Flipkart has launched its new Flipkart SmartPack subscription-based offering that guarantees money-back on new smartphone purchases after a 12 or 18-month tenure. Starting January 17, 2021 with the Flipkart SmartPack, consumers can purchase a brand-new smartphone on the Flipkart app with a 100% money-back guarantee, said Flipkart. Continue reading “Flipkart SmartPack with bundled in-app services offer up to 100% money-back on new smartphone purchases”
Samsung has updated their entire range of Air Conditioners for the year 2021 in India, across the Wind-Free, Convertible 5-in-1 and On/Off AC series. These new ACs feature new technologies and smart controls such as a PM 1.0 Filter, AI Auto Cooling, and they utilize green R32 Gas and a Copper condenser.
Acer has refreshed their Predator and Nitro lineup of gaming laptops, updating them with Intel’s latest 11th Gen Core H35-series CPUs and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs. Four new laptops were announced, which include the Predator Triton 300 SE, the Predator Helios 300, a 15-inch and 17-inch variants of Acer Nitro 5.
Amazon Prime Video has launched Prime Video Mobile Edition, a new single-user, mobile-only plan at an introductory price of Rs. 89 per month first time in India. The plan provides SD quality streaming through the Prime Video app on Android or iOS, which the company says is created especially for a mobile-first country like India. This competes with Netflix that launched its mobile plan for India at ₹199 per month back in 2019. Continue reading “Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition launched in India at Rs. 89 per month”
Tecno Mobiles just launched Tecno Camon 16 Premier, the company’s latest top-end smartphone in India. It has a 6.85-inch FHD+ Dual punch-hole screen with a 48-megapixel camera along with an 8-megapixel ultra wide-camera, comes with 90Hz refresh rate and has 90% screen-to-body ratio. The phone is powered by Octa-Core MediaTek Helio G90T SoC with Multi-dimensional Liquid Cooling Technology. Continue reading “Tecno Camon 16 Premier with 6.85-inch FHD+ 90Hz display, Helio G90T, 48MP + 8MP dual front cameras launched in India for Rs. 16999”
Telegram CEO and Founder Pavel Durov in a blogpost announced that Telegram has added 25 million new users globally in the last 72 hours alone. It surpassed 500 million monthly active users in the first week of January. The new rise is due to the new update to WhatsApp’s privacy policy which the company clarified later after backlash from people. Several users moved to Telegram and Signal. Continue reading “Telegram adds 25 million new users in 72 hours, surpasses 500 million active users”
CLAW has launched SHOOT Bluetooth Controller for Android Mobile Phones, Tablets, TVs and TV Boxes along with PCs and Laptops since it comes with a 2.4GHz Wireless USB dongle in the box. It comes with a detachable smartphone bracket to hold a phone between 4 and 7 inches and promises up to 8 hours of battery life with built-in 400mAh rechargeable battery. Continue reading “CLAW SHOOT Bluetooth game controller with support for Android and Windows launched”
After much anticipation, AMD has finally unveiled their newest Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile processors that are based on their powerful Zen 3 architecture. AMD introduced 13 new 5000 series mobile CPUs, and they announced new Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors along with two new 5000 series desktop processors.
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Vodafone Idea today announced that it has successfully refarmed 3G spectrum to 4G across 11 cities in Gujarat, thereby substantially enhancing GIGAnet 4G capacity in these cities. This development coming on the heels of the deployment of 5 MHz of 2100 MHz spectrum band in the circle, allowing Vi customers in Gujarat to enjoy higher download and upload speeds apart from better indoor coverage. Continue reading “Vi successfully migrates 3G spectrum to 4G across 11 cities in Gujarat”
Samsung introduced Exynos 2100, the company’s latest flagship SoC that will power the Galaxy S21 series. Inyup Kang, President of System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics at the end of the event confirmed that the company has been working with AMD and the next-generation mobile GPU from AMD will be used in the next flagship Exynos processor. This is a welcome change from the ARM Mali GPUs that the company has been using for the past few years. Continue reading “Samsung confirms AMD GPU for its next-gen flagship Exynos SoC”
Samsung just announced its latest Exynos 2100 SoC, successor of Exynos 990 that was introduced last year, as it had promised. It uses 5nm EUV (extreme ultra violet) lithography processing technology for better power efficiency. This has tri-cluster CPU structure that consists of Arm Cortex-X1 core that runs at up to 2.9GHz optimized for peak performance, three Cortex-A78 cores that run at 2.8GHz for balanced processing, and four Cortex-A55 cores that run at 2.2GHz for efficiency. This is similar to Snapdragon 888, but the clock speed is faster than the competitor. It promises 30% improved multi-core performance that the predecessor. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 2100 5nm EUV SoC with up to 30% faster CPU and up to 40% better GPU performance, built-in 5G announced”
Lenovo has announced the launch of the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, which is their thinnest-ever Thinkpad laptop that is designed around the Intel Evo Platform. Along with it, Lenovo also released the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9, X1 Yoga Gen 6 and the ThinkPad X12 Detachable laptop.
Qualcomm has introduced Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor Gen 2 after it introduced Gen 1 for flexible OLED displays back in 2018. The second-generation sensor comes in two new sizes that are 50% faster and 77% larger compared to Gen 1. Continue reading “Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor Gen 2 is 50% faster and 77% larger, could debut in Galaxy S21”
During last year’s CES event, Sony unveiled their first ever prototype electric vehicle, called the Vision-S. The company has now announced at its CES 2021 event that the Vision-S has begun testing the vehicle on public roads in Europe.
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A couple of days ago, WhatsApp updated their terms of service and privacy policy, forcing their users to accept it before the 8th of February. After receiving a lot of backlash and losing a lot of users to Telegram and Signal, WhatsApp has posted a new FAQ detailing what information is not collected and not shared with its parent company, Facebook.
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