Xiaomi again leads the smartphone market maintaining the No.1 position in India for Q3 2019, Realme acquires 16% market share
According to recent Counterpoint Research’s report of Indian smartphone market of Q3 2019, the Chinese handset maker Xiaomi continues its unbeaten run in India.
While in other countries the smartphone market is observing a slowdown, India seems to be the ideal place where record sales of 49 million units have been achieved in the last quarter. This is mostly due to the heavy discount and offers that we saw during Flipkart and Amazon’s various sales excluding October.
Now as we see in the reports, Xiaomi was the smartphone brand that sold the highest number of units in the Q3. It managed to grab 26% of overall sales originally dropping from 27%, in comparison to last year.
However, we see the total number of units sold surged by 7% on a YoY basis. Xiaomi’s best selling devices were the Redmi 7A, Redmi Note 7s and obviously the Redmi Note 7 Pro.
Samsung maintains its number 2 spot in this quarter as well. Its YoY based shipments declined by 4% but grew 3% in comparison to the previous quarter. Samsung’s best selling devices were the old Galaxy A2 Core and the newly refreshed A series and M series smartphones including the A30s, A10s, A50s, M30s and the budget-oriented M10s.
On the other hand, the third, fourth and fifth spot is held by Vivo, Realme and Oppo, respectively. Vivo grew from 10% to 17% on a YoY basis basically due to its aggressive online focussed smartphones like Vivo Z1 Pro, Vivo Z1x, and Vivo U10.
Realme as a new smartphone brand gained some handsome amount significant share. The Opportunity separated brand accounted for 16% of the total sales which was just 3% in the same time period last year. This is mostly due to their latest budget and mid-range smartphones like Realme C2, Realme 5, Realme 5 Pro and Realme XT.
On the other hand, Oppo despite having a steady growth in 2019 it has maintained a steady 8% market share even though introducing some great premium smartphones like Oppo F11 Pro and the Oppo Reno series. It’s online Oppo K series smartphones and new A series of smartphones have attracted a lot of buyers as well.
Overall we see a healthy gain in the Indian smartphone market, premium smartphone brands like OnePlus and Apple are hidden under the likes of these 5 major giants. OnePlus 7 series have had some compelling sales in India and Apple is slowly paving its way into the top 10 list with it’s aggressively priced iPhone XR and the cheaper iPhone 11.
Intel is facing hard times recently and we all know that, though they stand optimistic the shortage of wafers and inability to 10nm node has made buyers from all segments to switch to AMD. Intel’s inability has paved the way for AMD to relentlessly acquire market shares in desktop, laptop and server markets.
Previously the Q2 2019 earnings gave us a hint that in the next quarter AMD will totally dominate the picture and so have they. Though team blue wants us to believe it is doing great by showing off those record earnings from Q3 2019 but actually finding itself unable to meet CPU market demand forcing buyers to go for AMD.
Intel’s Q3 2019 financial report shows that the profits are marginally better on a YoY basis (just by 6%), on the other hand, desktop CPU sales fell by 10% compared to Q3 2018. Intel has managed the loses by increasing the prices of their highly-priced, high-performance CPUs.
AMD’s new venture with Microsoft can boost market shares for AMD in the next quarter
Facing both 14nm and 10nm shortages, many of the OEMs have adopted AMD’s advanced 7nm chips and clearly has dipped a lot of market share for Intel. As a result, Intel’s share has dropped to 86 per cent from 92 per cent and PCs containing Intel chips fell by 3.8 per cent to 4.509 million.
AMD has dramatically beefed up its share of PCs sold via distributors in Western Europe and according to official stats from box counter Context, 12 per cent of the total 5.242 million desktops and notebooks had AMD CPUs inside, up by 7 per cent of the total 5.077 million shipped a year ago.
So the figure stands like this: more than 629,000 machines have shifted to AMD, up from 355,000 machines last year. Among this record amount sales, the highest number of sales were recorded in the retail market, where AMD’s share increased from just 11% to a healthy 18%.
On the other hand, the business sector rather the server market managed a 3% growth, from 5% to 8% which we are pretty sure will increase by this quarter as EPYC CPUs are being adapted more by the industry leader and 3rd gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs are all set to launch in November.
Most of Intel’s difficulties come from its vague efforts to get the 10 nm nodes up and running since the blue team doesn’t want to fall behind in the performance race against AMD’s Zen 2 architecture based on 7nm process. OEMs like HP and Lenovo have also complained against Intel regarding its CPU shortages that could increase global PC market by 7 to 8% in Q3 rather than a mere 4%.
