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The most popular instant messaging app in the world had to be on the top of our list. WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for $19 billion. It is worth noticing that prior to the acquisition, WhatsApp was making revenue of around $20 million per year.
Uber
The next on our list if Uber, which completely changed the way we hail cabs. Thanks to Uber, getting a cab anywhere on the globe is actually just as easy as tapping a few buttons on your smartphone. Naturally, the app made a lot of money. The app was reportedly valued at $76 billion after Toyota invested $500 million in it. However, a report in Bloomberg says that Uber has been told by the banks that it could be $120 billion company when it goes public in 2019.
Everyone knows about Instagram’s acquisition. The photo-sharing app was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, however, a recent Bloomberg report said that the app would have been 100 times more valuable had the deal not taken place in 2012. We should say that that truly was a good investment that Facebook made.
Snapchat
Snapchat has been locked in a rivalry with Facebook since ages and the app has seen its share of ups and downs. This year, its valuation fluctuated a lot and as of March 2018, it was valued at $20.82 billion. It is worth mentioning that this value was recorded after Kylie Jenner and Rihanna’s posts on social media which made the company valuation fall.
PUBG
Now let’s talk about the most popular game of the year — PUBG. The game has got millions of people around the globe hooked to it. While its current valuation is not confirmed, a report in Bloomberg last year said that the valuation of Bluehole, PUBG’s developer to be over $4.6 billion. Considering that the developer’s deal with Tencent happened this year, we are sure this value only grew.
Candy Crush
There was a time when everyone was glued to Candy Crush. And do you know how well that paid off for the makers? King, the company behind the app, was acquired by Activision Blizzard for a massive $5.9 billion in 2016. Yes, you read that right.
Waze
If Google acquires an app, there are very high chances of it being useful. And Waze is no different. Its time-saving features are indeed very useful. No wonder Google agreed to pay $1.3 billion for it when it acquired the app in 2013.
Clash of Clans
Every gamer knows about the popularity of Clash of Clans. And this popularity made its parent good money too. In 2016, Supercell, the company behind Clash of Clans and Boom Beach got acquired by Tencent at a massive $10.2 billion valuation. That’s an insane amount of money, isn’t it?
Square
If reports are to be believed, then Jack Dorsey’s Square was actually more valuable than microblogging website earlier this year. The mobile payment service was valued at $19 billion, according to various media reports.
Kakao Talk
Kakao Talk is a popular instant messenger used in Korea and some adjacent countries. It has a user base of over 40 million and was valued at $7 billion at the beginning of the year.
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Dressed in navy blue with silver chamfers on the sides, which the company says are diamond cut, the 
The bottom part of the chassis has the primary microphone, USB type-C charging port as well as the mono loudspeaker. Turn the Nokia 7.1 around and you are greeted by the vertically placed cameras and a LED flash bump. Underneath that is a well-placed fingerprint sensor and the Nokia branding. The Android One logo also makes and appearance at the back and if you look closely under that, you could see that the smartphone is made in India.
Coming to the Display of the Nokia 7.1 we loved every bit of it. Yes, it is not the phablet size and is couple of notches smaller, but that does not mean it does not perform well. We give Nokia full marks in the display department. Everything from sunlight readability to indoor viewing is top notch. The text is crisp and one can clearly see great details on-screen. This has also has been made possible because the smartphone utilizes 432 pixel per inch density and supports HDR10 PureDisplay.
We ran HD videos on it and the screen did not disappoint at all. There was almost no ghosting effect and we were quite happy with what we saw. The video experience on this smartphone was quite good, we loved the HD movies on it and the loud speaker did perfect justice to it. Gaming experience on the display was vibrant, too. All in all, the display is one of the strongest points of the Nokia 7.1, after its design.
Nokia 7.1 Performance and Camera
The year 2018 has brought Nokia out of the hiding and they are proudly partnering with best chipset manufacturers. Their phones have the latest best in each price segment and Nokia 7.1 is no different. This smartphone holds the Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 chipset inside with a 1.8GHz Octa-core CPU on it. Graphics are powered by Adreno 509 and are good for entry to mid-level games. Anything above that, the phone starts to show signs of lag here and there. But, that does not mean you cannot play games like PUBG on it. The experience is quite nice thanks to the 4GB RAM on board this device. However, you might miss a shot or two while playing the game on this configuration.
For storage Nokia 7.1 comes with 64GB inbuilt memory module that is good to begin with. If you are one of serial downloaders who loves to download and keep on the phone’s storage, then you will run out of it soon. Thankfully this 
We had a gala time with the cameras. The colours are vibrant and the objects are sharp. The depth effect works exceptionally well and we faced very less shutter lag on them. Macro shots came out really well. Night shots on the other hand with the LED flash were good, but without it lost a lot of details. There are plenty of camera modes on the Nokia 7.1 including a pro mode that gives you additional abilities to manage your shots. As we tested it further, it became our go to mode for each and any type of shots.
