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Nokia 3 Online, GST Effect, Airtel, BSNL & Vodafone Data Offers, OnePlus 5 Problems, and More News This Week

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 2 July 2017 15:56 IST

Nokia 3 Online, GST Effect, Airtel, BSNL & Vodafone Data Offers, OnePlus 5 Problems, and More News This Week

Highlights

Nokia 3 was launched as an offline exclusive but is now available online
Reliance Jio is offering free data for Xioami and Gionee s
OnePlus 5's 'jelly scrolling' issue may be because of an inverted

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Welcome back to our weekly news roundup, where you'll find all the stories in technology that you need to know. One of the big items this week was the news that the Nokia 6 buyers will also get 4GB and 9GB of free data from Vodafone when the two smartphones become available to purchase in July. 281su

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GST rolled out on Saturday, and we saw the first bits of post-GST price cuts. Apple revision of price of popular Asus ZenFone 3 and ZenFone 3 Max models, with price cuts of up to Rs. 3,000 on popular Asus smartphones.

Meanwhile, just as GST seems to be providing some relief to those looking to buy mobiles, the price of imported mobiles and other electronics looks set to go up, as the government is imposing a 10 percent basic customs duty on these products.

If you want to know more about how GST will tax expert ed us to talk about the impact of GST on prices of gadgets and IT services in India on Orbital, our weekly technology podcast. You can subscribe to it via Apple Podcasts or RSS or just listen to this episode by hitting the play button below.

Other telcos have so been rolling out a number of offers. Netflix .

60GB of free data with Reliance Jio, at 10GB extra for up to six recharges.

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rolled out to iPhone s earlier this month and refines the sharing of multiple photos on the platform.

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Soon after its launch, the orientation of the display though OnePlus hasn't confirmed this.

Not all the news phone the phone is bad though. The OnePlus 5 (pretty water resistant, though not actually waterproof.

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There were relatively few launches this week. The finally available offline as well.

Vivo and Qualcomm unveiled an Gadgets 360 tested out the Vivo demo unit and found some delay in response, but this will not be the case with commercial units expected to launch in 2018, the company executives said.

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There was also a leak of the specifications of the Xiaomi Redmi Pro, which was launched last July. It's expected to have 3GB and 4GB variants, and it's believed to have a 12-megapixel and 5-megapixel dual-camera setup on the rear along with a 16-megapixel front camera. It's also rumoured to have a full-HD LCD display.

said to feature a 6.3-inch display with 18.5:9 aspect ratio and for 2K resolution. The dual camera setup on the Galaxy Note 8 is expected to sport two 12-megapixel sensors and come with independent OIS (optical image stabilisation) for each lens.

The specifications of the Google Pixel phones were also leaked. The XL 2 will have a 5.99-inch QHD display, a 2.45GHz processor and 4GB RAM, and a single rear camera. The smaller Pixel successor is expected to have a 4.97-inch full-HD display, and otherwise the same processor and RAM, but it's expected to ditch the 3.5mm audio port.

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