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iQOO, for those of you who don’t know, is a subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Vivo, whose Parent company, in-turn is BBK Electronics. The first smartphone that iQOO launched here in India was the iQOO 3 , which quite surprisingly launched at a good price, considering what it came packed with. It was launched at 37K INR. But in a year’s time, the price’s has dropped significantly. It currently retails at 25K on Flipkart . iQOO 3 Shot on iPhone 5s (Blogger compression killed it -_-)  Having got it on Flipkart, I’ve been using the iQOO 3 for about two weeks now and here’s my review of the same.  Performance The iQOO 3’s got 2020’s flagship SoC, Snapdragon 865 . And just like any other flagship chip, this too performs exceptionally well. Day-to-day tasks are child’s play and graphically intensive tasks too are handled really well. For me, who previously used the Redmi 7, with the Snapdragon 632, this feels so much faster. What betters the experience is the 8 Gigabytes of DDR5 RAM...

In the recently concluded ‘ Spring Loaded ’ event, Apple unveiled some of their highly anticipated products, including the AirTags with U1 chip, redesigned iMac , and iPad Pro of course. On the software side of things, Apple Podcasts ’s got an updated fresh looking app and will be a subscription based service.  Image Courtesy: CNET   But what caught everyone’s eye and currently is the talk of the hour is M1 . You’d right now probably be like, “Wait, M1 ain’t new”. Of course M1 isn’t new to any of us, but it surely is new to the iPad and iMac! Yes you read it right, both the newly launched iMac and iPad ’ve got the M1 chip.  What’s going on with M1? iMac: Image Courtesy: Business Insider Basically, M1’s an ARM based SoC (System on Chip). In simpler words, it’s an integration of components like the CPU, GPU, RAM, Storage, ISP (Image Signal Processor) and the neural engine. Previously, each of these components weren’t present as a whole, which’s why the M1’s so much m...

With the IPL kicking off, our experience with ads on the Star network as well as on-game, hasn’t been great. Quite a few companies, a few established and few startups have sponsored this year’s IPL. One of them is FinTech entrepreneur Kunal Shah ’s (who previously owned Freecharge) CRED , a recent ad of which, featuring cricketing legend Rahul Dravid went utterly virally on social media. Not just ads in between overs, CRED’s ads feature in-game too. Commentators request the viewers to pay their credit card bills via CRED during the powerplay (CRED Powerplay) and the 13th over (CRED Jackpot) to avail exciting offers. So what exactly is CRED and how does it make money?  Image Courtesy: cred.club What is it?  CRED is a free-to-use members-only app available on the PlayStore and AppStore that allows you to pay and manage your credit card bills through the beautifully designed app. The app’s UI is attractive and easy to use (in reference to images on their website). And its aesthe...

If you’re following me on Twitter (And if you’re not, please do, via the connect button above), you’d probably know that I’ve been using the iPad 8th Gen for quite some time now. It’s been more than 4 months since I got this and here’s my experience during the same period:  For starters, the iPad 8th Gen was launched in September last year, alongside the iPad Air 4 and the Apple Watch Series 6 and SE. If you still got no idea, you’d probably wa check out my article on Apple’s September event.  Image Courtesy: Shubhang Kulkarni ;) Performance: As always, starting off with performance. The iPad 8th Gen, though launched in 2020, has got a 2 year-old chip, the A12 Bionic . Does that mean the performance’s awful? Absolutely not . (You know what I just did there ;)) The A12 Bionic, though being a 2 year-old chipset, cake-walks day-to-day tasks. The gaming experience too, is real good! It handles COD in ‘Very High’ and ‘High’ graphic quality & ‘Very High’ and ‘Max’ Frame rate res...

LG has always been known for its innovation and experimenting in the smartphone industry. The credit for ultra wide angle cameras on recent smartphones’ has to go to them. It’s not like LG was very inactive and finally decided to quit. In fact, they launched quite a few ‘experimental’ smartphones in 2020. Some of them include the LG Wing , the Velvet , the G8X . All of these weren’t normal phones. They’ve got something peculiar in them. The LG Wing’s got a secondary swivelling display, while the Velvet and G8X’ve got dual detachable screens. With this said, you might’ve assumed the pricing to be on the higher side. But no, the G8X on a Flipkart sale costed just 19,990 INR. So, the pricing’s great, and there’s a new form factor, usually better than the normal, then why did it fail? Here’s why! Image Courtesy: Unsplash (edited) Pricing:   Your reaction after reading the sub-heading might probably be like: “Wait, what? You just said they’re priced well”. But here’s the catch! All thei...