Redmi Note 9 launches in India on March 12

Xiaomi’s Redmi Note lineup of devices is undoubtedly one of the most popular series from the Chinese manufacturers. The mid-range devices are known to offer great hardware at a compelling price and, as a result, they’ve been among the best selling devices from the company. For instance, the Redmi Note 7 was among the top 10 best selling smartphones of 2019 and the Redmi Note 8 and Note 8 Pro were among the top 10 best selling smartphones in Q4 2019. Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 8 (review) and Note 8 Pro (review) in China back in August last year, featuring a Snapdragon 665 SoC and MediaTek Helio G90T SoC, respectively. The devices were launched in India late last year in October and Xiaomi managed to sell 1 million units of the two devices within a month of launch. Now, according to a recent tweet from Xiaomi’s Global VP and MD Xiaomi India, Manu Kumar Jain, the company is planning to launch the Redmi Note 9 in India on March 12.

Behold the answer to the most awaited question of 2020. Yes, the next #RedmiNote launches on March 12!

Brace yourselves because #ProCamerasMaxPerformance is going to be nothing like you’ve ever seen before!

RT with #ILoveRedmiNote to share this EPIC moment.#Xiaomi pic.twitter.com/NDwPjW9Wwh

— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) March 2, 2020

In the tweet, Jain reveals that the next Redmi Note device launches on March 12 and the accompanying image has a large number 9 with four cameras in between. This confirms that the company will be launching the Redmi Note 9 series at the event. The tweet further reveals that the upcoming Redmi Note 9 will lay strong emphasis on the cameras and will offer “ProCamerasMaxPerformance”. As of now, Xiaomi hasn’t confirmed if it’ll be launching both the Redmi Note 9 and Note 9 Pro at the launch event, but considering past trends, it’s safe to assume that the company might launch both the devices together. Interestingly though, the Redmi Note 9 series hasn’t been launched in China yet so we currently don’t have any information about its specifications or pricing.

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Xiaomi showcases 40W fast wireless charging technology which can charge 0-100% in 40 mins

Wireless charging tech on smartphones has been around for quite a while now. However, unlike other innovations in the smartphone world, wireless charging hasn’t caught up. While this low rate of adoption can be attributed to several reasons, there’s one major issue that has limited the spread of wireless charging on modern smartphones — slow charging speeds. At a time when a wired charging connection can, most likely, get your smartphone from 0-100% in just about an hour, most wireless charging solutions on premium flagships can barely match that performance.

In a bid to address this issue, several smartphone manufacturers have been working on more powerful and efficient wireless charging tech. For instance, earlier this year Xiaomi launched its Mi 10 flagship lineup in China, which features support for 30W fast wireless charging. The Mi 10 lineup was one-upped by Vivo’s APEX 2020 concept, which features support for 60W fast wireless charging. According to the company, the 60W wireless charging solution is capable of charging a 2,000mAh battery in just 20 minutes. But since the APEX 2020 is just a concept smartphone, we can’t expect its Super FlashCharge technology to make it to production devices anytime soon. Xiaomi, however, might bring a 40W fast wireless charging solution to its devices sometime later this year.

In a recent post on Weibo, the company’s co-founder Lei Jun revealed the company’s new wireless flash charging technology which boasts of 40W output capabilities. As seen in the video above, the new fast charging technology can charge a 4,000mAh battery from 0-57% (2,280mAh) in just 20 minutes, while taking about 40 minutes to get it up to 100%. In effect, this makes Xiaomi’s wireless flash charging technology faster than Vivo’s 60W Super FlashCharge. While it would be great to see this new technology in an upcoming Xiaomi device, the company hasn’t revealed any information about the release timeline for the same. It’s also worth noting that the phone in the video is a prototype/custom Mi 10 Pro.

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Source: Weibo

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Xiaomi showcases 40W fast wireless charging technology which can charge 0-100% in 40 mins

Wireless charging tech on smartphones has been around for quite a while now. However, unlike other innovations in the smartphone world, wireless charging hasn’t caught up. While this low rate of adoption can be attributed to several reasons, there’s one major issue that has limited the spread of wireless charging on modern smartphones — slow charging speeds. At a time when a wired charging connection can, most likely, get your smartphone from 0-100% in just about an hour, most wireless charging solutions on premium flagships can barely match that performance.

In a bid to address this issue, several smartphone manufacturers have been working on more powerful and efficient wireless charging tech. For instance, earlier this year Xiaomi launched its Mi 10 flagship lineup in China, which features support for 30W fast wireless charging. The Mi 10 lineup was one-upped by Vivo’s APEX 2020 concept, which features support for 60W fast wireless charging. According to the company, the 60W wireless charging solution is capable of charging a 2,000mAh battery in just 20 minutes. But since the APEX 2020 is just a concept smartphone, we can’t expect its Super FlashCharge technology to make it to production devices anytime soon. Xiaomi, however, might bring a 40W fast wireless charging solution to its devices sometime later this year.

