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Vivo has announced that it will be hosting a sale dubbed ‘Vivo Republic Day Sale’ that will commence on January 20 and will go on till January 22 on Flipkart and January 23 on Amazon. These dates coincide with both the online retailers’ own respective sales. Amazon Prime Members will get a 12-hour early access to the Vivo Republic Day Sale, while Flipkart Plus members will get early access to the sale at 8 pm on January 19. Customers using HDFC Bank cards to purchase devices will get a 10 per cent instant discount on Amazon and SBI credit card users will get the same benefit on Flipkart.

Xiaomi recently launched the Redmi Note 7 in China and will launch its Redmi Note 7 Pro next month. Now, the pricing details and processor specifications have been leaked online. A tipster by the name Dream Dust (according to Google Translate) on Weibo claims that the upcoming device from Redmi by Xiaomi will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 processor. He also stated that the device will be priced at 1,499 Yuan, which roughly translates to Rs 16,000. Qualcomm launched its 11nm based Snapdragon 675 processor back in October. The processor comes with an octa-core Kryo 675 CPU paired with an Adreno 612 GPU.

Almost every word in the name of TAG Heuer’s new watch – the Carrera  Calibre Heuer 02T Tourbillon Nanograph – is important. Carrera connects it to TAG’s long history of chronographs while Calibre suggests a handmade watch made with some technical prowess. Tourbillon means you can expect this thing to cost more than a car (about $25,000 when it goes on sale) and Nanograph suggests that this thing is doing something quite unique. And it is. TAG Heuer loves experimenting with new materials and the Nanograph features a new hairspring design that is unique to TAG. The hairspring, which is made of carbon-composite, is lightweight and unaffected by gravity or shock. It also offers “perfect concentric oscillations” and is completely antimagnetic. Couple that with the rotating tourbillon and the suggestion is that this watch will remain accurate under all sorts of pressure. Further, rest of the movement includes carbon fiber and aluminum which reduces the effects of temperat...

Samsung will launch its new lower-priced Galaxy M series in India before the smartphones roll out globally. Asim Warsi, senior vice president of Samsung India’s smartphone business, told Reuters that three devices will be available through its website and Amazon India at the end of January and are intended to help the company double online sales. Samsung is currently trying to recover its lead in India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market behind China, after losing it to Xiaomi at the end of 2017, when Xiaomi’s sales in India overtook Samsung for the first time, according to data from both Canalys and Counterpoint. Xiaomi’s budget Redmi series gave it an advantage, as Samsung had a dearth of competitors in the same price bracket, but analysts noted the Korean electronics giant maintains an edge in terms of R&D and supply chain expertise. Samsung leaned into those strengths last year, opening what it describes as the world’s largest mobile phone factor...

HIGHLIGHTS Honor V20 was announced on Monday in Hong Kong The official launch is in China on December 26 The phone will be launched globally on January 22 in Paris Huawei-owned sub brand Honor has unveiled its latest Honor V20 at an event in Hong Kong on Monday. Successor to last year's  Honor V10 ₹ 52,812  (globally known as the View 10), the Honor V20 is the company's first smartphone to sport a selfie camera display hole and a 48-megapixel rear camera sensor. The company appears to have timed the surprise launch to beat Samsung to the launch of its first smartphone with a display hole for selfie camera, the  Samsung Galaxy A8s , which  launched within hours  of Honor's unveiling. The  Honor V20  is the world's first smartphone to sport the Sony IMX586 sensor - the first 48-megapixel sensor available in the market. The Honor V20 is powered by the latest HiSilicon Kirin 980 SoC, and other features will be revealed by the brand at the launch event...

The Honor 10 Lite was announced back in November in China and was one of the first Honor phones but it somehow manages to stay relevant in a smartphone market as fast-paced as India. Huawei’s sub-brand Honor took 2018 by storm. It launched a wide range of devices right from the affordable segment all the way up to the high-end taking on established rivals like Xiaomi and OnePlus. The company started in journey back in 2018 with the Honor 9 Lite, the first smartphone to sport four cameras on the body (two on the front, two at the back). And while quad-cameras became more prevalent in the coming months, Honor is set to start the new year with yet another Lite series smartphone. The  Honor 10 Lite  will be launching in India in January and based on what we observed after using the phone for a while, it’s quite a progress from the Honor 9 Lite The Honor 10 Lite was announced back in November in China and was one of the first Honor phones with an U-shaped cut-out, a design ...

