Xiaomi has announced the new 60-inch 4K Mi TV 3 smart TV in China. The TV comes in two parts, the display itself and the speaker box, which does all the work.

In most televisions, the logic board is situated inside the television body itself. In the Mi TV 3, Xiaomi has shifted all the important bits inside the speaker box, turning the TV itself into just a monitor. The TV connects to the speaker box via a single cable, and all your other sources connect to the speaker box instead of the TV. This results in the TV being much thinner (11.6mm at thinnest point and 36.7mm at thickest point) and also looks neater with fewer cables coming out of the TV. It’s also cheaper to repair as you just have to replace the speaker unit instead of the entire TV.

The speaker box houses all the ports above. The main logic board is inside the speaker box as well, along with two 2.5-inch woofers and single dome tweeter on either side for each channel. The box also has three HDMI inputs (no confirmation if they’re 1.4 or 2.0), USB 3.0 + USB 2.0 ports, VGA input, Ethernet, AV in, RF in, and subwoofer out. The system runs on Android 5.1 but uses Xiaomi’s custom UI instead of Android TV.

As for the display, it has a 4K LG panel with color gamut of NTSC 85% and MEMC motion compression. The panel has an aluminum frame with diamond pattern and double color anodization and a metal backplate.

The Mi TV 3 is priced at RMB 4999. Interestingly, Xiaomi also sells the speaker box separately, which can turn any TV or monitor into a smart TV with sound.

You can purchase the speaker unit for RMB 999. You can also get an additional subwoofer for RMB 599 to improve the low-end audio.

Lastly, you can also get a wireless Bluetooth remote with voice search and 6-axis motion sensor for RMB…

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Back in June this year, Amazon announced that it’s extending customers’ free access to AmazonFresh for three more months. Well, it’s October now, and the company has started rolling out the $299/year mandatory membership dubbed Prime Fresh – which it first mentioned late last year – for the users of its grocery delivery service.

Those living in Seattle, New York City, and Philadelphia are now being greeted with the message “AmazonFresh is now available exclusively to Prime Fresh members” when they log into their AmazonFresh accounts.

The Prime Fresh subscription offers free delivery on grocery orders totaling more than $50, as well as all the benefits of Amazon Prime. The new membership, which comes with a free 30-day trial period, is available as an upgrade to the…

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Apple started selling the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in India last week. Some people have noticed, however, that the Indian model comes with a different charger than the ones that come with the US models.

For a while, Apple has been selling iPhones with a smaller 5W charger, whereas the iPads have always been shipping with the larger 12W charger. The iPhone 6s models in India, however, are shipping with a new 10W charger, that look like the ones that ship with iPads but slightly smaller.

Apple is including a 10w power adapter with the iPhone 6s Plus. http://pic.twitter.com/efcNbtH64N— Rakesh (@rakeshkhabiya) October 18, 2015

This is good news for those in India, as the bigger iPad chargers always charged the iPhones significantly faster than the 5W chargers that come with the phones themselves and although the new iPhone chargers don’t quite have the same 12W rating as the iPad chargers, they will still charge the phones way quicker than the 5W chargers shipping in the US.

We wonder why Apple isn’t providing these chargers in other regions, though.

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While Apple managed to set a new opening-weekend record with the first wave launch of its iPhone 6s and 6s Plus smartphones, looks like it’s a completely different story in India – the world’s third largest smartphone market – where the opening-weekend response has reportedly been largely lukewarm.

The devices were launched in the country on October 16. Reports say that the Cupertino-based company managed to sell only 50,000 units of the new iPhones over the weekend.

That’s disappointing given that a total of 165,000 units were available for purchase this time, which is nearly three times of what was available last year, when the initial stock was sold out in the first 72 hours after the launch.

Retailers are expecting that sales will pick up following a price slash, something they say most customers are patiently waiting for – if you aren’t already aware, India is currently the most expensive place to purchase the new…

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A total of 1,000 dummy units of the Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL smartphones – which were announced by the Redmond, Washington-based company earlier this month – have been imported to India. The information came courtesy of a local website Zauba, which tracks the country’s import and export.

For those who aren’t in the know, dummy units are usually used for display purposes at retail outlets, giving potential customers an opportunity to physically handle the device (check out its size and all).

Given that Diwali, one of India’s biggest festival, is just a few weeks away, the development strongly suggests that the devices could be released in the country in the near future – both are currently listed as ‘coming soon’ on Microsoft’s Indian…

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Facebook’s headquarters in Israel – located in the country’s capital of Tel Aviv – has been vandalized to protest pages containing violence inciting, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish content.

A Tel Aviv man by the name of Rotem Gez spray-painted graffiti (shown in the image above) of bloody hand-prints on the company’s building, along with the text “blood on your hands.”

