Apple will open its first retail store in India in 2021, online store this year says Tim Cook

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February 27, 2020

Apple will open its first retail store in India in 2021, online store this year says Tim Cook

After much speculations regarding Apple’s offline presence in India, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has made it puclic about their own offline as well as online availability in the country. The Cupertino giant is slowly and steadily making a good progress in the world’s second largest smartphone market.

Knowing the potential of Indian smartphone market, Apple already has started making iPhones in the country, in an effort to reduce the costs so that more people can afford them. Their stratergy has paid off as the iPhone XR is now one of the best selling premium smartphones in the country and the best one in the world in 2019.

Even though Apple is creating availability for its products in India via authorised retailers and major eCommerce giants like Flipkart, Amazon, Paytm Mall but they are getting to the selling this time and the Cupertino giant has confirmed its plans.

Yesterday at its annual shareholders meeting at the Steve Jobs Theater, Tim Cook himself confirmed that Apple will open its first retail store in India in 2021. Cook has also confirmed that Apple will start selling its products on its own online store starting this year.

But you may doubt why not this year? To answer that, Tim Cook said that the company had to seek special approval for this because the Indian government wanted it to work with a partner. “We wouldn’t be a very good partner in retail. We like to do things our way,” he clarified.

This will increase the trust of the brand in the country and cut down the dominance shown by the authorised resellers and bring an end to the deep discounts provided by the eCommerce giants off lately. Also it will pave way for better economic growth and newer products for India.

It is said that Apple has chosen Mumbai’s Maker Maximity Mall in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) as the venue for its very first Indian outlet. Apple has repordely leased aroud 20,000-25,000 sq ft space for its outlet spread over three floors in the Maker Maximity Mall.

This will be the largest Apple Store in India and will be three times to that of Apple Flagship Premium Reseller’s 8000 sq.ft outlet in Mumbai which opened back in August 2019. Apple also will be planning to open 2-3 retail offline retail stores in India in the coming years.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga launched with OLED displays, regular X13 comes with AMD Ryzen Pro 4000

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February 27, 2020

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Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga launched with OLED displays, regular X13 comes with AMD Ryzen Pro 4000

Lenovo has already launched a bunch of ThinkPad laptops including its new ThinkPad X13 series and has got a new name like its T-series brothers. The Lenovo ThinkPad X13 is the successor to the ThinkPad X390 and the ThinkPad X395, while the ThinkPad X13 Yoga is the successor of the ThinkPad X390 Yoga.

The regular ThinkPad X13 will feature both the 10th gen Intel Comet Lake series CPUs with vPro and you’ll have AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 processor options as well, on the other hand, the convertible ThinkPad X13 Yoga will be an Intel exclusive.

These laptops can be configured with an FHD 500 nit PrivacyGuard ePrivacy display with PrivacyAlert while the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga will feature up to 13.3 inch 4K UHD OLED panel with Dolby Vision.

Among other features, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 laptop will be available with up to 32GB DDR4 RAM and the ThinkPad Yoga X13 will be available with up to 16GB DDR4 RAM. On the storage front, the normal X13 will have storage up to 1TB PCIe SSD while the X13 Yoga gives you up to 2TB PCIe SSD storage options.

On the battery front, the ThinkPad X13 gives up to 17.5 hours of battery life while the X13 Yoga gives 15.5 hours of battery (on the lower res panel). Then you get Windows 10 Pro pre-installed along with Backlit keyboard and up to HD+ IR webcam support.

Also, the laptops have optional CAT 9 WWAN capabilities, WiFi 6, rapid access unified communications functions keys, on-cell touch displays, fingerprint reader support with Windows Hello, Dolby Audio, RapidCharge support, Thunderbolt 3 support and much more.

The Intel-powered laptops do enjoy the benefit of NFC support and also the ThinkPad X13 series weighs light, only around 1.2Kg and does have Backlit keyboard as well. With the ThinkPad X13 Yoga, you also get the ThinkPad Pen Pro to increase productivity.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X13 is clearly the more affordable option, as it has a starting price tag of $849 (approx. Rs.60,888) and the X13 Yoga starts at $1099 (approx. Rs.78,798). Both of them will be available in the second quarter of 2020 along with the other ThinkPad laptops.

