Introduced at MWC, Tecno Phantom V Fold is finally out as the company’s first-ever foldable smartphone. It is a full-size fold with a large battery, top-end MediaTek processor and a 50MP primary camera.
Phantom V Fold is available on the Amazon website with an early bird offer from the 12th of April. Its prices were already announced and so let’s learn about its specifications.
Tecno Phantom V Fold Price
Tecno Phantom V Fold’s introductory price with the early bird sale offer on Amazon India is ₹77,777, However, the base model with 12+256GBmemory costs ₹89,999 and the succeeding model costs ₹99,999 with 12+512GB memory. With this pricing, Tecno has created a new space for foldable phones in the Indian market compared to the high-range products in the category such as Galaxy Z Fold 4.
Tecno Phantom V Fold: Design and display
The smartphone is available in two colours with different textures, Black and White, and shows feature similarities with Galaxy Z Fold 4. The Black model comes with a plastic fibre material while the White model has a silicon leather material. Both models are claimed to be ultra-light and renewable.
The interesting element about the phone’s design is the hinge which is made with aerospace materials and is claimed to be tested for 200,000 folds and has less than 0.11mm screen crease.
With a wide and ultra flat 7.85 inches full fold and 6.42 inches sub curved dual LTPO AMOLED screen, Tecno Phantom V Fold has a Corning Gorilla Glass cover. The phone consists of a display density of 388ppi, 2000 x 2296 pixels resolution, and a 10-120Hz adaptive refresh rate.
Tecno Phantom V Fold specs and features
The Tecno Phantom V Fold flaunts three cameras on the rear side with a 50MP portrait lens, 13MP ultra-wide lens, and 50MP primary sensor, respectively. Meanwhile, the Tecno Phantom V Fold uses a 16MP camera and there’s a 32MP camera located on the outer display. The camera uses dual-LED flash, HDR and panorama, while the features for videography are 4K at 30fps and 1080p at 30/60fps.
The model utilises a 45W fast charging system for its non-removable Li-Polymer 5000mAh battery and operates on an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 9000 + 5G for supporting internal functions. Moreover, Tecno has fitted the device with a Mali G-710 GPU and 8GB RAM to attain powerful visuals and efficient speed. The smartphone uses a custom HiOS adapted by Android 13 which has been custom-made for the foldable design.
For connectivity, Tecno Phantom V Fold features 5G, VolTE, 4G, Bluetooth v5.2, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, and A-GPS Glonass. The internal storage provided by the brand comes in two options of 12GB RAM, which is 256GB and 512GB, which is non-expandable.
Let’s see whether Phantom V Fold with its specifications and price can create an impact in the Indian markets.
Acer Predator Helios 16 has launched in India powered by Intel 13th gen processor and Nvidia RTX 40-series GPU. Being the company’s high-end gaming laptop, you get improved thermal performance, and a healthy set of connectivity options, among other features.
Acer Helios 16 features and specs
1. The 16 in its name refers to the laptop’s 16-inch screen that flaunts a 16:10 aspect ratio, a WQXGA resolution, up to 240Hz refresh rate, 500 nits of peak brightness, and support for Nvidia Advanced Optimus.
2. Its computing and graphical performance comes from Intel 13th gen processor (up to Core i9-13900HX) and 12GB GDDR6 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 GPU. The memory configuration goes up to 32GB DDR5 RAM and 1TB PCIe 4 NVMe storage.
3. Acer boasts a 90WHr battery inside its new Predator Helios 16. This relies on a 330W fast charger for charging up.
4. The list of connectivity options consists of Intel Killer E2600 Ethernet Controller, Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E AX1675i, Bluetooth 5.2, 1x USB 3.2 gen 1 port, 1x USB 3.2 gen 2 port, 1x USB 3.2 gen 2 port, 2x USB Type-C ports (Thunderbolt-4), and a micro-SD card slot.
5. The other features of this Predator gaming laptop are a multi-gesture touchpad, backlit keyboard, FHD webcam with noise reduction, stereo speakers, and Windows 11.
