Along with the Find X2 series, OPPO also introduced the company’s first smartwatch, the OPPO Watch in China.
The 46mm version has a 1.91-inch 3D flexible AMOLED 326 PPI Retina display with 100% P3 wide color gamut, has 50 meter water resistance and the company says that it has applied for 42 patents for it. The 41mm version has a 1.6-inch 301 PPI AMOLED screen. These have eSIM support for 4G and native calling, thanks to speakers and microphone, feature NFC support for payment and use Snapdragon 2500 & Apollo 3 dual processors.
In intelligent mode, 46mm model with 430mAh battery can be used for 40 hours on a single charge and in the long battery life mode, the battery life is up to 21 days. With Watch VOOC flash charge technology, the battery can be charged from 1% to 50% in 17 minutes.
OPPO Watch specifications
1.6-inch (320 x 360 pixels) (41mm) AMOLED screen / 1.91-inch (402 x 476 pixels) (46mm) curved AMOLED screen
Tracking indoor and outdoor running, outdoor walking, outdoor cycling, swimming ad more
ColorOS Watch, compatible with Android 6.0 and above
Water resistant (5ATM 46mm / 3ATM 41mm)
4G via eSIM, WiFi 802.11n 2.4GHz, Bluetooth 4.2 LE, built-in GPS, NFC for payments
300mAh (typical) / 289mAh (minimum) for 41mm with 20 hours of usage, 14 days in long battery mode
430mAh (typical) / 416mAh (minimum) for 46mm with 40 hours of usage, 21 days in long battery mode
The OPPO Watch 41mm version in elegant black, rose gold and fog silver colors is priced at 1499 yuan (US$ 216 / Rs. 15,930 approx.), 46mm aluminum alloy version in Black and rose gold is priced at 1999 yuan (US$ 288 / Rs. 21,325 approx.) and the 46mm stainless steel version that uses the stainless steel case and ceramic bottom, sapphire glass and with leather band imported from Italy is priced at 2499 yuan (US$ 360 / Rs. 26,660 approx.).
The Realme 6 series recently launched in India with the vanilla Realme 6 debuting as the successor to the Realme 5 Pro. Starting at Rs 12,999, the Realme 6 is shaping up to be a real game-changer in the under 15K smartphone market.
However, the Realme 6 series is not alone in this competitive smartphone market space as it will face competition from the Samsung Galaxy M31 and Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro. So how does the latest addition to Realme’s smartphone portfolio fare against the competition; let’s find out.
Realme 6 vs Galaxy M31 vs Redmi Note 8 Pro
Specs
Galaxy M31
Realme 6
Redmi Note 8 Pro
Chipset
Exynos 9611
MediaTek G90T
MediaTek G90T
Display
6.4-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED (1080*2340 pixels), 411 ppi, 60Hz
6.5-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED (1080*2400 pixels), 405 ppi, 90Hz
The Realme 6 and Redmi Note 8 Pro feature a glass back and front along with an aluminium frame. Samsung, on the other hand, opts for a plastic frame for the Galaxy M31, which is light but feels cheap. The Realme 6’s new comet design coupled with its punch-hole notch looks better than the Redmi Note 8 Pro and Galaxy M31. However, design is always subjective, and preferences can vary.
In terms of display, Realme and Redmi have opted for an IPS LCD panel, while Samsung sticks to its Super AMOLED screen. While the Galaxy M31’s Super AMOLED screen is more colour accurate and vibrant than the competition, the Realme 6 does offer a 90Hz refresh rate, which is much smoother than the typical 60Hz. While the 90Hz screen might not make a difference now, it will be great when game designers begin to raise fps limitations. But as things stand, we’d prefer Samsung’s AMOLED panel as it has a clear advantage in saving battery, watching content and can be less strenuous on the eye.
