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• Xiaomi 12 Series Arriving Globally on March 15, Check Specs and Details
• Vivo X80 Pro and X80 Pro+ Specifications Revealed, Here’s What to Expect
• Samsung Galaxy A73 5G Smartphone Bags Bluetooth SIG Certification
• Could Network Intelligence Help Empower Workspaces
• Google Pixel Watch Could Operate Via Gestures Using Skin Interface Feature
• Apple May Launch a New Green Colour iPhone 13 at the Spring Event
• Redmi Note 11 Has Become Rs 500 More Expensive in India
• UPI Services Arrive for Feature Phone Users as Well
• Samsung Galaxy F23 5G Might Not be Worth It

Xiaomi 12 Series Arriving Globally on March 15, Check Specs and Details Posted: 08 Mar 2022 07:16 AM PST The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi had launched its Xiaomi 12 series in China back in December 2021. Now the brand is gearing up for the launch of its flagship series globally. Apparently, Xiaomi is constantly expanding its portfolio as the Mi 12 announcement date was leaked earlier and now the company has officially confirmed the launch date for its Xiaomi 12 series. Let's take a look at the details. Xiaomi took on its Twitter handle to officially announce the launch date for the Xiaomi 12 series. Xiaomi 12 Series will be launched worldwide on March 15 at 20:00 GMT +8 via a virtual event. The series is expected to consist of Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12X and Xiaomi 12 Pro smartphones. There's also a slight possibility that the brand might introduce the much-awaited ultra-model of the series at the launch event. Another device that could be a part of the series is the rumoured Xiaomi 12 Lite. There has been no announcement for smartphones launching in India as of now. Specification Details for the Xiaomi 12 Series Talking about the specs the vanilla model comes with a smaller 6.28-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display and a 120Hz screen refresh rate. The 12X flaunts a 120Hz 6.28-inch AMOLED screen with Full HD+ resolution whereas Xiaomi 12 Pro flagship phone sports a 6.73-inch 2K+ E5 AMOLED display. Both the Vanilla and Pro model of the Xiaomi 12 series is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipset coupled with up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. Xiaomi 12X, on the other hand, features Snapdragon 870 5G SoC with up to 12GB RAM, and 256GB of internal storage. In terms of camera, Xiaomi 12 comes with a triple rear camera setup headlined by a 50MP main sensor along with a 13MP ultra-wide-angle lens and a tele-macro lens. For selfies, the phone offers a 32MP camera on the front. The 12 Pro packs in a triple camera setup, which is led by a 50MP main camera, a 50MP telephoto camera and a 50MP ultra-wide-angle lens. The front features a 32MP camera as well. Xiaomi 12X is backed by a 50MP primary lens, a 13MP ultrawide camera and a 5MP tele-macro camera. For selfies, the device comes with a 32MP snapper.

