Samsung is mum on pricing, but people in the know claim that it will cost INR 35,000, though earlier reports had it pegged at INR 39,000. That’s close to the price of the newly launched OnePlus 6T (INR 38,000). Like the 6T, the Samsung comes with 128GB of storage and is a dual SIM phone, but it also has a dedicated spot for a microSD card. And a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The Galaxy A9 is the world’s first quad-camera phone, you can see what each camera does in the diagram below. You can see camera samples from the phone and more in our hands-on review.
WhatsApp is found to bring a 'Share Contact Info via QR' feature
The feature was spotted on iOS, though it could arrive on Android as well
WhatsApp team is also reportedly easing the new contact functionality
While WhatsApp is busy in enhancing stickers on its platform by adding a dedicated search feature and the ability to create custom stickers, the instant messaging app is rumoured to bring an ability to let users share their contact information via a QR code. This sounds similar to the Nametag feature available on Instagram for some time. It is also reported that WhatsApp is in plans to bring an easier way to let users add a new contact directly from the app.
WABetaInfo reports that WhatsApp is working on a feature called "Share Contact Info via QR" that will let users share their contact details to other WhatsApp users via a QR code. The feature would work similar to how the Nametag feature works on Instagram or how Snapcode works on Snapchat. WABetaInfo folks have shared a few screenshots to detail the advanced contact-sharing feature.
The screenshots show that users will be able to add a new contact on WhatsApp by simply scanning the QR code of that contact. Once the app detects and recognises the QR code correctly, it will fill all the fields and then add the contact in the address book without any external efforts. Similar is the case if you want others to add your contact details to their address book. It is also said that WhatsApp will provide you with the ability to revoke your QR code.
WABetaInfo claims that the feature was spotted on iOS, though it will be available on Android in future. We weren't able to see its presence on any of our iOS devices. Moreover, the feature is likely to be useful especially for businesses as they'll be able to publish their QR code directly on their websites or in their shops. This could help them receive payments or add their customers for future communications. It is worth noting here that WhatsApp already has its dedicated business app for SMBs, and WhatsApp Payments are already taking on apps such as Paytm, which also offers QR codes of its users for easy connectivity.
Alongside the Share Contact Info via QR, WABetaInfo reports that WhatsApp is redesigning the functionality to add a new contact through its app on Android and iOS. There will reportedly be a simple and intuitive interface that will automatically insert the country code once you choose the country of the new contact. Also, once you've entered the phone number, it will show whether the new contact is already a WhatsApp user. It will show a "Not on WhatsApp" label just below the phone number of the contact if that isn't on WhatsApp yet.
The new feature is said to replace the existing 'New contact' shortcut that made way to Android in Maya long time after being available on iOS.
WABetaInfo says that both new features aren't available on Android and iOS, though the WhatsApp team is working on the features for a few weeks. We may need to wait for sometime to experience their scope through an alpha or beta release of WhatsApp.
Each lift, with a capacity of 26 passengers, takes around half-a-minute (30 seconds) to rise 400 feet to the viewers' enclosure on the chest of world's tallest statue.
The Mumbai-based vertical transport solutions provider Otis India has installed 10 large lifts to zoom tourists onto the viewing gallery of the Statue of Unity, inaugurated recently in Gujarat, an official said here on Thursday.
Each lift, with a capacity of 26 passengers, takes around half-a-minute (30 seconds) to rise 400 feet to the viewers' enclosure on the chest of world's tallest statue (182 m) of India's first Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Otis India President Sebi Joseph said.
Of the 10, one is the high-speed Skyrise elevator which hurtles upwards at a speed of four metres per second, besides two other high-speed elevators which take up the visitors from the core of the gigantic statue, which has now become a tourist landmark.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Statue of Unity to the nation on October 31, the foundation stone of which he had laid as the Gujarat Chief Minister in 2013 at the Sadhu Bet river island facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the River Narmada.
"The Statue of Unity, apart from being a symbol of national pride, is a tribute to India's engineering skills and project management abilities," said S.N. Subrahmanyan, CEO and Managing Director, L&T, which constructed the statue out of the iron collected from half a million Indian farmers donating their used farming equipment.
