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Google Duo lets you call Xiaomi LG to rebrand its G people who don’t have likely to come with QS series this year the app installed 632 SoC South Korean tech major LG reportedly There is a buzz in the air that Google Xiaomi is expected to unveil a new plans to repackage its flagship G series Duo, the Google’s video calling app smartphone in its Redmi Note series, of smartphones with a new naming works on devices that don’t have the dubbed the Redmi Note 5 soon. scheme, which means that there will app installed. According to reports, the Rumours have started building up and no longer be an LG G7 this year. The users, who have installed the latest the latest one hints about the possible name might be replaced with a two Android version on their smartphone, specs of the forthcoming smartphone. digit number, among other options can Google Duo without down- According to a Chinese site MyDrivers. that the company is yet to announce. loading the app. However, on iOS com, the Redmi Note 5 (which is cur- According to a report by The Investor, platform, the app will be required for rently in the testing phase) is expected “LG is preparing a new making calls on Duo. The company is to be powered by the future strategy for the G series in the first also reportedly working on versions of Snapdragon 632 mobile platform half of the year. Numbering the phone the app for web browsers, and group clocked at 1.8GHz, which is expected with a two-digit number and calls with better audio quality. Google’s to launch soon. The smartphone is rebranding the phone with a new video chats mobile app was announced likely to come with a bezel-less display, name are some of the options on the at the company’s developer conference rated at 5.99-inch with an aspect ratio table.” LG, in 2012, had began pro- in May 2016 and began its worldwide standing at 18:9. It is likely to come ducing the high-end G series with the release in August the same year. Google equipped with 4GB of RAM, however, launch of the Optimus G, followed Duo lets users make video calls in high the internal storage configuration is by the removal of the word ‘Optimus’ definition. It is optimised for low-band- still not known. Moreover, the smart- and keeping the ‘G’ for the series. The width networks. End-to-end encryption phone is expected to feature dual rear report suggests that this decision is is enabled by default. Duo is based on cameras, rated at 12-megapixel, howev- an industry standard with Apple and phone numbers, allowing users to call er, there is no word on the front camera. Samsung having indulged similarly in someone from their contact list. The The smartphone is reported to come the past. app automatically switches between with a price tag of CNY 1,599 (around Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Rs 15,630). [email protected]

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Samsung to grow its presence across in terms of internet penetration, payment channels in India and fulfillment infrastructure, thus representing a huge growth potential,” said Kenny Zeng, Chief Marketing Officer, Vivo India. Additionally, the offer includes “Book My Show” couple vouchers up to Rs 500, free delivery on all orders across the country and a lucky draw where 10 customers will get a chance to win premium speakers worth Rs 2,999. Vivo said that its online store is catering to more than 10,000

What’s Up What’s Samsung is looking to grow its business pin codes covering most of the serviceable Store in iOS 11, which offers larger images, across channels, including online, as the areas in the country. a focus on curation and reviews, and more. year progresses, Asim Warsi, Global Vice On the new webpage, you’ll see a larger app President, Samsung India, said recently. Huawei upgrades its OS with AI heading, preceded by ‘this app is only “We are wherever our users are. And that’s capabilities available on the App Store for iOS devices’,” why we have the largest retail network in the 9to5Mac reported recently. As part of the country with over 150,000 touch points. design overhaul, Apple is showcasing app We are constantly looking to grow our screenshots from its latest iPhone X. business and are looking to pave growth “Previously, the web interface used the old stories in all channels including the online square interface of screenshots from older space,” Warsi said. Samsung, which is iPhone devices. In the case of screenshots gearing up to take on Chinese rivals in the from apps that are not optimised for iPhone online segment, has launched two back-to- X, Apple still shows the older images,” the back “online exclusive” handsets. The two report added. The Cupertino-based giant devices -- Galaxy A8+ and Galaxy On7 Chinese smartphone major Huawei recently redesigned and launched the iOS 11 App Prime -- are from different price segments. unveiled EMUI 8.0 -- its custom Operating Store in September last year. Samsung has 43 per cent market share in System (OS) based on the offline market, which account for nearly platform that promises to boost productivity Honor rolls out new update for Honor View 75 per cent of all smartphones sales. with Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities. 10, brings ‘Face Unlock’ feature The EMUI 8.0, already available on Honor Vivo unveils online store to sell smartphones View 10, will be rolled out on devices such in India as Pro, Honor 9i, Honor 7X and Honor 8 Lite soon. “The update significantly cuts down on the number of steps needed to achieve the desired function through its smart applications like navigation dock and smart screen. It enables the user to reach 90 per cent of the core functions in a single- click,” Huawei said in a statement. The custom OS engages in low-memory Huawei’s sub-brand Honor recently management by allocating resources in a announced the roll-out of a software update way to provide more space to ensure holistic that will bring ‘Face Unlock’ feature to its experience coupled with AI capabilities. “View 10” smartphones. To enable the EMUI 8.0 has features like smart resolution, feature, you need to register your face by dynamic wallpaper, navigation bar accessing face-recognition feature in phone Chinese handset maker Vivo has launched customisations and more. settings menu. The Rs 29,999 Honor View its e-store to sell Vivo smartphones in the 10 detects the positioning between a user country. It has also rolled out a host of Apple revamps App Store web interface and the device and adjusts the direction benefits like discount coupons up to Rs with iOS 11-like design accordingly. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2,000 on selected smartphones and 12- Apple has updated its cumbersome App technology not only unlocks the device month zero-cost EMI, to name a few. “Vivo’s Store web interface similar to the user- when sensors recognise your face but also strategy of launching an e-store is an friendly iOS 11 App Store. “The new turn off the screen when it senses that the affirmation of the Indian market maturing redesign takes cues from the all-new App users are no longer reading. It also detects

