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The most popular prepaid plan offered by any telecom company is its daily data plan which offers everything in one place for the users, be it data, voice calls or SMS. With the rising demand for OTT platforms, telcos also bundle up subscriptions to a few OTT platforms along with their plans for their content-loving user base. Two of the major telcos in India Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea offer quite similar plans and also have prepaid plans that come with access to the Disney+ Hotstar OTT platform....

Airtel Wi-Fi Calling Now Works on Any Broadband Network According to Bharti Airtel, the Airtel Wi-Fi Calling has garnered more than one million users within less than three weeks of launch. The telco states this achievement is one of the fastest uptake of new network technology in India. Initially launched in just four circles, Bharti Airtel expanded the service across the country, competing with Jio Wi-Fi Calling. “Airtel Wi-Fi Calling is now available to Airtel mobile customers across India,” confirmed Airtel in a press statement....

Airtel Xstream Box Premium Plan Detailed The Airtel Xstream Box Premium plan costs Rs 4,898 and offers a host of benefits. For starters, it offers them the Airtel Xstream Box hybrid Set-Top Box (STB) which runs on Android TV platform. As always, Airtel continues to offer a free subscription to one of its channel pack worth Rs 462 free for seven days. Users can change the digital TV pack after seven days as per their choice....

Netflix Benefit Vanishes from Airtel Xstream Fibre Earlier, Airtel Xstream Fibre was the only broadband service provider which was offering free subscription of Netflix for three months to their customers. Netflix is the most lovable streaming platforms made it easier for Airtel to attract more customers towards their Annual Broadband Plans. However, the partnership of Bharti Airtel and Netflix ended, and Airtel has removed Netflix Benefits in their Annual Broadband Plans....

Amazfit GTR 3 Pro Review: Design and Look Amazfit GTR 3 Pro doesn’t look too different from a usual smartwatch, but then that’s not really a negative. It looks like any other smartwatch, but with hundred shades of class and is not too fancy or something, so it can be a perfect fit for you in any environment. I had the Infinite Black colour for review, and it’s a very elegant colour option....

Customers can send or receive P2P payments by simply selecting a contact from their phone contact book or entering UPI ID or bank account of the recipient. As a launch offer, customers can get up to Rs 120 cashback on sending money through UPI. All payments are secured through multi-factor authentication involving the customer’s phone, SIM details and UPI PIN.

The telecom market in India had been a “tough” space for the operators in the past two to three years, says Tom Bartlett, chief executive officer at American Tower. Bartlett said that American Tower witnessed “outsized net growth” when the company “originally” entered the Indian telecom market. However, the chief executive officer at American Tower said that the growth was “clamped down” as the Indian telecom market underwent “consolidation” and went “through some of the regulatory patch issues....

The new MacBook Pro models have marked Apple’s leap into its portfolio powered by the custom Silicon chip. Notably, the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chipsets launched by the Cupertino tech giant are the most powerful ones from the company and also outshine its counterparts from Intel. It is one of the major improvements that the top-end MacBook Pro is fitted with including a 120Hz mini-LED display. Now, it looks like Apple is planning to incorporate the 120Hz display into its upcoming 27-inch iMac slated for the 2022 launch....

Apple has been working to update its lineup with the M1 chip, starting to move away from Intel with the M1 based MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, with more recent examples being the iPad Pro 11-inch and 12.9-inch, as well as the new iMac. With this change, users expected a massive shift when it comes to performance, since the Intel chipsets were not as competitive in recent times, and, with AMD’s existence, the performance seemed sub-par at best....

Earlier this week, Apple released the seventh beta version of macOS Monterey. This iteration of the operating system was announced at the WWDC 2021. This iteration of the OS was expected to be available later this year alongside the M1X Macs that are rumoured for long. Now, an interesting development has been spotted via an internal system code, which shows that there could be support for two new Retina display resolutions....

MacBook Models The Update Will Be Sent Out To It is interesting to note that the iPhones already come with the ‘Battery Health Management’ system. Now the update is going to be rolled out for all the users who are running MacBooks which have Thunderbolt Type-C ports. This means that all the MacBook Pro’s since 2016 and all the MacBook Air Retina models will get this feature in the next update....

Apple recently held its earnings call for the September 2021 quarter. The Cupertino tech giant has reportedly doubled its business in India. Even the revenues are up by 29% YoY basis. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in the earnings call, said that the company had doubled its business in developing nations such as India and Indonesia. The September quarter was really good for the company in India as the demand for iPhones soared....

Local manufacturing is continuing India’s economic expansion. According to data released on Monday, Apple sold more than 1.2 million iPhones in the nation during the second quarter of this year, representing a tremendous 94% surge. Data from market research firm Cybermedia Research indicates that the surge was caused by the phenomenal sales of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 models. Of the total number of supplied iPhones, about 1 million were made in India....

Any deal between the two companies is likely to send hundreds of Intel’s modem engineers to the iPhone maker. Apple is reportedly looking to buy Intel’s modem division since last year but could not strike a deal. Apple has already poached Intel modem engineers. Meanwhile, Intel is also looking to completely exit the 5G smartphone modem business as soon as possible, according to tech website Tom’s Hardware.

Apple has announced that it will be servicing and repairing the Apple Watch Series 6 smartwatches which are going through display issues. Note that the free repair is specifically for smartwatches going from the specific issue mentioned above and falls in the category of 44mm size. There’s an issue with a small percentage of 44mm Apple Watch Series 6 smartwatches which are causing the screen to go blank permanently. The issue is flaring up on Apple Watch Series 6 units which were produced between April and September 2021....

Apple is a company known for not taking risks, opting to go the safe route in most instances. Be it the under-display camera, which, to this date remains flawed in one way or the other or the 5G connectivity, which arrived to the iPhone a bit later in comparison to the likes of OnePlus and Samsung. Today, it has been revealed that in an attempt to save overall costs, Apple will reportedly change the ways it produces camera modules for the iPhone, with new reports stating that it will supposedly opt to produce each of the camera lenses separately, in an individual manner, in contrast to procuring them all together and pre-assembling the same....

New Apple products have been the subject of numerous reports over the past few weeks. Reports on the upcoming iPad Pro series, the iPhone foldable, and the iPhone 15 series have all been making rounds online. A foldable iPad could be released before a foldable iPhone, according to rumours that the Cupertino corporation has previously spread. Secondly, it has recently been indicated by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that it is unlikely that Apple will switch to a foldable iPad mini....

Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 Now Starts at Rs 7,499: Should You Buy it Now? The Zenfone Max Pro M1 was probably the best phone Asus launched in recent times. Launched back in April 2018, the Max Pro M1 still packs a punch when it comes to hardware, especially at the price of Rs 7,499. After the latest price cut, the Max Pro M1’s base variant with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage costs Rs 7,499....

The current government at the centre has been keeping Digital India as the banner-child of its policies. The scheme launched a few years back wasn’t just focused on urban digitalisation but also dreamt of extending connectivity to the rural portions of the country. However, unlike the urban areas where the telecom companies themselves are eager to deploy towers, offer various services like broadband and mobile telephony, such is not the case for areas that remain underserved or unserved....