Gizmo Times
Gizmo Times, published at gizmotimes.com, is an English-language technology news portal and blog listed in this directory from Bengaluru, Karnataka. It publishes smartphone and gadget news, reviews, how-to guides and, increasingly, coverage of cryptocurrency, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Its own description sums up the offer as tech news, reviews and discussions, covering everything about gadgets, virtual reality, automobiles and the internet. Over a publishing history that stretches back more than a decade in its archives, Gizmo Times has grown from a smartphone-focused blog into a broader technology publication while keeping the informal, enthusiast voice of its blogging origins.
Founding and the founder's background
Gizmo Times was founded by Chetan Bhawani, who is described on the site as its founder and senior editor. According to the site's team page, before Gizmo Times Bhawani had been into tech blogging for more than half a decade, had served as senior editor at PhoneRadar, and had founded TheWearableStuff.com, a site devoted to wearable technology. In a farewell post on PhoneRadar, he explained that he was leaving to explore other things, that technology was his passion, and that something new in tech would be coming soon — the path that led to Gizmo Times.
Unusually for a technology publisher, Bhawani is a dentist by profession, a fact both he and the site state openly; he has written that he ran a dental practice in the past but that it never gave him the satisfaction he wanted. His author page on Gizmo Times credits him with well over a hundred posts, and third-party journalist directories list him as the site's founder and senior editor. Professional listings have placed him in Hyderabad, while this directory lists the portal from Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The team
The site's team page introduces a small editorial group. Varun handles content alongside Bhawani, primarily reporting events, announcements and launches, occasionally sharing opinions on the smartphone industry, and taking photographs of gadgets under review; he too is described as a dentist. Aneesh and Akhil were introduced as contributing authors focusing mainly on smartphones and laptops, including development-related coverage around Android and Windows. The page closes with an open invitation for others to join the team.
This small-team structure is typical of independent Indian tech blogs of its generation, which competed with much larger publications through speed, search visibility and enthusiasm rather than newsroom scale.
Smartphone and gadget coverage
Smartphones are the historical core of Gizmo Times. Its smartphone category carries news and updates on launches from iOS, Android and other operating systems, live coverage of events and hands-on reports, together with software news, comparisons and buying advice. Headlines in the category range from major Indian launches — foldable phones from Samsung, OnePlus and iQOO models, OPPO and ASUS gaming phones — to detailed price-and-specification reports and head-to-head comparisons helping readers choose between similarly priced models, often framed around Indian price bands such as under Rs 20,000.
The archive shows the depth of this coverage: its smartphone section ran to dozens of pages, with around 1,800 posts counted in the category in earlier crawls, covering everything from budget launches by Indian and Chinese brands to flagship leaks, operating system updates such as MIUI and OxygenOS rollouts, and chipset explainers listing phones powered by particular processors.
Reviews
Reviews form a separate, substantial section. The site says its reviewers research, test and use products in the real world before delivering a verdict, and that reviews include specifications, features, and pros and cons of gadgets used for a considerable time. Its review archive, numbering well over 150 posts, covers smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, headphones and earphones, with verdict-driven headlines typical of consumer tech reviewing — praising design, performance or value, and flagging weaknesses.
Alongside smartphones, a gear category covers Bluetooth speakers, headphones, fitness trackers, smartwatches, speakers and televisions, reflecting the site's founding premise, stated on its team page, that technology is in phones but phones alone do not represent tech.
Guides, how-tos and service journalism
A large share of Gizmo Times' traffic-oriented publishing consists of practical guides. These include operating-system feature explainers, such as lists of devices receiving a new iOS version; how-to articles, such as enabling dark mode in an app on iPhone and iPad; and, in its recent publishing, a cluster of guides on India's UPI payments system — what to do when a UPI PIN is blocked, how to find a UTR or transaction ID and raise a complaint, how to fix UPI after changing a phone or SIM, and explanations of new UPI charges. Such articles answer specific questions users search for, a strategy central to independent tech sites.
Expansion into crypto, blockchain and AI
In recent years Gizmo Times has visibly expanded beyond gadgets. Its homepage's latest coverage includes explainers on the history of Bitcoin and Ethereum, guides to non-fungible token marketplaces and wallets on newer blockchains, coverage of Web3 games and social applications, and analysis pieces by Bhawani on crypto products and controversies. Categories for blockchain updates, cryptocurrency and NFTs sit alongside the older technology sections, and Bhawani's own author page is dominated by crypto writing, with his professional profiles describing him as reporting daily crypto, NFT and blockchain updates on Gizmo Times.
The site has also published guides on proprietary trading firms and AI-related topics, indicating a broadening into finance-adjacent and emerging-technology subjects that attract search interest, while continuing its smartphone news — for example, an India launch report on a new OnePlus phone appeared in the same period as its crypto explainers.
Video and social presence
Gizmo Times extends beyond text through a YouTube channel. Third-party channel statistics recorded for the channel approximately 123,000 subscribers, about 740 videos and more than 38 million total video views, figures that indicate video has been a significant secondary channel for its gadget coverage, complementing the website's written news and reviews.
Editorial style and positioning
The portal's tone mixes news reporting with personal voice. Its team page is written informally, its founder publishes first-person opinion and analysis, and review headlines adopt a conversational, verdict-first style. Its About description presents it as a resource delivering curated content in the world of gadgets and technology from a team of tech bloggers with years of experience. In India's crowded technology media market — spanning large digital publishers, television-linked sites and thousands of blogs — Gizmo Times positions itself as an independent, enthusiast-led alternative with a long archive and a recognisable founder-editor.
Archive and longevity
The site's category archives demonstrate longevity unusual for an independent blog. Smartphone news posts visible in its archives run from the mid-2010s — covering launches such as the Samsung Galaxy J series, Xiaomi's early India expansion and the first OnePlus devices — through to launches in 2026. That continuity gives the site a reference value: prices, specifications and positioning of older devices remain documented in contemporaneous reports, and long-running categories such as Android, with well over a hundred posts, trace the platform's evolution.
Language, access and current status
Gizmo Times publishes in English and is freely accessible at gizmotimes.com, organised by categories including news, smartphones, Android, reviews, gear, auto news, guides, cryptocurrency and blockchain. It was actively publishing in the autumn of 2026, with dated stories from September and October 2026 on its homepage spanning smartphones, payments guides, trading, AI and cryptocurrency, continuing the mix of gadget journalism and newer digital topics that defines its current form.