Performance
While the MediaTek G90T on the Realme 6 and Redmi Note 8 Pro is one of the best mid-range chipsets for gaming, the Exynos 9611 on the M31 does leave a lot to be desired. All three phones will be able to run all games, but in the case of Redmi and Realme, we’re talking about being able to run all games on high settings. We’d also recommend opting for the 6GB+128GB Realme 6 variant, which is 1K more than the Redmi Note 8 Pro, making it the winner in terms of price-to-performance.
Camera
All three phones have a similar quad-camera setup on the back with a 64-megapixel primary sensor, an ultrawide lens, and two cameras for depth and macro mode. The front camera setup on all three devices is also pretty evenly matched, although Samsung has an edge in megapixel count. While we still have to put the Realme 6 through its paces, it is safe to assume that Samsung is going to have a clear advantage here as its camera software is way ahead of Realme and Xiaomi.
Software
Speaking of software, none of these three phones delivers the stock Android experience, but Samsung’s One UI is the closest. The new Realme UI isn’t technically bloatware-free but is a lot cleaner than previous ColorOS skins. The Redmi Note 8 Pro is still stuck on Android 9 Pie, while its MIUI skin is a little bloatware heavy. If you want the best software experience go with the Galaxy M31 and its One UI 2.0 skin over Android 10.
Battery
There’s very little difference between the battery capacity of the Realme 6 and Redmi Note 8 Pro. However, the Galaxy M31’s 6,000 mAh battery is significantly larger than its competition. But what Realme lack in size, it makes up for in fast charging, offering almost double the charging speed of the M31 and Note 8 Pro. While the Galaxy M31 will get you a day and a half of battery life, the Realme 6 offers twice the charging speed, capable of juicing your phone up to 100% in a little over 60 minutes.
Verdict
All three smartphones offer excellent value with their top tier mid-range specs. However, if we had to pick one, we’d go with the Realme 6. While the Galaxy M31 has the best camera and software; the Realme 6 is not far behind on both fronts and well ahead in terms of performance. Moreover, the Realme 6 also looks and feels like a premium offering. The Redmi Note 8 Pro does offer performance on par with the Realme 6 but falls short on most other fronts.
Along with the realme 6 series, the company also launched the realme Band its first fitness band in India, as it had promised.
The realme Band has a 0.96-inch LCD screen, comes with heart rate sensor, has 9 sports modes that includes run, walk, hiking, climbing, yoga, fitness, spinning, bike and cricket mode, and can store 3 modes in the band at a time. It will come with sleep tracking similar to most other bands, and feature built-in charging port.
90mAh battery, Built-in USB connector, 6 to 9 days (9 days without heart rate function enabled; 6 days with heart rate function enabled)
The Realme Band comes in Black, Green and Yellow colors, is priced at 1499 and available from 9th March on Amazon.in and hate to wait limited-time sale n Realme.com, March 5th from 2 to 4PM.
Realme today launched Realme 6 Pro, successor of last year’s realme 5 Pro in India, as it had promised.
The phone comes with a 6.6-inch Full HD+ LCD screen with 90Hz refresh rate and 120Hz touch sampling rate, and 90.60% screen-to-body ratio. It is the first phone to be powered by the latest Snapdragon 720G 8nm SoC.
The phone features a 64-megapixel primary rear camera with 1/1.7″ Samsung GW1 Sensor, an 8-megapixel 119° ultra-wide angle lens, 12-megapixel telephoto sensor for up to 20x zoom and a 2-megapixel sensor for 4cm macro shots. There is a 16-megapixel camera on the front along with an 8-megapixel 105° ultra-wide sensor.
It has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner that can unlock the phone in 0.29 seconds, gradient glass back with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection, comes with dedicated dual SIM and microSD card slots, and packs a 4300mAh battery with support for 30W VOOC Flash Charge that can charge the phone up to 68% in 30 minutes and 100% in an hour.
