First look: Deepika Padukone as Angie in Finding Fanny

After Arjun Kapoor shared his look in Homi Adajania's Finding Fanny on Wednesday, leading lady of the film too took to Twitter to reveal her look in the film.
Deepika shared the look of her character Angie in the film. The actor looks beautiful in a short floral dress and an apron over it. Her hair are loosely tied and she is carrying a blood-stained cleaver in her hand.
Deepika Padukone posted this picture on Twitter

Director Homi Adajania also shared the look on Twitter. Directed by Homi Adajania and produced by Saif Ali Khan's Illuminati Films, the film is based on a road trip set in Goa and follows the journey of five characters, whoa re out to search for child hood freind.

This is the look of Arjun Kapoor from the film.
 Finding Fanny stars Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia and Pankaj Kapur. It is scheduled for release on September 12, 2014.

Tendulkar who? Asked another well-known celebrity in India


Tennis grand slam champion Maria Sharapova revealed on Wednesday that she did not who Sachin Tendulkar was. Forgive Sharapova, not everybody on this earth know the cricket legend who has scored a century of centuries in international cricket for India.
When asked, another well-read and well-travelled celebrity with India connection was unaware of Sachin Tendulkar. That, while watching a cricket match. The person is the Dalai Lama. In 2011, when Tendulkar had not retired from international cricket yet, the spiritual leader was attending an IPL cricket match at HPCA stadium in Dharamshala. The game was between Kings XI Punjab and Deccan Chargers.
During the match, the Tibetan spiritual leader was asked: "Do you know a certain Sachin Tendulkar?"
"No, I don't remember," said the globe-trotting, knowledgeable celebrity.

Asus Zenfone coming to the Philippines on July 17

 
After experiencing success in China and Southeast Asia, can Asus' "Zenfone" smartphone and "Padfone Mini" conquer the Philippines too?

The Taiwan-based company is about to find out July 17, when it launches its Zenfone Series and Padfone Mini in the Philippines.

While consumers can start to buy Zenfone 4,5 and 6 from Lazada starting 7 p.m. July 17, ASUS resellers will sell the smartphones including the Padfone Mini on the week after the launch.

In a statement, Asus said Filipinos will enjoy "true value for money" as the ASUS Zenfones offer "great performance at an incredible price."

The Zenfones feature PixelMaster, a camera technology that captures photos and videos even in low lighting conditions.

Featured as well is ZenUI, the new mobile user interface with over 1,000 enhancements.

Powering the Zenfones are Intel Atom processors. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
 

LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live review: the first Google watches

Smartwatches are here to stay, but what are they for?

 

I’ve been looking at my phone a lot less recently. Normally, no buzz in my pocket can go un-checked, no news alert or Snapchat unseen. But thanks to these watches I’ve been wearing, my phone spends a lot more time in my bag. I can just flick my wrist to see what’s going on.

Smartwatches have become a thing. They’re a thing because Google says so, because it just released Android Wear and unleashed a torrent of wrist-bound devices. As a result, we’re being forced to consider an important question: What is a smartwatch, anyway? Is it a computer or smartphone on our wrists, the Dick Tracy Two-Way Wrist Radio come to life? Or is it an ancillary device designed not to replace but to augment another device? Samsung’s Gear 2 lives on one extreme, the Pebble Steel on another. I think the answer lies somewhere in between.

I wear a watch every day, a simple black-and-silver Seiko model I’ve worn for years. I replaced it with a Pebble, then a Pebble Steel, then a Gear 2 and a Gear Fit. Nothing stuck, and I kept coming back to my analog wristwatch. As I strapped to my wrist the $199 Samsung Gear Live and the $229 LG G Watch, the first Android Wear devices to hit the market, I figured out why.

Android Wear has a future, maybe even a bright one, but only when Google and its partners remember why we wear watches in the first place.

