The new Microsoft device is making some noise in the tech world already with loads of leaks and spec information. Now we have some more info regarding the display of the Surface Go 2, Zac Bowden of Windows Central claims that Microsoft is giving the Surface Go a design refresh.
They claim that the Surface Go 2 will include a bigger 10.5-inch display, just 0.5-inch larger than the 3:2 panel that Microsoft had equipped in its predecessor. Also there will be an increase in the resolution, from 1,920 x 1,200 to 1,920 x 1,280.
The Surface Go 2 is said to retain the same chassis of the original Surface Go which implies that the Surface Go 2 will have thinner bezels than its predecessor. According to Bowden, these should be in resemblance to the Surface Laptop 3, which are noticeably thinner than the bezels of the Surface Pro 7.
This also suggests that the Surface Go 2 will be compatible with the existing Surface Go Type Cover and have the same selection of ports as the original Surface Go.
Previously, what the leaks imply that there will be two variants one powered by the Pentium Gold 4425Y processor while the other variant will be powered by the Intel Core m3-8100Y. Bowden claims Microsoft will include a cheaper 64 GB of eMMC flash storage and 4 GB of RAM with the Pentium Gold 4425Y powered variant to reduce costs.
This will obviously affect the performance of the Surface Go 2 base variant while the other variant with Intel Core m3-8100Y will be sporting 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB SSD which will give better results in everyday tasks. Apparently, Microsoft is expected to launch the Surface Go 2 alongside the Surface Book 3 this spring.
Xiaomi is known for its TV series and is leading manufacturer in India and China, so it really knows how to make large displays at low costs. After launching two of its gaming monitors this year, Xiaomi has launched a very cheap monitor building on from the Mi Display 1.
Xiaomi Mall recently put on the new Xiaomi Mi Display 1A 23.8-inch. The new monitor will be retailing for just CNY 699, equivalent to US$99. For that price getting such a bigger display is really appreciable, also comparing this to Mi display before the bezels of the Xiaomi Mi Display 1A 23.8-inch seems narrower.
Talking about the display, Xiaomi Mi Display 1A has a Full HD IPS panel with a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees along with a standard 60Hz refresh rate. It also supports low blue light without video flash, and uses DC technology to intelligently adjust the brightness.
The monitor has a peak brightness of about 250 cd/m² with a contrast ratio of 1000:1, and the response time is 6ms. The Xiaomi Mi Display 1A adopts to the three-micro-edge integrated panel design so if you need a lot of room for a multi-display setup, this monitor is the perfect one for you.
For the I/O we have simply just an HDMI port to minimize the costs. Overall the look and feel of the monitor is interesting and at its price Xiaomi is offering more then you could’ve asked for and as a simple monitor this could be your next one.
A new Realme smartphone got both TENAA and 3C certifications in China with a model code RMX2142 and commonly called Realme X, though the name is not fixed yet, the phone is believed to be the successor of the Realme X2.
This Realme X3 also has a higher version that visited Thailand’s NBTC certification website a few days back and came with the name Realme X3 SuperZoom in it. The phone also passed Geekbench with Android 10, Snapdragon 855+ SoC, and 12GB RAM.
The RMX2142 is said now spotted in the TENAA website with all the images which also reveals the design of the phone and one of the colour option as well.
Specifications of Realme X3:
As per the specifications listed on the Chinese certification site TENAA, the Realme X3 will come with a 6.57-inch FHD+ TFT display. As for the cameras, the device will have quad-cameras consisting of a 48MP primary sensor, an 8MP lens and a couple of 2MP sensors. On the front, it will have a 16MP primary sensor and a 2MP secondary lens. The selfie cameras will be housed in a punch-hole cut on the display placed at the top left corner.
However, the chipset name isn’t revealed yet but is believed to be powered by a 2.4GHz octa-core processor. The device is likely to come in three storage variants – 6GB + 64GB, 8GB + 128GB and 8GB + 256GB storage that should be further expandable via microSD card. The handset runs on Android 10 with Realme UI custom skin on top. The smartphone will be powered by a 4100mAh battery, but there is no mention of fast charging, although it is expected.
The handset measures 163.8×75.8×8.9mm and weigh 192 grams. Connectivity features could include 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS, and USB Type-C. Most surprisingly this version of Realme X3 will come with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor.
Google’s Pixel Buds series was launched in 2017, but only one of its models has made it to market so far. The second-generation Google Pixel Buds have still not hit the markets but we came across some patent images filed by Google which looks like the new Google Pixel Buds.
Thanks to 91mobiles we got access to all the patent images which were submitted by Google. The images show the all-round design of the next generation Pixel Buds. In these buds, we won’t see the eartips which were present in the Pixel Buds 2. The design of this one looks more like the first generation Pixel Buds but without wire.
The images of all the patents are given below. The ear buds do not even have any physical buttons on it. The top of the buds will be touch active for controlling.
