Redmi K30 Pro will not be rebranded as POCO F2, POCO TWS earbuds coming soon: POCO GM [Update: TWS in-ear buds confirmed]

[Update]: In a Zoom video chat session conducted on March 30, Manmohan had confirmed that the company is working on TWS earbuds. Today POCO team has put a teaser on twitter saying True wireless in-ears TWS is in works and will be coming to India soon. We can expect these to launch in India in coming weeks. Here's the big news, POCO fans! In the recently concluded poll by our GM @cmanmohan, the 'True wireless in-ears' got the highest vote share. Today, we want to confirm that it is in the works and will be coming to India. RT to welcome the new category in the #POCO fam! #POCOTWS pic.twitter.com/pL8yPbFuPd — POCO India (@IndiaPOCO) April 7, 2020 [Mar 30, 2020]: A couple of days back, XDA findings revealed that Redmi K30 Pro might launch under POCO branding in India and everyone assumed it to be long-awaited POCO F2. In an interaction with POCO Fans over a Zoom meeting today, POCO GM, C Manmohan has revealed that POCO F2 is a different smartphone from Redmi K30 Pro. POCO GM also revealed that POCO F2 is still in works and it will definitely not be priced around INR 20,000. To recall, POCO F1 took the entire industry by ...

Uber India partners with Flipkart for last mile delivery of essentials in select cities

Many companies are introducing special measures to help people combat the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the nationwide lockdown. Recently, Uber launched its UberMedic Service to help healthcare officials and now, the company has tied up with Flipkart to deliver everyday essentials in select cities of India. Online vendors like Flipkart Grocery, Big Basket, Grofers, etc, are facing a shortage of manpower to delivery everyday essentials and this partnership will help ease the load, at least to an extent. Uber will deploy its wide network of drivers for last-mile delivery of everyday essentials and the company will not be charging any commission for the same. Uber says that all the earnings through deliveries will be directly given to the drivers and safety measures of the drivers associated with this service are taken care of. Drivers are being provided with masks, sanitizers, gloves, and specialized safety training adhering to the Government of India's guidelines. Uber's partnership with Flipkart comes after the announcement of a tie-up with Big Basket and Spencer's Retail recently. As of now, Uber has tied up with Flipkart to deliver everyday essentials in Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai and hopefully the service will be extended in other cities as well. Source

Android 10 based LineageOS 17.1 Overview and First Impressions on POCO F1

LineageOS is a popular OS amongst custom ROM enthusiasts. LineageOS team recently announced LineageOS 17.1, which uses Android 10 as the base and dropped LineageOS 17.1 for quite a few devices including POCO F1, OnePlus 6, OnePlus 6T and OnePlus 7Pro. We managed to install it on our device and here is the overview and first impression of LineageOS 17.1 on POCO F1. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309086,309087,309088"] LineageOS offers a clean bloat-free experience, you will find only a handful of apps pre-installed, most of which can be easily uninstalled/disabled. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309089,309090,309091"] LineageOS 17.1 is in the nightly stage, the maintainer rolls out update for POCO F1 every day. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309093,309094,309095"] LineageOS 17.1 offers all the Android 10 features such as system-wide Dark mode, Night Light and Adaptive Brightness. It has a reading more for long reading sessions which turns the display greyscale. Apart from these, LineageOS 17.1 also offers a few nifty gestures such as double-tap to wake, and double-tap to sleep. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309096,309097,309098"] LineageOS team has also adapted AOSP's ThemePicker app, so users have an option to select accent color, font style, icon shape, and others. [gallery size="large" link="file" ids="309105,309106,309107"] LineageOS 17.1 also offers a few customizations. [gallery size="large" columns="2" link="file" ids="309108,309109"] Similar to any ...

Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant now show food and night shelter locations in India

It has been over two weeks since the government announced lockdown across India, and the poor and migrant workers are the ones who are suffering from the lack of food and night shelter. To help them Google in partnership with the Indian Government has started surfacing locations of food shelters & night shelters on Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant, to help migrant workers & affected people across cities. This feature is currently live in 30+ cities. We're working towards adding more locations, and will shortly roll this feature out in Hindi and other languages. pic.twitter.com/oGm9xeDvcA — Google India (@GoogleIndia) April 6, 2020 This feature is currently live in 30+ cities. Google said that it is working towards adding more locations, and will shortly roll this feature out in Hindi and other languages. Google will also add quick-access shortcuts that will appear below the search bar on the Google Maps app to access this easily. Anal Ghosh, Sr. Program Manager, Google India, said: As the COVID-19 situation develops, we are making a concerted effort to build solutions that help people during these times of need. Highlighting the locations of food and night shelters on Google Maps is a step to make this information easily available to ...

OPPO Ace2 5G with 6.5-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, Snapdragon 865, up to 12GB RAM to be announced on April 13

After rumors OPPO has officially confirmed that it will introduce the Ace2 5G, the company's new 5G smartphone in China on April 13th. This comes after the Reno Ace that was introduced back in October last year. On weibo, in an open letter OPPO VP Brian Shen said that the Reno Ace, the first generation of OPPO Ace series phone was introduced 180 days back featuring the first 65W super flash charge fast charging along with 90Hz refresh rate screen. Now the company is ready to bring Ace2 , which will be independent of the Reno series. The phone got certified by TENAA recently revealing the specifications of the phone. 3C certification has confirmed the same phone with model number PDHM00 with support for fast charging up to 65W, same as the predecessor. Zhang Jialiang, head of OPPO’s VOOC Flash Charge division confirmed that the company's 40W wireless fast charging tech will be available commercially this year, so we can expect this in Ace2. OPPO Ace2 5G rumored specifications 6.5-inch (2400 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ AMOLED HDR display with 90Hz refresh rate, up to 1000 nits brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut 2.84GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 865 7nm Mobile Platform with Adreno ...

Online music streaming services crossed 350 million subscribers in 2019, up 32% YoY: Report

The online music streaming services in the world enjoyed a good year in 2019, with the number of paid subscribers growing by 32% YoY, crossing 350 million. Driving this growth was exclusive content offerings like podcasts and originals, price cuts in subscriptions in emerging markets and bundled offers from telecommunication companies. The top three companies globally continue to be Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Prime Music. Spotify claimed a share of 31% share of the total revenue and a 35% share of the total paid subscriptions while Apple Music's subscription base grew by 36% YoY. Amazon Prime Music accounted for 15% of market share in 2019, growing from the 10% it had in 2018. While global companies did well, regional companies did extremely well too. For example, Gaana remains at number one in India, Yandex Music topping in Russia, Anghani leading in the Arab countries and Tencent Music Group leads the Chinese market. Both global and regional companies are focussing on producing original content and podcasts as a way of keeping its customers as paid subscribers. This is largely due to the fact that 80% of music streaming revenue came from paid subscriptions. Commenting on the market, Research Analyst, Abhilash Kumar, said: Paid subscriptions grew ...

OPPO Find X2 Lite with 6.4-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 765G, 48MP quad rear cameras surface

OPPO announced Reno3 5G Vitality Edition in China back in February, now the smartphone is expected to be introduced in Europe as Find X2 Lite, as the image and complete specifications have surfaced. This show 6.4-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen with water-drop notch, Snapdragon 765G 5G, 8GB of RAM, runs ColorOS 7 based on Android 10, gradient design and support for 5G standalone and non-stand alone (SA/NSA) sub-6GHz networks. OPPO Find X2 Lite (Reno3 5G Vitality Edition) specifications 6.4-inch (2400 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 20:9 aspect ratio AMOLED display with 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 8GB RAM, 128GB storage Android 10 with ColorOS 7.0 Dual SIM 48MP rear camera with LED flash, f/1.7 aperture, 8MP 116-degree ultra-wide lens with f/2.2 aperture, 2MP macro and 2MP mono lens with f/2.4 aperture 32MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture In-display fingerprint sensor 3.5mm audio jack, Dolby Atmos Dimensions: 160.3×74.3×7.96mm; Weight: 180g 5G SA/ NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ax (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, NFC, USB Type-C 4025mAh (Typical) / 3935mAh (minimum) battery with 30W VOOC 4.0 fast charging The OPPO Find ...

Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition gets 12GB RAM + 512GB Storage version

Xiaomi's Redmi brand introduced the Redmi K30 Pro 5G smartphone in China last month in normal and zoom edition with the latter featuring 30x digital zoom. Today the company has 12GB (LPDDR5 RAM) + 512GB (UFS 3.1) storage version of the zoom edition at 4499 yuan (US$ 634 / Rs. 49,060 approx.) making it the top-end version in the K30 Pro series. This will be available for order in China from tomorrow, April 7th. Other specifications of the phone are similar including a 6.67-inch FHD+ E3 Super AMOLED display, Snapdragon 865, 5G SA/NSA support with Snapdragon X55 Modem, liquid-cooling, Android 10 with MIUI 11,  3D glass back, NFC and Hi-Res audio support, 64MP Sony IMX686 1/1.7″ sensor,  four-axis OIS, 8-megapixel telephoto lens with support for 3x optical and 30x digital zoom, 13-megapixel 123° ultra-wide-angle lens and a 2MP depth sensor. There is a 12-megapixel pop-up front camera with built-in notification LED now supports 5 colors. It comes with a 4700mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging that can charge the phone fully in 63 minutes. The Redmi K30 Pro comes in White, Blue, Gray and Purple colors. Source

Apple acquires AI startup Voysis in a bid to improve Siri

Apple's voice assistant, Siri often falls short in functionality and natural language processing capabilities when compared to the Google Assistant. In a bid to improve Siri's shortcomings, Apple has decided to acquire Voysis, which is a company that has developed an AI based platform for digital voice assistants to understand natural language. Voysis is a company that is based in Ireland and until now, has been working on improving voice assistants for online shopping apps. The company developed its platform an on AI-based method called Wavenets, which was first by Google's DeepMind back in 2016. It allowed the program to work on a really small amount of memory once it was trained, as little as 25MB. Although Apple has not stated clearly their intentions for buying Voysis, it wouldn't be a stretch to guess that they want to use Voysis's research to improve Siri's natural language processing capabilities. Apple has steadily buying small startups to improve and integrate more functionality into their services. Recently, Apple bought Dark Sky, a hyper local weather app, for an undisclosed amount to improve its own Weather app in iOS. Source

Xiaomi starts rolling out PatchWall 3.0 with enhanced UI, dedicated sports channel, new content partners to Mi TVs in India

Xiaomi today announced the roll out of PatchWall 3.0, the latest version of Mi TV’s UI. This will offer deeper integration with Disney+ Hotstar and addition of new content partners, Mi List along with other UI enhancements. Cleaner animations, a new Mi Lanting Pro font, horizontal scrolling are some of the key features and improvements in PatchWall 3.0, said the company. Introducing the all-new #PatchWall3.0, the latest version of #MiTV’s intelligent content-first. New features: > Sports Page Powered by @DisneyPlusHS > Universal Search > All-New Design > Live News > Comprehensive Kids Channel > 20+ Content Partners > Smart Curation pic.twitter.com/2YVVRZtMFE — Mi TV India for #MiFans (@MiTVIndia) April 6, 2020 Mi TV PatchWall 3.0 features Xiaomi has partnered with Disney+ Hotstar to introduce a first-of-its-kind dedicated sports channel in PatchWall 3.0. The channel not only helps discover content with ease but also gives a one-click play option for various sports content. Content related to ongoing tournaments spanning across different sports such as Kabaddi, Tennis, Cricket and more can be streamed seamlessly on the channel. With the new addition of Docubay and Lattu Kids, Xiaomi's PatchWall 3.0 now has 20+ content partners, which will provide an eclectic mix of high quality content to the Mi TV users in India. Docubay ...