Read our full review of Google's Android Wear here
The Gear Live and G Watch are, in most ways, virtually identical. They have the same processor and storage; they’re almost identical in weight and thickness. (They’re both a little bigger than the Pebble Steel, for what it’s worth, but not by any noticeable margin.) They’re water-resistant enough that you can shower with them on, and sturdy enough to take hiking. The only truly unique feature of any consequence is the Gear Live’s heart-rate monitor, which is a nice addition to the step-counter you’ll find in either device.
The Gear Live is by the far the flashier device, with chrome edges and a power button on the right side. (It comes in a cool-looking Red Wine color, too.) It looks like a radically simplified version of the Gear 2. The G Watch, on the other hand, is astoundingly nondescript. It’s a black (or white) rectangle that goes on your wrist, and exactly nothing more. It is, however, a slightly more wearable device than the Gear Live: Samsung’s watch has a rigid, rubber strap with two teeth that are hard to snap into place, and a curved shell that feels a little chunky on my wrist. The G Watch is more flexible and more comfortable. Luckily both are standard 22mm straps, and you can change either one to something more interesting.

Both get most of their design flair from their watchfaces: there a few available on both devices, and several more individual to each. LG’s are far catchier, cooler, and more modern. Of course, I prefer Samsung’s 1.63-inch AMOLED display, with its darker blacks and brighter whites, to LG’s slightly washed out 1.65-inch LCD. But since Samsung’s screen is slightly sharper (320 x 320 pixels instead of 280 x 280), all the touch targets are a little smaller and harder to tap. Using either one in bright sunlight is basically impossible, though, and yet somehow they’re both distressingly bright in the dark — to the point where you’ll have to cover your wrist or risk being called out.
Both the G Watch and Gear Live batteries always last a full day, even with constant use, and would occasionally last through part of the next. They’ll last a few days if you never touch them, but these are devices you’re meant to charge every night, in their awkward cradles next to your smartphone. That’s a feature I hope gets better in other watches, and quickly.
For all intents and purposes, these two watches are the same device
They have tiny tradeoffs, but in every way that matters, the G Watch and Gear Live are the same. Neither is anything like a handsome watch, neither will ever be mistaken for anything more expensive or classic. These watches are designed to get out of the way and let Android Wear work, to be as innocuous as possible and just do their job.
That’s the fundamental miscalculation about these devices. They’re not meant to be inconspicuous. It’s the software that’s meant to disappear, to only materialize when it’s useful and necessary. The strangest part about testing these watches was the sheer volume of time that went by without my doing anything. I loved getting flight status updates on my way to the airport, and saying "OK Google Now" and then texting a friend was really handy. When it works it’s exactly what I always wanted the Pebble Steel to be: aware, awake, and always guessing what I’m looking for. Most of the time, however, these smartwatches are just watches.
 We’ve considered Android Wear on its own and in detail, but it’s important to understand just how intentional the lack of functionality is on the Gear Live and G Watch. Google wants smartwatches to be ambient, aware accessories that offer you bits of information — the time, the next event on your calendar, maybe traffic. There’s sometimes an option to quickly take action, but more often your only response is to put the watch down and move on with your life.

’d like for there to be more to do, and as developers get their hands on the watches there almost certainly will be more functionality in the watch itself. That won’t ever be the reason to buy these watches, though. You’ll buy them if and only if you trust Google to give you all the information you need exactly when you need it. Or you’ll buy an Android Wear watch if it’s just flat-out a nice watch.
Google does seem to understand that what it’s selling you is primarily a device for telling the time. When you look at your watch, you expect to see the time; everything else comes after. Google understands that, and Android Wear maintains it. The Gear Live and G Watch are always on, showing a simple black-and-white watchface while in "Ambient Mode." There’s a power button on the Gear Live, but nothing on the G Watch — if you do dive deep into Settings and shut the device down, you literally can’t turn it back on without connecting it to the charger. It’s a paradigm shift, and Google’s thinking the right way, but it’s insane for LG to not offer a way to turn the device on and off.

