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Honor 7X starts receiving Android Oreo update under a Beta program

By
Devesh Arora
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Honor has finally started rolling out the Android Oreo-based EMUI 8 update under a beta program. The chinse smartphone manufacturer launched the Honor 7X with EMUI 5.1 based on Android Nougat. Now, finally, after much wait, the stable version of Android Oreo for the 7X is almost here.

Huawei earlier made an announcement that the Friendly User Test builds will be available for users who signup for it. The users who signed up have started receiving the Android Oreo beta update. The company also made an announcement for the same via their official twitter handle.

Honor 7X 2
Honor 7X

Also Read: Honor 7X Review: Best smartphone under Rs. 15,000 with 18:9 display?

If you are a signed up user, you might receive a notification regarding the update soon. However, you can also check for available updates by heading over to Settings > System > System Update and tap on Check for Updates.

EMUI 8.0 based Android 8.0 Oreo for the Honor 7X brings in a lot of features to the table. Some of the features include, Smart Tips, Navigation Dock, Smart Screen and an AI Intelligent Engine.

Honor 7X Specifications

As far as the specifications are concerned, the Honor 7X is powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 659 SoC. The smartphone features a 5.93-inch IPS LCD display. The display on the 7X is a 1080p panel and has an 18:9 aspect ratio. The device packs in 4GB of RAM with either 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage. Under the hood, there is a 3,340mAh battery powering up the internals.

On the optics front, the Honor 7X sports a dual camera setup at the back. The rear camera setup includes a 16-megapixel and a 2-megapixel camera sensor. Up front, there is an 8-megapixel selfie shooter.

Xiaomi Redmi 4 receives a price cut in India: Here's what you need to know

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Tech Desk
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Xiaomi recently launched the much-awaited Xiaomi Redmi 5 in India. The smartphone is another budget smartphone that fills in the gap between the Redmi 5A and the Redmi Note. As the Redmi 4's successor is here, Xiaomi decided to give the Xiaomi Redmi 4 a price drop.

The Xiaomi Redmi 4 has received a price cut of Rs. 500 in India. The company's Vice President, Manu Kumar Jain, made the announcement via his official twitter handle. The 3GB+32GB variant of the Redmi 4 is now available at Rs. 8,499. The smartphone was priced at Rs. 8,999 before the price drop. Similarly, the 4GB+64GB variant is now available at Rs. 10,499 instead of the earlier Rs. 10,999 price tag.

Specifications

Xiaomi Redmi 4 features a 5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels. The smartphone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 SoC. The quad-core chipset is clocked at 1.4GHz and is coupled with the Adreno 505 GPU. The device comes with 3GB or 4GB of RAM with 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage. The smartphone runs on MIUI 9 based on Android Nougat. Under the hood, there is a 4,100mAh battery powering up the internals.

Also Read: Here are the Top 5 Reasons why not to buy the Xiaomi Redmi 5

On the optics front, the Xiaomi Redmi 4 sports a 13-megapixel camera at the back. The rear camera comes with f/2.0 aperture and a LED flash. There is also a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with a f/2.2 aperture.

In terms of connectivity, the Xiaomi Redmi 4 supports 4G, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS and microUSB.

Google Assistant can now speak and understand Hindi

By
Lalit Wadhwa
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Google, just launched an update to the Google Assistant. The new update lets you interact with it entirely in Hindi. It doesn't bring a lot of new features, but it brings an entire language to use. You can now fire up the Google Assistant and talk to it in Hindi. Earlier, You have to use English only

“The Google Assistant is truly Indian, it’s your helpful dost that speaks our language and understands the things you care about, from finding biryani recipes, to pulling up the latest cricket score or finding directions to the nearest ATM. In order to make it even more useful to Indians over time, developers and businesses can now build Actions for the Hindi Assistant through the developer platform Actions on Google. Once an action is built, you can just say “Ok Google, talk to” and access the service or content straight through your Google Assistant.”

-Purvi Shah, Technical Program Manager for Google Assistant

Google Assistant Hindi

The new Hindi Assistant is powered by Machine Learning and Natural language processing as the original. This means it can help context, and the intent of the messages way better than normal Assistants. This enables you to maintain a conversation like commands with the software. Also, it learns based on usage, so it will get better with time.

What can you Ask the new Google Assistant?

Google Assistant Hindi

Now, you can ask your Google Assistant things in Hindi. These things include “sabse pass walla petrol pump kaha hai” for location-based help, or “India aur Pakistan ka alga cricket match kab hai” to get updates on the cricket. “Aaj ka tapman kya hai” will give you weather reports for your current area.

