It's good news for gaming fans living in the US because Nintendo&rsquo;s new Switch Lite is available for pre-order&nbsp;at Amazon. Its goes on sale in the country from September 20th for nearly $200. Launched only a few weeks back, the Nintendo Switch Lite is essentially a handheld only gaming device that gives up on the detachable Joy-Con controllers and TV connectivity. The Lite model offers a 5.5-inch touch screen, up to 7 hours of battery life and is compatible with any Nintendo Switch game that works in handheld mode.

It's good news for gaming fans living in the US because Nintendo’s new Switch Lite is available for pre-order at Amazon. Its goes on sale in the country from September 20th for nearly $200. Launched only a few weeks back, the Nintendo Switch Lite is essentially a handheld only gaming device that gives up on the detachable Joy-Con controllers and TV connectivity. The Lite model offers a 5.5-inch touch screen, up to 7 hours of battery life and is compatible with any Nintendo Switch game that works in handheld mode.

A report from Cisco has predicted that the number of people that use the Internet in India will rise to over 907 million by the year 2023. Accounting for 64% of the country's population, Cisco said this number will be driven by digital literacy, mobile penetration, and the spread of Internet connectivity to remote areas of the country. The report projects that 38% of all networked devices in India will be smartphones, while 12% will be connected televisions.

According to a report from Input Mag, Motorola's new Razr foldable smartphone's display may be more fragile than the company let on. The report states that just over one week's usage has managed to damage the screen, with the top lamination layer separating from the OLED layer underneath it. A change in temperature is reportedly what caused the display to fail, with Motorola responding to the report, advising users to not store the phone at temperatures lower than -20 degrees Celsius or higher than 60 degrees Celsius. To recall, the Moto Razr was launched in January, with a hefty $1,500 price tag.

Smartphone maker Nubia has dropped some interesting specs that would feature in its upcoming smartphone--the Red Magic 5G. The company announced on Weibo that it would pack up to a whopping 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and will run Android 10-based Redmagic OS. Earlier this month, Nubia also teased other features, including a Snapdragon 865 processor, a 144Hz display refresh rate, and 80W fast-charging support that will come equipped with Air cooling technology.

Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has teased the launch of its electric toothbrush in India on February 20th. The Mi Electric Toothbrush was initially launched in 2018 in Europe at &euro;29.99 (~₹2,300), and has a claimed 31,000 vibrations per minute. It boasts a magnetic levitation sonic motor, metal-free brush head, IPX7 water resistance, and comes with customisable brush modes. It also tracks stats such as duration, extent and uniformity of the daily routine and is rated to deliver 18 days of usage on a single charge.

According to a Vice report, AI-manipulated deepfake videos of BJP MP Manoj Tiwari were used in the party's campaign ahead of the 8th February Delhi Legislative Assembly elections. Two videos of Tiwari reportedly went viral on WhatsApp, one in English, and one in the Hindi dialect of Haryanvi, with the MP speaking critically of Arvind Kejriwal, the incumbent Chief Minister of Delhi, in both. The report states the videos were created with the help of political communications firm Ideaz Factory, that created the campaigns to reach various linguistic voter bases. According to the co-in charge of BJP's IT Cell, the manipulated videos were circulated among nearly 15 million people and shared across 5,800 WhatsApp groups in the Delhi NCR region.

Samsung has made a lot of improvements to the hinge and screen for its second foldable phone--the Galaxy Z Flip. And during its launch last week, the company advertised that the new hinge packs a &ldquo;fiber shield&rdquo; to stop dust from getting inside. iFixit&rsquo;s early teardown of the Z Flip did show brushes on the hinge, but they weren&rsquo;t enough to stop much fine dust from getting inside the phone. However, it&rsquo;s important to note that the phone isn&rsquo;t rated for dust and water resistance, and iFixit also mentions that the test with purple dust might not be indicative of general day-to-day usage.

