As per some of the tipsters, Huawei is reportedly working on the upcoming Nova 8 series and expected to be launched in the month of November this year. Regarding this series, it is expected that Huawei will introduce at least three models in the Nova 8 series. Those are Huawei Nova 8 SE, Huawei Nova 8, and Huawei Nova 8 Pro. We don’t have that much-confirmed specifications or pricing regarding this series. So, let’s just get into some of the leaked specifications, price, and more for the Huawei Nova 8 series.
Among those three smartphones of this series, the Huawei Nova 8 SE will be the base one. This phone is expected to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 800 chipset, paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. As per the pricing, the Nova 8 SE may carry a price tag around CNY 2,799.
On the other hand, Huawei Nova 8 might be powered by the Dimensity 820 chipset, and this phone is expected to feature an OLED panel with a 90Hz refresh rate. Coming to the pricing, this phone is expected to carry a price tag of around CNY 3,299.
The next one is the top model of this series, the Nova 8 Pro. This phone could feature a curved edge OLD display with a punch-hole cutout with a refresh rate of 120Hz. This phone is expected to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ chipset and the price tag could be around CNY 3,999.
Now coming to the availability, the company hasn’t confirmed anything yet. But according to some tipsters, Huawei might introduce its Nova 8 series in China next month. So we can expect some confirmed specs and other stuff in the upcoming days.
The Amazon Great Indian Festival sale started on 17th October and is still live now. According to the e-commerce platform, it’s over 1.1 lakh sellers received a record number of orders within the first 48 hours of the sale. This duration includes the 24h early access of the Prime members.
Amazon said that 91% of the buyers are new on the platform, which means they signed up during the sale, and 66% joined as Prime from smaller cities and towns. On top of that, the opening days of the sale were dominated by the customers from tier 2,3 cities, or beyond. Stats are saying that 3 out of 4 EMI shoppers belong to that region.
Customers availed the full benefit of the EMI facility as well that Amazon is providing with 24 banks. Only during the Prime Day Early Access, that was on 16th October, the total credit amount was recorded as Rs. 600 crores. A major part of it is taken for smartphones, large appliances, and consumer electronics. 1 out of 3 AC and refrigerators and 1 out of 3 OnePlus and Oppo smartphone buyers went for EMI. Among them, 2 out of 3 were No Cost EMI.
If you follow the sale, you probably know, the price of the iPhone 11 dropped a crazy amount and is available at just Rs.49,999. As a result, Apple comes as the top sale leading brands during this sale along with OnePlus, Samsung, and Xiaomi. No doubt, iPhone 11 sold the most from the Apple side, from the other brands there is OnePlus 8T, OnePlus Nord, Samsung M31 Prime Edition, Redmi Note series, and Redmi 9A.
Apart from smartphones, the huge sale list contains work from home things like laptops, headphones, tablets, home appliances like top & front load washing machines, refrigerators, ACs, microwave ovens, dishwashers, and more. Amazon’s own products i.e. Echo lineup and Fire TV sticks are also included.
The postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo a year ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic has predictably led to a domino effect. The status world championships in the summer sports calendar 2021 have also been postponed. Check predictions for the events at https://odds2win.bet/.
Unfortunately, the chaos with the international calendar is happening now in most of the summer Olympic sports. And we are talking about this year and about the next year. The change in the summer Games dates forced the international sports federations to redraw the competitive calendars of 2021 world sporting events as much as possible.
January
December 26 – January 5 – World Youth Hockey Championship (Edmonton, Red Deer)
January 21-31 – XXX Winter Universiade (Lucerne, Switzerland).
January 14-31 – Men’s World Handball Championship (Suez, Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh; Egypt).
January 25-31 – European Figure Skating Championships (Zagreb; Croatia).
February
February 8-14 – Figure Skating Championship of the Four Continents (Sydney, Australia).
March
March 1 – 7 – World Junior Figure Skating Championships (Harbin, China).
March 22 – 28 – World Figure Skating Championships (Stockholm, Sweden).
April
April 11-14 – World Figure Skating Team Championship (Tokyo, Japan).
May
May 7-23 – Ice Hockey World Championship (Riga, Latvia and Minsk, Belarus).
May 20 — June 11 – FIFA World Cup among youth teams (Indonesia).
June
June 9-26 – European Football Championship among youth teams (Flag of Hungary, Flag of Slovenia).
June 10-20 – Mediterranean Games (Oran, Algeria).
June 17-27 – European Women’s Basketball Championship (Flag of Spain, Flag of France).
