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04.1 MAY 2022

arphones have undergone a massive

change from a wired one to wireless and

now the truly wireless, often referred to

as TWS (true wireless stereo), bringing
about a paradigm shift in the way people listen
to their music or talk to someone over phone.
These earbuds provide a user with a tangle-free
experience, as there is no wire connecting the
left and right earpieces. They are compact and
can be carried around in acharging case, making
them extremely portable.

With such gradual modifications, the mode of consumption of
content has also evolved, thus redefining our listening experience with
the touch of a button which has multi-functional controls nowadays.
The styling and portability of these products have made them popular
among the young folks, athletes and fitness enthusiasts.

The trend of TWS earphones is catching up in such a way that it has
become a big market for companies — handset as well as accessories
makers — to rake in moolah. Even when the entire nation is struggling
to be on the track in the aftermath of back-to-back lockdowns, the
TWS hearables market is growing like never before, thanks to the
compulsion of work from home and remote learning, which have
become hybrid now.

While working professionals used TWS-enabled devices mostly
for their meetings, the children in the next room, also relied heavily
on them for online classes. The housewives, on the other hand, used
such devices to carry on with their conversations with their loved ones.
We’ve discussed about this and more in our lead story, especially
focusing on today’s youngsters, who believe in leading a fast-paced
life and are equally particular about their look and style.

While tangible parameters like specifications are essential
in setting the expectations of smartphone buyers, the experience
is defined by the performance delivered by smartphones after the
users start using these devices. As per a recent analysis by Techarc,
the top three parameters setting the expectations of smartphone
buyers are Specifications, Features and the Performance about
which buyers absorb information from various channels including
product brochures, reviews, social conversations, family and friends
and others.

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Style Notes

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NEWSBITS
BIG NEWS

JUST IN

Get a close look at new
smartphones now in the
market

LEAD STORY
TWS: Buds for the Budding

Burn Test

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OPPO F21 PRO 5G
PLAYGO BUDSLITE
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CONSUMER INSIGHT 56
Performance of a Smartphone

Defines the Experience for a 62
User

SPOTLIGHT 72

Apple Announces Door
Detection, Live Captions to
iPhone, iPad, and Mac

MediaTek Introduces Genio
1200 AloT Chip

DextraBot: Noida School A2
Students Develop Device to

Help Parkinson's Disease

Patient A8

Vivo X80 Series: What Makes
Them Special?

Multi-Genre Brands Taking
Advantage of Metaverse Mobile
Gaming

TSSC Report: Demand of over
1.5 lakh in roles in 5G, Cloud
Computing and other New-Age
Technologies in last one year

FACE TO FACE

Dr Amitesh Punhani — Head -
APAC, Consumer Marketing,
Jabra

Mridul Jain — Director - Sales

Bizcom, Sennheiser India
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Director General, ISpA

Amitabh Kumar — Co-founder,
Wranga

Pankaj Garg — Co-founder and
CEO, DailyObjects

Hiranmay Mallick — Co-founder
and CEO, Tummoc

FEATURE
Krishify: Call it the Facebook
for Indian Farmers

MARKET INSIGHT
Refurbished Smartphones in

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Total number of

Demand as Prices Surge

Qualcomm’s Dominance
Continues in Flagship Chip
Market

Growth Streak for India PC
Market Continues

APPTASTIC

Kenko: One app for all your
healthcare needs

Hirect: A well-balanced
platform for both companies
and job seekers, with
impressive interface

Tamasha Live: More than just
a gaming platform

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MY GUIDE

The most comprehensive
feature and price list of mobile
devices

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The latest and the best of
gadgets and accessories, from
earphones and smartwatches
to mobile chargers and power
banks

VANTAGE POINT

Audio Experience Pivotal to the
Satisfaction of Smart TV Users
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08 | MAY 2022