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Lenovo ThinkPad L14 & L15 budget enterprise laptops with AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 launched

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February 27, 2020

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Lenovo ThinkPad L14 & L15 budget enterprise laptops with AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 launched

Lenovo has launched an entire range of new ThinkPad laptops and also updated its budget-oriented L-series of laptops along with its new T series. The new Lenovo ThinkPad L14 will replace last year’s Lenovo ThinkPad L490 and the L15 will replace the L590.

The new budget enterprise series doesn’t look that much premium as it’s targeted towards enterprise, government and education users. This is the first time ever in the history of the ThinkPad L series, that both ThinkPad L14 and L15 will feature AMD CPUs in the form of the new AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 line of processors.

All the 2020 models of ThinkPad series will include the 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake processors with vPro. All of the laptops come with Wi-Fi 6 support along with 64GB DDR4 RAM support and 1TB PCIe SSD storage. You get support for FHD IPS On-Cell touch displays with 300nits of peak brightness.

Although the L-series also offers the same business options including LTE support, mechanical docking and smartcard reader) as the more expensive T series but coming in a less expensive plastic package and being a bit thicker.

Both the Intel and Ryzen variants offer up to 11 hours of battery life which is quite impressive. Then you get Windows 10 Pro pre-installed along with Backlit keyboard and up to HD+ IR webcam support.

*Lenovo ThinkPad L14 (AMD) specifications*

Lenovo ThinkPad L14 (Intel) specifications — *Lenovo ThinkPad L14 (AMD) specifications*

Also, the laptops have optional CAT 9 WWAN capabilities, rapid access unified communications functions keys, on-cell touch displays, fingerprint reader support with Windows Hello, Dolby Audio, RapidCharge support and much more.

Both the Lenovo ThinkPad L14 and ThinkPad L15 will be available in the second quarter of 2020 along with the other ThinkPad laptops along with a starting price of $649 (Approx. Rs.46,532) which indeed is cheap, thanks to AMD.

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New Lenovo ThinkPad laptops with 10th Gen Intel Core vPro & AMD Ryzen 4000 PRO CPUs launched

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February 27, 2020

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New Lenovo ThinkPad laptops with 10th Gen Intel Core vPro & AMD Ryzen 4000 PRO CPUs launched

Lenovo is expanding its ever-popular ThinkPad series of business laptops, now being equipped with even secured chips i.e. the Pro CPUs especially designed for business use. Now you get options to either choose from the 10th Gen Intel Core vPro processors or the AMD’s latest Ryzen 4000 PRO Mobile processors.

Named as the Lenovo T series you get two options of 14-inch and 15.6-inch variants. Other important features include Wi-Fi 6 and optional CAT 16 WWAN support, Wake on Voice, Dolby Audio Speaker System and more.

The ThinkPad T14 and T14 laptops are the successors to the ThinkPad T495 and ThinkPad T495s and the bigger 15.6-inch model ThinkPad T15 stays as Intel exclusive while the two smaller 14 inch T series ThinkPads will be available with AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 CPUs as well.

The Intel CPU powered new ThinkPad T series laptops are optionally available with a 4K UHD screen with Dolby Vision HDR. All the specs are given as follows:

All the three new T series ThinkPads will be available in the Q2 2020 and the ThinkPad T14 will be the most affordable one with a starting price of $849 (approx. Rs.60,888). The ThinkPad T14s will cost a minimum of $1,029 (approx. Rs.73,789), while the bigger ThinkPad T15 has a starting price tag of $1,079 (approx. Rs.77,364).

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India’s first 5G smartphones launched starting from Rs.36,990 and their comparisons

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February 27, 2020

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India’s first 5G smartphones launched starting from Rs.36,990 and their comparisons

India’s first-ever 5G smartphone was launched on 24th February this year which is Realme X50 Pro 5G and only a day after Vivo’s sub-brand IQOO launched its first smartphone iQOO 3 which is also a 5G enabled device. These smartphones are the first-ever 5G enabled smartphones in India and the price of those flagships is pretty much affordable. The smartphones get a starting price of Rs.36,990 (a base variant of iQOO 3).

