New Smartwatch Launch: boAt Flash - Feature-Packed Smartwatch with Slim Metallic Design & Dual-Tone Straps

New Smartwatch Launch: boAt Flash - Feature-Packed Smartwatch with Slim Metallic Design & Dual-Tone Straps

 

Multiple Sports modes, live weather forecast, 7-Day Battery, blood oxygen monitoring

 

 

After an overwhelming response for its first Smartwatch Storm, boAt now announces the launch of Flash – a next-gen smartwatch for the active millennial. The feature rich smartwatch is here to make a statement with its rare dual-tone silicone straps and a metallic-circular dial design. boAt is recognized for its high-quality audio product line of smart, stylish yet affordable, and durable ‘hearables’ and ‘wearables.’

Highly excited with the second smartwatch launch in the country, boAt Co-founder Aman Gupta said, “After a very successful inning and an incredible response for our first smartwatch, we are extremely happy to announce Flash. With workout from home being the latest trend, smartwatches and fitness brands are more important than ever. Following our boAt ideology, we want to deliver a feature-packed smartwatch with a very high value for money package without compromising on style and features. "

Talking about their association with boAt, Akshay Ahuja, Category Leader – Consumer Electronics & Personal Computing Amazon India said, “boAt as a brand needs no introduction today. Ever since its launch, boAt has constantly innovated to provide great quality products at affordable prices. We are excited to remain their partner of choice as they enter a new category and bring boAt’s next-generation smartwatch “Flash” for customers on Amazon.in.”

The boAt Flash Smartwatch will be available at an introductory price of Rs 2499 on 9^th March, on Amazon and boAt website.

The boAt Flash is a next-generation smartwatch that promises to stand out from the rest. Key features of the boAt Flash smartwatch include:

·         A Big Bold Display: Flash comes equipped with a 1.3-inch capacitive colour LCD display encased in a round dial and complete with a highly responsive touch interface that allows you to take control over everything. 

·         Top of the line design: Featuring a slim metallic design along with dual-tone silicone straps that makes the boAt Flash a true piece of rarity. Start your day with the straps that bring out the true you. Choose from Active Black, Electric Blue or Vivid Red and watch the world change around you.

·         Health Monitor: Stay on top of your health with continuous updates from in-built sensors such as a 24x7 Heart Rate monitor and a Blood Oxygen SPO2 monitor. Whether you love to perform high-intensity workouts or are simply health-conscious, the Flash will automatically notify you when your heart rate gets abnormally low or high, or when your blood oxygen levels are erratic.   

·         Personal Fitness Trainer: Onboard sensors within the boAt Flash come together to help you train for the best fitness levels meant for your body. Track your daily activity such as calories steps and distance travelled, or simply let the Flash help you get fit with 10 Active Sports Modes – Walking, Running, Cycling, Climbing, Yoga, Basketball, Football, Badminton, Skipping, Swimming.

·         7-Day Battery: No more charging your smartwatch every day or two. The boAt Flash ensures that you won’t need that charger for another week so you can carry on with your fun life.

·         Always Alert: Always stay up-to-date with 24x7 Notification Alerts. The boAt Flash syncs with your smartphone to keep you alert of all your important information. Be it messages or emails, calls or alarms, Flash will always keep you posted.

·         Integrated controls: Take complete control over your music or let the boAt Flash trigger your camera for you. The Flash can help you take charge of your smartwatch’s music so you don’t have to reach out to your pocket to know your music. Taking groupfies? No issue – the boAt Flash has your camera’s trigger control so you can be part of your groupfies with ease.

·         Guided meditative breathing: The boAt Flash guides you to mindfulness with breath awareness and helps lower your heart rate and decrease your stress levels. The Do Not Disturb Mode shushes all notifications (except for alarms) while you meditate in peace. 

·         Live weather forecast: Get real-time weather updates and forecasts right on your wrist. Always stay on the move without the fear of rain or snow ruining your treks. Beat the vagaries of nature with live weather forecasts for the next 3 days ahead.

·         IPX68 Water and Dust Resistance: Don’t let the rain or sweat get the best of your smartwatch. The boAt Flash is protected against Sweat, Water, and Dust with its reliable IP68 certification. Whether you head for those sweaty outdoor runs or get caught in bad stormy weather, the boAt Flash will keep you company without fail.

