HTC Launches U Series Of Smartphones

HTC Corporation, a leading innovator in mobile and virtual reality technology has unveiled the HTC U Ultra and the HTC U Play smartphones in the Indian market. The Phones embody everything that is brilliant, unique, sophisticated and a reflection of everything that is beautiful. Both the smartphones come with beautifully 3D contoured, liquid surface, adaptive HTC U sonic technology for personalized hearing and a unique combination of MegaPixel and UltraPixel camera technology on the front to provide vivid light, color and detail. The HTC U Ultra is priced at Rs. 59,990 (MOP) and the HTC U Play is priced at Rs. 39,990 (MOP).

The HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play come with a one-year insurance1 that covers liquid damage and any physical damage to the phones. The customers also have an option to avail 7.5% cash back on the MOP value of both the phones using Standard Chartered Debit or credit card. This offer is valid from 6th March ’17 - 31st May ’17. HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play will be available in Indian market from 6th March ‘17 and mid-March ’17 respectively

The HTC U Ultra comes equipped with the dual display, HTC Sense Companion, U Sonic and Voice recognition. The device has BoomSoundTM Hi-Fi edition speakers and camera with 16MP and UltraPixelTM in the front and 12MP UltraPixel main camera to deliver less blur, faster focus, better photos at night. HTC U Ultra and U Play comes in with a 64GB memory variant. 

The HTC U Ultra is available in three colors, which include Brilliant Black; Cosmetic Pink and Sapphire Blue. The HTC U Play with a 5.2” perfectly symmetric thin design takes brilliant selfies with 16MP rear and UltraPixelTM front camera. The HTC U Play is available in Iceberg White; Indigo Blue; Black Oil and Cosmic Pink Gold colors in the India market.

A New Era For Nokia smartphones

HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, today unveiled a new generation of Nokia smartphones, setting a new standard in design, quality and user experience throughout the range. The highly anticipated global portfolio features three new smartphones – the new Nokia 6, delivering performance and immersive entertainment in a premium and extremely robust design; Nokia 5, an elegant smartphone that fits perfectly in your hand; and Nokia 3, which delivers an unprecedented quality at an affordable price point. The new range of Nokia smartphones all run AndroidNougat and offer a pure, secure and up to date experience and will all feature Google Assistant. Today also sees the return of a modern classic – the iconic Nokia 3310, reborn with a modern twist on design.

The family of products announced demonstrate a belief that every consumer should have access to premium quality, not just those with high end flagship devices. Combined with a thoughtful design philosophy that focuses on improving the smartphone experience at every level, each technical component has been carefully considered and integrated into the phone design to have the biggest benefit on consumers’ daily lives. Drawing on the hallmarks of the Nokia phone heritage of quality, simplicity and reliability, the range is designed for a new generation of fans.

With a commitment to deliver pure Android, users can expect a simple, clean and clutter free experience. Featuring the latest Google services, as well as monthly security updates, Nokia smartphones are safe, secure and up-to-date. The new Nokia smartphones feature Google’s most recent innovation, the Google Assistant, building further on a great Android experience. Our teams have worked together to ensure the Google Assistant is integrated, allowing for conversations with the Google Assistant to take place easily on Nokia smartphones.

It was also announced that the world-renowned game Snake will be snaking its way back into people’s hearts with a new version available to play on Messenger, part of Facebook’s Instant Games cross platform experience. The new free Snake game is designed to be played with groups of friends making it even more playable than the first time around.

The new Nokia range of Android smartphones unveiled today ahead of Mobile World Congress includes:

Nokia 6 is going global – combining superior craftsmanship and distinctive design with immersive audio and an impressive bright and colourful 5.5” full HD screen, the Nokia 6 delivers a truly premium smartphone experience. The unibody of the Nokia 6 is crafted from a single block of 6000 series aluminium. The smart audio amplifier with dual speakers allow consumers to experience a deeper bass and unmatched clarity, whilst Dolby Atmos® sound delivers a powerfully moving entertainment experience. Available in four colours – Matte Black, Silver, Tempered Blue and Copper – the Nokia 6 will retail at an average global retail price of €229.

