Facebook is working hard to develop their Messenger Rooms, which is a feature that can be used to connect to people over video. In the latest 2.2019.6 WhatsApp Web update, Messenger Rooms appears to be in development to be integrated in as a shortcut.
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The premium smartphone market (>Rs. 30000) has been a competition between Samsung Apple and OnePlus for many quarters now. In the first quarter of 2020, the market saw a growth of 21% YoY, with Samsung managing to edge out Apple to take the lead as India’s current top premium smartphone manufacturer.
Xiaomi’s Redmi brand just announced the Redmi K30 5G Extreme Edition in China in partnership with jd.com, as it had promised. It is the world’s first smartphone to be powered by the latest Snapdragon 768G SoC, which brings 15% faster CPU and GPU performance compared to 765G and is also the first SoC in the 7 series to bring updateable GPU drivers. Continue reading “Redmi K30 5G Extreme Edition with 6.67-inch FHD+ 120Hz display, Snapdragon 768G, 64MP quad rear cameras announced”
Along with the Narzo 10A, realme also launched the Narzo 10, the company’s latest smartphone in the new Narzo series in India, as it had promised. It packs a 6.5-inch HD+ Mini-drop notch display with 89.8% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by the latest MediaTek Helio G80 12nm SoC with 4GB RAM, and runs Android 10 with realme UI on top. It has 48-megapixel rear camera with f/1.8 aperture, AI scene recognition, 8-megapixel 119° ultra-wide sensor, 2-megapixel 4cm macro sensor and a 2-megapixel Black and White sensor for portrait shots. Continue reading “Realme Narzo 10 with 6.5-inch mini drop display, Helio G80, 48MP quad rear cameras, 5000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 11999”
Realme just launched the Narzo 10A, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the new Narzo series in India, as it had promised. It packs a 6.52-inch HD+ Mini-drop notch display with 89.8% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by the latest MediaTek Helio G70 12nm SoC with 3GB RAM, and runs Android 10 with realme UI on top. It has 12-megapixel rear camera with f/1.8 aperture, AI scene recognition, 2-megapixel 4cm macro sensor and a 2-megapixel depth sensor for portrait shots. Continue reading “Realme Narzo 10A with 6.5-inch mini drop display, 12MP triple rear cameras, 5000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 8499”
Apple may be on track to increase India’s local manufacturing revenue to nearly $40 billion over the next 5 years, as a result of the Government of India’s Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI) for large scale electronics manufacturing. The scheme will be largely availed by two of Apple’s contract manufacturers, namely Winstron and Foxconn.
Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon 768G, the company’s latest mid-range 5G Mobile platform and the successor of the Snapdragon 765G that was introduced back in December last year. This comes with faster Qualcomm Kryo 475 CPU Prime core clock speed up to 2.8 GHz compared to 2.4 GHz in the 765G and also promises up to 15% faster graphics rendering than Snapdragon 765G and support for 120Hz display. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G announced — 15% faster CPU and GPU performance compared to 765G, updateable GPU drivers”
Update: Vivo has confirmed the launch of V19 smartphone in India on May 12th, after it has been postponed from the original launch date of March 26th. Even though it was supposed to launch in India first, the smartphone appeared on the global website last month, which confirmed the complete specifications. Continue reading “Vivo V19 with 6.44-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display, 48MP quad rear cameras, 32MP dual front cameras launching in India on May 12”
Xiaomi finally released its much-anticipated flagship Mi 10 in India last week. There has been so much heat around Mi 10 since India launch, in this post let us analyze if Xiaomi has been a little late in finally bringing Mi flagships to India and what are the other factors that may determine Mi 10 and Xiaomi’s fate in the premium segment in India.
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Xiaomi has finally launched Mi True Wireless Earphones 2 (Mi AirDots Pro 2) in India. Mi AirDots Pro 2, the successor to premium true wireless earphones Mi AirDots Pro, were first introduced in China back in September. Mi True Wireless Earphones 2 (Mi AirDots Pro 2) offers up to 14 hours of music playback, packs a 14.2 mm dynamic driver unit and supports environment noise cancellation, but are these worth a consideration?
Read on our Mi True Wireless Earphones 2 (Mi AirDots Pro 2) review to find out, for the rest of the article we will refer to it as Mi AirDots Pro 2. For the review, we used a unit bought from ShareSave which runs a different firmware as compared to India units. Continue reading “Mi True Wireless Earphones 2 (Mi AirDots Pro 2) Review: A weird but worthy successor!”
As we all know by now, Telegram is a messaging app works similarly to WhatsApp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger. Founded by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, people behind Russian social network VK, this messaging platform comes equipped with an array of innovative and useful features.
Last year, Telegram released a slew of updates for its Android and iOS users bringing the ability to transfer group ownership, among others.
Through this feature, admin can choose to transfer the powers of a group or channel to another administrator id they wish to. Also, there is an option called ‘Transfer Ownership’, which allows users to change the owner easily. Continue reading “How to transfer channel or group ownership in Telegram”
Microsoft went live yesterday on YouTube, Mixer and Twitch to reveal 13 new titles that will be released for the Xbox Series X. With the pandemic also causing nearly every conference to be postponed, Microsoft is planning to build hype for their upcoming Xbox Series X console via many live streams until its launch date.
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Being the only one among the top 3 to record a positive growth for the first quarter of 2020, the Indian smartphone market shipped 32.4 million units overall. This calculates to a growth of 1.5% YoY, whereas the Chinese and US markets saw a decline of 20.3% YoY and 16.0% YoY respectively. The top 5 manufacturers continue to be Xiaomi, Vivo, Samsung, realme and OPPO.
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Xiaomi’s Redmi brand has already introduced Redmi Note 9 Pro and Note 9 Pro smartphones in India, and the Redmi Note 9 made its global debut last week. Now the company is gearing up to launch the Redmi 9 smartphone soon as it had surfaced in RF exposure website. This reveals the model number M2004J19G for the phone. Head SAR of 0.711 W/kg and Body SAR of 1.059 W/kg. Continue reading “Redmi 9 shows up on official website, expected to launch soon”
Reliance Jio offered double data vouchers, free daily data owing to the ongoing nationwide lockdown and on similar lines, now the company has launched a new work from home annual plan and new add-on data packs. This new annual plan offers 33% more benefit compared to the existing annual plan.
