Category: Tech

Everything Apple announced that you care about

Apple had their big event on 9th September of 2014 in Cupertino and many products were announced. So, here comes the info about the new iPhone to a Apple Watch you need to know.

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

After a long time and a series of rumors around the web, Apple finally launched their new iPhones. the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus.The iPhone 6 is 4.7-inch, compared to the iPhone 5s’ 4-inch. The iPhone 6 Plus is even bigger having 5.5 inches display.Both models are also thinner with a new outer design. Packed with a new 64-bit A8 processor which is more energy efficient while still being 25 percent faster CPU and 5 percent faster graphics.

The motion coprocessor is also upgraded. The M8 can now track your activity even better by logging when you walk up stairs and how far you travel. Both new devices will come with iOS 8.

Camera upgrades include an 8MP iSight camera, True Tone flash, 1.5 micron pixels, f/2.2 aperture and an all new sensor for bigger panoramas that expand up to 43 megapixels. It can also shoot 1080p videos at 30 fps and 60 fps with continuous auto-focus; slo-mo vids shoot at 120 and 240 fps. The front-facing cam offers a burst mode and single shot HDR and HDR videos.

The iPhone 6 will start at $199 for 16GB, $299 for 64GB and moves up to $399 for 128GB (all with 2-year contract). The iPhone 6 Plus starts at $299 for the 16GB version, $399 for the 64GB, and $499 GB for 128GB (on contract). Both will ship on September 19, pre-orders starting on September 12. In India, iPhone 6 will be available on October17.

Apple Watch coming early next year

Apple announced their highly-anticipated smartwatch, named Apple Watch. It comes with various customizable options, with six types of strap and two metal frame colors. It features all kinds of iOS integration as well as activity tracking features. It can also recognize between taps and clicks by detecting force.

Apple Watch comes with Siri, shareable heartbeat and animated and customizable emojis. Apple will open the WatchKit SDK for third-party developers to create functionalities on the Apple Watch.

The watch starts at $349 and is expected to be available in early 2015. The Apple Watch requires an iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6, and 6 Plus for most of it’s features.

Apple Pay

Apple Pay is a new NFC payment system that allows you to pay for items at stores. Once you add your credit card information, you can just have to touch your iPhone to pay for your items. Apple Pay creates a one-time device-only number instead of using the assigned credit card number so if your phone is stolen, you can suspend the payments without needing to cancel your credit card.

Apple Pay will launch first for Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Supported retailers include Apple, Disney, McDonald’s, Whole Foods, and online merchants like Uber and Groupon with one-touch payment. Apple Pay will come to iOS 8 devices in October.

iOS 8 to release on September 17th

iOS 8 will be out for download for all supported devices on September 17th. It will be a free upgrade.

Sep 10, 2014
Google’s latest object recognition tech can spot everything in your living room

Even if today’s computer has the help of smart algorithms and human assistants, but it may not be able to catch up all thing present in a room. But, recent research from Google might let us realize this incredible image recognition technique. This concept may need a lot of extra computing power.

The result is a far deeper scanning system that can both identify more objects and make better guesses — it can spot tons of items in a living room, including a flying cat as said by google research blog. This new incredible technology is still at early stages. Don’t be surprised if it gets much easier to look for things online.

Team GoogLeNet placed first in the classification and detection tasks, doubling the quality on both tasks over last year’s results. This effort was accomplished by using the DistBelief infrastructure, which makes it possible to train neural networks in a distributed manner and rapidly iterate.

At the core of the approach is a radically redesigned convolutional network architecture. Its seemingly complex structure is based on two insights: the Hebbian principle and scale invariance. As the consequence of a careful balancing act, the depth and width of the network are both increased significantly at the cost of a modest growth in evaluation time. The resultant architecture leads to over 10x reduction in the number of parameters compared to most state of the art vision networks.

These technological advances will enable even better image understanding which can be directly transferable to Google products such as photo search, image search, YouTube or self-driving cars.

Sep 8, 2014
Xiaomi Redmi 1S : The Budget smartphone review

The Xiaomi Redmi 1S priced at Rs. 5,999 is now available exclusively for the Flipkart First subscribers who registered to buy the handset.

