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Instagram has become the defining social network of our generation when it comes to image sharing. The cultural relevance and popularity of the application was such that the social networking giant, Facebook, invested USD 1billion to acquire the service. Through all of this, the company has stuck to the somewhat antiquated low resolution images that it launched with. This is about to change.

Looking through the source URLs on Instagram pages indicates that the company is about to increase the resolution dramatically. Where uploads were stuck to an archaic 640px, you’ll now be looking at 1080px wide images. This means that your embeds are going to look a lot crisper and will pack a lot more detail. We’re still not sure if Instagram is planning to fix the issue with compression artifacts on Android devices but this alone is a step in the right direction. While Full HD Android devices have been around for a while, the emergence of an Apple iPhone packing a high resolution display seems to be the impetus here to increase the resolution. We expect Instagram to switch over to high resolution embeds soon enough as it appears that all uploads are now in the higher resolution and said images can be accessed via direct URLs.

Via – The Verge

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Higher resolution images coming soon to Instagram

Rajat Monday, July 6, 2015

Now, you can watch a favourite video on your smartwatch powered by Android Wear. A new app called as Video for Android Wear & YouTube is coming to Android Wear.

Available for free at Google Play Store, the app will allow watch owners to view YouTube videos on their tiny screens. It is created by appfour, the developer of AIDE, Gmail for Wear, and the Android Wear web browser. The app supports video search by voice. As Android Wear smartwatch does not come with speakers, you will have to use the app’s ability to connect to Bluetooth speakers and headphones

You can launch the app on your watch manually or with a voice command, then search via voice for videos on YouTube. The tiny interface lets you scroll through the results and play them back. Users can also with pause, resume, seek and control volume for the videos. It must be noted that this is not an official YouTube app. There is also a pro version that will cost $2.99 that will unlock additional features and functions.

Play Link – Video for Android Wear & YouTube

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Android Wear users can now watch videos with new YouTube app

Rajat Friday, July 3, 2015

Sony has launched Xperia M4 AQUA Dual with waterproof camera phone designed for everyone. The Xperia M4 Aqua is built using tempered glass display and the 136G waterproof (IP65/8 rated). it has 5-inch 720p HD display.

See Full Specifications of Xperia M4 Aqua Dual

Display
Screen Size (in cm)	12.7 cm (5)
Display Resolution	1280 x 720
Display Type	IPS
Screen Protection	cratch-resistant -Touch panel cover glass
Pixel Density	-
Multitouch	Yes
Other Screen Features	-

Software
OS Version	Android 5.0 Lollipop
Preinstalled Apps	Sony Music, Sony Jive, Xperia Lounge
Multi-languages Supported	Yes

Camera
Rear Camera	13 MP
Auto Focus	Yes
Flash	Yes
Front Camera	5 MP
Other Camera Features	HDR, Red Eye Reduction, 4x Digital Zoom, image Stabliser, Steady Shot

Connectivity
GSM	Yes
CDMA	No
3G/WCDMA	Yes
4G/LTE	Yes

Processor
Processor Speed	1.5 Ghz
Processor Cores	Octa Core
Processor Brand	Qualcomm Snapdragon 615

Memory & Storage
RAM	2 GB
Internal Memory	Up to 16 GB flash memory
User Memory	-
Expandable Memory	upto 128 GB
Memory Card Slot	microSD

Hardware
Accelerometer	Yes
Compass	Yes
Proximity	-
Gyro-sensor	-

Hardware Connectivity
Bluetooth A2DP	-
Audio Jack	3.5mm
SAR Value	-
FM Radio	Yes

Battery & Power
Battery Capacity	2400 mAh
Battery Type	-
Replaceable Battery	Non Removable
Talk Time	Upto 13hrs
Standby Time	Upto 493hrs

Dimensions
HxWxD	145.5 x 72.6 x 7.3 mm
Weight	135 gm

Sony Xperia M4 AQUA Specifications

Rajat Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Microsoft has released the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10158 for PCs. The build 10158 comes with new improvements and UI redesigns and especially puts more focus on Microsoft Edge browser.

The new Microsoft browser that replaces Internet Explorer finally shows off the new Edge branding ahead of its public launch with Windows 10. Edge now has a black theme that matches the Windows 10 taskbar, along with new menus for sharing content. Users can also customize Edge’s New Tab page to display only their most visited sites, or their most visited sites along with suggested content that may interest them.

There are general UX improvements in this build like using the Start Menu, you can swipe up on the left side to open All apps. The Taskbar will show a notification in orange when an app needs your attention. You can download something or move files around in File Explorer, the progress animation in the Taskbar has been changed back to green and back to animating horizontally. The Cortana Office 365 integration is also added to this latest build. The latest build is now rolling out to Windows Insider members on the Fast update ring.

