Airtel offers Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ at Rs. 9099 and Rs. 15799 with 24-month plan, 100GB data per month

Samsung started taking pre-orders for the Galaxy S10 and S10+ smartphones in India today. Now Airtel has announced that 128GB and 512GB versions of the Galaxy S10 and 128GB version of the S10+ will be available for order on its online Store at a down payment of  Rs. 9,099, Rs. 13,809 and Rs. 15,799, respectively with 24 monthly instalments of Rs. 2,999 for 128GB and Rs. 3,499 for 512GB. This comes to a total of Rs. 81,075 for 2 years including the plan for S10 128GB, Rs. 97,785 for S10 512GB and Rs. 87,775 for S10+ 128GB. You can check out more details on Airtel Store. Samsung has  pre-booking offers for the Galaxy S10 and S10+ smartphones. All Pre-booking customers will be eligible for getting a Galaxy Watch at Rs 9,999 or the new Galaxy Buds at Rs 2,999. Pre-booking starts today, February 22, 2019, to March 5, 2019. Shipping of the devices will start from March 6. Shashwat Sharma, Chief Brand Officer & Chief Marketing Officer, Bharti Airtel said: We are pleased to add the Samsung Galaxy S10 range of devices on our store and offer a wider choice of 4G smartphones to customers. We continue to be committed to build a strong partner ecosystem with ...

ARCHOS Diamond with 6.39-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, pop-up front camera, Oxygen 68XL with corner water-drop notch and more announced

ARCHOS has introduced new Diamond smartphone with a Full HD+ AMOLED screen and no-notch design, pop-up camera as well as Oxygen 57, Oxygen 63 phones with a notch and Oxygen 68XL water-drop notch in the corner ahead of MWC . All the phones run Android 9.0 (Pie). The Diamond phone has  16MP + 5MP dual rear cameras, while the other Oxygen phones have 8MP + VGA dual rear cameras and a 5MP front camera. ARCHOS Diamond specifications 6.39-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) 19.5:9 Full HD+ AMOLED display Octa Core MediaTek Helio P70 12nm processor (Quad 2.1GHz Cortex A73 + Quad 2GHz Cortex A53 CPUs) with 900MHz ARM Mali-G72 MP3 GPU 6GB LPDDR4x RAM, 128GB storage, expandable memory up to 1TB with microSD Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD) Android 9.0 (Pie) 16MP rear camera with LED flash, f/1.8 aperture, Sony IMX499, 5MP secondary camera with f/2.2 aperture 8MP front-facing camera, f/2.0 aperture, Samsung S5K4H7 sensor Dimensions: 158.7x74.1x 8.6mm; Weight: 166g 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, USB Type-C 3,400mAh battery with fast charging ARCHOS Oxygen 68XL specifications 6.85-inch (1352x640 pixels) HD+ 19:9 IPS 2.5D curved glass display 2GHz Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) 12nm processor with 650MHz ...

HTC Vive Focus standalone VR with Snapdragon 835, dual 6DoF controllers announced

HTC VIVE has introduced the VIVE Focus Plus which is its newest premium virtual reality standalone hardware for enterprise customers. Vive upgraded the existing six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Focus headset to incorporate dual 6DoF controllers, giving users the ability to seamlessly interact with their virtual environment with the same freedom as PC VR devices. Vive Focus Plus brings users greater comfort and full enterprise support. Resting easier on consumers' heads, Vive Focus Plus offers comfort and lays the groundwork for extended sessions in VR needed by commercial customers. The headset comes with several professional features including Kiosk Mode, Gaze Support, and device management tools to remotely enroll, monitor, and manage multiple headsets all at once. It is powered by the Snapdragon 835 Mobile VR platform and Vive Wave Platform and offers Viveport content including the access to a growing library of titles on the newly announced Viveport Infinity offering. In addition to Vive Focus Plus, Viveport Infinity is compatible with high-end PC-based VR systems as well as the full spectrum of WAVE supported headsets. The Vive Focus Plus offers two ultrasonic 6DoF controllers featuring an analog trigger that gives users the ability to control objects or interactions with pressure-sensitive input. Vive will be ...

