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BigSpring is solving the global skilling crisis by aligning the needs of employers and workers. Its mobile learning platform equips people with market-relevant skills they need to be gainfully employed, and enables employers to measure ROI from learning to establish it as a core business driver - not a discretionary expense. The platform offers lifelong skilling for every worker and every job, with use cases including enhancing consumer financial literacy and driving sales channel productivity. BigSpring’s reach extends globally across a half-million learners with customers such as Google, Uber, United Technologies, Tata Steel and others.

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Four Upcoming WhatsApp Features.

Four Upcoming WhatsApp Features That Will Make The Popular Messaging App Even Better

WhatsApp plans to bring a host of new features in order to stay relevant and popular as competition is heating up.

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sWhatsApp is one of the most widely used messaging apps across the world and boasts of over 1.5 billion monthly users. But competition is heating up and in order to stay relevant and popular, WhatsApp is reportedly planning to bring a host of new features that can make the user experience even more exciting. Here’s a list of the four most talked-about updates that users are expecting soon from WhatsApp:

1) Dark Mode: Dark Mode has recently found its way on a lot of apps, especially to get in synch with the system-wide dark mode on Android 10, which is expected to launch in the coming months. WhatsApp should also be ready with its Dark Mode feature now considering that the Facebook Messenger app also rolled it out just recently. The feature will not just improve the aesthetics but will also ease the strain on eyes while using the app during night time TV

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Four Upcoming WhatsApp Features That Will Make The Popular Messaging App Even Better

WhatsApp plans to bring a host of new features in order to stay relevant and popular as competition is heating up.

Updated on: August 30, 2019, 2:01 PM IST

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sWhatsApp is one of the most widely used messaging apps across the world and boasts of over 1.5 billion monthly users. But competition is heating up and in order to stay relevant and popular, WhatsApp is reportedly planning to bring a host of new features that can make the user experience even more exciting. Here’s a list of the four most talked-about updates that users are expecting soon from WhatsApp:

1) Dark Mode: Dark Mode has recently found its way on a lot of apps, especially to get in synch with the system-wide dark mode on Android 10, which is expected to launch in the coming months. WhatsApp should also be ready with its Dark Mode feature now considering that the Facebook Messenger app also rolled it out just recently. The feature will not just improve the aesthetics but will also ease the strain on eyes while using the app during night time.

2) Boomerang videos: The Boomerang video feature became quite popular on Instagram and now users are soon expecting it on WhatsApp, too. According to WABetaInfo, a website that follows WhatsApp updates, the Boomerang feature will soon make its way to the app through the video type panel. The panel already allows users to pick video or GIF as the format. It will now have an additional option with an arrow pointing to the left indicating Boomerang as a third format. However, no official announcement has been made as to when will the feature be launched.

3) Memoji stickers: Memoji allows users to create personalised stickers and emoticons. WhatsApp has already introduced the Memoji Stickers features for iOS users with the latest beta version 2.19.90.23, with a wider roll-out expected in the coming weeks.

4) Albums: WhatsApp will soon have new ‘Albums’ feature for its Web version which will allow users to group media like photos and videos. The feature is already available on the mobile app since 2018 and is quite popular. Now, the functionality would soon be added to the Web version.

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Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) review: The quad camera struggles to add value

Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) review: The world's first smartphone with four cameras has a lot to offer, and here's what we thought after the review.

Written by Techenonik Updated: December 2, 2018 3:46:40 pm

 
 

• 3.5
• Rs. 36,990

The takers for premium mid-end smartphones are growing much faster than any other segment in India. Samsung, even though a big name in the Indian smartphone market, has somewhat struggled to make an impression with a strong portfolio in the premium mid-end phones. Its Galaxy A series smartphones are fantastic devices, but they have not been able to register the same level of interest as OnePlus 6. But with the new Galaxy A9 (2018), Samsung is trying to reboot its strategy. That’s not a bad thing, though.

