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  • Amazon Fire TV review

    Amazon Fire TV Review

    I’m someone who has been in the Apple ecosystem for a very long time and I own pretty much every Apple product including the Apple TV.  I’ve used it for two years now and considered it to be the best streaming device because it always worked in my setup.  In between, I got to try other…

  • 80 Days for iOS Review
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    80 Days for iOS Review

    What if someone asked you to go around the world? You would take your iPhone out, book a few flights and you can do that in less than a week. Now, imagine it is 1872! So you don’t have your iPhone or the internet or even long distance flights. Get ready to go on horses and…

  • Manual: The best Camera app for iPhone
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    Manual: The best Camera app for iPhone

    Apple opened up a lot of new API’s for developers in iOS 8. One of the most important one was for the Camera which allowed apps to directly access the camera allowing even changes at a finer level. Manual Camera uses those new API’s to give an amazing camera experience with the iPhone. The default…

  • Corsair Vengeance M95 Review
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    Corsair Vengeance M95 Review

    Corsair Vengeance M95 has been on my table for quite a while, It’s been an actual replacement to the trackpad. My primary computer is a MacBook so the trackpad is just so good that you’ll probably wouldn’t need a mouse. This device came in for review, so I had to try it out. For the…

  • Expert Shield Amazon Kindle Screen Protector Review

    Expert Shield Amazon Kindle Screen Protector Review

    I’m not really a huge fan of scratch guards, because I love the feel of a glass even at the expense of a possibility of scratching it. But the Amazon Kindle is different. It does not have a glass screen. It was glossy. So, when I was given the Expert Shield Amazon Kindle Screen Protector,…

  • Expert Shield iPad Mini Screen Protector Review

    Expert Shield iPad Mini Screen Protector Review

    It’s funny how we think we’re going to get our phone or tablet screens scratched. Almost all the displays on devices these days are proofed with corning gorilla glass or some other variant. But we’re always in doubt we come across a screen protector. In this day and age where you can’t really say what’s…

  • Powerbeats by Dr.Dre Review

    Powerbeats by Dr.Dre Review

    Ever been in those situations when you’re at the gym and your earphones keep falling off ? That’s when you go for a Sports fit type earphones. Then you come across the situation when the sound quality isn’t good enough, or wasn’t what you need to keep you pumped out throughout your workout, and on top…

  • Asus Zenfone 5 Review

    Asus Zenfone 5 Review

    Asus Zenfone 5 was announced in CES 2014 and has been recently been made available in India. We were lucky enough to get one of these devices to try even before the actual consumer launch in India. Asus Zenfone 5 is built out of plastic so it feels really light. It doesn’t feel cheap although…

  • Moto E Review

    Moto E Review

    Motorola’s comeback to market with Moto X and Moto G has been really exciting. Just when everyone thought Moto G was all Motorola could do to cut costs, Motorola has surprised everyone with Moto E. Moto E for most of it is a very cheap smartphone. I tested this device out for a couple of…

  • Asus Fonepad 7 Review
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    Asus Fonepad 7 Review

    The popularity of hybrids have increased in time and the Asus Fonepad 7 is one such hybrids. Hybrids are the all in one device which does the job of a tablet and a phone in one device. Most of the hybrids are inclined towards the phones. They have screens bigger than phones to give the tablet…

  • Roku Streaming Stick Review
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    Roku Streaming Stick Review

    Can you think of a device which can turn any TV with HDMI Input into a smart TV?  Roku Streaming Stick is one such device which lets you do just that. essentially it’s a HDMI media streaming device much like the Google Chromecast. The device lets you stream content from the Internet, watch TV shows and…

  • JBL J46BT Review
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    JBL J46BT Review

    Very few companies do In-Ear Bluetooth headphones and JBL J46BT is definitely one of the best. Not many people buy these because they serve a very specific purpose and it is not really for everyone. JBL changes it with the J46BT. Usually, In-Ear wireless headphones being small come with tiny batteries resulting in poor music playback…

  • ACK Comics App Review

    ACK Comics App Review

    Amar Chitra Katha also known as ACK Comics is one of India’s biggest storytellers which launched way back in 1965. They have been rewriting hundreds of fables, folk tales, biographies and literary classics as comics for the younger generation. With the kids these days getting early into technology, it would make more sense if the…

  • Kindle Paperwhite
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    Kindle Paperwhite 2013 Review

    I have always been interested in eBook readers because I never felt tablets to do the job when it came to reading books. I have tried eBook readers for a long time and also own the first generation Kindle Paperwhite. The new eBook reader was recently released in India February this year.  I was not…

  • Google Chromecast Review

    Google Chromecast Review

    Google introduced Chromecast last year to enter the market where every company wants to be. Chromecast is a flash drive sized media streaming device that plugs directly into the HDMI port of your TV and streams content from the internet. That’t not it. It comes with a micro-USB cable for powering it. You can connect…