Ola Drive self-drive car-sharing service launched, plans to host 20,000 cars by 2020

Ola has launched ‘Ola Drive’, a self-drive car-sharing service to take on Mahindra-backed ZoomCar, Revv and others. The service is already live in Bengaluru with Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi to follow shortly. Ola said that it intends to host a fleet of 20,000 cars by 2020, 50% more than the fleet size of the entire industry put together. On the app, you can choose the Drive option on the top, click plan your drive, confirm start and end time (from 2 hours to 60 days), select the number of kilometers even fuel inclusion, in addition to the free kilometer with fuel mentioned. This allows for savings of upto 30% over other providers, says the company. For Bengaluru, there are lot of cars to choose from Maruti Suzuki Dzire, Swift, Ciaz, Hyundai Xcent, i10, i20, Verna, Creta and Renault Captur. Ola said that it conducted research with individuals with different driving experience levels to get a keen understanding of their preferences. The insights helped Ola to procure user-preferred car models, enable high-quality repairs and maintenance structures to ensure every user gets a fresh and high performing vehicle, added the company. All Ola Drive cars across segments will come equipped with Ola’s connected car ...

Samsung India announces festive offers on Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Series

Samsung India has announced Diwali festive offers on its Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10 series of smartphones valid from October 17 to October 31, 2019. Samsung’s most powerful Galaxy Note 10 series will be available for sale with benefits of up to Rs. 12,000. And Samsung’s most popular Galaxy S10 series will be available to customers with benefits worth up to Rs. 14,000. Customers purchasing the Galaxy S10 can avail an additional 5% cashback through SBI credit cards up to Rs. 3000 along with instant cashback of up to Rs. 5000. For the Galaxy Note 10, customers can get Rs. 6000 bonus over and above the exchange price of their phone or an SBI cashback of Rs. 6000. Customers buying either of these devices can get the Galaxy Buds at a discounted price of Rs. 6,990 (Discount of Rs. 3000 when compared to retail price) and  the Galaxy Watch Active at Rs. 13,990 (Discount of Rs. 6000). The cashback and upgrade offers will be available across select Samsung outlets pan India. The Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Buds bundled offers will be available across Samsung outlets across India and on online stores like Flipkart, Amazon and more.

ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo (UX581), ZenBook Duo (UX481), VivoBook S14 (S431) and more launched in India

ASUS announced the ZenBook Pro Duo, ZenBook Duo, ZenBook Edition 30 laptops at Computex 2019 event in Taipei earlier this year and it was also showcased at IFA 2019 recently. Today, ASUS has launched these models in India along with VivoBook S14 (S431) without a ScreenPad and VivoBook S15(S532) with ScreenPad 2.0. ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo (UX581) specifications 15.6-inch 16:9 4K OLED touchscreen display with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, 5mm-thin bezel, 89% screen-to-body ratio, and 178° wide-view technology 9th Generation Intel Core i9-9980HK processor with 2.4GHz base clock speed and Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz; 16MB cache NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU 32GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM 1TB PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSD Full size backlit keyboard, 14-inch 4K ScreenPad Plus touch display with 178˚ wide-view technology, NumberPad -Integrated LED-backlit numeric keypad on the touchpad Connectivity and ports: Up to Intel Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0, 1 x Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C with Display Port, 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A , 1 x HDMI 2.0, 1 x Audio combo jack, 1 x DC-in IR HD camera ASUSSonicMaster stereo audio system, Cortana and Alexa voice-recognition support Dimensions: 2.4 x 35.9 x 24.6 cm(Height x Width x Depth) ; ...

