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“Instagram’s co-watching media picker is essentially tabs of Explore, Saved and Liked. It’s somehow also showing me photos though. Unless Instagram designed co-watching so we can stare at an image together, it would be fixed when released,” reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong tweeted. The feature would let users watch Instagram videos together with added interactive elements of being able to see and hear their co-viewer in a minimised window. At present, the option appears to only support two concurrent viewers, alongside the Instagram Live functionality....

The Big Diwali sale is presently taking place on Flipkart’s platform, and a wide range of products, including smartphones and other consumer electronics, is being offered at a significant discount. A 10% instant discount is being made available during the sale thanks to a collaboration between the site and the State Bank of India (SBI). To make all discounts even more alluring, there is also an exchange offer available....

So Apple has started manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India. The company has reportedly been making moves to shift a significant chunk of manufacturing capacity from China to India for some years now. Apple has been manufacturing several models of iPhones in India over the last few years. The iPhone 14 is just the latest entry to the list. Just like in the past, with all the iPhones, the price of the iPhone 14 won’t be reduced in India even though it is being manufactured in the country....

iQOO 5G Phone India Launch to Happen This Month Last month, iQOO revealed that it would be entering the already crowded Indian market in February. Going by the reports, iQOO 5G phone will be launched during the second week of February, while the brand will officially launch before that. Already, three iQOO smartphones with model numbers- iQOO Pro, iQOO Neo and iQOO Lite received trademarks in India. Also, two iQOO smartphones with model numbers- I1927 and I1928 received BIS certification in India....

The iQOO Z6 5G has just been launched by iQOO for the Indian market. It will come in three-memory variants and sports a strong display with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. A highlight of the smartphone is that it will run on Android 12 out of the box. iQOO said that the device incorporates a five-layer cooling system for thermal management. It will directly compete with the likes of Samsung Galaxy F23 5G, Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G, and more....

None of the telcos want to lose their customers. Be it the operator at the top or the operator at the bottom, everyone values their customers just the same. Thus, when the consumers put in the MNP (Mobile Number Portability) request, the telcos try to do their best to stop them from leaving their network. Because of this, quite often the telcos have been accused of offering differential pricing to MNP customers....

Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, two of the top telecom operators in India, who have already rolled out 5G networks, will be able to offer 5G network slicing services in the foreseeable future. The government has said that it has no problems with the network slicing at all. But there’s a catch with Airtel’s 5G network, though. While LTE and 5G NSA (non-standalone) networks can enable network slicing, for it to work really well, a 5G core is required, which Jio will be deploying....

Reliance Jio, the largest telecom operator in India registered higher voice quality rating in September with Vodafone and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) recording marginally lower ratings. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on its MyCall Portal highlighted that Reliance Jio recorded average voice quality rating of 3.5 in September. The state-run BSNL and Vodafone recorded average voice quality rating of 3.4 in September while Idea registered an average voice quality rating of 2....

India’s leading telecom service provider Reliance Jio is planning to offer 5G-as-a-Service to industries and enterprises. Jio is reportedly working on a compact and scalable ‘Jio 5G Solution in a Box’ which it will use to provide the 5G services to enterprises. The SVP of Jio, Aayush Bhatnagar via his Linkedin social media post on Friday shared that the solution, Jio 5G Hyperlite Stack, has been developed using Jio’s indigenous offering....

The leading telecom operator in the country Reliance Jio offers various prepaid plans according to the need of its subscribers. From cheap daily data plans to long-term prepaid plans and to prepaid plans with OTT, Jio has everything to offer. The demand for the entertainment sector, particularly OTT platforms, has been soaring and users now want to go for the plans that can cater to their needs. Jio has multiple daily data prepaid plans under its portfolio for such scenarios....

