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VPN Service Providers Raise Concerns Over Government’s Order, Set to Leave Country If No Options Given

Virtual private network (VPN) service providers are raising concerns over the government’s order under which it directed them to keep user data for at least five years and share records with authorities when required. Some of the major VPN companies including NordVPN are set to leave the country if the government does not provide them the room to serve their customers in a private manner. At the same time, legal advocacy groups are suggesting the government remove the requirements violating user privacy.

The order, which was passed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s agency CERT-In last week and is coming into force from June 28, directs VPN service providers to preserve data including the validated names, email IDs, and IP addresses of their users for five years or longer “as mandated by the law” even after cancellation or withdrawal of their registration.

It also says that “all service providers” should “mandatorily enable logs” of their systems and maintain them securely for a rolling period of 180 days and the “same shall be maintained within the Indian jurisdiction.” The directive restricts service providers to provide the logs to CERT-In when ordered or directed by the agency.

According to the order, it is aimed to help limit cybercrime and cybersecurity incidents in the country. Failing to furnish the information or non-compliance with the directions may invite “punitive action” under sub-section (7) of the section 70B of the IT Act, 2000, and other laws as applicable, the government agency said.

However, VPN service providers — as their default model — offer paramount user privacy to attract customers.

“Surfshark has a strict no-logs policy, which means that we don’t collect or share our customer browsing data or any usage information,” said Gytis Malinauskas, Head of Legal department at Surfshark, in a statement to Gadgets 360. “Moreover, we operate only with RAM-only servers, which automatically overwrite user-related data. Thus, at this moment, even technically, we would not be able to comply with the logging requirements.”

Malinauskas added by saying that Surfshark is still investigating the new regulations and its implications but has no plans to compromise on user privacy and is aimed to continue providing no-logs services to all of its users.

Similar to Surfshark, Nord Security — the parent company of NordVPN — is currently investigating the order passed by CERT-In in a surprise move.

Laura Tyrylyte, Head of Public Relations at Nord Security, told Gadgets 360 that it was exploring the best course of action and is currently operating as usual as there are still “at least two months left” until the order comes into effect.

“We are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers therefore, we may remove our servers from India if no other options are left,” Tyrylyte said.

India is one of the biggest markets for VPNs — considering the Internet censorship in the country that is growing and is implemented using various technological methodologies, including DNS restrictions and TCP/IP blocking. In many cases, users have reported certain restrictions that are limited to some Internet service providers (ISPs), which can be overcome using an VPN service. The 2020 lockdown in the country also resulted in a significant growth of VPN services including ExpressVPN.

According to a report by UK-based VPN review website Top10VPN.com, India has been the second biggest market for VPNs globally, with as much as 45 percent of its total Internet user base relying on a VPN, as of 2020.

“While there are a huge number of VPN users in India, few VPN providers have a direct physical presence in the country, which will make it hard for authorities to enforce the new legislation,” said Simon Migliano, Head of Research at Top10VPN.com.

Service providers such as NordVPN do have their servers in India, per the details available on Panama-headquartered VPN company’s site.

But nonetheless, Migliano said that there would be little impact on customers as they could simply connect to a VPN service based in another country.

“All in all, it seems highly unlikely that any legitimate VPN provider will comply with the CERT-In legislation as it is not only hard to enforce but goes against everything that they stand for,” the researcher said.

The order also directs service providers, data centres, and organisations to report cyber incidents within six hours of their notice to CERT-In. This has been considered as a positive move by legal advocacy groups including SFLC.in — given the fact that the country is seeing a number of cybersecurity cases.

However, Mishi Choudhary, Technology Lawyer and Founder of SFLC.in, said that the requirements to register VPN users and linking of identification to IP addresses raised serious privacy concerns and should be removed.

“CERT-In cannot take away the right to use certain tools in the garb of cybersecurity,” she told Gadgets 360.

Prasanth Sugathan, Legal Director at SFLC.in, said that collection of excessive data about consumers went against the policy of most VPN providers and might result in some of them to exit the country rather than complying with “the cumbersome provisions” given in the order.

Legal experts find the directive of an ambiguous nature as it does not clearly detail the implications for service providers.

“These directions came without any sort of public consultation,” said Prateek Waghre, Policy Director at the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF).

