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  Introduction Honor’s MagicBook Pro isn’t new, but the first edition was only available in China. Yet now that it got equipped with AMD’s new Ryzen 5 4600H CPU its availability is expanding to global markets. Based on AMD’s Zen 2 architecture utilizing the 7nm manufacturing process, this CPU is still ahead of Intel, and we believe it’s also the better configuration in 2020. Despite the H CPU instead of the low-power U series the 16.1-inch MagicBook Pro doesn’t have a dedicated GPU. And there are two reasons for that. For one, it’s oriented towrds productivity and media-consumption and secondly, Honor believes it doesn’t need one. Whether you agree with that largely depends on your needs. The integrated Vega GPU is fully capable of handling from light to moderately complex GPU tasks performing roughly on par with NVIDIA’s entry-level GeForce MX250 discrete GPU. So light gaming is very much on the cards. The MagicBook Pro also finds a niche of its own having a combination of two fea...

  Honor has added two products to its global portfolio today with the Honor Band 6 and Honor MagicBook Pro with an Intel processor. Both devices will start appearing on store shelves near you soon. The Honor Band 6 was initially  introduced in early November  with a 1.47” rectangular AMOLED screen, and a 2.5D curved glass on top. The wearable has five health monitoring features (SpO2, Heart rate, Sleep, Stress, Female Cycle Tracker) and ten workout modes with six of those detected automatically. Honor is launching the Band 6 without NFC around the world and will be priced around $35. The Honor MagicBook Pro also isn’t a new product per se,  we reviewed a unit  with an AMD Ryzen 4600H CPU several months ago. Now Honor also lets you have it with an Intel Core i5-10210U processor and GeForce MX350 GPU. Everything else remains the same - 16.1” screen, 16GB RAM, and 512GB storage. The battery capacity is 56 Wh and the device comes with a 65W fast charger. The price o...

  HP Envy 14: Creators wanted Credit:  HP The  HP Envy x360  from 2020 was one of last year’s most well-reviewed laptops. With the Envy x360, you got the style and design aesthetic of the high-end Spectre series but at a much lower price. At $999, the HP Envy 14 is quite expensive. In fact, that price really blurs the line between the mid-range Envy family and the high-end Spectre series. Regardless, this seems like a terrific machine if you can afford it. What made the price go up? Inside, the HP Envy 14 houses an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti graphics card and an 11th-gen Intel Core i5 chip. This makes it far more powerful than most other Envy models. Of course, if you’re not a gamer or a creator, that hardware is going to be overkill for your needs. HP hopes you are a creator, though, because that’s what its marketing team seems to be gunning for. The laptop’s sleek, minimalist design is quite trendy and the power of that graphics card will make editing video on-the-g...

  OnePlus fitness band (Image: OnePlus/Twitter) OnePlus  has launched its first fitness band in India today priced at Rs 2,499. It will come with a black strap out of the box and the company will sell Tangerine Gray and Navy dual-coloured straps separately for Rs 399 each. The fitness band sports a 1.1-inch AMOLED display which is almost a standard size display for a fitness band these days. The feature list of the band consists of the basic round the clock heart rate monitoring and SpO2 blood saturation monitoring. The latter has become a popular feature on fitness bands these days due to the  Covid-19   pandemic . Other features of the band include sleep tracking, 13 exercise modes and an IP68 rating. The battery life of the band is expected to be 14 days which is satisfactory. The OnePlus’ fitness band’s price puts it in direct competition with Mi Band 5, Honor Band 5 and others. It will be interesting to see if OnePlus manages to get the basics right with its deb...

  According to one of the most reliable Samsung tipsters, the Korean tech giant plans to introduce plenty of new ISOCELL camera sensors this year and a 200MP one will likely come around very soon. While we are still far away from a  600MP sensor , Samsung thinks that we are ready to make the jump to 200MP as early as this year. Sadly, there are no details surrounding the rumor, so we would have to take  IceUniverse's  word for it. And we don't really know any of the upcoming camera's specs too such as pixels size, sensor size, etc. However,  a report from April  last year suggested that Samsung is working on a 250MP unit with 1" diagonal, which is considerably bigger than the current biggest 1/33" 108MP sensor. So if the upcoming camera is indeed 200MP, we should expect a sensor just under 1".

  While vivo is running an open beta of its new OriginOS, which is supposed to replace FuntouchOS, the manufacturer will be kicking off FuntouchOS 11 based on Android 11 beta program for a couple of its devices in India. The  vivo V20  debuted with the stable version of the said software while the  V20 Pro 5G 's version of the OS has been bumped up shortly after its release. Starting from the end of January,  V19  and  X50  owners can get a taste of FuntouchOS 11, while  V17 ,  V17 Pro ,  V15 Pro  and  S1  users will be getting the OTA update starting March.  S1 Pro ,  Z1x  and  Z1Pro  start receiving it in April while  V15  would have to wait until June. We've already  tried out the new FuntouchOS 11  and we can say it's a big step forward compared to the previous iterations of the software. The so-called OriginOS is supposed to be similar, but with some additional feature...