Why are Mobile prices increasing in India?

In past few months some mobile brands increased their mobile prices drastically

Due to covid19 price of products are likely in all sectors including mobile

But now and then, mobile companies increasing their prices, actual rules in the Indian government states that every price alteration in MRP should be applied to government and reviewed to change it, that’s why brands keep their MRP margin high and launch at lower prices and sale them using that loophole company altering their prices.

what’s the problem?

The problem is in every price segment with the difference of ₹1000 company offer new models, end reviewers review them accordingly but with the increase of price the segment options/choices are changing, for example, let’s take

Realme C3
launched price is Rs.6,999/-
After GST hike price raised to Rs.7,499/-
Now the company raised the cost to Rs.8,999/-
Let see the percentage raised from launched price by 29% i.e. Rs.2000/-
But we can buy the phone Samsung Galaxy M01 which has similar specifications

Note:
Here is the list of some models which increased their price by their company than the launch price

brand & model	launch price	After GST hike	present price	percentage of hike
Realme 6 (4/64GB)	₹12,999	₹13,999	₹14,999	15%
Redmi Note 8 (4/64GB)	₹9,999	₹10,333	₹12,499	29%
Redmi 8 (4/64GB)	₹8,199	₹8,999	₹9,799	20%
Redmi 8A Dual (2/32GB)	₹6,499	₹6,999	₹7,499	15%
Samsung M21 (4/64GB)	₹13,499	₹14,222	₹14,499	7%

some phones have a high price at their company web site and low price at online shopping. Check them while buying the phones.
For example, Samsung Galaxy M21 the company web site cost is RS.14,499/- and online shopping has a cost of Rs.13,999/-

you can check best Android mobiles here

Everything we know About Oneplus Nord

New Oneplus Nord is about to launch Now that, we know the there are many speculations about it and here are some of the leaked speciation.

Oneplus Nord comes with dual sim 5G availability is let to conform, it comes with snapdragon 765G chipset with Adreno 620GPU and it picked rear camera setup as it goes 48MP (main camera) with DIS, 8MP with 119⁰ ultra-wide lens and 5MP depth camera and 2MP Marco camera.

When it comes to front camera it possesses dual camera with a cut-out in the display one 32MP wide camera and 8MP 105 ultra-wide.

As of now, the headphone jack is not specified and we know that one plus has 6.44” inch fluid. AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh rate and power packs 4115mAh battery. and support Oneplus warp charge technology

Note: – Most of the specifications are officially released by one plus let’s wait for some more time to know official pricing and availability. do note that leaks comes with pinch of salt in it, We notify you as soon as it is officially available.

Oneplus Nord officially listed on Amazon now check it out

Oneplus Nord launched in India check pricing and Availability Here

Best Indian origin Social media apps!

When it comes to social media apps Indian origin apps are very limited in choice take a look at Indian origin apps here

Hike:

Hike is an Indian origin messaging platform it is Banglore based startup by our Indians Kavin Bharti Mittal one of the best alternatives for the direct messaging app this app include sticker chat and voice calls and video calls you can download [ Android / IOS]

Elyments:

Its a newly launched social media app by sumeru software solutions
it can compete with Facebook, WhatsApp and maybe Instagram also moreover it E2EE
you can check full details here

Download : [Android/ IOS]

Share chat:

it is a short video sharing app for WhatsApp status sharing, chat room for friends, memes sharing and lot more
Download it here [ Android/ IOS]

As of now, we are just sharing a few popular social media apps by Indians, and we hope we will fill the blog post with at least 20 apps in future

Note:
we Did not include short video apps like Chingari, Roposo, Etc.., for security reasons due to ban of Chinese apps there are many apps created to grab the market of Tiktok

we also shared some of the best productive and authentic apps, which Includes some of the popular Indian origin apps
here we Included some of the foreign popular app developers apps also

Why did Indian Military personals ask to uninstall 89 apps?

Why Only Indian military?

The Indian military is the ultimate security for country, if military gets compromised then the whole nation’s security is at risk.

Recently there is news that Indian military personally ordered it’s personal to uninstall and delete their social accounts and not use some other apps

Reasons:-

Army and military share sensitive data regarding national security, if they are targeted and cyber-attacked these sensitive data files may be leaked and it will pose a national security threat.

The reason is not just some Chinese apps stealing our data but social media apps

If any personal posts their photo their location can gets compromised
Honey trapping people through chatting and gathering Information through social media

Last year some navy officers are arrested for leaking classified information, as they fell into trap of a Pakistani agents who are posing as women and virtually honey trapped them.