Moto E6 Play with 16:9 display, fingerprint sensor surfaces in renders

Recently, renders of Motorola Moto G8 Plus (XT2019) smartphone surfaced with FHD+ water-drop notch display, triple rear cameras, and more. Now, a new render of alleged Moto E6 Play smartphone has surfaced revealing key details of the smartphone including the display, camera, colour options, and more. According to render from Mobielkopen, the alleged Moto E6 Play is said to sport a display with 16:9 aspect ratio, but the resolution is not known yet. We can expect it to be an HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. The images also reveal a thick forehead and chin at the bottom. Regarding the optics, this model is said to sport a single rear camera with LED flash next to it and is said to sport a rear-mounted physical fingerprint scanner. Other specifications including the processor, battery, camera resolution, etc are not known yet, but the images just reveal a 3.5mm headphone jack, microphone, micro USB port at the bottom, and power on/off and volume buttons to the sides. Also, this smartphone is said to come in two colour options - Blue and Black. Motorola is expected to announce this alleged Moto E6 Play alongside Moto G8 Plus (XT2019) on October 24th 2019 at ...

Nokia 110 (2019) feature phone with 1.77-inch color display launched in India for Rs. 1599

HMD Global introduced Nokia 110 (2019) feature phone at IFA event last month and it was announced alongside the Nokia 7.2, Nokia 6.2, Nokia 2720 Flip 4G phone, and Nokia 2720 Flip 4G phone. Today, HMD Global has launched the Nokia 110 (2019) feature phone in India and is positioned as an upgraded version of Nokia 105 (2019) that was launched earlier this year. Nokia 110 (2019) sports a 1.77-inch QQVGA colour display with a resolution of 160 x 120 pixels and is powered by an SPRD 6531E processor paired with 4MB RAM with 4MB internal storage that can be expanded up to 32GB through micro SD card. It runs on Nokia Series 30+ software, has a built-in FM radio giving you access to a range of stations, has a built-in MP3 player, and comes with the Snake game pre-installed along with 4 try and buy games like Ninja Up, Air Strike, Football Cup, Doodle Jump. There is a rear camera on this phone as well and this phone packs an 800mAh removable battery with up to 14 hours talk time and 18.5 days standby Nokia 110 (2019) specifications 1.77-inch (160×120 pixels) QQVGA Color Display Nokia Series 30+ software platform SPRD 6531E processor ...

iOS 13 now running on 55% of iPhones and iPadOS 13 running on 41% of iPads introduced in last four years

Apple released iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, the company's next major update recently for iPhones and iPads. The company has now posted its first statistics of iOS 13 adoption since its launch last month and has also posted stats of iPadOS 13 adoption since its launch. According to the stats released by Apple, iOS 13 has now been installed on 50% of all iPhones. However, still, 41% of iPhones are running on iOS 12 and the rest 9% is running on an older iOS version. Among the iPhones launched in the last four years, 55% of the devices are updated to iOS 13 and 38% are running iOS 12 and the rest 7% is still stuck in older iOS versions.  Similarly, Apple has released stats for iPadOS 13 adoption and the stats reveal that 41% of all devices introduced in the last four years use iPadOS, 51% run of iOS 12 and the rest 8% of iPads are still stuck in older versions. Also, 33% of active iPad tablets are running on iPadOS 13, 51% on iOS 12 and the rest 16% on older versions.  These stats are as measured by the App Store activity on October 15, 2019. Source

Diwali offer: Get a vivo smartphone by paying Rs. 101 up front across offline channels

As a part of their Diwali celebrations, Vivo has announced many offers on its latest products across all offline channels in India. Starting from October 18th till 31st October 2019, customers can avail special offers on Vivo's smartphones — V17Pro, V15Pro, Z1x (8GB), V15, S1, Y17, Y15 and Y12. The most attractive offer among them is that you can pay a flat amount of  just INR 101/- and get your favourite Vivo smartphone. Other offers include: 10% cashback with HDB Financial Services 5% cashback with HDFC and ICICI Bank Credit Card EMI transactions and HDFC Bank consumer loans Lowest EMI starts from INR 926/- Exchange bonus worth INR 1,999/-(Bluetooth Headphones) on V17 Pro and S1 via vivo-Cashify upgrade application Customers can also avail other offers such as No Cost EMIs with Zero Processing Fee and Zero Down payment options on the range of products through Bajaj Finserve, Home Credit, IDFC First Bank, HDFC Bank & HDBFS with upto 12 months EMI tenure. Commenting on the sale, Mr. Nipun Marya, Director Brand Strategy, Vivo India said: We are excited to bring attractive offers for consumers across India, as we get ready for Diwali season. The offers have been specially curated to provide exciting propositions to ...

