A renowned tipster, Mukul Sharma has spotted two new Oppo smartphones in certifications that might be a hint of a nearing launch. The phones are some new variants of an already launched series – Oppo Reno 4. In the certification, the names Oppo Reno4 Lite and Oppo Reno4 Z 5G have been spotted, and these smartphones are yet to be launched.
It is unclear that which certification is this but the information seems to be legit as most of the smartphone leaks are on point of this tipster. The phones might be soon announced in some recent weeks. There is no such official news about these smartphones but more information will surface with due course of time.
A few weeks ago Oppo Reno4 Pro launched in India starting from just Rs.34,990. Oppo Reno 4 Pro gets a 6.5-inches AMOLED Curved display with a 90Hz refresh rate. It comes with a sophisticated rear camera setup with OIS on the main 48MP shooter, an ultrawide cam of 12MP, and also comes with a 13MP telephoto module capable of 5x hybrid optical and 20x digital zoom. It comes with a single punch hole cutout for the 32MP selfie cam.
It will feature 5G connectivity and boot ColorOS 7.2 based on Android 10. Reno 4 Pro will be powered with a 4,000 mAh and support 65W fast wired charging – SuperVOOC 2.0. It comes in Silky White and Starry Night.
ZTE is set to become the first brand to introduce an under-display camera in its devices to the market. Previously about a year ago we have seen Oppo had shown a smartphone with an under-display camera, but somehow, the phone has not been made official. It might be a matter of time that under-display smartphones start hitting the market.
Earlier today, Ni Fei, president of ZTE mobile devices confirmed via Weibo their intention of launching the first under-display Smartphone. While many brands have been working on such technology, it appears ZTE might beat them to it.
The under-display feature intends to replace the notch or punch hole camera to provide uninterrupted viewing. There have been concerns about achieving decent image quality. However, rumor has it that ZTE will make use of Visionox, a Chinese display manufacturer that claims it has perfected the under-display camera feature.
While the product itself has not been named, it is being speculated that the upcoming ZTE A20 5G model will be sporting this innovative feature. The launch date is yet to be announced.
ZTE A20 5G certification on SRRC
According to a report by Gizmochina, a ZTE phone with model number ‘ZTE A2121′ was spotted on State Radio Regulation of China (SRRC) certification website.
Microsoft Surface Duo price and specification are announced today and the sale will start on September 10. The phone is a foldable one and is priced at $1,399 (approx Rs.1,04,999), yes that’s expensive. The Surface Duo will be available in the US across T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. The international availability of the phone has not been revealed.
Specification of Microsoft Surface Duo
Surface Duo features two 5.6-inch OLED (1,350×1,800 pixels) displays with 4:3 aspect ratio that when unfolded provide an 8.1-inch PixelSense Fusion display with 2,700 x 1,800 pixels resolution and 3:2 aspect ratio.
The phone has a single 11MP camera sensor present on top of the right display alongside the LED flash. It can be used for both taking selfies and has 7x digital zoom. This camera is also capable of recording video in 4K at up to 60fps and comes with EIS.
Surface Duo features last year’s octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC, paired with 6GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. Surface Duo runs on Android 10. The phone is powered by a dual-cell battery that combines to a total capacity of 3,577mAh.
The phone does not support 5G but will come 4G connectivity. The main feature previously mentioned as “app group” is the key feature of this phone, as it allows us to multitask on both the screens.
If you are a gaming laptop fan and have been waiting for more options especially with the new Ryzen 4000H processors, then this is the chance for you to wait for the new Lenovo Legion 5. The new laptop from Lenovo has already been launched in other markets and will finally be making its way to India as well and it’s been heavily teased by the company already.
Already other laptop manufacturers including Asus, Dell, and HP has launched a number of new gaming laptops with these revolutionary AMD Ryzen gaming processors. At the price, these laptops give tremendous performance which even a lot of Intel CPUs will hard to provide, and for this there’s a crazy demand in the country already.
So, this a great time for Lenovo to launch its Legion 5 gaming laptop in India and lure gamers with it, and as the tweet confirms, gamers can order the laptop from August 18 and it will be an Amazon launch most probably.
