Nokia 8.3 5G with 6.81-inch FHD+ PureDisplay, Snapdragon 765G, 64MP quad rear cameras with ZEISS Optics announced

HMD Global just announced Nokia 8.3 5G, the company’s first mid-range 5G Android One smartphone at an online event. It has a 6.81-inch FHD+ punch-hole PureDisplay, is powered by Snapdragon 765 with 5G support, up to 8GB of RAM, runs Android 10 and comes with quad rear cameras that includes a 64-megapixel main rear camera, ultra-wide camera with 2.8μm Super Pixels, Video HDR and 4K Ultra HD support, depth sensor and a macro camera. There is also action camera mode and ZEISS cinematic effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO-M3J1H0pQ There is ZEISS Cinema capture and editor and there is also OZO audio. The company says that it has a Nordic Premium design in Polar Night colour that takes inspiration straight from the arctic sky. It has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner on the power button and packs a 4500mAh battery with 18W fast charging. Nokia 8.3 5G specifications 6.81-inch (1080 × 2400 pixels) Full HD+ 20:9 LCD screen with 120Hz refresh rate Octa Core (1 x 2.4GHz + 1 x 2.2GHz + 6 x 1.8GHz Kryo 475 CPUs) Snapdragon 765G 7nm EUV Mobile Platform with Adreno 620 GPU 6GB LPDDR4X RAM with 64GB storage, 8GB LPDDR4X RAM with 128GB storage Android 10 Dual SIM 64MP rear camera with ...

Sennheiser 350BT and 450BT Wireless Bluetooth headphones with 30h battery life launched in India starting at Rs. 7490

Sennheiser, one of the top manufacturers of audio equipment, is launching two new wireless Bluetooth headphones in India, namely the HD 450BT and HD 350BT. Both headphones claim an impressive 30 hour battery life with the 450BT also including Active noise cancellation. The 450BT and 350BT have nearly identical over-ear minimalistic designs with comfortable ear cups. Both headphones connect via Bluetooth 5.0 with support of advanced codecs like AAC, AptX and AptX low latency. The HD 450BT headphones also has the option of wired listening. Sennheiser claims a battery life of 30 hours of continuous listening time for both headphones, and they also have a dedicated voice assistant button and music control buttons on the ear cups. The Sennheiser HD450BT is available in white colour for a price of Rs. 14990 on both Flipkart and Amazon. The Sennheiser HD 350BT is also available on Amazon and Flipkart for a price of Rs 7490. Commenting on the launch, Kapil Gulati, Director, Consumer Segment, Sennheiser Electronics India, said: At Sennheiser, our focus has always been on innovation and with these new models in our wireless range, we aim to provide consumers with an enhanced audio experience every day. We look forward to seeing how our consumers here ...

Samsung Galaxy A41 with 6.1-inch FHD+ AMOLED Infinity U display, 48MP triple rear cameras, waterproof body announced

Samsung has silently announced Galaxy A41, the company's latest smartphone in the A series in Japan for NTT Docomo. It packs a 6.1-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity screen with in-display fingerprint sensor, is powered by an Octa-Core processor which could be MediaTek Helio P65 SoC, has 4GB RAM, runs Android 10 with OneUI 2.0, features a 48-megapixel rear camera along with an 8-megapixel ultra wide-angle lens, 5-megapixel depth sensor and a 25-megapixel front camera. It has a 3D Glasstic back, similar to the A40, but it has a 3500mAh battery with 15W fast charging and is also waterproof and dustproof with IP68 ratings. Samsung Galaxy A40 specifications 6.1-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ Infinity-U Super AMOLED display Octa-Core processor 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage, expandable up to 512GB via micro SD card Android 10 with  Samsung One UI 2.0 Dual SIM 48MP rear camera with LED flash, f/2.0 aperture, 8MP 123° ultra-wide angle camera with f/2.2 aperture, 5MP depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture 25MP front camera with f/2.2 aperture Fingerprint sensor Water and dust proof (IPX5 / IPX8, IP6X) 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (2.4/5GHz), Bluetooth 5.0, GPS + GLONASS, NFC, USB Type-C 3500mAh battery with 15W fast charging The Samsung Galaxy A40 comes ...

Google Advanced Protection accounts get auto Play Protect app scanning, limited external app download

Google offers Advanced Protection for personal or business Google Accounts of those who work with sensitive data like political campaign teams, journalists, activists and business leaders. To enhance security its security, Google is adding new updates that will turn on Play Protect app scanning automatically and limited apps from outside the Play Store. Google will be blocking the majority of these non-Play apps from being installed on any devices with an account enrolled in Advanced Protection. Non-Play apps can only be installed now if they were pre-installed by the manufacture or through the Android Debug Bridge. Those apps that were already installed though will not be affected and users can continue to update them. The second change that Google is making with Advanced Protection accounts is that they are turning on Play Protect app scanning by default and will remain enabled. This will ensure that users are protected by Google's machine learning algorithms against constantly evolving threats. These changes all roll out to all Google Accounts that are enrolled in Advanced Protection and Google is also announcing new malware protections for Chrome later this year. Source

HUAWEI Watch GT 2e to be announced on March 26 alongside P40 series

HUAWEI already confirmed the global unveiling of the P40 series smartphones on March 26th. Now the company has posted a teaser for the HUAWEI Watch GT 2e, a cheaper version of last year's HUAWEI Watch GT 2 and said that it will be introduced along with the phone. The teaser images show a sporty silicone band, two buttons on the sides and a heart rate sensor on the back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzgOJM3RvqY The company has posted a video that says “Energetic design and multiple features to fit any adventure, explore beyond your limits with HUAWEI WATCHGT 2e”. It also says #PlayFor2weeks hinting at 14 days battery life, same as the GT2. We should know the complete specifications including the price when it goes official next week. Source

