Realme Fitness Band, VOOC-Enabled Power Bank Launching Soon, Confirms CEO In the latest episode of#AskMadhavon YouTube, the CEO of Oppo’s Realme sub-brand, Madhav Sheth, confirmed that the company is planning to launch its first fitness band in the first half of 2020. He had earlier announced that the company wasworking on a fitness bandthat might be launched in India sooner rather than later. It’s been two full months since then, so it remains to be seen how much longer it would take for the device to hit primetime....

Realme Releases Android Pie Kernel Sources for the Realme X2 Chinese tech firms are not known for releasing the kernel sources of their devices in keeping with GNU licensing requirements, but Realme has been a notable exception. Ever since its inception last year, the company has been consistently wooing power users by encouraging third-party development on its devices. Keeping up with the practice, the company has now released the kernel sources of the Realme X2on Github, enabling developers to start their work on TWRP custom recovery andcustom ROMs....

Realme X50 5G with Snapdragon 765G, Punch-hole Design to Launch on January 7 After teasing a slew of its features on social media for the past couple of weeks, Realme has confirmed the launch date for its first-ever 5G smartphone — the Realme X50 5G. It was first announced last month, post which the teaser revealing the chipset, 5G support, and other hardware specs, were shared online. In anofficial poston Weibo, Realme has announced that itsRedmi K30 5Gcompetitor is launching on January 7 in China....

Reliance Jio Announces “2020 Happy New Year Offer” In many ways, Reliance Jio is the operator that brought about the mobile internet revolution in India, forcing other telecom operators to reduce data prices to never before seen rates, and now, the company is preparing to welcome in the new decade with another exciting offer. The Reliance Jio 2020 Happy New Year offer brings unlimited services to Jio customers for the entire year for a one time charge of ₹2,020....

TikTok to Shift Headquarters From China to Address US Concerns TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly considering setting up its global headquarters outside China. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which says the company is looking at the drastic step to appease US lawmakers and security establishment, who have often expressed concerns at the company’s Chinese origins and claimed that it poses a national security risk. ByteDance recently announced that it would set up a data center in India to comply with the country’s data-privacy laws, but it isn’t immediately clear where the company plans to set up its new headquarters....

Twitter Blocks Animated PNGs on the Website for Fear of Misuse Twitter has today announced that the website will start blocking animated PNG files (or APNGs) from being posted to the social media platform. The company made the announcement via the official Twitter Support handle in a tweet that explained that animated PNG files ignore the company’s safeguards and can cause performance issues on both the Twitter app and a user’s device....

Two New Pokémon Games Debut on Facebook Gaming Twonew Facebook gamesin the iconic Pokémon franchise are now available on Facebook Gaming, the social media giant has announced. According to an official blog post,Pokémon Tower Battle, developed by Bombay Play, andPokémon Medallion Battle, developed by GCTurbo, are now available via the Facebook Gaming tab and bookmark. However, while the former is available worldwide, the latter is only available in the Asia-Pacific region excluding Oceania and Vietnam....