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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HUAWEI’s HONOR brand today announced that it has started rolling out EMIUI 9.1 update in India, after rolling it out HUAWEI P20 Lite last month. This brings new features including better UI Design, Gesture Based Navigation, GPU Turbo 3.0, all-new EROFS (Extendable Read-Only File System) and Advanced Battery management among other features. These phones got EMIUI 9.0 along with Android Pie earlier this year. Continue reading “HONOR PLAY and HONOR 8X EMUI 9.1 update starts rolling out in India”
Xiaomi introduced Mi AirDots Pro, premium true wireless earphones for global markets back in June. The Mi AirDots Pro offers up to 10 hours of music playback, packs a 7mm dynamic driver unit and support active noise cancellation, we recently bought a unit from ShareSave which is Xiaomi’s own cross-border e-commerce platform, and here is the unboxing and first impressions of Mi AirDots Pro. Continue reading “Mi AirDots Pro Unboxing and First Impressions”
Samsung has announced the Galaxy Tab S6, successor of last year’s Galaxy Tab S4, as it had promised. It has a 10.5-inch Super AMOLED WQXGA screen, is powered by a Octa-Core Snapdragon 855 SoC and runs on Android 9.0 (Pie). It has quad-stereo speakers tuned by AKG by HARMAN, similar to the predecessor and has got rid of the Iris scanner in favor of in-display fingerprint scanner. The Galaxy Tab S6 has an 8-megapixel primary camera along with a 5-megapixel 123-degree Ultra Wide camera and an 8-megapixel front camera. It has a 5.7mm slim metal body.
Vivo just announced Z5, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone at an event in China as it had promised. It has a 6.38-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display with 90% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Snapdragon 712 with up to 8GB of RAM, runs Android 9.0 (Pie) with Funtouch OS 9.1, features a 48-megapixel rear camera along with an 8-megapixel ultra-wide sensor and a 2-megapixel camera for portrait shots. There is a 32-megapixel camera on the front.
With the latest Yoga S940 laptop, Lenovo has expanded its Yoga portfolio in India. This ultraslim laptop comes equipped with Artificial intelligence (AI) coupled with advanced audio and display technologies. It has also launched new IdeaPad S540, IdeaPad S340 and IdeaPad S145 laptops and Yoga A940 all-in-one desktop. Continue reading “Lenovo IdeaPad S145, IdeaPad S340, IdeaPad S540, Yoga A940 AIO and Yoga S940 launched in India starting at Rs. 23990”
Amazon has announced Amazon Freedom Sale for the year from August 8th to 11th. It will offer 10% instant discount for SBI card users, No cost EMI for major cards, exchange offers and more. It will offer additional exchange discount on OnePlus 7, OnePlus 7 Pro and Galaxy S10, discounts on Samsung Galaxy M40, Galaxy M30, Honor View 20, Redmi 7, Nokia 6.1 Plus and more. Continue reading “Amazon Freedom Sale from Aug 8 to 11 – up to 40% off on Mobiles and accessories, No cost EMI, exchange offers and more”
Samsung has reported its earnings for Q2 2019 that ended June 30 2019, in which the company has made operating profit of 6.60 trillion won, down 55.6% YoY, as expected. This due to weakness and price declines in the memory chip market and inventory adjustments by major datacenter customers, similar to previous quarters, despite a limited recovery in demand, said Samsung. It reported revenue of 56.13 trillion won, down 4% YoY from 58.48 trillion won last year. Continue reading “Samsung’s Q2 2019 profits down 55.6% YoY, mobile profits down 41.5% YoY due to weak Galaxy S10 sales”
Jaybird, today announced its lightest yet most powerful earbuds dubbed as Jaybird VISTA. Designed for runners and athletes, this earbud features IPX7 waterproof and sweat proof rating, secure and comfort fit, up to 16 hours of listening using a charging case and 6 hours standalone battery life.
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Apple has reported quarterly revenue of $53.8 billion, up 0.93% over last year with a net profit of $10 billion, down 13% YoY and earnings per diluted share of $2.18, down 7% for the financial year Q3 2019 that ended June 29, 2019. During earnings call Tim Cook said that the company saw significant improvement in year-over-year iPhone performance compared to last quarter, very strong performances for both Mac and iPad and absolutely blowout quarter for Wearables. Continue reading “Apple reports $10 billion profit on $53.8 billion revenue in FY Q3 2019, iPhone revenue down 12% YoY”
The likes of Bose and Sony dominate the wireless headphones segment with the Active Noise Cancellation feature at present with some amazing offering. Apart from these major players, we’ve seen other headphone manufacturers launching the wireless ANC headphones as well. Continue reading “Beyerdynamic LAGOON ANC headphones with Active Noise Cancellation launched in India”
Last week ZTE’s nubia brand confirmed that it will introduce its flagship Z20 smartphone in China on August 8th. Today a phone with the model number NX627J has been certified by TENAA in China, which should be Z20. It shows dual displays, similar to the nubia X that was introduced last year, but this will feature a slight larger 6.42-inch FHD+ OLED screen on the front and the 5.1-inch secondary OLED display on the back will have FHD+ resolution, compared to HD+ screen on the nubia X.
LG has introduced two new monitors– 27-inch UltraFine 5K Display (27MD5KL) and 24-inch UltraFine 4K Display (24MD4KL) explicitly designed for the latest Apple products. Continue reading “LG introduces 27-inch Ultrafine 5K and 24-inch Ultrafine 4K monitors designed for Apple products”
We already know that Samsung will introduce its Galaxy Note10 series on August 7th at its Unpacked event. Now the company has announced that it will introduce the Galaxy Tab S6 later today, July 31st and the Galaxy Watch Active 2 next Monday, August 5th at special pre-events.
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Generally, the OnePlus phones are known for their speed and performance, but the upcoming one could surpass them all if I am not wrong. Recently, RootMetrics research took place on the EE network in early June in London. Continue reading “OnePlus 7 Pro 5G achieves peak download speed of nearly 700Mbps in speed test, beats Samsung, LG and OPPO”
