vivo Y77e announced with Dimensity 810 and 5,000 mAh battery
vivo launched the Y77 in China last month with the Dimensity 930 SoC, and today the company announced its ‘e’ variant, powered by the Dimensity 810 chip.
The vivo Y77e runs Android 12-based OriginOS Ocean and comes in three memory configurations – 6GB/128GB, 8GB/128GB, and 8GB/256GB. It also has a microSD card slot for storage expansion up to 1TB.
The smartphone is built around a 6.58″ FullHD+ OLED screen with a 60Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate. And fueling the entire package is a 5,000 mAh battery charged through a USB-C port at up to 18W.
From Gsmarena
Here’s why you shouldn’t have a problem getting hold of an iPhone 14
We live in times where certainty and reliability can be hard to come by, so it’s reassuring to hear that there is something we can (probably) be sure of later in the year: being able to get hold of an iPhone 14 when the phone launches.
As per Bloomberg, Apple is asking supply chain partners to make at least 90 million units of its flagship 2022 smartphone, which is in line with previous years. In other words, the company isn’t slowing down when it comes to iPhone production.
Throughout the course of the year there’s been speculation that the ongoing pandemic might mean that the iPhone 14 models would be in short supply due to lockdowns and other knock-on effects – but that no longer seems to be the case.
From Techradar
Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro and Buds 4 Pro debut
Xiaomi’s latest smart wearables are here with the Watch S1 Pro and Buds 4 Pro which launched in China. Watch S1 Pro joins the Watch S1 and Watch S1 Active with a larger screen, bigger battery and two color options. Buds 4 Pro offer Hi-Res audio, LHDC 4.0 support and active noise cancelation.
From Gsmarena
Xiaomi has a humanoid robot that walks very, very carefully
Xiaomi has launched a humanoid robot called CyberOne. It can detect human emotion and create 3D visual reconstructions of the world.
It also walks funnily.
In a press release Thursday, the company announced the robot, which is actually a new iteration of an existing “Cyber” series of robots, as Xiaomi also has a quadruped robot called CyberDog.
CyberOne is very different from its dog-like friend. It’s 177cm tall and weighs 52kg, and (Xiaomi thought this was important to know) has an arm span of 168cm.
“CyberOne supports up to 21 degrees of freedom in motion and achieves a real-time response speed of 0.5ms for each degree of freedom,” Xiaomi says, which allows it to “fully simulate human movements.” In a promo video (above), it doesn’t appear to be very gracious about it, but at least Xiaomi’s willing to make some fun at its own expense. It can also hold up to 1.5kg in weight, so…perhaps it can help you out with groceries?
From Mashable
vivo V25 Pro officially launches in India on August 17
The vivo V25 Pro was recently spotted in the Geekbench database with MediaTek’s Dimensity 1300 SoC at the helm, while before that we’ve seen it listed on the Google Play Console on its way to India.
The Indian launch has now been officially confirmed by vivo’s arm in the country, and it will take place on August 17 at 12 PM local time. It will be sold by Flipkart, vivo’s own website, as well as brick and mortar stores.
From Gsmarena
Intel teases Arc A750 performance with new benchmarks
Intel revealed the Arc A750 performance benchmarks this week in a blog post. The post details how the upcoming Intel card compares to Nvidia’s RTX 3060 in almost 50 DirectX 12 and Vulkan games. Overall, the card delivers some intriguing benchmarks and performance stats. However, Intel created these benchmarks, and they do not portray the A750’s everyday performance.
From BGR
Bloomberg: Apple tells suppliers to make at least 90 million iPhone 14 units
While some analysts have questioned iPhone demand amid broader economic concerns, Apple is still planning to fully ramp up iPhone 14 production. Bloomberg reports that Apple has asked suppliers to build 90 million iPhone 14 units…
Apple asked suppliers to build 90 million iPhone 13 units last year. This means Apple expects iPhone 14 demand to at least match that of the iPhone 13 last year. In years prior, Apple planned for around 75 million units for the initial production increase.
