Alleged Moto G8 Plus renders leaked, may launch on October 24

Moto G8 Plus has reportedly leaked online. The leaked renders come along with a specification listing and a probable launch date. The Moto G8 Plus renders suggest a gradient rear panel finish, which Motorola has been using on its One series of smartphones. Moto G8 Plus is expected to come equipped with a triple rear camera setup as well as a small notch on the top, accompanied by a noticeable chin at the bottom. The alleged Moto G8 Plus sports the model number 'XT2019'. 

The latest development comes from WinFuture, according to which, the Moto G8 Plus may launch in Brazil on October 24, followed by a Europe launch later in the year. The renders appear to show the whole design of the phone. The device is expected to sport dual rear end speakers, volume and power buttons on the right edge along with a USB Type-C port at the bottom.

According to the leaked specifications, Moto G8 Plus is expected to come equipped with a 6.3-inch full-HD (1080x2280 pixels) IPS display. It may be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 chipset, paired with 4GB RAM. The phone could be offered in two storage variants, 64GB and 128GB. It is tipped to support a microSD card slot as well.

On the optics front, Moto G8 Plus is said to sport a triple rear camera setup, which could include a 48MP main sensor + a 16MP wide-angle sensor with 117-degree field of view + a 5MP depth sensor. It may come with a laser autofocus system that allows users to focus is a more precise way as. It could sport a 25MP selfie shooter, but it's all speculation, at this point.    The Moto G8 Plus is shown in Blue and Red gradient glossy finishes. However, it may launch with more colour options. The smartphone is expected to pack a 4000mAh battery. It is also said to come with a 3.5mm headphone jack and a rear fingerprint sensor built into the Motorola logo. 

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Zoho launches Catalyst, a new developer platform with a focus on microservices

Zoho may be one of the most underrated tech companies. The 23-year-old company, which at this point offers more than 45 products, has never taken outside funding and has no ambition to go public, yet it’s highly profitable and runs its own data centers around the world. And today, it’s launching Catalyst, a cloud-based developer platform with a focus on microservices that it hopes can challenge those of many of its larger competitors.

The company already offered a low-code tool for building business apps. But Catalyst is different. Zoho isn’t following in the footsteps of Google or Amazon here and offering a relatively unopinionated platform for running virtual machines and containers. Indeed, it does nothing of the sort. The company is 100% betting on serverless as the next major technology for building enterprise apps and the whole platform has been tuned for this purpose.

“Historically, when you look at cloud computing, when you look at any public clouds, they pretty much range from virtualizing your servers and renting our virtual servers all the way up the stack,” Raju Vegesna, Zoho’s chief evangelist, said when I asked him about this decision to bet on serverless. “But when you look at it from a developer’s point of view, you still have to deal with a lot of baggage. You still have to figure out the operating system, you still have to figure out the database. And then you have to scale and manage the updates. All of that has to be done at the application infrastructure level.” In recent years, though, said Vegesna, the focus has shifted to the app logic side, with databases and file servers being abstracted away. And that’s the trend Zoho is hoping to capitalize on with Catalyst.

What Catalyst does do is give advanced developers a platform to build, run and manage event-driven microservice-based applications that can, among other things, also tap into many of the tools that Zoho built for running its own applications, like a grammar checker for Zoho Writer, document previews for Zoho Drive or access to its Zia AI tools for OCR, sentiment analysis and predictions. The platform gives developers tools to orchestrate the various microservices, which obviously means it’ll make it easy to scale applications as needed, too. It integrates with existing CI/CD pipelines and IDEs.

Catalyst also complies with the SOC Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, as well as GDPR. It also offers developers the ability to access data from Zoho’s own applications, as well as third-party tools, all backed by Zoho’s Unified Data Model, a relational datastore for server-side and client deployment.

“The infrastructure that we built over the last several years is now being exposed,” said Vegesna. He also stressed that Zoho is launching the complete platform in one go (though it will obviously add to it over time). “We are bringing everything together so that you can develop a mobile or web app from a single interface,” he said. “We are not just throwing 50 different disparate services out there.” At the same time, though, the company is also opting for a very deliberate approach here with its focus on serverless. That, Vegesna believes, will allow Zoho Catalyst to compete with its larger competitors.