He added that the order does not give any clarity on what the rules mean for VPN service providers and their operations in India.

“It’s also unclear whether the VPN service providers who are not operating an Indian IP will still be liable under the provisions of the directive,” he said, adding that the development would certainly add a layer of concern if any of these service providers have employees in the country.

In the recent past, restrictions focussing on VPN services were suggested by legislators. Telecom operators including Reliance Jio were also seen limiting access to some VPN services. Nevertheless, VPN users in the country have continued to grow so far.

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AI Can Now Help Identify Between Straight And Lateral Backlift by Watching a Video

Science is an important but less popular part of sports. We, as viewers, often overlook the techniques employed by players in the excitement to enjoy the spirit of the game. However, a team’s support staff is keenly on the lookout for the finer details. Consider cricket for instance. While most viewers are interested in how many runs a batsman made, the support staff would analyse the batting and bowling techniques and other minute details, taking help from technology for analysis. Even the most precise calculations have a room for mistakes. To avoid these minor faults, researchers are now taking help from artificial intelligence (AI).

During a game of cricket, a batter facing a fast bowler has to make a decision on the backlift – whether to go for straight or lateral — in a fraction of a second. Now, imagine the technology being improved in a way that it can assist the support staff, or even the [players](https://gadgets360.com/games/news), in identifying the problems. In their latest study published in Nature Scientific Reports, researchers from the University of Johannesburg have developed a deep learning computer vision model, using artificial intelligence, that can spot straight backlift batters from lateral ones, using video only.

“This study provides a way forward in the automatic recognition of player patterns and motion capture, making it less challenging for sports scientists, biomechanists and video analysts working in the field,” the report suggests.

Using this technology, coaches may be able to give more detailed feedback to players. It can also help identify players with lateral backlift components, like legendary cricketer Sir Donald Bradman who was a pioneer of lateral backlift. “The beauty of deep learning in AI is that you don’t have to tell the AI what to look for,” said study co-author Tevin Moodley, a doctoral student at the University of Johannesburg.

The researchers found that untrained batters often instinctively use a lateral backlift. “What we have found is that if young players are not coached using traditional methods, they do not pick up the bat straight. They pick the bat up in a lateral direction. This indirectly suggests that a straight backlift is not a natural movement,” said Prof Habib Noorbhai, another author on the article.

 

 

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Intelligent Metasurfaces Can Revolutionise Lives, Help Develop 6G Wireless, Green IoT, More: Researchers

With the rapid advancement of technology, the manipulation of electromagnetic waves and information has become key to the modern lifestyle. This has called for the development of intelligent metasurfaces – those that do not require manual intervention to control wave-information-matter interaction. To this end, a group of researchers tried to study the development of intelligent metasurfaces with an eye to the future. They say intelligent metasurfaces can benefit the development of 6G wireless communications, green IoT, and digital twinning tremendously.

The development of intelligent metasurfaces has “refreshed human insights into many fundamental laws,” the researchers say, adding they have led to the development of many new devices and systems, like cloaking, tunnelling, and holograms.

“We can envision that intelligent metasurfaces can learn, make decisions, self-programming, and continuously learn throughout their ‘lifetime’,” they said in a statement. The intelligent metasurface is an emerging research direction involving various disciplines. There are a lot of open questions needed to be carefully addressed in the future, the researchers say.

The research was led by Professor Tie Jun Cui of Southeast University and Professor Lianlin Li of Peking University. They have published their paper in eLight.

Intelligent metasurfaces have three crucial properties — digitalisation, programmability, and intelligence. Digitalisation enables the metasurface to encode, decode and store digital information. With programmability, the metasurface can realise distinct functions with one physical entity. Intelligence means the metasurface can make decisions, self-program, and perform successive tasks without human supervision.

In assessing the future of intelligent metasurfaces, the researchers said that the wireless signals that already exist in our lives could be vital to the field’s further development. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, especially in data mining and knowledge discovery, deep learning has proven extraordinarily useful in nearly every field of science and engineering. Deep learning will definitely give birth to comprehensive and active research directions, they say. Intelligent metasurfaces have the potential to revolutionise our lives, the researchers say.