Reliance Jio has been very vocal about developing indigenous 5G solutions to be leveraged for deploying its 5G networks across the country. But on Monday, Ericsson and Nokia announced that they have secured multi-year deals from Jio for 5G deployment. This means that Jio’s promise of homegrown 5G will not be made true anytime soon. Even if Jio has to replace Nokia and Ericsson’s gear in the future, it would involve a huge cost and something that the telco might not be willing to do at all....

JioTV Channel Count Reaches 647 Dominating Other Apps The strong forte of JioTV is its wide range of channels which it offers to the viewers. It is worth noting that a few months back, Reliance Jio was offering 640 channels on its JioTV application which was way more than what any other Live TV application was providing. However, owing to some of the recent changes on the platform, the number of Live TV channels on the JioTV platform has been increased to 647, meaning an increase of seven channels....

In an order dated December 26 that was released on Thursday, Department of Telecommunication (DoT) stated that the actual adjusted gross revenue (AGR) shall be taken after removing revenue from landline services for the purpose of computing total SUC payable with the weighted average technique. AGR To Remove Revenue From Landline Services The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has stated that while calculating the spectrum usage charge, a telco’s adjusted gross revenue will remove revenue from landline services....

The Lava Blaze 5G smartphone was introduced earlier this month in the Indian market. The least expensive 5G device in the nation is the Lava Blaze 5G. Now, the business has begun preparing for the release of Lava Blaze NXT, the latest smartphone in the Blaze series. The business teased the release of the upcoming Lava Blaze NXT on social media. According to Sudhanshu, the Lava Blaze NXT will have the same layout and features as the Lava Blaze, which was introduced back in July in India....

Lava, a consumer tech brand known for selling smartphones is reportedly planning to launch a new affordable smartphone in India. The smartphone is touted to be priced under Rs 10,000 and come with support for 4G LTE. According to a 91Mobiles report, the upcoming smartphone from Lava is going to come with a glass back panel. The glass panel is usually offered with smartphones in the mid-range or the premium segment....

The LG W30 features a 6.26-inch HD+ display while W10 is equipped with a 6.19-inch HD+ display. Both the smartphones are powered by the MediaTek Helio P22 processor along with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The W30 is equipped with a triple-camera setup. The phone comes with a combination of a 12MP primary low light sensor, 13MP wide-angle lens and a 2MP depth sensor. For the front, there is a 16MP selfie shooter....

Mavenir, a rapidly growing network software provider today announced that it is working with multiple Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) across Germany and the UK for delivering Cell Broadcast (CB) functionality. For the unaware, CB is a technical specification maintained by the 3GPP. It is basically a method of sending messages to several mobile telephone users in a defined area at the same time. This technology and functionality come in handy when the users living in a certain area need to be alerted about something dangerous such as natural disasters, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, public unrest and more....

The semiconductor manufacturer based in Taiwan MediaTek launched its first true flagship chipset – MediaTek Dimensity 9000 which was designed to go head-to-head with one of the leading chipset manufacturer Qualcomm’s latest and most powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipset in terms of performance. However, no one would have expected that the flagship MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC could actually be better than Snapdragon 8 Gen1 in terms of performance and that too by a considerable margin....

The software giant revealed its plans of notifying users about the end of Windows 7 earlier this month. “This update is available through Windows Update. If automatic updates are enabled, this update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Users would be given an option to select the “do not remind again” option if they wish to get rid of the notification. Windows 10 is still edging closer to Microsoft’s goal of having it installed on one billion devices and the end of Windows 7 would help promote Windows 10 further, The Verge reported....

Mexican telecom operator Movistar, owned by the Spanish telecom group Telefonica, announced its commencement of 5G services. According to a release by Movistar Mexico, its 5G service has been launched in Ciudad de Mexico, Culiacan, and Hermosillo, with plans to roll out 5G in Guadalajara and Monterrey soon. In addition, the telco plans to bring the 5G service to 33 cities by 2023. 5G Services in Prepaid and Postpaid Movistar says it is the country’s first operator to launch 5G services “for everyone” in both postpaid and prepaid segments....