OnePlus Buds were at the center of discussion as we were suspecting that the upcoming TWS from the company will be launching soon. Many rumors and renders have surfaced for the past few weeks which refers that the OnePlus Buds will launch soon. Today @stufflistings has shared an image where he has shown that an OnePlus TWS has been listed in the Amazon India subscription portal.
In the image, we can see there are many OnePlus devices and among which we can see OnePlus TWS and OnePlus Nord has also been subscribed. So the most reasonable thing is that the smartphone as well as the TWS will launch on July 21 in the same launch event. The company has not officially declared about the official launch of the device yet.
Max J is one of the most renowned tipsters who gave us an idea about a truly wireless earphone from OnePlus that is in development. He had shared this news a few weeks ago, and recently he has shared another interesting news related to this TWS earphone. he had shared an image in his official twitter account that shows the schematic diagram of the OnePlus TWS earphone along with its name. The upcoming rumored TWS from OnePlus will be named “OnePlus Buds”.
Here OnePlus has also started hinting the launch of its next lineup of TWS earbuds. This tweet by OnePlus hints that some wearable is on the way and we know that it will be the OnePlus Buds TWS.
The competition in the Smart TV section has geared up from the past few months. Especially after the arrival of the smartphone manufacturers into this field. Samsung remains a leader always here and to strengthen the position, it comes up with its new Crystal 4K UHD TV lineups. Along with that, there is also Unbox Magic 3.0 lineup.
The Crystal 4K UHD TV line up is formed with five different screen size models that start from ₹44,400 and goes up to ₹2.37 lakh. The screen sizes available are 43-inch, 50-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch, and 75-inch. On the other hand, the Unbox Magic 3.0 series is for the mid-range budget holders. This series has two models with 32-inch and 43-inch screen sizes that cost ₹20,900 and ₹41,900 respectively.
Now, have a look at the specs of the Crystal 4K UHD TV lineup –
Display:
The first preference should be display quality. As the name suggests, all the models in this series have 4K UHD resolution, four-times of regular FHD, backing up with Dual LED backlighting technology, and crystal display. Combining all these three, you will get a sharp, crisp image quality with an accurate color tone. There is also the HDR support on the top.
Design:
Next comes the design. The screen is surrounded by very thin bezels. The company even claims you can project your favorite photos onto the screen and the TV will screen will blend into your decor elegantly.
Performance:
To maintain quality performance, a heavy-weight processor is required. For that, Samsung equipped its new lineup TVs with Crystal Processor 4K. It is a master in optimization, HDR, and more. There is also a game enhancer for your smoother screen experience while gaming.
Other:
Apart from all these, you can use various Office 365 tools on your TV, split the screen for multi-view, and can mirror your smartphone screen to it. For your extended entertainment, the TV supports various online streaming platforms and for quick reach, the remote hold dedicated keys. You can also play with your voice assistant, no matter which one you prefer – Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, or Bixby.
The entire lineup is available on the official website of Samsung. To reach the site, click here.
BCCI CEO Rahul Johri had submitted his resignation a long time ago around 27th December last year. It has been finally accepted on Thursday.
A BCCI official told PTI on the condition of anonymity: “Rahul Johri’s resignation has been accepted. He was earlier given an extension till 30th April but this time it has been accepted.”
The Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) gave BCCI President Sourav Ganguly the permission to run the board with his members. Rahul Johri was asked to continue as CEO until his term expires in 2021.
The strange thing is that Johri wanted to resign for many months but it was not accepted. Now, suddenly he has been asked to leave via email.
It seems the final nail in the coffin was hammered by the leak of the confidential tender information of Indian cricket team’s kit partner to the media. The tender was supposed to come out this week but the tender’s base price along with other details was leaked to the media.
According to a report by IANS, a BCCI official said: “He has been informed of the decision by email. He had resigned earlier and was asked to continue in the interim. However, the leak of confidential financial information of a bid that was being prepared accelerated the decision. Highest levels of confidentiality are expected when any bid takes place in an organisation.”
“This was considered to be scandalous and had the potential to compromise the bid. Financial matters if you cannot keep confidential, then it is a serious lapse that cannot be excused, especially with the new BCCI.”
Rahul Johri Chief Executive Officer of BCCI during the the 1st T20I match between India and New Zealand held at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi. 1st November 2017
Photo by Deepak Malik / BCCI / SPORTZPICS
Another official told IANS: “Maybe he was a little overconfident. He was able to survive despite his earlier conduct and there was an enquiry into allegations of sexual harassment against him. The reports of which were not even made available to the complainants which was found to be very surprising. Yet, he was asked to undergo gender sensitisation.”