Nokia 6 Arte Black Limited Edition – celebrating the worldwide Nokia 6 portfolio is the Nokia 6 Arte Black Limited Edition. With 64GB storage and 4GB RAM, this special edition combines the best features of the Nokia 6 family in a stunning black high gloss package and will retail at an average global retail price of €299.

Nokia 5 – a sleek and compact smartphone that nestles in your hand. The Nokia 5 has been precision engineered out of a single block of 6000 series aluminium to create a perfect pillowed body that flows seamlessly into the sculpted Corning® Gorilla® Glass laminated 5.2” IPS HD display. Powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 430 mobile platform and the Qualcomm® Adreno™ 505 graphics processor, the Nokia 5 brings robust structural integrity, attention to detail and the quality of a high-end flagship to everyone. Available in four colours – Matte Black, Silver, Tempered Blue and Copper – the Nokia 5 will retail at an average global retail price of €189.

Nokia 3 – a stunning new smartphone designed to deliver an outstanding experience with unprecedented value.  With a precision machined aluminium frame forged out of a single piece of aluminium, a sculpted Corning® Gorilla® Glass laminated 5” display and seamlessly integrated 8MP wide aperture cameras (front and back), the Nokia 3 packs a truly premium quality smartphone experience into its compact and elegant form. Available in four distinctive colours – Silver White, Matte Black, Tempered Blue and Copper White – the Nokia 3 will retail at an average global retail price of €139.

Also announced were

Nokia 3310 – a modern classic reborn. Thin, light and incredibly durable, the Nokia 3310 is a head turning modern twist on one of the best-selling feature phones of all time. Boasting an incredible 22-hour talk-time and month long stand-by, the Nokia 3310’s fresh, colourful, modern design brings it bang up to date. The Nokia 3310 is available in four distinctive colours – Warm Red and Yellow, both with a gloss finish, and Dark Blue and Grey both with a matte finish. The Nokia 3310 will retail at an average global retail price of €49.

 

Panasonic Launches Three New Toughpad Models: FZ – F1, FZ – N1 and FZ – A2

Panasonic an industry leading manufacturer of mobile computing solutions today added three new models of rugged devices namely Toughpad FZ-F1 & N1 and tablet FZ-A2 tablet. The Toughpad FZ-F1 and FZ-N1 are the world’s lightest, fully rugged 4.7” handheld tablets with angular 1D / 2D Bar code reader, Android and Windows devices that feature a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor built for  markets like Transportation and Logistics, Manufacturing, Retail and Healthcare. The 10.1 inch Android tablet offers flexible business customization options suited best for an ideal mobile device for automotive workshops, field work, showrooms.

Meanwhile, Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A2 tablet is a lightweight (880g) and slim (16.4mm) rugged tablet with a fanless design and runs the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system with Enterprise Security from Android for Work. It is equipped with the latest, more powerful Intel® AtomTM x5-Z8550 Quad Core processor (2 MB cache, 1.44GHz up to 2.4GHz) with 4GB RAM and a 32GB eMMC.

The Android-powered Toughpad FZ-N1, will be launched with integrated 1D/2D barcode reader and with data and voice feature at a street price of 99 K INR + Tax and the Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise-powered Toughpad FZ-F1 will be launched with integrated 1D/2D barcode reader and with data and voice feature at a street price of 1.09 Lacs INR +Tax. The Toughpad FZ-A2 will be available at a starting price of 1.20 Lacs + tax.

Gionee Elates It’s Customer By Extending DOA Policy To 30 days

Leading global smartphone brand, Gionee, has revised its Dead on Arrival (DOA) policy. The policy, which earlier allowed customers to returnany Gionee mobile phone, which has developed a functional Defect within 7 days of the purchase has now been extended to 30 Days of purchase to benefit the end user. The new policy comes into effect from 21st February2017. 

