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The coronavirus pandemic has impacted several industries and business across the world including the smartphone industry. While the shipments increased 10% YoY during Q4 2019, the Q1 2020 report shows a modest growth as COVID-19 impacted shipments late in the Quarter.
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OnePlus introduced its flagship OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro flagship smartphones at its online event earlier this month and announced the pricing for the phones last week, which start at Rs. 41,999 for the OnePlus 8 and Rs. 54,999 for the 8 Pro. Today the company has started pre-bookings on Amazon.in via gift card ahead of sale from May 11th. Continue reading “OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro pre-book offer on Amazon India offers Rs. 1000 additional cashback ahead of sale on May 11”
Airtel has announced its partnership with Nokia with multi-year agreement to deploy Nokia’s Single Radio Access Network (SRAN) solution to enhance Airtel 4G connectivity and also lay the groundwork for Airtel’s 5G rollout in the future. The deployment is expected to be completed by 2022 and will be rolled out in 9 circles across India.
OnePlus launched the OnePlus 8, 8 Pro, and Bullets Wireless Z recently in India. The price of the smartphones were revealed at a later date, but there was no word on the price of the Wireless Charger. Finally now, OnePlus has revealed the price for the Warp Charge 30 Wireless Charger and is listed on the company’s website.
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Back in 2018, Samsung launched the Galaxy J2 Core, the company’s first Android Oreo (Go edition) smartphone in India. After 2 years now, Samsung has re-introduced the Galaxy J2 Core 2020 edition in India with higher storage capacity compared to the 2018 model.
It is Microsoft’s turn now to release their COVID-19 tracker, which has been integrated via its search engine, Bing. The Bing COVID-19 tracker has a few new features that will be helpful for Indian users like an Apollo Hospitals bot for self-assessment and a hub for telemedicine support from reputed healthcare organizations.
Earlier this year, Reliance Jio announced JioMart web portal to buy food and groceries online and now shortly after Jio Platforms, Reliance Retail and WhatsApp entered into a commercial partnership agreement, the JioMart grocery shopping portal through WhatsApp has gone live in India.
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Samsung introduced its Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy S20 Ultra smartphones back in February, and started pre-bookings for these phones soon after along with several launch offers. At that time the company said that the offers can be redeemed till April 30th. Now Samsung has announced that those who have pre-booked Galaxy S20 in India, but have been unable to redeem the offers due to the ongoing lockdown in the country can now collect and activate their smartphone till May 20, 2020. Continue reading “Samsung extends Galaxy S20 series pre-booking offer redemption in India”
Airtel has been revising its existing prepaid plans and introducing new bundle plans lately. On similar lines now, Airtel has launched Rs. 401 data bundle that also includes a subscription for Disney+ Hotstar VIP and this exists alongside the Rs. 299 Amazon Prime bundle. Continue reading “Airtel launches Rs. 401 data bundle with 3GB data and 1 year Disney+ Hotstar VIP subscription”
iQOO launched its first smartphone in India – iQOO 3 in 4G and 5G variants earlier this year at a starting price of Rs. 36,990. The recent GST Rate hike on smartphones bumped up the starting price to Rs. 38,990. But now, after 2 months of launch, iQOO has announced price cuts on all the variants of iQOO 3 smartphone.
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True wireless earbuds have become popular among consumers lately, thanks to the plethora of options available at different price segment. The shipments have increased massively in India and now, Counterpoint has released the shipments record for 2019 which shows a massive 700% growth YoY.
OnePlus revealed the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro smartphones in India few days back. Now the company listed Limited Edition Pop-up Box for both the smartphones on its India site priced at Rs. 45,999 and Rs. 60,999, respectively. In addition to the phones, the pop-up box comes with Bullets Wireless Z (black) and Cases. Since the company is not holding pop-up events this year, this pop-up box bundle should be an alternative for those who want to get the accessories along with the phone at a discounted rate. Continue reading “OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro Limited Edition Pop-up Box price start at Rs. 45,999 in India”
realme Band which is the company’s first fitness product was launched earlier last month. Post-launch, the company has been pushing OTA updates to iron out bugs, add new features, and more. Similarly, realme has pushed a new v6.0 update for the realme Band which brings new weather features, find my phone, several optimizations, and more. Continue reading “realme Band v6 update adds weather features, find my phone, and more”
Facebook today announced that it will buy 9.99% equity stake in Jio Platforms Limited, part of Reliance Industries Limited on a fully diluted basis for $5.7 billion or INR 43,574 crore, making Facebook its largest minority shareholder, the largest investment for a minority stake by a technology company anywhere in the world and the largest FDI in the technology sector in India. Continue reading “Facebook buys 9.99% stake in Reliance Jio for Rs. 43,574 crore”
ColorOS 7 that was launched last year came with a lighter UI, several new features, etc, and Soloop video editing app was one among them. It has been available on a range of OPPO devices running ColorOS 7 and it was added through an update for realme devices. In order to make it available for several realme devices, the company has made the app available on the App Market, finally.
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