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Realme 11 Pro 5G series is expected to launch in India soon. The lineup was released in China earlier this month with the Realme 11 Pro and Realme 11 Pro+ models, alongside the basic Realme 11 variant. The phones run Android 13 with Realme UI 4.0 custom skin on top and are powered by high-speed MediaTek Dimensity SoCs. They are backed by 5,000mAh battery units and are offered in three colour variations. On Friday, the Flipkart microsite of the smartphones went live, suggesting the impending India launch of the models. The Flipkart promotional page does not reveal much details other than suggesting that one of the upcoming Realme phones will sport the world's first 200-megapixel camera with 4 times in-sensor zoom by Samsung. Realme 11 Pro, Realme 11 Pro+ 5G price The 8GB RAM + 256GB storage variant of the Realme 11 Pro is priced at CNY 1,699 (roughly Rs. 20,000), while the 12GB RAM + 256GB storage and 12GB RAM + 512GB storage variants of the phone are marked at CNY 1...

Samsung Electronics will not change the default search engine on its smartphones from Google to Microsoft's Bing any time soon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of Google -parent Alphabet gained more than 1 percent in premarket trading. Microsoft shares were down about 1 percent. Samsung has suspended an internal review that explored replacing Google with Bing on its web-browsing app, which comes pre-installed on the company's smartphones, according to the report. Google, Samsung, and Microsoft did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. A sizable part of the revenue earned by search-engine companies comes from their long-term partnerships with phone makers such as Apple and Xiaomi . Google earns an estimated $3 billion (roughly Rs. 24,625 crore) in annual revenue from the Samsung contract, according to an April 16 report by the New York Times. Samsung considering a potential shift to Bing was...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized Rs 8.26 crore in a case against Pigeon Education Technology India Private Limited under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, according to an official statement issued on Friday. In its statement, the ED said that an investigation found that the company was owned by Chinese nationals and all the affairs of the company including financial decisions are being taken by the persons sitting in China. "An amount of Rs 82.72 crore has been siphoned to China and Hong Kong from the company under the pretext of advertising expenses and marketing expenses on the instructions of Chinese director Liu Can," it said. "The company could not produce any proof of receipt of service on its part and proof of any advertisement published against the said expenses. Further, the director and accounts manager of the company has also admitted during the investigation that the payment was made only on the instructions of Chi...

OnePlus Fold and Oppo Find N3 are expected to launch soon. Both smartphones are foldable Android handsets that are speculated to be unveiled later this year. OnePlus also teased its foldable at the Cloud 11 event earlier this year, and stated that the phone would launch in Q3 2023. Now, new leaks around the two smartphones suggest that they will share similar specifications. Both phones have previously been tipped to share the same camera used in the Oppo Find X6, which is a 50-megapixel triple rear setup. This year has already seen the release of multiple book-style foldable phones so far, including the Google Pixel Fold and the Tecno Phantom V Fold . A 91Mobiles report citing tipster Yogesh Brar (@heyitsyogesh) suggested that both the upcoming OnePlus Fold and Oppo Find N3, the latter of which is expected to succeed the Oppo Find N2 , will share several key identical specifications, including design. The report said that the OnePlus Fold and the Oppo Find N3 will sport an 8-inch...

Apple and Samsung Electronics are among companies interested in increasing electronics production in India, a minister said, a boon for the country's push to challenge neighboring China as a manufacturing hub. The South Asian nation is seeking to expand its early success in smartphones to other product categories, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India's minister of state for technology, told Bloomberg TV's Rishaad Salamat and Haslinda Amin on Friday. The country is launching a $2 billion (roughly Rs. 163 crore) plan to boost the local output of laptops, servers, tablets, and other electronics. “We've had considerable success and tailwinds in the smartphone segment and we have increased interest from the likes of Apple and Samsung in expanding and growing here,” Chandrasekhar said. “We want to essentially replay that and add to that.” India's financial incentives for smartphone manufacturing have resulted in Apple and Samsung exporting billions of dollars of handsets from...