A DOA headset must qualify the following conditions-

• Functional defect within 30 days of Activation/Proof of purchase (whichever is earlier)
• Handset box should be supported by original invoice with IMEI details
• Box, Handset and all original accessories should be available
• No sign of major scratches, damage, tampering, liquid damage or user defects• Defect must be re-produced in service center
• Customer approaches Authorized Service Centre with the defective handset along with Box and all accessories.

DOA shall not be considered under the following conditions –

•    In case the defect is not reproduced at SVC Center.
•    Any Software related issues. viii. Issues related to all kind of Accessories

Gionee currently has 460 exclusive service centers across India, which will go up to 650 by end of 2017 in order to enhance the service touch points.The Exclusive Service Center are equipped to handle complaint upto L3 level,which is another step towards setting new customer service standards and offering services for the entire product range under one single roof. The Exclusive service centers also include specialized zones for product demonstrations, customer interactions and face-to-face service for handheld devices.

Introducing New WhatsApp Status

WhatsApp is introducing WhatsApp Status, a new way for users to share moments with friends and family throughout their day via photos, videos, and GIFS.


Appended is the blog post by Jan Koum, CEO & Co-Founder, WhatsApp:

It was just eight years ago, in February 2009, when we started writing the first lines of code for what would eventually become WhatsApp. The original idea behind the project was to build an application that lets your friends and other contacts know what you're up to. This was months before we added messaging. 

Even after we added messaging in the summer of 2009, we kept the basic "text only" status functionality in WhatsApp. Every year, when Brian and I would plan projects to work on, we always talked about improving and evolving this original "text only" status feature.

We are excited to announce that, coinciding with WhatsApp's 8th birthday on February 24, we are reinventing the status feature. Starting today, we are rolling out an update to status, which allows you to share images and videos with your friends and contacts on WhatsApp in an easy and secure way. Yes, even your status updates are end-to-end encrypted.

Just like eight years ago when we first started WhatsApp, this new and improved status feature will let you keep your friends who use WhatsApp easily updated in a fun and simple way. From all of us at WhatsApp, we hope you enjoy it!

OnePlus 3T Gunmetal 128 GB Is Back In Stock

Looking for a new phone with enough power to sustain your most demanding hobbies? If so, the OnePlus 3T is still your best bet thanks to 6 GB RAM and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor. But, for those of you who like to maintain particularly massive virtual collections of stuff, we’ve got another option for you. 

The OnePlus 3T Gunmetal 128 GB is back in stock!The OnePlus 3T Gunmetal (128 GB variant only) will retail at INR 34,999 and will be available for purchase as an Amazon Prime-only member sale on February 17, 2017 from 10 AM – 10 PM. This will be followed by open sales from February 25th, 2017 onwards.

Refuel Your CNG Tanks Cashless With FreeCharge At MGL pumps

FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform partners with Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL). The partnerships aims to enable consumers to make cashless payments using FreeCharge wallet at the CNG filling stations operated by MGL.

Mahanagar Gas Limited, one of India’s leading Natural gas distribution company provides CNG refuel services across Mumbai, Thane, Mira – Bhayender and Navi Mumbai with nearly 190 CNG gas filling stations. Customers refilling their vehicles at the MGL CNG pumps can opt for a swift and secure FreeCharge payments and complete their transaction in under 10 seconds.

To make the payment, the customer just needs to scan the QR code present at the refill pump, through their FreeCharge app and make payment using his/her FreeCharge wallet.

Commenting on the partnership, Sudeep Tandon, CBO FreeCharge, said, “FreeCharge is constantly trying to transform the daily payment habits of consumers by helping them switch to digital payments, which is the most secure and swift way of paying. Through this partnership with Mahanagar Gas limited, we get a chance to serve the MGL customer base of various taxi, tempo, auto drivers and help them experience the ease and safety of the digital payments and hope to on-board them onto the Government of India’s vision of a Digital India.”

