Cities in Gujarat, Maharashtra lead Mobile Gaming Experience in India: Opensignal Report

It’s no surprise that mobile gaming in India has really taken off over the past few years. The reason for the same could be down to improved quality of games, better performance of affordable phones, low-cost data or probably a combination of the lot. However, the question now would be which city would offer the best gaming experience in India. Thankfully, a report by Opensignal seems to have answered that query with its newest report.

Opensignal’s report analyzed the mobile network experience in 48 of India’s largest cities. It then checked that against its Games Experience metric which measures how users perceive real-time multiplayer gaming on a cellular network on a scale of 0-100. The measurements were conducted across popular battle royale and MOBA games like Call of Duty: Mobile, Clash of Clans, and even PUBG Mobile which was banned a few months ago. 

One of the more interesting results of the report was that the major metropolitan cities in India like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai or Bangalore were not in the top 5. In fact, Mumbai was the only metro to get into the top 10. Ahmedabad took the top spot with a score of 71.7, followed by Navi Mumbai with a score of 70.1. Vadodara rounded off the top three spots with a score of 69.8. The report also notes that cities in Gujarat and Maharashtra dominated its mobile gaming experience in India with seven of the top ten cities in India. It was noted that only four of the eight Tier 1 cities in India were within the top 20. In fact, Tier 2 cities like Surat, Thane and Rajkot managed to get into the top 10. Tier 1 cities like Pune, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata were placed in the lower half. Varanasi and Thiruvananthapuram were at the bottom of the list with scores under 50.  

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Huawei Mate 40 series officially launched: Pricing and specifications

The Huawei Mate 40 series has officially made its debut with the Mate 40, Mate 40 Pro, Mate 40 Pro+ and Mate 40 RS Porsche Design. The new flagship smartphone range from Huawei was launched in China and for the European markets as well, however, the Mate 40 is currently exclusive to the former. 

The Mate 40 series brings with it next-generation 5nm processors, Leica optimised cameras, fast charging support across the board and steeply curved waterfall screens. Let’s take a look at the specifications and features of the Huawei Mate 40 series.

Huawei Mate 40 specifications

Huawei Mate 40 has a metal and glass build that measures 8.8 millimetres in thickness and weighs 188 grams. It is IP68 rated, making it resistant to dust and water. The Mate 40 is available in multiple colours-- Mystic Silver, White, Black and in the vegan finish with Green and Yellow colours. 

The Mate 40 features a 6.5-inch Full HD+ (2376 x 1080 pixels) resolution display that uses an OLED panel with support for 90Hz refresh rate. There’s a single punch-hole cutout in the top-left corner for the selfie camera and there’s an in-display fingerprint reader as well.

It is powered by the Kirin 9000E processor with an octa-core CPU and Mali-G78 MP22 GPU. This is paired with upto 8GB RAM and 256GB storage options to choose from. The phone runs on Android 10-based EMUI 11 that supports Huawei Mobile Services instead of Google’s.

The Mate 40 has a triple camera setup that consists of a primary 50MP camera with an f/1.9 aperture, an 8MP telephoto camera with OIS and a 16MP ultra-wide-angle camera. As expected, the cameras are fine-tuned by Leica optics and are capable of recording 4K UHD videos at upto 60FPS. On the front, there’s a 13MP selfie camera housed within the punch-hole cutout.

Huawei Mate 40 comes equipped with a 4,200mAh battery with support for 40W fast charging. The Mate 40 is priced at EUR 899 for the base variant with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro and Mate 40 Pro+ specifications

Huawei Mate 40 Pro and Mate 40 Pro+ have a similar set of hardware under the hood. The Mate 40 Pro measures 9.1 millimetres in thickness and weighs 212 grams while the Mate 40 Pro+ has an 8.8 millimetres thickness and weighs a bit heftier at 230 grams. Both the phones have a metal-glass sandwich design and are IP68 rated, making them resistant to dust and water.

