Apple is poised to open an online store for the first time in the fast-growing smartphone market of India next month, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, taking advantage of a relaxation of once-strict prohibitions against foreign direct retail. The online store will be ready for operations just ahead of the festive
The new Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is supposed to be the best of the best that Samsung has to offer in a smartphone – minus a bendable screen. It’s the most expensive conventional phone in Samsung’s lineup, and includes the top-of-the-line 108-megapixel camera of the Galaxy S20 Ultra from earlier this year as well
Realme has announced the onset of its Realme Youth Days sale starting August 24 i.e., next week. The sale will be held for five days and will end on August 28. The company says there will be up to 60 percent off on smartphones, earphones, and wearables. The sale will see flash deals at 12
Honor Watch GS Pro is expected to launch at the IFA 2020 trade show on September 4. Honor is set to deliver a keynote address at the event in the German capital of Berlin, where it is expected to launch the new smartwatch alongside the global variants of its Honor Pad 6 and Honor Pad
TicWatch GTX smartwatch has been launched in India as Google-backed Mobvoi’s budget-friendly wearable. It comes in a single colour option and offers features like 14 work-out modes and heartrate monitoring, and the company says it delivers up to seven days of battery life. TicWatch GTX features a sleek circular dial with two buttons on the
Lenovo Legion Phone Duel launch in India got delayed at the last minute, a company executive told Gadgets 360. The phone was supposed to launch alongside Lenovo’s new gaming laptops which released this week, Gadgets 360 has learnt, but was put on hold just ahead of the launch. The Legion Phone Duel is Lenovo’s first
Slim and light laptops are becoming more affordable, and it’s always good to see manufacturers paying attention to what people really want. If, like me, you spend most of your day using a laptop and have to carry it with you wherever you go, it had better not become a burden. Thankfully modern laptops use
Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year’s most crucial back-to-school supplies: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning, an Associated Press investigation has found. The world’s three biggest computer companies, Lenovo, HP and Dell, have told school districts they have
Sony will now allow you to use a digital cameras as a webcam. As work from home increasingly becomes the new normal, the need to have better quality webcams for video conference calls has risen. Panasonic and Olympus have already launched software to enable turning their mirrorless cameras into webcams, and now Sony is the
Apple on Friday alleged that Epic Games’ chief executive had asked it for a “side letter” to create its own game store within the iPhone maker’s App Store, which Apple said would have upended the store’s commission-based business model. The disclosure came in a court filing on Friday in which Apple asked a federal judge
The maker of video game sensation Fortnite is taunting Apple amid its legal battle with the tech titan, launching a tournament on Sunday to highlight its war on the App Store fee policy. “All of your friends. Awesome prizes. And one bad apple,” Epic Games said in a post on its website. The “FreeFortnite Cup”
Gotham Knights — we finally have the title for the next DC game from Batman: Arkham Origins developer WB Games Montréal. At DC FanDome, the Canadian studio lifted the lid on Gotham Knights, giving us our first look at what to expect from the co-op game. It’s set in a world where Batman / Bruce
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League trailer is live. At DC FanDome, Rocksteady Studios — with the help of The Lego Batman voice star Will Arnett — unveiled its next DC game, which puts you in control of the members of the supervillain team (Suicide Squad) as you go up against the world’s most powerful
DC is taking over the weekend. At DC FanDome, WarnerMedia-owned DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures will give us trailers, teases, sneak peeks, and first looks at some of their biggest upcoming properties. Wonder Woman 1984. The Batman. The Suicide Squad. Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Black Adam. The Flash. There will be reveals on the
LG Q92 has officially launched in South Korea as the latest smartphone offering from the company. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 765G SoC and is equipped with quad rear cameras at the back. The handset has a hole-punch display design with the cut out placed in the top center of the screen. The