Sony Xperia 1 with triple rear cameras, 21:9 4K HDR OLED display surfaces ahead of Feb 25 announcement

Sony's MWC 2019 event is inching closer, and the company is expected to introduce a bunch of new smartphones including the XA3 series. The company is known to be working on XZ4 flagship; but it looks like the company might be changing the naming scheme and it might be called Xperia 1 series and thanks to popular leakster, Evan Blass, we get to see the device renders ahead of the launch.  Xperia 1's pretty sexy in purple. pic.twitter.com/G0FkyzBXxv — Evan Blass (@evleaks) February 21, 2019 OmG, seriously!? 😮 We're FINALLY getting 4K OLED in a phone!? 😁 The big thing holding the previous 4K screen Sony phones back was the still largish gap between OLED and LCD quality... Making many say the 1440p AMOLED screens still looked better. Yessssss!!! pic.twitter.com/KGpjWArVe6 — Joe Likes Tech (@JoeLikesTech) February 22, 2019 The Xperia 1 seems to be the start of a new series from Sony and it will come with a triple rear camera setup. Following the tradition, the fingerprint sensor is present on the side between the volume rockers and the power button. The Xperia 1 series too will have the 21:9 aspect ratio and sport a 4K HDR OLED display, meaning this is likely a successor to the XZ Premium ...

Realme 3 launching in India on March 4

After several teasers, Realme has finally announced that it will launch the Realme 3 smartphone on March 4th. The company recently teased vertical dual rear camera arrangement for the first time since both the Realme 2 and Realme 2 Pro featured a horizontal dual rear cameras. There is a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor and the phone has a diamond-cut design similar to the Realme 1 and the Realme 2. There is also an attractive case, which will likely go on sale alongside. The invite has tagline "Power Your Style".  The company's CEO recently confirmed that the phone will be powered by the MediaTek Helio P70 12nm SoC with AI engine and GPU acceleration with gaming mode, after the Realme U1, before removing the post. The Realme 2 was launched starting at Rs. 8,990. Hope we can expect the Realme 3 to launch at a competitve price tag. The phone will likely be exclusively launched on Flipkart, similar to the predecessor. We should know more details in the coming weeks.

Google shutting down Fit on the web on March 19th, to focus on Android and Wear OS

Google back in August has completely overhauled Fit with new metrics, the Material Theme on Android, and a prominent role in Wear OS. However, to keep its focus mainly on the mobile, Google is now killing the service's desktop web client in March.  Google with a large banner on fit.google.com has revealed to the world, its intentions. Google is shutting down the desktop client to “focus efforts on adding new capabilities that enhance the mobile and smartwatch Google Fit experience.” The website will continue to operate until March 19th. This move doesn't come as a surprise considering, the revamp did not extend to the web and it still retains the original Material design and red heart icon. But lacks Move Minutes and Heart Points. Step count, distance, and activities still appear online after the redesign. Besides showing metrics and recent activities on a larger screen, Google Fit on the web excelled at showing a long-term monthly view of your activity. Users could also log weight and other activities that were not recorded. For users of the phone and Wear OS app, Google’s commitment to “adding new capabilities” is promising. Recent updates added several home screen widgets and breathing exercises on wearables. Google also hosted a New Year’s challenge to encourage users to be ...

