After months of leaks, the OnePlus 8 series finally has a launch date. OnePlus has announced that its new flagships will be unveiled on Tuesday, April 14, 2020.
OnePlus 8 Interstellar Glow
The OnePlus 8 series launch event will be live-streamed and it will begin at 11 AM EDT/3 PM GMT/4 PM BST/8:30 PM IST. At the moment, it appears only the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro will be announced on that day.
The OnePlus 8 series will come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 processor with all-in-one 5G. The standard version will have a 90Hz Fluid AMOLED display with a punch hole and a 1080p resolution. The Pro model is expected to have a 120Hz QHD+ AMOLED panel with a punch hole too.
Other differences between the two devices include triple rear cameras on the OnePlus 8 and quad rear cameras on the OnePlus 8 Pro. The latter will also have a bigger battery capacity, support for fast wireless charging, support for reverse wireless charging, and also up to 30x digital zoom.
The OnePlus 8 series will run Android 10 out of the box and should come with a new version of OxygenOS. The phones are expected to cost a little more than their predecessors.
OnePlus is expected to launch a third phone too originally thought to be called the OnePlus 8 Lite. However, a new report says it may actually hit markets as the OnePlus Z. This makes sense considering the fact that there was a OnePlus X and a OnePlus Y will definitely be the butt of several jokes.
While the Honor 30S was the highlight of the event today, the brand also announced the Honor 9A, a budget smartphone with a large battery. The phone comes with a simple design and a large 5000mAh battery which Honor claims is good for up to 3 days on a single charge.
The Honor 9A features a 6.3-inch waterdrop display with a 20:9 aspect ratio. The phone comes with the MT6765 Helio P35 chipset with dual SIM 4G support, VoLTE, EROFS file system and other features such as AI face unlock, rear fingerprint sensor, eReader mode, and WeChat and AliPay support.
The company didn’t go into the details of the specifications of the Honor 9A but focused on its battery capacity and reverse charging capability. The phone’s 5000mAh battery can reverse charge other devices at 5V1.2A. This large battery is good for 35 hours of video playback, 33 hours of 4G talk time, and 37 hours of FM radio playback. The phone also comes with a smart PA speaker system which is the company claims is loud.
The Honor 9A starts at 899 yuan (~$127) for the 4GB RAM and 64GB storage variant and goes up to 1199 yuan (~$169) for the 4GB RAM and 128GB storage model. There are three colors available at launch: Green, Blue, and Black.
Pre-sale kicks off today at 10 PM in China and the first online and offline sale is on April 7, the same day as the Kirin 820 equipped Honor 30S goes on sale.
In a recent press conference held by Huawei, the Chinese tech giant announced that its routers had crossed 12 million units in shipment in 2019 alone. The announcement was made by Zhi Hao, the President of Huawei’s Consumer business IoT product line.
According to the senior executive, the tech giant had achieved the 12 million unit shipment in 2019, with products priced over 200 Yuan (roughly 28 US Dollars) having the most dominant share. Notably, online sales accounted for this and 2019 as the sales up by 139 percent over 2019. This includes the company’s routers with the latest Wi-Fi 6 standards.
For those unaware, Wi-Fi 6 is the latest generation in the standards. One of the biggest improvements it has made is the introduction of 5G technology. In other words, it has two high and two low bandwidths (high bandwidth, high concurrency, low latency, low power consumption). This also translates to an overall faster networking speed support, with better and wider coverage over the previous generations.
As of right now, Huawei is one of the leading figures in Wi-Fi 6 routers and other AIoT products. 2019 saw the breakout of the technology while 2020 is already witnessing a more widespread commercial adoption. This means that 2020 may surpass even 2019 with its overall router sales figures, although thee recent coronavirus outbreak might have certain negative impacts on sales as well.
Huawei also used the press conference as a stage to talk about its new Wi-Fi 6+ technology. The new routers are based on a self developed custom chipset. It will also soon be found in Huawei smartphones, tablets, smart displays, and other terminals and routers as well. The new chipset is dubbed that Kirin W650 and takes advantage of the company’s end to end dynamic narrow bandwidth technology.
