Apple has launched its iPhone 12 series a few weeks ago and unveiled the four models of this iPhone 12 series: iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Among those iPhones, iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro were made available for retail. As of now, another piece of news has come in the market that iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max are now available from pre-orders.
If we check out the pricing, the iPhone 12 mini variant’s price tag starts at $699 and the Pro Max variant’s pricing starts at $1,099. Apple is trying to make these devices available in multiple countries across the globe. As per the reports, the pre-order of these iPhones are launching in more than 50 countries and regions. Not only this but also Brazil, South Korea, and other regions’ customers will be able to grab this deal of pre-orders from 20th November.
iPhone 12 Mini
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Other than that, from today (6th November), you can pre-order iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max. But the shipping of both the iPhones will start on 13th November. Monthly payment modes are available as well. Apart from these, HomePod Mini pre-orders are also available for pre-orders in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the US whereas the shipping will start around November 16.
Let’s just check out the pricing of the different variants of iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
LG has recently launched the W11, W31, and W31+ smartphones with a 6.52-inch HD+ FullVision display. These are the successors of last year’s W10, W30, and W31+ smartphones respectively. So, let’s just check out the pricing and specifications of those smartphones one by one.
LG W11 specifications:
LG W11 runs on the Android 10 OS and is powered by a 2GHz Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) 12nm processor. Regarding the display, this phone has a 6.52-inch (1600 x 720 pixels) 20:9 HD+ FullVision display. This phone comes in come in Midnight Blue color variant.
The Helio P22 SoC of this phone is paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The storage is further expandable up to 512 GB via an external microSD card. Coming to the camera specs, this phone features a dual rear camera setup which includes a 13MP primary sensor and a 2MP depth sensor with the support of an LED flash and PDAF. For the selfies, this phone has an 8MP selfie snapper at the front.
Regarding the battery, this phone is fueled up by a 4,000mAH built-in battery. In terms of connectivity, this dual SIM phone has almost everything such as Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS + GLONASS, and a 3.5mm audio jack as well. As per the dimension, this phone measures 166.2mm × 76.3mm × 8.4mm.
In terms of pricing and availability, the LG W11 has a price tag of Rs.9,490 and it will be available starting from this November in India.
LG W31 specifications:
LG W31 runs on the Android 10 OS and is powered by a 2GHz Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) 12nm processor. Regarding the display, this phone has a 6.52-inch (1600 x 720 pixels) 20:9 HD+ FullVision display. This phone comes in come in Midnight Blue color variant.
The Helio P22 SoC of this phone is paired with 4GB RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The storage is further expandable up to 512 GB via an external microSD card. Coming to the camera specs, this phone features a triple rear camera setup which includes a 13MP primary sensor with PDAF, a 5MP Ultra-wide sensor, and a 2MP Depth Sensor with the support of an LED flash. For the selfies, this phone has an 8MP selfie snapper at the front. This phone has a fingerprint sensor.
Regarding the battery, this phone is fueled up by a 4,000mAH built-in battery. In terms of connectivity, this dual SIM phone has almost everything such as Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS + GLONASS, and a 3.5mm audio jack as well. As per the dimension, this phone measures 166.2mm × 76.3mm × 8.4mm.
In terms of pricing and availability, the LG W31 has a price tag of Rs.10,990 and it will be available starting from this November in India.
LG W31+ specifications:
LG W31 runs on the Android 10 OS and is powered by a 2GHz Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) 12nm processor. Regarding the display, this phone has a 6.52-inch (1600 x 720 pixels) 20:9 HD+ FullVision display. This phone comes in come in Midnight Blue color variant.
The Helio P22 SoC of this phone is paired with 4GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The storage is further expandable up to 512 GB via an external microSD card. Coming to the camera specs, this phone features a triple rear camera setup which includes a 13MP primary sensor with PDAF, a 5MP Ultra-wide sensor, and a 2MP Depth Sensor with the support of an LED flash. For the selfies, this phone has an 8MP selfie snapper at the front. This phone has a fingerprint sensor.
Regarding the battery, this phone is fueled up by a 4,000mAH built-in battery. In terms of connectivity, this dual SIM phone has almost everything such as Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS + GLONASS, and a 3.5mm audio jack as well. As per the dimension, this phone measures 166.2mm × 76.3mm × 8.4mm.
