Qualcomm announced to establish a “strategic collaboration” with BOE Technology, one of the largest LCD, OLED, and flexible display manufacturing companies in the World. The primary reason is to develop innovative displays with the Qualcomm 3D Sonic fingerprint sensor. They will also work together to extend their technologies from mobile and 5G equipment to XR and IoT.
They already started working to merge Qualcomm’s 3D Sonic fingerprint sensor with BOE’s flexible OLED displays. For this partnership, they are expected to deliver thinnest and high-security fingerprint sensor-enabled display panels. This will be an opportunity for smartphone OEMs to build unique products.
Rather than increasing the product quality, the collaboration will make an impact on the expenses of R&D and BoM, as well as on the streamlined supply chain. Wenbao Gao, executive vice president, and chief executive officer of display and sensor, BOE said, “BOE will start shipping flexible OLED panels with integrated Qualcomm 3D Sonic sensor during the second half of 2020.”
The senior vice president and chief operations officer of Qualcomm Technologies, Roawen Chen said, “Qualcomm Technologies continuously strives to improve our collaboration in China, and collaboration with BOE will be another example of the dedication and our long-term commitment to driving innovations in this vibrant ecosystem,” He also added, “Through this collaboration, we expect that OEMs will have more opportunities to design cutting-edge products that feature OLED displays made with the Qualcomm 3D Sonic fingerprint sensor technology. We look forward to further strengthening our innovative collaboration with BOE in key areas like 5G, XR and IoT.”
Apple releases a Mobility Data trend tool a few days back. The stats will help the Government and health authorities so that they can take proper steps to prevent COVID-19 infection spread.
The source of raw data is Apple Maps. This report shows the changes in the density of people driving, walking or availing public transports at their localities.
Apple assured they didn’t keep anyone’s location history and Apple Maps is not associated with the user’s Apple ID. The company only counts the number of requests for a destination in major cities and 63 countries or regions. And that is utilized to build the report.
The Mobility Data report will update daily and anyone can download the complete data-set in CSV file format.
Rather than publishing the Mobility report, Apple also provided additional efforts. They donated over 20 million face mast to the front line warriors i.e. doctors, healthcare staff, etc. They supplied 1 million masks per week to the neediest areas around the globe.
For the policemen, cleaning staff and other people, Apple helped Stanford Medicine to build an app for self-screening, and schedule testing appointments if needed. They also update Siri and Apple Maps to provide useful links and information from authenticated sources.
Today Realme India announced that they are going to launch the upheld Realme Narzo series. The Narzo 10 and Narzo 10A will be launched on April 21 from 12:30 pm onwards and the launch event will be totally online and will be streamed via Realme’s official Facebook and YouTube accounts.
Previously the launch of the Realme Narzo series was announced on March 26, but that got postponed due to the nationwide lockdown imposed in India due to COVID-19 outbreak. Though the lockdown is not revoked yet, still the company has chosen to launch the device with an online event.
Realme is among those companies like Vivo, OnePlus, Xiaomi, ect. who had postponed their smartphone launches back in May. But now as Realme declared their launch is back on track most of the other companies will also follow this and we could see more launched after April 20. Still none of the companies except Realme has declared officially about this.
Now coming to the Narzo series, the Narzo 10 is likely to be a rebranded Realme 6i which was launched in Myanmar on 17th March. The Narzo 10A looks like a triple camera variant Realme C3 which is sold in Thailand and Indonesia.
We will keep you updated with the latest information unveiled officially on due date of launch.
Defending is an art just like scoring goals. A defender doesn’t get the proper recognition that he actually deserves for saving his team from letting in goals at crucial times.
Football fans have voted their top defenders of all time in Ranker. Italy and Milan great Paolo Maldini has come out on top of the list.
Maldini was the epitome of defending. He taught an entire generation that defending could be as breathtaking as attacking if you were one of the best. He played 25 years at the San Siro making 902 appearances for AC Milan. He won 7 Serie A titles and 5 European Cups. He made another 126 appearances for Italy.
