One of the two major chipset companies in the smartphone industry, Mediatek has released another chipset in the Helio series which can be a major upgrade for 4G smartphones. While the companies are creating more 5G chipsets in the market, Mediatek has offered two premium chipsets in the category. The two chipsets released by them are Helio G96 and G88. Both smartphones bring a lot of new features and support for more upgrades. The Helio G96 is the successor to the G95 chipset and has a pair of Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.05 GHz and six A55 cores.
The configuration is the same as G95 but the GPU has been degraded to Mali-G57 MC2. However, the chipset does come with upgrades, like a 120Hz refresh rate and 1080p+ resolution for the display. It will make a considerable upgrade in the display for 4G smartphones. The best upgrade can be recognized as the support for a 108MP camera sensor, but the video will still be recorded at 30fps on 4K. It also includes a better Bluetooth 5.2 version, faster LTE speeds, and faster storage.
The Helio G88 is a successor to G85 and has the same processor as the previous generation. It has the same GPU Mali-G57 MC2 and gets 1080p+ resolution support along with a 90Hz refresh rate. It also brings support for a 64MP camera sensor which was previously 48MP. Both the chipset will soon be seen in the smartphone that will be launched in the future as many smartphone companies have now adopted Mediatek chipset for their smartphones.
Asus has been known to produce some of the best quality electronic devices. Now the giant has made yet another impressive statement by launching six new Chromebooks in the market starting at just Rs 17,999. This is one of the best and the most affordable pricing by any company for a Chromebook. The company claims that the new Chromebooks are meant for digital learning and entertainment purposes only and due to this, the price of the laptops have been kept to an affordable range.
All the new Chromebooks Chromebook Flip C214, Chromebook C223, Chromebook C423, and Chromebook C523 have been powered using the Intel chipset and 4GB of RAM. The company claims that the laptops can provide a battery life of up to 10-11 hours. The C523 and C423 will come in two variants where the laptop will have a touch screen feature and one will not. Asus has also added an HD camera, stereo loudspeakers, dual-band WiFi, and Bluetooth to make it easier for the users to handle video conferencing.
The flip display model of C214 has been designed for students with military-grade design to increase durability and provide a 360-degree convertible touch-screen display. All the Chromebooks that have been launched are fairly lightweight and provide Intel HD graphics integrated into the chipset. The screen size for the laptop starts from 11.6-inches to 15.6 inches and has an 80% screen-to-body ratio. All the Chromebooks launched by Asus have been balanced with features and pricing at the same time and will surely appeal to the student a lot more.
Captions are very important for a video or audio in case the listener or viewer is unable to understand the language of the audio or is unable to hear the audio. Something very similar was expected from Twitter when they launched the voice tweets feature on their platform. However, the company decided not to add the captions to the feature at that time. Twitter has now finally decided to roll out the captions for the voice tweet feature which was launched in June last year.
The voice tweet feature is currently only available to the iOS device and now when you create a voice tweet, the platform will automatically create the captions for the same in the language options like English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Korean, and Italian. In order to see the caption or hide them, the user can click on the CC button icon that will be available on the top right corner of the tweet window.
Although, the feature will not be applicable to the older tweets which have already been made. After installing the new update, the captions will only be created for any new voice tweet. The Twitter team behind the feature announced it and has confirmed that the users might see some variation in the captions, which will be improved with time. Captions are also provided by Twitter in Spaces social audio rooms where it can be turned off or on using the CC icon. The absence of this feature was highly criticized before and now it’s there, people will use voice tweets more easily.
Samsung has been the global leader when it comes to the smartphone market. The company has again topped the global smartphone market this year in the second quarter as well. Although Apple had a large number of shipments this year as well, which has dramatically increased over the previous quarter, it has still shipped to third place. As per the details, Samsung has a 19% market share as of now in the smartphone segment and it shows that the company’s business is increasing since the dip due to the pandemic last year.
The most crucial for them has been the increase in the number of sales for their premium smartphones Galaxy S21 and S20. Apart from that, Samsung has been very aggressive this year in releasing a lot of A and M series of smartphones in the market, giving them a very good grip on the middle and budget segment market of smartphones. In second place, however, is Xiaomi which has 17% of the market share and is coming very close to Samsung to take its position in the future. The company has also seen a growth of 85% compared to the last quarter and has been able to grow rapidly in many other countries.
