It’s around two months Noise listed its third-gen Colorfit Pro smartwatch on the Amazon India page. Now, it’s finally announced. The awaited smartwatch is ready to launch in India on 10th February via Amazon India as usual.
However, the pricing is not revealed yet, but the sale will start at 10:00 AM as per the listing. Now, have a look at the specs list of the Noise Colorfit Pro 3.
The new wearable is coming with a 1.55-inch HD touch screen TruView display having 320×360 resolution and 500 nits of brightness. Going further, you can beautify the look even better. Thanks to the customizable and color-based watch face along with swappable colorful straps. The 5ATM waterproofing will surely provide you the additional safety.
Now, time for the sensors and trackers that give the wearable the ability to keep an eye on your health, starting with the Blood Oxygen Monitor. It will monitor the Oxygen level on the go. Alongside this, you can also track your stress level, heart rate over all the day, attend breathing seasons, monitor sleep habits, and more. While working out, the smartwatch can also detect that automatically and switched to that particular activity mode by itself.
Last of all, the Colofit Pro 3 will have Bluetooth 5.0 to sync it with the NoiseFit app in your smartphone and the 200mAh battery inside can provide you a long duration service.
These are all for now. Let’s wait till 10th February.
The Coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on almost every possible aspect of life. The most undeniable fact, though, is that the transfer market has, and will not be the same for a long time now.
Speaking on the situation in the Here We Go podcast Fabrizio Romano and Francesco Porzio said that the number of ,”free” transfers is going to increase in the upcoming transfer window and potentially next summer as well.
A lack of fans in the stadium and reduced income from media and has only made things even more difficult to sustain for clubs all across the world.
Clubs will now have a tendency to look at free transfers ahead of spending any money on new players. However, that might not stop long term plans for clubs of the stature of Real Madrid. Los Blancos have had plans of investing a record fee in the Frenchman to bring him to the club.
While it hasn’t stopped clubs across Europe to stop spending completely, it has drastically reduced the number of permanent transfers that were made for a fee this past transfer window.
The winter transfer window has now shut, and though no big money deals were made during the mid-season market, there were many steals and loan deals that made the headlines throughout January.
Speaking on the January window on their latest episode, Fabrizio Romano and Francesco Porzio revealed their choices for the most unexpected transfers in the middle of the season on the Here We Go podcast on Patreon.
Romano went with the transfer of Jayden Braaf from Manchester City to Udinese. The winger was scouted heavily by Borussia Dortmund, as a new version of Sancho, who came through the Manchester City academy himself.
The club blocked Dortmund’s approaches, but later chose to loan the young winger out to Udinese. The manager of the Serie A club is very happy with his new acquisition and has been reportedly left very impressed by the new boy in training.
According to Francesco Porzio, Ozan Kabak’s deadline day loan move to Liverpool was the most unexpected deal that took place. While the Schalke man was always on the verge of a move away, the transfer to Liverpool materialised out of nowhere and was indeed a very startling for a dormant Liverpool, who looked like they were not going to spend a dime on new centre-backs.
In the latest Top 10 semiconductor sales rankings for 2020 by Gartner, Intel is still dominating the semiconductor industry even though it is having a tough time selling its processors in the market. The top 5 players in the list remain quite the same as last year, Intel in the lead, followed by Samsung, SK Hynix, TSMC and Micron.
Samsung has every right to be in second place as it has expanded in every sector it could be and is again reviving the potential of overtaking Intel, which it did a few years back. The South Korean giant has seen a major boost in revenue, thanks to the demand for electronic devices in the pandemic.
SK Hynix and Micron have seen good growth in their own segment i.e. DRAM and NAND flash memory, respectively. The pandemic has forced everyone to work from home and boosting the need for notebooks which in turn has boosted the growth of microprocessors, DRAM, and NAND flash memory.
