But is that all UFS 3.0 is capable of? What more is it capable of? More importantly, how does it differ from UFS 2.1? Well, that’s what we are going to find out in this post today. What Is UFS 3.0 Storage Before delving deep into UFS 3.0, let us quickly see what Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is. UFS is a flash storage solution unveiled by standards body JEDEC, and it determines how the storage chip of the phone connects and exchanges information with the rest of the system....

There are many categories of themes like Architecture, Characters, Nature, Scenes along with regional theme. The regional theme was determined according to your answer at the first step of Windows 7 installation. As you can see, I selected “English (United States)” during the setup and hence I’m presented with location specific themes from the United States. Similarly, Windows 7 also provides a few other themes for different regions like Australia, Canada, UK, US and South Africa....

Many people think you need a DSLR to produce this bokeh effect and that’s partly true. DSLRs do it best just due to the nature of them, but it more has to do with the lens. As lenses in smartphones improve, it won’t be long before manufacturers squeeze this feature in there as well. In fact, the iPhone 7 Plus Portrait Mode has a bokeh feature, but the software trickery there is nowhere near the quality a DSLR lens can produce....

In this guide, we’ll show you how to block and unblock email addresses in Gmail. Since Gmail mobile app looks identical on iPhone and Android, we’ll cover them in a single section. Let’s get started. 1. Block Emails in Gmail on the Web The default Gmail filters can recognize and block irrelevant emails from your Inbox. The service sends such emails directly to the Spam folder. However, some of the emails might escape the filter and still land in the Inbox....

useless incoming calls can be really irritating. Of course, you can be polite and ask the person not to call you again, but this does not work most of the times. Sometimes they never stop calling, irking the heck out of you. So let’s see how you can block phone numbers on your Android and get yourself some peace of mind. We will use Call Block, a nifty call blocking app, for the task....

Thankfully, that’s not the end of the road. There are various ways to connect your iPhone to your Windows laptop to sync and transfer photos and music. And in this post, we will discuss some of the ways. The first method uses iTunes to you connect and sync your phone’s content. The second method utilizes the age-old connecting a cable to access the phone’s gallery. However, before you proceed, make sure you have a USB-C (or USB-A) to Lightning cable handy....

Third-party apps like UniConverter give you plenty of room to play around when it comes to converting videos to a different format or compressing them to a smaller size. Truth be told, dealing with video files can be confusing. There are several audio-video formats, and not every app offers the support for most, if not all, of those formats. For instance, Instagram Stories shows a blank screen if you try to upload a UHD video....

If you want to share DOCX documents and collaborate with others in Google Docs, for example, you must convert them to the GDOC format. Thankfully, it’s quite easy to convert your documents using Google Docs itself. Let’s check how you can convert DOCX documents to the GDOC format in both the Google Docs web app on desktop and the Google Docs mobile app for Android and iOS. Note: Converting DOCX to GDOC may result in formatting issues....

On a computer, it is so easy- Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V. How about smartphones? Well, Android and iOS have their own ways. We will talk about Windows Phone 8 today. It is quick, simple and easy. You can copy any chunk of text from anywhere and paste it at another place where you are allowed to type. Note: The Windows Phone 8 device used for this post is Nokia Lumia 920....

Nandroid backup is not like other backups that create different backup files for distinct settings. It creates a mirror image of the current state of your ROM to an image file that includes everything and when you restore it, every tiny detail (like call records and widgets) will be restored to your phone. Note: The device should be rooted and must have a custom recovery installed in order to create a Nandroid backup....

photos being uploaded every day, Facebook has become one of the most popular destinations for sharing photo albums online. Sharing your pictures with those who have a Facebook profile is easy but how does one share them with someone who doesn’t own a Facebook account? Luckily, Facebook provides a way to get a public link for your photos or an entire photo album. Through this link, you can share the album with just about anyone online....

By default, macOS comes with most-essential keyboard shortcuts to improve your productivity. But there can be times when you want to access certain menus or functions such as Notification Centre or Do Not Disturb mode repeatedly and miss the absence of those swift keyboard shortcuts. Thankfully, you can always assign custom keyboard shortcuts for them. The functionality doesn’t end here. You can also create keyboard shortcuts for third-party apps like Firefox, Pixelmator, and more....

Back in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, OblyTile was the go to program for such tasks. But the app does not function in Windows 10 and here there was a time to look for an alternative. While browsing XDA the other day, I came across an alternative to OblyTile using which one can create custom tiles in Windows 10. However, the app doesn’t work out of the box and requires some advanced settings to get the pinned apps working....

Well, I am sure you must have also faced a similar situation with Samsung’s Bixby. Thankfully, most of the settings in the Galaxy S20 series is customizable as per your preference. And disabling or deactivating Bixby is one of them. Not only can you disable Bixby Routines on your Samsung Galaxy S20/S20+, but you can also remap the action of the side button, named Side Key, to the app of your choice....

Fast forward a few years, I couldn’t help noticing the gaps in this password implementation (I won’t call it a password manager, though). Due to lack of a master password, anybody who had access to my laptop could see my passwords. All they had to do was go to Settings > Manage Passwords and click on the little eye icon. On top of it, you can count the number of Android apps that support Smart Lock on your phone, on your fingers....

That’s where justdelete.me comes in to save the day. This online tool is an awesome collection of links which can make the deletion of a website account a breeze. However, it should be noted that some accounts are unfortunately impossible to delete. How it Works As of writing this article justdelete.me has a directory of 477 links which seeks to make deleting your accounts for various services easier. Note: Even without actually clicking on them, the color-coded links seen above give users information on the difficulty they will encounter on attempting deletion of their account....

But how do you enable it? If you were hunting around the app looking for that toggle or switch to turn on dark mode, then you won’t find any. There’s a reason as to why. OneDrive’s dark mode integrates with the native dark mode functionality present in iOS 13. So you must enable it on the system level to enjoy dark mode in OneDrive. Let’s see how you can do that, and then go through a few other additions and changes in OneDrive....

The Apple Watch is an accessory that generally lasts only a single day on a full charge. This isn’t ideal if you’re on a long trip or away from the charger for a while. In such a scenario, the Low Power Mode on watchOS 9 can extend the battery life of your Apple Watch. Here’s how to enable Low Power Mode on your Apple Watch and why you should. Let’s start with the basics....

We can take steps to reduce our battery life usage, but, wouldn’t it be better if we just had the right number to start with? Thankfully, there’s one thing they can’t lie about: battery specifications. In this guide, we’ll help you calculate how long you can actually expect your next laptop to last. The Formula The calculation is quite simple to do. We’ll go into how to find the numbers in a moment, but here’ how we do it:...

Often, I find the preset categories in Screen Time to be downright awful. For example, Skype falls under the Social Networking category, but I often need it for work. I don’t like that using it counts in my app limits. And when it comes to downtime, I prefer having access to certain apps such as Books or iChess. Love falling asleep while reading or doing a round of chess. That’s why I like to exclude certain apps from downtime and app limits....