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Boult Audio launches TWS device ‘AirBass ENCore X’ under Rs 2000

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Consumer electronics company Boult Audio has launched a new TWS device under Rs 2000. Power-packed with USB type-C fast charging, the TWS device ‘ENCore X’ features environmental noise cancellation with Pro+ calling experience using Quad Mic setup.

The device is power-packed with Type-C fast charging and offers a total playback of up to 30 hours. Equipped with the latest Bluetooth 5.1 wireless connectivity, the ENCore X offers Bluetooth 5.1 wireless connectivity ensuring the fastest pairing and strong signals over a longer operation range from the source.

Colour options

The Boult Audio AirBass ENCore X TWS Earbuds will be offered in black and white colour.

AirBass ENCore X

ENCore X price

The AirBass ENCore X will go on sale from April 8. The device can be purchased at Rs 1,799 from official website, www.boultaudio.com and Amazon.in, with a standard industry warranty of 1 year.

Playback time

The ENCore X gives a total of 100 minutes of playback time in just 10 minutes of charge without compromising on performance.

Other features of AirBass ENCore X

Featuring Bluetooth technology, the AirBass EnCore X comprises high-fidelity drivers for sheer performance. The device is IPX5 Water Resistant and it can comfortably be used outdoors or in the gym. These earbuds can be used separately as a monopod or else in stereo mode using both the earbuds after successful pairing. The Boult Audio AirBass ENCore X’s latest Bluetooth technology not only helps in faster pairing and stable connectivity over longer distances but also saves on power.

The AirBass ENCore X has a uniquely built design that’s crafted for high ergonomics. It features an angled bud with extra-soft silicone tips for added comfort during long use. The body is built with a high-quality and premium-finish ABS shell which also protects it from water and sweat. So don’t let the rain or sweat cease your outdoor activities.

The touch-sensitive earbuds can be conveniently used at your fingertips to adjust the volume, change tracks, attend calls or command your voice assistant.

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Why WhatsApp banned 14.26 lakh Indian accounts in February?

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Like its messaging service, WhatsApp is now steadfast in its approach to take action against the users violating the code of conduct on its platform. In one such move – which is more frequent now in order to rein in violators – the Meta-owned company has imposed a ban on 14.26 lakh Indian accounts in February.

These bans are based on complaints received from users via grievances channel and through its own mechanism to prevent and detect violations, as per a monthly transparency report published by WhatsApp. It must be noted that the report is published under Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

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As per their recent (9th) user safety monthly report, 335 grievance reports, including 194 ban appeals, were received and 21 accounts were “actioned” between February 1 and February 28. Whereas, others were in the categories of account support, product support and safety, among others. Notably, an Indian account is identified via a +91 phone number.

The popular messaging platform banned 18,58,000 Indian accounts in January this year, based on its abuse detection approach, in response to grievances reported by users in India and for violating the country’s laws or WhatsApp’s Terms of Service. The report also brings to fore action taken in continuance to negative feedback received from users via our “Report” feature.

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“We respond to all grievances received except in cases where a grievance is deemed to be a duplicate of a previous ticket. An account is ‘actioned’ when an account is banned or a previously banned account is restored, as a result of a complaint,”

According to media reports quoting a WhatsApp spokesperson: “This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform.”

The spokesperson further added that over the years, WhatsApp has consistently invested in Artificial Intelligence and other state-of-the-art technology, data scientists and experts, and processes, in order to keep users safe on the platform.

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Realme 9 4G launching soon with 9X focusing precision, check details

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So, the dates have been set for the launch of the upcoming smartphone- Realme 9 4G. It is the company’s next flagship phone and will be available in India on April 7. It is also the same day when the company’s other flagship is making a debut in the Indian market- the GT 2 Pro. Realme 9 4G has been rumoured for quite some time, so the news that it will be released soon is not surprising. However, the camera specifications on the device have created some heat in the air, as it is expected to capture some stunning shots with a 108MP camera on the back system.

