Realme C3 to go on today via Flipkart, Realmecom: Price, offers and more

Realme C3 was launched last week. Now, the handset is all set to go on sale for the first time in India. It will be available to purchase through Flipkart and Realme website starting at 12 noon today. The Realme C3 competes against the Redmi 8A Dual. The latter was launched recently as well.

Realme C3 price in India starts at Rs 6,999 for the 3GB RAM + 32GB storage variant. The 4GB RAM + 64GB storage model costs Rs 7,999. Both the models will be made available in Blazing Red and Frozen Blue colour options. 

As for the sale offers, Realme C3 buyers can get Jio benefits worth Rs 7,550 on a recharge of Rs 349 plan. Flipkart is also offering a minimum of Rs 1,000 discount in exchange for your old smartphone.

Realme C3 features a 6.5-inch HD+ (720x1600 pixels) display with 89.8 percent screen-to-body ratio and 20:9 aspect ratio. It is powered by the MediaTek Helio G70 chipset. It comes in two RAM options, 3GB and 4GB. The handset runs Android 10 with Realme UI 1.0 on top. It has 32GB and 64GB of onboard storage options. Moreover, it is expandable via a microSD card (up to 256GB).

On the optics front, Realme C3 sports a dual rear camera setup: 12MP primary sensor with an f/1.8 aperture + a 2MP secondary sensor. On the front lies a 5MP selfie shooter. It supports features such as HDR and AI Beautification.

Realme C3 packs a 5000mAh battery that supports 10W charging. It has a Micro-USB and a 3.5mm headphone jack as well.

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You can now create a mash-up of emojis on Android using Gboards Emoji Kitchen

Google is allowing users to mash-up emojis to create new combinations using Gboard's Emoji Kitchen. It lets you take your favourite emojis and mix them into customised stickers to help you convey precisely what you are feeling. As per the official blog, the feature is now available on Gboard for Android. 

Emojis have been around for a long time. People use them to convey their feelings. They play with them like words - mashing them together, turning nouns into verbs, breaking them apart to create entirely new concepts. With Emoji Kitchen. your phone’s keyboard becomes an even richer canvas for expression.

"Using Gboard on your Android phone, tap on any smiley emoji and Emoji Kitchen will reveal a number of stickers specially handcrafted by the designers at Google. So when you tap the face with a cowboy hat emoji -- YEEHAW now you have monkey cowboy, ghost cowboy, laughing cowboy, kissy cowboy, in love cowboy, pleading cowboy and of course pensive cowboy," the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

The stickers work across all popular apps like Gmail, Messages by Google, Messenger, Snapchat, Telegram, WhatsApp, and more. It must be noted that users cannot just mix any two emojis together. It works only with those supported by Google. As of now, the emoji sticker pack features 40 emoji combinations built by developer Maxence Guegnolle.

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Panasonic announces Miraie connected home experience in India

As if to add to the rising competition in the Indian connected home appliances market, Panasonic announced earlier today the Miraie connected home experience. Available in Panasonic’s home appliances such as water heaters, air conditioners, ceiling fans, and washing machines from this year on, Miraie aims to give more control to the user through the use of voice commands and Panasonic’s proprietary Miraie app, which is currently available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Miraie-enabled home appliances from Panasonic use the ZigBee home automation specification to allow remote operation using the Miraie smartphone app. For example, a user will be able to control their Panasonic air conditioner remotely using their smartphone. In addition, these Miraie-enabled appliances have native support for digital voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, which will allow users to control their Panasonic home appliance using their smart speakers or smart displays.

Nearly all inverter-driven air conditioners in Panasonic’s 2020 product portfolio will feature Miraie, said Manish Sharma, President and CEO of Panasonic India and South East Asia, in a response to Digit at the launch event in New Delhi. According to the Japanese electronics manufacturer, the Miraie smartphone app will also act as a digital warranty card for all Miraie-enabled appliances. Customers will also be able to purchase spare parts and perform preventive diagnostic checks using the app.

Miraie will work across many of Panasonic’s products, including air conditioners, smart doorbells, smart plugs and switches, etc. It’s worth noting that Panasonic sells domestic plugs and switches under the Anchor sub-brand. According to Panasonic, Miraie means future in Japanese. The Miraie experience was conceptualised and developed at Panasonic’s India Innovation Centre in Bengaluru. The company says it ran consumer feedback programmes across five Indian cities during the development of Miraie to understand the wants of its consumers.

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MIT researchers develop a text-generating system that can automatically update Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia is a vast website used by thousands of users every day for looking up information. However, keeping the web pages updated with the latest facts is no easy feat, since people contribute towards this task during their spare time. With millions of web pages in need of constant updating, it can be difficult to post updated information promptly. MIT researchers have now developed a new text generating system, which can be employed to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles. This new system is being presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in a research paper. It is described as a text-producing system that is capable of finding and replacing specific information in relevant Wikipedia sentences, in a manner similar to how humans write and edit.

The new system will apparently provide contributors with an interface where they can type unstructured sentences with updated information. One won’t need to worry about grammar or style since the system would take care of it. Once relevant information is entered, the system is said to scrounge through Wikipedia to pinpoint the relevant page and the outdated sentence that is to be replaced, and it will rewrite it just like a human would. “In the future, the researchers say, there’s potential to build a fully automated system that identifies and uses the latest information from around the web to produce rewritten sentences in corresponding Wikipedia articles that reflect updated information,” MIT News article states. 

