Smartphone tech is evolving quickly, and it’s never before improvement compared to a couple of years earlier. If you are using a smartphone at that time and have the plan to upgrade, this festival season could be the best time. Cause Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale is bringing lots of ‘Never Before Offers’ to us. Don’t worry; if you don’t know about the offerings, we are here to share that with you.
Applicable to all :-
Exchange offer
No cost EMI
Total damage protection
Great pricing
Additional 10% off on HDFC Debit/Credit cards & EMI
You may aware of the launch of the latest OnePlus 8T with 5G connectivity. Including this model, other 8 series models having 5G enabled will be eligible for the offers
Apple is trying to expand its portfolio as well as update its existing wide range of products. This year has been a tough one in all aspects for the Cupertino giant, and so it was not able to launch all of the products in time, but it plans to bring a lot of them in the coming months.
Reliable Apple tipster Komiya has shared a wide range of products that Apple will be launching in the next six months. As we see, the list features the iPhone 12 lineup, as usual, will be launched this month itself while the MacBook series is rumored to be launched next month itself.
We will also see the MacBook Pro 13 powered by Apple Silicon, and it was already reported earlier. On the other hand, there’s an interesting mention of the Mac Mini, and Apple Silicon will also power it.
The next interesting mention is both the HomePod (2nd gen), which is kind of expected. However, it seems Apple is keen on bringing a cut-down version of its flagship smart speaker in the HomePod Mini form. AirPods will also be upgraded alongside the upcoming AirPods Studio.
Apple AirPower and AirTag are two other interesting accessories Apple is currently working on. There’s the mention of a 24-inch iMac as well, along with Apple Pencil gen 3 and the Magic Keyboard gen 2.
As for now these are rumors but doesn’t seem impossible to me and sure we will see a lot of them actually making into the market but the exact timeline is hard to predict.
The Brazilian winger has been frozen out at Juventus. Last season he only scored 1 goal and provided 5 assists in 23 Serie A appearances.
New Juventus manager Andrea Pirlo doesn’t have the 30-year-old in his plans. He wanted to send him out on loan to free up space for Federico Chiesa, who is about to join from Fiorentina on loan for €10m with an obligation to buy for a further €50m.
Bayern Munich were in the hunt for a winger. They initially targeted Chelsea’s Callum Hudson-Odoi but Frank Lampard was reluctant to let him leave. So Bayern has now signed their former player on a season-long loan with no option to buy.
Douglas Costa is coming back to Bayern Munich! Total agreement reached with Juventus, here we go soon after Hudson-Odoi deal collapsed with Chelsea. Douglas Costa deal will be completed on loan as per @Sky_MaxB. 🔴 #transfers#Juve#Bayern
Douglas Costa joined Bayern Munich in 2015 and played at the Allianz Arena until 2017. He was then first loaned to Juventus for €6m and then Juventus bought him permanently for €40m in 2018.
Costa will now join the Bavarians once again and would provide support to Leroy Sane and Serge Gnabry in the flanks.
The ongoing tussle between the US government and the Chinese administration has created waves in the tech industry. This has resulted in huge changes in the market plan and production development of many semiconductor industries.
Though most of the companies which are not US-based has to comply with the policies enforced by the US administration, it has most certainly created many possibilities for the US-based silicon manufacturers. The chipmaker giant Intel Corporation bags one such opportunity.
The company announced its subsidiary, Intel Federal LLC, has won a government contract from the United States Government. The contract will help the United States is shifting its defense industrial manufacturing base to its homeland.
Intel is one of the only three companies in the entire world capable of manufacturing processors based on advanced processing nodes. Hence, the silicon giant acquiring this deal is a huge deal.
One other reason for offering Intel a deal in defense is to protect access to critical semiconductor technology from rivals like China. Intel recently celebrated its 2020 manufacturing and day. The chipmaker showcased its prowess in semiconductor fabrication.
The silicon giant revealed that it produces ten billion transistors each second, and it has compacted four hundred million circuits into one mm2 of a chip. The company also recently revealed its 10nm chipset based Intel Tiger Lake SoCs.
The company is manufacturing its next-gen 7nm chipsets, which is delayed by six months to 2023, due to yield problems during the manufacturing process.
