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Poco M3 Pro will launch in India on June 8

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 07:07 AM PDT

Poco will launch its first 5G phone in India a week from now on June 8 – the Poco M3 Pro will be available through Flipkart. The brand has a couple of other 5G phones, of course, but they are yet to arrive on the subcontinent. There is no word on pricing yet, but the Poco M3 starts at INR 11,000. Speaking of the vanilla M3, it has already 5 million units according to Flipcart. That's a surprising jump considering that the Poco boasted about 3.2 million units shipped (shipped, not sold) just a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, the Poco X3 Pro is currently discounted to INR 19,000...

A new OnePlus Watch update adds more workout modes

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 06:19 AM PDT

OnePlus launched its smartwatch some time ago and it promised more than 110 workout modes but they weren't available at launch. With the latest update carrying a firmware version B.52, the remaining modes are added. Aside from the 110 workout modes, the watch gains access to marathon running mode and AI Outfit watchface feature. This one has been available on the Oppo Watch and what it does is scan your outfit and generate a matching watchface. The changelog gives a useful tip to tap on the watchface you chose to see if there's a hidden function to it. Source

Xiaomi Mi TV 4A 40 Horizon Edition announced

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 05:29 AM PDT

The latest Android TV from Xiaomi is the Mi TV 4A 40 Horizon Edition. As the name suggests it brings a 40-inch panel with a 1920x1080-pixels resolution and 60Hz refresh rate. You also get slim bezels all around and a 20W stereo speakers setup with DTS-HD audio. The software front is covered by Android 9 with Xiaomi's PatchWall interface on top. There's a quad-core chipset at the helm paired 1GB RAM and 8GB storage. I/O consists of 3x HDMI ports, 2x USB, AV in, Antenna port, S/PDIF and a headphone jack. Xiaomi Mi TV 4A Horizon will retail for INR 23,999 ($330) with first sales...

Huawei now accepts registrations for early access to the HarmonyOS update

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 04:40 AM PDT

Huawei will launch HarmonyOS 2.0 tomorrow, afterwards select devices will get the option to install the new platform, replacing the current EMUI-on-Android setup. This may happen sooner than expected – the My Huawei app now has a page where you can register for early access to the new OS. It looks like this option is available only in China, but that may expand to other regions tomorrow. You can check the Update screen of the app, there should be a button to become an early adopter. Clearly, Huawei wants to do a slow rollout at first to check if there are any show-stopping issues before...

AMD announces RX 6000M series mobile graphics and FidelityFX Super Resolution

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 03:49 AM PDT

AMD announced a host of new products today at Computex 2021. The first of these is the Radeon RX 6000M series mobile graphics, the company's latest and most powerful series of graphics processors for notebooks. The RX 6000M series currently includes the flagship RX 6800M GPU with 40 compute units and 12GB of video memory, along with the RX 6700M with 36 CU and 10GB VRAM, and RX 6600M with 28 CU and 8GB VRAM. All three are capable of hardware-accelerated ray tracing (DXR) and feature, 96, 80, and 32MB of Infinity Cache, respectively, on the GPU to reduce latency. AMD...

Xiaomi sells 500,000 Redmi Note 10 units in first sale

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Last week Xiaomi brought its Redmi Note 10 series to China, with an altered Redmi Note 10 Pro model and the Redmi Note 10 5G, which is the same as the global version. Today it held the duo's first sale and that was a huge success. The company sold the available 500,000 units in an hour. Quick napkin math says that more than 8,000 units were ordered each minute. Source (in Chinese)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti GPUs announced

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:41 AM PDT

Nvidia kicked off the new month by unveiling its latest desktop GPUs - the RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti. As with past Ti iterations, the new cards represent an upgrade over the regular RTX 3080 and 3070 with more VRAM and improved performance to keep up with the latest Triple-A games. Both new graphics cards offer Nvidia staples like ray-tracing, DLSS, and Reflex technologies. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti key specs The RTX 3080 Ti clocks at up to 1.67GHz and brings 10,240 CUDA cores and 80 GPU clusters. RTX 3070 Ti has a boost clock speed of 1.77Ghz with 6,144 CUDA cores and...

iQOO Z3 India launch set for June 8

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 12:51 AM PDT

The iQOO Z3 announced in China in March was supposed to arrive in India in early May, but plans were changed due to the second COVID-19 wave in the country. However, with the situation getting better, the phone maker today announced it will introduce the Z3 in India on June 8. The iQOO Z3 will come with the Snapdragon 768G 5G SoC at the helm, making it India's first smartphone to be powered by Qualcomm's 7nm chipset. And if the rest of the specs remain the same as the Chinese model (we say so because Indian iQOO 7 is a rebranded Neo5), you will get a 6.58" FullHD+ 120Hz LCD,...

