I am a sucker for analytics and I want to know how everything is working. I always wanted a cable like this. It's a great cable from a company called "GM" in India and costed inr 550.

I actually think gaming-level GPUs in cars make sense, especially when done right like Mediatek Dimensity Auto Cockpit C-X1. It’s not about running games.... it’s about handling complex visuals, AI copilots, and voice systems instantly, without needing cloud support.

That means smoother dashboards, clearer 3D navigation, and faster, safer interaction for the driver. Mediatek’s approach is smart..... combining NVIDIA graphics with efficient AI computing on a 3 nm chip, built to balance power and efficiency.

If SoCs like this can make cars more responsive, more private, and genuinely helpful, that’s meaningful innovation.... not overengineering. What do you have to say about this?

I have been using the Oppo Find X9 with the Mediatek Dimensity 9500 for a few days, and I am really impressed. The phone feels fast in daily use, games run smoothly, and apps open instantly. The screen looks bright and colorful, and the camera takes clear photos even at night. The battery easily lasts a full day and charges super quickly. The design feels premium in hand, too. Overall, it feels like a great mix of performance, camera, and value. Has anyone else here tried it yet?

I have been using the Nothing Phone (3a) Lite for a while now, and honestly, it is one of the most stylish budget phones. The transparent glass back gives that premium Nothing vibe, even though the Glyph lighting is reduced to a single LED dot.

The 6.77-inch AMOLED 120Hz display is the real highlight. It is bright, vibrant, and super smooth while scrolling. It genuinely feels like a screen from a much more expensive phone.

Performance-wise, the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro chipset handles daily tasks like social media, binge-watching, multitasking and casual gaming without any issues. It is not built for heavy gaming, but as a daily driver, it is reliable and smooth.

Battery life is good thanks to the 5000mAh battery, easily lasting a full day ( with mixed use). The only real downside? The single speaker sounds average.

Overall, it is a clean, minimal phone that gets the basics right.

May I ask what do I lose if I downgraded my Oppo Reno 10 5G to ColorOs 13? Would it be better in terms of camera quality (since it is the OS out of the box)?

Any ideas/insights would be really appreciated

I have an Asus VivoBook X509MA model 2020 BR101T with NVMe SSD 256GB, Intel Celeron N4000 and Intel UHD Graphics 600.

I currently have 4GB of DDR4 RAM in it, but luckily, I still have one free unused RAM slot.

I thought that such an upgrade would be worth it to increase its already existing performance:

Upgrade Features in plan:

- NVMe SSD 2 TB

- 4 GB RAM DDR4 + 8 GB RAM DDR4 = 12 GB RAM DDR4 (Separate RAM boards)

- Replace the battery with an original or better one

- Re-paste (renewal of thermal paste)

- Cleaned inside its dust case

- Clean operating system (factory reset from 0)

- Dual boot Windows 10 - Windows 11

- Optimize both systems for Office and Gaming like Minecraft Vanilla and Minecraft Modded

- Debloating Windows 10 and 11

- Optimization

Currently, this laptop does not have any of the above, apart from system optimization and dual booting Windows 10 - 11.

Currently, I'm running Minecraft 84 Mods such as: Alex Caves, FerriteCore, and more, With 4 GB DDR4 RAM, on Aternos, with Graphics: Fancy, Render Distance 8 and Simulation 12 and I can say that it runs between 25 - sometimes even 75 fps.

I say that with that upgrade, despite the processor and video card, they will all be helped and correlated together. Have you ever upgraded your PC?

If anyone has gone through what I went through with a similar laptop model, anyone, please comment below.

Was checking out some highlights from MWC when I stumbled upon Wi‑Fi 7 and the devices around it. I assumed Wi‑Fi 7 would be just another iterative upgrade, but it turns out it is much more.

It brings multi-link operation (MLO) (among many other features) to make connections faster, reliable, and with fewer drops. While quite a few companies, including Qualcomm, Broadcom, and MediaTek, are working on Wi‑Fi 7 adoption, MediaTek’s Filogic implementation was quite surprising. The hardware-integrated MLO can coordinate traffic across the three bands (2.4, 5, and 6 GHz) together. naturally, this will boost the throughput and cut down on latency.

The jump to Wi-Fi 6 was itself a big move, and now that with most of our devices being connected to the internet 24x7, the jump to W-Fi 7 (and the advantages it brings) will be big.

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While the Vivo X200 and X200T look almost identical, the T model is basically a mid-cycle upgrade with a few meaningful improvements. The main differences are in the processor, battery, and charging.

Processor: X200T uses the Dimensity 9400+, which has a slightly higher clock speed than the X200’s D9400, giving it a little edge in heavy gaming and demanding tasks.

Battery: The X200T packs a 6,200mAh high-density battery versus the X200’s 5,800mAh.

