Amazon Great Indian Sale now live for Prime members – Best deals on smartphones, microSD cards, hard disks and more

Amazon today started its early access Great Indian Sale for the Amazon Prime members, as it had promised. It is offering deals on smartphones, microSD cards, hard disks, pendrives, Kindle eReaders, TVs and lots more. Best deals on smartphones and tablets on Amazon.in during early access sale LG G6 – Rs. 29,990 (Rs. 25,010 off on MRP) Honor 8 Pro – Rs. 26,999 (Rs. 6000 off) Nubia Z17 mini – Rs. 15,999 (Rs. 6000 off) Xiaomi Mi Max 2 64GB – Rs. 14,999 (Rs. 1000 off) Xiaomi Mi Max 2 32GB – Rs. 12,999 (Rs. 1000 off) Honor 8 - Rs. 12,999 (Rs. 17,000 off on MRP) Moto G5 Plus – Rs. 11,899 (Rs. 3100 off) LG Q6 – Rs. 11,990 (Rs. 3000 off) Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 8 Tablet – Rs. 10,999 (Rs. 5000 off on MRP) Nubia M2 Lite – Rs. 8,999 (Rs. 5000 off on MRP) Honor 6X 3GB + 32GB – Rs. 7,999 (Rs. 4000 off) Nubia N1 Lite – Rs. 5,999 (Rs. 1000 off) Deals on hard disks, microSD cards and more during early access sale Strontium Nitro 16GB Class 10 UHS-1 MicroSDHC Card- Rs. 369 (33% off on MRP) Strontium Nitro 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 MicroSDHC Memory Card - Rs. 629 (37% off on MRP) Strontium Nitro 64GB 85MB/s UHS-1 Class 10 MicroSDXC Memory ...

Lava Red OnePlus 5T goes on sale in India with instant discount, No cost EMI, exchange offer and more

OnePlus launched Lava Red edition of the OnePlus 5T smartphone in India last week. Today the smartphone went on sale in the country for Rs. 37,999 through Amazon.in, oneplusstore.in as well as Croma stores and OnePlus experience zones in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi NCR . It also comes with several launch offers: 3 months No Cost EMI on credit cards, Instant Rs. 1,500 discount for HDFC Bank debit and credit cards users, Rs. 2000 Exchange Bonus with every purchase of the OnePlus 5T on Amazon.in 3 and 6 months no cost EMI, using Bajaj Finserv cards on OnePlus official e-store OnePlus Buyback Program powered by Cashify where customers get up to Rs. 2000 extra as the Buyback bonus with the purchase of any OnePlus device To celebrate the launch of the OnePlus 5T Lava Red variant, OnePlus has announced a ‘Red meet Red’ campaign in association with Zomato. As a part of this campaign, all Zomato users can avail a free Coke with their orders. To claim it you need to Open Zomato Order food Add a Coke to the cart Enter the code ONEPLUS Get the amount as cashback in the form of Zomato Credits The limited period Zomato offer is exclusively for OnePlus users is available today and ...

Weekly Roundup: Honor 9 Lite, Samsung Galaxy On7 Prime, Meizu M6s and more

This week Huawei's Honor brand launched the Honor 9i smartphone, Samsung launched the Galaxy On7 Prime, Meizu introduced the M6s with side-mounted fingerprint sensor, OPPO launched a mid-range A83 smartphone and lots more in our weekly roundup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vjZa1fzH-c Huawei’s Honor brand this week launched the Honor 9 Lite smartphone in India. It was introduced in China last month and packs a 5.65-inch full HD+ full-screen display with 18:9 aspect ratio, is powered by Kirin 659 SoC, similar most other mid-range Huawei and Honor phones, but this runs on Android 8.0 (Oreo) with EMIUI 8.0 out-of-the-box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS6XRoBGp5w It comes with a 13-megapixel front and rear cameras along with a secondary 2-megapixel rear camera to capture depth information for portrait shots. It has a metal frame, glass back, has a fingerprint sensor on the back that can unlock the phone in 0.25 seconds and packs a 3000mAh battery. It is priced at Rs. 10,999 for the 3GB RAM with 32GB storage version and the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage version costs Rs. 14999. It will be available exclusively from Flipkart and Honor Store starting from January 21st. Samsung launched the Galaxy On7 Prime smartphone in the country. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass screen, is powered by Octa-Core Exynos 7870 processor, runs on Android 7.1 (Nougat) and has 13-megapixel front and ...

