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Samsung today started its 4-day Samsung Carnival on Amazon as well as Paytm. This offers cashback on Amazon and Paytm Mall on select smartphones. Consumer buying the Samsung Galaxy Note8 on Amazon will get the smartphone at Rs. 59,900 including an Amazon Pay cashback of Rs. 8,000. Continue reading “Samsung Carnival on Amazon India: Up to Rs. 8000 cashback, No Cost EMI, exchange offer and more”
Vodafone launched VoLTE (Voice Over LTE) services in India last month starting from Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Gujarat. Now it has launched VoLTE in Maharashtra and Goa, and Jaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan, which will soon expand in other cities of the state soon. Vodafone is calling it Super VoLTE and said that the technology delivers high-quality sound over voice calls across the Vodafone SuperNet 4G network so that users will experience ultra-clear voice quality and reduced background noise. Continue reading “Vodafone launches VoLTE services in Maharashtra and Goa, Rajasthan”
Hong Kong-based Infinix forayed into India back in August last year. In November launched the Zero 5, which was one of the popular mid-range smartphones in the country in the price range. This year it launched the Hot S3 with a 20-megapixel front camera with dual LED flash and a 5.65-inch HD+ 18:9 display. Is the phone worth the price? Let us find out in the review. Continue reading “Infinix Hot S3 Review”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro smartphones in four color variants in India on 14th February. The smartphone duo went on sale for the first time in India on 22nd February and company claims to have sold over 3 lakh units under 3 minutes followed by a 2nd sale on 28th February, but only Black and Gold variants were available in both sales. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro Lake Blue and Rose Gold variants, Note 5 Pro 6GB RAM to go on sale in India on March 7”
[Update 2 : Xiaomi has now scheduled the Mi TV 4A launch event for March 7th and it begins at 3PM. As usual Xiaomi will offer live stream on mi.com.]
Spectra (formerly Spectranet) recently launched 1Gbps broadband unlimited broadband plans in Bengaluru at Rs. 1249, after Delhi NCR. Today the company has announced that it has selected Nokia’s IP/MPLS routing and GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) fiber solutions to build out its network to meet customer demand for high-performance broadband services.
Continue reading “Spectra selects Nokia for expansion of 1 Gbps broadband services across India”
Sony recently launched the RX0, the company’s latest compact camera in India. It was introduced at the IFA 2017 in Berlin last year, has a 1.0″-type stacked 15.3 MP Exmor RS CMOS image sensor, BIONZ X processor and a wide-angle ZEISS Tessar T 24mm F4 fixed lens to capture both RAW and JPEG stills and 4K video, full HD at 240 fps and super slow motion capture at up to 960 frames per second. Continue reading “Sony RX0 waterproof, shockproof compact camera launched in India for Rs. 64990”
Priyanka technologies; the manufacturer of CENTRiC smartphones today announced that it has signed MOU worth 650 crores with UP Govt and is planning to set up R&D and manufacturing unit in the state. This unit in UP will serve for both CENTRiC and FRND mobiles as well as other mobile phone manufacturing globally. Continue reading “CENTRiC signs 650 crore MOU with UP Govt, plans to setup R&D and manufacturing unit”
Samsung announced the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones with new dual aperture camera, Super slo-mo and several features at its Unpacked 2018 event at the MWC 2018 earlier this week. It also started pre-booking for the phones in India soon after the announcement. Today the company has confirmed that it will launch the flagship smartphones in India at an event on March 6th.
Xiaomi today has launched India’s first Mi Home Experience store in Chennai. It is not a regular Mi Store, but a Store where products that are not available in India at Mi Home stores can be experienced. The Mi Home Experience Store will open tomorrow.
Continue reading “Xiaomi launches India’s first Mi Home Experience Store in Chennai”
Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent is funding $115 million to Indian music streaming service Gaana. The popular music streaming service continues its investments pace in the country with backing from domestic giants like Flipkart and Ola last year. Continue reading “Gaana receives $115 million funding from Tencent, to invest in AI”
Amazon has finally launched Amazon Prime Music service in India. It was introduced last year exclusively for Echo devices in the country. It is available for Android and iOS devices and is also available on the web at music.amazon.in. There is also a Desktop app and is available on Amazon Fire TV sticks apart from Amazon Echo devices. As the company had announced previously, the service is free for Prime customers since it is included in their package, and is also ad-free. Continue reading “Amazon Prime Music launched in India, free for Amazon Prime users on Android, iOS and web”
Xiaomi launched the Mi Band 2 in India back in September 2016, but it went out of stock after few months. It also launched the Mi Band HRX Edition in the country without heart rate sensor a year later. Today Xiaomi has announced that the Mi Band 2 is back in stock in the country at a new price of Rs. 1799. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Band 2 with heart rate sensor back in stock in India at a new price of Rs. 1799”
Google with an aim to offer healthcare related information quickly in search results, rolled out the Health Cards with over 400 health conditions back in April 2016. Today it announced that it is adding information about commonly searched symptoms like common cold, acute bronchitis, flu, pneumonia, chest infection and Hindi language support. Continue reading “Google Health cards get common symptom search in India in Hindi and English”
Google today announced a strategic partnership with SBI to deeply integrate SBI bank on the company’s digital payments app Google Tez. This partnership lets users create SBI UPI Id; @oksbi and get access to exclusive offers for SBI customers and enable wider adoption of digital payments and growing the digital payments ecosystem in India. Continue reading “Google Tez now lets SBI bank users create SBI UPI IDs”
