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40 Style Notes 10 letters 12 News 16 mobile Doctor 18 Rumor Mill 115 My Guide face to face 20 Yasunobu Nishiyama, Managing Director, Fujifilm India on the return of instant
26 personality Ten things you might not know
Consumer Business Group,
about Google CEO, Sundar
about the brand's plans for
Pichai
India.
28 jargon buster What Near Field Communication (NFC) means and why it's important
29 Tech Trivia Wearables on the Silver Screen
David Dong, Meizu India Head,
talks to us about what the
30 Lead Story Will it be the year of the wea
brand's experience in India and rable? Or VR? Or even better what it has planned for the co
phones? We pick the brains of
ming days.
key personalities in the tech world to find out what the new
22 just in The Windows 10-packed
43 cell speak The quotes and statements that made waves in the mobile world
44 infocus Sundar Pichai and a number of senior Google executives were in India and made a number of
photography.
56
Wang, President, Huawei India-
year has in store for us.
announcements. We take a closer look at some of the key ones.
snapshot 46 HP's Star Wars Edition Notebook comes packed with the Force, and special Star Wars content.
54
first phone, one more ZenFone
40 Chief speak As Huawei goes from strength
2 and the snazzy HTC One A9.
to strength, we speak to Allen
Indian brand, the YU Yutopia
Lumia 950, new brand Kult's
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A quick look at perhaps the
most powerful phone from an
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contents 48 spot light Is your phone ready to replace your wallet? We take a look at the mobile wallet phenomenon and whether you need one.
just got so much more affordable
Burn Tests
67 Vivo T27L 68 Oppo Neo 7
reel tech 69 Micromax Canvas 50 Want a slice of Star Wars in your Pulse 4G
gadgets? Check these out.
52
Slices of Star Wars Technology
70 HTC One E9S
that we wish were in our lives.
72 Intex Aqua Ace
Some are actually getting here.
74 Lenovo Vibe P1
versus 58 The battle of the smart watches: Apple Watch vs Moto 360 (2nd Gen)
62
Which is the best phone under
76 QiKU Q Terra 78 Sony Xperia Z5 Premium Dual 80 Samsung Galaxy Tab S2
Rs 25,000 - the OnePlus 2 vs
82 Lenovo Vibe S1
Qiku Q Terra
84 OBI Worldphone SF1
60 apptastic Check out these apps that let you step into the shoes of the celebrity crowd.
tips & tricks 64 Get more out of your iOS device's battery with these tips
65
Transfer files in a jiffy without
Bluetooth or the Internet, using SHAREit
86 Zopo Speed 7 88 Motorola Moto G Turbo Edition 90 Gionee Marathon M5 92 Lenovo Phab Plus 94 Motorola Moto 360 (2nd Gen)
98 book mark Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone's book, Things a Little Bird Told Me, on what keeps him ticking.
100 Special All the questions you had about the iPad Pro, Apple's biggest tablet, answered. And yes, the smart keyboard and Apple pencil too.
104 boredom busters Temple Run 2 gets some snow, Shooty Skies is insanely addictive, Warhammer's new game boasts spectacular graphics, and more...
109 Smart Apps Try out Yahoo Mail with added support for Gmail, get a new spin on news with News Republic, use Google Cardboard Camera for spectacular snaps, and more.. 39 Etcetera 1 OnePlus' iPhone 6s cover, Altec Lansing's rugged speak set, Sony's new earplugs, AXL's Rugged Power Bank and more..
96 HTC Desire 828
1 46 Vantage Point Erica Klampfl, Global Mobility
66 bazar bargain The iPhone 5s and Nexus 5X
Solutions Manager, Ford Motor Company on the future of personal mobility.
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2016: what to expect this year
As we enter 2016, the air is rife with speculation. trends are being predicted, key technologies highlighted and possible influential players are being named as the tech pundits consult their crystal balls to see what the year has in store for them. we welcome the new year by looking ahead through the eyes of those in the tech know. By Anuj Bhatia & Rohan Pal
A
s a new year dawns, it is time to not just take
is likely to clock a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of
stock of the months that went past but also to
35 per cent and cross the $100-billion mark over the next five
the days that lie ahead. The smartphone and tech
years, from $17 billion at present, according to an Assocham-
industry gets more excited every year with different
Pricewaterhouse Coopers study. All three; Flipkart, Snapdeal
practices and processes. 2015 was a golden year for technology
and Amazon hogged the limelight, and it’s only set to grow. While
innovation and to little surprise, smartphones continue to grow
measuring innovation is difficult, investment is one way to gauge
exponentially in emerging markets like India. IDC predicts by
an industry’s commitment to it. In 2015, India got serious about
2017 India will overtake the United States as the second largest
manufacturing. As part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make
smartphone market globally. And it was a year where we saw
in India’ initiative, Chinese firms such as Xiaomi, Vivo, Gionee,
network providers such as Airtel push 4G LTE in a major way.
OnePlus, Lenovo and Motorola all have started manufacturing
It was a year technologies previously seen as geeky and niche
smartphones in the country. 2016 will be an unprecedented
became mainstream. Despite early troubles, wearables have
year for the industry to deliver on promises that were unfulfilled
grown in popularity over the last couple of months with help of
in the past year. The accelerating rate of technological change,
Xiaomi’s Mi Band which became an instant hit thanks to its sweet
coupled with shifting consumer preferences will bring disruption
price of Rs. 999. Perhaps the biggest talking point of 2015
for good. As 2015 hurtles to its conclusion, we ask experts to
was India’s e-commerce market. Backed by huge discounts and
share key expectations, developments and attitudes to identify
the rise of smartphones, the e-commerce market grew literally
key trends that will shape the tech industry over the coming 12
by leaps and bounds. India’s booming e-commerce industry
months.
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