Gadgets & Electronics
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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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…