Intel still remains ambitious as it says that it will continue to prioritize available output towards the new generation of Intel Core products which are its main customer-oriented products. Intel also plans to further increase the output capacity in 2020.
As for now, the market seems to favour the Red team who has shown impressive performance and efficiency through its modern CPUs and its value for money superiority has led market shares flooding towards them in the Q3 2019 in Europe.
Leicester City have beaten Southampton by 9-0 to create Premier League history.
Jamie Vardy scored an injury-time penalty against Southampton to help Leicester City collect a piece of Premier League history by sealing a 9-0 win at St Mary’s. In that history-creating match, Vardy and Ayoze Perez both scored hat-tricks and James Maddison, Youri Tielemans and Ben Chilwell were also on target for Leicester City.
This 9-0 win has equalled the previous best in the competition’s history, Manchester United’s 9-0 win over Ipswich in 1995. The win also created another Premier League history by becoming the biggest top-flight win away from home in 131 years of league football in England.
Ryan Bertrand was sent off in the 10th minute when he made a reckless challenge in the build-up to Ben Chilwell’s 10th-minute opener. The red card had put Southampton at a disadvantage but no one could have imagined this humiliation.
Jamie Vardy told BBC Sport after the match: “I got made aware by Jonny Evans there could be a record. He told everyone at 6-0 there was a record and was adamant we were going to go for it. We were really hungry. We started really well. They went down to 10 men, we know what it is like, we know we had to keep going and it paid dividends. It sums the lads up. We want to be playing well and we know we can cause anyone problems and win games. We are taking each game as it comes. We know we can cause anyone problems. It’s a long season and see where we are at the end.”
He further added: “The main thing Vichai ever wanted from us was to fight and win and we’ve done that in massive amounts. Hopefully, the boss is looking down on us.” This record win has come two days before the first anniversary of the death of their chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium. It was the perfect gift to their chairman.
Leicester City coach Brendan Rodgers told the BBC: “I was very pleased with our work rate. We scored some great goals and were very hungry tonight. I’m very pleased with how we defended and how ruthless we were. I’m very proud to stand and be the manager of that team. We wanted to get the ball back quickly and attack again. A mark of good sides is you don’t let up and we certainly did that in the second half. We were ruthlessly simple in our game. When you’re so many goals up, you can easily slow and lose focus. To be a top team you must be clinical.”
Southampton captain Pierre-Emile Hojberg said: “I can only put my head in front of the team and say the only thing that matters is what we do going forward, and we can never let something like this happen again. It’s very embarrassing and very difficult for the whole team and we’re the ones to blame. We need to take it. I’m sorry, the only thing I can say to the fans is ‘I apologise’.”
Southampton coach Ralph Hasenhuttl told the BBC: “That was one of the tough ones tonight. The performance was a disaster and I have to apologise and take 100% responsibility. I’ve never seen a team act like this, there was no fight for anything. It was horrible to watch and everyone who stayed to watch is really a fan of this football club. I’m a proud man, but the way we play today is not the way I want to see my team play. I said we must play to the last minute, but I can understand why the fans left. We all must do everything to pull this back.”
Let’s take a look at some Opta numbers from this historic match:
9 – Leicester’s nine unanswered goals made this the joint-biggest Premier League win of all time, level with Manchester United’s 9-0 thrashing of Ipswich Town in March 1995.
0 – Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel kept a clean sheet for the Foxes – just like his father Peter did for United when they demolished Ipswich 24-and-a-half years ago.
131 – The margin of victory is the largest by a top-flight side away from home in the 131-year history of league football in England. It was also Southampton’s biggest defeat of all time.
2 – Leicester became the second side to have two players score a hat-trick in the same Premier League game after Arsenal duo Jermaine Pennant and Robert Pires in May 2003 – also against Southampton.
5 – Rodgers’ men were 5-0 up at half-time, making them the second away team in the Premier League to accomplish this feat after Manchester City did so at Burnley in April 2010. The latter game at Turf Moor finished 6-1.
3 – Perez made it back-to-back trebles against Southampton. He claimed all Newcastle United’s goals and the match ball in a 3-1 win over Saints in April this year. The last player to score successive Premier League hat-tricks against the same opponent was Luis Suarez for Liverpool against Norwich City in April and September of 2012.
50 – Perez’s second goal was his 50th in all competitions in English football.
