Lenovo teased a smartphone which is going to be launched pretty soon under the name of their gaming brand, Legion. This smartphone caught a lot of limelight when some official images revealed that this smartphone doesn’t look like any other gaming beast in the market. All the images indicated that this smartphone is intended to be used horizontally. Which let us think more about its camera placements and all.
But until now let talk about another news which claimed that this Legion gaming smartphone has now strolled through China’s 3C with model number L79031. Though the news is genuine the listing only reveals a few information about the device.
This Legion smartphone will come with 5G connectivity as suggested by China’s 3C certification website. It also mentions that the charger will go up to 45W even though earlier teasers suggested the phone will support 90W charging. It is also expected that there will be multiple variants of the Legion phone, but the company confirmed back in April that all variants would have 90W charging.
Credit: XDA Developers
According to some reports, the Legion phone includes a 144Hz refresh rate display (with a touch sampling rate of 270Hz), UFS 3.0 internal storage, LPDDR5 RAM, and a centrally placed rear camera setup with 64MP main shooter and a 16MP ultrawide unit. There will also be a front-facing camera with a 20MP sensor, and the front camera pops out of the long edge of the phone. This also indicates that the phone is genuinely intended to be used horizontally and this feature will also help in gaming.
Realme X3 was in talks for quite a few days as the company revealed the Realme X3 SuperZoom last month but the company has kept the vanilla version X3 on hold. But if you are thinking about how we know about it then go through this article. But now as we know it is real and recently it also appeared in the Google Play Console lists revealing some of its specs.
There are three X3 versions (possibly regional variants): RMX2081L1, RMX2085L1, RMX2086L1. They all have the same specs, at least the specs revealed by the Play Console, and all three were certified by India’s BIS. But still, there is no news about the launch of those devices.
Here are the specifications of the Realme X3 smartphone. Most of the specifications of the device, as per my source, will be more or less the same as the Realme X3 SuperZoom. Feel free to retweet. 😀#Realme#RealmeX3#RealmeX3SuperZoompic.twitter.com/0Jg8sP3YNU
One of the renowned tipster Stufflistings has shared an image which reveals the same specifications which are mentioned in the Google Play Console list. This tipster has also said that according his source the mentioned specifications will be more or less the same as the Realme X3 SuperZoom.
Realme X3 (RMX208L1) specifications on the Google Play Console credit: MySmartPrice
The Realme X3 is powered by the same Snapdragon 855+ as the SuperZoom. It gets 8GB RAM instead of 12GB like the X3 SuperZoom. The Play Console doesn’t say it, but it’s unlikely that this has 5G connectivity. The display will have a (1080 x 2400)px resolution but it’s not clear if it will be a 120Hz display like on the SuperZoom or not. The phone will come with Android 10 out of the box.
According to Stufflistings, the phone will come with a 64MP primary camera and will also feature a 2X telephoto lens. Not all the specifications are official but we can anticipate them to be more or less genuine and will have to wait until any official news appears.
HTC is again stepping in this year with a new device named Desire 20 Pro and will follow some latest trends with some latest specs in it. The HTC Desire 20 Pro appeared a few days ago in Geekbench listing with a model number HTC 2Q9J1000 and now this same model number has been spotted in Google Play support page and NCC listings. The same listing also hints us about a vanilla version about which we still have no information.
This HTC device appeared in the Console as well and revealed more about its specifications and design. The Desire 20 Pro will be powered by a Snapdragon 665 chipset with 6GB of RAM, a break from the low-end MediaTek chips that HTC used in many of its recent releases. Here’s a sad statistic – this will be HTC’s first phone to launch with Android 10. The only company it will have is U11 Life, which launched with 8.0 and recently got updated to 10.
HTC Desire 20 Pro at the Google Play Console Credit: MySmartPrice
This image is not the exact one, but the previously leaked schematics indicate a punch-hole design. Whereas, this image shows that its screen has 1,080 x 2,340px resolution. So if we anticipate the display size will be of around 6.5”. It’s probably an LCD panel since there will be a fingerprint reader on the back.
There is no information available about the HTC Desire 20 Pro more than this at this point. So, we are waiting for some concrete report to share with you all.
OnePlus 8 Pro 5G is yet to launch in India via Amazon.in and will come disabled with the most controversial camera filter option. To be more detailed the camera filter that gave OnePlus 8 Pro 5G the power to see through some materials including clothes.
