Xiaomi India to reveal more about the Redmi K20 Pro tomorrow

Xiaomi announced the Redmi K20 in China, but the device hit the global markets under the Xiaomi Mi 9T moniker. One exception is India where it will keep its name and will arrive mid-July, accompanied by the Redmi K20 Pro. Manu Kumar Jain, the director of Xiaomi India, has just said on his Twitter that tomorrow he will reveal "something very special" and "really out of the world" with selected Mi fans. Jain previously said we'll see each other in three weeks at the launch of the Redmi K20 Pro, we know there are no changes to the announcement. So tomorrow we'll likely see some of...

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Xiaomi Mi CC 9 to have 32 MP selfie camera with advanced Beauty mode

Xiaomi is launching its new smartphone series called CC on July 2 when the Xiaomi CC9 smartphone is expected to debut. Specs of the device are still scarce, but the company revealed on Weibo it will have a 32 MP selfie shooter with improved Beauty mode. The post says the camera will "restore the natural skin texture" and will "record the beauty of each moment", which might sound tacky, but that is simply marketing talk about the new advanced filters that Lei Jun was talking about earlier this month. We are still waiting for specs like the chipset and the battery, but with 7 days to...

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vivo iQOO now comes in Feather White color

The vivo iQOO gaming smartphone just got a new color - Feather White. It's priced at CNY2,998 ($435/€290) for the 8GB/128GB variant and CNY3,398 ($495/€430) for the 8GB/256GB model. You can purchase it from vivo China's official site immediately. The vivo iQOO has Snapdragon 855 SoC at the helm and sports a 6.41-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display. It boasts a triple camera (12MP+13MP+2MP) at the back and comes with liquid cooling. The smartphone packs a 4,000 mAh battery with 44W fast charging support. iQOO will launch its second smartphone, dubbed iQOO Neo, on July 2 with Snapdragon...

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First public betas of iOS 13, iPadOS and macOS Catalina are now out

Today Apple has released the first public beta builds for iOS 13, iPadOS, and macOS Catalina. All three new iterations of its operating systems were announced at the company's annual developer conference earlier this month. In the meantime we've seen a few developer previews, but now Apple has decided the upcoming releases are good enough to undergo testing out in the open by anyone who has the guts to sign up for its beta program. To sign up, go to this website. You'll then keep receiving follow-up beta builds all the way to the release of the finalized versions of the operating systems,...

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eBay UK deal lets you get an iPhone X for £425

Using the PURE20 code on eBay UK will knock 20% off the price of items from select sellers. You can see the full list of participating sellers here (along with the promo's T&C), but we'll focus on tech. This promo ends on Thursday. Starting on Tuesday, the iPhone X will start at £500. The units are seller refurbished (Pristine condition is out of stock, Excellent is available). The promo above is capped at £75, so the price of the cheapest available units drops to £425. This deal ends on Wednesday. Apple iPhone X • Apple iPhone 7 The Apple iPhone 7 will get updated to iOS 13...

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Study finds over 2,000 dangerous apps on Google Play Store, some are famous

A two-year-long study found that 2,040 apps on Google Play Store are harmful in some way. Some require suspicious amount of permissions, while others are straight up malware, reports the University of Sydney and Data61 of CSIRO. The research included about 1 million apps on Google Play and found a large amount of fake apps without malware but still requiring permissions to access data they have no business with. You may have heard some of the titles - Hill Climb Racing or Temple Run. To process all 1 million apps, the researchers used neural networks and machine learning. The...

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RHA announces T20 Wireless earphones with DualCoil drivers

British audio company RHA has announced a wireless version of its popular T20 earphones. The T20 Wireless claim to combine the best of wired and wireless design in one package. At the core of the T20 Wireless is RHA's DualCoil driver design. It features two voice coils instead of the usual one, one in the center and one around the magnet with custom diaphragm, which RHA claims puts equal emphasis across all frequency bands. You also get the same custom tuning filters as the standard T20. You can use the bass filter, which boosts the low frequencies, the Treble filter for high...

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Belkin Boost Charge is the first MFi-certified third-party USB-C to Lightning cable

Belkin has launched Boost Charge, the first USB-C to Lightning cable in the world that's made by a third-party manufacturer and not Apple. The cable is MFi or Made for iPhone certified, which means it is officially certified by Apple for use with its devices and will ensure 100% compatibility with all Apple Lightning enabled devices. The cable is also USB-IF certified. All of these certificates will serve as a peace of mind as the cable also supports fast charging and Belkin promises 50% faster charging than the standard Lightning cable when used with a compatible charger. If...

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Samsung Galaxy S10 5G sells 1 million units in South Korea alone

Samsung is reportedly dominating the 5G market in South Korea with over 1 million Galaxy S10 5G units sold 80 days of its availability. If we divide the total number by the days on the market we get an estimate of 15,000 Galaxy S10 5G's sold per day. In comparison LG has reportedly sold 280,000 V50 ThinQ 5G's since May 10. That's still a strong number, but nowhere near what the Samsung flagship managed. The 5G revolution started in South Korea but you can already get a Galaxy S10 5G in the UK through EE and Vodafone and in the US through Verizon and Sprint. Source | Via

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Bill Gates believes Microsoft's lost out on $400B by losing the smartphone market

During a talk with venture capital company Village Global Bill Gates admitted that he regrets that Microsoft didn't beat Google to create the "standard non-Apple phone platform". In his own words, "In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win. It really is winner take all. If you're there with half as many apps or 90 percent as...