Claiming the responsibility of the work, Gez said in a television interview that the social networking company doesn’t take down the pages in question as they bring in good amount of traffic to the site.

“I decided to go out and campaign against them to make it clear our blood is on their hands,” he said. “We decided to do this because you can’t write anything on Facebook’s Wall (on the site), so we transferred the protest to the company’s physical wall, outside the network.”

It’s worth mentioning that this is not the first run-in Gez has had with Facebook; back in 2011, he legally changed his to name to Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook sent him a couple of cease-and-desist letters for violating the company’s terms of service – he was caught selling ‘likes’ to advertisers.

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Just a week after Motorola announced its Android 6.0 update plans, there were reports that the company could soon start a Marshmallow soak test for the Moto X Pure Edition (2015). While some users did receive the update, Motorola has now clarified that it’s not a formal soak test.

“Just want to make it clear that we have NOT started a formal soak test,” said Motorola’s David Schuster in a Google+ post. “We have started a small TestDrive for the Marshmallow upgrade on Moto X 2015 Pure Edition.” He also revealed that the aforementioned TestDrive will continue for the next couple of weeks, and if the feedback is positive, they’ll determine the timing of a full soak test.

For those who aren’t aware, the Moto X Pure Edition (2015) is basically the US version of the Moto X Style sold…

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In case you were wondering how much will a fully loaded Microsoft Surface Book will set you back, we have an answer for you. The Redmond giant quietly added a variant of its ultimate laptop with 1TB of flash memory for pre-order for a rather substantial $3,199.

Considering that a sales tax must also be added in the United States, the final price that a user will have to pay for the gorgeous notebook will easily enter the $3,500 range. For comparison, Apple is also asking $3,199 for a fully loaded version of its latest Macbook Pro with 15″ Retina display.

In addition to sporting a generous 1TB SSD, the Surface Book to rule them all also comes with the latest generation Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and bespoke GPU by NVIDIA.

Despite its massive price tag, the Surface Book appears to enjoy brisk demand. Even the fully loaded variant of the notebook is not expected to begin shipping in 7-8 weeks.

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Oppo unveiled the latest member of the R7 family during GITEX in Dubai. Dubbed R7s, the metal-clad phablet features 4GB of RAM and a 5.5″ 1080p AMOLED display that’s covered by 2.5D glass.

The rest of the specs of the Oppo R7s include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset, 32GB of built-in memory, and a microSD card slot. A 13MP main camera and 8MP front-facing unit are also on board. Oppo R7s boots Android 5.1 Lollipop with ColorOS 2.1.

The smartphone’s physical measures are 151.8 x 75.4 x 6.95 mm, while its weight tips the scale at 155 grams. A 3,070 mAh battery with support for VOOC Flash Charge powers the device.

Oppo R7s will debut in Australia and a number of markets in Asia next month. Europe and the United States will follow suit in December….

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These are some of the best apps and games that came out this week.

Amount 2

Amount 2 is the sequel to the popular Amount, a unit conversion app for iOS. The app has a completely redesigned interface, and supports over 700 units across 30 categories, including currencies. There is also an Apple Watch component for quick conversions from your wrist and a Today widget to convert from the iOS Notification Center.

Price: $1.99

Download: iOS

Dipster

Dipster is a disposable email generator for iOS. The app generates random email IDs, which you can then use for temporary logins to sites you don’t want to give your primary email to. Any emails sent to these IDs, typically for verification purposes, are saved in the app until you delete them. The app can generate an infinite number of email IDs without having to do anything and they can be deleted whenever you want to.

Price: Free

Download: iOS

The List App

The List App is a crowdsourced list application, where you can make lists, which can then be shared with people. The app lists popular and relevant lists from people around the world. You can either use the app to create lists for others or for just yourself.

Price: Free

Download: iOS

Clicker

Clicker is a very basic app for the Apple Watch, designed to just count things. The app is basically one big button and every time you want to keep a count of something you press it and it remembers. You can Force Touch to delete last count or reset it. The app also has a watch face complication so you can show the count on one of the watch faces.

Price: Free

Download: iOS

Cloud Chasers

Cloud Chasers is a game of a father and daughter on a journey across a desert to make their way to the gateway to the world above the clouds. They will come across many hurdles in their path and you as a player will have to make decisions, manage resources, use equipment, and fill up on water by flying the glider through the clouds.

Price: $3.99

Download: iOS • Android

Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode is a new game from Telltale Games in the Minecraft universe. The characters and the game world look like Minecraft, featuring the same blocking textures but with typical Telltale style point and click decision drive gameplay. You play as Jesse, who can be male or female depending on your preference, and four other characters in an episodic campaign. Episode one is out now, and the rest will be coming out in the coming months.

Price: $4.99

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