Vivo TWS 3 and TWS 3 Pros renders surface online, to release later this month with X90 series

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo is about to release the X90 series this month. Although the company recently confirmed the launch of the Vivo X90 series, rumours and reports around it had been circulating on the internet for a while. Now from one such source, we have learned that along with the new smartphone series, Vivo will also reveal two new audio products. 

Vivo TWS 3 and TWS 3 Pro to launch soon

They are called Vivo TWS 3 and Vivo TWS 3 Pro and will come as the company's next generation of truly wireless earphones. Ahead of the official launch, MySmartPrice has managed to get its hands on the renders of the TWS earphones in collaboration with Indian tipster Ishan Agarwal. 

First, let's talk about the Vivo TWS 3. The wireless earbuds will come as the successor to the Vivo TWS 2, released in 2021, in two different colours, including White and Blue. While the blue variant will have a matte finish, the white variant will come with a glossy finish. 

As seen in the renders, the in-ear style earbuds look like the AirPods Pro by Apple, as they have a similar short stem and oval housing. The charging case of the earbuds has a green LED indicator for the battery. However, this is the extent of information available about the Vivo TWS 3. 

The second product, i.e., Vivo TWS 3 Pro, will come in two colours - white and a combination of blue and black. The Vivo TWS 3 Pro looks similar to the TWS 3 in terms of design and the shape of the charging case. Apart from this, there is no information about the specifications of the earbuds. Although, it could be safe to speculate that the TWS 3 Pro will feature active noise cancellation as it carries the Pro moniker in its name. 

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Canva can now create images based on text prompts through Stable Diffusion integration

Popular content creation platform Canva has integrated Stable Diffusion's text-to-image model and will now enable users to generate images by typing text-based commands. Canva's text-to-image tool works in a manner that asks users to describe the image they want to see with prompts. 

Canva has a new text-to-image tool

We tried creating some photos with Canva's text-to-image tool, and the results were impressive. The image showcased above is what the platform generated upon typing "dog riding a cycle." The feature is under development. Hence, users can expect the results to get better with time.

The new Text-to-Image will be available to Canva's over 100 million users, allowing them to convert their imagination into images as they type a text-based description of their images. To try it, users should open Canva’s website, create a design, and click on more in the menu towards their left. Then, they should locate the Text-to-Image tool and start by typing in the description of their image and selecting the type of image they wish to generate.  

While Canva allows users to generate new images using text-to-speech AI developed by Stable Diffusion, it also enables users to report images that might contain violence, hate speech, nudity or other inappropriate content. 

For instance, a sample prompt on the platform reads, "a light watercolour painting of koi fish in a pond." Additionally, users can choose from various styles, including photo, drawing, 3D, painting and pattern. With the tool, Canva will offer users 100 images per day. 

Canva co-founder says that the tool is "still being developed"

In an interview with The Verge, Canva's co-founder and chief product officer Cameron Adams said, "we're treating this as very much a learning experience for our community." Adding to it, Adams mentions that "we're keen to get this technology in front of them because it's an emergent field, and the exact way it works and how customers will interact with it is still being developed."

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Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Release Date, Preload, Download Size, Gameplay, and More

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 launches November 16 across PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X. Billed as a “fully revamped experience,” Warzone 2.0 brings the new Al Mazrah map into play, featuring 18 major points of interest, ranging from coastal regions, rocky peaks, and an entire city to explore. The game brings a third-person mode into play, alongside aqua...

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Google Pixel Fold renders are out along with key camera specs: Check out details here

The renders of the long-rumored Google foldable, expected to be christened as Pixel Fold, have finally shaped up. Thanks to Jon Prosser of FrontPageTech, we now have a fair idea of what this device could look like. It has design inspirations from the Pixel 7 series but is very much distinct in its own ways. Some of those variations from the Pixel 7 design language seem to be because of the larger (and also folding) footprint of the “Pixel Fold”. Here’s what I mean:

Google Pixel Fold renders: A familiar yet distinct design

One of the signature design elements of the Pixel 7 series is the long and pronounced visor on the back which blends in with the metallic side frame. On the back of the Pixel Fold, we do get a protruding camera panel but it is more of an island than an extended visor. 

There appear to be three sensors as part of the rear camera setup, though the underlying sensor details are still secret. Mr. Prosser has, however, claimed the front punch-hole camera and the inner screen camera are both 9.5MP sensors.