The company has been able to gain more market share due to value for money products and their affordability. With the average selling price being 40% less than Samsung, Xiaomi is surely trying to take the place of a global leader in the smartphone market. However, the launch of multiple foldable smartphones from Samsung in the future and the launch of the iPhone 13 this year is also going to give a boost to other companies.
When it comes to experiencing a Windows operating system, till now the users had to download and install it on the system. However, Microsoft has seemed to change that now with the launch of the Windows 365 platform. In short, the platform allows the users to run Windows environments on the system through virtual cloud-based technology. It can help the user to run Windows 10 or 11 without having to actually install it. The service is available to users based on subscription.
The launch of this platform takes the Windows operating system to the cloud and will help to stream the operating system including the apps, data, and all the settings of the users. Since the data will be entirely stored on Windows virtual cloud system, it can be accessed regardless of the system and location. It will allow the users to store the files on Windows 10 or 11 and have access to them on any device. It can also be accessed on devices running on another operating system like Apple’s Mac. The services will be made available for use from August 2 and will majorly be aimed at business users.
As per Microsoft, the user experience on the same will be no different from what they experience on the installed version of Windows. They will provide two different subscription options for the users which will be Windows 365 Business and Windows 365 Enterprise. Depending on the success of this platform, it will certainly open a way for companies as to how they perceive an operating system. It will allow the different types of operating systems to be device-independent.
es to experiencing a Windows operating system, till now the users had to download and install it on the system. However, Microsoft has seemed to change that now with the launch of the Windows 365 platform. In short, the platform allows the users to run Windows environments on the system through virtual cloud-based technology. It can help the user to run Windows 10 or 11 without having to actually install it. The service is available to users based on subscription.
The launch of this platform takes the Windows operating system to the cloud and will help to stream the operating system including the apps, data, and all the settings of the users. Since the data will be entirely stored on Windows virtual cloud system, it can be accessed regardless of the system and location. It will allow the users to store the files on Windows 10 or 11 and have access to them on any device. It can also be accessed on devices running on another operating system like Apple’s Mac. The services will be made available for use from August 2 and will majorly be aimed at business users.
As per Microsoft, the user experience on the same will be no different from what they experience on the installed version of Windows. They will provide two different subscription options for the users which will be Windows 365 Business and Windows 365 Enterprise. Depending on the success of this platform, it will certainly open a way for companies as to how they perceive an operating system. It will allow the different types of operating systems to be device-independent.
Realme GT Master edition is making a lot of news even before it is launched and a lot of specs and design details for the same have already been leaked. Recently, another Realme smartphone with model number RMX3366 gas has been spotted which is also said to be a different variant for the same smartphone. Now two different images of the same smartphone have been displayed on Weibo and by the chief marketing officer of the company.
Although both the images show a different design for the smartphone, they are named the same phone. The only common thing between the two smartphones is that they have been designed by Naoto Fukusawa, who is a designer in Japan and has been working with the company for a few years. Both the smartphones seem to have the same camera and flash setup and it seems that the company can be launching two different variants of the smartphone. With two different designs on the offering, it can be the case that the second phone could be a limited edition offering.
The phone is expected to launch with a Snapdragon 778 chipset along with an AMOLED screen which will come with a 120Hz refresh rate and 360Hz touch sampling rate. The phone will also have a 4,300 mAh battery along with 65W charging support from Realme. The phone is expected to be launched in the Chinese market on July 21 and that is when we will know if the company is releasing more than one variant of the phone.
One of the major features that WhatsApp has been working on for a long time is the multi-device support. The company has now released the feature in the beta version of the app for testers and it is available for limited users for a limited time. This will be the final step before launching the feature for the general public. This stage will help WhatsApp to find any type of bugs and resolve them to perfect the feature. The announcement for the same was made by the Facebook team and they also explained the working of this feature.