Acer Helios 16 India price and availability
You can buy Acer Predator Helios 16 at ₹1,99,990 from store.acer.com and Acer Exclusive Stores.
God of War Ragnarök’s New Game+ mode is finally out, bringing some new armour, enchantments, stronger enemies, and more. The mode unlocks after finishing a run of the game at any difficulty level. The Armor of the Black Bear from the opening segment of God of War Ragnarök can now be equipped by Kratos, alongside a bare-chested Spartan Armor for an increased challe...
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is a pretty good upgrade for folks coming in from an RTX 20-series card or older. Currently, the RTX 3080 is retailing for INR 66,000 in India so the RTX 4070 easily surpasses the RTX 3080 considering that it is equal in performance in most games without RTX or even when running DLSS 2 along with RTX. The key differentiators are the improved RT Cores, Tensor Cores and improved power efficiency thanks to the TSMC 4N process that it is build on. You can easily say that the RTX 3080 has been effectively replaced by the RTX 4070.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is the card that you wished had launched a couple of months ago. It brings all the goodness of the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture which brings support for several good features such as DLSS 3 and AV1 Hardware decoding support, things that gamers and content creators alike would really appreciate. The price of the RTX 4070 Founders Edition in India is INR 62,000 which is decently pricey and brings it to the league of the RTX 3080 and is decently cheaper than the RTX 4070 Ti.
The RTX 4070, given its pricing, is geared towards the higher end of the mid-range segment which is where you find cards capable of 1440p gaming with all the bells and whistles. We’re talking RTX, NVIDIA hairworks, faceworks and whatever else works. The latter two are not NVIDIA features, please don’t write news pieces about them.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Specs
The RTX 4070 is built on NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace architecture, which is the successor to the Ampere architecture used in the previous generation of RTX 30-series cards. Ada Lovelace introduces several new features and improvements, such as better ray tracing capabilities, faster rendering, and improved power efficiency. The improved power efficiency is due to the switch from Samsung 8nm (RTX 30-series) to the TSMC 4N node which is actually a 5nm process node that’s about 6 per cent smaller than TSMC’s initial 5nm process.
The GPU configuration of the RTX 4070 is divided into four Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs). Each GPC serves as a high-level organisational unit which includes Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), Texture Processing Clusters (TPCs), and Raster Operating Units (ROPs). The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 has 23 TPCs, each containing two SMs. In total, there are 46 SMs on the GPU, which are responsible for executing shader programs and handling various graphics processing tasks. Each SM features 128 CUDA Cores, summing up to 5,888 CUDA Cores across the entire GPU.
In addition to the CUDA Cores, the RTX 4070 is equipped with 184 Tensor Cores, 4 per SM, which are specialised hardware units designed to accelerate AI-based computations. Tensor Cores enable the GPU to perform complex matrix operations at high speeds, making them particularly useful for deep learning applications. The RTX 4070 also includes 46 RT Cores, one per SM, which are dedicated ray tracing hardware units that significantly improve the rendering of realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections. With these dedicated RT Cores, the GPU can perform ray tracing tasks much faster than previous-generation GPUs.
The GPU has 184 Texture Units, which are responsible for handling texture mapping tasks, such as applying textures to 3D models and filtering texture data. Furthermore, the RTX 4070 features 64 ROP Units, which handle the final stage of rendering, including anti-aliasing and outputting pixel data to the frame buffer.
Another major change with Ada Lovelace is the massive increase in L2 cache. The card comes with a sizable 36 MB of L2 cache, which reduces memory access latency and improves overall performance. Since most of the calculations are going to be closer to the GPU and will not be sent to the much slower GDDR6X memory, the larger L2 cache really helps with gaming workloads and AI applications really love fast memory. So the DLSS features such as Frame Generation benefit a lot because of this. The RTX 4070 is equipped with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory, which operates on a 192-bit memory bus. This high-speed memory allows the GPU to handle large textures, high-resolution displays, and complex scenes without performance degradation. The narrower bus width is fine since the L2 cache is large.