NUBIA Z9 MINI GETS UPDATE: BRINGS VOLTE CAPABILITIES AND FRAME INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY ADDED

Aimed at millennial populace, nubia today announced that it has launched a software update that has gone live at 12.00 AM IST on Feb 09, 2017. The users can visit www.nubia.com/in and download. Through this update, nubia plans to provide its customers with enhancements like VoLTE support, android security patches for Google and camera upgrades. Additionally, the new software update presents a completely new nubia 4.0 UI and a fresh system upgrade to the phone. The software patch also brings nubia’s patented Frame interactive Technology a new dimension for interaction, where consumers can control their phones through the screen edges.

The NubiaZ9 Mini with its promise to allow user to “Be yourself” boasts a DSLR quality camera that features the Sony Exmor R 16M P primary and 8MP front camera supported by the NeoVision system, which enables the user with excellent manual photography possibilities. The camera that comes with beauty filters, and smart fill light for better night photography has a striking design made of aircraft grade alloy for absolute robustness and rigidity. 

nubia 4.0 UI finds a balance between elegant simplicity in flat design and novel Skeuomorphism design, full of bright color and clever interactions. With completely overhauled system optimization, nubia UI is smoother than ever before. The update from nubia features the latest optimized Google GMS patch besides including better calendar and a restructured “my file” for the ease of use of the consumers.

The nubiaZ9 mini dual SIM device that exhibits an impressive glass design with a 5-inch full HD SHARP CGS display, which offers up to 95% ultra-high colour saturation at 441 ppi. The device boasts of Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The nubia Z9 mini is powered by 64 bit Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor that clocks in at 1.5 Ghz. The device integrates a 2GB RAM, and a 16 GB ROM expandable up to 128 GB backed by the Qualcomm Fluence V5 Noise cancellation technology, offers the highest quality experience to the user.

ZTE Launches Blade A2 Plus Smartphone In Partnership With Flipkart

ZTE has officially launched its Blade A2 Plus mid-range premium smartphone device in India in an exclusive partnership with Flipkart. The Blade A2 Plus sports a 13-megapixel main camera sensor and it can capture 1080p high definition video. Its 8-megapixel front camera makes it a great choice for selfies. 

The device runs on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system out of the box and is fueled by a 5000 mAh capacity battery inside, which has talk time of 22 hours, significantly longer than 12 hours. Mi-Favor, by ZTE, runs on top of Android on this device, offering a customized experience.

The ZTE Blade A2 Plus features a 5.5-inch Full HD (1080 x 1920 pixels resolution) LCD capacitive touch screen display with a pixels density of 404PPI. Under the hood, the device is powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT6750T processor clocked at a speed of 1.5GHz. It comes equipped with 4GB RAM and Mali T860 GPU for the graphics. With VoLTE integrated, Blade A2 Plus will support higher quality calls and will connect calls much faster than a traditional GSM or CDMA call. It has a built-in 32GB internal memory storage, which can be expanded via dedicated microSD card slot. The device is available at Rs. 11,999/-

“With a young, tech-savvy audience, about 69 million consumers purchased their products online and it is expected to cross 100 million by 2017. Our Blade-series smartphone, ZTE Blade A2 Plus comes with 4G LTE, VoLTE support and host of other features at an effective price. Through this phone, we take the first step to reach millions of Indians who are going digital. By eliminating multiple external factors, we want to bring the best phones that industry has to offer and at an effective price,” said Sachin Batra, CMO, ZTE India Terminal. “Our partnership with Flipkart is in line with our growth strategy for this market and we hope to leverage Flipkart’s strength and widen the reach for our products.”

