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The Indian smartphone market grew by 5% in 2024, totaling 155.9 million shipments for the calendar year. The latest report from Canalys shows that vivo was India’s leading smartphone brand for 2024 in terms of shipments with 29.5 million units…

MediaTek might launch the Dimensity 9400+ as soon as this quarter, suggested leakster Digital Chat Station. The source indicated that the CPU of the new chip will be overclocked, and we can expect to see devices incorporating it soon after.…

TikTok wasn’t the only high-profile app banned in the US recently, as fellow ByteDance video editing app CapCut also went dark. Meta wasted no time capitalizing on the situation and announced its own free video editor for creators called Edits.…

TikTok users in the United States can celebrate as their beloved app is back online. 170 million Americans were greeted on Sunday with the news of the app’s ban, and upon opening it, they encountered a pop-up indicating that the…

Effect Audio isn’t a brand that’s familiar to most, but go down far along the audio rabbit hole, and you encounter boutique vendors that sell highly differentiated products. In this case, it is audio cables; Effect Audio is a brand…

What you need to know Instagram is launching a new app, Edits, that will immediately become a CapCut competitor when it launches next month. You can pre-order the app on the Apple App Store now, with Google Play Store availability…

I covered Stuffcool extensively over the years, and the brand is my go-to recommendation for charging products in India. I used the brand’s Major Max and Major Ultra power banks in the last year, and while they did an admirable…

What you need to know Qualcomm quietly announced a binned version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip with seven cores. Offering the same clock speeds as the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite, this new variant has one less performance core. This…

Refresh 2025-01-19T19:12:31.563Z Shifting gears a bit, if there’s one thing that we’ve complained about for years it’s how far behind the curve Samsung is with charging speeds. While some flagship phones can be recharged in less than an hour, Samsung…

Over the holidays, I held a smartwatch beauty pageant with my family. On Christmas, I drove to my parents’ house with a plastic Safeway bag carrying 13 smartwatches and asked my bemused relatives if they wanted to help me with…