Unless you are a tech news freak, the chances are that you will not know about BBK Electronics. BBK Electronics is a company based in China that started out by manufacturing DVD players and other electronic items but slowly started converting itself into a smartphone manufacturer. Unlike other smartphone companies which focus on a single brand, BBK has three smartphone companies operating under its umbrella. In the beginning were…Oppo and Vivo BBK started with two smartphone brands: Oppo and Vivo....

The problem was that the phone around the Pixel’s cameras tended to be erratic and expensive in equal measure. Leading some of us – Yours Truly included – to refer to the Pixel as a camera hidden in the body of a phone. Indeed the hashtag “TeamPixel” was almost always seen on photographs because that was what really marked the Pixel out most starkly – not the stock Android or the little software touches, but the staggeringly good camera....

Another company has been getting all the attention when it comes to smartphones with sapphire glass, but it looks like it’ll be Kyocera first to market with an actual device. The company, along with Verizon, has just announced the Brigadier, with its “Sapphire Shield” display. On July 31, Verizon and Kyocera officially launched the ruggedized Brigadier, a smartphone that’s designed to take a beating and keep on ticking. With a 4....

OnePlus today unveiled the Lava Red variant of the OnePlus 5T in India. This is the first time that OnePlus has launched a red color variant of any of its smartphone. OnePlus says that it has achieved the Lava Red color through an “accurate combination of temperature consistency and baking time with less than 0.001% variation.” Further, OnePlus uses two anodic oxidation process using double blasting and AF coating to get the texture and feel....

Update: Lenovo Vibe K4 Note Launched for Rs 11,999 Earlier, the company’s teaser image on Twitter hinted at metallic build for the K4 Note along with the fingerprint scanner. Right now, Coolpad Note 3 is probably the cheapest smartphone to come with a fingerprint scanner, but lacks metal in its build, while phones like InFocus M680 come with metallic build but lacks fingerprint scanner. Considering the price range the Lenovo K4 Note is expected to launch at (around Rs 10,000), it’d make a compelling proposition....

The full-color display supports 100 pixels per inch (ppi) resolution and can be extended from 12-inch in size to 14-inch, the South Korean display panel maker said. Also: I switched to a 16:18 monitor. Here’s why you should, too Stretchable displays, or free-form displays, are displays that can be elongated, folded, or even twisted. It is considered the next step of evolution for displays after rollable and foldable displays, which have been already commercialized by Samsung Display and LG Display....

While we have seen the allegedly new design of the LG G5 in some leaked design renders and CADs, live pictures of the handset have not made their way to the Internet…until today that is. Some pictures received by Droid-Life show the LG G5 concealed in a dummy box to hide its final design. While the leaked images don’t reveal the final design of the G5, they do confirm what previous leaks have been saying: dual cameras at the rear, a USB Type-C port, SD card slot and volume rocker on the right edge of the handset, and a bottom speaker grill....

The Huawei MateBook also comes with a Stylus which bears striking resemblance to the Surface Pen. The Mate Pen comes with a laser pointer and is expected to last for an entire month with a single charge. The company claims that the MateBook is the lightest 12-inch tablet at 1.4 pounds and it also seems to prescribe for a razor thin profile of just 6.9-millimetres. The display is set at a resolution of 2160 x 1440 which is not mind boggling but at the same time, it is sufficient....

Well, they were great until drivers realized they guzzled gas like crazy, which is one reason GM discontinued them over a decade ago. Nowadays, you’re more likely to see an electric vehicle on the streets than a Hummer. But is it cheaper to drive an electric car? Tap or click here to find out. If you are a Hummer fan, you’ll be happy to hear it’s making a comeback — as an electric truck....