Qualcomm also had an amazing 2020 with a variety of 5G based chips and making some pretty big numbers in terms of revenue. This is the reason why it has managed the 5th place from 6th last year, pushing Broadcom to 6th place.
Whereas Texas Instruments retain its 7th position, MediaTek has also seen a major jump in revenue after defeating Qualcomm to be the biggest smartphone chip vendor. This is the reason why it has jump from 13th to 8th position in just a year, on the other hand, Kioxia is also up by 5 ranks from 14th place last year.
In the 10th place, we have NVIDIA, who has also seen a huge jump in revenue with strong demands for its GPUs in data centres, cloud gaming as well its own gaming GPUs. Overall, we see the major players in the semiconductor industry have taken the stride to be in the top 10, it will be interesting to see if these companies could keep their momentum in 2021.
The gaming platform raised $95 million in a Series D round led by Composite Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures
National, February 4, 2020: Mobile Premier League, Asia’s largest eSports and mobile gaming platform is now valued at $945 million after raising $95 million in a Series D round.
The MPL gaming platform has over 60 million users in India and over 3.5 million users in Indonesia. With over 50 games across categories on its Android and iOS applications currently, MPL has worked with 28 game developers to publish their games on the platform and provide them with a new revenue stream.
The latest round was led by Composite Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures, with participation from Base Partners, RTP Global, SIG, Go-Ventures, Telstra Ventures, Founders Circle and Play Ventures. The total capital raised by MPL since its inception in 2018 now stands at $225.5 million.
The pandemic-induced lockdown in 2020 provided a fillip to an already-booming eSports industry in India and the world. MPL is at the forefront of democratizing eSports in India and Indonesia, with initiatives such as the College Premier League (CPL), which was India’s biggest mobile esports festival. CPL saw participation from over 13,000 gamers and more than 100 colleges in India in November-December 2020, with Rs 1 crore in prizes and scholarships.
MPL will use this fresh influx of funds to expand its eSports portfolio and bolster its efforts to organize more such eSports tournaments nationally and internationally at scale. The funds will also be used to accelerate MPL’s international expansion this year.
Sai Srinivas, Co-Founder, and CEO, MPL
“As we grow our presence and expand, this fresh round of funds will help us focus on our core value propositions – a robust platform with the best features for gamers and onboarding the best eSports titles. The esports community in India is thriving, and we believe this is the perfect time to take Indian-made games to the world as well as help Indian gamers get recognized for their talent,” said Sai Srinivas, Co-Founder, and CEO, MPL.
“We are excited to partner with the MPL team and support their continued growth. As an industry leader in the gaming market, we believe the company will continue to innovate and drive the evolution of eSports, both in India and internationally,” said Kanush Chaudhary, Managing Director, Composite Capital.
”As we double down on our investment in MPL, we are eager to see it increasing its international footprint and becoming a global leader in the mobile gaming and eSports industries.” said Eduardo Latache, Partner, Base Partners.
“We are thrilled to have Composite Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures as new partners. Throughout the Series D process, we were impressed with their deep understanding of the mobile gaming and eSports ecosystem. We look forward to working with them as we continue to build a global gaming business out of India,” said Joe Wadakethalakal, SVP, Corporate Development and Investor Relations, MPL.
Last week, MPL also announced raising $500,000 from existing employees under its Employee Investment Plan, which saw participation from 10% of the company’s employees.
BioWare has explained the new changes in its gameplay they have made to the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. The first Mass Effect was an RPG, but the sequels are mostly focused on the feel of combat.
