Posts by Karthekayan Iyer

India will get 5G smartphones in Q3 before 5G network: Rajen Vagadia, VP & President - Qualcomm India

5G is Here. 5G is Real. At Mobile World Congress 2019, Qualcomm executives pulled all possible stops to send a message that 5G is not just another buzzword. The San Diego-based chipmaker has been the biggest proponent of 5G, and this year has been a watershed moment when the technology has transitioned from conversation to

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Karthekayan Iyer

11:17 AM
Apr 13, 2019

News

Intel announces 2nd generation Xeon Scalable processor

Intel, on Wednesday, announced its broadest product portfolio for the data center customers in India yet. With compute moving to the core and edge, the company introduced the second generation Xeon Scalable processor, 10nm FPGA and new Optane memory solutions that can be used by customers to drive cloudification and digitization. The significance of this

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Karthekayan Iyer

07:01 PM
Apr 04, 2019

Review

Sony WH-CH700N Review

Noise cancellation can be described as one of the big new features that the audio industry has added to headphones in the recent times. The feature allows users to cancel the noise around them without compromising on the audio that they are listening through their headphones. The feature comes into its own when you use

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Karthekayan Iyer

09:28 AM
Mar 29, 2019

Review

Easyfone Star Review

The biggest dilemma for parents right now is whether to trust their children with a phone. As someone who grew up in a household with a landline and one who got exposed to mobile phones in his teenage, the adoption of mobile devices among children of all age groups seems baffling. My four-year-old niece is

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Karthekayan Iyer

11:43 AM
Mar 24, 2019

Features

Qualcomm says 100-megapixel mobile image sensors coming this year

Early this month, Qualcomm tweaked the specifications of its mobile platform, and added support for up to 192-megapixel single camera. The new specification sheet suggested that future devices powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile platform would come with a 192-megapixel camera setup. Now, the San Diego-based semiconductor company has clarified that smartphone with 192-megapixel camera is

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Karthekayan Iyer

11:19 AM
Mar 21, 2019

Opinions

Android Q tries to address Google's biggest dilemma - data privacy

As you read this, Google is being probed for its business practices somewhere around the world. In the past few years, Margrethe Vestager, a Danish politician and European Commissioner for Competition, has fined Google and in the process, found how the company is too big and tends to be a data broker. The hyper connected

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Karthekayan Iyer

11:35 AM
Mar 17, 2019

Review

Oppo F11 Pro Review

At every juncture of the mobile development, there has been a device that defied the trend. While Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson churned out candy bar devices, there was also the N-GAGE from Nokia which defied conventional design wisdom. My dad did not buy me one because he thought it did not look like

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Karthekayan Iyer

07:26 PM
Mar 14, 2019

Review

Dell XPS 15 9570 Review

Last week, I traveled to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2019, the mecca for latest and greatest innovation in mobile. Even before the trip, I had started planning all the gadgets I would need for this work trip. In order to ensure smooth work from there, I had zeroed in on the smartphone and headphone

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Karthekayan Iyer

01:03 PM
Mar 09, 2019

Features

Intel 5G modem powered devices will arrive in first half of 2020: Jonathan Wood

5G is here. The biggest topic at Mobile World Congress 2019 was 5G and for the first time, it was not just part of conversations in closed door briefings. The fifth generation of mobile connectivity is real, and it could be seen connected to 5G devices and transmitting gigabits of data at the Fira Gran

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Karthekayan Iyer

10:15 AM
Mar 08, 2019

Features

Qualcomm says ultrasonic sensor with larger area of recognition to arrive in H2 2019

Qualcomm says the second generation ultrasonic fingerprint sensor with larger area of recognition will arrive during the second half of this year. During a closed door briefing held on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Gordon Thomas, Director, Product Management on Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor, confirmed that the company is preparing to

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Karthekayan Iyer

09:44 AM
Mar 07, 2019