Technology

The Facebook app has disappeared from my Sony Xperia Z5 Premium phone. I am not able to download and instal it again.

There have been many games inspired from anime. Honkai Impact 3 is for those anime fans who want to be part of a crazy story with amazing graphics - on their mobile.

Bigger screen. Bigger battery. More powerful S Pen. The Samsung Galaxy Note9 was unveiled in New York on Thursday night and it looks like a solid performer. Here’s what you can look forward to if Note9 is on your wish list.

In the US, Android users are spending 49.5 minutes per day on Snapchat and 58.5 minutes on Facebook. According to SimilarWeb, sandwiched between the two is Instagram with 53.2 minutes. Compare the data for June 2018 with that of October 2017 when Snapchat was ahead of the curve with 42.4 minutes against Instagram’s 37.1 minutes. That’s a huge improvement and it has a lot to do with one feature — Stories, which Instagram copied from its competition two years ago.

Homegrown mobile handset maker Lava International has introduced the Z61, a phone you may want to look at in case you are moving from smartphones to feature phones. But can it compete with Chinese phone manufacturers or the big name from South Korea? Deepak Mahajan, vice-president of Lava International, speaks to t2.

Watching TV is a hassle for me these days. You have to juggle two remote controls if you are at home. In a hotel, you also have the air-conditioner remote that's only slightly different from the other two. So when you are in a hurry to watch the news, you have to call somebody - a smart child at home or a reluctant room service personnel in the hotel - just to lead you to a decent news channel. If none of them arrive in time, you lose patience and start cursing the new technology and your techno phobia. What's a minor hassle for me is actually a huge headache for my 88-year-old aunt who mostly lives alone and whose closest companion is her TV.

The Nex is Vivo’s most ambitious phone so far, one that takes a serious shot at the dream of an all-screen smartphone. From the elevating pop-up front camera that rises from the top edge, to the screen that vibrates to act as an earpiece and even the fingerprint and ambient light sensors embedded below the display, the Nex pulls out all the stops to deliver a flagship smartphone with an impressive 91.24 per cent screen-to-body ratio. 

The OnePlus 6 mobile phone went on sale on May 22 and within 22 days, the company notched up one million sales globally. Good news for the Shenzhen-based Chinese smartphone manufacturer continues. According to data released this week by Counterpoint Research, OnePlus has surpassed Samsung to lead the premium smartphone segment for the first time in India, for a full quarter (Q2), capturing 40 per cent market share (30 per cent owing to OnePlus 6 sales, and 10 per cent owing to sales of the OnePlus 5T).

Even though Skype has lost ground as the number one video-calling app, many people still swear by it. Here are some tips on how to maximise your experience with Skype.

Boxing is a sport that is not everybody's cup of tea. Nevertheless, it is a lot of fun to watch. Boxing Star gives you the opportunity to realise your dream of rising from a backyard boxer to heavyweight champion.