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Jio announced a five year partnership with India’s leading broadcaster, Star India to unleash a new era in sports entertainment. Jio and Star will make all televised India-cricket matches available to users of JioTV and Hotstar in India. Not just this, for the first time ever, cricket production, a streaming platform and a high-speed data network has come together to deliver the best of cricketing content with connectivity to benefit the Indian consumers.

This partnership will cover T20, One Day Internationals [ODI], International Test Cricket and Premier Domestic Competitions of the BCCI. Jio and Star have been instrumental in leading many such disruptive initiatives, where it has put the consumer in the centre of innovation.

Akash Ambani, Director – Jio, said

Jio continues to bring the most exclusive content to its users, this time around through the JioTV app. Cricket is not just played, its worshipped in India. Every Indian must have access to the best sporting events as well as quality and affordable bandwidth to consume the content.

With this partnership, we intend to address both these objectives of providing the best sporting content with the best digital infrastructure to the Jio users. Jio promises to and will continue to bring a superlative customer experience in the areas of sports, AR, VR, Immersive viewing and more in the coming days.

Sanjay Gupta, Managing Director – Star India, said

Over the last five years, we have re-invented the sports experience in India across screens, both television and digital. Indian cricket under BCCI is one of the most compelling properties in the world and we are excited to apply the same lens of innovation and re-invention to the property that we have applied to other sports in the last few years. And, with a new partner in Reliance Jio, we will have even more opportunities to raise the bar for cricket fans.

About Reliance Jio

Jio will bring transformational changes in the Indian digital services space to enable the vision of Digital India for 1.2 billion Indians and propel India into global leadership in digital economy. It has created an eco-system comprising network, devices, applications and content, service experience and affordable tariffs for everyone to live the Jio Digital Life. As part of its customer offers, Jio has revolutionized the Indian telecom landscape by making voice calls for Jio customers absolutely free, across India, to any network, and always. Jio makes India the highest quality, most affordable data market in the world so that every Indian can do Datagiri.

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Truecaller announced the significant success brands have seen on its Advertising Platform. Truecaller Ads, a uniquely designed platform, not just captures the attention of users without invasion or interruption, but also eliminates the appointment viewing condition for brand visibility. Its programmatic advertising strategy has generated a repeat customer rate of 70% among existing advertisers, helping companies reach their audiences.

Companies are increasingly showing an appetite for Truecaller’s unique programmatic ads and with the festive season around the corner, brands and verticals are looking at in-app advertising platforms to enhance brand visibility and drive scalability.

Talking about his experience, Amit Tiwari, Vice President Marketing, Havells India Ltd,said

This is the first time we used Truecaller as an outreach platform. It provided us with a large-scale India-wide reach of over 40 million unique users in a single day. We used it as a platform to connect with our potential customers and received genuine responses from quality audiences.

Commenting on his interaction with the platform, Sidharth Rao, CEO, Dentsu Webchutney, said

We have always recommended Truecaller to our advertisers and have consistently seen the platform over-deliver its commitments. With the help of Truecaller, our client’s messages have been delivered to their users through a brand roadblock with absolute simplicity. We have had a remarkable experience in marketing several product categories such as automobile, OEM and consumer tech to name a few through this platform. We believe Truecaller will play an integral part in our media buys for the upcoming festive season of 2018, with more of our clients looking to showcase their own unique stories.

With the growth of internet penetration in the country, mobile specific advertising will dominate the digital advertising space in the years to come. Truecaller reaches 100 million daily active users allowing brands to gain phenomenal traction for their campaigns on the platform.

Tejinder Gill, VP Sales & Head of India Operations at Truecaller, said

Our advertising platform has achieved some great feats since its inception, especially since the unique ad delivery system which enables a brand visibility after every call from an unknown number. With marketers and CMO’s shifting their strategies from mobile first to mobile only, advertising platforms such as ours are best placed to help achieve their objectives. Around the festive season when audiences have their eyes wider open than usual, we must work together with our partners to overcome our hurdles and achieve our objectives together. Needless to say, our advertisers have been overjoyed with the results.

More details about Truecaller Ads are available here.

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Post operationalization of Jio Payments Bank [a 70:30 Joint-Venture between Reliance Industries Limited and State Bank Of India], Jio and SBI are deepening their partnership to bring next generation bilateral frictionless experience with exclusive Digital Banking, Payments and Commerce journeys for their customers.