Mirzapur season 2 is set to premiere on October 23, as Amazon Prime Video announced the date with a teaser trailer on its social media channels on Monday. The first season of the crime thriller was well received by fans and critics alike, leading to a cult following around the series. Fans have been demanding
Reliance Jio and Disney+ Hotstar have teamed up to launch the ‘Cricket Dhana Dhan Jio Dhana Dhan’ offer for its subscribers. Jio is offering one year’s Disney+ Hotstar VIP membership with a few of its prepaid plans. It has introduced the Rs. 499 and Rs. 777 prepaid plans for users wherein they get the benefit
Zoom is down in parts of the world, according to many users on Facebook and Twitter. It is still working for some people though, and the company is reportedly investigating so it might be back up soon as well. Users on social media have been celebrating that Zoom is down since it’s become the de-facto
WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, isn’t just popular for texting or voice calling. WhatsApp users also have the option to make video calls. The video calling feature is free on WhatsApp and to get started all you’ll need is a working internet connection. The best thing is that WhatsApp
Netflix is testing a new “shuffle” option to help indecisive viewers pick a random title — a movie or a TV series — based on what they’ve seen previously, the genres they prefer, and the titles they might have saved in the “My List” row. The test is being run worldwide with select users. If
Just two years after Apple became the first publicly listed US company with a $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 75 lakh crores) stock market value, the iPhone maker has now topped $2 trillion (roughly Rs. 150 lakh crores). The Cupertino, California-based company’s shares briefly rose to as high as $468.65 (roughly Rs. 35,100) on Wednesday, equivalent to a
Flipkart has launched the Nokia Media Streamer, a new Android-based streaming device for televisions, priced at Rs. 3,499. Part of Flipkart’s branding partnership with Nokia that also includes smart televisions, the Nokia Media Streamer runs on Android 9, has a dedicated remote, and supports up to full-HD resolution streaming. Like other popular streaming devices such
Xiaomi has announced that it will be launching the Mi TV Horizon Edition in India on September 7. Not much is known about the new television, but it’s likely to be the company’s most premium offering in the television segment yet. A teaser page by Xiaomi has revealed some features, including familiar ones such as
Some US-based users of WeChat are suing President Donald Trump in a bid to block an executive order that they say would effectively bar access in the US to the hugely popular Chinese messaging app. The complaint, filed Friday in San Francisco, is being brought by the nonprofit U.S. WeChat Users Alliance and several people
Twitter on Sunday placed a disclaimer on US President Donald Trump’s tweet criticising the promotion of drop boxes by Democrats as an option for voters, saying the tweet violated the company’s “civic and election integrity” rules. “So now the Democrats are using Mail Drop Boxes, which are a voter security disaster. Among other things, they make
ByteDance investors are in talks to use their stakes in the Chinese technology firm to help finance their bid for its popular short-video app TikTok, according to people familiar with the matter. ByteDance has been in talks to divest TikTok’s North America, Australia and New Zealand operations to potential acquirers, including Microsoft and Oracle. President
Vietnamese technology firm VNG is suing TikTok, the popular short-form video app, saying it does not have adequate licences for the songs being used in its videos, sources said on Monday. VNG is accusing the Chinese-owned company of using audio tracks owned by Zing, a VNG subsidiary, without the company’s consent, two sources familiar with
A Delhi Assembly committee on peace and harmony will initiate on Tuesday proceedings in connection with complaints about the Facebook’s alleged “deliberate and intentional inaction to contain hateful content” in India, according to an official statement issued on Monday. The development comes in the backdrop of a report published in the Wall Street Journal recently,
Microsoft came to the defense of the maker of video game sensation Fortnite on Sunday, saying in a court filing that Apple’s moves to cut off the company from programming tools would hurt other game creators and players as well. Epic Games is locked in a legal battle with Apple after trying to dodge commission
Apple’s South Korean unit has proposed measures to address antitrust concerns and offered to provide KRW 100 billion, or $84.02 billion (roughly Rs. 629 crores) worth of support programmes for small businesses, consumers and others, the country’s competition watchdog said on Monday. Apple Korea has been under investigation by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)