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Truly wireless headphones are all the rage these days, and manufacturers are releasing products at an ever-increasing rate. This time around, we’re reviewing the Jabra Elite Active 65t, which supports Bluetooth 5.0 and also promises good sound quality, up to 15 hours of battery life, and a secure fit. We have already reviewed the Jabra Elite 65t, which impressed us with its sound quality, and this is a variant of that pair of earphones, aimed at sports and fitness enthusiasts. The difference between them is that with the Elite Active 65t, Jabra has bumped up the water resistance rating and added some fitness tracking features to the mix. Are these truly wireless earphones worth their Rs. 14,999 price tag? Let’s find out. Jabra Elite Active 65t design, comfort, and features The Elite Active 65t looks identical to the standard Elite 65t model. Its earpieces are made out of plastic and are ergonomically shaped, though we found them a tad too bulky. The earpieces won’t stick o...

As Reliance Jio readies itself for the Jio Phone 2 flash sale, the biggest news for all Jio Phone users lies beyond hardware. WhatsApp on Jio Phone is that bit of news, and the latest update is that the app may not be available to all Jio Phone users from August 15, India’s Independence Day, as promised earlier. WhatsApp on Jio Phone will be rolling out to users in batches with some people getting it on August 15, Reliance Jio has claimed. That means there’s no definite Jio Phone 2 WhatsApp release date, but it should show up eventually. While you wait for the Jio Phone WhatsApp update, YouTube will be available on Jio Phone from August 15 and Facebook is already there. This means that this episode of Orbital, where the resident Jio expert Ravi Sharma joins host Pranay Parab, can focus on Jio Phone’s killer apps – WhatsApp and YouTube. We begin the episode by talking about our experience with WhatsApp on Jio Phone, which was during the beta phase. The app had some way to go in t...

The Vivo Y81 smartphone went official in June in Vietnam, and now it has become available in India as well. The Vivo Y81 is already on sale on Vivo online store, Amazon and Flipkart, and set to compete with many popular smartphones including the Asus ZenFone Max Pro 1, Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, and the Honor 9N going by its price. The Vivo Y81 sports an iPhone X-like notch and a bezel-less design on the front. Key highlights of the smartphone include a large HD+ display with an 19:9 aspect ratio, Face Detection, and a 3,260mAh battery. Vivo Y81 price in India, release date Vivo has already started selling the Vivo Y81 in India., and is listed for the price Rs. 12,999.  The smartphone is up for grabs on Vivo online store, Flipkart and Amazon already, with delivery time as early as the next day. At its price, Vivo Y81 has been positioned in the heavily competitive mid-range segment. The smartphone has been made available in Black and Gold colour options. Amazon and Flipkart b...

Nokia brand licensee HMD Global on Sunday made the Nokia 2.1, Nokia 3.1’s 3GB RAM/ 32GB storage model, and Nokia 5.1 available to buy in India. To recall, the three smartphones were launched by the Finnish company in India on Thursday, and are also known as the Nokia 2 (2018), Nokia 3 (2018), and Nokia 5 (2018) respectively. The Nokia 3.1’s 2GB RAM/ 16GB storage variant was launched in India last month. All three smartphones – launched globally in May – run optimised versions of Android, with the latter two being a part of Google’s Android One initiative, and the budget Nokia 2.1 being an Android 8.1 Oreo (Go edition) smartphone. Nokia 2.1, Nokia 3.1, Nokia 5.1 price in India The Nokia 2.1 has been priced at Rs. 6,999 in India. It will come in three metallic colour variants – Blue/Copper, Blue/Silver and Grey/Silver. Meanwhile, the Nokia 3.1 now comes in a new 3GB RAM/ 32GB storage variant. The new variant has been priced at Rs. 11,999. It will also be available in three colour opti...

