Google Pixel 6 smartphone series has been launched by Google and along with it, they have also launched the all-new Google Pixel Pass. Now Google Pixel Pass is a monthly subscription, where the users will be able to get a bundle of premium Google apps that can be used on Pixel 6 smartphones. The bundle would include the latest device, device protection, and regular device upgrades. The program is applicable for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro and would come with an extended warranty and 200GB of Google One storage.
It would also include other Google services like Youtube Premium and Google Play Pass. It also brings Preferred Care coverage to cover accidents and provides hassle-free repairs for the device. The Pixel Pass would come at a price tag of $45 per month when purchased with Pixel 6 and $55 when purchased with Pixel 6 Pro. It can be purchased from Google Store and Google Fi. As per Google, the Pixel users will be able to save more than $294 in two years with this bundle.
However, the bundle is currently available in the US only and is up for pre-orders. Users will also get certain Google Store discounts and offline playback ability from Youtube Premium and Youtube Music Premium. If the user wants to cancel the subscription, they can simply pay the remaining amount of the phone and cancel the subscription. The plan is actually very similar to Apple One and tries to provide maximum features with the smartphone purchase. They are also offering an upgrade program for existing Pixel users.
When it comes to durable phones, Nokia does come at the top of the list. Be it their old retro phones, or the latest smartphones. If it is Nokia, you can expect them to be built with utmost durability. Now, the company has launched yet another smartphone in the market which speaks of durability at max. They have recently launched the Nokia XR20 smartphone that has been built with military-grade specifications and design, which not only makes it sturdy. but would also allow it to survive and work in extreme conditions. Due to its durable build, the smartphone can stay underwater for an hour and still work.
It can also work in excrement weather conditions with temperatures ranging between 55-degrees to 20-degrees Celsius. Similarly, the phone can also survive a stop of up to 1.8 meters and still work as usual. It is not only strong from the outside, but Nokia also promised three years of major OS upgrades and four years of monthly security upgrades with the smartphone. The phone will be up for pre-orders on October 20 and will go on sale from October 30. The pre-booking offer also provides the user with a free pair of Nokia Power Earbuds Lite.
The smartphone would be running Android 11 out of the box and will have Gorilla Glass Victus protection on the display. It has a 6.67-inch screen along with a 20:9 aspect ratio. The phone is powered using a Snapdragon 480 processor and provides the smartphone with 5G capabilities. It has a dual rear camera with a 48MP primary sensor on the rear. The phone has been launched at a price tag of Rs 46,999 for the 6GB/128GB variant and will be available on offline and online retail stores and Nokia official website.
Minecraft is one of the most popular games to play across the world. It is why the game has the active engagement of millions of players anytime. One of the best features of the game is the amount of customization it provides. For example, the player can use blocks in a certain way or collect the material from these blocks to create a new block. The process to create a new block from the existing blocks is called smelting and can be used to create multiple types of blocks in the game.
The existing blocks in the game act as material or ingredients in the games which can be collected by the player and be converted or processed into an entirely new type of block. One of such things that you can use in Minecraft for creating new things is a furnace. It is basically a crafting tool that is made from eight blocks of cobblestone.
Cobblestone blocks are some of the easiest to find and are in abundance in-game. A blast furnace in Minecraft is used to smelt the sand, food, stone, and other materials for something else. However, the process is a bit time-consuming. Users can use a Minecraft furnace to smelt different materials or blocks, but if they have a large quantity of material, then the process can become slower. It is why players often create more than a blast furnace in the game and use it for a faster smelting process. A blast furnace works twice as fast as a regular furnace in the game and is made of iron.
Therefore, users will have to find the block of iron in the game which is very commonly found. Using it, the player can build more than one blast furnace and speed up the smelting process. The blast furnace Minecraft can be easily created in the game using the following blocks.
Five Iron Ingots
A Furnace
Three blocks of smooth stone
However, getting them is not as simple. In order to get these in the game, you will have to craft them and you would need more blocks for that which will be going through the smelting process. Here is the list of things that you will require to craft these things.
Five blocks of Iron
Two blocks of coal
Eleven blocks of stone to get cobblestone
Now you will have to use the eight blocks of cobblestone to create a furnace and use the furnace to further smelt the remaining three blocks of cobblestone, which will convert to stone.
Use the same stone and smelt it back in the furnace and you will get the smooth stone.
You will now have a furnace, iron, and smooth stone that will be helpful in creating a blast furnace.
Crafting a Blast Furnace
With all the material available, the only thing that is left for you is to create the blast furnace Minecraft.
