Gadgets &amp; Electronics

India's First Chip Fab Was Promised at 28nm by Christmas 2026. It's Opening at 90nm, Two Years Late.

Tata's ₹91,000-crore Dholera fab was pitched as India's entry into cutting-edge chipmaking, with silicon by December 2026. It now opens two full process generations behind that promise, with commercial output pushed to mid-2028.

30 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Realme's New Phone Launched at '29% Off.' The Full Price Never Existed.

Realme's P4s 5G went on sale in India today at ₹34,999 — listed on Flipkart as 29% off a ₹48,999 MRP nobody has ever paid, because the phone didn't exist yesterday. Strip out the discount theatre and the phone underneath is genuinely competitive at the real price.

27 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Two Phones, Two 'Biggest Battery' Claims, One Real Difference: What's Actually Inside

iQOO Z11 and Poco M8 Power both launched in India this August selling the same pitch — a battery bigger than anything at the price. The battery race is real. The chipset gap underneath it is where the actual difference lives.

24 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Google Raised the Pixel's Price by ₹10,000 — After Not Raising It Was What Made It Work in India

The Pixel 11 series goes on sale in India today at ₹10,000 above last year's prices across every tier. Pixel doubled its ultra-premium share in India last quarter — and analysts credited the fact that it hadn't raised prices.

21 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

Pixel 11 vs Pixel 10 in India: The Pre-Order Button Opens Tonight, and the Smarter Number Belongs to Last Year's Phone

Made by Google streams at 3:30 AM IST and Indian pre-orders open the same day. But the Pixel 10 is currently discounted by up to ₹11,000, and in a year when memory prices quadrupled, the outgoing flagship is doing something new: getting cheaper faster than the new one gets better.

12 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

The Pixel 11 Launches Tomorrow. Its India Price Was Decided in a Memory Fab Last Year.

Google's Made by Google event is on August 12 and India pre-orders open the same day. Every leaked price for it, and for every other phone launching in India this month, traces back to the same line item — and it isn't the processor.

11 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

Honor Just Put a Motorized Camera Arm Inside a Phone — and the Weirdest Part Is Why It Might Actually Work

Every year, a handful of phones try to win the camera arms race by adding another lens or another million pixels. Honor decided the entire premise was wrong and built a phone with a mechanical arm…

11 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

Redmi Note 17 Costs ₹5,000 More Than the Note 15 — and Has a Slower Chip. Xiaomi Wants You to Look at the Battery Instead.

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 17 in India on Thursday under the tagline "mAhster Edition," and you can tell exactly what the marketing meeting decided: point at the 8,000 mAh battery, keep pointing…

11 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

Google Just Leaked Its Own Biggest Pixel Redesign in Years — Three Days Before It Was Supposed To

With the Pixel 11 keynote three days out, the phone itself showed up in someone's hands first — and the leak wasn't about price or specs. It was about the one part of a Pixel that hasn't…

11 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

Redmi Note 17 vs vivo T4 Pro: Same ₹28,000, Roughly Double the Processor. Xiaomi Is Betting You Won't Notice.

Xiaomi's own website calls the Redmi Note 17 the best 5G phone under ₹30,000. At the same money, a phone from last August has roughly twice the compute. Here's what you're actually paying for.

11 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

Xiaomi's Leaked India Roadmap Says It Will Launch a New Redmi Every Six Weeks Until December

A tipster's roadmap puts the Redmi 17 on 5 September, the Note 17 Pro two weeks later and the Xiaomi 18 Pro in December — weeks after the Note 17 landed. None of it is confirmed.

11 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

Huawei Just Shipped a Smartwatch With 21-Day Battery Life. Google Is Still Leaking Renders.

Two smartwatch stories broke within hours of each other today, and the contrast is more useful than either story on its own. Huawei officially launched the Watch GT 7 and GT 7 Pro in China. Google…

8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Pixel Watch 5 Leak Says Google Is Adding $50 to Every Model — Here's What You'd Get for It

Google hasn't said a word about Pixel Watch 5 pricing yet. That's not stopping the leaks from getting specific enough to plan a shopping list around — and if they hold up, every single variant is…

8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Poco M8 Power vs Redmi Note 17: Xiaomi Is Selling You the Same Phone Twice

Xiaomi just launched a phone to compete with itself, and it wants Rs 5,000-10,000 less for it. That's the story hiding underneath today's Poco M8 Power 5G launch in India, and if you're shopping in…

Google Just Ripped a Sensor Out of the Pixel 11 and Put a Disco Light in Its Place

Ahead of its August 12 launch, Google's official teasers for the Pixel 11 have confirmed a feature called "Pixel Glow" — a rotating, multicolor RGB LED built into the camera bar that lights up for…

Redmi's Answer to Battery Anxiety Is an 8,000mAh Cell — and It's Cheaper Than You'd Guess

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 17 in India on Thursday, and the headline spec isn't the chipset or the camera — it's the battery. An 8,000mAh silicon-carbon cell, which Redmi is calling its biggest…

Google Wants $100 More for the Pixel 11 Than the Pixel 10 — Today's Countdown Timer Is How It Sells You On That

Google's "Made by Google" event is four days out, on August 12 in New York, where the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL and Pixel 11 Pro Fold all break cover together. But the number worth…