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Smartphones, tablets launching in the upcoming week in India
Starting tomorrow, the Indian smartphone industry is set to have a busy week. At least four new smartphones are planned to be launched between February 21 and 24, 2022. Smartphones from smartphone makers like Oppo, Vivo and Realme are planned, while Samsung will showcase its new line of tablets along with the S-Pen in the premium segment. Some of these will be an entirely new collection, while some are just additions to existing collections or product portfolios.
To match the name, Vivo will launch a new smartphone under the existing V23 series. It’s called the Vivo V23e. It will launch on February 21st.
Similarly, its sister brand Oppo will launch a new Find X series called Oppo Find X5 series on February 24, while Realme will add a new smartphone called Realme Narzo 50 under the Narzo series on the same day.
Meanwhile, Samsung will launch its high-end Tab S8 series of tablets in India on February 21.
Here are the general expected features and prices for these smartphones and tablets:
Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 series
After launching the Galaxy S22 smartphone series, Samsung is now gearing up to launch the Galaxy Tab S8 series. The new Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 series includes three new tablets, the Tab S8, Tab S8+ and Tab S8 Ultra. The new tablet will also see a low-latency S Pen to boost productivity. The products were launched in select markets alongside the S22 series during the Unpacked event on February 9.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra has a 14.6-inch screen, the Tab S8+ has a 12.4-inch screen, and the Tab S8 has an 11-inch screen.
The Tab S8 Ultra has a dual front camera with 12 MP resolution and a 4 nm chipset. It comes with an 11,200mAh battery. It also has dual rear cameras. The S-Pen sticks magnetically to the back and can also be charged from there.
Likewise, the Galaxy Tab S8+ has a 10,090 mAh battery and the Tab S8 has an 8,000 mAh battery. The three tablets may not come with a charger in the box, but you’ll need to buy one separately.
The Tab S8+ has a 12-megapixel camera on the front and a dual lens on the back. It also uses a 4nm SoC. The Tab S8 also has the same camera and chipset features.
Oppo has launched a new high-end flagship Find X series of smartphones. Dubbed the Oppo Find X5 Pro and Find X5, the two new smartphones are likely to be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset. The Hasselblad branding first appeared on Oppo smartphones with the Find X5 series. Hasselblad already has a partnership with its sister company brand OnePlus.
The teaser hints that the Oppo Find X5 series will be aimed at night photography and will also correct overexposure in the footage.
The OnePlus Find X5 series also highlights the MariSilicon brand. This is the company’s in-house developed neural processing unit, also known as the NPU, which was announced during the Oppo Inno 2021 in December last year.
The Oppo Find X5 series will be displayed in two colors; white and black. The back design looks smooth and shiny. The back also shows triple lenses along with an LED flash.
Other expected features of the Oppo Find X5 series will be a 6.7-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. It will likely come with a 5,000mAh battery and an 80W charger. For photography, the Find X5 series will likely feature a Sony IMX766 sensor.
In vivo V23e
Vivo will launch a new smartphone Vivo V23e in India tomorrow. The Chinese smartphone maker has launched two smartphones, the Vivo V23 Pro and the V23 series of the Vivo V23, in January this year. The V23 Pro and V23 are mainly launched in the high-end category, and only the 8GB version of the V23 is priced at Rs 29,990. Now it seems that the Vivo V23e will belong to the mid-range smartphone. The Vivo V23e will be broadcast live via social media channels at 12pm.
Vivo V23e images show the smartphone has a dewdrop display and a slim design. It has a triple camera on the back. A main camera, an ultra-wide-angle lens, and a macro sensor can be seen in the image section. The Sunshine Gold colorway was presented in the hands of brand ambassador Virat Kohli.
Vivo may equip the V23e with a MediaTek chipset and 6GB of RAM. It’s more likely to run on Android 11 alongside Vivo’s FunTouch OS.
Its predecessor, the Vivo V23, runs Android 12 based on FunTouch OS 12 and has a 4,200mAh battery. It is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 920 SoC. For photography, the V23 has a 64-megapixel primary lens, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle sensor, and a 2-megapixel macro lens. It also has dual selfie cameras with a resolution of 50MP + 98MP.
The Vivo V23e may get a more powerful battery, probably around 5,000mAh. Lens specifications may also be revised in the V23e.
Imperial Narzo 50
Realme has announced a new smartphone that will launch the Narzo series in India. The new smartphone will be called Realme Narzo 50 and will be launched in India on February 24. Realme said: “Realme is leading young people into an era of innovation and will add a new strong player to the Narzo family – the Realme Narzo 50, a smartphone with the best processor and display in the segment.”