That inner screen camera is sitting within the top bezel and speaking of which, the main display is surrounded by noticeable borders.

Moving from the optics and the screen to sound, the device is said to house dual speakers, positioned one on the top and the other on the bottom. 

In the renders, we also see some buttons on the right side, which are apparently the volume rockers and a power key cum fingerprint reader.

That’s about all Prosser reveals from a design and specs standpoint.

Google Pixel Fold: Price and availability (Expected)

Google is rumored to launch the Pixel Fold in May of 2023, priced at around $1,799 (~₹1,45,656). That’s a lot of commas between numbers. We hope the device is worth it.

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Meta pulls the plug on Portal and unreleased smartwatches: Report

After Twitter laid off half its workforce, Facebook's parent company Meta decided to lay off 11,000 employees last Tuesday. While the company wants to cut costs and survive through one of the most challenging times, the layoffs will impact Meta's future product ambitions. 

Meta kills its video conferencing platform and unreleased smartwatches

The company is pulling the plug on two unreleased smartwatches and its popular video-calling display platform, Portal. As per a report published by Reuters on November 12, 2022, Meta execs confirmed at a town hall meeting that the company is killing both projects. 

According to another report by The Verge, the company stopped making Portal video-calling devices for users in June 2022. Additionally, it has also shelved the smartwatches in development, one of which was codenamed "Milan" and was supposed to retail for around $349. Last year, the publication also reported that the smartwatch would feature two built-in cameras. 

Citing several reports, Meta, called Facebook back then, was working on a smartwatch with two built-in cameras. While one of the cameras was supposed to be on the front panel for video calling, the other auto-focus camera was on its back for shooting videos when detached from the frame. 

Facebook was also talking to other companies to make accessories for the smartwatch that could fit its detachable display on things like backpacks. Back then, the company had plans to expand into more consumer devices, but those won't come to life now. 

Company to focus on Metaverse-related products

About 46% of the company's recent layoffs were related to tech, as reported by Reuters. Although we do not know what percentage of employees were in the hardware development departments, the company is still pursuing some of its product projects in the form of the latest Quest Pro headset and others related to augmented and virtual reality. 

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Acer I Series 55 Inch TV Review: One for the masses

For them, the TV's above par audio performance and support for neccecary features coming at an aggressive price point may just be more than enough to make a buying decision.

The 55-inch segment of the televisions category has grown at an exponential pace over the last year or so. While the Covid-induced lockdowns have definitely helped increase demand for televisions in general, this segment has grown faster because of the launch of aggressively priced propositions that don't compromise on performance or quality. 

Another name was added recently to this list in the form of the Acer I-Series televisions. These new TVs come with an edge-to-edge display, giving it a near bezel-less design. The TV also offers some interesting upgrades over its predecessor, bringing support for enhanced Wide Colour Gamut+, HDR 10+, Super Brightness, Black Level Augmentation and 4K Upscaling. 

While interesting on paper, do all these features make the new I-Series TV from Acer worthy of your money? Let's find out in our review where we'll focus primarily on the picture performance of the device. 

ACER 55-INCH I-Series

Panel Size: 55-inch (also available in 43 and 50-inch screen sizes) 

Panel Type: VA with D-LED backlighting

Panel Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - 4K

Panel Refresh Rate: 60Hz

HDR 10 support: Yes

HDR 10+ support: Yes

Dolby Vision Support: No

HDMI Ports: 3

USB Ports: 2

Bluetooth: Yes

Wi-Fi: Yes

Ethernet: Yes

Speakers: 30W 

Built-in storage: 

Price: MRP: 

Acer TV: Display performance and picture quality

Acer's new I-Series TV is available in multiple sizes, with the one we're testing today coming with a 55-inch panel. It is powered by a quad-core chipset which is paired with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage. This hardware paired with a rich feature set that includes support for HDR 10+, HLG and Dolby Atmos. Because of the light-weight UI, the performance of the TV also does not take a hit when you play HDR or 4K content. All this combined comes together to create generally enjoybale experiences for using what's essentially an affordable 4K TV. 

As such, watching both SDR and HDR content through a set-top box or the latter through an OTT platform was not a problem. The TV handled such content as expected, with upscaling of lower resolution content also proving to not be an issue on the new Acer I-Series TV. But the performance looks good only if you compare the TV to similarly priced offerings. And once you start going a little up the price ladder, other options with more refined UIs and powerful chipsets do come into the mix.