Facebook to prioritize news from trusted sources in the news feed

Facebook recently announced an overhaul of news feed to improve interaction between friends and family. Today the company has yet again pushed revealed another change which lets users choose the type of news and news from trusted sources.  In the latest change, Facebook is enhancing on promoting news from publications that the community rates as trustworthy, type of news that is informative, and news that is relevant to people’s local community. It also gives users choice to choose which news should appear on top of the news feed. The company mentioned that it will start testing news from publications that the community rated as trustworthy. [HTML1] Facebook is said to be using the data samples of people using Facebook in the US to gauge their familiarity with, and trust in, various different sources of news. The testing will initially start with the US and will gradually roll out to other countries. As for informative content, Facebook will use its traditional way of asking people to rank the informativeness of updates in their feed on a scale of one to five. This will be evaluated and expanded in different ways this year. Facebook will use the Today In’ local news and events section in the app to display local news and ...

iPhone X sales to be weaker than expected, 6.1-inch iPhone with LCD display coming in fall: KGI

KGI Analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo predicts lower than estimated sales of the iPhone X in China, and he believes that Apple might ship around 18-20 million units in the current quarter, which is significantly lower than the 20-30 million range. The primary reason for the downfall of sales is because of the longer replacement cycles in China. In the latest report, Kuo reaffirms the launch of three iPhone models in 2018 including a 6.1-inch, 6.5-inch OLED ‘iPhone X Plus, and successor to the iPhone X in the fall. He further added that Apple might completely stop the production of the current iPhone X altogether when production of the new 2018 models ramp up. The reason behind not so strong reception in China is because customers are holding on to their existing phones for a longer time, as well as the notch screen design has turned away potential Chinese customers. The Chinese users usually prefer large screen devices, and with the notch, the design of iPhone X might affect the real screen estate. According to report, Apple will ship around 18 million iPhone X units in Q1 2018 and about 13 million in Q2 2018. KGI expects that the iPhone X might end its run around mid-2018 with around 62 million units ...

Instagram testing text-only stories and screenshot alerts

Instagram is on the verge of introducing two new features; 'text-based stories', and stories screenshot alerts which are currently under testing. Text-based stories are not new, they are available on WhatsApp and Facebook. The text-based stories feature will be available as another option at the bottom of the Stories camera, next Boomerang and Rewind. You have the ability to chose from several fonts and backgrounds. Instagram by default selects a plain background and it also lets you upload your own image to the background. The stories-based feature was in testing since December, but it was limited to Japan, but now it looks like the feature is widespread. Another feature that is being spotted is the ability to send notifications when someone takes a screenshot of your story. The company used to send notification for direct messages previously, but now it looks like the feature is expanding to stories as well. However, Instagram will notify you once about the alert when you take a screenshot of a story, but from the second time, the alert will be sent directly. Source

WhatsApp v2.18 beta brings notification channels on Android 8.0 Oreo

Android 8.0 Oreo bought a cool new feature called notification channels that lets you decide how individual notifications from the same app appear and sound, and vibrate, or not, on your phone. WhatsApp has now rolled out Notification Channel on Android 8.0 Oreo, and the feature was spotted in V2.18.18 beta release. Though it is also possible that the feature might have been rolled out in the previous versions, there's no way to tell. WhatsApp now supports 10 notification channels; group notifications, message notifications, chat history backup, critical app alerts, failure notifications, media playback, Uncategorized, other notifications, sending media, and silent notifications. Each of these settings can be further controlled individually, so you can set priorities to the notifications that you receive from the app. You can even entirely disable or control single notifications by just holding down the notification and then you'll see the type there, and you can instantly disable it. And, if you don't want to disable completely, you can change its priority by tapping All Categories, which takes you to the settings where you can choose what you want to do with it. Another important addition to recent WhatsApp update is the ability to switch from voice to video call. So, instead ...