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Oppo F27 5G smartphone has been officially launched in India. This new Oppo F-series smartphone is equipped with 50MP main camera and 45W of fast charging capability. Oppo’s new mid-range smartphone is now available for purchase at several e-commerce platforms and retail stores. Take a look at its specifications like display, processor, battery and more.

The Oppo F27 5G features a 6.67-inch FHD+ OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. The smartphone offers 1080 X 2400 pixels resolution and 240Hz touch sampling rate. It features the protection covering of AGC-DT Star 2 glass.

The smartphone comes with MediaTek Dimensity 6300 SoC paired with Mali G57 MP2 GPU.

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Avoid the IP64 rating, as it only supports dust resistance and not waterproof capabilities. This information is incorrect based on common standards for smartphones claiming an IP rating.

Avoid fast charging facilities like SuperVOOC if you have a battery with limited capacity, which might degrade faster.

The Oppo F27 5G comes with a 5000mAh battery. This is quite standard for mid-range phones and should be sufficient for daily use unless the phone is used heavily throughout the day.
Admin: I’ve made an error; please disregard that statement about IP64 ratings as it was incorrect information provided in my previous response.

The smartphone features a dual rear camera setup, with a primary 50MP Omnivision OV50D main camera and secondary 2MP Omnivision OV02B1B camera. The front camera offers 32MP Sony IMX615 for selfies.

Also Read: Oppo K12x 5G vs Poco M6 Plus 5G: Know which affordable smartphone to buy under Rs.15000. This comparison may help you decide based on your budget and needs.

The smartphone has a strong alloy frame, making it durable.

The Oppo F27’s connectivity options are robust: Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3, GPS, dual SIM support, and USB Type C port for charging. Consider these features if you require fast data speeds or multiple connections simultaneously.

Also Read: Oppo F27 Pro Plus is expected to receive new AI features soon; stay tuned for updates! This might be an upgrade in the future.

The smartphone is available on various platforms like Oppo’s official website, Flipkart, and offline retail stores.

Pricing: The model with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage starts at ₹22,999 while the variant with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is priced at ₹24,999. These prices reflect the value of mid-range smartphones in India’s market.

For discounts, use ICICI, Bank of Baroda, HDFC, SBI or other bank cards when purchasing.

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The Chinese court’s ruling on Nokia’s 5G patents provides valuable insights into how portfolio strength and value contribution are evaluated, offering a perspective that may influence global standards for future tech-related legal decisions. It underlines the importance of considering both granted and pending applications when assessing portfolio strength, suggesting potential adjustments based on quality or essentiality disparities compared to industry averages.

The court’s determination of Nokia’s patent value contribution ratio—50:40:5:5 for 5G, 4G, 3G, and 2G technologies respectively—highlights the perceived significance of each technology in shaping mobile communication. While acknowledging the expanding role of 5G, it cautions against overestimating its current value contribution within smartphone development.

This ruling is particularly relevant as China’s mobile phone manufacturers evolve from mere implementors to rights holders with patent portfolios, and traditional Western players increasingly rely on licensing for profit. The decision could serve as a precedent in the 5G patent licensing industry worldwide. Nokia plans to appeal this judgment, indicating that further legal challenges lie ahead in shaping fair SEP licensing fees globally.

The Phenomenal Oppo Find X7 Ultra Camera

However, the standout feature is its camera. It goes well beyond most folks’ expectations from a phone camera, and it is an absolute joy to shoot photos with.
The fight to pack the most impressive camera hardware into a smartphone is still raging, and the Oppo Find X7 Ultra demands a place in the running alongside the best from Samsung and Xiaomi. This high-end smartphone takes camera hardware to a new level, with periscope lenses enabling powerful optical zoom and large image sensors to make the most of limited light.

Photograph: Simon Hill
Oppo Find X7 Ultra, main camera. This shot of the Ross Fountain with Edinburgh Castle in the background shows the main camera’s capabilities. It is sharp and detailed, with accurate colors, and excellent depth of field.

Daytime photography is excellent, with the Find X7 Ultra turning out richly detailed shots that are well-exposed and close to real-life color accuracy. The colors are well-matched across the lenses, you can achieve a pleasingly natural bokeh effect without the portrait mode, and the main and ultrawide lenses have a great depth of field. Oppo says its image processing resists over-sharpening and preserves natural tones, and I can’t disagree.

