Gionee is trying to capture consumers attention in India by offering them an entry-level 4G smartphone. The company has announced that it will launch its new smartphone ‘Gionee Max Pro’ in India on March 1, 2021. A teaser page for the product is already live on the official website of Flipkart. This device will be the high-end model in the ‘Max’ series. Gionee launched the ‘Gionee Max’ last year, and it was an entry-level smartphone that came for Rs 5,999....

Vivo V19: Specifications and Features Vivo has listed the V19 in two colour options- Sleek Silver and Gleam Black. The phone flaunts a 6.44-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED screen on the front with a resolution of 1080×2400 pixels and in-display fingerprint scanner. The phone measures 159.64×75.04×8.5mm and weighs 186.5 grams. Underneath, the phone has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 chipset, paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB/256GB of internal storage. There’s a microSD card slot as well for storage expansion....

In November 2021, Google announced that it would roll out support for Hinglish (a blend of Hindi and English) language to its line-up of apps, starting with Google Pay in India. Well, the move has been finally executed by the search-engine giant. Hinglish language is a blend of Hindi and English. Here, English letters are used to write Hindi words. Google Pay, the most popular payments app, now supports a variety of languages, including Hinglish, English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telegu, which are widely used across the country....

As per 9To5 Google, the tech giant has announced that, as of Tuesday, an update is being rolled out to owners of the first-gen Nest Hub, released back in 2018. This update will not change or limit any functionalities of the Nest Hub, but, it will make use of Fuchsia OS instead of the Linux-based Cast OS that was previously in use. The company mentions that a regular user using a Nest Hub should feel that the OS is almost identical, as the company has seen to it that Google’s smart display experience is built with Flutter, designed to bring apps to multiple platforms, with one of them being Fuchsia....

According to a senior official (source - PTI), Google has banned more than 2,000 loan apps from the India Play Store since January due to terms of service violations, misrepresentations of data, and dubious offline behaviour. In order to increase checks in this area, the internet giant also plans to tighten procedures in the upcoming weeks, the official said. Online violence is a “global phenomenon,” according to Saikat Mitra, Senior Director and Head of Trust and Safety at Google APAC (Asia Pacific area)....

Hathway Broadband is present in multiple cities and regions of India. The company is known for providing consistent and quality internet services to users. Hathway also offers fiber broadband plans to users living in Mumbai. There are plans with 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 150 Mbps, 200 Mbps, and 300 Mbps speeds. Most of these plans come with unlimited data. Let’s take a look at their price and benefits. Hathway Broadband Prepaid Plans in Mumbai Note that none of the fiber plans from the company are available for a single month subscription for the users....

The telecom service provider Airtel entered into direct satellite television services in 2008. Since then, Airtel soon established itself as one of the key players in the DTH arena. Airtel DTH service brings home entertainment with a wide range of Set-Top Boxes (STBs) with pre-curated packs of channels or allows the users to make their own selection of channels. To subscribe to its services, the customer must add a registered mobile number with the service provider....

Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC, has unveiled a mid-range 5G smartphone. Dubbed as the HTC Desire 21 Pro 5G, the handset comes powered by the Snapdragon 690 chipset that also offers 5G capabilities. HTC has been struggling for a while now, especially after its deal with Google, we barely saw the company launching smartphones. The new mid-range Desire 21 Pro 5G launched in Taiwan offers decent specifications. Key specifications of the HTC Desire 21 Pro 5G include 90Hz screen, 5000mAh battery and a 48MP quad-camera setup....

How to Register for Idea Sakhi? The highlight of Idea Sakhi service is that it works on all platforms and is not only limited to Android or iOS and it will work even if the subscriber does not have any data or voice balance on his number. This will ensure that women will be able to access the service anytime and anywhere. If you are an Idea subscriber, you can register for and activate the Idea Sakhi service in two steps....

