The festival of sports is back to the country today with the arrival of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The season opener is all set to take place between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indian (MI) at the Abu Dhabi international cricket stadium from 7:30 PM IST. If you are wondering how you can watch it for free, then there are a few prepaid plans which can help you with that....
iQOO has recently launched a series of smartphones in India, and it seems that the company is not to stop any time soon as the brand is gearing up to launch yet another phone. According to the reports, the smartphone brand is working on the iQOO 7 Pro launch in the country, and the leaks have already started surfacing on the web. Tipster Mukul Sharma has spotted the handset on the IMEI database hinting towards an imminent launch....
iQOO India took in its Twitter handle on Thursday to announce the official arrival of the iQOO 9 series in India. However, the company hasn’t provided any official launch date for the lineup. Previous reports have suggested that the iQOO 9 series may be launched in the month of February and with the company starting to release teasers, the launch may very well be on the horizon. The flagship iQOO 9 Pro will feature Qualcomm’s latest and most powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipset and the iQOO is all set to become one of the first manufacturers to launch the 4nm based chipset in India....
Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) all offer broadband plans that offer less than 50 Mbps speed. These plans are all entry-level in nature and don’t offer a lot to the users in terms of other benefits. But they can be the perfect plans for people who don’t want a lot of speed and want to save their money on broadband plans. The best thing is that all of them are priced under Rs 500 and offer users unlimited data....
If you’re looking for prepaid plans that provide more data, telecom operators provide multiple plans that might suit your need. However, the telcos offer a few short-term prepaid plans that offer a large quantity of data along with other added benefits such as OTT subscriptions. In this article, we are going to take a look at the select 28-Day prepaid plans offered by Jio, Airtel and Vi that provide an enormous amount of data along with other pack details....
Reliance Jio Data Add-On Plans As part of its initiative to support India’s fight against Coronavirus, Reliance Industries announced that Jio would be providing double-data across its 4G data vouchers. The standalone Rs 251 data voucher from Jio offers 51 days validity with 2GB per day data benefit. For those in need of additional non-Jio voice calling minutes along with additional data, Jio has a base plan of Rs 11 that offers 800MB data and 75 minutes of non Jio calling....
In a sincere sense, Reliance Jio has had a very mixed sort of love/hate relationship with the Indian consumers. Some dislike the company because it disrupted the market and sent many players back to the pavilion - into early retirement. But then some appreciate the role of a ‘hero’ Jio played by bringing a digital revolution to India. This sort of relationship will most likely always be there, and at the end of the day, Jio won’t be worried about it as it already has the love of more than 400 million Indian customers....
Reliance Jio, the number one telecom operator, offers its fibre broadband services through the broadband arm called JioFiber. It is a service from the company that’s expanding fast to every region of the country, and JioFiber is already India’s number one fibre broadband service provider as well. You will get some of the best high-speed broadband plans from JioFiber. There are plans with OTT (over-the-top) bundles, and you also get a free Jio STB (Set-Top Box) which will convert your normal TV into a Smart TV....
Reliance Jio, the number one telecom operator in the country, could launch 5G very soon. The telco has mostly stayed quiet about its 5G plans and trials, unlike its competitors, Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Bharti Airtel. Akash Ambani, the newly appointed Chairman of Reliance Jio, said, “We will celebrate ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ with a pan India 5G rollout. Jio is committed to offering world-class, affordable 5G and 5G-enabled services....
SunNXT Now Available on Jio Set-Top Box When we last talked about the Jio Set-Top Box, Reliance Jio had started pushing the ZEE5 application to the Jio Set-Top Box. With this new ZEE5 partnership, the subscribers of Jio Set-Top Box will be able to access the ZEE5 content easily. However, there is also a new application which the subscribers will be able to find within the Jio Set-Top Box when they fire up their TV, and that is SunNXT....
