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Jio Cashback Offer, Amazon and Flipkart Sales, WhatsApp for Business, and More News This Week

Jio Cashback Offer, Amazon and Flipkart Sales, WhatsApp for Business, and More News This Week 273k6v

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 21 January 2018 12:50 IST

Highlights

Amazon and Flipkart are both holding big sales
WhatsApp for business has been launched in some regions
OnePlus confirmed up to 40,000 s were affected by a credit card leak

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Welcome back to our weekly news roundup. This was a week of news about deals, as both Flipkart Republic Day Sale started on Sunday, and ends on January 23, and aside from smartphones and laptops, there will also be deals on TVs and other electronics. One of the big deals in this sale will be the Pixel 2 XL at Rs. 48,999 (inclusive of Rs. 10,000 off on HDFC Bank credit card transactions), and you'll also be able to pick up an Xbox One S at Rs. 24,990, a discount of Rs. 2,000. 4u215j

Aside from this, you'll be able to get the plenty more offers too - for one thing, Citibank card holds will get 10 percent cashback on the sale. Even entry-level phones are available on discount, and you'll be able to get the Panasonic P99 at Rs. 5,499 (MRP Rs. 8,990), Xolo Era 1X at Rs. 3,999 (MRP Rs. 5,149), and Micromax Spark 4G at Rs. 3,699 (MRP Rs. 4,499).

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Amazon's first add it to your Amazon Pay Balance, complete with a cashback.

Buyers will get up to Rs. 17,000 off on Micromax Bingebox smart TV range. The Amazon sale is also offering up to 50 percent off on JBL speakers and Sennheiser headphones.

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Another interesting piece of news was the officially announced back in September last year and tested with businesses like BookMyShow and MakeMyTrip in India. WhatsApp Business is a free app, and is aimed at making it easier for small companies to connect with their customers, and for WhatsApp s to chat with businesses.

It will also provide tools such as quick replies and greeting messages, to make it easier for businesses to easily reply to a large number of s. Interestingly, WhatsApp's statement mentioned that over 80 percent of small businesses in India and Brazil are using the messaging app to connect with their customers already, citing a Morning Consult study. This is probably why it is starting from other regions, to be able to test it in a more controlled fashion before a large scale roll-out.

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YouTube integration, with PiP. With this, iPhone s can view shared YouTube videos right inside the chat window in the app.

Also, if you're using a Xiaomi has itted it had mistakenly pushed a beta version of WhatsApp from its app store, which some s ed. The company has also asked s to update the app in order to resolve the issue.

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Some worrying news if you're a earlier this week. OnePlus says that malicious code was injected into its website, and s who entered their credit card details were potentially affected by this.

"One of our systems was attacked, and a malicious script was injected into the payment page code to sniff out credit card info while it was being entered," a OnePlus staff member wrote on the company’s online forums on Friday. "The malicious script operated intermittently, capturing and sending data directly from the 's browser. It has since been eliminated."

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In telecom, Rs. 153 prepaid pack will now offer 1GB 4G high speed data per day, unlimited voice calls (local, STD, and roaming), 100 SMSes per day, and free subscription to all Jio apps.

Magic Cashback offer on recharges of Rs. 398 and above. It's promising cashbacks of up to Rs. 3,300 on recharges, which will be provided through discount vouchers that can be used for future recharges, for up to one year. Customers get eight vouchers of Rs. 50 each, which can be redeemed on recharges of Rs. 300 and above. Apart from that, Idea is offering shopping coupons worth Rs. 2,700.

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Meanwhile, with unveiled at MWC 2018, and leaks also gave us a look at the Moto G6 family. Leaked specifications suggest that the phone will have a 5.9-inch full HD+ display, and an 18:9 aspect ratio.

The Mi 7 as its next flagship is expected, though details are sparse at this point.

Nokia 6 (2018), and Nokia 3310 4G, and the China-exclusive Nokia 7 may also be unveiled for a global audience.

We also got an early look at the AI focused variant at MWC 2018. There aren't too many details about this phone yet though.

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There were also a bunch of phone launches this week in India and abroad. In India, we saw the Honor 9 Lite, which has dual cameras on the front and back - four in all. Starting at just Rs. 10,999, the phone sports a 5.65-inch full-HD+ 18:9 display. That's the 3GB RAM/ 32GB storage variant - there's also a 4GB RAM/ 64GB storage variant priced at Rs. 14,999.

The Honor phone will compete with the Samsung Galaxy On7 Prime, also launched this week. The new Galaxy On7 Prime is available at starting price of Rs. 12,990, and features Samsung Mall, a feature that lets s take a photo of a product in real life, or something from their gallery, and then utilise visual search to identify the product and find it across multiple online shopping sites. The smartphone's key features include a 5.5-inch full-HD display, 13-megapixel cameras on the front and back, microSD up to 256GB, and 3300mAh battery. It comes in two variants, one with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage and another with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage.

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There was Tecno Camon i, priced at Rs. 8,999, which comes with a 5.65-inch HD+ 18:9 display, a 1.3GHz quad-core SoC, and 3GB RAM. It has a 3050mAh battery, and 13-megapixel front and rear cameras.

Globally, the launched in China with two variants. Its price starts at CNY 999 (roughly Rs. 9,900 ) for the 3GB RAM/ 32GB storage model and goes up to CNY 1,199 (roughly Rs. 11,900) for the 3GB RAM/ 64GB storage model. The phone has a 5.7-inch HD+ display, a hexa-core Samsung Exynos SoC, and a 3000mAh battery.

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In payments, BSES has decided to try something new to get people to pay their bills on time. The electricity board on Thursday announced a cashback scheme for Paytm Payments Bank customers.

There was also some interesting news for not officially available here.

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