It’s also worth noting that Zoho knows that it’s playing the long-game here, something it is familiar with, given that it launched its first product, Zoho Writer, back in 2005 before Google had launched its productivity suite.

 

Realme X2 Pro India launch set for November 20

Realme officially introduced the Realme X2 Pro in Spain on October 15. The smartphone went on sale in China simultaneously. Now, the popular Chinese smartphone maker has sent out press invites in India for the launch of the Realme X2 Pro. The Realme flagship smartphone will be launched in the country on November 20 at an event in New Delhi. The invite also says that Realme will have  "other surprises" for us on November 20, but it's unclear what exactly they will be.

Realme X2 Pro specifications

The Realme X2 Pro features a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels. The display comes with a 90Hz refresh rate. The phone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ chipset, paired with an Adreno 640 GPU. The base variant of smartphone is equipped with 6GB RAM and 64GB storage. It goes up to 12GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage.

In the optics department, Realme X2 Pro sports a quad rear camera setup:  a 64MP sensor with an f/1.8 aperture and phase-detection autofocus +  a 13MP telephoto sensor with an f/2.4 aperture and phase-detection autofocus + an 8MP  ultra-wide sensor with an f/2.3 aperture +  a 2MP depth sensor with an f/2.4 aperture. The device has a 32MP selfie shooter, in addition.

The Realme X2 Pro is equipped with Dolby Atmos-enabled stereo speakers and Bluetooth 5.0. It packs a 4000mAh battery that supports 50W SuperVOOC Flash Charge technology. According to the company, SuperVOOC technology can charge the phone fully in 35 minutes. 

The Realme X2 Pro is currently available in China in two colour options, namely, Luna and Poseidon.

Realme X2 Pro price in India (expected)

The Realme X2 Pro costs CNY 2,599 (Rs 26,200 approx) for the base 6GB RAM + 64GB storage variant. It is priced at CNY 2,799 (Rs 28,222 approx) for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage model and CNY 3,199 (Rs 32,255 approx) for the top variant that has 12GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage.

Hence, one can expect the Realme X2 Pro's price in India to start around Rs 27,000. The phone is all set to make its India debut on November 20.

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Edge computing startup Pensando comes out of stealth mode with a total of $278 million in funding

Pensando, an edge computing startup founded by former Cisco engineers, came out of stealth mode today with an announcement that it has raised a $145 million Series C. The company’s software and hardware technology, created to give data centers more of the flexibility of cloud computing servers, is being positioned as a competitor to Amazon Web Services Nitro.

The round was led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lightspeed Venture Partners and brings Pensando’s total raised so far to $278 million. HPE chief technology officer Mark Potter and Lightspeed Venture partner Barry Eggers will join Pensando’s board of directors. The company’s chairman is former Cisco CEO John Chambers, who is also one of Pensando’s investors through JC2 Ventures.

Pensando was founded in 2017 by Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero and Soni Jiandani, a team of engineers who spearheaded the development of several of Cisco’s key technologies, and founded four startups that were acquired by Cisco, including Insieme Networks. (In an interview with Reuters, Pensando chief financial offier Randy Pond, a former Cisco executive vice president, said it isn’t clear if Cisco is interested in acquiring the startup, adding “our aspirations at this point would be to IPO. But, you know, there’s always other possibilities for monetization events.”)

The startup claims its edge computing platform performs five to nine times better than AWS Nitro, in terms of productivity and scale. Pensando prepares data center infrastructure for edge computing, better equipping them to handle data from 5G, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things applications. While in stealth mode, Pensando acquired customers including HPE, Goldman Sachs, NetApp and Equinix.

In a press statement, Potter said “Today’s rapidly transforming, hyper-connected world requires enterprises to operate with even greater flexibility and choices than ever before. HPE’s expanding relationship with Pensando Systems stems from our shared understanding of enterprises and the cloud. We are proud to announce our investment and solution partnership with Pensando and will continue to drive solutions that anticipate our customers’ needs together.”

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