 

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India, US Researchers Collaborate to Develop Optogenetic Tool to Understand Brain Disorders

Researchers at the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) here in collaboration with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an optogenetic tool which can help understand brain disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, depression and schizophrenia.

In a statement, the JMI said that the tool can study molecular trafficking in neurons and has been developed by Dr Tanveer Ahmad, who did his postdoctoral training at NIH, before joining the Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Research and Studies (MCARS) at the varsity as an assistant professor.

“Understanding the molecular details of these diseases will help to develop targeted therapies, in particular viral and mRNA-based methods, which are specific to a particular target molecule in the cells,” Ahmad said.

The tool can be applied to address other biological questions like memory formation, and for the development of inducible light-activated therapies for the treatment of cancer and neurodegeneration, he said.

Leveraging the potential of phototropic receptors known as light-oxygen-voltage-sensing domains derived from the plant Avena Sativa (oats) and abbreviated as AsLOV2, the researchers generated innovative chimeric molecular designs by conjugating a light-sensitive domain of LOV2 with a protein called neuregulin3 (NRG3).

Further, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and depression have genetic polymorphisms in NRG3 due to which it is considered as a susceptible gene for these diseases, according to the statement.

Using this innovative tool, the researchers discovered a new mechanism of protein trafficking in hippocampal neurons of the brain which they termed as “trans-synaptic retention”, it said.

Professor Mohd. Zulfequar, Director of MCARS, said these novel futuristic optogenetic techniques will provide unprecedented ease to understand human diseases and finding innovative treatment solutions.

The optogenetic technique has revolutionised the field of neuroscience and collaboration with institutes of the world like the NIH, shows that India is at the forefront to develop and implement these cutting-edge technologies, he said.

A study in this regard was published in a highly-reputed peer-reviewed scientific journal — “Journal of Cell Biology” by The Rockefeller University, US, the JMI said in a statement.

Ahmad is the lead author of the study while Rituparna Chaudhuri and Nisha Chaudhary are the other contributing authors, it said.

The team from NIH includes Dr. Andres Buonanno, who is the senior author, and Dr. Detlef Vullhorst, Dr. Carlos Guardia, Dr. Irina Karavanova, and Dr. Juan Bonifacino who are co-authors.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren Expresses Concern Over Fidelity’s Bitcoin Pension Plan

US-based retirement plan provider Fidelity must address risks and potential conflicts of interest related to its plan to allow Bitcoin investment in 401 (k) retirement accounts, according to Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tina Smith of Minnesota, who have asked for answers from the financial services heavyweight before May 18. Fidelity announced last week that it would allow people to devote as much as 20 percent of their retirement plan to Bitcoin towards the end of the year.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Minnesota Senator Tina Smith sent a letter to Fidelity’s Chief Executive Officer, Abigail Johnson, earlier this week asking, among other things, why it didn’t heed earlier concerns by the Department of Labor on the issue of including cryptocurrencies in 401(k) retirement accounts.

“Why did Fidelity ignore DOL’s ‘serious concerns regarding the prudence of a fiduciary’s decision to expose 401(k) plan’s participants to direct investments in cryptocurrencies?” the senators wrote.

Fidelity’s push to extend the investment into 401(k) was said to be based on a growing demand from employees. Despite the firm clarifying that it will charge no fees for the service, the Senators still demanded to know if the proposed customers would need to worry about any fees at all.

In the prior announcement, Fidelity said it would only permit about 20% of a particular client’s portfolio to be invested in digital currencies, however, the claim of popular demand has mainly been faulted by the Senators who wrote, “Despite a lack of demand for this option — only 2 percent of employers expressed interest in adding cryptocurrency to their 401(k) menu – Fidelity has decided to move full speed ahead with supporting Bitcoin investments.”

Fidelity did not respond to the specific issues raised by the senators. But, in an email to CNN Business, a spokesman said that the company would respond directly to them.

“As a Massachusetts-based company with a proven 75-plus-year history of doing what’s in the best interest of our customers, we look forward to continuing our respectful dialogue with policymakers to responsibly provide access with all appropriate consumer protections and educational guidance for plan sponsors as they consider offering this innovative product,” Fidelity wrote.

