iPhone Shipments in India Declined 42% in Q1, 2019 iPhone sales have been in a free fall in India, and latest reports now suggest that things went from bad to worse for Apple during the first three months of this year. According to Counterpoint Research, iPhone shipments in the country plunged 42 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same quarter in 2018. The numbers apparently improved in April because of various promotional discounts offered by retailers before slumping again in May and June....

Microsoft Adds Windows Spellchecker to Chromium Codebase Microsoft has added the native Windows spell-checking tool to the Chromium codebase as part of its efforts to offer Chrome and Edge users multiple spell-checking options to choose from. Chromium currently uses the‘Hunspell’spellchecker that’s also used by a number of other open-source projects likeLibreOffice and OpenOffice. Believed to have been first spotted byWindows Latest, the Windows Spellchecker will apparently coexist with Hunspell without replacing it forthright....

Microsoft Working on a mini Xbox that would cost $60 According to a new report, software giant Microsoft could introduce a mini Xbox priced around $60, especially for its Project xCloud. Microsoft’s project xCloud is a vision for game-streaming technology that was introduced in October last year to complement Microsoft’s console hardware and give gamers more choices in how and where they play. Coming to the so called mini Xbox, the tiny box is said to be designed to make it easier for users to connect their Xbox controller to TVs and offer minimal processing power itself, tech website MSPoweruser reported on Thursday....

Redmi K20 Pro vs OnePlus 7: PUBG Mobile, Fortnite Performance Test The premium budget segment in India earlier only had a single contender. I am talking about OnePlus which was dominating this space but then came the Poco F1. Xiaomi’s Poco F1 came through with an even affordable flagship experience and took the market by storm. Now, theRedmi K20 Pro, which was launched in China recently, can be seen as the successor to Xiaomi’s Poco F1 and it’s now all set to take on the latest OnePlus budget flagship: the OnePlus 7!...

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Might Come With Multiple 3D ToF Sensors With the Galaxy Note 10 all set to be launchedAugust 7 in New York, various leaks over the past few weeks have revealed quite a few of its important features and functionalities. Now, a report out of South Korea suggests that at least one of the models in the lineup might also feature 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors like the Galaxy S10....

Sony WF-1000XM3 Noise-cancelling Wireless Earbuds Launched Almost two years after launching its first true wireless noise-cancelling earphones, the WF-1000X, Japanese tech giant Sony has unveiled its successor that comes with a refreshed look, new features and a whole host of improvements that the company says makes it worth the upgrade from the older model. Called theWF-1000XM3, the new pair feature an in-ear design and is said to have better noise-cancelling capabilities than its predecessor, thanks largely to the use of its in-house QN1e HD noise cancelling processor....

SwiftKey’s New 3D Emojis Can Mimic Your Facial Expressions Introduced at the iPhone X launch event in 2017,Apple’s Animojisopened the floodgates for a multitude of tech companies, hardware vendors and app creators to come up with theirown versions of animated 3D emojisthat mimic human facial expressions. Microsoft’s popular third-party keyboard app, SwiftKey, has now joined the bandwagon by introducing a similar feature as part of its latest update. Called‘Puppets’, the new feature will allow users to choose from a number of different avatars, including a 3D panda, cat, dog, owl or dinosaur, to imitate their facial expressions....