Vivo X80 Pro and X80 Pro+ Specifications Revealed, Here’s What to Expect Posted: 08 Mar 2022 06:53 AM PST The Chinese smartphone giant Vivo had released its Vivo X70 series of smartphones in India back in September 2021. The recent revelations suggest that the smartphone manufacturer might be planning to introduce a successor series in 2022. Vivo is planning to launch the Vivo X80 series that will consist of Vivo X80, X80 Pro and X80 Pro+ smartphones. Now a new report from a tipster gives us specification details for the Vivo X80 Pro and X80 Pro+. Let's take a look. Specification Details for Vivo X80 Pro and X80 Pro+ The report comes in from the tipster ShadowLeak who suggests that both the Pro and Pro+ will have 6.78" AMOLED displays. The report suggests that the Vivo X80 Pro+ will use a QHD+ LTPO 2 panel, while the regular Pro will offer an FHD+ resolution. Moreover, both smartphones will offer a maximum refresh rate will be 120 Hz, but the LTPO 2 panel will offer more intermediate steps. Talking about the processors, Vivo X80 Pro+ will be powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipset while the Pro model will feature MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset. The devices could feature up to 12GB of RAM and up to 512GB of internal storage as per the AnTuTu listing, however, the leakster only lists 6/8 GB RAM and 128/256 GB storage for the Pro model, which is in contradiction. A previous report has also provided intel on the camera details of the devices including the vanilla model which falls in line with the new details revealed by the tipster. Vivo X80 is expected to feature a triple rear camera setup with a 50MP GN5 primary sensor, a 13MP sensor, and a 12MP Sony IMX663 sensor with 2X optical zoom. Vivo X80 Pro might arrive with a quad-camera setup headlined by a combination of a 50MP + 50MP N1 sensor along with a 12MP Sony IMX663 sensor with 2X optical zoom and a 50MP JN1 sensor with 5x optical zoom. The Vivo X80 Pro+ model is rumoured to feature a quad-camera setup as well with a 50MP + 48MP Sony IMX598 sensor along with a 50MP JN1 sensor with 2X optical zoom and 50MP JN1 sensor with 5x optical zoom as well. The Pro+ model will also feature a 50MP front camera whereas Vivo X80 and X80 Pro are expected to sport a 44MP front camera. Furthermore, both Pro and Pro+ devices could be backed by a 4700mAh battery.

Samsung Galaxy A73 5G Smartphone Bags Bluetooth SIG Certification Posted: 08 Mar 2022 05:14 AM PST The South Korean tech giant recently launched the Galaxy A13 4G and Galaxy A23 5G smartphones. The company is soon expected to introduce its Galaxy A33 5G and Galaxy A53 5G handsets as well. Both of these devices are expected to be launched in March itself. However, the company is also working on a more powerful model called Galaxy A73 5G smartphone that has now received certification from the Bluetooth SIG authority in China. Let's find out more. New Details Revealed The Samsung Galaxy A73 5G smartphone has bagged certification from the Bluetooth SIG authority and the device has the model number SM-A736B / SM-A736B_DS. The listing further confirms that the handset comes with support for Bluetooth v5.0 connectivity. The approval for the device means that the company might unveil the smartphone sometime in April or late March. The smartphone has also been recently spotted at the Geekbench certification which revealed multiple specification details of the smartphone. The listing revealed that the Galaxy A73 5G smartphone will be equipped with a Snapdragon 778G chipset coupled with 8GB of RAM and will operate on Android 12 OS. Apart from these, the smartphone has also bagged certification from FCC certification revealing that the device will carry support for 25W fast charging. Samsung Galaxy A73 Specs Rumours revolving around Samsung Galaxy A73 5G have revealed that the smartphone could come with a 6.7-inch AMOLED FHD+ display that offers a 90Hz refresh rate and an in-screen fingerprint scanner. For the camera part, the camera module at the back will house a quad-camera setup with an LED flash. The camera setup will be headlined by a 108MP primary camera along with 12MP, 8MP and 2MP sensors. As mentioned above, the smartphone is rumoured to be powered by a Snapdragon 778G chipset coupled with up to 8GB of RAM and possibly 128GB of internal storage. The smartphone could be backed by a 5,000mAh battery. More details are yet to be revealed by the company.