19 – Leicester led 3-0 after 19 minutes. They had not scored three unanswered goals so quickly in a top-flight game since racing ahead inside eight minutes versus Derby County on April 1998.
20 – After 10 games, Leicester have 20 points – one more than at the same stage of their 2015-16 title-winning campaign.
3 – Bertrand’s dismissal meant Southampton had their numbers reduced in a third straight meeting with Leicester. Newcastle were shown four red cards in a row versus Liverpool, a streak of shame that concluded on May 2014.
This 9-0 win against Southampton has taken Leicester City up to the second place in the Premier League table. They are now only five points behind the league leaders Liverpool. Leicester City will now play against Tottenham Hotspurs on Sunday.
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Following the announcement of flagship Exynos 990 SoC, Samsung has also made a massive announcement recently at Samsung’s annual Tech Day event at their Device Solutions headquarters in San Jose, California.
Samsung Electronics has officially begun the mass production of world’s first 12GB double-data UFS multi-chip package. The uMCP i.e. the Multi-Chip Package combines both UFS 3.0 storage along with 12GB of LPDDRX4 RAM. The electronics giant has said that this will power its mid-range smartphones from 2020.
This combo does feature four 24-gigabit RAM chips built using the 1y process. 1y is Samsung’s acronym for its second-generation chipsets designed on the upgraded 10nm platform which other companies calling 10nm+ architecture.
The LPDDRX4 RAM provides speeds of up to 4,266Mbps. The chaebol unveiled its first batch of 12GB RAM modules back in March 2019 however, they were based on the smaller 16GB RAM chips. On the other hand, the latest batch is supposed to be based on four 24-gigabit chips instead.
Samsung did confirm that they will provide the new feature to its mid-range smartphones. For this reason, they have created an alternate device with 10GB of LPDDRX4 RAM, combining two 24-gigabit chips and two 16-gigabit chips.
This is truly a bold move by Samsung to include 12GB of RAM in a mid-range device and this could jealous other manufacturers which can further raise the competition.
Samsung has not yet announced the specifications of this UFS 3.0 storage although, they should be launching a few variants based on multiple storage options. It can be assumed that more smartphone manufacturers will offer 10GB and 12GB of RAM on their mid-range smartphones once Samsung announces this RAM+storage combo.
Even though 12 gigs of RAM on a smartphone is overkill but with days people’s needs will eventually increase. As mobile gaming is taking the world by storm within years we can expect even more improved hardware on smartphones soon.
As already 6GB & 8GB RAM variants are being sold by smartphone companies, now if mid-range devices feature 10GB or 12GB people can use more apps and play more games even though owning mid-range smartphones.
Electronics giant Samsung is ready to bring its new flagship SoC that will power the upcoming smartphones in 2020. Like Apple, who uses TSMC’s 7nm wafer to manufacture their own SoCs, Samsung makes its node by itself.
The Exynos 990 seems to be a powerful chip than the Exynos 980 that was launched in early September. This really seems to be a flagship one and we expect a better performance than the Exynos 980.
The new Exynos 990 is a 7nm EUV processor just like Huawei’s own 7nm based Kirin 990 5G chipset. The SoC has eight cores in a 2+2+4 tri-cluster CPU configuration. So, there are 2x 5th-generation custom CPU cores + 2x Cortex-A76 cores + 4x Cortex-A55 cores.
Samsung did not reveal the clock speeds of the CPU cores. However, the brand does say that the custom CPU cores can deliver 20% better performance compared to its predecessor.
The SoC features a Mali-G77 MP11 GPU which replaces the previously used Mali-G76 MP12 GPU present in Exynos 9820. This new GPU also provides significant improvement in performance or power efficiency of up to 20% compared to its predecessor. With this GPU, Samsung also promises a lag-free gaming experience.
Talking about the NPU, the Exynos 990 is equipped with Dual-Core NPU, an extra core than the Exynos 9820’s NPU. Speaking of camera support, the SoC has an improved Digital Signal Processor (DSP) which works with the new NPU for better camera performance, virtual assistant, and extended reality.
This SoC does support up to six cameras with high resolution up to 108MP and Samsung also has its own 108MP sensor. The Exynos 990 even supports 8K UHD video decoding at 30 frames per second.
The SoC supports displays with up to 4K UHD resolution. It also has a 120Hz refresh-rate driver display support alongside 10-bit video and HDR display support. The Exynos 990 supports LPDDR5 RAM and has both UFS 3.0 & UFS 2.1 storage options.