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10158 for PCs

Rajat Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Your photos aren’t all that interesting. But Facebook’s going to help you jazz them up with its shiny new photo uploader, which is now available for most users on iOS and is testing on Android. It lets you add overlaid text in any color, instantly preview filters that you swipe across your photos, or paste Facebook’s stickers on top. Facebook offered more standard filters before and had tested photo stickers, but now they live with the fresh text option in the new enhancements tray.

Add overlaid text to Facebook photos with the new uploader

If putting text, swipeable filters, and re-sizable emoji on photos sounds familiar, it might be because that’s exactly what Snapchat does. Since Facebook’s failed acquisition bid, it’s watched Snapchat grow and grow. Its attempts to clone Snapchat as a whole, Poke and Slingshot, have failed. Meanwhile, Japanese messaging app Line has gotten big on the back of stickers. So Facebook’s simply trying to bake the best of everything else into its own.

Update: Facebook tells me:

“People want to be creative when they share experiences with their friends and family on Facebook. We are rolling out a new place to house all of Facebook’s photo-editing tools, making it even easier to add filters, stickers, or text to your photos.”

Those with the new Facebook uploader on iOS will see a vertical line swoop across their chosen photo, alerting them they can swipe to immediately adjust the shot with “Auto” color correction, “Vintage” sepia, bright “Spring”, golden “Summer”, orange “Fall”, muted “Winter”, and black-and-white “Snow” filters. The swiping feels satisfying and makes it quick compare adjacent filters, though a bit harder to choose between two that aren’t next to each other.

Facebook’s new filter interface lets you drag your finger across a photo to try different filters. Here I’m swiping from the muted Winter filter to the black-and-white Snow filter.

A flashing magic wand button in the bottom left corner of the photo opens the enhancement tray with tabs for filters, tags, text, cropping, and stickers. Users can tap through a more Instagram-style list of the filters, tag friends in the photos, or crop the image.

The text button cribs the interface from Facebook’s Slingshot. You can type in text, pinch and drag to re-size and move it, and use a color slider to choose a hue. Annoyingly, though, you have to write the text and choose the color with your photo blurred in the background, rather than live on the photo itself like with Snapchat.

You can call this all stealing, but Facebook’s philosophy of delivering utility is basically, “if it’s good for you, it’s even better for our 1.4 billion users.”

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Facebook’s Snapchatty New Photo Uploader Lets You Overlay Text And More

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Airtel has announced that it has become third largest mobile operator in the world in terms on subscribers, based on the latest ranking from World Cellular Information Service (WCIS). China Mobile is the top mobile operator in the world with over 626 million customers followed by Vodafone Group with over 403 million customers.

Last year Airtel crossed 200 million mobile subscriber mark in India and also reached 300 million customers across its operations globally that includes, mobile, fixed line & DSL, and DTH services. Today the company said that it has largest rural mobile customer base in India with over 100 million mobile customers.

Airtel covers over 1.85 billion people across its operations in 20 countries and carried over 1.23 trillion minutes of calls and over 333 petabytes of data in FY 2014-15. Airtel offers 4G services in over 30 cities in India using TD- LTE & FDD-LTE technology. The company plans to launch FDD‐LTE services on 1800 MHz in 6 circles in India.

Top Five Global Mobile Operators by Customers

Ranking	Operator	Wireless Mobile Connections (millions)
1	China Mobile	626.27
2	Vodafone Group	403.08
3	Bharti Airtel	303.10
4	China Unicom	299.09
5	America Movil	274.14

Regarding the new milestone, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, said:

This is a major landmark in the journey of Airtel and underlines the strength of our business model and our brand that is loved by customers across 20 countries. Today, we seamlessly manage global scale operations in diverse geographies and deliver the same world-class services to each customers, this perhaps is one of our biggest achievements. I want to thank our employees and our business partners for supporting us through this exciting journey and with the mobile internet play about to happen in the developing world, things will only get brighter from here on.
I am also proud of the fact that we have built one of the biggest consumer brands in the world out of India. It would not have been possible without the progressive policies of the Government of India and the TRAI. I take this opportunity to assure them that we are fully committed to their vision of Digital India and empowering every Indian.

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Airtel becomes world’s third largest mobile operator with over 303 million customers

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Facebook has officially launched Facebook Lite, a lighter version of the social network in India. The app that runs on Android and uses less data and works across low to poor connections.

