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Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 on Flipkart, Reliance Jio Subscribers, and More: Your 360 Daily

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 on Flipkart, Reliance Jio Subscribers, and More: Your 360 Daily 1g2e59

By Rohan Naravane | Updated: 16 January 2017 22:17 IST

Highlights

It’s 2017 - please don’t keep an easy-to-guess s
Reliance Jio is just 25 percent away from hitting 100 million subscribers
We may finally know why the Galaxy Note 7 went ka-boom

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2017 has just begun, and we’re already presented with the depressing news that the most commonly-used in 2016 was, ‘123456’. What’s more depressing that other commonly used s included ‘123456789’ and ‘qwerty’. 2j465k

We’re living in a day and age where our online existence is probably as valuable as life itself, at least to many of us. It is hence disheartening to see people using such easy-to-guess s that hackers can exploit, and take control of so many important things - like your bank , your social media, your email, among others.

We strongly urge our readers to create hard-to-guess s that preferably are gibberish to others, but may mean something to you (like an acronym, maybe). Or better yet, use a manager, so you don’t have to keep ing all of them. And never ever, ever, ever, use the same at multiple places.

With that in mind, here's today's 360 Daily with a summary of everything that happened in the world of tech today.

Redmi Note 4 teased, to be Flipkart exclusive
The Xiaomi products are available on all major ecommerce platforms, its own online store at mi.com, and offline partners too. Partnering with cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, the e-commerce player created buzz around the launch on Twitter.

Reliance Jio about 25 percent away from its subscriber target
Less than four months after its launch, targeted 100 million subscribers, and it looks it’s only a quarter of the journey away from the milestone. Reliance Jio suggested that it is still facing issues with connecting calls to other operators, and is blaming the latter for it.

In other telecom news, even on 3G.

Google Pixel has multiple issues (yet again), on sale at Snapdeal
As if there already weren’t way too many issues with while transferring data to the phones over USB.

Hardware Issues Make Pixel Phones Feel Like Expensive Beta Products

In other Pixel news, the two smartphones are now officially available on Snapdeal with cashback worth Rs. 10,000 and other offers.

Hotstar will bring Marvel, Lucasfilm titles to India with Disney onboard
Star Wars, among others.

iPhone 8 could be more water and dust resistant than iPhone 7
Although the Apple’s 2017 iPhone can survive deeper underwater.

ICICI blocks PhonePe UPI transactions
ICICI Bank has come under fire as it PhonePe and Yes Bank (that use the same virtual payment address). Apparently it's because ICICI thinks there are security concerns with Yes Bank giving access to UPI data to a “non-banking application” like PhonePe. UPI was designed to be interoperable, unlike mobile wallets.

Galaxy Note 7 was exploding because of its battery, claims probe
A report suggests that Samsung was expected to reveal the results of the in-depth investigation by the end of this month.

Moving on, take a look at what we know up until now about the Galaxy S8.

Google AMP Lite to work better on devices with low RAM, poor Internet
Google AMP has already helped make webpages load faster on mobile devices. Here phones under Rs. 10,000 today have more than 2GB of RAM. In any case, AMP Lite claims to achieve a 45 percent overall reduction in data use.

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