In terms of pricing and availability, the LG W31+ has a price tag of Rs.11,990 and it will be available starting from this November in India.
This month Apple will be hosting an event to mark the launch of their upcoming Macs powered by their own Silicon – preferably Apple A14X Bionic. This will be a huge leap in performance especially considering the fact it will be an ARM-powered chip based on the new 5nm process.
People are indeed excited to see what kind of performance Apple’s new SoCs can give and this is the reason why just before launch there’s a leak from CPU Monkey that gives a quick look to the CPU and GPU performance benchmarks of the latest Apple A14X Bionic chip.
Apple has gone way forward in developing faster SoCs for its devices, its ARM based processors are both efficient and powerful than many Intel CPUs out there. This is the reason why the Cupertino giant is shifting to its own silicon this time and the leaks suggests the new chip powering Macs could be 35% better in multi-core tests when compared to their current best A12Z Bionic chip.
As we see in the pic, the new A14X Bionic is almost comparable to its predecessor A12Z Bionic with 8 cores clocked at 1.8GHz base and 3.1GHz turbo, slight improvement from its predecessor. Well, Apple can certainly play with clock speed for various products and make them more powerful or less accordingly.
The integrated GPU seems to be upgraded again and the clock speeds of it remains the same as well, all of this in a 5nm die. There’s a bump in max displays supported as now 3 max displays can be attached along with 8GB RAM.
We have also got some benchmarks as well and in single-core tests we see the new Apple A14X Bionic scoring as much as 1634 points. This is a difference of 516 points which is almost 32% improvement over last generation.
In Geekbench 5 multi-core scores too, the new A14X Bionic scores a decent 7220 points that is almost 35% better performance over the A12Z Bionic.
In iGPU performance too we see an improvement of 26% as well, making this an all round improved SoC. As pointed out, CPU Monkey has good track record in leaking A12 Bionic and A13 Bionic benchmarks and they were also within the same range as actual real-life benchmarks.
Although all these numbers are still rumours but it is worth noting that the leaks still gives a fair enough idea about the improvement we can expect. Apple is all expected to launch the new ARM-powered MacBooks on November 10 at 10AM PST.
From the start of this pandemic this year, one of the most irritating things YouTube lovers have been facing that to stream YouTube videos at the highest resolution of the only 480P. Back in March, the Indian Government had taken such kind of step to step down the video quality on YouTube. The reason behind this was to reduce the bandwidth usage as well as the strain on networks as a result of the pandemic.
But a good news has finally now come for the YouTube lovers after more than 6 months. As per the report, from now on, you can enjoy Full HD 720P and 1080P YouTube videos on its highest resolution through your mobile networks. Back in July, YouTube had announced that only the WiFi users of India can stream YouTube videos on its highest resolution of 720P or 1080P. But as per the recent news, not only the WiFi users but also the mobile network users can enjoy 1080P streaming on YouTube. From now on, YouTube will not set 480P resolution as the default one.
So, from now on, we will not have to use VPN networks to enjoy HD streaming on YouTube. As per another report, many YouTube users have already got the facility of streaming HD videos through mobile networks back in September. But the number is really few. From now on, most of the users have to enable it for them. In the future, if the situation becomes critical and another lockdown happens, then YouTube can go back to its earlier decision of restricting video quality to 480P.
Manchester City and Liverpool have become big rivals in recent times. Arguably, they have been two of the best sides in the Premier League for the last few years.
So these fixtures between the Citizens and the Reds have become an all-important tie in the Premier League. Manchester City will be hosting Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday.
After a faltering start to the campaign, Guardiola’s men have finally found their rhythm back. City have won five of their last six fixtures in all competitions, including three consecutive wins and clean sheets. The most recent being Tuesday’s 3-0 win over Olympiakos in the Champions League group stage match.
On the other hand, Liverpool are on top of the league table despite facing a major defensive issue due to the injury of first-team centre backs Van Dijk and Matip. The Reds are also in good form after thrashing Atalanta 5-0 in the Champions League group stage match.