6GB LPPDDR4x RAM with 64GB (UFS 2.1) storage, 6GB / 8GB (LPPDDR4x) RAM with 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD
Dual SIM (nano + nano + microSD)
Android 10 with realme UI 1.0
64MP rear camera with 1/1.72″ Samsung GW1 sensor, 0.8μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture, LED flash, EIS, 8MP 119° ultra-wide angle lens with f/2.3 aperture, 12MP telephoto sensor for up to 20x zoom and 2MP 4cm macro sensor with f/2.4 aperture
16MP front camera with f/2.1 aperture, Sony IMX1471, secondary 8MP 105° ultra-wide sensor with f/2.2 aperture
Side-mounted fingerprint sensor
3.5mm audio jack, Dolby Atmos, FM Radio
Dimensions: 163.9×75.8×9.4mm; Weight: 195g
Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, Dual Frequency (L1 + L5) GPS, NavIC, USB Type-C
4300mAh (typical) / 4120mAh (minimum) battery with 30W VOOC Flash Charge fast charging
The realme 6 Pro comes in Lightning Blue and Lightning Orange colors, is priced at Rs. 16,999 for the 6GB RAM with 64GB storage, Rs. 17,999 for the 6GB RAM with 128GB storage and the top-end 8GB RAM with 128GB storage version costs Rs. 18,999.
It will be available from Flipkart, realme.com as well as offline stores starting Frome March 13th. Axis Bank Credit / Debit card and EMI users get flat Rs. 1000 discount on Flipkart.
Relame just launched realme 6, the company’s latest smartphone in India, as it had promised. This is a major upgrade compared to the realme 5
Realme 6 comes with a 6.5-inch Full HD+ LCD screen with 90Hz refresh rate and 120Hz touch sampling rate, and 90.5% screen-to-body ratio. The phone is powered by the latest MediaTek Helio G90T SoC.
The phone features a 64-megapixel primary rear camera with 1/1.7″ Samsung GW1 Sensor, an 8-megapixel 119° ultra-wide angle lens, 2-megapixel mono sensor and a 2-megapixel sensor for 4cm macro shots. There is a 16-megapixel camera on the front.
It has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner that can unlock the phone in 0.29 seconds, gradient polycarbonate back, comes with dedicated dual SIM and microSD card slots, and packs a 4300mAh battery with support for 30W VOOC Flash Charge that can charge the phone up to 68% in 30 minutes and 100% in an hour.
4GB LPPDDR4x RAM with 64GB (UFS 2.1) storage, 6GB / 8GB (LPPDDR4x) RAM with 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD
Dual SIM (nano + nano + microSD)
Android 10 with realme UI 1.0
64MP rear camera with 1/1.72″ Samsung GW1 sensor, 0.8μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture, LED flash, EIS, 8MP 119° ultra-wide angle lens with f/2.3 aperture, 2MP mono sensor and 2MP 4cm macro sensor with f/2.4 aperture
16MP front camera with f/2.0 aperture
Side-mounted fingerprint sensor
3.5mm audio jack, Dolby Atmos, FM Radio
Dimensions: 162.1×74.8×8.9-9.6mm; Weight: 191g
Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS, USB Type-C
4300mAh (typical) / 4120mAh (minimum) battery with 30W VOOC Flash Charge fast charging
The realme 6 comes in Comet Blue and Comet White colors, is priced at Rs. 12999 for the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage, Rs. 14,999 for the 6GB RAM with 128GB storage and the top-end 8GB RAM with 128GB storage version costs Rs. 15,999.
It will be available from Flipkart, realme.com as well as offline stores starting from March 11th. Check out the unboxing and first impressions here.
As Xiaomi heads to launch next Redmi Note Series of its devices, have surfaced a few renders of Redmi Note 9 Pro with its front and rear camera design.
On March 12, Xiaomi will be launching the Redmi Note 9 smartphone in India. Since the Note series includes a vanilla version like Redmi Note 8 and a Pro model like the Redmi Note 8 Pro. The Note 9 series could feature two devices such as Redmi Note 9, and Redmi Note 9 Pro. Concept designer Benjamin Geskin has shared a concept model of the Redmi Note 9 Pro.
