Xiaomi Redmi 9i could launch in India soon, according to a new report. The Redmi 9i is expected to be a rebranded version of the Redmi 9A that was announced in July 2020. Xiaomi Redmi 9 also went official in India just a few hours back and is a slightly tweaked version of the Redmi 9C. Earlier this month, the company also launched the Redmi 9 Prime which was a rebadged variant of the global Redmi 9.
According to a report by PriceBaba, Xiaomi could launch the Redmi 9i in India in the coming few weeks and it will be available with 4GB RAM and 64GB/128GB storage options to choose from. The colour options have also been revealed to be Nature Green, Sea Blue and Midnight Black.
Exclusive for @Pricebaba: Xiaomi is gearing up for Redmi 9i Launch in India! Check out the storage variants and colour options it will be available in, in the article linked below: https://t.co/qAElZN71uD
— Ishan Agarwal (@ishanagarwal24) August 27, 2020
It does make sense for Xiaomi to complete its trio of budget phones across different price points, especially if the phones have already been unveiled globally. Hence, it isn’t surprising is the company does go ahead and bring the Redmi 9A to India as Redmi 9i.
Xiaomi Redmi 9A specifications
Xiaomi Redmi 9A features a 6.54-inch HD+ (1600 x 720 pixels) resolution display with a waterdrop notch cutout on top for the selfie camera. This gives the screen a 20:9 aspect ratio with 400 nits maximum brightness. It measures 9 millimetres in thickness and weighs 196 grams.
The 9A is powered by MediaTek Helio G25 processor with an octa-core CPU and is paired with upto 4GB RAM and 128GB storage options to choose from. It also supports memory expansion by upto 512GB via microSD card. It runs on MIUI 12 out-of-the-box.
The Redmi 9A comes with a 13MP camera with an f/2.2 aperture and a 5MP selfie camera housed within the notch cutout. It comes with the basic set of sensors and connectivity features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0.
Xiaomi Redmi 9A is equipped with 5,000mAh battery with 10W regular charging speeds.
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Well, the dreaded 2 season Netflix curse strikes again as Altered Carbon has now been cancelled on the streaming platform. Netflix decided not to order a third season of the sci-fi/cyberpunk show. This comes as the streaming giant also cancelled two other shows in The Society, and I am not OK with this. It seems that unlike the other two shows that were cancelled because of problems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Deadline reports that Altered Carbon was not renewed for a third season as the second season did not garner as many viewers as Netflix though it would and this it came down to the ‘viewership vs cost renewal review process.’
The first season was one of the streaming platform’s most popular shows and since Netflix does not release any numbers, we can only speculate that it was the lukewarm reception to the second season that caused this cancellation.
The show was one of the better representations of the cyberpunk genre and it is a shame to see it go. But, worry not as we’ve scoured Netflix and come with a much-needed list on the best cyberpunk shows on the platform to really scratch the Altered Carbon itch.
Also, if cyberpunk and sci-fi are not your thing, why not check out the best superhero and fantasy shows on Netflix?
Ghost in the Shell series
If you haven’t heard of the Ghost in the Shell series, then know this. All the major concepts and ideas in Hollywood films like The Matrix have been influenced by this manga and subsequent animated film and Anime show. If you’re looking for a show to lose yourself into then you should check out Stand Alone Complex first, then move onto Solid State Society and finally cleanse your palette with SAD 2045. This is cyberpunk at its daring and boundary-breaking best. The show deals with so many themes and ideas that stem from a technologicallly advanced society. Thought-provoking and action-packed, Ghost in the Shell should be your new jam on Netflix.
Love, Death and Robots
Love, Death and Robots is a bunch of animated shorts that lets creators run wild with their ideas. Each short is animated in a myriad of ways and each of these shorts is unique in their own way. Our favourites include Beyond the Aquila Rift, The Witness and The Sucker of Souls. There are 18 episodes in total and you’ll breeze through most of them as they aren’t very long. Just a word of caution, even though these shorts are animated, they are definitely not meant for children. A lot of these shorts really push the edge of animation and what a cyberpunk future could actually look like.
