The UNPACKED event of Samsung will be held on August 5 where we know Samsung may launch Samsung Galaxy Note 20 series, Galaxy Z Flip 5G, Galaxy Fold 2 5G, Galaxy Buds Live, Galaxy Smart Fit, etc. The company has still not confirmed the names of the products to be launched in the event.
Recently we have come across a video where we can see the Galaxy Buds Live is being showcased and it looks more like a leaked promo video shared by WalkingCat. Moreover, Evan Blass has already shared more images of the Galaxy Buds live showing the design from all the angles.
All thanks to @evleaks and GSMArena for all the images of the Galaxy Buds Live including the colour options and the case. The Buds Live will have three different colour options – Black, White and Mystic Bronze. The case of the Buds Live will have rubber tips and will be glossy outside for a premium look. The case will have two LED light indicators -one outside the case and another inside the case.
Galaxy Buds Live has also surfaced in the same color variant. After looking closely we can see these buds will have a glossy finish and two microphones with grills at the outer side. The inside image has not been revealed by the tipster. But previous renders showed that the Buds Live will have no silicone ear tips but only pointed grill for audio output.
As mentioned earlier these earbuds will not have silicone ear tips and that will definitely make a problem for noise isolation. These earbuds are like bean and will fit well in the ears but will not go inside the ear like other earbuds that have silicone ear tips.
Realme X2 with 256GB storage is the newly launched variant of the company and will be available via Flipkart at Rs.22,999. The phone is not available yet to purchase right now. Flipkart website shows “Coming Soon” which means that the company has not revealed any particular date of availability of this device.
The 4GB + 64GB variant is available at Rs.17,999 and the 8GB + 128GB variant is available at Rs.20,999. These two variants are available in Flipkart right now.
Specification of Realme X2
8 GB RAM | 256 GB ROM
16.26 cm (6.4 inch) Full HD+ Display
64MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP rear camera
32MP Front Camera
Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G Processor
4000 mAh Battery
30W VOOC 4.0 Fast Charger
Details
Realme X2 runs Android 9 Pie with ColorOS 6 on top and features a 6.4-inch full-HD+ (1080×2340 pixels) Super AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 91.9 percent screen-to-body ratio, and a waterdrop-style notch. The smartphone comes with a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection and includes the in-display fingerprint sensor.
Realme X2 sports the quad rear camera setup that comprises a 64MP primary Samsung GW1 sensor with a six-piece f/1.8 lens. The setup also includes an 8MP secondary sensor with a wide-angle (119-degree) f/2.25 lens, 2MP depth sensor, and a 2MP sensor for 4cm macro shots. To support selfies, the Realme X2 has a 32MP sensor at the front. Both rear and front sensors also have EIS (electronic image stabilization) support for videos.
Under the hood, it has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G SoC, coupled with up to 8GB LPDDR4X RAM options. The phone packs a 4,000mAh battery that supports 30W VOOC 4.0 Flash Charge technology that Oppo unveiled last week.
A new Oppo smartphone coded Oppo PDYM20 has been spotted in the Geekbench website with some key specs revealed. The Oppo PDYM20 is the same device which was spotted in one of the online stores of China. We expect that the smartphone might be the Oppo A72 5G.
The Geekbench listing reveals that Oppo PDYM20 will come with 8GB RAM and motherboard – oppo6853. The smartphone will run on Android 10 will have a base frequency of 2.0GHz. The smartphone seems to have a Mediatek processor as the MediaTek’s MT6853 chip refers to the MediaTek Dimensity 720 SoC.
According to China Telecom, Oppo PDYM20 will feature a 6.5″ 90Hz display along with a 8MP front camera house in a punch-hole cut at the top left corner of the display. Around the back there is a triple rear camera setup of 16MP, 8MP, and 2MP units. The PDYM20 is expected to have three memory configurations – 4GB/128GB, 6GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB. It will be powered by a battery of around 4,000mAh and will support 18W fast charging via USB Type C.
Apart from Samsung, LG is also one of the renowned OLED display panels suppliers. Earlier, it declared that instead of 4.9 million units of large-sized OLED display panels it will ship only 3.6 million units this year and the cause is obviously the global pandemic condition.
