Vodafone Idea (Vi) has been under heavy financial distress for a long period. However, the telecom giant has committed to its lenders that it will go ahead with the delayed fundraising amounting to nearly $1 billion (Rs 7,500 crore) by June 2021. The officials aware of the matter said that Vodafone Idea will not default on any upcoming payments. As reported by ET Telecom, one of the domestic lenders of Vodafone Idea, which is a private sector bank, has promised a bank guarantee to the telco of about Rs 1,420 crore by another year....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) is currently the third-largest telecom operator of India. Even though the telco was formed out of a merger only a few years back, it has been a part of the Indian ecosystem for a very long time as Vodafone and Idea individually. Vi’s future in the market has been doubted by many, including the Chairman of Bharti Airtel group, Sunil Bharti Mittal. The telco’s debt mountain and operating costs require a serious cash influx in the short and medium term to keep the company going....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) is the third-largest telecom operator in India. The telco is often criticised for not offering the best network coverage, but its plans are no doubt the best in the industry. In multiple aspects, the plans from Vodafone Idea are much better than its competitors, including Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. Almost every high-end plan of Vodafone Idea comes with better benefits than its rivals. There is one plan that all of the telcos offer under Rs 400, and it is the Rs 399 plan....

Vodafone Idea has expanded its online prepaid SIM delivery service in the country. Alongside the expansion, Vi is now offering a new Rs 399 ‘Digital Exclusive’ prepaid plan to the customers who order a SIM card online from the company’s website. The Rs 399 recharge is a unique offering from the brand because the ‘First Recharge (FRC)’ plans offered by Airtel and Vi are priced slightly on the higher side....

Extended Prepaid Plan and Talk Time Will Benefit Migrant Workers Vodafone Idea has stated that nearly eight crore subscribers who belong to the low-income group will get the benefits of the extended prepaid plan and extra talk time. Also, the telco giant marked that extra talk time Credit will help the migrant workers to get connected with their loved ones amidst the lockdown period. Vodafone Idea has been already working Day and Night to ensure seamless connectivity to its subscribers in the precautionary lockdown period....

Vodafone RED Postpaid Plans Multiple Connections With these new Vodafone postpaid plan, you will be able to club together your spouse’s Vodafone mobile connection, or even your entire family’s. The new postpaid plans go as high as Rs 999 and this one offers 5 connections, thus bringing down the cost of per-connection down to Rs 200. Below are all the postpaid plans being offered by Vodafone after this new revamp....

WhatsApp Chats, Calls and Status Get Dark Mode This new report comes from the popular blog reporting about WhatsApp, WABetaInfo which has informed that WhatsApp has implemented the Dark Mode on its chats, calls and status pages in the latest Beta version 2.19.13. The blog has also shared screenshots about the new upcoming feature on the popular instant messaging app. However, with this, WABetaInfo has also shared that some sections of the application might still be incompatible with the Night Mode, so there is still some time before we get to see a full app-wide Dark Mode on WhatsApp....

WhatsApp Frequently Forwarded Tags Make Way to Stable Version A WhatsApp official spokesperson has said about the launch of this new feature, “We have recently introduced an update to our forwarded message label that helps people identify when they have received messages that were previously forwarded several times, such as a chain message. These highly forwarded messages will be marked with a double arrow icon and users will receive a notice when they are forwarding such a message....

WhatsApp Search Feature Will Give Complete Information Regarding Received Messages As per WABetaInfo Reports, the Facebook-owned app tested the search messages on Web in its latest beta version 2.20.94. As per the trials and reports, a search icon will appear next to forwarded messages which will ask the users to search the credibility of the message in google search. If the users hit the search tab, the entire message will be copied in the Google Search bar, and relevant information will be shown to the users....

WhatsApp is reportedly testing a way to reduce notification overload on user accounts by automatically muting group notifications above a certain number of members. The move comes after the instant messaging and voice-over-IP service recently increased the limit on the number of participants in group chats from 256 to 1,024, encouraging business and work-related instant messaging platform usage. This could allow WhatsApp to compete with other platforms, such as Slack....

