The Vivo V50 India launch is reportedly happening next month. While there have been multiple smartphones in the V series every year, it seems like there won’t be a Pro model this time around, and only the Vivo V50 will be launched in the country. Here’s everything to know about the device.

Vivo V50 India Launch Leaked

As per Abhishek Yadav on X, the Vivo V50 India launch will take place sometime in February. He confirmed that there won’t be a Vivo V50 Pro that would launch alongside the V50. Further, as per his leak, the Vivo V50 would use the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Processor and will be made available in three colour options including Blue, Rose Red, and Grey.

Notable, this would be the third time Vivo will use the 7 Gen 3 in the base model of its V series. The same Chipset was also used in the Vivo V30 and the Vivo V40. The Vivo V40 was launched with a starting price tag of Rs 34,999 in India and the device performed well in the camera department.

As for the V40’s other specs, it featured a 6.78-inch AMOLED Display with a 1.5K 2800×1260 Pixels resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, punch-hole cutout, 20:9 aspect ratio, 89.9% screen-to-body ratio, 452 ppi, 4500 nits peak brightness, and 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut.

The Vivo handset gets up to 12GB LPDDR4x RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 2.2 storage. It is equipped with a 5500mAh battery that supports 80W charging. For security, the device features an under-display fingerprint scanner. The device runs on Android 14-based FunTouch OS 14.

The smartphone has a 50-megapixel f/2.0 selfie camera. The rear camera setup consists of an OIS-assisted 50-megapixel f/1.88 primary camera and a 50-megapixel f/2.0 ultra-wide angle lens. The device offers dual SIM, 5G, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS, and a USB-C port. It has stereo speakers and is IP68-rated as well.

Lava Yuva Smart 4G budget smartphone has been introduced in India with a Unisoc chipset under the hood. It also comes as the first smartphone launch from the brand in 2025 after it debuted the Lava Yuva 2 5G late in December last year. Here’s everything to know about the device.

Lava Yuva Smart 4G: Everything to Know

The Lava Yuva Smart 4G is available for an introductory price of Rs 6,000 on Flipkart for the sole 3GB + 64GB model. It can be purchased in Glossy Blue, Glossy White, and Glossy Lavender shades in the country.

As for the specs, the Lava Yuva Smart sports a 6.75-inch LCD panel that offers an HD+ resolution of 1600 x 720 pixels, 60Hz refresh rate, 260 ppi, and a punch-hole notch housing the front camera. Under the hood, the device features the Unisoc SC9863A chipset and 3GB of RAM with up to 3GB of virtual RAM. There’s 64GB of built-in storage which is expandable and the phone runs on Android 14 OS.

For optics, you get a 13-megapixel main camera, along with an unspecified sensor. You also get a 5MP selfie shooter. It is backed by a 5,000mAh battery that supports 10W standard charging via the USB-C port.

Connectivity options include dual SIM support, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, and GPS. There’s also a side-facing fingerprint scanner and a single bottom-firing speaker.

In other news, Lava also launched the ProWatch V1 earlier this month. Equipped with the Realtek 8773 chipset, the ProWatch V1 connects wirelessly via Bluetoothv5.3. The smartwatch also features assisted GPS, ensuring accurate location tracking for outdoor activities. The ProWatch V1 is equipped with the VC9213 PPG sensor, ensuring precise health and fitness tracking. With over 110 sports modes, it meets a wide range of fitness needs, from running to yoga and more. It gets an IP68-rated body.

Samsung Galaxy S25 series devices were launched globally last week but what wasn’t announced at the time was a 128GB model of the vanilla Galaxy S25 in India. The price of the Galaxy S25 128GB model has now been revealed through a tipster on X, but there’s a drawback in choosing this variant over the 256GB and 512GB versions.

As per Abhishek Yadav on X, the Galaxy S25 128GB model is available in India for Rs 74,999. However, the catch here is that it comes with UFS 3.1 storage which is a downgrade from the UFS 4.0 storage used in 256GB and 512GB models. While this may not bother many as the real-world results may not vary much, it is worth noting that you won’t get all the latest specifications if you opt for a Rs 75k device compared to the same phone’s higher variants.

The S25 comes in at Rs 80,999 for the 12GB + 256GB trim and Rs 92,999 for the 12GB + 512GB model. The 128GB model, however, doesn’t show up on Samsung’s online store as of writing this article. In our opinion, it is better to opt for the 256GB model of the S25 in case you are planning on purchasing the device.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Specifications

The Galaxy S25 has a 6.2-inch FHD+ (2,340 x 1,080) Dynamic AMOLED 2x screen with a 120 Hz refresh rate. It supports HDR10+, has a Pixel density of 418 PPI, and is covered in a layer of Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The refresh rate of the display can change dynamically between 1 Hz and 120 Hz. The display supports up to 2600 nits peak brightness.

Galaxy S25 camera setup comprises of a 50MP primary wide camera with f/1.8 aperture, multi-directional PDAF and OIS. Then there’s a 10MP telephoto sensor with 3x Optical Zoom support, an f/2.4 aperture, OIS, PDAF and a 12MP ultra-wide sensor with an f/2.2 Aperture and 120-degree FoV. Next, it has a 12MP f/2.2 front-facing camera.

It has the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy Chipset under the hood, paired with 12GB RAM along with 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB storage options.

It runs on a 4000mAh battery and offers 25W wired and 15W wireless charging with reverse wireless charging support. As for the software, the S25 runs on One UI 7.0 based on Android 15 out of the box. Further, the S25 series will receive 7 major Android OS upgrades and 7 years of security updates.

