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Intel has confirmed that they will be bringing improved DX11 & Legacy API gaming performance to Arc GPUs in a recent video. The company admits that they are aware of the unsatisfactory gaming performance in titles utilizing DirectX 11 & are working to improve the experience moving forward.

Intel Admits Lagging Behind In Older APIs But Promises To Improve DX11 Gaming Performance As Time Goes By

Initially reported in a review by LinusTechTips, the tech outlet witnessed a 50% GPU performance difference between DirectX 11 and 12 versions when benchmarking Shadow of the Tomb Raider on a system utilizing the Arc A770 graphics card. In the former DirectX version, the game reached near 38 FPS, while the latter saw a boost of around 80 FPS.

DirectX 11 and older APIs function differently than the updated DirectX 12, Vulkan, and other current APIs. Older API technology requires most of the processing from the graphics driver, from enhancements to customizations made for lower-performing cards. The need for the GPU to handle more of the game work was to alleviate some of the burdens from game developers looking to optimize the look of their games.

With Vulkan and the current DX12 API, the boost no longer depends on the graphics driver but on the game’s graphic engine. Now, game developers are required to handle the responsibility of graphics optimizations, especially in weaker systems, and place tasks within the code of the game to take this burden. An example of this is video memory allocation.

Intel has not had to concern themselves with graphical APIs because they were not developing GPUs for many years. Now, with the company’s Arc series graphics, they have to catch up to companies focusing on this type of technology for years, namely the company’s rivals AMD and NVIDIA.

This insight into the company’s ignorance of DirectX 11 and older APIs has led Intel to admit that it will take quite some time to understand and find solutions for problems plaguing their current iGPUs and dGPUs. Intel fellow Tom Petersen has recently been quoted about the pathway to improving the API for Intel as stating the issue will be a “labor of love forever.”

Most of these issues stemmed from the reliance on the integrated graphics software stack which houses a very different architecture compared to Arc GPUs. This resulted in inadequate performance levels, game/API compatibility, etc.

“Our software release on our discrete graphics was clearly underperforming,” said Gelsinger. “We thought that we would be able to leverage the integrated graphics software stack, and it was wholly inadequate for the performance levels, gaming compatibility, etc. that we needed. So we are not hitting our four million unit goal in the discrete graphics space , even as we are now catching up and getting better software releases.”

“While we will not hit our GPU unit target, we remain on track to deliver over $1 billion in revenue this year,”

“In Q2, we started to ramp Intel Arc graphics for laptops with OEMs, including Samsung, Lenovo, Acer, HP, and Asus. COVID-related supply chain issues and our own software-readiness challenges caused availability delays that we continue to work to overcome. Intel Arc A5 and A7 desktop cards will start to ship in Q3.”

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

Now, Intel will need to make attempts to work on DX11 and older APIs or risk waiting until the industry no longer requires anything less than the current next-gen APIs available.

News Sources: Tom’s Hardware, LinusTechTips

The Pokemon Company recently hosted a special presentation event to unveil more about their upcoming titles on Nintendo Switch, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Some of the game’s new features raised many questions among the fans.

Pokemon is among the most famous Nintendo games. The series’s popularity led it to get multiple anime and video game adaptations. The series will now welcome the ninth and the latest generation of the series, Scarlet and Violet.

This new game would release on November 18, 2022. Further, these two would be the first games in the series to be an open-world RPG games. Additionally, the game will introduce many new features, unlike the past game.

Pokemon Scalet and Violet won’t have level-scaling gyms

Most Pokemon games have followed a similar concept. The players have to catch and train strong Pokemon to take down eight gyms to challenge the Pokemon League to win the title of Pokemon champion. However, the upcoming two games broke free of this cycle.

The latest Pokemon Present revealed that the new game is set in the Paldea region, where players are prestigious academy students. They have three career paths in the game, one of them is the Pokemon League. So fighting the eight gyms and challenging the league is no longer a necessity.

