Canalys: Indian smartphone market declines by 3% in Q3 but recovery looms ahead

A total of 43 million smartphones were shipped in India during the July-September months according to the latest Canalys Smartphone Market Pulse report. The figure represents a 3% drop compared to the values from a year ago but Canalys notes that the improved consumer confidence and the launch of several high-profile smartphones will likely lead to positive growth ahead of the festive season. Samsung retained its market leadership with an estimated 7.9 million shipments and 18% market share. Xiaomi came in at a close second place matching Samsung’s market share figure while shipping...

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Report: Musk considers blocking X in Europe due to inability to comply with regulations

Recently, EU officials wrote to Elon Musk to remind him of his company's legal obligations regarding the European Commission's Digital Service Act. However, a person close to Elon Musk said that he would rather block X to the whole region and make the X app unavailable for Europeans than comply with the rules. The latest debacle stems from the recent events in Israel where people would often see a series of posts with disinformation, which goes unchallenged on the social network. Video game footage passed off as breaking news, old videos from Syria are being recycled and attributed to this...

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Samsung’s upcoming Exynos 1480 chipset appears in Geekbench listing

Samsung is expected to announce a new midrange chipset soon with AMD graphics and we finally have our first unofficial look at the SoC thanks to a Geekbench listing. Exynos 1480 (S5E8845) is touted as a successor to the Exynos 1380 and brings and eight-core structure based on ARMv8 architecture with a 4x performance cores clocked at 2.75GHz and 4x efficiency cores humming at 2.05 Ghz. Exynos 1480 Geekbench 5 scorecard The more interesting bit is the presence of the Xclipse 530 GPU which uses AMD RDNA 2 graphics just like the flagship Exynos 2200 from 2022 which powered European...

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The Honor Magic 6 Pro pictured in the wild, will have a centered pill notch

The Honor Magic 6 Pro was pictured in the wild, giving us an early glimpse of its design. The pictures were posted on Weibo but the original source has since been taken down. The images show the Honor Magic 6 Pro in a design-concealing case. Upfront we see the pill-shaped notch has moved from the left screen corner to the center. The notch holds the 12MP ultrawide selfie camera and the time of flight 3D camera on the ">Magic5 Pro and will likely be similar on the 6 Pro. We can't tell much about the cameras on the back because the phone is in a case made to hide the camera island. What...

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