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Tech This Week I Episode 9
Today we will be talking about :
1. Motorola is launching Motorola Razr 5G.
2. Samsung recently launched the Galaxy M51 in India.
3. Mi has launched its Mi TV 4A Horizon Edition in India.
4. Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will be launched in India on November 10.
5. Apple has introduced the iOS 14
6. The Nord, 7T, 8 series and the premium OnePlus Q1 TVs go on sale with fresh offers.
7. Redmi 9i with MIUI 12 is launching in India, on September 15
8. Toshiba is set to launch its smart TV range in India
9. Honor Hunter is debuting its gaming laptop on September 16. & much more
Shooting Partner : Digitek India : https://www.digitek.net.in/
Hosted by : Nashpreet Singh : http://www.instagram.com/nashysingh/
Big Boy Toyz Brings India’s first VR Technology Showroom Tour to India!
Well!
BBT has its own way of doing stuff and staying at the top of the game.
They’ve done something innovative this time, which is India’s first virtual reality showroom tour.
All of you pre-owned luxury car enthusiasts will be able to witness the entire showroom experience on your smartphones.
Big Boy Toyz has promised that you will be getting the same exceptional experience found at their store physically. They have recently launched their application for Android and iOS devices, by the name BBT, featuring online bookings, 360-degree view of cars via photos and videos, BBT merchandises, and a secured payment gateway.
“We’re elated to introduce advanced technology in the pre-owned luxury car space. With the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we wish to support our 4.5 million customers from across the world.”
Mr. Jatin Ahuja, MD and Founder at Big Boy Toyz
“Ever since the crisis has restricted our customers from visiting our store offline, they’ve been relying on the technology to get the latest updates, raise a query for prices, and even make purchases, and by bringing the virtual tour to India, we are giving them the very best of Big Boy Toyz when it is most required.” He added.
The BBT mobile application, launched this month, now has more than 10,000 active users and has received a generous amount of feedback from its loyal community of luxury car fanatics. The application is loaded with diverse features such as ‘sell you car in under 29 minutes’ and ‘video calling for contactless sales’. The application is the most convenient destination to shop for second-hand premium cars ranging from Aston Martin to Ferrari to Land Rover, and many more. You can discuss your top choices, receive expert opinion, and can also compare your pick against your feasibility.
“We are followed by more than 4 million users on social media and about 1 Lakh users visit our website on daily basis, while only a fraction of this number has seen or visited our grand showroom in person. We get so many messages where people wish to see our showroom but couldn’t due to the lockdown and social distancing norms. With this striking feature, we can virtually represent each car in our showroom and give them a 360-degree view of what they want to purchase. This helps in speeding the buying decision and customers feel confident”, added Jatin.
As COVID-19 puts an operation limitation on Big Boy Toyz, the 11-year-old pre-owned luxury car brand moves to the online channel to provide remote services with a plethora of features and offers to not miss.
You can download the app from this link: https://www.bigboytoyz.com/app
Shehrezade Shroff | Top 100 | Influncex’20
Ex: Tell us about a change you’ve seen in the digital blogging space since you started out your journey? How has this space evolved?
Shehrezade: I started out about 8- 9 years ago when there were very few creators in the country. Now, we’ve grown drastically and there’s content for everyone. Now it’s an actual career option for people which I think is amazing.
Ex: What would be your calling in a parallel universe? (Alternate career options)
Shehrezade: I think it would have to be law. I’ve studied law, I’m a B.A LLB.
Ex: If you were stranded on an island, what are the 3 gadgets you’d take along?
Shehrezade: I would take my iPad, my vlog camera to document it all, and amazon echo for entertainment.
Ex: A technology you wished you’d invented?
Shehrezade: Anything that’s Apple. I feel like I am a complete Apple geek!
Ex: What’s been your favorite encounter with a fan so far? (DMs included!)
Shehrezade: One which I will always remember and cherish is my relationship with Ruchi who is a subscriber that I met at my very first meet and greet at the first YouTube fanfest and she was a cancer survivor then. She told me that she watched my videos through chemo and a couple of years later she also won a makeover contest on my channel and I got to spend the day with her and give her a makeover which is amazing!
Ex: Social media trolling is seeing an upward rise. Do you think this only increases with the popularity of an Influencer? How does one tackle this situation?
Shehrezade: So I think that my approach with trolling is pretty similar. I usually respond to any kind of trolling. I never let it slide. I always tell them that this is not cool, that there’s always a polite way of putting a point forward.
Ex: What does success mean to you?
Shehrezade: I think success means to me being happy you of doing what I do and being good at my job.
Ex: What according to you will be the next big trend in the Lifestyle blogging industry?