However, that’s not the end of gym battles. In the past games, there was a set path to challenge each gym. But this time, there is no path and order, it’s up to the player which gym they want to take on first. However, this led to the speculation that the gym leaders would send pokemon based on the trainers.

But that might not be the case, as the developers mentioned it’s up to the players if they want to start with a strong gym leader or challenge the one nearest to their location. So, the player has to be wise while picking a gym to challenge as they won’t drop or increase their level to match the player.

Undoubtedly, these new games have many new features. So, it would be fascinating to see if these new features impress or disappoint the Pokemon fans. What are your thoughts about no level-scaling in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s open gym setting?

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The past few years have seen Intel and AMD delivering new processors in a staggered manner. In the sub-45W category, Intel’s incumbency has allowed it to deliver products for both the notebook and ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) within a few months of each other. On the other hand, AMD’s focus has been on the high-margin notebook market, with the chips filtering down to the desktop market a year or so down the road. In this context, AMD’s Cezanne (most SKUs based on the Zen 3 microarchitecture) and Intel’s Tiger Lake went head-to-head last year in the notebook market, while Rembrandt (based on Zen3+) and Alder Lake-P are tussling it out this year. In the desktop space, Cezanne-based mini-PCs started making an appearance a few months back, coinciding with the first wave of Alder Lake-P systems.

ASRock Industrial has the reputation of being one of the first vendors to launch UCFF systems based on the latest available processors from both Intel and AMD. We had reviewed their NUC BOX-1165G7 as our first Tiger Lake-U mini-PC, and the 4X4 BOX-4800U was one of the earliest Renoir-based desktops. The company is continuing the tradition with the NUC BOX-1200 series for Alder Lake-P and the NUC 4X4 BOX-5000 series for Cezanne, with the product announcements coming within a month of each other.

The company sent over the flagship models in both lineups for review, giving us a chance to evaluate the performance and value proposition of the NUC BOX-1260P and 4X4 BOX-5800U. The review below provides a detailed hands-on comparison of the two models. It also brings out various configurable aspects that can be tweaked by the vendor and/or end-user in order to extract the maximum possible performance within the form-factor constraints. In that process, we also gain insights into what helps ASRock Industrial introduce mini-PCs based on the latest processors well ahead of its competitors.

Introduction and Product Impressions

Intel introduced heterogeneous computing into its product line with a mixture of performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores in Alder Lake last year. While the desktop line was first out of the door, Intel followed up with the sub-35W processors in February 2022. Fabricated in Intel 7, Alder Lake brings a multi-tasking focus to computing, providing hints to the OS on where different tasks need to be run. Overall, this is supposed to bring in a better user experience – and the Alder Lake-P series is supposed to deliver all that within a 28W power envelope. On the other hand, AMD’s Cezanne was announced in early 2021, bringing the Zen 3 microarchitecture into the notebook space. The 8C/16T configuration of homogeneous high-performance cores provides it the edge in multi-threaded workloads over Intel’s solutions.

Despite the introduction of the solutions more than a year apart, the ultra-compact form-factor and small form-factor desktop systems utilizing these processors have started getting into the market around the same time. Both Cezanne and Alder Lake-P utilize an updated microarchitecture, promising a healthy performance boost over the previous generation. The integrated GPU is also clocked higher. On the system front, the high-speed I/O options get carried over from Renoir and Tiger Lake – Cezanne continues to retain PCIe 3.0 lanes for storage, and supplies only USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) ports for high-bandwidth external peripherals . In contrast, Alder Lake-P provides four CPU dedicated-connected PCIe 4.0 lanes for storage drives, and two Thunderbolt 4/USB4 ports for external peripherals. Aspects requiring a deeper look include system performance for various types of workloads and power / energy consumption profiles.