Right now with two 5G smartphones in the Indian market, we can say Realme X50 Pro 5G is clearly the winner over the iQOO 3 and there is a very slight margin which decides which one is the best.

Realme X50 Pro 5G

Specifications:

6/8/12 GB RAM
128/256 GB ROM
16.36 cm (6.44 inch) Full HD+ Display
64MP + 12MP + 8MP + 2MP Rear camera
32MP + 8MP Dual Front Camera
4200 mAh Battery
5G Dual Band
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Processor
65W Superdart Charge

The next stock of Realme X50 Pro 5G will be available soon and came in the sale on 24th February 6 pm onwards and the stock ended within a few minutes. This is a Flipkart and realme.com exclusive device so far and is available in two different colour options i.e. Moss Green and Rust Red. There are three different storage options available as well for this device i.e. 6GB | 128GB (Rs.37,999), 8GB | 128GB (Rs.39,999) and 12GB | 256GB (Rs.44,999).

2. iQOO 3

Specifications:

8/12 GB RAM
128/256 GB ROM
16.36 cm (6.44 inch) Full HD+ Display
48MP + 13MP + 13MP + 2MP Rear camera
16MP Front Camera
4440 mAh Li-ion Battery
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Processor
5G variant

The iQOO 3 will come in the sale from 4th March This is a Flipkart and realme.com exclusive device so far and is available in two different colour options i.e. Quantum Silver, Tornado Black, and Volcano Orange. There are three different storage options available as well for this device i.e. 8GB | 128GB (Rs.36,990), 8GB | 256GB (Rs.39,990) and 12GB | 256GB (Rs.44,990).

In Realme X50 Pro 5G, all the variants are 5G enabled but in iQOO 3 only the 12GB | 256GB variant is 5G enabled. So here it is clear that even for both the base variants Realme is getting a plus point for having 5G in the device. But for both the highest variants of both the brands we see that they are almost the same and balancing in different aspects.

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Apple iPhone XR is the Best Selling Smartphone of 2019

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February 26, 2020

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Apple iPhone XR is the Best Selling Smartphone of 2019

The Omdia’s latest report has begun speculations all around the globe as in 2019, the iPhone XR has emerged to be the best selling smartphone of 2019. According to the data published by Omdia, Apple has occupied the first two places in the best selling list with 2018’s iPhone XR and the lastest iPhone 11.

Even though being a costly and premium Apple smartphones have dominated the Top 10 best selling smartphone list, occupying 5 out 10 places. Next comes Samsung who got 4 places and surprisingly, Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 7 has found a place on the list as well.

Apple's new iPhone XR not quite affordable at Rs.76,900

The best selling smartphone according to the Top 10 list by Omdia is Apple’s iPhone XR with 46.3 million units shipments in 2019 whereas in 2018 it got only 23.1 million units shipped in 2018, making the device one of the best-selling smartphones ever.

On the second spot, we have another Apple product i.e. the recently announced iPhone 11, which is the true successor to iPhone XR, surprisingly got 37.3 million units shipped in just 3 months! It seems Apple’s strategy of cutting down costs of its iPhone to some extent has worked since the launch of iPhone XR.

In the third place, we finally have a Samsung device i.e the Samsung A10 with 30.3 million units shipped in 2019. Then we have the Galaxy A50 and Galaxy A20 with 24.2 and 19.2 million units shipped respectively in 2019. The strong offline as well as the online presence of the Galaxy A series has helped the sales of these smartphones.

Both the flagship iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPhone 11 Pro has managed 17.6 and 15.5 million units shipped in 2019 even though carrying a high price tag along with the iPhone 8 which was 2018’s top-selling smartphone has got the 7th place in 2019.