Currently, bots are said to be used on Wikipedia for other text-generating applications. However, they are said to be employed for tackling vandalism or dropping some narrowly defined information into predefined templates. The new system works by taking a “claim” sentence, which is basically newly entered information and compares it with “outdated” information. The new claim will basically be conflicting information and the system will automatically delete and keep specific words in the outdated sentence while preserving grammar and style based on the new information. 

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Xiaomi Mi 10, Mi 10 Pro launched with 108MP camera, Snapdragon 865 SoC and more

After teasing the Mi 10 series for long, Xiaomi has finally launched the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro. The handsets are quite similar when it comes to specifications. However, they differ in terms of battery and storage. Both of them feature a 90Hz refresh rate, 108MP camera, and more. Here is all you need to know about the two phones.

Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro specifications

Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro feature a 6.67-inch (2340 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ AMOLED with 19.5:9 aspect ratio that supports a 90Hz refresh rate. The handsets are powered by the Snapdragon 865 7nm Mobile Platform, which is paired with Adreno 650 GPU. Available in 8GB and 12GB RAM variants, the handsets feature 256GB or 512GB of internal UFS 3.0 storage. Both smartphones support dual SIM. 

In terms of optics, the handsets sport a quad rear-camera setup. The primary 108 camera on the back is a Samsung sensor with f/1.69 aperture that supports OIS. It is accompanied by a 12MP 1/2.6-inch 2PD sensor for 2x zoom and portrait. There is also an 8MP telephoto lens for 10x hybrid zoom, 50x digital zoom, and 5x optical zoom. It supports OIS as well. The fourth sensor is a 20MP ultra-wide-angle lens. The rear cameras support  8k at 30fps, 4k recording at 60fps, and 960fps at 720p. On the front sits a 20MP selfie shooter on the phones.

The Mi 10 packs a 4780mAh battery, whereas the Mi 10 Pro comes equipped with a 4500mAh battery. They both support 30W QC 4+ / PD3.0 wired, and wireless fast charging, along with 10W wireless reverse charging. Both smartphones support 5G and sport WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 for connectivity.

Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro price

The Xiaomi Mi 10 will be available in Titanium Black, Ice Blue and Peach Gold colours. It is priced at 3999 yuan (approx Rs 40,920) for the 8GB RAM with 128GB storage version and 4299 yuan (approx Rs 43,990 ) for the 8GB RAM with 256GB storage version. The top-end 12GB RAM with 256GB storage version costs 4699 yuan (approx Rs 48,080).

Coming to the Mi 10 Pro, it will be made available in Starry Blue and Pearl White colours. It is priced at 4999 yuan (approx Rs 51,150) for the 8GB RAM with 256GB storage version, 5499 yuan (Rs 56,270) for the 12GB RAM with 256GB storage version and the top-end 12GB RAM with 512GB storage option costs 5999 yuan (approx Rs 61,370).

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Lenovos Legion to launch a gaming-centric phone with Snapdragon 865 SoC soon

Lenovo’s Legion brand recently set up its Weibo account and now the company has teased the arrival of its gaming-centric phone. It reveals that the upcoming gaming phone will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset. Notably, if the phone launches anytime soon, Lenovo would be among the earliest brands to launch a phone with Snapdragon 865 SoC. However, the teaser doesn’t reveal anything aside from the chipset.

The latest development comes from Lenovo Legion’s Weibo account. While the teaser reveals information about the chipset Legion gaming phone will run on, there is no other information available on Legion’s Weibo timeline. The company is looking forward to following Asus’ strategy. For reference, Asus launched a gaming phone under its Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand. Lenovo will be doing the same with its Legion brand.

While Lenovo hasn’t launched many phones in India, the brand has been fairly active in China with the launch of high-end smartphones under the Lenovo Z-series. While the Z-series comes with flagship specifications, they are not targeted at mobile gaming enthusiasts, which is expected to change with the launch of the Legion gaming phone. 

Not much is known about the Legion gaming phone at this moment. However, if we were to speculate, we expect an aggressive design language, high refresh-rate panel up to 144Hz, an ample amount of RAM - most likely LPDDR5. It may come with the latest UFS storage standard. 

We expect more details about the device to emerge soon as we close-in on the launch.

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Samsung Quick Share to take on Apple AirDrop with Galaxy S20 phones

Samsung just launched its new Galaxy S20 series of smartphones, which come with a slew of new features and upgraded hardware over their predecessors. While almost everything of importance was announced during the cell phone launch, there are some additional features that are coming to light now. The web page for the Samsung Galaxy S20 is up now and it details a new file sharing feature called Quick Share, which seems like Samsung’s answer to Apple’s AirDrop functionality. Going by Quick Share’s description on the website, the feature can be used to share files with up to five people that are nearby.

The feature debuted with the Galaxy S20 series of smartphones and is currently available only for the Galaxy S20, S20+ and the S20 Ultra 5G. Support for other devices will be added “soon.” One notable advantage Samsung’s file-sharing feature has is the ability to send files to up to five people simultaneously. Apple users, on the other hand, can send files only to one recipient via AirDrop. XDA Developers shared some screenshots of the Quick Share feature last month, which hinted at functionality similar to AirDrop. One should be able to choose who to send files to, either their contacts or anyone with a compatible Samsung phone or tablet. 

While Samsung has its own solution for its devices, Google is rumoured to be working on Nearby Sharing. While the feature is expected to be made available for Pixel phones, it could also be made available for other handsets. A video showed that the feature is quick to transfer files over Wi-Fi and is said to work well when two devices are within one foot of each other. Users could also restrict their device’s visibility, if you don’t want unknown people to send you files using the feature.

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