Specifications
The Legion 5 gaming laptop series has been one of the best gaming laptop series by Lenovo and updating it with the new Ryzen 4000H gaming processors is all that we were waiting for actually. The Legion 5 comes in two sizes – 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch variants but with the same Full HD (1920 x 1080) wide-viewing angle displays with 144Hz smooth refresh rate.
The gaming laptop will be powered by either the 8 core/ 16 threaded AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor or by the 6 core/ 12 threaded AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor. Lenovo says the display supports Dolby Vision and is paired with up to 16 GB 3200 MHz DDR4 memory, 1 TB PCIe SSD of storage.
The Lenovo Legion Coldfront 2.0 helps you tune the thermals and the laptop available in sleek Phantom Black color. On the graphics front, up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics, however, there’s a doubt if Lenovo will bring the RTX 2060 graphics variant to India. With Ryzen 4000H and NVIDIA graphics, you can great gaming performance because of AMD’s efficient processor and a decent NVIDIA GPU.
For audio, there’s the Harman Kardon Speaker System with acoustics chamber and immersive Dolby Atmos audio support as well. The Lenovo Legion TrueStrike keyboard comes with up to 1.5mm key travel for smooth typing experience and it’s a white backlit keyboard that offers 100% anti-ghosting and soft-landing switches. On the connectivity front, you have both WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 support.
Lenovo touts that the 17-inch model will provide you up to 7.5 hours of battery life while the 15.6-inch model offering up to 9.3 hours and can be charged fast with Lenovo’s Rapid Charge Pro technology – up to 50% battery life in less than 30 minutes. For ports, you get a USB-A 3.1 Gen 1, 3 USB-A 3.1, a USB Type-C 3.1 Display port, an HDMI 2.0, an ethernet port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
In the US, the Lenovo Legion 5 15.6-inch with AMD Ryzen 4000H processors start at $759.99 for the base variant with the Ryzen 7 4800H and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GPU, while with the one with RTX 2060 GPU costs $1019.99. So, in India, Lenovo should cost the gaming laptop with Ryzen 5 4600H should start at around Rs. 75k, you can get all details about pricing and availability on August 18th.
Atalanta has suddenly become everyone’s second favourite team this season. The Italian club has burst into the scene this season. Paris Saint-Germain has invested millions of money to build a team to win the Champions League. Neymar and Mbappe are expected to bring the trophy to Paris. It will be an exciting match.
When is the Atalanta vs Paris Saint-Germain Champions League match?
The Champions League match between Atalanta and Paris Saint-Germain will be played on 12th August, 2020.
Where will be the match played?
The match will be played at Estadio da Luz, Lisbon.
What time does the match kick-off?
The match will kick-off at 12:30 AM IST (Thursday, 13th August).
Which TV channels will broadcast the Champions League match live in India?
Sony Sports is the exclusive media broadcasting partner of the UEFA Champions League in the Indian sub-continent. You can watch the match live in India on Sony Ten channels.
How can you watch the live streaming of the match in India?
You can watch the live streaming of the Atalanta vs Paris Saint-Germain match in India on Sony Liv.
Donald Trump has followed through on his threat to ban TikTok by signing an executive order that prevents US transactions with ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok. The reason is being cited as national security and specifically cited India’s action of banning 59 Chinese apps in his order.
India was in an escalated border skirmish against China a few weeks back and that has lead to a massive public outcry against Chinese companies. The Indian government used that to ban Chinese companies to prevent them from stealing unauthorized information.
India has a history of banning apps and websites from its internet which, though, free is far from being without regulation. Movies get censored, betting in India is illegal (although a lot of betting apps function perfectly fine in the country), books get banned, constitution amendments are made overnight, and even money can be banned!
The USA is not like this in many regards and this is why a bank on TikTok is going to be much harder to push through.
Trump’s executive order lasts for 45 days after which he can issue another one. Adding more intrigue to this entire saga is the news that Microsoft is looking to acquire TikTok. We initially thought that this was going to be limited to the US business of TikTok but now it appears as it is going to be a global takeover.
