Karthekayan Iyer, Author at BGR India

Vu Cinema TV with 40W built-in speaker launched in India

Vu Technologies wants to bring cinema experience to living rooms with its new TV lineup. At an event in Mumbai, the company launched its new "Vu Cinema TV" lineup. The new TVs come in three different screen sizes and will be available via Amazon India. With the new product range, the company is expanding its

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Karthekayan Iyer

04:16 PM
Jan 15, 2020

Opinions

Hey Google! It is time to put privacy ahead of everything

If 2018 was a bad year for Facebook, then it appears 2019 could well be Google's worst yet. Besides criticism of its data practice, the search giant is also facing the ire of regulators for its various platforms. In the midst of the ongoing challenge to protect children on YouTube, Google has confirmed that one

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Karthekayan Iyer

04:11 PM
Jan 10, 2020

Review

Huawei Watch GT 2 Review

2019 was a roller coaster year for Chinese technology giant Huawei. On the bright side, the company shipped record number of smartphones and achieved new revenue goal. On the dark side, the company got caught in the middle of tariff war between the US and China. Its growth in the past few years has raised

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Karthekayan Iyer

09:51 AM
Jan 09, 2020

Top smartphones under Rs 20,000 in India in January 2020

Smartphone market set for a major change in 2020 with consumers spending more on their devices than ever before. During the third quarter of 2019, we saw a minor uptick in the smartphones priced around Rs 20,000. This has boosted smartphone makers such as Xiaomi, Realme, Oppo, Vivo and Samsung to launch devices that are

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Karthekayan Iyer

04:08 PM
Jan 06, 2020

Features

Apple Store could be a gateway to coding in India

I have been to the Apple Store in Shenzhen, Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong and Barcelona. I still vividly remember my first visit to an Apple Store in Shenzhen in 2016. At that time, I had an iPhone 6s and was not looking to buy anything new. However, an Apple employee came to me and asked

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Karthekayan Iyer

03:21 PM
Jan 06, 2020

Top smartphones under Rs 10,000 to buy in India in January 2020

Good smartphones have become extremely affordable in the past decade. If you are in the market for a new smartphone, you don't have to spend a lot of money to get top-end experience. In fact, with a budget of just Rs 10,000, you can get a smartphone that will offer almost identical features to a

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Karthekayan Iyer

01:28 PM
Jan 03, 2020

Review

1MORE Stylish TWS Earbuds Review

1MORE is the first brand that comes to my mind when I think of high-end wired earphones. The 1MORE Dual Driver and Triple Driver earphones are among the best-wired earphones that we have ever tried. After expanding that product portfolio to wireless segment, the company is now entering the true wireless earbuds market. According to

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Karthekayan Iyer

12:58 PM
Jan 01, 2020

Review

Amazon Echo Flex Review

"Echo Flex has a mini built-in speaker that is not optimized for music playback." This message on the product listing page for Echo Flex on Amazon India has caught me off guard in a big way. Most often, it is not difficult to find out who a product is meant for but with Echo Flex,

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Karthekayan Iyer

12:31 PM
Dec 29, 2019

Review

Lenovo ThinkBook 14 Review

For years, business laptops have been stuck in a bubble. They have either been all black (looking at you, ThinkPad) or Grey (the area pioneered by MacBooks). With its ThinkBook lineup, Lenovo is now trying to break that mold and offer something different. The company thinks it has found an alternative to business laptops finding

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Karthekayan Iyer

11:01 AM
Dec 25, 2019

Review

Huawei Watch GT 2 First Impressions

Huawei has been on a run this year with strong demand for its smartphones despite the ban imposed by the US Department of Commerce. The Chinese smartphone maker not only managed to maintain its second place in global smartphone makers list, but it also shipped more devices than last year. While it's growth globally has

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Karthekayan Iyer

12:24 PM
Dec 24, 2019