Just a few days after announcing the Huawei P40 series globally, the company’s sub-brand, Honor has announced the Honor 30S for China. This will be the company’s upper mid-range device, placed below the flagship P40 series with 5G connectivity. The Honor 30S is the first smartphone to use the company’s awaited Kirin 820 chipset.
The Honor 30S builds on the design of its predecessor. So it features the same rounded corners and the butterfly 3D glass back design as seen on the Honor 20S. There’s a side-mounted fingerprint sensor too! One big difference at the back is the new rectangular matrix camera housing that features four cameras and a flash module. Upfront, the phone features a single punch-hole camera similar to its predecessor.
The Honor 30S comes in four colors: Black, Blue, Green, and a new Feather Red gradient model.
Honor 30S Specs
The Honor 30S comes with the new 7nm Kirin 820 processor. Despite its mid-range placement, the chipset offers incredible performance and AI capability comparable to some of the best processors of 2020. The chip comes with 1 x Cortex-A76 core clocked at 2.36GHz, 3 x Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.22GHz, and 4 x Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.84GHz. Thanks to this chip, the Honor 30S does way better than some of the best flagships in the market today in terms of AI performance. You have Mali-G57 6-core GPU taking care of graphics.
The phone comes with 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. Note that these are LPDDR4X and UFS 2.1 standards, respectively. The Honor 30S has a 6.5-inch LTPS LCD punch-hole display upfront with 2400 × 1080 pixel resolution and HDR10 certification. Thanks to Kirin 820, the phone supports 5G SA/NSA dual-mode standards and Wi-Fi ac, BL 5.1, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Note that there’s no NFC or an IR port.
The Honor 30S also supports a special e-Reader mode (Black & White), eye-protection mode, Link Turbo, GPU Turbo and an anti-aging software feature that the company claims will keep the UI smooth and snappy for more than 30 months.
The phone comes with a 4000mAh battery with 40W fast wired charging. It runs on Magic UI 3.1.1 on top of Android 10.
Honor 30S Camera Setup
The Honor 30S comes with a quad-camera setup at the back. The primary camera is a 64MP f/1.8 shooter which is paired with an 8MP f/2.4 telephoto shooter with 3x optical zoom, 5x hybrid zoom, and 20x digital zoom. There’s another 8MP f/2.4 ultra-wide-angle lens and finally, a 2MP f/2.4 macro shooter which can take close up shots up to 4cm. Unfortunately, the phone doesn’t get OIS.
The new Honor model supports 4K videos and 960fps slo-mo video at 720p resolution. You also get AIS and EIS for stabilization.
There’s a single front punch-hole camera of 16MP taking care of your selfie needs.
Honor 30S Pricing & Availability
The Pricing and availability details of the Honor 30S are as follows.
8GB RAM + 128GB ROM – 2399 yuan (~$338)
8GB RAM + 256GB ROM – 2699 yuan (~$380)
The Honor 30S will be up for pre-sale at 9 PM today in China and will go on sale for the first time on April 7. Offline sales in China kick off from April 10. Notably, the Huawei P40 series, including the brand new Huawei P40 Pro Plus will launch in China on April 8.
Honor is set to unveil its first smartphone for 2020 tonight. The Honor 30S will debut along with the Kirin 820 chipset that will power the device. Just before the conference kicks off, an Honor exec has shared a couple of samples captured by the Honor 30S’ camera.
The sample showcases the camera prowess of the Honor 3S’s wide-angle and telephoto lens. The Honor exec, Xiong Junmin disclosed that from 0.6x ultra-wide-angle to 3x zoom to 10x telephoto, the Honor 30S image system has a wider focal range, achieving full scene coverage in life.
The vivid, clear shots are not just only because the lens quality is high enough, but also due to the high processing power of the Kirin 820 chip. The chipset is said to use the same in-house ISP 5.0 found on the Kirin 990.