Intel will develop Prototypes that will integrate Government Chips with its products
Intel is developing prototypes means that the silicon manufacturer has to ‘lump’ together multiple chips in a single package. This is referred to as by the semiconductor industry a Chiplets.
Chiplets are designed by Intel to tackle various problems that chip manufacturers face due to an increase in the manufacturing cost of silicon dies as node-scaling increases.
A silicon die is costlier to manufacture and becomes even more costly as nodes become more advance. Intel aims at reducing this cost using its chipsets. Intel chipsets are smaller, which can then be linked together using Through-Silicon-Vias (TVs), short wires, and interposers.
Apart from chipset, Intel also offers its Foveros 3D die-stacking technology. This new technology provides placing chips like CPU and memory chip on an interconnect unit, which are then connected to the packaging material and then to the motherboard.
Aside from Foveros, the company also offers connecting multiple chips through its Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology. This new tech completely removes TSVs from the connecting equation, which is a bonus and decreases production cost.
The US Navy intends to use all of the above Intel’s technology to integrate its purpose-built chips with Intel’s products. This is mainly due to the US administration’s concern over its national security and the integrity of US technology.
AMD is gearing up to launch the new Zen 3 based CPUs on October 8th, dubbed as Ryzen 5000 processors, and meanwhile, EPYC Milan server processors are indeed one of the most anticipated ones this year.
This is because of the new Zen 3 architecture based refined 7nm process, which promises higher performance than last year’s revolutionary Zen 2 architecture.
Last year’s EPYC Rome CPUs were already very promising because of its incredible efficiency and multi-threaded performance. Previously, tipster @ExecuFix spotted the EPYC Milan engineering sample with OPN code 100-000000114-07_22/15_N, running at 1.5 GHz base clock speed and a very low boost clock speed of 2.2 GHz.
Now, the same tipster has again spotted a new image of a bunch of AMD EPYC CPUs and is certainly looking like the next-gen EPYC Milan CPUs. With Zen 3, you could expect an IPC lift of up to 15% as promised, and it certainly looks good on the upcoming Ryzen 5000 processors.
So, you can mostly expect to see 64 cores per socket, which means dual-socket motherboards will come up to 128 CPU cores. Previously AMD launched the EPYC Rome in November last year, and it should continue that trend; you can expect Dr. Lisa Su to give some insights about the EPYC Milan chips on October 8th.
Apple TV delivering performance with an excellent combination of features. offering many streaming software like Netflix, Spotify, etc. and sporting the beautiful tvOS 14, has been a fan favorite in the market.
The smart tv offering many features, however, always lacked one particular feature. It didn’t support Youtube 4K. Yes, it’s frustrating, I know. Unable to stream 4K videos from youtube is a big disappointment, which the Cupertino giant had never responded to.
However things are finally changing.
Apple’s latest software upgrade for the Apple TV 4K has brought around YouTube 4K with it. Finally, we will be able to play 4K YouTube videos. But, there is a catch.
Users can play 4K youtube videos, but they can only do so at 30fps. There goes my excitement.
The Company, however, has still not offered a depth of color or even contrast that High Dynamic Range (HDR) can provide for 4k YouTube videos. The Cupertino giant’s Smart TV OS only supports Youtube 4K videos at 30fps with only SDR.
If you try playing videos at 50fps, or 60 fps, then the resolution drops to 1440p. HDR will still not be supported even at 1440p resolution. This is certainly is disappointing.
Apple still unable to offer 4K resolution at 60 fps for YouTube videos still seems like a dream. If the feature might become more complete in Apple’s future devices is still unknown. But the company has at least taken a step towards the future of youtube on Apple TV. this certainly gives me home.
Perhaps the company is saving the future model feature and is waiting to surprise us in the next quarter. Well, its almost been three years since Apple TV received its last major update. At least there is the hope of getting YouTube at 4K with 60 fps soon. I, for one, am anxiously waiting for the Next update of Apple TV 4K.
Samsung’s current high-end TVs are all available with QLED technology. QLED technology is certainly amazing for being less expensive to manufacture while also offering excellent visual quality.
Reports claim that the South Korean tech giant is developing multiple technologies for the future of its TVs. It has already unveiled a few models which have the latest micro-LED technology supporting them. Now it is also working on Mini-Led and QD-OLED TV models.