Let’s have a look at the top 11 defenders of all time, according to the fans:
1. Paolo Maldini
Maldini played as a left-back or a central defender for A.C. Milan and the Italy national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever defenders, and as one of the greatest players of all time. As the Milan and Italy captain for many years, he was considered a leader by fellow footballers, leading to the nickname “Il Capitano” (“The Captain”). Maldini is currently serving as technical director for Milan, as well as being co-owner of USL Championship club Miami FC.
2. Franco Baresi
Baresi mainly played as a sweeper or as a central defender, and spent his entire 20-year career with Serie A club Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons. He is considered one of the greatest defenders of all-time. He won three UEFA Champions League titles, six Serie A titles, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, two European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups. He was also a member of the Italian squad that won the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Maldini and Baresi were part of the famous Milan side that went 58 games unbeaten from 1991 to 1993. The pair played together 196 times and conceded only 23 goals; that’s a goal every 8.5 games!
3. Franz Beckenbauer
Beckenbauer was a versatile player who started out as a midfielder but made his name as a central defender. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper. Early in his playing career, he was nicknamed Der Kaiser (“The Emperor”) because of his elegant style, dominance and leadership on the field. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
He was named European Footballer of the Year twice. He is one of three men, along with Brazil’s Mario Zagallo and France’s Didier Deschamps to have won the World Cup as a player and as a manager; he lifted the World Cup trophy as captain in 1974 and repeated the feat as a manager in 1990. At club level with Bayern Munich, Beckenbauer won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1967 and three consecutive European Cups from 1974 to 1976. The latter feat made him the first player to win three European Cups as captain of his club.
4. Cafu
Cafu was known for his pace and energetic attacking runs along the right flank. He is regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of all time. With 142 appearances for the Brazil national team, he is the most internationally capped Brazilian player of all time. He represented his nation in four FIFA World Cups between 1994 and 2006 and is the only player to have appeared in three consecutive World Cup finals, winning the 1994 and 2002 editions of the tournament, the latter as his team’s captain where he lifted the World Cup trophy. At club level, he is best known for his spells at Sao Paulo, Roma and Milan.
5. Bobby Moore
Moore was a composed central defender. He was best known for his reading of the game and ability to anticipate opposition movements, thereby distancing himself from the image of the hard-tackling, high-jumping defender.
He most notably played for West Ham United, captaining the club for more than ten years, and was the captain of the England national team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time and was cited by Pele as the greatest defender that he had ever played against.
6. Frank Rijkaard
Rijkaard played as a midfielder or defender. He has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan and represented the Netherlands national team side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his managerial career, he has been at the helm of the Netherlands national team, Sparta Rotterdam, Barcelona, Galatasaray and the Saudi Arabia national team.
7. Giacinto Facchetti
Facchetti was an Italian footballer who played as a defender. From January 2004 until his death, he was chairman of Internazionale, for which he played for his entire career during the 1960s and 1970s. He played 634 official games for the club, scoring 75 goals, and was a member of the Inter team which is often referred to as “Grande Inter”, under manager Helenio Herrera, with which he won four Serie A titles, a Coppa Italia, two European Cups, and two Intercontinental Cups.
8. Cesare Maldini
He was the father of Paolo Maldini. Cesare began his career with Italian side Triestina, before transferring to Milan in 1954, whom he captained to win four Serie A league titles and one European Cup during his twelve seasons with the club. He retired in 1967, after a season with Torino. Internationally, he played for the Italian national team, earning 14 caps and participating in the 1962 World Cup. He served as team captain for both Milan and Italy.
9. Daniel Passarella
Passarella played as a centre back. He was captain of the Argentina team that won the 1978 World Cup. He is considered one of the greatest defenders of all time, Passarella was also a proficient goalscorer; at one point he was football’s top-scoring defender, with 134 goals in 451 matches.