I see the potential in Android Wear, but I don’t want to trade my watch for it. I want the best of both worlds — why can’t I have all this useful information inside a device that I want to have on my wrist even when I’m not using it? I’d gladly pay $199, $229, or far more for a device I wanted to wear and be seen wearing that also happened to provide the Android Wear experience. The billions of wristwatches sold around the world, and the astronomical prices they often command, suggest many others would too. Even the Pebble Steel’s design is far better, more like a luxury watch than a shrunken smartphone. It all makes me hope that the likes of Seiko and Breitling are already at work blending their luxury with Android Wear’s utility.
If the crowd at Google I/O is any indication, buyers are already clamoring for a better option. When Google’s Sundar Pichai announced attendees would receive a free Moto 360, he got the biggest cheer of the keynote. When he finished his sentence with "… later this summer," a groan swept around the room. Later, on the show floor, next to a G Watch table and with the Gear Live on prominent display, the longest lines formed near Motorola reps with 360s on their wrists.
Good enough already isn't good enough
The reason the 360 is so enticing, said Lior Ron, CVP of Product at Motorola, is that it’s beautiful. That’s more important on a watch than most technology companies understand. "We put something on us," he told me, "that says something about us." So Motorola decided from day one to build a watch. Not a smartwatch, not a computer on your wrist. A watch. Everything else followed from that.
Of course, the Moto 360 likely won’t solve all the world’s smartwatch problems. There’s still much unknown about the device, many things that may be much worse than the G Watch or the Gear Live. Product aside, however, the faster other companies get in line with Motorola’s way of thinking — that they must earn their place on my wrist with the hardware first and the functionality second — the faster Android Wear will become more than the province of notification-hungry early adopters.

Here’s what I believe a smartwatch should be. It should be simple, never involving a lot of back-and-forth to do anything. It should be proactive, telling me what I need to know without me asking or even knowing I should ask. It should be powerful, but quietly so, doing most of the work without involving me in the process. Most of all, it should be beautiful. It should feel like a luxury device, like a fashion item, like something I want to wear on my wrist regardless of what it does while it’s there. Because a watch is a deeply personal item, a part of the way I look and am perceived, and I’m not going to sacrifice that to make archiving an email a little easier.
I like a lot of things about Android Wear, and a few things about the Gear Live and G Watch. I like that they’ve made me look at my phone less. They’re simple, inoffensive devices that do their jobs well. And at $199 and $229, respectively, they’re a relatively affordable way to get a first taste at our wearable future. If I were buying one today, I’d buy the Gear Live: I like the design, I like the screen. But neither current model inspires any attachment, any excitement, any reaction at all. They’re just empty vessels for Android Wear, not devices I’m proud to display on my arm. And that’s the wrong approach.


Maybe it’ll be the Moto 360, maybe it’ll be something else. But until I see a smartwatch that makes me do a double-take and then fling my wallet at a store clerk, my Seiko stays firmly on my wrist. It doesn’t do much, but it looks awesome. And that’s kind of the whole point.

Good Stuff

  • A few useful extra features
  • Swappable bands
  • It tells the time
 

Bad Stuff

  • Weak battery life
  • Screen is impossible to see outside
  • Chunky design
 




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Android Wear review: the everything inbox

This is what it's like to have Google Now on your wrist

 

Pretty much everybody I know hates their inbox.

It's not just email either, though it tends to take the brunt of everybody's anger. There are dozens of apps sending us hundreds of notifications; managing all that incoming information is a genuine hassle. Looking at the notification center on our phones, it's hard not to imagine some harried, 1930s office worker. His tie is loosened, sleeves rolled up, sweat beading on his forehead underneath a green visor as he looks at the metal tray marked "INBOX" on his desk. It's piled high with a stack of paper, sent to him from people he doesn't know and doesn't love. 

But in this Kafkaesque world, it's not just people who want more work from him who are adding sheets to the pile. It's also people who want to tell him the weather, people who want to let him know there's a great deal on coffee down the street, people who want him to join his so-called friends in a conversation about some random television show. You'd offer to help, but honestly the best help you can think of is to just offer him a match.

Now imagine that inbox is strapped to his wrist. How could that possibly make his life better? That's the promise of Android Wear. Strange as it may seem, it does help, just a little.


Android Wear was revealed last week at Google I/O and two watches are already on preorder: Samsung's Gear Live and LG's G Watch. They only work with Android 4.3 and above  and the best one, the Moto 360, won't be available until later this summer.
First and foremost, a watch needs to give you the time. Fortunately, Android Wear does that just fine. The two watches we've tested default to an always-on mode with a black background and white text for the watch face.
You can select from multiple watch faces by holding down your finger on the home screen. The Gear Live has about a dozen and none of them are great, but the G Watch has over 20 and some are really stylish. Unfortunately, Android Wear doesn't allow developers to create custom watch faces yet, though Google tells me that will come in time.