At this moment nothing is known about the specifications of the Google Pixel Buds 3. No price details have been shared till now even, as the Pixel Buds 2 is already in queue to hit the market. Google has already revealed the earbuds will be priced at $179 (about Rs.13,500) and will have Google Assistant support, fast pairing, wireless charging case, etc.
Reports claim Motorola will unveil the One Fusion series at the end of Q2 2020 and the specifications of the Plus version has also surfaced recently.
So this might be another series from the tech giant and a few days back the company has revealed the flagship Edge series which featured the first 120Hz screen of the company. The launch of the Motorola Edge+ is scheduled for April 22.
Evan Blass, a reliable leakster, shared a tweet revealing that One Fusion is codenamed Titan whereas the Plus variant has codename Liberty. The leakster has not revealed any other information on this series. But a separate report claims that the Edge+ will have Snapdragon 675 SoC at the helm paired with 4GB or 6GB RAM. The Moto One phones come with Android One support, so the company may add this feature in the series
Moto One Vision
The phone will have a 12MP main camera, but the total number of snappers on the smartphone is currently unknown. Some other reports claims the smartphone will have 64GB and 128GB storage options and will be offered in two colors – Light Blue and Light Brown. The battery capacity is not known.
The source also claims that the pair will be launched in India and the US. The phone is still a mystery but we should hear more about it in the coming days or weeks.
There are many great players who have amazed us with their brilliant displays on the field but have bottled up when it came to winning trophies.
Champions League is European club football’s biggest prize and World Cup is the biggest prize of international football. Almost every player wants to win these two trophies at some point in their career.
There are some famous players who have almost got their hands on both the trophies but have failed to win both of them and notably in the same year. You can imagine what a heartbreak it is to be so close and then lose out on both the trophies in the same year! It definitely affects you mentally.
Let’s have a look at the 5 players who lost both the Champions League and World Cup finals in the same year:
Michael Ballack [2002]
Ballack was one of the great German midfielders. In 2002, Ballack helped Bayer Leverkusen to compete for both the domestic trophies – Bundesliga and German Cup. Unfortunately, they lost both and ended up with the runners-up medal.
Ballack got another chance to put behind the domestic failures and win the Champions League. This time they lost 2-1 to Real Madrid when Zidane scored that famous volley.
In the summer of 2002, Ballack produced some of the best performances of the World Cup for Germany to guide them to the final. Once again his team lost another final, this time to Brazil courtesy Ronaldo.
Thierry Henry [2006]
In 2006, Henry had emerged as one of the best strikers, leading Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal to many domestic heights. He helped Arsenal to reach their first-ever Champions League final but lost to Barcelona by a 2-0 margin.
Henry headed into the World Cup with France as one of the tournament favourites. They progressed to the final as expected. But what happened in the final was something extraordinary! Zidane headbutted Italy’s Materazzi in the final and got a straight red card and France went on to lose the World Cup on penalties.
Arjen Robben [2010]
Arjen Robben was on the verge of becoming one of the best wingers in 2010. His signature trait was to cut in from the right flank and bend the ball into the net with his left foot. He helped Bayern Munich to progress to the Champions League final but was outdone by Jose Mourinho’s Inter.
Robben played a crucial role as he guided the Netherlands to their first-ever World Cup final since 1978. Once again he lost the final to the golden generation of Spain. Spain was dominating the international tournaments having won the Euro two years ago. Iniesta scored the lone goal of the match to hand Robben a runners-up medal.
Mark van Bommel [2010]
Mark van Bommel was a talented Netherlands midfielder who played for Bayern Munich at club level. He was a teammate of Arjen Robben both on the club and international level in 2010.
So he faced the same fate as Robben in 2010. Bommel captained Louis Van Gaal’s Bayern Munich to the Champions League final but lost to Inter before eventually losing the World Cup final to Iniesta’s Spain.
Dejan Lovren [2018]
Dejan Lovren became the most recent member of this ‘losing both the Champions League and World Cup finals in the same year’ club. Lovren partnered Van Dijk in defence to inspire Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool to the Champions League final. They faced Real Madrid in the final, who were chasing their third successive Champions League trophy. Loris Karius made two mistakes in front of his own goal and both resulted in a goal as Liverpool lost 3-1.
Lovren then went to the World Cup in the summer with Croatia. His opponent in the Champions League final, Real Madrid’s Luka Modric was captaining the Croatian side and they reached to their first-ever World Cup finals. Unfortunately, they were beaten by a young and talented French side as Mbappe inspired France to lift the World Cup.
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The Silicon giant is having great days, overtaking Intel in sales and making great improvement in performance as well. Soon in the coming months, expectedly in September, launching its Ryzen 4000 processors based on the refined 7 nm Zen 3 microarchitecture later this year.
An IPC uplift of around 10-15% per thread over the current Zen 2 chips and the Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 processors is supposed to be based out of 5nm node. This transition should occur in 2021, but, according to a recent Chinese report posted on Chainnews.com, AMD has already secured 5 nm production allocations at TSMC.
Team Red will be relying on the Taiwanese foundries to develop an enhanced 5 nm node that will be used to manufacture the upcoming Zen 4 CPUs. According to the reports, AMD has secured production for 20,000 12-inch 5 nm wafers per month starting right away from the second quarter of 2020.
