Laptops/Tablets

If the latest rumour is anything to go by, then we might see Apple releasing iOS 14 for the same set of devices that supported iOS 13 last year. Though there is still a possibility that the company might drop support for iPhone SE and iPhone 6s. As for iPadOS 14, a couple of devices

Intel on Thursday cemented the market view that the chip industry is turning around after a prolonged slowdown, forecasting better 2020 revenue and profit than Wall Street anticipated, driven by cloud computing demand. The company’s sales in its closely watched data centre business jumped 19 percent, helping it beat fourth-quarter profit and revenue estimates and

MarQ, Flipkart’s private label electronics and home appliances brand, recently launched its first laptop in India. The new Falkon Aerbook marks the company’s foray into a very sensitive market, and one in which buyers have lots of choices from very established brands already. Even after launching home appliances, accessories, and many other kinds of devices,

Chinese New Year 2020 celebrations have started today, on January 25. The 15-day festival, which is also known as Lunar New Year — referred to as the Spring Festival in mainland China, is widely observed by the Chinese population. But with the expansion of Internet, various non-Chinese people have also started celebrating the Chinese New

Apple is reportedly planning to introduce an updated Smart Keyboard with a scissor switch design alongside its next-generation iPad and iPad Pro models in 2020. The iPhone maker introduced its scissor-switch keyboard design at the end of 2019 with the 16-inch MacBook Pro. Other MacBooks are also expected to get the keyboard in 2020, the

Xerox Holdings said on Thursday it plans to nominate 11 independent candidates to HP’s board, seeking to take control of the personal computer maker after several rejections of its $33.5 billion buyout offer. The US printer maker made the cash-and-stock offer to HP, a company more than three times its size, in November. HP’s board

Just a day after wrapping up its Republic Day special sale, Flipkart is back with a brand new sale on electronics. The Walmart-owned company has started its Grand Gadgets Days sale from today. The four-day sale promises discounts worth up to 80 percent on popular laptops, headphones, smart home products, accessories, and more. In case

Often considered a Mecca for tech enthusiasts, the mobile industry’s premier event MWC Barcelona is facing a new challenge this year — dealing with a mysterious virus first reported in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province. Several people have already lost their lives due to the virus, dubbed Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Sensing dangers, many

Xiaomi has launched its Mi Router 4C in India. The wireless router comes with four high-performance omni-directional antennae, supports 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band, and offers up to 300Mbps speeds. To recall, this router was launched in China in July last year, and it has finally been made available in India. The Mi Router 4C is equipped

The global shipments of devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — will reach 2.16 billion units in 2020, an increase of 0.9 percent from 2019 buoyed by growth in smartphone shipments driven by 5G handsets, a Gartner report said on Tuesday. 5G models will account for 12 percent of mobile phone shipments in 2020

How light do you need your laptop to be, and how much are you willing to sacrifice to reduce weight? Acer has decided to test where the answers to those questions like with its new Swift 7, a 14-inch laptop that weighs just 890g and is only 9.95mm thick. Yes, that’s thinner and lighter than

South Korean flat-screen maker Samsung Display plans to set up a factory in India with a $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,500 crores) investment as parent Samsung Electronics seeks to expand smartphone production here, a regulatory filing showed. The move would be a boon for India which is vying with nearby rivals such as Vietnam to

Microsoft on Thursday set a new ambition among Fortune 500 companies in addressing climate change, pledging to remove as much carbon as it has emitted in its 45-year history. The focus on clearing carbon from the atmosphere sets Microsoft’s climate goals apart from other corporate pledges which have focused on cutting ongoing emissions or preventing

Honor 9X and Oppo F15 India launches as well as the Republic Day sales from Amazon and Flipkart dominated the news this week. Both Amazon sale and Flipkart sale will continue next week to offer discounts and offers to the consumers. Additionally, Realme started rolling out Android 10 with Realme UI update for Realme 3

Amazon Great Indian Sale 2020 is all set to begin for Prime members at 12pm IST today. The sale will go on till January 22, and phones like the OnePlus 7T, Redmi Note 8 Pro, iPhone XR, and more will be listed with price cuts. The sale for non-Prime members will begin 12 hours later

Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is reportedly planning to launch its first-ever 5G iPad this year, apart from the rumoured 5G-capable iPhone 12 in September. For this, a Taiwanese component company Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reportedly broken into the supply chain for Apple’s mmWave 5G iPhones and 5G iPads with its substrate-based FC-AiP (flip chip

As Google-parent Alphabet became on Thursday the fourth U.S. company to top a market value of more than $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 7,095,950 crores), some funds holding its shares are wondering whether now is the time to cash in on the stock’s extraordinary gains. Shares of the Internet search giant are up nearly 17 percent

Lenovo has unveiled a range of computing devices at CES 2020. But one of the interesting offerings is the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook that looks similar to Microsoft’s Surface Pro convertibles. The new Chromebook model is touted to be amongst the lightest and thinnest Chromebooks with a long battery life of up to 10 hours.

Honor, the sub brand of Huawei and once a popular player in the smartphone market, is set to go beyond smartphones and launch its laptops in India soon. The Chinese brand has its MagicBook family of Windows 10-based laptops that debuted in China back in April 2018. Alongside the laptops, Honor is set to bring

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold has been launched for the next-generation market of personal computers. Touted as the world’s first foldable PC, the new Lenovo machine is designed to deliver a laptop efficiency with smartphone portability. The ThinkPad X1 Fold sports a folding OLED display that gets folded from the middle to provide a traditional notebook-like

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major security flaw in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system that could let hackers intercept seemingly secure communications. But rather than exploit the flaw for its own intelligence needs, the NSA tipped off Microsoft so that it can fix the system for everyone. Microsoft released a free

A new patent that surfaced in the US Patent and Trademark Office suggests that Apple is working on the next version of its fancy stylus, the 3rd gen Apple Pencil with more advanced gestures. Apple Pencil could come with support for more gestures beyond the double-tap input that the 2nd gen Pencil offers, AppleInsider reported

If you’re still using Microsoft’s Windows 7, your computer might soon be at risk. Microsoft will stop providing free security updates for the system on today, meaning computers using it will be more vulnerable to malware and hacking. Users who want to protect their computers need to upgrade to Windows 10. They may also need

Microsoft back in October showcased a foldable smartphone Surface Duo and now the company’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella was spotted using the device at a public place, ahead of its official launch. Editor-at-Large of Yahoo Finance Brian Sozzi, shared a photo via Twitter of Microsoft CEO using the upcoming device and wrote, “Microsoft CEO @satyanadella

Since its launch, Apple has positioned the iPad Pro as a device that could be a competent laptop replacement for many users, and as we noted in our review, the latest iPad Pro certainly delivers on that front as far as the hardware is concerned. That’s been a bit of a theme for the iPad

Western Digital surprised the world at last year’s CES when it showcased the SanDisk 4TB USB-C Prototype thumb drive. At CES 2020, the company has again pulled off an impressive feat by unveiling an 8TB portable SSD prototype, which is claimed to be the world’s highest-capacity, pocket-sized portable SSD. It was unveiled under the company’s

On the sidelines of the CES 2020, Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has made an announcement that it will be adding laptops too, under its ‘MarQ by Flipkart’ label. Its first laptop is called the Falkon Aerbook, which is designed to be thin and light and is powered by Intel’s 8th generation CPUs. The laptop will

At CES 2020, Intel announced its Tiger Lake CPUs, and these new processors will come with Thunderbolt 4 support. The next-gen external connector from Intel is confirmed to come with the new 10nm CPUs this year, but the chipmaker has avoided revealing too many details as of now. Intel claims that Thunderbolt 4 will be

Samsung has launched the Portable SSD T7 Touch at CES 2020. The successor to Samsung’s T5 portable SSD, the Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch is claimed to be at least twice as fast as its predecessor. But the major draw of the Portable SSD T7 Touch is enhanced security, as the new storage device comes

Microsoft’s decade-old operating system – Windows 7 – will reach ‘end of life’ on January 14. This means that the company will stop the free technical support and producing ‘security patches’ to fix software vulnerabilities. It is recommended that all users switch to Windows 10 or newer Windows versions before Windows 7 support ends. While