The Honor 30S has previously been revealed to pack a quad-camera setup at the rear in a matrix arrangement. The main camera is also revealed as a 64MP sensor with support for 3x optical zoom. Honor will release full details of the specs during the conference.
UPDATE: The Honor 30S has indeed been launched and here are some more camera samples released during the unveiling event.
Redmi K30 5G, the brand’s first 5G smartphone was announced in December 2019 but it was made available to purchase only in January 2020. Now, just after two months from its release, the brand’s general manager Lu Weibing announces a permanent price cut on all the storage variants of the handset, except for the base version.
The Redmi K30 5G is the world’s first smartphone to feature Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G 5G chipset. Also, it is the cheapest phone to come with this SoC. Now, the brand reduces is price further down to make it even more affordable. However, the price cut is not applicable to the base 6GB + 64GB version, which will continue to retail for 1999 Yuan ($282).
The Redmi K30 5G will be available at a new reduced price as listed-below from 12 AM, 31st March 2020 in China.
Storage Variants
Launch Price
New Price
Price Cut
6GB + 64GB
1999 Yuan ($282)
1999 Yuan ($282)
No Change
6GB + 128GB
2299 Yuan ($324)
2199 Yuan ($310)
100 Yuan ($14)
8GB + 128GB
2599 Yuan ($366)
2399 Yuan ($338)
200 Yuan ($28)
8GB + 256GB
2899 Yuan ($408)
2699 Yuan ($380)
200 Yuan ($28)
As you can see from the above table, the base 6GB + 64GB variant does not receive any price cut and the price of 6GB + 128GB version has been only reduced by 100 Yuan ($14). However, the latter two storage configurations, 8GB + 128GB and 8GB + 256GB to be exact, gets a 200 Yuan ($28) price cut each.
At the Honor 30S launch event held in China today, the manufacturer announced the Kirin 820 5G which is the first mid-range 5G processor from Huawei’s HiSilicon semiconductor arm.
The Kirin 820 5G is a 7nm processor that is touted as an upgraded version of the Kirin 810.
Starting with the CPU, the Kirin 820 5G has 8 cores arranged in a 1+3+4 configuration. There is a prime Cortex-A76 core clocked at 2.36GHz and it is paired with three other Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.22GHz. The remaining four cores are Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.84GHz.
The Kirin 820 comes with a Mali-G57 GPU with six cores, but the clockspeed wasn’t mentioned. There is also a new feature called Kirin Gaming+ 2.0 that should bring improvements to gaming.
There is 1 Big core for the NPU and a Kirin ISP 5.0 inside the new chipset. The new ISP is 15% more energy-efficient and brings a 30% reduction in image noise with support for BM3D SLR image noise reduction. This is the same ISP used in the Kirin 990.
The Kirin 820 5G is said to offer a 27% improvement in performance compared to the Kirin 810. It also brings a 38% improvement in GPU capabilities. While the new NPU improves AI performance by 73%.
The processor has a built-in modem that supports both SA and NSA networks. It supports 5G dual-mode and five frequency bands – n1, n3, n41, n78, and n79. You can set SIM 1 to 5G while the second SIM slot is set to VoLTE or you can have both SIM slots set to VoLTE.
At the moment, the Honor 30S is still the only phone with a Kirin 820 5G SoC but expect more phones from both Honor and Huawei to launch in the coming weeks and months.
Earlier today (30th March 2020), Xiaomi had announced that its Wuhan Headquarters has officially resumed operations. The Chinese company has just sent the first batch of employees to the site with “epidemic care packages” that included masks, hand sanitizer, and a red envelope.
The tech giant has emphasized prevention and caution at work for its Wuhan Headquarters. Xiaomi will operate on stricter prevention and control measures such as two temperature measurements, two masks, and a meal sharing system as well, all to build a strong defense against the recent Coronavirus pandemic.