Xiaomi Crosses 2 Million Sales of Redmi Note 7 Series In its latest release, Xiaomi has shared that in just two months of its launch, the Redmi Note 7 series of smartphones which consists of the Redmi Note 7 and the Redmi Note 7 Pro has attained the milestone figure of 2 million. With this, Xiaomi has also noted that it will continue to ramp up the supply of both of these phones to ensure that the Mi fans and the consumers continue to gain easy access to these devices....

Xiaomi has unveiled the Mi 11 Lite 5G for the Indian market today. The smartphone comes with support for twelve 5G bands which is reassuring. It is a smartphone that combines the best of a lot of premium devices, tones it down a little, and offers it at a very affordable price. Its display specifications look really good and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC feels like a good choice by Xiaomi....

Xiaomi Mi A3 and Mi A3 Lite in the Works The three smartphones have been spotted with codenames – “pyxis,” “bamboo_sprout,” and “cosmos_sprout.” The report suggests that the “bamboo_sprout” and “cosmos_sprout” are most likely the Android One smartphones from Xiaomi. One of the most interesting bits about these spotted phones is that they are being tested with “fod” or fingerprint on display. Android One phones from Xiaomi are mid-rangers. Having said that it is possible that with the next generation Android One phones Xiaomi will finally introduce fingerprint sensor technology to the mid-range segment....

The largest smartphone manufacturer in India Xiaomi might launch the Mi Mix 4 smartphone in its homeland China very soon. As per internet users, Xiaomi opened a new Weibo Account for the Mi Mix Series. The move by Xiaomi might be the unofficial tease for the launch of Mi Mix 4 smartphone. Xiaomi launched the Mi Mix 3 smartphone back in 2018. It is expected that Xiaomi will finally launch the much-awaited Mi Mix 4 in 2020....

Pricing of Redmi K20 Pro Surfaced Online Ahead of Launch Like every other high-end phone releasing these days, the Redmi K20 Pro will also come in different variants with the difference being the storage and RAM. Going by the report, the Redmi K20 Pro will be launched in three variants- 6GB+128GB, 8GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB. The Redmi K20 Pro with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage will likely retail for just 2299 Yuan (approx....

Xiaomi Redmi K30 to Offer Dual Mode 5G Support: What it Means? 5G network availability across the globe is still in nascent stages, but telecom operators in countries like the United States, United Kingdon, China, Japan and so on are already making major moves to broaden the 5G network coverage. Dual Mode 5G on smartphones refer to two modes- Non-Standalone Access (NSA) and Standalone Access (SA). Up until now, telecom operators rolled out 5G NSA in various countries, which means they made changes to the existing 4G infrastructure to achieve faster speeds and a better experience....

Xiaomi Redmi K30 to Come With MIUI 11 Out of the Box Xiaomi has done a pretty decent job this year in rolling out the MIUI 11 update to its smartphones. The Chinese company has already rolled out to the much-awaited MIUI 11 to 26 smartphones in India and a plethora of phones also received it in China as well. On Weibo, Xiaomi officially confirmed that the upcoming Redmi K30 would boot Android 10-based MIUI 11 out of the box....

Redmi Note 8 Price in India Hiked by Rs 500 Xiaomi Redmi Note 8: Specifications and Features The Redmi Note 8 is a very good budget smartphone, challenged by the likes of Vivo U20, Realme 3 Pro and Xiaomi’s own Mi A3. The phone sports a 6.3-inch Full HD+ IPS LCD screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection and Dot Notch. At the heart of the phone, we get the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 SoC, clubbed with 4GB/6GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB of onboard storage....

Price hikes have become a normal thing in the smartphone market since the Indian government introduced higher GST rates for the devices. Many smartphone’s prices were affected due to this. Now it is confirmed that the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 has got yet another price hike in India. The interesting thing to note here is that its last price hike came just a month before in June. The Redmi Note 8 was launched just last year in October....

What Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Does Well When it comes to specifications, the Redmi Note 8 sports a 6.3-inch Full HD+display with 90% screen-to-body ratio. There is also a dewdrop notch and the Gorilla Glass protection. But, we would like to draw your attention to the Full-HD+ part of the display, which is one of the highlights of the Redmi Note 8. Being a budget segment phone, the Full-HD+ display on the Redmi Note 8 becomes one of the edges of the phone....