It even works with things like, “paanch minute ka timer lagao” to set a timer, or, “calender kholo” to open the default Calendar or even just, “whatsapp devesh aa raha hu main bas 5 minute mein" to send a WhatsApp message. For a full list of Hindi commands, you can check out the website here.

To set it to work in Hindi, make sure you have the latest app update and then set our phone language to Hindi. If oyu have got the latest version, it should work. If not, you will need to wait for the latest version.

Micromax Bharat 5 Pro launched in India: Price, Specifications and Availability

By
Brahmjot Singh
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Micromax, the Indian smartphone manufacturer, has launched another budget-oriented smartphone. The Micromax Bharat 5 Pro is launched in India at a price of Rs. 7,999. The highlights of the smartphone include its massive 5,000mAh battery. The company claims that the smartphone can last up to 2 days on a single charge.

Commenting on the launch, Shubhodip Pal, Chief Marketing and Chief Commercial Officer, Micromax Informatics said, "Hence, we at Micromax have always been at the forefront of coming up with phones with extensive battery life and compelling product features. not too long ago we were the first to give our consumers a 30-day battery phone. Our new addition to the successful Bharat range - the Bharat 5 Pro will surely offer a complete package to the consumers at a very affordable price."

Specifications

Micromax Bharat 5 Pro features a 5.2-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels. The smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor. The device packs in 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. Storage is further expandable using a microSD card. The Micromax Bharath 5 Pro runs on Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. Under the hood, there is a 5,000mAh battery powering up the internals

Also Read: Top 5 reasons to buy the budget-oriented Xiaomi Redmi 5

In the camera segment, the Micromax Bharat 5 Pro sports a 13-megapixel camera at the back with a LED flash. Up front, there is a 5-megapixel selfie snapper with a selfie flash. The front camera on the smartphone will also be used for the Face Unlock feature.

On the connectivity front, the smartphone features 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and microUSB.

Price and Availability

Micromax Bharat 5 Pro is launched with a price tag of Rs. 7,999. At this price point, the smartphone directly competes against the recently launched Xiaomi Redmi 5. The Bharat 5 Pro will be available only in the Black colour variant.

Google made the tech driving Potrait Mode on Pixel 2 open source

By
Lalit Wadhwa
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Google is a company who doesn't need any introduction. Its Pixel lineup of smartphones offers the purest Android experience ever. The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL might not sport dual camera setup at the back or front. However, the devices comes with the potraight mode at both front and back. Google manages to deliver the same experience driven by AI and software. This has led the camera to be rated one of the best on a smartphone ever. Now the technology has been made open-source by the company.

Google Pixel 2017

Google’s research and development team just put out a blog post. The blog post states they are making the open source release of their “semantic image segmentation model”. The model is known as “DeepLab-v3+” and implemented in TensorFlow. Also, according to the blog post, “semantic image segmentation” stands for “assigning a semantic label, such as ‘road’, ‘sky’, ‘person’, ‘dog’, to every pixel in an image.” The company this new application is helping power various other new applications. These new applications include the synthetic shallow depth-of-field effect. This is also known as the portrait mode seen on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones.

So how exactly the Google's tech works?

The blog post by Google explains what happens when each pixel or subject in the image is assigned one of these labels. This technology also helps in figuring out the outline of the objects. This is the most crucial thing in the Portrait mode concept. In the Portrait mode, everything apart from the object in Focus is blurred. This gives it a shallow depth of field effect. Apple introduced this in smartphones with the iPhone 7 Plus. While most of the companies rely on a dual camera setup for this, Google did it with just software.

Also Read: How to record the screen on a MacBook without any software

Google’s blog post also says with the DeepLab-v3+ open source release, it includes some more models. These models also include “models built on top of a powerful convolutional neural network (CNN) backbone architecture for the most accurate results…”. The post also states that the models have improved dramatically due to improvement in datasets and more. The post also says this technology will help industry professionals and students will be really benefitted by this.

How to record the screen on a MacBook without any software

By
Brahmjot Singh
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Recording a screen on a Mac is at least 10 times harder compared to a PC. At least that's what I thought. However, when I got hands on my first Mac and started fidgeting with it, I found it much easier than I thought. One plus sign of what you will gain on by reading this article is that you wouldn't need to spend a lot of money on screen recording softwares like Camtasia. By following the steps below you would easily be able to start recording your screen for free.

Firstly you are required to open up the QuickTime Player on your Mac. QuickTime comes pre-installed on every Mac as the default media player.

Mac Screen Recording

After QuickTime is open, you are required to click on the 'File' tab. The 'File' tab is located on the Menu bar at the top left corner of the display. After clicking on the tab a drop down menu will appear, where you will have to press 'New Screen Recording'.

