According to a rumour, Google is working on launching a new smart speaker sometime later this year that is codenamed “Prince”. The speaker will likely replace the original Google Home smart speaker, and have a familiar design that is similar to the Nest Mini, Nest Hub, Google Home Max.
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Since its small beginnings as a budget smartphone manufacturer in India, Xiaomi’s portfolio has grown significantly over the past few years. While the company already produced laptops in their home market China, this is the first time they have released a laptop for the Indian market. During their launch event, they spoke highly about the laptop’s minimalist design, build quality and specs that promised performance at an affordable price. Does Xiaomi deliver on these claims? Read on in my review of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition Review: Does it deliver?”
Targeting Small-Medium Businesses and Enterprises, Acer has launched their new Veriton N series PCs, starting at Rs. 9999. It will be powered by the latest Intel Dual Core/Quad-Core Processors, with up to 8GB RAM via expansion, Microsoft Windows 10 pre-loaded and more.
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Voice Match is quite a useful feature offered by the Google Assistant, specially for household with multiple users. In an APK teardown of the Google Search app v4.2 for Android TV, deeper integration of the Google assistant was spotted, including the Voice Match feature.
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The makers of Snapchat, Snap Inc. held their Snap Partner Summit on 11th June 2020, and they announced a lot of features that are planned for release in 2020. These include wellbeing features to support Snapchatters, new developer products such as Camera Kit and Snap Minis and new camera and augmented reality Lens experiences.
Google has already rolled out a bunch of updates to help their users find COVID-19 related resources easily. Collaborating with ICMR and MyGov, Google will now add new functionality to Search, Assistant and Maps that will help people find local COVID-19 testing centers.
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Google has announced that they are expanding Google Assistant features to nearly all smart devices globally. These features include Voice match support, the ability to adjust hotword sensitivity and the ability to set any smart device as the default when playing music.
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Vodafone Idea has announced that it will support for cellular service on the Apple Watch (GPS + Cellular) in select circles across India, from June 12, 2020. The service will be made available for Vodafone Postpaid customers, which includes the Enterprise Postpaid customers too.
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Sony has announced the launch of WH-CH710 wireless headphones in India that uses their Artificial Intelligence Noise Cancellation (AINC) technology. It features Dual Noise Sensor Technology, long battery life, quick charge technology, voice assistant support and more.
Intel has announced the launch of new Core processors, code-named “Lakefield” with Hybrid CPUs. These processors leverage Intel’s Foveros 3D Packaging technology that enables the various IPs to be stacked in three dimension instead of two, reducing the package size and increasing power efficiency.
Rumours of the successor to the Samsung Galaxy Fold have begun surfacing and this time, we have got news about the display specifications of the device. The Galaxy Fold 2 is said to feature a 120 Hz 7.7-inch display on the inside and a 6.23-inch display on the outside. It will also use the same thin glass material that protected the display of the Galaxy Z Flip.
A few years back Xiaomi was very popular among Indian consumers for their great budget smartphone offerings. Since then, they have released products in so many other product segments and today they enter a new one, the laptop market. Xiaomi has finally taken off the wraps of its first ever laptop for the Indian market, the Xiaomi Mi Notebook and here we have our first impressions of its premium offering, the Xiaomi Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition.
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The Bose QC35 II is very popular among the audio community for having great sound quality and some of the best noise cancellation technology in the market. The headset connects to a smartphone via the Bose Connect app and in a teardown of its apk file, references to a new gaming focused variant have been spotted.
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Earlier this year, Twitter started testing a new feature that is similar to Snapchat called “Fleets”, in Brazil and Italy. The feature allowed users to capture their ideas and momentary thoughts in the form of temporary posts that disappear after 24 hours. Today they announced that Twitter will be expanding the testing of Fleets to India.
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When the realme Band was launched back in March, it came with just basic fitness functionalities for sports activities. Since then, realme has released new software updates that has added more features to it, with the latest v8 software released today. It brings 3 main new functionalities — Heart Rate reminder function, Music Control, Stopwatch along with bug fixes.