Today, AMD unveiled the first 7nm gaming graphics card at the company's CES 2019 keynote. Available February 7th for $699, the AMD Radeon VII promises big performance improvements over the Radeon RX Vega 64, the company's current flagship gaming GPU. The newly announced graphics card's job also includes competing against Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 in the high-end segment. With twice the memory and memory bandwidth, the AMD Radeon VII claims to be up to 29 percent and 39 percent faster in gaming and demanding content creation scenarios, respectively, when compared to the Radeon RX Vega 64. AMD Radeon VII Specifications AMD Radeon VII AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Architecture (GPU) Graphics Core Next 5.0 (Vega 20) Graphics Core Next 5.0 (Vega 10) Shaders 3840 4096 Peak FP32 Compute 13.8 TLOPS 12.5 TFLOPS Texture Units 240 256 Base Clock Rate 1450 MHz 1200 MHz GPU Boost Rate 1800 MHz 1536 MHz Memory Capacity 16GB HBM2 8GB HBM2 Memory Clock 2000 Mbps* 18...

Hello friends, the Realme U1 smartphone has MediaTek Helio P70 processor. You will see what features & drawbacks there are in it. You also know whether this Realme smartphone is worth buying or not. Just a 6-month-old smartphone company, Realme, has made great recognition in a short span of time. The company has so far launched 5 of its total smartphones and they all come in less than Rs 20,000. The aim of the company is to draw the youth of the country on their side so that real-time smartphones can be seen in more hands. Realme U 1 has a starting price of Rs 11,999 and with this price, the Chinese company wants to give tough competition to the companies like xiaomi, Huawei & Honor in the budget category. Realme U1 is the world's first handset with the MediaTek Helio P70 processor. The most important feature of the phone is the 25 megapixel front camera and 3500mAh strong battery. Design of Realme U1 At first glance, Realme looks like the previous company o...

After  yesterday's launch in the UK , the Asus ROG Phone is finally set to hit the shelves in the country. However, you still need to wait until December 14 when the actual shipments start but if you hurry up and pre-order you can get the phone for £100 off. Otherwise, the actual price of the phone is £799 and can be found on Asus' official website. Unfortunately, though, there's still no word on the accessories and how much will they cost. We guess we will have to wait some more to find out.

HIGHLIGHTS The Night Sight mode is designed to enhance low-light photography It was announced alongside the    launch of the Pixel 3 models last month The mode is yet to officially arrive on the Google Camera app .                 <div data-WRID="WRID-154240602717086974"  The Night Sight feature is already set to take the low-light photography on the Google Pixel 3 and  Pixel 3 XL ₹ 83,000  to new levels. But ahead of its formal debut on Pixel devices, a ported version of the Google Camera app with the Night Sight mode has now emerged for the  Xiaomi Poco F1 ₹ 20,999  and Mi 8. The latest development comes days after the OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T receive a ported version of the Google Camera with the same Night Sight mode. Google notably announced the new mode alongside unveiling the Pixel 3 models last month, though it is yet to officially arrive on the Google Camera app. However, an APK f...

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” No, this isn’t about dinosaurs but something equally unnatural – the Sharp Aquos R2 compact, officially the world’s first phone with two notches. Joking aside, it’s actually a pretty good, fairly compact phone. It has a 5.2” “freeform” display with one notch housing the 8MP selfie camera and another one for the fingerprint reader. The screen is an IGZO panel with 1,080 x 2,280px resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Yes, Sharp is the company behind Razer’s high frame rate screen and Essential’s notched screen. It’s an HDR10-enabled display with Gorilla Glass 3. The Aquos R2 compact is powered by a Snapdragon 845 chipset that runs Android 9.0 Pie. Memory-wise, there’s 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage, plus a microSD card slot (up to 512GB). We don't get too many 5" or so phones with flagship chipsets anymore, so this sounds pretty good.  The phone boasts a 3.5mm h...