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OnePlus today has announced its expansion of its offline presence by partnering with Croma to sell its OnePlus smart TVs, which are now available for purchase across select Croma stores and on croma.com. “The extended partnership with Croma will enable OnePlus to further expand its offline reach and make its smart TVs more accessible to customers,” said the company. Continue reading “OnePlus expands its offline presence – OnePlus TVs are now available from Croma”
After signing Bollywood actor Salman Khan as its brand ambassador last year, realme today announced the appointment of Indian cricketer K.L. Rahul as its new brand ambassador smartphones. realme said that the partnership will further complement the brand’s attitude of setting new benchmarks, inspiring thousands of millennials across the country. Continue reading “realme ropes in KL Rahul as its new brand ambassador”
After launching its 55-inch (55U6G) QLED TV in India, which went on sale in the country recently, HiSense has launched new 65-inch (65U6G) 4K QLED and 75-inch (75U80G) 8K QLED TVs in the country. Hisense said that the Full-Array QLED TV delivers refined, life-like images and Full-Array Local Dimming boosts image contrast that gives you more a more accurate and dynamic viewing experience, while the Quantum Dot delivers over one billion shades of bright and vivid colors for an elevated experience. Continue reading “Hisense launches new 65″ 4K and 75″ 120Hz 8K QLED TVs with Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos in India”
vivo launched its vivo X70 Pro and Pro+ smartphones in India last month with Funtouch OS 12, but it was running Android 11. Today, vivo has confirmed the roll-out of Android 12 based Funtouch OS update in India with beta release for the X70 Pro+ starting by the end of November and will continue to roll out till April 2022. Continue reading “vivo confirms Android 12 based Funtouch OS update for range of smartphones in India; beta roll out begins in November”
HMD Global just launched the Nokia C30, the company’s latest smartphone in the C series in India, after teasing it last week. This comes after the Nokia C20 Plus, which was launched in the country back in August. It packs a 6.82-inch HD+ screen, is powered by Unisoc SC9863A SoC with up to 4GB of RAM, runs Android 11 with two years of quarterly security updates, packs an 13MP rear camera with LED flash along with a 2MP depth sensor and a 5MP front camera. Continue reading “Nokia C30 with 6.82-inch HD+ display, 6000mAh battery launched in India starting at Rs. 10999”
After months of steady growth, the Indian smartphone market has recorded a decline of 5% Year-on-Year (YoY) for the third quarter of 2021. It shipped a total of 47.5 million units during the quarter, and the top 5 manufacturers continued to be Xiaomi, Samsung, vivo realme and OPPO.
In India, cloud gaming services is a big untapped market, as most of the existing services such as Google Stadia, NVIDIA GeForce Now, etc. are not available in India. That is about to change as a new company called Ant Play has announced the launch of their first ever cloud gaming service in India, which offers performance up to a GeForce RTX 3060 GPU.
Continue reading “Ant Play cloud gaming service launched in India starting at Rs. 999 per week”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 7 Pro smartphone in India back in February running MIUI 10.2 Global Stable on top of Android 9.0 (Pie). The smartphone has already started receiving Android 10 based MIUI 12 update in India.
MIUI 12 brings all-new design and animations along with new features such as Super Wallpapers, Floating Window, New Control Center, Enhanced Privacy Protection features such as Interceptor, Flare, Hidden Mask Mode and more to the devices, check out this post to learn more about MIUI 12 features.
Stuffcool, an Indian company known for their smartphone accessories and gadgets, has announced a new, compact, dual port wall charger called the Neutron 33. It utilizes GaN technology, and features support for a USB Type-C port with Power Delivery, along with a USB Type-A QC3.0 port.
At the ‘Unleashed’ online event, Apple introduced the most expected upgrade to the MacBook Pro that are powered by new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips with up-to-10-core CPU with eight high-performance cores and two high-efficiency cores, along with an up-to-32-core GPU and up to 32GB of fast unified memory. These also feature enhanced media engines with dedicated ProRes accelerators specifically for pro video processing. Continue reading “Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max, Liquid Retina XDR mini-LED 120Hz display announced; India price starts at Rs. 1,94,900”
At their Unleashed event today, Apple announced a new subscription tier for their Apple Music music streaming service, simply called the Voice Plan. As the name suggests, this new tier is designed to work with Apple’s Siri voice assistant, and offers many of the same benefits as the more expensive subscription tiers.
At the ‘Unleashed’ event, Apple launched its 3rd generation AirPods, as expected. It has a new design, same as the AirPods Pro, and also supports spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, longer battery life and also comes with Adaptive EQ powered by computational audio. There are new force sensor controls for easy and intuitive control of music and phone calls, and it also supports wireless charging. Continue reading “Apple introduces AirPods 3rd generation with a new design, Spatial audio; priced in India at Rs. 18500”
vivo has launched Y3s, the company’s latest smartphones in the Y series, in India. It features a 6.51-inch HD+ Halo FullView display, comes with 13MP rear camera, 5MP front camera, face and the phone is powered by Helio P35 SoC, but it doesn’t have a fingerprint scanner. Continue reading “vivo Y3s with 6.51-inch Halo FullView display, 5000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 9490”
HMD Global today launched the XR20, the company’s latest rugged smartphone, in India after teasing it last week. It is a waterproof phone (IP68) with a sleek casing that is made to the MIL-STD-810H military standard, has 1.5m drop protection, can be submerged to depths of 1.5m for 30 minutes, and the company says that it is built for conditions far harsher than the rough and tumble of everyday life. Continue reading “Nokia XR20 rugged 5G phone with 6.67-inch FHD+ display, IP68 waterproof body launched in India for Rs. 46999”
Boult Audio, an Indian audio brand, has announced the launch of two new wireless speakers called the BassBox Arc and BassBox Verve. These compact speakers both feature Bluetooth 5.0, IPX5 water resistance, integrated controls, 8-hour long battery lives and more.
