Dell introduces new G5 and G7, Alienware Area-51m, m15, m17 gaming laptops and more

At CES 2019, Dell has introduced its flagship gaming laptop; the Alienware Area-51m. The company has also introduced the m17, m15, and m17 that come with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs. Dell also added new redesigned G5 and G7 gaming laptops to its portfolio.  The Area-51m is the most powerful upgrade as it comes with 9th Gen 8-core desktop processors coupled with GeForce RTX 2060 with 6GB GDDR6 RAM, GeForce RTX 2070 with 8GB of GDDR6 RAM or a GeForce RTX 2080 with 8GB of GDDR6 RAM. It packs 64GB of memory, 2.5Gbps Ethernet technology, upgradeable graphics. It sports a 17-inch display with narrow-bezels, 144Hz. The Area-51m also comes with cutting-edge thermal and cooling technology.  The Area-51m uses socketed Intel Z390 motherboard since it is upgradeable. Connectivity ports include three USB 3.1 ports (Type-A), a Thunderbolt 3 port (Type-C), HDMI 2.0, Mini-DisplayPort 1.4, headphone and microphone sockets, Gigabit Ethernet, and an Alienware Graphics Amplifier port. The laptop packs 90WHr battery. Adding to the newly announced Alienware m17, the company has also added the Alienware m15. It is powered by the 8th-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors coupled with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs. Dell has also unveiled refreshed versions of the G5 and G7 gaming ...

Xolo Era 5X with 5.7-inch HD+ display, 13MP front and rear cameras with flash, Dual 4G VoLTE announced

Xolo, at an event in Delhi officially launched the Era 4X budget smartphone. It also introduced the Era 5X, which the company says is a budget selfie smartphone with a 13-megapixel front camera with LED flash and AI studio mode with sudio lighting modes like the iPhone. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera, ha a 5.7-inch HD+ screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection. It is powered by MediaTek Helio A22 12nm Quad-Core SoC and has Dual plate graphite layer to reduce heat. Xolo Era 5X full specifications - coming soon, price not revealed yet! #ANewEra @MyXOLO pic.twitter.com/2bsUIzBY9o — Tech Voice India (@TechVoiceIN) January 9, 2019 Hands on with @MyXOLO Era 5X, a selfie focused smartphone with 13 MP cameras front and back! #ANewEra pic.twitter.com/rSIG304eJQ — Tech Voice India (@TechVoiceIN) January 9, 2019 It has support for face unlock that can unlock the phone in 0.6 seconds and a fingerprint sensor on the back that can unlock the phone in 0.2 seconds. It has support for Dual 4G VoLTE and packs a 3000mAh battery. Xolo Era 5X specifications 5.7-inch (1440 × 720 pixels) HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection 2GHz Quad-Core MediaTek Helio A22 12nm processor with IMG PowerVR GE-class GPU 3GB RAM, 32GB internal ...

Lenovo Yoga S940 and Yoga C730 notebooks, Yoga A940 all-in-one desktop and more announced at CES 2019

Lenovo, at the CES 2019 event has announced the Yoga S940 and Yoga C730 notebooks, Yoga A940 desktop, Yoga Mouse with Laser Presenter. The Lenovo Yoga S940 comes with intelligent AI-powered sensors that detect your absence and auto-locks the display to protect your data from strangers. It comes with upto 4K HDR display, up to 500 nits brightness. The Lenovo Yoga S940 also supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos speaker system, paired with smart audio amplifiers. It is also the first laptop to sport a Contour Glass panel that wraps around its bezels. It is powered by the Intel Core processor, coupled with up to 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM and up to 1TB PCIe SSD storage. It runs on Windows 10 and the company claims that it can deliver up to 15 hours of battery life on the full-HD resolution. The AI features can automatically filter out most ambient noise and blur out distracting backgrounds during video calls. The Lenovo Yoga S940 features Glance by Mirametrix AI-powered attention-sensing software including face, eyes and gaze sensing that can help increase productivity too. Snap Window allow you to look from your main laptop display to a second screen, shifting open windows and content contextually to a connected external monitor. It comes with Windows Hello integration ...

