Apple’s next generation iPhone 13 series smartphones are a few months away from launch and fresh rumours about possible features have surfaced. The iPhone 13 series will reportedly feature larger induction coils that will enable better wireless charging and Apple will also be introducing portrait video as a built-in feature.
OnePlus launched the OnePlus 9 series smartphones that includes the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro with the camera co-developed with Hasselblad as a part of its three-year partnership. Now, a sketchy rumour says that the company is working on the OnePlus 9T with a 108MP rear camera tuned by Hasselblad and a quad camera setup, same as the OnePlus 9 series. Continue reading “OnePlus 9T with 108MP Hasselblad quad rear cameras rumored to launch in Q3 2021”
The new Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon in an interview with Reuters confirmed that it will start selling Nuvia-based laptop chips next year. Qualcomm completed the acquisition of NUVIA, a CPU and technology design startup, for $1.4 billion earlier this year. Nuvia was founded ex-Apple employees who left Apple in 2019 before the introduction of Apple M1 chip in 2020 that powers new MacBook Air and iPad Pro models. Continue reading “Qualcomm plans for Nuvia-based laptop chips in 2022 to compete with Apple M1”
Earlier last month, OnePlus announced that it will soon integrate more of its organizational resources with its parent company, OPPO. Following that, now OnePlus has announced changes to the codebase of OxygenOS and an improved software maintenance schedule. Continue reading “OnePlus integrates codebase of OxygenOS and ColorOS; announces new software maintenance schedule”
Apple and Intel will reportedly be the first major companies to build chips with TSMC’s 3nm process technology. The two companies are currently testing chip designs with this technology, and will likely mass-produce these chips for devices slated to launch in the second half of the next year.
Sony unveiled the Xperia 5 III along with the Xperia 1 III back in April. At that time, the company did not reveal any pricing and availability details. It has now announced that the Xperia 5 III will be available in Europe for €999 (US$ 1,181 / Rs. 88,275 approx.) and the Xperia 1 III will cost €1,299 (US$ 1,536 / Rs. 1,14,775 approx.) in Europe. Continue reading “Sony Xperia 5 III price and availability revealed for Europe”
Lately, Sony has been working towards bringing their PlayStation exclusive game titles to the PC platform, such as Horizon Zero Dawn. Now, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has acquired a Dutch based game development and optimization company known as Nixxes.
Continue reading “Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires game software company ‘Nixxes’”
Airtel has launched Airtel Black that lets bundle 2 or more of Airtel services (Fiber, DTH, Mobile) together. This entitles the customer to one single bill, one Customer Care number with a dedicated team of relationship managers, and priority resolution of faults and issues, says the company. This doesn’t have any additional costs or installation cost, and comes with free service visits for life. The company launched a similar plan last year for select circles. Continue reading “Airtel Black combines Postpaid, Broadband & DTH under a single connection”
Update: Xiaomi has confirmed the limited quantity sale in India will happen on July 7th. It has also announced Rs. 5000 Instant discount for SBI credit card holders during the sale. Continue reading “Mi 11 Ultra registrations begin ahead of limited quantity sale in India on July 7th”
With Windows 11, Microsoft has rebranded their “Easy of Access” tools and consolidated them into a new “Accessibility” menu. Microsoft also unveiled a number of updates that will improve the functionality of various accessibility features across Windows 11 and across applications that use them.
Now and then, developers at Twitter tease upcoming features that are still in development. The company showed three new features that they are exploring at the moment, called Reply Language Prompts, Trusted Friends and Facets.
Continue reading “Twitter working on Reply Language Prompts, Trusted Friends and more features”
TECNO Mobile has launched Spark Go 2021, the company’s new budget smartphone in the Spark series and the successor to last year’s Spark Go model in India, as it had announced. It has a 6.52-inch HD+ Dot Notch screen, is powered by MediaTek Heio A20 quad-core SoC with 2GB of RAM, features 13MP + AI dual rear cameras with dual LED flash, 8MP front camera with LED flash, rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a 5000mAh battery, same as the predecessor, so the only change is the colour and the rear design. Continue reading “TECNO Spark Go 2021 with 6.52-inch HD+ display, 5000mAh battery launched in India at an introductory price of Rs. 6699”
Google Meet, the video conferencing app of Google Workspace, is getting two new features that will improve its live-streaming capabilities. Users can now invite people from other domains for their live streams, and they can also enable live captions for improved accessibility.
Continue reading “Google Meet gets support for cross-domain livestreams and live captions”
Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology (MeitY) has approved 14 eligible applicants under the Scheme (PLI) for IT Hardware. A total of 19 companies filed applications for the PLI scheme in May. PLI Scheme for IT Hardware, extends an incentive of 4% to 2%/1% on net incremental sales (over base year of FY 2019-20) of goods under target segments that are manufactured in India to eligible companies, for a period of four years. This scheme for a period of 2020-21 till 2024-25 has been extended by one year, i.e. till 2025-26.
realme launched realme 7 and realme Narzo 20 Pro smartphones in India running Android 10 based realme UI 1.0. realme has already announced realme UI 2.0 Open Beta for these smartphones.
Android 11 based realme UI 2.0 comes with new features such as System Cloner, Quick Return Bubble, Enhanced Dark Mode, New App Drawer, Third-party Icon Support, Redesigned Notification Panel, Revamped Always-On display, Improved Game Space, and more. Check out this post to know about Android 11 based realme UI 2.0 features in detail.