Otis Asia-Pacific President Stephane de Montlivault said it was an honour for the 165-year-old company to work on the Statue of Unity and it adds to its list of lifts for globally famed structures like the Statue of Christ The Redeemer (Brazil), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Burj Khalifa (Dubai), Petronas Twin Towers (Malaysia) and Empire State Building (USA), among others.
The statue has been designed by renowned Indian sculptor Ram V. Suthar, 93, of Maharashtra, who has designed 50 other monumental structures including statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and G.B. Pant, among others.
The Statue of Unity complex is spread across 20,000 square metres and has a public plaza overlooking the river, food stalls, laser-light and sound show, gardens, hotel and convention hall, amusement park, research centres and a museum besides a memorial and exhibition depicting the life and times of Sardar Patel.
PM Modi also said he was confident that his visit to Singapore would impart fresh momentum to New Delhi's growing partnership with ASEAN and East Asia Summit nations.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday participated in the ASEAN-India Breakfast Summit in Singapore and underlined the need for maritime cooperation and centrality of trade for the prosperity of the strategic Indo-Pacific region.
Prime Minister Modi began his two-day visit to Singapore on Wednesday by delivering his keynote address at the prestigious Fintech Festival. He also held separate bilateral meetings with the premiers of Singapore, Australia and Thailand and discussed ways to further strengthen ties, including in areas of trade, defence and security.
"PM Narendra Modi participated at ASEAN-India Breakfast Summit in Singapore. Reaffirmed cooperation in maritime domain and centrality of trade and investment towards prosperity of Indo-Pacific," Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Raveesh Kumar tweeted.
"Had a great interaction with ASEAN leaders at the ASEAN-India Informal Breakfast Summit. We are happy that ties with ASEAN are strong and are contributing to a peaceful and prosperous planet," Modi said in a tweet.
The Indo-Pacific region also came up during the discussion on Wednesday between Prime Minister Modi and US Vice President Mike Pence.
Modi referred to his June speech in Singapore at IISS Shangrila Dialogue in which he had outlined India's vision on Indo-Pacific.
He conveyed to Pence that his vision of Indo-Pacific was gaining acceptability and that "we should utilise the forthcoming East Asia summit to further build on that".
Pence spoke of a free and open Indo-Pacific. He felt that India's contribution in ensuring this would be important.
He said the recent naval exercises held by the US, India and Japan, were an "evidence of our commitment to ensuring free and open access to the seas all across this region".
Before leaving for Singapore, Modi said in New Delhi that his participation in the ASEAN-India and East Asia summits symbolised India's "continued commitment" to strengthen its engagement with ASEAN members and with the wider Indo-Pacific region.
Modi also said he was confident that his visit to Singapore would impart fresh momentum to New Delhi's growing partnership with ASEAN and East Asia Summit nations.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organisation comprising 10 Southeast Asian countries, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and socio-cultural integration among its members and other Asian states.
The ASEAN members are Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Brunei and Laos.
Earlier this year I finally fell down the rabbit hole that is Instagram Stories, and now I spend way too much time on Instagram. This week, the app started rolling out a new feature to combat Insta-addiction, a “Your Activity” tracker that shows you how much time you spend in the app, and lets you set limits to help reduce the number of hours you pour into scrolling you feed each day.
To find the new feature, launch the Instagram app, go to your profile page, and then tap the hamburger icon (the three lines stacked on top of each other) on the top right side of your screen. From there, tap “Your Activity” to launch the feature and tweak your settings.
If you’re an avid Instagram user, you’ll want to brace yourself. You’ll first see a graph of how much time you’ve spent in the app over the past week, as well as an average for the week:
If that number is too high (it probably is), Instagram offers a few options to help you reduce it. Tap “Notification Settings” to customize which push notifications you want the app to send you, which can help prevent you from getting sucked into the ‘gram when you need to be working on something else. Tap the “Set Daily Reminder” option to get a special notification when you’ve surpassed a daily time limit you’ve set for yourself in the app.
If you don’t see the “Your Activity” tracker on your Instagram app, make sure you’re running its latest version. It’s also possible that it hasn’t rolled out to you yet—I didn’t have it on my Android app, but my Lifehacker colleague had it on his iOS app, for example.