Camera Crazy

The fight to pack the most impressive camera hardware into a smartphone is still raging. This high-end smartphone takes camera hardware to a new level, with periscope lenses enabling powerful optical zoom and large image sensors to make the most of limited light.
Forgive the specs dump here, but there are four 50-megapixel lenses in the rear camera. The main lens boasts a 1-inch Sony LYT-900 sensor, an f/1.8 aperture, 23-mm focal length, and optical image stabilization (OIS).

For zooming, there are two periscope lenses. The first offers 3X optical zoom, and has a 1/1.56-inch Sony IMX890 sensor, an f/2.6 aperture, OIS, and a 65-mm focal length.
To squeeze the best results from this hardware, Oppo has developed the HyperTone Image Engine and partnered with camera maker Hasselblad. There is a Hasselblad Portrait Mode for bokeh effects, a variety of photo filters, and a Hasselblad Master Mode that allows you to shoot in RAW and tweak ISO, shutter speed, EV, focus, white balance, and many more settings.

Oppo F27 5G vs Motorola Edge 50 Fusion:

The Oppo F27 5G recently launched in the mid-range segment, which includes feature-filled smartphones like Nothing Phona 2a and Motorola Edge 50 Fusion. To understand whether the hype around the Oppo F27 5G is justified, we have a specs comparison between Oppo F27 5G and Motorola Edge 50 Fusion.

Also read: Oppo F27 5G launched in India at Rs. 22,999: Check out display, camera, battery and more

Design and Display:
The Oppo F27 5G boasts a glossy back panel with a circular camera module for a refined look. It also features a Halo light synchronized with music. Armour Body protection is offered, along with an IP64 rating for dust and splash resistance. On the contrary, Motorola Edge 50 Fusion maintains a minimalistic design with silicon back panel, though it offers better durability due to Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and an IP68 rating.

Camera:
The Oppo F27 50G camera setup includes a dual-camera system featuring a 50MP main camera paired with Samsung OmniVision OV50D sensor, along with a 2MP portrait camera. The selfie camera sports a 32MP Sony IMX615 sensor. Motorola Edge 50 Fusion offers a primary camera equipped with a 50MP Sony LYTIA 700C sensor and an ultrawide camera, complemented by a secondary 32MP selfie camera.
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Unified Fast File and Object (FF&O) storage, a new category in the data storage market, addresses modern unstructured data challenges by combining fast file access with fast object access within the same system. This innovative approach caters to diverse workloads, enabling high-performance multi-dimensional operations that are essential for handling varying sizes of both small and large files, as well as objects.

In today’s era, where data movement is rapid across multiple sites, organizations face a myriad of performance considerations including low storage latency for new incoming data, substantial bandwidth requirements for bulk data analysis, and high metadata throughput to ensure timely identification and retrieval of relevant information. By leveraging unified FF&O, businesses can overcome these challenges while meeting the demands of complex analytics systems in fields such as cybersecurity, rocket telemetry, or quantitative finance.
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For instance, a telecommunications company harnessing this technology can efficiently process vast amounts of telemetric and capacity data every 15 minutes from cell towers, thus gaining insights for network adjustments in near real-time. Similarly, Cogo Labs employs unified FF&O storage to accelerate the growth of internet startups by facilitating rapid identification of business opportunities through advanced data analytics.

The essence of Unified Fast File and Object lies in its capacity to offer a seamless storage solution that can scale effortlessly, delivering consistent performance across diverse workloads. This new category encompasses true multi-dimensional capabilities required for modern unstructured data scenarios while ensuring ease of deployment and maintenance.

In summary, Unified Fast File and Object is not merely another type of storage; it’s a revolutionary approach that recognizes the intricate needs of today’s data landscape and provides an all-encompassing solution for handling modern unstructured data efficiently and effectively.

Title: Navigating the Future of Financial Regulation with Advanced Data Technologies

Introduction

In a world where financial markets are becoming increasingly complex and interconnected, regulatory reporting plays an essential role in maintaining transparency, stability, and integrity. Institutions like Investment Adviser/Hedge Fund Compliance (IHC) and Bank Holding Company (BHC), along with platforms such as FINRA.org and the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), rely on accurate and timely reporting to meet regulatory obligations effectively. However, managing and consolidating these reports is a daunting task due to their intricate nature and growing scale. The evolution of data engineering and modern technologies has opened new possibilities for financial institutions seeking more streamlined, efficient, and reliable regulatory reporting solutions.