10. Alessandro Nesta
He is widely considered to be one of the best centre backs of his time and also as one of the greatest defenders ever, he was best known for his pace, artistic tackles, elegance on the ball, distribution and tight marking of opponents. He made over 400 Serie A appearances in a 20-year career spread between Lazio and Milan, winning domestic and European honours with both clubs. Later in his career, he played in Major League Soccer (MLS) for the Montreal Impact, and for Chennaiyin FC of the Indian Super League.
11. Ruud Krol
Krol is a Dutch footballer who was capped 83 times for his native country. Most of his career he played for his home town club, Ajax, and he became a coach after retirement. Regarded as one of the best defenders of all time, Krol mainly played as a sweeper or left-back, however, he could play anywhere across the backline, or in midfield as a defensive midfielder, due to his range of passing with both feet, temperament, tactical intelligence, and ability to start attacking plays after winning back the ball.
*All the players data have been collected from Wikipedia
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Barcelona legend, Rivaldo says this summer to be the ideal time to sell Dembele and give the Frenchman the chance to reignite his career somewhere else.
Young Dembele has been cursed with injuries at Barcelona and he hasn’t shown his full potential at the club since his joining from Borussia Dortmund back in August 2017.
His recent hamstring injury required surgery in February has sidelined the Frenchman from the team and was ruled out for the entire season which lead Barcelona go for an emergency signing in the form of Martin Braithwaite.
Dembele will turn 23 on May and he is still young to get good market value when he is sold. His future is regularly the source of speculation, and Rivaldo thinks it’s time to offload Dembele.
“Ousmane Dembélé signed for Barcelona almost three years ago and he has already had enough time to establish himself in the club and prove his value. It’s possible that he will never show his quality at the club.
“He is still a player with huge potential, but I think this summer could be the right opportunity for Barcelona to sell or even exchange him for a player they’re chasing already.
“He’s been unlucky with injuries, but he might also have tried to give more at some moments. Things haven’t gone according to expectations and he might be able to revive his career at another club where he will feel more confident to play at his best.”
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There are rumours suggesting Barcelona might be interested to sell him while some say he is yet to stay at Barcelona. On the contrary, the fact remains that it will be difficult for the club to find a seller given his injury history.
Even if he is available for next season, he will find a hard time establish himself as Barca are set to strengthen their attack.
The likes of Lautaro Martinez, Neymar who Barcelona are speculated to arrive this summer will given more minutes. On the other hand, youngsters like Francisco Trincao and Pedri will be playing at the Camp Nou this summer.
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The Blaugranas have tried a lot to bring its once parted star player Neymar Jr back to the Camp Nou somehow but they were unable to do so last season. Now when football has its uncertainty of resuming, transfer market is further affected for all the clubs around the globe.
This summer too Barcelona were hoping to land the Brazilian to the Camp Nou but the latest report suggests that the Catalan giants can no longer afford to sign him this summer.
Lluís Canut and Xavi Lemus at CatRadio have reported that Barca “have ruled out” signing Neymar. They will instead focus on bringing in Lautaro Martinez as well as renewing Lionel Messi’s contract instead.
The €170 million fee for Neymar is currently huge for Barcelona and given the current financial situation, Barcelona have let a star player like Coutinho, Dembele, Griezmann go to make money for the Brazilian.
So, naturally, Barca’s priorities are now bringing in Lautaro Martinez as a replacement for Luis Suarez and extending Messi’s contract that currently expires in 2021. Also, the Spanish league champions plan to renew the contract with goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen which will cost a lot for the Blaugranas.
The report tells that renewing the contract of Nelson Semedo and Luis Suarez are also on Barca’s to-do list, but they will completely be on the contrary to their performances in the coming future.
The Surface Go 2 leaks have been floating around since months, the new Microsoft device is surely to receive upgrades over last-gen and the FCC listings also proves that. It was previously speculated the device to feature Intel Core m3-8100Y processor but the listing says there will be Pentium Gold 4425Y powered variants as well.
