Motorola has introduced G8 Power Lite, the company’s latest smartphone in the G8 series. It has a 6.5-inch HD+ Max Vision display, is powered by MediaTek Helio P35 processor with 4GB RAM, runs Android 9.0 (Pie), features a 16-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 2-megapixel macro and 2-megapixel depth cameras and an 8-megapixel front camera. Continue reading “Moto G8 Power Lite with 6.5-inch 20:9 Max Vision display, triple rear cameras, 5000mAh battery announced”
Back in 2018 Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1; the privacy-first consumer DNS service to speed up your internet connection and help keep it private, later it launched its Android and iOS apps. Today it has released 1.1.1.1 for Families. As the name says, the new DNS resolver is for home networks to protect your devices from security threats and block adult content from being accessed by their kids. Continue reading “Cloudflare releases 1.1.1.1 for Families to block malware and adult content”
Right as Intel announced its latest 10th Gen Core H-Series processors, ASUS has updated its ROG lineup with 7 new laptops, with GPU options that go up to a GTX 2080 Super. Some features in these laptops include 300Hz refresh rate displays with Pantone calibration, liquid metal cooling and even a second screen.
OnePlus recently confirmed the OnePlus 8 series will be introduced in an online event on April 14th. After revealing Quad HD+ HDR 120 Hz Fluid Display with MEMC chip back for the OnePlus 8 Pro in January, 5G support for the OnePlus 8 Series recently, and Snapdragon 865 SoC, coupled with LPDDR5 and UFS 3.0 for the OnePlus 8 Pro earlier this week, OnePlus has announced that the upcoming OnePlus 8 series have earned the highest overall display rating and Best Smartphone Display Award from DisplayMate. Continue reading “OnePlus 8 Series with Fluid AMOLED display earn DisplayMate’s ‘A+’ rating”
Razer has announced yet another update to its Blade lineup of laptops, continuing its confusing name with the latest one called Blade 15 (Early 2020). It is powered with Intel’s latest 10th Gen Core i7 H-series processors, and can be configured up to NVIDIA’s latest RTX 2080 Super with Max-Q and even has an option for a 300Hz display.
Samsung’s latest Galaxy S20 series is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 in select countries, now the Galaxy Note20+ with the model number SM-N986U has surfaced in Geekbench listing revealing Snapdragon 865+ processor with clock speeds up to 3.09GHz. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note20+ could be powered by Snapdragon 865+ clocked up to 3.09GHz”
LineageOS, the fork of most popular Custom ROM of its time CyanogenMod, is popular amongst custom ROMs enthusiasts. LineageOS team recently announced LineageOS 17.1 and dropped LineageOS 17.1 build for quite a few popular devices including POCO F1. LineageOS 17.1 uses Android 10 as the base, and the team behind had been working on the project since Android 10 announcement in September 2019 but the Permission Hub feature in AOSP conflicted with the Privacy Guard feature available in LineageOS causing the unforeseen delay and making the development team release LineageOS 17.1 instead of 17.0.
Today, Intel announced its latest 10th Gen Mobile-H Series processor that takes on the recently announced AMD Ryzen 4000 Series. OEMs have now announced new laptop models with this latest 10th Gen Intel processor. On similar lines, Acer has now announced the Predator Triton 500 and Nitro 5 gaming laptops.
Lenovo has announced two new laptops as part of its gaming-focused Legion laptops, of which the more premium Legion 7i will have up to a RTX 2080 Super Max Q design while its sibling 5i will be powered by up to RTX 2060. Both laptops will also have Intel’s newest 10th Gen H-series processors.
Last year, Intel introduced the 9th Gen Mobile H-series processor for laptops with up to 5GHz speed alongside the 9th Gen desktop processors. Following the launch of 10th Gen Ice Lake and Comet Lake processors, Intel has now announced the 10th Gen Mobile H-series processor based on the Comet Lake family for laptops and is an upgrade to the 9th Gen Mobile H-series processor.
TikTok has blown up in popularity around the world for being the go-to short form video sharing app. Now YouTube is apparently interested in entering that market as it has been reported that they are working on their version, called ‘Shorts’.
Continue reading “YouTube reportedly developing ‘Shorts’ to rival TikTok”
NVIDIA today introduced GeForce RTX 2080 Super and 2070 Super GPUs for laptops. These GPUs feature dedicated hardware cores to accelerate ray-traced rendering and enable AI capabilities and use NVIDIA Max-Q technology with new features that provide even faster performance and longer battery life. Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super and 2070 Super GPUs power range of 2020 laptops”
Sony has launched two new products in the US which are the WF-XB700 truly wireless earphones and the WH-CH710N Noise Canceling Headphones. Among its features, the truly wireless WF-XB700, being part of the ‘XB’ family has excellent bass reproduction while the WH-CH710N claims good noise cancellation with its Artificial Intelligence Noise Cancelation (AINC).
Update: Online retailers have revealed the design of the HONOR Play 4T and 4T Pro smartphones. This reveals an OLED screen with waterdrop notch and in-display fingerprint sensor and triple rear cameras for the HONOR Play 4T Pro. The HONOR Play 4T comes with a punch-hole LCD screen with rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and dual rear cameras. These should be the AKA-AL10 and AQM-AL10 smartphones that were certified by TENAA.
Last month, the GST Council in its 39th meeting increased GST rates for several products including mobile phones from 12% to 18% applicable from April 1st, 2020 and earlier today Apple, POCO announced the new prices. Now, Redmi, OPPO, vivo, realme, Samsung, and iQOO have announced the new prices of their smartphones and here’s a list of smartphones with new prices post-GST Rate Hike.
