Tag: #mobile

Tips to stop mobile addiction

Pause to think before picking up your phone

Every time you’re about to unlock your phone, take a moment to think about why you are doing this right now. Because sometimes the reasons for checking your phone are much deeper than you think.

Analyze how you use your phone and set limits

With iOS 12, Apple has introduced the Screen Time feature which shows how much time you spend on your phone, what apps you use the most, and how often do you pick up your device. To see the report, go to Settings > Screen Time. Android users can try digital wellbeing which works similarly.
If particular apps take too much of your time, you can set daily limits for them. When you reach a limit, your iPhone notifies you about it.

Get rid of distracting apps

Sometimes you just can’t resist tapping a colourful icon on the Home screen. This is usually the case for games and social media apps. How can one avoid this temptation? Move all addictive apps to the second page where it’s harder to open them spontaneously. You can also group such apps in folders like Games or Social so they’re always one extra tap away from you.

Minimize notifications

When a new app asks if it can send me notifications, I usually say, ”No.” I only turn on notifications for messaging apps and email. If your app has flexible notification options, it’s a good idea to play around with them.

Keep your phone away

It’s easier to forget about checking your phone when it’s physically out of sight and reaches.

Don’t use your phone before going to bed

Constantly checking your phone throughout the day ruins your productivity, while staring at the screen before bedtime can affect the quality of sleep.

Kick your device out of bed

Don’t let your phone be the last thing you see at night and the first thing you check in the morning. By using a regular alarm clock and charging your phone out of reach, you won’t be tempted to start your day by getting vortexed into an avalanche of messages and updates.

Use speaker

One of the most valuable things about smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo or Google’s Home products is that they help you live a more screen-free life.
Since I got one, I’ve stopped turning on music or podcasts on my phone and will try to answer all basic questions via voice. Generally, using my smart speaker for as many things as possible has kept my smartphone out of my hands for long periods.

BLESSING IN DISGUISE

BY DAKSHITA NAITHANI

The year 2020, as we all know, will be a major change in our life. It has also demonstrated the opposite side of existence. We continued to count things for the future, and when the pandemic struck, it reminded us of how unexpected life can be; different aspects of life were affected, and working conditions were significantly altered. There was a lot of misunderstanding in the education industry about how to teach pupils, how to start lessons, and so on. However, technology was the solution to all problems.

People have used mobile phones for social interactions and pleasure in the past, but they have now evolved into a source of information, and we can say that school has come within our grasp. This situation is very similar to one of the chapters in NCERT’s English course book for class 9 called “The fun they had,” in which two children from the future (2050) got their hands on a real hardcover book from their grandfather and were amused by the idea of a real school and school building where all the children of the same age group used to study together under one roof and thought that happiness was being together with their friends. Did the pupils in this circumstance realise that this narrative would become so relevant and genuine to them? Many parents used to refuse to let their children to use cell phones, but it has now become a necessity.

Although there are always two sides to a coin, sales of smart phones soared as a result of the epidemic, since every home needed one additional one for their children to attend courses. Technology has also played a significant role in education, and how we use it can have positive or negative consequences. Phones have evolved into more than simply a means of communication; they have also become a lifeline and an indispensible component of our lives in some manner. It was a struggle for teachers to not only teach their material but also to engage with their pupils throughout these testing periods. They’ve also learned to utilise technology in a variety of ways, including not just communicating but also using various digital classrooms, boards, and audio and visual teaching and learning methods. They were not only effective in speaking with pupils, but also with their guardians, and despite the challenges, they were able to establish an emotional bond with them.

Many parents lost their jobs as a result of industry losses and were obliged to shift their children from private to government schools, but many were pleased to do so because the curriculum is on par with top institutions. The government and teachers have made it a point to link each and every kid with them. Many teachers aided their students financially as well as academically. Many teachers have also attempted to offer phones or internet connections to their kids, demonstrating that humanity bears primary responsibility in any scenario.

The desire for change in school education emerges as a result of continual changes in society on psychological, social, and economic levels. As a result, we must constantly introduce and upgrade a framework. As you can see with the current pandemic, a lot of adjustments are required both during and after the crisis. With this in mind, the Delhi government began giving curriculum-based work sheets to children of all grades, as well as training their teachers.

Teachers’ ability and efficiency have been improved via the use of webinars and online seminars on a regular basis. Regular trainings were provided to demonstrate how to use Google products to make the teaching and learning process more engaging and beneficial. The government has also launched a number of applications, such as Chalklit and Diksha, to provide a platform for various trainings and to keep instructors informed about innovative ways of teaching and learning. It was remarkable that students continued to attend courses on a regular basis, whether they were in the same city or in their village; their desire to study grew day by day, and they began to respond positively.