Could Network Intelligence Help Empower Workspaces Posted: 08 Mar 2022 04:20 AM PST – By Pramod Gummaraj, CEO of Aprecomm Pandemic not only boosted digital transformation but also widened its scope. Today's digital workspaces are a result of it. Whether an employee is working from home or office, the actual work in today's business environment happens in the digital space. With businesses having turned towards digital workspaces, their dependence on the internet has increased exponentially. As a result, the number of internet users and the need for connectivity both at households and enterprises have skyrocketed. If we look at the statistics, connectivity saw a growth of 2% annually between 2015 to 2019. Why Does Network Intelligence Matter for Digital Workspace? Businesses are now collaborating globally with their employees working from different regions. Research shows a direct correlation between positive user experiences, talent retention and business outcomes. This has spurred the need for businesses to ensure ubiquitous and uninterrupted connectivity. With this, it would not be an exaggeration to say that connectivity is now turning into a strategic asset for businesses. Network intelligence augments the visibility of complex networks to ensure users can access uninterrupted connectivity by measuring experience troubleshooting networks with end-to-end insights through machine reasoning and machine learning. Businesses can thus ensure that the users access digital workspaces securely with a seamless and low latency network. Improving Wi-Fi Reliability Network intelligence helps evaluate user experience by measuring network performance, user experience, and understanding if the user is happy using the network. It becomes easy to get to the root cause with simplified debugging and analysis of huge log dumps with network intelligence. Getting actionable insights from large sets of unstructured data helps identify top issues to be addressed immediately. Automate Network Troubleshooting Integrating AI which is artificial intelligence in networks allows a transition to proactive methods from traditional reactive methods Automating the method of finding a problem, diagnosing it and prescribing a solution helps in the reduction of human interventions. Through this approach, we can expect maximum uptime of the network as the solution to the problem is identified and accelerated. Reducing Cost and Time for Enterprises and Vendors Network intelligence helps businesses cut down costs and time for vendors and enterprises by optimising the issue resolution process. Artificial intelligence-powered networks would help reduce the task of dealing with the entire process of complaining to a great extent. The problem could be escalated, and necessary troubleshooting could be done in a few clicks. Adding to it is the cost-benefit that network intelligence offers. Businesses can save up to 70 per cent of OpEx with network intelligence. Increased Overall Business Productivity In the era where hybrid workspaces are prevalent and happen to be the future, business continues to be both in-office and remote. People are virtually present in the office via VPNs, web conferences, emails, chat messengers. Reliable communication almost makes this physical – virtual difference unnoticeable. Technologies like SD-WANs move the Network creation and operations to the cloud, offloading teams to focus on the productive work rather than tinkering with the alien networking issues. Network Transformation Just as many other things, networks too undergo evolution leading to a multitude of transformations that better user experience. Although network evolution is still ongoing, we have seen four major transformations already. Increased Network Uptimes Predictive Maintenance Rapid issue resolution Anomaly Detection With new normal posing fresh challenges, technologies are transforming to cater to the needs changing with time. So are networks. How network intelligence is now evolving to adapt itself to the new user experience paradigm is a perfect example of it. By deploying network intelligence, businesses can thrive in the present times when everything is shifting to the digital space.

Google Pixel Watch Could Operate Via Gestures Using Skin Interface Feature Posted: 08 Mar 2022 03:08 AM PST Google has been rumoured to expand to the consumer electronics portfolio by introducing a smartwatch of its own. With the way Google has been lining up its products, it is expected that the wearable will be called the Google Pixel Watch. While not much is known about the smartwatch from Google, a new report suggests that the company is working on introducing something called “sensor fusion” which is a combination of sensors that can recognise gestures made outside the body of the watch itself. Details on the New Feature The report comes in from the Dutch technology website which states that the said Google Pixel Watch has been in the works for quite some time now. The report also falls in line with a patent that Google filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation back in 2020, called 'Skin interface for wearables: Sensor fusion to improve signal quality. With the filed patent, Google intended to use patches of the human skin as gesture recognition pads of sorts. The new report now talks about something called Sensor Fusion. The sensor fusion will apparently use an accelerometer combined with numerous other sensors to recognise a designated area of the skin around the smartwatch. This would mean, for example, that Google Pixel Watch will be capable of recognizing patches of the wrist both before and ahead of the watch itself. The said patches will then be able to recognise various gestures that would then be picked up by the watch's software. The software would then respond to the commands accordingly. This could ultimately mean that no buttons are required on the Google Pixel Watch and all the functions can be managed via the gestures themselves. The smartwatch has been in the works for a long time now and yet no trustable render is available as of yet. It is likely that Google might bring something really innovative with its Google Pixel Watch. Although a possible render shared by Jon Prosser suggests that there will be at least one button on the wearable and it will not completely rely on the gestures. However, we can only wait to find out if Google introduces the "skin interface" that could make the smartwatch stand out in the market.