In a recent post on Weibo, the company’s co-founder Lei Jun revealed the company’s new wireless flash charging technology which boasts of 40W output capabilities. As seen in the video above, the new fast charging technology can charge a 4,000mAh battery from 0-57% (2,280mAh) in just 20 minutes, while taking about 40 minutes to get it up to 100%. In effect, this makes Xiaomi’s wireless flash charging technology faster than Vivo’s 60W Super FlashCharge. While it would be great to see this new technology in an upcoming Xiaomi device, the company hasn’t revealed any information about the release timeline for the same. It’s also worth noting that the phone in the video is a prototype/custom Mi 10 Pro.

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Source: Weibo

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Facebook’s 3D Photos are now supported on many Android devices with single cameras

Back at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in 2018, the company first announced a new feature for the platform called 3D Photos. As the name implies, the feature lets you post and view three-dimensional photos in your Facebook News Feed. The photos appear in your news feed like any other photos, but when you scroll past them, tap on them, or tilt your device, the 3D Photo’s perspective changes. You can also use virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Go or the Oculus Rift to view 3D Photos. At the time of launch, Facebook allowed users to create a 3D Photo only if you imported a depth map file on desktop and used a dual-camera phone like the latest Samsung Galaxy or iPhone devices. The reason behind the dual camera requirement was that Facebook could create a depth map from the images captured from both cameras. Now, however, dual cameras are no longer a requirement to create 3D Photos on Android phones.

As per a recent blog post from the company, Facebook now uses AI and machine learning to create a 3D Photo without any depth map data. As VentureBeat explains, the company has improved its machine learning algorithm such that it can infer the 3D structure of images without needing depth data. Additionally, the feature now works with selfies, paintings, and complex scenes as well.

To achieve this feat, Facebook trained a convolutional neural network using millions of pairs of 3D images and their depth maps. Once trained, this neural network is now being used to infer what a 3D image should look like without the accompanying depth map. This neural network can be run on typical mobile processors in a “fraction of a second,” making it suitable for the 3D photo feature. Google also enabled a similar feature in AR Core’s Depth API late last year, which allows the platform to create depth maps using a single camera.

However, even with the new advancements, the feature has some limitations. As per a report from Engadget on the matter, while any device can now view 3D Photos in the News Feed, the ability to post a 3D photo in Facebook’s app is limited to the iPhone 7 and newer, along with a couple of “midrange or better” Android phones, including Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 and Note 9, as well as the entire Pixel lineup excluding the budget-friendly Pixel 3A. Along with this new development, it’s also worth noting that Facebook is currently testing an image editing suggestions feature for the photos you post on your News Feed.

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Source: Facebook AI

Via: Engadget, VenturBeat

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Facebook’s 3D Photos are now supported on many Android devices with single cameras

Back at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in 2018, the company first announced a new feature for the platform called 3D Photos. As the name implies, the feature lets you post and view three-dimensional photos in your Facebook News Feed. The photos appear in your news feed like any other photos, but when you scroll past them, tap on them, or tilt your device, the 3D Photo’s perspective changes. You can also use virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Go or the Oculus Rift to view 3D Photos. At the time of launch, Facebook allowed users to create a 3D Photo only if you imported a depth map file on desktop and used a dual-camera phone like the latest Samsung Galaxy or iPhone devices. The reason behind the dual camera requirement was that Facebook could create a depth map from the images captured from both cameras. Now, however, dual cameras are no longer a requirement to create 3D Photos on Android phones.

As per a recent blog post from the company, Facebook now uses AI and machine learning to create a 3D Photo without any depth map data. As VentureBeat explains, the company has improved its machine learning algorithm such that it can infer the 3D structure of images without needing depth data. Additionally, the feature now works with selfies, paintings, and complex scenes as well.

To achieve this feat, Facebook trained a convolutional neural network using millions of pairs of 3D images and their depth maps. Once trained, this neural network is now being used to infer what a 3D image should look like without the accompanying depth map. This neural network can be run on typical mobile processors in a “fraction of a second,” making it suitable for the 3D photo feature. Google also enabled a similar feature in AR Core’s Depth API late last year, which allows the platform to create depth maps using a single camera.

However, even with the new advancements, the feature has some limitations. As per a report from Engadget on the matter, while any device can now view 3D Photos in the News Feed, the ability to post a 3D photo in Facebook’s app is limited to the iPhone 7 and newer, along with a couple of “midrange or better” Android phones, including Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 and Note 9, as well as the entire Pixel lineup excluding the budget-friendly Pixel 3A. Along with this new development, it’s also worth noting that Facebook is currently testing an image editing suggestions feature for the photos you post on your News Feed.