The same reasoning has been given to banning WeChat as well. India and Australia have both placed restrictions on the use of WeChat in their countries as Trump’s order mentions. WeChat is basically a chat application with a lot of other mini-apps built into it. It is not very popular in the non-Chinese origin Americans and so this ban might be a bit easier to get away with.
We are not sure how well the American public is going to take its President openly threatening and intimidating global companies just because India has done the same. Freedom of speech is always a bigger issue in the US than it is in India where we are more used to our choices being made for us. The precedent that this ban set is going to be hotly debated on TV news networks, legal circles, and you can be sure that a legal challenge to this order is around the corner.
Trump may have opened up a can of worms with this decision and with the elections rolling around, the fallout could be pretty nasty for him.
Redmi, the sub-brand of Xiaomi has a wide range of laptops in China and it is all set to launch its new Redmi G gaming laptop in its home country on August 14th. Redmi’s last laptop series came in the form of the RedmiBook 13, 14, and 16 laptops with AMD Ryzen 4000 APUs and now they plan to launch their first gaming laptop.
Now, the company has confirmed in a Weibo post that they will be launching a gaming laptop with the name of the Redmi G Gaming Notebook. The poster clearly shows a lot of details of the new gaming laptop, as Fonearena points out, the laptop will be powered by the new Intel Core i5-10200H or Core i5-10300H gaming processors.
So, as per Redmi’s track records, this could a budget gaming laptop and is said to offer the best performance and proper heat dissipation. The poster shows the laptop to be a black one along with a matte finish while overall the chassis looks similar to the typical gaming laptops these days.
However, talking about the display, the Redmi G Gaming Notebook sports thin bezels on the left and right side along with a slightly thicker bezel at the top, while the chin of the laptop is quite thick with ‘Redmi G’ branding. Also, there are large heatsinks on the right sides for heat dissipation and there’s a USB port along with a headphone jack.
Also, the gaming laptop features a full-sized keyboard along with a unique design and a larger trackpad. According to Redmi’s previous records, with days, it will surely make a good Intel-powered laptop, now a gaming one, on 14th August at a launch event that will take place at 02:00 PM local time.
IPL 2020 has been scheduled to take place in UAE from 19th September with the final being held on 10th November. BCCI decided to move this year’s IPL outside of India due to the Coronavirus pandemic. India is the third-highest most affected country in the world.
IPL has now recorded its first Corona-positive case. Rajasthan Royals has informed that their fielding coach Dishant Yagnik has tested positive for COVID-19.
Rajasthan Royals said in a statement: “Rajasthan Royals would like to inform that their fielding coach Dishant Yagnik has tested positive for COVID-19. The test was undertaken keeping in mind that the team members need to assemble in Mumbai next week for their flight to the UAE.”
“The franchise implemented an extra test for all players, support staff and management travelling to the UAE in addition to the two tests recommended by BCCI, to ensure as robust a process as possible.”
Yagnik will be in home-quarantine in his hometown Udaipur for the next 14 days. Fortunately, no other player or staff has been affected by him.
All the IPL franchises have instructed their players to self-quarantine themselves and monitor their body temperatures on a daily basis. BCCI has instructed all players to enter their body temperatures on the centralised app provided by the BCCI.
One of the IPL franchise said: “The entire team, support staff who will be entering IPL 2020 bio-bubble has been asked to monitor their temperatures and enter the same in the centralize app provided by the IPL management.”
The players will be monitored strictly before they are allowed to enter the IPL 2020 bio-bubble in UAE.
Joao Felix is having a somewhat mixed first season at Atletico Madrid. He joined the LaLiga club for €126 million from Benfica. He was seen as the heir to Antoine Griezmann who moved to Barcelona last summer.
The Portuguese international scored eight goals and provided three assists in 35 appearances across all competitions for Atletico till now. He is expected to lead Atletico’s hopes in the Champions League.
The 20-year-old wants to shine under Diego Simeone just like Griezmann did. He likes Simeone’s style of play and has no problem playing under the Argentine.
