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Top 10 Consumer Tech Stories Of The Week - Sep 26 to Oct 1

Here’s the roundup of the Top 10 Stories of the week...

 

In the world of technology, a lot happens in a week. With so much news and updates widely dispersed on the Internet every day, it is almost impossible to keep track of everything. Like every week, this week too, we’ve compiled a quick list of the top 10 tech stories for you.

We bring to you news and updates about your favorite brands, the latest gadgets launched in the market and various other crazy technologies that will give you a ‘wow’ factor.

A special mention this week is the ‘Best Smartphone Series’ for September that would surely catch your eyes. We bring to you a list of the best smartphones of the month with prices ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 30,000 keeping in mind what you should consider when buying these handsets.

We also have two very interesting reviews this week – the Xiaomi Redmi 3S Prime and the Samsung Galaxy J7 [2016], which you would not want to miss.

Here's a list of best 10 stories we have covered this week in consumer technology:

Xiaomi Redmi 3S Prime Review: A New Benchmark For Budget Phones

Xiaomi has been offering us killer phones at affordable prices. With challengers such as the Le Eco and Honor heating up the competition, things are getting even more exciting for the Indian consumers. With its latest Redmi 3S Prime, Xiaomi is trying to push the envelope on how feature-rich a budget smartphone can be. [Read the full story here]

How To Use Reliance Jio VoLTE SIM On Regular 3G\4G Phones

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance has shaken the mobile network space with disruptive pricing. Not only the voice calls are said to be absolutely free, you also get free data between 2 am – 5 am. While all this is perfectly fine… but you finally bought the Jio SIM, only to find out that the voice calls don't work on your non VOLTE 3G or 4G handset. Worry not, there's an easy workaround that involves installing an app. [Read the full story here]

Best Phones Under Rs 30,000 (September, 2016)

While there are plenty of budget phones [sub-Rs 20,000] available in the market and many of these come loaded with good features too, if you have saved enough you can consider something even better. In fact, there are phones in this price range that can give tough time to much expensive top-end devices.  [Read the full story here]

Best Phones Under Rs 20,000 (September, 2016)

As listed out in the previous article in this series, there are plenty of good phones available under Rs 30,000. However, if you need to compromise on your budget a bit, you can still get some good smartphone within that range. In that case, here’s what you should consider when buying phone under Rs 20,000. [Read the full story here]

Is '7' A Bad Number For Smartphones?

After the explosion of Samsung Galaxy Note 7, now an iPhone 7 explodes, reports a Reddit user! With Galaxy Note 7 and iPhone 7's explosions making headlines of late, it is definitely a thing we should ponder about! Is it that the war between Samsung and Apple persists even in the explosion cases? Or is it that the number '7' is just bad for smartphones? [Read the full story here]

Here's How Elon Musk Is Planning To Colonise Mars

Elon Musk unveiled SpaceX's planned Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), a rocket-spaceship combo that the billionaire entrepreneur hopes will allow humanity to establish a permanent, self-sustaining, million-person settlement on the Red Planet. But the billion dollar questions remain on the claims made by Musk that seemed incredibly optimistic and even unattainable. And how are people going to survive the trip? [Read the full story here]

When Is Your Actual Birthday Google?

Google celebrates its 18th birthday with an awesome birthday doodle up on its search engine homepage on Sept 27. Strangely the search engine giant celebrated its birthday on Sept 26, back in 2005. And then, it did put up such merry doodles on Sept 7 in 2004, and Sept 8 in 2003… As Google celebrated the joy of entering the adulthood this year, we try to solve the confusion around Google’s birth date. [Read the full story here]

Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) Review: Loses Out To Chinese Competitors

Samsung's Galaxy J7 has been quite popular in India. The mid-range handset did well at replacing the Galaxy Grand 2. Little wonder then, the Koreans were quick to ready its 2016 update. Dubbed as the Galaxy J7 (2016), the handset comes with plenty of improvements, but is it enough to compete with the new affordable yet power-packed phones from Xiaomi or Lenovo? [Read the full story here]

Meet Spectacles: Snapchat's New Snap-On

We are all familiar with James Bond's super cool glares that can also record video secretly! Well, Snapchat alongside being re-branded into Snap Inc. has also launched a sunglass with a camera, and this is not a secret video recording gadget. In-fact, these glasses, known as 'Spectacles' are meant to record 10 - 30 seconds of videos that you can share to your contacts via the Snapchat app. [Read the full story here]

Five Xiaomi Smart Devices We May Love In India

India is one of the prominent markets for Xiaomi and that can be kind of easily proven by seeing the smartphones they launch in the country. And, most of us like them too. But there are other smart products of Xiaomi that are up and running in China, and we haven't yet seen them here in India, but would definitely love to! So, Techtree has listed out 5 smart products by the brand. [Read the full story here]

 


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