The landing page of the Redmi Note 9 on Xiaomi India’s website revealed that it is equipped with a Huawei Mate 20 like square-shaped camera setup. It could be housing four cameras. The concept render by Geskin shows the Redmi Note 9 Pro with quad cameras housed inside a square-shaped module. An LED flash unit is placed below the camera module.
The fingerprint scanner is not present on the backside of the Redmi Note 9 Pro concept model. It seems to be integrated with the power button on the right side of the phone. The frontside of the smartphone is fitted with a display that has a punch-hole at the top-left corner. Shown below is a live shot of the alleged by Redmi Note 9 Pro from 9TechEleven. While it appears real, the image clearly mentions that it is an image of the Redmi Note 9 Pro concept.
Xiaomi is yet to reveal any information on the Redmi Note 9 series. The company is expected to tease on its specs and features ahead of the launch. The rumor mill claims that the Redmi Note 9 / Pro smartphone will be driven by the upcoming 5G-ready mid-range SoC from Qualcomm that is said to have a model number of SM6250. The SoC is expected to arrive with support for NSA and SA dual-mode 5G connectivity.
The Redmi launch will be live streamed starting 12pm (noon) IST on Mar 12 through the Mi.com website as well as Redmi and Xiaomi social media channels.
Xiaomi has reveled that the Redmi Note 9 will offer exhilarating fast charging experience. A charger that has a model number of MDY-11-EM with support for up to 22.5W quick charging has appeared on 3C. It could be for the Redmi Note 9 series.
Last week both Realme and Redmi announced their events in India to launch the realme 6 series and Redmi 9 series smartphones on March 5th & 12 respectiVely.
Yesterday Realme decided to cancel the event due to coronavirus concerns in the country. The company will still offer live stream of the event, in which the CEO Madhav Seth will give live speech at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi.
The company sold launch event tickets at Rs. 599 starting from February 28th and said that it will include goodies worth Rs. 2500 and complimentary snacks, in addition to entry for the event. realme CEO said that it will offer full refund for the tickets and will also offer a free realme Band for those who bought the tickets.
Providing full refund of ticket value. I know how excited you were for #realme6series launch, so as a special gesture will be giving a #realmeBand to every single person who booked a ticket. Details will be sent via mail.
In light of current reports of #coronavirus impact & related advisory by health officials to maintain social distance as a precautionary measure, I'm calling off our biggest event. Will still give live speech in stadium with you watching #realme6series event online. #HealthFirst
Redmi has also announced that it will not host any on-ground product launch events in March due to safety concerns, so the Redmi Note 9 series launch has been cancelled, and it will have online-only event on March 12th.
The Redmi launch will be live streamed starting 12pm (noon) IST on Mar 12 through the Mi.com website as well as Redmi and Xiaomi social media channels. You can certainly stay tuned to us to see what’s new Redmi has for the Indian market.
Now WhatsApp has announced the roll out of dark mode for all the Android and iOS users. This lets users choose from light or dark theme. The dark theme is more like dark gray unlike pure black available in some apps. Chats appear with dark background, and your messages are shown in green bubbles.
WhatsApp said that when designing dark mode it spent time researching and experimenting with a focus on two particular areas:
Readability: When choosing colors, we wanted to minimize eye fatigue and use colors that are closer to the system defaults on iPhone and Android respectively.
Information Hierarchy: We wanted to help users easily focus their attention on each screen. We did this by using color and other design elements to make sure the most important information stands out.
Users on Android 10 and iOS 13 can use dark mode by enabling it in system settings. Users on Android 9 and below can go into WhatsApp Settings > Chats > Theme > select ‘Dark’.
The WhatsApp for iOS v2.20.303 update also brings new search options that allow you to filter by author and content type. You can download WhatsApp v2.20.65 for Android from the official website, if it is not available for you on Google Play update yet.
the Chinese manufacturer is showing it off in its full glory, ahead of the March 6 launch event.
