Samsung Galaxy M12 with 6.5-inch Infinity-V display, quad rear cameras surface, could pack a 7000mAh battery

Samsung Galaxy M12 (SM-M127F), the company’s upcoming M series smartphone has surfaced in new renders. This shows an Infinity-V screen, side-mounted fingerprint scanner, quad rear cameras and a two-tone rear design with striped upper section and a glossy bottom section. The phone is expected to come in other colours as well. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy M12 with 6.5-inch Infinity-V display, quad rear cameras surface, could pack a 7000mAh battery”

Flipkart acquires augmented reality company Scapic to enhance AR shopping capabilities

Observing a surge in consumer’s preference to shop online, Walmart-owned Flipkart is making investments to enhance their immersive shopping experience. As a part of this venture, Flipkart has announced their acquisition of an augmented reality (AR) company known as Scapic.

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Zoom adds new security features to help prevent interference, trolls in virtual meetings

Zoom has had their fair share of security vulnerabilities when they shot to popularity during the start of the pandemic and since then, they have been working hard to add new features and secure their platform. Their latest update now adds the ability to suspend participant activities, gives participants a report button and notifies hosts of At-Risk meetings.

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Microsoft Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 now available in India starting from Rs. 42999

After the announcement back in May this year, Microsoft today started rolling out the Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 in India. The Surface Go 2 sports a larger 10.5-inch PixelSense display with 10-point multi-touch and still retains the 3:2 aspect ratio. The display is protected by Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3 and it is powered by up to 8th Gen Intel Core m3 processor, while the base model is still powered by the Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4425Y. It is paired with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 128GB of SSD storage. Continue reading “Microsoft Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 now available in India starting from Rs. 42999”

HUAWEI confirms sale of HONOR smartphone brand

HUAWEI has confirmed the sale of their HONOR smartphone brand to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology Co., Ltd. jointly founded by Shenzen Smart City Technology Development Group Co. Ltd. and over 30 agents and dealers of the HONOR Brand, selling all of HONOR’s business assets and its decision-making capabilities. The move is a result of a long battle between HUAWEI and the US government, whose sanctions have been hurting HUAWEI’s business for over a year now.

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Google Pixel 4a gets a new Barely Blue color variant

Google introduced the Pixel 4a smartphone back in August in Just Black colour variant, now the company has introduced a new ‘Barely Blue’ variant for the phone. Other than the colour, it has the same polycarbonate body with a matte finish and similar specifications. Continue reading “Google Pixel 4a gets a new Barely Blue color variant”

Amazon Fire TV Stick 3rd Gen Review

A couple of months back, Amazon launched the successor to the popular Fire TV Stick – The Amazon Fire TV Stick 3rd Gen along with a ‘Lite’ version and it has been on sale in India since mid-October. The new Fire TV Stick and the Fire TV Stick Lite are powered by a faster 1.7 GHz quad-core processor with IMG GE8300 GPU that is 50% more powerful than the previous generation. These offer 1080p HDR streaming, support Dolby Audio, and more. I have been using the device for quite some time now, and here’s my Amazon Fire TV Stick 3rd Gen Review.

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iPhone 12 Mini teardown reveals smaller components

iFixit’s iPhone tear-down is always a good opportunity if you want to take a look at Apple’s latest hardware inside. This time, iFixit shared the teardown of iPhone 12 Mini recently, and here’s what we’ve learned. Continue reading “iPhone 12 Mini teardown reveals smaller components”

OnePlus 9 CAD renders surface online

It’s been exactly one month since the OnePlus 8T was launched in India. Now we have news and renders of the OnePlus 9 codenamed ‘Lemonade’, which is scheduled for early next year’s launch. Recently, the CAD render of the purported OnePlus 9 surfaced online revealing some crucial details. Continue reading “OnePlus 9 CAD renders surface online”

OPPO to showcase concept phone with rollable display, new AR Glasses at INNO DAY 2020 on November 17

Update: OPPO has confirmed that it will introduce new concept phone with rollable display at its INNO DAY event tomorrow.

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Google will soon give you a choice to turn off smart features and personalization in Gmail, Chat, and Meet

Google already does an excellent job with organizing your Gmail, categorizing them into Primary, Social, Promotion, etc. While the option to turn off this organization feature already exists, Google is adding a new personalization option to control how to process personal data that enables these smart features.

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OnePlus 8T Review

Keeping up with the tradition, OnePlus launched the ‘T’ version of the OnePlus 8 series in India a few weeks back. The OnePlus 8T is similarly spec’d as its predecessor, but, it carries few upgrades too – 65W charger, a 200mAh battery bump-up, 5MP macro camera, 2MP depth camera and 120Hz display. However, the upgrades becomes meaningful only if it’s implemented right.

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Samsung M7 and M5 Smart Monitors starts rolling out globally

Samsung has announced the global launch of their Smart Monitors, which is a do-it-all monitor that combines a conventional PC display with a Samsung Smart TV experience. It has connectivity options for both PCs and smartphones, native support for Microsoft Office 365 applications and other apps like Netflix, YouTube, etc.

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Samsung Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+ and Galaxy S21 Ultra detailed specs surface

Samsung is expected to introduce Galaxy S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra smartphones in a couple of months. After the renders that surfaced last month, detailed specifications of the phone have surfaced. This reveals FHD+ Infinity-O LTPS display with 120Hz refresh rate for both the S21 and S21+ smartphones, and 6.8-inch Quad HD+ Quad HD+ LTPO display with an adaptive refresh rate of 1hz to 120hz. These are said to be powered by upcoming Snapdragon 875 or Exynos 2100 depending on the market. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+ and Galaxy S21 Ultra detailed specs surface”

Xiaomi’s Mi, Redmi and POCO phones are facing ‘find device closed unexpectedly’ reboot issue; Fix coming soon

Xiaomi smartphone users are facing a new issue putting their phones into the bootloop. A couple of days back, Xiaomi users, on various social media channels, started reporting that they are getting ‘Find Device Closed Unexpectedly’ error on their device which leads to bootloop. A few people suggested that the issue was caused by the Airtel Thanks app, and people even confirmed that uninstalling Airtel Thanks app fixed the issue. The issue isn’t limited to one or a few models. Instead, the issue is widespread across all devices running MIUI, be it a POCO, Redmi, or Mi device. Continue reading “Xiaomi’s Mi, Redmi and POCO phones are facing ‘find device closed unexpectedly’ reboot issue; Fix coming soon”