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Motorola has been expanding its retail footprint across India rapidly. Today the company has announced the opening of 50 new Moto Hubs in New Delhi. Some of the places include – Telepathy, G-21, Marina Arcade in Connaught Place, Mobile Zone in Janakpuri District Centre, Sigmen Stores in Kalkaji, Sanju Telecom in Lajpat Nagar, TS Group Store near Nehru Place Market.
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Reliance Jio introduced cashback offers back in November and it introduced new surprise cashback offer last month that ended earlier this week. Now Idea Cellular, one of Jio’s rivals has introduced Magic Cashback offer that offers 100% cashback that offers Rs. 400 worth vouchers ( eight discount vouchers of Rs. 50 each) on recharge of Rs. 398 or more through online channel. Continue reading “Idea takes on Jio with Magic Cashback offer – Up to Rs. 3300 cashback on recharge of Rs. 398 or more”
In the last few years, WhatsApp has been busy adding several value-added features like voice calls, video calls, end-to-end encryption, and the company is even rumored UPI-based WhatsApp payment system. Before that, WhatsApp on iOS has received a new feature, which enables users to watch YouTube video inside the WhatsApp application. Continue reading “WhatsApp for iPhone gets YouTube integration with picture-in-picture mode”
Facebook last week said that it is overhauling news feed to highlight posts from friends, family to improve social interactions. Today the company has mentioned that it is testing a new video watching experience called ‘Watch Party’ to let a group of users watch the same video at the same time. Continue reading “Facebook is testing ‘Watch Party’ to let group of users watch video at same time”
Recently Apple has been in the news for all the bad reasons, removal of Touch ID, Removal of 3.5 mm headphone jack, and lately throttling down of the older iPhones’ performance. Soon after the news broke down, the company clarified and offered a cheaper battery replacement plan (for $29 instead of $79). Continue reading “iPhone performance throttling can be disabled with future iOS 11 update, confirms Apple CEO”
Google rolled out a new update to Gboard bringing version number to V6.9, while the update doesn’t bring any major changes, it does hint at many upcoming features. The update hints at Smart Reply suggestions, new keyboard, creating own GIFs and more. Continue reading “Google Gboard v6.9 hints at Smart Reply suggestions, creating own GIFs and more”
Google today announced that it would start considering page speed as a ranking factor for mobile searches starting from June 2018. Google focused on desktop searches up until now, but for June it will start considering page speed for mobile searches as well. Continue reading “Google to consider page speed as ranking factor for mobile searches starting June”
Coolpad Group has received $300 million in funding from Power Sun Ventures after separating from LeEco in 2017. Coolpad with the new funding is aiming to expand its capabilities in artificial intelligence. Chinese property mogul Chen Hua, Founder, and Head, Kingkey Group, will be leading the new investment through Power Sun Ventures. Continue reading “Coolpad receives $300 million funding, plans for Silicon Valley expansion with AI focus”
Xiaomi introduced intelligent CPU acceleration and Dynamic resource allocation to focus on system optimization and fluent user experience with MIUI 9. These certainly helped in reducing app launch timings and made the overall performance better than ever on MIUI. Continue reading “Xiaomi introduces Game Speed Booster in MIUI Global Beta ROM – here’s how to enable it”
Huawei today announced that it would be teaming with Google to integrate Android Messages across their smartphone portfolio. Huawei will combine Android Messages and RCS messaging to offer native messaging and communications experience. Continue reading “Huawei partners with Google to integrate Android Messages app for SMS, RCS messaging on its phones”
Recently there were reports about the Home and Chrome cast devices crashing on WiFi Network and today Google has acknowledged the issue saying that it is aware of the Chromecast built-in devices may be affecting Wi-Fi network performance. Since it is a widespread issue, Google said that it is starting to roll out the update from today, January 18th. Continue reading “Google to roll out fix for WiFi network crashing issue on Chromecast and Home devices starting today”
Apple announced that it is accelerating its investments in the U. S. standing by its commitment to support the US economy. With Apple’s current phase of spending with domestic suppliers and manufacturers, the company estimates a $55 billion contribution for 2018 and a total of $350 billion in the next five years. Continue reading “Apple to accelerate investments in the US, to contribute $350 Billion in next five years”
Samsung has announced new Exynos 5 Series 7872 hexa-core processor based on 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology for mid-range smartphones. It has built-in LTE Cat.7 modem that would offer download speed of 300Mbps and supports aggregation of up to two carriers. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 5 Series 7872 Hexa-Core 14nm processor with Bluetooth 5, iris sensor support announced”
TCL has introduced a new entry-level smartphone – Alcatel 3C in Italy. The company introduced new 1, 3 and 5 smartphone series along with new smartphones -Alcatel 1X, Alcatel 3V, and Alcatel 5 that were showcased last week in CES 2018. Continue reading “Alcatel 3C with 6-inch full-screen display, fingerprint sensor announced”
WhatsApp is one of the most used instant messaging application. This is mainly due to the fact that, it is a cross-platform application and offers a lot of value-added services like voice calls, video calls, multimedia sharing, group chat, and not to forget the end-to-end encryption of these messages. On 13th January, several users, especially the ones with Xiaomi smartphones started noticing an error, which blocked the users from using instant-message with a message “This version of WhatsApp has become Obsolete on 13-Jan-2018” and asked the users to update the same using Google Play store. Continue reading “Xiaomi takes blame for WhatsApp obsolete error, announces a fix”