“We felt that to have a CEO who has undergone this punishment was not appropriate for a role which requires you to give a fillip to women”s cricket. And as CEO he had to meet market leaders. He is certainly not the man who is capable of leading India towards the resumption of cricket. The female cricketers and women working in BCCI must be feeling relieved.”
Former CoA member Diana Edulji said that justice has finally prevailed. She told IANS. “Women cricketers and staff will heave a sigh of relief and after all this indiscipline during the nomination of coaches and all, he was rewarded with an increment which I was against. Better later than never. Justice has been done.”
It looks like Johri had fallen out of favour as the BCCI CEO and it was good for everyone to have him leave his post.
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Since the inception of Android, Google has always supported app development with its open-source Android Studio and also developed Flutter, more recently. Flutter is an application framework for the development of cross-platform applications that are compatible with Android, iOS, and macOS too.
Flutter is being used by many developers these days because of its simplicity and the ease of coding only once to support on all platforms. There are so many applications developed using this framework but now, Google is now partnering with Ubuntu Linux aiming to bring Flutter apps to Linux OS. As we know Linux is not an application rich platform but if Flutter apps come to Linux then we may have a richer Linux experience.
Google in a blog post said, “Today we are happy to jointly announce the availability of the Linux alpha for Flutter alongside Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, the world’s most popular desktop Linux distribution,”. It also described, “Canonical is making a significant investment in Flutter, by dedicating a team of developers to work alongside Google’s developers to bring the best Flutter experience to the majority of Linux distributions.”
Canonical also takes care of the Snap Store which is a store that contains many Linux based applications that are using Snap package format. Snap packages are containerized and generally easier to distribute than traditional Linux-based software, and Snap support will be a priority for Flutter on Linux, however, the Snap format won’t be a requirement for Flutter apps.
Obviously, this will be a revolutionary step, to bring cross-platform support to Linux, as we know Linux architecture is different from iOS and Android but with Flutter anything is possible. So, Google and Canonical are working together on this so that Flutter applications won’t look like somehow managed smartphone apps built into desktop.
Currently, these Flutter applications for Linux is in alpha state and these applications can use menu bars, mouse and keyboard input, standard system dialogs, and resizable top-level windows.
Flutter applications for both Linux and macOS support are in an alpha stage, but this seems promising, because if they are successful in those two desktop platforms, it won’t be long when devs can use Flutter to develop apps for Windows as well, bringing support for the total ecosystem for both smartphone and desktops be it any OS concerned.
After some teasers and posters in China, Xiaomi has launched their new RedmiBooks with the latest 10nm based Intel Ice Lake CPUs. This is actually after the launch of RedmiBook laptops with Ryzen 4000 APUs in May. So, these new laptoops with latest Intel CPUs also feature Nvidia GeForce MX350 GPUs.
RedmiBook 16
The new Redmibook 16 features a 16.1-inch FHD display with narrow bezels of just 3.26 mm, giving it around 90% of screen to body ratio. The screen seems very colour accurate as it covers 100% sRGB, supports DC dimming and has 300 nits of peak brightness. Obviously, the laptop comes pre-installed with Windows 10 Home.
You can choose between Intel Core i5-1035G1 and Core i7-1065G7 CPUs, both having 15 W TDP and comes with 4 cores and 8 threads. But the Core i5-1035G1 has 1.0 GHz base and 3.6 GHz boost clock speeds while the Core i7-1065G7 has 1.3 GHz base and 3.9 GHz boost clock speeds. For GPU, you get the latest NVIDIA GeForce MX350 GPU with 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
It comes paired with up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM clocked at a higher 3,200MHz along with up to 512GB of NVMe SSD storage. For connectivity, you get dual-band Wi-Fi 6 support, 2×2 MIMO WLAN and Bluetooth v5.1 support. Coming to the ports, there are two USB Type-C ports, two USB Type-A ports, an HDMI port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The laptop features a full-sized keyboard with 1.5 mm keystroke and also there’s a fingerprint reader integrated into the Power button for safe switching on the device. For the audio, there are two 2W speakers with DTS audio processing. The laptop weighs just 1.8 kg and is equipped with 46 WHr battery, which according to Xiaomi, shall last up to 12 hours along with 65W USB Type-C fast charge support, 50% of charge in just 30 minutes.
