Tech Stories India

Flipkart has announced IQOO 3 will launch in India online on Feb 25. This is going to be the First 5G Android smartphone launching in India. IQOO is a sub-brand of Vivo Mobiles.  IQOO 3 is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 865  5G Octacore processor and comes with 55W Fast Charging. It sports a Super AMOLED display and ships with Android 10.  The main camera is expected to be Sony made 48MP F1.8 sensor. Like every other Android smartphone these days, it will also come with ultrawide angle/telephoto secondary lenses and a depth sensor.  It is rumoured to ship with UFS 3.1 storage making it one of the first smartphones to ship with this technology.  Full specs, MRP prices of IQOO 3 #MonsterInside will be unveiled during the launch event on Feb 25. Check here for more info.

Galaxy S20 Series will be available to purchase in India online from Amazon.in after the launch event. Amazon has already started teasing the launch of the next flagship smartphone from Samsung. According to rumors, this is going to be Galaxy S20 Series instead of Galaxy S11. We might also see 2nd gen Galaxy Fold device. Samsung has recently launched two Lite devices in India as well. Galaxy S10 Lite and Galaxy Note 10 Lite are mid-range, flagship phones with some good specs and features. One other Android smartphone Samsung launched recently in India is Galaxy A51 . Galaxy Unpacked Event is scheduled for Feb 12, 2020 ( IST 00:30 ) Expected Galaxy S20 Specs and Features 7nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Octacore processor 120Hz Super AMOLED display Android 10 108MP main camera 4500mAh battery Source : Amazon.in

Qualcomm has just unveiled two 5G chipsets - flagship Snapdragon 865 and mid-rang Snapdragon 765 / 765G. Most of the flagship smartphones launching in 2020 will ship with SD865. Xiaomi, Oppo, Nokia, Motorola etc have already confirmed their upcoming phones will feature these 5G chipsets. Snapdragon 865 Features 5th gen Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine ( offers 2x the performance of its predecessor - can do 15 trillion operations per second thanks to a brand new Qualcomm Hexagon Tensor Accelerator ) Gigapixel speeds Qualcomm Spectra 480 ISP (  it can process 2 Gigapixels per second ) Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite Gaming features to bring Desktop level gaming to mobile ( also, first-ever updatable GPU drivers on mobile ) Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System - multi-gigabit speeds of up to 7.5 Gbps Qualcomm Sensing Hub Qualcomm Kryo 585 CPU on board SD865 provides 25% faster performance  Quick Charge AI technology that helps with battery health Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU  N

Qualcomm has officially announced the flagship 5G chipset for the year 2020 - Snapdragon 865. They have also announced a mid-range chipset with 5G built-in - Snapdragon 765 / 765G. Both these chipsets will be available on almost all 2020 flagship and mid-range Smartphones ( except Samsung's and Huawei's ). Bin Lin - Xiaomi's co-founder and vice chairman has officially announced their next flagship Mi 10 will be one of the first smartphones to use this new Snapdragon 865 processor. Sergio Buniac, the President of Motorola has also talked about using these new chipsets on their future 5G smartphones from both Motorola and Lenovo. Alen Wu of Oppo was also there at the Snapdragon Tech Summit announcing Oppo's next flagship will feature Snapdragon 865 5G chipset. Nokia meanwhile has announced they will be using Snapdragon 765 5G chipsets to bring out affordable mid-range 5G smartphones to the market. Qualcomm has also announced world's largest fingerprint sensor -