AMD brings its RDNA 2 graphics to Exynos with ray-tracing and more

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 12:02 AM PDT

While on stage at Computex 2021, talking about the new Radeon RX 6000M series of GPUs, AMD' CEO Dr. Lisa Su talked about bringing AMD's RDNA 2 graphics architecture to Samsung's Exynos chipsets later this year. Making its first appearance on a mobile SoC, AMD's RDNA 2 custom graphics will enable ray-tracing and variable rate shading on Exynos chipsets. Did you see that? "The next place you will find #RDNA2 will be the high-performance mobile phone market. We're happy to announce that we will bring custom graphics IP to Samsung's next flagship mobile SOC, with ray-tracing and variable...

Honor Band 6 launching soon in India

Posted: 31 May 2021 11:05 PM PDT

The Honor Band 6 that was announced in China last November and went on sale globally in March will debut in India soon. This confirmation comes from Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, which set up a page for the smart band on its website. The Honor Band 6 packs a 1.47" AMOLED color touchscreen, which is 148% larger than its predecessor's display. It's covered with 2.5D curved glass and supports personalized watch faces. The Band 6 is water-resistant up to 50 meters and comes with the usual slew of health and fitness features, including heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen level...

Honor 50 series will be unveiled on June 16

Posted: 31 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Honor has announced that the Honor 50 series we've been hearing about since April will be officially unveiled on June 16 at an event in Shanghai, China. The company also posted a video on Weibo teasing the Honor 50 series. It doesn't divulge any specs of the lineup but gives us a glimpse of the dual-ring camera design. Honor is yet to reveal the entire specs sheet of the Honor 50 lineup, but the phone maker previously confirmed that the vanilla 50 will be powered by the Snapdragon 778G SoC. The Pro model could also be powered by the same chip, while the Pro+ variant -...

There's a 5G version of the Moto G Stylus (2021) headed to the US

Posted: 31 May 2021 03:32 PM PDT

Motorola unveiled the Moto G Stylus (2021) back in January, with the 4G Snapdragon 678 chipset at the helm. Weirdly, though, just a few days before the official launch, we saw some purported leaked renders of the phone that had an entirely different design of its camera island on the back. Today that mystery has finally been solved, months later. It turns out that the leaked device is the 5G-capable variation of the Moto G Stylus (2021), and this one still hasn't been announced. It's headed exclusively to the US soon, according to a new leak that also gives us some additional renders of...

What to expect from Huawei's June 2 event

Posted: 31 May 2021 11:33 AM PDT

Huawei's big HarmonyOS event is this Wednesday (June 2) and will introduce the second version of the in-house OS. Harmony has been around for a couple of years now, but version 2 brings a tectonic shift – it will power phones, tablets and smartwatches, not just smart TVs. Huawei teasing more than just a new OS for June 2 (image credit) The event should feature a more detailed look at the new OS version (beyond unofficial video demos). And what better way to unveil the first devices that will be run HarmonyOS 2.0? Here is what we expect to see on Wednesday. Huawei MatePad 2 and Pro...

Report: Apple will switch some iPad models to OLED starting in 2022

Posted: 31 May 2021 10:14 AM PDT

While the large iPad Pro 12.9 (2021) switched to a mini-LED display, the smaller models may go for OLED. Korean publication ETNews reports that Apple will make the jump with iPads coming out in 2022. Those will be the first Apple tablets not to use some kind of LCD (even mini-LED tech is LCD based). Samsung and LG are the likely suppliers of the OLED panels. They are currently working on OLED displays for the iPhone 13 (splitting the order 65/30 with BOE taking up a small 5% share). Image quality, weight and design were reportedly the key considerations in the decision to move away from...

Redmi AirDots 3 Pro to be rebranded as Poco Pop Buds

Posted: 31 May 2021 09:09 AM PDT

Last week, Redmi announced its AirDots 3 Pro with ANC, Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity and 28-hour battery life. New evidence from a Bluetooth SIG listing suggests the earbuds will be reintroduced under the Poco brand soon. We've already heard about Poco's Pop Buds last year but the brand only confirmed the earphones' name without any release plans. Poco Pop Buds and Redmi Buds 3 Pro listing The newly approved listing for the Poco Pop Buds bears the very same TWSEJ01ZM model number which matches the Redmi AirDots 3 Pro. In addition, we can see a third pair of earbuds in the listing...

Apple Podcasts Subscriptions service delayed until June

Posted: 31 May 2021 08:17 AM PDT

Apple has sent out an official email to podcast creators informing them that the recently announced Podcasts Subscriptions service will be delayed until June. There's no specific launch date mentioned in the new email and the service was previously supposed to launch in May. Several issues forced the delayed launch including some podcast creators being locked out of Apple's Podcasts Connect portal. Some authors also saw delays in the launch of their new podcast episodes. Apple Podcasts Subscriptions allows users from over 170 countries to subscribe to select podcasts with ad-free...
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