Bharti Airtel said it will launch affordable 4G smartphones powered by Google’s Android Go platform next month, under a tie-up with handset makers Micromax and Lava. “Entry level 4G smartphones under Airtel’s ‘Mera Pehla Smartphone’ program will be shipped with Android Oreo (Go edition) as standard OS starting March 2018,” the telecom operator said. “Lava […]
Bharti Airtel said it has tied up with HMD, the maker of Nokia smartphones, to offer cash back of Rs 2,000 on the Nokia 2 and 3 smartphones. The initial price of Nokia 3 will be Rs 9,499 and that of Nokia 2 will be Rs 6,999. To get the cash back of Rs 2,000, […]
Lost in the details of the financial and technical data disclosed by Reliance Jio on its third-quarter performance was a tiny bullet point announcing that the company had broadcast a pan-India stream over eMBMS. eMBMS or enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service is a hybrid technology that tries to marry the traditional one-to-many broadcasting architecture used […]
Vodafone announced cashback of Rs 1,500 on Samsung handsets Galaxy J2 Pro, Galaxy J7 Nxt and Galaxy J7 Max. Vodafone customers, both existing and new, can purchase any of the popular Samsung 4G smartphones, it said. To avail this special offer, prepaid customers have to sign up for the Rs 198 per month scheme that […]
Vodafone India announced a cash back deal on itel’s A20 4G smartphone. Under the scheme, anyone who buys the mobile phone for Rs 3,690 will get a cashback of Rs 900 after 1.5 years and Rs 1,200 after another 1.5 years. However, the person has to use the specified Vodafone number on the device and […]
Continuing with its tie-ups with hardware brands, Bharti Airtel announced three more ‘cash back’ models from Intex, including one with 2GB of RAM. The cheapest will be the Intex Aqua LIONS N1, priced at Rs 3,149 and eligible for for a cash back of Rs 1,500 over a period of three years. The effective price […]
A new plan being bundled with Xiaomi’s new affordable plan, Redmi 5A, suggests that Reliance Jio could soon launch its first monthly unlimited plan priced at Rs 199. The plan, valid for four weeks, will give 1 GB of data per day, unlimited voice and access to Jio apps. The bundled offer on Xiaomi 5A […]
After Karbonn, Bharti Airtel has now tied up with Celkon to offer a full touchscreen 4G smartphone at an effective price of Rs 1,349 and an upfront cost of Rs 2,849. The partnership is part of Airtel’s ‘Mera Pehla Smartphone’ initiative. It had announced a similar offer in association with Karbonn two weeks ago. The […]
Vodafone India unveiled a new pack priced at around Rs 69 that allows users to make unlimited calls for one week at just Rs 69. The scheme is among the most affordable voice plans in India for GSM users. The total cost works out to about Rs 250 per month. Unlike other schemes that are […]
Reliance Communications, the telecom arm of the Anil Ambani Group, has got moving on its announced strategy of becoming a 4G-only operator by shedding its GSM and 3G operations. According to industry sources, the company has been re-allocating its staff to the 4G division and gradually switching off GSM cell sites. The GSM network could […]
Wallet players like Paytm, Mobikwik, PhonePe and AmazonPay have come up with cash back offers for Reliance Jio users who want to take advantage of the Rs 399 recharge scheme valid till today midnight. Last week, India’s largest wireless Internet provider said anyone recharging with Rs 399 to get 84 days of ‘free’ usage, will […]
Bharti Airtel announced that it will sell high-end smartphones online with instant financing. The phones, including the iPhone 8, will be available at low downpayment and bundled monthly packages, which will make them more or less free of charge. The model was first tried by Reliance Communications several years ago. The company had, at the […]
Bharti Airtel has announced a scheme to offer a 4-inch smartphone at an effective price of Rs 1,399 — after cash backs — to take on the challenge posed by Reliance Jio’s Jiophone. The customer needs to make a down payment of Rs 2899 for the 4G smartphone. He will get a cash refund of […]
The much anticipated ‘bezelless’ phone from Xiaomi, Mi Mix 2, has been launched in India at a price of Rs 35,999 for the 128 GB version. The phone is, without doubt, the most affordable bezelless device in India. In comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S8 — which has thin bezels on the top and the bottom […]
OnePlus, the sister company of Vivo and Oppo, totally dominates the online market for premium handsets with a 57% market share compared to just 4% for Samsung, the Chinese company said, quoting numbers from IDC. The numbers are only for online sales, and do not include data for traditional sales through shops. OnePlus, which was […]
Vodafone said it will offer Rs 50 per month in extra talk-time for people using any Intex 2G-only feature phone, provided they top-up by Rs 100 or more per month. The offer will work for 18 months. However, Vodafone said the offer is valid only till 31st October, which could indicate that it must be […]
Reliance Jio has opened pre-booking for the new Apple iPhone with an effective price of just Rs 9,200 under a dual cashback offer. The sticker price of iPhone 8 is Rs 64,000 in Jio stores. However, if you buy the device along with a 12 month contract of services from Jio, the company will return […]
Reliance Jio, the country’s largest internet service provider, will unveil a new tariff plan for iPhone 8 users that will offer 90 GB of 4G data for Rs 799 over a 28-day period, media reports said. That works out to Rs 8.88 per GB, which is almost half the rate valid for a comparable non-iPhone […]
HTC U11, the Taiwanese company’s come-back model, is all set to get an unspecified price cut under Flipkart’s Big Billion Days mobile sale that starts tomorrow at midnight. The online portal is teasing a price cut without revealing the extent of the cut. The current price for the phone is Rs 51,900, which pits it […]
OnePlus 5, arguably the most successful high-end phone in India, is set to face some competition from Meizu Pro 7 Plus, which is now likely to the first phone to come with the advanced 10-nm Helio X30 chipset in India. Meizu has so far focused on the mid-range 10,000-rupee market in India, and has launched […]
