Sony Posts Strong Second-Quarter Profit on Gaming Business, Booming PlayStation 5 Pre-Orders

Sony raised its annual profit outlook after reporting a surprise second-quarter profit increase, as its gaming business continued to capture "nesting" demand driven by COVID-19 lockdown measures.

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Sony Seeing 'Very Considerable' PlayStation 5 Demand Ahead of November 12 Launch

Sony is seeing "very considerable" demand for its PlayStation 5 (PS5) console via pre-orders, its gaming chief said, as the tech firm targets pole position in the race to tap the growth of gaming globally with the device's November 12 launch.

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Qualcomm announces Immersive Home platform for Wi-Fi 6 and 6E mesh routers

Qualcomm has announced its Immersive Home platforms for mesh routers with four different products. The Qualcomm Immersive Home 318, Home 316, Home 216 and Home 214 platforms are designed to improve wireless performance for mesh routers with dual-band and tri-band spectrum support. With the new networking platforms, Qualcomm aims to improve wireless internet performance across the board that use Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E solutions.

The Coronavirus pandemic has led to wider adoption of home broadband and Wi-Fi solution with more people now working from home than ever before. Qualcomm’s Immersive Home platforms look to improve gigabit speeds with lower latency for home mesh networks and also targets affordable price segments. 

“We have launched the Qualcomm Immersive Home platforms, a fresh approach to home networking leveraging high-powered Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, a fresh architectural design customized for home deployments, and advanced features designed to deliver Gigabit performance to every corner of the home,” said Nick Kucharewski, Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Infrastructure & Networking, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Qualcomm Immersive Home platforms detailed

Qualcomm has announced four new mesh networking solutions under its Immersive Home platform. The new mesh networking solutions are capable of offering 2.5X throughput per watt that has resulted in a compact reference designs while keeping the devices affordable. 

The company also claims that the platforms are capable of reducing latency by upto 8X in congested environments enabling mobile gaming and XR based use cases and less than 3ms latency for VR based applications. The new platforms also support security protocols including Wi-Fi SON, OpenSync and EasyMesh along with multi-user traffic management technology. 

The Home 216 and Home 214 are both dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz)Wi-Fi 6 platforms that offer significant improvements over the last generation supporting upto 5.4Gbps speeds. The Home 216 platform supports 6-stream configuration while the Home 214 supports upto four spatial stream configuration for upto 3.0Gbps PHY rate. 

The Home 316 and Home 318 are tri-band (2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz) Wi-Fi 6 platforms that are designed in a way to de-stress network congestion by using Wi-Fi 6E and support emerging 6GHz use cases including VR/XR, cloud gaming, streaming and more. The Home 316 and 318 platforms support upto 7.8Gbps transfer rate with upto six-stream configuration for the Home 316 and upto 8-stream configuration for Home 318 platform.

 

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LG Wing and LG Velvet launched in India: Price, specifications and availability

The LG Wing and LG Velvet have launched in India as the latest phones from the company. The LG Velvet debuted back in May and was offered in both 4G and 5G variants while the LG Wing with its swivel display was launched globally in September. 

The LG Velvet 4G model is powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor with triple cameras on the back and a premium build. The LG Wing 5G, on the other hand, looks like just another near bezel-less smartphone but is a unique take on dual screens with its swivel design. Let’s take a brief look at the pricing, specifications and availability of the LG Wing and LG Velvet.

LG Wing and LG Velvet pricing and availability

The LG Wing is priced at Rs 69,990 for the single option with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. It goes on sale starting from November 9 across major online and offline retailers.

The LG Velvet is priced at Rs 36,990 and Rs 49,990 for the Dual Screen accessory. The Velvet goes on sale from October 30 across major retailers in India.

LG Wing specifications

The LG Wing has an aluminium build that measures 10.9 millimetres in thickness and weighs 260 grams. It is also IP54 rated, making it resistant to usual splashes of water. 

The phone features a 6.8-inch Full HD+ (2460 x 1080 pixels) resolution display that uses a plastic OLED panel topped with Gorilla Glass 5 for added protection against daily wear and tear. The smaller display underneath measures 3.9-inches with a Full HD+ (1240 x 1080 pixels) resolution and uses a glass-based OLED panel.