The Legendary Edition of Mass Effect has received some changes to its combat system and UI: better aiming, team AI, camera positioning, and squad controls. For a sequel, this type of gameplay change was not necessary.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition’s project director and a longtime BioWare developer, Mac Walters say, “One of the first questions is if we’re remastering this, what does that look like, and what does it mean to us. It quickly became this archaeological discovery, pulling things out […] one of the jokes I’d make, we’d talk about restoring a beautiful beloved car. Still, then it quickly turned into sure, if that car was buried in cement, and every time you tried to clear off some of the cement you were worried about dinging the paint or ripping off a mirror…”
Besides that, BioWare has appeared with disappointing news for the series fans that the multiplayer mode of Mass Effect 3 has been removed from the Legendary Edition. On this topic Mac Walters says, “What do we do with cross-play, what do we do with people playing multiplayer now, how do we honour that, bring them in, bridge that gap, and of course these aren’t insurmountable challenges […], but when you looked at the amount of effort that it was gonna take to do that, it was easily commensurate if not greater than for example uplifting all of Mass Effect 1.”
“I think our focus really was on the singleplayer experience, and at some point, we had to draw the line. I love ME3 multiplayer like I say people are still playing it today. Still, ultimately I think the product, the overall ME: LE is a better representation of the original trilogy because we’re able to focus on those singleplayer elements,” he added.
Maybe the majority of the audience is on the side of the single-player mode. Simultaneously, where Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode is alive, it isn’t very pleasant to see the remaster of Mass Effect 3 without its best features.
Qualcomm Inc. has signalled towards a global semiconductor shortage, as the world’s largest smartphone chipmaker is struggling to meet demand.
“The shortage in the semiconductor industry is across the board,” said incoming Chief Executive Officer Cristiano Amon, according to Bloomberg.
Like most chipmakers, the American company outsources production to companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung Electronics Co. These suppliers are trying to adjust to a vigorous rebound in demand far they are failing. The U.S. auto sector, in particular, has complained about this recently, but Qualcomm’s comments show the problems are deep-lying.
When the Covid-19 pandemic took the world by storm in early 2020, chip orders initially collapsed, and the R&D teams could not predict what holds for the future. But remote work and studying have seen demand for computers spur, while car buying has surged as people avoid public transport. That, in turn, has caused auto and electronics makers to need more chips than previously thought.
Amon said orders for chips that run cars, computers, and many other devices that are internet-connected are swamping the industry, which mostly relies on just a handful of developed factories in Asia. Supply should see a positive effect in the second half of 2021, he added.
According to a report by Bloomberg, “Qualcomm shares fell about 6% in extended trading. The stock closed at $162.30 on Wednesday in New York, leaving it up 6.5% in 2021.”
On Wednesday, Qualcomm also reported quarterly results and gave an upbeat forecast. However, some analysts and investors were not satisfied as they have become more bullish on Qualcomm recently.
Outgoing CEO Steve Mollenkopf gave supply constraints as the reason why Qualcomm’s performance was curbed.
Apple Inc., a major Qualcomm customer and one of the biggest consumers of chips globally informed last week that some components’ availability limited sales of high-end iPhone 12 models. Earlier on Wednesday, American automaker, General Motors Co., warned that a global semiconductor shortage would bring in a decline in production this year as the company plans downtime at three plants.
Qualcomm is the largest maker of chips that connect smartphones to wireless networks and is also a supplier of processors that give the devices their computer-like capabilities. With customers including some of the big players of the market like Apple and Samsung, the company’s projections are a closely watched indicator of the health of the mobile phone market.
In its fiscal first quarter, Qualcomm said revenue was $8.24 billion, which is a gain of 62% from a year earlier, while analysts, on average, projected $8.25 billion. Net income was $2.12 a share. Excluding certain items, profit was $2.17 a share, compared with Wall Street’s average estimate of $2.09.
Last month, Qualcomm said Mollenkopf, who will retire in June, will be succeeded by Amon as the CEO of the company.
The Japanese giant has recently announced the consolidated financial results for Q3 2020 yesterday. So, the Hiroki Totoki, vice president and CFO of the company, has said that it would be difficult to increase production of the PlayStation 5.
We know how much in demand these new PlayStation 5’s are and this scarcity in availability is restraining a lot of people to buy new consoles. Also the unavailability of the PS5 has led to scalping and a lot of illegal practices, which as fan no one likes to see.
