Xiaomi’s 200W HyperCharge fast charging can fully charge your phone in 8 minutes

Xiaomi made headlines when it demoed its 100W wired fast charging technology back in 2019, which promised to fully charge a 4,000mAh battery in just 17 minutes. OPPO topped this off with its 125W wired fast charging solution a year later. Now, Xiaomi has just regained the top spot, and by a huge margin.

Fast Charging Explained: The slowest to the fastest Fast Charging technologies

Xiaomi has just shown off its latest fastest charging technology, which the company claims sets a world record for both wired and wireless charging speeds. Xiaomi says its new HyperCharging charging system can charge a 4,000mAh battery in just 8 minutes or in 15 minutes with a wireless charger.

The company demonstrated a modified Mi 11 Ultra charging over a 200W wired charger. The video showed the phone reaching 10% from 0% in just 44 sec, 50% in 3 minutes, with the full charge coming in at just under 8 minutes. Meanwhile, the wireless charging demo shows the phone reaching 10% in 1 minute, 50% in 7 minutes, and 100% in 15 minutes.

Charge up to 100% in just 8 minutes using wired charging and 15 minutes wirelessly! #XiaomiHyperCharge

Too good to be true? Check out the timer yourself! #InnovationForEveryone pic.twitter.com/muBTPkRchl

— Xiaomi (@Xiaomi) May 31, 2021

Don’t hold your breath for the next Mi flagship to ship with a 200W charger, though. The new HyperCharge charging technology is far from being ready for the commercial release. Even Xioami’s current 120W charging technology has only made its debut on a single device yet — Mi 10 Ultra. Xiaomi decided to drop the 120W charging on subsequent devices due to concerns of severe reduction in battery lifespan in the longer run. As a result, the company’s 2021 flagship, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, tops out at 67W for wired and wireless charging. According to Xiaomi’s own preliminary test data, the capacity of a 100W fast-charging battery can be about 20% less than a standard 30W charging battery.

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Realme X7 Max 5G launches as the first MediaTek Dimensity 1200 smartphone outside of China

Back in February, Realme launched its X7 series of sub-premium smartphones powered by MediaTek’s high-performing chipsets in the Dimensity series. The Realme X7 Pro powered by Dimensity 1000+ also stood out as a notable contender in a saturated smartphone market like India. Today, Realme is launching a new phone in the series — the Realme X7 Max 5G, powered by Mediatek’s flagship Dimensity 1200 chipset, which is expected to power upcoming phones such as POCO F3 GT as well as the OnePlus Nord CE.

The Realme X7 Max is the first smartphone with Dimensity 1200 to launch outside of China. The phone, however, is not new and was launched recently in China as the Realme GT Neo in March 2021. Dimensity 1200 is a 6nm chipset with its CPU arranged in 1+3+4 orientation, comprising one peak-performance ARM Cortex-A78 core, three Cortex-A78 cores for high power output, and four Cortex-A55 cores for efficiency. Notably, the Dimensity 1200’s architecture is similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC, which also uses three Cortex-A78 performance cores in addition to the Prime Cortex-X1 core and four efficiency cores.

Besides the powerful Dimensity 1200 chipset, Realme X7 Max comes with up to 12GB of RAM. Meanwhile, the choices between 128GB and 256GB of UFS 3.1 make it a worthy choice in the flagship killer segment. Unfortunately, you do not get the option to expand the storage using an SD card.

When it comes to the dimensions, the Realme X7 Max is quite identical to the Realme X7. Realme uses a dual-texture design for the X7 Max with a Realme logo inside a hologram for the back panel. It comes in three colors — Milky Way, Mercury Silver, and Asteroid Black. Realme uses polycarbonate for the back panel and the frame to keep the weight of the smartphone under check.

On the front of the smartphone, Realme uses a 6.43-inch Full HD+ display with a hole-punch cutout. The display has a 120Hz refresh rate for smoother visuals and a 360Hz touch sampling rate for lag-free touch response, especially while gaming.

