Google Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro May Launch On October 6: But What About India

The Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are all set to launch later this year and today a popular tipster has shed some light on the launch details of both these phones. Google teased the Pixel 7 series during its Google I/O 2022 presentation alongside the Pixel 6a. The Pixel 6a (review) was recently launched in India priced at Rs 43,999 and is powered by the Tensor chip featuring a 6.1-inch OLED display, dual rear cameras and more.

According to a report by Jon Prosser of Front Page Tech, the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will launch on October 6 in the US and will go up for pre-orders on the same day. As per the report, the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will go on sale from October 13 in the US. While we will advise our readers to take this with a pinch of salt, Prosser has been accurate in the past with his leaks on the Pixel 6 series launch details.

Google revealed the design of the rear panel of the upcoming Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro but that hasn’t stopped the rumour mill from dishing out some of the specs of the upcoming Pixel phones. As per the leaks, the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro could be powered by the second-generation 4nm Tensor processor and will likely run on Android 13 out-of-the-box.

The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are also rumoured to get a 50MP camera that uses Samsung’s GN1 sensor. As per the teaser, the Pixel 7 has dual cameras on the back while the Pixel 7 Pro has three cameras on the rear, just like the Pixel 6 lineup.

We’ll know more about the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro launch as we near the expected release date. Though, there’s no word on Google’s plans to launch the Pixel 7 series in India anytime soon.

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Activision Blizzard Sales Fall as Call of Duty: Vanguard Underperforms

Activision Blizzard reported Q2 2022 revenue that beat analysts’ estimates, but adjusted sales declined 15 percent from a year ago due to a soft Call of Duty launch last fall and a slow year for the gaming industry overall.

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iPhone 14 And iPhone 14 Pro Will Have Different OLED Panels, Claims Report

Tech giant Apple is planning to use different OLED panel grades for the upcoming iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, media reports claim.

According to TheElec, Samsung Display will be applying different grades of materials on the OLED panels it will manufacture for the upcoming iPhone 14 series depending on the model tiers.

iPhone 14 to sport different OLED panels

It will use its latest and most advanced material set for the higher tier iPhone 14 models, while it will use its prior generation set for the lower tier ones. The move is being made to save costs.

Samsung Display will be supplying OLED panels for all four models of the iPhone 14 series; rival LG Display will be supplying for two models, citing sources, the report said.

Also Read: iPhone 14’s expected launch date, price in India, and more

An OLED material set comprises dopant, host, prime and others used to form the red, green and blue pixels.

iPhone 14 concept renders | Image source: Jon Prosser

Samsung Display calls its material sets used on Samsung's Galaxy and Apple's iPhones the M series.

The South Korean display maker used its LT sets in 2017 for Apple's first OLED iPhone, the iPhone X and in 2018 iPhone XS. But starting in 2019 it began using its M series for panels supplied for Galaxy smartphones and iPhones.

Samsung’s OLED panels will feature on iPhone 14 series

Samsung Display will use its M11 material set for the standard 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch models in the iPhone 14 series.

These phones will have low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) OLED panels, which are less advanced than the low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) TFT OLED panels used in the higher-tier models.

The two higher-tier models in the iPhone 14 series will use Samsung Display's M12 material set.

This same OLED material set is being used for the OLED panels on Samsung's upcoming foldable phones Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4.

(Except the headline, the rest of this IANS article is un-edited)

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Jio Is Ready To Roll Out Pan-India 5G: Here Is What You Need To Know

In the 7-day 5G auction, Reliance Jio came on top with a ₹88,078 investment and the acquisition of nearly half of all the available airwaves. And as you’d expect, the company has come forward with an announcement that it is going to launch the pan-India 5G rollout soon. It might kick off the works on Independence Day. 

Jio’s Pan-India 5G Auction Announcement

The newly appointed chairman of the company, Mr. Akash Ambani has said, "We will celebrate ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ with a pan India 5G rollout. Jio is committed to offering world-class, affordable 5G and 5G-enabled services."

Jio envisions its 5G services will contribute to the country’s growth in “sectors like education, healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and e-Governance”.

It believes it can do so thanks to its deep fiber network, and the recently acquired “combination of low-band, mid-band, and mmWave spectrum”.

Meanwhile, its competitors like Airtel and Vi are yet to reveal their plans.

Airtel has acquired 19,867.8 MHz of airwaves for ₹43,084 crores and Vodafone Idea (Vi) has put in ₹18,799 crores to grab a 6,228 MHz share of the bandwidth. 

Not only those two but there is also a new player in the game — Adani Data Networks (Adani Group) which has put in ₹212 crore for 400 MHz of spectrum.  It, however, has said this is meant for private needs and not for competing in the consumer mobility space. 

So, in total 4 companies spent about 1.5 trillion rupees for 20-year 5G licenses and in the process have acquired about 71% of the offered 72 GHz airwaves.

