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It is finally time for SMS Organizer users to start looking for alternative apps for their SMS needs. Microsoft has sent out push notifications to the users informing them that the app will be sunsetting. No dates are mentioned, but the app will likely disappear from the Play Store in the coming weeks. Although Microsoft has not updated the app in years, users continued to stick with it for the…

After being missing in action for over a year, Microsoft India has reintroduced Amazon Gift Cards as a redemption option for the accumulated Microsoft Rewards (aka Bing Rewards) points. While the rewards catalog also includes Croma and PVR gift cards, the Amazon ones are the most sought after due to their versatility. Microsoft offers Amazon gift cards in various denominations. While Microsoft…

Airtel is the market leader in the broadband internet service space. Airtel utilizes routers (GPON/ONU + router) from various brands, which vary depending on the location and commercial arrangements. So, you may have a Nokia router, or a ZTE, Binatone, Huawei, or an unbranded one. One thing that all of them have in common is that they are locked, leaving only a handful of user-customizable…

Sony is running a great Black Friday 2025 promotion. The promotion provides a 33% discount on an annual PS Plus Deluxe (or Premium) membership. The Black Friday promotion runs until December 5th and cuts the annual membership price by 33%. In the US, the annual subscription will cost $109.19, as opposed to the regular price of $159.99, which is the price without the Black Friday sale. Similarly,…

HMD has long been a Google partner, wherein the Google search bar on the homescreen was enforced for all users. Some users actively use it to search, while for others, it remains an annoying, unutilized widget on the homescreen. Not only is the bar non-removable, its position on the homescreen is locked as well. Lately, even Google has started offering the option to remove the Google search bar…

Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser on Android devices. However, the pace of feature additions to Chrome seems to be lagging behind other browsers. In fact, even the browsers built on Chromium often have more features than those in Google Chrome. One such customization option has been the ability to bring the address bar to the bottom. Google Chrome has finally added the option to…

Firefox’s homepage now shows “Stories” or “Thought-provoking stories” by default. They are displayed as “Stories” on the browser’s homescreen and tab pages on Android devices. Whereas the heading changes to “Thought-provoking stories” on the new tab and homepage (depending on configuration) in the Windows versions of Firefox. The stories are localized to ensure suitability with the readers.…

Microsoft is hard at work to integrate its AI Assistant – Copilot in as many Microsoft services as possible. Whether the user needs it or not, the AI assistant is enabled by default. The latest victim of this is the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard app. The app now shows Bing auto-complete search recommendations/suggestions disguised as “Microsoft Copilot search”. The suggestions are prominently seen…

Vivo smartphones run on Funtouch OS. The OS has a lot of modifications and custom features that make the smartphone experience unique as compared to stock Android. A lot of these features add value to the user, hence uplifting the overall smartphone experience. However, not everything is great about Vivo’s Funtouch OS experience. A lot of features are designed to generate revenue for the…

The Micromax and Stride Ventures-backed StreamBox Media has shut down operations. The company was behind the subscription-based TV service called DOR. After the shutdown, the content aggregation and other digital features of the Dor TV will stop working. And if you’re currently in a subscription, then you no longer need to make any further payments. StreamBox is offering to unlock the…

HMD, i.e., Human Mobile Devices, has been experimenting with subtle changes to their custom Android UI. The UI, called Balance Interface, aims to balance the UI, making it non-distracting yet functional. One of the key areas of the HMD’s balance interface is the monochrome icons. They somewhat mimic the Nothing OS’s icon style, given the monochrome colors, but are otherwise quite different.…

Do you often find WhatsApp Desktop on Windows making erroneous changes to the text that you type? That’s the autocorrect feature at play. While the feature is useful when typing in your chosen keyboard language, it will start doing wrong corrections for the words that are close to spelling in English (or the keyboard language). For example, if you type in Hindi (or Hinglish), then the autocorrect…

MKOPA X20 is a smartphone available in several African countries. The phone is made by HMD – a Finnish company that used to sell Nokia-branded phones. The MKOPA X20 is a rebadged version of the HMD Pulse Pro, made for MKOPA. That’s why you’d find the MKOPA logo being more prominent on the back of the phone while still sporting the HMD logo towards the bottom. MKOPA offers phones on easy finance…

Outlook.com web interface and the Outlook desktop apps show the next email when you delete or move an email. I do not quite like it, as I am not interested in reading every email in my list. So, I want Outlook to show me the list of messages when I delete an email I’m already reading or move it to another folder. Then, I can open the next email that I want to read. While I don’t understand the…

Microsoft has released another round of problematic OneDrive backend updates, which are breaking shared folders for a large number of users. All shared folders that previously existed in Windows Explorer are turning into web links (internet shortcuts) that open OneDrive in the browser, where users can still access the files. While the files are not lost, the problem breaks the sync and seamless…

Nothing OS comes bundled with a first-party weather app. Being a first-party app, it integrates well with the OS by matching the dot-matrix font style used in other parts of the operating system. The weather app also provides a weather widget that can give basic weather information directly on the home screen. If you are a new user of the Nothing OS, then you’d probably feel lost about how to…