The Sunday Guardian

Vine to live on as video sharing app

- AATIF SULLEYMAN

Vine has transforme­d into Vine Camera, meaning that now’s the last chance for users to download their favourite clips.

The much-loved six-second video sharing app, which helped launch the careers of a multitude of new stars, is being simplified by Twitter, with the service set to live on as Vine Camera.

The new service will only allow users to post their 6.5-second clips to Twitter or save them to their camera roll. Fortunatel­y, downloadin­g your favourite Vines is a pretty straightfo­rward process. You can save your videos, along with your captions and likes, comments and shares by opting for a download link from the Vine website. If you don’t mind losing your old social stats, you can instead download the clips, and the clips alone, to your phone. THE INDEPENDEN­T Company: LG Price: Rs 54,999 After taking the industry by surprise with the world’s first modular smartphone, the G5, it has mostly been a quiet period for LG before it launched another premium device, the V20, late in 2016 — the world’s first device with wide-angle camera lenses on both the front and back.

For audiophile­s, LG has collaborat­ed with renowned European audio brand Bang & Olufsen (B&O) and the V20 comes with free B&O Play headsets (wow!).

The Rs 54,999 device also features a 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC (digital-toanalog converter), bringing a rich audio experience to mobile phones. Here is what works for the V20. It boasts of a minimalist metal body with a thin bezel design that delivers good looks and a convenient grip. Compliant with the US military standard test and

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