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Tuesday 24 April 2018

Huawei P20 Lite with 5.84-inch FHD+ 19:9 FullView display, dual rear cameras launched in India for Rs. 19999

Huawei just launched the P20 Lite smartphone in India along with the P20 Pro in India, as it had promised. It packs a 5.84-inch FHD+ 19:9 screen with a notch, is powered by Kirin 659 with 4GB RAM, runs Android 8.0 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.0 and has a 16-megapixel rear camera along with a 2-megapixel secondary camera for portrait shots. It has a 24-megapixel front camera with face beauty, features a fingerprint sensor on the back and a 3000mAh battery with fast charging. Huawei P20 Lite specifications 5.84-inch (1080 x 2280 pixels) Full HD+ 19: 9 2.5D curved glass display with  toughened glass protection Octa-Core Kirin 659 processor (4 xA53 at 2.36GHz + 4 x A53 at 1.7GHz) with MaliT830-MP2 GPU 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD Android 8.0 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.0 Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD) 16MP rear camera with LED flash, f/2.2 aperture, secondary 2MP camera 24MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture Fingerprint sensor Dimensions: 148.6×71.2×7.4mm; Weight: 145g 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS / GLONASS, USB Type-C 3000mAh (typical) / 2900mAh (Minimum) battery with fast charging The Huawei P20 Lite comes in Klein Blue and Midnight Black colors, is priced at Rs. 19,999 and will be available ...

Huawei P20 Pro with 6.1-inch FHD+ OLED FullView Display, Leica triple rear cameras, Android 8.1 launched in India for Rs. 64999

Huawei just launched the P20 Pro, its latest flagship smartphone at an in India, as it had promised. It packs a 6.1-inch Full HD+ OLED 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 970 10nm SoC with i7 co-processor, dedicated neural network processing unit and runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with Emotion UI 8.1 on top as well as support for Google AR Core. It has Leica triple-lens camera with 40-megapixel RGB sensor, a 20-megapixel monochrome sensor and an 8-megapixel sensor with telephoto lens with f/1.8, f/1.6 and f/2.4 wide aperture, dual-tone LED flash and new Leica 3x telephoto (VARIO-SUMMILUX-H 1:1.6-2.4/27-80ASPH) lens for long-range photography of up to 5x Hybrid Zoom. It can capture low light photos with up to ISO 102400. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGYkZt8UFV0 It also has a 24-megapixel front-facing camera with AI beautification. 3D portrait lighting and support for face unlock.  It supports 960fps super slow motion. Ultra Snapshot mode lets you capture an image in as little as 0.3 seconds by just double clicking the down volume button, even from an off screen. It also has AI image stabilisation allows you to capture incredible blur-free, handheld shots in low-light using Night Mode. Huawei P20 Pro specifications 6.1-inch ( 2240 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ OLED 2.5D curved glass display Octa-Core ...

Asus Lyra Trio Mesh Wi-Fi System with 3×3 MIMO now up available for pre-order

Asus at the CES 2018 has introduced the Lyra Trio Mesh Wi-Fi System with 3x3 MIMO, and today it is up for pre-order on Amazon.com.  The Asus Lyra Trio Mesh Wi-Fi System is based on the 3x3 MIMO technology and is available as a dual-band, tri-hub mesh Wi-Fi system with a unique, pyramid antenna design. The company says that the unique antenna design helps in helps minimizing the interference and transmits the Wi-Fi signal vertically as well as horizontally to deliver up to 5,400 square feet. The Lyra Trio works together to form a single network, and it is also capable of automatically connecting users to the hub with the best signal strength and seamlessly switches hubs from one place to another. It provides an additional spatial stream which helps in handling massive network traffic. A sus has partnered with the Trend Micro which provides the Lyro Trio with always up-to-date protection with one-click firmware updates and AiProtection Classic cloud-based security. These comprehensive security features safeguard online privacy and protect against internet threats for all devices connected to the network. It is easy to setup and manage; there is an ASUS Lyra mobile app for smartphones which guides users step by step through the setup process and provides easy-to-use management and ...