In the three months ending September 30, 2022, the company, which billionaire Xavier Niel bought brought last year, recorded total sales of 2.15 billion euros ($2.22 billion), an increase of 12.5% from 1.91 billion euros the year before on a reported basis. After subscriber growth in France, Italy, and Poland, French telecoms operator Iliad on Tuesday reported an 8% increase in sales for the third quarter. Additional Information Regarding the Increase in Revenue Chief Executive Thomas Reynaud said that the company most likely has never experienced such good business performance while operating in such a risky macroeconomic environment....

Indian Ranked 66th for Video Calling Experience on Mobile Networks According to Opensignal, India scored 18.7 points on a zero to 100 point scale with Costa Rica also scoring identical points as the second largest populous country in the world. Nine countries including Peru, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Algeria scored lower points than India. In comparison, the three countries jointly sharing the first position on Opensignal charts namely Japan, Netherlands and South Korea are said to have scored 68....

India, being the second largest population in the world, serves as a growing customer base for companies of different sectors. One such industry that will benefit the most from an increasing customer base is the technology Industry. According to a recent study, the number of active internet users in India is expected to grow by nearly 45% by 2025. With this substantial growth, the number of active internet users in India will touch 900 million in the next four years....

A proposal to develop an indigenous mobile operating system and provide users with a more secure experience is apparently being worked on by the Indian government. In addition to providing a safer experience, a new Indian OS would also provide additional options and healthy competition to Google and Apple, according to a top government official who verified this to Business Standard. Indian Government Developing More Secure Mobile Operating Systems Currently, Apple’s iOS is said to have a very modest market compared to Google’s Android, which has a share of over 97 percent....

The Hong Kong-based smartphone manufacturer Infinix launched the 2022 version of its popular Infinix Hot 11 smartphone in India yesterday. This budget smartphone from the company competes with a number of other handsets in the market. One of them is Realme C31 which was launched in India on March 31 as a super budget device as well. Both devices feature a Unisoc chipset and have very similar pricing. If you’re looking to buy a budget smartphone, here’s a comparison between the newly launched Infinix Hot 11 2022 and Realme C31 which might actually be the best budget options available in the market....

After several teasers, Infinix has finally announced the launch date of its next Hot 20 series in India. The product line has already been launched in various global markets and includes Hot 20 Play, Hot 20i, Hot 20, Hot 20S, and Hot 20 5G. However, the company can only bring some of these phones into India. Infinix recently announced on its Twitter the release date of its Infinix Hot 20 series, which is due in India....

According to reports, Instagram will increase the 15-second time restriction for Instagram Stories to 60 seconds. Instagram Stories were previously divided into distinct portions if they lasted longer than 15 seconds. Towards the end of last year, the social media business allegedly started testing the change with a small group of users. Instagram launched its Family Center and parental control capabilities in India earlier this month. Back in March, Meta had made announcements about the Family Center tool and the parental control capabilities....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been struggling for more than a decade now to operate the telecom services business in India. At the same time, Vodafone and Idea’s merged entity — Vodafone Idea (Vi) has been trying to stay afloat in the stiff competition of India’s telecom industry. Private operators including Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have only been profitable amongst all the operators, which, to be frank, aren’t many!...

The Postpaid Advantage - No Cap on Data The single best advantage that the postpaid plans offer the subscribers over the prepaid plans is no daily data limit. The subscribers of postpaid plan can decide to binge watch Netflix one day and spend a large amount of data without worrying, whereas for prepaid users such a thing would be a tough job. However, when it comes to Reliance Jio, the telco has the answer ready for these postpaid plans in the form of prepaid plans with massive daily data offering....

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi), three prominent telecom operators in India, do not need to worry about higher license fees. Currently, the telcos have to pay out 8% of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) as license fee. The parliament has been informed by the Minister of State (MoS) for communications, Devusinh Chauhan, that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) isn’t thinking about raising the revenue sharing rate payment the telecom service providers (TSPs), said a Business Standard report....

Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, two of the top telcos in India, performed well in the wireline segment in July 2022. While these telcos added new subscribers to their overall base, they lost active users in the wireless segment. In the wireline, Jio and Airtel added 1,13,707 and 49,341 users, respectively. Vodafone Idea (Vi), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited) lost 15,845, 54,375, and 16,169 users in total....