A few days back, the CEO of UBI Research Choong Hoon Yi declared this news at a conference. Though, the dress declared number is also an estimation considering an improvement in the global TV market. It also depends on the operation of its China-based facility. In the case of any exceptional situation, the count may decrease further to 3.2 million units.
Last year, LG shipped around 3.3 million units of large OLED panes and estimated shipment of 6 million units of display panels this year. But it was made before the pandemic starts. So, there’s no chance of fulfillment.
Apart from Samsung and TCL, there are 19 more companies expected to launch there OLED televisions. 60 percent of the OLED panel demand, by the 19 companies, is accounted by LG itself and Sony takes 20%. The rest of the demand is for the other 17 companies.
Though Realme loses its position to Oppo on the basis of the Indian market share in the second quarter of 2020, it ranked a good position in the Indian hearable market. Though Realme is a newcomer in this field with 3 months of spend time, it comes third as per the market share in India.
As per Canalys, within this short of a time period, Realme achieves 10% of the entire hearable market share. In the first two positions, there is boAt with 20% of market share and Samsung has a 19% market share. Considering the global pandemic, the achievement of Realme is very much impressive as well as surprising. on the other hand, both Sony and Xiaomi have 6% of the market share each.
The report also figured out that the Asia Pacific region had witnessed 61% of Year-on-Year huge growth of the smart personal audio devices in the first quarter of 2020. The shipment reached around 16 million at that time.
By analyzing the entire true wireless market condition, it can be surely said that Realme has entered this market at the right time. As a result, it can utilize the entire market demand to come in the third position in India.
Asus is preparing to launch the ASUS ROG Phone 3 on July 21 globally and on July 22 in China. This is the top of the line gaming smartphone from the company and in the world as well. Asus is successfully making this ROG Phone series and people are loving it.
Now coming to the interesting part, ASUS is also keeping the Zenfone series alive and is developing at least a couple of them this time. So last time we saw that Zenfone 6 had a rotating camera which was its eye-catching feature and had most of the premium flagship specs in it. This time also we are hoping ASUS brings the Zenfone 7 series with high-end specs like flagship smartphones.
The above image is the kernel source code of a mysterious Asus device and after dissecting the same we came to know about a potential Pro variant of the next ZF series. At the top, you can clearly see the model says “ZF” which means Zenfone. Here, we came across two different sets of core clock values that were discovered in the files in question, listing speeds of 2.84 GHz and 3.09 GHz.
So, in simple language the 2.84GHz is the processor frequency of Snapdragon 865 and the 3.09GHz seems to be the 10% increased frequency from the Snapdragon 865 which particularly refers to none other than Snapdragon 865+ as the company has already revealed it earlier that Snapdragon 865+ will have 10% more efficient than the Snapdragon 865.
This clearly refers to that there will be two different models among which the Asus Zenfone 7 might come with Snapdragon 865 and the Zenfone 7 Pro can have the Snapdragon 865+ processor.
Evan Blass, a reliable tipster of Twitter, has shared a new video in his twitter account which shows the 360-degree video of the Samsung Galaxy Note 20. The rotating video of the smartphone gives us the idea of the design. There are several renders and even some official renders have also surfaced in the last few weeks but this is one of the first renders which shows the surrounding video of the smartphone.
Evan Blass has not revealed any other information about this divide in his twitter account but has surely discussed in his patron website, where you can get some of the most exclusive leaks from the tipster.
I feel like, with a leak such as this, several hours of exclusivity for Patreon subs should suffice. Many of you have been quite patient. 😊 pic.twitter.com/MqxzlRpD5e
From this video, we can again see the centralized punch-hole selfie camera on the display. Around the back, we can see three high-resolution camera modules with a flash beside the camera sensors. The body looks plastic at there back, and there might be a metal frame at the side for better durability. Including that there will be an S-Pen and now it will be placed at the left side of the Type-C charging port.
According to GSMArena, the Galaxy Note 20 series will have 120Hz refresh screens where the Galaxy Note 20 would have FHD resolution and the Galaxy Note 20+ may come with QHD display. Both the smartphones will have a 5nm Exynos 992 chipset and the least possibility is that the Galaxy Note 20+ will feature Samsung’s 108MP sensor for its main camera.