Snowpiercer
While not strictly cyberpunk in execution, Snowpiercer taps into the more dystopian nature of the genre as it takes the ideas that were explored in the film and examines it in more detail. For the uninitiated, the show takes place in a future where the world has been frozen over in a cataclysmic environmental disaster and the only survivors left alive live on a train called Snowpiercer that constantly circles the Earth in a never-ending loop. The train is split into various sections with each mirroring our own society. And on top of all this, there are a series of gruesome murders that threatens to destroy the delicate balance on Snowpiercer.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
One of the more influential anime in the 90s, Neon Genesis Evangelion is not your average cute Japanese animation. The story is set in the near future of 2015 (20 years after the show actually aired in 1995) where Earth is constantly attacked by alien beings called Angels and humanity has to fight back using giant robots called EVAs. It’s a little more complicated than that but rest assured the show is action-packed and treads on familiar cyberpunk themes such as individual consciousness in the face of machine supremacy. It’s a great show that is deep, insightful and just plain cool.
12 Monkeys
Based on the film of the same name, 12 Monkeys is a mind-bending, time-warping show that takes the best of the films dystopian and futuristic setting and extrapolates on it. The story of the show deals with a low-life called James in 2043 who has to travel back in time to 2015 to stop the world from being engulfed in a deadly plague caused by the Army of the 12 Monkeys who released the virus. It is a well-crafted show with excellent characters, a great narrative and will also fill that cyberpunk shaped hole in your heart.
Black Mirror
As we’ve said before, Black Mirror is one of the top Netflix series on the platform and you’ll be doing yourself a big disservice by not checking it out. The show is a series of episodes about the dangers of futuristic technology and how we as humans can be negatively affected by it. The show is basically everything that the cyberpunk genre has been about all these years. It is incredibly topical, seemingly set in a version of the future that we can actually see coming our way. Highly intelligent and well-written, Black Mirror will fix your need for a thinking man’s sci-fi TV show.
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Canon cameras can now upload photos directly to Google Photos using the latest image.canon app on Android and iOS. Google and Canon havw collaborated to bring the feature to DSLRs for the first time. Canon users will also get a month of free membership to Google Photos with 100GB of cloud storage.
Now you can easily upload photos captured on your Canon camera directly to Google Photos over Wi-Fi. No need to plug in your camera or take out your SD card. https://t.co/oxxs9sy1Dn pic.twitter.com/tVJWONt35Y
— Google Photos (@googlephotos) August 26, 2020
Using the feature, Canon users can upload their photos directly from the camera at their original resolution to the cloud. No need for a wired transfer to a PC first and then uploading to the cloud. After the free membership expires, Canon users will have to purchase a Google One membership to make the feature work.
According to a blog post by Google, you will need the latest version of the image.canon app for iOS and Android and a compatible Canon camera. The list includes cameras already available in the market and compatible with the app including the latest mirrorless series. You can check out the list of compatible cameras here at this link.
The primary benefit of the feature is that you can now directly upload photos taken from the camera to the cloud, ready for access anywhere in the world. This improves collaboration and saves time.
Interestingly, the image.canon app already supported uploads to Google Drive and YouTube, as well Google Cloud Print. Backup to Google Photos is a new addition. To make use of the feature, you will require a Google One membership which starts at Rs 130 per month for 100 GB storage. You can cut it down to Rs 1,300 for an annual subscription, and even increase the storage limit to up to 30TB for Rs 9,750 per month.
The feature also benefits both parties. For Canon users, it gives them a hassle-free way to upload and backup images directly from the camera. While for Google, it gives them a chance to make Google Photos a lot more useful, and go beyond smartphones and PCs.
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Canon released the EOS R5 and EOS R6 earlier last month. The two cameras are primed for photo and video shooters alike, but the two cameras haven’t had the smoothest of launch. Various issues have been reported by early adopters of the EOS R5 and EOS R6, with heating issues being one of the most widely reported ones. Today, Canon has released a firmware update for the EOS R5 that seeks to resolve some early teething issues.
Firmware 1.1.0 for the Canon EOS R5 brings a number of fixes for the camera, the most notable one being related to heating. The new firmware will no longer disable the overheat control function when shooting with an external monitor or recorder. Overheat control’s primary job is to automatically adjust the frame rates and movie size while the camera is in standby in order to prevent any more heat build-up. This allows the camera to shoot longer, but the issue is adjusted frame rates, which might not be ideal for some, especially seeing how the EOS R5 shoots 8K Video.
The new firmware also drastically improves the calculation of the time remaining on the camera for shooting. The last major improvement is to the image stabilisation system, which now works more reliably with specific RF lenses. The IS also now compensates shake up to 6-stops, an improvement over the 5-stop compensation that the cameras launched with. You can read the whole list of features in the firmware below.