Microsoft's latest generation Surface Pro 7 has been listed for sale on Amazon India and Flipkart. Powered by up to a 10th generation Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage, the device is available in Platinum and Matte Black finishes. There's a 12.3-inch touchscreen display, USB Type-C and Type-A ports, a claimed battery life of 10.5 hours and Windows 10 Home on offer. It features an 8MP rear camera as well, along with a 5MP selfie sensor, and prices for the Surface Pro 7 start at ₹70,999 for the Core i3 4GB RAM 128GB storage model.

Display testing firm DisplayMate has revealed the findings from its test on the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, that sports a Quad-HD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X display with a 120Hz refresh rate. The company said Samsung's work on the S20 Ultra's display made it "visually indistinguishable from perfect", with the panel breaking records for twelve different parameters. It's worth noting that the display on Apple's iPhone 11 Pro series from 2019 was referred to similarly, but only broke 9 records. With a starting price tag of ₹92,999, DisplayMate have awarded the S20 Ultra the 'Best Smartphone Display Award'.

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro has received a price cut of ₹1,000 and is now available at a starting price of ₹13,999 for the 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage base model via Amazon and Mi.com. The smartphone, which was launched in India on August 29, features a quad rear camera setup with a 64-megapixel primary sensor. The Note 8 Pro is powered by the octa-core MediaTek Helio G90T chipset, and comes with a 6.53-inch IPS LCD display, dedicated microSD card slot, and a mammoth 4,500mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging.

Microsoft has finally released its unified Office app for Android that brings together the functionality of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app. The all-in-one productivity app also allows users to search through files saved on the cloud, scan real-world documents with Office Lens and read QR codes. The app is available for download on the Play Store, but its iOS&nbsp;varient hasn&rsquo;t made an appearance. Also, it doesn&rsquo;t support tablets and Chromebooks yet, and reportedly lacks a dedicated tablet user interface (UI).

The European Union has rejected Facebook&rsquo;s proposed new Internet rules, saying that the social networking platform must take responsibility for harmful, fake and illegal content. Upon meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, EU industry commissioner Thierry Breton said the proposed Internet rules are insufficient and that it is for Facebook to adapt to Europe's standards, and not the other way round. Zuckerberg had this week offered his own idea for how to regulate Facebook, adding that it&rsquo;s neither a traditional news media outlet, nor a telecommunications company.

So to round up, it&rsquo;s a powerful package with a price tag that doesn&rsquo;t break the bank, and the compromises it makes aren&rsquo;t a deal breaker. It&rsquo;s essentially a high-end smartphone that gives its users a taste of what&rsquo;s on offer if they loosen up those purse strings just a little further.&nbsp;

To top things off, there&rsquo;s a triple rear camera system on the&nbsp;Note10&nbsp;Lite. It&rsquo;s a 12MP system with optical image stabilisation, and despite the bump down in resolution from the flagship and rivals, I think it performs fairly well. Colour reproduction is accurate across lighting scenarios, and there&rsquo;s a night mode just in case things get too dark. An ultra wide, wide and telephoto lens are what&rsquo;s available, and I think this setup is versatile enough to cover nearly every shooting situation. Just make sure you keep expectations realistic for the results, and remember that the camera follows an already long list of features that I&rsquo;ve mentioned.&nbsp;
Keeping all this running is an ample 4,500 mAh battery with 25W fast charging, that charges the device from below 35% to full in under an hour. The battery life is strong, and will easily get you through the day, even with a few gaming sessions here and there.

Now one can&rsquo;t speak of performance and not mention the most important feature brought down from the flagship series&mdash;the S Pen. At this price point, I think it&rsquo;s a great addition, and I wish more manufacturers wouldn&rsquo;t shy away from bundled peripherals, especially ones that boost productivity.&nbsp;Features like off-screen memos are really handy, and the handwriting-to-text feature is a great way to digitise handwritten&nbsp;notes. Yes, there&rsquo;s a few air gestures missing as compared to the flagship&nbsp;Note10, but there&rsquo;s still the selfie shutter button and multimedia controls at hand.

