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Rudradeep Biswas March 31st, 2018 8:01 PM 0 COMMENTS

OnePlus Plans to Expand Retail Presence in India With New Offline Stores and Partnership with Croma

OnePlus, owned by BBK Electronics, is putting plans in place for opening ten offline stores in India. The Chinese manufacturer started its operation in the country in December 2014 and has been selling its smartphone through its exclusive partnership with Amazon until now, and some models were sold via Croma as well. Vikas Agarwal, General Manager, OnePlus India said the following regarding the strategic decision when asked by IANS: "We... Read More

Chakri K March 31st, 2018 6:16 PM 8 COMMENTS

Xiaomi Starts the Rollout of MIUI 9.5 Stable Build to Redmi Note 5 and Other Devices in India

Last week, we received the news that Xiaomi was starting to ship the Stable update for the MIUI 9.5 Global build after the testing of the Nightly version. Indian users of Mi phones now have a reason to rejoice as Xiaomi has finally started rolling out the Stable build of MIUI 9.5 NCFMIFA to the Indian phones. In total, 30 Xiaomi phones, including the Mi 3 and Redmi 3, which... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 31st, 2018 3:30 PM 6 COMMENTS

Xiaomi Mi A1 Might Get Project Treble Support With Android 8.1 Oreo Update

Despite being part of Android One program, Xiaomi’s Mi A1 has been riddled with a number of update issues. It had a pretty difficult start with Android Oreo 8.0 update which was suspended a number of times due to bugs, and the company is yet to bring Android 8.1 Oreo to the smartphone. Now it seems Xiaomi is planning to roll out Android 8.1 Oreo update to Mi A1 users... Read More

Chakri K March 31st, 2018 12:17 PM 10 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular and Vodafone India Gear Up for Legal Battle Against Aircel to Recover Dues

Aircel might be stepping onto another legal battle as Idea Cellular and Vodafone India gear up to take action against the telecom company which is already under the weight of bankruptcy. Airtel and Idea might be the first companies to take such a step in these regards, according to the people following the matter. The two major telcos are taking this drastic step to recover their dues from Aircel. According... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 31st, 2018 10:41 AM 6 COMMENTS

YOU Broadband Launches 200 Mbps Plan With 500GB FUP Limit in Hyderabad

YOU Broadband, one of the major broadband player in the country with presence in over 20 cities has introduced a new high-speed 200 Mbps broadband plan in Hyderabad city. The Internet Service Provider is offering the 200 Mbps plan in four different packages with data FUP per month being the difference between the plans. The premium plan of Rs 1,549 offers 500GB of FUP along with an after FUP speed... Read More

Chakri K March 31st, 2018 8:18 AM 4 COMMENTS

The Nokia 6 (2018) Will Compete With the Motorola Moto X4 in India

HMD Global announced the second generation of the Nokia 6 earlier this year in China. The Nokia 6 (2018) in totality seems like an iterative update to last year’s device retaining the same design and hardware specs besides few changes. The Finnish company stuck with the conventional 16:9 aspect ratio display for its newer version of Nokia 6 even though many other phone makers have moved on to the trendy... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 30th, 2018 10:30 PM 3 COMMENTS

Upcoming OnePlus Device May Not be Called as the OnePlus 6

OnePlus hasn't been very predictive when it comes to naming conventions of smartphones. The Chinese brand is now looking to skip the OnePlus 6 moniker and introduce its upcoming flagship smartphone as either the OnePlus 7 or OnePlus 8. Pete Lau, co-founder of OnePlus today posted on his official Weibo account as “Equal to 7 or 8 equal to it" (Google Translated one as the original text was in Chinese),... Read More

Chakri K March 30th, 2018 9:16 PM 7 COMMENTS

Decline in Revenue of Telcos is a Temporary Phenomenon: Aruna Sundararajan

The decline in revenue and levy collections from the Indian telecom industry in 2017 is the only temporary phenomenon caused largely by free voice tariff offers, Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications told today. “I believe that this is an interim phenomenon because suddenly voice has been made practically free at a time when the voice was driving the market, which is why ARPUs (average revenue per user) have fallen... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 30th, 2018 8:52 PM 1 COMMENTS

Gboard for Android Version 7.1 Beta Brings Support for 20 More Languages

Google is rolling out its new update for the Gboard app which will involve a lot of revamping and improvements over the last iteration. Some of the highlights of the update will include Auto-spacing, new emoji, GIF making, 20 new languages and dialects, handwriting settings and more. Although the Emoji 11.0 which is set to be out later this year has not arrived yet, however, Gboard can be seen making additions to... Read More

Chakri K March 30th, 2018 7:18 PM 100 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Subscriber Base Crosses 175 Million, Announces Free Renewal of JioPrime for Existing Users

Well, Reliance Jio has just announced that its subscriber base has crossed 175 million and to celebrate that, the company has announced massive thing for its existing subscribers. Reliance Jio, as expected has announced the free renewal of JioPrime membership for existing JioPrime subscribers for another 12 months. For the existing JioPrime members, Jio has renewed the membership until March 31, 2019, but the new customers still have to make... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 30th, 2018 6:10 PM 6 COMMENTS

Data Tariffs Take Nosedive With 93% Decline During the Last Three Years: DoT

There's no doubt that prices of the mobile internet have come down by a huge margin in the last 18 months, courtesy of Reliance Jio's free data services and affordable tariff plans. Today, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said that mobile internet increased by 93% while data usage per user surged by over 25 times in three years to 2017. "Cheapest tariff globally -- Rs 33 per GB in 2014... Read More

Chakri K March 30th, 2018 3:39 PM 3 COMMENTS

Nokia 1’s Effective Price Becomes Rs 3,299 After Cashback from Reliance Jio

Last month, Nokia announced its massive partnership with Google for bringing all of its smartphones under either Android One or Android Go program. The latter has created quite some buzz in the industry because it's aimed at entry-level smartphones. Android Go is the light version of Android and is sought to redefine the OS on low budget phones and is targeted to provide a smooth experience on these devices. The... Read More