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HIGHLIGHTS Jio Phone booking process started at 5:30pm on ThursdayReliance Jio has now paused the bookingsYou can register to be informed when Jio Phone bookings resume Reliance Jio has paused bookings of the Jio Phone, with a message on its website saying that "millions" have already pre-booked a unit. The Jio Phone bookings went live at 5:30 pm on Thursday amidst heavy demand, which the Jio website and apps struggled to cope with for the first couple of hours. Things eventually settled down, and many were able to pre-book a Jio Phone by paying Rs. 500. Now, however, Jio has paused the bookings, with no indication of when the phone will be up for pre-bookings again. "We will inform you when pre-booking [of Jio Phone] resumes," a message on the Reliance Jio website reads.   Jio Phone price and delivery date The Jio Phone is technically free to buy, but you will have to make a Rs. 1,500 refundable security deposit "to avoid potential misuse". Th...

WhatsApp is launching peer-to-peer payments, starting in India WhatsApp is preparing to introduce payments to its messaging app, making it the latest service to let users transfer money to one another with a text.  A beta version of WhatsApp's next update revealed the service could soon support payments. Pictures emerged of a "Welcome to WhatsApp Payments" screen, which was discovered by the blog WABetaInfo. A screenshot of WhatsApp's upcoming payments system WhatsApp, which has more than a billion users a day, is trialing "immediate bank to bank transfer with UPI". UPI, or Unified Payments Interface, is a payments system run by the Reserve Bank of India, which appears to confirm reports that the payments service would be coming to India first.  It is not clear when WhatsApp payments might be made available in the UK.  An initial release in India, where WhatsApp has been recruiting local payment app experts, would give around 200 million u...

Jio Phone bookings have started at certain offline Jio retail stores in Delhi-NCR area HIGHLIGHTS To book JioPhone, you need to submit a copy of your Aadhaar cardRs. 1,500 needs to be paid only at the time of picking up the handsetTentative delivery for those who book right now will be September 1-4 JioPhone bookings will officially open on August 24 (both offline and online), but certain offline retailers in the Delhi-NCR region have already started taking pre-orders for the handset. This means that you have the opportunity to make your JioPhone booking ahead of millions of people across the country, provided you have an offline retailer near you taking pre-orders right now. Gadgets 360 spoke to one such retailer to find out the offline booking process, the documents you need to get your hands on the phone, and tentative delivery dates, and other important details. Notably, the Rs. 1,500 refundable deposit only needs to be paid at the time of picking up the handset, so, you d...

BSNL  has come up with yet another modification to its data STVs/combo vouchers on the occasion of Independence day under prepaid mobile services. The state-run telecom operator is now giving more than 100% more data with all the data STVs/Combo vouchers in the country. These changes would be effective from August 14, 2017, on a pan-India basis. For the unaware, BSNL’s data STVs starts from Rs. 78, which used to offer 1GB data for 5 days. However, from August 14, the same STV 78 gives 2GB data, but the sad part is the validity has been decreased to 3 days. The STV 98 used to offer 650MB for 14 days but has been modified now to offer 1300MB for 10 days. Take a look at the changes to the STVs in the below table. The STV 4998 plan used of offer 80GB data for one year, which has been modified to offer double the data, meaning 160GB data for the same period of time. Also, for customers, whoever recharges these plans between August 15 and August 20 will get double data, on...

HIGHLIGHTS Jio Phone bookings online and offline start on August 24JioPhone delivery to start in SeptemberThe phone can be prebooked via MyJio app and offline Jio stores A little over a week from now, the Jio Phone will be out in the market for beta testing. However, the August 15  Jio Phone  beta trials will be for a limited set of people only, and most of the public will probably not be able to grab a unit for themselves on the first day of availability. Instead, most of us will have to wait till September to get our hands on a unit. Even then, the actual rush to pre-order the handset will begin on August 24, the date when Jio Phone bookings open. The pre-order process will be available both online and offline, so the rush to book the phone will be across the country. If you are curious about the registration process and all the details related to it, read on. Jio Phone booking online and offline For Jio Phone bookings online, you can check the MyJio app on A...

According to the new Rs 399 plan, prepaid users can avail 1GB data per day for a period of 84 days at Rs 399. Not only this but along with the data, Airtel will also provide unlimited calls (both local and STD) on all network under this Rs 399 plan Airtel has come up with a new offer for its customers. Airtel  has come up with a new offer for its customers. The offer is valid only for prepaid users. According to the new Rs 399 plan, prepaid users can avail 1GB data per day for a period of 84 days at Rs 399. Not only this but along with the data, Airtel will also provide unlimited calls (both local and STD) on all network under this Rs 399 plan. Telecom experts see this offer as an effort by Airtel to take on rival Jio. According to Airtel website, the offer is applicable only on 4G handsets with 4G SIMs. Moreover, the website clarifies that the Rs 399 offer is not valid for special, commercial or enterprise purposes and can’t be clubbed with any other plan. The offer details a...

MIUI 9’s China ROM will be available on Xiaomi’s flagship smartphones in China, others handsets in queue. Xiaomi’s MIUI 9 is an incremental upgrade to their proprietary custom Android software. Launched  last month , the new OS is based on Android 7.0 Nougat and brings in a lot of new features to Xiaomi users in China. Xiaomi also released a  video  lately to demonstrate the faster app opening compared to Samsung’s  Galaxy S8  and Huawei’s P10. And now, a new report suggests that Xiaomi users will able to taste the new MIUI 9 from next week. The  report  claims that Xiaomi’s current flagship — the  Mi 6 , and Redmi Note 4X will be the first to get the MIUI 9 update in China. Both of these smartphones sport the latest hardware and being the flagship models in their individual lineup, they will be getting the update before any other Xiaomi smartphone. Another report from  GizmoChina  claims th...