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Elon Musk’s Latest $7 Billion Twitter Funding Could Face US Regulator Scrutiny: Experts

Elon Musk’s decision to accept some foreign investors as part of his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,000 crore) buyout of Twitter runs the risk of inviting the kind of regulatory scrutiny over US national security that social media peer TikTok faced, legal experts say.

Musk disclosed on Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange founded by Chinese native Changpeng Zhao, were part of a group of investors that will help him fund the acquisition of Twitter.

This could give the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) an opening to scrutinize the deal for potential national security risks, six regulatory lawyers not involved in the transaction and interviewed by Reuters said. CFIUS is a panel of government agencies and departments that reviews mergers and acquisitions for potential threats to US security.

“To the extent that Musk’s proposed acquisition of Twitter includes foreign investment, it very well could fall under CFIUS jurisdiction,” said Chris Griner, chair of law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP’s national security practice.

A spokesperson for the US Treasury Department, which chairs CFIUS, declined to comment on whether the national security panel planned to scrutinize Musk’s Twitter deal.

Spokespeople for Musk, bin Talal, Qatar and Binance did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Former President Donald Trump’s administration turned to CFIUS in 2020 in a bid to force TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to divest the short video app. His successor Joe Biden abandoned that effort after ByteDance agreed to changes on how the data of US users are stored and protected.

The regulatory lawyers interviewed by Reuters said the risk of CFIUS blocking Musk’s deal is small because he will control Twitter under the proposed takeover and the foreign investors are acquiring relatively small stakes.

They added that their assessment would change were Musk to give the foreign investors influence over the company, through a seat on its board or other means.

The risk is not negligible, however, given that the business of handling personal data by social media companies such as Twitter is typically viewed as critical infrastructure by CFIUS, the lawyers said.

“One of the items that’s considered sensitive personal data, is non-public electronic communications. So that would be email, messaging or chat communications between users. Twitter allows you to do that,” law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP partner Richard Sofield said.

One area of potential scrutiny for CFIUS, the lawyers said, could be Musk’s business dealings with foreign governments hostile to free speech or keen to overtake the United States technologically. Tesla, the electric car maker he leads, relies heavily on China, for example, to manufacture and sell its vehicles.

China blocked Twitter in 2009 but many Chinese officials have been active on the social media platform. Some of them have complained that the company’s efforts to restrict misinformation have targeted them unfairly.

“One of the considerations would be whether or not there will be an opportunity for China to leverage its business activity in order to achieve a desired outcome,” Sofield added.

BROADCOM PRECEDENT

There is precedent for CFIUS shooting down a deal based on the risk that an acquirer’s business ties could compromise them, the lawyers said. Trump blocked chip maker Broadcom $117 billion (roughly Rs. 8,99,595 crore) acquisition of US peer Qualcomm 2018 after CFIUS raised concerns about the deal.

Broadcom was a publicly listed company with US shareholders that was headquartered in Singapore, but the White House fretted that Broadcom’s relationship with “third-party foreign entities” would set the US back in its technology race with China.

Nevena Simidjiyska, a regulatory lawyer at law firm Fox Rothschild LLP, said it was possible CFIUS would look into whether Musk or other US investors in the Twitter deal can be influenced by foreign entities in a similar way.

“CFIUS may determine that even US investors in Twitter fall under CFIUS review if they are controlled by foreign parties,” Simidjiyska said.

Musk’s Twitter deal does not face the most common type of regulatory risk seen in mergers and acquisitions — pushback from antitrust regulators. The world’s richest man has no media holdings, and regulatory experts have said they do not expect the deal to face significant antitrust scrutiny.

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Tesla Said to Increase Shanghai Plant Output to 2,600 Cars a Day Starting May 16

Tesla is aiming to increase output at its Shanghai plant to 2,600 cars a day from May 16, it said in an internal memo seen by Reuters, as it seeks to restore production to levels before the city locked down to control COVID-19.

Tesla, which is now only running one shift, plans to add more at its Shanghai plant from May 16 to achieve the goal, the memo reviewed by Reuters showed.

That would bring weekly output to 16,900 vehicles based on Tesla’s established work week at the facility, according to Reuters calculations.

It would also represent a return to the production levels at the plant before Shanghai’s lockdown in late March forced the company to suspend work there.

Tesla declined to provide immediate comment.