July
July 7 – August 1 – Women’s European Football Championship (London, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Brighton, Rotherham, Southampton, Milton Keynes, England).
July 15-25 – World Games (Birmingham, USA).
July 16 — August 1 – World Aquatics Championships (Fukuoka, Japan).
August
August 6-15 – World Championships in Athletics (Eugene, USA).
September
September 2-19 – European Basketball Championship. (Berlin, Tbilisi, Milan, Prague).
No exact dates
Biathlon World Championships (Pokljuka, Slovenia).
African Cup of Nations (Cameroon).
Southeast Asian Games (Hanoi, Vietnam).
World Beach Soccer Championship. (Moscow, Russia).
It has only been 58 days since the 19/20 edition of the Champions League reached its conclusion. Today, we find ourselves awaiting the first matchday of the 20/21 Champions League, headlined by Chelsea vs Sevilla, Lazio vs Borussia Dortmund and PSG vs Manchester United.
Though the final is almost a year away, it is always in the interest of football fans to be amidst the speculation. With that in mind, let’s have a look at the 5 teams most likely to win the Champions League.
5. Barcelona
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Considering the string of humiliating Champions League exits that Barcelona have faced over the last four years, it is a surprise that they made this list. However, things are looking different under Ronald Koeman.
The change in formation is the most eye-catching move by the former Netherlands coach, and it seems to be working well. Messi and Co. will be determined to not have a repeat of the shambolics of the years gone by, and going by the current form, it seems like they have a chance.
4. Juventus
Gigi Buffon is 41, Ronaldo is 35, Bonucci is 33 while Chiellini is 36. Juventus seem to be doing justice to the tag of the Old Lady. And despite this being player-turned-manager Pirlo’s debut season in charge, it looks like the boys from Turin have a chance at the cup.
Currently, Juventus are unbeaten in Serie A and have managed to draw twice. With the likes of Ronaldo, Dybala, Kulusevski and Chiesa amongst their ranks, this could finally be the year that the Champions League trophy returns to the back to back 9-time Serie A winners.
3. Manchester City
Sergio Aguero is tearing down his enemies by his goals
It has been a heartbreaking few years for Manchester City when it comes to the Champions League. The exit against Tottenham in the 18/19 season, and bowing out to Lyon in the quarters last season has been particularly hard to take.
A partnership of Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte at the back might just be what Guardiola needs to supplement his blistering attacking line-up as he tries to lead the club to a debut Champions League title.
2. Real Madrid
One of the most settled squads in Europe, Real have won the most number of Champions League titles at 13. Though they haven’t managed to win it since the departure of Ronaldo to Juventus, Zidane has adapted to the absence of the Portuguese forward well.
Madrid are a fortress and are one of the best defensive teams in Europe. With star power in almost every position on the field, it seems only fair that Los Blancos are right up there in the conversation to win the trophy for the 14th time.
1. Bayern Munich
It is difficult, nay, foolish to bet against the reigning Champions of Europe. Especially given that they were unbeaten in 2020 before the match against Hoffenheim.
Hansi Flick has transformed Bayern into an almost invincible team once again, winning every single trophy available in only his first year as manager.
With LewanGOALski, Sane, Muller, Kimmich and Neuer to only name a few, Bayern Munich easily have one of the best squads in the world and might just repeat their performance in the season gone by, defending their title successfully.
As per reports, WhatsApp is in the works of bringing the facility of Voice and Video Calls to WhatsApp Web users. If this will happen, then it will be a great update for the desktop WhatsApp clients. In the Web version, everything is there except the video or voice call facility. This one absence pushed the web version slightly backward. But finally, it is good news.
Right now, this facility will only available for beta users. If everything is well & good, a recent update will surely be there for the Web version of WhatsApp with v2.2043.7. WABetaInfo has teased this feature and also shared a few screenshots of the same. Let’s check if we can breakdown those teased images.
As per the images, if you are using the WhatsApp Web and you get a call, a pop-up window appears with options for receiving and rejecting the call. Moreover, there will be an ‘Ignore’ option at the bottom. Not only this but also at the time of call, a smaller pop-up appears with options for starting the video, mute, decline, and more settings. This update might introduce the group voice and video call facilities as well.
This is a great move by the WhatsApp to bring the facility in the web version by which the users can seamlessly use it to switch back and forth between their work desktop or laptop and their phone. That’s all we’ve known yet regarding this feature. We hope WhatsApp will clarify more and more things about this new update in the upcoming days, and we’ll get a stable update soon.
