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After many rumors and leaks, the latest flagship of OnePlus has been revealed, called the OnePlus 5. It is the successor to the OnePlus 3T released in 2016. The OnePlus 5 may not be as cheap as the company's previous handsets, but it is one of the best phones on the market right now. A great camera, faster performance and a premium design to make this phone into flaghip killer.

The OnePlus 5 comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835(10nm) chipset clocked at 2.42 GHz.This is essentially Octa-Core processor with 8 cores. Four of these cores are for heavy duty work such as gaming, Whereas the other four core would be used for day to day activities. The 10nm architecture helps to reduce battery consumption. The device comes with 6/8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. Powering all of this is a 3300 mAH battery, which is slightly smaller than the 3400 mAH battery found in OnePlus 3T.
 When comes to software, you will find Android 7.1.1 Nogut running with OxygenOS. unlike other manufacturers, OxygenOS similar like stock android experience. Like the hardware the custom software is streamlined and simple.

One of biggest updates of the OnePlus 5, is the camera setup. On the rear, OnePlus 5 has dual camera setup, with 16MP f/1.7 aperture main camera and 20MP f/2.6 aperture telephoto lens. Just like iPhone, OnePlus 5 also has a portrait mode. This is One of the best camera in the market.

OnePlus 5 comes with two variants. First one Slate Gray model has 6GB RAM and 64GB storage will cost 32,999 INR and the second one Midnight Black model has 8GB RAM and 128GB storage will cost 37,999.

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Upcoming Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Chip

In November Qualcomm announced that its next-generation flagship processor would be the Snapdragon 835 and that it would be manufactured using the 10nm process in partnership with Samsung, which also made the Snapdragon 820 and 821 as part of a decade-long collaboration between the two companies.

Now in production and expected to make it to devices by the first half of 2017, the Snapdragon 835 is exciting because it's the processor expected to be used in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone. The 835 is the first Qualcomm processor to be made with a 10nm process, which will bring various improvements including performance and efficiency, which in turn will result in better battery life for devices.

Compared to its 14nm process, Samsung 10nm method offers up to 30 percent increase in area efficiency with 27 percent higher performance or up to 40 percent lower power consumption. Since this is Qualcomm’s first 10nm processor, it’s extremely small and fits 3bn transistors. It’s smaller than an average human fingernail in surface and 1,000x thinner than a strange of hair. This should result in thinner phones, space for bigger batteries, better efficiency and therefore longer battery life. 

The integrated GPU is used to support high end graphics with the new Adreno 540 delivering up to 25 percent faster graphics rendering and 60 times more display colors, as compared to previous Adreno GPUs. It supports real-life quality visuals for immersive experiences, such as with AR and VR.

There are countless ways that AR and VR can be used in the enterprise and I am excited to see the technology continuing to advance. As a professional engineer who designs commercial ships, I would love to have a client put on a VR headset and "walk" around the ship before we finish designing it and before a single piece of steel is cut to build it.

Snapdragon 835 comes with the new Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 technology in the Snapdragon 835, it is advertised that you can get five hours of battery life in just five minutes. That's an incredible claim that I look forward to testing out.

 

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The Nokia 3310 now comes in a gilded ‘Vladimir Putin’ Edition

Nokia took the market by a pleasant surprise when the company announced the revival of its iconic Nokia 3310 device at MWC, 2017. Russian premium handset brand Caviar has paid tribute to Russian politician Vladimir Putin by launching a new version of the Nokia 3310 device with the president’s picture integrated in Gold at the back of the device.

The new ‘Vladimir Putin’ avatar that the Nokia 3310 dons is dubbed as the Nokia 3310 Supremo Putin and comes at a price of RUB 99,000 (approximately Rs 1,13,500). The device’s central home button is decorated with a miniature image of coat of arms of the Russian Federation and the handset further sports titanium housing along with a gold finish.

The relaunched Nokia 3310 – based on the early 2000s phone of the same name – was announced on February 26, 2017 at Mobile World Congress. It’s built by a Finnish company called HMD Global, which is paying Nokia a fee to use the brand name on the handset. The phone has basic features like a web browser, voice recorder, and an FM radio, 2.4-inch QVGA display, 2MP rear camera, 16GB internal storage and 1200mAh battery that offers 22 hours of talktime and one month’s standby time.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explosion Investigation Report

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fires and explosions were caused by defects in the battery, and the company has now released details of its investigation. The South-Korean technology conglomerate has also come up with an eight-point safety measure for its smartphone batteries in order to ensure that such a scenario doesn’t happen again. According to the company, leading industry groups namely UL, Exponent and TUV Rheinland also conducted their own investigation into this issue.

