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Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale 2025 is now open to all shoppers, offering discounts across categories, including smartphones, laptops, TVs, and home appliances. PC peripherals are also seeing major price cuts, with printers from Canon, Epson, and HP included. The event provides a good chance to upgrade rigs with more affordable accessories.

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Realme GT 8 Pro will be powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, the company announced on Thursday. The handset is confirmed to come with a dedicated R1 graphics chip for handling graphics intensive tasks. Realme will also equip it with dual symmetrical speakers for an improved multimedia experience. The Realme GT 8 Pro is scheduled to make its debut in China in October.

Xiaomi 17 series was launched by the China-based tech giant on Thursday. The new lineup includes the standard Xiaomi 17, Xiaomi 17 Pro, and Xiaomi 17 Pro Max. The standard option is powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC. It features a triple-rear camera setup, coupled with an LED flash, housed inside a left-aligned square camera module. The new handset also sports a 6.3-inch display with 1.18mm thin bezels.

The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro feature 6.9-inch 2K and 6.3-inch 1.5K displays, respectively, with secondary M10 back screens offering 3,500 nits brightness for AI tools, notes, and rear-camera selfies. Both run on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC with HyperOS 3 and HyperIsland. Cameras include Leica-tuned 50-megapixel primary, ultrawide, and 5x periscope telephoto lenses, alongside 50-megapixel front sensors. The Pro Max has a 7,500mAh battery, while the Pro packs 6,300mAh, both supporting 100W wired and 50W wireless charging.