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Ria Lakshman April 30th, 2015 10:49 PM 8 COMMENTS

Reliance and Airtel announce their new roaming tariff rates, 40% reduction on incoming calls

Reliance Communications and Airtel have announced their new roaming tariff rates in accordance with the new TRAI guidelines. These charges will be effective from 1st May, 2015. For Reliance, the customers will now have to pay 40 percent lower tariffs for the incoming calls while roaming. For outgoing calls, both local and STD, the new charges are up to 23 percent lower. Also, with RCOM’s One India, One Rate Plan,... Read More

Ria Lakshman April 30th, 2015 9:07 PM 17 COMMENTS

Reliance broadcast Network under hack attack

Hell Shield Official seems to have launched their next attack on Reliance broadcast Network. Its two website – bigmagicinternational.com and 927bigfm.com currently stays inaccessible. The hacker group celebrates their hacking now on Twitter, with claims like ‘User privacy is not joke’. The group, with its Twitter accounts @RealHSH tweeted saying ‘Reliance got Hacked’ and ‘We won’t let You Rule over our freedom’. Another hacker group Anonymous India (@AnonOpsIndia) too upheld this... Read More

SuperGeek April 30th, 2015 8:08 PM 0 COMMENTS

LG G Pad 8.0 with 3G listed in India for Rs 21,000

LG has just listed the G Pad 8.0 tablet with 3G in on its India website for Rs 21,000. The Wi-Fi only variant of the tablet has been around for about a month in the country and currently sells for about Rs 17,000-18,000. The listing pretty much confirms that the official launch is just around the corner. We can expect LG to launch this device quietly in the country, like... Read More

SuperGeek April 30th, 2015 7:07 PM 5 COMMENTS

Micromax Canvas LapTab launched for Rs 14,999 in India

Micromax recently teased that it was going to launch a new product line on April 30. The new product that the Indian OEM was planning to launch is the Canvas LapTab which is a 2-in-1 hybrid device. It has been priced at Rs 14,999 and will be available exclusively on Amazon.in from May 6th. The Canvas LapTab has a 10.1-inch IPS display and comes with a full-fledged keyboard which has... Read More

SuperGeek April 30th, 2015 6:39 PM 4 COMMENTS

Asus Zenfone 2 128GB gets listed on Flipkart for Rs 29,999, OTA update on roll

Asus has got quite a positive response for the Zenfone 2 and the device has already been sold-out in its pre-order phase. The smartphone has been in the news for its value-for-money devices. The 64GB variant just got listed on Flipkart for Rs 22,999 (as out of stock), but what has caught our attention is the fact that the 128GB variant of the same has been listed too. Asus hasn't announced... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 30th, 2015 6:33 PM 3 COMMENTS

Idea users can now enjoy 40% reduction on incoming calls, while roaming; STD call tariff reduced by 23%

Idea Cellular, has announced a reduction in national roaming tariffs today. As per the revised tariffs, Idea will now offer incoming calls at just 45 paise/minute, a reduction of 40%, while roaming anywhere in India. Outgoing Local call rates have been reduced by 20% and STD call rates by 23%. Local SMS will now be available for just 25 paise and STD SMS for just 38 paise, on roaming nationally.... Read More

Ria Lakshman April 30th, 2015 5:23 PM 4 COMMENTS

Vodafone slashed national roaming tariffs, special roaming tariff plans are introduced

Vodafone confirmed slashing of national roaming tariffs today, following TRAI’s amendment to reduce the ceiling charges. In the tariffs released today, 40 percent of the incoming call rates will be reduced, making roaming more affordable to its customers. The local and STD call charges while roaming are slashed at 20 percent and 23 percent respectively. The text messages too are 75 percent lesser compared to the present charges. The new... Read More

SuperGeek April 30th, 2015 5:21 PM 5 COMMENTS

Asus to roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for Zenfone 4,5 and 6 in May

Asus is garnering a lot of attention, following the success of its Zenfone 2 series and all the buzz encompassing it. However, that doesn’t mean that the company has forgotten its first generation line-up of Zenfones. It has just announced that it will begin the roll out of Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Zenfone 4,5 and 6 sometime in the month of May this year (tentatively in middle of... Read More

SuperGeek April 30th, 2015 5:07 PM 1 COMMENTS

Huawei launches P8 Lite with 5-inch HD display and Kirin 620 SoC

Smartphone OEMs these days usually make it a point to launch a budget version of their premium flagship devices. It helps them establish a strong presence in the mid-range segment and also to cater to a wider set of audiences. Huawei recently launched the P8 flagship device and has now launched a slightly toned down version of the same. Dubbed as the Huawei P8 Lite, the smartphone has been launched... Read More

Zara Ali April 30th, 2015 4:20 PM 5 COMMENTS

40,000 Xiaomi Mi 4i units went out of stock within 15 seconds

Merely a week ago, Xiaomi unveiled its much awaited Mi 4i smartphone in India and today, it was available through flash sale on Flipkart. The first flash sale attracted 3 lakh registrations and 40,000 units of the device were sold in just 15 seconds today on Flipkart at 2PM. #Mi4i: 1st sale of Mi 4i - we had offered 40K devices. Went out of stock in 15 secs. Thank u... Read More

SuperGeek April 30th, 2015 1:12 PM 12 COMMENTS

Microsoft Lumia 430 launched for Rs 5,299 in India

Microsoft is going forth aggressively as far as its Indian prospects are concerned. It recently announced that it will be re-branding all Nokia Priority Resellers to Microsoft Priority Resellers and has now launched the cheapest Windows smartphone, the Lumia 430 in India at a price of Rs 5,299. The smartphone will be available for purchase starting today itself and will be upgrade-able to Windows 10 too. The Lumia 430 is... Read More

Tharun G April 30th, 2015 1:02 PM 16 COMMENTS

Exclusive : Aircel to slash roaming rates starting May 1st

Following Vodafone's announcement of reducing roaming rates, Aircel has also slashed its roaming rates as per latest directives released by TRAI. Aircel has informed by its subscribers by SMS that roaming rates has been reduced by up to 75% starting May 1st. Recently TRAI has revised ceiling rates on roaming charges from current 75p/min for incoming to 45p/min. Similarly outgoing calls charges will be reduced to 0.80p/min for local and Rs 1.15/min STD from... Read More