MapmyIndia Releases eLoc, India’s First Nation-wide Digital Address System

MapmyIndia, India’s leader in premium-quality digital maps, GPS navigation, GPS tracking, location-based apps and GIS solutions, today announced the release of MapmyIndia eLoc, India’s first Nation-wide Digital Address. 

This powerful innovation, packaged as a simple and easy-to-use digital address, will transform historical addresses and disrupt traditional mapping and navigation services, bringing immense convenience to individuals and significant benefits to businesses and governments across India.

eLoc will help Indian travelers and commuters search, share and navigate to destinations’ exact doorstep far more easily and quickly. It will also reduce time, money, fuel wastage and expenses for businesses in the ecommerce, transportation, logistics and field operations domains. 

Finally, governance at all levels, across urban and rural levels, will be empowered with much more productivity and transparency when it comes to civic amenities delivery such as electricity, water, gas as well as property tax administration and tax evasion detection.

Now Go Cashless For All Your Travel Bookings Using FreeCharge On Yatra

FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform today announced its partnership with Yatra.com. With the partnership, FreeCharge consumers will be able to pay for bookings on Yatra, India’s leading online travel company & largest domestic hotels platform. Through this partnership FreeCharge aims to serve 4 million customer base and travel-related services including domestic & international flight ticket booking, holiday packages, bus tickets, hotel bookings, cab bookings, rail ticketing and other ancillary services. FreeCharge consumers can also book and pay for more than 61,000 hotels in over 1,100 cities across India using Yatra. 

In order to pay using FreeCharge, the user needs to shortlist the services he/she needs to book on Yatra.com website or App and select the FreeCharge wallet from the various payment options present on the payment page. With increasing income levels and lifestyle choices in India and digital shift in shopping patterns, online travel portals are emerging as a preferred channel for vacation and travel planning and booking. FreeCharge has presence in the travel category through associations with current partners like OYO Rooms, goibibo.com, cleartrip, travelyaari.com through which the users can book their travel and stay plans. Users can also book train tickets using irctc or book inter-city rides using redBus.in, BusIndia.com, MyBusTickets.in.

Speaking on the partnership, Sudeep Tandon, CBO FreeCharge, said, “We are excited to be partnering with Yatra which provides our customers with increased booking & payments option in the travel & hospitality domain. Present day consumers are increasingly becoming aware of the e-wallet payments and the ease associated with the payment process which has led to a greater adoption of e-wallets. With FreeCharge’s 10-second payment process, Yatra users can now seamlessly pay for their bookings.  At the same time, this partnership will fulfil our endeavour of making the FreeCharge wallet an integral part in the life of our customers”

Sharat Dhall, President (B2C), Yatra.com said, “This partnership offers our customers another cashless payment option, and in turn, also offers Freecharge wallet users the option of using Yatra as their preferred travel provider. With Freecharge as our partner, we certainly anticipate a growth in customer acquisition as well as sales.”

HTC 10 Evo Smartphone Now Available In India

HTC Corporation has announced the availability of the HTC 10 evo in India. The smartphone is priced at Rs. 48,990 and features a metal unibody phone. HTC 10 evo introduces the world’s 1st USB Type-C dual adaptive earphones. The HTC 10 evo takes audio to an unprecedented new level with HTC BoomSound Adaptive Audio. It features a 5.5-inch display covered by Corning Gorilla Glass 5 for increased resistance shows stunning visuals for vivid gaming, movies, and more.

Some of the features include Pulse-pounding audio adapts to the unique structure of your own ears and Eye-popping. The HTC 10 evo’s full metal unibody is water, splash and dust resistant with an IP57 rating, so you can rest easy that it will withstand dunks or spills. Running the latest Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box, the HTC 10 evo offers all the powerful features you would expect from the latest flagship smartphone, including split-screen view, quicker multitasking, new security settings, and much more. The HTC 10 evo will be available in Cast Iron and Pearl Gold colors.