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users’ position and adjusts the direction smartphone offering, itel A40, at an effective and was no 75 in the PGA Championship in accordingly. The update will also enable price of Rs 3,099 in association with 2017. He has 20 professional wins to his closed-eye face-unlock prevention and telecom operator Airtel, under its ‘Mera credit. intelligent screen-on. Honor View 10 has Pehla Smartphone’ initiative. Customers octa-core Kirin 970 chipset, 6GB RAM, need to make a down payment of Rs 4,599 Reliance posts Rs 504 crore profit in 128GB on-board memory and EMUI 8.0. to own the all-new itel A40 and will get an Q3 attractive cashback benefit of Rs 1,500 Xiaomi picks three joint sponsors for IPO over a period of 36 months. At the end of 18 months, customers who have done recharges worth Rs 3,000 (in any denomination of their choice) will be eligible for the first cashback installment of Rs 500.

What’s Up What’s They will be eligible for the second installment of Rs 1000, provided they complete another set of recharges worth Rs 3,000 over the next 18 months. The Telecom major Reliance Jio Infocomm has smartphone will come bundled with a reported a net profit of Rs 504 crore for the monthly recharge pack of Rs 169 from fiscal third quarter, its first within 15 months Chinese tech major Xiaomi has picked Citic Airtel, offering generous data and calling of start of commercial operations, buoyed Securities, Goldman Sachs and Morgan benefits. by strong subscriber additions and cost Stanley as joint sponsors for its proposed efficiencies, including sharply lower IPO, according to reports quoting people Smartron welcomes golfer Anirban Lahiri on payments on account of interconnect familiar with the development. The IPO of board charges. The company, which upended the the company, which could be the world’s market since its entry in September 2016 biggest tech float this year, is expected to with its initially free voice and data and now come in the second half of the year and much cheaper mobile internet services, has likely to be in , according to the posted a revenue of Rs 6.879 crore, up people. The company is expected to add nearly 12% on quarter. India’s fourth largest more banks to the transaction later, say the telco by user base had recorded a net loss reports, adding that Credit Suisse, Deutsche of Rs 271 crore in the previous three-month Bank, JP Morgan and around two Chinese period ended September, which was also banks are likely to be added as joint global the first quarter when it formally reported coordinators. The deal, which could value results. The new telecom entrant’s average Xiaomi at as much as US$100bn, is highly revenue per user (ARPU) - a key performance anticipated by investors. Xiaomi earlier told parameter - stood at Rs 154, the same as bankers it would top its annual revenue After Sachin Tendulkar, technology firm in the fiscal second quarter. target by as much as 18%. It is estimated Smartron has added ace Indian golfer to post a net profit of at least US$1bn in Anirban Lahiri to give it a sporty edge in the VoLTE rollout begins in India 2017, banker projections based on the competitive market. Anirban will endorse company’s revenue estimate of US$17bn- the brand on a five-year contract on the $18bn show. global stage. In return, Smartron, the global OEM and IoT brand, will be the main itel Mobile launches itel A40, a 4G VoLTE- sponsors involving Anirban and will support enabled smartphone at Rs 3,099 his journey on the global stage. Tendulkar has been involved with the company as its brand ambassador and strategic shareholder from its early days. With this association, Vodafone has started rolling out its 4G Smartron wants to bring alive on the global VoLTE services in the country by kick- stage Indian stories from all walks of life. It starting the new experience in Gujarat. The wants to put India on the innovation map of telco announced its plans to launch 4G the world through its powered tronX platform VoLTE services in December. Alongside and ecosystem, said an official press Gujarat, Vodafone 4G VoLTE services are set release. Lahiri, an Arjuna awardee is the to reach Delhi, Karnataka, Kolkata, and itel Mobile recently rolled out its latest 4G highest ranked Indian golfer in the world, Mumbai. Subscribers in the Gujarat region

