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Friday, 1 May 2020

Samsung Galaxy M21 gets a price cut in India

Samsung launched the Galaxy M21 smartphone in March India. Now the phone has received a price cut in just over a month of launch. Samsung Galaxy M21 is now available starting at Rs. 13199, compared to recent price of Rs. 14,222 after the GST hike. To remind you, the phone was launched at a price … Continue reading

realme X50 Pro realme UI Software Update Tracker [Update: A.19 with April Security Patch, Vivid Color Mode, 4K 60fps recording]

realme launched realme X50 Pro in India back in February, it was the first smartphone in India to feature Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5G. The smartphone runs on Android 10 based realme UI 1.0. realme UI offers some interesting features such as dual earphone connection, animated wallpapers, screen-off display, customizable icon shape, new charging animation, realme Share … Continue reading

realme 5 Pro realme UI Software Update Tracker [Update: C.03 update with April Android Security Patch and DocVault ID]

realme launched the realme 5 Pro smartphone in India running ColorOS 6.0 realme edition on top of Android 9.0 (Pie), which was later introduced as realme Q in China. The smartphone has already received Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 update. realme UI brings new features such as dual earphone connection, animated wallpapers, screen-off display, customizable icon shape, new charging animation, … Continue reading

POCO M2004J11G passes through EEC, could be POCO F2 [Update: M2004J11g appears on TKDN Certification]

[Update: 1 May, 2020]: M2004J11G has been now spotted on TKDN, Indonesia smartphone certification, last month same smartphone appeared on EEC. Recently, official Global account name was changed from POCOPHONE Global to POCO, hinting towards the release of a new product. Earlier this week, Google Play Store listing revealed that Redmi K30 Pro will be … Continue reading

JioMeet video conferencing app to launch soon

The usage of video conferencing apps have increased lately with people staying at homes and these business apps crossed 62 million downloads last month. Reliance Jio’s ‘Jio Meet’ is the newest entrant in this segment and is set to take on popular video conferencing apps like Zoo, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and more. Alongside releasing … Continue reading

HTC Desire 20 Pro with punch-hole display, quad rear cameras schematic surfaces

HTC Wildfire X and Wildfire R70 were introduced in India last year and this year. Now the schematic of the upcoming HTC Desire 20 Pro has surfaced revealing a punch-hole screen, quad rear cameras and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. HTC 2Q9J10000 codenamed “Bayamo” surfaced last month on Geekbench listing revealing Snapdragon 665 SoC, 6GB of … Continue reading

Thursday, 30 April 2020

Worldwide smartphone shipments fall below 300 million, down 11.7% YoY in Q1 2020 due to COVID-19

Worldwide smartphone shipments decreased 11.7% year over year in Q2 2020, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In total, companies shipped a 275.8 million smartphones during quarter making this is the largest annual (year over year) decline ever and the first time smartphone market has fallen … Continue reading

Apple reports $11.2 billion profit on $58.3 billion revenue in FY Q2 2020, iPhone sales decline due to COVID-19

Apple has reported quarterly revenue of $58.3 billion, up 1% over last year with a net profit of $11.2 billion, down 3.11% YoY and earnings per diluted share of $2.55 for the financial year Q2 2020 that ended March 28, 2020. During earnings call Tim Cook said that it has posted an all-time record Services … Continue reading

Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake Core i3, i5 and i7 desktop processors with turbo speeds up to 5.3GHz announced

Intel has finally launched their 10th Gen Intel Core Comet Lake S-series processors for desktop, with its flagship Core i9-10900K processor that can turbo boost up to 5.3 GHz. These processors have many technologies like Intel Thermal Velocity Boost, Intel Hyperthreading Technology, Intel Ethernet Connection I225, Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 and more. The 10th Gen … Continue reading

How to install MIUI 12 live ‘Super Wallpaper’ on any Android phone?

Xiaomi introduced its next-generation custom Android skin – MIUI 12 earlier this week and it brings improved visual effects, new wallpapers, privacy improvements, and more. One of the interesting addition in MIUI 12 is the new live ‘Super Wallpaper’ that indeed looks gorgeous. While it was designed exclusively to Xiaomi devices, thanks to developers at … Continue reading