Shehrezade: It’s hard to say, but I feel like after Covid you will be seeing a lot more in terms of content creation. I feel like there will definitely be a boon and a surge in the industry once things start to open up.
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Mayank Bhattacharya | Top 100 | Influncex’20
Ex: Tell us about a change you’ve seen in the digital blogging space since you started out your journey? How has this space evolved?
Mayank: It’s a profession now. I mean irrespective of the popular belief, being a full-time blogger or a content creator is an actual job description now. Kids look up to Tanmay Bhat and Felix. People aspire to become a full-time YouTuber or influencer and this wasn’t the case when I was starting out in 2012.
Ex: Can you give us an insight into social media platforms that only an Influencer can know?
Mayank: YouTube builds communities, Instagram is quite personal. Twitter is a great conversation starter. So, don’t let the numbers get to you.
Ex: What would be your calling in a parallel universe? (Alternate career options)
Mayank: A fighter pilot in the Indian AirForce.
Ex: If you were stranded on an island, what are the 3 gadgets you’d take along?
Mayank: My pocket-knife, the beloved Seiko SKX 007 and an electronic lighter to light it up!
Ex: A technology you wished you’d invented?
Mayank: Camera, Maybe
Ex: What does success mean to you?
Mayank: Living in the moment, being balanced and genuinely enjoying the process. Also, did I mention happiness? Happiness is a big principle for me now. Success is happiness.
Ex: What according to you will be the next big trend in the Lifestyle blogging industry?
Mayank: Self-improvement. Real, truthful self-improvement. It has always been a major element of a balanced Lifestyle and I think it will only get bigger and better in the future. Because lifestyle is a way in which a person lives. And living for me, has slowly and steadily transpired a lot into being one’s best self, being balanced and being happy. So I feel charting the path of self-improvement and seeking happiness along with balance will become an evident part of the industry.
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Ex: Tell us about a change you’ve seen in the digital blogging space since you started out your journey? How has this space evolved?
Arun: This space is continuously evolving. I got into blogging around 2007 with Trak.in and then in 2016, I started my Youtube Channel. One of the main reasons to get into Youtube was the changing content consumption habits of consumers. As content creators, we need to offer consumers what they want and the current scenario too might change soon!
Ex: Can you give us an insight into social media platforms that only an Influencer can know?
Arun: One insight that I want to offer is – look at your analytics. It tells you what appeals to your audience and what does not. Data Analytics plays a pivotal role in giving you insights into what needs to be done next!
Ex: What would be your calling in a parallel universe? (Alternate career options)
Arun: Radio Jockey! I have been fascinated with RJs all my life.
Ex: If you were stranded on an island, what are the 3 gadgets you’d take along?
Arun: My iPad Pro, the biggest Power bank possible and my smartwatch.
Ex: A technology you wished you’d invented?
Arun: It’s yet to be invented.
Ex: Social Media is known to expose vulnerabilities, with influencers being at the epicenter. How do you deal with the dark side that comes with the medium?
Arun: Honesty and Transparency. It’s tough to be like that when you have millions of followers. But be honest to yourself and your followers.
Ex: Social media trolling is seeing an upward rise. Do you think this only increases with the popularity of an Influencer? How does one tackle this situation?
Arun: In my view, it is best to ignore because there will always be people who will troll you when you are an influence. Best thing is to develop a thick skin and not respond to trollers.
Ex: What does success mean to you?
Arun: When you change people’s lives positively! Be it inspiring them, saving their money through right guidance, or anything else. If you are able to touch someone’s life and bring about a positive change.
Ex: What are your three favorite photo/video editing tools?
Arun: Snapseed on Android, FCP on MacOS, and Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows
Ex: A machine/gadget that you’re obsessing over right now?
Arun: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra
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Siddhi Karwa | Top 100 | Influncex’20
Ex: Tell us about a change you’ve seen in the digital blogging space since you started out your journey? How has this space evolved?
Siddhi: I started with Fashion, to then getting extensively in Travel and now I cannot stop obsessing over Interior Styling. So it’s always a space for self-exploration and if used rightly, there is so much one can discover about themselves than just uploading a pretty feed.
Ex: Can you give us an insight into social media platforms that only an Influencer can know?
Siddhi: It’s safe to say that I don’t think the audiences know what goes behind one single post they casually scroll through in seconds.
Ex: What would be your calling in a parallel universe? (Alternate career options)
Siddhi: In a parallel universe, I wanted to be a Diplomat.
Ex: If you were stranded on an island, what are the 3 gadgets you’d take along?
Siddhi: iPod and earphones.
Ex: A technology you wished you’d invented?
Siddhi Karwa: I would say coffee machines.