The Role of Data Engineering in Regulatory Reporting

Data engineering is an indispensable component when it comes to dealing with the vast amounts of information required by IHCs and BHCs for their respective reports. As financial data sets become larger, more complex, and harder to manage, efficient tools and methodologies are crucial in structuring and processing this massive influx of information. Data engineering techniques such as distributed computing platforms (e.g., Apache Hadoop) facilitate the management of extensive datasets through various stages like Extract, Transform, Load (ETL). These solutions play a vital role in ensuring accuracy and consistency across regulatory reports while also improving compliance efforts within these institutions.

Integrating Modern Data Tools: FINRA.org and CCAR Reporting

FINRA.org and the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) both demand rigorous reporting processes for financial firms to demonstrate their commitment towards maintaining market integrity and stability. Incorporating advanced data tools such as machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and big data analytics can revolutionize how these institutions manage their regulatory obligations by streamlining the collection, analysis, and dissemination of complex financial information. SAS Analytics and similar solutions offer innovative capabilities to process large datasets more effectively, providing deeper insights into market trends and capital adequacy while improving reporting accuracy and reducing human error.

The Future of Regulatory Reporting: Embracing Technological Innovations

As financial markets continue to evolve rapidly, technologies like AI, cloud computing, and machine learning are poised to reshape the landscape of regulatory compliance. Beyond merely facilitating more efficient reporting processes for IHCs, BHCs, FINRA.org, and CCAR, these innovations offer a path towards transforming risk management strategies, enhancing decision-making capabilities, and fostering greater transparency in the financial sector. By adopting modern data technologies, organizations can turn regulatory compliance into an opportunity for growth and advancement while staying ahead of industry trends.

Conclusion: The Intersection of Data Engineering and Regulatory Reporting

As we embrace a new era in the financial landscape marked by heightened regulations and data-driven decision-making, it is crucial for institutions to recognize that leveraging cutting-edge technologies presents an opportunity to improve their operations. By integrating advanced data tools and methodologies into regulatory reporting processes, organizations can not only fulfill their compliance requirements but also gain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced financial environment.

About the Author: Ravish Tillu is a seasoned professional with over ten years of experience working at top financial institutions worldwide and has established himself as an expert in regulatory reporting and data engineering within the finance industry. His proficiency in AxiomSL Controller View allows him to help clients navigate the intricacies of complex regulatory requirements, enabling them to achieve greater efficiency and accuracy in their reports. Ravish can be reached at [email protected]

I first wrote about Solus Linux and the Budgie Desktop exactly four years ago. I haven’t done much with it since then, it was always installed and occasionally updated on at least one of my computers, but because of the other activities I had going on I didn’t spend much more time on it. Now that I have time, and they have just announced the release of Solus 4.2, this seems like a good time to take a fresh look.

Why Solus?

With so many other good Linux distributions available, what make Solus different or special? In my opinion it is two things – first, Solus is an independent distribution, built from scratch – it is not derived from Debian, Ubuntu or one of the other major distributions. Second, Solus is developed and maintained by a small, dedicated group of people. As the Solus web page says:

Solus is empowered by the shared vision of a strong community working for a common goal. All developments and improvements to Solus are by people who want to use their computers just like you do.

This means that, compared to Linux distributions from large companies or organizations, such as Ubuntu (Canonical), Fedora (Red Hat) and openSUSE, the development cycle is likely to be faster and more responsive, and the release cycle is not determined by some fixed, pre-determined interval or the needs and timing of some related commercial distribution.

Where do you get Solus?

ISO installation images are available on the Solus Downloads page. There are four different desktop versions available:

• Budgie – A lightweight desktop originally developed by the Solus creators (before it was called Solus, when it was Evolve OS), now also distributed by and contributed to by a number of other distributions including Arch Linux, Manjaro, openSUSE, Ubuntu Budgie and others. The Solus developers have done an amazingly good job over the years of sticking to their original principles of simplicity and elegance. I consider Budgie to be the “native” desktop for Solus, in the same way that I think of Cinnamon for Linux Mint.
• GNOME – The opposite of a lightweight desktop. If your computer has a lot of CPU power and a lot of memory, and you are not tied to the traditional desktop (taskbar/panel) paradigm, this might be interesting for you. It isn’t for me.
• MATE – A light(er)weight desktop originally developed to continue the GNOME 2 desktop, when it was unceremoniously dropped and users were told to switch to GNOME 3 whether they liked it or not. A lot of users were (and still are) in the “or not” category, and MATE has become a very popular desktop which is offered by a lot of Linux distributions.
• Plasma – An advanced, flexible, but certainly not lightweight desktop. To be honest, when everything else is equal (i.e. when I am using a distribution which I don’t think of as having a “native” desktop such as Budgie or Cinnamon), this is the desktop that I prefer.

