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Today, buying a new smartphone doesn’t involve splurging hefty amount of money. You’ll easily find a budget smartphone with a powerful chipset, dual rear cameras, a fingerprint sensor, and a large battery. While Xiaomi offers good price-to-performance ratio phones, brands like Realme and Samsung are giving tough competition with...
Honor 9X, 9X Pro leaked renders show notch-less display, pop-up camera
Honor is gearing up to launch its Honor 9X series smartphones on July 23 in China. The Honor 9X has already made its appearance on TENAA. Now, the Honor 9X and it’s Pro version are also up for reservation in China. One can check Vmall’s reservation page, which also reveals the...
Xiaomi buys stake in a Chinese SoC designer VeriSilicon
It looks like the Chinese smartphone maker and electronics giant Xiaomi is planning to take its chip-design plans seriously. According to a new report, the company has acquired about 6 percent stake in VeriSilicon Holdings, a chip designer. This move is likely a stepping stone towards the eventual goal...
Baseus launches wireless earpods, chargers and more in India
Baseus, a China-based digital accessory brand, on Tuesday forayed in the Indian market with its range of products. The company has partnered with Teleecare Network India Pvt. Ltd. (An Optiemus Group Company) as its distribution and marketing ally in India. To start with, the company launched TWS Earpods, Smart...
Is Facebook launching new TikTok competitor?
With Facebook roping in former Google employee Jason Toff for a key portfolio, speculation is rife about the social networking giant preparing the launch of a serious competitor to the short video-sharing app TikTok. Toff, who earlier served as the General Manager for Twitter’s short-video sharing service Vine, has...
Best smartphones under Rs 15,000 to buy in July 2019
The sub-Rs 15,000 segment is one of the hotly contested smartphone category. There are plenty of options for you to pick from. Interestingly, these days you can get a 48-megapixel camera sensor, a massive 5,000mAh battery, a big screen, triple cameras and more with a budget phone. You also...
Apple iPhone 6 explodes in the hands of an 11-year-old, company investigates
Apple is looking into an incident of iPhone 6 exploding in the hands of an 11-year-old girl. Kayla Ramos claims that her iPhone 6 exploded while she was playing in her sister’s bedroom in Bakersfield, California. She reportedly noticed sparks coming off the device. She confirmed that she suffered...
Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 update for Surface Book 2 pulled
Microsoft’s Windows 10 May 2019 update is not going according to plan. The Redmond-based company is putting a hold on May 2019 update for some of its Surface Book 2 laptops. The move comes after a number of users reported that the update causes Nvidia‘s discrete GPU to vanish...
Indian Democracy Is Crying Out Loud For A Real Opposition
By Kalyani Shankar The first session of the 17thLokSabha has begun well without much disturbance with even first timers getting an opportunity to make their maiden speeches. While the 16thLokSabha saw a divided and fractured Opposition, the current one has so far seen only feeble voices with...
Congress Has To Be Led By A Non-Gandhi Mass Leader
By Sagarneel Sinha The 134 year old Indian National Congress, the oldest party of the country, which still remains the largest opposition party, is going through its worst phase — the party had ever seen after the independence of the country. Congress lost the Lok Sabha elections very...
Karnataka Crisis Focuses On Loopholes In Anti-Defection Law
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Congress party is going through one of its worst phases, after the disastrous election verdict in May, 2019. Its governments in few States have become immensely vulnerable to BJP’s constant attempts to bribe them, and destabilise the governments. On 1st July, 2019, the Congress-JDS...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Notice issued on plea seeking establishment of Human Rights Courts in every district – The Supreme Court has issued notice on the petition seeking the establishment of Human Rights Courts in every district in accordance with the provisions of the Protection of Human Rights Act. The Act also requires...
Some Good News From Germany At Last
By John Wojcik In an election last week in Bremen, Germany’s poorest state, the voters put into power the first red-red-green coalition ever elected in a state that was part of the old West German Federal Republic of Germany. The victory for the left there is satisfying...
Huawei is planning to lay off hundreds of workers in the US: Report
Facing the heat owing to the ongoing US-China trade war, telecommunications giant Huawei is reportedly preparing to lay off hundreds of workers in the US. Huawei is planning to lay off workers at a research facility called Futurewei Technologies that employs 850 people in research labs including in Texas, California...
Expected launch, pricing, features and more
Realme took the wraps off the Realme X and Realme 3i smartphones at an event yesterday. Of the two, the former is the most premium device in the Chinese company’s portfolio. Going forward there have been rumors about the company working on the Realme 4 series, but now it...
Prices in India, offers, features, specs
As expected, Realme launched two new smartphones today in India. These are the flagship Realme X, and the more affordable Realme 3i. The Realme X launched in China earlier this year, while the Realme 3i has been on the rumor mills for quite sometime now. Read on to find...
OnePlus 7 Pro making cost revealed online, it’s much less than you think
OnePlus, which started off as a flagship product solution at affordable price, this year launched its most expensive offering – the OnePlus 7 Pro. In India, the price of top-variant of OnePlus 7 Pro with 12GB RAM is Rs 58,999. The base variant with 6GB RAM costs Rs 48,999....
Samsung Galaxy M40 Cocktail Orange color unveiled in India: Sale offers
Samsung has unveiled a new Cocktail Orange color variant of the Galaxy M40 smartphone. The device offers a gradient design on the glossy rear panel. The Cocktail Orange variant of the Samsung Galaxy M40 has been launched as part of an Amazon Prime Day sale. Currently, the new color...