Finally, Honor, a sub-brand of Huawei has updated its laptop line with the latest AMD Ryzen 4000U processors. It’s MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15 laptops form the budget line of laptops for Huawei while offering decent specs for the pricing.
Obviously, these new laptops are the updated ones which we previously have seen with Ryzen 3000U processors and except its hardware, you get a similar laptop with the same display, keyboard and all the physical aspects of the laptop remain the same. Honor has updated these laptops in their native country in China and will take some time to be available globally.
These laptops feature 16 GB of DDR4 RAM and 512 GB of PCIe NVMe storage. Coming to the display, likes its predecessor the MagicBook laptops feature 14-inch / 15.6-inch displays with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio along with TÜV Rheinland Certification. The bezels around the corner are very thin as well with 87% screen-to-body ratio and weigh just 1.53 Kg.
There are two versions for both Honor MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15 laptops with 6-core Ryzen 5 4500U and 8-core Ryzen 7 4700U processors. Honor has upgraded the base variant with 512 GB SSD storage as well, which is good to see along with two colour variants and looks good as well. It comes with Windows 10 pre-installed and there seems Microsoft Office included as well.
It doesn’t have a front-facing webcam but has a key that pops up the webcam along with that there’s a inbuilt fingerprint power button for faster and secure startup. For ports, you get a 3.5mm audio jack, USB Type- C x 1 (supports charging and data transfer), HDMI x 1, USB3.0 (Type A) x 1, USB2.0 (Type A) x 1.
Likewise its predecessor, the MagicBook 14 should have 56Wh battery & MagicBook 15 with 42Wh battery along with fast charging support via 65W adapter via USB Type-C which can give you 53% charge in just 30 minutes. Connectivity options of WiFi 802.11 ac (dual-band) and Bluetooth 5.0 should remain the same.
Pricing:
The Honor MagicBook 14 with Ryzen 5 4500U, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD will cost CNY 3,999 ($572 or Rs. 42,833) while the other variant with Ryzen 7 4700U, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD will cost CNY 4,499 ($644 or Rs. 48,225).
The Honor MagicBook 15 with Ryzen 5 4500U, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD will cost CNY 4,199 ($601 or Rs. 45,005) while the other variant with Ryzen 7 4700U, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD will cost CNY 4,699 ($672 or Rs. 50,322).
The specs that these laptops are offering at the prices are insane because you get 16GB RAM, 512 GB NVMe SSD with latest Ryzen APUs! Both of the laptops will be available on general sale from July 22 onwards via retailers like JD.com.
The laptop came in May this year and was available for orders and I was one of the firsts to write about it and then the Lenovo Flex 5 just got popular overnight. It was selling like hotcakes, which is still as it holds the no. 1 spot, and has become a choice for a lot of reviewers and enthusiasts who need a good laptop at budget.
There are a lot of laptops out there but why this budget, made of plastic, the 2-in-1 laptop is the best selling 2-in-1 laptop out there? Now, there are almost 15 sellers just on Amazon for the same laptop because of the insane value this laptop gives you. In this article, I will state some facts that still makes this laptop the best budget laptop out there.
Lenovo Flex 5 14-inch 2-in-1 Laptop Specs
The Lenovo Flex 5 14-inch features the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U which comes with 6 Zen 2 cores running at 2.3 GHz base clock speed and up to 4.0 GHz boost clock speed. It is coupled with 16 GB DDR4 RAM & 256 GB SSD storage.
Lenovo promises up to 10 hours of battery life along with quick charge support that can charge up to 80% in just 1 hour with the 65W adapter, which indeed is great for a budget notebook.
The Lenovo Flex 5 14-inch 2-in-1 Laptop features a 10-point, 14-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS touchscreen with narrow bezels on 4 sides of the display gives you more viewing area and less clutter to interfere with the task at hand.
The laptop is very thin and light weighing just 3.64 lbs and AMD Radeon Vega 6 graphics with 6 CUs and 1500 MHz graphics frequency make it ideal for productivity purposes as well as gaming. Its 360° hinge let you use your 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop in whatever mode works best for you.
