In the latest Google Pixel 6 smartphones, the stock camera app came with a couple of options and features that were new to Pixel devices. The company has now rolled out a new update to the Google Camera app that brings some of these new options and features to older Pixel devices.
Customers of Fitbit fitness trackers in India will now be able to experience more health features on the Fitbit app and their devices. The Fitbit Charge 5 now supports taking ECG readings right from the wrist, the Fitbit app for Premium members supports their Daily Readiness score, and diabetic patients can now track their blood glucose levels through the app.
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One of the highlight features of Android 12 is its ability to create and set a custom system-wide theme that is based on the phone’s wallpaper. At the moment, the feature is only supported on Pixel devices. However, that may change soon as other manufacturers are said to introduce dynamic theme support in their smartphones too.
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The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released their quarterly India smartphone market report for the third quarter of 2021. According to it, the market declined 12% YoY after 4 quarters of continuous growth, shipping a total of 48 million units. The top 5 manufacturers were Xiaomi, Samsung, vivo, realme and OPPO.
According to a new report by Counterpoint Research, the India smartwatch market had its highest ever shipments in Q3 2021, recording a growth of 159% QoQ and 293% YoY. The top 5 smartwatch manufacturers during the quarter were Noise, boAt, Fire Boltt, realme and Amazfit.
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Twitter Blue, a monthly subscription service that was rolled out first to Australia and Canada earlier this year, is now rolling out to the U.S. and New Zealand. With the rollout, the service is also getting a couple of new features such as Ad-free articles, custom navigation options, Labs features and more.
Qualcomm has unveiled a new headworn Augmented Reality (AR) developer kit that is designed to be a tool for the development of their new Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform. The platform offers robust machine perception technology, SDKs for leading 3D Engines, a robust resource library and more, to develop the next generation of AR glasses.
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Garmin, a company known for their high-quality activity trackers, has announced the launch of their Index S2 Smart Scale in India. It is a smart, connected health and wellness tool with advanced technology and features for serious athletes and like-minded users.
Yesterday, AMD announced a number of new processors in their server lineup of EPYC CPUs. The 4th generation of EPYC processors will come in two segments – one codenamed ‘Genoa’ with up to 96 Zen 4 cores, and another codenamed ‘Bergamo’ with up to 128 Zen 4c cores. Along with this, AMD also announced first exascale-class GPU accelerators called AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators.
Samsung, a leader in memory and semiconductor technology, has unveiled their next generation 14nm-based 16Gb LPDDR5X DRAM. It will succeed the existing 8Gb LPDDR5 DRAM from Samsung, and is designed to boost speed, capacity and power savings for future 5G applications.
The latest release of WhatsApp beta reveals new details of a feature that the company is currently working, called Communities. The feature is an extension of WhatsApp’s groups feature, where group admins have more control over other groups in in WhatsApp.
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Apple’s foray into making desktop-class processor was highly successful with the launch of M1. The company is reportedly working on 2nd gen and 3rd gen processors that will succeed the 1st gen M1 chips that will be built on TSMC’s 5nm and 3nm process respectively, and they are expected to outperform the equivalent future chips from Intel.
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Telegram rolled a fresh update to their messaging apps that adds a couple of new features. These include a better experience when scrolling through shared media, join requests for Groups and Channels invite links, global chat themes on iOS and more.
During their Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft has unveiled a new feature for Microsoft Teams called Mesh. The feature is designed to allow people in different physical locations to join virtual meetings, send chats, collaborate, and have shared holographic experiences, all via Microsoft Teams.
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Lenovo announced two new products in their YOGA series of laptops, namely the YOGA Pro 14s Carbon Ryzen Edition and YOGA 16S Ryzen Edition 2022. As the names suggest, they are both powered by AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors, feature up to 2.5K 120Hz displays, up to an 8-hour battery life and more.
