Airfunk 1 Pro and Airfunk 1 true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds have launched alongside the Micromax In 2b smartphone in India. The launch of the two earbuds marks Micromax's entry into the audio space. The Airfunk 1 Pro offer up to 32 hours of playback including the battery of the charging case, while the Airfunk 1 offers 15 hours of playback. Airfunk 1 Pro feature Qualcomm clear voice capture (cVc) 8.0 and environment noise cancellation, whereas the Airfunk 1 comes with a unique voice changing feature that allows users to switch their voice from male to female and vice versa.
Airfunk 1 Pro and Airfunk 1 price in India, sale
The Airfunk 1 Pro TWS earbuds are priced in India at Rs. 2,499 and the Airfunk 1 earbuds are priced at Rs. 1,299. Airfunk 1 Pro are available in Black, Blue, Red, Yellow, and White colour options. The Airfunk 1, on the other hand, are available in Black, Blue, Purple, Yellow, and White colour options. Both the Airfunk 1 Pro and Airfunk 1 will go on sale via Flipkart and micromaxinfo.com from August 18.
Airfunk 1 Pro specifications
The new Airfunk 1 Pro come with an in-ear design and an egg-shaped charging case. It features Qualcomm clear voice capture (cVc) 8.0 that reduces ambient noise and the latest QCC 3040 SoC. It supports environment noise cancellation as well is able to reduce ambient noise up to 25db. There's also support for Bluetooth v5.2, integrated quad microphones (two on each earpiece) for better call quality, and 13mm dynamic drivers for deeper bass and stereo sound.
Realme in a major decision has announced that it will launch its next-generation Android smartphone magnetic wireless charger on August 3. The new charging technology which has been named "Realme MagDart" is expected to come up with the magnetic snap-on capabilities.
The company’s new charging device is also expected to be similar to the MagSafe Battery Pack that was introduced by American phone maker Apple that also has been appended with magnetic snap-on capabilities. While the company has also teased customers by announcing that the Realme Flash smartphone would also be launched alongside the new charging device, it remains uncertain if the company is really going ahead with the simultaneous launch of the phone and the device.
In a tweet, Realme has asked customers to brace themselves for the next-gen Android wireless charging. The company also said that i
t was bringing a magnificent magnetic innovation, featuring Realme Flash and much more. While the reference to the new charging device was explicit, the company did not make it clear if the Realme Flash would also be launched alongside the charging device. However, so far as the tweet and its content is concerned, the possibility of a simultaneous launch remains alive.
The key to the kit is Intel's Next Unit of Computing Compute Element, a self-contained motherboard module comprised of a CPU with supporting chipset, memory and NVMe slots, networking chipsets and antennas, plus a fullset of connectors like you'd find on any typical motherboard. The kit itself includes the CE plus a case with a backplane that includes a slot for a GPU, power supply, front connectors, fans and RGB lighting.
You don't have to use the NUC with Intel's kit; third parties make systems built around the NUC -- such as Razer's Tomahawk Gaming Desktop -- and you can buy the module by itself as an easy way to upgrade your CPU and connections.
Intel expects to begin shipping sometime between Sept. and Oct., expanding into regions outside the US, China and Europe through the end of the year. There's no final pricing yet, but Intel expects the kit to run $1,150-$1,350 and $780-$980 for the Compute Element alone. You can preorder some basic configurations now from SimplyNUC.
Samsung has launched the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G smartphone priced starting at 19999 for the base model and comes in different variants. In the same segment, Samsung also launched the Samsung Galaxy M42 5G smartphone The Samsung Galaxy M42 5G is priced starting at 21999 for the base model, Check out our head-to-head comparison between the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G and Samsung Galaxy M42 5G across design, display, internal specifications, camera performance and price to determine which phone is the best for you.
Some Specification
Display and Design-The Samsung Galaxy A22 5G features a 6.60-inch with ascreen resolution of 1080 x 2408. Meanwhile the Samsung Galaxy M42 5
features a 6.60-inch with a screen resolution of 720 x 1600 (HD+).
