Flipkart again taking orders of Moto G with no stock, promises delivery in 10 days

Flipkart seems to have lost the plot. With the launch of the highly anticipated Moto G, Flipkart seems to have put its reputation at stake.

Flipkart started taking orders for the Moto G on 06 Feb 2014 at 12 Midnight and ran out of stock within 15 minutes. Disappointed customers started spamming their Comments as the launch was highly hyped up. Flipkart promised to restock and start taking orders from 12 Noon the same day. People who ordered the phone when Flipkart started taking orders again were disappointed to get a mail saying that due to some reasons the phone will be delivered in 10 days( WTF !!). Here's a copy of the mail sent out by Flipkart to its 'esteemed' and 'loyal' customers -

This message should be flashing when I make the order and not when I've made it (duh).
Although the Moto G is an absolute kill for just Rs 13,999 but Flipkart should surely pull up its socks in order to cater to the huge demand for the phone.

If your looking to buy the phone then you can do so here  - Order Moto G from Flipkart

Facebook borrows the idea of Hash tags from Twitter

Recently, Facebook added a new feature of Hash Tags. For people familiar with twitter, this is the same thing that Twitter has been doing all through out.


On Twitter, you can follow conversations using hash tags because there is nothing like posts and comments, no system of organised threads like Facebook. Which makes me come to my point, does Facebook even need Hash tags ??

Its actually very annoying, people will now use Hash Tags for spamming and other purposes. On Twitter, Hash Tags were necessary so as to surface conversations and such is the nature of the micro blogging medium that you can follow random topics. Facebook on the other hand is way too much closed in its approach. You have limited people who you can interact with and whose status updates you can see.

I believe, more than anything, Facebook has earned itself the title of Copycat rather than innovator. It earlier copied the blackberry messenger style double ticks in its chat so as to notify whether the recipient has tread the message or not. Not to mention all the talk surrounding the very idea behind Facebook having been taken from some one else.

Brace yourself for all the mad spamming, all thanks to uncle Zuckerburg.

Micromax Canvas 4 to be launched very soon

The ever aggressive Micromax is going to be launching the Micromax Canvas 4 very soon. After the huge success of the Micromax Canvas series, the company is not taking a step back.

The Micromax Canvas HD sold like hot cake, barring a few stock issues. The company is all set to begin pre-booking for the Micromax Canvas 4 on 28th June.

Micromax A110 Superphone

The company has kept the specs of the phone under complete wraps up till now. Though, some believe that it is going to be another 5 inch screen that we are so used to seeing now.

Micromax with its aggressive pricing has been able to woo customers away from costly Samsung and HTC phones. It is expected that Samsung will soon announce its new variant of the popular Galaxy S4, it will get good competition from the Micromax Canvas 4.

If rumours are to be believed, the Micromax Canvas 4 will be priced around the Rs 15,000 price band.

We'll get you more information as it comes out. Interesting times ahead !!

Flipkart slowly realizing that Cash on Delivery model may not work well in India

When for the first time I heard that E-commerce portals like Flipkart and the like's, were offering Cash on Delivery option, the first thing that came to my mind was that it will just not work. Most of us in India know how people just for fun, call up food joints and order food on behalf of people. The delivery guy lands up at your place and you'r like, I never ordered any food, take it back. The same thing is now happening to Flipkart. Some people in UP have had fun with them, by making false orders and then refusing to accept them when they were delivered.

Flipkart has gone to great extents to set up its excellent and famed  back-end infrastructure and superb delivery chain. Flipkart goods arrive at your place pretty fast, sometimes, even on the very day of the order. But all of this means nothing if the buyer is playing a prank and he never intends to pay up for the goods.

Introducing Cash on Delivery is a very bold step and Flipkart has carried it for quite some time now. Flipkart does not call up the customer to confirm the order(may be it does for high value, but for whatever orders I've made, they never have), if they do so, they can be assured that they are talking to the right person, and they can tell him that he is now obliged to pay up once the order is done and dusted.

May be Flipkart should stop COD for new customers. First time customers should be made to pay before delivery since they are the one's most likely to be playing the prank.

Flipkart has put on hold COD for people in Uttar Pradesh as of now, but I dont think this is a localized problem. People with the same mindset of having fun may prop up from any where in the country. Flipkart does have some serious thinking to do. Best of luck to them !!!

PS - I recently came to know about Flipkarts new 'Delivery of Cash' service. Sounds pretty awesome, the idea of a person coming to you door step so that you can swipe your card and he can pay you. The idea of an  ATM machine at your door step when you need it. Awesome !!