Huawei is going to launch its Kirin 9000 chipset in the upcoming days and this chip has already appeared on the AnTuTu benchmark website where it scored very similar to the Exynos 1080 chipset. As per the GPU section, it has scored much better, at about 287,000+. It is way ahead if we compare it with Qualcomm and Samsung’s Exynos top performers.
Today another report has arrived regarding the Huawei Kirin 9000 sports a 24-core GPU. This thing was measured by calculating another benchmark score. In comparison, this GPU has scored better than the Snapdragon 865 and the Exynos 1080. Now we are waiting to see how this chipset Kirin 9000 will perform against the Snapdragon 875 and the Exynos 2100. Both of them will make their entry in 2021.
Kirin9000 GPU uses Mali G78 MP24, yes, 24, the highest specification, but the frequency is not high, so the results are not very good. pic.twitter.com/yfJP0a8GFH
As per the smartphones, the Mate 40 from Huawei will carry this chipset which will feature a display with a refresh rate of 90Hz. The SoC of this phone will be paired with 8GBof RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The RAM type is LPDDR5 and the storage type is UFS 3.1.
The Mate 40 Pro+ model might feature an octagonal-shaped Penta rear camera setup, along with 65W fast charging. The chipset of this phone will be paired with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage.
So we can expect that the Kirin 9000 chipset will make its entry with the Huawei’s new Mate 40 series and the announcement date of tis series has already been announced by the company which is October 22.
RWC 2021 Draw to be live-streamed to global audiences via World Rugby digital channels
Rugby World Cup 2021 Draw confirmed for 20 November 2020; Draw event to be held at SkyCity Theatre in the heart of Auckland; RWC 2021 Draw to be live-streamed to global audiences via World Rugby digital channels; World Rugby Women’s Rankings to be used for the first time to determine draw bandings for direct qualifiers.
World Rugby, and hosts New Zealand Rugby (NZR), have today announced the Rugby World Cup 2021 Draw will take place in Auckland on Friday, 20 November 2020.
SkyCity Theatre in the heart of Auckland’s central business district will be the location for the draw which will be streamed live for rugby fans worldwide via World Rugby’s digital channels.
Hosted in the southern hemisphere for the first time in a golden year for women’s rugby, the ninth edition of the showcase tournament will take place from 18 September-16 October 2021 across three match venues. It will be contested by 12 teams, of which nine are already confirmed.
Seven teams qualified directly for RWC 2021 courtesy of a top-seven finish at the last tournament in Ireland in 2017, defending champions New Zealand, runners-up England, bronze medallists France, USA, Canada, Australia and Wales.
Fiji and South Africa confirmed their places through the regional qualification process back in 2019, via the Rugby Africa Women’s Cup and Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship.
The remaining three places will be filled by a qualifier from Asia and Europe together with the winner of the Final Qualification Tournament, a first for a women’s Rugby World Cup, offering a second opportunity for teams to qualify.
For the first time, the World Rugby Women’s Rankings will be used to determine the draw seedings and bands for the seven direct qualifiers in bands one to three, with the five teams to emerge from the qualification process to be placed into band three and four.
The recent Rugby World Cup Board decision for the World Rugby Women’s Rankings from 1 January, 2020 to be applied represents the fairest approach. It was the last time all teams were able to play before the emergence of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic.
The bands are:
Band 1 – New Zealand, England, Canada Band 2 – France, Australia, USA Band 3 – Wales, Europe 1, South Africa Band 4 – Asia 1, Fiji, Final Qualifier winner
World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont said: “The Rugby World Cup 2021 Draw marks an important milestone for teams and fans alike as momentum truly starts to build towards the most important international rugby tournament of 2021.”
“We are in unusual and unique times with the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. However, working in full partnership with New Zealand Rugby and local and national authorities, we are committed to a spectacular Rugby World Cup 2021.”
“We look forward to welcoming the world’s top women’s 15s players to New Zealand and fans around the world as we look to raise the bar for women’s rugby and women in rugby in line with our important and impactful 2017-25 Women in Rugby plan.”
Rugby World Cup 2021 Tournament Director Michelle Hooper said the tournament was now less than a year away and plans were ramping up.
“The official draw is another step on the journey towards kick-off, and the buzz is building. We can’t wait to welcome all 12 teams to Aotearoa New Zealand and showcase our manaakitanga to the world. The draw will determine who will play the first matches at Eden Park and Northland Events Centre which is an exciting prospect.”
Full timings and broadcast details will be confirmed at a later stage.