Further, Samsung now has a Battery Advisory Group, which consists of external advisers, academic and research experts around this issue. This includes Clare Grey who is Professor of Chemistry at University of Cambridge, Gerbrand Ceder who is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, Yi Cui who is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and Toru Amazutsumi, CEO of Amaz Techno-consultant.

“We look forward to moving ahead with a renewed commitment to safety. The lessons of the past several months are now deeply reflected in our processes and in our culture,” the company said in a statement.

For those who remember, Samsung had to issue two recalls for the Galaxy Note 7. The first one came in September, and then new phones were launched to replace these units. Samsung then had to pull the plug on the second batch of Galaxy Note 7 phones in early October.

After the first recall, Samsung had blamed faulty batteries, and then relied on a different manufacturer, but evidently the problem was not plugged in the second case either. It should be noted that Samsung has not yet confirmed the names of the manufacturers for the batteries. However, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said Samsung’s own SDI battery unit was the supplier in the first case.

The investigating team found there was an issue with the design in battery A. The problem: Not enough room to allow for the expansion of its electrodes, which happens during the normal charge and discharge cycle of the battery.

Samsung own explanation is that “the negative electrode was deflected in the upper right corner of the battery,” which is an abnormality in the design. In a normal battery, the positive and negative electrodes are properly separated, and the negative electrode is not deflected nor is it touching the positive electrode.

An additional contributing factor, according to Samsung was the tip of the negative electrode was incorrectly located, resulted in short-circuiting of the battery.

In a tale that is surely to go down in smartphone history, Samsung had to recall all of its Galaxy Note 7 units from the market because of unexplained explosions while on charge. There were several dangerous implications of these explosions as well - including a jeep set on fire, and a man who had to bear a huge hotel bill because of the sudden explosion in his room causing damages.

Samsung relied on a different manufacturer for the second batch of battery when new units of the Note 7 were sent out to replace the original ones. In this case, it looks like there were problems with the manufacturing quality and safety norms were ignored.

Samsung’s own report says there were “high welding blurs on the positive electrode,” which caused damaged to the insulation tape and separator, and once again the positive electrode was touching the negative one, resulting in the short-circuit. Additionally a number of batteries were missing the insulation tapes, which made the problem worse.

 Samsung has announced an enhanced 8-Point Battery Safety Check for safety of batteries used in their phones. The list includes enhanced durability, visual inspection, X-Ray Test, disassembling test. New measures include Charge and Discharge Test, TVOC Test and Accelerated Usage Test.

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Samsung Opens Up a New World of Gaming with First-Ever Gaming Notebook, the Samsung Notebook Odyssey

Samsung Electronics today unveiled the award-winning Samsung Notebook Odyssey, a new portable gaming PC with high-power performance and dynamic display. Available in 17.3-inch and 15.6-inch models, the Samsung Notebook Odyssey packs power in a beautiful and innovative design with premium features to offer a premium gaming experience.

“The Samsung Notebook Odyssey was designed specifically with gamers in mind and is equipped with exclusive features to offer users one of the best gaming notebook available on the market,” said YoungGyoo Choi, Senior Vice President of the PC Business Team, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. “Today, serious and even casual gamers seek computing devices that not only pack power for intense graphics-rich games but also feature a stylish and portable design. We’re excited to expand our PC portfolio with a premium gaming solution featuring refinements in design, cutting-edge technology and enhanced gaming usability.”

Samsung Notebook Odyssey includes exclusive features built specifically for intense and casual gamers alike. With advanced technology, such as the HexaFlow Vent, an advanced cooling and ventilation system that helps the device remain cool. Created for maximum performance and endless play, users can also open the HexaFlow Vent, which is located on the bottom panel of the device, to upgrade the storage and memory.

In addition to its high-performing engine, the Samsung Notebook Odyssey 17.3-inch offers a beautiful viewing experience including a backlight that goes up to 300 nits (280 nits on 15.6-inch) in brightness for crystal clear images. For personalization and easy access to crucial keys, users can also choose the backlit color of individual keycaps on the Samsung Notebook Odyssey 17.3-inch.

