From video calling to portable drives, we update you with the latest happenings of the week
Now make Video calls on WhatsApp
WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging platform in India and the company had introduced voice calling a while back and is widely popular and preferred over traditional phone calls nowadays because it is free. Now the company has introduced video calling and is available to all users on Android, iOS and Windows Phone. WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum also said the platform has over 160 million users in India and that video calling was one the most requested features by users in the country. Making a video call is very simple and as seamless as placing a voice call within WhatsApp and you can choose to use either the front or rear camera. WhatsApp Video calling is taking on Skype, Google Duo and Facetime and is bound to become the most popular video calling app in the next few months.
Digitize your old printed photos with the Google PhotoScan app
If you have a lot of old photographs stored in bulky photo albums, Google has released an app to digitize them easily. Scanning photo prints is a tiring affair especially with low speed scanners which can take anywhere between 20-30 seconds to scan a single photograph and organizing them is again time consuming. The PhotoScan app aims to make this process a lot more fun and easy and also uploads the scanned photos to your Google Photos album. All you have to do is scan the photos from multiple angles from the app and a digital copy of your photo is now saved digitally. The app even detects edges, straightens the image, rotates it to the correct orientation,and removes glare. Google PhotoScan is available on both Android and iOS and is completely free.
Now store 5Terabytes in a portable drive
Seagate has introduced the Backup Plus Portable 5TB drive which is the largest capacity portable hard drive. Until recently you could not store more than 500GB or 1 TB in drives of this form factor but thanks to latest hard drive technology, things have changed for the better. It features the latest generation BarraCuda internal drive from the company and offers unparalleled capacity for its size. It is only 20.5mm thick and sports an aluminium casing for durability. The drive comes in 4 different colours is priced at $189.99, works with both Windows and Mac devices and is expected to be available in India soon.