with...

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Weekly poll: do you think gaming phones have a future?

One of the more famous failures in tech history is the N-Gage - the dominant phone maker (Nokia) failed to popularize on a product that aimed to replace the lucrative handheld gaming consoles (just think how many Gameboys Nintendo has sold). That scared makers off gaming phones for over a decade, but that fear may have finally faded. Razer released a gaming phone, so did Acer (also a tablet) and now Xiaomi has jumped the Blackshark, uh, jumped on the bandwagon and apparently ZTE wants to do the same with its nubia brand. What makes a phone a "gaming phone" anyway? The over-the-top...

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Oppo R15 Pro review

The Oppo R15 announcements was tainted by a massive media charade. Between the OnePlus 6 guesses and keywords clickbait, it was a tough job to see what the Oppo R15 really was. Especially when the R15 name was nowhere to be found. So, today we'll try to correct this wrong by taking you on an adventure with one of China's latest fashion icons.

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Counterclockwise: our favorite models that companies no longer make

Last week we reminisced about favorite old brands, but that was just part of the story - while many brands are still around, some of their product lines have been discontinued and we wouldn't mind seeing them come back to life. The Nokia PureView is an easy pick, the 808 was a feat of engineering and the Lumias pioneered some now standard camera features. We don't insist on the name (which is owned by Microsoft), a new N-series would be just as cool. Also, we wouldn't terribly mind a phone that can match the build quality of the E-series. Nokia 808 PureView • Nokia N8 • Nokia...

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