Haas is more direct here and welcome to the first episode of tech news now, I, don't know what I'm going to call. These series maybe gives more news. Tech news I do not drop your suggestions in the comments, but this is a new thing that I'm trying where I want to give you guys daily or weekly tech updates, I'm, going to tell you what all things are going around in the tech industry and things like that. So if you guys like this idea, please vote in the poll here and, if not, maybe if you don't like this idea, do let me know what else can I do if not tech news, so you can vote in the poll here and also, let me know your suggestions, but as of now let me get started with the first episode of tech news. So, as you all know, the biggest news of today is the fact that OnePlus is finally announced.1 + 8 +, 1, +, 8 Pro and the US and the UK pricing are already out the 1 + 8 starts from 699 dollars, whereas the 1 + 8 Pro, starts from 899 dollars and I actually published a video in the morning. Talking about these phones explaining their pricing, their specifications and everything like that, and also we've discussed their pricing in India.
So you guys can watch this video here. I'm going to link it here so go click on it watch it and then let me know your thoughts about the 1 + 8 and the 1 + 8 Pro. As of now OnePlus has not revealed the Indian pricing. They are teasing it on their Twitter page, but everyone is still hoping that 1 + is going to price. It is a lot more aggressively in India compared to the US I, don't know, I think we might see a price tag of around 47, 48 thousand rupees, or maybe, if OnePlus can remove the 5 g components and get it under 45 thousand I.
Don't know, let's see what happens and when the Indian pricing comes out, but apart from this, actually all the US and the UK reviewers have put out their reviews, comparisons and everything. So I'm going to link a couple of them in the description box and jury-rigged. Everything has also done his durability test for the OnePlus 8 pro. You can see the video I'll link it down in the description box, but basically the phone has passed his durability test and there is no major concern with respect to durability on the OnePlus 8 Pro and there shouldn't be any concerns, because now it's n900 and dollar flagship. Moving on to the next news.
The next big launch that has happened is from honor and the honor 30 honor thirty Pro and the owner 30 Pro Plus are finally out in China, the honor 30 gets the Kiran 985 chipset, whereas the owner, 30, Pro and Pro Plus get the Kiran 990 and all of these phones support Phi G. All of them also get AMOLED displays, but the 30 and the 30 Pro have a 60 Hertz display, whereas the 30 Pro Plus has a 90 Hertz display and there's a lot of cool things. That honor is also done with the cameras. So I'm just going to pull up the spec sheet right in front of you. You guys can pause.
It has a look at it and understand what every phone offers. Basically, there are three phones now 3030 Pro and 30 Pro Plus. If I talk about the pricing, the owner, 30 is gonna start from 32,000 rupees, the owner, 30 probes will start from 40 to 43 thousand rupees, and the 30 Pro Plus will be above fifty thousand rupees, so 30 Pro Plus is gonna directly compete with the one plus eight after that. I want to talk about this interesting Xiaomi phone that has popped up online. It's called the Xiaomi comet, and it's apparently an engineering sample or a prototype that a user has got his hands on.
So, according to the user, there has been only like three four phones of the Xiaomi comet, and it actually has an IP, 68 water and dust resistance certificates. The phone has a very weird range of specifications. They are very low end, so snapdragon 710 4gb of ram 2900 million pairs of batteries, 64gb of storage and this phone has a 12 megapixel primary camera and a 2 megapixel secondary camera. So the specs sound, very low-end, and it looks like a prototype smartphone that Xiaomi must have made before their black shark lineup and all of those things came up. You can see the photos.
It looks like a very rugged military style. Smartphone vivid Samsung used to do with their Galaxy active series. So I think this might be an old phone which has just popped up online now, but it's still very cool to see a Xiaomi phone with an ip68 certification. Next news comes from ICU, so, as you are know, I unit three is the next big smartphone from this brand, and it's gonna launch in China on 23rd of April, but the company is already teased a couple of details. So you've got snapdragon 865 on this phone UFS 3.1 storage, 144, hertz, refresh rate on this phone, and recently we've got to know about design of this phone as well. As you can see, you've got a punch, hole cut out on the top right, so you've got a punch, hole screen and this will be an LCD screen, because 144 hurts at amulet would be very expensive, and if we were to see the pricing, the pricing is tipped at around 31, 32 thousand rupees.
So for 32 thousand rupees you will get a 144 Hertz, refresh rate snapdragon 865 UFS, 3.1, 144, Hertz display and Phi G, so I'm really excited for Iconic, 3 I hope I could bring this to India as soon as they can, and the only thing that we don't know about this phone is the cameras, but that we can wait until the launch event. The next news once again comes from Xiaomi, so shimmies err, dots 2 were teased a lot online. We saw some certifications and things like that and Xiaomi has finally announced them as the Redmi and dot's s. So if you don't know what Redmi and odds are, they are a very entry-level, truly wireless here for that Xiaomi made I actually have a pair of the original ones, and they sell for roughly a thousand eleven hundred rupees in China. So Xiaomi has launched an upgraded variant of that which has better pairing capabilities, because the original ones that I have had a lot of issues while pairing.