The total sales in the game & network service division alone increased by 251.1 billion yen year-on-year to a whopping 883.2 billion yen. In contrast to this, the operating income increased by 26.7 billion yen to 80.2 billion yen.
As per Sony, by the end of December, a total of 4.5 million units had been shipped, thanks to the launch of PS5, which could have seen a lot better numbers if not the pandemic would disrupt the sector. Sony has said they are currently on track to meet our sales goal for the fiscal year of more than 7.6 million units.
The total PlayStation user gameplay time in December was approximately 30% higher than the same month of the previous fiscal year. Not only this, as of the end of December, 87% of PS5 users were subscribers to PlayStation Plus.
Also, Sony’s own Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales game recorded sell-through of a whopping 4.1 million units as of the end of December. Sony has seen a record-breaking end of 2020 but as the demand continues to grow, it will hard to match it, as its primary supplier AMD CEO Lisa Su expects that the capacity of manufacturing partners would be insufficient until the first half of 2021.
Although this winter transfer window was a lot quieter than others, many great deals were made through loan options, free transfers or sales for a relatively low price.
Speaking on the deals completed on the Here We Go podcast on Patreon, Fabrizio Romano and Francesco Porzio revealed, according to them, the best deals of the winter transfer window.
Fabrizio Romano chose Martin Odegaard’s transfer to Arsenal on a six-month loan deal as the best deal that took place in January. The Norwegian is the direct replacement for Mesut Ozil, who left for Fenerbahce after his contract with Arsenal was terminated.
The Real Madrid man is tasked with increasing the creative output of the Gunners and is finally getting to the place where he becomes a definite starter. Real Sociedad were also trying to get him back for another spell, but Mikel Arteta managed to convince Odegaard to choose the Emirates instead.
Podcast host Francesco Porzio went with the transfer of Dominik Szoboszlai from RB Salzburg to RB Leipzig for €25 million as the bargain of January. The Hungarian is currently out injured, and it will be a while before he features for his new club.
Many close favourites were the acquisitions of Ozan Kabak by Liverpool, Papu Gomez by Sevilla and Mario Mandzukic by AC Milan.
With the first month of 2021 over, it is the perfect time to travel back and see what were the smartphones launched in January. Without wasting any time, let’s visit the list.
1. iQOO 7
Vivo’s iQOO 7 sports a 6.62-inch FHD+ AMOLED display. In terms of optics, it offers a triple rear camera setup. This includes a 48MP primary camera and two 13MP sensors, along with 16MP snapper for selfies. It has a refresh rate of 120Hz and is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset. The smartphone is powered by a 4,000mAH battery with 120W of fast charging support. It’s 8GB RAM and 128GB internal storage variant cost RMB 3,798 (approx Rs 43,000).
Oppo Reno5 Pro 5G smartphone showcases a 6.55-inch FHD+ OLED display with 2400×1080 pixels resolution. It is run by the MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ chipset. In terms of optics, offers a quad rear camera setup having a 64MP primary sensor, an 8MP lens, a 2MP macro lens, and a 2MP mono portrait lens. Talking about the front cam, it offers a 32 MP selfie snapper. It features a 4,350mAh battery and is paired with a 65W SuperVOOC 2.0 fast charging support. It is priced at Rs. 35,990.
The Honor V40 exhibits a 6.72-inch full HD+ OLED waterfall display. The smartphone is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ 5G mobile processor. The camera setup boasts to have a 50MP primary sensor along with an 8MP ultra-wide lens and a 2MP macro sensor. Talking about the front cam, it hosts a 16MP dual-camera system for selfies. It sports a 4,000mAh battery with 50W wireless charging. The price for the 8 GB RAM and 128 GB internal storage variant is RMB 3,599 or around Rs 40,600.