The headquarters has just recently opened back in December 2019. However, the site was a force to shut down after confirmed cases of infection surfaced on 20th January 2020. Now, nearly two months after, the Wuhan headquarters has finally opened again after forcing its employees to take a vacation to set up an epidemic prevention and control team. Amongst the near 2,000 employees, everyone has been screened for the infection with no cases having been discovered so far.
Xiaomi Wuhan headquarters had started construction back on 25th November 2018 and is located in the Wuhan East Lake zone and features an L shaped design. Its total surface area covers nearly 52,000 square meters with 2 floors underground and 7 floors above ground. It can accommodate about 2,400 to 3,000 employees in total as well.
For those unaware, the Wuhan district in China was where the recent Coronavirus outbreak was first discovered. Since then it has spread to upwards of 178 countries, while the Chinese government had imposed lockdowns on the city and various offices and factories like the Xiaomi Headquarters, to curb the further spreading of the infection.
In a recent press conference, the CEO of Huawei‘s customer Business, Yu Chengdong, stated that the cost of flexible displays on foldable smartphones are too expensive at the moment. This means that it is virtually impossible to make a profit.
Huawei had recently launched the Mate Xs, which is the successor to the first foldable smartphone from the company and features various improvements. Both the devices carried a hefty price tag and are generally considered premium grade high end devices that only enthusiasts would buy. With a price tag over 10,000 Yuan (over 1400 US Dollars), one could afford even afford high end desktops or laptops at this range.
During the press conference, Yu Chengdong was asked if the price of the foldable phones be about the same as an ordinary phone in the near future. To this, the senior executive responded saying, “I think we need more than a year, maybe a year and a half or two years.” He even mentioned that the cost of this kind of product is extremely high and that the company is losing money.
According to Yu Chengdong, the cost of making foldable smartphones like the Mate Xs is so high that there is virtually no way to make a profit. However, the reason Huawei is still focusing on expanding the production is due to the fact that its demand is impressively larger than expected, despite the 16,999 Yuan price tag (roughly 2,400 US Dollars).
For those unaware, the Huawei Mate Xs is an upgrade over the original Mate X. It features the new Kirin 990 5G SoC with various improvements to performance and battery life. The new designs also enhance the durability of the device and makes it a better foldable handset overall with an improved hinge mechanism as well.
Following this, Huawei had to develop its own alternative, which is the now available Huawei Mobile services with its own AppGallery and more. The ban from the US Government had severely hampered the company’s plans, but it had also boosted Huawei’s future plans for its smartphones that featured more proprietary software and hardware.
Huawei’s Richard Yu (CEO)
Now, in recent interview with Wired, Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, mentioned that he wants to bring Google and its services back to their smartphones. The senior executive stated that the company had raked in large sums of profits for Google and had been “very good partners.” Furthermore, he hopes that, “we can get the license from the US government. We are open. In the interests of the value of those US companies, they should… I hope they can give us the license.”
In other words, Google services like Play Store would be preferable as it stil offers more choice in comparison to the newly launched HMS (Huawei Mobile Services). According to Richard, they wish to stay on the Android platform with Google’s integral services. For this the company would require the US Government’s license, which is given to company’s that wish to cooperate with Huawei since the ban.
The CEO also talked about other aspects in the interview as well, touching on the topic of the affect of the recent Coronavirus outbreak while discussing its Celia voice assistant, AppGallery and TomTom map system. The new software are meant to fill in the void left by Google while the company is taking active steps in providing precautionary and health safety measures in its factories in China.
The leaker has revealed in a tweet that the earbuds will not arrive next month along with the OnePlus 8. That sure is disappointing news for those looking forward to the earbuds.
There is no info on why the OnePlus TWS Earbuds (official name still unknown) will not launch next month since it is a perfect time for OnePlus to unveil its latest audio product.
However, we can assume it is because of the Coronavirus pandemic which may have affected production. So rather than announcing a product that will not be available for purchase, they are postponing the launch.
