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           OnePlus is a Chinese consumer electronic manufacture, best known for making flagship smartphones, was founded by Pete Lau and Carl Pei. It's a subsidiary of BBK Electronics. OnePlus smartphones are known for their performance, design, super fast charge, customizable software skin, and top-end specs. But they are not that good at delivering such great cameras. OnePlus 9 series is OnePlus's step forward to fix that intricacy by partnering up with Hasselblad. So what does this Hasselblad branding mean? Hasselblad is a Swedish camera manufacturer who makes $50,000 cameras and $10,000 lenses! Yes, it's a high-end camera manufacturer whose cameras were used in many NASA missions. In fact, man's first landing on the moon by Neil Armstrong was first captured by a Hasselblad camera.  It's a weird match between a luxury camera brand and a smartphone company whose main objective is price. OnePlus has partnered up with Hasselblad to bring colour accurac...

Apple: The above-mentioned decision has been taken to meet our environmental goals. The company wants to become carbon-neutral by 2030. Samsung: Changing the world together by 2030! Me: WOW!!!😮 This means net-zero climate impact by 2030..... But wait, does this actually curtail the use of packing materials?  iPhone X iPhone 12 When you see these boxes from the outside, you may think... Good job Apple you're so deliberate about the environment!  But when you see things in perspective, you will get to know about the disadvantages. For example, Person X presently has an iPhone X. When he sees the attractive adverts for the newer iPhone 12 he is more likely to buy the new device with tons of new features. When he charges his new phone with his old charger, it takes a lot of time to fill it up because Mr. X is using a two-year-old  charger that doesn't support fast charging. Thus,   he'll end up buying a separate charger from amazon. The dispatch box and the new charger'...

    Wireless charging can be defined as the transfer of power from the charging pad to your device  with no interaction of cables.  Qi [Pronounced as 'chee'] is the standard for many wireless chargers. Apple, Samsung, LG are the main companies that support Qi chargers. So not everyone can afford to buy these phones with wireless charging. According to a survey, only about 25% of people use wireless chargers.  The main reason why people are not opting for wireless chargers is that these chargers are very slow compared to wired charging. In an age where wired chargers can provide up to 120W of output these wireless chargers only reach up to 7.5-10W.  These chargers work on the principle of electromagnetic induction, i.e. the magnetic field is created between the charging pad and your device. These chargers use more energy and all the extra energy ends up as heat. As we are all aware that heat is not a battery's good friend. Heat can change the battery's physi...

How to use your smartphone as a webcam? Your smartphone is probably one of the best webcam you own. Well most of the people don't know that and struggle with the low quality camera in their laptop. This might be a major problem to students and some people who attend online classes or meetings during this COVID situation. So a simple way to solve this problem is to download an application known as IP Webcam. This is an app that allows you to convert your smartphone into a webcam. It lets you to add up to 64 cameras that you can view on the main screen in different layouts. Isn’t that amazing. Follow these simple steps: Download the IP Webcam application from the Google Play Store( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam&hl=en_US ) or from the App Store.  After you give the necessary permissions, it will display a URL. You just need to type the URL in your PC or laptop, straight away you’ll be seeing a live view from you...

How to send WhatsApp messages, SMS in future Imagine that tomorrow is your best friend’s birthday. So, your goal is to send your wishes before anyone does it (i.e. mid night 12 o clock). How to do it easily? Well, SKEDit is the app which you should use. SKEDit is a free and easy-to-use scheduling app that lets you schedule WhatsApp messages, SMS, posts, etc. This is one of the top-rated Android scheduling app that help you to put your communication to the autopilot effect. You can download SKEDit easily from the Google Play Store   ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codefish.sqedit&hl=en_IN ) Steps: 1.       In the app select the service in which you want to schedule. 2.       Add one or more recipients and type the content which you want to send. 3.       Now set the date and time and whether you want to send it once or repeatedly. There, you're done sche...

How to send Emails in future Think of a situation where you need to send an important email to your friend the next day, but another work sticks up. Then do you think of sending an email in the future? Yes, there is a way. Boomerang for Gmail is such a handy tool.   Boomerang for Gmail ( http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ )   is a Chrome and Firefox plugin (does not work on explorer) that allows you to take all the control over sending and receiving an email. To get started with Boomerang,  visit the Boomerang and click install. After installing the app, follow the instruction manual or the instruction screen. Now, whenever you log in to Gmail, this Boomerang feature would be enabled, i.e., it will be situated below the ‘send’ button as ‘send later’. You can write your email normally, and when you click on ‘send later,’ a menu appears where you can enter or select the time and date to send the email. It can also make any chosen email reappear at a situat...

'Complete for Gmail' is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that brings predictive text typing technology. Complete App allows Gmail users to type faster than normal, by building database of regularly used words and English phrases. This not only make Email composing faster but also make it grammatically correct. To install 'Complete' for Gmail visit  www.complete.li  Thanks to the book 'Stretch your technology-EMAIL @' by Ankit Fadia.