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Airtel Payments Bank is an online banking subsidiary of Bharti Airtel. Airtel Payments Bank (APB) turned profitable in a very short span and has expanded banking points and operations across India. Customers can register to open a savings bank account by either going to its official website on a browser application or through the Airtel Thanks app. Today, we will be looking at the top five features of Airtel Payments Bank that you should know in case you were wondering about opening a savings account....

Rs 149 All-In-One Prepaid Plans and Airtel Replacement The first all-in-one prepaid plan of Rs 149 from Reliance Jio finds competition in the Rs 169 prepaid plan by Bharti Airtel. While the Rs 149 prepaid plan comes with 24 days validity and offers 1.5GB data per day to the users, the Rs 169 prepaid plan, is although a little highly-priced, but it comes with proper 28 days validity and offers 28GB data with no IUC charges whatsoever....

Bharti Airtel purchasing an additional stake in Indus Towers is a good thing for the company in the long term. Indus Towers is driving the infrastructure growth in the telecom sector, and the demand for its services will grow further as the 5G market matures in the country. Bharti Airtel recently announced that it would be purchasing an additional 4.7% stake in Indus Towers at a discounted rate from the Vodafone Group UK....

As mentioned, the benefit has been removed from multiple prepaid plans, but not all plans. Let’s take a look at the prepaid plans that do offer the benefit. Users get unlimited voice calling, 100 SMS/day, and 2GB daily data with the Rs 359 prepaid plan. This plan comes with a total validity of 28 days. Users also get Airtel Thanks benefits such as Airtel Xstream Premium, Apollo 24 | 7 Circle subscription for three months, Wynk Music, Rs 100 cashback on FASTag, and free Hellotunes....

Sweeping the Ground Off With Unlimited Data Although Reliance Jio has many options to choose from, when it comes to broadband plans, the telco has been beaten in terms of FUP data. Whereas, the Rs 1,999 broadband plan by Airtel excels in this very domain. For people who would like to consume high volume data involving lots of content streaming, download and surfing, the Rs 1,999 broadband plan could be the perfect choice as the plan comes with unlimited data....

Bharti Airtel on Thursday introduced a free data coupons scheme to its users recharging for specific packs priced Rs 219 and above. The company said that the scheme is applicable to select users chosen by Airtel based on the eligibility criteria of minimum recharge. Airtel on its terms and conditions page said that the scheme is available for users who recharge for specific packs through its My Airtel application. The scheme enables select Airtel users to receive up to 6GB of complementary data through data coupons with coupons having a validity up to 84 days....

Telecom providers offer plenty of heavy data plans, especially those offering 3GB daily data. A distinguishing factor for choosing 3GB/day prepaid plans is the availability of streaming benefits. Another factor is the validity of the plan. There are plenty of options to highlight these two criteria. Here we look at the 3GB daily data plans of Airtel and Vi coming with short term validity, ranging from 28 days to 84 days, and see which provider offers the best benefits to the customers....

Alliance Broadband offers a 100 Mbps plan that might Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel nervous. But let me just make it clear, nervous to a very small degree because both Jio and Airtel are PAN-India operators while Alliance Broadband only operates in select places. Alliance Broadband offers a very economical 100 Mbps broadband plan that offers a ton of over-the-top (OTT) benefits to the users. Not just the OTT benefits, but the other benefits offered by the 100 Mbps plan from the company are really good....

Always-on Display: The Battery Life Concern for OnePlus It has to be noted that OnePlus shipped the OnePlus 6 to certain users with a pre-production software that had an always-on display feature. While the mode that was highlighted by users on Reddit, was present in the software, it was not active and users had to toggle the switch on settings to use the feature. However, that toggle switch mode was later removed through a launch day update due to “battery saving concern” from the OnePlus team....

It comes with support for 4K resolution content along with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos audio for a better viewing experience. But if your TV can’t support 4K resolution, then you won’t get 4K content experience. The Fire TV Stick 4K comes with a remote integrated with an Alexa button enabling voice commands. Just press the Alexa button, and you can search for your favourite OTT platforms, play music, any TV show or movie and more....

It is true that smaller regional language film businesses, including those in Marathi, Bengali, and Punjabi, which cannot boast of the big budgets of Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu cinema, have suffered for the previous two years, with the pandemic has caused losses of close to Rs 600 crore. Not only were several projects stalled with growing interest expenses for the creators, but content in these languages was still not being widely consumed by giant video streaming sites that prioritise languages with more appeal....

In a recent development, Google has announced the introduction of Android 12 (Go Edition) which will be a toned-down version of Android 12. Android 12 (Go Edition) will act as a successor to Android 11 (Go Edition) and is designed to be used in low-cost smartphones which come with moderate hardware. According to its maker Google, the latest version of the Go Edition will be effectively faster, smarter and privacy-friendly....

All smartphones come with Airplane Mode as an optional function. This function is typically applied when flying. When Airplane Mode was used in the past, Google shifted Android users from connectivity capabilities like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to switch-off mode. For quite some time, Google has enabled users to activate Bluetooth even while Airplane Mode is activated (from Android 11). The technology behemoth is currently adding this capability to Pixel phones’ Wi-Fi....

Apple, the biggest tech company in the world, started growing at a rapid pace post the launch of the iPhone. It was a gadget unlike any at the time. But now, there are many alternatives to an iPhone. But like I have said before, an iPhone isn’t just a smartphone anymore. It has become a status and a style statement. It’s an entry into the premium Apple ecosystem. But the Cupertino tech giant has failed not once but several times to listen to what its customers want....

As per the recent reports, sources from the South Korean component industry have claimed that Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is eyeing to increase its iPhone shipment in the first half of 2022 by around 30% as compared to that in the first half of 2021. This would mean that the company is planning to achieve the annual shipment target of 300 million units. It would be interesting to see how the company achieves this feat when there is a global chip shortage that has been impacting the shipment of all the tech companies....

Apple is going to open an online retail store for the Indians on September 23, 2020. It is the first time that Apple will have an official direct retail presence in the country. The Cupertino giant is already selling online directly in over 37 countries and will add India also to that list in a few days. Until now, all the products online or offline that were purchased of Apple came from authorised distributors of the company....

Apple’s most anticipated product after iPhones is Macs. In the WWDC 2020 event held on June, Apple announced about the new Macs which will ship with the in-house silicon chipsets instead of the Intel ones. The announcement surely got the Mac fans excited about the release of a new Mac which won’t just be more powerful but might also be cheaper because of the in-house production of CPUs. But the new Macs with the silicon chipsets might not arrive at the market until Q2, 2021....

The newly launched iPhone 13 models are special in many ways. One of the biggest takeaways is the introduction of the ProMotion display as coined by Apple. The latest models feature a new OLED display panel with a 120 Hz refresh rate. This display technology adopted by Apple is available only on the Pro models - the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. iPhone 13 Pro Display Issue Ideally, the new iPhone Pro models with the ProMotion display technology are expected to have ultra-smooth display panels due to the fast refresh rate....

Taiwanese smartphone maker, Asus, has started rolling out the Android 11 update to its 2019 flagship- the Asus Zenfone 6 (known as Asus 6Z in India). The rollout has been officially confirmed by Asus itself on its forums ZenTalk. The update, for now, seems to be limited to the Taiwanese market, but we can expect Asus India to roll out the same to Asus 6Z as well. The Asus 6Z was well received by the Indian audience thanks to its affordable price that took on the likes of Redmi K20 Pro and OnePlus 7....