Jash Jacob

Jash Jacob

Jash Jacob is the editor-in-chief and founder of Techzei, an independent technology publication based in India. He covers consumer technology, Apple, smartphones, software and product launches.

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published articles
317
first archived story
2012
review articles
21

Articles

317 articles

  • Anomaly 2 Review

    Anomaly 2 Review

    Anomaly 2 from 11 bit studios is an intense story driven campaign strategic game set in post-apocalyptic time. It has alternate endings and five different maps to be played online. 11 bit studios is proud of its new game engine which give a ‘jaw-dropping scale, incredible visual detail and phenomenal special effects’. Every stage of the…

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  • Apple iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Go on Sale Today In India

    Apple iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Go on Sale Today In India

    November 1st is finally here, If you’ve kept track with the Apple news you should already know that the company is launching it’s latest generation of iPhones in the Indian market. I received an email saying “Hello. Hello. iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c have arrived” and linked to the Indian Apple store. As reported earlier,…

  • Samsung Galaxy Gear to Support More Galaxy Devices

    Samsung Galaxy Gear to Support More Galaxy Devices

    Samsung jumped into the smartwatch bandwagon with the Samsung Galaxy Gear last month, it was launched with Galaxy Note 3 and it was the only device that was compatible with the smartwatch. The company had assured it would bring an update to support the other galaxy devices soon. Latest announcement is that Samsung Galaxy Gear…

  • LG Fireweb Smartphone with Mozilla Firefox OS

    LG Fireweb Smartphone with Mozilla Firefox OS

    First Firefox OS powered smartphone from LG is here, the LG fireweb. The fireweb is a low-end device with 480 x 320 display , 1GHz Qualcomm processor and 4 GB expandable storage.It comes with a 5 megapixel camera and it is the first firefox OS phone to have autofocusing and an LED flash. The device…

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  • Nokia announces Lumia 1520 and 1320 Devices With 6-inch Display

    Nokia announces Lumia 1520 and 1320 Devices With 6-inch Display

    Nokia unveiled new devices at the Nokia World 2013 event in Abu Dhabi – First ever Nokia tablet, the Lumia 2520 and monster new 6-inch Windows Phones ,the Lumia 1520 and 1320. Lumia 1520 and 1320 are the largest Lumia phones to date. Nokia Lumia 1520 Lumia 1520 comes with a monster 6-inch screen and…

  • OS X Mavericks Final Version Out For Free on Mac App Store

    OS X Mavericks Final Version Out For Free on Mac App Store

    OS X Mavericks was announced all the way back at Worldwide Developers Conference 2013. Mavericks was announced to be available free download to those starting from OS X Snow Leopard and all the way to Mountain Lion. This update brings a few changes from the last year’s release of Mountain Lion.Mavericks 10.9 update include introduction…

  • Google’s Nexus 7 2013 Edition Could Launch In India Next Month,Sources Reveal

    Google’s Nexus 7 2013 Edition Could Launch In India Next Month,Sources Reveal

    Sources reveal that Google is planning to bring the Nexus 7 2013 edition officially in the Indian Market in November,three months after its global launch. It seems Google is likely to launch the device on its own rather than through the OEM Asus. The manufacturer of Nexus 7 tablets,Asus is not likely to handle retail…

  • Facebook Introduces Alpha Build App Testing For Android

    Facebook Introduces Alpha Build App Testing For Android

    Facebook has done something interesting for all Android app testers, the ability to test an app in its alpha stage.Facebook App for Android is probably the first major app to have alpha builds tested with the public.The alpha testing program will be similar to the beta program, but just that the app will be at…

  • Google rolls out new features for Google+ Communities

    Google rolls out new features for Google+ Communities

    Google has finally rolled a few highly requested features for Google+ Communities.The first one is that now you can turn email notifications on or off for community posts and the second one is a brand new moderator view that puts flagged posts in a out of sight “Spam Folder”. The second feature should ideally help moderators…

  • Droidcon India 2013 : India’s Largest Android Developer Conference

    Droidcon India 2013 : India’s Largest Android Developer Conference

    Droidcon is India’s largest Android developer conference, and is part of the world wide series of conferences that happen in London, Paris, Berlin, Netherlands, Tunis, Ankara and Brussels. Droidcon has been happening in Bangalore,India for the past two years successfully and is back again with Droidcon 2013. Droidcon 2013  is a three-day event that’s happening…

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  • Android Platform Fragmentation – October 2013

    Android Platform Fragmentation – October 2013

    Google updated its Android developer platform the latest statistics which show that Android 4.X powers more than 70% of the Android devices that visit the Google Play store. Currently,Android 4.1.X Jellybean is the popular version with 36.5% share and Gingerbread still remains the second most popular version with 28.5% which has dropped from 34.1% since…

  • Twitter rolling out a feature that Allows Direct Messages from Anyone

    Twitter rolling out a feature that Allows Direct Messages from Anyone

    Twitter for a long time has allowed major brands to receive direct messages from anyone(follower). Twitter announced that this feature is now rolling out for all the regular users of it’s platform. This feature can be activated in Twitter Settings> Account . The update is being rolled out to the public in phases. This feature might…

  • Jellybean 4.2.2 Custom ROM for Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-5830

    Jellybean 4.2.2 Custom ROM for Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-5830

    Over a month ago on Techzei’s Youtube Channel a video of Samung Galaxy Ace running Jellybean 4.2.2 Custom ROM (AOKP cooper build) was posted and lot of viewers request for the tutorial, So here is how to get Jellybean 4.2.2 running on your Galaxy Ace GT-S5830. I’ve been using this ROM even before it’s nightly release and…

  • Google Maps Lite For Internet Explorer and Slow Computers

    Google Maps Lite For Internet Explorer and Slow Computers

    Google has finally introduced “Lite Mode” to Google Maps. This feature is to enable users who are using older and slow computers use the power of Google Maps easily. Lite mode enables google maps to work on some older browsers and operating systems , even on browsers that do not support WebGL and on systems…

  • Google Improves RAW Photo support on Google Plus

    Google Improves RAW Photo support on Google Plus

    Google has updated lot of things in the last few days starting from app updates to #Hashtags for Google search. The latest update is for Google Plus which is quite popular with photographers has improved RAW photo support. RAW-to-JPEG conversion in Google Plus is a major overhaul and It’s largely due to the acquirement of…

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