As the Amazon Prime Days are coming close Redmi is preparing to launch a special Prime-only smartphone for the Indian customers. We have already told that Xiaomi has planned a new smartphone launch on the Amazon Prime Days sale and it turns out to be the Redmi 9.
— Redmi India – #RedmiNote9 is Here! (@RedmiIndia) July 27, 2020
The image shared by the company has already many hints hidden in it. We are here to decode them for you and @stufflistings have also helped to decode them. Mukul Sharma has mentioned that the Redmi 9 will come with Green and Grey colour variants and the smartphone will support 18W fast charging as well.
The Amazon listing also shows the Type-C port and a 3.5mm jack at the bottom. The phone will launch on 4th August and may be priced with Rs.12,000 price range ans the previous Redmi 8 was also has such price range.
At the end of June, the Indian government banned 59 Chinese applications including TikTok, ShareIt, and more, keeping in mind national data security. The highest ever Indo-China border tension was probably the trigger for this step. Now, it seems more Chinese apps are under scrutiny.
A twit by DD News disclosed that the Indian Government bans 47 more applications that are clones of the already banned 59 apps. It looks like, the Lite versions of those apps will be handled this time. Though still no official list has been announced but may publish soon.
As per another report, around 275 more apps, not only the Chinese application but also the Chinese company and developer supported apps are under observation. It is believed, the most popular game PUBG Mobile is also there in the list, along with e-commerce platform AliExpress, Ludo World game, and more.
The scanning process will look for any probable violation or security threats, what kind of data the apps collect from users, and what they share with the Chinese Government. In case you don’t know, the Chinese Government imposed a National Intelligence Law of 2017 on all the Chinese and under Chinese ownership tech giants. As per the law, the companies have to share some or all information that the Chinese Government will ask. This law is one of the main reasons, other nations including India is worried about.
Some of the popular apps that may include in the fresh list are PUBG Mobile in which Tencent has a stack as well as the Mobile gaming parter, AliBaba owned AliExpress, Xiaomi’s Zili, Resso – music streaming app by Bytedance. The applications by Chinese developers or companies like Meitu, LBE Tech, Perfect Corp, Sina Corp, Yoozoo Global are also on the list, as I said earlier.
Barcelona sacked Ernesto Valverde back in January and replaced him by appointing Quique Setien. The former Real Betis coach was expected to teach his philosophy and transform this Barcelona side.
But Setien has failed to do his job as they lost the league title to Real Madrid even after restarting the season with a two points lead.
Setien also doesn’t have a good relationship with the players. He hasn’t been able to control the dressing room.
Now, a widespread report has come out. The report claims that Barcelona captain Lionel Messi wants the Barcelona board to appoint Marcelo Bielsa as the new manager. Bielsa has done a wonderful job with Leeds United. They have returned to the Premier League after 16 years under Bielsa.
The 64-year-old has implemented a dominant, expansive style of play at Leeds United which will be well suited to Barcelona’s philosophy.
Bielsa is an Argentine so he would be quickly able to connect with Messi. He also has experience in LaLiga during his time as Athletic Bilbao coach.
Messi wanted some big changes as Barcelona finished this LaLiga campaign second to Real Madrid. He was unhappy with the way the club is being run. Maybe bringing in Bielsa to replace Setien is the first big change, the little magician wants!
One of the main figures in Liverpool’s team is their central defender Virgil van Dijk. He has been a key member in Liverpool success for the last two years.
Van Dijk has been a constant member in this Liverpool side who managed a massive 99 points in this Premier League-winning campaign.
The Netherlands international has made an ‘appearance record’ for Liverpool this season. He has played every single second of this campaign for Liverpool. Van Dijk has played in all of the 38 league games.
Van Dijk told the club’s official website: “I’m very proud for that and I won’t take that for granted. It’s never easy to keep yourself fit, you have to also be a bit lucky and obviously I try to look after myself in the best way possible.”
“It’s an incredible feeling and I think it’s the second season in a row that I’ve been playing 38 games so I’m proud of that and hopefully I can keep that going.”
Van Dijk is considered as one of the best defenders of recent times. He has truly changed the Liverpool backline since arriving at Anfield.
When Cristiano Ronaldo left Real Madrid for Juventus in 2018 many people would have thought that he cannot recreate his goalscoring form in Italy as they are known for their high level of defending. But this man is ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’ and age is just a number for him!