For the full year, Apple is still expecting to assemble around 220 million iPhones for the entire year.
Bloomberg reports:
Apple Inc has asked suppliers to build at least as many of its next-generation iPhones this year as in 2021, counting on an affluent clientele and dwindling competition to weather a global electronics downturn.
The tech giant is telling its assemblers to make 90 million of its newest devices, on par with last year, despite deteriorating projections for the smartphone market, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Cupertino, California-based company still expects to assemble roughly 220 million iPhones in total for 2022, also about level with last year, according to one of the people.
As Apple’s Q3 earnings results showed, iPhone sales can be strong even amid economic concerns and Apple knows that better than anyone.
From 9to5Mac
Google has a new way of protecting you from misinformation in Search
Google is updating its search engine to cut down on misleading snippets and improve the ways it educates people by adding more contextual information. Put another way, Google’s expanding its efforts to stamp out misinformation across its formidable search service.
Snippets are the text you see highlighted at the top of a Search results page and are meant to provide a quick answer. While sources are included to back up the information, it appears there were instances of snippets giving a source that goes against the common scientific consensus. In what is arguably the biggest change in the update, featured snippets will have information that’s based on “multiple high-quality sources.”
The improved snippets will be backed up by a Google AI called the Multitask United Model (MUM). The AI will actively check featured snippets and cross-reference that information against other sources to see if they all agree or if changes are necessary. Google claims this “technique has meaningfully improved the quality and helpfulness…” of featured snippets.
From Techradar
Google Home will get a redesign, and you can help test it out
Less than six months after changes to how toggles worked on the Google Home app, the company is looking at ways to improve the overall experience. Google has confirmed it is working on a “next generation design of the Google Home app” in a listing where it’s looking for testers of the redesigned features.
Spotted by 9to5Google, this new redesign is being teased through product testing service Centercode. On the service, Google is looking for testers who can help refine the redesign before it’s widely released. You can participate yourself if you have a valid smart home device and are happy to sign an NDA.
Those products are all Google Nest branded, including thermostats, Wi-Fi routers, speakers, displays, cameras, doorbells, smart locks, smoke alarms, or Chromecasts. The last thing to bear in mind is you have to be using the Google Home or the Nest app to control these products. If you want to become one of these testers, you can learn how to do so through Centercode.
From Android Police
Amazon launches AWS Private 5G so companies can build their own 4G mobile networks
Amazon’s cash-cow cloud division AWS has launched a new service designed to help companies deploy their own private 5G networks — eventually, at least.
AWS first announced AWS Private 5G in early preview late last year, but it’s now officially available to AWS customers starting in its U.S. East (Ohio), U.S. East (N. Virginia), and U.S. West (Oregon) regions, with plans to roll it out internationally “in the near future.”
But — and this is a big “but” — despite its name, AWS Private 5G currently only supports 4G LTE.
“It supports 4G LTE today, and will support 5G in the future, both of which give you a consistent, predictable level of throughput with ultra low latency,” AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in a blog post.
With AWS Private 5G, companies order the hardware (a radio unit) and a bunch of special SIM cards directly from AWS, and AWS then provides all the necessary software and APIs (application programming interfaces) to enable businesses to set up their own private mobile network on-site. This incorporates the AWS Management Console, through which users specify where they want to build their network and their required capacity, with AWS automating the network setup and deployment once the customer has activated their small-cell radio units.
Crucially, the AWS-managed network infrastructure plays nicely with other AWS services, including its Identity and Access Management (IAM) offering which enables IT to control who and what devices can access the private network. AWS Private 5G also channels into Amazon’s CloudWatch observability service, which provides insights into the network’s health among other useful data points.
In terms of costs, AWS charges $10 per hour for each radio unit it installs, with each radio supporting speeds of 150 Mbps across up to 100 SIMs (i.e. individual devices). On top of that, AWS will bill for all data that transfers outwards to the internet, charged at Amazon’s usual EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) rates.
From Techcrunch