So this one has Bluetooth 5.0 better bearing option. It supports your voice, assistance and things like that, and you can also play pause, skip and all of those things. I don't think there is any major change in terms of the sound quality. The sound quality was decent 4000, rupees and I actually have my original read me a dot. So if you guys want to see a review of that do vote in the poll here, because, honestly, not a lot of you guys- are interested in the truly Wireless here for this review, because I did one for JBL and real me, and the response was not that great.
But still, if you guys want to see a review of that vote in the poll here, because they only cost like 1120 hundred rupees, so next news is about the Nubia red magic, Phi G, so this one was initially available in China, but now it's available globally and there are two variants of this phone: 8gb RAM, 128, GB storage, 2, l, GB, ram, 256, GB storage. If I talk about the specifications of this phone, the specifications are actually quite cool. You've got a snapdragon 865, the refresh rate is at 144, Hertz, you've got 4,500 million positive battery with 55 watt charging, and you've also got the Sony iMac 686 sensors as the camera. If I talk about the pricing, the pricing starts at 579 US dollars and at 649 US dollars for the two variants, and now it's available globally. There are no news of the Indian launch as of now, but basically a lot of people globally can now buy this phone.
Next news is for all of you: Pokémon fans so reserve. The company that makes laptops and smartphones has recently announced their new pair of Bluetooth, earphones, truly wireless earphones, which they launched in China for 120 dollars, and the most intriguing part about these earphones is that they are based on the Pokémon design, so the earphones themselves are yellow, and they have some design relating to Pikachu, and the case of these earphones is a poke ball. How cool is that? So these are gonna launch in China very soon for a price tag of 120 dollars, and this is absolutely a delight for any Pokémon fan. I remember watching Pokémon when I was a kid. I was in school, I used to watch it on Cartoon Network.
So if any of you guys have seen the cartoon please vote in the poll here, I want to know which of you guys are Pokémon fans and which of you guys have never seen it if you've never seen it. Please watch it. It's one of the best things about my childhood. After that. Let's talk about Nokia, so there are rumors about this new Nokia flagship, the 9.3 Preview and the rumor suggests that Nokia might fake a hundred and eight megapixel camera. As you all know, the last Nokia flagship had multiple cameras on it, so there are rumors that this new phone will have 108 megapixel camera, along with a 64 megapixel sensor.
So I can't wait to see what Nokia does with the camera and apart from the cameras, actually, this one will also sport a 120 Hertz AMOLED display you will get Phi G. All the top-end features will be there on this phone, and it slated to launch in the second half of this year. So, let's see what Nokia does with it, because there are rumors that they might do an under screen camera or a pop-up camera. Now care phones are actually not that bad. It's just that that team is not working hard enough when it comes to pricing or when it comes to marketing their phones.
They are very good, with updates. I have a Nokia 7 plus for two years now in the house, and it's getting updates so regularly that most of the other phones don't so yeah. Nokia's phones are good, but they still need more push, and I'm really excited to see what they do with this flagship and I hope that they bring it to India. After that, let's talk about some statistics of the smartphone markets, so in China the smart market is now normalizing to what it was before. The Karina virus crisis compared to February 2020 in March 20, 2011, Xiaomi have reported a lot more shipments, so their sales are resuming to normal.
Now in China and slowly, the smartphone sales are getting back to where they were so in China. Things are recovering, but you're in India or in u. s. or in UK I, don't see things to get better anytime soon, because we are still struggling with the curve. We still need to flatten it, and we still need to get a lot of people recovered.
So I don't think the smartphone industry is going to recover from this loss anytime soon in all of these countries, but in China things are normalizing now. Finally, I want to talk about the Realme TV, because so much has been spoken about this even Realme has teased the Realme TV, and it should be coming sometime later this year. So recently a couple of variants of the Realme TV were spotted online. So there was a 32-inch variant and a 43-inch LED variant of the TV, and it comes with Bluetooth 5.0. So this seems to be the budget line up of Realme TVs, because there are also talks that Realme is making a 55 inch, Q, LED TV, and it's directly going to compete with Samsung LG and those brands, so I think Realme is going to bifurcate into two segments.
One will be the budget segment with LED panels.32 inches 43 inches 55 inches, maybe, and then they'll have their flagship level things where you will have the 55-inch, LED TV and maybe even a 65 inch I, don't know, but Realme TVs will definitely launch soon, maybe because of the coronavirus. Things have been delayed a little, but it will be coming later this year, so yeah. Basically, these are all the news that I had for today. If you guys like this concept of tech news, please support it. Please like it.
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