iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max to go on sale in India today

Apple is all set to release the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max for sale in India. The latest iPhones were unveiled by the tech giant earlier this month. They went up on pre-orders last week in the country. The teaser page for all three smartphones went live on the Amazon India website and Flipkart on September 19. Alongside the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, Apple will start selling the Apple Watch Series 5 in India starting today.

The iPhone 11 price in India starts at Rs 64,900 for the 64GB base model. The other two variants of 128GB and 256GB storage will cost purchasers Rs 69,900 and Rs 79,900 respectively. The iPhone 11 comes in Purple, White, Green, Yellow, Black, and Red colour variants. 

Coming to the iPhone 11 Pro lineup, the base 64GB model starts at Rs 99,900. The Apple iPhone 11 256GB variant costs Rs 1,13,900, while the 512GB model is priced at Rs 1,31,900. In contrast, the iPhone 11 Pro Max starts at Rs 1,09,900 for the 64GB model, whereas the 256GB and 512GB storage models will cost Rs 1,23,900 and Rs 1,41,900 respectively. Both the iPhone 11 Pro phones will be made available in 4 colour options, namely, Gold, Midnight Green, Space Gray, and Silver.

The iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max are powered by the Apple A13 Bionic chip. While the iPhone 11 sports a 12MP dual rear camera setup, both the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max are equipped with 12MP triple rear camera setup. All three iPhones support 4K video recording at 60 frames per second. 

Apple will start selling the iPhone 11 lineup starting 6PM today. They will be available through major offline retailers, Apple-authorised distributors, the Amazon India website, Flipkart, and Paytm Mall.

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Xiaomi quietly launches IP55-rated Mi Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker

Just a couple of days after announcing the Mi Mix Alpha 5G concept smartphone in Beijing, Xiaomi has launched a portable Bluetooth speaker called the Mi Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker in China. The news of the phone maker’s most recent launch comes in the form of a report filed by Chinese tech website ITHome. Xiaomi’s new portable speaker costs 199 Chinese Yuan, which approximately translates to Rs 1,977. It is currently available for purchase from Xiaomi’s official stores.

According to ITHome’s report, the new Mi Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker features a 52mm speaker driver on the inside and Bluetooth 5.0, which is the latest version of the wireless radio standard. Made of soft plastic and covered in seamless fabric, the speaker also comes with dual microphones for noise cancellation during calls. The inbuilt 2600mAh battery has a claimed battery life of 8 hours of continuous music playback and charges through a USB Type-C port on the speaker.

The report also says that the Mi Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker is IP55-rated for water- and dust-resistance. There’s no mention of whether the speaker can float in water, an ability many new outdoor water-resistant speakers possess. We know that a couple of months ago, the speaker was spotted on the Bluetooth SIG website for Bluetooth 5.0 certification. Since then, the launch of the Mi Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker has been anticipated . That said, we still don’t know when or if Xiaomi will launch the product in India.

In related news, Xiaomi announced earlier this week a 5G concept smartphone called the Mi Mix Alpha. The device features a wraparound display on all its four sides, leaving only a thin ceramic strip running across its back for the camera sensors. Soon after the announcement, Xiaomi published camera samples taken through the device’s primary 108MP sensor on Twitter. You can read more about the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha here.

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Google Play Store reportedly failed to detect 29 malicious apps that had over 10 million collective downloads

It’s not easy managing the Google Play Store as thousands of apps are daily uploaded on the platform for approval and review. As per Statistica, over 6,140 mobile apps were released every day through the Google Play Store between Q3 2016 to Q1 2018 and the numbers have most likely gone up even more since then. Even though these numbers are high, that doesn’t mean that the Google Play team can skimp on observing tighter control over uploaded apps and their behaviour since Apple manages to do the same just fine. Quick Heal Security Labs has now reported 29 malicious apps on the Google Play Store that collectively sported over 10 million downloads. 

Twenty four of the 29 apps are HiddAd Apps, which install a shortcut on the home screen and hide their app icons after first boot so that users have trouble uninstalling them. When the shortcut is launched, these apps display intrusive full-screen ads and some of them can do the same even when not being run in the foreground. So, if your phone was showing pop-up ads out of the blue, one of these apps might be to blame. As per the report, most of the reported apps were classified under ‘Photography’ category.

The remaining five apps were Adware that would sneak into an Android device via absurd advertisements that are run on social media sites like YouTube, Facebook and others. Associate Security Researcher at Quick Heal, Digvijay Mane, notes, “Many a times, these promoted mobile applications boast about a lot of unbelievable functionalities like X-Ray scanning. We came across few advertisements of some interesting Android Apps which claim to offer functionality of X-ray scanning. When we explored the App further, we found out that two such apps have crossed 1 million + downloads already.”

While Google removed these malicious apps from the Play Store once they were reported, it begs the question, how they flew under the company’s radar for such a long time. Quick Heal also notes that users duped by these apps left scathing reviews but it seems like even that wasn’t enough to draw Google’s attention. 

While we might sound harsh, it should be noted that this is not the first time such a case has been highlighted. In June this year, researchers from the University of Sydney and independent Australian federal government agency CSIRO’s Data61 came across 2040 malware-laden counterfeit apps on the Google Play Store. While back in December 2019, Google used machine-learning backed anti-spam system to delete dubious reviews and thousands of shady apps from the Play Store, it seems like its efforts to keep the Play Store free of malware-laden apps have again dwindled. 

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