Realme has also claimed in a tweet that the Realme 9 4G will have “9X focusing precision,” but did not specify what that meant. This is the samas the Realme 8 Pro which was unveiled last year. It has the same 108MP featuring camera.

Realme 9 4G specifications

Realme 9 4G is coming equipped with a Samsung-made 108 ISOCELL HM6 camera sensor. The remainder of the specs for the impending Realme 9 4G is yet to be revealed, although speculation is widespread that it will be a lower mid-range (around Rs 20,000) phone.

Realme 9 4G SPECS

The Realme 9 4G, according to rumours, would have a 16-megapixel front camera hidden behind a punch-hole in the display. Abhishek Yadav, a tipster, tweeted a Realme 9 4G poster, indicating that the phone would have an AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate and a 360Hz touch sampling rate, all of which provide a smooth scrolling and gaming experience. The phone will include an in-display fingerprint sensor and a maximum brightness of 1000 nits thanks to the AMOLED display.

The phone will be thin (7.99mm) and light (178 grammes). The Ripple Holographics Design, which we previously saw on the Realme 9 5G SE, will be present on the Realme 9 4G, and the colour options will be Sunburst Gold, Stargaze White, and Meteor Black. The 108-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL HM6 sensor also has NanoPixel Plus Technology, 9-Sum Pixel Binning, and greater light intake for better images, according to the poster. The back system’s other cameras will feature a “super” wide-angle sensor with a 120-degree field of view and a 4cm macro sensor.

 Realme 9 4G Price

Realme 9 4G price in india

The pricing of the incoming Realme 9 4G is unknown, but based on the price of last year’s Realme 8 Pro, we can make an educated assumption. The Realme 8 Pro was introduced at a starting price of Rs 17,999, which might indicate that the future Realme 9 4G would be priced similarly.

 Realme 94G Event

On April 7, the Realme 9 4G is dropping with the GT 2 Pro. In India, the event will begin at 12.30 p.m. Realme will live-stream the event on its YouTube account so you can keep up with the action in real-time.

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Portronics launches ‘Pure Sound 103’ modern party speaker with powerful acoustics

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Portronics announces the launch of its flagship feature-packed “Pure Sound 103” – a 100W Soundbar with a Subwoofer. This latest Soundbar from Portronics will elevate your experience with a theatre-like atmosphere right in your living room. Pure Sound 103 has been ideally designed to meet the need for quality music serving for all occasions, and especially for the house parties.

The simple, yet powerful audio system is an all-in-one solution – a thunderous home theatre speaker, a personal music system, a party entertainer. Now you can even mould the way you want your sound system to be! Pure Sound 103 is designed in such a way that it can be detached from the middle to turn it into two different compact Soundbars. This helps utilise the available space and also enhances the sound productivity.

Pure Sound 103

Equipped with multiple connectivity options, users can connect the Soundbar via Bluetooth 5.0 making it easily compatible with any TV, laptop, tab, or smartphone with just one touch. No matter what your preference is, the Soundbar has a port for it! USB mode enables a seamless experience and the optical mode allows better connectivity, so you have all the excuses to get ahead with Pure Sound 103.

One can discover a new level of immersive, cinematic audio experience at home with this Soundbar. Thanks to its 100W power output and a dedicated, compact and powerful subwoofer that completes the Pure Sound experience. The audio that comes out of this speaker is going to be much more powerful and impactful as compared to a standard Soundbar system, making the music ‘rock-the-roof’. The display panel of the Soundbar is housed inside the cage; a bright LED display with a good viewing angle on the front panel.

Portronics Pure Sound

With the 2.1 channel system, one can control different presets in audio modes for a more lucid and realistic experience as per their requirements. With its powerful subsets of bass, treble and deeply enhanced equalizers, you will feel transported into the visuals ahead of you. Moreover, you can also enjoy the cinema-like effects in Pure Sound 103 made for a VR enhanced experience every time you plug in!