To start the process, you will first have to place the furnace in the middle square.
Now place the smooth stone that you crafted in the furnace in the bottom row.
Add the iron ingots to the remaining empty squares and you will be able to collect the blast furnace.
Conclusion
A blast furnace Minecraft is not only a great tool for crafting new objects but also smelt them even faster than a normal furnace. You as a player can smelt anything in it except cooking. It is of great use when you have to smelt, ore blocks, and create tools or armor.
A blast furnace Minecraft is much more efficient and better in use than a normal furnace. It takes less fuel and uses all types of fuel like the furnace in the game. So this is how you can create a blast furnace in the game and create better armor for your player and smelt things at a much faster rate without spending more fuel.
However, make sure that you first need to create a furnace in order to smelt things and craft objects that will be used to create a blast furnace. So now you know how to craft a great armor, so get gaming and create a blast furnace right now.
WhatsApp has been working on a lot of new features for their app in the Beta platform and new features have been leaked for iOS devices. The new feature brings the ability to manage the reactions, their notification, and change their tone as well. The users will be able to manage the notification for their reactions in the same way they do it for the messages they receive in the app. They would also have the option to disable the notification for these reactions on the app.
The option will work on both the individual chats and groups chats. The feature is currently under development by the company and is not yet available on public beta. Therefore, it might take a few more weeks before it comes to beta users and a couple of months thereafter for the stable global launch. Apart from this feature, the company is already working on the multi-device support 2.0 which will also bring an iPad app for WhatsApp and will let users use it even without any internet connection and even when the primary smartphone is off or not working.
The feature is already available in the beta stage for the users and will soon be released for global users on the stable version. With the new version, one can pair up to four devices in a single account. They have recently rolled out a stable global feature as well which provides end-to-end encryption for iOS and Android users. Therefore, with this feature, the backup with encryption will only be accessible to the user.
Online gaming is the next big thing in the global market where almost all the industry leaders have been trying to lay their hands on. The Indian market is currently the third-largest when it comes to gameplay sessions in a particular time frame, which shows how fast this industry is growing. Companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft have already made their move and it seems that now Facebook is going to take a giant leap in this category as well. A top executive from Facebook confirmed that Facebook is looking to capitalize on the boom in the gaming industry that India has been noticing recently.
As per Facebook, the boom started during the time of the pandemic, and ever since that time, the industry has been growing at an exponential rate. The industry is set up to grow triple in size in the next couple of years and almost every company wants a piece of this cake. Facebook has been trying to improve its gaming experience for the last couple of years and has also provided support for devices like Oculus, cloud gaming platforms, and more. They already have collaboration with gaming studios and are looking for more partners that can help to create games that are specifically created for their platform.
They have also launched a dedicated gaming app last year, known as Facebook Gaming and since then they have been giving it a lot of focus to reach a new audience. They have also been working with many creators to increase the audience on their game streaming platform. Using the streams on Facebook, the creators can earn from the ads and on-demand content as well.
Vivo is going to announce a new smartphone series in China on October 19 and it has been named the T1 series. The two smartphones that will be launched in this series will be the T1 and T1x. Vivo has already released the launch poster which shows a triple camera setup on the rear. There have also been leaks that show the official render image of the smartphone. The reports confirm that the smartphone will have a waterdrop notch in the front which will house the front camera. The T1 smartphone range is expected to come with a dual-camera setup and the T1x series of smartphones is expected to come with a triple camera setup.
The smartphones would be powered by both Dimensity and Snapdragon processors, but the exact processor for the variants have not been confirmed. It is expected that the smartphone could either use Dimensity 900 chipset or Snapdragon 778G chipset, with a display that would support a high refresh rate. The T1x smartphone is also expected to pack a 5,000 mAh battery and support 44W fast charging. The display is expected to be a 6.67-inch FHD+ unit, along with a triple camera setup where the primary sensor will be 64MP.
The T1 smartphone will have a 4,050 mAh battery and will have support for fast charging, but not the same as the T1x series. It will also have a dual-camera setup where the primary sensor could be a 50P sensor. The T1 series smartphone is more likely to be powered by the Dimensity 900 chipset while the T1x series of smartphones will be powered by Snapdragon 778 chipset.
Oppo has been very active this year when we talk about the launch of new handsets in the market. The next in the line of smartphones from the company is Oppo K9s. The phone will be launched at an event on October 20 and will be available in the Chinese market only for now. Oppo has also confirmed some of the features of the smartphone before the launch without giving out any specifics. As per the company, the smartphone will come with a bigger and better battery life and fast charging capabilities. Although, most of the specs of the smartphone have already been leaked on the internet a week before the launch.