Even at 35 years of age, he is outperforming the youngsters almost by a mile. He has scored 31 goals in 32 games this season in Serie A. He has now equalled the all-time Juventus record for most goals in a single league season and you can bet that he is going to surpass the record in the remaining two league games. Incredible, isn’t he?
Cristiano Ronaldo neither has his lightning pace anymore nor can he can dribble past numerous defenders like his younger days, but he has adapted according to his age and has become more effective in front of the goal.
The Portuguese international scored a goal against Sampdoria and Bernardeschi scored another to win the game 2-0 for Juventus. Although Ronaldo missed an 89th min penalty to increase his goal tally, the 2-0 win was enough to guarantee Juventus their ninth successive Serie A title.
Juventus are now 7 points clear of second-placed Inter with only 2 games remaining. So they have taken an insurmountable lead in Serie A. It is Juventus’s 36th Italian league title overall and a first for former Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri, after he replaced Massimiliano Allegri last summer.
Leonardo Bonucci told Sky Sport Italia after Juventus won their ninth straight Serie A title: “‘It was the most beautiful title because it was the most difficult. We started a new era, a new philosophy, ran into so many difficulties, but we continued to give our all throughout, even when there were so many slip-ups.”
“It was so complicated outside the field too, the world changed in three months. We had to get our minds back on it, but we did it. We wanted it, we suffered. I have no words. We gave everything to ensure that we would do this for us, for the club, for the fans who cheered us on from home, or from heaven.”
“We wanted to celebrate with those who weren’t able to be here with us. When you wear this jersey, you cannot hold back. It has been an intense year.”
He further added: “We struggled at times to interpret the coach’s philosophy, but we remained a team, we worked as great men more than great players. Now we’ll try to rest over the next 10 days and then prepare for the next challenge.”
Juventus’ next target is to win the Champions League this season. They will host Lyon for the second leg of round-of-16 on 7th August. They need to overturn a 1-0 loss which they suffered back in February.
Considering recent form, Juventus will most probably win the tie and advance to the final eight in Lisbon. Cristiano Ronaldo will be looking to add another Champions League winners’ medal in his trophy cabinet.
boAt already displayed its power bank collection for the upcoming event on Amazon. Now it seems the new Pebble Flash Power banks will give those a great challenge. The company, Pebble, tried to add all the essentials you may require in a power bank, and the most important thing, price starts from only Rs. 649. Have a look at the products.
From all the details, images, and videos published by the company, it looks like there are two variants of 10000mAh and 20000mAh, and each has three color options – Blue, White, and Black. All the power banks have the support of both ultra flash charging (18W) and ultra flash re-charging, which means, it will take lesser time than others to charge the banks and your devices (if supported).
As the banks have the support of ultra-fast charging and re-charging, the safety needs to get more priority. That’s why all these have advanced 10-way circuit protection. To make it universally usable, there is a built-in 3-in-1 cable. You will be surprised knowing that, apart from powering the normal gadgets like smartphones, speakers, these banks are also compatible with laptops.
Besides all the mentioned attractive features, the sleek and compact design, LED lighting indications, two output USB ports are also part of the Pebble Flash bower banks.
The Amazon Prime Days are bringing huge discounts on all most every item along with over 300 new launches. In the new launch list, there are gaming controllers too. Some of them are yet to reveal, but some are listed clearly. The controller list contains The Lust of Us Part II Dualshock 4 Limited Edition Wireless Controller, Nacon Revolution Pro Controller 3, Flight Controllers and Racing Wheels by Thrustmaster, and Enhanced wired controllers by PowerA.
Dualshock 4 Limited Edition Wireless Controller
You can set out the journey of Ellie, the character of the game Lust of Us, with this limited edition Dualshock 4 wireless controller. It is crafted with a steel black matte finish look with the iconic fern tattoo of Ellie on the right grip.
Firstly, the Nacon Revolution Pro Controller 3 is equally compatible with PS4 and PC (Mac and Windows). The company says it’s created especially for the competitive gamers who are looking for performance and comfort. The attractions of it are – asymmetric strike, large action buttons and triggers, and two weight compartments for personalization. The cable coming with the body is a detachable Type-C/USB cable.
Other than these two, nothing is revealed about the Flight Controllers and Racing Wheels by Thrustmaster, and Enhanced wired controllers by PowerA. We have to wait further, not sure whether the details will come out before the Prime Day or not.
Previously we have reported that Realme V5 will launch on July 27 but now this news seems to be fake and a new set of the report claims that the Realme V5 will be launching on August 3. Now the company has also shared the official launching poster which confirms this news.