ASRock is a well-known vendor in the consumer PC market. In 2011, the company set up the ASRock Industrial business unit to focus on industrial motherboards. The division branched out in 2018 as an independent vendor with exclusive focus on B2B products. The company has products for deployment in small businesses (offices), automation, robotics, security, and other industrial / IoT applications. Primarily, the company develops motherboards, and sells them to various system integrators who can do their own value additions. Additionally, the company also sells mini-PCs based on the developed motherboards into the retail channel.

ASRock Industrial sampled their flagship models in the Alder Lake-P (NUC BOX-1260P) and Cezanne (4X4 BOX-5800U) lineups. It is rare that two flagship products come in for review simultaneously – so we took the opportunity to evaluate them in parallel.

As a reminder, the NUC BOX and 4X4 BOX series both use a chassis tracing its roots back to ASRock’s now defunct Beebox product line. The cooling solution is time-tested within that case design, and all that ASRock Industrial does is to alter the I/O cut-outs slightly to match different motherboards. As the above photograph shows, it is difficult to differentiate between the two systems at first glance, as the cut-outs are exactly the same (in fact, the previous-generation NUC BOX-1165G7 and 4X4 BOX-4800U are the same too) . Only on a closer look does the presence of two black USB 2.0 ports in the rear I/O of the 4X4 BOX-5800U (compared to the blue USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports in the NUC BOX-1260P) serve as a differentiating factor.

ASRock Industrial’s main focus is on B2B customers. It is no surprise that their systems are packaged in a nondescript manner. However, within the package, the company includes everything that an end-user would need – a VESA mount and associated screws, 2.5″ drive and M.2 SSD installation aids, a geo-specific power cord and a 90W power adapter.

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-1260P Package Contents

ASRock Industrial 4X4 BOX-5800U Package Contents

Since our sample of the NUC BOX-1260P was an early engineering sample, it didn’t have the model number markings on the underside (unlike the 4X4 BOX-5800U). Both samples were barebones – the RAM and disk drive are left to the discretion of the end-user. In order to make an apples-to-apples comparison, we opted to utilize the same set of components used in the reviews of the company’s systems based on Tiger Lake-U and Renoir. The NUC BOX-1260P was equipped with an ADATA XPG GAMMIX S50 Lite and 2x 32GB of the Kingston FURY Impact DDR4-3200 SODIMMs. A Patriot Memory P300 SSD and 2x 32GB Patriot Memory DDR4-3200 SODIMMs were installed in the 4X4 BOX-5800U for evaluation.

Beyond the similar build and industrial design, a closer look at the NUC BOX-1260P and the 4X4 BOX-5800U reveal a number of differentiation aspects both internally and externally. They are summarized in the table below. The rationale behind the (BIOS 1.2E) and the (Performance) suffices are covered in the next section.

The 110 mm x 117.5 mm x 47.85 mm chassis used by ASRock Industrial for both systems is made of polycarbonate, though an inner metal frame does exist. The bottom panel is held by four screws that need to be taken out to access the M.2 and SODIMM slots. The top of the chassis is glossy and easily attracts smudges and fingerprints, though it does come with a plastic film that can be retained without any loss of cooling efficiency. The two sides have perforated windows for air intake. The rear panel has openings on top to allow the internal blower fan to exhaust hot air after passing it through the heat spreader.

A closer look at the two cases and internal pictures are available in the galleries above. It can be seen that ASRock Industrial provides support for mounting a 2.5″ drive inside. This makes it difficult to accommodate a thermal gap filler for the M.2 SSD. In fact, the components are densely packed on the board, and even mounting a M.2 2280 SSD requires a special plastic tab that hangs atop one of the USB-C ports on the board.

In the next section, we take a look at the BIOS options along with an analysis of the motherboard platform. Following that, we have a number of sections focusing on various performance aspects before concluding with an analysis of the value proposition of the system.

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Virtual reality is becoming more expensive again. This could slow down the development of the technology, but there is no reason to despair.

The Meta Quest 2 costs a hundred dollars more as of this week. $400 instead of $300. That already makes a difference for end consumers, especially in economically uncertain times like these.