Samsung has officially revealed the India pricing for the Galaxy Buds+ wireless earbuds. They've been priced at ₹11,990 and are available for pre-bookings via Samung's India website. Unveiled recently at the annual Galaxy Unpacked event, the new ear buds are now rated to last up to 11 hours, with one additional charge stored in the carrying case. A second external microphone has also been added to improve call audio quality, but there's still no active noise cancellation.

Epic Games has revealed that Ubisoft's Assassin's creed: Syndicate game will be a free to download from its online store. The offer is only available between February 20th and February 27th. Launched back in 2015, Syndicate is part of the long running and hugely popular Assassin's Creed series and is set in Victorian London. The action-adventure game was previously&nbsp;released on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.

Micro-blogging site Twitter faced a brief outage on February 17th. More than 500 people from around the globe reported facing issues on Down Detector, with most not being able to access Twitter via its website. Twitter's own support handle is yet to highlight the issue, with the last reported incident on February 7th when over 10,000 people in the United States and parts of Europe reported having experienced a major outage.

Now let&rsquo;s talk about what the&nbsp;Note&nbsp;series is known for&mdash;performance.The&nbsp;Note10&nbsp;Lite&nbsp;gets a flagship chip, no really, it does&hellip;except it&rsquo;s from two years ago. The Exynos 9810 is what powers this device, like it previously did the S9 and&nbsp;Note9 Series. But don&rsquo;t let that discourage you, because it&rsquo;s powerful enough to get through whatever multitasking jobs you throw at it. Even when playing graphic intensive games, the chip held its own, and gave me no lag or stuttering frames on the 8GB RAM variant, although it is available with 6GB RAM as well.
One can argue that the chip feels a bit dated, but for the workload that Samsung reckons&nbsp;Note10&nbsp;Lite&nbsp;buyers will rustle up, it&rsquo;ll be able to breeze through without any trouble, and I&rsquo;m inclined to agree.
It&rsquo;s also worth noting that there&rsquo;s no real feeling that the internals on the phone aren&rsquo;t brand new, because the operating system certainly is. The&nbsp;Note10Lite runs on Android&nbsp;10&nbsp;with Samsung&rsquo;s OneUI 2.0 on top, so everything is snappy to the touch and there&rsquo;s no fear of redundancy, at least for a while.

Apple has warned that the ongoing coronavirus outbreak is hurting its business more than it previously expected by limiting the production of iPhones. In addition to that, the company added, the demand for&nbsp;&nbsp;iPhones&nbsp;are weak because fewer people are visiting stores in China that either have been closed or are operating with reduced hours. Needless to say, the Cupertino firm no longer expects to meet the revenue projection it laid out for the quarter.

So let's just get down to it--what does it offer, and is it any good?
Well, for starters it gets a 6.7-inch full-HD+ super AMOLED panel, with a hole-punch intrusion as opposed to a waterdrop or u-shaped notch. The colours are bright, especially if you set the display settings to 'Vivid', and watching content on this screen is certainly an enjoyable experience. That experience is slightly marred by the absence of stereo speakers, with only a single-firing unit at the bottom, but on the plus side, unlike the flagship, this version does come with a 3.5mm headphone jack.
There's an in-display fingerprint sensor below the screen as well, which works fast enough in my opinion and recognises your prints even if you don't always manage to cover the sensor entirely. Bezels are slim too, and there is a pre-applied plastic screen protector.
The design on the outside is pretty nice, but you do see where Samsung has cut costs as well&mdash;the back is in Samsung&rsquo;s &ldquo;Glastic&rdquo; finish, which throws up nice shades in this Aura Red variant we received. The lack of glass points to another cost-cutting method: no wireless charging. To be fair, that&rsquo;s a feature that isn&rsquo;t prevalent at this price point, so I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s a big miss, but an IP rating for dust and water resistance on the&nbsp;Note10&nbsp;Lite&nbsp;would&rsquo;ve been a welcome first for this segment.

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