Happy Birthday, MIUI: Tracing The Evolution of Xiaomi’s ROM as It Turns 8 We all know Xiaomi as a major smartphone company. However, Xiaomi didn’t always make hardware products and began its journey with the development of the Android-based MIUI custom ROMs, which we now adore, back in 2010. The first MIUI custom ROM was built on top of Android Froyo and held a close resemblance to iOS, thanks tothe absence of the app drawer, more uniform icons, and a different UIfor most apps as compared to stock Android that we saw in the Nexus phones, or even other versions of Android such as TouchWiz....

How to Stop Google from Tracking Your Location on Android, iOS and the Web For privacy-conscious users, Google has always had the option of‘turning off location history’which blocks Google from tracking your whereabouts, for the most part. We say that because a new investigative report has shed more light on how Google is tracking your movements even when you have explicitly asked it not to. TheAssociated Press report revealsthat Google may stop storing the data for locations you visit when you turn off location sharing, but several Google apps still store time-stamped location data as default behaviour, without getting user consent....

JioGigaFiber Registrations are Now Open, But Getting a Connection Might Take Time Early last month at its 41st Annual General Meeting, Reliance Jio announced its FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) broadband service –JioGigaFiber. The company claimed that its fiber broadbandservice will be rolled out simultaneously across 1,100 citiesin the country, with registrations starting from August 15. Well, as you might have already guessed it, registrations for the JioGigaFiber service are now open on the company’s website and on the MyJio app, however, there’s a catch....

Moto P30 Unveiled With Wide Notch, Dual Rear-Cameras, Android Oreo and More After havinglistedthe Moto P30, P30 Play and P30 Note last week on its official Chinese site,Lenovoofficially launched the P30 on Wednesday. The Moto P30 was the only device to have been launched thus far, with no word on when the other two devices will be made available for purchase. Moto P30 Key Specifications The P30 features a 6.2-inch Full HD+ display with 19:9 aspect ratio, and is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 636 SoC....

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF Review: Portable, Powerful and Almost Perfect Ever since MSI launched its GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF in India, I’ve been waiting to get my hands on the device and get a decent experience of the thin and light gaming laptop, which packs in impressive hardware in an understated razor thin chassis. The MSI GS65 Stealth is currently available in India at a heftyRs. 1,84,699and at this price point you’ll be getting an 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8750H powered laptop with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and an Nvidia GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU....

OxygenOS Update Fixes OnePlus 6 Screen Flickering Issue OnePlus has begun the rollout of the OxygenOS 5.1.11 update which comes with system and camera optimizations, and more importantly, fixes the screen flickering issue on theOnePlus 6reported by some users. In addition to bug fixes, the latestOxygenOSupdate also introduces an improved HDR mode, however, specific details about the improvements have not been revealed. Following is the changelog of the update: System...

Patanjali’s Kimbho App Will Be Officially Re-Launched on August 27 Patanjali is all set to relaunch its Kimbho messaging app on August 27 following a ‘not so successful’ one-day soak test back in May. Patanjali’s Managing Director, Acharya Balkrishna announced yesterday that the Patanjali app will be launched with‘new and advanced features’in the last week of August. According to a report from theIndian Express, the Kimbho app will be officially relaunched in the presence of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari at an event in Delhi....