Useful messaging is now displayed when [HDMI display: Camera+External monitor] and [Overheat control: on] settings are enabled. When using certain RF lenses for movie shooting, the in-lens image stabilization mechanism has been improved. Fixes a phenomenon in which the “Slow Synchro” setting screen is not accurately displayed, when the language is set to English. Fixes a typo displayed on the communication setting screen, when the language is set to Korean. Connectivity during FTP transmission has been improved. Fixes a phenomenon, in which the card access time may take longer, when using certain CF express cards. Temperature detection and shooting time control in video shooting have been improved. In addition, the total shooting time when the short-time recording and power-on/off are performed repeatedly at room temperature is improved. The phenomenon in which the movie recording time available is not correctly displayed when the Date/Time/Zone is not set has been corrected.
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Xiaomi Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro could soon launch globally and in India too. The Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro are slated to succeed the Mi 9T series from last year and both the phones were spotted in a listing and alleged press renders were subsequently leaked by a Twitter user, revealing some key specifications.
XDA developers report that they spotted a” brand-new phone” with the codename Apollo on OfferUp which is an online retailer platform. Moreover, a member of the XDA community who goes by the name kacskrz discovered the model names of the Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro in MIUI 12 beta and corroborated with earlier findings to conclude that the phone listed on OfferUp is most likely the Mi 10T Pro. The codes also indicate that Xiaomi could be launching a global and an Indian variant of the Mi 10T series.
Elsewhere, a Twitter user who goes by the name Abhishek Yadav posted an alleged picture of the Mi 10T Pro which gives us a glimpse of the vertical camera module on the upcoming phone with a 108MP camera.
[ Exclusive ] Mi 10T, Mi 10T Pro & Mi 10 Lite Launching Soon Globally. Here is The First Look Of Mi 10T Pro. Mi 10T Pro Specs. •5000mAh Battery •144Hz Refresh Rate •108MP Rear Camera •May Be Side Mounted Fingerprint Scanner I Am Not Sure About This One.#Mi10TPro #Mi10T pic.twitter.com/8ngfxyrzZo
— Abhishek Yadav (@yabhishekhd) August 26, 2020
You can also notice the power button which is slightly recessed as it doubles up as a fingerprint reader. The folks over at XDA also found traces of the codename Apollo in Xiaomi’s camera app which carries a 64MP camera sensor while the Apollo pro comes with a 108MP camera.
Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro, Mi 10T leaked specifications
As per the tweet by Yadav, Mi 10T Pro could come featuring a 144Hz high-refresh-rate display, 108MP rear camera and 5,000mAh battery to boot. The phones are expected to be powered by either the Snapdragon 865 or Snapdragon 865 Plus processor which puts them in the flagship range of smartphones.
Last year, Xiaomi rebranded the Redmi K20 and K20 Pro as the Mi 9T and 9T Pro but this year, the Redmi K30 series is already out and so it’s good to see the company working on a new range of phones.
The Mi 10T Pro and Mi 10T are expected to be launched in the coming few weeks, and we will know more about it as we near the launch date. There’s no word on the India launch as well, but Xiaomi did announce the Redmi 9 budget phone earlier today.
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The Witcher: Monster Slayer augmented reality (AR) mobile game has been announced by CD Projekt. The game is like Pokemon Go and requires players to go out and explore to come across monsters and battle them.
Google already rolled out a big redesign for Google Maps earlier this year in celebration of the app’s 15th birthday, but Google is not done yet. The redesign brought a new icon, navigation bar, more transit features and a live view where it uses the camera to show real-time directions overlaid on what you see (it’s not available in India yet). And now, continuing with the redesign, Google has rolled out a new feature for Google Maps that helps with remembering saved places.
There’s a new Saved tab in the Google Maps app at the top. So you can easily navigate to the place you have saved or find a nearby place you have saved. Once you have granted the location permission to the app, Google Maps will show you all your nearby saved places in a carousel for easy picking. These saved places will be arranged based on proximity.
Another new feature is the ability to track the places you’ve been to, using location history. This becomes handy when you have to trace your steps back if you wish to find something, or simply to reminisce where you spent your time in a particular city.
The new features are being rolled out in phases and will first hit Android smartphones. The changes have been spotted in the 10.48.2 version of Google Maps.
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