 

Another thing to note here is that Acer's new TV comes with Micro Dimming, instead of frame or local dimming. As such, performance of the TV in darker scenes can suffer a little, with some level of halo effect visible in such scenes. 

Moving away from the subjective, we also collected some interesting data while testing the Acer I-Series TV using the Calman Ultimate software paired with the Spectracal C6 Colorometer and Video Forge Pro. During our tests, we got the best results for the TV on the Movies preset. However, when compared to the results we got on some competing devices, the flaws of the Acer I-Series TV started to expose itself. 

During our tests, this preset gave us slightly high delta errors in colour accuracy, with the average deltaE of 3.7 and max deltaE climbing to 7.3 when the TV was set to output content in the sRGB colour space. For SDR, RGB balance was also just about okay, with blues slightly oversaturated. With an average CCT of 6771, such content had a slight blue bias which we couldn't fix through the TVs internal settings. 

We found the TV's tuning for HDR content slightly better, with the RGB balance much more in check. However, colour accuracy for HDR content was again on the higher side, with the Average DeltaE hitting 7.3 and the maximum error of 13.3 being observed at 100 per cent red. Apart from this, the TV managed to cover about 94.7 per cent of the sRGB colour space, and going down to 71.6 per cent of the DCI-P3 container. The TV also threw up a good brightness of 401 nits for HDR content and about 330 nits for SDR content -- both good enough for handling content mastered in the respective colour profiles. 

Acer I-Series TV review:  Design and Audio

With the Acer I-Series TV, the company has brought back its Boundless design language which sees it offering very thin bezels around the panel. This is paired with a functional design language which sees the HDMI, USB and other ports of the TV placed in such a way that they are easily accessible not only while the TV is set on a stand, but also when it's wall-mounted. 

Overall, Acer has done a good job in making the TV look premium and worthy of the money the company is asking for it. And thankfully, this is also the case for the remote of the device, which completes the look of the TV with its design that makes it look quite upmarket thanks to the use of premium materials. 

Acer I-Series TV review: Verdict

The Acer I-Series TV holds its ground as a good option in a sea of similarly priced 55-inch 4K LED TVs. However, it definitely doesn't stand out as the best option there is in the segment. While it does get HDR 10+ support, the fact that it is not Dolby Vision ready does count as a negative in its favour and makes it difficult to recommend to buyers looking to get an affordable offering that can be used to watch some select content in highest fedility possible through OTT platforms. 

However, that's only if you're looking to watch such content on the TV. For most pieces of content, the HDR 10+ and HLG support of the TV should be good enough. And thankfully for this Acer I-Series TV, for such buyers, the TVs inaccuracies in reproducing certain colours at times may also not prove to be an issue. 

For them, the TV's above par audio performance and support for neccecary features coming at an aggressive price point may just be more than enough to make a buying decision.

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Amazfit Pop 2 to launch with Bluetooth calling, AMOLED display, and 10-day battery life: All we know so far

Huami is going to launch a new Amazfit smartwatch in the Indian market. It boasts support for 100 sports modes which you will be able to access through an AMOLED screen. The watch is rated to run for 10 days. Another highlight of the device is going to be Bluetooth calling feature. These set of specifications are bound to turn some heads. So, let’s learn all we know about the device including its pricing and availability expectations. 

Amazfit Pop 2 specifications and features

Amazfit has shown off Pop 2’s design. It has a rectangular dial with rounded corners. The case is made of aluminum and there is also a stainless steel button on the right-hand side. In the announcement image shared by the brand, we get to see the watch in two colors, viz. Black and Cream.

We can also see the two distinct watch faces appearing through Pop 2’s 1.78-inch HD AMOLED panel. You can use the Zepp Active app to choose from over 150 watch face options, from the Watch Face Shop. This app also lets you modify the watch settings and syncs all the health and fitness data from the watch.

Other key highlights listed on the image are 10-day battery life and Bluetooth calling. The underlying Zepp OS probably has something to contribute to the former. As for the hands-free calling facility, you are getting a built-in speaker and mic.

Well, the smartwatch also lets you access smart assistants like Apple Siri and Google Assistant. And last but definitely not least, there will be support for health and fitness features like 24x7 heart rate monitoring and SpO2 tracking.

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— Amazfit India (@AmazfitIN) November 12, 2022

That's pretty much what we know for now. However, the device is expected to launch via Flipkart (among other platforms) soon. So, stay tuned for that.

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