 

Link to buy- https://www.boat-lifestyle.com/products/flash-smart-watch

About boAt:

#1 audio player in the Indian market and 5th largest wearable brand globally, boAt was launched in 2016 by Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta. The company’s portfolio offers well-designed, innovative and distinctive fashionable lifestyle-oriented products at attractive price points targeted at a young and widely addressable audience within India.  boAt’s product range includes an extensive catalogue of headphones, earphones, smartwatches, speakers, travel chargers & premium cables, with Indian consumers’ desires and preferences at the core of its design.  The home-grown Indian brand has also raised approximately $100 million from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity fund focused on growth investing in January 2021, a landmark deal for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) industry in India. The company currently has approximately 150 employees on its team across its offices in Delhi and Mumbai.

For more information, please visit: http://www.boat-lifestyle.com.

 

 

10 + Ways to Free up Space in windows

 

Storage in hard disk and solid state form may be more affordable these days, but that doesn’t mean it’s unlimited. With games now taking up hundreds of gigabytes, and Windows updates needing significantly more space than they used to, you may find your drive filling up more often. Fortunately, we have a few quick tricks to help you clear clutter for whatever you need.

The Simple Stuff

The most obvious tip dates back to the Windows 95 days. Evidently, emptying your recycle bin is one of the quickest ways to free up space. If you like to live dangerously, you can go to your Recycle Bin properties and enable the option to remove files immediately whenever they’re deleted, but we don't recommend it.

Either way, we just mention this because if you like to keep your desktop clean of any icons (see here how you can relocate the Recycle Bin), it may be weeks since you last emptied it. Also, Windows 10's Storage Sense feature defaults to empty the bin after 30 days.

Uninstall unnecessary apps and bloatware

This also may seem like a simple idea, but Windows comes with a bunch of applications and features that may be useless to you. Go into the App Settings window, and you'll be able to remove applications quickly through the menu there. Apps like Mixed Reality can be uninstalled from this menu, but if you want to remove other unused features click Optional features, and you can get rid of items like Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer 11.

Third party tools like Revo Uninstaller can help in this task, and make it a 3-click affair. These tools can also delete any leftover files after using Window's solutions ensuring that everything is cleaned up.

Temporary Files

Going to Settings > System > Storage, will offer you a chance to see how much space is being taken up by Temporary files or Downloads. Clicking on Temporary Files allows you to get a more granular understanding of the storage usage, and you can select the checkboxes, that apply when you press the “Remove files” button.

Disk Cleanup

One extra way to take control of your space is to use Windows built-in Disk Cleanup utility. Disk Cleanup is part of the Windows Administrative Tools folder in your Start Menu, or you can just search for it within the menu.

Upon launch, choose the drive to clean up and the application will show all the items you can clean up, from temporary files to thumbnails, and system files like previous Windows installations (and Windows.old folders) and files needed for updates. Select what you want to delete, and hit “OK” to finish the task.

Storage Sense

More recent versions of Windows 10 have an automated disk cleanup utility known as Storage Sense. Find it in the System Settings > Storage.

Setting up Storage Sense allows Windows to automatically delete temporary files as well as items in your downloads and Recycle Bin after a set period.

Default Save Locations

Windows sets the default save locations for documents, videos, pictures, downloads and other items to a folder on the drive Windows is installed on. Those who use a lean drive for the operating system, but other drives for games and files, will want to change this setting to free up space on the main drive.

Clicking the “Change where new content is saved” button will allow you to do that. This page will allow you to change the default save locations and even install locations for new files and apps.

OneDrive "Files On-Demand"

Those of you relying on OneDrive can also use a handy feature known as Files On-Demand. While the cloud drive account is handy for saving files in a centralized location, OneDrive also lets you use files in an online-only format, downloading the item when you need it, and deleting the local file when space is low.

To turn this feature on, go to your OneDrive settings, and check the box under Files On-Demand. Then when you see your OneDrive files, they will be presented in three different statuses: blue cloud files are only available online, items with a green checkmark in a white circle are locally stored files that will revert to the cloud when you run short on space, and files with a white checkmark in a green circle are locally stored, which won’t get reverted to the cloud.

Deleting Users

If you have shared your PC with someone who no longer uses the device, you can delete their account along with the files and folders associated with them. This is done through the Account Settings.

Click on the Family & Other Users item on the sidebar, then select the account that is no longer in use. From there, click the Remove button which will trigger an extra dialogue about deleting the account and data. Once you decide to delete the account, you’ll be freeing up the space used by that user on your drive.

