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Vivo T4 Lite India launch set for Jun 24: Specs to features, what to expect
Chinese smartphone brand Vivo is set to launch the T4 Lite smartphone in India on June 24. The phone has been previewed on e-commerce platform Flipkart and Vivo's official website, offering a preview at its key specifications ahead of launch. The T4 Lite will join the brand's T4 series lineup, which includes the Vivo T4 5G, T4x and T4 Ultra.
Vivo T4 Lite: What to expect
Vivo has confirmed that the T4 Lite will be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 6300. The smartphone will feature a 6.74-inch display with 1000 nits peak brightness and TUV Rheinland-certified eye protection.
A major upgrade comes in the form of a 6000mAh battery, up from the 5000mAh unit in its predecessor. Vivo claims the battery can deliver over 70 hours of music playback, 22 hours of video streaming, 17 hours of Reels browsing, and 9 hours of gaming.
The teaser also confirms that the phone will launch in gold and black colour options. It will support dual 5G connectivity and offer expandable storage up to 2TB.
For optics, the T4 Lite is expected to feature a dual-camera setup with a 50MP primary sensor and an LED flash. The secondary sensor's details have not been revealed yet. On the software side, the phone is likely to run on Android 15 with Funtouch OS 15.
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- Time of India
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Intelligence agencies from around the world have always worried governments and offered fodder to writers of spy fiction. In this alphabet soup, the little-known MSS doesn't exactly conjure up images of secret agents in tuxedos gambling in the casinos of Monte Carlo. Yet, nestled away from the glare, China's MSS has become the largest intelligence agency in the world. Its headcount is pegged between 350,000 and 800,000 with operations in over 100 countries (even KGB at its peak only had about 300,000 operatives). Its annual budget, as per estimates, is more than $20 billion. Live Events On the back of such investments, MSS has upped its game over the last decade. The latest? A few weeks back, Americans alleged that two Chinese researchers were trying to smuggle a fungus into US, in what is being viewed as part of a strategy of using students to infiltrate the country. Despite its reported hand in multiple such ops, large and active footprints, fast growth and direct or indirect involvement in nearly every country's affairs, MSS has remained under a shroud. In a world in a geopolitical flux, a broader understanding of it is critical. PARTY, NOT THE NATION MSS MSS wasn't always this big or active. A big expansion started in 2012 when Xi Jinping took over the reins of the country, believing that intel and covert ops are critical cogs to keep the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in power. So, unlike most national spy organisations whose agenda mirror that of the nation, MSS is tasked with protecting CCP, as Sriparna Pathak, professor of China studies at the Jindal School of International Affairs, points out. Timothy R Heath, senior international and defence researcher at Rand Corporation, a global think tank, says, because of MSS's mandate, its ops mainly focus on regime security, suppression of challengers to CCP rule, espionage, influence operations and targeted missions against Chinese dissidents abroad. It is different from other agencies in many ways. It is the only agency looking at both domestic and external ops. It has a highly complex structure with multiple divisions and sections. It has invested massively in offensive cyber ops. When Chen Yixin was appointed as the minister of state security in 2022, he was tasked with pushing the boundaries further. After Covid-19 broke out, Chen, a Xi loyalist, was chosen to handle the fallout and 'manage' anti-China narratives across the world. True to his brief, Chen made MSS more diversified, lethal and mysterious. OPERATIONS IN INDIA Because of its mandate to target Chinese dissidents, the longest running aspect of MSS' ops in India is said to be the targeting of the Tibetan government-in-exile, led by the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing considers a political dissident. But MSS has widened its tentacles over the last few years. In February 2024, I-Soon, a Chinese contractor who works for government agencies, including MSS, had a data leak that gave clues regarding its operations in India. The leak revealed that China, through cyber ops, had collected 95.2 GB of immigration data from India, along with data indicating it might have been behind the 2018 hack of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation. There were also indications that other entities, including Reliance and Air India, were attacked. As intelligence expert LieutenantColonel (retd) Pavithran Rajan says, the widening tentacles 'translate into aggressive cyber-espionage, targeting our critical infrastructure, from power grid to vaccine manufacturing'. In 2018, a Chinese national, Luo Sang aka Charlie Peng, was arrested in Delhi for money laundering and espionage. Reports suggest that he was in the country from 2014, having crossed over from Nepal, and had even attained an Aadhaar card while laundering money. 'On the human intelligence front, they run sophisticated networks,' says Rajan, adding that the Chinese strategy is to use every available lever —cyber, economic and human —to gain strategic advantage over India. 'They also engage with insurgent groups in the Northeast and coordinate with Pakistani intelligence organisations,' he adds. Its outreach is vast. In the neighbourhood, it has reportedly had a hand in overthrowing governments. As Lieutenant-General (retd) Deependra Singh Hooda, cofounder of Delhi-based Council for Strategic and Defense Research, says, a critical threat for India is the codification in Chinese law that all entities must work with MSS. Their National Intelligence Law says, 'All organisations and citizens shall support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law, and shall protect national intelligence work secrets they are aware of.' This, says Hooda, makes for a significant national security threat for India, given the prominent presence of Chinese companies across sensitive sectors like power and telecom. THE STRUCTURE Countering MSS starts with understanding MSS. The structure of MSS is all about specialised tasks, with analysts estimating 12-20 bureaus within it. The biggest by manpower is the Bureau of Internal & Political Affairs, which keeps a close eye on the internal affairs of China and is responsible for the security of top CCP leaders. As part of monitoring its own people, it carries out extensive technical surveillance. Meanwhile, members of the Bureau for Foreign Intelligence Collection operate abroad in the guise of diplomats, journalists, tourists, academicians, students and businesspersons. There is also the Bureau of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan working not only to spread communist ideology in these geographies, but also to monitor residents closely. The Bureau of Technical Support & Cyber Operations, which is probably one of the biggest bureaus of MSS, is tasked with cyber espionage and plants technical operatives in Chinese companies and embeds trojan horses in Chinese equipment. Today, its footprint is visible across the world. This is where top talents of China are recruited to carry out technical espionage using unindexed proxy servers and private networks, many of which are located on isolated islands in the Yalu River bordering North Korea. 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THE MSS ERA Due to their secretive nature and overlapping roles, the exact way all these bureaus come together is difficult to gauge, but unlike other countries that have separate intel orgs for domestic, foreign and specialised ops, the umbrella structure is believed to help MSS in efficiency. But optimising for efficiency may not work everywhere. As Heath points out, in countries like US, the separation of foreign and domestic spy duties is designed to prevent concentration of power and reduce risks of governments using spy agencies to monitor their own citizens and violating their rights and privacy. Rajan says, 'On the one hand, this integrated model can be highly efficient for a state like China that views internal dissent and foreign threats as intertwined. However, this consolidation of power creates immense risks.' He says, it 'can lead to a monolithic groupthink, stifling the diverse analysis that competing agencies might provide'. 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