OPPO at the Chinajoy 2019 announced new Game Color Plus and Dual Wi-Fi features for ColorOS and also demoed them on OPPO’s Reno phones at the event. These are focused on improving the gaming experience on smartphones.
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Sometime back, Fitbit hinted the launch of an innovative smartwatch, especially after Versa Lite. According to the latest report, the images of the purported next-gen Versa-series smartwatch have surfaced online with the support for voice assistant. Continue reading “Next-gen Fitbit Versa smartwatch could feature OLED display and Alexa support”
Right now, the South Korean giant Samsung is working on various projects ahead of its most awaited smartphone — Galaxy Note 10. One of them is the new chipset for its mid-range smartphone lineup. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 9630 SoC said to be in the works, could power Galaxy A (2020) series”
ACT Fibernet launched its ACT Stream TV 4K Android Streaming device back in April, and said that it will launch commercially after May. Today the company has started offering the device across four cities, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi and Chennai for the ACT Fibernet users with plans over Rs. 999 for Delhi and Hyderbad, over Rs. 1099 for Chennai and plans over Rs. 1159 for Bengaluru.
Few weeks back Amazfit launched the lighter version of it BIP smartwatch in India cutting out few features. This product from Huami (Xiaomi funded) is the company’s cheapest smartwatch under Amazfit range of smartwatches. We got hold of the device for some time, and this is what we think about it. Continue reading “Amazfit BIP Lite Review”
Back in June, Realme CEO Madhav Sheth has confirmed that the company will be introducing world’s first smartphone camera with 64MP GW1 largest 1/1.72″ sensor and 1.6µm pixel. In addition, he also said that the phone will be launched in India first. Today the company has confirmed a separate ‘Camera Innovation Event’ in Delhi on August 8th to reveal world’s first 64MP Quad Camera on a smartphone.
Intel launched its 9th Gen Core desktop CPUs last year and earlier this year, the company launched 9th Gen Mobile H-Series processor. Today, the company is officially introducing the 10th Gen Intel Core processor, code-named Ice Lake.
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Xiaomi’s Redmi brand launched the Redmi K20 smartphone in India last week month starting at Rs. 21,999. We already brought you the unboxing and first impressions and benchmarks, here we have the camera samples from the phone. The phone packs a 48-megapixel primary rear camera with single LED Flash, f/1.75 aperture, 1/2.0″ Sony IMX582 sensor, 0.8μm pixel size, 6P lens has support for PDAF, EIS along with a secondary 13-megapixel 124.8° ultra-wide sensor with 1.12μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture and an 8MP 1/4″ telephoto lens with 1.12μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture for 2x loss-less zoom.
Google launched its UPI based mobile payment service ‘Tez’ back in 2017 and later rebranded it to ‘Google Pay’ last year with new features. Now, Google has announced new security features to the Google Pay application to reduce payment scams in India.
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Vivo launched its V15 Pro smartphone in 6GB RAM with 128GB storage earlier this year and later launched the 8GB RAM with 128GB storage variant. After almost 6 months of launch in India, both the 6GB RAM and 8GB RAM variants of the Vivo V5 have received a permanent price cut in India.
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In May 2019, International Data Corporation(IDC) published a report regarding the worldwide smartphone shipments in Q1 2019 and HUAWEI posted 50.3% growth while Apple shipments were down 30.2%. Similarly, IDC has published new reports and it shows that worldwide smartphone shipments have declined 2.3% YoY in Q2 2019.
Update: August 1, 2019: Redmi Note 7 Pro is finally available through open sale in India from mi.com, Flipkart, Mi Home, Mi Studio, & Mi Preferred Partner stores in India after five months of launch.
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The smartphones shipment in India is growing at a steady pace. Recently, the smartphone shipments in the premium segment (₹30,000 or roughly US$430) grew an impressive 33% annually in India way above the single-digit overall smartphone shipment growth during Q2 2019. Continue reading “OnePlus increases lead over Apple and Samsung in premium segment in Q2 2019 in India: Report”
Huawei has launched Y9 Prime 2019 smartphone in India, as it had promised. It packs a 6.59-inch Full HD+ display with 91% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by an octa-core Kirin 710 12nm SoC with 4GB RAM and GPU Turbo 3.0, has a 16-megapixel primary camera with AI features, 8-megapixel triple rear camera and a 2-megapixel camera for portrait shots. There is a 16-megapixel pop-up camera on the front. It comes with 3D portrait feature. Both the front and rear camera of the device can retouch your portrait with studio-quality lighting effects.
Update: August 1, 2019 — Ather today confirmed that the Ather 450 will cost Rs. 1,22,224 on road in Chennai after GST revision from 12% to 5% on electric vehicles that comes in effect from today. In Bengaluru it will cost Rs. 1,13,715.
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