The spotlight is on the Galaxy A9 (2018) for one primary reason: it is the world’s first smartphone with quad cameras on the back. Yes, the Galaxy A9 comes with not one or two or three cameras, but four cameras strapped to its rear. But there’s so much else to talk about the Galaxy A9, other than its cameras.

I have spent a week with Samsung’s latest Galaxy A series smartphone to see if it can create a unique positioning in the crowded, yet booming premium mid-end smartphone market. Let’s find out in our detailed review.

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Xiaomi officially confirms: Mi Mix 3 will have 5G support and 10GB of RAM

18 October 2018

Remember that cryptic teaser poster from yesterday? Well, it didn't take long for Xiaomi to confirm that we read it right - the Mi Mix 3 will be among the first 5G-supporting smartphones on the market as well as the first one to feature 10GB of RAM.

The first official confirmation of the 5G support comes from Xiaomi Spain while the 10GB of RAM rumor was backed up in a Weibo post. Here are the two posters that also subtly hint of the slide-out cameras.

The posters from Weibo and Xiaomi Spain Facebook page

Let's face it, 10GB of RAM is excessive, and will likely mostly serve as bragging rights, but the 5G networks are coming shortly and they might be a big deal. While most markets won't get them before late 2019 and that's us being optimistic, it's probably good to be prepared for that.

What slightly bothers us is that there aren't any 5G-supporting chipsets in the market yet, so the Mi Mix 3 will most probably need to adopt an external modem - likely one of Qualcomm's X24 or X50working side by side with the Snapdragon 845, which in turn will affect battery life in a negative way. Or the phone might just wait for the Snapdragon 8150 to arrive before entering production, which would suggest it's not coming until next year.

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Mi Band 3 With Touchscreen, 20-Day Battery Life Launched in India at Rs. 1,999

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Techenonik , 27 September 2018

Mi Band 3 will be available via Amazon India and Mi.com

HIGHLIGHTS

• Mi Band 3 price in India is Rs. 1,999
• It sports a large 0.78-inch OLED touchscreen display
• Mi Band 3 is water resistant to up to 50 metres

After unveiling it in May in China, Xiaomi has finally launched the Mi Band 3 fitness tracker in India. The key differences of the new fitness band from its previous-gen Mi Band 2 is its capacitive large touchscreen display, and water resistance capabilities. The Mi Band 3 has a 0.78-inch OLED touchscreen 3D curved display - which is an 85 percent increase in display size from the Mi Band 2. The Mi Band 3 lets you read text messages, provide real-time notifications from apps, count steps, measure heart rate, count calories, count distance, and display date and time as well.

Mi Band 3 price in India

The Xiaomi Mi Band 3 price in India is Rs. 1,999, and the fitness band will be available on Amazon India and Mi.com from September 28 starting 12 noon IST. It will also be available in Mi Home and other partner offline stores soon.

Mi Band 3 features and specifications

The 0.78-inch OLED display comes with 128x80-pixel resolution, and the touch button on the display allows users to navigate by swiping up, down, left, and right, and the new Caller ID feature also allows users to see who is calling, and silence (tap) or decline calls (long press). It sports a 110mAh Li-ion polymer battery that is 60 percent larger than the predecessor, and is touted to give up to 20 days of battery life. It supports Bluetooth 4.2 BLE connectivity, and is certified for water resistance up to 50 metres.

The interchangeable straps are made of Thermoplastic Elastomer with an adjustable length of 15.5 to 21.6cm, and are available in Orange, Black, and Blue colour options. The dimensions of the tracker are 1.79x4.69x1.2cm, and the fitness band weighs only 20 grams. The Mi Band 3 can count steps, measure heart rate, count calories, count distance, and display date and time as well. It provides real-time notifications from app messages, texts, and calls, and the Mi Fit apps takes care of sleep analysis and full historical data of all measurements. It also lets you set a periodic heart rate tracking process for regular updates.

