After many weeks of anticipation, BlackBerry has finally announced its latest Android-running smartphone, the DTEK60. In the press release, the company states that the hardware inside the DTEK60 is manufactured by TCL, as part of "BlackBerry's transition towards a device software licensing strategy" which allows it to focus on putting "the smart in the phone." The DTEK60 doesn’t seem to bring any major design changes to...
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Smartphones are an absolute must have for today’s tech savvy generation, with touch screen smartphones getting larger and larger screens, a Chinese tech firm looks to reverse the trend by introducing the world's smallest touch screen device. Meet Vphone, developed by a company formed just six years back looks like a smartwatch but works as a smartphone, reported GIZBOT. The Vphone enjoys impressive measurements of 46.7 mm...
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Blincam is a camera. It is a standalone, handsfree camera that can be attached to any pair of glasses. And not smart glasses but your regular glasses. The good part of the blincam is that to take a picture, all you have to do is wink. It is funded by a Tokyo-based startup. To take a picture, just wink. So when the Blincam is released and people...
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Android Police in an exclusive states that Google is planning a new Pixel laptop(Pixel 3/Bison) that will run the Andromeda OS. Andromeda OS is a hybrid OS. It is a fusion of Android and Chrome OS. Chrome features will be merged into Android so it will be more of an Android laptop than a Chrome. This will be the first device to feature the Andromeda OS The...
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On Tuesday Google revealed its #madebygoogle devices - two smartphones, Google Home-gives hands-free help from the Google Assistant, a Virtual Reality headset, a Google router that makes use of mesh networking, and a new Chromecast that supports 4k. Pixel and Pixel XL are the first phones made by Google that were actually designed, engineered and tested in-house. The Pixel handsets are the first to have the Google Assistant built in. They are also the...
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Windows 10 marks 400 million installs on active devices. Microsoft announced at the Ignite conference in Atlanta, Georgia that Windows 10 had passed 400 million installs on active devices. Active devices meaning devices that have been active in the last 28 days. These devices cut across desktop computers, tablets, phones, Surface Hubs, Xbox One consoles, and even HoloLens headsets. This is a nice achievement for Microsoft although this is far...
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Twitter Extends 140 Characters Limit per Tweet - photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count. Twitter tweeted on Monday tweeted that it will be expanding the number of things you can post in a tweet. The 140 characters limit has not been increased but now @names in replies and media attachments (like photos, GIFs, videos, and polls) will no longer count towards your 140 characters. Sadly,...
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Adblock Plus Now Shows Acceptable Ads Adblock Plus, the most popular ad blocker, announced on September 13 that instead of blocking all ads, it will show its users ads that are acceptable. Who determines ads that are acceptable? You guessed right! Adblock does. So Adblock replaces ads it feels are intrusive or annoying with subtle and less annoying ads. This however ain't free. If you want Adblock to show...
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Microsoft is rumored to be putting an end to the Lumia brand in favour of Surface Phones. Microsoft may replace Lumia with Surface Phone. This is supposed to help revive Microsoft's dying smartphone business. The rumors concerning the death of Lumia seem pretty convincing. An employee at the company(anonymous) told WinBeta that the company is preparing to end sales of the Lumia brand this year, December 2016. This claim seems to be true...
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Twitter's Direct Messages show read receipts Twitter has added a new feature to its Direct Messaging(DM). Your Twitter messages now show read receipts. A blue check mark next to a message's time stamp shows when a message has been read. You also get to see when someone is typing a response. So you not only have read receipts but you also have typing indicators. This feature brings to mind messaging apps...
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