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Realme Band 2, Narzo 50 series, and new Realme smart TV to launch on September 24

The Realme Band 2, Realme Narzo 50 series and Realme 32 Neo smart TV will be launched on September 24 in India. The Realme Band 2 was unveiled a couple of days back in Malaysia while the other two products will make their global debut in India. 

The Realme Band 2 will be the successor to the Realme Band from March 2020. It comes with a bunch of improvements over its predecessor. The upcoming Realme TV will be a smart TV, but it won’t run on the Android TV platform. Here is what we know so far about the upcoming Realme products. 

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Oppo K9 Pro official photos appear ahead of September 26 announcement

The phone is officially listed with 64MP, 8MP and 2MP cameras, and we can clearly see the “64MP” text on the back. The second one will be an ultrawide snapper, while the third looks like a depth cam.

The phone is said to have “Super Performance”, which likely references the Dimensity 1200 chipset that comes with a 3.0GHz CPU and will have up to 12GB RAM to keep it company. The images also reveal physical buttons on both sides, meaning the fingerprint made its way under the OLED panel.

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Realme GT Neo2’s display detailed ahead of unveiling

Realme recently confirmed that the GT Neo2, arriving on September 22, will be powered by the Snapdragon 870 SoC, feature a punch hole display, and pack a 5,000 mAh battery with 65W charging support. Today, the company took to Weibo to tell us more about the GT Neo2’s screen.

Realme says the GT Neo2 will sport an E4 display with a peak brightness of 1,300 nits and 15% reduced power consumption compared to Realme GT 5G’s screen.

The display will have a 600Hz touch sampling rate and a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate, allowing the screen to switch between 30Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz, and 120Hz, depending on the app and content.

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Galaxy Tab A8 (2021) leak reveals a new design with flat edges

Aside from the rumored Galaxy Tab S8 flagship tablet series, Samsung’s also seemingly working on a new Galaxy Tab A8 model for 2021. Pricing details are unknown, but you can bet it will be more affordable than any of the Galaxy Tab S8 variants. Design-wise, the Galaxy Tab A8 (2021) appears to be following a new language — at least according to a few new fan-made renders.

The renders originate from @OnLeaks (via 91Mobiles) and should be based on information that has leaked thus far. In other words, these are not leaked press renders, but they should closely reflect the official design.

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Nokia G50 5G appears on FCC, gets battery capacity confirmed

Nokia G50 5G renders and specs leaked several weeks ago, and now the phone is certified with the FCC with the listing confirming some more details. The G50 will indeed support 5G connectivity, and the battery will be 4,850 mAh – exactly the same capacity as previously reported.

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Apple Watch 7 full specs revealed in a leaked document

The Apple Watch 7 has been announced, but Apple didn’t announce a number of specs and details about the watch. Now though, we have a good idea of all the missing information, as a seemingly official specs list has leaked.

Shared by @alixrezax on Twitter, the sheet handily compares the Apple Watch 7 to other recent Apple Watch models as well. The key bit of information here though is that the Apple Watch 7 has a new S7 chipset, confirming a recent leak.

The sheet sneakily mentions that this is up to 20% faster than the chipset in the Apple Watch SE, in a seeming attempt to hide the fact that it’s no faster than the S6 chipset in the Apple Watch 6 (which is also up to 20% faster than the one in the Apple Watch SE).

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Samsung’s 14-inch 90Hz OLED panels for laptops enter mass production

Samsung unveiled its 14-inch 90Hz, 2880 x 1800px resolution (16:10 aspect ratio) OLED panels back in March but and now that it kicked off the mass production. The first panels will debut on some of Asus’ latest laptops.

According to Samsung, these panels will look smoother than 120Hz LCD panels due to the natural ability of OLEDs to produce less blurring effect on moving objects. However, there’s more to that than just blurring so that doesn’t make it entirely true.

Anyway, there’s no denying that the OLED panels will deliver deeper blacks, better colors with 100% DCI-P3 coverage and more importantly for gaming, better response times and viewing angles. The first machines to hit the market with the said panels are the Asus ZneBook 14X Pro and the VivoBook Pro 14X.

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Google Pixel Fold could launch before the end of 2021

A new rumor suggests the Google Pixel Fold release date could be in the final months of 2021, bringing the Google foldable perhaps as a surprise announcement alongside the Google Pixel 6 we expect to launch in October.

A tweet from David Naranjo, Senior Director of Display Supply Chain Consultants, lists several devices arriving in Q3 and Q4 of 2021 that are rumored to use LTPO OLED panels from Samsung Display Company (SDC). The list includes the just-launched iPhone 13 Pro as releasing in Q3, while the Google Pixel 6 Pro and Google Pixel Fold are expected in Q4. 

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Office 2021 release date revealed – and it might sound very familiar

The next consumer version of Office 2021 will be available on the same day as Windows 11, Microsoft has revealed.

In a blog post, the company added that the next version of Office LTSC will also be on offer right away for both Windows and macOS.

Since announcing the release of Office 2021 earlier this year for both Windows and macOS, users have been wanting to discover when the update would be landing and what it would entail. 

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Have we detected dark energy? Scientists say it’s a possibility

A new study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and reported in the journal Physical Review D, suggests that some unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment in Italy may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment was designed to detect.

They constructed a physical model to help explain the results, which may have originated from dark energy particles produced in a region of the Sun with strong magnetic fields, although future experiments will be required to confirm this explanation. The researchers say their study could be an important step toward the direct detection of dark energy.

Everything our eyes can see in the skies and in our everyday world—from tiny moons to massive galaxies, from ants to blue whales—makes up less than five percent of the universe. The rest is dark. About 27% is dark matter—the invisible force holding galaxies and the cosmic web together—while 68% is dark energy, which causes the universe to expand at an accelerated rate.

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