The new RedmiBook 16 with Intel Ice Lake CPUs with Core i5-1035G1/ 16GB RAM/ 512GB SSD storage will cost CNY 4,999 (about $710 or Rs. 53,400), and the Core i7-1065G7/ 16GB RAM/ 512GB SSD storage will cost CNY 5,699 (about $810 or Rs. 60,900).
RedmiBook 14 II
Coming to the new RedmiBook 14 II laptop, it features a 14-inch FHD display that also offers 100% sRGB coverage along with 300 nits of peak brightness. The laptop is considerably smaller and that’s why its lighter, so weighs only 1.3 Kg.
Much like the RedmiBook 16, with this one also you get both Intel Core i5-1035G1 and Core i7-1065G7 CPU options. For GPU, again you have the NVIDIA GeForce MX350 GPU with 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM. It comes paired with 8 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM with 16 GB RAM option as well and for storage, there’s the same 512 GB NVMe SSD.
The keyboard, connectivity, speakers and ports remain the same as of the RedmiBook 16 but the RedmiBook 14 II comes with a smaller 40 WHr battery that promises up to 10 hours of battery life along with 65W USB Type-C fast charge support, 50% of charge in just 28 minutes.
The new RedmiBook 14 II laptop with Core i5-1035G1/ 8GB RAM/ 512GB SSD storage will cost CNY 4,699 (about $670 or Rs. 50,200) while the Core i5-1035G1/ 16GB RAM/512GB SSD storage variant that covers 100% sRGB color gamut will cost CNY 4,999 (about $710 or Rs. 53,400).
The Core i7-1065G7/ 8GB RAM/ 512GB SSD storage variant will cost you CNY 5,399 (about Rs. 57,700) while the Core i7-1065G7/ 16GB RAM/ 512GB SSD storage variant, on the other hand, shall cost you CNY 5,699 (about $810 or Rs. 60,900). Both the laptops will go on sale in China starting from July 15 with no information on international availability as for now.
Hop you all know that Google removed the Chinese benchmarking tool AnTuTu from the Play Store, one of the reasons behind it was the relationship of the developers with Cheetah Mobile. Now, Google is warning users that the AnTuTu is a great risk for them (users). The Google Play Protect is doing the notifying job.
An app, installed on our phone can access all the information stored in our device that are most valuable resource for the companies, mainly for advertising companies. AnTuTu app was in doubt for a quite long time suspecting for the same. This is also a reason behind removing it from Play Store.
Nowadays, if you tried to install the AnTuTu application from somewhere else, the Google Play Protect will start trying to block the installation. When you open the app, the Play Protect will start notifying you of saying a lack of privacy as that tracks your activities. It will not be surprising if the system security removes the AnTuTu benchmark by itself, even after the user agreed to compromise privacy.
This incident started with the release of the latest version. Interestingly, the benchmark tool is free from viruses and malware as per the VirusTotal. Rather than Google Play Store, this app is freely available in other app stores like Apple Store.
OnePlus has recently declared with some Instagram stories that it will launch the OnePlus Nord on July 21. The date of launch is nearing and we have already seen the glance of the device in the recent YouTube video. The phone looks sleek in a silver colour and triple rear camera.
Moreover, oneplus.nord has shared an IG post hinting that the upcoming OnePlus Nord will have AMOLED display and the affordable hint for the LCD Displays in the image also refers that this smartphone will be affordable still have AMOLED display.
Now, @evleaks has something more to add to the information on this upcoming budget-oriented OnePlus smartphone. @evleaks is here with a list of key specs for the OnePlus Nord before the July 21 launch. The tipster says that some person has been able to get his hands on this information from the “virtual Nord training presentation”.
Said by a tipster to come from a virtual Nord training presentation, this lines up quite well with what we already know (save for the phone imagery, which is an obvious placeholder). Let the debunking begin! pic.twitter.com/pA5N4oxJOF
These are the key specs of the smartphone and the other in-depth detailed specs are available in the image shared by @evleaks. The tipster is now one step ahead of the brand’s IG handle and has started revealing all the information available to him. Yesterday we saw the front and back image of the smartphone, all thanks to @evleaks.
Xiaomi has launched the Mi Band 5 on June 11 and now the company is ready to unveil the global version and will debut this smart-band in the Indian market. The global version is imaged with scale and this one will be coming in India soon as mentioned by us previously.