Mac Screen Recording

That's it the recording will start automatically. Now you can easily start doing whatever work you wanted to record without any tension.

Mac Screen Recording

To stop the recording, you will have to click the 'stop recording button'. The 'stop recording button' can be found in the same Menu Bar where the 'File' tab is located.

Mac Screen Recording

After you have pressed the stop recording button. The Mac will automatically save the recording to the 'Movies' folder with a computer assigned name to it.

The only problem that I found was that you cannot customise the area you want to record. The software will record the whole screen, and then output the same for viewing purposes. Though the unnecessary areas can be cropped afterwards while editing the video but, that sure is an addition to your work. I would suggest that professionals who have got the machine for work shouldn't be cheap, and instead should spend a bit of money on screen recording softwares, which can do everything including basic editing, as for most the more time consumed on a single piece of work costs more than spending a few bucks.

Here are the Top 5 Reasons why not to buy the Xiaomi Redmi 5

By
Brahmjot Singh
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Xiaomi, the Chinese tech giant has finally launched the much-awaited Redmi 5 in India. The Xiaomi Redmi 5 is a budget-oriented smartphone launched in China a couple of months ago. As Xiaomi's budget smartphones see a lot of success in India, the company has finally brought the smartphone to the country. Though the smartphone is good, there are always a set of pros and cons. Here are the reasons why you should not put in your money on the Xiaomi Redmi 5.

1.) The Build

The Xiaomi Redmi 5 does give a metallic look but it is actually made of plastic. The whole build of the Redmi 5 might look a bit cheap. Also, looking at the build it is very unlikely that the smartphone will handle drops.

2.) Design

Xiaomi Redmi 5 does look refreshed when you look at the front. However, the smartphone carries an old design at the back. The design is something similar to what we have seen previously on some Xiaomi smartphones. Also, the company could have trimmed down the bezels a bit more at the front.

3.) Software

The Xiaomi Redmi 5 runs on MIUI 9 based on Android Nougat out of the box. MIUI is a really heavy skin and can make your smartphone slower. Also, the UI is hated by many people. The software also comes with some bloatware applications which might not be liked by many.

Also Read: Top 5 reasons to buy the budget-oriented Xiaomi Redmi 5

4.) Better Alternatives

Xiaomi Redmi 5 is launched in India at a price of Rs. 7,999. This price range has been growing a lot lately in the smartphone industry. There are smartphones like 10.or E to compete against the Redmi 5. The 10.or does come with an older processor but runs on stock Android which provides a fluid experience.

10.or E 2
10.or E

5.) Flash Sales

In the typical Xiaomi fashion, the Redmi 5 will also go through the Flash Sales. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro has been there for quite some time now by now but many have not been able to get their hands on one. The Flash Sales system might make you wait a little more than expected. So if you are planning to buy the Redmi 5, you might have a hard time getting one on time.

Top 5 reasons to buy the budget-oriented Xiaomi Redmi 5

By
Devesh Arora
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Xiaomi, on Wednesday, announced the launch of the Xiaomi Redmi 5 in India. The smartphone was launched in China a few weeks ago and now has finally made its way to India. The company did not launch the Redmi 5 Plus as it is already available in India as the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro. Here are the top 5 reasons why we think you should buy the Xiaomi Redmi 5.

1.) Display

As soon as you give your first glance at the smartphone, the biggest thing you will notice is an 18:9 panel. Yes, Redmi 5 being a budget oriented device comes with an 18:9 display up front. The display comes with a resolution of 1440x720 which is also impressive. Though the 18:9 panels are getting really popular, the display on the Redmi 5 looks really good and does outperform some of the other 18:9 phones like iVoomi i1s and the InFocus Vision 3.

Xiaomi Redmi 5

2.) Performance

The Xiaomi Redmi 5 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 SoC. The chipset is an octa-core processor clocked at 1.8GHz. The Snapdragon 450 also comes with the Adreno 506 GPU. This combination of the CPU and GPU on the Redmi 5 should give you some decent performance. It will easily handle day to day tasks and will also be able to run some high-end games like Asphalt 8.

3.) Cameras

On the optics front, the Xiaomi Redmi 5 sports a 12-megapixel camera at the back with a LED flash. Up front, there is a 5-megapixel selfie shooter. Xiaomi has used the same camera setup on the Redmi 5 and the Redmi Note 5 Pro. The cameras perform really well under good lighting conditions.

Also Read: Xiaomi Redmi 5 launched in India: Price, Specifications and Availability

4.) Price

Xiaomi has priced the Redmi 5 very aggressively in India. The smartphone starts at a price of Rs. 7,999. Xiaomi Redmi 5 brings a lot to the table for the price. The Redmi 5 is priced at Rs. 7,999 for the 2GB+16GB variant. The 3GB+32GB and the 4GB+64GB variants are priced at Rs. 8,999 and Rs. 10,999 respectively.

