Sony, Videocon and Sansui announce Reliance Jio offer

Popular smartphone brands Sony, Videocon and Sansui on Monday announced to partner with Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited to make the Jio Preview Offer available on their 4G smartphones.

The Reliance Lyf a Reliance Jio 4G handset

Consumers buying these 4G smartphones can avail the Jio Preview Offer at all Reliance Digital stores including Digital Xpress and Digital Xpress Mini.
As part of the offer, customers can enjoy unlimited access to Jio services for 90 days from the activation of Jio SIM.

Jio's 4G-LTE services include unlimited HD voice calls and video calls, unlimited SMS, unlimited high-speed data and a host of Jio Premium apps such as JioPlay, JioOnDemand, JioBeats, JioMags, JioXpressNews, JioDrive, JioSecurity and JioMoney.

In a move to counter Reliance Jio, telecom major Bharti AirtelBSE -0.68 % has slashed 4G and 3G mobile internet charges by up to 80 per cent to as low as Rs 51 per gigabyte (GB) under a special scheme.

To avail this benefit, AirtelBSE -0.68 % customers will have to recharge with Rs 1,498 against which they will get 1GB of 4G or 3G mobile internet usage valid for 28 days, the company said in a statement.

After exhaustion of 1GB data limit, customers can get 1GB 4G or 3G recharges for just Rs 51 over a period of 12 months and there is no limit on the number of recharges during the period.

Currently, Airtel offers 1GB of 3G or 4G mobile internet for Rs 259 valid for 28 days.

The company is also set to launch a similar scheme in lower denomination of Rs 748.

Under this scheme, Airtel customers will get 1GB of 4G for Rs 99 over a period of six months.

Apple unveils App Accelerator for developers

Apple on Friday announced the opening of its App Accelerator in Bengaluru that will provide specialized support for developers to build tools for the iOS platform. Each week, Apple's team will guide developers to design best practices and refine their skills to create iOS apps. "We are impressed by the great entrepreneurial spirit in India and are excited to provide a platform for these developers to share their innovations with customers around the world," said Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Apple, in a statement. The announcement came at a time when Apple app developers earned over $20 billion in 2016 -- up over 40 per cent from 2015 and several of those talented minds were from India. According to an Apple India spokesperson, app developers from India are now creating amazing apps for its platform. "There are several app developers from India who are now part of the growing innovative community globally," the spokes...

The only UC Browser version that works on Samsung Wave 525 (Bada OS)

It's been about 4 years since the Samsung Wave 525 was launched. When it came out in 2010, it was one of the best mid-segment "smartphones" that hit the market. How many momentous, technologically-superior smartphones have come and gone since the Bada OS Wave? The 525 must now feel like a dinosaur - and it is. In terms of its web browser, the most troublesome dinosaur ever. Prior to using the Samsung Wave, I'd used several other phones and none gave me any problem when using the internet as did the 525. Browsing experience had never been so much a problem unlike the one the 525 gave me since i bought it three years ago. The various versions of UC Browser , a nifty little mobile browser that was touted to be the "fastest browser" for mobile phones that time, was the choice of wave 525 users. The only problem? In a world where every app and gadget was either android or windows, none worked for Bada OS (Samsung's own operating system). The Sams...

Amazon Fire Phone Preview: Cool New Peripherals

So now that Amazon's first ever mobile device is blazing across the, er, internet, and shaking the corridors of Samsung and Apple, you just might want to know what the ado all about. The Fire Phone is a feature-packed so-called "Fire OS" device that's being touted widely as the mobile market game-changer. (Read about the phone's two new tech pieces in it, and full specs here ) What makes it special? In one sentence: It is for the shopper and the tech geek alike. For starters, Amazon promises you a powerful performance-phone that can do an "ultra-fast launch" and load times, fast, fluid graphics, high-speed data, and voice support from its 2.2GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, with Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM . The Dynamic Perspective tech that's in the Amazon phone The Fire Phone features nine bands of LTE, four bands of GSM, five bands of UMTS for better voice coverage, faster data speeds, and international roaming, plus ...

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