The spontaneous price increase came as a surprise and will most likely have an impact on sales. The question is how much. The Meta Quest 2 contributed to the growth of the VR market like no other headset. If demand goes down, the consequences will be felt.

the days of cheap virtual reality are over. Upcoming headsets like the Playstation VR 2 (info) and Pico 4 (report) are likely to follow the trend and because they introduce new technology, they will be anything but cheap. Not to mention the rumored Quest Pro and Apple’s headset.

meta buckles

The low price of the Meta Quest 2 was made possible by Meta’s fat ad business. Now that this is weakening, Meta is forced to reduce the subsidies. The price dumping has nevertheless achieved its purpose: Meta almost completely controls the VR market.

The price increase is a rare compromise on Meta’s part. The company otherwise always signaled to push virtual reality forward, regardless of the cost. The news must have sent shockwaves in the direction of VR developers. Is the giant wavering after all? That might have been the question of one or the other studio that is betting its future on VR.

The end of the low price period, I argued earlier, was inevitable nonetheless. Virtual Reality has to grow up and stand on its own two feet at some point. That moment is fast approaching and with it the question of whether end users are willing to bear the cost of research and development.

evolution of technology

This has been the case with other electronic devices such as the television, computers, and smartphones, with demand determining how quickly technology evolves. Virtual reality will have to follow the same path, without rock-bottom prices that paint a distorted picture of demand.

The technology needs to hold its own and retain customers, regardless of its technical maturity. Virtual reality is still in its infancy, true! But the industry can no longer use that as an excuse for lack of interest on the part of consumers. Televisions, computers, and smartphones all caught on, even though they were relatively primitive at the beginning compared to today.

Does virtual reality really need fundamental improvements to gain wider acceptance? The next few years will paint a clearer picture, but rapid breakthroughs should not be expected. Technological quantum leaps are rare and, judging by past development, will happen once, maybe twice in a decade. There is no shortcut.

So sit back and enjoy the ride.

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Comedian Jimmy Fallon stopped by the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn on Friday afternoon to hang out with Ford CEO Jim Farley and factory workers who build the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck, the Free Press has learned.

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” host spent nearly an hour touring the new factory with Farley and plant manager Corey Williams and Fallon Gates, a manufacturing communications specialist who guides tours on-site.

“I am not sure who enjoyed the visit more, the employees at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center or Jimmy Fallon,” said Fallon Gates, who had her own very funny moment introducing herself to the famous visitor. “Everyone was all smiles. Jimmy said that the tour really blew his mind.”

Jimmy Fallon was making a few stops in metro Detroit; this was just one, Ford said.

Factory workers cheered the actor, who starred on “Saturday Night Live” as did Chris Farley, the late cousin of Jim Farley.

They flocked to get photos taken with the TV host, and many asked the CEO to snap images using employee cellphones as fast as they could make it happen.

Factory workers yelled, “We love you,” and Fallon yelled right back.

The TV host, who has spent time on his talk show discussing the infamous “frunk,” stopped by the site to meet workers who install the enormous front trunk in the pickup.

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Fallon tweeted May 21 a video of himself singing “Junk in my Frunk.”

On Friday, he showed UAW employees photos of his older F-150s and talked trucks, trucks, trucks.

Ford confirmed the information provided to the Free Press about the afternoon event.

The lighthearted get-together between Farley and Fallon comes a week after Ford released second quarter adjusted earnings of $3.7 billion, which exceeded industry expectations. The Lightning plays a key role in Ford’s strategy for him.

Knives are an essential part of CS:GO. You’ll need to equip your knife to increase your movement speed to run faster. There will also be rare scenarios where you’ll need to pull your knife versus an enemy after running out of bullets.

In both scenarios, your knife will be on full display. This means you’ll get to show off the knife skin you’re using to spectators. Considering how expensive knife skins can be, you may want to test them before purchasing them from Steam’s Community Market.

A handful of knife commands allow players to take them out for a spin in custom games. Players looking to try the best CS:GO knives will need to set up a custom game first to be able to use a knife command.