This Vivo’s device sports a 6.56-inch FHD+ (2376×1080) AMOLED display. It is powered by Qualcomm’s latest SoC, Snapdragon 888. On the rear side, Vivo X60 Pro+ hosts four cameras which include a 50MP primary sensor, 48MP wide-angle, 32MP portrait lens, and 8MP periscope camera. On the front side, you can notice a 32MP camera. It houses a 4,200mAh battery and comes with a 55W flash charging. The price of this new smartphone in China starts from CNY 4,998 or approx Rs 56,400.
Motorola’s latest smartphone comes at CNY 1,999 or Rs 22,500 (the base variant). It features a 6.7-inch FHD+ (2520×1800) LCD display and is run by Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G chipset. Talking about the camera, it features a quad rear camera setup that includes a 64MP primary sensor, a 16MP ultra-wide sensor, a 2MP fixed-focus depth sensor, and a ToF sensor. The front-facing camera includes a 16MP primary and an 8MP wide-angle sensor.
Xiaomi Mi 10i features a 6.67-inch full HD+ (1080p) IPS LCD. The device is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 750G processor. The quad rear camera setup features a stunning 108-megapixel sensor, an 8-megapixel ultrawide sensor, a 2-camera macro shooter, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. It is backed with a robust 4820mAh battery and support of 33W fast charging. It is priced at Rs 20,999.
This smartphone offers you a 6.53-inches FHD+ (1080 x 2340 pixels) IPS LCD. It is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 800U SoC. On the rear side, you can witness a triple camera setup with a 48MP primary sensor, an 8MP wide-angle lens, and a 2MP macro lens. Also, you can click pretty selfies with the aid of 13MP snapper. It hosts a 5,000mAh battery with 18W fast-charging support. The price of the device is Rs. 14,590.
9T features a 6.53-inches FHD+ (1080 x 2340 pixels) IPS LCD. The smartphone comes at a price of €169 for 4GB and storage of 64GB variant. It is run by Qualcomm SM6115 Snapdragon 662 Soc. The quad rear camera setup consists of a 48 MP sensor, 8 MP camera, and two 2 MP macro and depth cameras. The selfie camera features an 8 MP sensor. It houses a Li-Po 6000 mAh non-removable battery equipped with 18W fast charging capabilities.
Samsung launched three devices Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra. The three smartphones have a display of 6.2-inch, 6.7-inch, and 6.8-inch respectively. Galaxy S21 offers you a triple camera setup with 12MP ultra-wide sensor, a 12MP wide-angle sensor, and a 64MP Telephoto zoom lens. It houses a 4,000mAH battery. The price of the base model of this smartphone is (8GB+128GB) Rs 69,999.
Galaxy S21+ comes with a 12MP primary lens and a 64MP Telephoto Camera lens and a 12MP Ultra-Wide Angle lens. It is packed with a 4800mAh non-replaceable battery and 25W Fast Charging technology. The base model is priced at Rs 81,999. Last but not least, Galaxy S21 Ultra a stunning 108MP wide-angle sensor, 12MP Ultra-wide lens, and two 10MP telephoto zoom lenses. For selfies, it is equipped with a 40 MP camera. It has the same battery as the previous device, that is, 4,800mAH battery cell. The base price for this device is Rs 1,05,999.
Realme V15 comes with a 6.4-inch AMOLED type screen with 1080 x 2400 pixels screen resolution. It is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 800 MT6873V chipset. In terms of optics, the rear side of the device has a 64MP primary sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle sensor and a 2MP macro sensor. It also possesses a 16MP selfie camera at the front. It houses a 4,310mAh battery with 65W charging capability. The price of the device is Rs. 15,890.
This smartphone features a 6.52 inch IPS LCD screen. It is powered by MediaTek Helio G35 chipset. In terms of optics, C20 offers you a single rear camera of 8MP along with an LED flash. Talking about the front camera, it hosts a 5MP selfie-shooting lens. Realme C20 houses a robust 5000mAh Li-ion type battery. The price of this smartphone is Rs. 7,990.