Jio and SBI are entering into a digital partnership aimed to increase SBI’s digital customer base multi-fold. SBI YONO is a revolutionary omni channel platform offering digital banking, commerce and financial superstore services to customers. YONO’s digital banking features and solutions will be enabled through the MyJio platform for a seamless, integrated and superior customer experience. MyJio, one of India’s largest Over-The-Top [OTT] mobile applications will now bring in financial services capabilities of SBI and Jio Payments Bank.

Jio and SBI customers will benefit from Jio Prime, a consumer engagement and commerce platform from Reliance. Jio Prime will offer exclusive deals from Reliance Retail, Jio, partner brands and merchants. In addition, with an integration between SBI Rewardz [existing loyalty program from SBI] and Jio Prime, customers of SBI will be offered additional loyalty reward earning opportunities as well as broader redemption within Reliance, Jio and other online and physical partner ecosystems.

Sh Mrutyunjay Mahapatra [Deputy Managing Director (Strategy) & Chief Digital Officer, SBI] and Sh Alok Agarwal [Chief Financial Officer (CFO), RIL] exchanging the signed MoU to deepen digital partnership, in the presence of Sh Rajnish Kumar [Chairman, SBI] and Sh Mukesh D. Ambani [Chairman & Managing Director, RIL] in Mumbai

SBI will be engaging Jio as one of its preferred partners for designing and providing network and connectivity solutions. Jio’s highest quality network in urban and rural regions will allow SBI to launch customer centric services such as video banking and other on-demand services. Additionally, Jio Phones will be available on special offers for SBI customers.

Speaking on the partnership, Rajnish Kumar, Chairman – SBI said

As India’s largest Bank with leadership in digital banking, we are delighted to partner with Jio the world’s largest network.  All the areas of co-operation are mutually beneficial enhancing the digital foot-print for SBI customers with superior and rewarding customer experiences.

Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman – Reliance Industries Limited said

The scale of the SBI customer base is unmatched globally. Jio is committed to using its superior network and platforms combined with the Retail ecosystem to accelerate digital adoption serving all the needs for SBI’s and Jio’s customers.

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Truecaller introduced their newest Premium feature, Call Recording, for its Android users globally. This is another step towards upgrading their Premium offerings aimed at making communication safe and efficient by helping users report harassment related or fraudulent calls.

From helping users identify new business clients, to empowering women in their fight against harassment or objectionable calls, Truecaller has safeguarded users by identifying unknown calls and SMSs.  The latest Call Recording feature will also assist its users in keeping track of important conversations with businesses, colleagues, or friends.

Call Recording has been one of the most highly requested features by Truecaller users. The team decided to develop and combine it into their Premium package along with the Who Viewed Your Profile feature.

How Call Recording Works

When a Premium user dials or receives a call, they can toggle ‘ON’ the recording feature from the Truecaller Caller ID screen. The recordings are then stored on the user’s phone. All users without a Premium subscription can get a free 14-day trial of this feature, the company announced.

Call recordings are stored locally on the user’s phone, and not on Truecaller’s servers. The users of this feature are responsible for following local laws around two-way consent.

More Premium features when you subscribe

  • Who viewed my profile
  • Ad-free experience
  • Contact requests
  • Premium badge for your profile

To upgrade to Premium, tap on the ‘Upgrade to Premium’ tab in the Truecaller app.

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COMIO Smartphones, India’s emerging mid-segment brand has teased a new smartphone that would be released in the last week of July 🙂 We have received some information about the to-be launched device that runs Android O. COMIO had previously released the COMIO X1 Note and COMIO C1 Pro and you can find more details here & here respectively.

The phone is expected to be launched in red color and is rumored to have the following key features:

  • Full view – 5.5 inch
  • Face unlock
  • 13MP Camera

Below is a small teaser of the yet to-be launched smart phone from COMIO

We would update the post once we receive more updates about the device. Stay Tuned !!

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COMIO Smartphones, India’s emerging mid-segment brand brings yet another striking smartphone to the market, the COMIO C1 Pro. With this smartphone, COMIO is offering its customers a host of premium features such as Face unlock, 8MP Camera, Dual VoLTE/ViLTE, Intruder Selfie, Venus Browser, Regional language support, Font application and Bike mode. Priced at Rs. 5599, the C1 Pro comes in three color variants – Metallic grey, Sunrise gold and Royal black.

