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Nimish Dubey has been writing for more than a decade now (well, Windows 3.1 was around and Apple was on the verge of being finished when he started). He has been published in a number of publications including The Times of India, Mint, The Economic Times, Mid-Day and Femina on subjects that vary from tech write -ups to book reviews to music album round ups. He managed to interview Michael Schumacher once and write two books for young adults along the way. |
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon May 22, 2013RatingSummaryIt can claim to have brought REAL browsing to handsets with Opera Mini, but of late Opera has been facing some very stiff competition from the likes of UC Browser, Dolphin and the mobile avatars of Chrome and Firefox. The company, however, has never really been known for sitting still and has been tweaking its browsers [...]
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon May 20, 2013RatingSummaryThe high-end photography crowd might cock a snook at its filters and relatively low-res images, but no one can deny the popularity of Instagram, the app that lets you add retro camera effects to your pictures and also share them on a network of users, as well as other social networks. Yes, there are other apps [...]
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ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon May 16, 2013RatingSummary “Good evening, sir. Welcome to CCC – Cellulite Celluloid Cellular – the place where you come, you see and make calls. Can I help you?” “Well, yes, actually, I was looking for a smartphone…” “I thought so the moment I saw you, sir. Absolutely. This is a man, I said, who wants a smartphone. And [...]
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon May 13, 2013RatingSummaryThey have been around in a handsets for a while, and although intended mainly for video chats, have also emerged as perhaps the most selfish feature of handsets. We are talking of front-facing cameras in handsets, which, notwithstanding the “for video chats” tag are also used for that most vain of imaging pursuits – taking a [...]
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon May 10, 2013RatingSummaryIf events are supposed to pep you and feel good, Nokia’s global launch of the Asha 501 in Delhi was inch-perfect. CEO Stephen Elop charmed the crowd and Mobile User Experience Guru, Peter Skillman, had them eating out of this hands, especially when he climbed a ladder to access a massive Asha 501 on an on-stage [...]
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon May 3, 2013RatingSummary They say that for geeks, their devices are heroes. Well, we decided to go a step further and make them superheroes. And proper superheroes at that – the cape-costume ones. We delved into the annals of comic history and for each flagship device, pulled out a superhero to match. Take a gander at our results: [...]
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon May 1, 2013RatingSummaryGoogle Now has been one of the more talked-about Android apps of recent times. Launched alongside Android 4.1 (the original Jelly Bean), it added a whole new dimension to the mobile experience by delivering relevant information to your display without your actually asking for it. The app basically did some logical math behind the scenes, drawing [...]
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon April 29, 2013RatingSummary‘Tis truly written in the annals of modern entertainment – “every blockbuster film should be accompanied by a game bearing the same title.” The latest in the Iron Man film series is no exception – even as Tony Stark descended, armor and all, on the silver screen, so did his counterpart on Android and iOS devices. [...]
ProductReviewed byNimish Dubeyon April 25, 2013RatingSummaryIt might be called the Godphone, but even the iPhone’s greatest supporters will concede that calling and messaging are not the phone’s greatest strengths – you have to end up going to the contacts, open the one you need to communicate with and then choosing the relevant option. And this has pretty much been the system [...]
When it comes to titles that made the handset a viable gaming device, Cut The Rope enjoys the kind of status that Angry Birds does. The game has won over millions of users with its physics-bases simplicity and yes, the sheer adorability of its protagonist, the frog-like Om Nom. For those who know the game not (alas, alas for them), [...]
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