Facebook Lite is less than 1MB and is targeted at people with poor internet service or who are limited to 2G networks. It includes Facebook’s core experiences like News Feed, status updates, photos, notifications and more.However, it does not support data-intensive features like videos or Nearby Friends. At this point, more than a billion people around the world access Facebook on their mobile devices. It also works on devices running Android 2.2.

Facebook Lite is rolling out across countries in Asia and will come to will be available in parts of Latin America, Africa and Europe. It is already present in Africa and Asia: Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zimbabwe

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Facebook Lite officially launched in India

Rajat Monday, June 29, 2015

Apple first debuted the force touch technology with the Apple Watch and the new Macbook. A lot of rumours started circulating saying that Apple will use this technology in the upcoming iPhones as well. Now apparently Apple’s suppliers have started manufacturing the iPhones with Force Touch already.

Full scale production of the upcoming iPhones are expected to start sometime around next month. Force Touch basically senses the amount of force used when users press their touchscreen and the phone can access different functions based on that.

This feature will help Apple differentiate it better from its competitors, especially Samsung who now have stepped up their game by providing premium materials and an edge screen with the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.

Apple were able to achieve high volumes of sales thanks to the larger iPhone 6 Plus model especially in the Asian markets where customers prefer larger phones for their screen real estate. The designs of the upcoming iPhones; most probably the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus will be similar in terms of design to the current iPhones.

BloombergBusiness states that apparently Apple was planning to add pressure-sensitive displays to their iPhones back in 2013 itself but haven’t been able to until now. We hope that the extra complexity of the manufacturing process doesn’t result in any delays.

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Apple’s suppliers start working on iPhones with force touch technology

Rajat Saturday, June 27, 2015

Now use Messenger without a Facebook login: Here’s why it means business

The Facebook Messenger is an all new product. Before that we had direct messages or Inbox, depending on how we like to call it. Now with Messenger a separate app that you need to install, it comes across like a WhatsApp clone. But that’s not what it’s meant to be.

Facebook boasts of over a billion downloads on devices. So does WhatsApp. Now even Messenger claims the billion downloads tag. So why would the world’s most successful social media network invest and own two instant messaging platforms?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an important statement at F8, “Facebook used to be this single blue app. Now it’s a family of apps.” The reason for this is the presence of business on Facebook! While there large audiences on Facebook, the future undoubtedly is mobile. And to stay relevant, Facebook would have to maintain its dominance in the mobile space. The opening up of Messenger enables Facebook to do much more than standard Facebook advertising.

On mobile devices, though, interaction is via apps! That’s where Facebook sees a growth opportunity with messaging. There is no shortage of competition in the business of messaging. San Francisco-based Zendesk is a software development company that offers a cloud-based customer service platform that enables businesses to handle ticketing, self service and customer support features. What’s significant is that Zendesk is now a partner with Messenger. With this, a business that usually offers chat support could now just replace it with the Messenger application.

So the next time you are ordering a product from an ecommerce site, you could follow up with your Facebook or Messenger credentials instead of entering your details again on a form.

Apart from WhatsApp, there are dozens of apps that enable person to person as well as group instant messaging across mobile platforms. What differentiates them is the presence of brands on Facebook. Since WhatsApp isn’t the ideal way for brands to engage with customers, Facebook believes Messenger fills that gap.

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Now use Messenger without a Facebook login

Rajat Friday, June 26, 2015

OnePlus has been quite disruptive in the tech startup and mobile devices space. After a successful launch of the OnePlus One flagship device and an exclusive agreement with Cyanogen, OnePlus is trying out new and innovative ways of marketing its next flagship – the OnePlus 2.

In a post on the OnePlus Forum founder Carl Pei said, “We’re excited for the future. As a tech startup, our goal is to push the envelope, look for new opportunities, and strive to perfect them. Virtual reality holds a monumental amount of potential. With cutting-edge technology, we can explore corners of the world like never before. We already know that VR will change the face of the entertainment industry, but we’re here to try something new.”

OnePlus Cardboard. Image: OnePlus

Talking on the VR launch of the OnePlus 2, Pei said, “When we thought about doing this launch in VR, we wanted to make sure the viewing experience was simple and straightforward. We love the existing cardboard VR headsets, but we saw some room for improvement, and decided to design our own custom headsets. We spent a lot of time at the drawing board tweaking them until they were perfect. Our version is tailored perfectly to the One, as well as fast and easy to assemble. We didn’t cut any corners on production, and we’re definitely losing money on this. But, we want to share them with everyone. For an even closer look, be sure to check out our OnePlus Cardboard page.”

