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The tech behind the Jedis, the Sith...

Strong is the Force with these!

Everything you wanted to know about the iPad Pro in our special FAQ!

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OnePlus 2 vs Qiku Q Terra Moto 360 (2nd Gen) vs Apple Watch

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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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