Realme 13 Pro First Look in India: A Personal Journey, Local Voices, and Market Shifts I still remember the afternoon in April when I walked into a dusty mobile shop in Karol Bagh with a Realme 3 Pro in my hand - its battery barely lasting, its overheating quirks all too familiar. I’d been covering Realme since its entry into India, and that afternoon, a shopkeeper’s offhand remark - “Next year, maybe we’ll see something better” - stuck with me. Now, with Realme 15T leaking on Geekbench and the Realme 14T barely five months off launch, I’ve come full circle. This piece isn’t just about numbers on a benchmark. It’s about what those numbers - Geekbench’s 806 single-core and 1,989 multi-core using Dimensity 6400 Max - mean for everyday Indian users. It’s about whether this upgrade is real and relevant, or just noise in a flooded mid-range segment. Here’s what I set out to do: blend my on-the-ground reporting - chatting with shopowners, college students, rickshaw drivers, even an iPhone-to...
WhatsApp Ends Support for iPhone 6: Users Locked Out After August Update I still remember standing outside a buzzing Apple store in Delhi in early May, interviewing Rishi, a college student who had queued up for a refurbished iPhone 8. He looked visibly frustrated. “WhatsApp just stopped working on my iPhone 6 yesterday,” he said, holding up the device with a cracked screen. He had missed a crucial update from his internship coordinator due to the app cutoff. “I didn’t even know support had ended.” That moment stuck with me - not because of the technicality of a software update, but because of the very real impact it had on someone trying to climb up in life with limited tools. And he’s not alone. This article explains why WhatsApp ended support for older iPhones, running iOS below 15.1, including the iPhone 5s, 6, and 6 Plus who it impacts, and what steps affected users can take immediately to stay connected. This move, while expected by some in the tech community, has caug...
