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BSNL’s 4G network might come in late 2022. However, there’s no saying whether it will be a good thing or a bad thing. In my opinion, even after 2 years, 4G will have all the use cases it has today since 5G roll out is expected to be a little slow. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is trying really hard to roll out 4G networks across the country, but there’s just one thing, it won’t happen anytime soon. Since the telco has proposed a hybrid 4G tender, it will have to wait for the Indian companies to come up with the Proof of Concept (POC) for their technology before they can be finalised as a part of the tender. Recently, multiple Indians companies submitted Expression of Interest (EoI) for the 4G tender of BSNL. The telco will be reviewing the submissions and then asking the qualified companies to submit a Bank Guarantee (BG) of 5 crores and go ahead with generating POC. Under the hybrid 4G tender, BSNL has reserved 57,000 sites across India for the Indian companies and t...

The Realme C11 (2021) makes use of a 6.5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of HD+ The display has a screen to body ratio of 89.5% and an aspect ratio of 20:9, complete with a refresh rate of 60Hz and a peak brightness of 400 nits. For power, the device relies on an octa-core 1.6GHz Unisoc SC9863A processor which is coupled with the IMG8322 GPU. This processor and GPU combo is aided by 2GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. The storage on the handset is expandable up to 256GB via a microSD card. The device boots Realme UI on top of Android 11 (Go Edition). Realme India on Friday silently launched the Realme C11 (2021) in India after the device was initially launched in the month of May globally. In case you were wondering, till today, the device was on offer via Russia’s Aliexpress and Lazada in the Philippines. Today, however, the device has debuted in the Indian market. This offering from Realme oddly features a Unisoc SC9863A processor. The handset also includes a ...

Both Reliance Jio and Google have worked for making the affordable 4G smartphone for India a reality. Ambani said that the JioPhone Next will come with cutting edge features. The smartphone will feature support for Google’s Voice Assistant, come with automatic read-aloud feature for screen text, translate language for the users, a smart camera with augmented reality filters, and much more. Reliance Jio has just announced its much-awaited affordable 4G smartphone for India and later the global markets as well. Mukesh Ambani, the Managing Director and Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) speaking at the company’s 44th Annual General Meeting (AGM) said that Jio partnered with Google to develop a very affordable 4G smartphone called ‘JioPhone Next’. Ambani said that the JioPhone Next will come with cutting edge features and will be available in India starting September 10, 2021. JioPhone Next to Come With Optimised Version of Android Both Reliance Jio and Google have w...