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Drawbacks of XIAOMI REDMI 3 : SIM Slots and External Memory Management

Disadvantages of XIAOMI REDMI 3 : SIM Slots and External Memory Management There are two drawbacks of Xiaomi Redmi 3. Not that they will hurt you so much but some people will feel handcuffed because of these drawbacks. Both are related to Dual SIM functionality. First one is though it support Dual Sim but one slot support Micro Sim and another Nano Sim. This will hurt those who have multiple mobile phones and regularly swap their mobile. As, not all mobile phones support Nano Sim, once you convert your Mini Sim or Micro Sim to Nano sim, you will have to take help of an extra accessory i.e. a SIM Card Adapters. This is not going to put a hole in your pocket. You can invest some extra bucks in a mobile phone that will going to cost around ₹7000. Second drawback is for those who use two sims frequently and are heavy memory user, as you can only add a Micro SD memory card as an expanded memory only if one of the SIM card slot is vacant. As, Slot 2 supports both the Nano-SIM card

BlackBerry Priv Confirmed as New Android Based Smartphone

BlackBerry Priv-An Upcoming High End Android Based Phone BlackBerry has finally confirmed it's Priv smartphone will launch at the end of 2015. BlackBerry Priv smartphone is based on Android and have a slider QWERTY keyboard. The mobile phone company, said Friday that they will release BlackBerry Priv (Short for Privacy) later this year. The Priv runs on Android instead of BlackBerry OS 10 and will feature a sliding QWERTY keyboard behind the touchscreen. "Today, I'm confirming our plans to launch Priv, and Android device named after BlackBerry's heritage and core mission of protecting our customers' privacy," wrote CEO John Chen in company's Second Quarter Financial results. "Priv combines the best of BlackBerry security and productivity with the expansive ecosystem of mobile applications available on the Android platform." Chen also said that BlackBerry OS 10 will continue to receive updates and will not be replaced by the Android op

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan-Railway Launched New App Clean My Coach

Clean My Coach App For Clean Railway, a Step Forward Towards Clean India Mission  Taking forward, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative Swach Bharat Abhiyan, Indian railway has developed an app- CLEAN MY COACH INDIAN RAILWAYS . Clean My Coach app, is an on board housekeeping service (OBHS), provided to facilitate cleaning of coaches during run of train itself. If your coach is dirty then through Clean My Coach app you can register complaint and railway claims it will clean the mess in 15 minutes. Today, i.e. on Sunday, 27 Sep. 2015, North Eastern Railway, GM Kumar Mishra will launch the app at Lucknow Junction. Along with the app, "water vending machine" will also be introduced. App apart, Indian Railways has also developed cleanmycoach.com website. Coach dirt or lack of toilet cleaning, passenger can complain forthwith. Railways claim that within 15 minutes of receipt of the complaint, grievances will be taken care of. Indian Railway had run the trial at the C

How to Stop/Disable Facebook Android App Automatic-Video-Playing?

How to Turn Off videos autoplay on Facebook? With the last Facebook update for it's mobile app, they have rolled out auto-play video feature that automatically plays GIFs, Vines and video. By default the setting is set to play video automatically even you are on mobile data. This is something not in favor of users. At least they should have set it to automatic play videos on WiFi. But to help advertisers and gain money Facebook choose the other way-rob its users by auto-playing the advertisers videos ads. On your mobile, these auto-play videos uses a great amount of your mobile data. To Disable Videos Auto-play on Android: To disable auto-play videos on Facebook's Android mobile apps tap on the menu i.e. hamburger / three lines on top right corner: Scroll down and tap on “App Settings” Tap on “Videos play automatically” which is set to default On Now, you will see Video Auto-play is ON.  If you wish to run the video automatically on WiFi tap on "Wi-fi

Sep 1 2015, Google New Logo and the History of Google Logo

Google gets a new logo. New logo drops the serifs in biggest redesign in company history. Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years — from the range of Google's products to the evolution of their look and feel. And today they’re changing things up once again i.e. Google New Logo. Google Logo History: 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin use this logo for their Stanford University graduate project. 30 August 1998 The team heads to Burning Man and creates the first Doodle as an out of office message. September 1998 Google moves to google.com and shares its beta release with the world. May 1999 Still playful, the logo gets a more sophisticated look based on the Catull typeface. May 2010 The logo brightens up and sports a reduced drop shadow. September 2013 The logo goes flat with some typographical tweaks. September 2015 The logo becomes part of a new family that includes the Google dots and 'G' icon.

WhatsApp's New Group & Per Contact Custom Notification Settings

How to Change Your WhatsApp Group & Per Contact Custom Notifications? WhatsApp has introduced several new features to its Android app. One of the feature is custom notifications for Group and Per Contact. With new update, WhatsApp has added a new custom notification setting at Group and Per Contact level, giving users the ability to mute a conversation, customize tones, light, vibration lengths and pop-up notifications and also change the ringtones for WhatsApp call. Earlier, WhatsApp call ringtones was your default phone ringtone. But now you can set individual ringtones in your contact. The new settings for WhatsApp custom notifications can be found in the contact's or group's detail page. Here, is the step by step guide to customize WhatsApp Custom Notification Per Contact: 1) Tap the three dots near the contact name: 2) Tap the View Contact and Go to Notifications: 4) Choose either Custom Notifications or Mute 5) Tap on Custom Notifications and you will get

Micromax Launched Yu Yuphoria to Compete with Lenovo A6000 Plus, Redmi 2 and Moto E 2

On 12 May, 2015, Micromax's venture Yu Televentures launched it's second metal clad Cyanogen-based smartphone branded as YU Yuphoria. It is priced at Rs. 6999, competing with budget 4G smartphones - Lenovo A6000 Plus, Redmi 2 and Moto E 2. The Yuphoria will be sold exclusively through Amazon.in, just like its predecessor Yureka. Register now on Amazon.in for the sale on 28 May, 2PM. Yuphoria is equipped with 5" HD IPS screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It gets a 8 MP rear and 5 MP front camera. Micromax's Yuphoria is setting a benchmark for low end smartphones with its all metal frame body, whereas others at this price range are having plastic for exterior casing. Also, Yu Yuphoria and Lenovo A6000 Plus beat the other budget 4G smartphones by packing a 2GB  RAM in comparison with their 1GB RAM memory. At Rs. 7000 price range Yuphoria and Lenovo A6000 Plus are having 16 GB internal memory but Yuphoria missing microSD card slot. Whereas Xiaomi Redmi