India Mobile Congress and Aegis Graham Bell Awards announce winners of first phase of 10th edition AGB awards

10th Aegis Graham Bell Awards in association with India Mobile Congress felicitated the winners of this year's award at the India Mobile Congress 2019 in New Delhi. Ramboll India, Bharti Infratel and C-DOT were announced as winners for the 1st phase of Jury round of the AGB awards.  The award is a joint initiative of Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber security and Telecommunication and India Mobile Congress to recognize innovators and their innovations. IMC-Aegis Graham Bell Awards aims to promote innovators in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and to recognize their outstanding innovations with a vision to make India an innovative hub for rising brilliance and virtuosity. Ramboll India secured the award ‘Telecom Infrastructure’ category for their innovation ‘Hybrid Telecom Tower’, Bharti Infratel bagged the award in ‘Smart city solution’ category for their innovation ‘Bhopal Smart City’ and C-DOT won an award in ‘Innovative telecom product’ category for their innovation ‘C-SAT-FI’. Ramboll India has suitably developed a tubular profile tower, where the use of tower structural steel and foundations is 20 -30% less than legacy towers. Bharti Infratel’s Bhopal smart city innovation’s vision is to transform Bhopal, a city of lakes, tradition and heritage into a leading destination for ...

Redmi 8 Review

Xiaomi under the Redmi brand recently launched the Redmi 8, a better version of the Redmi 8A with upgraded specifications such as dual rear cameras, fingerprint sensor and Infrared sensor, while retaining the same 5000mAh battery with 18W fast charging, but this has the same Snapdragon 439 SoC. Is this worth the price? Let us dive into the review to find out. Box Contents Redmi 8 smartphone in Sapphire Blue color 2-pin 10W charger (5V-2A) USB Type-C cable SIM Ejector tool Clear protective case User manual and warranty information Display, Hardware and Design The Redmi 8 has the same 6.22-inch HD+‘Dot Notch’ display with a pixel resolution of 1520 × 720 pixels and a pixel density of about 270 PPI as the Redmi 8A. The display is bright, thanks to 400 nits brightness and 1500:1 contrast ratio and the colors are decent since it has 70.8% of NTSC color gamut. Sunlight legibility is good, since it has a Sunlight display to adjust the contrast of each pixel in real time, so images are less affected by glare. It also has Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection that you rarely find in a smartphone in the price range. [gallery link="file" size="large" ids="295434,295433,295435"] Since this has a 19:9 ...

Google Pixel 4’s Live Caption and Astrophotography features coming to Pixel 3, 3a series later this year

Earlier this year at Google I/O 2019, Google announced a feature called Live Caption coming to Android 10, and this feature has finally been released in the new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL. Another Pixel 4 feature was the ability to take long exposure night sky shots or astrophotography, as a part of their enhanced Night Sight mode. Google has now announced that these two features will be coming to Pixel 3 and Pixel 3a series later this year. Live Caption in Pixel 4 is a feature that was announced with the launch of Android 10. The feature is an automatic captioning system, similar to the captioning system in YouTube, except that all the processing happens in real time and completely on-device, so it works even if you don’t have cellular data or Wi-Fi, and the captions always stay private and never leave your phone. This feature will come to older  Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL later this year and Google is working with other manufactures to bring this feature to more phones soon. The feature is designed to help users enjoy content if they do not have their headphones and can’t play the audio out ...