Before the lockdown, Tesla had run three shifts at the Shanghai plant. The factory, which makes Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y, reopened on April 19 after a 22-day closure, its longest since the site opened in late 2019.

The Shanghai lockdown has also been challenging for Tesla and other manufacturers because of the complication of getting parts from suppliers.

In one example, Aptiv, which supplies wire harnesses for Tesla, was not able to resume production in mid-April and there were concerns that this could have a knock-on effect on the automaker’s production, according to a person familiar with the matter.

But Tesla managed to secure wire harnesses from other suppliers and Aptiv got approval from authorities to resume production at the end of April, the person said.

Aptiv did not immediately respond to a query for comment.

The disruption to Tesla’s Shanghai plant has been one of the highest profile consequences of China’s measures to control its biggest COVID-19 outbreak, which have also crimped consumption, including vehicle sales.

Sales of electric vehicles (EV) had been booming in China before the COVID lockdowns. Tesla’s sales in China jumped 56 percent in the first quarter, while EV sales by its larger rival in China, BYD, increased fivefold.

Tesla assembled 55,462 vehicles in March at its Shanghai plant when it paused production for six days in the month, data from China Passenger Car Association showed.

The reopening of its Shanghai factory was heavily publicised by state media and was undertaken with the support of authorities who helped Tesla transport more than 6,000 workers and carry out disinfection work, Reuters reported this week.

Tesla’s progress, however, comes as a survey showed that Japanese companies are struggling to reopen factories in Shanghai, indicating difficulties with the municipal government’s push to help key businesses get back to work.

The Shanghai Japanese Commerce and Industry Club said on Thursday that of 54 companies that responded to an April 27-30 survey, 63 percent said their factories had yet to resume operations.

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Motorola Edge 30 India Launch Date Set for May 12: Expected Price, Specifications

Motorola Edge 30 will be launched in India on May 12, the company revealed through a teaser on Friday. A dedicated microsite on Flipkart also started teasing the specifications of the new Motorola Edge series smartphone ahead of launch in the country. The Motorola Edge 30’s India variant will have a pOLED panel, as per the microsite. The smartphone was launched in the global market in April last week. The 5G handset is powered by the Snapdragon 778G+. It features a 6.5-inch OLED display with a 144Hz refresh rate.

In a tweet, Motorola India announced the official launch date of the Motorola Edge 30 in the country. The smartphone is scheduled to launch on May 12 and will go on sale via Flipkart, Reliance Digital and other major retail stores. The poster carries a tagline: “World’s Thinnest 5G Smartphone”. Flipkart has created a dedicated landing page on its website to tease the arrival of the smartphone. Interested people can click the “Notify Me” button on the website to stay updated with the developments regarding its launch and availability. However, the time of the launch event and India pricing details of the smartphone are unknown at this moment.

Motorola Edge 30 price in India (expected)

To recall, Motorola Edge 30 debuted in the European markets recently with a price tag of EUR 449.99 (roughly Rs. 36,300) for the base 8GB RAM + 128GB storage variant. The India pricing of the device is expected to be aligned with the European pricing. It is available in Aurora Green, Meteor Gray, and Supermoon Silver colour options.

Another Edge series phone, Motorola Edge 30 Pro’s price in India has been set at Rs. 49,999 for the sole 8GB RAM + 128GB storage variant.

Motorola Edge 30 specifications

The Indian variant of Motorola Edge 30 is expected to carry the same specifications as the model launched globally. The Flipkart listing indicates that it will have 5G connectivity and pOLED display with 144Hz refresh rate. It further suggests 155 grams weight and a thickness of 6.79mm for the upcoming Motorola smartphone.

The dual-SIM (Nano) Motorola Edge 30 launched globally runs on Android 12-based My UX. It features a 6.7-inch full-HD+ (1,080×2,400) pixels OLED display with a 144Hz refresh rate. Under the hood, the Motorola Edge 30 packs an octa-core Snapdragon 778G+ processor, coupled with 8GB of RAM.

The Motorola Edge 30 features a triple rear camera setup led by 50-megapixel primary camera. The camera unit also includes a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. It features a 32-megapixel front-facing camera for selfies and video chats. The smartphone carries up to 256GB of inbuilt storage. It features an in-display fingerprint sensor for biometric authentication.

