Honor 8X vs Xiaomi Mi 6X: Execs From Both Companies Square Off Over Online Bragging Rights It’s natural to compare their devices with the competition, and most companies do this at product launch events. Something similar happened with the launch of a new smartphone from Huawei –Honor 8X, but unlike the usual trend, this time another company tried to pick apart Honor’s smartphone. After the launch of the Honor 8X, Xiaomi’s president Lin Bin took to Weibotocompare the Honor newcomer with the recently launched Mi 6X, which has also beenrefashioned as the Mi A2outside China....

How To Identify Unknown Senders on WhatsApp Using Truecaller Truecallerhasannouncedthat it will now be able to auto-search contact information not saved in a user’s phone book for third-party messaging apps, such asWhatsApp, Line, Viber and Telegram. According to a post on its official blog, users will only have to enable notification access to allow the app to look up such numbers. The company also published a step-up-step tutorial about exactly how to go about the process....

Huawei to Enable ‘Performance Mode’ For All Users Following Benchmark Cheating Scandal After being accused ofartificially inflating benchmark scoresof its smartphones by whitelisting popular benchmarking apps, Huawei was blacklisted by UL (formerly Underwriters Laboratories), the developers of one of those applications, 3DMark. The company delisted Huawei’s P20 Pro, Nova 3, and Honor Play from its leaderboard for‘Best Smartphones’afterAnandTech publishedits detailed report about how the performance of the company’s devices differ drastically with their so-called‘Performance Mode’turn on and off....

Indian Railways’ ‘Plan Bee’ Device Saves Elephants From Train Accidents Indian Railwaysis creating a buzz with its “Plan Bee” to tackle a mammoth problem at a meagre cost. It has installed devices which mimic the humming of a swarm of bees to keep elephants off the tracks to avert accidents. The Indian Railways said yesterday that its “Plan Bee”, launched in November last year to stop elephants from being hit by speeding trains in the Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR), has been a great success as the number of casualties has gone down drastically....

Is Microsoft Planning to Launch a Smartwatch on October 2? October isbooked for the Pixel 3 hypebut Microsoft is planning to steal some limelight byholding an event on October 2 in the New York City. A day afterGoogle sent out invitesfor the October 9 launch, Microsoft is asking a “moment of your time” tolaunch something new. Microsoft’s alleged dual-screen and foldable Surface phone has been among the key things making rumors butwe may not see it just yet....

JioPhone 2 vs JioPhone: Why It’s Not A Big Upgrade The JioPhone 2 waslaunched as a successorto the JioPhone, the first smart feature phone from Reliance Jio last month. The aim is the same – bring Internet to the masses, but this time around there’s a change in the form factor, among other improvements. Well, the JioPhone 2 (Rs 2,999)changes things upon the design and aesthetic front with a horizontal display and QWERTY keyboard, but is that enough to call this an upgrade?...

Lenovo Launches Cardio Plus Water-Resistant Fitness Band in India for Rs 1,999 Lenovo might have slowed down in terms of smartphone launches in India but it still has a good range of fitness bands and has now launched a new product. This new product is Cardio Plus HX03W comes with a black-and-white OLED display, similar to theMi Band 3, and ispriced at Rs 1,999. The Cardio Plus HX03W fitness band appears to be a stripped down version of another fitness band from Lenovo – the HX03F, which comes with a colored display....