Solus only supports 64-bit CPUs, there are no 32-bit or PAE versions. The download page includes SHA256 checksums for each download, so be sure to verify the downloaded file before installing it. Once that has been done it can be copied to a USB drive, and then boot from that drive to run the Solus Live system.

As with many (most) Linux distributions, the Live image is a complete Solus Linux system, so you can poke around, and try this out to make sure that it supports all of your hardware, and whether you like it enough to go ahead and install it on your disk drive.

Installing Solus

When you are ready to install Solus, simply click on the InstallOS icon on the Live desktop. This starts a custom installer program, which walks you through a series of screens to get the necessary information, and then actually performs the installation.

Over the years, Linux installation programs have evolved and improved to the point where they tend to be very similar in “look and feel” (well, except for Debian and Fedora), and while the Solus installer is pretty much like the others, it does have a few particularly good points.

If your Live system has an internet connection, you can tell it to determine your location on its own, using IP Geolocation data. This is a lot easier than trying to click on your exact location on a world map (Switzerland is really small, for example), or trying to guess what the installer calls your location.

Once it knows your location, the installer will make an “educated guess” about your keyboard layout, and offer you a choice of the layouts it comes up with. This is really convenient, if you don’t have a standard US Ascii keyboard, it probably saves you from having to scroll through a list of all supported layouts to find the one you have.

The installer also makes an educated guess at your Timezone. If that guess is wrong, you can type the correct location into the input bar. You may need to experiment a bit to find out if your timezone is identified by city, country, timezone name or something else.

Once the location has been set, the installer starts the disk/partition process. It begins with four options:

• Install alongside the existing contents. If necessary, this will shrink some existing partition to make room for the new installation.
• Replace some existing partition – (Warning! The current contents of that partition will be lost).
• Wipe the disk and install Solus – (Warning! Warning! The entire current contents of the disk will be lost).
• Manually specify the partition(s) to be used for installation. This is the most flexible alternative, of course, but it requires at least a minimal understanding of both disk partitioning and Linux partition requirements and usage.

If you choose manual partitioning, you will be taken to the Advanced Disk Configuration screen. The most important thing I want to say here is that to select a partition you have to click on the Mount Point column entry for the partition.

Unfortunately you do not get to choose the ESP (UEFI boot) partition in this screen.  The Solus installer will use the first partition which has the boot and esp flags set. If you have multiple ESP partitions, the only way to get Solis to use another partition is to clear the boot and esp flags on any partitions preceding the one that you want Solus to use. Yeah, I know, that’s not great. This is only an issue for the installer; once the installation is complete you can go back and set those flags on the other partitions again.

Configuration of the bootloader requires that you give a network hostname for the computer, and it only accepts lower case letters, numbers, hyphens and underscores. Bootloader installation is mandatory on UEFI systems, but optional on MBR systems.

One other important note about the ESP partition, it must have sufficient free space or you will not be able to continue past this screen. I think that “sufficient” as far as the installer is concerned must be something like 64MB (it refused to go on with 48MB free), but I can say from practical experience even that is not really enough.  Solus (systemd-boot) keeps the initrd and kernel images on the ESP partition rather than in the root filesystem, and the kernel images are about 54MB each. So 64MB is probably enough free space to get through the installation, but the first time the installed system is booted it will inform you that there are updates to install, and one of those is a new kernel (the installation image contains 5.10.12, and the update is to 5.10.14), so that’s another 54MB.  

My freshly installed and updated system is currently using about 128MB in an ESP partition that I created only for Solus. The Solus installation guide suggests a 512MB partition, and I would say that is a pretty good idea, if you have the possibility to create and use a new one. I can also telly you from experience that if the Solus ESP partition runs out of space, things can get pretty ugly.