The Motorola Edge 30 packs a 4,020mAh battery with 33W TurboPower charging support.

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Pinterest TV Studio Livestreaming App Launched for Select Creators

Pinterest TV Studio app has been silently launched and is available for select creators on its platform. The new app is currently available on both Android and iOS. The Pinterest TV Studio app is said to make it easier for creators to livestream. It will allow creators to start a livestream with improved streaming setup, editing tools, and multiple camera capabilities. However, the company has not officially announced anything about this app yet, perhaps because it is currently only available to select creators.

As per a report by TechCrunch, during the first launch of the Pinterest TV Studio app, creators will have to enter a code or scan a barcode that Pinterest provides in order to gain access to the live streaming tools the app provides. The addition of this dedicated livestreaming app to Pinterest’ platform seems to be an indication that its trying to broaden its social media landscape.

In a statement to TechCrunch, a Pinterest spokesperson confirmed that the app had been launched, but didn’t share much more beyond a that, “With more Creators developing innovative programming with Pinterest TV on the Platform, we’re continuously experimenting with new ways to help Creators bring their ideas to life.” The app is listed for Android and iOS on the Google Play store and App Store.

TikTok has seen a lot of growth in the past few years and has already pushed other social media platforms to expand their functions while offering more features for creating video content. Major social platforms nowadays, including Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat have a short video feature available for the users, just like TikTok. And now, Pinterest is also moving toward the same fundamental by quietly adding the Pinterest TV Studio live streaming app to its platform.

The Pinterest TV Studio app has been reportedly available to select users on both Android and iOS since May 2. Despite no official announcement, the app is said to be available in several regions outside the US, including Australia, Canada, Germany, and the UK, which could mean a global expansion is on the horizon.

Besides this, Pinterest had also announced a feature last year for brands to promote products and ideas to users as part of an effort to grow online shopping on its site. Through this feature, brands can upload their product catalogues for advertisements and the company will automatically pull items into a slideshow advertisement that will be tailored to users based on their interests.

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OnePlus Nord 2T Listed on AliExpress Ahead of Official Launch, Key Specifications Tipped

OnePlus Nord 2T has surfaced on the AliExpress e-commerce website ahead of its official launch, tipping its price, release date, as well as its specifications. The listing hints at the design of the upcoming OnePlus smartphone and some of its key specifications. As per the listing, the OnePlus Nord 2T is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1300 SoC and packs a 4,500mAh battery with support for 80W SuperVOOC fast charging technology. This handset has been doing the rounds of various certification sites, including TDRA, GCF, Camera FV5, and Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). Although it appears that this handset could launch imminently, OnePlus is yet to officially reveal any information.

OnePlus Nord 2T price (expected)

According to the AliExpress listing, the OnePlus Nord 2T has a $399 price (as seen in the promo image, above), though that appears to be different in some regions – as per tipster Abhishek Yadav, who has shared a EUR 399 (roughly Rs. 32,500) price. Another placeholder price is also listed, and seems obviously wrong for a budget smartphone. This OnePlus handset is listed to offer only 8GB RAM + 128GB inbuilt storage configuration option and said to be available in Green and Grey colours. Another image on the listing page (seen further below) shows sale date of May 11 to May 12 – hinting that’s around when the official launch and release date could be.

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OnePlus Nord 2T specifications

This AliExpress listing corroborates several of the claims made by past reports regarding the OnePlus Nord 2T. As per the listing, the handset is said to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1300 SoC and sport a 6.43-inch Fluid AMOLED display with a full-HD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate.

The handset is said to feature a triple rear camera setup, including a 50-megapixel IMX766 image sensor with optical image stabilisation (OIS). The primary sensor could be accompanied by an 8-megapixel ultra-wide sensor and a 2-megapixel monochrome sensor. The listed images suggest that there will be a hole-punch slot on the top-left corner of the screen, which has been hinted to feature a 32-megapixel camera.

The OnePlus Nord 2T could arrive with a non-removable 4,500mAh battery with 80W SuperVOOC fast charging technology. It is expected to run on the Android 12-based OxygenOS 12.1. The smartphone could include face unlock technology and offer Bluetooth v5.2 connectivity.



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