Flipkart, the exclusive online retailer of Xiaomi handsets in India, sent an email titled ‘Early Access to Redmi 1S’ to its Flipkart First subscribers, mentioning, “The first two thousand Flipkart First subscribers who register to buy, will get the Redmi 1S added to their cart automatically and they can purchase the Redmi 1S on Sep 1 2pm IST, one day prior to its India launch.”

The Redmi 1S comes in a simple packaging made from recycled material. Along with the usual documentations and warranty info, the company has bundled the phone with a USB cable and a wall socket. Sadly, there are no earphones onboard and you’ll have to supply your own. Being made from polycarbonate, the phone doesn’t look cheap and it has a very durable feel to it.

In fact, its curved edges deliver a comfortable grip, although a weight of 158 grams is a bit outside our comfort zone. And the handset isn’t the slimmest either as it measures 9.9mm thick. Well, these small drawbacks can be easily overlooked them moment you glance at that attractive price tag.The Redmi 1S runs Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Xiaomi’s MIUI v5 skin on top of it.

The Redmi 1S has an 8-megapixel BSI camera with flash which can record 1080p videos. It also has a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera. There is a 2,000mAh battery. The phone accepts two Mini-SIM cards, but only one will be usable on 3G networks. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 round out the list of connectivity options.

Xiaomi Redmi 1S quick specs:

– Android 4.3 Jelly Bean MIUI
– 4.7-inch HD(720p) display
– 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage, 64GB expandable
– 1.6GHz quad core Snapdragon 400 processor
– 8MP rear camera, 1.6MP front camera
– Dual SIM (3G + 2G) support, Bluetooth 4.0
– 2000mAh battery (removable)

Sep 1, 2014
Google Chrome : Now with 64-bit version
Finally Google has released a stable 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows.

According to Google, 64-bit Chrome for Windows has three major advantages over its 32-bit cousin:
- It’s faster,
- more secure,
- more stable.
Even the tasks like HD video on YouTube, are 15% faster under the 64-bit version of Chrome. the most major plug-ins, including Silverlight, Java, and Flash have all been updated to 64-bit. That’s a small price to pay for increased speed, security, and (according to Google) twice the stability of 32-bit Chrome, though.

Also Read: Awesome Firefox Tricks You Might Not Know

Three months of testing later, and the 64-bit build of Chrome has passed muster and percolated down to the latest stable version: Chrome 37.

According to Google, 64 bits Chrome will provide a marked improvement in rendering speed and Google also says it sees an average improvement of 25% in graphics and multimedia content. The main focused advantage is VP9 video decoding (i.e. surfing YouTube) is 15% faster. It suspects the 64-bit version of Chrome will feel a bit faster in everyday use.

The concern to security and stability are much less nebulous but Moving to a 64-bit process allows Chrome to use features such as High Entropy ASLR (address space layout randomization) and improve defenses against JIT spraying

The official download Google chrome 64 Bit

Remarkably Chrome’s 64-bit renderer process will be almost twice as stable as the 32-bit version!!
Aug 28, 2014
The 4.5-inch Asus ZenFone 4 available for Rs.6,999
Competing with Motorola and Xiaomi, Asus has taken the Indian smartphone market by storm by adding a new phone to its ZenPhone series. The 4.5-inch Asus ZenFone 4 will be available for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs.6,999 starting midnight of Sunday, August 24th.

The phone is equipped 1.2GHz dual-core Intel Atom processor alongwith 1GB RAM and 8GB of internal memory. You can also use a microSD card up to 64 GB.

The design and build remains the same as other phones in the Zenfone series. Another visible difference is the addition of LED Flash. The rear camera now incorporates an 8 MP camera which brings noticeable improvement in photography. Battery capacity has been bumped up to 1750 mAh as compared to Zenfone 4. We don’t have stats for how long this will last but you can expect it to last one day with moderate usage.

The company had already announced both the 4-inch and 4.5-inch models of the Zenfone 4, but the laterA450CG variant wasn’t available for purchase till now. The Zenfone 4 A450CG will be taking on the hugely popular Moto E and Redmi 1S, with similar prices.

