Jio GigaFiber to Launch September 5, Starting at Rs 700 for a 100Mbps Plan At the 42nd annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries on Monday, the company’s chairman and managing director, Mukesh Ambani, announced some of the key details related to the launch of itsGigaFiber broadband service. First off, theJio GigaFiber service will launch commercially on September 5, with the rollout expected to be completed within the next twelve months....

Microsoft Patents Controllers to Turn Smartphones into Hand-held Game Consoles In an apparent bid to take on the popular Nintendo gaming Switch, a new Microsoft patent has revealed plans for controllers that would turn your smartphone into hand-held Xbox. According to areport in Digital Trendslate Sunday, the patent shows“a charging device for removable input modules. While there is no specific mention of the Xbox in the application, a couple of the drawings feature all-too-familiar buttons and symbols”....

Pixel 4 Spotted in Real World Images, Shows off Thin Bezels As we get closer and closer to the expected October launch event for the Pixel 4 (among other things Made by Google), more information about the upcoming Google flagships is leaking out. After leakedspecs,renders, andmore, we now have a real-world look at the Pixel 4. The images, albeit sketchy, show off the Pixel 4 from a rather obtuse angle, but we can see the forehead of the phone with the selfie camera, even though the sensors it’ll use forface recognition and gesturesaren’t really visible (due to the quality of the image, and the glare falling on the screen)....

Realme 5, Realme 5 Pro to Launch on August 20, Teased on Flipkart Realme has been teasing its upcoming quad-camera phone relentlessly on Twitter, and now we finally have a launch date for the Realme 5 and Realme 5 Pro thanks to a teaser page on Flipkart. The page shows off the quad-camera set-up of the Realme 5, along with Realme’s slogan for the phone “Join the Realme 5quad.” It reveals the launch date of the phone to be August 20th, 2019, with the live stream scheduled to begin at 12:30 PM....

Reliance Jio Has Over 340 Million Subscribers, Claims Mukesh Ambani At the 42nd annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries on Monday, the company’s Chairman and Managing Director, Mukesh Ambani, announced that Jio now has more than 340 million subscribers around the country. According to Ambani,“Jio has crossed the 340 million subscriber mark to remain among the world’s fastest growing digital services”. Ambani also claimed that Jio is signing up an average of 10 million new customers every month and, is looking to hit the 500 million subscriber mark in the near future....

Reliance Jio Set-top Box to Offer Console-quality Gaming, Mixed Reality and More Mukesh Ambani on Monday unveiled the Jio set-top-box (STB) that the company claimed will offer several notable features, including 4K streaming, console-quality gaming, access to premium content from top streaming platforms and more. There will also apparently be a‘First Day First Show’feature that will enable subscribers to watch new movies at home on the same day they are released in theaters....

Samsung Announces 108MP Camera Sensor for Smartphones in Collaboration With Xiaomi Samsung on Monday announced the new108MP ISOCELL Bright HMX sensorthat it claimed is the world’s first mobile image sensor to go beyond 100 megapixels. Meant for smartphones and mobile devices, it is the result of Samsung’s collaboration with Chinese tech giant, Xiaomi, who last monthannounced plansto launch a new smartphone with a 108MP Samsung image sensor. Although further details about the device itself are yet to be announced, the companies have now revealed a few key features of the new chip that will go into mass production later this month....