Author: Abin Benny

Quibi is a new streaming service, adding to the already long list of services available. This new service has a few tricks up its sleeves to stand out. Quibi has short-form TV shows which are less than 10 minutes in duration. These are specifically designed for watching on a smartphone. What is Quibi? Quibi brings competition to Netflix and Hulu with a different objective. It aims to provide short contents with each episode less than ten minutes long. These episodes are released every day. When it comes to movies, they are broken down into chapters of short duration. Another highlight…

The shape of You, coming to Spotify. Yes along with this famous song all missing tracks from Ed Sheeren and others finally coming to Spotify India. The music streaming service renews its global licensing partnership with Warner Music Group. This means Spotify users in India can now listen to tunes from Wiz Khalifa, Madonna, Cardi B, Linkin Park, Coldplay, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, David Guetta, Paramore, Bruno Mars and so on. Along with this crucial deal, Spotify inks a new partnership with Saregama bringing more Bollywood songs, Devotional, Classical and Ghazals songs owned by Saregama group. The new agreement of…

Huawei announces new Wi-Fi routers in an online communications conference. During the event, they launched two new routers – Huawei AX3 and AX3 Pro. These support the latest Wi-Fi 6+ Standard. Huawei promises higher speeds and better coverage with the new AX3 lineup. The company also claimed that it sold 12 million routers in 2019. The AX3 Series packs in-house Lingxiao 650 chip and offer a bandwidth of 160 MHz. These can reach a speed of up to 2976 Mbps and support proprietary NFC based pairing allowing compatible Huawei phones to connect to Wi-Fi by a tap on the router.…

In an era where the only real differentiator of a modern smartphone is the camera, a group of people joined together to bring a smartphone that screams nostalgia. Yes, the new smartphone is Astro Slide 5G Transformer. This 5G smartphone has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, like the decade-old Nokia E7. This sliding keyboard phone is powered by Dimensity 1000 from MediaTek, making it more affordable. The smartphone has a single camera in the rear – a 48 MP one. The screen is 6.53-inches tall. The company has not revealed any information regarding screen resolution and ratio at the moment. Slide…

Huawei launched P40 and P40 Pro, and the company wasted no time in announcing accessories for smartphones. Huawei is now offering designer cases along with the usual silicone and flip cases. These cases contribute to looks and functionality to the premium flagship. The first one is the Gaming case for the P40 and P40 Pro. The case adds two shoulder buttons on the top side of the phone when held horizontally. The case connects to the phone via Bluetooth. Since the P40 Pro+ has dimensions identical to the P40 Pro, these cases should fit on it correctly. Next, we have…

Qualcomm has announced the launch of a new set of System On Chips aimed at providing better quality audio from true wireless earphones. The new and improved technology can be expected to feature in TWS earphones coming in the next couple of months. The American giant launched the QCC514X and QCC304X series of chipsets, along with new audio technologies for upcoming TWS earphones. The QCC514X will power the premium range, and QCC304X will power mid-range true wireless earphones. The new SoCs will replace QCC5100 and QCC30XX which powers current TWS earphones available in the market. These new SoCs will pack…

Royole became the world’s first smartphone manufacturer to launch a foldable display smartphone last year. The half baked Flexpai was not well received, and it was evident that the product was rushed to create the record. Now the company has launched its successor – Royole Flexpai 2. Flexpai 2 comes with 3rd generation cicada Wing (Flexible Foldable Display) with smaller crease and bend radius. Royole claims the new model has improved brightness, contrast and viewing angle. Bill Liu – the founder of Royole, revealed that Flexpai 2 comes with the latest Snapdragon 865 mobile platform with 5G. The screen is…

The new update from the Cupertino giant brings trackpad support for iPads. This iPadOS update allows user to connect mice via Bluetooth and USB to compatible iPads. The latest update shows a mouse pointer that snaps onto icons as the user hovers the mouse near them. This makes it easier for a user to work with the mouse and get things done. The update also brings support for the new Magic Keyboard accessory that comes with a built-in trackpad. The other improvements are common between iOS and iPadOS. These features include iC loud Drive folder sharing directly from the Files…

