Although Android Oreo has just made its entry in the real world for the general public, it is quite a great update over the previous generation Android Nougat. Not to conclude Android Nougat is any bad but every new Android version is meant to be better over its previous generation and so is Android Oreo. Moreover it is just...
Director: Matt Reeves
Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Amiah Miller, Judy Greer
Movie Score: 94%
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When Director Matt Reeves was chosen as the new Batman director, earlier this year, majority of people knew and had this feeling that the future reboot Dark Knight film has gone into safe hands. Guess what, it came out to be just true, with War for the...
Are you looking for an Android smartphone with high-end features and you have a budget of up to Rs 20,000? In the last few years, companies like Samsung, Motorola, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Huawei, Sony, ZTE, Asus, Oppo, and Vivo have completely updated the catalogue of budget-friendly smartphones. Smartphones under Rs 20,000 now come with a decent performing platform as well...
After grabbing over 72 million Jio Prime (paid) subscribers within just a month, Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio has extended the deadline, for subscribing to its Jio Prime membership plan as well as Rs 303 and other plans till April 15. The move comes as the Reliance wants to give its customers breathing time for smooth and normal transition between...
Scientists in Juelich, Germany have switched on the world’s largest “artificial Sun” for the first time, called "Synlight", which could be used to create useful hydrogen (environment-friendly fuels) in the future.
Located in Jülich, a town located 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Cologne, Germany, and developed by scientists from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the “Synlight” system that consists...
Chinese electronics company and smartphone maker, Xiaomi, announced today that it has developed its own processor, called Surge S1. The processor will be used in the Xiaomi Mi 5c smartphone.
With the announcement, Xiaomi becomes the fourth company after Samsung, Huawei and Apple to develop its own chip. Surge S1 was produced by Xiaomi's subsidiary, Pinecone, which was established in 2014 to develop processors for smartphones.
Stunning features
The new Xiaomi Surge S1 is a 64-bit octa-core SoC with four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and four other power efficient ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.4GHz.
The new Xiaomi Surge S1 chipset also has a 32-bit DSP for better voice processing for calls, and also dual microphones for noise reduction. The Xiaomi chip integrates 14bit dual ISP and the company's own Surge ISP algorithm that claims to improve camera light sensitivity by up to 150 percent, and the dual noise reduction algorithm also preserves detail in low light. This dynamic image processing results into 15 percent less power consumption.
The Mi 5c features a 5.15 inch Full HD (1080p) display, 3GB RAM, 64GB inbuilt storage, and dual SIM support. It runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Xiaomi’s MIUI 8 layer on top Xiaomi has said the phone will be upgradable to Android 7.1 Nougat, and the update will be seeded in March. It also packs a 2860mAh battery with fast charging support. On the camera front, the device sports a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera. At the front, it comes with an 8-megapixel camera.The fingerprint sensor is underneath the home button in the front.
Xiaomi added that the whole process of creating the Surge S1 chipset has taken 28 months. The company also shared GeekBench 4.0 CPU multicore benchmark and GFXBench Manhattan off- screen benchmark, claiming that the Surge S1 beats the Qualcomm ...
We’re taught in primary school that there are seven continents exist on the globe: Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. However, some geologists do believe that Europe and Asia are into a supercontinent, known as Eurasia. But according to a new study, a team of New Zealand geologists have identified a new concealed underwater continent...
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt Ltd (HMSI), on Thursday launched the 2017 version of the Activa 125 with a host of genuine updates. The new Activa 125 is the first automatic scooter to meet both Bharat Stage-IV emission norms and Automatic Head Lamp On (AHO) as well as LED position lights, according to Indian arm of Japanese two...
Taiwanese phone maker HTC Corporation on Thursday (February 9) has officially launched, its new water, splash and dust resistant smartphone “HTC 10 Evo” in India at a price of Rs 48,990. The smartphone, HTC 10 Evo is the same as the HTC Bolt, which was the company first unveiled in the USA in November last year and was first...
German luxury car manufacturer, Audi has launched the facelifted version of its A3 Cabriolet sedan in India with a starting price of Rs 47.98 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). The company confirmed that the all Audi dealerships across the country have already started taking bookings as the model will go be on sale in the next few days. The four-seat convertible,...