A US free speech group on Friday asked President Donald Trump to unblock 41 Twitter users after a federal judge in May ordered him to restore access to a group of individuals who filed suit. US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled on May 23 that comments on the President’s account, and those of other government officials, were public forums and that blocking Twitter users for their views violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on Friday sent the Justice Department a list of 41 accounts that remain blocked from Trump’s @RealDonaldTrump account. The seven users who filed suit had their accounts unblocked in June. “As the district court has held, the First Amendment prohibits the president from blocking Twitter users simply because they’ve criticized him,” said Katie Fallow, senior staff attorney at the Knight Institute. The White House did not imm...

Flipkart’s Big Freedom Sale has entered its second day. The sale will run until August 12 and will offer discounts and bundled offers on thousands of products across all major categories. Citibank credit card users will be able to receive a 10 percent cashback on purchases worth Rs. 4,999 or more, with the maximum cashback capped at Rs. 2,000 per card. If you’re looking to buy something during the Flipkart sale, make sure you first compare prices at Amazon which is also running its own Independence Day special sale called Freedom Sale. Flipkart is also offering bundled exchange offers, no-cost EMI options, and guaranteed buyback offers on select electronics. These can help bring down the effective prices of your purchases. We have picked out the best deals from the first day of the Flipkart Big Freedom sale so far. Stay tuned as we will continue to post updates during the sale. Google Pixel 2 64GB Google Pixel 2 is a hot favourite during Flipkart’s promotional sales and the Big Fre...

Redmi Note 5 Pro has gone on sale in India today, via Flipkart and Mi.com. While Friday is a weekly flash sales day for Chinese electronics firm Xiaomi, which also holds its Mi TV 4 and Mi TV 4A flash sales on the day. Thanks to the Flipkart Big Freedom Sale, all three are available to buy without flash sales. At the time of writing, the 6GB RAM variant of the Redmi Note 5 Pro had gone out of stock on both Flipkart and Mi.com. The very popular Redmi 5A will also be made available for what XIaomi calls “pre-orders” on Mi.com at 12pm IST. Xiaomi as part of its own Independence Day Sale has put the Mi TV 4 and Mi TV 4A models on sale on Mi.com, however, they are yet to be made available on Flipkart at the time of writing. While the Redmi Note 5 Pro’s popularity in India was seen recently with its second rank in Q2 India smartphone shipments report, it is set to be upstaged by the Xiaomi Mi A2. The second generation in Xiaomi’s Android One family, the Mi A2 was launched in India just yes...

Apple is expected to launch three new iPhones this year – one iPhone X successor with an OLED display, one 6.5-inch most premium variant with OLED display, and another 6.1-inch LCD variant. Names of the three iPhones have been flying around and guess work has also been into play, but a fresh report looks to put all speculations to rest, and states that the three variants will be called iPhone XS, iPhone 9, and iPhone XS Plus respectively. Furthermore, hands-on videos of the three devices have also been leaked online giving us a clean look at the design of the three devices. Starting with a report from Les Numeriques, it also states that Apple will launch three iPhones this year, citing a leaked image showing everything. It claims that the least expensive variant will just be called iPhone 9. It will sport an LCD display, a glass back, and a single camera setup at the back. The 5.8-inch iPhone XS will sport will sport an OLED display, a glass back, and a dual camera setup. Lastly, the...

It’s widely speculated that Fortnite for Android would be a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Tab S4 timed exclusive. Now it seems that Epic Games’ battle royale sensation could grace other Samsung devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8. After a 30-day exclusivity period on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Tab S4, Fortnite Mobile for Android could hit other Samsung Galaxy S series devices for a possible “90 days and possibly for as long as 120 days” according to Android Headlines. “Instead, once the Note 9 exclusivity has come to an end, a second exclusivity period will kick in for Samsung which will see owners of select models from the Galaxy S series gaining access to the new game as well. This second period of exclusivity is understood to either be 60 or 90 days long – that is, on top of the 30 days for the Note 9. Which in total would mean that Fortnite’s arrival on Android is going to be locked in with Samsung for at least 90 days and possibly for as long as 120 d...