WhatsApp announces Communities to
streamline group messages

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WhatsApp has been helping people to
connect and communicate across the
world. The biggest advantage is the app’s
encrypted group communication where
users are free to connect and coordinate
with a large group of people across many
big and small companies. Now, WhatsApp
has announced a way where this group’s
communications can become smooth and
streamlined. WhatsApp is bringing
community features to its platform falling
in-between robust group chat or a company-
wide slack. Users will be able to send
messages to the common big group with an
option to create smaller subgroups within.
Like, the community for any MNC might
have distinct subgroups for event
organizing, marketing, content
management, and others. People would be
able to “bring together diverse groups
under one canopy with a structure that
works for them” using WhatsApp
Communities. In this way, users will be able
to get all of the information related to a
community created around a single issue.
WhatsApp Communities, as indicated in
the title picture, will bring numerous
groups together and allow administrators
to deliver messages to all of them at once.

Telegram to roll out latest adds support for
custom notifications and more

With WhatsApp and Instagram bringing

more up-to-date features to improve user
experience, Telegram couldn’t let it slip
from its hands. In early March, the users
witnessed some amazing third-party
streaming apps along with new download
managers from Telegram. Now it has more
to offer! With its latest update (version
8.7.0), the popular messaging app is soon
to roll out a set of new custom features. It
includes mute duration with custom
notification sounds, bot improvements,
and many more. The custom notification
sound will let the users use any short audio
clip from any chat to use as a notification
alert. The custom notification duration will
let the users mute any conversation for a
specific duration, like an hour, a day, or
even a week. The auto-delete also comes
in handy as it’s going to let the users delete
any chat in a particular span of time by
setting an auto-delete timer.

Twitter’s edit feature will let users see tweet
history

Twitter is constantly working to improve its
features, giving users the ease to share
their opinions more creatively. Following
the same idea, Twitter came up with its
long-awaited Edit tweet feature, where
users can directly rectify their errors rather
than write a whole new tweet. However,
there are some strings attached to it.
Reportedly, the new edit tweet button is
likely to leave a digital trace of the tweet’s
history. It is confirmed by the developer
Jane Manchun Wong in a tweet that says,
“Looks like Twitter's approach to Edit Tweet
is immutable, as in, instead of mutating
the Tweet text within the same tweet (same
ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the
amended content, along with the list of the
old Tweets prior to that edit.” App
researcher Alessandro Paluzzi also tweeted
out screenshots of the new edit button,
teasing us with the feature’s possible look
when it’s live on Twitter. In one screenshot,
Paluzzi shows how the ‘Edit Tweet’ option
could appear in the three-dot menu on the

right side of your tweets.

Netflix adding the “Two Thumbs up”

feature

Instead of the basic ‘thumbs up’ button
that existed previously, Netflix is adding a
new ‘two thumbs up’ function for
subscribers to express which series and
movies they really enjoyed on the platform.
The goal is to offer Netflix subscribers
greater agency and control over their
suggestions while also assisting them in
fine-tuning them. The functionality will
also aid Netflix in distinguishing between
titles that a user just liked and those that
they adored and loved. The two thumbs up
button will appear right next to the like and
dislike button, appearing next to a title.
Consider Double Thumbs Up as a way to
fine-tune your recommendations to see
even more series or films influenced by
what you love. A Thumbs Up still lets us
know what you liked, so we use this
response to make similarrecommendations.
But a Double Thumbs Up tells us what you
loved and helps us get even more specific
with your recommendations. For example,
if you loved Bridgerton, you might see even
more shows or films starring the cast, or
from Shondaland.

Epic Games and Lego to build Metaverse
for kids following the funding round

Following a large investment round, the
developer behind the immensely
successful Fortnite game has put out its

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ambitions for Metaverse growth. Sony, the
entertainment powerhouse, and Kirkbi, the
parent company of the Lego Group, both
contributed $1 billion to the $2 billion
capital injection. Epic Games claimed in
its April 11 release that the three firms
place high importance on both creators
and players. They want to develop new
forms of social entertainment that explore
the intersection of the digital and physical
worlds. The news comes only days after
Epic announced cooperation with Lego
that would see the creation of a Metaverse
for children. “As a creative entertainment
company, we are thrilled to invest in Epic
to deepen our relationship in the metaverse
field, a space where creators and users
share their time.” said Kenichiro Yoshida,
Chairman, President and CEO, Sony Group
Corporation. “We are also confident that
Epic’s expertise, including their powerful
game engine, combined with Sony’s
technologies, will accelerate our various
efforts such as the development of new
digital fan experiences in sports and our
virtual production initiatives.”

