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Chinese mobile company  Realme has once again postponed the Narzo series phone launch in India. Realme Narzo series was scheduled to launch on April 21 after the government's previous announcement to allow e-commerce operations to start. But in its latest advisory, the government has restricted e-commerce delivery for essential products only and suspended the non-essential orders. The launch postponement was announced by Madhav Sheth, Realme CEO via a Twitter post. "Guys, I know you all have been eagerly waiting for Realme Narzo series, however due to the latest news of the Government suspending E-commerce for non essentials, we're postponing the launch until further notice..may the power of Narzo be with you" he said in the tweet. Realme has been teasing the new Narzo series on it's social media platforms. The series will consist of two phones Realme Narzo 10 and Realme Narzo 10A. It will be available on e-commerce site Flipkart as it has already been listed...

Apple said on Thursday that it would reopen its retail store in Seoul, South Korea, this week as part of a broader push to resume physical retail operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There are no concrete plans yet to reopen stores  elsewhere, although Apple has said in the past that it could start reopening stores in US sometime in may. Apple initially closed its retail stores in mainland China earlier this year, and then in March, it closed all 458 other locations around the world, with a deadline of March 27th that has since been extended indefinitely as the spread of the virus has worsened. The closures have affected Apple's ability to conduct in store returns repairs, offer Genius Bar support, and sell inventory containing both its own products and those of third-party partners. South Korea has shown great progress during the spread of COVID-19, Apple said in a statement, South Korea has a population of more than 51 million, has just over 10,500 confirmed cases and only...

Apple co-fonder Steve Jobs was often called a visionary who generally got most things right about smartphones. However, there's one thing on which Jobs- and Apple had to make a u-turn. In 2010, Jobs was asked about big screen phones and he dismissed them saying "no one's going to buy that" and "you can't get your hand around it". Big screen phones have become the norm and every brand including Apple has them in their lineups. In fact, small screen phones have all but disappeared from the horizon. That is till the new iPhone SE arrived yesterday. While some might argue that 4.7 inch screen is not really small as the original iPhone SE had a 4-inch display but it's as small as one can get in today's times. Look at the iPhone 11 Pro Max that has a 6.5 inch screen. So yes, the iPhones SE can easily be classified as a small phone. Apple adopted the 4.7 inch screen size with the iPhone 6 and continued it with iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 as well. With th...

The smartphones market in India may be looking at correcting itself soon as it appears it is becoming difficult for brands to offer flagship smartphones or phones with top specs at affordable prices. Smartphones brands, mostly Chinese, won the Indian market by offering value for money handsets and premium phones at cheaper prices than half the cost of phones like Apple and Samsung. However, things may no longer be the same for these brands. Smartphone enthusiasts expect that an affordable flagship smartphone from Chinese brands should at least have a flagship Qualcomm processor. And as far as pricing is concerned, an affordable flagship smartphone is generally expected to be priced under 30,000 in India. Another issue is that latest flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset is 5G enabled, this means the costs of the 5G modern is already included which makes the chipset even more expensive. So, far a country like India, where there is no 5G connectivity, making an affordable phone...

Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus, the second generation buds truly wireless ear buds from south korean tech gaint, have been in the news for a while now. The company is expected to launch these buds along with next foldable phone Samsung  Galaxy S20 series. Quite recently, known tipster Ice Universe suggested that the earbuds don't "have noise reduction". Now a recent report from Samsung also claims the same. These earbuds are taking competition for the popular buds of Apple AirPods Pro and missing on these feature will cause a damage. They have improved on audio quality. Another thing that claims is there are no major changes on design of the buds, but an enchased battery. The current generation earbuds are with 58 mAh battery, this is said to 12 hours of juice in a single charge. Next, the report says that the Samsung Galaxy earbuds will house with four microphones, that is double of current generation earbuds. This is said to increase the quality of audio. Last mont...