Asus Zenfone 4 A450CG(ZenFone 4.5) Specs
- Display Size: 4.5 Inch LCD, 854 x 480 resolution, 217 PPI, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
- Processor: 1.2 GHz dual Core Intel Atom Z2520 processor with PowerVRSGX 544 GPU clocked at 300 MHz
- RAM: 1 GB
- Software Version: Android 4.4.2 KitKat (customized)
- Camera: 8 MP
- Secondary Camera: VGA
- Internal Storage: 8 GB
- External Storage: MicroSD support up to 64 GB
- Battery: 1750 mAh, Non Removable
- Dual SIM (Both MicroSIM)
Aug 24, 2014
Spice Launches Firefox OS smartphone at Rs 2299 in india

It was just a few months ago that Firefox announced that it would be bringing its Firefox OS smartphones to the Indian market. And now, Spice has finally announced the country’s most economical smartphone Fire One Mi – FX 1.

Mr. Prashant Bindal, Chief Executive Officer, Spice Mobility Ltd, said, “This is a step towards enabling the dreams of the small town masses of connecting with their aspirations through affordable smartphones. With the ultra-low cost Spice Fire One, we at Spice, aim to convert the feature phone users into smartphone users, thereby, aiding them with the power of internet.”

The smartphone comes with a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touch screen along with a 2 MP rear camera and 1.3 MP front camera. Backed with a 1 GHz processor, it also supports dual-SIM functionality with 2.5 G connectivity. However, it doesn’t support 3G connectivity.

Some unique features include Adaptive App Search or the Single Window Search and allows users to find all relevant information and apps available on the web together at a single click. This device also supports multiple Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil and Bangla.

This economic device is targeted to the users who are switching from feature phone to smartphone.The phone is available exclusively on snapdeal from July 29, for a while, after which it will be sold through major retail stores including Spice HotSpot and Spice’s own online portal saholic.

Following to this, Intex is also looking forward to launch its first Firefox smartphone called Cloud FX on August 25. The price of Cloud FX could be under Rs. 2000.

Aug 23, 2014
Its all about Gmail Limits

With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the web mail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MB its competitors such as hotmail offered at that time.

But now the maximum size of file attachments that allowed including in an email message is 25 MB while the total storage limit for a free Gmail account is unto 15 GB.

Google account has limits of the number of emails that you can send through your Gmail account in a single day. If exceed the daily limit, Google may temporarily disable your Gmail account (without any warnings). The blocking period of Google account can be up to 24 hours before you can regain access to your Gmail mailbox.

Gmail Limits for Sending Email

If you are thinking to send emails to bunch of peoples then you must check out the following rules by Google:

Rule 1: the maximum number of recipients you can send the emails is 500 per day using your Gmail account else your account may get temporarily disables and with the error as “Gmail Lockdown in Section 4.” The main fact is limit is around recipients and not messages. So simply send number of emails of same message to maximum 500 recipients.

Rule 2: If you using your Gmail via POP or IMAP clients, like Microsoft Outlook, you can send an email message to a maximum of 100 people at a time. If you exceed the limit, you will face the same disabled account problem almost for a day with the error – “550 5.4.5 Daily sending quota exceeded.”

Rule 3: user can create multiple accounts with his Gmail account .but while sending mails from those different accounts, the message limit for original account is applied.

Rule 4: if your email message contains a large number of non-existent or broken addresses (<25 ?) that bounce back on failed delivery.

Rule 5 : if user is using Google script for sending the emails for example Gmail mail merge then the limit for that user account is 100 recipients per day. But the user can use the MailApp.GetRemainingDailyQuota method so that the user will known of existing quota else the script will results in an exception saying – “Service invoked too many times.”

Google, as per their program policies, may disable your Gmail account permanently if you don’t check your Gmail email for a period of nine months.

Jul 27, 2014
THL T11 – Intelligent 3G "Tomatoes on Sticks" Phablet
THL T11 3G Phablet sported with advanced technology and manufacture, powerful functions and excellent performance, this Android 3G Smartphone is very functional and handy in your daily life for keeping communication, getting latest news, enjoying entertainment, etc. Dual SIM functionality enables you to use various types of the telephone numbers without taking so many cellphones at the same time. With 2GB RAM and 16GB ROM the phablet is enough to meet your needs of storing music, movies,photos,games and so on. Big 5.0 inch multi-touch capacitive screen comes with 1280 x 720 resolution, it brings you a relatively broad visual field to enjoy high definition and high-fidelity pictures and movies. It also have GPS technology to help you locate and find the right direction in the strange cities. Equipped with powerful MTK6592W Octa Core 1.7GHz CPU ensures stable and fast processing speed. You can definitely believe in it, and it will indeed bring much convenience to you.