How can you set up a custom game in CS:GO?

• Launch CS:GO.
• Press the Play button.
• Click on the dropdown menu icon next to “Official Matchmaking.”
• Choose Practice with Bots.

After creating a custom game, players must open the in-game console to start using a knife command.

How can you open the console in CS:GO?

• Launch CS:GO.
• Navigate to the Options panel.
• Choose Game Settings.
• Select Enable Developer Console.
• Use the default console hotkey (~) once you load into a match.

Related: How to open the console in CS:GO

23 best knife commands in CS:GO

• Counter terrorist knife: give weapon_knife
• Terroristknife: weapon_knife_t
• classicknife: give weapon_knife_css;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Bayonet: give weapon_bayonet;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Flipknife: give weapon_knife_flip;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• gut knife: give weapon_knife_gut;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Karambit: give weapon_knife_karambit;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• M9 Bayonet: give weapon_knife_m9_bayonet;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Huntsman: give weapon_knife_tactical;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Butterfly Knife: give weapon_knife_butterfly;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Falcon: give weapon_knife_falchion;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Shadow Daggers: give weapon_knife_push;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Bowie Knife: give weapon_knife_survival_bowie;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Ursus: give weapon_knife_ursus;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Razor: give weapon_knife_gypsy_jackknife;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Stilettos: give weapon_knife_stiletto;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Heel: give weapon_knife_widowmaker;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Ghostknife: give weapon_knife_ghost;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Survival: give weapon_knife_canis;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Paracord: give weapon_knife_cord;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• skeleton: give weapon_knife_skeleton;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”
• Nomad: give weapon_knife_outdoor;ent_fire weapon_knife addoutput “classname weapon_knifegg”

Tecno recently launched the Camon 19 Neo. At its price, the Camon 19 Neo comes with a rich set of specifications. With an octa-core processor and a triple rear camera system, the smartphone performs well and ticks most of the boxes on the checklist. Let’s find out more about the Tecno Camon 19 Neo, how it performs, how good is its camera and whether one should buy the smartphone or not.

Unboxing Experience

In the box, customers get multiple things, unlike other smartphones in the segment. First of all, the Tecno Camon 19 Neo comes with a good-quality TPU case. Further, customers also get an 18W fast charger in the box, along with a USB-C to USB-C cable. It is also important to mention that the Tecno Camon 19 Neo comes with a pre-installed screen guard. All these accessories add value and it is good to see a company providing them with a smartphone that is priced aggressively.

display

The Tecno Camon 19 Neo comes with a 6.8-inch LCD display with a resolution of 395 pixels per inch; however, it does not support higher rates. Further, the display can achieve a peak brightness of 500 nits, which feels adequate indoors and outdoors on bright days, but not under direct sunlight. However, the display produces vibrant colors, is sharp enough and has decent viewing angles.

The display on the Tecno Camon 19 Neo has slim bezels on all the sides and a punch-hole cutout in the center that features the front camera. Additional features related to the display include automatic brightness, which lags sometimes but gets the job done. Apart from the display, the overall built of the device feels sturdy; the button on the right panel provides good feedback.

Performance

Under the hood, the Tecno Camon 19 Neo features the MediaTek Helio G85 chipset, which was launched in 2020 and is based on 12nm architecture. Further, Camon 19 Neo comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which is a good configuration at its price. Additionally, users can increase the RAM with the Memory Fusion technology that provides 5GB of additional virtual RAM. Staple tasks such as streaming content, watching YouTube, browsing through social media platforms and clicking pictures every now and then did not seem to trouble the smartphone at all.

When it comes to RAM management, the Camon 19 handles multiple applications very well. However, the Mali G52 MC2 chipset is not the best for this budget, especially for gaming. Users can play games like Call of Duty, and Subway Surfers among others but not at high settings, which is something that is also seen in models sold by other manufacturers in the segment. Nevertheless, Tecno does not market the Camon 19 as a gaming smartphone.