Announcing the launch, Pei said, “We can’t wait to launch the OnePlus 2 with all of you, together, on July 27th. Check back in soon for more details on how to get your very own OnePlus Cardboard. We’ll see you at the launch!”

OnePlus also has a webpage for the Cardboard VR headset. You can read more about the VR headset and even get one for yourself for free

OnePlus 2: To be revealed on 27 July

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Sony has launched Xperia Z3+ smartphone in India. It was announced last month and packs a 5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Triluminos Display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 810 processor, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and is just 6.9mm thick. It has a 20.7-megapixel rear camera with 1/2.3″ Sony Exmor RS image sensor, BIONZ image processing engine, 4K video recording and a 5.1-megapixel 1080p front-facing camera with EXMOR R sensor.
It Comes in White, Black, Copper and Aqua Green Colors and its price is Rs 55,990 It comes with a free Quick charger worth Rs. 3,490 and the smartphone has a screen protector installed out of the box. It will be available across India starting from today.

Sony Xperia Z3+ specifications

5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Triluminos Display with Live Colour LED powered by X-Reality engine, 600 cd brightness
Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 ( 4x 1.5GHz ARM A53 + 4 x 2.0 GHz ARM A57 ) processor with Adreno 430 GPU
3GB RAM, 32GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 128GB via microSD card
Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
20.7MP Primary Camera with 1/2.3″ Exmos RS sensor, 4K video recording
5.1MP front-facing camera with Exmor R sensor, 25mm wide-angle lens
IPX5 / IPX8 rating for dust and water resistance
Sony DSEE HX audio technology, LDAC codec
3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio with RDS
Dimensions: 146 x 72 x 6.9mm; Weight: 144 grams
4G LTE cat.6 / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz) MIMO, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS/ GLONASS, MHL 3.0, NFC
2930mAh Battery with STAMINA mode

Sony Xperia Z3+ launched in India See Full Specification on Viral Techs

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Facebook will soon bring a ton of news to your News Feed via Instant Articles, as per The Wall Street Journal. Launched last month, Instant Articles fills a users news feed with articles from a number of popular publishers.

The WSJ report states that The New York Times is set to publish around 30 articles per day and The Atlantic making most of its content available through the platform. While other publisher NBC News plans to post between 30 and 40 articles a day to the stream in the coming days. On the other hand BuzzFeed wants to publish maximum possible content. The main aim of Instant Articles is to offer more news to users at one place and this is possible due to more than 1 billion user base on Facebook.

The social network says that Instant Articles loads stories on mobile phones up to ten times faster than if readers click a link and head over to a publisher’s website. Instant articles will also include a suite of features such as interactive maps, image zoom, autoplay videos and audio captions. Currently, Instant Articles are only available on iOS – other platforms are expected to follow soon

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Facebook to bring more Instant Articles to News Feed

Rajat Thursday, June 25, 2015

iBall has launched Cuddle A4 with 2GB Ram, 6.95 inch display, Octra Core-Soc and runs on Android 4.4 KitKat Version For Rs. 9699. It has a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED Flash & 2-megapixel Front Facing Camera. It has DUAL Sim Support, 3G Connectivity and Voice calling Capabilities. It has gesture support that lets you draw on the lock screen to directly launch certain apps and in-built multi-languages keyboard to read and write in 21 regional languages.

Specifications of iBall Cuddle A4:-

6.95-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display 1.7 GHz Octa-Core ARM Cortex A7 processor 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with micro SD Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS Dual SIM 5MP auto focus rear camera with LED flash 2MP front-facing camera FM Radio 3G HSPA+ (with voice calling), WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, USB OTG 2800mAh battery It Comes in Gold and White Colors Commenting on launch, Sandeep Parasrampuria (Director, iBall) said: With growing needs, users are looking for 2Gb Ram tablet too apart from smart phones. iBall Introduces iBall Slide Cuddle A4 with 2GB Ram + 16GB storage – a tablet with powerful performance and powerful specifications to provide a Powerful yet cuddling experience

iBall Slide Cuddle A4 Phone Specification

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Google Hangouts joins the club of apps that has crosses 1 Billion downloads on the Play Store.

It is a bit surprising to see that Google’s own messaging app managed to reach the milestone only after Whatsapp and Messenger apps from Facebook crossed the 1 Billion mark.

This app got billion installations it doesn't mean a billion users, it means one billion different Android devices have downloaded the app once. The number of updates and re-installations don’t count.

Hangouts is due for a major upgrade to version 4.0 sometime in the near future. No, we don't know when that will be. According to Android Rank, the next Google app in line at the moment is Street View, though that may be overtaken by Chrome before long.

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Google Hangouts crosses 1 Billion downloads on the Play Store

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