POCO F3-GT LAUNCHED IN INDIA, TARGETING GAMING COMMUNITY.

Poco F3 GT was launched today in India. It is part of the company’s most-popular F-series of smartphones. This device is a re-branded Redmi K40 Gaming Edition device launched in China in this year.

Redmi K-40

Specifications

POCO F3-GT, is powered by the SoC, MediaTek’s flagship chipset- Dimensity 1200. This phone features a 5065 mAh battery. This phone have a 6.67-inch Turbo AMOLED screen with 120Hz reality flow refresh rate and 480Hz touch sampling rate.

It comes with Game Turbo mode and is equipped with GT Wi-Fi gaming antenna and three separate mics. This smartphone boasts of features like GT switches, Maglev triggers and tactical RGB light on the rear side making it suitable for gamers.

This phone is built with aircraft-grade aluminium and comes with dual speakers providing Dolby Atmos sound. It comes with a triple-lens camera including a 64-MP main camera (f/1.65 aperture), 8-MP ultra-wide sensor, and 2-MP macro lens. This phone sports a 16-MP selfie camera.

POCO F3-GT comes out of box with an IP53 rating that prevents it from dust and splashes.

This phone comes with LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. On the OS front,this device comes out of box with Android 11 and MIUI 12.5.

It comes bundled with a 67W fast charger and a USB type-C, L-shaped cable to use even when it’s charging. company claims that the charger can provide a 1-day battery life in 15 minutes of charge.

Mad Reverse pricing

Poco F3 GT is priced in India at Rs. 26,999 for the 6GB RAM + 128GB storage option, 8GB RAM + 128GB storage option at Rs. 28,999, and the 8GB RAM + 256GB storage at Rs. 30,999

As mentioned in the launching event,in the first week of the sale, this phone will be available at a discounted price of Rs. 25,999, Rs. 27,999, and Rs. 29,999, respectively. In the second week of the sale, the Poco F3 GT will be up for grabs at Rs. 26,499, Rs. 28,499, and Rs. 30,499 respectively. After,August 9 prices will return to the normal

Pre-orders of this phone will begin on July 24 at 12 noon and sale will begin on July 26 at 12 noon. This phone will be available for grab on Flipkart. Launch offers include Rs. 1,000 instant discount to ICICI Bank card holders, valid till July 29 . It comes in Gunmetal Silver and Predator Black colour options.

In its price segment this phone will be competing with newly launched flagship OnePlus Nord 2.

Oneplus 9 series has been banned from Geekbench.

OnePlus latest series i.e., Oneplus 9 and Oneplus 9 Pro were found to be manipulating the benchmark results. And now has been delisted from Geekbench. Oneplus has a name in the market, and right now many of you must be questioning it. So, let’s have a look into the case. 

Both the devices run on the latest Qualcomm chipset 888 and it makes it obvious for the devices to give you top-notch performance. But it turns out the devices are not performing as their benchmark results demonstrated. It is found that both the devices tend to run at full speed only while using benchmark apps such as Geekbench and Antutu. In this way, Oneplus was manipulating benchmark scores that were not applicable in real-world usage. Since this news was out Geekbench has banned Oneplus 9 and Oneplus 9 Pro from its platform.  

But, how Oneplus was able to manipulate?

It seems Oneplus was blacklisting popular apps for their faster cores, which resulted in slowing down the workloads such as web and social media browsing. It is also been found that Geekbench and Antutu were getting full performance while the other apps were not getting it.  

After it has been found that Oneplus is manipulating benchmark scores. Geekbench stated on Twitter, “It’s disappointing to see OnePlus handsets making performance decisions based on application identifiers rather than application behavior. We view this as a form of benchmark manipulation. We’ve delisted the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro from our Android Benchmark chart. We will also test the other OnePlus handsets in our performance lab to see if these handsets also manipulate performance in the same way.  If they do, we will delist them from the Android Benchmark chart,” it seems from the statement that other Oneplus devices are also at risk of being delisted. 

Oneplus also passed a statement saying, “Our top priority is always delivering a great user experience with our products, based in part on acting quickly on important user feedback. Following the launch of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro in March, some users told us about some areas where we could improve the devices’ battery life and heat management. As a result of this feedback, our R&D team has been working over the past few months to optimize the devices’ performance when using many of the most popular apps, including Chrome, by matching the app’s processor requirements with the most appropriate power. This has helped to provide a smooth experience while reducing power consumption. While this may impact the devices’ performance in some benchmarking apps, our focus as always is to do what we can to improve the performance of the device for our users.”