Although the processor has two Cortext A75 performance cores clocked at 2 GHz and six Cortext A55 efficiency cores clocked at 1.8 GHz, it has aged quite a bit since its launch. For reference, the Camon 19 Neo scores around 365 points in the single-core and about 1270 points in the multi-core Geekbench benchmarking test.

The custom HiOS v8.6 UI is based on Android 12. On the home screen, users have to swipe from the top right to open all the quick controls including the vertical brightness and media volume sliders. Users get everything they would want, including the Wi-Fi settings, Bluetooth toggle, a button to turn the flashlight and other required settings. Swiping from the top left corner opens the Notification center. Further, swiping up opens the app drawer which lists all the apps in alphabetical order.

Camera

Tecno says that the Camon 19 Neo comes with a 48MP triple rear super night camera. Breaking it down, the smartphone has a 48MP primary sensor, a 2MP depth sensor and a QVGA sensor. On the front, Camon 19 Ne has a 32MP selfie camera with an LED flash. Now, readers should not confuse the smartphone with the Tecno Camon 19 which comes with a 64MP triple camera setup with an RGBW sensor.

Overall, the Tecno Camon 19 Neo clicks decent images with adequate contrast and punchy colors. As seen below, the image on the left is taken with the Tecno Pova 3, which was released by the company in June. However, the image on the right, clicked by the Tecno Camon 19 Neo appears much more appealing. Further, Camon 19 Neo balances the light and retains the details in the darker areas as well. The camera app also has a Super Night mode which works very well in low lighting conditions.

Not only the back camera, but the front camera is also able to balance poorly lit and bright areas in a shot, which is also referred to as HDR. Further, clicking selfies from the Camon 19 Neo should not be a problem as the smartphone seems to retain a good amount of details. The front camera is accompanied by an LED flash and as soon as users enable it, they get an option to control its brightness. However, in some shots, the Camon 19 Neo tends to brighten the skin a little too much.

Now, let’s talk about two interesting features of the Tecno Camon 19 Neo’s camera. First is the video bokeh effect, which works very well in well-lit environments. Essentially, the smartphone uses AI to differentiate between the subject and the environment and adds a layer of bokeh in the background. Second, users can create short clips using video layouts and multiple themes in the ‘Film’ section of the camera app. There are themes like Performance, Motion, Party, and Sport among others. Using these modes, users can capture different shots and create a media-ready video that is great to watch.

Battery

Tecno Camon 19 Neo ships with a 5,000 mAh battery. While the company provides an 18W charger in the box, it takes approximately an hour and a half to completely charge the device. Once charged, the smartphone lasted for an entire day of moderate usage including watching videos, playing some games, attending calls and clicking images, with some battery left at the end of the day. The call quality on the Tecno Camon 19 Neo is decent. Upon calling with the smartphone, the other person did not complain about the sound.

Other Features

Connectivity options on the smartphone include 4G, 3G, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, OTG, GPS and NFC. Additionally, the Tecno Camon 19 Neo comes with G-Sensor, E-Compass, ambient light, distance sensor and side fingerprint sensor. The official website of the company also mentions that the smartphone is IPX2 splash resistant and has DTS powered speaker; however, the audio output from the single speaker at the bottom could have been slightly better.

However, users do get an equalizer to tune the audio output. Additional features include a multi-window mode, memory fusion, a smart pane that provides quick access to several settings, a game mode, tap-to-wake, raise-to-answer gestures and more. It is important to mention that some other smartphones offer 5G connectivity at the same price.

Conclusion

The Tecno Camon 19 Neo comes in a single model with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. While writing the review, the smartphone is available on Amazon for Rs. 14,999 (MRP Rs. 18,499). At this price, the Camon 19 Neo offers decent camera performance and battery life. Hence, for those who are looking for a budget smartphone that clicks good pictures, the Camon 19 Neo is a good option. The smartphone is available in two colours, Eco Black and Ice Blue.