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No mobile handset will be sold in India without the facility of identifying the location through Satellite based GPS from January 2018, the notification said From January 1 next year, all   mobile phones   sold in India will come with a panic button enabling users, especially women, to send out distress signals in case of an emergency. A notification by the department of telecommunications said no mobile phone handset shall be sold in India from January 1, 2017, without the facility of having a panic button and all phones need to compulsorily have global positioning system (GPS) facility from January 1, 2018. "Technology is solely meant to make human life better and what better than using it for the security of women," Communications and Information & Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Once a panic button is pressed, a call will be directed to the emergency contact - family, friend or police. Though, details are yet to be finalised. For feature ...

  When I first heard the price of the  Xiaomi Mi 5 , I was intrigued. A China-based handset maker, known for offering decent hardware at extremely low prices, moving into the mid-range segment? What were they smoking? Don't get me wrong. I've owned a Mi 3 and my regular phone is a Redmi 2, but this defied logic. I got the answer a few days later when I got my hands on a review sample of the Mi 5. The white handset with its chamfered edges and glass back has a premium look, though I daresay, is slippery to hold. Blame it on the very thin edges and the non-existent bezel on the sides of the 5.15-inch screen, which seems to seamlessly merge into the back. In a first, the Mi 5 sports a physical home button below the screen, which does double duty as a fingerprint scanner. Setting up is fairly simple, especially the fingerprint scanner. Since I already had a Mi account, I could restore the apps from my  Redmi 2 . The Mi 5 runs Miui 7, which is based on Android Mars...