Originally teased in September, the Realme XT 730G was supposed to launch in India in December. Now, a new report states that the phone will land before December 20, and will be more affordable than previously expected.
The Realme XT 730G got a “one more thing” mention at the end of the Realme XT launch keynote in September and was teased to be joined by other “surprises” in December. It was supposed to be the Redmi K20 competitor, building upon the already impressive Realme XT.
We are not done yet! We have more surprises coming up for you this December! Stay tuned for realme XT 730G! pic.twitter.com/HGyJ5GQwcFSeptember 13, 2019
The official launch date is yet to be confirmed, but a report from 91mobiles states that the Realme XT 730G edition will be launched in India before December 20. Furthermore, it also mentions a starting price of around Rs 17,000 (for the 4+64GB base variant). The same event will also see the unveiling of the Realme wireless buds which were teased last month.
As the name suggests, the Realme XT 730G will be powered by the Snapdragon 730G chipset, with a minimum of 4GB of RAM. The front will sport a notched 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display with a Full HD+ resolution and an in-display fingerprint scanner.
As for cameras, we expect a similar 64MP quad-camera setup, consisting of a 64MP primary camera, followed by an 8MP ultrawide shooter, a 2MP macro lens and a depth sensor. There’s a small chance that we get a telephoto lens instead of a macro sensor too.
The Realme XT 730G will house a 4,000mAh battery and will support 30W VOOC Flash Charging over USB Type-C. The rest of the specifications will be very similar to the Realme XT. We could see it run on ColorOS 7 out-of-the-box.
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Not much is known about the Realme wireless “AirPods” except that they will have a design very similar to Apple’s. The same report says that it will come in white and black colours, besides a yellow hue.
We’ll know more are we near the purported launch date which is expected to be around December 20.
As one of the four main networks, O2 has been a go-to choice for many over the years. And recently, O2 phone deals have been offering some of the best prices around, making it a logical option for anyone looking to save on their contract.
However, these great prices aren’t coming from O2 itself. In fact, the O2 website seems to often struggle to match the value that can be gained from going to 3rd party retailers (like Carphone Warehouse or Affordable Mobiles). Those are the places the really strong O2 phone deals can be found.
And despite stiff competition from the likes of Vodafone, EE and a host of MVNOs, O2 has stood its ground as one of the best networks available. It’s the network renowned for its extra Priority reward giveaways and customise-able plans.
But of course, the main question is what are the best O2 phone deals? For anyone who’s mind is set on flagships, you’ll find great offers on the likes of the iPhone 11, Huawei P30 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and Google Pixel 4. And O2 even holds its own in the budget department with everything from Samsung to Moto and back again.
And if the O2 phone deals you’ve found are being offered by retailer Mobiles.co.uk and costs at least £10 upfront, then make sure you enter our exclusive 10OFF discount code at the checkout to knock a tenner off.
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Huawei P30 Pro deals:
The latest and greatest from Huawei, the P30 Pro is now easily our choice for best smartphone camera on the market. Combine top of the line camera quality with an impressive battery life and beautiful screen and you get easily one of the best phones on the market.
Samsung Galaxy S10 deals:
Samsung’s newest release, this phone is rocking a completely flat, notch-less screen with a pin hole camera, giving it a unique style. Whether it’s the triple cameras on the back, fast processor or reverse charging, there is a lot to love here.
Samsung Galaxy S10e deals:
Samsung’s brand new budget flagship, the S10e features high-end specs for an affordable price. If you want the best Samsung has but don’t want to have to pay through the roof to get it, this is the way to go. With all of the same features as the S10 with a few cutbacks, this is a high-end phone with mid-range pricing.
iPhone 11 deals:
The iPhone 11 has come along to offer fans of Apple a 2019 device without going all out on cost. It arrived with a SIM-free price less than the iPhone XR on release while boosting specs in almost every department – better screen, the fastest CPU on the market and a much needed battery development.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 deals:
Every single year, Samsung’s Note design keeps getting better and better. The latest iteration – the Note 10 – is clearly a combination of everything Samsung does well. Yes, the display is only Full HD but through the use of Samsung’s ‘S’ pen, an impressive battery size, a beautiful design and a top-tier video camera, the Note 10 is one of the best phones you can buy right now.
iPhone 8 deals:
The iPhone 8 is possibly now the best cheap iPhone around right now. Yes, its not the cheapest but it sits perfectly in the middle of the market, blending affordability and specs. Want an iPhone but the iPhone 11 above was just far too costly? This will be the way to go.
Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL deals:
In 2019 Google came back with a vengeance, doing what they do best – cameras. The Google Pixel 4 promises features ranging from ‘astrophotorgrahy, next level night mode and some improved internal processing power. The battery life isn’t outstanding but the camera and processor sure are.
FAQ on O2 phone deals
What are the benefits of O2?
When it comes to benefits of a O2 phone deal, the best known part comes in the form of O2 Priority. This is a scheme which offers the likes of competition entries, free tickets, coffees and other benefits.
Those that sign up with O2 also get access to events that O2 is sponsoring and most importantly, O2 covers 98% of the UK when it comes to coverage meaning you should never be worrying about signal.