In terms of cameras, the Realme X7 Max features a 64MP triple camera setup, putting it behind Realme’s mid-rangers with 108MP cameras. Besides the Sony IMX686 sensor for the primary camera, the phone features an 8MP ultrawide-angle camera and a 2MP macro camera.

When it comes to charging, Realme X7 Max features a 4500mAh battery. The phone also gets support for 50W fast charging using Realme’s SuperDart protocol. For connectivity, there’s dual-standby 5G and Wi-Fi 6 alongside dual-frequency GNSS. The phone also gets VoNR (voice over 5G new radio) and 5G carrier aggregation. It supports several 5G bands such as N1, N28A, N40, N41, N77, N78, and N79.

Lastly, when it comes to software, the Realme X7 Max 5G runs on Android 11 with Realme’s custom UI — Realme UI 2.0 — on top of it. The UI is based on OPPO’s ColorOS, and Realme might return to ColorOS, just like OnePlus in China, for future updates.

Realme X7 Max 5G Specifications

Specification	Realme X7 Max 5G
Build	Polycarbonate back and frame
Dimensions & Weight	158.5 x 73.3 x 8.4 mm 179g
Display	6.43″ Full HD+ Super AMOLED 120Hz refresh rate 360Hz touch sampling rate 91.7% screen-to-body ratio 1000 nits peak brightness 100% DCI
SoC	MediaTek Dimensity 1200 6nm TSMC 1x Cortex-A78 @ 3.0GHz 3x Cortex-A78 @ 2.6GHz 4x Cortex-A55 @ 2.0GHz Mali G77 GPU
RAM & Storage	8GB or 12GB RAM 128GB or 256GB UFS 3.1 storage
Battery & Charging	4500mAh 50W SuperDart Charge 65W charger inside the box
Security	In-display fingerprint scanner Face Unlock
Rear Camera(s)	Primary: 64MP Sony IMX686. 26mm focal length, f/1.8 aperture Secondary: 8MP ultrawide angle, 15.7mm focal length, f/2.3 aperture Tertiary: 2MP macro camera, 21.88mm focal length, f/2.4 aperture Other features: EIS and UIS 4K recording up to 60fps up to 960fps slow-mo Super Night mode Face distortion correction Passport photo
Front Camera(s)	16MP hole-punch camera f/2.5 aperture
Port(s)	USB Type-C 3.5mm headphone jack
Audio	Dual stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support Headphone jack with Hi-res audio
Connectivity	Dual 5G standby, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, NFC Dual Frequency GNSS: GPS, GLONASS, BEIDOU, GALILEO, QZSS
Software	Realme UI 2.0 based on Android 11
Other Features	IPX4 splash resistance

Price & Availability

The Realme X7 Max 5G will be available in India in two variants with prices as below:

• 8GB + 128GB — ₹26,999 (~$372)
• 12GB + 256GB — ₹29,999 (~$414)

The phone will be available to purchase in India via Flipkart, Realme e-store, and offline stores starting June 4th. Alongside the Realme X7 Max smartphone, Realme launched two new budget 4K LED TVs in India.

Buyers will also have the option to pay only 70% of the price upfront and then pay the rest after a year or upgrade to a new phone.

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Realme launches new 4K Android TVs in a market dominated by Mi TVs

Realme is a young consumer electronics brand with a fairly wide user base in Asia and Europe. Realme entered the Android TV market in May 2020 with two budget Android TVs, followed by a 55-inch SLED 4K TV in September 2020. Now, the company is launching two new 4K Android TVs in up to 50-inch sizes with Dolby Vision. Along with the TVs, Realme has also launched the Realme X7 Max 5G smartphone powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 1200 flagship chipset.

The new Realme TVs feature LED panels in 43-inch and 50-inch sizes. The panel has an aspect ratio of 16:9 with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels. Realme claims the display can produce up to 1.07 billion colors with its proprietary Chroma Boost color profile that results in punchy and saturated colors. Unlike smartphones, punchy and boosted colors enhance the viewing experience on TVs, as we saw in our review of the 43″ Realme Full HD TV last year. Realme claims the displays support 83% of NTSC and 90% of DCI-P3 color gamuts. For better HDR, the new TVs come with Dolby Vision.