Additional features include dual speakers with Dolby Atmos and IP68 dust & water resistance. Connectivity options on the device includes Wi-Fi 7, 5G, LTE, NFC, Bluetooth 5.4 and Wi-Fi Direct.

The Galaxy S25 Ultra was launched last week and since then, it has created a lot of buzz around the internet. One of the aspects where a lot of confusion lies is whether the Galaxy S25 Ultra S-Pen supports Bluetooth or not. While not having Bluetooth support may not be a deal breaker for many, it does bother those who regularly used features that relied on Bluetooth support in the S-Pen. Here’s what you need to know.

The Galaxy S25 Ultra S-Pen wasn’t discussed by Samsung at the event but soon as people got their hands on the device in retail stores and at Samsung shops, they began to notice the lack of Bluetooth support in the S-Pen as features like Air Actions and others didn’t work on the S25 Ultra. This made some of the fans furious who regularly used such Bluetooth-backed features and found no reason for Samsung to pull off such a move.

However, according to Samsung, these S-Pen Bluetooth-based features were reportedly removed due to data indicating that only a small number of Galaxy S Ultra owners were utilizing them. As per another X user, apart from the reason stated by Samsung, the introduction of the next-generation Qi2 technology brought challenges such as interference caused by magnets and increased heat generation due to which Samsung had to remove Bluetooth support.

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Another development showed that Samsung was supposedly selling a Bluetooth-enabled S-Pen separately on Amazon for the Galaxy S25 Ultra but that was most likely a hoax as the reasons mentioned above show that Samsung can’t enable Bluetooth in the S-Pen due to hardware limitations of the S25 Ultra itself.

If that wasn’t enough, another user on X claimed to have used the Galaxy S25 Ultra S-Pen with a Galaxy S23 Ultra and they were able to use features like Air Actions on the S23 Ultra with the S25 Ultra S-Pen. This suggested that Samsung may have disabled Bluetooth connectivity for the S-Pen via software. However, we cannot verify the claims made by the user on X, so we wouldn’t trust the post blindly.

So far, evidence clearly suggests that the Galaxy S25 Ultra S-Pen doesn’t have Bluetooth support and most likely won’t get it in the future as well. Until Samsung clarifies officially, it is best to believe that Bluetooth functionality in the S-Pen has been removed for good.

After informing last year that the next version of Android would come sooner than the usual timeline, Google has now released the first beta of Android 16. Android 16 Beta 1 comes with a set of new features and improvements, such as the Live Updates feature alongside better app scaling for devices with larger displays like foldables and tablets.

In a blog post, Google said that “users expect apps to work seamlessly on all their devices, regardless of display size and form factor.” To that end, Android 16 is phasing out the ability for apps to restrict screen orientation and resizability on large screens. This is similar to features OEMs have added over the last several years to large screen devices to allow users to run apps at any window size and aspect ratio.

On screens larger than 600dp wide, apps that target API level 36 will have app windows that resize. Developers should check their apps to ensure their existing UIs scale seamlessly, working well across portrait and landscape aspect ratios.

Further, Android 16 Beta 1 enables a new feature called Live Updates. These are a new class of notifications that help users monitor and quickly access important ongoing activities. “The new ProgressStyle notification template provides a consistent user experience for Live Updates, helping you build for these progress-centric user journeys: rideshare, delivery, and navigation. It includes support for custom icons for the start, end, and current progress tracking, segments and points, user journey states, milestones, and more,” the blog post read.

Next, Android 16 advances support for the playback, creation, and editing of high-quality media, a critical use case for social and productivity apps. Android 16 introduces support for the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec which is designed to be used for professional level high quality video recording and post production. The APV codec standard has the following features:

• Support for HDR10/10+ and user-defined metadata
• Perceptually lossless video quality (close to raw video quality)
• Low complexity and high throughput intra-frame-only coding (without Pixel domain prediction) to better support editing workflows
• Support for high bit-rate range up to a few Gbps for 2K, 4K and 8K Resolution content, enabled by a lightweight entropy coding scheme
• Frame tiling for immersive content and for enabling parallel encoding and decoding
• Support for various chroma sampling formats and bit-depths
• Support for multiple decoding and re-encoding without severe visual quality degradation
• Support multi-view video and auxiliary video like depth, alpha, and preview

It further adds support for “Camera Night mode scene detection”, an API that was confirmed earlier to be coming soon and how Instagram will be utilising it as well. Other notable additions in Android 16 include:

• “Android 16 adds low-level support for rendering and measuring text vertically to provide foundational vertical writing support for library developers. This is particularly useful for languages like Japanese that commonly use vertical writing systems.”
• “Android 16 adds setFieldRequired to AccessibilityNodeInfo so apps can tell an accessibility service that input to a form field is required.”
• “Samsung just launched new Gemini Extensions on the S25 series, demonstrating new ways Android apps can integrate with the power of Gemini. We’re working to make this functionality available to more apps with more OEMs on more devices across more form factors.”
• ”Android 16 includes the new RangingManager, which provides ways to determine the distance and angle on supported hardware between the local device and a remote device. RangingManager supports the usage of a variety of ranging technologies such as BLE channel sounding, BLE RSSI-based ranging, Ultra-Wideband, and WiFi round trip time.”
• “Android 16 brings predictive back support to 3-button navigation for apps that have properly migrated to predictive back. Long-pressing the back button initiates a predictive back animation, giving users a preview of where the back button takes them.”

Android 16 Beta 1: Supported Pixel Devices

Android 16 Beta 1 (BP22.250103.008) system images with the January 2025 security patch are now available to download for the Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Pixel Pro Fold, as well as the Android Emulator.

Leak suggests that Google will release the stable version of Android 16 on June 3.