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iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus in India, Another Amazon Sale, Android O for Nokia 8, and More: Your 360 Daily

iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus in India, Another Amazon Sale, Android O for Nokia 8, and More: Your 360 Daily 4m234j

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 29 September 2017 23:37 IST

Highlights

iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus have been launched in India
Reliance Jio is offering cashbacks on both smartphones
Apple CEO Tim Cook shared a message for India via video link

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The Reliance Jio's offers are definitely worth a look. 47d2y

Interestingly, Jio held an event for the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus' launch in Mumbai, where Apple CEO Tim Cook made an appearance via a video. His short message to Indians was full of the usual stuff, but it does highlight Apple's focus on growing its market share in India. The iPhone 8 price in India is Rs. 64,000 for 64GB and Rs. 77,000 for 256GB. iPhone 8 Plus 64GB and 256GB variants are priced at Rs. 73,000 and Rs. 86,000 respectively. All the pre-booking discounts on various ecommerce portals have now dried up.

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Reliance Jio's cashback offer of Rs. 10,000 is still running, but it's valid only on Citi Credit and World debit cards, apart from a buyback guarantee of 70 percent. This means that Jio will provide buyers with 70 percent of the value of the smartphone if they return the smartphone within a year. Jio has also launched a new plan exclusively for iPhone models, which is valued at Rs. 799 with 90GB of data.

Here's everything else that made news in the world of technology.

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale to return
there's another one coming along shortly. This one is just two weeks before Diwali so you can probably expect the best discounts to be reserved for this. If you have a Citibank credit or debit card, Amazon will be offering an additional 10 percent cashback and those who pay via Amazon Pay balance will get 15 percent of the value back.

Amazon has announced that it will be discounting products from Vivo are also likely to see discounts. Smartphones and large appliances are the most popular products in these sales, so perhaps Amazon will offer excellent deals on these products.

Nokia 8 may get Android Oreo soon
Fast Nokia 8 in Taiwan, an HMD Global manager reportedly revealed that the smartphone may receive the Android 8.0 Oreo update by end of October.

what's new in Android 8.0 Oreo, there are a lot of features such as picture in picture mode, notification channel feature, notification badges, Android instant apps, and much more.

ZTE may launch the world's first dual screen folding smartphone
Lots of companies have hinted that they may be rumoured to launch a smartphone called Axon M on October 17 and this could be the world's first true dual-screen foldable smartphone. We've seen a leaked live image of this product and that image shows a hinge-like setup that houses the secondary display. At the moment it is not clear how this smartphone would be different in of functionality but we'll keep you updated the moment there's more information.

Google Assistant now available on Android TV
Nvidia Shield TV owners first before rolling to Sony Bravia TVs in the coming months. With Google Assistant on Android TV, s can watch their favourite shows, and otherwise control the TV, with the help of voice commands.

First public betas for iOS 11.1, tvOS 11.1, macOS 10.13.1
Some of us like to stay on the bleeding edge of software updates, even if it risks breaking crucial features and providing less than optimal battery life. If you are among those people, you might want to know that Apple has made the first which now has over 30 million s, and a new Radio app.

GoPro HERO6 Black launched
GoPro yet. It comes with custom-designed GP1 processor and shoots videos in 4K60 and 1080p240 quality. Alongside, the company put its Fusion camera up for pre-orders, and added new features to its Karma drone. The GoPro HERO6 Black price in India is Rs. 45,000.

Elon Musk wants to launch launch Earth-to-Earth rockets for travel
There are technological breakthroughs and then there are clever uses of existing technology. Elon Musk's latest idea appears to be more of the latter. The innovator has unveiled ambitious plans to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system codenamed BFR, which stands for Big Fucking Rocket. It would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions.

Google to launch an Echo Show rival?
Google is reportedly working on a rival to Google pulling YouTube from some Amazon hardware. If this product turns into a reality, then you can expect it to be well integrated with other Google services such as Google Photos and YouTube.

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