Realme V5 is also listed in JD.com, a Chinese online retail store. The phone is listed with all the necessary images and the key specs of the smartphone. In the site, we can also see various EMI options for its local market, but the exact price is still not revealed yet.
Thanks to @stufflistings, a tipster, has shared the key specifications of the Realme V5 in his twitter account.
According to @stufflistings, the Realme V5 will come with a 6.5-inch FHD+ IPS LCD along with a 48MP primary camera sensor at back. There will be a punch hole design at the front as we have already seen from the previous renders. The phone will come with MediaTek Dimensity 720 processor paired with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 128GB storage. It will also come with Dart Charge support.
We have used both the TWS earbuds from boAt and Boult and now this is the time to compare both the audio devices as both of them comes at the same price point. Both the TWS earbuds are priced at Rs.2,499 in Amazon India.
Both these TWS earbuds are one of the most popular in this price range and are worth the money. But at the end of the day it comes to a comparison and we have to chose one of them if we have this budget to spend on any TWS earbuds.
You can read the in-depth review of boAt Airdopes 441 here.
You can read the in-depth review of Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X here.
Audio and Mic Comparison
Both the TWS earbuds have very good audio quality and clarity as well. The highs and lows are very clear. The boAt Airdopes 441 even has a very rich bass while Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X has very clear highs. Allover in the audio comparison both the earbuds have a tie.
While calling both the device receives clear audio and the sound remains clear on the other side of the phone. So we can say both have a very high quality mic.
Both the earbuds support Bluetooth 5.0 which helps them to pair instantly even just by taking out the earbuds from the case will pair it automatically with the device. Now we know both the earbuds have CTC areas and they are highly responsive. Both have various CTC controls and almost the same in both cases.
One of the additional feature for the boAt Airdopes 441 is that you can switch off the earbuds even when they are out of the case. You can do it by touching the CTC for 5 seconds and both the earbuds will make a sound and will turn off. Other than this Airdopes 441 is mostly liked for its RGB lights in the earbuds, it looks cool on them.
The main distinguishing feature of the Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X TWS Earbuds is that you can control, the volume of the device by using the CTC. You can adjust the volume by pressing the CTC for 5 seconds of the right earbud to increase the volume while doing it on the left earbud it will lower the volume.
In case of comfort, the Boult TrueBuds-X will make the ears hurt after 2-3 hours of plugging in the ears, while the boAt is a perfect fit in the ear and won’t hurt until the power dies in a single charge. To be honest all TWS earbuds hurts after putting them on for a long time which is also not good for your health. So in comparison, the boAt Airdopes 441 wins here.
Well frankly speaking after using both the device the Lemon colour of the boAt Airdopes 441 is more bright and eye catching than the Boult TrueBuds-X. Even for the design the boAt looks very attractive.
Price and Availability
boAt Airdopes 441 TWS earbuds is priced at Rs.2,499 and is available exclusively via Amazon, buy from here.
Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X True Wireless Earbuds is priced at Rs.2,499 and is available exclusively via Amazon, buy from here.
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has a huge market in Asia for Smart TVs and its own UI is used in all of them. Xiaomi calls the UI for its Smart TV – MIUI for TV and its version 3.0 is here with many noticeable changes an improvements.
MIUI for TV 3.0 has been launched for the Xiaomi Mi TV series of devices but is limited to all the Mi TV users in Asia only. So, outside people have to wait for the update that promises a bunch of new features and UI enhancements as well.
Xiaomi has officially described its new MIUI for TV 3.0 as “an artificial intelligence tv system that really knows what you know and knows.” It adjusts the UI design, emphasizes the content first and their new animations as well.
Viewing any content has changed a bit as there’s a detailed page during inline playback, what we see with Netflix. There’s also a minimalist mode where the content and function of the entrance is to simplify the paving. The children’s mode can be controlled via mobile that makes it easier for parents to monitor. Interestingly, the MIUI for TV 3.0 has a video of Xiaomi, a TV assistant, and a WeChat public number.
Now, we have a gamepad mode along with microphone mode which has been integrated into the interface to enable interactive control of the Mi TV via other methods. The phone’s TV remote now supports traditional key mode, gesture mode that can be manipulated by gesture sliding.
The great new addition to the MIUI for TV 3.0 in the form of online “reverse control” function which allows casting the TV screen’s content onto a smartphone and restores the TV UI operation on your phone, quite handy for various purposes. With a more modern look and new AI performance enhancements than its previous version.