The Mate 40 Pro and Mate 40 Pro+ feature a 6.67-inch OLED screen with a Full HD+ (2772 x 1322 pixels) resolution, 90Hz refresh rate support and HDR10+ certification. There’s a wide notch cutout in the top-left corner for the two selfie cameras that give it an 18.5:9 aspect ratio. The display also houses an in-screen fingerprint reader and the phones also have facial recognition smarts built into the biometrics sensor upfront.

Huawei’s homegrown Kirin 9000 5G chipset powers the Mate 40 Pro and Mate 40 Pro+ that comes with an octa-core CPU running at upto 3.13GHz clock speeds and Mali-G78 MP24 GPU. The Mate 40 Pro is offered in 8GB RAM + 256GB variant while the Mate 40 Pro+ is available in 12GB+256GB storage option. Users have an option to further expand the storage by upto 256GB using storage cards. The phones run on Android 10-based EMUI 11 out-of-the-box but with support for Huawei Mobile Services instead of Google Play.

The Mate 40 Pro has a quad-camera setup on the back that consists of a primary 50MP camera with an f/1.9 aperture, a secondary 12MP periscope telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom and OIS support, a 20MP ultra-wide-angle camera and a 3D depth sensor. On the Mate 40 Pro+, there’s the same 50MP primary camera but with OIS support, a 12MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, an 8MP periscope telephoto camera offering 10x optical zoom, a 20MP ultra-wide-angle camera and a 3D depth sensor. The cameras have been tuned by Leica optics and can record in 4K UHD videos at upto 60FPS. 

There’s a 13MP camera on the front along with a 3D depth sensor for biometric features. 

The Mate 40 Pro and Pro+ have stereo speakers, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 along with a colour spectrum sensor. The phones are equipped with a 4,400mAh battery with support for 66W fast wired charging, 50W fast wireless charging and 5W reverse wireless charging. 

The Mate 40 Pro is priced at EUR 1,200 and is available in Mystic Silver, White, Black colours along with vegan leather finish in Green and Yellow colours. The Mate 40 Pro+ is offered in Ceramic White and Ceramic Black colours and is priced at EUR 1,400. 

There’s a special Porsche Design Mate 40 RS that features an octagonal camera module and a revamped exterior. However, the rest of the hardware remains the same as the Mate 40 Pro+ and it is offered with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage, priced at EUR 2,300.

 

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PUBG Unban? PUBG Corp Is Hiring In India, According to a LinkedIn Post

PUBG Corporation, the developer and publisher of popular battle royale game PUBG, has listed a job posting on LinkedIn to hire an associate-level manager in India. The new hiring by the company has excited people as many might have considered that it would result in the comeback of PUBG Mobile, which was banned by the government last month.

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Apple Removes Stadium App That Allowed Stadia to Run on iOS Devices From App Store

Apple has removed Stadium browser app that allows users to run Google Stadia on iOS devices. The company also shared some background on why it did so. Apple, citing a section in the App Store Guidelines, stated that the Stadium app “uses public APIs in a way that Apple does not intend.”

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Job listing suggests the return of PUBG Mobile to India

It has been over a month since the day the Government of India announced a ban on PUBG Mobile as well a bunch of other Chinese apps. While many gamers moved on to other games like Call of Duty: Mobile and Garena Free Fire, some still hoped that the game would return to Indian shores. Now though, it looks like the guys over at PUBG Mobile India haven't given up as they have posted a job listing on LinkedIn for a Corporate Development Division Manager in the country. This seems to suggest that while PUBG Mobile India may be down, it isn’t out for the count.

Soon after the ban was announced, PUG Mobile Corp. announced it would comply with the orders of the ban. It also announced that it was severing its ties with Tencent India and would ensure that data is stored locally and operations would be run from India. The job posting for a Corporate Development Division Manager seems like a step in the direction of fulfilling that promise.  

According to the job listing, the responsibilities of the person would include, among other things, supporting the setup process of PUBG India with guidance from Krafton Inc., developing and monitoring the pipeline of potential M&A, investments and strategic partnership opportunities in gaming and related sectors in India, and more.