LG Wing is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor with an octa-core CPU and Adreno 620 GPU. This is paired with 8GB RAM and upto 128GB storage options to choose from with support for microSD cards up to 2TB. The phone runs on Android 10-based interface with a special Swivel mode UI for the different use cases that make use of both screens. 

The LG Wing has a triple camera setup on the back that consists of a primary 64MP camera with an f/1.8 aperture, a 13MP ultra-wide-angle camera with 117-degree field-of-view and another 12MP ultra-wide-angle gimbal camera with 120-degree field-of-view. On the front, there is a 32MP camera house in a pop-up mechanism and the rear cameras can record in 4K UHD at 60FPS with OIS support.

The front screen is also home to an in-screen fingerprint sensor and the LG Wing comes equipped with a 4,000mAh battery with support for fast wired charging courtesy of Quick Charge 4.0+ and wireless charging.

LG Velvet 4G specifications

The LG Velvet features a 6.8-inch OLED screen with a Full HD+ (2460 x 1080 pixels) resolution, a waterdrop notch cut out for the selfie camera and an in-screen fingerprint sensor. It has an aluminium build that measures 7.9 millimetres in thickness and weighs 180 grams. The phone has also received an IP68 rating making it resistant to dust and water along with MIL-STD-810G certification.

It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor with an octa-core CPU and Adreno 630 GPU. This is paired with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage with an option to further expand the storage by using microSD card. The Velvet runs on Android 10-based LG UX 9.

The Velvet has a triple camera setup on the back that consists of a primary 48MP camera with an f/1.8 aperture, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera with a 120-degree field-of-view and a 5MP depth sensor. On the front, there’s a 16MP selfie camera housed within the notch cutout. The rear cameras can record 4K UHD videos at upto 30FPS with support for EIS.

LG Velvet is equipped with a 4,300mAh battery with 15W charging support and 9W wireless charging support.

 

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Netflix Assassin’s Creed Live-Action Has been Confirmed, Other Adaptations Also Coming

A new Assassin’s Creed live-action series will come to Netflix, Ubisoft has confirmed. The news comes a few days before a new, much-awaited title in the long-running gaming series, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, arrives on PC, PS4, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, and PS5.

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Ubisoft+ Coming to Amazon Luna on November 10, Google Stadia by End of the Year

Ubisoft has announced that its subscription service, originally called UPlay+, has been rebranded to Ubisoft+ and will be coming to Amazon Luna on November 10 and later on Google Stadia. The service will be available in beta on both platforms at launch and will allow gamers access to more than 100 games.

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OnePlus Watch launch has been indefinitely delayed: Report

OnePlus has been surprisingly open about the fact that it's developing a smartwatch, to jump into the hotly growing wearables market competing with Vivo, Oppo, Realme, and of course, Apple. Company executives have confirmed that the watch is under works, and we even got an update that it's going to ready soon at the OnePlus 8T launch event. Now, reports suggest there might still be some time before the launch.

According to the report, the smartwatch project has been "indefinitely delayed", which does not sound good. The smartwatch was tipped to release in October, but tipster Max J said the OnePlus Watch announcement has been delayed without a new date.

"A few weeks ago, I announced that the OnePlus Watch would be presented in October, but according to the latest information from multiple sources, there are some changes regarding the launch... According to my information, the OnePlus Watch announcement has been postponed without any new date. Now I don’t know the reasons for this step, but my guess is that there are some complications with production or software development," the tipster wrote.

By the looks of it, the OnePlus Watch may have run into issues in production or software development, which is why there is no new date for the launch. At least till OnePlus is able to fix them. If the issues are critical and complicated, fixing them could take weeks, and with the holiday season incoming, that might mean the watch may ultimately be launched next year.

Previous reports around the OnePlus Watch shows the shape and design is inspired heavily by the Vivo Watch that launched in China earlier this year. There are also rumours that it will use the latest Snapdragon 4100 Wear Platform, but nothing much outside of that.

OnePlus has been aggressively expanding beyond smartphones. After dabbling with flagships for the better part of its existence, the company expanded into earphones, and now a TWS. The company also has three smartTVs in its portfolio and three budget smartphones for the global market. The OnePlus Watch sounds quite logical for a company that now aspires to cater to more niches in consumer electronics.

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