Samsung has announced its commitment to selling more than two million Mini-LED TVs by next year.
The new QLED TV from Samsung will sport the Mini-LED backlighting technology for the year 2021. It is also reported that the new line-up will feature 4K resolution and will come in varied sizes. The sizes are reported to be 55-inch, 65-inch, 75-inch, and even 85-inch.
Mini-LED backlighting technology is certainly the next big thing in the future of TV displays.
The Mini-LED backlighting supported TVs offer a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, while the current generation TVs only offer a 10,000:1 contrast ratio.
The South Korean giant’s upcoming TV line-up of QLED TVs powered by Mini-LED, is expected to offer high contrast ratio, high brightness, and most excitingly better HDR and WCG performance.
It is reported that companies like Apex, Epistar, FitTech, Macroblock, San’an Optoelectronics, and Saultech are competing to offer their Mini-LED chips to Samsung.
Let’s do some TV math: A 65-inch 8K Mini LED backlight TV will usually be deployed with more than 12 thousand Mini LED chips were as an 85-inch TV will require more than 20 thousand chips. If our math is correct, which most certainly is, Samsung plans to ship more than 2 million Mini LED-backlit TVs, which will at least sum up to more than 30 billion chips. That’s too much import.
Mini LED, and Micro LED display technologies show their strengths recently, with leading brands like Apple and Samsung ready to launch new products based on these technologies. The year 2021 is expected to be the year we see a boom in Mini LED technology applications.
In this COVID-19 pandemic situation, most of the smartphone buyers are looking to buy a lower mid-range (budget) smartphone. Due to this high demand for mid-range smartphones, a lot of affordable pocket-friendly handsets have been launched in recent days.
September 2020 is one of the most noticeable months because in this month many smartphones have been launched and what we can see October will be no difference at all. So, we are providing you a list of the most affordable smartphones under Rs. 17,000, were launched in recent times. Let’s go through the list and have an in-depth view.
PRODUCTS(Ranking 10 to 1)
PRICE (₹ / INR)
10.Samsung Galaxy A10s(32GB)
10,999
9.Moto e7 Plus(64GB)
9,499
8.Realme C15(64GB)
10,999
7.Poco M2(128GB)
12,499
6.Redmi 9 Prime(128GB)
11,999
5.Realme Narzo 20(128GB)
11,499
4.Realme Narzo 20 Pro(128GB)
16,999
3.Redmi Note 9 Pro(128GB)
16,999
2.Realme 7(128GB)
16,999
1.Poco X3(64GB)
16,999
10. Samsung Galaxy A10s
The dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy A10s features a 6.2″ HD+ TFT V Cut display with 720×1560 pixels of screen resolution. The phone has a dual rear camera setup at the back, which includes a 13MP main shooter alongside a 2MP depth sensor. On the front side, there is a water-drop notch to hold an 8MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by the MediaTek MT6762 chipset and runs on Android Pie 9 OS. The SoC is equipped with 3GB RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 512GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent battery of 4,000 mAh. This phone is available in Black, Blue, and Green colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 10,999.
9. Moto e7 Plus
The dual-SIM Moto e7 Plus features a 6.5″ Full HD+ IPS TFT LCD Max Vision display with 1600×720 pixels of screen resolution. The phone has a dual rear camera setup at the back, which includes a 48MP main shooter alongside a 2MP depth sensor. On the front side, there is a water-drop notch to hold an 8MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by an Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 chipset and runs on Android 10 OS. The SoC is equipped with 4GB RAM and 64GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 512GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent battery of 5,000 mAh. This phone is available in Misty Blue, and Twilight Orange colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 9,499.
8. Realme C15
The dual-SIM Realme C15 features a 6.52″ HD+ In-Cell LCD display with 1600×720 pixels of screen resolution. The phone has a quad rear camera setup at back including a 13MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 2MP Mono camera, and a 2MP retro sensor. On the front side, there is a water-drop notch to hold an 8MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by the MediaTek Helio G35 chipset and runs on Android 10 OS. The SoC is equipped with 4GB RAM and 64GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 256GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a huge battery of 6,000 mAh with an 18W quick charge. This phone is available in Power Blue, and Power Silver colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 10,999.