The selfie camera also has the pro mode, which works well and comes with the beauty shot. The beauty shot does manage to do the job, but we have seen better ones in some of its competitors. But that is not a deal breaker, as overall the cameras do a wonderful job. Like we said before, the rear cameras can record videos in 4K at 30fps and they come out to be really close to life. Be careful these do consume a lot of space, so keeping them on the added storage is always a good idea.
The Nokia 7.1 is powered by a 3,060 mAh battery that at first seems less, however to or amazement lasted for more than a day. And our day included a lot of phone calls over 4G with WiFi on and numerous Whatsapp message exchanges. We played an hour or two of games on it as well and used GPS for an hour. And yet the phone had 20% battery left by the end of our day.
We ran couple of benchmarks on the device and it did fairly well for a mid-range device. The Nokia 7.1 scored 1,17,455 on AnTuTu, 4,249 marks on Geekbench’s compute test and 1,342 points on single core Geekbench CPU test. It also managed to get 4,866 points on Geekbench’s multi-core CPU test.
Verdict and Final Words
The Nokia 7.1 is priced at Rs 19,999, but can be picked up for few hundreds less from places like Amazon. So, does it justify the price? Yes, absolutely. If you are in search of a mid-range smartphone that has great looks, good battery life, exceptional cameras and display then you can go for it without a doubt. This smartphone is bound to get you that second look. So we are putting it out there, Nokia 7.1 is a showstopper.
Pros:
Excellent battery life
Refreshing design
Awesome display
Cons:
Smaller screen size
Some lag seen while playing high-end games
Large chin area 
Author: Karan Bedi, COO, Blaupunkt Televisions India
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In a recent report, Google literally admitted that 
We understand that disabling GPS on your device is not a practical piece of advice. So we recommend going to the Settings of your smartphone to see which all 
If you use a device that has Android Oreo or Android Pie, you would know that your smartphone notifies you about open Wi-Fi networks even if Wi-Fi has been disabled. You can turn this off by heading to Settings, then clicking on Network & internet and then selecting the option of Wi-Fi. Here, go to Wi-Fi preferences and uncheck ‘Open network notification’.
Did you know that a lot of apps stay active even after you exit them? But these are not something to worry about as you only have to adjust a few settings in order to save the battery they use. Head to Settings and click on Apps & Notifications. Here, go to the app’s page and tap on Battery and then go to the option of ‘Battery Optimisation’. Here, select all the valid options to save battery that is being used by the app.
Check the battery usage of all of your apps in the settings of your 
Using Google Assistant surely makes things fun and easy, but then, it can use up a lot of battery from your device in order to provide you with information and respond at your wake command. So, if you are not heavily dependent on it, here are the steps to disable it. Head to 
If you find notifications on your smartphone to be too annoying, you can disable them completely. For doing this, go to the Settings of your smartphone, and press on Accounts. You would be able to see the Automatically sync data option at the bottom. Scroll down and disable it or disable it for select apps by going to their page. Going forward, you would only see the new content on that app when you visit it.
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Coming to the 6.3-inch Full-HD+ display of the smartphone, it is another aspect that we really liked. The screen produced very sharp and clear images with accurate colours. When we tried looking at the screen from different angles, the colours did not lose their consistency. The sunlight readability was not a problem either. We spent long hours playing games and watching YouTube videos on the device and we loved every bit of it.
We always give some extra marks to smartphones that come with a stock Android experience. And Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 is one of them. We love how the software had no bloatware at all and came without any customizations, which can at times make the experience laggy. The smartphone had Google’s entire suite of apps, and Facebook, Messenger and Instagram – which can’t really be counted as extra apps since most of us use it on a daily basis. Other than this, the Sound Recorder, FM Radio and Calculator apps are from Asus. So, they are really as few as they can be.
During our time with the 
Most games ran on the device very smoothly. The lighter ones didn’t cause any trouble at all, and even the heavier ones like Asphalt 9 Legends ran reasonably well. If you play a heavy game on the device for around 30 minutes or so, it might start getting slightly warm. But this doesn’t apply to games that come without very heavy graphics. As we mentioned earlier, we watched a number of videos on YouTube during our time with the smartphone. The experience was really good. The images depicted were sharp and clear. The Zenfone Max Pro M2’s speaker can be very loud, too. Clubbed together, they make the video watching experience extremely good.
The battery life of the smartphone was definitely among the key highlights. After usage that involved browsing the internet, listening to music, playing games, watching videos and using Google Maps for straight two hours, the smartphone was still left with over 50% charge by the end of the day. In fact, we only charged it once in two days. However, fast charging is not supported on the device and it takes almost two hours to charge it fully.
Coming to the cameras of 
We liked the performance of the cameras. The images were detailed and the colours were accurate. The photos taken retained clarity even when they were viewed on a laptop. While the pictures taken in well-lit areas were very good, the ones taken in dimly lit areas were reasonable. Selfies taken by the front-facing snapper were decent too, but they became much better as soon as we enabled the Beautification mode.
For some reason, we couldn’t run the Antutu benchmark test on this device. In Geekbench, Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 scored 1,474 and 5,539 in the single and multi-core scores. Putting it at the top lot of the category.