5.) MIUI 9

MIUI 9 banner

Xiaomi Redmi 5 runs on Android Nougat based-MIUI 9 out of the box. MIUI is a love or a hate thing, as some hate it while some love it the most. However, if you do like MIUI, the Redmi 5 brings a lot of new features with the MIUI 9.

Xiaomi Redmi 5 launched in India: Price, Specifications and Availability

By
Devesh Arora
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Xiaomi has finally launched the budget-friendly Xiaomi Redmi 5 in India. The smartphone is being touted as a "Compact Powerhouse" by the company. The Redmi 5 is launched in order to fill the gap between the Redmi 5A and the Redmi Note 5. The highlights of the smartphone include it's 18:9 display up front.

Specifications

As far as the specifications are concerned, the Xiaomi Redmi 5 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 SoC. The smartphone features a 5.7-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 720x1440 pixels and an 18:9 aspect ratio. The device is launched in three variants which include 2GB RAM+16GB storage, 3GB RAM+32GB storage and the 4GB RAM+64GB storage variant. Xiaomi Redmi 5 runs on MIUI 9.1 based on Android 7.1.2 Nougat out of the box. Under the hood, there is a 3,300mAh battery powering up the internals.

Xiaomi Redmi 5

 

Also Read: Here’s how to download and install MIUI 9 update on your Xiaomi devices

On the optics front, the Redmi 5 sports a 12-megapixel camera at the back. The rear camera comes with f/2.2 aperture, PDAF and a LED flash. Up front, there is a 5-megapixel selfie shooter.

The connectivity options on the Xiaomi Redmi 5 include 4G, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS and a microUSB port. The smartphone also features a fingerprint scanner located at the back.

Price and Availability

Xiaomi has launched the Redmi 5 at a starting price of 7,999 for the 2GB RAM+16GB storage variant. The 3GB RAM+32GB and the 4GB RAM+64GB storage variants of the Xiaomi Redmi 5 are priced at Rs. 8,999 and Rs. 10,999 respectively. The smartphone is exclusive to Amazon India and will be available starting March 20. Xiaomi Redmi 5 will be available in Black, Gold, Blue and Rose Gold colour options.

Samsung Galaxy J8 Plus and Asus Zenfone 5 Max leaked on GeekBench

By
Lalit Wadhwa
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Smartphones by companies like Asus and Samsung have been leaked on benchmarking platform Geekbench. After unveiling the Zenfone 5 series at MWC this year, Asus is planning to add new phones to the series. One of those new phones will be the Zenfone 5 Max. Samsung also, after releasing the Samsung Galaxy S9 series is planning to launch the new J series smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy J8 Plus was leaked on Geekbench.

Asus Zenfone 5 Max

As per the Geekbench listing, the smartphone sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC. this is coupled with 4GB RAM. This listing also shows the smartphone running smartphone is running on Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box. This leads us to believe it is the Zenfone 5 Max which was left out at the MWC.

Asus Zenfone 5 Max

The Zenfone 5 Max scores 1518 in a single-core benchmark and 5386 in multi-core tests. While nothing else is revealed about the smartphone from the listing, there are several things we can infer. The scores hint at a budget segment device. Also, the Zenfone Max series come with huge batteries. This leads us to expect a 5000mAH battery. Moreover, like the other Zenfone 5 series smartphones, it will have an 18:9 display.

Also Read: Asus unveiled the Zenfone 5 series of smartphones with Dual Cameras and 19:9 displays

Let's hope the new device is something more than the recently announced Zenfone Max (M1) (2018). The company in the past have delivered great Zenfone Max series smartphones, so we expect the same performance now also.

Samsung Galaxy J8 Plus

The Geekbench listing reveals details about the smartphone Samsung SM-J805G. This is the Galaxy J8 Plus. The smartphone runs on Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box. The smartphone also sports an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor with 1.8GHz base frequency and Adreno 506 GPU.

Samsung Galaxy J8 Plus Geekbench Leaks

Apart from the Snapdragon 625, the listing also reveals that the Galaxy J8 Plus will be coupled with 4GB RAM. Considering, the device is supposed to be a budget segment device, the specs are really impressive.

Also Read: Best alternatives to the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+

Geekbench listing also, shows that the upcoming smartphone manages to score around 749 points on a single core. Also its scores around 3708 points in multi-core test. The performance numbers hint towards a budget segment device. Which further confirms the claims.

So, the Samsung Galaxy J8 Plus will be a budget device, running on budget segment specifications and hopefully the budget segment price.

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