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Roland Quandt of WinFuture reported thatXioami Pocophone F1 is seemingly in works. The tipster also shared some of the specs, which considering Quandt’ reliable track record, could be considered trustworthy. It is likely that Xiaomi introduces thisnew phone under a separate sub-brand called “Pocophone”just like it did with theBlack Shark gaming smartphone. Last month, a smartphone codenamed “Beryllium” with Snapdragon 845 anda display notchwas found to have beencertified by the FCC....

Asusis offering Extended Warranty, Zero Cost EMIs, and personalized goodies to customers as part of its new ‘Back to College’ promo announced this week. The offer is currently only valid on the company’s notebook range, and not on its smartphones. As for the additional warranty, there are two different offers available – buyers can opt for the warranty extension pack of up to two years by paying Rs. 499 for regular laptops and Rs....

The Indian telecom sector is in the midst of an upheaval with operators looking to make more revenue even as tariffs continue to drop for users. The Department of Telecom had issued its guidelines on “virtual network operators” nearly two years ago so operators could license their services to smaller players. Virtual network operators (VNO) are typically smaller companies which do not own telecom infrastructure themselves but buy services such as bandwidth for data services as well as minutes and texts....

The Supreme Court on July 13 took strong note of the Ministry of Information and Broadcastings decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data. It observed that such a move will be “like creating a surveillance state” and issued a notice to the central government on a plea by Mahua Moitra of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Surveillance and data driven methods would lead to discrimination against people....

Taking the latest $5 billion fine by the European Commission into account, Google’s parent company Alphabet reported $26.24 billion in revenue for the quarter that ended on June 30, making a profit of $3.2 billion while beating Wall Street expectations. Excluding the fine, the tech giant would have had $32.6 billion in revenue and a profit of $8.2 billion. “We are analyzing the decision and I think it’s too early to comment or speculate beyond what we’ve already said, but we will always take a constructive approach,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call with analysts late on Monday....

As announced in anofficial community post, community administrator Jurassica announced thatthe Fallout 76 beta will kick off in October, two months before the game’s launch.Everyone who preorders Fallout 76 will be included in the beta, but the initial pool of players will start out small, growing over time. If you wish to try out Fallout 76 and be a part of the Beta programme, you’d be required to pre-order the gamefromBethesda’s website right now....

Mozilla grabbed the world’sattentionwhen it launched the Firefox Quantum browser last year. With the launch of areworked Firefox, many features including Tracking Protection, earlier limited to In-Private mode, also graduated into the standard browsing mode. Now, Mozilla intends to grant its usersgreater control over specific blocks of contentwhich might be tracking more information than users care to reveal, or those which might hinder or slow down browsing. TheContent Blocking feature will be implemented with Firefox 63which is expected to go live in October this year....

The Honor 9N has been priced at Rs. 11,999 for the 3GB+32GB variant, Rs. 13,999 for the 4GB/64GB model and Rs. 17,999 for the 4GB/128GB model. As mentioned already, it will be available exclusively on Flipkart, with the first sale scheduled for noon, July 31. As part of its marketing efforts, the company has been promoting the handset with the hashtag ‘#NoOrdinaryBeauty’ on Twitter. As can be seen from the tweet below, the company also roped in actress Bhumi Pednekar to promote it in the days leading up to the launch....

In an update introduced by Google, Assistant will now be able to make video calls, including international ones on Google’s video chat mobile app “Duo”. The feature would enable users to make video calls from their phones, contacts and messages apps using the mobile video chat app. “If you use the Google Assistant: You can start a ‘Duo’ video call by saying or typing, “Video call (name),”Google wrote in a post late on Monday....

In line with the new Material Theme guidelines announced at Google I/O earlier this year, Google has steadily been redesigning each of its apps. We have already seen an overhaul for Gmail, Chrome, and Google Drive on the web, but the tech giant has given us a sneak peek at the upcoming all-white design of its Android apps. This design reel has been made by Adam Grabowski and Nicolo Bianchino, who collaborate with Google on video projects....

Now, according to a newreport from Thurrott, it seems that the Redmond giant is planning to release not just one, buttwo variants of the new Xboxwith one of them being the regular hardware upgrade bringing better graphical prowess and gaming improvements, and the other one being a simpler, game-streaming Xbox. While this is exciting news, it does raise questions about what Microsoft has in mind with this ‘cheaper’ variant of the Xbox....

Honor 9N(Starting at ₹11,999)isa new budget device from Honorwhich brings a beautifully designed body and sports one of the best build quality found in any smartphone in its price range. Logic suggests that Honor must have cut some corners to bring such a beautifully designed smartphone at such an affordable price. Well, in this article, we will see if the smartphone’s endurance is one of those departments which was sacrificed. We will put the phone through our charging test and also test how the battery performs in real-life situations....

Honor is a company which is known for its budget and mid-range devices, as their smartphones bring good performance with even better cameras at very affordable prices. I always recommend Honor phones to anyone who keep the camera performance of a smartphone above everything else. That’s why, I was so happy to test outthe latest Honor budget smartphone; the Honor 9N(Starting at ₹11,999). Seeing Honor’s past, I especially wanted to test out the Honor 9N’s cameras and well, that’s what we will be doing here....