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Nokia’s fall from the top was harsh and spectacular. Once the biggest  smartphone  manufacturer in the world, it got bought out by Microsoft after a series of poor decisions such as choosing Windows Phone over  Android  drove the company into the ground.  Now, Nokia is coming back to the smartphone game and its going to launch its new Android smartphones at MWC 2017 in February 2017.  While i do know for sure that Nokia is going to launch four devices, a low end smartphone codenamed ‘Pixel’ , two flagships with the Snapdragon 820 SoC and a mid range device - the  Nokia D1C .  There's good news for Nokia fans all over India. Unlike  Google  which priced the Pixel out of the market, Nokia is going to price it’s smartphones very aggressively. According to a report by NokiaPowerUser, the D1C mid-range handset will start at around 10,000 rupees.   Everything you need to know about the Nokia D1C   As rep...

Facebook has announced its annual Year in Review - a set of topics and videos that were discussed the most on the social networking platform. It doesn't come as a surprise that 'US Presidential Election' was the most talked about topic globally. In India, Diwali pipped Cricket and Uri attacks as the most discussed topic. Facebook says India has 166 million monthly active users with 159 million of them accessing the platform on a mobile device. 85 million people access Facebook daily and 81 million people do on a mobile device. Facebook is becoming the go to platform for not just conversation but also for news and breaking stories. Top 10 most talked about topics from India in 2016 on Facebook: 1. Diwali 2. Cricket 3. Uri attacks and surgical attacks 4. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Movie) 5. Hardwell (India Tour) 6. Priyanka Chopra 7. Rio Olympics 8. Pokemon Go 9. Pathankot 10. iPhone 7 launch Global Top Moments on Facebook 1. U...

Lenovo Yoga Book, the tablet hybrid will launch in India on December 13. The company has sent out media invites for an event where the company will announce its hybrid tablet with a never seen before design.   Lenovo Yoga Book running Android or Windows was first showcased at IFA 2016. Lenovo says Yoga Book is the thinnest laptop hybrid and it is unlike anything else available in the market. Under the heart of Lenovo Yoga Book is an uninspiring Intel Atom x5-Z8550 processor, which Lenovo finds as a common thread in the world of Android and Windows. The device features a 10.1-inch IPS LED display with a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. The interesting part, however, is the other half of the device which basically skips traditional keyboard for a Halo effect. Yes, the keyboard is literally called Halo keyboard and it appears on demand, similar to the virtual keyboard on your smartphone.   Lenovo Yoga Book's Halo surface also accepts Pen inpu...

Shoot Like a Pro with New Depth-of-Field Effect Photo by @erinrbrooks, shot on iPhone 7 Plus. In a short time,  Portrait mode  has become a favorite feature for iPhone 7 Plus users, with people capturing a range of subjects with the stunning depth-of-field effect, bringing them closer to the subjects they love. iPhone is the most popular camera in the world. And its popularity increased among photographers in 2016, according to  Flickr . Below are a few photos and tips from photographers who are finding creative ways to use Portrait mode everyday. Photo by celebrity photographer @jeremycowart, shot on iPhone 7 Plus and edited using VSCO. When he’s behind the camera,  Jeremy Cowart  is known for taking incredible portraits of celebrities. This portrait of his son is a favorite image he’s shot using iPhone 7 Plus saying, "I’m kind of freaking out. Portrait mode is unbelievable.” He recommends minimizing the background and "cut ...

CyanogenMod 14.1 is now available on nine additional devices following its initial rollout last week. Based on  Android 7.1 Nougat , the latest CyanogenMod ROM delivers an Android experience currently only accessible to  Google Pixel  owners, or those running the developer preview on  select Nexus devices . To complement the first round of CyanogenMod 14.1-compatible phones – which include the Samsung Galaxy S5, LG G4, OnePlus 3 and Asus Zenfone 2 – Cyanogen has now rolled it out to: Nexus 6 (shamu) Nexus 7 2013 Wi-Fi (flo) Nexus 7 2013 4G (deb) OnePlus One (bacon) OnePlus 2 (oneplus2) Sony Xperia V (tsubasa) Sony Xperia TX (hayabusa) Sony Xperia T (mint) Sony Xperia SP (huashan) Moto G 2015 (osprey) CyanogenMod 14.1 is still in development, which means users can expect to encounter bugs and missing features. Support for more devices is likely to follow soon along with additional content. Announcing the latest build last week, Cyanogen Inc....

Software experts and open source advocates are applauding Google’s latest “make the world better” offering, its OSS-Fuzz tool. Still in beta, OSS-Fuzz is already a game changer in helping debug open source software with almost instantaneous results, allowing developers to pop back into their code, make an adjustment, and solve the problem. “Open source software is the backbone of the many apps, sites, services, and networked things that make up ‘the internet.’ It is important that the open source foundation be stable, secure, and reliable, as cracks and weaknesses impact all who build on it,” the team  announced in a blog post  on the tool last week. “OSS-Fuzz’s goal is to make common software infrastructure more secure and stable by combining modern fuzzing techniques with scaleable distributed execution.” For the uninitiated, “fuzzing” is “when bits of randomly generated code is inputted into programs as a means to discover code and security flaws,” according ...

The physical home button is a smartphone facet that’s slowly becoming extinct. In 2016, the flagship devices from Google, Sony, LG, and Huawei all lacked such a button on their hardware. Meanwhile, Samsung has been holding onto the physical home button – it was still in place on its most recent flagship, the ill-fated  Galaxy Note 7  – though the company is expected to ditch it on its upcoming flagship, the  Galaxy S8 . But what impact will losing physical home buttons have? To answer that, let’s first explore its origins. The move to touchscreens Though it wasn’t the first device to make use of a touchscreen, much can be attributed to the original iPhone for popularizing it. When numbers and letters could be drawn on a display, there was no longer a need for a traditional keyboard setup, meaning screens were able to occupy a larger space on the handset without increasing the size of the body overall. What’s more, the keys could be contextual: when using the d...