Gmail to come up with more chat icons for
Google chat and spaces for Android

Gmail for Android is getting a new update
that will replace the status bar icons for
alerts from Google’s Chat and Spaces
services. With Google Hangouts
approaching its end of life, this is a new
feature that further differentiates the two
chat systems. Chat is the company’s
primary messaging software, while Spaces
is a Slack-like rival for chatting with bigger
groups. Before this update, both the icons
for the chat and spaces looked the same.
Each would display you a message bubble
filled in with an empty one behind it. That
is no longer the case, and chat will
henceforth display only an empty single
message bubble. At the moment, we’ve
only seen these new status bar icons on a

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single Android device running version
2022.02.20.x of Gmail. It’s not yet widely
rolled out, while the standalone Google
Chat app has yet to be updated. This
comes as Gmail for iOS this month will
show the Chat sender’s profile photo going
forward for improved glanceability.

Jio beats Airtel to become India’s second
largest fixed-line service provider

Taking a lead over Bharti Airtel, Reliance
Jio has become India’s second largest
fixed-line service provider in February
2022, according to the latest data by
telecom regulator TRAI. Reliance Jio
wireline subscriber base reached over
58.85 lakh, while Bharti Airtel recorded a
customer base of more than 57.66 lakh in
February, according to subscriber report of
the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
released on Tuesday. Reliance Jio led the
wireline telephony growth by adding 2.44
lakh customers in February. Bharti Airtel
came second in the segment by adding
91,243 new users. Vodafone Idea added
24,948 customers, Quadrant 18,622 and
Tata Teleservices 3,772. Reliance Jio is
now behind only BSNL which has over
75.76 lakh wireline customers. Meanwhile,
Reliance Jio lost 3.6 million customers in
February and Vodafone Idea lost 1.5
million due to tariff hikes continued in the
quarter ended March 2022, as they lost
customers for the third consecutive month.
Rival Bharti Airtel continued its subscriber
gaining streak by adding 1.6 million
subscribers in the month. Overall
subscriber base for the country shrunk by
3.7 million subscribers to 1.141 billion
versus 1.145 billion in the previous month.

iPhone 11 could be a thing of the past post
iPhone 14 launch in September

Apple is likely to kill iPhone 11 later this
year, soon after the launch of its much-
awaited iPhone 14 in September.
Launched in 2019, iPhone 11 happens to
be one of the top-selling smartphones by
the Cupertino-based tech major. Although
there has been no confirmation on the date

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of discontinuation so far, according to a
leak by idropnews, Apple has been
discussing the issue internally. The iPhone
11 units will continue to be sold in India
till the stocks last, or as refurbished
models. Officially, the price range for
iPhone 11 starts at Rs 49,900 in India,
which may decrease in the days to come.
In India, the iPhone 11 units are
manufactured and assembled locally, at
Foxconn’s plant near Chennai.

Indian govt blocks 16 YouTube channels to
stop fake-news

The Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting suspended 16 YouTube
channels. The step is taken to “promote
falsehoods relevant to India’s national
security, international relations, and public
order.” Reportedly, Six of the 16 restricted
channels were situated in Pakistan, while
the rest were in India. The suspended
YouTube channels and the Facebook
account had a combined audience of over
68 crores and were distributing “false,
unverified information. The same was
resulting in causing fear, foment communal
strife, and disturb public order in India.”
As per a release published by the Indian
government, “these channels were used to
spread fake news over social media on
matters related to national security, India’s

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foreign relations, communal harmony in
the country, and public order.” This comes
just two days after the Ministry issued a
strong advisory to all private TV channels
on Saturday, citing the violence in Delhi's
Jahangirpuri last week, the Russia-Ukraine
conflict and “certain news debates”.

