Sony WF-1000XM3 noise cancelling truly wireless earbuds launched in India priced at Rs 19,990

Sony has officially announced its much-awaited WF-1000XM3 noise-cancelling truly wireless earbuds in India. The TWS earphones were initially launched a year ago in the global market, but it took some while to reach India. With the launch, the WF-1000XM3 is the third Sony TWS earbuds to be launched in India alongside the WF-SP800N and WF-XB700.

It also expands Sony's popular 1000X range of headphones and earphones with WF-1000XM3 being the first TWS in the range of products. 

Sony WF-1000XM3 price in India

The Sony WF-1000XM3 is priced at Rs 19,990, and as an introductory offer, it will be available for Rs 17,990 for the first ten days. It goes on sale starting from August 6 and will be available on Amazon, Sony retail stores, and offline stores across the country in Black and Silver colour variants. Customers can buy it for 17,990 under an introductory offer till August 16.

Interestingly, Sony has also priced the WF-SP800N at a similar price point, which comes with an added IP rating for water resistance that the 1000XM3 lacks.

Sony WF-1000XM3 specifications and features

The truly wireless earbuds are Sony's premium offering that comes with the company's renowned HD noise-cancelling feature using is QN1e chip. Some of the key features of the earbuds are wear detection, touch control, and ambient sound control. Wear Detection automatically play/pause music depending on the position of the buds. It has touch controls on both the earbuds that let you control music, turn noise cancellation on/off and trigger voice assistants - Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant. 

Sony claims of 32-hours of backup without noise cancellation and 24 hours with noise cancellation. The earphones themselves have 6 hours of battery life with three more charges stored in the case. The earbuds also support quick charge, giving users 90 minutes of playback with 10 min charge via Type-C port, as per the company.

For audio, it has 6mm drivers in each earphone with a frequency response of 20Hz-20,000Hz. It has Bluetooth 5.0 protocol with up to up to 10 meters range for wireless connectivity.

The earbuds are in for testing at Digit's lab, if you've been eyeing to buy one, stay tuned for our WF-1000XM3 review. Until then, you can check out our impressions of the Sony WF-1000XM3 here. 

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Microsoft Store Gets a New Experience for Xbox Insiders, Mass Rollout Later This Year

Microsoft has announced a revamped Microsoft Store on Xbox which is said to be faster, safer, and easier to use. Microsoft says it has rebuilt the store experience from the ground up making it more than twice as fast as the previous store. The intuitive experience makes it easier to navigate and find what you’re looking for.

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PS4 Digital Sales Grew 83 Percent in Lockdown-Hit Quarter

PlayStation digital sales grew nearly 83 percent year-on-year in this past lockdown-hit quarter, bringing in over JPY 394 billion. More than 112 million PS4 consoles have been sold worldwide and PlayStation Plus is now up to nearly 45 million members.

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WhatsApp adds new feature to verify forwarded messages, but not for India

WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out a new feature called 'search the web' to empower its effort in fighting fake news and hoaxes. The new feature will make fact-checking any WhatsApp forwards a lot easier by just one tap. The company was spotted testing this feature back in March.

On its blog, WhatsApp announces, "Today, we’re piloting a simple way to double-check these messages by tapping a magnifying glass button in the chat. Providing a simple way to search messages that have been forwarded many times may help people find news results or other sources of information about content they have received."

The new feature is an easy way to verify information given in any forwarded message on WhatsApp. There's a new magnifying glass button next to the chat bubble which, when tapped, helps users to find news results or other sources of information about the message they have received. WhatsApp says the company does not have access to the messages during the process, as it's sent directly to the browser. WhatsApp has not said if it's only limited to text messages or to images and videos as well. 

'Search the web' is only being rolled out starting tod out in Brazil, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, UK, and the US. It will be available on all latest versions of WhatsApp across Android, iOS and Web.

No India on the list, yet

India is among the biggest market for WhatsApp, and it's not on the list to receive this feature as of now. It is also one of the worst-hit countries when it comes to breeding misinformation via WhatsApp. India is not on the list of countries to get this feature, but the company might likely roll it out for its Indian users sometime later.

WhatsApp has added plenty of features to curb the spread of misinformation on its platform in recent years. In 2018, the Facebook-owned company had added forward labels before that to fight fake news. Up next, its users in India were restricted to forward a message only to five people at a time. Again, during the early months of Covid-19 crisis, WhatsApp limited message forwarding to only one contact or chat at a time.

