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Garmin has announced a new fitness band, dubbed vivosmart 5. The vivosmart 5 has a rounded band design and packs a 66% larger OLED screen compared to previous model, measuring 0.41″ x 0.73″ and having 88×154-pixel resolution.

The Garmin vivosmart 5 comes with the usual slew of health and fitness features, such as heart rate monitoring, sleep tracking, activity tracking, and a step counter. It can also measure your blood oxygen (region dependent) and stress levels as well as body battery energy levels. The wearable also has a menstrual cycle tracker for women.

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Additionally, the vivosmart 5 comes with a Fitness Age feature that uses your chronological age, weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate, and BMI to estimate if your body is younger or older than you actually are.

There’s also a safety and tracking feature for select outdoor activities that lets you send assistance alerts to your emergency contacts at the press of a button through a text message, which includes your live location obtained using the connected phone’s GPS.

Garmin vivosmart 5

The rest of the Garmin vivosmart 5’s highlights include smart notification alerts (for calls/SMS/apps) and 5ATM water resistance, meaning you don’t have to take it off your wrist when going for a swim or shower.

Garmin says the vivosmart 5 can offer up to seven days of endurance without blood oxygen tracking during sleep but doesn’t reveal the size of its battery.

The Garmin vivosmart 5’s case material is made with polycarbonate, whereas the interchangeable straps are made of silicone. It comes in White, Black, and Cool Mint colors with three size options – small, medium, and large. The first two weigh 24.5 grams, but the last one is a tad heavier at 26.5 grams.

The Garmin vivosmart 5, compatible with both iPhone and Android devices, is priced at $150 and is already available for purchase in the US through the company’s official website.

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The global supply constraints hit India in Q1 2022, Canalys revealed in its latest smartphone market report.

Expectations were the market to record double-digit growth as pandemic recovery continues, but supply chain issues prevented companies like Xiaomi and vivo from securing enough components to manufacture their best-selling low-end models.

Xiaomi recorded a yearly decline for a second consecutive quarter and so did second-placed Samsung although to a far smaller extent. In contrast Realme increased its shipments by 40% and took third place.

According to Sanyam Chaurasia, an analyst at Canalys, Realme and Itel managed to take on the competition with solid supply. Other makers eventually started to improve their numbers in March 2022 and are positive about Q2, expecting a strong quarter.

The biggest challenge for smartphone makers in India will be maintaining device affordability. Gas prices and inflation are at a record high in the Asian country, and vendors will hope to maintain profitability. According to Canalys, makers will be able to have a strong market share only if they have a steady flow of mid-to-low-end devices for customers.

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Starting with Android 10, Google killed call recording by default and on May 11, the company is implementing new Google Play Store policies preventing third-party apps from using the Accessibility API for recording the call audio stream.

Those changes are towards improved privacy and security as call recording laws across the world vary quite a bit. However, system, pre-installed apps that already have permission to tap on the Accessibility API won’t be affected by the change.

Pixel’s and Xiaomi’s dialers, for example, are two exceptions to the rule. This is considered a native call recording functionality. Although Google has not yet disclosed plans to address these issues, it is reasonable to assume that additional policies will be developed in the future.

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Samsung finally announced the Exynos 1280 chipset found in some of its recent Galaxy A midrangers like the Galaxy A33, Galaxy A53 and Galaxy M33.

Samsung Exynos 1280 specs:

• Process technology: 5 nm EUV
• CPU: 2x Cortex-A78 @2.4Ghz + 6x Cortex-A55 @2.0GHz, 64-bit.
• GPU: Arm Mali-G68
• AI Engine: AI Engine with NPU, 4.3 TOPS.
• Modem: 5G NR Sub-6GHz + 5G NR mmWave 1, 2.55 Gbps DL, 1.28 Gbps UL, global 5G multi-SIM.
• Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi 802.11ac MIMO with Dual-band (2.4/5G).
• Camera: Single camera up to 108 MP, Triple camera up to 16 MP, 4K video @30fps recording and playback.
• Display: FHD+ @120 Hz
• Memory: LPDDR4x
• Storage: UFS v2.2
• Other: Bluetooth 5.2, FM Radio Rx, Quad-constellation multi-signal for L1 and L5 GNSS.

The chip is built on Samsung’s 5nm EUV process and features an eight-core CPU made up of two Cortex-A78 performance cores alongside six Cortex-A55 power-efficient cores. The GPU side is handled by the Arm Mali-G68 and you get both sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G connectivity.

The new SoC is optimized with Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) which should bring better power consumption and battery life. The onboard neural processing unit (NPU) brings AI functions like scene segmentation, real-time motion analysis and multi-object surveillance.

