The Oppo Find X3 Pro is the next premium flagship to launch globally, when it gets unveiled on March 11. A new development talks about how it will have one of the best displays on any smartphone.
The Oppo Find X2 Pro from last year was lauded for its display. It looks like the company is on route to up the ante with the Find X3 Pro on both hardware and software fronts, and hope to claim the title for the best smartphone display.
In addition to Samsung, the first mobile phone to use an LTPO screen is the OPPO Find X3 series, which supports 5Hz-120Hz smart adjustment, and this screen supports 10bit, the top E4 screen from Samsung Display.March 5, 2021
Ice Universe, a reliable leakster based out of China, took to Twitter to reveal that the Oppo Find X3 series will be the first phone to use an LTPO (Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Oxide) display, after flagship devices from Samsung. This technology allows the screen to intelligently vary its refresh rate to conserve power when possible. The source mentions that Oppo’s implementation will be able to adjust between 5Hz and 120Hz, which would be the widest range on any smartphone. Even the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra can go down to a minimum of only 10Hz.
Further, he added that the Oppo Find X3 series will use Samsung’s top E4 screen. For the uninitiated, E4 is Samsung Display’s new top-of-the-line panel for smartphones. These OLED panels use new organic compounds for better light emission, allowing for improved brightness levels and vibrancy while reducing power consumption. It is currently featured only on a handful of devices such as the Xiaomi Mi 11 and China’s Redmi K40 series.
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All the way back in November, Oppo announced that the Find X3 series will support a new Full-path Color Management System, which will allow the phone to capture as well as display colours at full 10-bit depth (over a billion colours) without compression at any step. The visuals will also be customizable as per the user’s liking.
Another leak suggested that the upcoming OnePlus 9 Pro’s display will offer a similar feature set when it launches later this month. Considering how close the two brands work, we could see the exact same screen on both these flagships.
Redmi Note 10 series has been launched in India. The Redmi Note 10 series made its global debut in India on March 4, 2021. The Redmi Note lineup from Xiaomi has played an instrumental role in defining the budget smartphone segment of India. Single-handedly outselling many other brands, its importance can not be undermined.
Last year, the Redmi Note 9 Pro series also made its global debut in India in March 2020. Xiaomi has sold over 200 million Redmi Note series devices globally to date. In India, the Redmi Note series has dominated the sub Rs 15,000 and the sub Rs 20,000 segment.
Earlier leaks pointed towards 5G models in the Redmi Note 10 series. However, the Realme Note 10 series comes with three devices - the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max, Redmi Note 10 Pro, and the vanilla Redmi Note 10. These are the successor to the last year's three Redmi Note 9 series smartphones. All three phones are powered by 4G Snapdragon processors.
Now that we know the price, specs, and availability of the new Redmi Note 10 series, let's take a closer look at the three phones. The Redmi Note 10 starts at Rs 11,999 and the top of the line Redmi Note 10 Pro Max goes all the way up to Rs 21,999. All three phones are also thinner and lighter than the last-gen devices.
Here is what the Redmi Note 10 series brings to the table:
What is it? The successor to the Redmi Note 9 series
When is it coming? March 4
How much will it cost? Rs 11,999 | Rs 15,999 | Rs 18,999
Redmi Note 10 series Release date and price
Redmi Note 10 Pro Max
Redmi Note 10 Pro
Redmi Note 10
4+64GB
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Rs 11,999
6+64GB
Rs 18,999
Rs 15,999
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6+128GB
Rs 19,999
Rs 16,999
Rs 13,999
8+128GB
Rs 21,999
Rs 18,999
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The Redmi Note 10 starts at Rs 11,999 for the 4GB + 64GB variant and Rs 13,999 for 6GB + 128GB. It is available in three colour options - Aqua Green, Shadow Black and Frost White.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro starts at Rs 15,999 for 6GB + 64GB, Rs 16,999 for 6+128GB and Rs 18,999 for 8GB + 128GB. The top of the line Redmi Note 10 Pro Max price starts at Rs 18,999 for the 6+64GB variant, the 6+128GB variant is priced at Rs 19,999 and the 8+128GB is priced at Rs 21,999. Both phones are available in Vintage Bronze, Glacial Blue and Dark Night.
In the coming weeks, the company is also expected to launch a couple of flagship phones that will have a Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 870 processor. This might be the Xiaomi Mi 11 and Mi 11 Lite.
Redmi Note 10 Pro Max
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The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max this time has come out will all guns blazing. You get a 120HZ Super AMOLED display, 108MP camera, Snapdragon 732G SoC, IP52 water-resistant, dual speakers, big battery and fast charging. On paper, the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max looks to be the best phone under Rs 25,000 and tries to undercut the competition including its own Mi 10i.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max sports a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. It has a peak brightness of 1,200 nits and HDR10+ certification as well. There's a tiny 2.96mm punch0hole notch that houses a selfie snapper. The display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5.