Additional features include stopwatch, alarm, and find your phone. Xiaomi also claims the pedometer has been improved, as well the reminder that tells users to stop sitting for too long has been retained. The Mi Band 3 is compatible with devices running Android 4.4 and above or iOS 9.0 and above.

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iPhone XS: What’s In the Box?

Last Updated: September 25, 2018 12:55 pm

    

So the iPhone XS launched earlier this month alongside the bigger iPhone XS Max, and the “affordable” iPhone XR. Well, we recently got our hands on an iPhone XS, and here’s what you’ll find (and what you’ll not find) inside the box of the new Rs 99,990 iPhone from Apple.

iPhone XS: What’s In the Box?

The iPhone XS comes in the usual iPhone-y box that has remained the same for the last, I don’t know how many years, and that’s perfectly fine. The Gold variant that we got (which looks gorgeous, by the way) comes in a standard white box with the ‘iPhone’ text and the Apple logo done in gold — that’s a nice touch. I’m not sure if the other colors come with the text and logo in their respective colors as well, but they probably do.

Anyway, opening the box is the usual Apple affair with easy to slide-out lids, a pull tab for the phone, and some in-box accessories under it. Here’s what you’ll get:

• The iPhone XS (because you paid for it)
• Lots and lots of manuals and certification cards that you won’t ever read.
• Apple stickers (whatever you do, please don’t stick these on your car? Please?)
• SIM ejector tool
• Lightning EarPods (because of the courage Apple showed two years back)
• USB Type-A to Lightning cable
• Charger (not a fast charger, so it takes forever to charge your new iPhone)
• No headphone dongle (because apparently it’s impossible to include a $9 accessory with a $999 iPhone)

A Small Rant… Probably

Note: You can skip this if you’re not interested in reading anything bad about Apple or the way it tries to earn more money from its customers.

So the iPhone XS is an absolute beauty, and I’ll not go into further detail about it here because then what will I write in the full review? Heh. Anyway, the issue I have (and so does almost everyone else on the planet other than the Cupertino staff) is with two things. First, the lack of a headphone dongle in the box. That’s just really petty from Apple, especially on a smartphone that is priced at a whopping $999 or Rs 99,990 in India. Just for the record, you wouldn’t get a dongle even if you bought the 512GB iPhone XS Max for $1,449 or Rs 1,44,990 in India, and it makes no sense.

Of course, there’s the argument that if you’re spending $999 on a smartphone, you can probably afford to spend $9 extra on a dongle, but that’s stupid. The point is, if I’m spending $999 on a smartphone that has no headphone jack, it’s almost the moral responsibility of the courageous company to put in a headphone dongle inside it, especially when the company is using a proprietary port on its phone instead of USB-C.

The other thing I’m pissed off about is the lack of a fast charger in the box. I mean, c’mon! That’s just downright insane. The battery on the iPhone X isn’t huge by any means, it’s barely even up there with Android flagships, and it still takes far longer than any other Android smartphone in the market to charge this thing.

So Apple made it possible to charge the iPhone faster, but then thought “I don’t think anyone really wants a fast charger… Why not keep your iPhone plugged in the whole day, or leave it on the AirPower mat that we won’t launch for a whole frikkin’ year.”

Anyway, we can’t do anything about this, other than buy a headphone dongle, a pair of Bluetooth earphones, and a fast charger on our own, because apparently $999 doesn’t warrant good accessories in the box.

That wasn’t really a small, quick rant, was it? Let me know if you think Apple took the courageous path once again with the accessories (or lack thereof) in the iPhone XS box.