The HTC 10 evo’s 16MP camera has OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) and an ultra-fast autofocus of up to 0.3s with Phase Detection Auto Focus. The HTC 10 evo also features Pro mode to give you pro-like control over your photography. Power users can rejoice that all these features are powered by a powerful 3,200mAh batter. And if you need to recharge quickly, the HTC 10 evo features Qualcomm Quick Charge technology, so you can charge your phone fast. The HTC 10 evo will be available on the HTC estore at Rs 48,990

Intex Launches Aqua Supreme+, Its First Multilingual 4G Volte smartphone At Rs 9490

Intex Technologies announced the launch of a new smartphone called Aqua Supreme+ as its first multilingual smartphone in association with Indus OS. Priced at INR 9,490/-, the new Aqua Supreme+ comes with a stunning 13MP camera and a powerful 3000 mAh battery. 

This 4G VoLTE enabled smartphone comes with a spectacular screen size of 5 inch HD IPS onCell display powered with 16.7 mn display colors for perfect viewing experience. The device is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor coupled with 2 GB RAM, 16 GB ROM ( with 128 GB expandable memory).

Apps such as Indus OS power regional keyboards upto 9 languages with matra and word prediction. The same app also has a special feature, ‘Indus Swipe’ which helps translate and transliterate the text from English to a preferred regional language and vice versa. Known to be the first multilingual smartphone from Intex, Aqua Supreme has other interesting features such as Indus Reader (text-to-speech) and Recharge 2.0 on Indus Dialer which makes it the world’s first OS with integrated balance and usage analytics.

This device also comes equipped with other value added services and features allowing its users an access to wide range of apps such as Tap & Buy – a simplified way of online shopping by the use of artificial intelligence, MiFon Security for comprehensive mobile security and Vistoso for neural graphics for artwork. 

The company claims that the 3000 mAh Li–poly battery allows users to talk up to 6 hours with a standby time up to 300 hours. The smartphone is available at Intex retail stores in champagne and black. The phone runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and weighs just 133 gms.

McDonald’s Introduces New Features In The McDelivery App

To provide convenience to consumers when they order their favorite delicious food options, McDonald’s India (West & South) has come out with a new update for its McDelivery app. With the revamp and introducing a host of new features, McDelivery now offers a seamless and intuitive experience with a more user friendly UI (User Interface) for its delivery customers. 

McDonald’s has revamped its entire McDelivery app experience, by introducing a host of consumer-centric features. One such feature is the maps integration that now allows consumers to just drop the pin on the map and know if they’re in the delivery service area to get delicious food delivered right at their doorstep. Customers can customize their favorite burger by adding/ removing ingredients in an intuitive way as per their preferences. Moreover, they can place smooth and fast orders by choosing from McDonald’s exhaustive list of McCafé beverages, desserts and meal options.

To get real- time tracking on the phone, one can simply place orders and track the status of his or her delivery. The app also has enhanced digital payment solutions and FreeCharge e-wallet for easy cashless transactions. With the order history feature, customers can view their past orders and reorder with a simple click. As a gratification, customers can also now use the ‘Refer-a-friend’ feature to enjoy complimentary burgers.

For the first time ever, instead of launching unique features as an ad, McDonald’s has explored a web film that will be released online. Conceptualized by Leo Burnett, the film focuses on relationships, and people coming together over food.

For offering quicky delivery, McDelivery has also partnered with Zomato and Food Panda for customers to order McDonald’s meal at their doorstep. The new McDelivery app is now live on Android and iOS platforms. McDelivery is available at more than 145 McDonald’s restaurants across west and south India.

Download Link:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.il.mcdelivery&hl=en

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mcdonalds/id922103212?mt=8

 

The All New ixigo Flights App Is Here

India’s leading travel meta player, ixigo has launched an all new version of its already popular Flights app. Available on both android & iOS, the app is packed with a host of new features, developed keeping in mind the convenience of flight travellers. The idea is to give more power to air travellers, by simplifying the booking & post booking processes. With ixigo, one can compare & book flights from across 100+ travel websites including MakeMyTrip, Yatra, Cleartrip, Musafir, Jet Airways, Spicejet, etc.

