Chandrashekhar Poddar

Android 7.0 Nougat: a more powerful OS, made for you Today, we’ll begin rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to Nexus devices. And with more ways to make Android your own, it’s by far our sweetest release yet. We took a different approach to building and launching Nougat this year. For starters, we invited developers to take a sneak peek at Android N back in March, so they could bring their apps to the new platform earlier. And of course we asked you to help us come up with names for this year’s release, resulting in lots of great ideas, and a delicious unveiling  back in June. Android Nougat reflects input from thousands of fans and developers all over the world. There are over 250 major features in Android Nougat, but we wanted to highlight a few of the features you’ve been most excited about. More personal Providing more ways to customize your phone to fit your personality is kind of a big deal, and Android has been leading the way since day one (Homescreen widgets, anyon...

Micromax's sub-brand Yu Televentures seems all set to launch two new smartphones. Two devices -- Yu Yunique Plus and Yureka S, have been listed on the company's official  website  . The listing also mentions the prices and the devices are expected to go on sale soon.  As per the listing, the Yu Yunique Plus features a 4.7-inch HD display of 720x1280 pixel resolution and protected with  Corning Gorilla Glass 3  . It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core  Qualcomm  Snapdragon 410 processor and runs  Android  5.1 Lollipop OS. The smartphone has 2GB of RAM and 32GB internal storage, which can be expanded further via microSD cards.  For imaging duties, the Yunique Plus sports an 8MP rear camera with LED flash and a 2MP front snapper for selfies. It is backed by a 2,000mAh battery and offers 4G, LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi,  Bluetooth  and GPS as connectivity options. The smartphone is priced at Rs 6,499

Smartphones have almost become everyone's digital extensions. They are one gadget that people have with them almost the entire time. That said, smartphones are not only used for communication, but also hold a whole bunch of personal user information like contacts, photos, email and more. So if one plans on selling off their smartphone or giving it away to someone else, it is important to ensure that all the data on it is securely erased and the device is digitally wiped clean. It's a common misconception that doing a 'Factory Reset' is the ultimate way of securely deleting data from a smartphone. But that's not the case, as a file is not actually erased when it's deleted. Only the information it contains is marked as deleted/hidden into some other free location on the storage. Factory reset reverts a device to its default state. And although majority of data gets deleted this way, small bits of information like multimedia, email etc. might ...