HONOR 30S with Kirin 820 5G, quad rear cameras, 40W fast charging to be announced on March 30

HUAWEI's HONOR brand today announced that it will introduce the HONOR 30S, successor of last year's HONOR 20S in China on March 30th. This is said to be powered by new Kirin 820 5G SoC. Press render that surfaced recently revealed quad rear cameras with dual-LED flash and a gradient glass back. 3C certification listing revealed 40W (10V/4A) fast charging. Another image reveals side-mounted fingerprint scanner for the phone, so it is not clear if the phone will come with an LCD screen, and the invite teases a no-notch, but it could come with a punch-hole screen. We should know more details about the phone in the coming days once the phone gets certified by TENAA. Source 1, 2, 3

Nokia Beacon Wi-Fi 6 router with Wi-Fi Certified EasyMesh modulation announced

Nokia is expanding its home Wi-Fi portfolio with the announcement of the Beacon 6 Wi-Fi router. It incorporates many core technologies such as OFDMA modulation schemes, Wi-Fi Certified EasyMesh, low-latency innovations and more. Using OFDMA, the Beacon 6 router can improve the overall speed, performance and latency of the internet connection similar in ways to 5G tech. With Wi-Fi Certified EasyMesh, Certified EasyMesh products can connect with the router to offer seamless channel selection and advanced interference capabilities. Nokia Bell Labs has contributed low-latency innovations like the PI2 algorithm  that improves latency even in congested environments. No details about the price, but the company says it will be available this year. Commenting on the announcement, Sandra Motley, President of Fixed Networks at Nokia said: Nokia’s new Beacon 6 will play a fundamental role in helping operators significantly enhance residential Wi-Fi and for the first time, deliver a true 5G experience across the network. By leveraging the power of Wi-Fi 6, Nokia’s new Beacon 6 can help establish a significantly faster and more powerful Wi-Fi network in the home that will forever change the game for operators and end users alike. Whether it’s a home, work or public environment, the ability to seamlessly offload from mobile ...

realme C3 realme UI Software Update Tracker [Update: A.15 with Camera Improvements]

realme launched the realme C3 in the country earlier this month running Android 10 based realme UI 1.0, check out this post to learn about realme UI features in details. realme doesn’t follow a fixed update frequency but the company rolls out updates frequently. This post will help our readers in keeping track of realme UI updates for realme C3 (RMX2020), also check out our realme C3 content, realme C3 Review: Third time's the Charm! realme UI updates rolled out for the realme C3 so far, [Mar 17, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX2020_11_A.15 with several camera improvements. [Download Link] [Feb 27, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX2020_11_A.03 with February security patch. The update weighs 388 MBs in size and brings Camera optimizations and multiple bug fixes. [Download Link] Note that realme follows staged rollout and the updates are randomly pushed to a limited number of users and a broader rollout usually takes a few days after the company makes sure there are no critical bugs. realme C3 comes in Blazing Red and Frozen Blue colors with the sunrise design and goes on sale on Flipkart and realme.com. Pricing Rs. 6999 for 3GB RAM with 32GB storage variant Rs. 7999 for 4GB RAM ...

Sony PlayStation 5 specs released — AMD Zen 2 Octa-Core CPU up to 3.5GHz, 16GB DDRR6, 36CU RDNA 2 GPU

Just two days after Microsoft released the specs and design for its upcoming Xbox Series X console, Sony has come out and released the specs for its upcoming PS5. It features nearly the same internals as the Series X, with an 8-core AMD Zen 2 based CPU, RDNA 2 based GPU with 36 compute units, 16GB GDDR6 RAM, Tempest 3D audio engine and more. Sony held a press conference yesterday explaining the experience possible with the new updated hardware on the PS5. Starting with the CPU, the PS5 will have an 8-core AMD CPU that is based on the Zen 2 architecture with SMT and it will clock up-to 3.5GHz. For the GPU, similar to the Xbox, the PS5 will use an RDNA 2 based GPU with 36 custom compute units that can perform 10.28 TFLOPs. It will have 16GB GDDR6 RAM that is complemented with custom 825GB NVMe SSD which is connected to the main processor via a four-lane PCI Express 4.0 interconnect. Other features for the PS5 include hardware-accelerated ray tracing via its Intersection Engine that will perform similarly to AMD's upcoming PC GPUs. Sony also talked in depth about its Tempest Audio engine which can process hundreds of sound sources ...

Xiaomi Mi 10 5G with 6.67-inch FHD+ AMOLED 90Hz display, Snapdragon 865, 108MP quad rear cameras launching in India on March 31

Xiaomi today confirmed the launch of its flagship Mi 10 5G smartphone in India on March 31st in an online event and the phone will go on sale on Amazon.in. The phone was introduced in China  last month and the company already confirmed the global launch of the phone on March 27th. The company has also announced launch offers for the phone. You can pre-order the phone from March 31st 3PM till April 7th 11:59PM, and with Axis Bank Credit Cards and EMI you get Rs. 2,500 discount and Axis Bank Debit Cards and EMI get Rs. 2000 discount. Xiaomi India head, Manu Kumar Jain recently said that the company is importing the phone, recent GST hike and depreciating rupee value it will be costly compared to the China price, which starts at 3999 yuan (US$ 564 / Rs. 42,385 approx.). Mi fans, we've worked very hard to bring this #108MP flagship experience to India. However, I want to add that we may have a different pricing model for this flagship due to (a) direct import (b) higher GST (c) depreciating ₹. Will keep everyone posted.#Xiaomi ❤️ #108MPIsHere https://t.co/HkMRftpyuz — Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) March 18, 2020 Xiaomi Mi 10 specifications 6.67-inch (2340 × 1080 pixels) ...