As per the leaked reports, the smartphone will be powered using the Snapdragon 778G chipset which would offer the smartphone 5G connectivity. The rear of the smartphone will come with a triple camera setup where the primary camera sensor would be 64MP. In terms of battery, the phone is expected to come with a 5,000 mAh battery and the support for a 30W VOOC rapid charge. It will have a USB-C charging port to support fast charging and will also have a 3.5m headphone jack.
The display will be a 6.59-inch LTPS FHD display with a 120Hz refresh rate. In the front, it will be equipped with a 16MP selfie camera sensor and will have variants with RAM configuration of 8GB and 12GB, and storage options of 128GB and 256GB. The color variant expected at the launch is Magic Purple Quicksand, Neon Silver Sea, and Obsidian Warrior. The phone is expected to launch in the global market by the end of this year.
In just a few hours, Apple is going to hold an online event called “Unleashed“, which is going to be the launchpad for their new MacBook Pro models. What is going to be new is the use of their next-generation powerful chipset in the new generation. Earlier, Apple stopped using the Intel chipsets for their devices and launched the new M1 chipset which was better in terms of performance as well as battery life. A few months back, the details were leaked that the next generation of chipsets from Apple would be called the M1 X.
However, the new information confirms that the company would be using two different variants of the chipsets which will be named the M1 Max and M1 Pro. These names are very similar to the variant name used in the iPhone, which indicates that the M1 Max would be a higher-performing chipset than M Pro. There are also reports that Apple could be launching a new and third chipset which would be the direct successor to M1 chipsets and would be named M2. The Mi Pro chipset is expected to come with a 16-core GPU while the M1 Max is expected to come with a 32-core GPU.
The company is expected to launch two new variants of the MacBook Pro which are 14-inch and 16-inch variants. Also, we can expect the new MacBook lineup to come with a new mini led display and a 120Hz refresh rate. The webcam is also expected to be upgraded to FullHD. They will also have a new charging mechanism, which is called MagSafe, and will be shipped with the new devices inside the box. There is no detail on the expected pricing, but all will be soon revealed in the launch today.
Camera technology in smartphones has taken a huge leap in the last decade. Now one of the most deciding factors of a smartphone also includes the camera, which is the highest-selling feature for most companies. When it comes to premium smartphone brands, they have always tried to enhance their smartphone camera sensors with each upgrade. Be it Apple, OnePlus, or any other smartphone company. Apple recently launched the iPhone 13 series smartphone and displayed the capabilities the phone had in terms of capturing a movie as well.
How could Samsung be left behind in the same and now they have announced a partnership with directors who will use the Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphones camera to shoot a movie. The task has been assigned to director Joe Wright, who is popular for his movie Pride and Prejudice. The campaign will start from the movie Princess & Peppernose, which is directed by Joe Wright and it will be captured entirely by the smartphone. Apart from joe wright, the company has also announced a partnership with Chinese director Sha Mo, who will use the smartphone in the shooting of Love Will Tear Us Apart and My Huckleberry Friends.
These are not the only directors, and Samsung is looking for movie creators from all over the world. It has also been announced that both the movie will be unveiled at Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. It would be really interesting to see how a movie made entirely from smartphones turns out to be. Samsung is trying to show its superiority in camera technology through such events.
Google is going to launch its new range of Pixel devices in a few days in the Pixel Fall event. Just before the event, another Pixel device has been leaked online with its specifications. The new device is the Pixel Stand which comes with improved design and features. The Pixel 6 stand would come with a fan for cooling the smartphone and would allow many faster-charging speeds as well. The leaks suggest that the new Pixel Stand would come with a dual coil wireless charging system and a dedicated coll for wearable devices.
It is expected that it will provide up to 23W of fast charging for compatible devices. The expected price of the new Google Pixel Stand is expected to be somewhere around $79 and would have two color options to choose from. It will also have two charging points and will offer a smart display for Google Pixel 6 smartphone. The more important aspect of the device is that it is completely environmentally friendly and most of the device has been made from recycled material.
The device would come with one or two years of warranty on the product, depending on the country they are available. Also, the launch of the device is expected on the same date of October 19, when the Pixel smartphones will be launched. Google has also enhanced the software experience of Google Pixel Stand and would have an improved set of functions as well. We can expect Google to have more products and accessories under their shelf, which could launch in the Pixel event.