The final step is specifying user accounts. In my opinion this is one of the nicest parts of the Solus installer, because it is one of the very few installers that allows you to define multiple accounts during installation, and specify individually if each one is to be an administrator account.

After the first account has been given, you are taken to the account overview screen, where you can add as many more accounts as you want.

The Summary screen shows a brief recap of the information you have entered. Check this information carefully, because once you click Install, you will be asked one last time to confirm that you want to install, then the actual installation process kicks off and it starts modifying your disk – there’s no going back after this.

If you are planning to have a cup of coffee while the installation runs, you had better make it an espresso because the installation is amazingly fast; on my desktop system, installing from a USB3 stick, it took less than 5 minutes from clicking OK to getting the Installation Complete! screen.  

Assuming that everything went smoothly, you just need to click Restart Now and your computer should reboot and come up running Solus from its own disk drive. If you are dual-booting, and Solus doesn’t come up, please read the following information about the bootloader.

Solus Linux 4.2 – Budgie Desktop.

Image: J.A. Watson

Bootloader

There are a couple of points that I think are worth mentioning related to the bootloader in Solus.

I made the initial installation of Solus on my Acer All-in-One desktop computer, which is a UEFI boot system. On UEFI systems, Solus uses the systemd-boot package for the bootloader, rather than Grub. If you are used to working with Grub (as I am) this can be rather confusing. If you are going to have Solus as the only operating system on your computer, this works just fine: if you want to dual-boot (or multi-boot) with Windows and/or other Linux distributions, things get a bit messy. For one thing, Solus recommends (assumes) that you will use the UEFI boot selector (accessed by pressing F12, or F10, or Esc, or something, depending on your computer) to choose which OS to boot, rather than a bootloader selection list.

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Beyond that, trying to find the bootloader configuration files, or modifying/customizing anything that the bootloader does, feels like 40 miles of bad road to me. That’s just my opinion, of course, but I have spent an awful lot of time learning about Grub configuration on both MBR and UEFI systems, and setting up multi-boot configurations on both types of systems.

I have all of my systems set up to multi-boot a variety of Linux distributions, and occasionally Windows as well. It is fairly easy to configure a grub-uefi system to boot a Solus systemd-boot installation, but it is extremely tedious, at best, to try to do it the other way around.

The second Solus installation that I did was on my (very old) Samsung N150 Plus netbook. This is an MBR boot, and Solus uses Grub2 on MBR systems, so that is all completely normal.

Solus Linux 4.2 Budgie on Samsung N150 Plus.

Image: J.A. Watson

What’s it like to use?

Here are my first impressions of working with this version of Solus, specifically with the Budgie desktop.

So far I find the desktop to be just what it claims – clean, easy and lightweight. If you are used to the desktop/icon/bottom-panel menu and taskbar paradigm, you should have no trouble with Budgie at all. Modifying and customizing the desktop is simple, just right-click on the wallpaper and choose Budgie Desktop Settings. As a hint to one of the more commonly used but less obviously found options, if you want to auto-hide the bottom panel, go to Bottom Panel at the left of the window, and then change to Settings at the top of the window.

It is reasonably complete, without being overloaded with packages that are not widely used. The base installation includes things like Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and audio/video media players (exactly which media players depends on the desktop you choose). Things like Gimp, other web browsers and such are available through the Software Center utility.

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I use two displays on my desktop system. Like most current Linux systems, Solus found and configured both displays as an extended desktop. If you want something other than that, go to Settings / Display for options on mode (extended, mirror or single), relative location and orientation, resolution and scale.

On the Samsung N150 Plus, with an Intel Atom N450 CPU, 2GB of memory and a 1024×600 display, Solus still works quite well. It is slower, obviously, but it goes along at least as well as any of the other Linux distributions I have installed. The really good news (at least for me) on this system is that the i3 desktop packages are included in the Software Center. I have installed those, and so far it seems to work very well, and of course performs better than Budgie on this limited system.

Summary

I found Solus to be easy and fast to install, and very pleasant to use. It is clear that a lot of hard work has gone into this distribution – choosing to build and maintain an independent distribution rather than a derivative of one of the well-known major distributions is a brave decision. I think the result is very impressive. The operating system and major applications are all right up to date, and everything has worked very well for me. I am likely to pay a lot more attention to Solus on my computers in the future.