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Airtel dropped plans for charging extra for VoIP calls

Faster internet connection is making its way to many mobile devicesvin India and services like Skype, Viber and google hangouts are becoming more common. As they provide better communication using data which is cheaper than normal calling and Airtel sees it as a threat.just like  SMS was killed by IMs like WhatsApp, hike etc all the telecom companies had to face major loss due to revenues from SMS. Now Airtel is afraid that people will start using data for voice calls which may put a hold on the existing revenues of telecom companies. Now in august TRAI (telecom regulation authority of India) proposed telecom companies to charge extra for using top services like WhatsApp and Viber to make up for the lost revenue. Airtel stated in a statement of Hindustan times, that they'll launch separate VoIP pack which will be used for calling over data but with separate balance else you'll be charged from your main a/c even if you have a data plan. The company had said it wo...

Micromax launches Yu phone - a delight for geeks

Recently Micromax tied with cyanogen.Inc for its cyanogenMod ROM. Micromax did this to complete with many other Chinese brands with cyanogen ROM this could mean additional feature. As cyanogen ROM offers lots of customization which is a delight for geeks. Micromax just fulfilled their need by launching their first phone running on cyanogen ROM. The phone is called 'yu' which is short for yureka. The phone is budget priced phone but packs some incredible specs for the buck. Specs include: A 5.5 inch IPS display with gorilla glass 3 1.5 GHz 64- bit Octavia core Qualcomm snapdragon 610 chip With adreno 405 GPU 2 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage (expandable up to 128gb) The phone's primary camera is 13 mp shooter with f2.2 aperture with Sony EXMOR CMOS sensor and a 5 MP front facing camera with 71° field of view. The phone supports dual Sim and supports 4G TDD LTE ( CAT 4 speeds) and has a 2500 mAh battery. The best feature of this phone is the cyanogen...

Instagram update adds new features and five new filters

Photography trends of people have evolved so have so have the phone cameras. People  nowadays share their memorable moments with the world by taking pictures and videos. One platform which is best at it is Instagram..it allows users to add pictures along with hashtags and add filters to make them beautiful. Instagram in their blog announced an update which adds five new filters -  Slumber, Crema, Ludwig, Aden and Perpetua. These filters soften and mod colors of your photos to make them look beautiful. Perpetua Aden Ludwig Crema Slumber The update also changed the filter tray which now shows a live blurred view of your image which lets you know how your photo will look with the filter. Finally they have added a 'manage' button which lets you change the position of each filter so you can put the most used ones at the front. You can check the playstore for the update anytime now.

Google Docs, sheets, slides update brings more editing capabilities

Following the update received to iOS apps. Google is releasing the update to docs, slides, & sheets. The update brings many new editing capabilities to the apps they have also fixed some bugs and added some accessibility options. The individual update includes line spacing controls to Docs that will help you more quickly choose single, double or fractional line spacing on the fly scroll bars for faster navigation on sheets support for inserting, moving, rotating and resizing text boxes, shapes and lines for slides You can check for the update on the playstore or can directly grab the apk from gappsearly

WhatsApp could be working on a web client

WhatsApp the most popular internet messaging service launched in 2009 has around 600 million users. The app uses Sim card for authentication rather than user names and passwords this restricts its use oy for mobile phones. But this may change as guys on AndroidWorld.nl has while decoding the 2.11.471 version of apk  found certain mentions of WhatsApp web logging in and out of computers,tracking your status and latest activity in web sessions. This type of service is currently offered by telegram and some other clients this could be biggest update to the WhatsApp and could prove to be more productive. There is no mention of Facebook login in the code so The WhatsApp will web authentication could be done using QR codes or random codes or IDs. There is no official word on the matter but this seems very  likely to happen considering the pressure from competitors.