On the inside, the device is powered by Snapdragon 732G SoC and paired with up to 8GB LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB UFS 2.2 internal storage. In terms of optics, it comes with a primary 108MP camera (Samsung ISOCELL HM2), along with an 8MP ultra-wide lens, a 5MP 2x telephoto macro shooter and a 2MP depth sensor. Selfies are handled by a 16MP shooter.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max is backed by a 5,020mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging. Other features include IP52 water-resistance, dual stereo speakers, Hi-Res audio certification, a 3.5mm headphone jack, an IR blaster, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner with support for gestures and more.
Next up is the Redmi Note 10 Pro, which is an identical device to the Pro Max, but with a slightly different camera: it opts for the 64MP Samsung ISOCELL GW3 image sensor instead. All the other specifications, features, dimensions and colours options remain the same.
Redmi Note 10 Pro starts at Rs 15,999 for 6GB + 64GB and Rs 18,999 for 8GB + 128GB. It will go on sale in March 17 on Amazon, Mi.com, and Mi Studio stores
The most affordable phone in the series, the Redmi Note 10 is set to dominate the sub Rs 12,000 and sub Rs 15,000 segment. The Redmi Note 10 comes with a Full HD+ Super AMOLED display, which is the first for a phone under Rs 12,000. The refresh rate however drops to 60Hz. It has a peak brightness of 1,100 nits and 100% of DCI-P3 coverage while the screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
The Snapdragon 678 processor makes its debut in India with this phone. It is an octa-core chipset with a max frequency of 2.2GHz and the Adreno 612 GPU. It comes with up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.
You get a quad-camera setup at the rear with a 48MP (Sony IMX 582) primary camera, along with an 8MP ultra-wide lens with a 118-degree field of view, a 5MP macro camera and a 2MP depth sensor. The 13MP selfie camera is housed within a 3.54mm punch-hole.
The battery is rated at 5,000mAh and supports 33W fast charging over USB Type-C. It gets even lighter at 178 grams and 8.3mm thickness.
During the first sale, you can also avail discount up to Rs 1,500 on ICICI bank cards. Additionally, you can also get Jio benefits up to worth Rs 10,000 on Rs 349 plan.
LG Innotek, which has earned a name for itself for its high-performance cameras, will develop and supply a 3D sensing component for Microsoft's cloud computing service Azure.
LG Innotek said it would develop time of flight (ToF) modules for Azure platforms.
ToF module, by the way, is a 3D sensing component that calculates distance by measuring the time that light bounces back from a subject and recognizes an object’s 3D effect, spatial information, and movement.
Basically, it is an ultra-compact camera module for face recognition that can sense the 3D depth of the subject.
Mass production of the same will begin in the second half of 2021.
For the record, LG Innotek already has a tie-up with Apple and is supplying ToF modules to the latter for its AR projects.
The ToF module offers support for advanced functions such as biometric verification, motion sensing, artificial reality and virtual reality.
3D cameras are meant for computer vision analysis, but their design and manufacturing require special technology in illumination, strong sensor level understanding and optical design capability.
ToF sensors can turn captured pics into 3D images and also measure at a speed of 20 frames per second, allowing it to track the movement of objects three-dimensionally.
"Our collaboration with Microsoft will enable LG Innotek to help ecosystem partners on new designs and expand the application areas of 3D sensing modules beyond smartphones," Eun Jong-yun, head of LG Innotek's optics solution product planning division was quoted as saying in a company statement.
Azure-supported 3D cameras have multiple uses
Microsoft will support the Azure ecosystem for the development of the Azure-connected ToF module and its related services. It has been searching for partners that can boost its services combining the Azure platform and 3D cameras.
Microsoft has been at it for over two decades in 3D sensing field, spanning from pixel to chip, from modules to cameras, from algorithms to software. This Microsoft 3D sensing knowhow was used to build Microsoft Hololens and Azure Kinect Devkit.
Daniel Bar, head of business incubation for the Silicon & Sensor’s group at Microsoft, said, “We are excited to welcome LG Innotek to our ecosystem and accelerate time to market for 3D cameras. This is a key step towards providing easy access for computer vision developers to create 3D vision applications.”
Azure-supported 3D cameras can be used in measuring movements and checking the motion of people when they exercise. In the retail area, they can be helpful for managing inventories or preventing theft. In factories, these cloud-connected cameras can monitor and analyze production lines to prevent accidents.
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If you’re the owner of a Nintendo Switch, listen up. eBay will soon be serving up a huge discount on the freshly released game Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury in the next instalment of eBay Tuesdays weekly deals.
This brand-new title has an official price tag of AU$79.95, but if you’re an eBay Plus member, you can get your hands on this game for only AU$39, which is better than half-price.
The deal will be available at 10am AEDT tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9) when 500 units release, while a second batch of 500 units is scheduled to release at 2pm AEDT later that day. We’re anticipating the game to sell out rather quickly, so make sure you’re quick on the mouse.
