Sony Xperia Pro-I has been launched. This is the new flagship smartphone from Sony, which has a 1-inch Exmor RS CMOS sensor with phase detection autofocus. The Sony Xperia Pro-i has been given for eye imaging. It has a shutter button on the right and Zeiss Tessar calibrated optics. Apart from this, this flagship phone of Sony is equipped with Snapdragon 888 processor, with which 12 GB RAM is present. Sony has also introduced a Vlog Monitor, which works as an accessory for the Sony Xperia Pro-i.

Sony Xperia Pro-I price, availability

The Sony Xperia Pro-I is priced at $1,799.99 (approximately Rs. 1.35 lakh). At the same time, the price of Sony Vlog Monitor is $199.99 (about Rs 15,000). The Sony Xperio smartphone and vlog monitor will be available for purchase from December through official retail stores. A single Frosted Black color option is available in Xperia Pro-I.

Sony Xperia Pro-I specifications, features

Dual-SIM (Nano) Sony Xperia Pro-i phone works on Android 11. It sports a 6.5-inch 4K HDR (3,840×1,644 pixels) OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, 240Hz touch sampling rate, 21:9 aspect ratio and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut. Also, Corning Gorilla Glass Viktus protection is present in the phone, Gorilla Glass 6 protection is present on the back panel of the phone. Apart from this, the phone is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor, coupled with 12 GB RAM.

For photography and video, a triple rear camera setup has been given in the phone, in which a 12-megapixel 1-inch type Exmor RS sensor with a variable aperture from f / 2.0 to f / 4.0 is available. It has a 12-megapixel 1/2.9-inch Exmor RS sensor with an f/2.4 aperture lens and a 12-megapixel 1/2.5-inch Exmor RS sensor with an f/2.2 aperture lens. Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) is also available in the rear camera setup. For selfies and video calling, the Sony Xperia Pro-I sports an 8-megapixel 1/4-inch sensor with an f/2.0 aperture lens.

The new Sony Xperia flagship smartphone records videos in 21:9 video format at 4K resolution and 120 frames per second. It also comes with a Cinematography Pro mode, which lets users adjust various settings. Sony’s vlog monitor serves as a secondary display, which is attached to the back of the Xperia Pro-i.

The Sony Xperia Pro-i packs up to 512GB of UFS storage, which is expandable up to 1TB via microSD card. It has Dolby Atmos feature for built-in speaker. For connectivity, the phone includes 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 6, dual-band Wi-Fi with 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, Bluetooth v5.2, NFC, USB Type-C port, etc. Sensors include A-GPS, A-GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS and a fingerprint sensor.

The battery of the phone is 4,500 mAh, with which there is 30 W fast charging support. The company claims that it can charge the phone’s battery to 50 percent in 30 minutes. Comes with IPX5 and IPX8 water resistant and IP6X ratings for dust resistant. The dimensions of the phone are 166x72x8.9mm and the weight is 211 grams.

Product allows swift integration into any 5G Distributed Unit (DU) that supports the O-RAN AAL, enabling operators to select the most appropriate 5G physical layer accelerator cards to maximize flexibility and ease of deployment

Southampton, UK – 26th October 2021 – AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with physical layer IP which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency, today announced that it has successfully demonstrated a fully compliant O-RAN AAL (Acceleration Abstraction Layer) Forward Error Correction (FEC) product for the Xilinx Telco Accelerator cards. This carrier-grade product enables AccelerComm’s high performance 5G NR LDPC encoding and decoding IP solutions to be rapidly and efficiently used as hardware accelerators in industry standard servers across a PCIe bus using the O-RAN AAL interface. AccelerComm joined the O-RAN ALLIANCE in December 2020 and has been an active participant in the technical development of the organisation’s physical layer standards.

Following the work in O-RAN Working Group 6 to finalize a standard which defines the hardware accelerator interface functions and protocols, known as the AAL interface, (see O-RAN ALLIANCE press release) AccelerComm has successfully demonstrated compliance to this standard. Using a Xilinx Telco card incorporating AccelerComm 5G physical layer IP and drivers, the company demonstrated Block Error Rate (BLER) and throughput tests of their high performance LDPC IP, as well as basic compliance with interface test vectors.

“Central to the success of O-RAN 5G networks is operators being able to minimize their operational costs and maximize the flexibility of their RAN deployments,” said Eric Dowek, Segment Marketing Director at AccelerComm. “This interface enables MNOs with AAL-compliant DUs to use accelerator cards from different vendors which, as well as easing their operational costs, means that operators can select the accelerator card that performs best in a particular use case scenario, thereby helping them to get the best return on investment out of their network.”

AccelerComm’s portfolio of advanced channel coding solutions contain unique cutting-edge technology to maximize spectral efficiency and reduce latency for truly high-performance Open RAN 5G communications systems. This enables the next generation of services requiring ultra-reliable, low latency communications, such as VR/AR, industrial IoT, autonomous vehicles and drone control.

To organize a demo, or to test interoperability with a specific DU, please email eric.dowek@accelercomm.com

Further details of AccelerComm products can be found at www.accelercomm.com

About AccelerComm
AccelerComm is the company supercharging 5G with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency. It provides LDPC, polar and turbo FEC solutions which enable optimal performance of communication systems and solves the challenges that would otherwise limit the speed of 5G, namely the error correction decoding that is required to overcome the effects of noise, interference, and poor signal strength .

AccelerComm’s portfolio of advanced channel coding solutions contain unique cutting-edge technology to maximize spectral efficiency and reduce latency for truly high-performance Open RAN 5G communications systems. This enables the next generation of services requiring ultra-reliable, low latency communications, such as VR/AR and industrial IoT. The company is active in a number of industry associations including through its membership of the O-RAN ALLIANCE. For further information visit www.accelercomm.com or follow @AccelerComm on Twitter.

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New Delhi: Video conferencing app Zoom has announced that it is adding live closed captioning service from the paid version of its video conferencing software to all of its free users.

This feature, which provides automatic captioning during a Zoom video call, is also available for paid Zoom Meetings and Zoom Video Webinars accounts.

“It is important to us that everyone can successfully connect, communicate, and participate using Zoom. Without the proper accessibility tools, people with disabilities face tremendous barriers when using video communication solutions. That is why we are focused on building out a platform that is accessible to everyone,” the company said in a statement.

Auto-generated captions are currently available in English, and the firm is planning to expand them to other languages ​​in the future.

How does Zoom’s live captioning feature work?

In order to enable closed captioning, one just needs to sign into the Zoom web portal, navigate to the Settings option and click the Meeting tab. Under In Meeting (Advanced), one can click on the Closed captioning toggle to enable or disable it.

The company has also announced a few other major changes including the whiteboard feature.

The enhanced Zoom Whiteboard, anticipated later this year, will enable seamless, asynchronous collaboration across a wide range of devices while providing a more engaging and streamlined meeting experience.

Users will be able to interact with a virtual whiteboard just as you would in person.

The company will also extend its new end-to-end encryption offering to Zoom Phone, enabling users to upgrade to end-to-end encryption during one-on-one phone calls that occur via the Zoom client.