MediaTek MT6731 SoC to power 4G smart feature phones running KaiOS

KaiOS, popular mobile operating system for smart feature phones that powers the JioPhone and the Nokia 8110 4G has announced their collaboration to integrate KaiOS with a series of MediaTek chipsets to power 3G and 4G devices. As part of this cooperation, the KaiOS mobile operating system will now run on the 3G MT6572 platform, and the latest MT6731, with support for dual-4G SIM cards. MediaTek chipsets on these smart feature phones will be equipped with 3G and 4G capabilities, while requiring very little memory, starting at 512MB of RAM and as low as 256MB on some devices. MediaTek’s MT6731 quad-core 64-bit platform with ARM Cortex-A53 CPU and IMG PowerVR GE8100-class GPU is targeted at smart-feature phones with support for up to HVGA displays and brings dual 4G SIM technology to the entry-segment mobile phone market and offers a highly cost-optimized platform for device makers in both carrier and open markets. It has support for up to 5MP cameras, with dual camera options available, in addition there is support for HD videos at up to 30fps in h.264, with HD video decoding using the modern and efficient (H.265) HEVC codec. KaiOS has already shipped on more than 80 million devices in over 100 countries. The ...

Apple and Goldman Sachs said to team up for credit card paired with money management features in Wallet app

Apple and Goldman Sachs Group Inc have teamed up to issue credit cards that will be paired with iPhones and will help users manage their money, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The card will be linked with Apple’s Wallet app and will allow users to set spending goals, track rewards, and manage balances. The new cards will be rolled out to employees for testing in the next few weeks and will be launched later this year. This deal will benefit both Apple and Goldman Sachs Group Inc tap into a new revenue source. Off lately, Apple has been focusing its services business, including the App Store, mobile payments and music streaming after a recent dip in iPhone sales, which generate most of the company’s profit. Goldman is also looking to increase its consumer loans to offset dips in its trading business. The joint card will use Mastercard’s payment network, offers cash back of about 2% on most purchases. Spending on Apple products and services could potentially result in more cashbacks. Goldman Sachs has already started adding customer-support call centers and building an internal system to handle payments. This project could cost the bank $200 million. The bank could eventually offer ...

Samsung completes development of new mmWave RFICs and DAFE ASICs for 5G Base Stations

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has successfully completed the development of its mmWave Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) and Digital/Analog Front End (DAFE) ASICs, supporting 28GHz and 39GHz bands for 5G Base Stations ahead of MWC 2019. Samsung’s new RFICs and DAFE ASICs enables about a 25% reduction in size, weight and power consumption for 5G base stations when compared to the previous iterations. 5G base stations using these new chipsets are more efficient in operation and roll-out. To achieve ultra-fast data speeds, 5G base stations use almost one thousand antenna element and several RFICs to utilize the mmWave spectrum. Samsung’s new RFICs using 28nm CMOS semiconductor technology operate on bandwidths that have been expanded to a maximum 1.4GHz, compared to 800MHz for previous RFICs. The size of RFIC is reduced by 36% and the overall performance is enhanced by decreasing the noise level and improving the linearity characteristics of the RF power amplifier. Samsung has developed RFIC solutions for 28GHz and 39GHz and plans to commercialize additional RFICs for 24GHz and 47GHz this year. The company has also developed its own DAFE as an ASIC, low in power consumption and small in size. The DAFE is essential for digital wireless telecommunications as it provides ...

Light, Sony ink deal for multi-camera application for smartphones with four or more cameras

Light — the company behind the L16 camera, and leader in advanced computational imaging has announced that is has signed an agreement with Sony Semiconductor Solutions to jointly work on development and marketing of multi-image sensor solutions. The agreement allows Light to use and recommend to its customers and partners, Sony’s image sensors built in Light’s computational imaging solutions and reference designs. These new reference designs combine Light’s multi-camera technology together with Sony’s image sensors to create new multi-camera applications. This solution will begin with the introduction of smartphones with four or more cameras. Dave Grannan, CEO, and co-founder, Light said: Sony is the recognized quality and market share leader in image sensors and we are thrilled to partner with them. We are entering an entirely new era of intelligent imaging applications that will transform smartphones, autonomous vehicles, and security systems. With Sony’s world-class image sensors, we can introduce new innovations in the multi-camera imaging space. Hank Ochi, president of Component Solutions Business Division, Sony Electronics Inc said: We are excited to be working with Light and driving multi-sensor-based products and solutions into the market. Light and its technology are transforming how devices see the world. This new partnership will allow us to work together to ...