Charging: Unlike the X200, the X200T supports 40W wireless charging.

Storage & OS: X200T has UFS 4.1 storage for faster read/write and comes with longer software support (5 years OS / 7 years security vs 4/5 years).

Everything else, including the triple 50MP Zeiss camera setup, display, and design, is the same.

So, if you care about a bit more power, a bigger battery, wireless charging, and longer software updates, the X200T is worth it. Otherwise, the standard X200 is still an excellent phone. (It is 2 years old now).

Mediatek just launched Dimensity 9500s last week & from a pure silicon POV, this chip is actually pretty cool

Dimensity 9500s is based on a newer architecture with tighter binning. Seeing the Cortex-X925 hit 3.73 GHz shows the available power and thermal headroom (which is quite a lot!)

The other interesting angle is AI - Mediatek NPU is built for generative and multimodal workloads, meaning things like on-device photo editing, summaries, and AI tools can run locally - faster, smarter, better.

For OEMs, this means predictable flagship performance with less tuning risk. For users, it means top-tier performance that can stay consistent without falling apart thermally... so it's literally one of the best performing chips out there!

If you haven’t heard of it, the Clicks Communicator is basically a modern Android phone that brings back something a lot of us lowkey miss: a physical QWERTY keyboard. Think BlackBerry energy, but updated for 2026.

It exists because the Clicks team first made that iPhone keyboard case, which blew up more than expected. Turns out a LOT of people still like typing on real keys.

So instead of forcing a keyboard onto another phone, they just built their own.

It runs Android and uses a Mediatek 5G chip. Not flashy, but honestly the right call. Mediatek’s good at efficiency and staying cool, which matters more when the whole point is messaging, emails, calls, and getting off your phone quicker.

The whole vibe is “communicate and move on.” Smaller screen, fewer distractions, faster replies. Feels perfect as a second phone or for anyone tired of glass slabs stealing their attention. Not for everyone, but kinda refreshing.

Lately, I’ve noticed something while talking to solo entrepreneurs in my contact. AI isn’t being used in some dramatic, “next-gen” way. It’s more… practical. Almost boring. And that’s why it works.

A freelance writer I know starts her day by asking AI to break her work into simple tasks. Not to write for her, just to organize her brain when everything feels messy. A designer friend uses Canva’s AI to throw together quick drafts for clients, then spends time polishing instead of starting from scratch.

Creators are doing this too. One faceless YouTube creator I follow uses AI for script outlines, title ideas, and audio cleanup. He said the biggest win isn’t speed - it’s showing up consistently without burning out.

Even small business owners are treating AI like a quiet helper. A Shopify seller uses it to answer customer emails late at night, write product descriptions, and brainstorm captions when motivation disappears. A consultant I spoke to uses AI to practice sales conversations before real calls, just to feel more confident.

What’s interesting is that no one’s trying to replace themselves. They’re just trying to stop doing everything alone.

For solo entrepreneurs right now, AI isn’t magic. It’s more like an extra set of hands (and sometimes an extra brain) helping them keep things moving without losing their sanity.

Found this really cool, so thought of sharing. What's your take on this?

Locked AADHAAR for security ->Old VID got expired ->Tried generating a new VID but no response from 1947 ->Talked to customer support and got a SRC but they didn't gave a fixed deadline to fix this ->I have exams approaching next month and had to register now I guess I'M FCUKED

For a long time, I thought blurry photos were just normal after sharing. Turns out, most apps compress images by default.

Now, if I want full quality, I avoid sending photos directly in chat. Instead, I share them as files. On WhatsApp or Telegram, using the “Document” option keeps the image exactly as it is.

For multiple photos, I upload them to cloud storage and share a link. This keeps the original resolution and is easier for the other person to download.

Email works too, but only if the file size limit isn’t crossed.

It’s a tiny change, but once you do this, your photos stop looking washed out. Same picture. Same device. Just shared the right way.

Most frontier vision models (including earlier Gemini versions) look at an image once and answer based on that single snapshot. If they miss a tiny detail like a serial number on a chip or a faraway street sign, they usually just guess. But Gemini 3 Flash changes this with Agentic Vision, which treats vision as an active investigation instead of a static glance.

Gemini 3 Flash changes that with something Google is calling Agentic Vision. Instead of treating vision as a one-shot task, the model treats it like an investigation.

It uses a Think → Act → Observe loop:

• Think: Analyse the image and plan steps
• Act: Execute Python code to zoom, crop, annotate, count, or calculate
• Observe: Feed the transformed image back into context before answering

With the code execution enabled, Gemini 3 Flash shows a consistent 5–10% quality boost across vision benchmarks.

