Buying guide: Best gadgets to buy right now to beat the lockdown blues

With working from home, and staying indoors becoming the new normal, here are the gadgets that you can invest in to make your life easier.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Dell XPS 13 is a good option if you are looking for a new laptop to improve productivity
  • Mi Robot Vacuum Cleaner can help keep your house neat and clean during the lockdown
  • Huawei Freebuds 3 is a good pair of TWS earbuds to help you at home

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seen most locked down inside our homes for two months now. And while the government has been slowly lifting curbs and easing lockdown norms in a bid to bring back the economy on track, there's a very good chance that the rising number of cases may end up pushing us towards lockdown 5.0 -- and maybe a few after that too.

With working from home, and staying indoors becoming the new normal, the role of technology and gadgets in our lives has become more prominent than ever before. As many have realized in the past few weeks, having the right gadgets not only help improve productivity and save time, but also make it easier to adjust to this new normal of staying cooped up inside our houses. But finding the right set of gadgets for yourself is never an easy task. Read on to find our top picks for gadgets that can help you fight the lockdown blues.

Mi Robot Vacuum Cleaner

Buying guide Best gadgets to buy right now to beat the lockdown blues


The Mi Vacuum Cleaner is the perfect tool to help you get through the lockdown grind, in style. Mi Robot Vacuum Cleaner has both sweeping and mopping functions to keep your place sparkling clean. The robot vacuum is quiet, promises excellent navigational skills, and picks up more particles than any other robot vacuum of its caliber.

Mi Robot Vacuum Mop-P is a handy home assistance tool that features a 2-in-1 sweeping and mopping function allowing the robot to perform a dry and wet clean in one go. The Mi Robot Vacuum Mop-P comes to India under the Mi Crowdfunding program at a price of Rs 17,999.

Honor Magic Watch 2

Buying guide Best gadgets to buy right now to beat the lockdown blues
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The Honor Magic Watch 2 is currently available in two dial sizes. The smaller dial size is 42mm, while the larger one is 46mm in size. Both the dial variants are available in stainless steel and feature two-strap colour variants.

The 46mm variant starts at Rs 12,999, while the smaller 42mm one is available at a starting price of Rs 11,999. For the price, the Honor Magic Watch 2 is one of the most aggressively priced smartwatches in the market right now, and brings with itself a number of premium features and offers 15 goal-based fitness modes including indoor sports and outdoor modes, 5ATM Water resistance up to 50 meters, SPO2 and VO2 feature to monitor the oxygen saturation levels in the bloodstream, along with Huawei’s TrueSeen, TrueRelax and TrueSleep features.

Huawei Freebuds 3

Buying guide Best gadgets to buy right now to beat the lockdown blues
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The Freebuds 3 are powered by the Kirin A1 chipset and sport the Isochronous dual-channel Bluetooth connection technology which implements a combination of BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and Bluetooth 5.1 in a dual-mode connection for ensuring low latency and improved power consumption.

Huawei is claiming up to 20-hour battery life with 4.5-hour ANC usage in a single charge. It also boasts of having a powerful bass that provides a balanced listening experience, and the world’s first dedicated wearable chipset with up to 150-meter connectivity. The Kirin A1 chip, which is housed inside the earbuds, is the first chip developed by Huawei for the hearable and wearable market. The company is selling Freebuds 3 at a price of Rs 12,990.


Dell XPS 13

Buying guide: Best gadgets to buy right now to beat the lockdown blues


If you're looking for a laptop to improve productivity, then Dell's XPS 13 could be an interesting choice. The laptop comes with an 80.7% screen to body ratio and a 4K Ultra HD display which boasts of a high 100% sRGB color gamut for improved picture clarity and vivid, accurate colour reproduction.

Under the hood, the refreshed XPS 13 features the newest 10th Gen Intel i7 processors, offering increased performance with up to 6 processing cores -- all inclosed within a slim form factor. It comes with a Thunderbolt 3 multi-use Type C port which allows users to charge your laptop and even connect it to other devices.


Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite

Buying guide Best gadgets to buy right now to beat the lockdown blues
Buying guide Best gadgets to buy right now to beat the lockdown blues


Talking about improving productivity, another tool that can be invested in to improve productivity is the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite. While all modern-day smartphones can double up as productivity devices, the Galaxy Note 10 promises to take things a notch higher because of its S-Pen.

Interestingly, this is the same Bluetooth-enabled stylus from Samsung that has been seen on the expensive Note 10 flagship. The S-Pen allows users to personalize photos and videos with dynamic drawings, effects, and animations and instantly convert handwritten notes to digital text. The Air Command feature of the S Pen allows users to click pictures, navigate through presentations and even edit videos with a simple click.

Apart from the S-Pen, the Galaxy Note 10 Lite also brings powerful cameras and internals at a starting price of 41,998 to make it a very impressive deal.

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