Google Assistant gets flight check-in, Maps integration and Interpreter Mode; will work from lockscreen on all Android phones soon

At CES 2019, Google has introduced a preview of Google Assistant Connect which is a platform for device manufacturers to bring the Google Assistant into their products in an easy-to-implement way. Google also announced that it is bringing the Assistant to the Sonos One and Sonos Beam. Google said that it is working with even more brands to launch new smart home devices this year, including select Whirlpool connected appliances, GE’s smart microwave, and August security products.  The company said that it will share more details about Assistant Connect and how device makers can gain access to the technology later this year. At CES, Whirlpool also previewed the new KitchenAid Smart Display with the Google Assistant. The device guides you through cooking recipes from Yummly and simultaneously controls your smart home devices. It sports a 10-inch display and is also water resistant. Google Assistant will be making its way to the Sonos One and Sonos Beam. Google also mentioned that soon users will be able to check in to your flight status starting with domestic flights with United Airlines, save and retrieve your boarding pass, all with the Google Assistant on Android or iOS. The Assistant will also proactively notify you when your flight is ...

Lenovo Smart Clock with 4-inch screen, Google Assistant announced

Lenovo and Google at CES 2019 have unveiled the Lenovo Smart Clock with the Google Assistant. The company says that the Smart Clock lets you control your smart home and listen to your favorite music with multi-room audio grouping. The Lenovo Smart Clock supports voice and touch controls. It sports a 4-inch IPS screen to perform various tasks. The company says that the Smart Clock helps users cultivate better sleep habits. The Lenovo Smart Clock to serve as your ultimate bedroom companion to cut down on your usage and screen time throughout the evening and help improve your sleep hygiene. The Google Assistant lets you set sleep routines, such as dimming the lights and displaying your first calendar event with just a single command. It comes with a full-size USB port for convenient charging, a full-range 6W speaker and two passive radiators tuned with Dolby’s latest background noise reduction technology. Thanks to the multi-room functionality, you can also add the Lenovo Smart Clock to a home speaker group and play music, audiobooks, podcasts, and radio across multiple devices in several rooms. The Lenovo Smart Clock also works with Chromecast. Users can take advantage of the Assistant Routines. They can set the Lenovo Smart Clock to automatically ...

Google said to be working on dark mode for Chrome for Android

Google is said to begin testing the dark mode in Chrome for Android in a move to bring the company's browser towards the trend of the dark side.  Google Chrome Canary for Windows and Mac had a hidden dark mode that could be enabled with a command line flag was discovered earlier.  It's obvious that Google's next move would be to bring the dark theme to Chrome for Android. This combined with Android Q's seemingly system-wide dark theme, it's only a matter of time before Google brings the dark theme to Chrome Android app. In-line with the expectations, a new commit has been posted to Chromium’s Gerrit source code management. In it, it is very clear that Google has been working on dark mode for Chrome for Android. Unfortunately, the dark mode is also hidden behind a build flag, meaning, we won't be able to see the dark theme on Chrome for Android anytime soon, even on Canary builds. However, when the dark mode does become available to test, it should be found under the flag “#enable-android-night-mode,” but as said, it might be a while before it becomes available. Source | Via

OPPO R15 Pro with 6.28-inch FHD+ 19:9 OLED display, 6GB RAM, 20MP+16M dual rear cameras launched in India for Rs. 25990

OPPO has silently launched R15 Pro smartphone in India. It was originally introduced as  R15 Dream Mirror Edition in China last year. It has a 6.28-inch FHD+ 19:9 aspect ratio OLED display with a notch with a 1.78mm narrow frame and 90% screen-to-body ratio. It calls it Super-V Display. It is powered by Snapdragon 660 SoC with 6GB of RAM and 128GB storage. It has 16-megapixel rear camera 1/2.6″ Sony IMX519 sensor with 1.22μm pixel size and f/1.7 aperture and comes with AI Intelligent Scene Recognition that can recognize 16 kinds of scenes and 120 kinds of multi-scene combinations and also comes with AI portraits with built-in AI chip and 20-megapixel secondary camera with f/1.7 aperture. It comes with a 20-megapixel front camera with AI smart beauty that can scan 296 feature points of the face. It has a glass back, fingerprint sensor on the back and comes with VOOC Flash Charging to offer 2 hours of talk time with 5 minutes of charge. OPPO R15 Pro specifications 6.28-inch (2280 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 19:9 aspect ratio OLED display Octa-Core Snapdragon 660 14nm Mobile Platform (Quad 2.2GHz Kryo 260 + Quad 1.8GHz Kryo 260 CPUs) with Adreno 512 GPU 6GB RAM, 128GB internal memory, expandable memory ...

Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem to power more than 30 devices in 2019

Qualcomm Technologies has mentioned that it is witnessing strong 5G device momentum with more than 30 5G design-wins of which, the majority are smartphones, from global OEMs which are powered by the latest Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform and the Snapdragon X50 5G modem family. Additionally, the company says that all OEMs and nearly all the devices related to these 5G design-wins use Qualcomm RF Front End (RFFE) solutions. Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform is the first commercial 5G mobile platform designed to enable the original wave of commercial 5G mobile devices starting in early 2019. With the Snapdragon X50 5G modem family and Qualcomm RFFE solutions, devices powered by the Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform will support both sub-6 and mmWave spectrum, allowing multi-gigabit speeds and low-latency that were unfeasible in mobile so far. Qualcomm Technologies, thanks to its years of progress in the chipset business is uniquely positioned to make 5G a commercial reality starting in early 2019 with device launches and network rollouts across North America, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and China. These will come with Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform, the Snapdragon X50 5G modem family and Qualcomm RFFE solutions including Qualcomm QTM052 mmWave antenna modules with integrated RF transceiver, RF front-end, and antenna elements ...

LG partners with Microsoft for autonomous vehicle and infotainment tech

LG Electronics has announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to enhance and further grow LG’s autonomous vehicle and infotainment system business. Under this agreement, LG will accelerate the transformation of its existing digital platform for the vehicle industry, by leveraging Microsoft’s Azure cloud and artificial intelligence technologies along with LG’s future self-driving software. LG will implement Microsoft's AI to its Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Driver-Status Monitoring Camera (DSM) and Multi-Purpose Front Camera products and incorporate Microsoft’s Virtual Assistant Solution Accelerator in LG’s infotainment systems. Thanks to Azure Data Box service, data captured on the road can be uploaded automatically to create a library that helps the self-driving software grow even smarter. Additionally, LG plans to build innovative digital development and testing grounds employing state-of-the-art technology. The company says that high-performance computing (HPC) and graphics processing unit (GPU) supported by Microsoft Azure will drastically reduce the time required for LG AI self-driving software to learn and evolve. By embedding AI self-driving software enhanced by Azure within the ADAS, performance of the DSM and Multi-Purpose Front Camera can be dramatically improved. Azure also has a voice-enabled Virtual Assistant Solution Accelerator with its AI services. With help from Azure, LG’s ...

Xiaomi Redmi Y2 gets another price cut in India, now starts at Rs. 8999

After announcing price cuts for Mi A2 and Redmi Note 5 Pro smartphones earlier this week, Xiaomi has announced second price cut for the Redmi Y2, selfie-focused smartphone in the country, after its first price cut in November this year. After Rs. 1000 price cut, the Redmi Y2 3GB RAM with 32GB storage version now costs Rs. 8999 and the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage version is available at Rs. 10,999. It is available at new rates on Amazon.in, Mi.com and offline stores. It's time for the 3rd #High5! Get up to Rs. 3000 off on the #RedmiY2. Get yours today from https://t.co/cwYEXeds6Y, @amazonIN, Mi Home, offline stores. It's time to #FindYourSelfie. RT if you know what the next #High5 is going to be. pic.twitter.com/MMFfc2JQvL — Redmi India (@RedmiIndia) January 9, 2019 To remind you, the phone packs a 5.99-inch HD+ display with 18:9 aspect ratio, is powered by Snapdragon 625, runs Android 8.1 (Oreo) with MIUI 10 on top, has a 12-megapixel rear camera with LED flash along with a secondary 5-megapixel camera to capture depth information for AI portrait shots. It has a 16-megapixel front camera with soft LED flash that supports AI beauty feature, Auto HDR and uses pixel binning technology, combining the information from four pixels ...