Google’s ambitious new smartphone, the Pixel, doesn’t offer a lot that’s new. Yet it’s still one of the best out there. Google achieves that by pulling together the best features from Apple, Samsung and other phones and offering them at prices comparable to iPhones – starting at about $650 for the regular, 5-inch model and $770 for the 5.5-inch “XL” Read More

Moto Z from Motorola is a big bet, a bet on Mods which are actually attachments that can be snapped on to the phone for added functionality. Need some more power? Just snap on the extra battery mod. Or go for the Hasselblad mod if you want 10X optical zoom on your smartphone. It’s supposed to be that simple. It Read More

No headphone jack Patel is critical of Apple’s decision to drop the headphone jack – technology that has been standard since Victorian times – without fully supporting wireless headphones or speakers from other manufacturers. As the world’s biggest tech firm, Apple gets to decide for all of us when it’s time to move on from an existing technology, says Patel, Read More

An old man stares ferociously at a girl in the park. The girl — white Apple earbuds in place, out on a jog, sweaty and out of breath as she does her stretches — stares back, unblinking. She looks wary of the stare but not afraid of it. It is an uncomfortable moment with the starer boring a hole with Read More

Chiyaan Vikram is back with a science fiction thriller directed by Anand Shankar of Arima Nambi fame. The actor plays both the protagonist as well as the antagonist in the film. The trailer had a good buzz but the film does not live up to the high expectations. The gorgeous Nayanthara and Nithya Menen play the female leads, supported by Thambi Read More

Jayaraman (Mohanlal) is the good-hearted eldest son in a financially struggling Tharavadifamily. He has worked hard for the well being of his younger siblings. Now, he has the responsibility of getting his younger sister married off, and he needs money for that. The fact that he is blind and uses a white stick to move around is just incidental. He Read More

Paulo Coelho’s quote from his inspirational novelThe Alchemist about the universe conspiring to help you if you desire to have something desperately may hold the world record for the most used quote by all and sundry to motivate and inspire others. Now director Sidhartha Siva weaves a tale around it showing us how this quote may influence someone as naive Read More

Director Agnidev Chatterjee’s Dark Chocolate — the first film inspired from the high-profile Sheena Bora murder case — is hardly an eye-opener. There is nothing in the film that you don’t know already. Recently, Meghna Gulzar dealt with the subject of the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case in her film Talvar so sensitively and meticulously that it compelled me to rethink about the case. It fed me Read More

Gionee has been lying low over the past couple of quarters, consolidating on the success of its larger battery phones and dominance in certain pocket burroughs. Now, the company has decided to launch a new phone cashing in on the unending craze for selfies. Gionee S6s I don’t know what is the deal with calling phones S this or S Read More

It is pointless to buy anything other than a Bluetooth speaker for your audio needs. Depending on your spending capacity you can go to any level of sound quality with these wireless devices. They range from the really small sound bombs to room-filling speaker sets that can put a 60-piece orchestra to shame. But is there a perfect consumer Bluetooth Read More