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Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 7 has made a surprise entry in the list, which is also a budget smartphone and has 16.4 million units shipped in 2019. Samsung’s older J2 Core, which is the cheapest low-budget smartphone has managed a spot in the top 10 with 15.2 million shipments.

What we might infer from the list is that even though premium smartphone market is said to be evolving and although some say Apple might be facing real issues with their high priced iPhones, Apple iPhones are the most preferred ones across the globe. Samsung and Xiaomi’s cheaper smartphones have earned their respect in the budget smartphone market.

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Black Shark 3 Pro 5G creates a record at the AnTuTu benchmark scores

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February 26, 2020

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Black Shark 3 Pro 5G creates a record at the AnTuTu benchmark scores

After the launch of the Snapdragon 865 last year, we were just waiting for the new premium smartphones featuring this chip. Even though the MWC 2020 was called off due to the coronavirus but still companies are launching new devices in their solo events.

Smartphones featuring this chip are scoring record AnTuTu scores every now and then, until yesterday Xiaomi’s upcoming Mi 10 Pro was leading the charts after being air-cooled but now it seems that Xiaomi’s proprietory gaming smartphone – the upcoming Xiaomi Black Shark 3 featuring the Snapdragon 865 has crushed the total competition.

Black Shark 3 Pro 5G scores record AnTuTu benchmark

Xiaomi has well implemented the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC on the Black Shark 3 Pro device to reach a new high score of 620,952 points, probably their liquid cooling technology and the UI optimizations have helped the device to make such record score.

Before now, the recently launched iQOO 3 was reputed to have the highest score of 597,583 points and prior to that the Realme X50 Pro scored over 574,000 points. The Xiaomi Black Shark 3 and 3 Pro 5G will go official in just a few days on March 3 and Xiaomi has already started pre-registrations in China.

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The 15W Vega 7 iGPU on the Ryzen 7 4700U destroys 25W NVIDIA GeForce MX250

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February 26, 2020

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The 15W Vega 7 iGPU on the Ryzen 7 4700U destroys 25W NVIDIA GeForce MX250

After the launch of the AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile APUs, we had a doubt if the 7nm goodness of these processors can overtake NVIDIA graphics after giving Intel some hard times on the horsepower front.

The integrated Vega graphics has been one of the key selling points of the Ryzen Mobile processors and with days it has become much more powerful & efficient. Now, the leaked 3DMark 11 scores of the new Ryzen 7 4700U will give NVIDIA some problems.

New 3dmark 11 Performance score

R7 4700U

This is probably using the same 3200MHz LPDDR4 from 4500U review. Scores are consistent so far

Physics score : 10404
Graphics score : 5446 https://t.co/yXAdUSYd9q pic.twitter.com/LTcVcvjbkd
— _rogame (@_rogame) February 26, 2020

Surprisingly this 15W Ryzen 7 4700U APU even defeats the 25W discrete GeForce MX250 by nearly 17% in the 3DMark 11’s graphics test. The integrated Vega 7 graphics (with 7 compute units) scored 5446 points whereas the discrete NVIDIA GeForce MX 250’s scored only 4655 points.

The Zen 2 based processor also nails it on the CPU performance, scoring a massive 10,404 points which are in fact on par with the 65W Intel Skylake Core i7-6700 desktop CPU. The Ryzen 4000 mobile processors will provide incredible performance not only on the CPU but also GPU front and nows it’s evident after these leaks.

Even though the new MX330 and MX350 mobile graphics are out but the efficiency of the new AMD APUs and their cost will give users the freedom to get both performances on the CPU and the GPU front without paying extra bucks for the discrete graphics.

If you are an AMD fan and have been waiting for this moment for them to show complete dominance on both the CPU and GPU front for the mobile processors, the time has come, all wrapped under a mere 15W TDP envelope.

It will be interesting to see how Intel hits back with its Tiger Lake chips with integrated Gen12 iGPU. Also, these scores and numbers shall differ and can even improve if the laptops implement the Ryzen 4000 processors properly, can’t wait to test them out!