Speaking of connectivity, the Exynos 990 features an Exynos Modem 5123 that enables hyper-fast 5G speeds. Samsung says that it’s new 5G modem supports up to 7.35Gbps download speeds in mmWave and 5.1Gbps in a sub-6GHz setting with up to 8x carrier aggregation.
This new modem has also been built on the 7nm EUV process that supports E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) that “combines LTE and 5G connectivity to increase mobile download speed”.
On the security front, Samsung says that it has newly added an integrated Security Element (iSE) layer that stores and handles personal data in a separate space from the OS.
The new Samsung Exynos 990 is expected to power the Samsung’s next year flagship Galaxy S11 series smartphones.
The Chinese smartphone giant Huawei is selling its new Enjoy 10 and Enjoy 10 Plus smartphones in China. To add to this series, they have launched a new budget centric smartphone called the Enjoy 10s.
Though the Enjoy 10s comes with a different design & display but borrows some of its key specs from the Enjoy 10 and 10 Plus smartphones. This new Enjoy 10s smartphone is essentially a rebranded version of the Honor 20 Lite with some minor improvements.
Huawei Enjoy 10s Specifications and Features
The smartphone has dimensions of 157.4 x 73.2 x 7.75mm and houses a 6.3-inch OLED display with a waterdrop notch. The display has a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels and offers 20:9 aspect ratio. As there’s no rear fingerprint sensor on the shiny glass back, the Enjoy 10s has an in-display fingerprint scanner.
In comparison to the original Enjoy 10 which packs a 6.39-inch IPS LCD display with punch-hole design, the Enjoy 10s is a better choice than the Enjoy 10 which even lacks an in-display fingerprint scanner. On the other hand, the Enjoy 10 Plus comes with a notch-less display and pop-up selfie camera along with rear-mounted fingerprint scanner.
On the performance front, the Enjoy 10 series along with the new Enjoy 10s features the same Huawei Kirin 710F chipset. It is coupled with 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage which you can extend with a dedicated microSD card slot. Then there’s Huawei’s own EMUI 9.1.1 skin loaded on top of Android 9 Pie OS.
Coming to the cameras, the Huawei Enjoy 10s packs in a triple camera system consisting of a 48MP primary lens with f/1.8 aperture, an 8MP ultrawide shooter with f/2.4 aperture and finally a 2MP depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture. The front waterdrop notch of the smartphone is equipped with a 16MP selfie camera having an f/2.0 aperture.
For the connectivity, the Enjoy 10s features dual SIM support, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, USB Type-C port and a dedicated 3.5mm audio jack. It houses a 4,000mAh battery with 10W charging adapter included.
Pricing and Availability
The new Huawei Enjoy 10s has been priced at 1,599 yuan ($226 or about Rs.16,000) and will be available in colours of Magic Night Black, Emerald Green and Realm of the Sky. The smartphone is now up for pre-orders through Vmall and shipping will begin from November 11 onwards.
India is a very big market when it comes to electronic gadgets and accessories. Online shopping websites are flush with various kind of power bank, headsets, gaming, accessories, and even various cable
STM goods innovative many useful accessories like power cables, portable charges, USB hubs, and screen protectors. This innovation gives you a high quality of accessories at a reasonable price.
STM has successfully launched its latest new product STM Wireless PowerBank in India under the Simply Smarter Essential series of accessories. This wireless or plug-in portable charger is suitable for any Qi to enable smartphones and also features a standard USB- Apart to charge any phone.
Apart from that, they have also launched a new two USB- A output port which is great for connectivity. There is a compact adapter which allows the Type- C to attach multiple USB inputs
STM Goods offer you a very good solution because of their high-quality braided cables which is last long and also have polymer lithium-ion batteries in the PowerBank which are far safer. They are compatible with all Lightning connector iPhones user and if you’re looking for any high-speed data transfer cable
STM is always looking for new ideas for the customers to make their lives easier said Ethan Nyholm, CEO, and Co-founder of STM Goods.
If you are interested in buying the STM Goods Wireless PowerBank, then you can purchase it from select Apple Premium Reseller (APR) stores as well as on Amazon India of Rs.4,799. Amazon is also offering a 10% instant discount on this Diwali.
Dries Mertens now has more goals than Diego Maradona in Napoli colours.