In terms of audio, the Realme 4K TV series comes with the same quad-speaker setup with a combined output of 24W. The speaker setup comprises one full-range speaker and one tweeter for both left and right channels. For enhanced audio, the TV comes with support for Dolby Atmos and DTS HD sound standards. The TVs come with four inbuilt microphones for far-field voice input.

Internally, the Realme 4K TVs are powered by a quad-core MediaTek SoC with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Additionally, there are numerous connectivity options, including up to three HDMI ports, of which one supports ARC, two USB 2.0 ports, a LAN port, Digital audio out port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and support for dual-band Wi-Fi.

The Realme 4K TVs run on Android 10 TV software with the standard Android TV interface in terms of software. The TVs are certified for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Realme TV 43″: Specifications

Specification	Realme TV 43″
Display	43-inch or 50-inch 3840 x 2160 pixels LED-backlit LCD panel 178° field of view 16:9 aspect ratio
Processor	MediaTek SoC 4 x Cortex A53 @ 1.5GHz Mali 470 MP3 GPU
RAM	2GB
Storage	16GB
Audio	24W output 2 x full-range speakers 2 x tweeters Quad-mic array built into the TV
I/O & Connectivity	1 x HDMI (ARC) port 2 x HDMI ports 2 x USB 2.0 Digital Audio out LAN port 3.5mm jack for AV input (converter included in the box) IR receiver 2.4GHz & 5GHz Wi-Fi Bluetooth 5.0
Interface	Android TV UI based on Android 10

Price & Availability

The new Realme 4K TVs will be available in India at ₹27,999 for the 43-inch model and ₹39,999 for the 50-inch model. The TVs will go on sale starting June 4th via Flipkart.

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Google reportedly tried to persuade Android OEMs to obscure location settings

New information coming out from an ongoing lawsuit against Google has revealed the Search giant willfully made it difficult for Android users to turn off location data collection.

As per the newly unredacted documents (via Business Insider) in the Arizona lawsuit against Google, the search giant went out of its way to collect location data from users. Google continued to collect location information even after the user disabled and opted out of all app-specific tracking settings. The documents reveal that Google even tried to persuade Android OEMs to obscure location settings “through active misrepresentations and/or concealment, suppression, or omission of facts” on Android phones.

Internal Google emails show, even Google’s own engineers and executives were puzzled about the company’s location data collection practices.

“So there is no way to give a third-party app your location and not Google?, a Google employee says in the newly unredacted documents. ”This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT.”

“Real people just think in terms of ‘location is on,’ ‘location is off’ because that’s exactly what you have on the front screen of your phone.,” another employee is quoted as saying in one of the documents.

The Arizona lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in May 2020, alleges that Google engaged in shady practices to illegally track Android users’ location data and used those data to make more than $130 billion in ad revenue in 2019 through targeted ads.

In an interview with FOX Business last week, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said that the stuff we’ve uncovered so far is shocking, adding that “it just confirms that Google is doing everything it can to spy on everyone it can, without providing any sort of notice to anyone.”

In response to this new development, a Google spokesperson provided the following response to The Verge:

The Attorney General and our competitors driving this lawsuit have gone out of their way to mischaracterize our services. We have always built privacy features into our products and provided robust controls for location data. We look forward to setting the record straight.

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Intel announces new ultrabook CPUs, hitting 5GHz in the U-series

It’s COMPUTEX, which means that there are some in-bound announcements from Intel. They range from new U-series CPUs to a new 5G modem. First up is the new Core i5-1155G7 and Core i7-1195G7.

The U-series Core i7 already had two tiers, the Core i7-1165G7 and Core i7-1185G7, but this is another level. The base clock speed is a bit lower than the 3GHz Core i7-1185G7, but the single-core turbo speed of the Intel Core i7-1195G7 is the first U-series processor to hit 5GHz. It uses Intel turbo Boost Technology 3.0.