After the feature is made available to all, users will be able to use the same WhatsApp account simultaneously on multiple devices at once. For now, the users cannot use the same account on more than one smartphone. However, after the feature is enabled, the WhatsApp account can be used on multiple devices and multiple platforms. It will make sure that each device acts individually to keep the devices synchronized at the same time. Even if the primary device on which the WhatsApp account was set up is not available or switched off, the messages can be sent using other devices.
The data sent from any device will be end-to-end encrypted as before. However, there are still a lot of drawbacks to this feature which might be resolved until the final version of it comes out. First, the companion devices cannot be a smartphone and one cannot send the location on WhatsApp using the companion devices. Also, these devices will not be able to make calls. This functionality has only been limited to the primary device.
One of the much-awaited smartphones in the market right now is Poco F3 GT, which would be the next premium offering from the company under Rs 30k price tag. As per the rumors and leaks, the company is all set to launch the smartphone in the Indian market in the Q3 of this year and has also confirmed some of the features with which it will come. The phone will have one of the best displays in the segment that it will be launched in.
The company claims that it will have an AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and will provide great color reproduction as well. The phone is also expected to launch in the Indian market under the price tag of Rs 30,000. Another tweet by the company also confirms that the smartphone will have an HDR 10+ display as well, making it one of the best smartphone displays out there. The leaked specifications in the past reveal that the phone will have a 6.67-inch OLED display and a punch-hole camera in the front.
The phone is expected to come with a whopping 12GB of RAM for blazing performance and up to 256GB of internal memory. The phone is also expected to run on Android 11 out of the box and will have MIUI 12 running on it. The phone is also expected to have a 16MP camera sensor for selfies and a triple camera setup on the rear with 64 primary camera sensors. The phone will be powered using a 5,065 mAh battery and will have 67W of fast charging.
Tecno Camon has launched yet another smartphone in the Indian market. This time it’s the Tecno Camon 17 and 17 Pro. Both the smartphones have been officially debuted and both the variants of the series come with Mediatek chipsets, better camera configuration, and large batteries. The Techno 17 smartphone comes with a 6.6-inch LCD panel and has a 90Hz refresh rate. The phone comes with a peak brightness of 450 nits.
The phone will be equipped with the Mediatek G85 chipset which provides decent mid-range performance and will have a triple camera setup that comes with a 48MP primary sensor. The phone will also get a 16MP selfie camera in the front. The phone does not provide a 5G network feature and is a 4G smartphone. While both the phone comes with all connectivity options, the vanilla model has a MicroUSB connector while the Pro version comes with USB-C. Tecno 17 comes with a 5,000 mAh battery and 18W fast charging support.
The Tecno Camon 17 Pro comes powered with the Mediatek Helio G95 chipset and has a large 6.8 inch LCD panel. The phone comes with a 90Hz refresh rate display and 500 nits of brightness. It also has a quad-camera setup where the primary camera sensor is 64 MP and the front gets a 48MP selfie camera. The Pro variant also gets a 5,000 mAh battery as the vanilla version but has a 33W fast charging support. The vanilla model has been priced at Rs 12,999 for the 6GB/128GB variant and the Pro variant has been priced at Rs 16,999 for the 8GB/128GB variant.
When it comes to the services and products offered by Jio, they are known to be value for money and also a lot more affordable than the competitors. The company already offered their feature phone in the market for the users which can be used with the Jio sim. Now the company is already launching a new and affordable touch screen smartphone that will provide all the basic features one can ask for and is going to cost a lot less than the competition.
The company has already confirmed that the smartphone will come into the market during the festive season later this year. According to report files by Canalys, the phone is going to provide a lot of features and will provide a complete value for the price, but will not provide a very large impact in the short term. As per them, there is a global shortage in the supply of smartphone components and also the price for these components has been regularly increasing. It was expected that the phone would cost around $50 which would have been a lot more affordable than any smartphone in its competition.
However, with the supply and pricing problem coming up, it would not be easy for Jio to fulfill the requirements of manufacturing such an affordable phone. However, Canalys also confirmed that the condition will be improving in the market later which can make the condition better for Jio. However, with the current scenario, it would be interesting to see if Jio is able to provide the smartphone during the timeline in which they have promised.