Pricing and Availability:

This amazing party speaker from Portronics can be purchased at a discounted price of INR 5,999. Backed with a 12-month warranty the Pure Sound 103 is available at Portronics.com, Amazon.in, and other leading online and offline stores.

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Alexa can alert you about deals and discounts up to a day in advance

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With an aim to help customers save money while saving time, virtual assistant technology Alexa by Amazon has added a new feature that will notify Prime customers up to 24 hours in advance about specific discounts.

Through this feature, Amazon Prime members will be able to get the alerts when the products they have kept in their wish list or marked “saved for later,” in the shopping cart are on sale.

The feature is currently available to Amazon Prime members who own Echo smart speakers that are fourth generation or newer. The new feature is open for Amazon Prime customers in the US only.

How to turn it on

To activate it, open the Alexa app, select More > Settings > Notifications before tapping on Amazon Shopping. After activating it you can look for Shopping Recommendations and enable Deal Recommendations. Once enabled, Amazon’s Echo ring will turn yellow.

Amazon Glow

In another development, the US-based tech giant has also announced availability of Amazon Glow for all customers in the US. Amazon Glow offers visual arts activities, books, and immersive features that add magic to video calls and help build rich family connections.

Powered by Amazon Kids+ activities, the Amazon Glow combines elements of a game system, a children’s library, and an arts-and-crafts center with video chat and an interactive projected space.

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Oppo F21 Pro to be a selfie king, thanks to flagship Sony IMX709 sensor: Details inside

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Oppo is all set to launch its F21 Pro Series smartphones and Enco Air2 Pro TWS earbuds on April 12. Before the much-awaited unveiling, the company today revealed that the upcoming Oppo F21 Pro will include the flagship Sony IMX709 RGBW (red, blue, green, white) selfie sensor, which is said to be 60% more sensitive to light and reduces noise by 35% when compared to the previous generation IMX615 RGB sensor.

According to the popular Chinese handset maker, the Sony IMX709 RGBW camera lets users to capture crisp, clear and evenly-exposed photos, as per the company. With Oppo’s Quadra Binning algorithm, two W pixels are added to each R, G, and B pixel so that the sensor can detect red, green, blue, and white signals. This boosts light intake without reducing colour information, improves cross-platform compatibility and image processing efficiency.

AI Portrait Enhancement

The company said Oppo’s imaging R&D team designed the IMX709 using the 22nm process to consume lesser power than any other flagship front camera image sensor.

Oppo further said the F21 Pro also houses an advanced AI Portrait Enhancement feature that is a solution to the problems that customers face in front and rear portrait shooting. It can differentiate between beauty spots and skin blemishes and identify subjects, based on ethnicity, gender and age, to offer personalised and natural face retouching, as per the company.

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Segment-first microlens

The phone maker has introduced a 2MP microlens on Oppo F21 Pro, with support for 15x/30x magnification, that allows you to explore textures, colours, shapes and sizes at a microscopic level. Oppo also added a new Orbit Light around the microlens for illumination as the short focal length of this lens required the phone to be very close to the objects that are photographed.

Oppo Enco Air2 Pro

Coming to the Oppo Enco Air2 Pro, the TWS will sport a 12.4mm titanized diaphragm driver, wide sound fields, potent bass, crystal-clear vocals and active noise cancellation which is claimed to be capable of capturing and cancelling out ambient noise at various frequencies. The Oppo Enco Air2 Pro adopts a dual-layer, transparent bubble design with a refractive top cover that adds a unique touch of translucent lightness, the company revealed.

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Picture-in-picture mode goes available for iPhone & iPad users on YouTube TV

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Google –owned YouTube has finally rolled out the picture-in-picture mode for iPhone and iPad users. With this feature iPhone and iPad users will be able to watch videos even when they navigate away from the app.

“iPhone & iPad users, We’re happy to share that picture-in-picture is now rolling out to your iOS 15+ devices. Simply select a video to watch and swipe ?? from the bottom of the screen to return to the device’s homepage. The video can scale down and move across your screen (sic),” tweets YouTube TV.