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Day 7 Of 5G Spectrum Auction: 5G Services To Go Live In October, Says IT Minister

India’s 5G spectrum auction has entered its seventh day with the government receiving bids worth ₹1.50 lakh crores until Sunday, July 31. The 5G auction began on July 26 in India where the three major telecom companies-- Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vi, along with newcomer Adani Data Networks got into a bidding war for a generous piece of 72 GHz 5G airwaves.

Heartfelt thanks to the telecom industry for making the 5G auction a success. Let's all work together to make telecom a sunrise industry.#IMC2022 pic.twitter.com/lYUpWBljTc

— Ashwini Vaishnaw (@AshwiniVaishnaw) July 28, 2022

On Sunday, the auction fetched increased demand for the UP East circle and the 1800 MHz band. The UP East circle has over 10 crore subscribers and includes cities such as Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gorakhpur and more, making it an alluring prospect for the telcos like Jio and Airtel. 

Read more: What 5G means? How will 5G change the world?

5G services rollout starting from October

“As soon as the spectrum auction ends, within a few days itself, we will allocate the auctions. We expect that the rollout will happen starting in October, and within a year or so, we should have a good rollout of 5G in the country,” Union Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a press conference.

The Indian 5G Opportunity: Addressed the Telecom Investors Roundtable in Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/45m9aejeIV

— Ashwini Vaishnaw (@AshwiniVaishnaw) July 30, 2022

Reliance Jio and Airtel remain the two major players in the 5G spectrum bidding who have purchased multiple mid and high-frequency bands. Many in the telecom industry believe that the 5G market could be headed for a duopoly but the IT Minister shunned such beliefs and said, “Duopoly will not happen. The September reforms have resulted in good stability in the industry. We are looking at new players to enter the segment. There is going to be good healthy competition in the sector. BSNL will emerge as a good market balancer.”

5G is the latest standard in cellular connectivity that brings high-speed internet connectivity, increased bandwidth, low latency and ushers in several developments in IoT, AI-enabled platforms and more. With 5G, users will be able to get download speeds reaching over 10 Gbps which is almost 100 times faster than the current 4G LTE connectivity. In India, most 5G phones sold in the last few years support bands in the mid-frequency range and some also support high-frequency bands.

Day 7 of India's 5G auction is underway and we’ll know the final bid details as it closes in what is likely the final day of bidding.

Also Read: India 5G Spectrum Explained: Why 700MHz Band Matters For Best 5G Coverage

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25 Percent Of Your Customer Care Interactions Will Only Be With Chatbots By 2027

Chatbots will become the primary customer service channel for roughly a quarter of organisations in the next five years, according to a Gartner report.

Chatbots and virtual customer assistants (VCAs) have evolved over the past decade to become a critical technology component of a service organisation's strategy.

"When designed correctly, chatbots can improve customer experience and drive positive customer emotion at a lower cost than live interactions," said Uma Challa, Senior Director Analyst.

A recent Gartner survey revealed 54 percent of respondents are using some form of chatbot, VCA or other conversational AI platform for customer-facing applications.

"Customer service and support (CSS) leaders have a positive future outlook for chatbots, but struggle to identify actionable metrics, minimising their ability to drive chatbot evolution and expansion, and limiting their return on investment (ROI)," said Challa.

Another recent research found that the number of chatbot messaging apps accessed globally will increase from 3.5 billion in 2022 to 9.5 billion by 2026.

This 169 per cent growth will be driven by the increasing adoption of omni-channel retail strategies by e-commerce players and the rising integration of chatbots within messaging platforms, according to Juniper research.

"Retail spend over chatbot messaging apps will account for over 50 percent of global chatbot retail spend by 2026," the report mentioned.

Additionally, as chatbot traffic grows, machine learning must be used to assess past conversations and further automate the omnichannel retail experience over chatbots.

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WhatsApp group admins to get better moderation tools

Meta-owned messenger, WhatsApp has been getting a lot of updates of late, with the most recent one being that group admins would soon be allowed to delete messages for every member in a group chat. This feature comes as a part of the beta release of the app on the Google Play store, with the version number 2.22.17.12.

There have been a host of other features too that the platform has been playing around with, in its beta releases recently. These include – rich preview of links in status updates, waveforms for voice notes, full emoji keyboard for reacting to messages, etc. While some of these features may not make to the public version of the app, the beta testers are getting a taste of it.

Better moderation controls for admins

The feature in focus here, which is the group message delete privilege for admins is also a part of the beta release, rolled out to a select few lucky users, reported WABetaInfo. This comes as a welcome addition to the group messaging feature of WhatsApp, which has been a nightmare for some group admins for some time now. As it would be in every group, there are certain members spamming away in the chat, making the messages a pain to navigate through for other users. However, the addition of the group message delete privilege for admins will enable them to have more control over the happenings of the group. They will be able to manage chats in a better way by deleting unnecessary messages posted by members.

As for other updates that are in the pipeline, iOS users might soon get to react to status updates. Given the proactiveness shown by the developers and the higher ups at WhatsApp, it looks that there could be more than these updates that would be coming our way soon. It will be interesting to see what these updates are and how they affect the user experience within the app.

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