The available details of the Narzo 50 suggest that the smartphone will feature triple cameras on the back. The poster hints that the company has improved the Narzo 50’s night photography.
The Chinese smartphone maker added: “The Realme Narzo 50 will deliver the thrill of powerful performance, with MediaTek Helio G96 gaming processor, a great display, fast charging and long battery life. A leader in a field.”
The smartphone also has a punch-hole display and is likely to feature a standard 90Hz AMOLED display.
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KL Rahul dangerously close to Laxman territory; to be perished for Sarfaraz Khan and Shubman Gill
To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe
VVS Laxman went through the first half of his illustrious 15-and-a-half-year international career with the proverbial axe hanging over him. Despite his magical stroke-play and a well-founded reputation for rallying the lower order to bat above itself, he was forever the first name that sprang to the decision-makers’ minds when they had to drop someone to accommodate someone else. It wasn’t until the second half of his stint with the national team that he had ‘job security’, which automatically manifested itself in an array of glorious, match-turning knocks and earmarked him as one for a crisis.
KL Rahul is now dangerously close to approaching the Laxman territory, though at least in this instance, a case can be made out, perhaps, for why he often seems to be playing for his place. Almost a decade after his Test debut in Australia in December 2014, he has yet to nail down a permanent spot, a result of glaring inconsistency and repeated dalliances with injuries that have left him with a modest average of 33.87 from 53 Test appearances.
Unlike Laxman, who was thrust to the opener’s position for three years from 1997, successive team managements have worked overtime to create space for Rahul. He started off in the middle order in Melbourne against Australia, opened in the next Test in Sydney when he made a sparkling century, continued in that position for a good nine years – around the large pockets when either injuries or lack of form relegated him to the sidelines – and now seems to have found his calling in the middle order, where he was tried out in an almost last throw of the dice in South Africa last December.
In his limited time at the No. 6 position, Rahul has been a revelation. On a spiteful surface in Centurion in his first innings back in the middle order, the classy right-hander made a marvellous 101 – Virat Kohli’s 38 was the next highest score – in India’s 245 all out. Two Tests later, against England in Hyderabad, he waltzed to 86 of the best until a hamstring strain kept him out of the last four Tests.
On his comeback last month against Bangladesh, Rahul showed why he is rated so highly, and therefore why he so frustrates when he chooses to shackle himself mentally, with uninhibited shot-making when India were pressing for a declaration (Chennai) and looking to make up for lost time with a frenetic batting approach (Kanpur) in the two Tests. Kanpur was especially mesmeric, 68 flowing off his bat in a mere 43 deliveries. It was the best of Rahul.
Axe hangs over Rahul’s head for India vs New Zealand 2nd Test
And yet here we are, two innings later, wondering whether he will, or should, feature in the playing XI in Pune, where India take on New Zealand in a must-win second Test from Thursday.
Shubman Gill, him of three centuries in his last six Tests, missed the Bengaluru defeat to the Kiwis with a stiff neck. Replacement batter Sarfaraz Khan made the most of own good fortune with a delectable 150, which makes it near impossible to drop him now that Gill is fully fit. To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula which has worked beautifully in the last few years, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe.
One of the few men to have led India in all three formats internationally, Rahul didn’t help his cause with scores of 0 and 12 at his home ground, the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. In the first innings, he was strangled down leg-side by William O’Rourke while in the second, he received a peach from the same paceman operating with the second new ball and was again caught behind. Rahul was one of 11 failures in India’s first-innings 46 and one of seven wickets to fall in 93 deliveries to the second new cherry, but failures past and the logjam created by Gill’s availability have combined to identify him as the most susceptible to the axe.
It’s a cross impossible to bear, but also impossible to ignore just because it is so heavy, so overarching. Rahul is beyond gifted and makes batting appear oh-so-simple, but his struggles to embrace sustained run-making can’t be wished away. He is the eternal team man, much like his celebrated namesake also from Karnataka – both kept wickets admirably in 50-over World Cups 21 years apart, both made attractive and impactful runs during the tournament and both tasted bitter defeat at the hands of Australia in the final – but ‘eternal team man’ can sometimes be an euphemism for the ‘most dispensable’ and Rahul can be excused for thinking that those two lines have blurred beyond repair. Of course, if he is brutally honest to himself, he will acknowledge at least to himself that he too must bear culpability for the blurring of the lines.
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