We still do not know what the earbuds look like or what features it will pack. We do have a feeling it will support wireless charging, so OnePlus 8 Pro owners can charge it using the reverse wireless charging feature of their phone.
Are you excited about the OnePlus TWS Earbuds? How much are you willing to pay for it when it launches?
Recently, a few people have noticed that various online platforms like JD.com, Tmall, and even the OnePlus‘ official website have removed the OnePlus 7T Pro from listings. This is a clear indicator of the previous year’s flagship model which will be succeeded by the OnePlus 8 Pro that may be announced soon.
OnePlus 7T Pro
The OnePlus 7T Pro is officially discontinued and is currently out of stock on multiple different platforms. As of right now, only the OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren Edition with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage is available. Even 3rd party online retailers like JD.com displayed the out of stock message for the smartphone. So, we can expect the flagship from 2019 to probably not make an appearance again.
The Chinese company is expected to launch its OnePlus 8 series in April 2020. According to various reports, the Pro variant, which will be the high end version, will sport a 6.65 inch QHD+ AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 120Hz. It may also be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 SoC with up to 12GB of RAM. For battery, it is said to house a 4,500mAh battery pack that supports 50W fast charging and wireless charging as well.
OnePlus 8 Pro (Leaked Image)
Unfortunately, the rumors have yet to be officially confirmed so take this with a grain of salt. Although with the delisting of the company’s 7T Pro, the launch of the next generation has all but confirmed to be arriving soon. So stay tuned for more coverage and the eventual launch of the latest flagship series.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is now almost official as it has appeared with specifications and pricing on Amazon Germany. The tablet will be arriving as a stripped-down edition of the Galaxy Tab S6 from last year that featured the Snapdragon 855 SoC. The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite that has been found listed on Amazon is expected to release on April 2.
The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite that has appeared on the e-commerce site has revealed some of its key specs. The listing states that the tablet will be arriving with support for S Pen stylus. The dimensions of the device are mentioned as 23.5 x 15.4 x 0.7mm and it weighs 798 grams.
The tablet sports a 10.4-inch display and it runs on Android 10 OS. The chipset of the device is not mentioned in the Amazon listing. However, the SoC is coupled with 4 GB of RAM. The tablet supports LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity. The battery capacity of the device is mentioned as 26.34 watt-hours. The pricing of the device is 428.44 euros (~$475).
A leak from the previous week had revealed that the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite has a 10.4-inch display that offers 1200 x 200 pixels The Exynos 9611 chipset powers the tablet. The tablet is expected to arrive in 64 GB and 128 GB native storage choices. For photography, the tablet is fitted with a rear camera of 8-megapixel and a frontal shooter of 5-megapixel. The device is packed with a 7,040mAh battery. It supports Bluetooth, NFC and USB-C connectivity features. The tablet also comes in black color option.
Update: Honor launches the ‘Robin Blue’ colour variant of the FlyPods 3 at the Honor 30S launch event as confirmed earlier today. It will go on sale starting April 7 for a price tag of 799 Yuan ($112).
Honor announced the FlyPods 3 true wireless earphones with noise-cancellation at the Honor V30 series launch in November 2019. However, the availability was delayed and it only went on sale for the first time in early March 2020. Now, the brand has confirmed a new ‘Robin Blue’ colour variant of the FlyPods 3 alongside the Honor 30S in China.
The new variant of FlyPods 3 does not bring anything new to the table aside from the new paint job. Which means it features the same specs and design as the white colour version announced earlier.
The Honor FlyPods 3 sports an in-ear design to offer a snug fit for a better audio experience. The design of the buds mimic those of the original Apple AirPods with stems, however, they come with silicon tips which are absent on the AirPods. Also, the charging case of the FlyPods is totally different than Apple’s with an elongated design.
As for specs, the FlyPods 3 by Honor come with 10mm divers in each bud to offer deep bass and clear listening experience. Further, the buds come with three microphones each, two on the outside for calls and ambient noise cancelling and one inside to pick up in-ear noise to offer dual noise cancellation functionality.