Google's take on the smartwatch isn't too different from what the people behind the Pebble figured out last year: it should be all about notifications. At its core, Android Wear is a little remote for your Android phone's notification shade. Everything that appears there also appears on your watch, and when you dismiss notifications on the watch they also disappear on the phone.
Google being Google, there are some other features added on that rely on the company's traditional strengths. You will get Google Now cards in addition to your notifications, showing you things like the weather and upcoming flights. There's also robust voice control, allowing you to do everything from searching to texting to setting timers. Some watches have fitness features too — both the G Watch and the Gear Live have a step counter and the Gear Live also has a heart-rate monitor.
Getting around the watch is simultaneously dead simple and a little complicated. It's dead simple as long as you treat the watch as a dumb terminal to your phone and don't worry about finding those advanced features. You simply swipe up to scroll through your notifications, swipe right to dismiss them, and swipe left to access more options for each one. It gets complicated when you want to dig into some of the options; they're so buried under hard-to-find "Start" and "Settings" menus that I can only assume Google wants to you mostly ignore them. Fortunately, you can do exactly that most of the time.
There are more settings to be found in the companion Android app. You can dig into specific notification and pairing options, like muting specific apps. I'm also happy to report that Wear respects your Gmail notification options — if you don't have email set to buzz your phone, it also won't buzz your wrist. More importantly it’s where you'll manage associated Android Wear apps, which will be available after July 7th. Different apps can register themselves to different voice commands — so, for example, "Okay Google, take a note" could someday be mapped to Evernote.
Tapping on the main home screen activates voice actions, as does saying 'Okay Google" when the screen is on. There is some logic baked in to that voice action, but not enough. It's smart enough not to launch a search on both your Android phone and the watch (it defaults to the watch when available), but not smart enough to know who is saying "Okay Google." It took about 15 seconds for the people around me to figure this out and start messing with me by yelling "Okay Google" when they saw me with my watch. Add in the fact that this thing can send emails and texts with just your voice, and you might have problems if your friends want to mess with you.


 The voice features make your watch something you can actually do stuff with and it's sometimes convenient to quickly send a reply to a text or email, but the main thing you'll be doing on Android Wear is managing notifications.

 

There are basically two kinds of people in this world: those who check their phone immediately when it buzzes and those who don't. If you're the sort that does, you're going to enjoy having your inbox on your wrist. When something comes in, you can quickly glance down to see what it is without completely ignoring whatever you're doing. You can act on some of them too, thanks to Android's rich notification actions. That means that you will be able to play and pause music from apps that put those controls in the notification center, for example.
It's a small happiness to get an email you want to immediately destroy and be able to immediately destroy it from your watch. It's a small happiness to glance down and see that the weather or package-tracking information you want is sitting right there. But for every time Android Wear gives you exactly what you want, there's another time that it frustrates you. If you have more than one email stacked up, for example, you can't manage them from your watch — you'll have to go to your phone for that. There are other hassles, too. Android, unlike iOS, doesn't put those little numbered badges on your icons. That means that if you dismiss a notification, it's solid gone and I have accidentally swiped the wrong way on my watch several times.
The other problem is a deeper one: you need to put quite a lot of your faith in Google to get the most out of Android Wear. You can't really organize or manage all these alerts — they pop up when they do and you can only scroll through them or dismiss them. You have to trust Google to give you the information you want. Even more than that, you have to trust Google Now's algorithms to do the right thing with all the personal data you're probably already giving to Google.

One of the main reasons I like Android is that it does a better job than any other phone of giving me powerful ways to manage notifications. I practically live in that notification center — dismissing stuff, archiving email, tapping reply on texts. I think of the notification center as the Everything Inbox. It's more than email, it's like a pager for every damn thing that comes your way: phone calls, texts, annoying Groupon deals, and all the rest. It's easy to get angry at it and even easier to think that having Android Wear is just another way for the Everything Inbox to bother you.
But managing your entire inbox isn’t what Wear is for. It’s for small, helpful moments and quick Google searches. Android Wear is like Google Now, both literally and figuratively. It literally displays the same cards that show up in Google Now, syncing what you keep and what you dismiss. But Google Now also sometimes just doesn’t show you what you expect, for better or worse, and the same thing applies to Android Wear.
All of which means Wear won’t save you from the Everything Inbox, it just makes it a little easier to keep tabs on your notifications. Beyond that, there’s no substitute for pulling your phone out and getting down to business.

Good Stuff

  • Always-on time
  • Powerful voice control
  • Mirrors Android notifications

Bad Stuff

  • Can't reorder notifications
  • Poor watch-face choices
  • Settings are buried


 

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