In the list, we have seen popular apps like Facebook, Instagram, etc…..,

In recent days the supreme court ordered if Facebook is important to any officer then they can leave the job and enjoy Facebook

Why not for the general public?

We as the general public have our privacy, but we may not be specific targets for them, but we have to check our sleeves, Indian privacy law!

Practically speaking many social media influences are earning their money through social media like Instagram paid promotions, many gamers are earning money from Pub-G like games, so if they ban it disturbs relationship between public, creators and brands

Our suggestions:-

We cannot rely on foreign apps we should also have our homegrown app as our prime minister Shri Narendra Modi started “Aathama Nirbar” , we should encourage our apps

You can check list of India’s own Social media Apps

What is the New Privacy policy in India

Do we need strong Privacy policy in India?

when it comes Privacy policy in India As of now, India’s internet literacy rate is lower than total Internet users in India

Recently we have seen that the Indian government has banned 59 Chinese apps. And the reason for that is security of state and public order

What's going wrong?

European Union has a perfect regulatory law called GDPR(General Data Protection Regulation) this law protects users privacy and it also regulates the data transfer between European Union countries to outer countries, they check the data transfer and regulates if personal data is transferred to other countries, they also have a strong law that makes companies bound to privacy regulations and protects the privacy of public.

Whereas in India, the government is taking measures to protect the privacy of people by monitoring the activities of each popular developer and taking countermeasures to protect privacy.

for example, the ban of 59 Chinese app and prohibited Indian military personals use of 89 apps

But when you see the bigger picture in play store many app developers c develop an app and upload it when it becomes a huge success when it comes to limelight the government is verifying the app activity and regulating it if it senses anything fishy.

But think about unpopular apps that have lesser user base but collecting user data, In any route, the privacy of a user is at risk

If the Indian government makes a strong law against user privacy and data storage, then the developer will think twice before making any such mistake like collecting user’s data without their consent. It also gives the government an authority to punish such companies or developers and stops dark activities.

This also gives users a protection layer, so that the non-technical people/general public can use the internet safely.

5G in India? Are you ready for 5G in India!

The hype of 5G! 5G in India

We know that 5G in India is yet to deploy but the smartphone brands are trying to push their devices to get sold because they support 5G.

When can we see 5G in India?

-> Due to Pandemic situation Coronavirus (COVID 19)
All the industries are effected due to lockdown and the Indian telecom’s operators are one of them.

Now in India, there is a ban on usage of Chinese equipment which means telecoms cannot obtain 5G equipment from Huawei or ZTE, which used to be cost-efficient than others

On the other hand, before COVID due to JIO, all the telecoms have paid heavy losses even with the Idea and Vodafone merger it cannot handle the situation which is filing losses from the last few years. there are 4 main players in the Indian telecom’s AIRTEL, IDEA- VODAFONE, JIO, BSNL.

JIO is playing it safe and it gained more subscribers and become the largest telecom operator in Asia, it is now setting its steps towards 5G.
Airtel barely got out of the impact and it withstands well.

On the other hand, BSNL with least subscribes doing well but even now the 4G network is not available in many regions.
Ideas, Vodafone is continuously filing losses, survival is key for them now.
With these situations present in India even if JIO and Airtel ready to bring 5G.

It takes at least 1-2 years for spectrum auction, 5G equipment installation & for coverage to entire country it will take nearly 2-3 years

Our final word on Availability

Now you decide for every 4-6 six months smartphones are launching next generations in their series if you buy a smartphone for 5G Now, how old it becomes when 5G coverage arrives in India

you can check how 5G works what is the technology behind it here

What is 5G?how 5G works?

How 5G works? working and how it revolutionizes the industries here

5G works same as all previous generations networks but 5G mainly consists of 3types of signal strengths they are millimeter wave, mid-band, low band.

Millimeter-wave:-

It has short wavelength with high bandwidth it sits between (24GHz-100GHz)

If you want to compare with 4GLte, 4GLte sits between (800GHz-3000GHz).

-> millimetre waves are key to 5G, but not the whole part.

-> millimetre waves offer high bandwidth with low latency.