OnePlus 8 Pro is yet to go on sale in India and as the device is already been reviewed by several YouTubers and this matter has been disclosed in a worldwide platform so OnePlus decided to disable it for Chinese and Indian versions.
It all started when some early adopters found out the colour filter option in the camera app of the OnePlus 8 Pro which can see through some kinds of plastic, glass and even clothes to some extent. This matter then got serious as mostly all the devices of OnePlus 8 Pro were found with the same capability to see through some objects. So on this matter OnePlus has responded and said that the filter will be disabled in all the devices and specifically for Chinese and Indian markets.
Camera analysis of OnePlus 8 Pro
OnePlus has said that it’s working on some sort of a fix for the camera, that will reportedly be ready for rollout by June’s end. Reports from XDA-Developers claim that they were able to decompile the OnePlus Camera 4.0.267 app that comes with OxygenOS 10.5.10 and found a property, which disables the color filter camera on model names IN2020 and IN2021, which refer to the Chinese and Indian OnePlus 8 Pro models.
As the OnePlus 8 Pro is yet to go on its first sale, it is still unclear whether the camera filter will be pre-disabled in it or the company will be fixing it with some sort of OTA update. Either way OnePlus will look into this matter that to disable it properly before it comes in wrong hands and gets involved in some objectionble consequences.
The first sale was set on 29th May but got delayed due to some production difficulties due to this pandemic. OnePlus is yet to declare another date for the sale for this OnePlus 8 Pro series. The OnePlus 8 5G will have its next sale on 8th June, 12 Noon onwards.
AMD was the first company to launch the concept of “APU” i.e. CPU + GPU in a single chip which disrupted the market totally. It now reigns both in GPUs and CPUs, a recent report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) says that the Red team has shipped approximately 553 million chipsets in the last 7 years.
Now, this includes both discrete and integrated graphics, and the figures even beat the corresponding numbers from Intel and NVIDIA. As we see in the graph, it all began in the year 2013 when AMD won the contract for both Xbox and PlayStation console projects.
Source: JPR
This success of AMD is obviously due to the fact that they have been strong in delivering great APUs with integrated Radeon graphics for desktops and laptops along with its budget-friendly discrete GPUs. Not to forget, AMD’s partnership with Apple for its professional products like MacBook Pro or Mac Pro or iMac Pro and others.
As we see AMD has gained in number of shipments each year and a major part of it comes from consoles, with Xbox and PlayStation accounting for 9% and 20% of AMD’s shipment. Also, AMD has some handsome figures when it comes to laptops, 18% coming from discrete mobile GPUs and the highest of 23% coming from mobile APUs.
Source: JPR
Obviously AMD will gain more shipments in 2020 with the latest 7nm based Ryzen 4000 mobile APUs which delivers immense performance both on the CPU and GPU front. AMD has managed another 18% from its discrete desktop graphics and 12% from its desktop APUs, which will increase with latest RDNA 2 based GPUs and Ryzen 4000 Renoir desktop APUs.
However when the figures are broken down, and compared to Intel (for integrated graphics) or Nvidia (for discrete graphics), both of the companies beat AMD in their respective department, but overall AMD beats both of them. Things are to change more in future as AMD has partnered with Samsung for its upcoming Exynos SoCs with AMD graphics.
Oppo is launching the A12 and A52 smartphones as a new addition to the A series in the Indian market. The smartphones were launched a month and a half ago globally. The A12 is a budget-friendly entry-level smartphone whereas the A52 is a mid-range smartphone with a lot more than the A12.
There is another report that claims that Oppo is launching another new smartphone which is dubbed as A11k, to be honest, this device can be pretty much similar to the A12 both in design and specifications. But there is no such concrete news about this launch. This will also be a budget-friendly smartphone.
About Oppo A11k:
Oppo A11k is an entry-level smartphone and will feature 6.22-inch HD+ LCD with a 19:9 aspect ratio and 5MP selfie cam housed in a waterdrop notch. At the back, the camera features a dual-camera setup of a 13MP primary camera alongside a 2MP depth helper as well as a fingerprint scanner. A11k will feature MediaTek Helio P35 chipset paired with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage and will run on will boot ColorOS 6.1.2 based on Android 9 Pie. This smartphone will feature a 4,230mAh battery.