Xiaomi Mi A2 India launch is scheduled for the coming week, so the excitement for stock Android phone is palpable. It was revealed earlier this week that the Mi A2 will be exclusive to Amazon India. The e-commerce platform was snagged the Mi A2 from Flipkart, which sold the Mi A1 back when it released last year. The Amazon India listing page for the upcoming Xiaomi model shows a Notify Me button; it is being promoted with the tagline “Picture perfect photos” in the country. To recall, the Xiaomi Mi A2 runs an optimised stock version of Android 8.1 Oreo, certified by Google’s Android One programme, and sports a 5.99-inch full-HD+ (1080×2160 pixels) display with a 18:9 aspect ratio, 2.5D curved glass, and Gorilla Glass 5. It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC, paired with an Adreno 512 GPU. In the camera department, the Mi A2 sports a dual rear camera setup. It consists of a 12-megapixel Sony IMX486 with f/1.75 aperture and 1.25-micron pixels, and a 20-megapixel...

FIFA 19 has a September 25 release date and aside from tweaking player ratings, there’s a new mode too. Dubbed as Survival Mode, has more in common with the battle royale genre popularised by PUBG and Fortnite than well…football. In FIFA 19 Survival Mode, each goal you score has one of your players (chosen at random) leaving the pitch. Unlike battle royale however, you don’t get to a situation wherein it’s down to the last player standing and the pitch doesn’t reduce in size either. This is because it follows real life football rules wherein a match is abandoned if either side has fewer than seven players. So to win, you need to score five goals resulting in five of your players making an exit from the match. And while having some similarities to the battle royale genre, EA states this was devised long before PUBG Corp and Epic Games popularised it. “That battle royale thing kicked off long after we came up with this idea, but it’s funny people are associating it [Survival Mode] wi...

Google has finally put the controversy of UIDAI contact showing up seemingly randomly in people’s phones at rest and confirmed that the issue didn’t result from any directive by any authority in India but due to a software issue in Android. The controversy under which UIDAI’s now-decommissioned toll-free number was spotted by many mobile phone users in the country can be traced back to 2014, Google said, when the then UIDAI number and the 112 distress helpline number were “inadvertently coded” within the Android setup wizard and has remained on devices, the company confirmed to Gadgets 360 via an emailed statement late on Friday. “Our internal review has revealed that in 2014, the then UIDAI helpline number and the 112 distress helpline number were inadvertently coded into the SetUp wizard of the Android release given to OEMs for use in India and has remained there since,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement emailed to Gadgets 360. “Since the numbers get listed on a user’s con...

PUBG Mobile for Android and iOS has partnered with Mission: Impossible – Fallout for themed content from the movie to be present in the game. This includes new PUBG Mobile skins, parachutes, and even different in-game music. The PUBG Mobile Mission: Impossible – Fallout update is live now on both Android and iOS. If you’re on version 0.7.0 of the game, the PUBG Mobile Mission: Impossible – Fallout update download size is 19MB on Android and 19.78MB on iOS. After updating, you will need to restart the game to see the new content. “Nothing is impossible for PUBG Mobile, the world’s most popular mobile battle royale game – not even a partnership with an iconic movie franchise such as Mission: Impossible,” said PUBG Mobile team General Manager Vincent Wang. “After only a few months on the market, we continue to build our player base for PUBG Mobile – now over 100 million strong – while growing our brand with innovative partnerships such as this spec...

Valve has announced a release date and price for Artifact. The card collection game is based on its popular MOBA, Dota 2. The Artifact release date is November 28 for Windows, macOS, and Linux via Steam. Artifact’s price is $19.99 (around Rs. 1,366). Artifact Android and iOS release date is slated for 2019. At the time of filing this story there’s no Steam page for the game yet, so there’s a good chance it might be priced less for India when it eventually hits. The game will ship with 280 cards and players will be able to buy and sell them on the Steam Community Marketplace according to Touch Arcade. This could result in an interesting economy around the game, but could also crash and burn as we saw with Diablo 3’s auction house during its early days. Unlike other card collection games, Artifact will not be free-to-play and it won’t be pay-to-win either, Valve claimed earlier in the year. That being said, you will be able to purchase cards via the marketplace. Bargain hunting will b...