Apple May Launch a New Green Colour iPhone 13 at the Spring Event Posted: 08 Mar 2022 01:56 AM PST Apple's spring event is all set to commence today that is March 8 at 11:30 PM IST and the Cupertino-based tech giant is gearing up to introduce multiple products expanding its portfolio. The event is expected to witness the launch of a new affordable iPhone along with a new iPad Air, a new Mac mini, a Mac Studio, a Studio Display, and a MacBook Air. But a new report suggests that Apple might also launch a new iPhone 13 model at the event. Let's find out more. Details on the New iPhone 13 Variant For those getting confused, iPhone 13 was launched in 2021 and the company is reportedly planning to launch its green colour variant. According to YouTube content creator Luke Miani, iPhone 13 is all set to receive a green colour option at the Apple Spring Event. The green colour variant of the iPhone 13 looks appealing in the renders, but you will notice a striking difference in the shade. The company had also launched a green colour shade for its previous iteration which was the iPhone 12. However, the iPhone 13 is expected to arrive with a darker green shade unlike iPhone 12 which came with a light green colour shade. Based on the renders shared by Miani, the colour looks almost as the leaves do. To be specific, the colour shade for iPhone 13 is somewhere between the Mint colour of the iPhone 12 and the Midnight Green colour of the iPhone 11 Pro. iPhone 13 was launched last year and has five colour options – Red, Starlight, Midnight, Blue, and Pink. It is most likely that the green colour variant will have the same specs as the original iPhone 13. The iPhone 13 comes with a 6.1-inch display and is powered by an A15 Bionic processor with 5G support. The smartphone comes with a dual 12-megapixel camera system on the back and a 12-megapixel TrueDepth camera with Face ID, and MagSafe wireless charging.

Redmi Note 11 Has Become Rs 500 More Expensive in India Posted: 08 Mar 2022 01:13 AM PST Just like what has been happening over the last two years with most of the electronics in the market, Xiaomi's sub-brand, Redmi, has increased the price of the Redmi Note 11 in India. It hasn't been long since the smartphone made its debut in the country. The Redmi Note 11 launched in early February this year and arrived in three memory configurations starting at Rs 13,499. Let's take a look at the new price of the Redmi Note 11 right now. Redmi Note 11 New Price in India The Redmi Note 11 made its debut in India for Rs 13,499. The base variant for Rs 13,499 came with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The other two variants with 6GB+64GB and 6GB+128GB were launched for Rs 14,499 and Rs 15,999. Keeping the price of the two expensive variants unchanged, the price of the Redmi Note 11 base variant has been increased by Rs 500. Thus, its new price has become Rs 13,999. The other two variants will come for the same price of Rs 14,499 and Rs 15,999. The price change is visible on both the official website of Xiaomi and Amazon. The company hasn't provided any reason for the same. Redmi Note 11 Specifications The Redmi Note 11 comes with a 6.43-inch FHD+ AMOLED display with support for 90Hz refresh rate. The smartphone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 SoC coupled with up to 6GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 128GB of UFS 2.2 internal storage. There's a quad-camera setup at the rear with a 50MP wide-angle-sensor, 8MP ultra-wide-angle sensor, 2MP depth sensor and a 2MP macro sensor. For selfies and video calling, there's a 13MP sensor at the front. The device runs on MIUI 13 based on Android 11 out of the box and packs a 5000mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging.