Although all this has created doubts regarding Oneplus among tech geeks and some buyers. Let’s see if Geekbench and Oneplus come together to resolve this issue or like the Oneplus 9 or Oneplus 9 Pro other Oneplus devices will be delisted too


Tata P.U.B.G. 🎮

“Tussi jaa rhe ho, Tussi na jao”: this dialogue from K.K.H.H was yesterday felt by every Indians heart, ok! not everyone but still a lot of them felt it.

Hello friends, today we dedicate this blog to our beloved game PUBG. In a very short span of time pubg made it’s place in peoples heart like Chai made it’s place in every typical indians heart. It was less then a game but more like a place where not only youngsters, but, adults too like to hangout. Only if it was not a mobile game but a physical place, companies from all around the world would have opened one outlet there.

But, we Indians can’t say that this news was unexpected to us. We knew it was coming after that particular day when the first news came about a kid who commited suicide because of PUBG. Man! i guess, that news shocked everyone more then this did, and also when parents started complaining about there child, who is spending hours and hours on game. We all knew it just like, that villain in john Wick who knew he was coming, but, when? that was the main question.

And just like everything, PUBG has brought some kind of benefits too. You gotta admit it, that in india gaming was never an option, but, after pubg evrythings got changed. PUBG has started the gaming culture in India, No! there was already a gaming culture in india but PUBG has taken it to a certain height that now the Indian audience want more than it not less then it. Gamers started getting fame and money. And for the youtubers it worked like rocket which took them to an unimaginable height. there was time when youtubers were donating money to relief fund by online streaming. We can officially say that PUBG was a super hit in India, but, as we always say “Time is for everyone, but, for no one”.

Year 2020 arrives, and it brings Pandemic with itself. Slowly and slowly it got spread in each and every part of the world. This brings China (the mother of PUBG) infront of everyones eye. And soon enough, the cold war between India and China strated near LAC (Line of Actual Control). India was the only country then who was fighting against both Pandemic and the cause of Pandemic. As time passes Indian govt, strated banning the chinese application in a mater of data breaching and also due to the cold war.

Sept 1st, 2020 The news headline says “India ban 118 apps of china including PUBG”. This news brought a wave of sadness among the citizens. Tweeter was about to crash from the eminence amount of tweets, but, at last Indians accepted it.

Do you know why? Because in India every single one is serious about there country’s pride. Always there are only two reason of unity among them.
1)In the name of country like, a rare type of blood which is found in ever Indian.
2)And When there’s Bhandara.

There’s an old saying in India “Ekta mein bal” which means “There’s a strength in unity”.

What do you think, Reliance should buy Shares in PUBG or not?? Because Reliance don’t have any investment in gaming industry, oh! Sorry, I forgot about the politics.😅

So, you don’t forget to share your view in the comment section. See yaa..

iPhone

The iPhone is a line of touchscreen-based smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that use Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. Since then Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates. As of November 1, 2018, more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold.

The iPhone’s user interface is built around a multi-touch screen with a virtual keyboard. The iPhone connects to cellular networks or Wi-Fi, and can make calls, browse the web, take pictures, play music and send and receive emails and text messages. Since the iPhone’s launch further features have been added, including larger screen sizes, shooting video, waterproofing and the ability to install third-party mobile apps through an app store, as well as accessibility support. Up to 2017, iPhones used a layout with a single button on the front panel that returns the user to the home screen. Since 2017, more expensive iPhone models have switched to a nearly bezel-less front screen design with app switching activated by gesture recognition.

The first-generation iPhone was described as “revolutionary” and a “game-changer” for the mobile phone industry and subsequent models have also garnered praise. The iPhone has been credited with popularizing the smartphone and slate form factor, and with creating a large market for smartphone apps, or “app economy”. As of January 2017, Apple’s App Store contained more than 2.2 million applications for the iPhone.

The iPhone is one of the two largest smartphone platforms in the world alongside Google’s Android, forming a large part of the luxury market. The iPhone has generated large profits for Apple, making it one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies.

Development of what was to become the iPhone began in 2004, when Apple started to gather a team of 1,000 employees (including Jonathan Ive, the designer behind the iMac and iPod) to work on the highly confidential “Project Purple.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs steered the original focus away from a tablet (which Apple eventually revisited in the form of the iPad) towards a phone. Apple created the device during a secretive collaboration with Cingular Wireless (which became AT & T Mobility) at the time – at an estimated development cost of US $ 150 million over thirty months.

According to Steve Jobs, the “i” word in “iMac” (and therefore “iPod”, “iPhone” and “iPad”) stands for internet, individual, instruct, inform, and inspire.

Apple rejected the “design by committee” approach that had yielded the Motorola ROKR E1, a largely unsuccessful collaboration with Motorola. Among other deficiencies, the ROKR E1’s firmware limited storage to only 100 iTunes songs to avoid competing with Apple’s iPod nano.