Ex: What’s been your favorite encounter with a fan so far? (DMs included!)
Siddhi: The cutest one I think was a girl I met at a club who was there with her friends and she couldn’t stop jumping in excitement for about 30 min and kept screaming my name in the entire club, her friends had to calm her down.
Ex: Social media trolling is seeing an upward rise. Do you think this only increases with the popularity of an Influencer? How does one tackle this situation?
Siddhi: It’s a given that criticism only increases with fame, basically more people exposed to your content, more opinions are thrown at you. Trolling is the worst con of being in this field and it’s only increasing because more people have access to social media every day.
Ex: What does success mean to you?
Siddhi: Success for me is Balance between fulfilling your dreams while living a life nothing short of dreams.
Ex: Do you think Influencer Marketing is a fad? Where do you see this space in years to come?
Siddhi: I think everything is a fad, nothing lasts forever and I think that’s just how the universe works.
Ex: How do you choose the brands that you want to work with?
Siddhi: For me, they first have to fit my area of expertise or interest for me to talk about it. There is nothing worse than promoting a product you have been tone-deaf about.
Ex: What according to you will be the next big trend in the Lifestyle blogging industry?
Siddhi: I really can’t keep up with trends anymore, I want to dig into the archives. I think going back to classics could be/should be a trend.
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Dixita Patel | Top 100 | Influncex’20
Ex: Tell us about a change you’ve seen in the digital blogging space since you started out your journey? How has this space evolved?
Dixita: In 2015, digital blogging was way different. Most of the readers, viewers were drawn towards photographs (static images) and stories. Nowadays people are more interested in videos, they are coming out of their comfort zone, creating different styles, comfort zones, experimenting a lot in terms of style, trends and colors.
Ex: Can you give us an insight into social media platforms that only an Influencer can know?
Dixita: Each social media platform has a different set of audience & they engage in a varied manner. For any social media platform, an influencer needs to experiment with the content and sometimes they do work out for them and staying connected with their audience helps us to grow.
Ex: What would be your calling in a parallel universe? (Alternate career options)
Dixita: I am a Civil Engineer. If not an influencer, I would have taken projects in my field.
Ex: If you were stranded on an island, what are the 3 gadgets you’d take along?
Dixita: Phone, compass, knife
Ex: A technology you wished you’d invented?
Dixita: I wish to invent software that will automatically detect fake news and scan for the source of information and delete it from an online platform.
Ex: What’s been your favorite encounter with a fan so far? (DMs included!)
Dixita: So on my social accounts, I share tips to pose with your friends or sister. While I was shopping at infinity Malad – one of the girls who followed me came up to me and said she would like to do the same pose with me and that was an amazing feeling.
Ex: Social Media is known to expose vulnerabilities, with influencers being at the epicenter. How do you deal with the dark side that comes with the medium?
Dixita: When I started in 2015, a lot of negative sentences/comments were on my profile which was specifically related to my body shape like you don’t have a perfect body, style and someone even told me your clothes don’t look expensive. I took it in a positive way that when somebody says you don’t have a perfect style, I have a style that is different from their dictionary-style and that encouraged me to create my own way of styling and that helped me develop my own sense of fashion.
Ex: What does success mean to you?
Dixita: Success to me is doing things that I love every day. This may sound simple, but what I love changes over time and having the ability to change what I’m doing to match my passion is true success.
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Ex: Tell us about a change you’ve seen in the digital blogging space since you started out your journey? How has this space evolved?
The Vogue Vanity: Recognition & acceptance for blogging as a career and a full-time profession.
Ex: What would be your calling in a parallel universe? (Alternate career options)
The Vogue Vanity: By now, our love for social media space and industry has become eternal & for that, we would love to run our own social media marketing agency.
Ex: If you were stranded on an island, what are the 3 gadgets you’d take along?
The Vogue Vanity: Polaroid camera, Phone & Portable charger.
Ex: A technology you wished you’d invented?
The Vogue Vanity: Coffee machine.
Ex: Social media trolling is seeing an upward rise. Do you think this only increases with the popularity of an Influencer? How does one tackle this situation?
The Vogue Vanity: Yes, it definitely increases with the popularity of an individual, be it an influencer or any artist from any industry. The more you grow, the more mouths will speak. But as we said, always know the difference between whose opinions are to be respected and whose here just to seek attention.
Ex: What does success mean to you?
The Vogue Vanity: Success is very subjective. For us, success is to be able to give our parents the best life that they’ve given to us.
Ex: Do you think Influencer Marketing is a fad? Where do you see this space in years to come?