Specs:
- 5 Inch multi touch display
- Dual sim
- RAM: 2GB
- ROM: 16GB
- Support Gravity/Light/Proximity Sensing System
- FM/MP3/MP4/Bluetooth/GPS/OTG/NFC Function Supported
- Back camera: with flash light and AF, 8.0MP
  Front camera: 5.0MP
The phablet is available to buy at 47% off at $219.17.

Main features of THL T11

Advanced and innovative NFC feature, conveniently and easily achieve all you envision!

Embedded with a 1.7GHz high-speed MTK6592W Octa Core processor and a large capacity memory, it can help you smoothly cope with different challenges. more advanced architecture will bring a stronger arithmetic capability.

It would give you the awesome experience, 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM mass storage, you can have a number of interesting and fun APPS, play lots of wonderful games, HD video play, enjoy every entertainment moment during the life.

THL T11 adopts Mali-400 MP GPU, which create an innovative HD screen picture display for you. Giving you endless beautiful broad visual effect.

5.0 inch HD IPS capacitive touch screen, gently touch to browse the web and flip the apps whatever you wanna, easy to operate and convenient to control.

You can find more phablets on gearbeast at cheap prices.
Jul 26, 2014
Xiaomi unveils its new flagship smartphone Mi4
Xiaomi recently revealed its next flagship smartphone Mi4 featuring a metal framework. The on-paper specs of this killer smartphone will leave you amazed. The Mi 4 will be available approx. $322 for the 16GB model and 64GB version will cost $400.

The phone was unveiled in Beijing by Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun. The phone will only be available in the Asian Pacific region (mainly China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines & India), the design of Mi4 shows that the company is targeting the ‘premium’ market which is currently dominated by Apple and Samsung.
The device runs on custom MIUI android operating system which is a skinned version of Android that allows great customization and favors apps on home screen rather than on App Drawer.

Coming to the inside specs of this phone, the Mi4 features a 5-inch full-HD display, a Quad-core 2.5GHz processor, 2GB RAM, a 13 MP rear-facing camera and 16/64GB of internal space.

Lei said that the Mi4 is the fastest smartphone over the globe. He also mentioned the changes in design of the Mi4 with such battery power. The phone also makes use of speedy charging, which helps the phone to charge up to 60 percent in just an hour.

During the Mi4 presentation, the company had a “One more thing…” showcase, something Apple was famous for when they had a surprise announcement.

Xiaomi Mi4 Specs at a glance
- 5-inch 1080p display,
- 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor
- 3GB RAM
- 13 MP rear camera and 8 MP front-facing camera
- 16/64 GB internal memory
- 3080 mAh battery
- 3G/4G support
Lei previously expected and stated that the company will ship 40 million smartphones this year, but the figure could reach to 60 million.

Also Read: Xiaomi Mi 3 launched at just Rs. 14,999 in India
Jul 23, 2014
Askme – Your assist companion for smartphone
If you think you are missing something exciting on your smartphone then try out the new Askme app developed by Getit Infoservices Pvt. Ltd . The target behind the app is to combine the facets of local search listings, online shopping and ads and deals posting for buyers and sellers, all into one app.

Just like the gaint search engines, AskMe can also search for the best deals and free ads that are offered according to your locality. And you can do this without returning to the homepage. App is there to help you with any information you need, just ask anything! Not only giving a list of cool places to eat or shop, it will also help you to buy deals instantly and get exciting discount coupons sent right at your mobile numbers.

Askme main features:

The app comes with some very useful features:
- Search and locate businesses around your range
- Search out good deals tendered by your preferred local business
- Get latest ad classifieds
- Know about the good businesses in your zone by reading reviews.
- Share best local businesses to find products with family and friends though twitter, email, SMS and Facebook
- Search for addresses and contacts of thousands of businesses and get in touch with them straight away
- Get additional information on businesses, for example, their ratings, opening and closing hours, methods of pay. This will assist you in making the right choice easily.
The ‘Baap’ of all app have a minimalistic and easy to use UI which looks great on your smartphone with its handy utilities. It’s a light app and doesn’t take too much of your smartphone’s space which is also a key point to note. It doesn’t eat up your battery life because it uses very little amount of battery.

App already got over 5,00,000 installs till now, and is growing at a very fast pace. You can download the app via Google Play Store: Askme.
Jul 21, 2014