MI ELECTRIC TOOTH BRUSH

Xiaomi has launched several electric toothbrushes in its home market of China over the years. Today, the company has brought the new Mi ecosystem product to the Indian market. The Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 offers a range of oral care functions. It is touted to vibrate at over 31,000 times per minute with a torque of over 230gf.cm. Let’s take a look at the specifications and features of the device.

Features of Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 

The Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 is powered by a 700mAh battery unit and is claimed to offer 25 days of usage on a single charge. The device can be topped up via a USB-C port. 

The Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 is equipped with a high-precision acceleration sensor that can sense brush position and is capable of monitoring six different zones inside the mouth and how long a user spends while brushing. The device offers position detection technology as well as reporting and tracking. It connects to a compatible smartphone app via Bluetooth and lets users adjust the brush time, brush strength and other functions that suit the user’s diet and daily brushing habits. The app also provides statistics such as duration, coverage and uniformity. Xiaomi claims that the electric toothbrush achieves a deeper clean than a manual toothbrush by penetrating the gaps between the teeth.

The Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 features a high-density anti-corrosive metal-free brush head. It comes with a magnetic levitation sonic motor for higher efficiency. The toothbrush has a textured slip-resistant design with an on/off button. The button can be used to switch between three modes i.e. standard, gentle and customised depending on the needs of the user. The Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 is IPX7 rated water-resistant. There is an interchangeable colour ring at the bottom of the toothbrush to avoid mixing it up with other brushes.

Price in India:

Xiaomi has priced the Mi Electric Toothbrush T300 at Rs 1,299 while the MRP is Rs 1,599. The device is currently up for crowdfunding with sales commencing from March 10th, 2020.

reverse wireless charging supported by Google Pixel 5

This feature is obviously nothing new in the mobile world, but so far no Pixel has had it. There's a new hidden activity in the Settings app for Pixel smartphones, and launching it manually reveals what you can see in the screenshot below.

It's a quick explainer of what Battery share will do, and contains a placeholder image that's taken straight from the Adaptive Battery page in Settings. So clearly this is very much a work in progress.

Android 11 is out now, even if it's just the first Developer Preview it means we already get to see a lot of what makes it tick, months ahead of its final release in Q3. The enterprising folks over at XDA Developers went digging through the Android 11 code and found something intriguing.

Because the activity name is prefaced with "com.google.android" and not "com.android", it is a Google feature and not one that will be part of the Android Open Source Project. To further solidify that this is meant for a future Pixel, there's a method in the Java code of the new Battery share feature that flashes a toast message saying "can't Battery share while charging wireless!" if the device is currently wirelessly charging.

Basically, it looks like the Pixel 5 will support reverse wireless charging. The feature will be called Battery share in the Settings menu, and will let your Pixel 5 wirelessly charge things such as true wireless earbuds, smartwatches, and even other phones.

And that makes sense, of course. Furthermore, another method grabs a string array called "config_model_device_name" which currently only holds one value, which is "redfin". Now that has been rumored to be the codename for one of the 2020 Pixel devices, an upper-midrange handset powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 765. It's unclear where this will fit in Google's portfolio exactly, but it's safe to assume that if such an upper-midranger is to get support for reverse wireless charging, then Google's 2020 flagship(s) will too.