The Lenovo Flex 5 features 2 x 2W Speakers with Dolby Audio support and includes a physical privacy shutter on the HD 720p camera with Fixed-Focus CMOS. For connectivity, you have 2×2 Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 ac) and Bluetooth 4.2 options, for ports we have 2 USB-A, 1 USB Type-C, and an HDMI port.
Reasons to make this laptop the best-sellers:
Performance – This laptop houses the most powerful budget APU currently, the 6 core, 6 threaded Ryzen 5 4500U which performs even better than any Intel Ice or Comet Lake CPUs. If Intel ones still deliver better or almost similar single-core performance, the Ryzen 5 4500U just makes every Intel CPU shy even though it’s still a budget APU. Being coupled with 16GB RAM is a major boost for this laptop and the price-to-performance ratio of this laptop is unmatched.
Productivity – Being a proper 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop helps this laptop in a lot of perspectives as it’s not only portable being very light and having a touchscreen it helps to do anything you want to be it watching movies, writing notes or just casual work-related stuff, this is an allrounder at budget.
Battery Life – On any budget laptop, most brands neglect this part completely but here even though it houses a 6-core CPU but thanks to AMD’s 7nm efficiency, the laptop still is able to deliver around 10 hours of battery life which has lasted for 7-8 hours for most reviewers out there, still good enough for a budget laptop. It also has quick charge support that can charge up to 80% in just 1 hour.
Price – Yes, price is a big factor for choosing this laptop because at this price you do not get a laptop with such great APU with strong integrated graphics and the fact that it also a 2-in-1 laptop makes the deal even sweeter. There a lot of laptops or say premium ultrabooks that cannot deliver such performance at the price its available at.
Other minor things – Even though it has plastic body it still looks and feels good, the keyboard is still very decent for a budget laptop and it still has backlit one as well. It comes with a Lenovo Active Pen included which makes things easier and helps in your daily life as well, it has a privacy shutter on the webcam for security along with a physical fingerprint reader. The front-firing speakers and the touchpad are also good enough in daily usage.
Obviously, nothing is perfect, this is still a laptop out of plastic, lacks Wi-Fi 6 or Thunderbolt port, it doesn’t have the most colour accurate display but still is worthwhile for the price. This laptop is ideal for a lot of students who need a good laptop at a budget or just another 2-in-1 for everyday use, or just another laptop for even compiling codes or doing browsing sessions, playing casual games.
The price is what makes the new Lenovo Flex 5 is a great option and if you still want to know more about it check this review:
You can also go for the Lenovo Flex 5 with Ryzen 7 4700U & 512GB NVMe SSD: https://amzn.to/3heseDk
Now, if you reside in India like me, then Amazon is shipping the laptop internationally as well for around $380 extra which is worthwhile to note, but you can get it shipped via third party carriers as well. Whenever this laptop comes to India and if Lenovo prices it right then this will also be a best seller in the country.
Needless to say, the global pandemic affects all the market places along with other fields all over the world and it’s worst any of us ever seen. The smartphone market is not an exception. Stats said the overall YoY smartphone market drop in India is 48% and it is analyzed by Canalys.
According to the list, Xiaomi once again leads the market followed by Vivo and Samsung. Oppo and Realme switched their positions on the list. Now Oppo comes up at the fourth position and Realme downed at fifth position.
As usual, Xiaomi keeps its top position in the second quarter of 2020 with the shipment of 5.3 million units and secure 30.9% of Indian market share, YoY growth decreased by 48%.
Similar to Xiaomi, Vivo also gets success to secure the same position as Q4 2019. It ranked 2nd after shipping 3.7 million and holds a 21.3% market share.
After that, in the third position, there is Samsung. It shipped 2.9 million units in Q2 2020 and keeps 16.8% of the market share. The annual growth of Samsung is 60% less than previously.
Oppo and Realme come back to back after Samsung at the fourth and fifth positions respectively. As I mentioned, Realme loses its fourth position to Oppo and comes down to the fifth. Oppo shipped 2.2 million units, where Realme managed 1.7 million units. Both companies have market shares of 12.9% and 10% respectively.
The other OEMs including Apple, Nokia, Asus, OnePlus, together, shipped 1.4 million units and have a market share of only 8.1%. Among all the smartphone makers, Apple is the less affected brand with 20% of YoY reduction.