Specifications-Under the hood, the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G features a MediaTek Dimensity 700. Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy M42 5G features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G
Price-The price range of Samsung Galaxy A22 5G and Samsung Galaxy M42 5G is based on their different variants. Samsung Galaxy A22 5G of 6GB RAM and 128GB is priced at 19999, whereas Samsung Galaxy M42 5G of 6GB RAM and 128GB is priced at 21999.
Camera -The Samsung Galaxy A22 5G has a 48MP + 5MP + 2MP camera, whereas the Samsung Galaxy M42 5G has a 48MP + 8MP + 5MP + 5MP camera. On the front the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G has 8MP main Camera lens, whereas on the front the Samsung Galaxy M42 5G has 20MP main Camera lens.
Battery -The battery of Samsung Galaxy A22 5G is powered by 5000mAh as compared to the battery of Samsung Galaxy M42 5G of 5000mAh. The Samsung Galaxy A22 5G runs on Android 11, whereas the Samsung Galaxy M42 5G runs on OneUI 3.1 is based on Android 11
There’s a new SMS scam that is targeting Vodafone Idea (VI) subscribers across India. The scam SMS is around eKYC of Vodafone Idea subscribers that is threatening people to submit documents for eKYC verification by calling a certain number within 24 hours of the receipt of the message to avoid discontinuation of services. Note that this message is not sent officially by the company and is being spread by scammers to get hold of personal data to carry out financial scams at a later date.
“Dear customer, Your Vodafone SIM e-KYC Pending Documents. Call Vodafone helpline no 786XXXXX immediately. Your mobile no. will be stopped 24hr,” reads the scam message. The intention of this message is to scare users into revealing personal details like email ID, contact numbers, address, Aadhaar details, photo, etc.
The details could be used to carry out other scams and even target a victim’s online banking account. Usually, scams like these are conducted in two stages, where personal data are collected separately to ultimately create a personalised phishing message to harvest online banking details, social media passwords, etc.
Mobile users are advised to not respond to messages like this or reveal any personal information to anyone over call. In case, you need any help, always visit the official store or call the authorised customer care phone number for support.
There are often times when palpable excitement precedes a product launch. You may be excited about a different tech product than I may be, but it happens only ever so often. This is one of those times. The odds of you being excited about the Nothing ear (1) wireless earbuds, are strong. Transparent buds and case as well as noise cancellation (ANC). Earbuds as a category has been catching everyone’s attention over the past 12 months, also accelerated perhaps by changing work scenarios than just the need to get rid of wires. Fast forward, and no other wireless earbuds perhaps except the Apple AirPods, have had such a weight of expectation on their shoulders. After all, these are Nothing’s first tech product. Spoiler alert, this really impresses in some respects, while there are occasional typical gen 1 product niggles that should eventually get ironed out.
First Impression Is The Lasting Impression?Nothing made all the right noises pre-launch and that was also helped by the fact that the price tag wasn’t left at the altar of speculation. The Nothing ear (1) wireless earbuds are priced at Rs 5,999 and if you didn’t notice, Nothing didn’t take the lazy route and simply do a direct conversion of the global price tags, bolt on the local taxes for India and sell you these wireless earbuds at whatever it all totaled up to. Globally, the Nothing ear (1) wireless earbuds are priced at £99, $99 and €99. We must complement Nothing for this rational look at pricing in India—a direct conversion from the S99 price point would have meant a price tag of around Rs 7,300 before taxes etc. would have been added on.
The Nothing ear (1) wireless earbuds are priced at Rs 5,999. The pricing will not be a direct conversion of the £99, $99 and €99 global price points, which makes these more affordable in India as against a direct currency conversion.
The price tag for the Nothing ear (1) wireless earbuds in India is Rs 5,999 and these will be a Flipkart exclusive for the time being, going on sale August 17.
When you think of Redmi smartphones, you expect them to pack in every feature under the sun, at affordable prices. So far, Xiaomi has done a good job of this with the Redmi Note 10 series, offering immense value compared to the competition. With 5G still in the testing phase in India, it isn't clear when next-generation networks will go live, so there is a bit of uncertainty when it comes to investing in a 5G smartphone, especially in the budget segment since cutbacks have to be made in other areas.