A piece of good news is coming out from Samsung, as the South Korean Giant is expected to launch its new series- Galaxy S21 series, which includes- Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra. Though there are no official confirmations regarding this series from the company, it is highly expected that there will be a Vanilla S21 ‘Plus’ model and an ‘Ultra’ model.
Unsurprisingly we have got some renders of these upcoming smartphones which reveal about the structures, some out features, and the camera setup of these phones. So let’s get into the leaked information about this upcoming series’s smartphones.
Expected features of Galaxy S21
According to the renders, the design of the Galaxy S21 is all most similar to the Galaxy S20 phone with the hole-punch cutout and bezel-less display. According to the source, this upcoming phone may have a 6.2-inches flat display. In terms of dimensions, the S21 measures (151.7×71.2×7.9)mm, and with the camera bumps the total thickness takes 9mm.
The Galaxy S21 comes with a triple rear camera setup, and there will be a punch-hole cutout on the screen to hold the selfie camera. But there is no information about the camera sensors. The rear camera lenses are aligned vertically and the LED flash is placed next to the camera module, not inside like other smartphones.
Expectedfeatures of Galaxy S21 Ultra
Now let’s enlighten the leaked information about the Galaxy S21 Ultra. The renders of the S21 Ultra is shared by another source, revealing that the S21 Ultra will have a slightly curved display and the screen size measures between 6.7 and 6.9-inches. In terms of dimensions, this phone will measure (165.1×75.6×8.9)mm with the camera bumps the total thickness takes 10.8mm.
It is expected that the Galaxy S21 Ultra may have a quad rear camera setup, but there is no information about the sensors of the rear camera. The phone is expected to come with support for the S-pen but according to the renders, there is no Pen slot within the phone.
All the above information is based on the leaked source and the renders of these phones, but there is no clarification of these upcoming phones from Samsung. It is expected that this series will introduce officially soon and may be launched in the next year. The Galaxy S21 series is expected to be offered in – Gray, Pink, Silver, Violet, and White colours.
As per some recent leaks, Xiaomi is going to launch another smartphone of its Redmi H series in the upcoming days. The retail name of this phone can be the Redmi Mini. There is nothing confirmed about this series yet by the company. But we always have some kind of leaks or expectations. So, let’s just quickly get into some of the expected specifications of the Redmi Mini.
The Xiaomi Redmi Mini is expected to run on the Android 10 OS and powered by a Dimensity 1000 Plus chipset. Coming to the display, this phone might feature a bright and clear (resolution of 2400×1080) 6.57″-inch display. The Dimensity chipset might be paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The storage can not be further expandable via an external microSD card.
Coming to the camera, this phone might sport a 64MP rear camera module. For the selfies, this might feature a 32MP selfie snapper at the front. Good thing is, this phone is expected to support a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Regarding the battery, this phone is expected to be fueled up by a decent 4520mAh battery work with fast charging. There will be no facility for wireless charging. Like the H series phones, this phone might be supported by an infrared (IR) blaster. That means you can use it as a remote control. This phone might support the 5G connectivity too.
As pf now, we don’t have any confirmed specs regarding this. Everything we’ve just discussed based on the expectations. Hope the company will bring some official news regarding the Redmi Mini in the upcoming days.
A leaked image from Apple’s Sales Web (ASW) page has surfaced which reveals utter shocking news about the connectivity of the just-launched iPhone 12 series. We all know that iPhone 12 series will be the first of its kind to feature 5G connectivity. iPhone 12 series are dual-SIM supported phones that can support dual-4G modes in the iPhone 11 series. But now the news that came from the leaked image is that though the iPhone 12 series has dual-SIM mode then also it will not support dual-5G at the same time on both SIM cards.
To make it simple, in dual-4G a phone can operate 4G connectivity simultaneously on both the SIM-cards without compromising any connectivity. But in the latest iPhone 12 series this feature will not be replaced with 5G connectivity. Users can only use 5G connectivity on one SIM at a time while the other card will be automatically switched to 4G connectivity, whereas the dual-4G will be supported in it. So, users will be able to insert one SIM and one eSIM but can only access 5G from one of them at a single time.
This intel as being shared on r/verizon by user ctthrow1 and collected this FAQ from some documents exclusively meant for retailers and carriers. The document says, “When using two lines in Dual SIM mode, 5G data isn’t supported on either line and will fall back to 4G LTE. If customers are using eSIM only and are on a 5G-supported carrier and service plan, they’ll have 5G access. ” This clearly indicates what we explained in the above paragraph.
Apple can also update the settings via OTA updates before or by year-end. The company can also stick with this option only. This totally depends on the company what will they do in the future.