Exynos 1280 can handle FHD+ displays refreshing at up to 120Hz. Its image signal processor (ISP) supports a maximum resolution of up to 108MP and up to three 16MP additional modules. Samsung also added multi-frame image processing for clearer images with less noise, electronic image stabilization (EIS) as well as 4K video recording and playback at 30fps.

In terms of connectivity, you get dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11ac MIMO, Bluetooth 5.2 and Quad-constellation multi-signal for L1 and L5 GNSS positioning.

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The Xiaomi Civi arrived in September as a beautiful device with great selfie camera capabilities for young people. Today, the company announced its successor, which is called Xiaomi Civi 1S.

The changes are boil down to the chipset which is now a Snapdragon 778G+ and the software where we see the latest version of MIUI and Android. Aside from these two, everything else remained the same, even the price.

Xiaomi kept the 6. 55″ OLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate and 1080p resolution. There is a single punch hole in the center for the 32MP camera.

The camera trio on the back has the same 64MP f/1. 8 main, 8MP f/2. 2 ultrawide and 2MP macro modules.

The first Civi was powered by a Snapdragon 778G, so this time the 778G+ brings an ever so slightly faster CPU. The primary core is now clocked at 2. 5GHz, instead of 2. 4 GHz, while the GPU, ISP, and connectivity remain the same.

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The Civi 1S is a fairly light smartphone at just 166 grams and is less than 8mm thick. However, this means some features are still missing – there is no slot for a microSD card, nor is there a 3. 5mm audio jack.

Xiaomi is shipping this phone with MIUI 13 out of the box, and it has Android 12 underneath. The battery is 4,500mAh with 55W fast charging, but there will be no charger in the retail box. The company will provide one at no extra charge to anyone who requests it.

The Civi 1S will sell for the same price as the Civi when it launched – CNY2,299 ($355) for 8/128GB base version, CNY2,599 ($405) for 8/256 GB upgrade, and CNY 2,899 ($450) for 12/256 GB top model.

Pre-sale has already begun in China. The first Civi never made it outside the domestic market, and it’s extremely unlikely that we’ll see that change with the 1s.

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Realme will introduce the GT Neo 3 in India next week on April 29, but before that, the company will launch the Narzo 50A Prime in its biggest market.

Realme today announced that the Narzo 50A Prime will debut in India on April 25, and its launch event will be streamed live on Realme India’s official channels starting at 12:30PM local time.

This one’s going to level up your smartphone viewing experience manifolds!

The #realmenarzo50APrime coming with some #MassivePowerMightyPerformance at 12:30 PM, 25th April, on our official channels.

Know more: https://t.co/sttXp02pCn pic.twitter.com/6qLIj5HgaV

— realme (@realmeIndia) April 21, 2022

The Realme Narzo 50A Prime was unveiled in Indonesia last month, so we know what’s on offer. The smartphone is powered by the Unisoc Tiger T612 SoC and runs Android 11-based Realme UI R Edition out of the box. It has 4GB RAM on board and two storage options – 64GB and 128GB. But it’s unclear what memory configurations will be available in India.

The Narzo 50A Prime features a 6. 6″ FullHD+ LCD with a notch for the 8MP selfie shooter, and around the back is a 50MP primary camera joined by the depth and macro units.

The Narzo 50A Prime has a side-mounted fingerprint reader for biometric authentication and packs a 5,000 mAh battery with 18W charging support.

In addition to announcing the Narzo 50A Prime’s India launch date, Realme also announced that it will launch the Realme Smart TV X Full HD in India on April 29, with 24W Dolby Audio Quad Stereo Speakers and two screen sizes – 40″ and 43″.

The Realme Pad Mini and Buds Q2s TWS earphones will also debut in India on April 29. You can head this way to know more about the Realme Pad Mini, and here for more details about the Buds Q2s.

Earlier on April 20, Verizon pushed an update to its LTE-variant of the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic. The online documentation that initially released with the update screenshots of the feature that enabled Google Assistant on the two Watch4 models. Assistant has been missing since the smartwatches launched despite running WearOS 3.0.

Verizon’s changelog originally included these screenshots of the Google Assistant feature.

However, following the update, users were perplexed to find that the update would not bring Google Assistant. The verge contacted Google to clarify the absence of this feature. A Google spokesperson responded with the following statement.

To confirm, Assistant is not rolling out to Gaalxy Watch 4 and we don’t have an update on timing,” – Ivy Hunt, Google spokesperson.

Verizon has updated its release notes to remove the Google Assistant addition. Other updates to the Galaxy Watch4 include Backup and Restore support with Smart Switch. You can now take measurements of your body composition through the target notification. You can check out the full update notes on Verizon’s support site.

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