Xiaomi Redmi Go Review: Every 500₹ matters

India is a big country, with a big spectrum of consumers buying smartphones. You can find almost every price category being contested upon by a large number of companies, big and small. While the 10-15K segment garners most attention, the lower end 5K segment is seeing a quiet but important upgrade. The Redmi Go (4,500₹) is for the first time smartphone buyer who is coming from a mostly-offline world. For them, every 500 Rs. matters indeed, as Xiaomi representatives emphasised at the launch event.

I’ve been using the Redmi Go for a while now to understand whether it is worth recommending to the first time buyer. This is my review.

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Realme 3 Pro 6GB RAM with 64GB storage version launched for Rs. 15999

Realme launched the much awaited Realme 3 Pro last week in India. Realme 3 Pro is the company’s flagship smartphone with Snapdragon 710 processor, up to 6GB RAM, VOOC 3.0 fast charging and more. At the launch, Realme introduced the 4GB RAM+64GB storage variant and 6GB RAM+128GB storage variant. But, today, Realme has introduced a new variant of the Realme 3 Pro with 6GB RAM+64GB storage.

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Reliance Jio leads feature phone market in India in Q1 2019

Jio launched its feature phone, JioPhone in June 2017 in India. The phone sported a candy bar design, came with support for 4G VoLTE and had support for 22 Indian languages.  The successor to the JioPhone i.e., JioPhone 2 with QWERTY keyboard was launched in July 2018. Jio saw great sales of both the smartphones and today, new reports have emerged that Jio becomes the leader in the feature phone market.

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Search on Google for ‘Thanos’ and click the Gauntlet to discover an Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg

Marvel Studios has released the much awaited Avengers: Endgame movie today, and we have seen unique promotions done by the company for the movie. Continue reading “Search on Google for ‘Thanos’ and click the Gauntlet to discover an Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg”

Xiaomi smartphone powered by Snapdragon 730 launching in India soon

Xiaomi India head and VP Manu Jain has announced that he has met Rajen Vagadia, VP and President Qualcomm India and Kedar Kondap, VP, product management, Qualcomm regarding the next Xiaomi smartphone that will be powered by Snapdragon 7 series SoC that was announced two weeks back. This should be the Snapdragon 730 that was introduced on April 9th.

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OPPO F11 Pro Marvel’s Avengers Limited Edition launched in India for Rs. 27990

After the announcement in Malaysia earlier this week, OPPO has launched F11 Pro Marvel’s Avengers Limited Edition smartphone in partnership with Marvel in India. This comes with Blue color with glossy  finish, features OPPO signature gradient effects combined with an intricate hexagonal pattern and red Avengers logo completes the design.

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Realme RMX1901 with 6.5-inch no-notch display, dual rear cameras gets certified

Two new Realme smartphones with model numbers RMX1901 and RMX1851 have been certified by TENAA in China. The RMX1851 is the Realme 3 Pro that was launched in India earlier this week, but the RMX1901 is a new model. The image shows a no notch on the front, so there might be a pop-up camera, gradient back, AI dual rear cameras and possibly an in-display fingerprint scanner since the is no fingerprint scanner on the back.

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Lacie portable High Performance SSD review: For the Pros

Such high performance in such a small form factor that sometimes you wonder, wasn’t this only a dream not too long ago? The amount of computing power we carry with us has increased manifold and at the same time we are operating in a distributed computing environment. In this age of smartphones, laptops and iPads and kindles, storage has become portable beyond belief. In 1991, 1000$ got you a 20MB flash SSD that could be used inside computers for mission critical applications, today for half the price you can get a tiny futuristic slab of storage that will meet and augment all your high performance needs. The Seagate Lacie Portable SSD is for the pros who keep moving. Let’s find out why.

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Xiaomi starts crowdfunding for Mi LED Smart Bulb in India for Rs. 999

Xiaomi introduced its Mi LED Smart Bulb along with its Redmi Y3 launch in India event earlier this week. As promised, it has started crowdfunding for smart bulb in the country. It is a 10W bulb with 800 Lumens of brightness, comes with support for Amazon Alexa as well as Google Assistant, and doesn’t require a separate bridge like Philips Hue. It comes with E27 socket so you have to purchase the B22 converter separately.

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Xiaomi Redmi 4 MIUI 10.3 Stable update starts rolling out [Download Link]

Xiaomi launched the Redmi 4 running MIUI 8 based on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), later the smartphone received Android 7.1 (Nougat) followed by MIUI 9 update. The company updated the smartphone to MIUI 10 Stable for the smartphone back in November. Now, the company has started rolling out Another update for the Redmi 4. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 4 MIUI 10.3 Stable update starts rolling out [Download Link]”

OnePlus teases OnePlus 7 Pro’s triple rear cameras

OnePlus 7 series is launching globally on May 14 and there have been a lot of leaks and rumors about the smartphones on the internet. Recent leaks suggested that OnePlus 7 is expected to come in the standard edition, Oneplus 7 Pro and OnePlus 7 Pro 5G versions. Today, OnePlus has officially posted a teaser of the OnePlus 7 Pro which will sport a Triple rear camera setup.

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Samsung launches World’s Largest Onyx Cinema LED Screen in India at Swagath Onyx Theatre in Bengaluru

Samsung today launched the World’s Largest Onyx Cinema LED Screen in India’s tech capital Bengaluru at the Swagath Cinemas. Samsung has launched it along with a group company HARMAN, the brand known for its professional speakers. The Onyx LED Screen is said to offer powerful, captivating and larger-than-life visuals for movie goers.

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Xiaomi opens 1000th Mi Store in India, announces Mi Studio

Xiaomi has announced its 1000th Mi Store in India today located in Rewari, Haryana. In addition to the Mi Store launch, Xiaomi India also announced the launch of ‘Mi Studio’ which is the company’s latest addition to its new retail concept.
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Lenovo upgrades Legion and IdeaPad laptops with new 9th Gen Intel Core mobile processors

Intel launched the new 9th Gen Intel Core mobile H-series processors this week and Intel said that laptops powered by the new processors will launch from OEMs including Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and MSI soon. In similar lines, today, Lenovo has refreshed 3 Legion gaming laptops and launched a new Legion gaming laptop and IdeaPad gaming laptop with the new 9th Intel Core mobile H-series processor.

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Google Earth Timelapse gets mobile and tablet support

Google Earth introduced an update to its amazing Timelapse feature which showed Earth from 1984-2018. The cool feature which allowed users to see public infrastructure projects and the rapid pace of urban development is making its way to mobile devices and tablets, starting today.

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