Just like the original White colour, the Honor FlyPods 3 Robin Blue colour also costs the same 799 Yuan, which roughly translates to $112.
Earlier this week, Lei Jun, the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi Group, shared a picture online. The image depicted the senior executive alongside the new Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch. This showcased the massive size of the large TV and served as Lei Jun himself stood next to it as a reference of its height.
According to Lei Jun, the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch has been placed in the lobby of the office and due to its large size, it garners attention and looks spectacular at first glance. Thus, he also posed next to the TV to showcase its massive size. Reportedly, the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch has a height of 1255mm (excluding the base). The post was shared on Lei Jun’s official Weibo account, a Chinese microblogging website.
This makes the new Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch the largest TV from the Xiaomi subsidiary, and it has been appropriately dubbed as the “theatre screen” with its large screen ratio of 98.8 percent. The TV sports a 4K resolution with 85 percent NTSC wide color gamut, 192 dynamic backlights, HDR support and is equipped with the ninth generation of image quality engine, which enables various improvements in the viewing experience.
Furthermore, the new Redmi Smart TV also features the MEMC motion compensation which solves smearing, jittering, and ghosting effects when watching high speed motion pictures on the giant screen. It even houses a custom 12nm quad core A55 processor along with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage with built in Xiao AI voice assistant as well. Due to its massive scale, it is priced high as well, with a price of 19,999 Yuan or roughly 2819 US Dollars.
The renders of the LG G9 ThinQ had appeared at the beginning of this year. Some reports had claimed that the South Korean company may kill the G-series and rival Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup flagship phones with its V-series. Last month, LG announce the LG V60 ThinQ. The hopes of G-series resurfaced when South Korean publication Naver reported in the previous week that the LG G9 ThinQ will be arriving as a mid-range phone. A fresh report on the same publication states that the LG G9 is dead.
The South Korean publication reported that the LG has axed its G lineup. Hence, there won’t be LG G9 or G10 phones coming in the future. The report further states that the company is planning to launch a new high-end 5G phone in the first half of the year.
Last week’s report had claimed that the LG G9 ThinQ will be powered by Snapdragon 765G. While the company won’t be launching G-series phones in future, the SD765G phone is said to be the same the high-end 5G device that will break in the next few months.
The upcoming SD765G LG phone will have a 6.7-inch or 6.9-inch display and it will be housing a 48-megapixel quad camera setup. It will be equipped with a 4,000mAh battery and it will be priced lower than 1 million won (~$816). The company also plans to sell a Dual Screen accessory for it.
The South Korean company is also said to be working on a new edition of its ”chocolate cellphone.” It was a slider phone that had debuted as LG VX8500 Chocolate in the U.S. in 2006. There is no word on the specifications of the device. LG is also planning to 5G capable entry-level phones.
Huawei had launched the latest entry in its MateBook D 15 lineup back in November 2019. The laptop was an ultrabook Windows system and featured Intel‘s i5 processor alongside 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD (Solid State Drive) and a regular 1TB of HDD storage.
Now, a couple of months after its original launch, Huawei has now released a new variant of the laptop that features an improved 512GB SSD and Nvidia’s MX250 mobile gaming GPU. For those unaware, MateBook D 15 sports a 15.6 inch IPS anti glare display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080px. Its touchpad was larger than its previous iterations and its configuration brought in numerous improvements to performance.
Huawei’s MateBook D 15 laptops also house Intel’s latest 10th generation Core processors alongside Nvidia mobile GPUs. It is powered by a 65W USB Type C power adapter that weighs just about 160 grams. Interestingly, the Chinese tech giant’s laptop even supported fast charging for certain Huawei smartphones as well. All in all, the laptop was a solid offering, but its viability has been further improved.
Huawei MateBook D 15 & 14
The price of the newest version is 5,199 Yuan which roughly translates to about 732 US Dollars. Notably, the key difference between an SSD and an HDD storage is read and write speeds, with SSDs being faster than its disk variant by a large margin that also makes it more expensive. Hence, the bumped up storage version might be an extremely attractive offering.