Users have been asked to have the latest version of the app installed on their devices to see the latest update. According to the YouTube TV, the feature will be soon be available to all iOS, without a YouTube Premium subscription. However, any confirmation on the same is yet to be announced.

It is pertinent to highlight that PIP mode is yet to be made available for the standard YouTube app on Apple iPhones and iPads. It is currently under testing for the premium subscribers.

What is YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode

Picture-in-picture (PiP) allows users to continue watching YouTube TV while using other apps on their mobile device. YouTube TV introduced the picture-in-picture mode for Android back in 2017, the feature allows users to keep watching videos even when they navigate away from the app. The picture-in-picture option was available for the main YouTube app.

How picture-in-picture works

Picture-in-picture shrinks the video into a small player that can be dragged to different parts of the screen. With this, video will continue to playback on top of other apps.

How to turn on picture-in-picture

To turn on picture-in-picture mode, users need to tap on their profile picture then tap setting followed by General and switch on picture-in-picture mode.

Turn off picture-in-picture

To turn off picture-in-picture mode, you need to tap your profile picture, tap Settings and then General and choose switch off picture in picture.

How to use picture-in-picture on the YouTube iOS App

To use the picture-in-picture mode on your iPhone or iPad, users need to first update the app to the latest available version from the App Store. Open the video to watch. You need to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to return to the device’s homepage and app will close automatically. However, the video window will stay open and the clip will continue to play in picture-in-picture mode.

The picture-in-picture mode allows users to scale down the size of the video. They can also move it to anywhere on the screen. The video window will also have the standard play/pause and rewind/forward controls that can be tapped to control playback. There will also be a button on the mini window to return to the full-screen application, as well as a button to close the video window for good.

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Samsung introduces Galaxy M33 5G to take on Redmi Note 11 Pro, Moto G71: Check price, specs and more

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Expanding its Galaxy M series which is aimed at mid-range customers, Samsung has finally rolled out the Galaxy M33 5G in India. Among the key highlights, the smartphone comes with a quad-camera setup on the back, and is powered by the company’s own 5nm octa-core Exynos SoC, paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The handset extracts juice from a massive 6000mAh battery, and is said to compete with the likes of Redmi Note 11 Pro and Moto G71.

Price and Availability

The Samsung Galaxy M33 5G comes in two RAM/ROM configurations – 6GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB. While the base variant is priced at Rs 18,999, the upper variant costs Rs 20,499. Interestingly, the South Korean handset major is offering both the variants at an introductory price of Rs 17,999 and 19,999 respectively for early buyers. The smartphone will be available for purchase in Blue and Green colour options via Amazon and Samsung India online store starting April 8.

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Specifications and Features

In terms of technical specs, the smartphone sports a 6.6-inch full HD+ Infinity-V display with a refresh rate of 120Hz, which is definitely a wonderful feature. It has a Gorilla Glass 5 protection and is powered by an unnamed octa-core 5nm Exynos chip, which is further coupled with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The RAM Plus feature in this smartphone is capable to extend the RAM from 8GB to 16GB exploiting its inbuilt feature.

For photography and videos, the Samsung Galaxy M33 5G comes packed with a quad camera setup on the back – a 50MP primary sensor with an f/1.8 aperture, a 5MP ultra-wide-angle sensor with a 120-degree field-of-view and an f/2.4 aperture, a 2MP macro shooter with f/2.2 aperture, and a 2MP depth sensor with f/2.2 aperture. There’s an 8MP camera on the front for selfies and video calls. Talking more about the rear camera, its supports various professional photography and videography modes like single take, object eraser, bokeh effect, and Video Temporal Noise Reduction.

In terms of connectivity, the phone has support for 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. There is a side-mounted fingerprint scanner for security purpose. As mentioned above, it is backed by a 6,000mAh battery, having a 25W fast charging support.