Lastly, the RTX 4070 supports AV1 hardware encoding, a next-generation video codec that offers improved compression efficiency and video quality compared to previous codecs. This hardware support ensures that the GPU can efficiently encode and decode AV1 video streams, providing better video playback and streaming capabilities. OBS has already incorporated support for AV1 codecs so folks who have the beta version can start streaming to YouTube using the AV1 codec. Also, NVIDIA recently relaxed the limits on simultaneous encode streams so creators can now have 5 concurrent streams on most mainstream graphics cards.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Build Quality
The Founders Edition RTX 4070 follows the same design principles as the other RTX 40 series graphics cards. The main PCB is quite compact and takes up very little volume and there’s a massive metal heatsink fin array spanning the entirety of the body. Like the RTX 3080 and the larger RTX 4080 and 4090, the 4070 also has a twin fan assembly which is configured to optimise maximum airflow through the fin assembly. There's little to say about the build quality. What is interesting though is that the RTX 4070 is a much smaller card than the other RTX 40 series cards and almost feels like a 60-class card.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Performance
The card is being compared against only the recently re-tested graphics cards and not any of the older graphics cards that are no longer available with us. Here’s the rig it was tested on.
We're starting off with gaming performance in video games without RTX enabled. All of these FPS numbers are at 1440p resolution.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Battlefield 2042
Metro Exodus (NO RTX)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (NO RTX)
Ray Tracing Performance
Switching on to RTX performance in synthetic benchmarks as well as video games we see a close similarity to the RTX 3080 across most benchmarks.
Synthetic - 3DMark Port Royale
Cyberpunk 2077
F1 2022
HITMAN 3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Warhammer 40K: Dark Tide
Synthetic - 3DMark TimeSpy (Graphics Score)
In 3DMark TimeSpy, we see the RTX 4070 perform quite similar to the RTX 3080 but with a slight lead. Driver performance improvements over time can also account for the wider performance gap.
Synthetic - API Performance
Load Temperatures
Peak temperatures with the grapics card under load is very much in line with the other RTX cards and even the AMD RX 6000 series cards. Every card is hovering aorund 70 degrees Celsius under gaming load so there's nothing of note to talk about here.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Price and Availability
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 will be available for sale starting April 13, 2023 and will be priced at INR 62,000 in India inclusive of all taxes. The official launch MSRP for the RTX 4070 is USD 599. So it's pretty decently priced considering that it is retailing for Rs 62,000 in India. Partner AIB graphics cards will also be available starting April 13, 2023.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Verdict
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is a pretty good upgrade for folks coming in from an RTX 20-series card or older. Currently, the RTX 3080 is retailing for INR 66,000 in India so the RTX 4070 easily surpasses the RTX 3080 considering that it is equal in performance in most games without RTX or even when running DLSS 2 along with RTX. The key differentiators are the improved RT Cores, Tensor Cores and improved power efficiency thanks to the TSMC 4N process that it is build on. You can easily say that the RTX 3080 has been effectively replaced by the RTX 4070.
Realme has launched the Narzo N55 as part of its Project N lineup. This is the second Realme phone with a Dynamic Island-like feature called Mini Capsule. The front of the device is only having a punch hole at the top but the Mini Capsule triggers in certain instances. We will learn about that and other features here.
Realme Narzo N55 features and specs
1. So, that Mini Capsule is a software-based feature that appears to show notifications, data usage, battery status, etc. Else, it is just a hole punch on a 6.72-inch display with a 90Hz refresh rate and FHD+ resolution.
2. The front camera is an 8MP selfie clicker while the back camera is a 64MP+2MP (B&W) duo. The latter stays on a dual-tone plain christened Dynamic Splicing Design.
3. The innards of the phone consist of MediaTek Helio G88 coupled with up to 6+128GB memory. There is Android 13-based Realme UI 4.0 software on top of this setup.
4. You get a 5000mAh battery with 33W SuperVOOC fast charging support. It has got a USB-C port.
5. Rest, the phone has got flat edges, a side-mounted fingerprint reader, dual SIM+ SDCard slot, and a 3.5mm headphone jack, among other features.
