Smartphone Prices in India Set to Go Up Because of 10% Import Duty on Display Panels Mobile phone prices in India are expected to go uponce againin the coming days following the imposition of a10% import duty on display panels. According to industry body, ICEA, smartphone vendors are expected to raise their prices by between 1.5% and 5% following the development. The new tax regime, which went into effect October 1st, is being applied under a phased manufacturing program (PMP) announced in 2016 in consensus with the industry....

Valorant Servers in India Now in Testing; Expected to Go Live in Two Weeks WithValorantplayers from India complaining for long about latency problems with South-east Asian (SEA) servers, Riot Games is seemingly testing Indian servers that promise to offer ping times less than 35ms. In a Reddit post on Friday, a Redditor(u/ArmiesofZNight)who identifies as a Valorant developer, said that the company will be testing its upcoming servers in India over the next couple of weeks before officially switching them on for everyone....

Apple Might Have a Tough Time Beating This New Camera Feature of the Google Pixel 5 Since the inception of Google’s Pixel phones, its exceptional cameras have taken the smartphone scene by storm. The use of advancedcomputational photographyproved its might over higher megapixels. Now, with the launch of its latest devices, thePixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5, Google has added one nifty camera feature which has the potential to beat the competition....

Check Out the Teaser Trailer for Netflix’s Resident Evil TV Series Though Netflix is home to numerous goodmoviesandTV shows, recent releases like Enola Holmes andThe Social Dilemmaare truly well-made pieces of content. Apart from movies and TV series based on books, Netflix has also shown interest in content related to gaming, with The Witcher stealing hearts last year. And now, thestreaming behemothhas released a teaser trailer for its upcoming CGI-animated series based on the popular game/ film series, Resident Evil....

Check Out This $9,990 Special “Apple 1” Edition iPhone 12 If you are into modified iPhones, then I am sure you have heard about the Russia-based luxury smartphone modders, Caviar. We have seen somecrazy-modified iPhonesfrom the company including theinsane $15,000 “CyberPhone”. Now, the company is taking pre-orders for a special “Apple 1” edition iPhone 12. We saw the company put up a“Pure Gold” iPhone 12for pre-order on its website recently. Now, the company is boasting another modified iPhone 12 that comes withan exclusive fragment of the circuit board of the first Apple computer....

Google Made a Special “Skin” to Enable Wireless Charging on the Pixel 5 After a flood ofleaksandrumors, Google finallyunveiled the Pixel 5 and the Pixel 4a 5Gat its hardware event a couple days ago. Now, unlike the Pixel 4a’s polycarbonate chassis, the Pixel 5 comes with an aluminum chassis, just as theleaks suggested. The Pixel 5, however, even with its aluminum back panel, surprisingly, supports wireless charging. Mindblown? Curious about how it works?...

India May Soon Launch Its Own ‘Atmanirbhar’ App Store: Report At a time when Google is asking developers toadopt its billing systemby September 30, 2021, and Apple is battling Fortnite’s developer Epic, anew rumorsuggests that the Indian government may soon announce its own new app store. This is apparently part of the efforts to make the country self-reliant or Atmanirbhar. Interestingly, theET Nowreport suggests that this rumoredIndia’s app store will not levy a 30 percent cutto host apps....