While you’re waiting, consider exploring the similar tool that Facebook (Instagram’s owner) has deployed within its social networking apps. Pull up your Settings menu in Facebook, scroll down, and you should see a “Your Time on Facebook” option that will give you the same information—and more customization—as Instagram’s activity tracker.
OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple Edition will be going on sale in India on November 16 and while the price in India for the new OnePlus 6T edition remains the same, it will be available in only one storage version.
OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple Edition, which was recently announced in India, will be going on sale for the first time November 16 and while the OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple Edition has joined the Midnight Black and Mirror Black colour options of the smartphone, the new edition features a gradient back that fades from black to purple under the frosted glass-backed OnePlus 6T, with the evocative ‘S’ curve racing across the back and highlighting the depth of colour.
The OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple Edition will be available with the 8GB RAM/128GB storage version will go on sale via Amazon.in, oneplus.in, Reliance Digital and Croma stores and all OnePlus exclusive offline channels from November 16. There will be no changes in prices of the device and it can still be bought for Rs. 41,999. Moreover, there are no changes in
OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple Edition offer
Rs. 1,500 cashback on all HDFC Bank Credit and Debit Cards
Reliance Jio and OnePlus have come together to offer OnePlus 6T Unlock
The Speed Offer that gives users an instant cashback of Rs. 5,400 in
vouchers on the first prepaid recharge of Rs. 299 on www.jio.com,
Reliance Digital stores, MyJio Stores, Jio retailers, and the MyJio app.
The plan will entitle them to 3GB 4G data per day with unlimited voice calls,
SMS and access to Jio’s premium applications. Effectively, the offer will
bring a total of 3TB of 4G data to the users over 36 recharges
3 months of no-cost EMI on Amazon.in and OnePlus exclusive offline stores
Free damage protection for 12 months from Kotak Servify
Discounts up to Rs. 500 on Amazon Kindle on Amazon.in
OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple Edition specifications
The OnePlus 6T sports a 6.41-inch Full HD+ Optic AMOLED display with 1080 × 2340 pixels resolution, 19.5:9 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 6 protection. The device is powered by Qualcomm’s Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor which is clocked at 2.8GHz paired with Adreno 630 GPU. While OnePlus 6T runs Android 9.0 Pie with OxygenOS 9.0 on top, the whole package is backed by a 3700mAh battery coupled with Dash Charge (5V – 4A) support.
Other features include an in-display fingerprint sensor, water and dust resistance, USB Type-C audio, Dirac HD Sound, Bottom-facing speaker. For optics, there are dual rear cameras with 16-megapixel + 20-megapixel sensors while at the front, there is a 16-megapixel sensor.
The credit can be given to the good response OnePlus 6 has received in the market.
Driven by a good response to the OnePlus 6, Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has managed to top the Indian smartphone market in Q3 2018. According to the data shared by IDC, OnePlus leads the premium smartphone segment with 37 percent market share, followed by Apple with 30 percent share, and Samsung with 26 percent share.
“OnePlus climbed to the leadership position at the back of OnePlus 6, surpassing Samsung and Apple. With its dedicated community building activities and high decibel promotional activities on social media platforms, the vendor has been gradually scaling up in volumes,” Upasana Joshi, Associate Research Manager, IDC India said in a press release.
OnePlus has clocked in higher ever shipments during the quarter, with average-selling-price (APS) of $166, up from $156 during the same quarter last year. Last month, OnePlus also launched the OnePlus 6T model with in-display fingerprint scanner, a smaller notch and other improvements. With prices starting at Rs 37,999 for 6GB RAM with 128GB storage, the top end model with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is priced at Rs 45,999.
The company also launched a new Thunder Purple color variant in India priced at Rs 41,999. The smartphones are available online via Amazon India, and offline via Reliance Digital and Croma Retail outlets.
IDC’s data also reveals that Indian smartphone market shipment has reached an all-time high of 42.6 million units in Q3, which is a growth of 9.1 percent year-on-year. Talking about overall smartphone shipments, Xiaomi still stays on top with 11.7 million units and 27.3 percent market share, whereas Samsung takes the second spot with an annual growth of 4.8 percent.
