We have covered Samsung’s newly released handsets – the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+. Both devices created a frenzy before its release, however some users might have been disappointed when they found out that neither of the products came with a dual-SIM nor an expandable storage. Worry no more because according to reports, both these handsets will soon be available with a dual-SIM mode. But, there are no reports of the devices to include an expandable microSD slot yet. All other specifications will be the same.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ Dual SIM is reportedly available for purchase on eBay, from a seller in Singapore. The seller also claims to have all four colour options in his stock and has priced the device at $999.99 (approx. Rs.65,469). The device will be shipped to the purchaser via FedEx, say reports.
There have been no official reports as to which markets will be getting the dual-SIM models however, going by the previous sales production techniques of Samsung, we can probably expect the dual-SIM versions to become available almost everywhere, soon.
Most of us are aware of Flipkart’s The Freedom Day and eBay’s Aazadi Rocks special Independence Day sales. We are going to help you gauge which products you should buy, the five best deals and how to go about it.
Firstly, the Flipkart sale is limited exclusively on mobile apps. Secondly, it is advisable to compare prices at eBay before buying a smartphone or TV, since eBay’s sellers are closely matching prices with Flipkart. Thirdly, you can get an additional 10% discount if you use an SBI card to complete your transactions on the Flipkart app, with the minimum transaction being worth Rs.7,500 and the maximum discount on it being Rs.2,000 per card.
Now for the best deals:
1. The Nexus 6 (32GB)
The Nexus 6 is a large device, sporting a mammoth 5.96 inch super AMOLED display with a massive 2560 x 1440 px resolution. The sides of the Nexus 6, unlike its predecessors, is all metal and rounded-off. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 with a 3GB RAM, a 13MP rear camera and a 2MP front camera with a 3220 mAh battery. Originally priced at Rs. 44,000 for the 32 GB it will now be available at Rs. 29,999 on Flipkart on exchange offers.
The HTC One M9+ comes with a 5.2 inch display with 1440 X 2560 pixels resolution, it is powered by a MediaTek MT6795T chipset with 3 GB RAM space. It also has a 20MP + 2MP Duo primary camera and a 4MP HTC UltraPixel front camera with a 2840mAh. Run by the Android 5.0.2 Lollipop with HTC Sense 7, the 32GB variant was priced at Rs.49,500 and is now available for Rs. 35,611 on eBay.
The OnePlus One is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 2.5GHz Quad-core CPUs and an Adreno 330, 578MHz GPU with a 3 GB LP-DDR3 RAM. This device has a 5.5 inch diplay with a 1080p Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 3. For more information click here. This device was originally priced at Rs.21,998 for the 64GB variant and Rs.18,998 for the 16GB variant will now be available on Amazon at Rs.17,998 respectively.
This smart TV comes with an Ultra HD (4K), 3840 x 2160 display, a 3 x HDMI, 3 x USB and a built in Wi-Fi. The original launch price was Rs.69,990 and is now available on Flipkart at Rs. 35,990.
The device boasts of a 5-inch 720p display with 1280×720-pixel resolution and 294ppi. It is powered by a 1.4GHz Quad core CPU and with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, along with an Adreno306 GPU and is powered by a 2,470 mAh battery. The handset is available in two variants- 8GB storage with 1GB RAM and 16GB storage with 2GB RAM. The launch price of this device was Rs.12,999 and is now available at Rs.11,999 on Flipkart.
After working on a new feature that may give Google a direct competition in the terms of a search engine, Facebook is now eyeing a feature that will let its users buy or sell goods through groups. Although, this feature is not new to Facebook as the social networking giant tried it briefly back in December 2014.
Right now in its test mode, Facebook’s latest extension is a group called ‘All Sale Groups’ that will allow users to scan through a catalog of items that are up for grabs. The items are shown along with the Groups or categories they are a part of, in a unified manner. Facebook search box would enable people to search for goods that are made public and are up for sale. Categories like books, event tickets, clothing, video games, furniture, etc. helps in faster search results.
When a person lists an item for sale, they mention the price and state whether the price rate is negotiable or not. The details include information about the product along with photos, pick up and delivery option.
Vendors would not have to pay any commission to Facebook. In return, this raises up the chances that the user will stay on the social networking site for a long time.
According to TheNextWeb, this feature is now in its infant form, and work is being done for its worldwide launch within the next few weeks. Looks like eBay has got its competitor!
Chinese mobile manufacturer, Gionee has introduced the successor to its M2 smartphone, Marathon M3 which comes a 5000mAh battery. Interestingly, even though there is no official information about the pricing and availability, it was yesterday available on an e-commerce site at Rs. 13,999.
Of Course, the major highlight of the device is the massive 5000mAh battery which lends it 2G talk time of 51 hours and 32 hours of the same on 3G networks. The Marathon M3 predecessor, M2 was launch back in february which came with 42oo mAh battery.
On the hardware side, the devices sports a 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 processor coupled with an ARM Mali 450MP GPU and 1GB of RAM. It is a dual-SIM smartphone that runs Android 4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box and features a 5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) IPS One Glass Solution (OGS) display.