Will that same boost happen at the lower end of the iPhone portfolio with the next iPhone SE? Tim Cook and his team will no doubt have run the numbers and he hopeful of capturing another slice of the market for a year or two.
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The Mi 11X is equipped with the flagship-grade 16.94cm (6.67) E4 AMOLED display, has a 120Hz refresh rate panel and 360Hz touch sampling. It features HDR 10+ and 1300nits peak brightness. The E4 grade AMOLED display consumes lesser power up to 15% while delivering a rich viewing experience.
Huge parts of the Internet including Zomato, Paytm, Disney+ Hostar, Sony LIV, Paytm, PlayStation Network (PSN), and Steam were down for many users around the world. About an hour after the outages started being reported, Internet infrastructure provider Akamai confirmed that it is facing an outage. According to Internet outage tracker DownDetector, the outage seems to have started at around 8.55pm on Thursday evening. [Update: By around 10.20pm, Akamai was able to implement a fix bringing back normal operations]. Within five minutes, the number of reports from people unable to access Zomato alone stood at around 3,000. There were similar scenes playing out with a number of other services too.
Huawei P50 series global launch has reportedly been confirmed. The new smartphone series from the Chinese manufacturer is initially coming to China on July 29. It is teased to have Leica optics and is expected to have HiSilicon Kirin 9000 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoCs.
This Samsung 65W charger (EP-TA865) was certified by the Korean authorities back in September, but this is the first time we see in a photo. It supports USB Power Delivery at up to 20V and 3.25A, including Programmable Power Supply (PPS).
It’s powerful enough to be used with laptops as well, provided they can be charged through their USB-C ports. But it’s probably too overpowered for the Galaxy S21 flagships that will be unveiled this Thursday – the S21 Ultra is rumored to support 45W charging, the highest Samsung has gone yet (using the EP-TA845 adapter).
Bloomberg expects the third-generation AirPods to be released at some point in 2021, with new AirPods Pro to come in 2022. Mass production on the AirPods 3 is rumored to be kicking off in August, which would mean that we will likely see the new AirPods in September alongside new iPhones.
The iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) is an international photography contest for images captured with an iPhone. The award was founded in 2007, the same year the first iPhone was released. The contest is held annually, with one grand prize winner and three overall winners, as well as three winners for each of 19 subcategories.
Shot on an iPhone X, Sharan’s award-winning black and white photo depicts a man and his horse in the middle of an empty landscape. It feels as if the two are supporting or consoling each other. Sharan clicked the photo at Yanar Dag, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
Each year, thousands of such entries by iPad and iPhone users compete for the top prize - IPPA Photographer of the Year Award title. The top 3 winners this year will receive a prize to be announced later. Other than these, winners are also announced for all 18 categories separately. The first-place winner from these categories wins a Gold Bar each.
Motorola is gearing up to launch several new phones in the Edge series. We’ve already learned quite a bit about the upcoming devices through various leaks, including their codenames and specifications. The devices have also received TENAA certification, which means that the launch is right around the corner. But Motorola is yet to make an official announcement. While we’re waiting for the company to lift the covers off the new Edge 20 series, leaker Evan Blass has shared the new wallpapers that will come preloaded on the devices.
In a recent tweet, Blass shared eight wallpapers that you can expect to see on the upcoming Motorola Edge 20 series.The Motorola Edge 20 series will likely hit the market towards the end of this month, and it will include three devices — the Motorola Edge 20, the Edge 20 Lite, and the Edge 20 Pro. Previous leaks suggest that the Edge 20 (codenamed “Berlin”) will feature a 120Hz high refresh display, a triple camera setup with a 108MP primary camera, a 32MP selfie camera, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 778G chipset, and Wi-Fi 6E support. The Edge 20 Pro (codenamed “Pstar”) will feature the same display and camera sensors, but it will pack Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 870 chip instead. For more information about the upcoming Edge 20 series devices
The ever-popular Call of Duty series has remained a staple pick for those looking to show off their quick reflexes and eagle-eyed aim. Whether you enjoy futuristic firefights or prefer the boots-on-the-ground approach, Call of Duty has delivered numerous experiences over the years. From the brutal battlefields of WWII to present-day conflicts, the series has continually visited and revisited numerous theatres of war with each new entry.
