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How To: Make Your Android Phone's Battery Last Longer

One of the biggest problems with Android is its lacklustre battery life. Compared to iOS and Windows Phone, Google's mobile platform saps battery at a faster rate. Many Android phones don't even last from dawn till dusk. There's no silver bullet to solve this problem. However, by altering a few settings, you can make your device's juice last a little longer. Here's how to go on about it: Lower The Screen Brightness Cranking up the brightness improves the screen readability. However, high screen brightness can drain your phone's battery like anything. So if you want your phone's battery to last longer, go to Settings, and set the brightness to the lowest value you're comfortable with. If your phone has an AMOLED screen, use a black background. AMOLED, being an emissive type screen, can switch off pixels to produce deep blacks. In effect, the phone requires relatively less juice to power the display. In addition to this, shorten your phone'

Motorola to replicate India success in South East Asia

BANGALORE: Mobile phone brand Motorola is hoping to replicate the success it has had with the web-only strategy in India in other markets like Indonesia. Five months ago Motorola started selling its phones in India only through online retailer Flipkart. The site has sold one million Motorola phones across three models in that time, said Flipkart chief executive Sachin Bansal. Last month the company started selling its Moto G phones in Indonesia only through online portal Lazada, backed by German investor Rocket Internet. "We are leveraging lessons learnt here and applying it in Indonesia," said Magnus Ahlqvist, corporate vice president for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific at Motorola Mobility. Ahlqvist said the company is now evaluating the online-only route in other markets in South East Asia. The Motorola partnership has worked well for Flipkart as well. The cheapest Motorola phone, Moto E, is priced at Rs 6,999. That would mean Flipkart has sold at least R

Amazon Asks Permission From F.A.A. to Test Drone Delivery System

In some ways, this was not the best week for Amazon. The Federal Trade Commission sued it for improperly billing customers for games used by their children. And it continues to be enmeshed in a nasty public relations battle with the publisher Hachette. But Amazon still has the drones. In a filing with the Federal Aviation Administration that got widespread attention Friday, Amazon asked for permission to test its drone delivery system outdoors, a practice that is banned for safety reasons. Never mind for the moment the fact that the F.A.A. said a few weeks ago that there would be no commercial uses of drones in a memo that did not mention Amazon but pointedly excluded even the free shipping of items by drone. That’s a lobbying battle for another day. Delivery by drone was first mentioned by Amazon last year on “60 Minutes,” and quickly became a viral sensation despite, or because of, the fact that it was unlikely to happen anytime soon. If nothing else, it was a vivid demo

ET deals: $270 off Toshiba Satellite P50T Core i7 touch laptop

Sometimes you want a laptop that just has it all, but while you know it’ll be expensive, you still don’t want to pay the sticker price. Enter the Toshiba P50T, an excellently spec’d machine at the lowest price we’ve seen yet, thanks to a limited time $100 coupon. That helps knock the price down to $1530, a tidy 15% off. Toshiba’s Satellite P50T-BST2N01 is absolutely loaded with cutting edge features, highlighted by the gorgeous 15.6″ Ultra HD 3840×2160 touchscreen panel, an incredibly rich display that you’ll find on precious few other laptops out there. It also packs an overclockable Core i7-4700HQ processor and a 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon R9 M265X graphics card, so it will easily fly through even demanding tasks from hardcore gaming to professional multimedia creation. Pretty much no matter what you’re doing, this laptop will make it look easy. For your top dollar you’re also getting plenty of other notable specs. Data storage is taken care of on the speedy 1TB hybrid hard