We know that some of the Ida’s settings are saved in the .idb archive database files, but are not actually persisted across global Ida settings. Configuration files are stored in the cfg/ directory and we’re presenting the files below: [plain] # ls cfg/ 6805.cfg 78k0s.cfg avr.cfg clsid.cfg dsp561xx.cfg f2mc16l.cfg hcs12.cfg i960.cfg kr1878.cfg mips.xml pdb.cfg ppc.cfg sparc.xml templates.xml tms320c55.cfg 6808.cfg ad218x.cfg bochsrc.cfg cr16.cfg dsp563xx.cfg f2mc16lx.cfg hcs12x.cfg i960.xml m32r.cfg mn102l00.cfg pe.cfg ppc....

You can now format the text in a reply, something that was frustratingly missing until now for those who use Inbox on their computer. This means you can add in bullet lists or use keyboard shortcuts to give the right formatting to your email replies. y this matters: One of the few drawbacks to Inbox has been that the experience doesn’t translate as well to the desktop. That leaves a somewhat disjointed workflow for some by using Inbox on mobile while going with Gmail on the computer....

In Summary Both Canalys and Counterpoint have submitted their reports for the Indian smartphone market in Q1 2021. Both reports state that the Indian smartphone market recorded impressive growth in Q1 2021, but predict that the next quarter is likely to be a tough one, given the restrictions imposed by lockdowns and other measures to counter the second wave of COVID in the country. Xiaomi, Samsung, and Vivo occupy the first three places in the market, but both reports differ on fourth and fifth spot, which is being contested by Realme and Oppo....

Instagram is all about sharing experiences, be it through photos or quick videos. Now the company wants to let you share your burst photos as videos, too. On Thursday, October 22, Instagram officially announced a new app called Boomerang. With the app, users will be able to take a series of quick photos, burst photos, after which the app will automatically stitch them together and create “mini video” from the results....

The common variable types A variable defines the amount of memory to be allocated for a particular type of data and how that memory chunk should be used for an application. The various different types of variables are differentiated either by the size of the memory chunk that they use or how the data stored at that memory block should be interpreted. The table above shows definitions for some of the most common types of variables in 32- and 64-bit architectures....

Some things don’t change, they simply improve Change is not about numbers and that stands especially true in the case of a new iPhone. Looking from afar, the cameras on the iPhone 12 might look exactly the same as the ones on iPhone 11, and stepping closer might not change that view either. The cameras do not just look like the ones on the iPhone 11 but come with pretty much similar-sounding sensors....

Chrome 42 will be the last update for devices with Ice Cream Swich, a nearly four-year-old version of Android. says on the Chromium Blog that you’ll still be able to use Chrome if you have an older device, but Chrome 42 will be the last release through the ay Store. This change will impact 6 percent of devices running Android, according to the Android platform version tracker. That figure has dropped 30 percent in the last year, says....

Engineers of Trestle Technology managed to combine the data of most popular open-source hosting platform in use that is GitHub. Data engineers obtained the trending pages of Github which show the repositories in a particular language. The Data engineers then managed to combine the data obtained from GitHub’s trending pages with the Face API. Microsoft Face API, a cloud-based service that provides the most advanced face algorithms. Face API has two main functions: face detection with attributes and face recognition....

The major challenge posed to the classical method of analysis is finding the protocol that is used within a stream. Even though the classical method assumes well-known ports for certain applications, if an attacker chooses to set the port manually for a particular application, then the classical method of analysis goes for a toss. Sometimes an application uses a wrapper of another protocol in order to evade the administrative and firewall restrictions....

It’s that time of the month again, when Google updates their developer page to help app makers understand their audience better. The latest figures show that over 36% of Android devices that access the Google Play Store are using Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The latest version of Android, 4.2, is being accessed by 8.5% of the Android population. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is a bit over 21%, and then there’s a big 30....

Like its rival Dell, Lenovo has its own online store to sell its computers and accessories through in addition to making them available via retailers like Best Buy and Costco. That also means Lenovo.com has its own Black Friday deals to provide you more options if you’re looking to buy a laptop or desktop from the company. As is the trend this year, Lenovo’s Black Friday deals span multiple weeks – Nov....