The Smartphone Price Wars Have Begun with the Poco F1 Xiaomi’s sub-brand Pocophone recentlylaunched the brand new Poco F1in India with flagship grade specs for a price that still seems impossible to digest. With that move, Xiaomi has laid its claim on the mid-range smartphone market and kicked off what can only be called the smartphone price wars. The Indian smartphone market is one of the fastest growing in the world which makes it particularly interesting for companies looking to grow their profits multi-fold....

UPI Reaches New High by Crossing 300 Million Transactions in August Unified Payment Interface (UPI), the poster child of Indian government’s‘Digital India’initiative, crossed the milestone of 100 million monthly transactions back in December last year. The digital payments platform has now reached a new high by crossing300 million transactions in August,which amounts to a growth of around 300% in transactions since the end of 2017. As per the latest figures released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the net monthly transactions carried over UPI stood at312....

Xiaomi to Launch Redmi Note 5 Pro ‘Flame Red’ Variant in India Tomorrow Just a day prior the launch of itsupcoming Redmi 6 lineup, Xiaomi is looking to ramp up the sales of itspopular and best-sellingRedmi Note 5 Pro smartphone by attracting the users towards the new ‘Flame Red’ color variant. Yes, the red-colorRedmi Note 5 Provariant that landed in China earlier in June isfinally making its way to India tomorrowat 10:00 AM....

Huawei Mate 20 Prototype Spotted at IFA 2018 At the ongoing IFA 2018 electronics show, Huaweiyesterday introducedus to the world’s first-ever 7nm Kirin 980 processor and announced that the Mate 20 lineup, launching on October 16 in London, will be the first set of devices to be powered by the same. An eagle-eyed attendee,Spanish blog teknofilo, appears to have spotted the company’s upcoming flagship and feasted us with a number of live shots of the rumored Mate 20 or Mate 20 Pro in the hands of a Huawei representative (given the Huawei wristband) from the IFA show floor....

AMD’s 2nd Generation Ryzen Threadripper 2950X is Now Available for $899 AMD has announced that their 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, with 16-cores and 32-threads, is now available for purchase. Last year AMD surprised everyone with their first generation Threadripper products which were received with major excitement from enthusiasts and professionals alike. This year, the second generation processors are attracting an even higher audience,thanks to new Zen+ cores built on Globalfoundries 12nm processthat promises to deliver noticeable improvements to the 2nd generation of Ryzen Threadripper products....

Apple iPhone 8 Units Have a Manufacturing Defect; Here’s How You Can Check! With the iPhone XS launch around the corner, it might be safe to say that the iPhone 8 was the last Apple iPhone to feature a display without a notch. In fact, despite having launched alongside the iPhone X, the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus contributed to a major part of Apple’s sales. Well, that doesn’t mean that the device was all too great, with recent reports stating that the devices apparently had a manufacturing defect....

Apple’s Self Driving Car Meets First Accident One of Apple’s self-driving vehicles was involved in an accident during the test drive in US’ California, and sustained moderate damage in the crash, the media reported. Apple’s autonomous car got into its very first crash one week ago in Sunnyvale, according to a report filed by Apple with the California Department of Motor Vehicles this week, The Verge reported on Friday. However, it does not appear that Apple was at fault for the collision as the software was intact....