With the next title on the horizon, let’s run through everything we know about CoD 2021.
As of writing, we don’t have an official release date set for Call of Duty 2021. However, that hasn’t stopped us from making an educated guess. By following similar CoD release title trends, it’s fair to speculate that the game will release in early to mid-November.
After all, the previous Call of Duty games all had November releases. Here’s a brief timeline of previous CoD release dates:
A new wearable device turns the touch of a finger into a source of power for small electronics and sensors. Engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a thin, flexible strip that can be worn on a fingertip and generate small amounts of electricity when a person’s finger sweats or presses on it.
This type of device is the first of its kind, said co-first author Lu Yin, a nanoengineering Ph.D. student at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. “Unlike other sweat-powered wearables, this one requires no exercise, no physical input from the wearer in order to be useful.
This work is a step forward to making wearables more practical, convenient and accessible for the everyday person.”The new wearable energy harvester is described in a paper published July 13 in Joule. The device also generates extra power from light finger presses—so activities such as typing, texting, playing the piano or tapping in Morse code can also become sources of energy.
“We envision that this can be used in any daily activity involving touch, things that a person
would normally do anyway while at work, at home, while watching TV or eating,” said Joseph Wang, a professor of nanoengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the study’s senior author. “The goal is that this wearable will naturally work for you and you don’t even have to think about it.” The device derives most of its power from sweat produced by the fingertips, which are 24-hour factories of perspiration. It’s a little-known fact that the fingertips are one of the sweatiest spots on the body; each one is packed with over a thousand sweat glands and can produce between 100 to 1000 times more sweat than most other areas on the body.
“The reason we feel sweatier on other parts of the body is because those spots are not well ventilated,” said Yin. “By contrast, the fingertips are always exposed to air, so the sweat evaporates as it comes out. So rather than letting it evaporate, we use our device to collect this sweat, and it can generate a significant amount of energy.” But not just any sweat-fueled device can work on the fingertip. Collecting sweat from such a small area and making it useful required some innovative materials engineering, explained Yin. The researchers had to build different parts of the device to be super absorbent and efficient at converting the chemicals in human sweat into electrical energy.
Yin worked on this project with UC San Diego nanoengineering Ph.D. students Jong-Min Moon and Juliane Sempionatto, who are the study’s other co-first authors, as part of a team led by Wang, who is also the director of the Center for Wearable Sensors at UC San Diego. Wang and his team pioneered sweat-fueled wearables 8 years ago. Since then, they have been building on the technology to create new and better ways to power wearables using sustainable sources, such as the wearers themselves and their surroundings.
This latest energy harvesting technology is especially unique in that it could serve as a power source anytime, anywhere. It does not have the same limitations as, say, solar cells, which only work under sunlight, or thermoelectric generators, which only work when there’s a large temperature difference between the device and the surroundings.
Twitter Inc's India unit has posted job openings for three new roles and will try to make an offer of employment to resident Indians, as asked by rules, within 8 weeks. It will try to appoint a nodal contact person's job on an interim basis within 2 weeks, the company told the Delhi High Court on Thursday.
witter Inc's India unit has appointed an interim chief compliance officer and will soon designate other executives to meet the country's new IT rules, the social media giant said in court on Thursday, amid tensions with the government.
The IT rules, which became effective end-May, are aimed at regulating content on social media and making firms act more swiftly on legal requests to remove posts and sharing details on the originators of messages. They also require the appointment of certain new executives.
The rules were introduced amid growing conflict between the government and the US social media firm which ratcheted up during the pandemic. The spat between Twitter and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government began earlier this year when the microblogging giant was ordered to remove a controversial hashtag related to farmer protests against new agricultural reforms.
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The government is free to take action against the company in case of any breach of the rules, the court said. San Francisco, California-based Twitter is setting up a liaison office in India, it told the court. "While Twitter is striving to comply with the 2021 Rules, Twitter reserves its right to challenge the legality, validity... of the Rules," Twitter said in the filing. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.