Apple Incorporation is an American multinational corporation that has been successful all over the world. The brand has gained popularity, visibility and loyalty of its customers over the years and still goes strong even when it has tough competitors. Apple has many products under its umbrella that includes Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV etc.   

The brand has a nice market that caters to people who look for products that define luxury, utility and class at the same time. The most popular product of Apple is iPhone and is among the most desirable gadgets of all age group. The people who started using iPhone became loyal to it and could never compare the experience the Apple iPhone gives with any other competitive brand.   

The reason behind the success of iPhone :  

• Creating Niche : iPhone was launched under Apple brand in the year 2007 and since then the phone has released many variants in which the iPhone 5S is the latest one. The brand has never compromised on quality and always focused on giving its customers a unique experience with its exclusive features like iTunes, smart looks, operating software, retina display and much more.  

• Marketing : Right from the beginning the brand has put in efforts to market its phone by means of emotions. A product like iPhone does not promises to be a quality device but ensures a whole new experience by attaching itself with your lifestyle, emotions, imagination, power in your hands, liberty, dreams, hopes, innovation and aspirations.

• Advertising : Early ad campaigns with tag lines like ‘say hello to iPhone’ that launched the product to ‘think different’ every tagline has been designed to tap the audience’s need for a unique and stylish product.  

• Price : The brand has never shy away from presenting itself a brand with high price range but having said that it has clearly justified its price with high class features that the iPhone offers and therefore once the customers buy this product they turn into ‘blind loyal’ to the brand.   

• Variants : The iPhone offers a series of products that majorly varies in device storage. In any series of iPhone you have options available like 4GB, 16GB, 32GB etc. for instance Apple iPhone 4 series offer multiple choice to its customers like iPhone 4 8Gb, iPhone 4S 16Gb etc. and accordingly the price varies.   

• Accessibility : The brand has its exclusive stores all over the world. Apple retail stores offer its customers a friendly and no-pressure ambience where they can discuss and discover more about the Apple family and its products.  

The Latest :  

The brand has made a buzz all over the market by launching the most awaited Apple iPhone 5. The company also promised to offer 4G cellular service to its customers. With the launch of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C simultaneously, Apple set the new record for first-weekend smart phone sales as it sold over nine million devices in the first three days of its launch. The iPhone 5 series comes with extra ordinary features like body made from single piece of machined aluminum, mirror finish, finely textured, smooth edges, and sapphire crystal camera cover. 

Social media: a bane or boon

Vaishali Singh

Social media is creating a sense of competence in people’s mind, and this competition is making people ungrounded, it’s becoming the major reason of mental crisis these days, amidst this pandemic COVID- 19 outbreak people are not engaged in more productive tasks and in order to utilize their energy and satisfy the curiosity of exploring life they prefer to log in to the social media applications and wasting all their time scrolling their mobile phone’s screens endlessly, but have you thought of the consequences of using of these useless mobile applications which are distracting you from doing the necessary tasks and making you lazy and feel unproductive. The way social media is affecting your mindset is horrible, the moment you wake up, you take up your cell phone, and keep checking the notifications you’ve received overnight, which is highly unhealthy for your mental health, social media is making you more like a robot and your cell phones are becoming your masters, you just keep following the notifications you receive whole the day, the over usage of social media affects your sub conscious mind and your sub conscious plays the major role in shaping up your thoughts and mindset, which is directly proportional to the actions you take to acheive your dreams, but it’s over usage tires your brain and reduces your chances of executing the important work tasks. So, this is how your cell phones are becoming the reason behind your failure, but you’ve probably heard that every coin has two faces similarly it’s up to you that how you use something whether it’s your cell phone, the internet access you have or your social media account, if you use it to fulfil your purpose, to acknowledge yourself, to educate yourself, to fulfill your dreams then it can play the role of BOON in your life but if you use that same cell phone, that same social media just for passing the time, reading the memes, reacting on the posts endlessly, watching the comedy videos, in simple words, (seeking the temporary pleasure) instead of utilising your time in executing the important tasks, then it can become the BANE of your life. You won’t realise it today, you will notice the outcomes of your actions overtime and only then when you’ll notice your actions keenly. Now, while reading this blog post a question would definitely arise in your mind and that is, what can you do to prevent your life from getting controlled by the social media, the answer is very simple it’s impossible to change your life overnight, but the continuous efforts you put overtime can help you to change your life for better, now you have to make a proper schedule and would have to set a goal for yourself that will keep you motivated, just uninstall the unnecessary applications and data from your mobile phone, and start working on the path of your dreams right away.

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