We called this game the best multiplayer Mario game ever in our review, and it’s well-deserved praise. The title first came out for the not-so-successful Wii U, and it’s finally having its moment in the sun after being updated and expanded for the popular Switch.
Not to worry if you’re not a gamer, there’s more than a cheap Nintendo Switch game going on sale today. eBay is also launching a deal that’ll set you up with an incredibly cheap smartphone.
Tomorrow, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T will be available for just AU$299, with 500 units dropping at 10am AEDT and another 500 coming at 2pm AEDT. It usually retails for AU$399, so the price cut isn’t as steep, but you’ll still save a decent 25%.
Plus subscribers are still able to get an extra 10% off everything from eBay’s deals home page this week, and we’ve also highlighted some of the best eBay Australia deals on our new dedicated page.
Even though the fact that India needs electric vehicles to reduce vehicular pollution and to make commutation easier, the adoption of non-ICE vehicles is not up to the mark. As we approach the federal government’s ambitious plan to phase out ICE-powered vehicles by 2030, buyers have little choice when it comes to buying electric vehicles.
Though of late, the market of electric 2-wheelers is shifting gears and we have seen various brands like Bajaj, Okinawa, Ather Electric, Kabira Motors and others launching their electric scooters. Yet here is still a massive space for an ambitious player that can help democratize these zero-pollution vehicles.
Ola, the desi ride-hailing company, wants to do what Tesla has done in electric cars but India. The company had announced its plans of not only launching a world-class electric scooter in India but had also announced that it plans to set up a mega-factory to mass-produce these vehicles.
Ola Electric, the EV arm of Ola Group, has set up this factory in Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu. Phase 1 of this 500-acre factory is expected to be production-ready by June 2021 and according to the company it will be able to produce 2 million scooters a year. Though at full capacity, Ola plans to be able to roll out a scooter every 2 seconds or 10 million scooters per year.
With this, the company also announced its global dreams by stating that it wants to export these scooters to various parts of the world. This augurs well with the company’s ambitious plan of becoming a leading 2-wheeler company globally with a targeted 15% market share.
“Our ambition is to have a big impact in electric vehicles. The only way we can create an impact in electrification is by playing at scale. This business cannot be built by selling 2,000 vehicles a year,” Bhavish Aggarwal, chairman and group chief executive officer told the media.
The company also revealed that it's first offering for India would be a made-in-India version of Etergo Appscooter. To recall, Ola acquired the Dutch electric scooter company Etergo in May last year and no prizes for guessing that the Ola electric scooter resembles the Etergo Appscooter.
The Indianized-avatar of the Appscooter is expected to retain most of the key features of the original one. The biggest one of them is the swappable batteries that you can charge at your home and the scooter, unlike most electric scooters in India currently, do not need a dedicated charging station.
It comes with an option to add three high energy density battery packs at one time, each offering a range of 80-km with a full charge. The total range of up to 240Kms of range with all three battery packs combined should ideally ease out all the range anxieties that users often have with electric scooters. Also, each of these batteries can be fully charged in 2.3 hours using a regular electric socket at your home. You can get an acceleration of 0-45kph in 3.9 seconds
This is a connected scooter and comes with a pre-mounted TFT panel for apps and navigation. On the software front, it comes with Android OS built-in that powers the digital dashboard and offers features like navigation, music, phone control, and automatic diagnostics. There are two 10W speakers as well as built-in to provide audio output.
Other key features include the support for iOS powered devices, remote lock/unlock, find my scooter, charging control and GPS for location tracking. In terms of connectivity, it comes with 4G (LTE), 3G, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth.
Ola Electric Scooter’s price in India
Apart from the features, the most important aspect of the scooter would be its pricing. The company has, as of now, not revealed the pricing of its scooter, however, the Appscooter was pegged at 3,399 euros which roughly translates to just over Rs 296,000 as of today. This would however mean that the scooter will be out of the reach of most users and will be against what Ola is hoping for as well.
Hence, the company may introduce multiple variants based on the features which could help in bringing down the cost as well. Since Ola wants this to be a mass-market vehicle, it has to price the scooter aggressively.
Bringing down the cost will not only help faster adoption but will help the company undercut the competition like Ather, Bajaj and others that are all priced well over 1 lac Rupees and are considered to be in the premium at the moment.
India’s dream electric scooter
As of now, India needs a zero-emission two-wheeler that looks like most conventional scooters available at the moment. Most importantly, for faster adoption, companies need to bring a scooter that attracts the common buyers rather than pushing them away by packing in loads of geeky features that the users cannot relate to.
In other words, users look for a scooter that is stylish but doesn’t make them look out of the place and does the basic job of helping them to commute from one place to the other without fancy features like application control, GPS tracking etc.
Last but not the least, the pricing of these electric scooters need to come down to “affordable” from premium. An electric scooter priced around Rs. 60-70,000 without too many fancy features or limitations could be a sweet spot and can be pivotal in phasing out petrol variants.