Realme Narzo N55 price and availability
You can buy the Narzo N55 in Prime Black and Prime Blue colours starting April 13 (live sale) from Amazon India and the company’s official e-store. The open sale meanwhile begins on April 18 only. The price begins at ₹10,999 for the 4+128GB model and goes up to ₹12,999 for the 6+128GB variant.
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Samsung is offering great discounts including instant discounts, bank offers and exchange offers on the Air Conditioners where you can also get wind-free and Smart Air Conditioners. The Blue Fest sale is offering a lot of Air Conditioners with discounts but I listed five of them.
Samsung is offering a 5% bank discount on the ACs if you make payment with ICICI Bank Cards. Along with that, Samsung also offered an exchange offer which promises a discount of up to ₹9,800. So if you have an old Air Conditioner, you can trade it in with the new one for an additional discount. Last but not least Samsung has also offered no-cost EMI on the ACs with a starting plan of ₹4036 per month.
Here are the five Air Conditioners with Windfree technology in the Blue Fest sale:
WindFree Inverter Split AR18CY5AMWK 1.5 ton AC
This 1.5-ton 5-star AC is available on Samsung at a price of ₹55,242, however, the original price of the AC is ₹75,990.
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WindFree Inverter Split AR18CY5AAGB 1.5 ton AC
This is a 5-star AC which is also available at the same price as mentioned in the former one. But the WindFree Inverter Split AC AR18CY5AAGB 1.5 ton AC from here.
WindFree Inverter Split AR18CY4AMWK 1.5 ton AC
The 1.5-ton 4-star AC can be bought for the price of ₹48,442, this is the price mentioned on the website but you can avail of an exchange offer and bank offers as well.
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WindFree Inverter Split AR18CY4ANWK 1.5 ton AC.
The 1.5-ton 4-star AC is available for purchase at a price of ₹48,442 on the website, but there are exchange and bank offers that you can take advantage of.
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WindFree Inverter Split AR18CY5ANWK 1.5 ton AC
This 1.5-ton comes with a 5-star rating and is available on the website at a price of ₹54,817. However, the original price of the AC is ₹74,990.
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Specifications of Samsung’s Wind-Free Air Conditioners
These are 1.5-ton ACs which operate on Wind-Free cooling with 23,000 micro holes.
They come with convertible 5 in 1 mode and PM 2.5 Air Filter. Along with that, these ACs have a Copper condenser with Durafin Ultra cooling.
Xiaomi has announced the date of its upcoming event Smarter Living 2023, where the Chinese company will be revealing the Xiaomi Smart TV X Pro series. The Xiaomi Smart TV X Pro series is expected to be launched with three TVs of different sizes that are; 43-inch, 50-inch, and 55-inch. The TV series will be powered by Google's operating system, Xiaomi confirmed.
The Smart Living 2023 is held on April 13 where Xiaomi will be revealing the Xiaomi Smart TV X Pro series along with some stuff like Smart Air Purifier 4, Xiaomi Robot Vacuum-Mop 2i, and a new Xiaomi Grooming Kit.
Let’s have a look at some specifications of the TV series that Xiaomi confirmed.
Xiaomi Smart TV X Pro specifications
The Smart TV X Pro series will boast a metal bezel-less design with a sizable screen-to-body ratio, making it aesthetically appealing. Additionally, the X Pro series will incorporate 4K resolution and support for HDR10+ and Dolby Vision IQ, which are intended to enhance the picture quality.
The Xiaomi Smart TV X series was launched in three sizes and people are expecting the same with the Xiaomi Smart TV X Pro series. However, there are no words out on “how many TVs are going to be available ?” and “What will be their sizes ?”.
The X Pro series will feature a 40-watt speaker setup with Dolby Atmos and DTS: X support. Furthermore, it will include Google TV software experience with Google Play Store support for over 5,000 apps and games, Google Assistant, and Google Play Services as its final feature.
Availability of Xiaomi Smart TV X Pro
The Xiaomi Smart TV X Pro will most likely be available on Flipkart, Mi.com, and Mi stores in India after the launch.