The Oppo A11k will be available in blue and silver colors and will be priced around Rs.8,999 ($119) being the most affordable within the three different smartphones. Pricing details for the A12 and A52 are still not available and all the three smartphones are expected to launch soon.
Being launched back in 2018, Epic Games Store is one of the fastest-growing digital gaming markets, with its most famous eSports title Fortnite. Through it Epic Games have been making a handsome amount of money, investing them in giving deep discounts for games along with giveaways every week.
It has attracted a lot of gamers by this strategy and its recent giveaway of the GTA V actually shred its server apart, due to huge traffic. Since then, it has given away Civilization 6, Borderlands and much more games, and who knows a bigger game might be in cards for the rising Epic Games Store platform.
So, having disrupted the PC gaming department, in an recent interview with Gamespot, the CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeny did confess the fact they will be launching its platform for smartphones as well. Already, the company’s Fortnite game is now active on Google Play Store after a lot of confusion.
Obviously, launch its big gaming market on mobiles will benefit in bringing Fortnite and pairing it with the market, also do note that Epic Games Store’s partnership with Tencent, can ultimately expand its market. Tim went on to say a lot of things:
“We’d like to bring the [Epic Games] Store to iOS in the future, and we will bring it to Android. We think it’s a good way to help the industry [move] forward and it’s another way where Epic as a game developer had built up this audience around Fortnite and learned how to operate a distribution platform on PC and Android.”
“Now, as we’ve done with many things from the Unreal Engine to the Epic Online services, we open it up to all other developers to use with their games and are trying to serve the industry and provide a really interesting alternative to the ecosystem.”
From his words, it’s clear that Epic Games is thought to expand its market to mobile but obviously it will be hard to make revenue considering the fact most of the popular games are free to play on phones. Also, no launch date was told but considering its reputation, Epic Games shouldn’t have any trouble to bring its store to both Android and iOS.
There have been many biopics on sports personalities: Milkha Singh, Mary Kom, Vinesh Phogat, MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar to name a few among those. Karnam Malleswari is all set to be included in that list as her biopic is about to be made.
Karnam Malleswari is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She won a bronze in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics 2000. She had lifted 110 kg in the snatch and 130 kg in the clean and jerk categories for a total of 240 kg in the Olympics. She is still the only Indian woman weightlifter to win an Olympic medal.
There are many Indian athletes who have brought fame to India but sadly has been forgotten by this cricket-centric country. After 20 years, finally, her story from Srikakulam to Sydney will reach to the people.
Kona Venkat has written the biopic of Karnam Malleswari. He told: “A poor girl from a remote village in Srikakulam district won the bronze medal for India in the Olympics. That is definitely a big story to narrate.”
Telugu director Sanjana Reddy, who shares the same hometown with Malleswari will direct this multilingual movie that has a reported budget of Rs 70 crore. The script and casting are yet to be finalised.
Karnam Malleswari revealed that she was not after fame and money during her playing days just like the other athletes of that time. She told Indian Express in an interview: “If I’m honest, it didn’t bother me that much at the time. Our mind was never in that direction. Athletes today know that they want the money, the publicity – we never had that knowledge at the time. Our motivation was that there were international competitions every three months and losing in any of them would be shameful. But at that time, we never realised that money and fame is important as well.”
She wants people to see her as she is with all the struggles and sacrifices she had to make to reach those heights which is unbelievable for an Indian women weightlifter. She said: “My only request was that Karnam Malleswari should be seen for what she is. My struggles, my training, all the coaches I went through – it must be there for all to see.”
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LaLiga giants FC Barcelona has gone one step ahead of all the football clubs. They have launched their OTT streaming service: BARCA TV+. Barcelona has the biggest fanbase around the world with over 350 million people. They are offering their fans a chance to see everything inside the club and feel like a part of the Barcelona ecosystem.
Barca TV+ is offering 1000 hours of content which included over 3000 videos. The content can be accessed through any device: PC, tablet, smartphone and smart TV. It will be available for all people around the globe through the website or app. It can be viewed in 3 languages: English, Spanish and Catalan.
— FC Barcelona (from 🏠) (@FCBarcelona) June 3, 2020
Barcelona fans can access some limited content for free just by signing in to Barca TV+. Or else they can get a subscription: monthly or annually to get unlimited access to all the contents.