All thanks to @stufflistings we came to know that the Mi Band 5 has already received the NCC certification and is ready to hit the global market including India soon.
Mi Band 5 features a larger 1.1-inch coloured AMOLED display that features over 100 new animated watch faces. The sensor set is unchanged – accelerometer, heart rate monitor, barometer, and gyroscope. This device has 11 sport modes or “professional modes” and offers Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) Activity Index that helps users track and understand their fitness activity even better. Additionally, to efficiently track sleeping patterns, the Mi Band 5 comes with an improved sleep monitoring system.
Xiaomi claims that the sleep monitoring accuracy feature is improved by 40%. Mi Band 5 can also recognize five of the main swimming styles automatically. The band itself can be submerged in up to 50 meters of water. The new PPG sensor is 50% more accurate than its predecessor giving more accurate heart ratings by monitoring it. The Mi Band 5 further now can help female users can now track their menstrual cycle with the women’s health mode. Users will also get social media notifications, music control, incoming calls, text, weather updates, and more on the smart band.
The remote smartphone camera control is now available to the Mi Band 5, this feature will help users to remotely control their smartphone camera shutter on their will. The NFC variant of the Mi Band 5 will allow users to make payments via the band. Xiaomi claims that the NFC variant of the Mi Band 5 offers 14 days of battery life while the standard version is said to last up to 20 days on a single charge. This Band 5 supports an unseen magnetic charging system that lets users charge the device without taking the straps off. The smart band comes with Black, Blue, Pink, Orange, Purple, Yellow, and Green strap options.
Price of Mi Band 5 in China
The non-NFC version of the Mi Band 5 has priced at CNY 189 (roughly Rs.2,000), while the NFC variant of the fitness tracker will retail at CNY 229 (roughly Rs.2,500). So, it will be interesting to see how Xiaomi prices the Mi Band 5, and most probably this time to it will be in the Rs.2,000 – Rs.2,500 price range.
The Oppo Watch was launched in China back in March and now the company is going to launch this smartwatch in India alongside Reno 4 Pro 5G. The company has recently confirmed that the Oppo Reno 4 Pro 5G will come in India soon as the new Reno flagship device.
Coming to the Oppo Watch we know that this smartwatch has received the FCC certification and has also appeared in few live images. The launch is still pending for this device outside China. Now the recent reports claim that the smartwatch will debut in India alongside the Reno 4 Pro 5G.
Oppo Watch (Chinese Variant) Specifications
1.6-inch (320 x 360 pixels) (41mm) AMOLED screen / 1.91-inch (402 x 476 pixels) (46mm) curved AMOLED screen
Tracking indoor and outdoor running, outdoor walking, outdoor cycling, swimming ad more
ColorOS Watch, compatible with Android 6.0 and above
Water-resistant (5ATM 46mm / 3ATM 41mm)
4G via eSIM, WiFi 802.11n 2.4GHz, Bluetooth 4.2 LE, built-in GPS, NFC for payments
300mAh battery for 41mm with 20 hours of usage, 14 days in long battery mode
430mAh battery for 46mm with 40 hours of usage, 21 days in long battery mode
Recent rumors claim that the Oppo Reno 4 Pro 5G will launch in India around the last week of July. The date of the launch is expected between 20th and 24th July. This will be the global version of the Oppo Watch and the development is almost at the end so the launch is expected to be sooner than ever.
Samsung is adding a new version of the Galaxy Watch Active 2 (4G) which is already available in India in the Steel variant. The company is adding the Aluminium variant to the smartwatch series in India. Samsung has announced that this is its first smartwatch to be “made in India”. The other variants were launched in September 2019. Now Samsung’s LTE-capable range of smartwatches includes the Galaxy Watch in 46mm and 42mm and the Galaxy Watch Active2 in 40mm and 44mm.
Galaxy Watch Active2 4G Aluminum
Color
Cloud Silver, Aqua Black, Pink Gold
Dimensions & Weight
44.0 x 44.0 x 10.9 mm, 30g
Display
1.4″ 360×360 (34.5mm)super AMOLED with Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX+
Samsung Galaxy, Android 5.0 or above with more than 1.5GB RAM
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 2 (4G) Aluminium will be available in India on July 11, priced at Rs.28,490. It comes in Aqua Black, Cloud Silver, and Pink Gold colour options. The smartwatch will go on sale in the country starting July 11 through official Samsung retail stores, Samsung Opera House, Samsung.com, and leading online portals.