There were reports that PUBG Mobile may partner with Jio or Airtel to make a return to India. However, nothing like that has been confirmed and, at least for now, it seems like PUBG Mobile will not be making a proper return to India. Regardless, some individuals have figured out ways they can still play the game. However, for its part, the game has been banning players who have logged in from India. 

However. It doesn’t seem like that has stopped the game from going ahead with its plans. The beta version of the game was recently updated to include a new Metro Royale Mode. This mode is a part of a collaboration between the game and Metro Exodus and adds a dash of survival gameplay to the game. The new mode comes with new objectives, gameplay elements and even a map.

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Truecaller will now display the reason for incoming calls: Heres how to use it

Truecaller has introduced Call Reason as part of its popular Caller ID app that will let users know why someone is calling them. Truecaller says it has added this new feature upon going through various feedback messages from users who have been demanding this particular functionality in the app. The Call Reason feature is being rolled out to Android users globally while there’s no word on when iOS users will receive it.

With the new update, Truecaller wants to let the receivers know why someone is calling them and thinks that it will be decisive in increasing the rate of user’s picking up an incoming call as opposed to when they don’t know why they’re being called. “We’ve solved the ‘who’ and now we are solving the ‘why’,” Truecaller writes on a blog post.

The company has also revealed that in 2021, it will be offering the Call Reason functionality to Truecaller Priority customers and verified businesses will be able to reach customers more easily by telling them the reason for the call. 

How to use Truecaller Call Reason?

Truecaller displays the purpose of the incoming call with its new Call Reason feature and that will help users understand if the call is personal in nature or otherwise. The new feature is being released for Android users with Truecaller version 11.30. There’s no information when iOS users are scheduled to get the Call Reason feature just yet.

Callers can now have three custom reasons that they can choose to be displayed while initiating a call. Moreover, the app will also allow callers to write a new reason every time they call someone. Currently, users can write a custom message that they think will often be used or just write a new reason for every call under 80 words. 

While the Call Reason feature does look like it solves the ‘Why’ part of the call, there’s just one catch. For now, the feature is only available for users of Truecaller and is limited to Android users.

The company has also introduced two other features, SMS schedule and SMS translate. The scheduling feature will let users set up reminders for messages while the translate feature enables quick translation of messages directly within the app.

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User claims to receive fake iPhone 11 Pro from Flipkart during Big Billion Days Sale, highlights details in a video

Considering the number of gadgets that are sold during the festive season online, there are bound to be some mishaps. A shipment can get delayed, a product can get damaged, or you receive the wrong product. However, what Bhavye Sharma faced, was that he got a fake product. He has uploaded his encounter in a detailed video on YouTube, where he runs through the device he claims to have received and decipherers why he thinks it is a fake iPhone 11 Pro. You can check out that video below.   

As you can see from the video above, he has unboxed the phone already and begins highlighting the metal ring surrounding the camera. Nothing fishy so far. He next goes on to highlight the inside of the EarPods which is blue in the product he received. Moving on, he goes on to highlight the USB cable that comes with the smartphone. While he begins highlighting the quality of the cable itself, the biggest red flag is the fact that the iPhone 11 Pro comes with a USB-C cable in the box and the cable which is being highlighted is USB-A. The power plug on the other hand is a USB-C plug, which one gets with an iPhone 11 Pro. 

He then talks about the air-bubbles beneath the display protector. When was the last time you got an iPhone with a display protector? Next, he goes on to point out that even without a SIM card he can see some value being hidden by the notch.  Next, he goes on to scroll through the app store on the phone.

He then starts cycling through the apps on the home screen one by one to show whether the UI is what is expected of the app on an iPhone. When opening the camera app, he highlights how the zoom barely does anything on the phone. A big red flag is when he opens the Maps app, it opens Google Maps instead of Apple Maps.

We have reached out to Bhavye Sharma to get more details from him and also to Flipkart. We will update this story once we get a response from either of them.

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