Our government is going increasingly digital and with mobile penetration and number of smartphone users in India skyrocketing, it’s getting easier than ever to do things online or via our phones. The catch is that most people don’t actually know you can do all this so easily – and that’s why we are trying to help our readers find out about different government services that... 

If you thought you were the only one who finds the 3G services offered by Airtel/ Vodafone/ *Insert name of your operator here* useless, think again. According to an Ericsson consumer insight report released in New Delhi on Tuesday, 48 percent of mobile Internet users in India are unable to perceive any difference between 2G and 3G Internet services. You can call them silly or foolish, given the huge... 

Sweden’s Ericsson, the world’s biggest maker of mobile telecoms equipment, will probably have to expand its range of fixed line products to defend its turf following Nokia’s purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. As the Finnish and French firms combine, Ericsson will face a much stronger competitor with a broader product offering, bigger sales and R&D clout than itself. It may therefore... 

Way back in 1989, Asus started out as a consultancy service for motherboard manufacturers. According to industry legend, Asus got a leg up in the industry after designing a motherboard for Intel’s 486 CPU without access to a processor, even fixing problems that Intel’s own engineers had had. Today, the two are still close partners, and Asus uses Intel’s mobile processors in its smartphones... 

We’ve come to expect China-based Gionee to push the boundaries of smartphone slimness. The Elife S5.5 and its successor, the Elife S5.1  – the model numbers indicate their slimness in mm – are examples from the recent past. However, other Chinese brands such as Oppo and Vivo have launched even thinner models and the title of the slimmest smartphone now lies with the Vivo X5Max . This... 

USB Type-C, the supposedly magical new standard that promises to solve all our connectivity problems, is finally real and ready for mainstream use. Type-C has been in development for a while – we first heard about it over a year ago and first saw it in action at CES in January. Now, with the high-profile launch of Apple’s new ultra-minimalist MacBook, Type-C has gone public in a big way. Type-C... 

Micromax has launched two budget 3G-enabled smartphones, the Bolt S300 and Bolt D320. Both phones are available in Black colour, and come bundled with two month free data plans for Vodafone users. The Micromax Bolt S300 will be available in the market from Tuesday at Rs. 3,300, while the Micromax Bolt D320 will be available from mid-April onwards – no price has been revaled for the latter yet. The... 

Xiaomi at its Tuesday event in China revealed new devices on the occasion of its fifth anniversary, alongside announcing a price cut for the Mi 4. The firm’s 2014 flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi Mi 4 will now retail at CNY 1,799 (approximately Rs. 18,000) for the 16GB variant down from the previous price tag of CNY 1,999 (approximately Rs. 20,000). According to GizmoChina, a ‘lite’... 

Nearly a year ago, HTC launched the Desire 816. This phone had a serious impact on the market, because it offered solid specifications and quality at a mid-range price. This was followed by the HTC Desire 820, another successful device with an impressive feature list. The Desire 820 was also one of the first smartphones to feature Qualcomm’s 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 615 SoC, and showed HTC’s... 

With the Asus ZenFone 2 still only available in only a few countries, and eagerly awaited in several other countries, it doesn’t make sense for the Taiwanese firm to be talking about the ZenFone 3 just yet if it hopes to retain interest on the current generation. However, as per a Chinese newspaper report (via GforGames), Asus is doing just that, with CEO Jerry Shen quoted to say that the ZenFone... 

In the past year, sub-Rs. 15,000 devices from smartphone makers including Xiaomi, Micromax, Asus, and Motorola have provided superb specifications and correspondingly, great performances. The disruptive pricing in this segment has put longtime heavyweights such as Samsung, Sony and HTC in a bit of a fix. None of these companies have managed to respond decisively to retake this part of the market. The... 

If you’re using Wi-Fi in your house, the odds are good that you just went with the free router that the ISP provides. It’s convenient since you don’t need to set up anything, and it saves both time and money. And then the problems start – the network is slow, or doesn’t reach most parts of your house – and there’s not much you can do about it. Most people avoid...