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Huawei’s Honor brand today started Honor Gala sale across Amazon, Flipkart, Official Honor Online Store & Offline Retail from today, November 7th till November 11th. The Honor 8 Pro is available at a discount of Rs 3000 and the Honor 6X (both variants 3+32GB and 4+64GB) get a Rs. 2000 discount. O fficial Honor online store offers Rs. 500 discount on Honor Power Banks and offers on accessories and Flipkart is offering Rs. 1000 discount on Honor MediaPad T3 tablet.
Airtel introduced ‘Data Roll over’ feature to carry forward their unused monthly data quota to the next billing cycle for post-paid customers so data is not wasted. Now this feature is available for Airtel Broadband customers, making it first to introduce the feature in the fixed home broadband segment in India. Continue reading “Airtel Broadband customers get ‘data roll over’ to carry forward unused data”
Ola has partnered with Microsoft to build a new connected vehicle platform for future. Microsoft will be the cloud partner as Ola said to use Microsoft Azure to power Ola Play its existing connected car platform.
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Huawei today launched Band 2 and Band 2 Pro fitness track and Huawei Fit fitness watch in India. The Band 2 series come with 24X7 heart rate monitoring and Band 2 Pro features VO2 Max which measures the amount of oxygen your body can take in and also has GPS. These also come with 5ATM water-proofing technology which protects it for up to 50 meters inside the water The Huawei Fit fitness watch has heart rate monitoring, automatic step counting, sleep tracking and support for multi-sport activities. Continue reading “Huawei Band 2 and Band 2 Pro fitness trackers, Huawei Fit watch launched in India starting at Rs. 4599”
Paytm has integrated BHIM UPI payments system on its app. BHIM is the Indian Government’s digital payment service, and it is the largest issuer and acquirer of UPI. Paytm has recently introduced Inbox native chat service on their platform.
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After Bengaluru, Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai, Xiaomi is all set to open its first Mi Home Store in Pune on November 10th. It will be located at First Floor, Seasons Mall, Magarpatta City. This will be the 10th Mi Home Store in the country after four stores in Bengaluru, one in Gurugram, Noida, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai. Continue reading “Xiaomi to open its first Mi Home Store in Pune on November 10”
Huawei’s Honor brand is all set to launch the most expected Honor 7X smartphone, successor of Honor 6X that was launched earlier this year in India. The Honor 7X was introduced in China last month, and packs a 5.93-inch Full HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass display with minimal bezels, is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 659 processor and has a 16-megapixel rear camera with a 2-megapixel secondary camera along with an 8-megapixel front camera. Continue reading “Honor 7X with 5.93-inch FHD+ full-screen display, dual rear cameras launching in India in December”
Reliance Communications (RCOM) today announced that it has entered into Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with Veecon Media and Television Limited, for sale of its subsidiary Reliance BIG TV Limited (RBTV), engaged in the business of Direct to Home (DTH)
services across India. Continue reading “Reliance Communications to sell DTH business to Veecon Media”
Samsung has announced that it is opening ten exclusive stores across Bengaluru to strengthen further and expand its retail presence in the city. Samsung says that these stores will touch more consumers while fulfilling the demand for products in the region.
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Gionee introduced M7 Power smartphone in China at the end of September, later it was introduced for global markets. Today the company has started teasing the launch of the smartphone in India with #MpowerwithGionee Continue reading “Gionee M7 Power with 6-inch FullView display, 5000mAh battery teased in India ahead of launch”
Micromax is all set to launch Canvas Infinity Pro smartphone, an improved version of the Canvas Infinity that was launched in August. We got hold of the image of the box of the phone. This shows 5.7-inch HD+ 2.5D curved glass screen with 18:9 aspect ratio and minimal bezels, similar to the Canvas Infinity. The phone will come with dual front-facing cameras, compared to a single 16-megapixel front camera on the predecessor, which will be the main highlight of the smartphone. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Infinity Pro with 5.7-inch full-screen display, dual front cameras launching this November”
Panasonic has launched Eluga A4, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the ‘A Series’ with 5000mAh battery. It has a 5.2-inch HD 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6737 processor, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has Panasonic’s own ARBO AI-based assistant and features a fingerprint sensor on the back. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga A4 with 5.2-inch display, 5000mAh battery launched for Rs. 12490”
HMD Global introduced its Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 Android smartphones in India back in June, and the Nokia 5 went on sale in the country in August, now it has launched the 3GB RAM version of the phone in India. Apart from the RAM, other specifications are similar to the original Nokia 5, including a 5.2-inch HD screen, Octa-Core Snapdragon 430 Mobile Platform, Android 7.1 (Nougat), which is upgradable to Android 8.0 (Oreo), 13-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel front camera and a 3000mAh battery. Continue reading “Nokia 5 3GB RAM version launched in India for Rs. 13499”
Coolpad launched Cool Play 6 smartphone back in India in August in Gentle Gold and Sheen Black colors variants. The Gold version of the phone went on sale last month, now the Black version of the phone is finally on sale in the country.
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It was just a few months back at MWC that Nokia announced the first few devices. The comeback comprised of phones that were decidedly mid-range and good enough to get their foot in the market. The following months have seen HMD’s strategy take more concrete form as we saw with the Nokia 8 and the Nokia 7 announcements. Entry level smartphones, however, are the bread and butter for any company planning to make money in India. And that brings us to the Nokia 2. Hitting a 99 Euro price point, the Nokia 2 distills the higher end Nokia experience to a level that is palatable for first-time smartphone buyers. Is it any good though? Let’s find out. Continue reading “Nokia 2 Hands On”