-> The short come of 5G millimetre wave is its range and it cannot penetrate through objects likes wall

For that here comes the mid-band

-> Mid-band can penetrate through walls but offers a bit less data transfer speed than millimetre wave but more coverage than millimeter waves.

low band

There comes low band very less bandwidth and great coverage range up to kilometers

Why millimeter-wave if it cannot penetrate walls?

-> Here in millimetre waves the bandwidth is high and low latency so if you see real-life case scenario

-> coverage in crowded places likes malls, stadiums, markets.

-> online cloud gaming like Google Stadia, and other cloud gaming platform

->remote surgeries

-> self-driving cars

In these last two situations the low latency is key, you know if anything goes wrong what will be the cost of loss.

The mid-band helps in data coverage for general users who don’t have coverage of millimeter waves without network drop.

The low band helps for low data IoT devices like bulbs, fans, washing machines which need only to transfer command when we need it. this decreases the conjunction over bandwidth with more users.

This is the reason why telecom’s &tech giants are betting more on millimetre-wave and 5G.

When 5G will be Available in India check out

check this before you buy IoT (Internet of things) Devices

What is IoT (Internet of things)?

IoT (Internet of things) devices are gaining popularity slowly they are not revolutionized like smartphones and laptops. There are reasons for that.

As we know IoT device smart lights, fans, AC’s, connected refrigerator, connected coolers, every connected electronic device communicate with each other. these devices can be called IoT devices

Having IoT devices is fun and convenient at homes, office’s, factories, here comes the issues there are no proper standards to IoT connected devices.

For example:-

Google is having its line of IoT products under the brand nest.
Apple is having its line of IoT products whereas there is no centralized platform for these devices, which We need one.

why we need a centralized platform for IoT (Internet of Things)?

Reason:-If you buy a car, or mobile it’s a single independent device which as a processing unit built in it. But these IoT connected devices are many appliances which should communicate with each other and connected under one roof so that it can make a day productive.

You cannot download different apps for a different branded devices like an app for light, app for the fan, app for the washing machine if you buy these of different brands as of now you have to download different applications.

which ties our hands to stick to one brand or not to buy IoT devices at all, We have to wait for a centralized platform to connect all of our device’s and enjoy the work productivity.

Security:– As these IoT connected devices are gaining popularity slowly, companies are not much concentrated on security.

In a household, you have many connected devices, A smart bulb and fan can be ok but nowadays people are using a voice assistant to control these connected devices which means you have microphone. All around you.

Recent security breach from popular Brands:

Amazon Alexa recorded the personal conversation of a family and mistakenly and send to its cloud servers.
Google’s nest devices are hacked by a hacker targeting one family.
Security one of the reason main reason.

Final verdict:-

IoT (Internet of things) devices are great, makes our life easier but at the same time, we have to be cautious. if you can wait please wait for a while Apple and Google and other tech giants working on central platform.

Some of the IoT devices available in India to make your home smart home

Best productive non chinese app for Android and IOS

Chinese app Alternatives for productivity and privacy

Popular Chinese app Alternatives (made in India)

Here are some Popular Chinese app Alternatives (includes other country origin apps except China), As of now there are very less popular apps Made in India by Indians but we can encourage our developers.
As our hon’ble prime minister said we should have our own resources.

Think about it this way, recently government ban some Chinese suspicious apps, if Government have to block Google and its services in India, just think about it, our mails, backup photos, synced contacts and many more will be inaccessible, if there was no google there is chaos in the entire country, we need our own infrastructure, our own services. Even file sharing is made by others, but in almost every company there will be a Indian developer, we need our own infrastructure and we should be self Dependent

Here we are providing best authentic apps for your basic daily work needs, there are some apps are Indian origin and some apps are outsourced, let’s check them out

File Manager:

To manage all your files like photos, music, documents, etc…, you can take a look at these

solid Explorer:

Solid explorer gives you a great experience, there features like split screen for file moving and exploring
Android (click here)

Files by Google's :

It is one of the best app for your Android, its feature rich app made by Google, some of the features are:

files tranfer between Android devices
junk cleaning
files exploring
one app that can do three different tasks and the app is very light
Download it here

Fx file Explorer

It is available on Android tv also if you need a unified interface and need Similar interface everywhere then FX files explorer is your go to
Download it here

Document scanner:

Now a day even kids need to upload there home work to their schools, Many of us has used Cam scanner previously but now that it is banned in India then there are some powerful apps out there

Scan it

primarily it is made by our Indians. it is a made in India App
It has no Ads
It has support for OCR
Download now

Adobe scan

If you are familiar with Adobe it is well known trusted brand and it has many products that are very good at productivity
Adobe scan is one of them
Download now

Microsoft Office lens

It has support for OCR
Batch documents
Download Here

Kaagaz Scanner[ Android]

Another made in India app by Indian

India's Mobile Scanner App is Here!