The much need IEEE 802.11ax i.e. WiFi 6 is on board, making the Surface Go 2 in line with its other products like Surface Laptop 3 or Surface Pro 7. Much expectedly, the 2-in-1 will also feature an LTE variant with a wide range of support including WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE FDD and LTE TDD.
There’s a model name C3K1927, the FCC also lists its HW version as EV2 which we spotted earlier this year on the 3DMark listings, so the EV2 will be featuring an Intel Core m3-8100Y onboard. On the other hand, subsequent 3DMark listings have shown that Microsoft will probably offer Pentium Gold 4425Y-powered Surface Go 2 also.
The Caschys Blog reports that Microsoft will unveil the Surface Book 3 by the end of this month. Apparently this will be an online-only event, where Microsoft will launch in detail both its Surface Book 3 along with Surface Go 2 or there could be a spring announcement as well.
A new report from 9to5mac states that there will be an Apple TV refresh featuring Apple’s next-generation A14 SoC which we will likely to see on Apple A12 series. It’s been quite some time now that the Apple TV has been refreshed and if the rumour is correct we do will receive a refreshed product this year.
Now one question might rise in your head as well that why A14 SoC into a streaming box? Even the new iPad Pro doesn’t receive a huge upgrade, from its existing A12X to A12Z which do have minor changes. In fact, these SoCs have as much power as an Xbox One S which could indicate one thing.
Apple is wants an entry into the gaming market by embedding such a powerful chip into TV box but can they beat the next-gen Xbox Series X and the upcoming Sony PS5? The answer seems unclear still.
Also, reports tell that the Cupertino giant has switched the software on the HomePod from iOS to tvOS which is quite strange.
Apple previously changed the iOS to the iPadOS exclusively for the iPads, so this could mean we will be experiencing a new HomePod hub may be, connected to the Apple TV with a total Apple ecosystem. It is said that a new HomePod mini is also in works too according to the code snippets.
Today the brand manager of iQOO Feng Yufei posted on Weibo the first official image of the iQOO Neo 3 5G phone. According to the image it will come with three shooters in a rectangular setup in the upper left corner and a neat blue-black gradient.
The Neo 3 5G is said to be the cheapest smartphone to have Snapdragon 865 SoC and 5G both. The smartphone will launch on April 23.
From China’s CCC certification we spotted the iQOO Neo 3 5G and we saw it will come with a 44W (11V – 4A max) charging capacity, which is amazing.
Previously the brand has teased that the phone will come with Snapdragon 865 SoC, UFS 3.1 flash memory and 144Hz display refresh rate. There is also another video that confirmed that the phone will have a punch-hole cut design at the front.
We have been hearing leaked rumours of the upcoming Surface Book 3 for quite some time now and here we have a complete sheet of the specs of this new laptop lineup. Already we know that the Surface Book 3 will feature Ice Lake processors from Intel, the new retailer listings published by WinFuture show all the specs of it.
So the CPUs powering the new convertibles are in the form of the Intel Core i5-10210U and Core i7-10510U, so no Ice Lake as per this leak, which indeed seems pretty strange. Another thing that is confirmed, is the existence of the 13.5-inch and 15-inch version of the Surface Book 3, the latter will exclusively be using the Intel Core i7-10510U processor.
There are memory options of 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB RAM, although the 8 GB RAM option is only for the 13.5-inch model according to the retailer listing. On the storage front, there are 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB NVMe SSD storage options for both the varinats.
Also there’s the mention of discrete NVIDIA GPUs being part of the Microsoft Surface Book 3’s configuration options, with models specifically featuring Nvidia Quadro GPUs. As per the leaked pricing, the Surface Book 3 has pricing range between €2,000 (approx US$2,186) to around €4,300 (approx US$4,701), soon in the coming weeks we can expect the device to be launched by Microsoft.