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Oppo Launced New 5x Dual Camera Zoom System Unveiled at MWC 2017

Oppo, as promised, has announced its all-new 5x Smartphone Photography Technology dubbed 5x Dual Camera Zoom system, which will debut on the company's phones later this year. Oppo’s big Mobile World Congress announcement wasn’t an actual phone. Sure it arrived in a prototype roughly the size and shape of a phone, but it wasn’t really. It was proof of concept, the company showing off the imagine technology it’s spent the last year working on.

Oppo's new 5x Dual Camera Zoom system sports a periscope-style setup, and is claimed to kill the need of camera bump at the back with its sleek 5.7mm thickness. Unfortunately, the company has not announced when the new camera tech can be expected to debut on its phones. It's however highly possible that Oppo uses the new 5x Dual Camera Zoom system on its flagship smartphone.That’s not to say it wasn’t impressive. The company has apparently cracked the code on bringing 5x zoom to the back of a handset without adding a massive camera bump. The answer, it seems, is two lenses at two different focal points.

The company refers to the system as “lossless zoom,” offering a 5x zoom that does a much better job than most phone cameras of getting in tight without massively degrading the image. The 5x Dual Camera Zoom system packs more than 50 parts which have been stacked in a 5.7mm module. Oppo's 5x Dual Camera Zoom system diverts light through a prism into a stabilised telephoto lens set at a 90-degree angle. The company claims that the result is lossless 5x zoom, and it utilises Oppo's "proprietary image fusion technology for digital zoom."

Of course, that feature alone won’t be enough to sell too many people on a new handset. And while the company has, by its own account, aggressively patented the tech, it would be nice to see it implement more widely on different devices. Of course, Oppo seems to know what it’s doing of late. The company’s seen massive growth in its native China over the past year, growing sales 122-percent from 2015 to 2016 to become the top handset maker in the world’s largest smartphone market.

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Nvidia Plans GTX 2080 Ti, 2080 & 2070 Refresh With GDDR5X & Faster Clocks In 2017

The new GeForce GTX 20 series would the 14nm FinFET refresh of the Pascal architecture, led by the GeForce GTX 2080 Ti which would use the refreshed GP102 core with 3384 CUDA cores, and GDDR5X on a 384-bit memory bus. Under that, we'll find the GTX 2080 which would replace the current GTX 1080, and then the GTX 2070 that could be the new price/performance champion. NVIDIA could use the faster GDDR5X standard on the GeForce GTX 2070, with the faster VRAM exclusive to the current-gen GTX 1080 and Titan X. The use of GDDR5X on the more mid-range GeForce GTX 2070 could be a big win for the price/performance market once again.

Whispers floating around the tech-sphere allege that NVIDIA is in fact launching its next generation Volta GPUs this year on 12nm FinFET. This hot rumor, which Fox Business has picked up, claims that NVIDIA’s next generation family of GPUs will succeed Pascal this year in the GPGPU supercomputing, machine learning and artificial intelligence spaces. Furthermore, Volta is said to be built using a custom, cutting edge, 12nm FinFET manufacturing process at TSMC.
We reported in as early as September 2015 that NVIDIA’s Volta will indeed arrive to market in 2017. Volta GPUs in conjunction with IBM POWER PC server CPUs are expected to power several of the world’s leading-edge supercomputers this year. It’s important to note that it’s not yet clear when exactly Volta will arrive on the GeForce gaming side. However, according to NVIDIA’s official word we’ll see Volta in GeForce gaming graphics cards some time a year later in 2018.

Speculated specifications on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 20 series graphics cards :

•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 Ti - GP102/3384/384-bit/GDDR5X
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX    2080 - GP104/2560/256-bit/GDDR5X 
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2070 - GP104/2048/256-bit/GDDR5X 
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 Ti 6GB - GP106/1280/192-bit/GDDR5
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 6GB - GP106/1024/192-bit/GDDR5
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2050 - GP107/768/128-bit/GDDR5 

Speculated price on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 20 series graphics cards : 

•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 Ti - $799 
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 - $499
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2070 - $349 
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 Ti 6GB - $229
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 6GB - $179
•  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2050 - $139

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