The various features of the ixigo Flights app cater to a user’s entire travel cycle, helping them at every step of the way, even after a booking has been made. To begin with, when a user enters a date of travel during flight search, they will be presented with their very own smart ‘Holiday Calendar’ which highlights upcoming long weekends & festivals and also lets one know of the upcoming dates with lowest fares. What’s more is that if a user subscribes to the instant ‘Fare Alerts’ feature, they will be prompted as soon as the fare for their preferred flight sector drops, making sure they book at the cheapest price!  

It doesn’t stop at ixigo helping users book the cheapest flight. Thanks to the ‘Flight Tracking’ feature, post booking, the app keeps a traveller updated about the status of the flight. The user will receive prompts in case of flight delays, cancellations etc. With the ‘Auto Web Check-in’ feature, users are also informed when the web check-in for their flight opens. Not just that, no matter what airline a user is travelling with, they can now web check-in directly through the app. It will only take a few seconds as ixigo prefills all the traveller details for them!

Apart from this, users can also take full advantage of other awesome features such as a dedicated ‘Help Center’ that not only answers all their frequently asked questions, but also allows users to add flight trips. By doing so they get access to a host of information regarding a specific trip, such as airline contact details, booking partner’s help desk, baggage information, etc. Users can also browse from over 5 lakh hotels around the world and book via the same app.

With the ixigo Trains App having recently been named the top ‘Made in India’ app for 2016 by Google, the new version of the Flights App also seems to be on the path to becoming every Indian flight traveller’s most loved app. Get the ixigo flights app here: http://ixi.to/ixigo

Samsung Launches India’s First Curved Gaming Monitor

Samsung Electronics launched India’s First curved gaming monitor. It is the most curved monitor in the world with a radius of 1800mm. The curved gaming monitor which comes with a host of exciting features like 144 Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time.

Designed specifically for professional and hardcore gamers, the LC24FG70 & LC27FG70 curved gaming monitor unites the visual refinement of Samsung’s Quantum Dot picture technology with the comfort and widespread view of its curved gaming monitors to create the ultimate gaming experience. Various ergonomics such as HAS, Pivot, Swivel, Tilt provides an optimized gaming experience.

By combining Samsung’s advanced motion blur reduction technology with its VA panel, the LC24FG70 & LC27FG70 is the first curved gaming monitor to produce a 1 ms moving picture response time (MPRT). The rapid MPRT rate reduces display transitions between moving and animated objects, and in turn eliminates potential visual distractions.

The LC24FG70 & LC27FG70 also leverages integrated AMD FreeSync Technology over HDMI functionality to synchronize the screen’s 144 Hz refresh rate with users’  AMD graphics cards. This connectivity minimizes image tearing, input latency and stutter that can disrupt game play and escalate visual fatigue

Samsung’s curved gaming monitor comes with the Quantum Dot technology which enables more vibrant and natural colours. The overall affect is an incredible true-to-life picture on screen. The added luminance gives the monitor a 3000:1 contrast ratio and reveals previously-hidden gaming details in both light and dark settings. Quantum Dot display curved gaming monitor creates an unprecedented visual experience that no gamer has ever experienced.

To further inspire gamer immersion and bring out the best in even the most complex game designs, compatibility with the FPS, RTS, RPG and AOS genres, each curved gaming monitor undergoes rigorous pre-shipment factory calibration. This process optimizes various settings, including contrast ratios, black gamma levels for enhanced brightness and white balance levels for temperature management. As a result, gamers can enjoy a sharp and brilliant picture

Samsung curved monitor LC24FG70 & LC27FG70 will be available with MRP of Rs 35,000 & Rs 42,000 respectively