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If you want a dedicated gaming phone , you typically have to pay quite a bit - top internals and screen specs don't come cheap - but that might change soon, because affordable phone brand Redmi has announced its entry into the gaming handset market. This comes from Chinese social media platform Weibo , where Lu Weibing, Redmi's general manager, announced in a lengthy post "In 2021, Redmi will [...] launch Redmi’s first flagship gaming phone". Weibing also alludes to a price, saying the phone will come "at a price that cannot be refused". That's all we know about the upcoming gaming handset so far, as while Weibing's wider post is about the new MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset, at no point does Weibing actually say that processor will be used for the phone. These are the best gaming phones And these are the best affordable phones The Asus ROG Phone 4 is on its way The road ahead While Redmi doesn't have a gaming phone right now, it's not starting from … [Read more...] about Xiaomi’s cheap phone brand Redmi is working on its first gaming phone

The newly launched OnePlus Nord 2 officially became available from July 28, 2021 in India and within a couple of days a user in Bengaluru reported it exploded. Unlike other incidents of mobile phone exploding, the OnePlus Nord 2 was not put on charging and the device is claimed to have exploded inside a sling bag during a bike ride. The user, who goes by the name Ankur Sharma, in a tweet which has now been deleted shared that the phone belonged to his wife and who even met with an accident while riding due to the phone exploding. Ankur’s tweet quickly grabbed the attention of smartphone enthusiasts across India and soon after OnePlus responded to it, the tweet was deleted by him. As per his tweet, the OnePlus Nord 2 was just 5 days old. The company hasn’t provided an official statement to the media but it is looking into the matter and trying to “make amends and turn this around” for the user. From Social As described by the victim, there was no physical … [Read more...] about Newly launched OnePlus Nord 2 explodes; company investigating issue

Amazon has announced the Independence Day sale on its platform. Dubbed the Great Freedom Festival, the sale will begin on August 5. It will be a five-day-long sale and will end on August 9. As part of the upcoming sale, buyers will get a 10% instant discount on purchases made using SBI Bank credit cards. No-cost EMI will also be available on major banks credit and debit cards. There will be up to Rs 13,000 discount on exchange during the sale. The e-tailer has created a microsite of the sale. As per the site, Amazon customers will get up to 80% off on more than 1000 top brands in the sale. Amazon devices like Echo speakers, FireTV stick and Kindle readers will be available at up to 45% off. For example, the FireTV stick will be available under Rs 3,000. Similarly, there will be up to 50% off on TVs and appliances. As revealed by Amazon on its site, Redmi smart LED TV will retail at a discounted price of Rs 36,999. While the Samsung washing machine will be up for … [Read more...] about amazon great freedom festival: Amazon announces Great Freedom Festival sale, starts August 5

Google announced that it has made its own SoC for powering the AI and machine learning (ML) in the upcoming Pixel 6 series phones. Dubbed as Google Tensor chipset, both Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will come with it. Google has been working for around four to five years to build its first Tensor chipset which CEO Sundar Pichai claims to have two decades of Google’s computing abilities. The reason as to why Google made its own chipset is because the kind of AI features and processing it wants for videos and photos cannot be achieved by chipsets that are made available by Qualcomm, MediaTek and others. “AI is the future of our innovation work, but the problem is we’ve run into computing limitations that prevented us from fully pursuing our mission. So we set about building a technology platform built for mobile that enabled us to bring our most innovative AI and machine learning (ML) to our Pixel users,” Google said in an official blog post. Google is aiming to provide … [Read more...] about Google launches its own Tensor chipset to power Pixel 6 phones