Samsung has finally taken off covers from the Galaxy M-series. The smartphone is now listed on Samsung UAE website, but its pricing and availability are not known yet. After the Galaxy M31 and Galaxy M21, the M11 is the third M-series phone to go official this year.
Samsung Galaxy M11 specifications
The Galaxy M11 features a polycarbonate rear shell. It comes in three colors likes black, violet and blue. The device wears a 6.4-inch Infinity-O LCD display that produces HD+ resolution. The punch-hole present at the upper-left corner of the display houses an f/2.0 aperture 8-megapixel selfie camera.
The rear side of the Galaxy M11 has a triple camera setup. It comprises of an f/18 aperture 13-megapixel primary lens, an f/2.2 aperture 5-megapixel superwide sensor with a field of view of 115 degrees and an f/2.4 aperture depth sensor for portrait shots. The phone offers camera features like Live Focus and 30fps full HD video recording.
The listing of the Galaxy M11 on Samsung UAE does not clearly mention the name of the processor that drives it. It only states that the phone is powered by a 1.8GHz octa-core processor. Previous reports revealed that its fueled by Snapdragon 450 mobile platform.
The listing further mentions that the phone will arriving in 3 GB and 4 GB RAM editions and 32 GB and 64 GB storage choices in the country. The phone draws power from a 5,000mAh battery that supports 15W fast charging.
The Galaxy M11 will probably go on sale in the coming month.
Roborock Technology Co. Ltd., known as Roborock, which is a company backed by Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, recently offered its Initial Public Offering (IPO) to raise around 4.5 billion yuan, which is approximately $641 million.
Now, weeks after being a public-traded company, Roborock is now all set to launch its new handheld vacuum cleaner which will be powered by polymer ultralight battery. The product will be launched on 1st April and will be available through crowdfunding.
The product, which seems to have been named Roborock Handheld Vacuum Cleaner H6, will have 150W suction power and 90 minutes of battery life. It is also claimed to weigh just 1.4 kilogram. The company also says that the polymer ultra-light battery has a longer high-rate discharge cycle life, which is 4 times compared to typical lithium batteries.
As said, the company debuted on Shanghai’s STAR Market last month and the shares skyrocketed by 84.5 percent from its IPO price of 271.1 yuan and with that, Roborock’s market cap surged past 33 billion yuan, which is around $4.7 billion.
The listing price of 271.12 yuan per share for Roborock, which is the highest issue price on the A-share market since 2010. The company says that it will use the IPO proceeds to develop next-generation robotic home cleaners and a data analysis platform.
The company was founded in the year 2014 and it designs and sells intelligent home cleaners and other cleaning appliances. Xiaomi owns about 24.7% of Roborock, a robotic cleaning appliances provider, through its associated companies Tianjin Jinmi Investment Partnership and Shunwei Capital.
Oppo India announced on Twitter that it has donated a total sum of INR 1 Core to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund as a gratitude towards the medical personnel who are providing services to the people affected by the coronavirus. Additionally, it also launched an ‘Online Repair Service’ as well as canceled its upcoming product launch.
Oppo has been one of the popular smartphone brands in India since its debut in the country in early 2014. The company even has two R&D centers in the country, out of which the Hyderabad center, which is the brand’s largest such center outside mainland China has filed over 50 patents in a year. As you can guess how important the Indian market is to Oppo, the company does not want to miss the chance to give it back to the community.
Now, as the country is facing the coronavirus outbreak, Oppo has come forward to donate a total amount of INR 1 crore to two separate government funds. Apart from this, the company also announced a new ‘Online Repair Service’ to help its customers with basic troubleshooting and software-related issues as part of its after-sales service amidst lockdown. The brand has also extended warranties of its products till May 31.
Lastly, Oppo India also postponed the launch of its Enco M31 wireless neckband earphones in the country and asked the people to stay home to maintain social distancing.
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