The COMIO C1 Pro has attractive features like 4G Dual VoLTE/ViLTE support powered by Mediatek 6739 Quad Core processor, multiple font support in user interface, 5.0-inch HD display, Quad core 64 Bit processor, 1.5GB RAM and ROM 16 GB memory. It comprises of 8 MP AF rear camera and 5 MP selfie camera with 2,500 mAh battery.

The device has 3 dedicated slot support- 2 SIM Card + 1 SD card which can be extended up to 128 GB and WPS Office support for PPT/Word/Excel/PDF. COMIO C1 Pro comes packed with Android 8.1 [Oreo] operating system which ensures pop touch, Simplified UI and 2x Faster Interface.

Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, CEO & Director, COMIO Smartphone further adds

We are delighted to announce the launch our new smartphone COMIO C1 Pro in such a short span. We believe that consumers in this price segment deserve better features and our budget friendly C1 PRO smartphone provides a potpourri of exciting features like good camera quality, better speed, security features, stylish design and value-added services. 

Key features of the COMIO C1 Pro

  • Dual 4G VoLTE/ ViLTE – The device has 2 4G VoLTE SIM slots
  • Camera features – 8MP Camera with cool modes like Panorama mode and Gestures-setup-in-camera mode which enables the user to capture smile and finger gestures within a photograph
  • Face Unlock – A higher level security feature with face recognition.
  • Venus Browser – A light weight web platform for smartphone users with advanced functionalities like browsing, app store and services. Users can multi-task with this app like shopping, playing games, browsing, listening to music and watching movies etc. Venus is first Indian browser solution providing hyper-regional content covering all the major Indian states supporting 22 regional Indian languages.
  • Bike Mode – This feature basically turns off all the notifications on the device when the user is riding a bike and automatically responds with the message to the caller notifying them that person is riding a bike and will call back later.
  • Display features – Split Screen, Pop Touch and Simplified UI/ 2X Faster UI
  • Security Features – Intruder Selfie
  • Physical Attributes – 3 SIM slots
  • Main functions – Android 8.1 Oreo operating system, Quad core 64 Bit Processor and MediaTek chipset

COMIO support – Specially designed after-sales support comprising of 1 year + 100 days warranty, 30-day replacement, a special buy back and upgrade offer allowing you to upgrade your old smartphone. The COMIO upgrade offer allows you an assured 40% return on your old COMIO phone [not more than 12 months old] which will be given if you want to upgrade you existing COMIO phone. Applicable through COMIO Website only. COMIO has 1000+ service centers across India delivering to customer’s convenience.

Reliance Jio offer – Customers can now enjoy unlimited data and talk time offers using a COMIO smartphone. Jio customers to get INR 2200 cashback (44*50 Rs vouchers) at the time of 1st successful recharge of Rs. 198/299 monthly plans. The offer can be redeemed from the 2nd recharge onwards.

Availability – The COMIO C1 Pro will available at all key retail stores Pan-India and online platforms – Snapdeal, Flipkart, Amazon, ShopClues and Paytm.

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With over 100 million daily active users, and a growing number of Truecaller Pro subscribers, Truecaller has reintroduced the much requested ‘Who Viewed Your Profile’ feature for its Pro subscribers. The feature allows users to see who has viewed their profile, keeping them prepared for which calls to expect and from whom.

How does it work?

Truecaller Pro users will receive a notification when another user has viewed their profile using Truecaller. However, this only applies if someone has tapped on the profile to view it, not searched for it.

Depending on the user’s privacy settings, contact information such as their phone number added by a user could be hidden. Users will still have to send a Contact Request for additional details.

By going to the ‘Privacy center’ in the Settings of their Truecaller app, users can always control who views what information on their profile.

Image Source – TrueCaller

Private Mode

When a user becomes a Pro subscriber, they can toggle on or off the Private mode, which means that another user will not be notified if they’ve viewed their profile.

This is a first of many new Truecaller Pro features that Truecaller will be releasing soon. In the coming weeks, the Pro feature will be re-branded to Premium and the company will be adding more features to make communication safe & efficient.