It comes with 8GB of inbuilt storage, which is further expandable via microSD card (up to 128GB). It sports an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, while there is a secondary 2-megapixel front-facing camera also onboard. On the connectivity side, the Marathon M3 includes 3G, Wi-Fi, WLAN Direct, Micro-USB, GPRS/ EDGE, GPS/ A-GPS, FM radio and Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP. It includes a proximity sensor, accelerometer, and compass (magnetometer).
According to the company’s official website, the device will come in two colour variant – Black and White. The handset was available on eBay.in yesterday, however, the listing is ended, now.
Update: Gionee has confirmed the price of the device as Rs.13,999.
Apple’s latest phone is still a couple of weeks away from being officially launched in India, but that hasn’t stopped e-commerce website from hosting the phone through vendors. The phone is currently available on Ebay and ShopClues.
On Ebay, the phone is available at Rs. 55,954 with an October 8th delivery date. The phone is available without any shipping charges which is the least they can do considering the massive price tag of the device. On the other hand, Shopclues shared the price of iPhone 6 16 GB at Rs. 59,999 in a mailer. The website says it will deliver the device by 8th October and is charging a shipping charge of Rs.149, really Shopclues, really?
The phone is available through vendors on e-commerce sites
Apple will officially bring the phone for sale on the 17th of this month. The phones will come in two variants, iPhone 6 with a screen size of 4.7 inches and iPhone 6 Plus with a screen size of 5.5 inches. Vendors at eBay have started pre-booking iPhone 6 Plus for starting around Rs. 77,000.
Both the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus come with 8-megapixel main camera and 1.2-megapixel front camera. The phones support 2G, 3G and 4G networks. They come in three versions in terms of storage: 16GB, 64GB and 128GB.
If you want to know more about the new iPhone, check out our full review.
The revision to the HTC One aka the new HTC One or the HTC M8 was purchased by a lucky bidder on popular bidding website eBay for a meager price of $500 box packed in Verizon packaging.
Considering a number of leaks of the handset in the past, the box gives more details than required of the handset all set to launch on the 25th of March.
According to the box, the handset features a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 801 chipset, a 5-inch 1080p display, microSD slot for expandable memory and 32GB internal storage, a 5MP front-facing camera, UltraPixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, a Nano-SIM slot and 2GB of RAM.
The Ultrapixel camera in question is bound to be an 8 MP variant with 4k video recording as per sources. The phone will run Android 4.4 out of the box with the latest iteration of Sense UX.
Google Glass is nearing it’s completion and will very soon be available to to the 2,000 developers who had pre-ordered the device last year. Also, the people who’d taken part in Google’s #ifihadglass contest, and won a pair of these technological marvels, are beginning to receive their units.
Google’s #ifihadglass contest advertised for “bold, creative individuals” to start carrying pre-production builds of Glass later this year. The contest apparently also looked for prosperous individuals willing to pay $1,500 for the prize, plus travel expense to pick it up.
If you weren’t one of the lucky winners, the chosen ones, then you don’t need to feel disappointed. You can own your very own pair of Google Glass now! If you have Rs. 4,87,4400/- that is.
As Engadget reports, a seller on eBay has put up his unit for sale and has priced it at $90,000. The seller is an eBay member since 2004, and has a 100% positive feedback.
It’s not quite clear how Google will respond to this listing, as it had clearly laid out the terms to the developers receiving the devices that they were not to be gifted or sold.
Guess we will find out!
In terms of specs, Google Glass will feature a 640 x 360 display, which according to Google is “equivalent of a 25 inch high definition screen from eight feet away,” The device will come with a 5 megapixel camera, that’s capable of shooting videos in 720p.
The device gets 16GB of onboard storage, out of which only 12GB is accessible by the user and it will sync with Google’s cloud storage service.
Online retail platform Snapdeal has raised a massive $50 million in funding from investors led by online auction site eBay, according to Next Big What
As per the reports, the investment was led by eBay and alongwith participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Nexus Venture and Kalaari Capital (formerly Indo US Venture Partners). With this round, Snapdeal has raised $102 million of funding in total.
Snapdeal used to offer a daily deals model up until early 2012, but it pivoted to a full-service e-commerce platform in April 2012. The company now helps sell products online in many categories including mobile devices, tablet, computers, clothing, perfume, and books.
Online e-commerce giant eBay last week said that it expects to have 12% of its sales coming from BRIC countries by 2015 in a global e-commerce market that will be worth $300 billion, and this here is one more step in that strategy. (Via Tech Crunch)
Snapdeal has raised $12 million in Nexus Venture Partners and Kalaari Capital (formerly Indo US Venture Partners) in January 2011 and later it raised $40 million in series B funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, alongwith existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and IndoUS Venture Partners in July same year.
The company has said however, that it expects the total sale of products traded on its platform to cross Rs 2,000 crore in the next fiscal helped by its robust growth in the past two years and the growing popularity of e-commerce in India.
“We expect the sale of goods on Snapdeal’s platform to cross Rs 2,000 crore in 2013-14 fiscal on the back of a strong growth. We have maintained a growth rate of about 400 per cent year-on-year in the last two years,” Snapdeal Co-founder and CEO Kunal Bahl told PTI.
