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India’s leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, earlier this year forayed into the banking sector by announcing India’s first Payments Bank service, the Airtel Payments Bank. Currently, Airtel Payments Bank has more than one million merchants on board. Recently, Airtel Payments Bank has integrated Unified Payment Interface (UPI). Doing so, Airtel Payments Bank became the first payments bank in the country to offer UPI services. Airtel Payments Bank currently has over 25 million customers, and with the UPI integration, all the customers can create a personalised UPI handle. Here are some things you need to know about UPI integration with Airtel Payments Bank: 1) First Payment Bank in India to Offer UPI Services As stated earlier, the Airtel Payments Bank is India’s first payments bank to offer UPI services with which the customers can create a UPI handle of their own and transact in both offline and online channels. 2) Users Can Create as Many as VPA (Virtual Payment Addr...

Vodafone India has come up with four new tariff plans for residents in Rest of Bengal circle who wish to join Vodafone’s network through Mobile Number Portability (MNP) facility. All the four products are in-line with Vodafone’s endeavour to offer better value for money proposition to the customers. The four plans unveiled by Vodafone are Rs. 493, Rs. 299, Rs. 49, and Rs. 96. The first two plans are valid for 84 days whereas the last two plans are valid for 28 days. The Rs. 493 plan offers free 84GB data (1GB 3G/4G data) and unlimited voice calling to any network, whereas the Rs. 299 plan gives unlimited Vodafone to Vodafone calls and 1GB 3G/4G data. The Rs. 49 plan gives 1GB 3G/4G data and the Rs. 96 tariff plan offers 2GB 3G/4G data for 28 days. Speaking about the new offers, Arvinder Singh Sachdev, Business Head, Kolkata and West Bengal, Vodafone India, said, “We, at Vodafone, always try to offer maximum value to our customers, in terms of service, network and pri...

Nokia 8  already went through the grueling  burn and bend tests  of  JerryRigEverything  and lived, but what if it didn’t? How hard would it be to repair a component that broke or failed? Well, nothing like a comprehensive teardown to answer that question. The phone is certainly well-built, but a novice will have a hell of a time trying to repair it. The first obstacle is the screen, which is glued down. Below that things are mostly held down with screws and plenty of them – 30 in total with different sizes and one standoff screw. The copper heat pipe is interesting. It’s pretty big, but it does not go over the chipset. Instead the chipset (covered with thermal paste) transfers heat to the aluminum skeleton of the phone and then the heat goes through the aluminum to the copper. An odd configuration to be sure, but the phone never got hot during our testing so it must be working. Watch the video below to see the venerable snake nest of cables that con...

The fight for subscribers is on, and India’s telecom market is buzzing with data-heavy offers from all major operators. The telecom tariff war may have been started by   Reliance Jio , but incumbent operators are also  putting their best foot forward now and consumers are spoilt for choice. Here’s an attempt to make your life easier. If you are looking to switch networks or are simply scouting for better offers on your own network, then we’ve got you covered. Here’s how some of the best postpaid plans from  Airtel, Jio, Vodafone and Idea  compare with each oher. Airtel Rs 399 Plan Airtel’s Rs 399 postpaid plan offers unlimited local and STD calls along with 10GB of data per bill cycle. Only outgoing roaming calls are charged at 80p/minute for local roaming and Rs 1.15/minute for STD. The best part about Airtel postpaid plans is that they offers data rollover. Unused data is added to the next month’s bill cycle and users can accumulate a maximum of ...

Following a handful of leaks in the past month or so, we’re expecting the OnePlus 5T to drop pretty much any day now. Today, reliable leaker  Evan Blass has posted another new image  of the alleged device. This latest image mirrors  some of the previous leaks , but with quite a bit more detail. Obviously, the standout change in design here is the slimmer bezels, as the company is widely expected to adopt a larger, 18:9 6-inch display. OnePlus  previously mentioned  that the OnePlus 5 didn’t adopt the “bezel-less” trend when it debuted early this year due to resources, but clearly, the company has been able to up its game since then. As with those previous renders, the OnePlus 5T doesn’t seem like it’s going to quite match the look of the  Galaxy S8  or even the  LG V30 , but it’s certainly a slimmer design when it comes to the bezels. This latest render doesn’t give us a look at the bottom of the phone, but we’re ...

Asus’ ZenFone 4 smartphone family is now available  in North America. The family includes  the ZenFone 4 Pro, ZenFone 4, and ZenFone 4 Max . The Taiwanese company typically releases its products abroad before they become available in the US. The three phones all have dual rear cameras and run on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. The ZenFone 4 Pro, the most high-end option of the three, costs $599 and boasts 6GB of RAM, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, and a bigger battery capacity than the other two phones. It also has a 1920 x 1080 OLED display. Meanwhile, the ZenFone 4, which costs $399, is the only phone in the family with color options. It comes in midnight black or moonlight white, which sound a lot fancier than the Google Pixel 2’s down-to-earth options of kinda blue, just black, and clearly white. In the end, though, it’s still just black and white. Spec-wise, it’s largely similar to the Pro, but doesn’t have the OLED, runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processo...

Green is gone, blue is new. That's the mantra for today's update to Google's Calculator app. But it's not just a palette swap on the agenda, there are actually several other little changes scattered around the UI. There are changes to the history screen, RAD/DEG toggle, and there are even a couple things taken out. What's New Unofficial Changelog: (the stuff we found) Blue icon and control drawer RAD / DEG can be toggled from the main display Blue color scheme Unless you haven't used Google's Calculator app in a few years, you'll probably notice the first change right away. The launcher icon and button drawer (inside the app) have been given a fresh coat of paint. The classic (seafoam?) green has been swapped for blue.       Left:  v7.3.  Right:  v7.4. RAD / DEG toggle in main display The remaining changes are pretty hidden and you might miss them if you're not looking closely. The first new feature is a toggle on ...