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who have a Vodafone 4G SIM card and a 4G list and settings to Google Drive. Every day LTE-supported smartphone will be able to thousands of Truecaller users are switching make VoLTE calls. Jio and Airtel already to a new phone, getting new SIM card, offer 4G VoLTE network in India. “The resetting their device or in general having to introduction of VoLTE will enhance customer start their Truecaller journey anew. This experience with HD quality calling and offer inevitably leads to lost contacts, blank call our customers newer possibilities,” Sunil logs and data gone missing. Truecaller Sood, Managing Director and Chief membership is worth Rs 999 and includes Backup has been one of the most highly Executive Officer, Vodafone India, had said unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video, requested features by its users, and will while announcing the rollout of its 4G VoLTE as part of their plan benefits. Airtel said that services. the offer for one year of Amazon Prime is activated exclusively through the Airtel TV What’s Up What’s Xiaomi unveils Qualcomm app. Vijay Subramaniam, Director, Content, 3.0 charger for select models Amazon Prime Video India, said this exclusive offer enables the company to reach Airtel’s customer base across the country. “This partnership is a major milestone in Airtel’s endeavour to build a world-class content platform… We look forward to working with Amazon to delight customers with great benefits backed by a simplify a user’s transition to a new phone seamless experience,” said Sameer Batra, or SIM card by securely backing-up their CEO - Wynk. contacts and settings, and stored on your Google Drive. Users also have the power to Xiaomi has launched the India Standard New Google app feature to match selfies customize the frequency of backup between Adapter 9V 2A that supports Qualcomm’s with artwork daily, weekly, monthly and on demand. Quick Charge 3.0. Earlier, Xiaomi sold the Google’s Arts and Culture App has rolled out standard 5V-2A charger in India. The new a new feature that allows users to take a PhonePe now lets FreeCharge customers charger from Xiaomi is available on the selfie, upload it and then match it with a pay at PhonePe partner merchants company’s website and has been priced at doppelgänger in one of several art museums Rs 449. According to Qualcomm, select worldwide. “The update to the Google Arts smartphones are compatible with the and Culture App has catapulted it to the company’s Quick Charge 3.0 Technology. most-downloaded free app on the Apple While , Xiaomi Mi 5s, Xiaomi Mi App Store. It claimed the No. 1 spot in the 5s Plus, Xiaomi Mi 6, Xiaomi Mi Max, US, according to the app metrics site Xiaomi Mi Max 2, 2, and AppAnnie,” Recode reported recently. The Xiaomi MIX 2 are listed, only three of the app uses computer-vision technology to ’s payments arm PhonePe has handsets are currently available in India. examine what is similar about the user’s partnered mobile wallet company So, Mi 5, Mi Max 2 and Mi MIX 2 users can face to the thousands of pieces of art that FreeCharge to allow the latter’s customers purchase the new adapter. The new Xiaomi are shared with Google by museums and pay for transactions at PhonePe’s partner charger has a power output of 5V-3A/9V- other institutions. The tech giant said this merchants. As per the deal terms, PhonePe 2A/12V-1.5A. It has surge protection up to new feature is merely experimental, the has now enabled its over 45 million users to 380V and features Automatic Temperature report added. Formerly known as the Google link their existing FreeCharge wallets to the Control. The Xiaomi Qualcomm Quick Art Project and launched in February 2011, PhonePe app. Once linked, PhonePe Charge 3.0 Charger comes only in Black the new initiative from the tech giant aims customers will be able to spend their colour. to make great art more accessible in this FreeCharge wallet balance at all online and digital age. offline merchant outlets that accept Airtel to offer Amazon Prime membership payments via PhonePe. “This is in line with to postpaid, broadband customers Truecaller introduces Backup feature for our vision of making PhonePe India’s first Bharti Airtel has entered into a partnership Android truly open payments platform, where with Amazon India to offer one year Amazon Popular communication app Truecaller has customers can use any and all payment Prime membership to its postpaid customers launched Truecaller Backup for Android, a instruments of their choice,” PhonePe with an Infinity plan of Rs 499 or above, and new feature which allows users to backup Head Banking Products and Strategic V-Fiber broadband customers. The and restore their contacts, call history, block Partnerships Hemant Gala said. To pay via