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Samsung launches Galaxy Tab S5e and Galaxy Tab A 10.1 in India

Samsung has launched its Galaxy Tab S5e and Galaxy Tab A 10.1 devices in India. The Galaxy Tab S5e has a 10.5-inch 2560x1600 Super AMOLED display with a quad AKG-tuned speaker system that supports Dolby Atmos audio. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 chipset and comes with 64GB expandable storage and 4GB RAM. There's a 13MP camera on the back and an 8MP camera on the front. The 7,040mAh battery supports fast charging over USB-C. Galaxy Tab S5e The Galaxy Tab S5e is priced at INR 35,999 ($518) for the Wi-Fi model and INR 39,999 ($576) for the LTE model. Both variants...

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Onion-themed Realme X going on sale on June 27

The Realme X got an unorthodox limited edition, designed by the Japanese Industrial Designer Naoto Fukasawa. In addition to the extra memory, the phone also got special colors on its back called Onion and Garlic White. Today the first variant has appeared on the online store of the company, with its first flash sale scheduled for June 27 at exactly 10 AM. Realme X Onion hands-on photos You might think Onion or Garlic White are terrible translations, but that is actually the real name, however ludicrous it sounds. A Realme executive confirmed these names when we attended the...

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Telegram update adds People Nearby an Location-Based Chats

Telegram has released version 5.80 of its iOS and Android app that adds several useful new features. You can now add people who are near you using the People Nearby feature. Both parties need to go into this mode and they will become visible to one another. Then you can then just tap on their name to exchange contact info. You can now also add people to your contacts when they message you even if you don't know their number. Next, Telegram lets you make location-based groups, which is a local group that works in a small area for neighbors, co-workers or...

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vivo iQOO Neo to arrive on July 2 with touch acceleration

We've already told you vivo is announcing a phone called iQOO Neo with Snapdragon 845, but now we have a date to circle on our calendars - July 2. The event will take place in Chengdu, the capital of the Chinese province Sichuan, most famous for its panda sanctuary. Invitation for the vivo iQOO Neo launch The gaming smartphone has last year's top chipset in an attempt to offer flagship experience at a lower price, and it appears that not only the hardware but the software will also be top-notch. A video on Weibo suggested the iQOO Neo will have zero-lag touch acceleration - this...

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Huawei releases EMUI 9.1 update roadmap

Huawei has shared a schedule for the EMUI 9.1 release. Previously the company announced a list of 49 phones that will receive the incremental update, but now it's ready to share timeframes for the first 23. Keep in mind that as is usual with firmware updates, there may be delays. From June 27 Huawei Mate 20 Huawei Mate 20 Pro Huawei 20 X Huawei 20 RS Porsche Design In July Huawei P20 Huawei P20 Pro Huawei Mate 10 Huawei Mate 10 Pro Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design Huawei Mate 9 Huawei Mate 9 Pro Huawei Y9 2019 Huawei Y6 2019 Huawei Y5 2019 ...

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Lenovo Z6 to come with Snapdragon 730

Lenovo is yet to introduce the regular Z6 even though we already have the Z6 Pro and Z6 Youth/Lite. We didn't even know much about it until now, but the company VP Chang Cheng released a lengthy teaser about the chipset to give us something. The Lenovo Z6 will have Snapdragon 730 that Qualcomm has built on the 8 nm process. It will have similar CPU architecture to the Snapdragon 855, but at a lower price tag. The current flagship chipset by Qualcomm has one core at 2.84 GHz, while the Snapdragon 730 has two Kryo 470 units at 2.2 GHz, the other six ticking at 1.8 GHz. Lenovo is proud...

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Raspberry Pi 4 announced, more power for the same price

The powerful pocket desktop from Raspberry Pi just got beter while maintaining its attractive price tag. In fact, the new Raspberry Pi 4 is considerably more powerful than its predecessor with the same starting price. The biggest and most notable upgrade is the CPU. The new chipset features four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 1.5GHz instead of Cortex-A53 ticking at 1.4GHz. This alone means about 3x better performance compared to the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. Memory has also seen a significant bump going from the LPDDR2 standard to LPDDR4. The new VideoCore VI GPU can handle 4K/60fps...

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Oppo reveals the phone with under-display selfie camera in a promo video

Oppo have been teasing its under-display camera solution for three weeks now, and it might just be ready to show a prototype to the general public. The company posted a promo, reminding people about the launch on June 26 at MWC Shanghai 2019. The short 15-second video also reveals the design of the smartphone which appears to have a massive screen-to-body ratio. We already know from a previously released teaser that the front-facing camera can take pictures, but when it is turned off, the screen on top continues to have working pixels. There's also the occasional circular ring...

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Realme working on a phone with a 64MP camera, will debut in India

Realme is working on a phone with the Samsung-made 64MP GW1 sensor and it plans to premiere it in India soon. The sensor is the largest you'll be able to get in a phone at 1/1.72", resulting in 1.6µm individual pixel size. It's a Tetracell (that's Samsung for Quad bayer) type sensor, which means it will natively output 16MP images. Below is a resized sample captured with the new sensor, which Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth posted on Twitter. Resized 64MP shot captured with mystery Realme phone Working on the new premium killer! Introducing world's first smartphone camera with...

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Xiaomi sells 1 million Mi Band 4 devices in 8 days

Xiaomi introduced the Mi Band 4 earlier this month with a color display and better sports recognition. The device impressed the audience in China so much, over 1 million units were sold between June 14 and June 21, a total of eight days. The rest of the world is yet to see the device that will launch on June 26 and will be sold as Mi Smart Band 4 in Europe. The official poster, announcing the 1 million milestone Xiaomi reported that there were over 5,000 shipments per hour at one point, making it the fastest-shipping wearable by the company, ever. It now comes with a bigger OLED...

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