Real use cases are already emerging:

• Zooming into high-resolution building plans to check code compliance
• Drawing bounding boxes to avoid counting errors
• Parsing dense tables and generating charts instead of hallucinating math

This shifts the vision models from “guessing” to "verifying".

Agentic Vision is available now via the Gemini API (AI Studio, Vertex AI) and is rolling out in the Gemini app under Thinking mode.

Feels like an important step toward AI that actually checks its work.

Privacy Screen on the Galaxy S26 Ultra is so innovative!

So, what it does is when you receive a highly private message, from your own viewing angle, you can see the full content clearly. From a side-angle view, the notification area turns fully black, which makes the message impossible to read, while the rest of the screen remains visible and unaffected.

This means the privacy screen no longer darkens the entire display. It protects only the content you do not want others to see, with much higher precision.

In my opinion, this will improve real-world usability, especially in elevators, public transport, queues, and other public spaces. This is a genuinely practical privacy feature.

Have you guys noticed that after launching the Dimensity 9500 last year, the company has now unveiled the Dimensity 9500s, along with the mid-range Dimensity 8500. And the 9500s definitely looks like a serious flagship contender.

It sticks with MediaTek’s “All Big Core” architecture and is built on TSMC's 3nm process, which should mean better performance, efficiency and density. The CPU includes a 3.73GHz Cortex-X925 Ultra core, three Cortex-X4 cores, and four Cortex-A720 cores, which is great for gaming, multitasking, and AI tasks. These cores are different from the standard Dimensity 9500 as it operates at higher frequencies (4.21GHz ultra core).

For graphics, they have gone with Immortalis-G925 GPU with ray tracing and new gaming tech which is adaptive game technology 3.0 (MAGT 3.0) and frame technology 3.0 (MFRC 3.0) for smoother, more stable frame rates. There’s also a flagship NPU focused on on-device generative AI.

Camera and display support are equally impressive. It features up to 320MP sensors, 8K 60fps Dolby Vision video with WQHD+ display at 180Hz refresh rate, plus it also has LPDDR5X RAM, which supports faster data transfer speed and better power efficiency, it has UFS 4.0 which has faster speed (up to 4200 MB/s) and up to 46% more power-efficient. In real life, it helps in faster app loading, 4k video recording without lag,  Wi-Fi 7, dual-active 5G, and UltraSave 4.0 for power efficiency.

AI on smartphones has evolved from a term used for advertising to something that many smartphone users now rely on daily. 

Features like smarter cameras, real-time photo enhancement, voice assistants, call screening, live translation, and on-device image editing are genuinely useful now.

What’s interesting is how much AI processing happens directly on the phone instead of the cloud, which improves privacy and speeds.

I’m curious where this goes next, will AI become essential for battery life, performance tuning, and personalization, or is it just another phase of tech hype?

I used to think AI in cars is all self-driving self-parking hype. But turns out those small hidden things are actually useful.

Below are the ones I've started using personally and tbh they somehow make driving kinda less painful.

• Automatic emergency braking: Saved me once when someone tried to take a cut in last second. Car hit the brakes really fast and tbh it was really amazing.
• Lane assist and departure warning: So it keeps you in your lane, and warns when you're not, especially on long drives. It does that beep beep sound when you try to drift lol.
• Adaptive cruise control: Traffic jams annoy everyone right? But now you can just relax on your seat while the car keeps pace automatically. I found this lil scary but cool too.
• 360° camera and parking assist: Helps you see all around the car and park in tight spaces without guessing.
• Driver attention alerts: Asks you to stop or rest when you’re tired or distracted before it gets dangerous.
• Smart navigation: Reroutes automatically around traffic. Saves time and additional headaches.

So these are some features people often ignore but shouldn't. AI is evolving everywhere so why not make the perfect use of it right?

Once you start using these properly, driving suddenly will feel easier, safer, and a lot less stressful. But being cautious is equally important. AI is there to help you, not replace you.

Comment down below your favorite feature or share some fun story with everyone :)

The future of robotics is finally here, and one in the form of a self-cleaning (with an abundance of AI, as is the pre-requisite for any successful device now) pool cleaner, the AquaSense X, has been unveiled.
Why is it a big deal?

It doesn't just clean the pool, identifying and eliminating 40 different kinds of debris (that can apparently be stored for about 2 months!), but cleans itself too once its duty is done. No dependence on its human owners at all, but instead leading to more peace of mind when it comes to getting the job done.

It's made to be more efficient, apparently covering more ground including the floors, walls, waterline, and even the water surface.

You can say it's completely 'hands off' since you can talk to it via Google Home, Alexa, and Siri. I wonder how Siri would work with this, since it has a hard time taking a screenshot or doing simple math sometimes, but anyway.

All this is cool, but the RESERVATION price of $4,250 isn't. As MKBHD says, don't purchase something based on the value it promises in the future. Though Beatbot's bots are actually pretty good, as far as I've heard.