The Intel Core i5-1155G7 doesn’t get 5GHz, but the effect is the same. It has a slightly lower base clock speed and a slightly higher Turbo speed. The amount of Iris Xe execution units remains the same – 80 in the Core i5 and 96 in the Core i7 – but the max frequency is boosted by 50MHz. It’s now 1.4GHz in the Core i7-1195G7 and 1.35GHz in the core i5-1155G7.

Intel is also promising big performance improvements over its competition. Note that even in its press release, Intel is calling these Windows chips, so the competition here is AMD.

Intel said that there’s an overall 25% performance advantage over its competition, meaning the Ryzen 7 5800U. And indeed, the examples that Intel chose to show do absolutely beat out its AMD counterparts. Intel also touted big gaming boosts over the competition.

Intel says that more than 60 designs with the new Core i5-1155G7 and the 5GHz Core i7-1195G7 should be available by this holiday season.

“We’ve taken the world’s best processor for thin-and-light Windows laptops and made the experience even better with the addition of our two new 11th Gen Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Xe graphics,” said Chris Walker, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of Mobility Client Platforms. “In addition, we know real-world performance and connectivity are vital to our partners and the people that rely on PCs every day, so we’re continuing that momentum with more platform capabilities and choice in the market with the launch of our first 5G product for PCs – the Intel 5G solution 5000.”

There’s one more thing, which is actually pretty notable. The company announced Intel 5G Solution 5000, an M.2 5G modem for PCs. You might recall that Qualcomm recently did the same, and it’s all about putting 5G in x86 laptops. You might recall that back in 2019, Intel stopped developing its own 5G, and later it partnered with MediaTek. It promised to deliver in 2021, and now here we are.

It comes at a time that there are already plenty of Intel-powered 5G PCs that use Qualcomm modems. It’s just that now, Intel is going to have its own solution, just hardware from Fibocom and firmware from MediaTek.

By the end of this year, Acer, ASUS, and HP are set to be the first to use Intel 5G Solution 5000, and they’re going to be PCs with U-series and PCs with H-series processors. It’s expecting 30 designs going into 2022.

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XDA Basics: What is Disk Utility on Mac and What can it do?

Apple’s macOS is extremely popular due to its intuitive interface and relative ease of use. In addition, Apple designs attractive hardware that consistently puts some of their options on our list of the best laptops you can buy. While your Mac likely runs well most of the time, there’s the occasional need to troubleshoot potential problems. When you need to diagnose and repair issues with your hard drive or create a disk image, Disk Utility on Mac is the app for the job.

Disk Utility is an app baked directly into macOS and located in the Utilities folder. The most common use of the Disk Utility app involves checking for errors on your disks or volumes. This tool is also helpful in repairing issues with your disks if any are found. Many users never explore Disk Utility beyond this simple use-case. As we will see, Disk Utility on Mac offers a plethora of other powerful tools.

Check for and repair errors on your disks and volumes using Disk Utility

Checking for errors within your disks and volumes is a breeze with Disk Utility. If you’re experiencing multiple app crashes, corrupted files, or sudden reboots then this is a great option to explore.

To check and repair a disk, you need to run First Aid on each volume and container on the storage device in turn, then run it on the storage device itself. After running First Aid on each volume and the disk itself, you’ll receive a report of any errors found. Typically, any issues found are automatically repaired. If you receive an error message, instructions are provided to either reformat the disk or replace your hard drive if it cannot be repaired.

Format and manage volumes on physical storage devices using Disk Utility

Before diving into this popular use of Disk Utility, it’s important to understand the difference between a disk and a volume. These words appear frequently in the Disk Utility menu. The term “disk” refers to the physical hard drive itself. A volume is merely a formatted portion of a disk. Since a volume is a subset of the disk, if you erase the disk then all volumes contained within it are also deleted. On the other hand, you may erase a particular volume without erasing the entire disk.