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iQOO Neo 6 arriving on April 13: Here’s what you need to know

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The iQOO Neo6, which we’ve been hearing about since last December, finally has a release date. The company has officially confirmed that its iQOO Neo 6 smartphone will be released in China on April 13. The smartphone will be launched as a replacement for the iQOO Neo 5, which was released last year.

The phone will also be available in India, though the company has yet to confirm this fact. For the time being, iQOO has teased the device’s design ahead of its launch.

iQOO Neo 6 design

iQOO Neo6 Smartphone

The company has released a new teaser for the future iQOO Neo 6, detailing the device’s design. The teaser verifies certain key design aspects, such as the smartphone’s vegan leather finish on the back, which will be available in an orange colour option. It is also very likely that the company will release the smartphone with a glass back. The phone will be available in three colours: black, blue, and orange. The smartphone has a triple camera arrangement in a rectangular camera module on the rear.

iQOO Neo 6 Specifications

The model number V2196A for the iQOO Neo 6 was also discovered on the Geekbench benchmarking site. According to the listing, the device will be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC and a motherboard codenamed “taro.” This is the codename for Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipset, for those who don’t know. One core is clocked at 3GHz, three cores are clocked at 2.5GHz, and four cores are clocked at 1.79GHz in this flagship chipset.

iQOO Neo6 Phone

According to the listing, the smartphone would come with 12GB of RAM and will operate on Android 12. However, it’s feasible that various storage solutions with other RAM possibilities will be available. In single-core testing, the spotted device was able to score 1193 points, and in multi-core tests, 3523 points in the multi-core tests. The smartphone will include a 6.62-inch Full HD+ screen and a 2,290mAh dual-cell battery pack, which should be a 4,700mAh battery, according to a prior listing of the iQOO Neo 6 at TENNA certifications.

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Tech NewsWrap: Samsung Galaxy A73 5G pre-booking is live… and more

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Samsung Galaxy A73 5G pre-booking is live

Samsung Galaxy A73 5G

Samsung has begun taking pre-orders for its new Galaxy A73 5G smartphone in India. Many fantastic deals are also available on pre-ordering the upcoming smartphone. On April 8, the Galaxy A73 5G will be released in India. The Galaxy A73 5G has premium features including as a 120Hz Super AMOLED+ display, a 108MP OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) camera, and an IP67 rating. Samsung will host a special event for the Galaxy A73 5G on Live. You may watch the live event on Samsung.com on Friday, April 8, at 6 p.m.

Google removes 93,067 bad content pieces in India

GoogleGoogle claimed that it has eliminated 93,067 pieces of harmful content as a result of user complaints in February. This is down from the 1,04,285 pieces of erroneous content that the search giant removed back in January. In February, Google received a total of 30,065 complaints from users in India, according to its monthly report filed in accordance with the new India IT Rules 2021. The complaints were over third-party content that the users believed broke local laws or infringed on their personal rights.

Apple releases MacOS 12.3.1

Apple MacApple also released macOS Monterey 12.3.1 alongside iOS 15.4.1. Two bugs have been fixed in the new software update for Mac devices. To begin with, the update resolves the issue of USB-C or Thunderbolt external displays failing to turn on when attached to the Mac Mini (2018) as a secondary display. The second bug update in macOS Monterey fixes an issue where Bluetooth devices like game controllers would detach from customers’ Macs after listening to music using Beats headphones. Aside from bug fixes, macOS Monterey 12.3.1 also addresses two security concerns. The first is designated as CVE-2022-22675, while the second is designated as CVE-2022-22674.

Realme 9 4G India launch date announced

Realme 9 4GThe Realme 9 4G, the company’s next phone in marquee series, is coming to India on April 7. Realme will debut its flagship phone, the GT 2 Pro, in India on the same day as a few other products, including a new Realme Book laptop. The Realme 9 4G has been rumoured for quite some time, so the news that it will be released soon is not surprising. Meanwhile, users searching for a camera-centric phone will be pleased to learn that the Realme 9 4G will include a 108-megapixel camera on the rear system.

 

 

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