4 LAKH+ HAPPY INDIAN USERS!

No Sign In Required
No Ads & Watermarks
Completely FREE

🇮🇳🇮🇳 Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳

download: https://t.co/6mN7Pja81M pic.twitter.com/lF29w2r354
— Kaagaz App - Made in India (@KaagazS) July 9, 2020

some other Productive apps

Video editing on mobile

Kine master video editing [ Android /IOS ]

In Microsoft office app you can manage your word documents, excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations
Get it now

Some other apps :
Screen recorder no ads download Now
Xrecorder screen recorder Download Now
clone apps (parallel space alternative) Get it Now
Vault hide (for hiding your files and photos) get it Here
Google meet (for meetings and Video conferencing) Download(Android )
Microsoft teams for group meetings [Android /IOS]
Jio meet (for meetings and Video conferencing you can stream 23 hours with upto 100 members) specially its a made in India app Download Now [ Android / IOS]
Avasta Anti virus Download [Android / IOS ]
BitDefender(Anti virus app) Get it now [Android / IOS ]
Norton app lock (app lock for your personal apps) Android click here

Indian army personals are ordered to Uninstall 89 Apps but government banned only 59 Apps why? know details here

what are Indian privacy policy rules and regulations Know More

ban chinese investment on Indian startup's

Ban Chinese investments on Indian startup’s!

Why Ban Chinese investments?

Here we are discuss why there is necessity to ban Chinese Investments in India

Chinese have largely invested Indian Startups way before. Recently china’s central bank bought 1.01% of stake in HDFC Bank which is one of the largest banking companies in India, during lock down.

Some of the startups invested by china

Paytm, Ola, Flipkart, Swiggy, Gaana, Zomato, Big Basket, Mxplayer, Oyo, Dream 11.

Paytm- less than 20% is owned by its founder Vijay,40% owned by the Alibaba group.

It is happening because their shortage of Indian inventors and if we do get stubborn and Chinese investors withdraw their investments then it may create a big financial crisis in Indian start up’s

Here is other reason India trades with other countries it has to follow guideline which comes under trading policies

If India wants to stop trading with China it can, but it can affect relations with other nations which are in favor of China

Few Indian State Governments now restricting the participation of China companies from it’s tender of Government works, now we can see that some states had withdrawn Chinese companies from sanctioned projects

so what we can do? as a citizen, we can avoid the purchase of Chinese goods and promote our products and encourage our entrepreneurs

Now Even Government ordered E-commerce to list all the product’s point of origin in there websites

Amazon deadline is August 10 to all its sellers to list their products point of origin (manufactured country)

Here we covered a topic Ban Chinese products Read here

Elyments the Indian super social media app

India's vice president launched Elyments app

As India’s Hon’ble prime minister Shri Narendra Modi announced homegrown Apps should be encouraged under Aatama Nirbhar”” A New App was developed by sumeru software solutions which is called as Elyments Super App a new comprehensive app to Facebook

It looks like Facebook and we chat combination, All the data of the users are stored in Indian servers and data centers yesterday on the occasion of Guru Purnima our India’s vice President Shri Venkaiah Naidu launched the app

I am happy to note that more than one thousand IT professionals, who are also the volunteers of the Art of Living, have together created an indigenous app named Elyments. It’s appreciable that the app will be available in eight Indian languages. pic.twitter.com/306oUJ1lRy
— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) July 5, 2020

Elyments App Interface

What're Elyments offers:

Features like video calls, voice calls over the internet(one-to-one & group).
Comes With 8 languages support i.e…, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Bangla, etc.
Emphasis on privacy All the data is (E2EE) end to end encrypted
Offers popular AR stickers, the home page, discovery friends, and more.
Elyments tried to bakes most of the necessary features to the users
It’s Available on both Android and IOS for free

Do note that as of now Elyments app crashes sometimes due to heavy flow of new users into it, more to that famous French security expert Elliot Alderson said that he dig into app code to help in search of any security loopholes

This is a very good first step, thank you. It’s always good to have an easy and ethical way to report bugs. https://t.co/1q6uUk349m
— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) July 6, 2020

