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OnePlus One: Chandler Witty oneliners that never settled When we talk about setting a tone, we think the OnePlus One did for the OnePlus brand what Chandler Bing did for Friends. Just as Mr Bing remains one of the most quoted characters from the show, the OnePlus One did a very good job in making itself memorable. And both did it with some very smart talking. Yes, Chandler was good looking but what you remembered most were his wit and humor....

The VLC media player is the best-known third-party media player app available for almost every major operating system, either on smartphones or computer devices. This pack of media players has gained such a huge audience because it provides all the best features and related functions for free. The users never need to install any other app to fulfill their requirements. The best thing about the VLC is that it can control the media playback aspects through simple but quick gestures....

On August, HTC confirmed that they would be expanding the Desire family of devices in the United States, with the Desire 610 already available for AT&T, and the Desire 816 joining the State-side ranks soon. Now, according to a new leak, another Desire family member is headed to Sprint. According to the Twitter account @upleaks, the above device is the “HTC A11,” which is apparently a codename for a device that will reportedly brandish the Desire family name at some point in the future....

HTC’s Nexus 9 is a fairly new tablet for the market, but leading up into the holiday shopping season means any item is liable to get a discount. The Nexus 9 features an 8.9-inch display, with a 2.3GHz NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor under the hood, an 8-megapixel camera on the back with a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera. There’s 2GB of RAM and a pair of front-facing speakers. Do you plan on picking one up?...

Yesterday, we posted some screenshots and information about the changes that HTC has made in the Android 4.2.2 update for the One. Now, less than 24 hours later, two of the most popular custom ROMs for the device have been updated to be re-based on a leaked Android 4.2.2 RUU. The custom ROMs contain all the changes that were leaked yesterday including battery percentage icon, Android Daydream, Quick Settings, the ability to map the menu key to home button and improved BlinkFeed with Instagram and LinkedIn integration....

The only “different” category, to be honest, in the smartphone space right now that turns heads and feels futuristic and unique is foldables. Not a lot of brands have tried their hand at foldables because one, the tech is still very much in its infancy, and two, foldables are expensive and not something everyone can afford. Motorola tried their hand at foldables by resurrecting the famous Razr which now even has a successor....

Smartphone manufacturers have been pushing the envelope lately on photography and camera technology, employing new ways to help you get the best out of that small sensor that’s strapped to the back of your phone. In the past few months, we’ve seen several different takes on the camera’s focus problem, including HTC’s Duo Camera Refocus, Samsung’s Phase Detection Autofocus, and LG’s Laser Autofocus. Does this jargon sound too technical to you?...

Recently, Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich demonstrated a flying car which is dubbed as Volocopter at CES 2019. Brian Krzanich was also the proud first passenger of Volocopter in December 2017. Guess what? The flying car almost looks like a giant drone and it tool a small remote-controlled flight at the CES keynote area. Volocopter is basically a multicopter and it carries a seating capacity of two passengers. Volocopter can be operated manually, autonomously and controlled remotely....

Note that this is the version of the K1 with four Cortex A-15 cores, not the one with two 64-bit “oject Denver” cores. have yet to see that version of the K1 materialize. The device also comes with 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 120-degree motion-tracking front-facing camera, an integrated depth sensor, Android 4.4 KitKat, E. If you’re interested, you can sign up to be notified when the kit becomes available later this year....

Users complain that when they try to open any websites links in the Safari Browser, Messages, Notes or other apps, it actually results in crashing rather than opening the website. Apple forums is witnessing many complaints of the users who are experiencing this bug, one of the forum members says that Apple is aware of this issue and are working to fix it and it will “arrive within the next two days....

And Apple is not immune to such disruptions. According to a report by Nikkei Asia, one of the upcoming iPhone 14 “models is about three weeks behind the usual schedule due to the lockdowns in Shanghai.” It’s unclear if it is the iPhone 14, 14 Pro, 14 Max or 14 Pro Max that is affected. It’s important to recognize that the manufacturing of the new iPhone 14 hasn’t yet begun....

Chrome also has a password manager – Google Password Manager – for desktop and Android and now its service is getting a boost on iPhones and iPads. “On iOS, you can set it up as your Autofill provider so Chrome can help you quickly and securely create, store and fill in your passwords into any website or app on your iOS device,” Google Chrome product manager Nasim Sedaghat said in a blogpost announcing five new features for Chrome on the iPhone....

The Bloomberg made known recently, that TSMC, the tech giant Apple partner to manufacture the Apple SoC, is already producing the new chip that will have the name of A12. The relevant news is the technology used. TSMC wants to start at pole position at 7 nanometers The published information explains that the A12 will use a 7-nanometer design that is faster, smaller and more efficient than the 10-nanometer chips used by Apple in today’s iPhone 8 and iPhone X....

LeEco is a company that wants to make popular Android phones, but it also wants to make popular cars, TVs, and other things, too. Apparently one of those product segments it wants to break into is bicycles, and it’s doing it with Android, too. At CES 2017, LeEco officially unveiled a pair of “smart bikes,” one for the roads in a city terrain, and another for a more mountainous adventure....

It looks like LG is preparing to counter the launch of the Note 4 from Samsung by working on a new variant of the G3 that will come with a stylus — dubbed the G3 Stylus. The phablet was outed in a promotional video from LG that shows the device along with its built-in stylus in all their glory. The video also gives us a quick look at the back of the phablet from where the LaserAF sensor and dual-LED flash are missing....

LG today unveiled a new toned down variant of the LG G4 — the LG G4 Beat. The handset packs all the features of LG’s flagship handset and even looks similar to it, but comes in a smaller package with less powerful internals. The front of the G4 Beat is dominated by a 5.2-inch Full HD IPS display, which LG cites is “clearer, sharper and more responsive than anything offered by LG before in this category....

In Summary Windows 11 brought with it a bunch of changes and feature improvements to improve the overall experience. A lot of users are still in ambiguity about how to upgrade their PC to Windows 11. Today, we have covered a detailed guide on how you can upgrade your PC to the latest desktop operating system for free. However, many users are still unsure if their PC/laptop meets the minimum hardware requirements to install Windows 11 and how to upgrade their PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11....

When we enter a domain in the web browser like Chrome or Edge, the job of DNS servers is to look at the IP address that the domains were associated with. Once matched, it connects to the visiting site, thus rendering the web pages. By default, ISP provides us the DNS servers. However, it’s wasn’t always profitable to use the DNS servers provided by the ISPs. Using the public DNS servers provides you with better speed, better security, and unblocked internet access....

In Summary Picture-in-picture mode is a premium feature on YouTube, except on desktop. But you can play YouTube videos in PiP mode without a premium feature, even on mobile, i.e Android and iOS. We also use native features of browsers and video player apps to get the functionality without using a ported version of the YouTube app. Watch YouTube in PiP Mode Without Premium on Android YouTube’s PiP mode is accessible on Android using the popular VLC Player app....

Even though you stay active on Twitter, you may be unaware of Twitter Bots. Twitter Bots is basically an account that is programmed to perform specific actions. For example, you can make a Twitter bot send tweets at a scheduled time, retweet the tweets shared by public figures, etc. Businesses mainly use Twitter bots to manage and scale businesses. Creating Twitter bots is also pretty easy and can be created via the Twitter Api....