UPI Services Arrive for Feature Phone Users as Well Posted: 08 Mar 2022 12:26 AM PST RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das On March 8, 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services for features phone users as well. Until now, UPI payments were only being accessed by smartphone users. To facilitate the payments system for feature phone users, RBI has launched UPI123Pay. Along with this, RBI launched DigiSaathi, a 24×7 helpline for making digital payments. What Can UPI123Pay Do? UPI123Pay is made for people owning feature phones to make offline money transactions. For now, UPI for feature phones will be able to do everything it can in the smartphones except scan and pay. But the work is ongoing for that as well, and in the future, even scan and pay should be available for people with feature phones. Using UPI123Pay, people living in the rural areas of India who don't own a smartphone will be able to make online payments as well. This is a good initiative from RBI and one that will propel the growth of Digital India. UPI was introduced back in 2016, and since then, it has grown a lot. Until now, it remained a system for smartphones only. But with UPI123Pay, feature phone users will be able to make payments offline. This will add to the transaction volume of UPI and will help with RBI's vision of making India a less-cash economy. How Will UPI123Pay Work? First of all, every feature phone user will have to link his/her bank account with the feature phone for using the UPI123Pay facility. For now, the service is only available in Hindi or in English. RBI said that it is working on introducing more language support soon. The transactions for UPI123Pay won't need an active internet or data connection with the device. More details about how the service will work step by step are unknown at the moment. As soon as the details are out, we will update the website with a new 'Step-by-Step' guide for the same.

Samsung Galaxy F23 5G Might Not be Worth It Posted: 07 Mar 2022 11:31 PM PST Samsung has just launched the Galaxy F23 5G for the Indian market. The smartphone looks impressive from afar but just might not be worth it. There is so much competition in delivering a good budget 5G smartphone today. The Galaxy F23 5G looks like an average smartphone from its design. It does have a big display and fast-charging support, but in comparison with what's available from the Chinese companies in the same price range, the Galaxy F23 5G looks like a fairly bad choice to go with. Samsung Galaxy F23 5G has Strong Display Specifications; check What Else is There Samsung Galaxy F23 5G comes with a 6.6-inch FHD+ Infinity-U Display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on top for protection. The display of the smartphone can support 120Hz refresh rate, and the device will run on One UI 4.1 based on Android 12 out of the box. Samsung said that it would provide two years of major OS updates for the smartphone and four years of security updates, which is standard. The Galaxy F23 5G is powered by the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC coupled with up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. Samsung is also allowing 6GB of virtual RAM expansion. In the camera department, the Galaxy F23 5G has a triple-camera setup at the rear with a 50MP Samsung ISOCELL JN1 primary sensor. The other two sensors are an 8MP ultra-wide-angle sensor and a 2MP macro sensor. For selfies and video calling, the device comes with an 8MP sensor. Samsung said that this smartphone can support connectivity with up to 12 5G bands which is a decent thing. Users can expand the internal storage up to 1TB through an external SD card (there's a dedicated slot for the same). Samsung Galaxy F23 5G packs a 5000mAh battery with support for 25W fast-charging. Let's check the price of the smartphone. Samsung Galaxy F23 5G Price Starts at Rs 17,499 in India Samsung Galaxy F23 5G will be available in two memory variants in India. The base variant will come with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage for Rs 17,499. Then there's a superior memory variant with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage for Rs 18,499. The device will be available in two colour variants — Forest Green and Aqua Blue. It will go on the first sale via Flipkart and Samsung's official online website on March 16, at 12 PM (noon). There are launch offers available with the device too. Users paying through an ICICI Bank card will get an instant discount of Rs 1,000. Not just this, but they will also get two months of free YouTube Premium. Further, note that for now, the device will be available at an introductory price of Rs 15,999 for the base variant and Rs 16,999 for the superior memory variant. Should You Buy? If you are thinking of purchasing this smartphone right away, you should wait for a little until the reviews kick in. Do your proper research because, at this price range, a lot of smartphones are available from the Chinese companies, which are 5G supportive and offer better specifications. The Redmi Note 11T 5G, iQoo Z3, and Realme 9 Pro 5G are some of the top alternatives for this device from Samsung. Samsung has failed to pack in at least 33W fast-charging, which is a very big disappointment. There are a few good things about the device as well, such as its display and the fact that it will run on One UI 4.1 out of the box. Regardless, the smarter choice would be to wait for a little before you make the purchase and see how the reviews of the smartphone are.

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