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Oppo Find X2 Series Announced: A Proper Galaxy S20 Rival?

With the ever-increasing competition in the market, brands such as Samsung and Oppo are fighting it really hard. Both the giant brands are in a race of launching new and better versions of various brand lines giving rise to immense competition. The new and better versions launched by both the brands ensure the maintenance of competitive spirit in the market.

Many new features have come to the fore with the launch of this wonderful X2 series by Oppo. However, the matter in question is – Is it emerging as a competitor of Samsung Galaxy S20? Let’s see.

Galaxy S20 versus Oppo X2 series – have a look

The Oppo X2 series comprises of Oppo X2 and X2 pro which consist of Snapdragon 865, much like the Galaxy S20. Both the phones share amazing Ultra Vision Engine keeping the race neck to neck. The display covers a maximum of display space of Oppo X2. The audio is clear and the responsiveness to switching and volume buttons are pretty quick.

The great responsiveness of the Oppo X2 series makes it perfect for mobile gamers. The mobile gamers would love playing heavy games on this series. Continuous playing of games or usage does not hamper the functioning of this Oppo series. Galaxy S20 with its clarity and good responsiveness makes a fair choice for ardent mobile gamers.

Explore the camera features

Oppo X2 series has brought in a very innovative feature to ensure an interesting and fantastic selfie experience. The fantastic punch-hole feature with a hundred percent uninterrupted display makes it the perfect choice for a selfie lover.

This feature is one of the primary reasons for the gaining popularity of the Oppo X2 series. Oppo decided to ditch the famous pop-up selfie for a punch-hole to enhance the quality of its camera.

However, the Galaxy S20 offers a massive raw 108 megapixels which makes clicking pictures a pleasure. The Oppo series does not offer such a massive camera experience but definitely ranks among the top choices. The dark mode of Oppo x2 series along with the 10 x zoom makes it a fantastic choice for the camera lovers.

Taking too long to charge your phone? Use Oppo X2 series

Get hold of Oppo X2 phones now, if, you have to wait too long to charge your phones! You just need to leave your phone on charge for 40 minutes and restart using your Oppo X2 phones like never before. This massive charging capacity of Oppo phones is one of the key strengths of their phone. Samsung Galaxy S20 does not have such a strong charging capacity.

The great feature of this phone helps the users to explore every feature and ensures optimum usage. It helps the user to use the phone for various purposes for a prolonged period of time without any hindrance.

So, if you are looking for a mobile to offer looks, fantastic features and a mind-blogging gaming experience Oppo X2 series is the choice. It is fighting really hard to give tough competition to Samsung Galaxy S2 with great storage, camera, and display.

March 22, 2020
Samsung Pares Back MWC Presence In Coronavirus Concerns

The Smartphone giant Samsung won’t be sending many of its executives now to the world’s largest mobile conference as it used to in past years. Samsung is the company that pares backs its presence at MWC, as it blows to the world’s biggest mobile conferences.

According to people who are familiar with Samsung’s plans, the very popular South Korean electronics giant has been considering its options related to the trade show. The show will take place in Barcelona, Spain in the last week of February. Many employees of the companies with headquarters in the US and Korea are planning to cancel their trips to Europe.

Over the past 2 weeks, many other companies have backed out from being at the MWC 2020. Also, many have said they’d change their plans over concerns of the deadly coronavirus. This will also include taking safety measures such as keeping Chinese executives for two weeks leading up to the giant conference.

According to resources, Samsung still has planned to have a booth and presence at the trade fair. The rapidly changing conditions of the coronavirus could cause some changes in Samsung’s plans again. Samsung itself didn’t comment on its MWC plans though.

What Is Mwc?

MWC- Mobile World Congress is a trade show which brings together companies from across the world, as many people use the trade show as a platform to introduce their newest mobile devices. This year it will be featuring, as per the news, the latest 5G phones from nearly every Android phone company. But the coronavirus is threatening the trade show.

Samsung Reconsidering Its Presence At Mwc

Samsung isn’t the only company to reconsider its presence at the MWC, but it’s the biggest one among all others. The South Korean electronics company sells more smartphones than any other company on planet earth.

It used to launch its latest gadgets in Barcelona earlier, but in recent times it has favored hosting an unboxing event in the US which is ahead of MWC 2020. It will showcase its newest Smartphones like GALAXY S20 and GALAXY Z FLIP this week in San Francisco.

Effect Of Coronavirus

Pneumonia-like major disease named coronavirus was discovered in a Chinese city named Wuhan in December 2019. The disease has now infected about 35000 Chinese citizens and is claiming more than 720 lives.

It is also spreading widely beyond China’s borders to places like the US, Japan, and Australia. Authorities across the world have started limiting travel and are enforcing quarantines to save their places from the virus.

The spread of this disease has a major effect across the globe, illustrating how connected the tech has become. China is one of those countries that are some of the world’s biggest mobile phone makers and also play a key role in the supply chain, manufacturing parts and assembling them for customers across the world.

The factories have shut down due to the spreading news of coronavirus. Many technology companies have closed the doors of their stores and offices in China and have also implemented traveling restrictions to other countries.

