While other markets are slowing down in India, the wearables market in India surged forward, recording an impressive 80.6% YoY growth in Q1 2020. Among the many wearables categories, the earwear categories grew the strongest with a 289.2% YoY growth.
In the last two months, Google has noticed a spike in searches related to “insomnia” and “can’t sleep” and this has prompted them to introduce a few tools to help users better use their smartphones to improve sleeping habits. These tools include a Bedtime feature for Digital Wellbeing, a Bedtime tab for the Clock app, reminders in YouTube and more.
Google continues to add new features to their Pixel devices through their recently started program called Pixel Feature Drop. In the newest one, Google has improved their Adaptive Battery feature, integrated Google Assistant and Google docs into their Recorder app, added the Bedtime feature to the Clock app and more.
Samsung has announced a new curved monitor as part of its Odyssey lineup, called the Odyssey G7 gaming monitor. It comes in two sizes – 27-inches and 32-inches, features a 240HZ panel with 1ms response time and is known to be the world’s first curved gaming monitor with a 1000R curvature.
One of the more satisfying ways of interacting with a smartwatch was the physical rotating bezel that was found on the original Samsung Galaxy Watch. While Samsung used a digital rotating bezel for the Galaxy Watch Active that was released after, an FCC certification has revealed that Samsung will be going back to the physical rotating bezel for its upcoming Galaxy Watch.
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Laptops with AMD Ryzen 4000 series mobile processors have started to enter the Indian market, and one of the first laptops to be launched is the Acer Swift 3. It is a thin and light laptop that features a narrow bezel, up to 16GB RAM, up to 1TB storage, Wake on Voice (WOV) and more.
One of the many unique partnerships among smartphone manufacturers, OnePlus’s partnership with British car manufacturer, Mclaren had lead to the release of some interesting special edition smartphones. However, it has been officially confirmed that the partnership has ended, which means there likely won’t be a McLaren Edition 8T Pro released later this year.
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YouTube has finally added a very important feature for both creators and viewers called Video Chapters. Creators will now be able to add timestamps to their video’s description, creating clickable chapters in the progress bar, with which viewers can skip and scrub through videos quickly.
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Twitter has announced a new feature in their tweet composer for the web that lets users save drafts of tweets that they want to complete later and also let them schedule send tweets at a time of their choosing. The feature can be accessed with a few clicks and will be appearing for Desktop and mobile web client first.
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Browsing websites online can be tiring sometimes as the user will often have to deal with obtrusive, misleading notifications that phish for private information or promote malware. Recognising this issue, Google is adding a feature in the Chrome v84 update that will automatically enable a quieter notification UI for sites that are flagged with abusive permission requests or abusive notifications.
Qualcomm Technologies has announced their FastConnect 6900 and FastConnect 6700 mobile connectivity systems that combine industry leading technologies like Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2. By integrating them, Qualcomm was able to achieve peak speeds of up to 3.6Gbps, enabling applications that require ultra-low latency and advanced audio capabilities.
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Skullcandy is expanding their true wireless earbuds offerings with the launch of 4 new models – Push Ultra, Indy Evo, Indy Fuel and Sesh Evo. All of them are under a $100, feature Tile technology, good battery and wireless charging on select models.
Facebook’s NPE has released yet another app that brings people together during this period of quarantine. This time it is a music creation focused app called ‘Collab’ that lets people create, watch, and mix and match original videos.
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In recent times, Apple has been buying AI and machine learning based startups in a bid to improve their own software. The latest company to be acquired by Apple is Waterloo, Ontario-based machine-learning startup called Inductiv Inc., whose engineers have joined Apple to work on improving services related to Siri.
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OnePlus has released a new update for their 7T and 7T Pro devices. Major changes in the update include Dolby Atmos integration for the new Bullets Wireless Z, added 960fps slow motion recording at 720p, lens stain detection and also brings the May 2020 Android Security patch.
