ASUS India has announced new updates to their consumer lineup of Zenbook and VivoBook laptops, bringing the latest 11th Gen Intel Core CPUs and offering both the Intel Xe GPU options or up to NVIDIA GeForce MX450 GPU. ASUS also launched an Intel Evo verified flagship — the Zenbook Flip S, which is their lightest laptop with a 4K UHD NanoEdge OLED HDR display.
Google announced the Chromecast with Google TV back in October, 2021, with support for 4K HDR streaming and Dolby Vision. Now, Google has announced that, sometime early next year, the Chromecast with Google TV will support the Apple TV app, giving users access to the Apple TV+ paid subscription.
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With the rise of truly wireless earbuds, the SoC that powers the audio experience has become extremely important. Qualcomm has announced their newest Bluetooth Audio SoC for truly wireless earbuds, called the Qualcomm QCC305x. These new SoCs come with various new technologies such as Audio sharing, Voice service support, Qualcomm aptX Adaptive, etc.
During their L10n event that was held back in July 2020 in India, Google talked about increasing their focus on improving the accessibility of their services, specifically language barriers for the incredibly diverse Indian user base. As part of this effort, Google has now announced support for new languages in many elements of Search results, and in more apps such as Google Maps and Lens.
Google launched Project Treble with the aim of reducing the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem across various smartphone manufacturers and devices. Initially the project focused on helping smartphone manufacturers quickly push out updates, and now, Google has announced a new collaboration with Qualcomm to enhance and extend Project Treble right down to the SoC level.
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FiiO, makers of high-quality audio products, has announced the launch of their Q3 THX Balanced DAC Amplifier in India. It features their THX AAA Amplifier Technology, supports decoding up to 768kHz/32bit, has multiple outputs, long battery and more.
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Google has announced a new update for Photos that improves and adds to its Memories feature. It can now show memories through a new animated cinematic view, added new collage templates and added new themes for Memories itself.
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Facebook has begun rolling out a new Lite version of Instagram app to Indian smartphone users as an attempt to expand their user base and reach more people in India. The app size is really small, less than 2MB and is claimed to provide the core Instagram experience that will be able to run fast and smooth on low-powered smartphones. It initially rolled out in Mexico back in 2018, but Facebook pulled the app later.
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Amazon has begun rolling out a new and pretty big update to their Fire TV software, bringing a redesigned interface and loads of new features such as Find destination, user Profiles along with new voice commands for the Alexa voice-assistant. The update will be rolling out to Fire TV Stick (3rd gen) and Fire TV Stick Lite.
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It wouldn’t be a wrong to say that Twitter’s standalone live-streaming app, Periscope, has been struggling to maintain a user base over the last couple of years. Add the rise in operation costs and Twitter has decided to discontinue the app by March 2021.
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Spotify has launched a new daily and weekly premium subscription plan specially for Indian mobile users. The plan starts at Rs. 7 per day, and provides most of the benefits of the yearly premium with some corners cut, encouraging users to sign-up with no commitments.
Dell has announced the launch of the newest member of the XPS family of laptops in India — the Dell XPS 13 (9310). The thin and light laptop features Intel’s Evo certification and is powered the latest 11th Gen Core processors and the Intel Xe graphics, with improved battery life, display and more.
Apple has released new software updates to iOS and iPadOS, adding new features such as support for Apple Fitness+ app with the Cardio fitness notifications, support for the newly released AirPods Max, ability to capture photos in Apple ProRAW on iPhone 12 Pro, privacy information for apps in the App Store and loads of bug fixes and improvements.
Apple has released a new software update to the Apple Watch, bringing the version number to WatchOS 7.2. This updates adds some very useful features such as Cardio fitness notifications and adds support for the Apple Fitness+ app, which was announced back in September. Along with this, there are also performance improvements and bug fixes.
Accessibility tools are an important feature in Android, helping users utilize with their smartphones with minimal loss in functionality. Motorola has released a new update to their Moto app, that improves the visibility of these tools in the software, and added shortcuts to existing accessibility tools.
