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Reliance Jio Broadband Tests, Amazon and Flipkart Sales, Nokia 3310 India Launch, and More News This Week

Reliance Jio Broadband Tests, Amazon and Flipkart Sales, Nokia 3310 India Launch, and More News This Week 1k3620

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 14 May 2017 14:46 IST

Highlights

Amazon's big sale ends on Sunday, while Flipkart's starts then
Reliance Jio is expanding its fibre broadband testing to more cities
Nokia's new lineup is expected to launch in India by first week June

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Welcome back to our weekly news roundup, where we catch you up with all the tech news you might have missed during the course of the week. As you may have guessed, some of the news that most people were interested in was about sales, from both Flipkart. 2i3u4j

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Not to be outdone, Flipkart announced the Moto G5 Plus will be extended to “bestselling smartphones from leading brands.”

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Flipkart will also have a 'top smartphone deals, with deals on phones from most top brands.

Meanwhile, JioFiber in a number of cities, holding trials in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Surat, and Vadodara. There's no word right now on when it will be commercially available, or in which cities. While the service is said to be free for the first 90 days, s will have to pay a one-time, refundable sum of Rs. 4,000-4,500 for the JioFiber router.

Reliance Jio is also already in the works to 100 percent cash back on JioFi routers, if you take the exchange offer against an old 2G/ 3G dongle.

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Aside from this, we also got a surpridate from share of broadband connections in India when counting wireless connections according to TRAI.

The other item of news that everyone's been reading is Nokia's return to India. Nokia's phones are likely to launch in the new Nokia 3310 feature phone – will be launched together or not. The decision on that is expected to happen by May-end.

HMD Global held a Nokia event earlier this week, where the company’s Chief Product Offer Juho Sarvikas spoke to Gadgets 360 about the importance of the Indian market for the company. He said, “If we can win the hearts and minds of the Indian consumers with our story, then I have no concerns about our global story.”

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Meanwhile, in Europe, the Nokia 3310's HMD Global's request, according to a report.

The which outperforms its Snapdragon 835 counterpart, and the OnePlus 5 as well.

There were a number of phones launched this week as well. We got Rs. 4,999, available via Flipkart.

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launched the [Asus ZenFone Go 5.5 (ZB552KL) in India, which has a 13-megapixel camera, priced at Rs. 8,499. It's powered by a Snapdragon 410 SoC, with 2GB of RAM.

The launched at Rs. 17,999.

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We also know a little bit more about the Pixel phone; the Pixel XL smartphones from last year.

There was also a new leak about the iPhone 8; it's tipped to sport a bundled AirPods, wireless charging, waterproofing, and much more.

It's not been a good week for people worried about security and privacy. HP itted that its audio driver was working as a keylogger on laptops, which tracks every single key you press, such as your bank codes, your s, and so on. The 'good' news, such as it is, is that this was apparently unintentional, and HP says it wasn't actually tracking anything.

This week also saw what might be one of the biggest ransomware cyber attacks - hackers leveraged a stolen NSA tool to wreak havoc worldwide. Ransomware WannaCry leveraged hacking tools developed by NSA. It exploits a known bug in Windows, and through this, infected at least 57,000 devices, in 99 countries.

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