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COMIO Smartphone, India’s emerging mid-segment brand, recognized as ‘The Most Promising Brand‘ by The Economic Times is all set to conquer the market with the launch of its flagship smartphone, the COMIO X1 Note. Competitively priced at Rs. 9,999, the X1 Note boasts of flawless slim ID design with a stylish mirror finish back cover in two colour variants- royal blue and sunrise gold.

With the COMIO X1 Note, the brand which was initially launched in North & West India now forays into the East & South market. The brand will be launching a total of 5 devices in 5K~10K price segment in East & South market including their existing models C-1, P-1, C-2 lite and S-1 lite.

Karnataka is one of the largest markets in the South region and will be of prime importance to COMIO Smartphones. Being a highly ‘value added’ market, the brand will have a strong offline network of 2000 retailers, 35 distributors, 400 after sales touch points and a deeper penetration through 3-4 large format retail chains. COMIO Smartphone will target sales of 15K units per month from the region with an aim to have a 2~3% market share in this year. Special offers that will be offered to consumers will include – Reliance Jio offer, exhaustive COMIO support including screen breakage warranty.

The device has a dual rear camera with 13MP + 5MP AF with Flash and front camera with 8MP. A photographer’s delight, the handset comes bundled with a set of camera modes like portrait/ bokeh, beauty, panorama, social and night mode. Designed to enjoy high definition to the fullest, the smartphone comes with a 6-inch full view FHD+ 2.5D curved display. The 4G-VoLTE dual SIM smartphone is powered by a 1.45 GHz quad-core processor and has a 2,900 mAh battery.

COMIO X1 Note – Royal Blue [L] and Sunrise Gold [R]

Sanjay Kalirona, CEO & Director, COMIO Smartphone, said

We are excited to announce the launch of COMIO X1 Note as it marks our expansion into a pan-India brand. The response we have received from our consumers, retailers and distributors has been tremendous, encouraging us to deliver a product such as COMIO X1 Note, which is one of the best offerings from the brand in the sub-10,000 price segment.

The COMIO X1 Note provides an integrated solution comprising of advanced camera quality, better speed, security features, stylish design and value-added services all-in-one, ensuring an enhanced user experience.

Some of the other features include

  • Android O – Android Oreo picture-in-picture [multiple apps], smarter battery, 2x faster interface, over 60 new emojis
  • A smarter way to unlock your smartphone with Face Unlock feature
  • Secure your smartphone the smartest way with the Intruder Selfie feature
  • Explore magic with the Finger Print sensor: pick calls, unlock device in 0.15 seconds, click pictures, access apps
  • More memory, more space, more fun – 3GB RAM + 32GB ROM, expandable upto 128 GB
  • Never miss a buzz with a Notification LED, nor your favourite conversations with Auto Call Recording feature and Auto Call Back Reminder
  • Personalise your smartphone your way with the Dual Account app
  • Font Application feature with access different stylish fonts and supported with 22 regional languages
  • Pop-up touch feature allows user to use the apps with less number of clicks
  • WPS Office app to view all kind of documents with ease
COMIO X1 Note Spec Sheet

Further to this, Sumit Sehgal, Chief Marketing Officer, COMIO Smartphone, said on the launch

After capturing the hearts of the youth in North & West India, we are excited to widen our reach to South & East market. South is a strategic region for us and Bangalore d will be one of the most important markets with its high number of technology enthusiasts. We will multiply our efforts in this region and engage with the youth to make Comio a preferred brand through our philosophy of ‘Don’t Listen Kar Daal.’

COMIO support – Specially designed after-sales support comprising of 1 year + 100 days warranty, one-time screen breakage warranty, 30-day replacement, a special buy back and upgrade offer allowing you to upgrade your old smartphone. The COMIO upgrade offer allows you an assured 40% return on your old COMIO phone (not more than 12 months old) which will be given if you want to upgrade you existing COMIO phone. Applicable through COMIO official website only.

Reliance Jio offer – Customers can now enjoy unlimited data and talk time offers using a COMIO smartphone. Jio customers to get Rs. 2200 cashback [44*50 Rs vouchers] at the time of 1st successful recharge of INR 198/299 monthly plans. The offer can be redeemed from the 2nd recharge onwards.

Availability – The COMIO X1 Note will available at all key retail stores Pan-India and online platforms – Snapdeal, Flipkart, Amazon, ShopClues and Paytm.