Can I keep my number when I switch to O2?
You sure can, if you switch over to an O2 mobile deal and want to keep your old number, then simply call your old network, get a PAC code and transition it over.
If you were previously on O2, you can still keep your number but it is slightly more complicated. They won’t let you keep your number, so you have to use this workaround. Buy a free pay-as-you-go SIM from any other network and tell your network that you’re moving.
They’ll release the PAC code, which you then give to the substitute network. Then, you immediately get another PAC code from them. Take that to your old network, and they’ll move your number to your new contract. Long winded, but easier than learning a new number!
Can I use my O2 phone abroad?
Like all of the other networks, O2 covers your roaming charges when you’re in Europe. Stray out of that area and you will have to start paying additional costs for the data, minutes and texts you use.
Travelling outside of Europe? O2 has a number of different schemes and packages to help you deal with that – you can find them all on the O2 website.
Can I get an unlimited data O2 phone deal?
O2 is the final of the big four – O2, EE, Vodafone and Three – to offer unlimited data plans. Unfortunately for anyone considering going all out on their data, O2 is probably going to be one of the more expensive ways of doing it. So far, it seems that Vodafone deals and Three Mobile deals will land you the best price on unlimited data.
Polarbackup is a new service from Zoolz, one of the best cloud storage providers on the market. They have decided to introduce an ultra affordable service that offers rock-bottom prices without sacrificing reliability and security with an 89% discount as part of its Cyber Monday sales.
At £83.33 / $99.99 for a lifetime license for the 5TB tier, it is cheaper than buying a hard disk drive of equivalent capacity. But wait for it, for a limited time only, they’re giving one account free when you buy one. So you end up with 10TB instead of 5TB.
Your data is never deleted (as it will never expire); you can back up an unlimited number of external devices, from USB drives to CCTV systems, and Polarbackup even supports file versioning.
Polarbackup supports both Windows and Mac and uses zero knowledge, 256-bit encryption to keep your files safe. These are automatically backup to Amazon’s Glacier, one of the cheapest storage solutions available on the market.
Just bear in mind that this is Glacier is a cold storage which means that you won’t be able to retrieve your files immediately. Instead, as Polarbackup explains, you may have to wait up to 12 hours in order to retrieve your files, which can be a significant issue for some.
Most top-end smartphones released nowadays record video up to 4K, and other devices cap out at 1080p, but it seems like the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S11 could blow both those out of the water with a whopping 8K video recording.
That’s according to an insider, who spoke with SamMobile and told the website that the device will support 8K video recording. There’s no word on who the insider is, of course, or how they know about the camera specs, but if this rumor is true it would make the Galaxy S11 a beast for recording video.
However, it’s not clear how useful 8K recording will be, since very few people have a way to watch content that high-res. A select number of smartphones, like the Sony Xperia 1, have 4K screens, but none so far have 8K, and according to rumors the Galaxy S11 isn’t set to change that.
In addition, very few 8K TVs are available right now, and they’re a far cry from ‘affordable’, with price tags that easily reach five figures most of the time.
So if this Galaxy S11 spec is accurate, you’ll be able to record super-high-res content, but perhaps not play it back. In the next few years 8K TVs could become more affordable though, so it’s possible Samsung is trying to prepare for the future, especially given it’s one of the companies making current 8K TVs. But it’s also possible this 8K stat is just made up.
Could this rumor be too optimistic?
While 8K video recording would be a great novelty for a phone, there are a few reasons we’re skeptical about the rumor.
Firstly, some rumors point to the Samsung Galaxy S11 camera being 108MP, although we’re still not totally sold on that point given it’s a huge jump from the 12MP of the Galaxy S10.
One of the key selling points of Samsung’s current 108MP camera sensor is its ability to record 6K video (although no-one’s used this functionality of the sensor yet), however in its announcement Samsung touted this as the upper resolution limit for video. So either this is a completely different 108MP sensor from Samsung (which it might be), or the rumor is incorrect.
We’re expecting the Samsung Galaxy S11’s chipset to be the newly-announced Snapdragon 865, which does support up to 8K video recording, but that’s no guarantee the device will use it. The Snapdragon 855 supported pictures of up to 192MP, but no phones actually took pictures of this resolution.
We’ll know for sure come February 2020, when we’re expecting the new Samsung smartphone to be announced, so stay tuned to TechRadar for all the latest news and rumors.
The rollout of 5G has the potential to dramatically decrease latency; however, introducing 5G technology can also increase the attack surface for ill-intentioned actors.
To add to the issue, security teams are struggling to increase their resources using endpoint security in a quick, cohesive manner. These teams are already resolving thousands of alerts per day and are quickly running out of capacity, which begs the question – what are service providers to do?
About the author
Rodrigo Brito is the Head of Product Management, Cybersecurity at Nokia.
