Wednesday 26 December 2018

New Nokia phone with triple rear cameras, no notch leaked in images


All eyes may be focused on HMD's upcoming Nokia 9 PureView flagship smartphone, but it seems the company is also working on another new Nokia phone as well. Some leaked images have been spotted online that reveal a mysterious new Nokia smartphone that interestingly does not come with a notch of any kind. We also know this isn't the Nokia 9 PureView because the images are of a phone with triple rear cameras rather than a penta-camera setup.
The leaked images were spotted on micro-blogging site Weibo, and we cannot verify its authenticity just yet. Going by the images, this new Nokia phone will offer a triple rear camera system on the back vertically placed on the center. We can see the Nokia branding as well and no sign of a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, which seems to suggest HMD is going with an in-display fingerprint sensor. This year, HMD has released a few phones with dual cameras, but we are yet to see a triple camera phone from the company.
What's more interesting is the display of this new Nokia smartphone. There is no notch on the top and no clear indication of a front-facing camera at all. The side and top bezels are slim, while the chin bezel is fairly thick and houses the Nokia logo. It would be quite surprising if HMD launches a Nokia phone without a front-facing camera in today's time. It's possible that the front camera is in the chin bezel, but the image shows no sign of that as well. The other option is a pop-up selfie camera like the Vivo Nex or a slider mechanism like the Mi Mix 3.

Thursday 6 December 2018

Nvidia Titan RTX, Turing-Based GPU for AI Research, With 24GB GDDR6 RAM Launched in India



Shortly after rolling the first high-end gaming GPUs based on its new Turing architecture Nvidia has announced its next ultra-high-end Titan-series offering. The new Nvidia Titan RTX GPU is a somewhat beefier version of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, using the same TU102 GPU but without any of its hardware disabled. It will also feature a whopping 24GB of high-speed GDDR6 RAM. The primary target audience for Titan RTX graphics cards will be AI researchers, data scientists, and content creators. It will also be able to handle all the games that its GeForce RTX siblings can, with full support for Nvidia's much-touted ray tracing and Deep Learning Supersampling (DLSS) algorithm.
According to Nvidia, a card like this is ideal for neural network training and inference. The large amount of RAM, plus support for the NVLink interconnect to combine the memory pools of two such cards, would help researchers work with enormous data sets. The powerful new graphics card is also being touted as a tool for studios that work on games and VR experiences built around ray tracing. The Titan RTX will be an alternative to Nvidia's pro-grade Quadro RTX GPUs, bridging the workstation and gaming markets. The price in India will be Rs. 2,24,000 including taxes, which is lower than the Rs. 2,81,800 list price of the outgoing Titan V model, which was launched almost exactly a year ago.