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Apple readies to launch HomePod in India

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Apple unveiled the HomePod in June 2017 and while they have been rolling the smart speaker out in stages globally, India was never a part of the release, until now that is. iOS 13.3.1 update that was released a few hours ago confirms support for Indian English Siri for the HomePod but the more damning fact is HomePod’s product page on the Apple India website. Apple India lists HomePod at Rs. 19,900, however, there’s no info on the exact availability.

HomePod is Apple’s smart speaker that allows interacting with Siri to control smart home and play music via Apple Music or other sources like Spotify and more.

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Poco announces Poco X3 with Snapdragon 732G chip

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Official online Apple store is now live in India

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Apple has been operating in India for the last two decades and it was just a few years ago, Apple started taking Indian consumers seriously. As part of that strategy is the launch of an online store, which is now a reality in 2020. Apple India customers now have an option to shop for Apple […]

Titan Pay is a regular watch that does contactless payments

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We know watches have been fulfilling payment duties for quite some time but the ones that do are smartwatches. The Titan Pay, however, if your everyday. It looks and functions like a regular watch it has a payment trick up its sleeve that allows the watch to make payments at any MasterCard-enabled Point-of-Sale (POS) machines. […]

Amazon introduces Smart Plug in India

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Smart plugs as a concept have existed since for years now and Amazon is throwing their hat in the ring with their own Smart Plug version. However, unlike many other Smart Plugs in the market, the Amazon Smart Plug understandably supports Alexa only and not Google Assistant. The 6A plug is designed with a 3-pin […]

Nvidia spends US$40 billion for Arm

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Nvidia has spent a good chunk to acquire Cambridge, UK-based Arm. It is one of the most important acquisitions in this digital age considering majority of mobile devices in the world today are based on Arm CPUs. Just to put it in a perspective, there are over 180 billion chips shipped by Arm’s licensees. The […]

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