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Amit Boni, General Manager,

Head , LG Mobiles on the plans the company has for its devices.

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Lenovo and products in the pipeline.

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Amkette, on the reason why

30 personality Ten things you might not know

Amkette got into mobile

about HTC CEO Cher Wang

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quick look.

plans for the future, tackling

Varun Bapna, Vice President-

Product Development,

to arrive in Indian in 2016. A

company's recent phones have

119 My Guide face to face 22 Deepak Jasrotia, Business

32 snapshot Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 is set

the tech world

40 Lead Story They used to be stuff of science fiction and fantasy but now seem set to change our world. We take a look at

31 jargon buster What on earth is a retina

wearable gadgets and whether

Paytm, on how the company plans to change the world of

display and why is it so hyped?

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Nitin Misra, VP Products,

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68 Samsung Galaxy On5

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70 Micromax Canvas 5

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72 Xolo Black 1x

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74 Coolpad Note 3

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78 Google Nexus 5X

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80 ASUS ZenPad 8

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82 Moto X Style 84 Google Nexus 6p 86 Meizu M2

them all: the iPhone 6s Plus,

88 Samsung Galaxy On7

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 or the

90 Sony Xperia Z5 Dual

Google Nexus 6P?

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We compare two incredibly

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92 OnePlus X 94 Lenovo Vibe P1m

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Once considered stuff of science fiction fantasy and the geek crowd, wearables have come a long way and according to some pundits, are now all set to go mainstream. but are gadgets like the apple watch a flash in the pan or the sign of a new trend? we take a closer look at wearables in india

I

n the 1987 movie, Mr. India showed a gold watch worn on the

to Apple Watch to Oculus Rift, wearable computing is an integral

wrist, which when activated, made the wearer invisible to the

part of the “Internet of things (IoT)”, which could redefine how

naked eye. Two years later, in 1989 Back to the Future Part

we interact with technology and indeed with each other, making

2 captured the public’s attention when the future family of

technology an even more integral part of our lives.

Marty McFly use “connected goggles” to watch TV and make video phone calls. And then there is Giordi La Forge’s VISOR from Star

What are wearables?

Trek: The Next Generation, a device which helped him to see even

The growing adoption of smartphones and wireless broadband ,

though he was blind. They might not have been part of our every

driven by rapid price decline and the incoming of 4G LTE connectivity,

day lives, but wearable gadgets - from watches to spectacles - have

have accelerated the scope of mobility, in general. At the same

definitely been a part of our imagination for a while now. In fact,

time, the distinction between computers and smart devices is fast

there is evidence to suggest that a lot of the wearables that we see

blurring which led to the emergence of a whole new category of

in the market today owe their existence to science fiction.

smart wearable tech. So what do exactly mean by wearables?

The sci-fi series Star Trek, inspired Google to develop its head

A wearable is a small electronic device, consisting of one or

mounted Google Glass (now discontinued), as revealed by Amit

more sensors and having an embedded chip. As its name indicates,

Singhal, Google vice-president and senior search engineer, in

instead of being carried around as a separate entity, it can be easily

2012. When Samsung launched the Galaxy Gear smartwatch back

attached to the person of the user. A wearable can thus resemble a

in 2013, it released commercials that reminds consumers that

watch, eyeglasses or even jewellery. Wearables come in all shapes

the wearable gadget actually dates back to 1946, when comic-

and sizes and with varying abilities, depending on the components

strip-detective Dick Tracy first used his handy wristwatch for police

within them. For instance some smartwatches might be able to

communications.

capture and analyse more data than a basic fitness wearable, whose

From the world’s first commercial electronic digital wristwatch

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main task is to just count steps. Wearables started out as being

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