Dries Mertens scored two goals to help Napoli win 3-2 against Salzburg in a Champions League encounter in Austria on Wednesday. The two goals took Mertens’ Napoli goals tally to 116, which is one more than Argentina great Diego Maradona.
Diego Maradona has 115 goals for Napoli. Mertens is now second on the list with 116 goals. Marek Hamsik, former Napoli captain who now plays for Dalian Yifang in China, is on top of that list with 121 goals. But the way Mertens is playing it’s not long before the 32-year-old gets to the top of that list.
Mertens said after the match: “I’m delighted with these two goals because it earns me a place in Napoli’s record books, something I’ve very proud of. I’ve overtaken Diego, who’s the all-time idol of this city, and now I hope to catch Marek, who is five goals away. I haven’t said anything to Marek but I hope to overtake him soon, maybe by Christmas.”
“This achievement is obviously a personal joy for me but also for the team because I always put Napoli’s result before me. It was important for us to start winning on the road again as it’s a great morale boost.”
Napoli head coach Carlo Ancelotti told Sky Sports Italia: “It’s a great night for him, for us. We fought hard. It was a fascinating match and we stayed focused for 90 minutes. It’s a great result. We started strong, took the lead, struggled a little and then got it back under control. Those who came off the bench gave an excellent contribution and it’s a wonderful night for everyone.”
The 32-year-old Dries Mertens arrived at Napoli in 2013 from PSV. He is currently in his seventh season at the club. His best season in front of goal for Napoli was the 2016-17 season. He scored 28 times in Serie A and added 6 more goals in cup competitions.
Mertens has already scored 3 goals in this season’s Champions League. He has also scored in Napoli’s 2-0 win over Liverpool last month. Napoli are on top of Group E, one point ahead of Champions League holders Liverpool.
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FIFA have announced that China will host the revamped Club World Cup in 2021.
Fifa confirmed in a press release on Thursday morning that they have planned a new and revamped Club World Cup in which 24 teams from all around the globe will compete for the trophy.
The first edition of the reformed Club World Cup will take place in China in 2021. The tournament is set to replace the Confederations Cup. It will now take place every four years, 12 months before a World Cup.
FIFA wrote on their official website: “The FIFA Council approved the establishment of a new landmark club competition: a revamped, 24-team FIFA Club World Cup, the pilot edition of which will be held in June and July 2021. The decision was taken today, during the ninth meeting of FIFA’s strategic and decision-making body, in Miami. There were 25 votes in favour of and seven against the proposal. The revamped FIFA Club World Cup will be played during the international match calendar slot that corresponded to the FIFA Confederations Cup. In the 2021 pilot edition, the 24 teams will be split into eight groups of three teams each, with the group winners to qualify for the quarter-finals in a knockout format.”
FIFA President Gianni Infantino told BBC Sport about the changes: “Now the world will see a real Club World Cup where fans will see the best teams in the world compete to be crowned the real world champions.”
A FIFA statement added: “The participation model to determine the clubs that qualify from each confederation will be finalised in a consultation process between FIFA and the six confederations.”
According to Onefootball, FIFA had initially wanted 12 European teams to take part but UEFA resisted. There are now likely to be eight sides from Europe, who can qualify by winning either the Champions League or Europa League in the four years prior to the tournament. As such, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Atletico Madrid have already qualified for the 2021 edition.
Real Madrid have won the trophy for the last three years running. And, the 2019 Club World Cup will begin in Doha in December.
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Lionel Messi has set a new landmark in the Champions League.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the best of this generation. It has become a habit to see them break records. They are the pioneers of world football right now.
Lionel Messi opened the scoring for Barcelona in their Group F encounter with Slavia Prague on Wednesday, which they eventually won 2-1. It was a simple finish for the 32-year-old, who tucked home the first time after exchanging passes with Arthur to continue his stellar return to action following his comeback from injury troubles which blighted the start of the season.
Messi has now become the first player in Champions League history to score in 15 successive Champions League campaigns.
Along with this, Messi has also matched Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid great Raul in having netted against 33 different opponents in Europe’s premier club competition.
Barcelona coach Valverde praised Messi. He told reporters post-match: “He’s the player who can decide any game. Every day we see him he’s even better. One more record for the incredible Leo. They are easy to say, it seems natural, but it is very difficult to achieve.”
Messi’s Barcelona teammate Sergio Busquets said: “He’s had a tough start to the season because of injuries. He’s fundamental to the way we play and a lot goes through him. He’s getting his rhythm back but it won’t take him long because he’s the best in the world.”
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