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Samsung starts mass production of industry’s first 16GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM

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February 26, 2020

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Samsung starts mass production of industry’s first 16GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM

Samsung has recently announced that it has begun the mass production of the industry’s first 16-gigabyte (GB) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM package for next-generation premium smartphones.

Even though such high mobile DRAM finds no application but to improve performance and for selling perspective, Samsung has already started the production of 16GB RAM units. These 16GB LPDDR5 RAM units offer:

A data transfer rate of 5,500 Mb/s which is almost 1.3 times faster than the previous mobile memory (LPDDR4X, 4266Mb/s).
Consists of eight 12GB chips and four 8GB chips, being equipped on the premium smartphones with twice the DRAM capacity you find in many high-end laptops and gaming PCs these days.
When compared to an 8GB LPDDR4X RAM, the new mobile LPDDR5 DRAM delivers more than 20% energy savings in spite of providing up to twice the capacity.

As Samsung continues to expand LPDDR5 mobile DRAM production at its Pyeongtaek site, the company plans to mass-produce 16Gb LPDDR5 products based on third-generation 10nm-class (1z) process technology in the second half of this year, in line with the development of a 6,400Mb/s chipset
Samsung

Even though there’s no mention that the latest 16GB LPDDR5 DRAM should be the one that is used in Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra that was introduced earlier this month.

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Honor MagicBook 14 & MagicBook 15 with Ryzen 5 3500U and pop-up camera launched

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February 25, 2020

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Honor MagicBook 14 & MagicBook 15 with Ryzen 5 3500U and pop-up camera launched

Huawei has made some bold announcements recently and among them, the launch of the new Honor MagicBook laptops is a key one. The new Honor laptops powered by the 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen mobile processor i.e. the Ryzen 5 3500U with 4 cores and 8 threads along with up to 3.7GHz clock speed.

The Honor MagicBook series is a budget range laptop series, a direct competitor to the RedmiBook series by Xiaomi. The new MagicBook 14 /15 series has a thin and compact design along with being lightweight.

On the productivity front, the battery life of these laptops last up to 10 hours and even sports a compact Type-C charger with 65W fast charging support. Along with that, the laptops do have an amazing FullView display with a high screen-to-body ratio.

Honor MagicBook 14 /15 Specifications

14-inch / 15.6-inch with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio along with TÜV Rheinland Certification
Quad-Core AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Mobile Processor with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
8GB DDR4 dual-channel RAM
256GB / 512GB PCIe NVME SSD storage options
Magic-Link 2.0
Connectivity: WiFi 802.11 ac (dual-band), Bluetooth 5.0,
Ports: 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
A Fingerprint power button and Pop-up webcam
Windows 10
Dimensions: 322.5 x 214.8 x 15.9mm
Weight: 1.38kg
MagicBook 14 has 56Wh battery & MagicBook 15 has 42Wh battery – comes with 65W Type- C Power Adapter with fast charging (46% in 30 minutes for MagicBook 14 & 53% in 30 minutes for MagicBook 15)

Apart from sporting a great 1080p FullView display, the 16:9 aspect ratio makes it look bezel-less, looks great even though being a budget laptop. To attain such display Honor has sacrificed the webcam and so comes equipped with a pop-up webcam which hidden underneath the camera button on the keyboard.

Both the Ryzen 5 3500U along with 8GB RAM & NVMe SSD storage will help to smoothen up the daily experience. In spite of featuring a Ryzen CPU that too a 12nm process, the laptop gives up to 9.5 hours of local video playback on a single full charge or 10 hours of productivity which is great!

The inbuilt fingerprint power button enables instant access from startup to desktop directly which indeed gives you a more secure and effortless login experience. It has an S-shaped fan design that improves airflow and heat dissipation up to 38%. The laptop also has a compact backlit keyboard with large buttons and a large trackpad as well.

The MagicBook 14 /15 series will be available in Space Gray and Mystic Silver colour options with a starting price tag of 599 Euros for the 256GB version. The new Honor MagicBook laptops will go on sale in selected countries like UK, Germany, France, Czech Republic and more by the end of March 2020.

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