TSMC is busy taking orders from giants like Apple, NVIDIA, Huawei and AMD, while Huawei has been forced to port many of its 7 nm orders to the Chinese-based SMIC foundries. This means TSMC will be able to take more 7 nm orders from Nvidia and AMD.
Interestingly, NVIDIA’s upcoming Ampere GPUs will be based on 7 nm process rather than 10 nm process rumoured before. It seems that the pandemic has not affected the work at TSMC as they are already on track to produce 5 nm node this Q2 and production will gradually ramp up towards the end of the year.
However the 3 nm node advancements have been affected as TSMC needs to postpone the installation of the 3 nm trial production line at the Zhuke 12 and Nanke 18 plants from June to December. This suggests that the 3 nm risk production could be delayed to the first half of 2021, while the actual commercial production may be further delayed until late 2022.
Recently, Counterpoint Research has published its report on the smartphone SoC market for 2019. Samsung Electronics and HiSilicon (Huawei) were the only two companies to increase their market share in 2019. Qualcomm has retained top spot whereas MediaTek is comfortable in the second place.
Even though facing a 1.6% decline through the year, Qualcomm still managed to grab one-third of smartphone AP shipments in 2019. The Taiwanese giant MediaTek has faced a 1.1% decline on year-on-year (YoY) basis accounting to 24.6% market share.
via Counterpoint Research
Interestingly, Samsung has enjoyed a 14.1% of market share increasing its share by 2.2% on YoY basis, much due to the fact that Samsung is developing a lot of chips these days with the latest manufacturing process and is even supplying its chips to other vendors like Motorola, Google and lot more.
Samsung now enjoys 3rd spot while Apple dipped its market share by just 0.5% and still holding 13.1% in 2019. On the other hand, Huawei’s HiSilicon was the mobile chip manufacturer to exhibit an increased share of +2.5% YoY of its market in 2019.
via Counterpoint Research
Counterpoint also reckons the fact that Huawei’s trade war with US was one of the key factor to slower its growth or else we could’ve seen more market shares in America. As we see in the graph report, Huawei has enjoyed most of its share from China and Europe.
MediaTek has enjoyed a wide amount of global market with its strong market coming from India and China. While Samsung has made its presence felt in India, Europe and America. Apple is mostly dominant in America and Europe while Qualcomm enjoys a wide market share throughout the globe, dominating in most of them.
World Health Organization already said that keeping a social distance from others or using face masks are not the only ways to keep yourself away from corona infection. You need to take care of your hands too. Washing hands frequently for 20 seconds each time is important too.
A group of developers and designers from Samsung Research Institute – Bangalore come is front for help so that you can maintain your hand hygiene. They came with a wearable app called “Hand Wash” for the Galaxy Watch.
Set Daily Reminders:
This app contains the preliminary and basic features to Set Reminders for hand wash. There are eight reminders per day as default. But you can add more or reduce as per requirement.
Timer:
Health experts said washing hands for at least 20 seconds is necessary. Otherwise, it will not be beneficial. So, the SRI-B team added a timer of 25 seconds. The duration is fixed. The extra seconds are there to represent the on/off and soap taking time. It will release an alert when the countdown ends.
Track Hand Wash Habbit:
You can track your habbits over a period through this “Hand Wash” app. Even, the track report can be set as watch face. It will help you to stay updated about your own.
If you miss any of the scheduled tasks, the app will knock you. You just need to stay alert, keep your hands clean, and maintain social distance. Galaxy Watch users can download this app from the Galaxy Store. Hope, the coronavirus pandemic will recover soon.
MSI has launched a new gaming monitor that not only has a ultra-wide display but also some high refresh rates along as low as 1ms response. The Optix MAG301CR features VA panel which operates natively at 2,560 x 1,080 pixels (WFHD) resolution.
The 30-inch ultra-wide display has a 21:9 aspect ratio with a promised 3,000:1 contrast ratio. Additionally, MSi states that the panel covers the entire sRGB colour space and 98% of DCI-P3 colour gamut which makes the MAG301CR ideal for professional works like video and photo editing besides gaming.
As this is a 30-inch ultra-wide with such great clarity and a wide aspect ratio, multitasking won’t be difficult that much. As a gaming monitor it has some key gaming features as well, like the 200 Hz peak refresh rate and 1 ms response times, much because this is a VA panel.
The monitor is also AMD FreeSync certfied which helps to minimize screen tearing. Even though MSI is marketing the MAG301CR as being “HDR-ready” but its not actually certified by any HDR standards. For the I/O ports, we have two HDMI 2.0b ports, one DisplayPort 1.2a port and a single USB Type-C port.
Also there’s a a 3.5 mm jack for connecting headphones or external speakers and MSI has included three USB 3.2 Gen1 ports as well, one of them being Type-B and the others are Type-A. MSI has not confirmed the pricing or availability yet but it seems that the MAG301CR will not come cheap.