After Play Store, Apple starts removing
outdated apps from App Store

Apple has begun sending out “App
Improvement Notice” emails to select
developers. These are especially for the
programmes that haven't been “updated in
a substantial length of time”. According to
a report by Verge, Apple told impacted
developers in an email titled “App
Improvement Notice.” It also said that it
will delete applications from the App Store
if they haven't been “updated in a
considerable length of time”. It also
mentions a time span of 30 days to repair
them. Reportedly, Apple’s App Store
Improvements page reveals that the
corporation is examining applications on a
regular basis. Also, it is eliminating those
that don’t work, don’t match current review
rules, or are old. Meanwhile, various app
makers, like Protopop Games developer
Robert Kabwe, have expressed their
concerns about the change. Kabwe says on
Twitter that Apple is threatening to remove
his fully-functional game, Motivoto,
because it hasn’t been updated since
March 2019.

Google to soon remove third-party call
recording apps

For a long time, Google has tried to limit
third-party call recording applications on

its Android operating system. The APIs that
allowed developers to implement call
recording features into their apps were
removed with Android 6 Marshmallow. In
addition, with Android 10, Google
eliminated any workarounds that
developers had used to allow call recording
in their apps. Additionally, the business
disabled the ability to record calls using the
microphone. Asa last resort, the corporation
is also eliminating Android’s Accessibility
APIs. “The Accessibility API is not designed
and cannot be requested for remote call
audio recording,” Google said on a support
page documenting the changes in its
Developer Program Policy. It means that if
you can record calls using your pre-installed
dialer app, you won't lose functionality.
However, if you use an app downloaded
from the Google Play Store, call recording
may not be possible moving forward. As of
May 11, Google’s Android mobile operating
system will no longer offer recording
features in apps.

Krafton bans over 40,000 accounts for
cheating

Krafton, the maker of Battlegrounds Mobile
India (BGMI), has revealed that it has
banned over 40,000 accounts for cheating
from their game platform. Between April
11 and April 17, the business claimed it
permanently banned 41,898 accounts for
cheating. “Battlegrounds Mobile India will
strive to implement strong sanctions with
the ultimate goal of eradicating the use of
illegal programs in order to provide you a
pleasant gaming environment,” Krafton
wrote in a blog post. Aside from banning
the accounts for cheating, the game’s
creator has also provided a list of all the
accounts it has banned as part of its
attempts to reduce the use of illicit
applications in the game. Separately,
Krafton has also announced that it released
an update to fix several glitches that users
were facing while playing the game. In
addition to that, he has also fixed the issue

where other player’s sensitivity codes won't
get applied. Lastly, the company has also
fixed the issue wherein players were unable
tosee through scope when equipped Merry
Tidings — UZI.

Lord of the Rings mobile game announced

Lord of the Rings, an iconic book series
converted into legendary movie series is
now coming tothe small screens. Electronic
Arts has partnered with Middle-earth
Enterprises for the development of a new
free-to-play mobile game based on the
LoTR universe. The name of the game is
The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-
earth. It will be a Collectible Role-Playing
Game (RPG) that brings the fantastical
world of The Lord of the Rings in the form
of a strategic, social-competitive
experience. The Lord of the Rings: Heroes
of Middle-earth is expected to enter limited
regional beta testing this summer. The Lord
of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth is the
first mobile game developed by EA inspired
by storylines, locations, characters, and
lore from The Lord of the Rings and The
Hobbit literary works. The combination of
high-fidelity graphics, cinematic
animations, and stylized art immerses
players in the fantasy of Middle-earth
where they'll go head-to-head with their
favorite characters,” said the Vice President
of Mobile RPG for Electronic Arts, Malachi
Boyle.

Apple, Google and Microsoft to allow
password-less sign-ins across all devices

Apple, Google, and Microsoft joined up on
World Password Day to boost support for
the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web
Consortium’s passwordless sign-in

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