Misinformation is not limited to WhatsApp or any specific social media platform. But WhatsApp is a more sensitive breeding ground as it has a vast user base of daily active users that chat, interact using the app. The information on WhatsApp forwards does not appear on a public domain, which makes it even more explosive. 

While limiting forwarded messages makes it easier to track the source of false information and somewhat limit the pace its spread, adding a fact check button will help better in its identification. 

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Sony Beats Estimates on Gaming, Entertainment Amid Lockdown

Sony on Tuesday reported a 1.1 percent decline in first-quarter operating profit, much milder than market estimates as its gaming business thrived while consumers locked down at home looked for entertainment and downloaded more games. The electronics and entertainment firm posted April-June profit of JPY 228.4 billion ($2.15 billion), versus JPY 23...

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Four variants of the iPhone 12 will launch in two phases in 2020: Report

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic which has ravaged the supply chain and launch plans for smartphones and other gadgets may just create history for this year’s iPhone launch. Owing to delays in mass production, Apple CFO Luca Maestri had confirmed the iPhone 12 will be delayed by a few weeks.

Now, according to a report by DigiTimes citing Apple’s supply chains, the four rumoured iPhone 12 variants will launch in two phases, a first in the history of iPhones. The report claims Apple will first launch two 6.1-inch iPhone models, followed by the 5.4-inch and 6.7-inch models.

Digitimes claim the shipment of components for the 6.1-inch devices have already started while that of the other two models will start from late-August. “Apple may launch its 5G iPhones in two stages, with two 6.1-inch models in the first and another two 6.7- and 5.4-inch devices in the second, the sources said, adding that suppliers of SLP (substrate-like PCB) mainboards for the former models have recently kicked off shipments, with those for the latter to start in late August. Shipments of flexible boards for new iPhones will peak some 2-4 weeks later than usual this year,” the report states.

While Apple did admit to a delay in supply by a few weeks during the company’s earnings call, the company is yet to confirm the news of two-phased launch. The Cupertino giant usually holds the iPhone event in September, and considering components for two models will start shipping late into August, there might just be some truth to the report.

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Xiaomi Redmi 9 Prime launched in India: specifications, pricing and availability

Xiaomi Redmi 9 Prime has launched in India as a budget phone in the company’s Redmi 9 lineup which succeeds the Redmi 8 series from last year. Xiaomi aims to offer a value for money phone for people on a tight budget and the Redmi 9 Prime is similar to the Redmi 9 that was launched last month in July.

The Redmi 9 Prime comes with a quad-camera setup on the back, Full HD+ screen and high capacity battery to boot. Let’s take a brief look at the specifications, pricing and availability of the Redmi 9 Prime.

Xiaomi Redmi 9 Prime pricing and availability

Xiaomi Redmi 9 Prime is priced in India starting at Rs 9,999 for the base variant with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage and Rs 11,999 for the 4GB RAM and 128GB variant. The Redmi 9 Prime goes on sale from August 6 during the Amazon Prime Day on Amazon India.

Xiaomi Redmi 9 Prime specifications

Xiaomi Redmi 9 Prime features a 6.53-inch Full HD+ (2340 x 1080 pixels) display with a waterdrop notch cutout for the selfie camera. The screen is topped with a layer of Gorilla Glass 3 for added protection. The phone comes with a new Aura 360 design with ripple texture that makes it grippy and is 9.1mm thick and weighs at 198 grams. It comes in four colours, Space Blue, Mint Green, Sunrise Flare and Matte Black.

It is powered by MediaTek Helio G80 chipset with an octa-core CPU and Mali-G52 GPU and runs on MIUI 12 which is based on Android 10. This is paired with 4GB RAM and up to 128GB storage options to choose from. There's also an option to increase the phone's storage further by using microSD cards of up to 512GB.

The Redmi 9 features a quad-camera setup that consists of a primary 13MP camera with an f/2.2 aperture, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera with 118-degree field-of-view, a 5MP macro camera and a 2MP depth sensor. On the front, there is an 8MP selfie camera housed within the waterdrop notch cutout.

The phone has a fingerprint sensor on the back and comes with a 5,020mAh battery with support for 18W fast charging but users will have to buy the adapter separately as it comes with a 10W charging adapter in-the-box. Xiaomi claims that the phone can provide a two-day battery life but we will have to check on that for our full review.

 

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