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Redmi 6, Redmi 6 Pro, Redmi 6A Expected as Xiaomi Sends September 5 India Launch Invites Read in: हिंदी বাংলা

Redmi 6, Redmi 6 Pro, Redmi 6A Expected as Xiaomi Sends September 5 India Launch Invites

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Techenonik , 31 August 2018

Xiaomi Redmi 6 September 5 event invite

HIGHLIGHTS

• Xiaomi Redmi 6, Redmi 6A were launched side-by-side in June
• The Redmi 6 Pro was launched later that month
• Xiaomi Global VP and MD Xiaomi India teased the launch on Twitter

Redmi 6, Redmi 6 Pro, and Redmi 6A India launch event may be held as early as next week. Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi Global VP and Xiaomi India Managing Director, on Thursday shared a tweet that hinted at the imminent launch of the Redmi 6-Series smartphones. To recall, all three smartphones in the series were launched in June in China, with the Redmi 6 and Redmi 6A launched by Xiaomi side-by-side, and the Redmi 6 Pro being unveiled a couple of weeks later. The Redmi 5 and Redmi 5A, the predecessors of the smartphones, were both very popular models in India, and the arrival of the new series is sure to be hotly anticipated. A separate invite was also shared, confirming the September 5 launch date.

In his tweet on Thursday, Jain said, "#DeshKeNayeSmartphones! Mi fans! We've got more than one for you! Coming very soon." While this does not imply the launch of the Redmi 6-Series of smartphones, the tweet contains a video that shows the number 6, with three smartphone outlines behind it. Two of the smartphones feature no display notches, while the third one does - clearly pointing to the Redmi 6 Pro, which is the only one amongst the three to sport a display notch.

No launch date beyond "very soon" was hinted at by Jain; however, the company sent media invites alongside, showing the same three smartphones and revealing a September 5 date for a launch event in New Delhi.

Redmi 6 price, specifications

Let's run through the three smartphones' specifications, to give you a better idea of what's arriving in the Indian market in the near future. As for pricing, the Redmi 6 price in China is set at CNY 799 (roughly Rs. 8,400) for the 3GB RAM/ 32GB inbuilt storage variant, and CNY 999 (roughly Rs. 10,500) for the model with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage.

On the other hand, the Redmi 6A price is set at CNY 599 (roughly Rs. 6,300) for the lone 2GB RAM/ 16GB inbuilt storage variant. And finally, the Redmi 6 Pro price is set at CNY 999 (roughly Rs. 10,400) for the 3GB RAM, 32GB storage variant, CNY 1,199 (roughly Rs. 12,500) for the 4GB RAM, 32GB storage variant, and CNY 1,299 (roughly Rs. 13,600) for the 4GB, 64GB variant.

The Redmi 6 is a dual-SIM smartphone and runs MIUI 9 based on Android 8.1 Oreo. It sports a 5.45-inch HD+ (720x1440 pixels) display with an 18:9 aspect ratio; an octa-core 12nm MediaTek Helio P22 SoC (clocked at 2GHz); a dual camera setup with a 12-megapixel primary sensor and a 5-megapixel secondary sensor, a 5-megapixel front camera, a 3,000mAh battery, as well as expandable storage via microSD card (up to 256GB) with dedicated slot.

A more basic variant of the Redmi 6, the Redmi 6A is also a dual-SIM phone that runs MIUI 9 based on Android 8.1 Oreo out-of-the-box. Other specifications include a 5.45-inch HD+ (720x1440 pixels) display with an 18:9 aspect ratio; a quad-core 12nm MediaTek Helio A22 SoC; a single 13-megapixel rear camera; a 5-megapixel front camera; a 3,000mAh battery, expandable storage via microSD card (up to 256GB) with a dedicated slot.

Finally, the Redmi 6 Pro is a dual-SIM smartphone that runs MIUI 9 based on Android 8.1 Oreo. It sports a a 5.84-inch full-HD+ (1080x2280 pixels) display; an octa-core Snapdragon 625 SoC clocked up to 2GHz; a dual rear camera setup with a 12-megapixel primary sensor and a 5-megapixel secondary sensor; a 5-megapixel front camera; expandable storage via microSD card (up to 256GB) with a dedicated slot, and a 4000mAh battery.

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