February 22, 2020
Super ISO Samsung Galaxy S20 range could improve night mode

Heard about the new Samsung Galaxy S20 series? Here’s all that you need to know about it.

The S20 series

Samsung filed the ‘Super ISO’ trademark to the UK Intellectual Property Office on 31st January 2020. It indicated that the company is working on a night mode for its new phone. The trademark was later awarded to the company. Indeed, this trademark hinted that the S20 series will be one of the company’s most significant distinctions. The company introduced the trio of the series with the best camera, it ever had.

The trio includes S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra.

More about ISO

If you are unaware about ISO, then let me tell you that it is a kind of setting that enables the determining of the sensitivity of the image sensor to light. Lower the ISO, less will be the sensitivity and vice-versa. This suggests that the company has made major changes in its camera and light.

Amping up the ISO setting helps you to take shots in darker environments. The new series will feature cameras with better low-light capturing.

The Launch

The official launch of the phone took place on 11th February 2020. We can expect that the availability and delivery of pre-orders will be in the first week of March. Also, if you order S20+ or S20 ultra, you will get a pair of Galaxy buds free with it.

Camera with the Super Night Mode

The Galaxy S20 series offers a camera of 108 megapixels. It helps you get an absolutely sharp image that defines the smallest of the details. It also offers 10x hybrid optic zoom and 100x super-resolution zoom. Along with all the major changes in the camera, Samsung has introduced the Super Night mode, which is the boost to all the features and adds intensity to the camera. It improves the camera quality of Samsung Galaxy phones to a greater extent.

Improvement in Night mode

The Super Night mode introduced by Samsung in its new S20 series has improved a lot. Firstly, when we look at the photos clicked from S10 and S20, we find major changes. The super night mode of Galaxy S20 camera finds a massive jump over the camera in Galaxy S10. We can find that the photos in Galaxy S20 are brighter and introduce sharper details.

The performance of a camera in low-light and night mode is an area where phones are really able to stand-out than the other companies. Samsung Galaxy S20 series has worked a lot on this. The other companies including Sony Xperia, Huawei, and Oppo have also introduced night modes and low-light cameras in the past.

Conclusion

The introduction and launch of its night mode may lead to a big boost for Samsung. The Samsung Galaxy S10 had an ISO of 3200, and we are expecting that Galaxy S20 will reach up to ISO 6400. Not just the numbers, Samsung will find a great increase in its sales as well. Its price in India will be around Rs. 82,990.

February 15, 2020
OnePlus 8 Series Challenges Galaxy S20 with patent 120Hz Fluid Display

OnePlus is currently competing with every smartphone brand, and on the recent announcement, OnePlus revealed the new specifications and features for its display technology on the event held in Shenzhen, China. The company has developed a new QHD+ OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate that will debut in the next OnePlus 8 series.

The use of a 120Hz display is only to fast the display refresh rate. The content on the screen is now refreshed 120 times per second. This makes a smoother playback and also the overall OS fluid experience. To be an instance, we have previously seen the 120Hz display on the phones like Asus ROG Phone 2 and Razer Phone 2.

OnePlus 120Hz Fluid Display specs

According to the sources and information that is trending on twitter and other websites like Weibo. The display of the OnePlus 8 series will feature a 10-bit colour depth. It means the 120Hz screen will be able to produce a palette of 1.07 billion colours, and this can be opposed to the 8-bit panel, which can display 16.7 million colours.

The recent report from the verge that OnePlus brand works with the Samsung company to develop the new and better display among other models. The publications also report that the company has worked for improving the gestures and other features of the Android.

OnePlus 8 Series

Additionally, the company aims to have 0.8 JNCD (Just Noticeable Color Differences) ratings for every display it produces. JNCD is a measurement of the bare minimum colours that a human eye can spot. If I make a comparison with Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus, then It has a JNCD rating of 0.4, which is near to perfect.

The recent machine translation of the company’s presentation slides suggests that the new display of the OnePlus 8 series will use a dedicated MEMC (Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation) chip. This is the technology usually available in the televisions only. Basically, it inserts the new frames between the existing video to increase the motion blur.

The latest MEMC technology in OnePlus series can upscale the low frame rate videos and make it smoother and even better using a 120 frame rate per second. If this exactly works as intended, then this could be a massive achievement in the gaming industry.

Further, It has a touch sample rate of 240Hz and can apparently hit 1000 nits peak brightness. The smooth chain technology often optimizes it. The details are scarce at the moment, and we should thank the official information that is only available in Chinese.

Will the OnePlus 8 get a 120Hz Display?

CEO Pete Lau confirmed that the company’s next phone would feature the new display tech and probably the best display phone for the year 2020. It would be best if you also remembered that Samsung is also planning to launch its new S20 series with a 120Hz display.

We can only hope the new display rate would be optimized through the current battery consumption and should be able to provide a good backup. OnePlus is soon expected to detail its tech and other specifications of its new display, and we will let you know quickly as possible as soon we will get the latest.

January 25, 2020