To maintain secure operations in the 5G era, providers will need three key things:
A holistic security management approach
Implementation of the SOAR model (security orchestration, analytics and response)
Digital trust
Taking a holistic approach to security
Part of the reason why service providers encounter a high number of security alerts is due to their dependence on point tools that each resolve specific problems. These layers of protection are difficult to manage and largely unintegrated, which slows the time between attack detection and mitigation. When holistic security management is leveraged, disparate silos become connected, mitigation is sped up and analytics become the glue that marries different technologies to ensure the right intelligence is shared with the right people at the right time.
Expanding intelligence gathering and analysis allows security operations teams to prioritize and automate activities to better inform decision making. The result is an adaptive security architecture that automates security through intelligence and analytics. That’s where the SOAR model comes in to play.
Leveraging the SOAR model
SOAR systems aggregate data from disparate point tools and analyze it for enriched and cohesive security intelligence within business-specific contexts. They also contribute to cloud orchestration and automation, which are vital to the transition from static defense to adaptive and agile response — an essential for security teams that are currently overwhelmed by exhaustive manual processes.
Combining AI with SOAR systems draws on information from both human and machine activity to actively identify and respond to sophisticated threats. This enables the identification of behavior that is likely to result in a security breach by users or other entities. It also helps bring previously unknown threats to light — and it has the potential to identify threats before they even happen.
For example, when a threat is detected, security automation, which is based on detailed mitigation, activates “cyber playbooks” that help accelerate recovery. These automated processes maximize the capacity of service providers’ existing human resources by allowing analysts to spend less time on each incident, a particularly helpful benefit for service providers with staffing shortages.
Building digital trust
In the intelligent, automated and dynamic context of 5G security, digital trust is paramount. It extends to both people and machines, making it a necessary foundation for every telecoms business relationship.
On the people side, optimizing digital trust ensures that the correct individuals have access to the correct systems. This includes rigorous identity management to quickly identify anomalous behavior and prevent credential theft. For machines, it boils down to the proper authenticated use of digital certificates, as well as the ability to ensure that any device communicating over the network is legitimate.
However, 5G networks are composed of multiple layers of processes, services and equipment, which makes them more complicated to secure than legacy networks. This complexity requires service providers to incorporate adaptability and speed into their security approach, in addition to integration and automation.
Adaptability is an important requirement of digital trust because cyber-attackers are constantly using increasingly sophisticated techniques to get past security defences and antivirus software. Since hackers usually tweak their attacks in real-time, service providers’ defenses must be adaptive to respond just as quickly.
This brings us to the other crucial facet of digital trust – speed. A highly important success factor for security is reducing dwell time, or the length of time a hacker goes undetected after breaching the first-line security and gaining access to the network. The slower the reaction, the longer a hacker has to steal valuable data. By leveraging the integration, orchestration, automation, and adaptability tactics mentioned above, dwell time can be reduced by 80 percent.
The key to 5G
By harnessing AI, enabling “cross-slice visibility,” implementing SOAR systems, connecting silos, and maintaining digital trust, service providers can leverage the utmost assurance for all network activities and increase overall productivity within IT teams. Additionally, these technologies allow them to shrink the number of security alerts to an actionable and prioritized set of addressable threats, while also providing security teams with more valuable information. This relieves humans from having to manually complete tasks that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to keep up with in the dynamic and complex 5G environment.
To attain these optimized processes, it’s essential that security gets built into 5G services by design and not as an afterthought. It needs to be in place any time new partners or customers are connected to the network and when new services are launched. Without it, the massive revenue opportunities 5G presents will be at risk.
Rodrigo Brito is the Head of Product Management, Cybersecurity at Nokia.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite has been leaked a number of times, but only now are we actually getting a look at the possible design, and it’s a look that’s, well, very familiar.
That’s because not only does the render unsurprisingly have a lot in common with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10, but it looks even more like the leaks we’ve seen of the Samsung Galaxy S11 and Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite.
Key features of the design – shared by 91mobiles and @OnLeaks (a reputable leaker) – include a single-lens punch-hole camera in the top center of the screen, and a large camera block in the top left corner of the rear.
[Exclusive] Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite renders give early look at design, S Pen and headphone jack present https://t.co/Sge9lj6kMbDecember 4, 2019
That camera block is apparently likely to include three lenses, and you can also see that there’s a 3.5mm headphone port, which was lacking on the standard Galaxy Note 10.
The source adds that (again, unsurprisingly) the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite will come with an S Pen stylus, as the non-Lite devices do, and that the screen will apparently be between 6.5 and 6.7 inches, while the dimensions are said to be roughly 163.9 x 76 x 8.6mm.
In terms of both screen and overall size, that would make it substantially larger than the 6.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 10, but still smaller than the 6.8-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus.
The specs are likely to be a downgrade on both handsets though, in order to justify the ‘Lite’ in the name. Indeed, a previous leak pointed to it having the same core specs as the Samsung Galaxy Note 9.
None of this is known for sure of course and won’t be until the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite is announced, but a source suggests that announcement could happen before the end of the year, so we shouldn’t be waiting too long.
The Lotus Evija will be the first all-British electric hypercar.
The company says it will be the most powerful production car in existence with the capability of accelerating from 0-186mph (0-300km/h) in “significantly” less than nine seconds, and with a maximum speed of more than 200mph.