OPPO’s upcoming smartwatch, dubbed OPPO Watch Series, showed up in reports last month, but now the Chinese manufacturer is showing it off in its full glory, ahead of the March 6 launch event.
If you are initially tempted to confuse it with the Apple Watch, we won’t blame you, as it strikes a major resemblance with Apple’s wearable.
While little is known about the watch, aside its looks and the fact that it will run most likely Wear OS, we can tell from the images used by OPPO that it will have the ability to take phone calls. Whether that’s on its own, or while tethered to a phone is yet unknown, though we’re inclined towards the latter.
Apple’s digital crown on the Apple Watch is replaced with a secondary, larger button, pretty much in line with other Wear OS devices, and the bands themselves look different from Apple’s.
APPLE JUST ANNOUNCED THE NEW IPHONE SE, THE COMPANY’S LATEST SMALLER IPHONE, AS RUMORED, AND IT IS THE SUCCESSOR OF IPHONE SE THAT WAS INTRODUCED BACK IN 2016.
OnePlus announced the OnePlus 8 series, the company’s latest flagship smartphone and the successor of last year’s OnePlus 7T in an online launch event, as it had promised.
OnePlus is all set to launch the OnePlus 8, 8 Pro smartphones tomorrow at an online event, and we will know the full details of the smartphones tomorrow.
OPPO just launched Enco Free, the company’s latest true wireless earphones in India along with the Reno 3 Pro, as expected
It has 13.4mm drivers that promises dynamic bass, Bluetooth 5.0 support and has IPX4 ratings for protection against sweat and splashes. OPPO says that it is the world’s first true wireless headset that uses ultra dynamic speakers with dual magnetic circuit design used in high-end audio devices and is also the industry’s first to use aluminum-magnesium-titanium composite diaphragm, which makes treble clear.
The OPPO Enco Free comes in Black and White colors, is priced at Rs. 7990 and will go on sale in India from Amazon.in as well as offline starting from The OPPO Enco Free comes in Black and White colors, is priced at Rs. 7990 and will go on sale in India from Amazon.in as well as offline starting from March 4th.
It has low-latency if as low as 120ms, has dual microphones with beaming forming tech and AI for better call quality with AI noise reduction and has touch controls for volume and music control. You can choose between three different tips to perfectly fit your ears. The headset has wearing detection sensor that automatically pauses the audio when the headset is removed and it automatically connects with the phone when you open the case. It promises up to 25 hours of battery life with the case and 5 hours standalone and has USB Type-C charging.
Bluetooth 5.0 to connect to Android and iOS devices
13.4mm driver
Touch controls for volume, call control, track change
Dual microphones for AI call noise reduction, voice control
Infrared sensor for intelligent wear detection so it automatically pauses when you remove them
120ms low-latency
Water resistant (IPX4)
Weight: 4.6g for each headset; 48.2 g for the case
31mAh battery offers 5 hours of standalone music playback / 3 hours calling (50% volume), 25 hours with the 410mAh battery case, USB Type-C charging for the case to charge in 110 minutes, 70 minutes to charge the earbuds
The OPPO Enco Free comes in Black and White colors, is priced at Rs. 7990 and will go on sale in India from Amazon.in as well as offline starting from March 4th.
OPPO also introduced the Enco W31 wireless earbuds in India priced at Rs. 4499, and said that it will be available soon.
APPLE JUST ANNOUNCED THE NEW IPHONE SE, THE COMPANY’S LATEST SMALLER IPHONE, AS RUMORED, AND IT IS THE SUCCESSOR OF IPHONE SE THAT WAS INTRODUCED BACK IN 2016.
OnePlus announced the OnePlus 8 series, the company’s latest flagship smartphone and the successor of last year’s OnePlus 7T in an online launch event, as it had promised.
OnePlus is all set to launch the OnePlus 8, 8 Pro smartphones tomorrow at an online event, and we will know the full details of the smartphones tomorrow.