Back in December Qualcomm introduced updateable GPU drivers for Snapdragon 765 and 865 platforms during the Snapdragon Summit. Today Google announced a new Android GPU inspector tool. The tool is a new graphic profiling tool for smartphone GPU enabling developers to tweak and optimize the game performance and push these changes as OTA updates via Play Store.this new tool supports both Adreno and Mali GPUs. Any supported devices powered by the Chipsets mentioned above can receive the updates. The current list of supported devices includes Pixel 4 Series and Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10 both Snapdragon and Exynos…

Huawei’s latest in-house SoC Kirin 820 5G is making buzz a lot lately and with reason. Over the last few weeks, quite a lot of reports have been evidence of how well the new Kirin 820 5G can perform. Based on Geekbench scores, the Kirin 820 5G can outperform the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 in a single-core test. Not surprisingly it beats Huawei’s own Kirin 980 in both single-thread and multi-thread performance tests. This might be due to the high performing Cortex-A76 cores being clocked higher than usual. In addition, it could benefit from the highly efficient 7nmarchitecture and could deliver…

MIUI 12 Rollout details have been leaked online, and the private beta is expected to roll out from September. The roadmap was spotted in a post titled ‘MIUI 12 Official and Update Schedule’ on a community website. Even though the posts were removed, the information still got out, thanks to a few screenshots available online. Back in January Xiaomi had teased that the MIUI 12 will be based on Android 11 and that the new version will have new system font and minimalistic design of the MUI 11. A user, Piunukaweb got hold of this information from the community post,…

Essential exited the smartphone market earlier this year. The company quit with just one phone under their name. But recently, former designer Kevin Hoffman revealed a set of concepts for the discarded Essential PH-2 which close to a release. The designer also presented ideas on Essential PH-3, which was in its early stages of development in a blog post. According to the renders PH-2 closely resembled the PH-1 with a similar waterdrop notch display. The PH-2 design also showed flat glass back, dual cameras and a fingerprint scanner with a proprietary pogo pin connectors for attaching modular accessories. The sides…

Teamfight Tactics is now available on iOS and Android platforms. The game is made by Riot Games and comes right on schedule. It was initially developed as a game mode for League of Legends. The game follows a familiar auto battler affair from Auto Chess with a League of Legends touch. The aim of the game remains the same -create a team and battle opponents and the last man standing wins. Players have to be wise on how much gold one spends in each round and know how to buff up the team to gather and kill the opponent. Teamfight…

Google releases the Second Android 11 Developer Preview (DP2) with several improvements and features. Among them, the most notable change is in how face unlocks works. Face unlocking now “Require eyes to be open” toggle. This improves security, and the phone will remain locked if the user does not open his eyes. The preview also adds features like 5G state API, hinge angle detection for foldable phones, the variable refresh rate for apps and games, resume on reboot etc. Back when Goole unveiled Pixel 4, it did not require the user to keep the eyes open to unlock the phone.…

Yesterday, Apple announced that they are doubling the storage on the Mac mini. Mac mini now starts with 256 GB storage for $799, and the 512 GB version costs $1099. That’s all they have done in the new lineup. Apple did not announce it or hold an event for this release instead gave a footnote on the Macbook Air announcement. This makes sense considering there’s nothing to boast about this slight change. Anyone looking to purchase on should know that the mac mini still comes with an outdated eighth-generation Intel chip with 8 GB of RAM even in 2020. Apple…

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 has 1 billion monthly active devices around the world. Windows 10 was released just five years ago and hitting this number in short span of time is a big one. The OS is used in most computers and laptops globally. It powers abundant Pcs and up to 80,000 different models and configurations of laptops from 1,000 makers. It is the heart of the Xbox Series from Microsoft and will power the new Xbox Series X. Microsoft has been playing in the hardware game with Surface Pros and Surface Hub 2S, an interactive whiteboard. A…