🔴 Jurgen Klopp has beaten Pep Guardiola more times than any other manager – 9 of 19 meetings (D2 L8)
🏟️ However, Klopp has not won in 4 PL visits to Etihad Stadium (D1 L3) since Guardiola took over Man City in 2016
Manchester City are unbeaten to Liverpool in their last four meetings at the Etihad stadium. Guardiola would like to keep the record intact. Liverpool will be without Van Dijk which is a big blow, meanwhile City will also be without their talismanic striker Sergio Aguero.
Pep Guardiola said at the pre-match press conference: “It’s an important game, but like the US Presidential Election, all the votes must count. There’s a lot of games to play,”
“It’s always nice to play against the strongest teams possible. Last year Liverpool were stronger. They have been an exceptional team for a long time, with an exceptional manager.”
“It is nice to face them to improve our level. We know how good we need to be to beat them.”
Sergio Aguero is tearing down his enemies by his goals
He further added: “When you play against teams like Liverpool you always have moments where you have to suffer,”
“We’ll try to use it to our strengths as much as possible. We have played each other many times. There will be up and down moments. We need to take our chances and be clinical.”
Liverpool have 16 points from 7 matches while Manchester City have 11 points from 6 matches. So City will be hoping to close the gap.
The tumult never seems to end at Barcelona as the club are on the brink of another problematic situation. The Catalonian club’s debt has doubled since 2019 and has come up to €488 million from €217 million.
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted finances further and has been one of the primary reasons for the spike in debt for the club. Losses worth about €100 million have been projected for Barcelona in terms of absence of ticket sales.
While there were talks of reducing the wages of the players earlier, those talks have become much more concrete. The proof lies in the fact that the club have decided to extend the deadline on their discussions for pay-cuts.
The news, as reported by the Spanish media outlet Esport3, further goes on to say that the club fear bankruptcy and will have to reduce their humongous wage bill by about 30% if the club is to keep on running smoothly.
New contracts for Clement Lenglet, Gerard Pique, Frenkie De Jong and Marc Andre Ter-Stegen were announced very recently. It is being reported that the four players will take a pay cut in the near future, but will be reimbursed when the situation improves.
Barcelona’s current wage bill amounts to an excess of €200 million per year, which is excluding the bonuses offered to each and every player. Leo Messi alone earns about €1.3 million per week, and his yearly payment amounts to a gigantic €71 million per year, again, excluding bonuses.
The Blaugrana will have to cut down expenses by a huge amount to make amends for their lack of income. Some sources speculate that the club will have to let Messi go to keep the club running, due to the Argentinian’s expensive wages.
Should Barcelona be unable to handle the situation properly, bankruptcy could be the least of their concerns amidst complete and utter chaos that could ensue within the club.
Dani Alves has hit out at former club Barcelona, talking about the possibility of rejoining the club after his spell at Juventus.
‘I offered myself to Barca to come back. I went to Juve to prove I was still at a good level,’ the veteran defender told RAC 1.
‘I wanted to return to Barca and they needed me, but they didn’t have the balls to admit that they were wrong with me. If they had treated me as I thought I deserved, today I would still continue playing for Barca. I love this club.’
The right-back was let go by Barcelona for free in 2016, and their performances have been disappointing ever since. The fans were also outraged at the club’s decision and lamented the board letting go of one of their best players, especially for no money.
Dani Alves is currently 37, and plays for Sao Paolo in his native Brazil. He won silverware at both Juventus, as well as PSG after departing from Spain.
According to the defender himself, Alves was willing to make a return to Camp Nou after spending a season at Juventus in which he managed to reach the Champions League final for the second year in a row.
However, the club were unwilling to accept that they ‘made a mistake’ by letting Alves go. And hence, the deal did not go through.
The Brazilian has also slammed the club’s image due to their recent crisis.
‘The style of Barca is changing. The club has lost its identity a bit and now has to go through a tough process to recover it,’ he added.
‘I think that Barca only wants to be a commercial and business club… buy and sell players. When you do that, you lose your identity. I think that is the problem for Barcelona.’
The advent of Intel’s 11th generation Tiger Lake family brought along with it many new updates. The inclusion of the support for the latest Thunderbolt 4 and the most anticipated PCIe 4.0 license. All this made the semiconductor the leading choice for notebook processing.
PCIe 4.0 technology is relatively new. However, we already know that the latest PCIe 5 is already ready. Though we have not seen the tech being implemented yet, it is rumored to be featured in the upcoming 11th generation high-end notebooks.
