Earlier this month, Samsung announced the launch of a new product called the UV sterilizer, and it is now available for purchase in India. The product can would quickly disinfect and sterilize smartphones, earbuds, keys, sunglasses in under 10 minutes and even has a wireless charger built-in.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the smartphone market as IDC has reported that the worldwide smartphone market declined by 16% YoY in Q2 2020. Total shipments were recorded at 278.4 million smartphones and the top 5 manufacturers for the quarter were HUAWEI, Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi and OPPO.
Syska, the makers of home lighting fixtures and smart home products, is entering the Indian wearables market with the launch of their first smart watch, called the SW100. It features a 1.3-inch TFT LCD screen, 11 different sports tracking modes, sleep tracking, IP68 water resistance and more.
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InterDigital, an Indian mobile and video technology research and development company, today announced that they are taking action against Xiaomi for infringing on patents involving cellular and H.265/HEVC Indian patents. InterDigital has stated that they are willing to settle the issue with Xiaomi under the terms of a FRAND license.
The Google One membership program was launched two years ago, giving users a one-stop location for their online storage needs, live support with experts along with other benefits. Google is now making two features, namely phone backup and a new storage manager tool, free for all Google users via the Google One app.
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Samsung’s online store has seen a surge in traffic and sales during the last few months, as the pandemic has forced people to buy products online. To celebrate their customers in India, Samsung is launching three new initiatives – the Samsung Referral Program, the Student Program and the Shop 20K Advantage initiative.
HiSense has announced that it will launch of their new range of TVs in India including their 100” Laser TV, their 86” 8K TVs, the Dual Cell QLED TV models. Its QLED, UHD & Smart televisions will launch on August 6th. These TVs will run Android TV 9.0, featuring built-in Google Assistant, built-in Chromecast and a One touch access enabled remote.
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Starting 30th July, Twitter will start blocking links to content that involve hateful conduct and violence, that have been shared on their platform. Along with this, Twitter may also choose to take action against the accounts that dedicated towards share links that goes against Twitter’s policy.
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Microsoft has released a new app called the Family Security app that provides parents tools to control and protect their kid’s online safety and activities. With it, parents can receive weekly activity reports, limit their kid’s device screen time, set web filters, enable location sharing and more.
Flipkart has launched a new hyperlocal delivery service called Flipkart Quick, that aims to deliver products within 90-mins. The service will offer a catalog of over 2000 products and will digitize local kiranas, bringing them to the e-commerce market.
RHA, the Scottish-based headphone company, has launched their new TrueConnect 2 truly wireless earbuds in India. They feature a long 44-hour battery life, Bluetooth 5.0, IP55 certification, capacitive touch controls, dual microphones and more.
Amazon has introduced a new update for its Alexa mobile app for various platforms that revamps the app’s UI elements and shifts the app’s focus to provide more personalized experiences for the user. The update also pushes third-party skill suggestions to the background as Amazon
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Every year, the Unicode Consortium releases an update to the list of emoji for that year, the latest being Unicode 13.0, that was released in January 2020. They have now announced a minor emoji release, called the Unicode 13.1, will be released later this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the release of Unicode 14.0.
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Update: July 27, 2020 A new render of the phone reveals the design of the 2020 Razr model codenamed Odyssey. This reveals similar design as the predecessor, but the fingerprint on the bottom chin is missing. Continue reading “Motorola Razr Gen. 2 with Snapdragon 765, 5G connectivity said to be in the works [Update: New render]”
Earlier this month, Chrome was discovered to be finally moving to a 64-bit architecture in its Canary v85 build, which could enable better utilization of RAM. Today, Chrome is migrating v85 to the Beta channel, bringing 64-bit support and other features like URL hiding, Support for AVIF image decoding and more.
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