In order to distinguish between the idea of erasing a volume and erasing a disk, we often say we are formatting the disk. This concept is important because Disk Utility offers the option to erase volumes and the ability to format a particular disk. If erasing a volume is what you’re interested in, there are both basic and secure options. Formatting an entire disk takes longer than erasing a volume, but this option is also available in Disk Utility. Note that if you would like to format your Startup disk, then you must boot into macOS Recovery mode and choose Disk Utility from the menu.

Create a disk image to encrypt folders using Disk Utility

A disk image is a single file you can use to move files from one computer to another or to back up and archive your work. Disk Utility allows you to create new disk images for either purpose or even use the image to encrypt folders on your Mac.

Creating a new disk image from a folder is already a menu option from within Disk Utility, making it very easy to use. It’s worth keeping in mind that large folders can take quite a long time to encrypt, so don’t be alarmed. After you’ve encrypted your folders, it’s easy to move these to an external storage device to free up space on your hard drive.

Combine multiple hard disks into a RAID set that acts as a single disk

The final popular use of Disk Utility is a bit more advanced. Using multiple hard disks in a RAID set can increase the performance, reliability, and storage capacity of your data storage system. Many power users prefer to maintain a RAID set to increase performance for multimedia applications like video editing. Implementing a RAID array can boost productivity performance and write speeds for creators when paired with a powerful 15″ laptop. The ability to create and manage RAID arrays recently returned to macOS after being removed in OS X El Capitan.

Within Disk Utility you’ll find the option to create and manage four popular RAID versions:

• RAID 0 (Striped)
• RAID 1 (Mirrored)
• RAID 10 (Mirrored set of Striped drives)
• JBOD (just a bunch of disks)

Each of these configurations has pros and cons, but each is seamlessly managed within Disk Utility by default. Keep in mind that if you attempt a RAID configuration, the most important first step is to back up all of your data! If you are in need of a good external storage option for your Mac, check out our list of best Mac accessories.

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Disk Utility is one of the most useful native macOS apps for troubleshooting issues with your hard drive. In addition, you can perform several important backup and encryption tasks from within the application as well. If you’re an advanced user or creator, you may also find the RAID creation and management tool incredibly useful for your workflow. Throughout the life of your Mac you won’t need to repair issues too often, but knowing Disk Utility can help should put your mind at ease.

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Do you think Microsoft Edge is better than Google Chrome yet?

Google’s Chrome is indisputably the most popular browser on both mobile and desktop. But Google’s hold over the Internet and users’ concerns against being tracked online in sophisticated ways has led many to search for alternatives, and Microsoft’s Edge browser is one of the primary substitutes. While its growth can be tied to the fact that Microsoft is heavily promoting Edge to Windows 10 users, it’s hard to deny that the browser hasn’t gotten really good. It’s received many new features since it became a Chromium-based project. With all these advancements, do you think Microsoft’s browser may have the edge over Google Chrome?

Over the last few months, Microsoft Edge has received several new features. Ahead of the Build 2021 developer conference earlier this week, Microsoft announced key new features coming to the browser, including Sleeping tabs that fixes Chromium’s RAM-hogging tendency, new themes, and a Startup Booster, which Microsoft claims makes Edge the fastest browser on Windows. Other than these, Vertical tabs on Edge let you streamline your workflow while a Kids Mode helps parents prevent their children from accessing any inappropriate content.

Like on Windows, the Edge browser has a rich suite of features on Android. Edge 91 for desktop recently added new features to help people save money while shopping online, and this feature is also accessible through an experimental flag on Edge Canary for Android. Recently, Microsoft also added a built-in screenshot and markup tool on Edge for Android to take screenshots on webpages, edit the screenshots, and share them via other apps.

With all of these additions to Microsoft Edge, it has become a compelling alternative to Google Chrome. Features such as Sleeping tabs and Startup Booster also make it better for systems with limited resources. With these transformations, do you think Edge can be your default browser any time soon?

What do you think about advancements in Microsoft Edge? Has it overtaken Google Chrome in your mind? Let us know in the comments below!

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