It is available on both Android and IOS you can download now as of now it completed 1M+ downloads in Play store

Download Now:
Android (click here)
IOS (click here)

You can check list of India’s own Social media Apps

Best Android mobiles to buy JULY 2020

Best Android Mobiles value for money

Here are the Best Android mobiles to buy India, we are listing best practical Android mobiles to buy, the best in specs they offer with the best price

Poco X2

Snapdragon 730G
6.67-inch full HD+ LCD display with 120hz refresh rate
Battery capacity: 4500mAh
Camera- Front camera 20MP+2MP
Rear camera 64MP+2MP+8MP+2MP
Android 10 out of the box
6GB-64GB/6GB-128GB/8GB-256GB

Buy Poco x2 from Amazon

Redmi note 9pro

Snapdragon 720G
6.67-inch FHD+ LCD display
Battery capacity: 5020mAh
Camera- Front camera 16MP
Rear camera 48MP+8MP+5MP+2MP
Android 10 out of the box
4GB-64GB/6GB-128GB

Buy Redmi note 9pro from Amazon (starts at 13,999)

Samsung galaxy M21

Exynos 9611
6.40-inch FHD+ sAMOLED display
Battery capacity:6000mAh
Camera- Front camera 20MP
Rear camera 48MP+8MP+5MP
Android 10 out of the box
4GB-64GB/6GB-128GB

Buy Samsung galaxy M21 from Amazon (starts at 13,999)

Motorola one fusion+

Snapdragon 730G
6.5 inch ips LCD Display
Battery capacity:5000mAh
Camera- Front camera 16MP
Rear camera 64MP+8MP+5MP+2MP
Android 10 out of the box
6GB-128GB (RAM-ROM)

Buy Motorola one fusion+ from Flipkart (starts at ₹16,999)

Realme X2 pro

Snapdragon 855+
6.4 inch 90hz Super AMOLED display
Battery capacity:4000mAh
Cameras- Front camera 32MP
Rear camera 64MP+8MP+2MP+2MP
Software: Android 9 pie out of the box
6GB-64GB/8GB-128/12GB-256GB (RAM-ROM)

Buy Realme X2 pro from Amazon (starts at ₹28,997)

Asus 6Z

Snapdragon 855
6.4 inch FHD+ AMOLED display
Battery capacity:5000mAh
Camera- Rear camera 48MP+13MP
Android 9 pie out of the box
6GB-64GB/6GB-128GB/8GB-256GB

Buy Asus 6Z from flipkart (starts at ₹27999)

iQoo 3

Snapdragon 855
6.44 inch FHD+ AMOLED display
Battery capacity: 4440mAh
Camera- Front camera 16MP
Rear camera 48MP+13MP+13MP+2MP
Software: Android 10 out of the box
8GB-128/8GB-256GB/12GB-256GB (RAM-ROM)

Buy iQoo 3 from Flipkart (starts at ₹ 34,990)

Samsung galaxy Note 10 Lite

Exynos 9810
6.7 inch FHD+ sAMOLED display
Battery capacity:4500mAh
Camera- Front camera 32MP
Rear camera 12MP+12MP+12MP
Android 10 out of the box
6GB-128/8GB-128GB (RAM-ROM)

Buy Samsung galaxy Note 10 Lite from Amazon (starts at ₹39,999)

Asus ROG 2

Snapdragon 855+
6.59-inch FHD+ AMOLED display
Battery capacity:6000mAh
Camera- Front camera 24MP
Rear camera 48MP+13MP
Android 9 pie out of the box
8GB-128/12GB-512GB

Buy Asus ROG2 from Flipkart (starts at ₹26,499)

Oneplus 8

Snapdragon 865
6.55 Inch QHD 90hz display fluid AMOLED display
Battery capacity: 4300mAh
Camera – Front camera 16MP
Rear camera 48MP+16MP+2MP
Android 10 out of the box
6GB-128GB/8GB-128/12GB-256GB (RAM-ROM)

Buy Oneplus 8 from Amazon (starts at ₹41,999)

Oneplus 8 pro

Snapdragon 865
6.78 inch QHD 120hz display fluid AMOLED display
Battery capacity: 4510mAh
Camera- Front camera 16Mp
Rear camera 48Mp+8Mp+48Mp+5Mp
Android 10 out of the box

Buy Oneplus 8 pro from Amazon (CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE)

we will update other best Android mobiles with time being as they launch, if you are into non Chinese origin brands then you can check here

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