7. Poco M2
The dual-SIM(Nano) Poco M2 features a 6.53″ Full HD+ In-Cell IPS display with 2340×1080 pixels of screen resolution. The phone has a quad rear camera setup at back including a 13MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 5MP Macro camera, and a 2MP portrait camera sensor. On the front side, there is a teardrop notch to hold an 8MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by an Octa-core MediaTek Helio G80 chipset and runs on Android 10. The SoC is equipped with 6GB RAM and 128GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 512GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent battery of 5,000 mAh. This phone is available in Brick Red, Pitch Black, and Slate Blue colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 12,499.
6. Redmi 9 Prime
The Redmi 9 Prime has a 6.53″ Full HD+ display with 2340×1080 pixels of screen resolution. The phone has an AI quad rear camera setup at back including a 13MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 5MP Macro camera, and a 2MP portrait camera sensor. On the front side, there is a teardrop notch to hold an 8MP selfie camera. The phone has dual-SIM(Nano) facility which is supported by the 4G network.
This phone is powered by an Octa-core MediaTek Helio G80 chipset and runs on Android 10. The SoC is equipped with 4GB RAM and 128GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 512GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent Li-Po battery of 5,020 mAh which is supported by 18W of fast charging. This phone is available in Space Blue, Mint Green, and Sunrise Flare colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 11,999.
5. Realme Narzo 20
The Realme Narzo20 features a 6.52″ Full HD+ display with 1600×720 pixels of screen resolution. The phone is packed with a triple rear camera setup at back including a 48MP main shooter alongside an 8MP wide-angle sensor, and a 2MP Macro camera sensor. On the front side, there is a waterdrop notch to hold an 8MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by an Octa-core MediaTek Helio G85 chipset and runs on Android 10. The SoC is equipped with 4GB RAM and 128GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 256GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent Li-Po battery of 6,000 mAh which is supported by 18W of fast charging. This phone supports a dual Nano SIM with 4G connectivity. This phone is available in Glory Silver and Victory Blue color variants. The phone is priced at Rs. 11,499.
4. Realme Narzo 20 Pro
The Realme Narzo 20 Pro features a 6.5″ Full HD+ display with 2400×1080 pixels of screen resolution and 90Hz of refresh rate. This phone has a quad rear camera setup at back including a 48MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 2MP Macro camera, and a 2MP B&W camera sensor. On the front side, there is a hole-punch to hold a 16MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by an Octa-core MediaTek Helio G95 chipset and runs on Android 10 OS. The SoC is equipped with 8GB RAM and 128GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 256GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent battery of 4,500 mAh which is supported by a 65W super-dart charger. This phone is available in Black Ninja, and White Knight colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 16,999.
3. Redmi Note 9 Pro
The Redmi Note 9 Pro features a 6.67″ FHD+ full-screen dot display LCD multi-touch capacitive touchscreen with 2400×1080 pixels resolution. The phone has a quad rear camera setup at back including a 48MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 5MP Macro camera, and a 2MP depth camera sensor. On the front side, there is a teardrop notch to hold a 16MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by an Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G chipset and runs on Android 10. The SoC is equipped with 6GB RAM and 128GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 512GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent battery of 5,020 mAh with an 18W fast charger. This phone is available in Aurora Blue, Champagne Gold, Glacier White, and Interstellar Black colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 16,999.
2. Realme 7
The Realme 7 features a 6.5″ Full HD+ In-Cell LCD display with 2400×1080 pixels of screen resolution and 90Hz of refresh rate. The phone has a quad rear camera setup at back including a 64MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 2MP macro camera, and a 2MP B&W camera sensor. On the front side, there is a punch-hole to hold a 16MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by the MediaTek Helio G95 chipset and runs on Android 10. The SoC is equipped with 8GB RAM and 128GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 256GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent battery of 5,000 mAh. This phone is available in Mist Blue and Mist white colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 16,999.
1. Poco X3
The Poco X3 features a 6.67″ Full HD+ display with 2400×1080 pixels of screen resolution and a massive 120Hz of screen refresh rate. This phone has a quad rear camera setup at back including a 64MP main shooter alongside a 13MP ultra-wide sensor, a 5MP Macro camera, and a 2MP depth camera sensor. On the front side, there is a punch-hole to hold a 20MP selfie camera.