Disable Hibernate

Hibernation is an energy efficient alternative to putting your computer to sleep. It writes your current system state to the drive, and allows you to turn off the PC and return to that state when you turn it back on. It also takes up several gigabytes of space. In order to disable it, open a command prompt as a administrator and type in the following:

powercfg /hibernate off

This will help save you plenty of storage, though Hibernate will be disabled. If you want to re-enable Hibernate, just open a command prompt as a administrator again and type enter the following: powercfg /hibernate on

Use the Compact OS Tool

Compact OS is a tool designed for devices with very limited storage, and can help free up plenty of space, though potentially at the cost of performance. In Microsoft's own words, "Compact OS installs the operating system files as compressed file."

We'd recommend performing a backup before you use the Compact OS tool and only use it on relatively fast storage. To use the tool, open up the command prompt as an administrator. Enter the following command to compress the installation of Windows 10: compact.exe /compactOS:always

This process should save you a few gigabytes of storage. If you want to reverse the change, open up a command prompt as an administrator and type in the following command: compact.exe /compactOS:never

Compress a Folder or Drive

If your drives are formatted as NTFS, you'll be able to use the built-in compression feature to save some space. However, this option can negatively impact your computer's performance since it's compressing and decompressing data on the go.

You can compress a folder or a drive. To compress a folder, right click on it and select Properties. Then click the Advanced button. Then check the box next to "Compress Contents to Save Disk Space" in the Compress or Encrypt attributes section. Then click OK, and Apply. You can revert these changes by clearing the check box.

If you want to compress an entire drive, use File Explorer, and head over to "This PC." Then you need to right click on the drive you want to compress, and select Properties. Check the box next to "Compress this drive to save disk space," in the General Tab. Then click Apply. You'll then be prompted with a dialogue box asking if you want to apply the change to the drive, subfolders and files. Make your selection and click OK.

Beyond Windows Tools

If these tips are too simple and aren't getting the job done, then it will be wise to get a disk analysis tool. There are a few options like WinDirStat or Space Sniffer which analyze a drive, and provide a visualization of what folders and files are taking up the most space.

These visualizations can better demonstrate how much space an application, program or game is using, and you can find large folders or files in specific locations that are sometimes hidden or hard to find.

This is a great way to find and delete temporary files from specific applications, or user data that's no longer necessary. For example, within the Windows AppData folder are caches and temporary files for browsers, messengers and game clients, which might be ripe for deletion. Other folders, can include temporary installers for AMDs or Nvidia's driver package installers.

If you need ideas of places where you might be able to regain some storage space, here's a few:

• Mobile backups of your phone or tablet
• Files for unused web browsers, instant messengers and game clients
• Old OS drive images and other backup files
• Emails stored locally (especially attachments)
• File conversion software with media files stored in random locations
• Cloud storage software with files stored locally that you can remove (Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, etc.)
• Tools that auto-update your drivers
• Unused virtual machines (move them to a different drive)
• Temp folders everywhere

Sometimes Windows has a significant number of old and unnecessary files within its System folder. Using tools like DriverStore Explorer can help clear up cached and outdated drivers.

There is also a lot of space reserved for Windows Component Store Files (in \Windows\WinSxS), used in customizing and updating Windows, and system recovery operations. If you're desperate to clear some space, enter this in a command prompt:

dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase

This action will remove outdated files as well as verify and repair the latest system files. Performing this will impact your ability to roll back after an update though, but it can save significant amounts of space.

Finding and Deleting Duplicate Files

Clearing out file duplicates is a great way to free up space, but it isn't always the easiest process. Fortunately, there are a few third-party tools that can make the job easier.

CCleaner includes a duplicate file finder tool, as does Total Commander. Some applications specialize in finding and deleting duplicate files including CloneSpy, Wise Duplicate Finder, Duplicate Cleaner and DupScout.

Last Resorts...

If these tips didn't help enough to free up space, there are a couple more tricks that are best saved as last resorts. Windows has a built-in reset function, which clears everything and starts you off with a clean slate. Go to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. The first button will initiate the Windows 10 reset.

And finally, you can always transfer files to an external drive and free up speedy internal storage for your operating system and applications, but this is always the costlier option. Though in all honesty, a 5TB drive for less than $100 does sound tempting.