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FreeCharge on PhonePe, customers can Chinese version. DingTalk aims to ramp up new, mid-range series of 4TB, 6TB and 8TB link FreeCharge from ‘My Account-Other its user count in India and Malaysia by the hard drives. The new products help corporate Wallets’ section, following which they can end of the fiscal year ending in March. “Our data centres having data-set sizes smaller pay using FreeCharge or PhonePe wallet endeavour is to empower SMEs so they can than ones in hyper-scale environments to balance. scale and become part of the global harness the power of data in applications marketplace. With DingTalk, we will enable 93.5 Red FM launches mobile app organisations to seamlessly communicate Radio network and collaborate across locations, thereby 93.5 Red FM increasing productivity,” Chris Wang, Head has launched its of Global Business Development for application from DingTalk, said in a statement. which users can

What’s Up What’s listen or watch New app to help locate people in areas their favourite without network such as analytics and distributed file content anytime systems, the company said in a statement. by selecting the “Our new enterprise solutions blend the city of choice. technology and total cost of ownership of Through the Western Digital’s capacity enterprise app, the users product line will allow OEMs to offer data can catch live centres a solution to keep Big Data on- broadcast if they have missed it. “Itemisation premises, rather than transition entirely to of on-air content creates flexibility and the Cloud,” Brendan Collins, Vice President allows the listeners to exercise control over of Marketing, Devices Business Unit at the audio content of their choice,” Red FM Western Digital, said in a statement. said in a statement. The mobile application gives the option to handpick curated content Scientists have developed a smartphone GPS, panic buttons mandatory on public from localised Red FM station. “The Red app that can be used in emergency transport from April 1 FM app cuts away from the usual practice situations arising due to earthquakes, floods of radio content which has a low shelf life or forest fires, where and when broadcasted once disappears,” infrastructure is often rendered useless. The 93.5 Red FM COO Nisha Narayanan said. system created by researchers at the She further said the app works as a great Universidad de Alicante (UA) in Spain retention strategy where it can be reused on makes it possible to locate people who have other platforms like mobile and social suffered an accident in remote locations media. The application is available on iOS without a phone signal and where a speedy App Store and Google Playstore. rescue is essential to save lives. “We have designed an application that can be All taxis, buses and public transport Alibaba-owned DingTalk enterprise chat incorporated to any smartphone and that, vehicles, barring three-wheelers and app forays into India without a signal, emits a Wi-Fi signal which e-rickshaws, will have to install location in turn acts as a distress beacon over a tracking device or GPS and an alert button distance of several kilometres,” said Jose from April 1. The road transport ministry has Angel Berna, creator of the technology and reiterated the deadline amid reports that professor at UA. This signal contains the most of the states had not done much to location (coordinates) of the person who has meet the target. “From 1st April, 2018, suffered the accident or disappeared and is passenger transport vehicles including taxis using the smartphone emitter, along with a and buses are to be mandatorily equipped short message that can be altered depending with GPS devices,” the ministry tweeted on the situation, with examples such as “I recently. According to reports quoting a Alibaba-backed platform DingTalk recently am injured,” “I am disorientated,” or “I senior official, there will be no extension to unveiled an English version that caters to need help,” said reports quoting Berna. roll out these passenger safety measures in the small and medium-sized enterprises public transport vehicles. Though initially (SMEs). The English version of the app, also Western Digital unveils next generation the ministry had proposed mandatory available in Malaysia, is the first concerted storage drives installation of CCTV cameras in buses push outside of since launching three Data storage company Western Digital having more than 23 seats, the proposal years ago. Over five million enterprises and recently announced that it is expanding its was dropped due to privacy concerns. organisations in China are already using the portfolio for enterprise customers with a [email protected]

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