The Vogue Vanity: No, it definitely isn’t a fad. Though, many people haven’t really understood the real meaning and depth of it, which is somewhere because of the lack of knowledge. But then, we definitely see it as the next big thing in the future as everything in the world and every single brand itself is now going digital.
Ex: How do you choose the brands that you want to work with?
The Vogue Vanity: We always try to understand the brand’s value and worth, and how relatable it is to our personality and the purpose it serves to our audiences as well.
Ex: What according to you will be the next big trend in the Lifestyle blogging industry?
The Vogue Vanity: Sustainable fashion and conscious living.
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Spin for the win! Acer Spin 5 reviewed
I have always been a fan of convertibles. Be it cars or gadgets, anything that has a 2-in-1 quality always catches my attention. Among those is the Acer Spin 5 laptop, which I recently reviewed. Now, I wouldn’t be talking about this laptop if it was just a run-of-the-mill laptop. But, there are certain elements of this laptop that I could not miss out on. So, without further ado, here is what I think about the Acer Spin 5.
First Impressions:
The highlight of the laptop is obviously its 360-degree hinge that converts the laptop to a tablet seamlessly. This gives the user a great deal of versatility and that will definitely help graphic designers, students, and even tablet lovers! It also comes with an inbuilt stylus that further increases the usability of the laptop.
Display and screen:
Talking about the screen, it gets a 13.5-inch touchscreen display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, which can be a little discouraging for someone who likes a widespread screen, but it is not too dissuasive. Unfortunately, its wide aspect ratio meant every time I tried to watch a 16:9 video, it was accompanied by two giant black bars at the top and bottom, which were rather intrusive. This was the only dissuasion in the otherwise crystal clear video experience.
Stylus:
Its stylus too does not actually feel like a pen and feels more like a long and thick needle. That it would, considering it is not even five inches long (12.53 cm, to be exact) and is only 5.3 mm in diameter, but it does the job. It uses the Wacom AES 1.0 technology, which gives it an accurate response rate. Add to it 4,096 pressure levels and you can easily get surgical precision from the stylus. It can be easy to forget that the stylus can run out of charge too, but Acer has an easy fix for that. Just plug it back in the laptop for 15 or 20 seconds and its ultra-fast charging will juice up the battery for 90 minutes worth of charge in that duration. The only discomfort is that you have to lift the laptop to toggle it out of the charging unit, and it’s the same place where it will be resting all the time. Unlike the earlier version of Spin 5 which was loosely attached.
Keyboard:
Well, though the stylus and the touchscreen are sufficient and tempting enough to forget about the keyboard, it is required to complete the feel of a laptop. The chicklet keys, while responsive, are rather cramped and would cause hindrance to someone who is used to a bigger and wider keyboard. Nevertheless, it is more about habit and I was able to adapt to it eventually. One feature that I truly appreciated was the fingerprint sensor, which is integrated into the smooth, responsive, and intuitive trackpad. The fingerprint sensor added a much-needed security feature to the laptop, immediately encouraging me to trust it more. It is also quite responsive and hardly caused a delay while unlocking the Spin 5.
Hardware performance:
With 16GB of RAM, the Spin 5 ran smoothly and did not trouble me while using it for everyday basics. Emailing, internet surfing, and video binge-watching worked flawlessly. However, it did start to lag when playing heavy, full HD games, or using video editing software for large files. Also, the Intel i5 10th Gen processor clocks in at 1.10 GHz with a maximum speed of 1.50 GHz. That, combined with Intel’s new Iris Plus integrated GPU, means that the Spin 5 can run a decent variety of games, but is far below the requirements of AAA games (Those fancy high definition ones on Steam)
Camera:
Considering the new normal, most of my meetings and discussions happened virtually. Naturally, I had extensive use of the front camera (Webcam for all you geeks!). Now, obviously this is not a camera oriented device and neither do I intend to compare it with one, but as these are Zoom days, I can conclude that the front camera is not comparable to that of a Macbook.
Verdict:
Since the Acer Spin 5 is more of a jack of all trades, I did not wish to pinpoint its flaws as such. However, I did find the sound a little lacking in spite of its front-facing speakers. The bloatware (unwanted software included on a new computer or mobile device by the manufacturer) is definitely a bummer and the laptop would have done much better sans that. With a price tag around Rs 90,000, this one is definitely a hard-hitter on the pocket. But what you get for burning a hole in your pocket is a sleek, stylish and comfortable laptop. All in all, the Acer Spin 5 is a well-rounded, (well folded, to be cheeky) laptop and can cater to a wide audience. It’s super light to carry and you actually don’t need an iPad when you have this with you. The battery lasts you a good 6 hours of continuous usage though claimed is 11 hours and I assume this means putting the ignition on and not really driving forward.