Joao Felix told Marca: “If I can do what Griezmann has done or improve it, it will be fine because he has made history in this club.”
“He has done it very well, he has grown a lot with El Cholo [Simeone], and if I do it the same, better for me.”
Joao Felix has an attacking style of play and Simeone’s side usually plays a defensive game so many football experts think Felix won’t succeed under Simeone like Sergio Aguero. Aguero struggled to get goals at Atletico but has now become a club legend at Manchester City.
Joao Felix has overtaken Aguero this season as the youngest Champions League goalscorer in Atletico Madrid’s history. He said: “Kun [Sergio Aguero] is now a great player, but when he was at Atletico, I was five years old and I don’t remember anything. It’s good to break records, all the players like to make history and of course I’m happy to be part of Atletico’s history and to have surpassed a player like Kun.”
“Many people say one thing, others say another, but I am here to play Cholo football and I do what he asks. Let’s see. I’m adapting to Spain, doing my football, I’m meeting the club and always thinking of improving.”
“As I said, I play because I like it and I am not worried about what the press or others think. I try not to see [the criticism], but there are some that I hear or come to me, but what am I going to do? Listen and follow my work.”
Joao Felix can leave all the criticisms behind if he can lead Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. Atletico Madrid has been two-time runners-up in the competition in the last decade but has lost to their city rivals Real Madrid on both occasions. If Felix can do one better he would certainly achieve more than what Griezmann did in just one season.
The Portuguese international said: “Yes, the Champions League is always the high point of any player and even more so playing it here in Lisbon, at home, I am very happy and it is very good for me.”
Atletico Madrid will face RB Leipzig in the Champions League quarter-finals on Thursday. Joao Felix is expected to perform well in his home soil.
Every Android phone user will find Google Play Music in their phones and many of them like or prefer to use the app to listen to their favourite playlists. But, from October 2020 Google Play Music will not work in India. The app will be taken down and replaced by YouTube Music.
YouTube Music offers over 50 million official tracks, albums and high-quality audio, as well as deep cuts, B-sides, live performances, and remixes. It will be the heir to Google Play Music by the end of 2020.
Although Google Play Music will not work from October, you will still have another 2 months time till December to transfer your music libraries including playlists, uploads, purchases, likes and more to YouTube Music.
Users won’t be able to purchase and pre-order music or upload and download music from Google Play Music through Music Manager from August. YouTube has already started helping Google Play Music users to transfer their content to YouTube Music since May.
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YouTube said in an official blog post: “To ensure users don’t lose any of their content, they’ll need to use the simple transfer tool to migrate any purchases over to YouTube Music or use Google Takeout to export data and download their purchased and uploaded music.”
YouTube has also brought new features and improvements to YouTube Music.
Assistive Playlist Creation – You can quickly and easily create playlists by adding recommended songs based on existing songs in the playlist, as well as personalized signals, such as watch history and likes.
Collaborative Playlists – You will also get the option to collaborate with other music fans to create shared playlists for any occasion.
New Programmed Playlists – You can explore newly launched programmed playlists like Highline, Caribbean Pulse, Conditions Underground and more.
Player Page Redesign – YouTube Music has updated the player page and is available to Android mobile users. It provides a more modern design that allows better playback controls and easier access to related music and other features like song lyrics.
Explore Tab – The new Explore tab is available on both mobile and the web version. It is the consistent destination to find new releases including albums, singles, and music videos, as well as browse our vast catalogue of diverse playlists through the Moods & Genre section.
Users will get the ad-supported version of YouTube Music for free. Or they can pay just Rs 99 a month for YouTube Music Premium which is paid membership that gives users the features of background listening, downloads and an ad-free experience. YouTube Premium is also available from Rs 129 a month to enjoy ad-free, background listening and offline playback across all of YouTube.
YouTube said that the users who purchased Google Play Music Unlimited membership will be automatically granted the equivalent tier in YouTube Music.
YouTube Music has gone a large way to improve user experience and satisfy all their needs. If you’re an Android phone user and is using Google Play Music then it’s time to transfer your music library to YouTube Music and start adapting to the new app.