The Competition Commission of India (CCI), tasked with ensuring fair-trader in the Indian market, has approved the merger of JioCinema OTT and Viacom18 Media. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) wants to build the largest TV and digital streaming firm in India. To recall, back in April 2022, RIL and Viacom18 announced a strategic partnership with the Bodhi Tree Systems, where Bodhi Tree would invest Rs 13,500 crore in Viacom18 and Reliance Projects & Property Management Services would invest Rs 1,645 crore in the broadcaster....
The demand for data has risen manifold in the last couple of years. More and more users have been subscribing to broadband plans provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Although ISPs provide high-speed plans up to 1 Gbps, for most users whether it is for streaming, home network or even small businesses, plans with 150 Mbps are quite sufficient. This article will focus on 150 Mbps plans provided by three major ISPs of the country – Jio, Tata Sky and ACT....
Reliance Retail has just launched a limited time period offer for users to exchange their old devices for getting the JioPhone Next at just Rs 4,499. Here, the old devices constitute 4G smartphones, feature phones or any other functional smartphone. If the user is not going for the exchange offer, he/she can get the device for Rs 6,499. There are also financing options where users will have to pay a total of Rs 2,500 upfront, which also includes a processing fee of Rs 501....
Vodafone Idea Limited (Vi), the debt-laden telco is hitting the headlines almost every other day. The lenders are eying to swap their debt for equity, thereby resulting in significant dilution of the company’s promotors - Aditya Birla Group (ABG) and Vodafone Group Plc, reports the Business Standard. The report citing a banking source noted that both promotors have agreed to dilute their shares in the company. Notably, ABG holds a 27....
ToF sees objects in 3D and is not affected by light from external sources, allowing the smartphone camera to deliver a secure recognition rate, the company said. The new sensor supports better face recognition used in phone unlocking and payment authentication, as well as augmented reality and virtual reality applications, it added. “Keeping in mind LG’s goal to provide real value to its mobile customers, our newest flagship was designed with ToF technology from inception to give users a unique and secure verification system without sacrificing camera capabilities,” said Chang Ma, Head of Product Strategy at LG Mobile Communications Company....
The smartphone technology has improved several times in the last decade. Users can do almost everything on their smartphones that they can do on their computers/laptops, leaving aside a few things. There’s one thing that’s pretty evident in the tech industry; as the scale and availability of the tech increases along with the competition in the market, the prices fall down. Just look at a midrange phone today; it might be better than a flagship device launched 4 years back....
Mastercard and BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL) joined hands together and developed a new way for the users to make cashless transactions. The new frictionless payments solution is called ‘ConQR’. It is a Mastercard QR on Card solution that will enable users to both pay and receive money without needing to engage in a physical transaction. Further, this solution stands to benefit small businesses in accepting cashless payments. Users won’t have to give out their personal information for making transactions with the ConQR technology of Mastercard....
MediaTek has announced that its latest offering “MediaTek Helio G99” platform for mobiles, will be used to power the next-generation 4G gaming smartphones. The chipset is based on TSMC’s 6nm process and is said to deliver exceptional gaming performance and power efficiency for 4G devices. Poco M5 4G is expected to be the first device to feature this chip. The MediaTek ‘G’ series chips are mostly seen on smartphones that fall in the affordable range....
Meghbela Broadband is another regional internet service provider (ISP) which has been looking after the fiber internet needs of consumers in Kolkata, the Rest of Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand. The company has some pretty interesting plans under its portfolio. You can get plans with speeds of up to 1 Gbps from the company. One of the best plans that the company is offering customers in Kolkata right now is the Rs 1000 per month plan....
Microsoft contributed $25 million to the Natick project back in 2020. The objective was to preserve energy while providing coastal communities with lightning-fast cloud services. Microsoft tested its solutions by submerging data centers close to coastal cities in order to accomplish this goal. Data would have to travel a shorter distance in this case, making web browsing, streaming videos, and online gaming faster and more fluid. It’s a clever plan considering that more than half of the world’s population lives within 120 miles of the shore....
