Micromax Canvas Selfie 4 With 8-Megapixel Front Camera Goes Official

HIGHLIGHTS

• The Canvas Selfie runs Android Marshmallow out-of-the-box.
• It sports a 'Tap Sensor' at the rear for clicking images or taking calls.
• It is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor.

Key Specifications

Display             5.00 Inch

Processor         1.3 Ghz

Front Camera   8 Mega Pixels

Resolution        720X1280 Pixels

Ram                 1 GB

OS                    6.0 Android 

Storage             8 GB 

Rear Camera    8 MP

Battery              2500 mAH

Facebook enables Continuous Live Video to power puppycams and more

Live mobile video is evolving beyond selfie-stream rants and citizen journalism. Facebook will now allow non-stop, long-form broadcasting as long as the creators don’t mind that they won’t be able to permanently save and share the video. The new Continuous Live Video API enables persistent streams like nature feeds, 24-hour windows into major landmarks or cameras trained on a pit full of puppies, Facebook revealed to me.

This is just one way Facebook has attracted broadcasters to its Live API. It had 12 partners when it launched at F8 in April, but has grown to more than 100 today. Instead of just streaming from their phones, the API lets more professional broadcasters use their own high-grade cameras, mixing boards and effects suites, plus control who sees their Live videos.

The Continuous Live Video launch represents a breakthrough for Facebook’s engineering team. Previously, Live streams could only be up to 90 minutes. That means you couldn’t broadcast a whole conference, sporting event or party, let alone leave the camera running day and night. But now Facebook has figured it out.

Spice up your Snapchats with Stickers, not just emojis

Snapchat just rolled out an update that lets users decorate their Snaps with the 200+ stickers they released as part of Chat 2.0.

The new feature works exactly like emojis — they even live inside the same button on the camera screen. Just like the emoji feature you can drag, resize and reposition any sticker on your photos or videos. The stickers even work with Snapchat’s new “3D Sticker” feature.

While not technically a new feature, the update will certainly help users better communicate their thoughts and emotions via Snaps.

Unlike emojis, the stickers aren’t sorted into different categories — they all are inside one long scroll list. And because this list doesn’t have the same sticker search capabilities that Chat has, it may be hard to find the exact sticker you want to use.

Another potential issue is that some of the stickers are better suited to be sent in chat instead of adorned on a photo or video. While most users put emojis on their content as a decoration (like adding a hat or sunglasses to a selfie), these stickers will probably be used in a different way.

Notably, this isn’t the only news to come out of Snapchat HQ today. This morning the company replaced all of its ultra-popular Lenses with nine different X-Men themed sponsored Lenses.

Normally Snapchat will add sponsored Lenses to the front of the lineup, but still leaves non-sponsored ones (which are normally more popular with users). This is the first time they have ever totally removed the regular ones. While the X-Men ones are certainly well-made, they hamper the creativity of users who rely on the rest to express themselves to friends on the platform.

The decision to remove the beloved Lenses isn’t sitting well with users, and was an irresponsible decision for a company that is trying to prove to users it won’t sacrifice its core experience for the benefit of corporate sponsors. And while this move will only last 24 hours, it says exactly the opposite — that short-term financial gains are more important than keeping users happy.

The new sticker feature is live now with updates available in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store, and the X-Men Lenses are already live in the app, if you feel like checking them out.

Asus ZenFone Max Review

The last few months have seen an increasing focus on battery size, in a bid to answer the growing demand for devices that won't shut down on you before you go to bed every night. Apart from many mid-range and high-end phones offering batteries with capacities in excess of 3000mAh, smartphones such as the Gionee Marathon M5(Review | Pictures) and Lenovo Vibe P1 (Review | Pictures) have gone above and beyond the norms with 6020mAh and 4900mAh batteries respectively.

Not one to miss out on the current trends, Asus has launched the ZenFone Max, a phone that announced in August last year. This lower mid-range smartphone costs Rs. 9,999 and is distinguishable by its large 5000mAh battery. It's considerably cheaper than the Marathon M5 and Vibe P1, and has a specification sheet that is geared towards achieving maximum power efficiency. Is the ZenFone Max the energy efficient Android smartphone that you need? Let's find out in our review.

WhatsApp tips and tricks: 10 ways to master messaging

1. Stop WhatsApp images appearing in your camera roll

If your friends send you loads of stupid pictures on WhatsApp, and you don’t want them mixed in with all your amazing photos, it is possible to keep WhatsApp images separate so they don’t appear in your camera roll.

• Download a file explorer, such as ES File Explorer
• Navigate to sdcard/WhatsApp/Media
• Enter the folder you don’t want shared (in this case, WhatsApp Images)
• Tap the plus button at the bottom of the screen
• Name the new folder .nomedia

How to recover deleted photos for Android Phones

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How to recover lost photos on Android

First of all: turn off Wi-Fi and data connections on your phone. The reason to do this is that when data is deleted, whether photos, music or documents, it is not actually deleted until something has been written over it in the device’s memory.

All that is initially deleted is the index that points to where the data starts in your memory, so as long as you can find that point again, you can get your deleted pictures back. If that new data gets written over the top of where your lost pictures are, they will be lost forever. A poorly-timed update can be disastrous.

Sony Xperia X, Xperia XA, Xperia X Performance First Look

Sony took the stage at MWC 2016 to announce the re-branding of its Xperia brand, aiming it at an ecosystem of connected devices, alongside the launch of three X smartphone series - the Sony Xperia X, Xperia XA, and Sony Xperia XA.

The three phones will be available in White, Graphite Black, Lime Gold and Rose Gold colours. They will go on sale from summer 2016 and the company is expected to reveal prices at the time of local launch. The phones will come with a range of matching style covers. We got to spend some time with three new Xperia smartphones the MWC 2016 trade show in Barcelona, and you can check out our initial impressions in the video.

Sony Xperia X, Xperia XA Price Revealed

Sony at its MWC 2016 event introduced the new smartphone 'X' series with the launch of the Xperia X, Xperia XA, and the Xperia X Performance. While the company said the handsets would hit the stores this summer, it failed to give details about their pricing. However, the Xperia X and the Xperia XA have now been listed for pre-orders on an e-commerce website in the European region.

MyShake: Now an app to detect earthquake

My Shake, will be publicly available on Sunday, May 22 (Tokyo time), through the Google Play Store, which can be accessed via the My Shake website.

A team of researchers has shaken things up with a new app so that you can turn your smartphones into personal earthquake detectors.

The University of California scientists are coming out with a Japanese version of an Android app that crowd sources ground-shaking information from smartphones to detect quakes and eventually warn users of impending jolts from nearby quakes.

The app, called MyShake, will be publicly available on Sunday, May 22 (Tokyo time), through the Google Play Store, which can be accessed via the MyShake website.

Tina Dabi and Reservation Controversy

Tina Dabi is the UPSC Civil Services 2015 topper. She achieved this feat at the age of 22 years. Naturally, she deserves all appreciation, and young girls throughout India are seeing to her as their role model. There is another fact which makes this success even more satisfying; her being an SC/Dalit. Many, including a BJP MP, has congratulated her and quoted Napolean where he had said that ‘ability is nothing without opportunity’. True and hence this success story of a young girl must be admired.

But, there is another case. Tina has obviously used her constitutional right of reservation. With the help of reservation, today she is an IAS. There is nothing wrong in this. People who are criticizing her should also note the fact that she has done exceptionally well in the Main – Written – Examination. She did sail through the Preliminary because of reservation.