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Source: Facebook AI

Via: Engadget, VenturBeat

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Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition, Redmi Note 9, and Redmi 10X 4G names confirmed in MIUI 11

There are a handful of established players in the smartphone market; and thanks to how releases have worked out in the past, we have now fallen into a predictable pattern of releases. Every year few months, these established players release another iteration in their successful product lines, cashing in rightfully on the hard-earned goodwill from those lines. So when we hear about Xiaomi working on the Redmi Note 9, we aren’t really surprised. But when we hear about Xiaomi working on a Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition and Redmi 10X, we do take notice.

XDA Senior Member kacskrz discovered the names of a few upcoming Xiaomi/Redmi smartphones in the latest MIUI 11 China Developer ROM. These include:

• Redmi K30 Pro
• Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition
• Redmi Note 9
• Redmi 10X 4G

Of these, we already know that Xiaomi is going to launch a Redmi K30 Pro flagship smartphone in China. Xiaomi has also revealed that the Redmi K30 Pro will come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC as well as 5G capabilities. However, this is the first mention of a special “Zoom Edition” of the flagship. We do not know what exactly is special about this “Zoom Edition”, but judging from its name, it may obviously have something to do with better zoom capabilities on the phone.

As for the Redmi Note 9, there is no surprise that it is in the works. According to market research firm Canalys, the Redmi Note 7 had a spot in the top 10 selling smartphones globally in 2019, while the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro both occupied spots in the top 10 selling smartphones globally for Q4 2019. In fact, the Redmi Note 8 was the best selling Android smartphone for Q4 2019 — so it was entirely expected that Xiaomi would follow up with a successor.

Redmi Note 8 Pro XDA Forums || Buy Redmi Note 8 Pro from Amazon.in

The Redmi 10X 4G is a peculiar find. Xiaomi has sold several “X” phones as part of its Mi series, like the Mi 5X and Mi 6X. However, this is the first time we are hearing of a “Redmi #X” phone. We do not know what is special about this phone outside of the name. We speculate that the 10X could refer to either zoom capabilities (following the theme from the K30 Pro Zoom Edition), or it could be variant of the Redmi 10 (unlikely, since the Redmi 9 is yet to be released, pushing the Redmi 10 and then Redmi 10X to even further timelines). Curiously, the name also includes the words “4G’, which indicates that there might also be a 5G variant in the work.

We’ll let you know when we receive more information about these upcoming phones.

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Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition, Redmi Note 9, and Redmi 10X 4G names confirmed in MIUI 11

There are a handful of established players in the smartphone market; and thanks to how releases have worked out in the past, we have now fallen into a predictable pattern of releases. Every year few months, these established players release another iteration in their successful product lines, cashing in rightfully on the hard-earned goodwill from those lines. So when we hear about Xiaomi working on the Redmi Note 9, we aren’t really surprised. But when we hear about Xiaomi working on a Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition and Redmi 10X, we do take notice.

XDA Senior Member kacskrz discovered the names of a few upcoming Xiaomi/Redmi smartphones in the latest MIUI 11 China Developer ROM. These include:

• Redmi K30 Pro
• Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition
• Redmi Note 9
• Redmi 10X 4G

Of these, we already know that Xiaomi is going to launch a Redmi K30 Pro flagship smartphone in China. Xiaomi has also revealed that the Redmi K30 Pro will come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC as well as 5G capabilities. However, this is the first mention of a special “Zoom Edition” of the flagship. We do not know what exactly is special about this “Zoom Edition”, but judging from its name, it may obviously have something to do with better zoom capabilities on the phone.

As for the Redmi Note 9, there is no surprise that it is in the works. According to market research firm Canalys, the Redmi Note 7 had a spot in the top 10 selling smartphones globally in 2019, while the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro both occupied spots in the top 10 selling smartphones globally for Q4 2019. In fact, the Redmi Note 8 was the best selling Android smartphone for Q4 2019 — so it was entirely expected that Xiaomi would follow up with a successor.

Redmi Note 8 Pro XDA Forums || Buy Redmi Note 8 Pro from Amazon.in

The Redmi 10X 4G is a peculiar find. Xiaomi has sold several “X” phones as part of its Mi series, like the Mi 5X and Mi 6X. However, this is the first time we are hearing of a “Redmi #X” phone. We do not know what is special about this phone outside of the name. We speculate that the 10X could refer to either zoom capabilities (following the theme from the K30 Pro Zoom Edition), or it could be variant of the Redmi 10 (unlikely, since the Redmi 9 is yet to be released, pushing the Redmi 10 and then Redmi 10X to even further timelines). Curiously, the name also includes the words “4G’, which indicates that there might also be a 5G variant in the work.

We’ll let you know when we receive more information about these upcoming phones.

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