smartphones

DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser

DuckDuckGo is one among the many internet browsers available currently in the market competing along with side established players such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. This browser is now available for Android, ios and Windows platforms. However, in this article, we will be taking a closer look at the android app. DuckDuckGo separates itself from other browsers due to its strictly ‘no tracking’ policy as well as a clean and straightforward interface that is less resource-intensive than chrome and firefox. The most important feature of the DuckDuckGo browser is a privacy grading tool that ranks each website by giving it grades from A to F with A being the most secure and F being the worst and hence best to avoid. The browser also has a ‘fire’ button that can delete all the open tabs and browsing data with one tap.

Recommednded Apps for Smartphone Users

The ecosystem of smartphone apps is undoubtedly very vast and diverse. There will be innumerable number of competing apps even in a precisely defined limited category such as ‘running games’. Games such as Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Agent Dash as well as their sequels and knock offs crowd this category. The selection becomes even more diverse as the category becomes wider such as ‘adventure games’, ‘strategy games’, ‘multiplayer games’, ‘e-commerce apps’ etc. In this article, we will be taking a quick look at my take on some of the most useful apps from several criteria.

Poweramp-The quintessential android music player

Android as an operating system has no dearth of quality music players. Currently, they range from minimalist and straightforward music players such as ‘Musicolet’ to highly customizable and complex music players such as JetAudio HD music player plus. There are also dedicated music players from corporate giants such as Sony and Sennheiser, which are primarily …

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Sony Headphone Connect- Customization is your middle name.

In September 2016, the corporate giant Apple launched iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The keyword in the launching event was ‘courage’ and this display of ‘courage’ made a dent in the smartphone industry forever. To put it simply, Apple took away the headphone jack (aka 3.5mm jack) and needless to say android smartphone manufacturers …

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Wavelet- Advanced smartphone audio tuner for those who don’t want to root their devices

Wavelet is the new name among advanced sound equalisers for Android smartphones. It was developed by an XDA Senior Member named pittvandewitt. This software’s most significant advantage compared to viper4android or noozoxide is that it does not require root access. Following are some of the features of this app. An Autoeq feature that adjusts the audio depending on your headphone or earphone (currently the app supports a wide variety of headsets by various brands including Sony, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, one more and many others), a nine-band graphical equaliser, multiple effects such as bass boost, reverb and virtualisation