This phone is powered by an Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G chipset and runs on Android 10. The SoC is equipped with 6GB RAM and 64GB inbuilt storage which will be expanded up to 512GB through a MicroSD card. The phone is backed by a decent battery of 6,000mAh with 33W fast charging. This phone is available in Cobalt Blue and Shadow Gray colors. The phone is priced at Rs. 16,999.
At its recent hardware event, Google introduced Google TV alongside the handsets, smart speakers, and the Chromecast. It is the replacement of the existing Android TV home screen and added personalized content recommendations. This change is also coming in Android smartphone users’ hands as the Google Play Movies & TV application is replaced by the new Google TV app, though it’s only available in the US for now.
Along with the new name, Google added some minor noticeable changes too. After updating the existing old version, users will get a prompt, at first, to launch Google TV.
The new ‘For You’ section is where the app will display all the user-specific recommendations in addition to the movies and TV shows. The home screen, earlier, contains all the suggestions and the movies and shows to buy. In the new version, all these are dumped in a ‘Shop’ section.
Initial prompt
Home
Shop
Library
Watchlist
The filter option based on resolution, date added, and more are available there. Besides, the recently watched content and bought movies & shows will be visible at the top.
The Wishlist option, on the other hand, could be one of the most interesting things to the consumers. It basically collects information from you Google searches and movements in the Play Store and forms a list of the movies and shows the user may wish to watch in the coming days.
If you are from the US, you are good to go with the new Google TV app, otherwise need to wait a bit more. Till then, enjoy the earlier version for the last time.
Star Wars: Squadrons is the new game to the Star Wars franchise focussing on the space battles between starships like X-wings and TIE fighters. The game has been developed by EA Motive and published by Electronic Arts.
If you are a Star Wars lover then you would love taking down enemy pilots in deadly chases and dogfights. The main 5v5 multiplayer feature is a great one and you can either join the New Republic’s Vanguard Squadron or fight for the Empire’s Titan Squadron.
In Dogfight mode there are up to 10 players are split into two groups of pilots against each other while in Fleet Battles is almost like the former, however, able to target and destroy Capital Ships. The winning team gets the chance to destroy the Enemy Flagship and earn some points.
The game is already available for EA Play and Play Pro members, so we already played it, and here’s a quick look at the new game from EA Sports:
The game’s home screen clearly gives you the idea of the modes and variations that it offers to you. The Quick Match is more like a free play option where you can roam freely with your starship and practice your shooting by renting some enemy ships and do whatever you like to.
It is great option to practice the game and get used to flying the ship in space and overall the gameplay was very smooth and the graphics was great as well.
There are four starships for the New Republic: Fighter, Support, Bomber, and Interceptor, while there are six maps for the Star Wars: Squadrons.
You can easily customize your starship – apply various skins, customize your flying, deck upgrades your starship, and a lot more. Also you will be able to customize your pilot with various gears.
One of the biggest multiplayer advantages is the full cross-platform play, so be it Xbox One or PC or PS4, everyone can play together, so you won’t be lacking friends to play together. The multiplayer mode was quite easy if you get used to flying spaceships, and the experience can be even more enthralling on VR.
In the multiplayer mode your main objective is to destroy your opponent fleet and if you play Fleet Battles, having destroyed those you can actually go for destroy Capital Ships.
This is even more engaging as you can destroy huge spaceships, and in the process, you can change your starship and finally destroy the Enemy Flagship. Overall, it was a delightful experience, and the game was smooth as well.
Then there’s the story mode and the Star Wars: Squadrons have a good story to play whether you are on the New Republic’s side or on the Empire’s. You will have various missions to play and discover the space and destroy enemies, scout spaceships, and a lot more. The graphics of the story mode looks more detailed and the overall experience is great as well.
As a $40 game, Electronic Arts have put a lot of effort into making the game smooth and enjoyable. The multiplayer is a mixed bag as its very predictive, but as it’s simple, you can play it easily with your friends and mates. Well, if you are a Star Wars fan and want a great game that lets you enjoy your flying journey, then this is a great one.