The monthly subscription costs €2.49/month which will give you access to unlimited Barca TV+ contents. The annual subscription is priced at €14.99/year which includes Culers Premium Membership. The Culers Premium Membership has also been recently launched by Barcelona. It has been launched to make the fans feel closer to Barcelona.
The Culers Premium Membership (€14.99/year) includes:
Unlimited access to Barca TV+
Culers membership card
Up to 50% discount on tickets
Preferential access to tickets
Special offers on branded products
Special offers from Barcelona’s partners
Donation to the Barca Foundation (€1 from the subscription fee will be donated to the Foundation)
Didac Lee, the head of the digital area and a board member said: “This [Barca TV+ and Culers Premium Membership] is something everyone is talking about and looking for. The top project in digital not just today, but for the next 30 years, I believe.”
“Barca TV+ is the key piece, the jewel in the crown, in the club’s new digital strategy and, without a doubt, the best way to reach all of our fans around the world. This is a unique product that will offer fans a new way to consume Barça content, wherever they want and whenever they want; exclusive, different content that will be available ‘on demand.’”
“The Culers Premium Membership programme will also allow us to deepen the sense of belonging to the Barça family that these fans feel. Therefore, these two products will help us bring the club and its values closer to our fans, connect with new audiences and strengthen the FC Barcelona brand globally.”
Barca TV+ has a wide array of contents ranging from match replays to Live TV and finally lots of original contents.
Some of the original contents include:
Ready! Antoine’s challenges – Antoine Griezmann challenges his friends to some hilarious activities.
Origins – A very special trip to discover the origins of Baraa players. It will show the country of their birth to learn about their roots, their families and how their story began. There’s talk with the key characters on the players’ paths to becoming professional footballers.
Discover Barcelona – Discover the most special places in the city of Barcelona, together with Barca’s first-team players.
Dare to Play – A personal portrait of Barca Women’s players. It discovers their origins, their arrival at the club, the family environment, the player’s favourite hobbies and much more.
Welcome! – An exclusive, in-depth interview with FC Barcelona’s new signings upon their arrival at the club.
The Album – The best players in Barca’s history review the most glorious moments of their careers at the club through the photographer’s lens.
What’s next? – It shows what happens to Barca’s legends after their playing days come to an end and where are they now.
The number 9 – A series that looks in depth at the best strikers to have worn the Blaugrana jersey, their names synonymous with goals and glory at the Camp Nou.
Managers – The history of FC Barcelona told through the voices of the best coaches that the Blaugrana bench has ever seen.
One of ours – You will take a trip through the history of Barca through the eyes of the legends that wore the Blaugrana shirt. You will hear the tales of glory, the goals scored, the titles conquered and more as you discover the story of FC Barcelona.
There are a lot more various types of contents on Barca TV+. You won’t get bored. The digital team has done great work. There’s so much you get to know about the club and its players. You get a view of the players’ personal lives which will make you feel even more close to your favourite football stars.
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Intel is having a hard time in both laptop and PC department, most of its CPUs are not much appealing to high performance craving buyers. The inability to shift to a 10 nm or 7 nm has resulted Intel in loosing market share to AMD rapidly, and this needs a fix for such a big company like Intel.
Recently, a Weibo user posted the estimates for process node and IPC gains for Intel’s upcoming Ocean Cove and Golden Cove architecture. This was spotted by the reliable Twitter user @MebuiW.
So, according to the tipster, Intel’s Ocean Cove architecture based on 7 nm process is supposed to release in 2022 or 2023. Along with that, the architecture is said to provide a humongous 80% increase to IPC with respect to the age-old Skylake architecture.
Also this might help Intel to pass the 5.5 GHz barrier or even reach 6 GHz with more efficient process nodes. But it is worth noting that at which pace AMD is going, in 2022 or 2023, the upcoming Ryzen 5000 CPUs deliver even better performance from its upcoming Zen 3 based Ryzen 4000 CPUs, jumping from 7 nm to 5 nm.
If this rumour actually becomes truth then by the time Intel comes up with its 7nm Ocean Cove architecture, AMD will certainly be on the verge of using the enhanced 5nm process or even better process on its desktop CPUs. Overall, this lack of switching to a modern process node for Intel might be costly over the time, benefitting AMD to gain market share.
