India may explore a TAX on mobile data. 🥲

India used 229B GB of mobile data in FY25.
Even ₹1 per GB could generate ~₹22,900 crore.

A proposal could come by September 2026. 📶

❤️ @techroma

Xiaomi 17 launched in India 🇮🇳
Price 💰 ₹89,999 (12GB+256GB)

Specifications
📱 6.3" 2656×1220 crystalRes OLED TCL M10 flat LTPO display, 120Hz refresh rate, Xiaomi shield glass protection
◼️ Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
LPDDR5X RAM & UFS 4.1 storage
🎮 Adreno 840 GPU
🍭 Android 16 Hyper OS 3
📸 50MP Light fusion 950 OIS+ 50MP OV50M Ultrawide + 50MP Samsung JN5 telephoto rear
🤳 50MP OV50M omnivision front camera
🔋 6330mAh battery
⚡️ 100 watt wired charging and 50 watt wireless
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 port Type-C
📶 WiFi 7
- Bluetooth version 5.4
- NFC
- IR blaster
🔊 Dual stereo speakers
🎤 4 microphones
- X-axis linear motor for haptics
💧 IP68 rating
🫆 Ultrasonic In-display fingerprint scanner
- 8.06mm thickness
- 191 gram weight

❤️ @techroma

Xiaomi 17 launched in India 🇮🇳
Price 💰 ₹89,999 (12GB+256GB)

Specifications
📱 6.3" 2656×1220 crystalRes OLED TCL M10 flat LTPO display, 120Hz refresh rate, Xiaomi shield glass protection
◼️ Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
LPDDR5X RAM & UFS 4.1 storage
🎮 Adreno 840 GPU
🍭 Android 16 Hyper OS 3
📸 50MP Light fusion 950 OIS+ 50MP OV50M Ultrawide + 50MP Samsung JN5 telephoto rear
🤳 50MP OV50M omnivision front camera
🔋 6330mAh battery
⚡️ 100 watt wired charging and 50 watt wireless
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 port Type-C
📶 WiFi 7
- Bluetooth version 5.4
- NFC
- IR blaster
🔊 Dual stereo speakers
🎤 4 microphones
- X-axis linear motor for haptics
💧 IP68 rating
🫆 Ultrasonic In-display fingerprint scanner
- 8.06mm thickness
- 191 gram weight

❤️ @XiaomiHSU

Global Vivo X300 Ultra (V2562) spotted on Geekbench
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
- 16GB RAM
- Android 16

The subpar scores could be because it could be running an early/untuned engineering sample or pre-release firmware

❤️ @techroma

Xiaomi 17 Ultra launched in India 🇮🇳
Price 💰 ₹1,39,999 (Free photography kit from 13th-17th March, 2026)

Specifications
📲 6.9" 1.5K HyperRGB LTPO flat AMOLED TCL CSOT M10 display, 120Hz refresh rate, 1060nits HBM, Xiaomi Shield glass 3 protection
🔳 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
LPDDR5X RAM & UFS 4.1 storage
🎮 Adreno 840 GPU
🍭 Android 16 Hyper OS 3
📸 50MP 1" LOFIC Omnivision Light Hunter 1050L OIS+ 50MP Samsung JN5 Ultrawide+ 200MP S5KHPE periscope lens 3.2x - 4.3x continuous optical zoom 75mm to 100mm (3G+5P three-group floating lens) rear
🤳 50MP OV50M Omnivision front camera
🔋 6000mAh battery
⚡️ 90 watt wired charging
⚡️ 50 watt wireless charging
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 Port
🤽‍♀️ IP68 rating
📶 Wi-Fi 7, 6, 5
- Bluetooth version 5.4
- LHDC 5.0
🫆 3D Ultrasonic In-display fingerprint scanner
🔊 Dual stereo speakers
- X-axis linear motor for haptics
- NFC
🔊 1014E+1115X dual stereo speakers
- X-axis haptics motor 0809E
- 8.29mm thickness
- 219 gram weight

❤️ @XiaomiHSU

iPhone 18 Pro Series 🍎
▫️ No Smaller Dynamic Island
▫️ No Under Display Face ID
▫️ Same Horizontal Matrix Deco
▫️ A20 Pro (2nm)
▫️ 5000mAh+🔋 All-day Battery
▫️ Larger Aperture 📷
▫️ New colors to build some unnecessary hype
▫️ 100$/200$ More Expensive (Expected)

iPhone 20 Pro Series is expected to feature Under Display Face ID with a smaller Dynamic Island.
#Apple #iPhone18 #iPhone18Pro

❤️ @techroma

Vivo X300s packs a 7,100mAh battery. Largest ever on a Vivo phone!

- Supports 90W fast charging
- USB 3.2 Gen1 port

#Vivo #VivoX300s

❤️ @techroma

YouTube is testing 30-second non-skippable ads on TVs.

You sit down, play a video, and you have to watch a full 30 second ad with no skip button.

The only way out is YouTube Premium.

We literally pay for internet and still get ads like it's cable TV.

❤️ @techroma

Laptop prices in India are about to jump up to 35%.

Not because of taxes. Not because of new features. Because AI is eating all the RAM.

Data centers run by Google, Microsoft and Nvidia are buying memory in bulk years in advance. So manufacturers are left with whatever's remaining.

RAM costs alone jumped 50-55% in just one quarter.

And the scary part? Your laptop won't even look more expensive. It'll just quietly ship with 8GB instead of 16GB. Same price. Less specs. Pure shrinkflation.

Dell already hiked prices. Lenovo too. HP says second half of 2026 is going to hurt.

The mid-range laptop of today will cost what a premium laptop cost two years ago.

AI got the RAM. You got the bill.

❤️ @techroma

YouTube just became the world's biggest media company.

Bigger than Disney. Bigger than Netflix. Bigger than any TV network.

In 2025, YouTube made $62 billion. Disney's entire TV and streaming business made $60.9 billion. So YouTube beat Disney at its own game.

And YouTube TV now has 10 million paying subscribers. It's coming for cable companies next.

Creators have been paid over $100 billion total. That's not a typo.

A website that started as a place to upload random videos is now worth $500 billion plus.

Disney spent 100 years building its empire. YouTube did this in 20.

❤️ @techroma

iQOO Neo series is not coming to India in 2026.

No Neo 11. No new Neo anything this year confirms Gadgets360.

The Neo lineup was the whole reason a lot of people bought iQOO. Flagship performance around ₹20,000 to ₹35,000. That sweet spot where you got a Snapdragon chip without paying full flagship price.

And now iQOO is stepping away from it for a year.

The reason is actually simple. Phone prices are going up everywhere. Components cost more. So instead of launching 4 phones that all look similar, iQOO wants to focus on fewer devices with clearer roles. More flagship push, less mid-range overlap.

Makes sense as a business move. But if you were waiting for a Neo 11 this year, that wait just got a lot longer.

Source:https://gadgets360.com/mobiles/news/exclusive-iqoo-neo-series-to-skip-2026-launch-as-brand-refines-flagship-strategy-11194904

❤️ @techroma

Laptop prices set to increase up to 35% this year as memory, GPU costs spike.

❤️ @techroma