Now it seems that PCI SIG has already finalized the specifications of its new PCIe 6.0 module. We already know that the company is known to make its products short-lived. Soon after the launch of its PCIe 4.0, the company announced its PCIe 5.0.
When we have not even seen any proper implementation of the company’s 5th gen technology, it is already planning to launch its 6th generation module. But of course, the actual performances of the 6th generation PCIe will only arrive by 2023. The delay comes because PCIe 5.0 will be adopted by intel and AMD as early as next year.
Some specifications released by the company of PCIe 6.0 features include:
64 GT/s per pin for a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s on 16 lanes (nearly double that of the PCIe 5.0 standard and quadrupling the current PCIe 4.0 speeds)
PAM4 (Pulse amplitude modulation on four levels) is now used for signaling. This tech is also used in high-end networking equipment with the InfiniBand communications standard or the GDDR6x VRAM modules integrated into Nvidia’s high-end GPUs
Low-latency forward error correction (FEC) which is supposed to be lower than ten ns
Increased reliability over the Gen 5 standard
Optimized power efficiency
Scalable to hundreds of lanes on a single platform
PCI SIG plans to double its production every two years to increase the transfer rate of its modules. However, consumers will not be able to benefit from this increase immediately. It is because the OEM’s are not in a hurry to adapt to the new standards.
The ongoing dispute between China and the U.S. doesn’t seem to end. What started as an attempt to secure American technology’s future has now sent ripples across the global tech market. Amidst all chaos and confusion, the company that suffered the most was the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
With the ban from using U.S. based semiconductor chipsets to being potentially blocked from moving forward with its 5G development; Huawei received the short end of the stick.
However, in the last few weeks, more and more companies are getting approval from the United States to resume their business with the Chinese giant Huawei. Now the world’s leading chipset maker, Qualcomm, has confirmed that it has applied for a license near the U.S. administration. If the permit is granted, then Qualcomm will supply its chipsets to Huawei in the coming future.
A Qualcomm sign is pictured at one of its many campus buildings in San Diego, California, U.S. April 18, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake – RTS12V9Q
According to sources, the news was confirmed by Qualcomm’s CEO Steven Mollenkopf during the reveal of the company’s performance for the fiscal year 2020. However, even though the company has applied for a license, it hasn’t been granted yet.
We already know that companies like Intel, AMD, Samsung Display, and Sony have already received permission from the United States government to continue doing business with Huawei. The news of Qualcomm applying for a license is essential for the Chinese giant.
Sources claim that more than 300 companies have applied for a special license that is needed from the U.S. government to continue conducting business with Huawei. We can now confirm that approximately 100 of them have been granted permission. From that, about one-third have been given a license.
Though providing a license for companies to continue their business with Huawei, the U.S. administration has made one thing mandatory. It is not ready to support the companies that plan to supply components to Huawei for use in 5G development.
All this indicates that the U.S. administration is serious about keeping Huawei out of the 5G market, no matter who wins the presidential elections.
Advanced Micro Devices is the brand that is the biggest competitor of both Intel and Nvidia. Recently the company is trekking ahead in 4K gaming to establish its dominance in the gaming market. Earlier, the company promised that its upcoming RX 6800 XT would give Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 a run for its money.
The recent benchmark results posted at a 3DMark Time Spy Extreme demonstrate that the company might be able to stay true to its promise. The leaker @harukaze5719 publishes the results showing the performance of AMD’s RDNA2 graphics cards.
According to sources, the Radeon RX 6800 XT scored around 8,500 points. It means that the card scored 5% of the performance of the RTX 3080. The score of 8,500 points is above anything that custom RTX 2080 Ti cards can offer at their best.
On another note, AMD’s RX 5700 XT could not break the 4,000-point barrier in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme. It’s upcoming RX 5700 fell even further back on 3,500-3,700 points.
According to the leaker, the RX 6800 XT managed these scores at 2.4 GHz of clock speed on stable drivers. The card was said to remain relatively calm too, but at the cost of ‘slightly noisy’ fans.
The Radeon RX 6800 XT’s actual performance is not yet known as it is common knowledge that the cards run on engineering models, and the account can still be upgraded until the final reveal. As to whether AMD will remain true to its promise of delivering a worthy competitor for Nvidia’s high-end cards remains to be seen.