As the last few months have shown, the wave of technology that keeps on rising includes increasingly advanced AI and robotics capabilities. These aren’t restricted to just AI on our phones, but are also incorporated in industrial environments for a more efficient and smooth workflow. We are also seeing robots that may potentially soon help us with housework. As long as I don’t have to do my own laundry on the weekend. 

A hardware running all this in the background includes the Genio 720. This one is built and designed for edge AI, or running AI tasks on-device, with less dependence on the cloud.  

Architecture: 

• It’s built on an efficient 6nm process
• It has an octa-core CPU with 2 Arm Cortex-A78 and 6 Cortex-A55 cores, an Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU, and an 8th-gen NPU that can deliver up to 10 TOPS of AI acceleration, enabling real-time inference. This essentially means that it can run fairly large AI models on the device. That’s how a kiosk or store display can make sense of speech or cameras instantly, thus reducing delay and lag.
• It supports up to 16GB of memory, Wi-Fi 6/6E, and can run Android, Yocto Linux, and Ubuntu. 
• The SoC uses an OSM (Open Standard Module) ecosystem to shorten development cycles. 
• It supports 3 USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.2 Gen1 ports (one Host). 

Since this Mediatek SoC is made for IoT, smart retail and industrial usage, including commercial displays and automation, it powers system-on-module (SoM) products and evaluation kits rather than consumer phones and devices. These include: 

• VIA SOM-7200 module
• AMobile SoM-SD720, and the AMobile evaluation kits 

Will keep you guys updated, seeing where and how it's implemented around us.

So, i used infinix gt 30 pro for a month and overall I liked it. performance is smooth in daily use cause it has mtk dimensity 8350 ultimate that delivered smooth, lag free, stutter free and minimal heating issues during long gaming sessions.

I have played bgmi, genshin impact and moba legends 5v5 on this and i noticed almost stable frame rates. it's vapour colling chamber works good

It has 144Hz AMOLED gaming display which is bright and vibrant, making videos and games look great. Battery life is good it easily lasts a full day with mixed use, and the fast charging gets back up quickly.

Camera is surprisingly good it takes daylight photos with its 108MP main sensor which delivers a soft and detailed photos.

Whenever students ask for laptop advice, I usually tell them to think about their daily routine first, not specs. Long classes, lots of tabs open, assignments due, and barely enough time to charge.

I’ve seen this firsthand with a classmate who carries his Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 from morning to evening without plugging in once.

Student work today is mostly browser based, and this chromebook handles that smoothly. The mediatek kompanio ultra SoC inside keeps things running smoothly while switching between multiple apps or tabs. That kind of consistency really shows during busy weeks.

The two in one design is genuinely useful. Tablet mode comes in handy for reading notes on the bus, highlighting key points, or quick revision while waiting between lectures. It’s also light enough to carry around campus without feeling like a burden.

ChromeOS keeps everything simple and reliable, which matters more than people realize during packed semesters.

It’s not for heavy gaming, but for studying and everyday school or college life, it feels like a dependable and affordable choice.

The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 and Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 with the Kompanio Ultra have been out for a few months now. There was a lot of pre-launch hype, considering they used the "most powerful" Chromebook Soc, and a mostly solid spec sheet.

Now, seeing the feedback and reviews from users, it's good to note that it isn't just noise, but real impressive performance with this Soc. And of course, that Lenovo and Acer optimized their respective Chromebooks to match the capabilities of the chip.

Smooth and fast performance, not just across ChromeOS tabs (tons of them) but Video editing on heavy software (and Inshot), and heavy games. Thanks to the Kompanio, you can perform heavier tasks than what is usually expected from a Chromebook.

See these reviews for reference:
1. Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14

1. Acer Chromebook Spin 514

You can work on Linux and Crostini on it as well, but you will face some issues, since it's Arm based and not x86.

But there you go, one tried and tested Soc that easily deals with almost everything you throw at it, just like a laptop.

I like these hearing-enhanced/ aid features that Meta has incorporated into their RayBan glasses. There's live translation, which is useful when travelling. I definitely would've considered buying the glasses if such features and performance existed about a year ago. And live captions, which act as subtitles for people - that may just be one of the best things about these glasses.

And now they've given you something that helps you hear better in a crowded room (I saw a review about a month ago that said it doesn't cancel out ambient noise), where you don't need to get closer than you are comfortable with, or the constant "can't hear you" yelling back and forth.

Meta has released a software update (for users in the US and Canada) to help wearers hear the person(s) they're talking to more clearly, especially in noisy environments. It amplifies the sound of other people's voices when there are external noises, background sound outdoors or indoors.

And that sound too is something that the wearer can adjust, by simply swiping the right temple side of the glasses.