Alphabet records $31.1 billion in revenue in Q1 2018, Google ad business contributed 85%

Google's parent company; Alphabet has announced their first-quarter results for 2018. The company has recorded a $31.1 billion in revenue with an increase of 26% and 22% over the previous year, respectively. Google ad business remains strong and roughly contributes to about 85% of the revenue.  Google's advertising is the most substantial portion of Alphabet's earnings, making up $26.6 billion of the revenue. The operating income is at $7,001 billion with an operating margin of 22%. Alphabet says that its financial results were affected by a new accounting standard (ASU 2016-01) that changes the way companies account for equity security investments. This resulted in all gains and losses, unrealized and realized, on equity security investments are recognized in OI&E on the income statement.The company’s net income for the quarter was $9.4 billion, compared to $5.43 billion last year. Nest joined forces with Google in Q1 2018 and to account for this change; the company restated all of 2017’s earnings with Nest as part of Google. Nest generated a total of $726 million in revenue in 2017. Google's other revenues which include segments like hardware business including Pixel, Home speakers, etc., the Play Store, and Nest had recorded $4.35 billion in revenue, up over $1 billion from Q1 2017. Alphabet currently ...

Apple’s Shazam acquisition is now under investigation by the EU

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess the acquisition of Shazam by Apple under the EU Merger Regulation. The commission believes that the merger could reduce choice for users of music streaming services. Back in February multiple countries, including Austria, France, Iceland, and Spain, requested European Commission to assess the acquisition to determine whether it’s allowed under a European Union merger law. The commission has now acted on the request with a deadline set to September 4th. Apple currently gets 1 million clicks per day through the Shazam app. Since Shazam is still live, if Apple who has acquired the Shazam shuts down or only direct referrals to its own music service, Spotify could lose a significant amount of traffic. Additionally and most importantly, Apple could use the Shazam’s data to unfairly target its rivals’ users and “encourage them to switch to Apple Music.” Apple confirmed the acquisition of music recognition app Shazam for $400 million back in December, and the transaction was notified to the Commission on 14 March 2018, and it now has 90 working days, until 4 September 2018 to come to a decision. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: The way people listen to music has changed significantly in recent years, with more ...

Amazon said to be working on building ‘Home Robots’

Amazon is said to be working on building 'Home Robots' and is reported to have bigger plans for a domestic robot according to people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The project currently has a codename “Vesta,” and is overseen by Gregg Zehr, who runs Amazon’s Lab126 hardware research and development division based in Sunnyvale, California. The Lab126 is the backbone of Amazon devices such as the Echo speakers, Fire TV set-top-boxes, Fire tablets and the ill-fated Fire Phone. Though the project was started years ago, Amazon is aggressively planning to ramp up the hiring. The job listings on  Lab 126 Jobs page include roles of Software Engineer, Robotics” and “Principle Sensors Engineer.” Furthermore, the company hopes to begin testing the robots in employees’ homes by the end of this year, and potentially with consumers as early as 2019. However, the timeline could change anytime, and Amazon hardware projects are sometimes killed during gestation. It is also unclear what tasks can the Amazon robot perform, but people who were briefed claim that it will be a mobile Alexa accompanying customers in parts of their home. The prototypes include advanced cameras, computer vision software and can navigate through homes like a self-driving car. To be clear, this project is different than the robots designed ...

Nokia 8 Sirocco Review : A Diamond in the Rough

For all the anticipation around the relaunch, Nokia (HMD Global?) has been taking it slow and steady over the last year or so of their rebirth. There've been close to a dozen smartphone launches across categories and the company has been silently plugging away at bringing back some of their most iconic product lines. With photography and build quality being one of the key tenets, rumors were rife that the next big device will be a photography monster. Instead, what we've ended up with is a redo of the Nokia 8 in Sirocco edition garb. Nokia 8 Sirocco specifications 5.5-inch (2560×1440 pixels) pOLED display, sculpted Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection, 700 nits brightness Octa-Core Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform with Adreno 540 GPU 6GB DDR4X RAM, 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage Android 8.1 (Oreo) 12 MP primary rear camera with 2L7 wide-angle lens, 1.4um pixel size, f/1.7 aperture + 13 MP secondary camera with 3M3 Telephoto lens, 1.0um pixel size, f/2.6 aperture, dual-tone flash, 2x optical zoom 5MP front-facing camera with 1.4um pixel size Fingerprint sensor, Barometer Water and Dust Resistant (IP67 ) USB Type-C audio, 3 microphones Dimensions: 140.93 x 72.97 x 7.5 mm 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (MIMO), Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/ GLONASS, USB Type-C ...