Source : Times of India

Sony Tablet S Price Reduced By 0

Sony Tablet S Price Reduced By 0

BlackBerry PlayBook Discount of 50% Extended As PlayBook is Sold Out in India

BlackBerry PlayBook Discount of 50% Extended As PlayBook is Sold Out in India

Samsung Galaxy Note

Reliance Launches Its Android 3G Tablet in India for Rs 13,000 only

Reliance has stepped into the ever growing tablet market in India by launching its very own Android 3G tablet modestly priced at just Rs 13,000 only.

The device runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS and has a 7" Capacitive Multi Touch Display Screen. The Reliance 3G tablet has a 2.0 MP rear camera and a VGA front Camera. The device boasts of 512 MB of RAM and aroung 32GB of on board Storage.

The Reliance 3G tab has all the standard features that you will find in any other tablet like Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth and everything else.

However what distinguishes this tablet from others is the fact that it comes from a 3G provider itself. The plans the Reiliance is currently offering with its 3G tab are pretty good.

Here are the plans.

We believe that the Reliance 3G tablet is going to quite a lot of the other tabs a very good fight.

The Reliance 3G tablet definitely gets a thumbs up from us when it comes to pricing. 

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HTC Wildfire S launched in India for Rs 14,700

HTC has launched The Wildfire S in India. You can get the phone for Rs. 14,700. HTC has got the pricing bang on.

The HTC Wildfire S runs on Android 2.3.3 GingerBread and has a 5 MegaPixel autofocus camera. You can also record and play HD Videos. The device has a 3.2 inch HVGA display.

HTC has added a host of new features including a new user interface, HTC locations and a new ebook reader and to go with it a new ebook store powered by Kobo.

The HTC Wildfire S will surely attract a lot of attention here in India considering the great features and the apt pricing of the phone.

iPhone 4 Finally Launched in India, Apple ties up with Airtel and Aircel for the time being

Yes, It's finally happened, the iPhone 4 has been launched in India. We at Tech-Keeda though told you that this was happening way back. Check it out here.

Aircel and Airtel have made formal announcements today. There has still not been an announcement from Vodafone yet. Coming to the pricing, well to be honest, the iPhone 4 will surely dig a huge hole in your pocket for sure. For both Aircel and Airtel, the 16GB variant will be priced at 34,500 INR and the 32GB will be priced at 40,900 INR, for prepaid as well as postpaid subscribers.

For Prepaid Customers, these are the plans being offered by Aircel.

For Postpaid customers,

 

 

Although these postpaid plans suggest that you can recover around 50% - 100% of the cost you pay for the phone but then this will benefit people who would normally have such heavy usage.

For Casual users, these plans may not be the best. Airtel has still not come out with their plans.

Apple cuts prices of Mac Desktops by ~15%, looks like India if finally on Apple's radar

Price cut after price cut, launch after launch, looks like Apple has finally started considering India as a potential market(phew).

Apple has dropped the prices of their Mac desktops by ~15%. This is great news for Apple fans.

Apple has recently launched the iPad 2 in India, merely 3 months after its US launch. Going by what Apple has done in the past in India, 3 months is nothing. We waited for the next generation of any device to be launched in US so that the last generation would be dumped in India. Well not any more it seems. India is on Apple's radar now.

In the last post, I told you that Apple is going to launch the iPhone 4 by this month end. There is even better news, rumors have it that the device will be 'factory unlocked'. This means that your iPhone 4 would work with any SIM card and would not just be locked to use only Airtel and Vodafone.

Here's a look at the new and old prices of the Mac desktops.


MODEL OLD PRICE NEW PRICE

Mac Mini 44,900 37,900

iMac 21.5" 74,900 64,900

iMac 27" 1,05,900 91,900


(All Prices in Indian National Rupees)

Acer launches India's first Honeycomb Tablet, also a Dual Screen Notebook

Acer has launched India's first Honeycomb tablet.

Two days back Acer launched their Iconia series tablets in India. The Iconia A500 is the Honeycomb tablet that we are talking about.

The device runs on Tegra2 dual core processor - 1Ghz. It has a 10.1 inch screen. The Iconia A500 has an SD Card slot, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, mini-HDMI port.

One thing in particular that we would like to point out is that the device has a full sized USB port. This is an amazing addition and the device surely does get extra brownie points for this.

The Iconia A500 has a front cam and a rear cam. The front one is a 2 MegaPixel camera and the rear one is a 5 MegaPixel camera.

One thing that catches our eye is that all the devices in this Iconia series look stunning. Just have a look at the pics we have added below.

Apart from the Iconia A500, the other device worth mentioning is the 'Iconia Dual Screen Notebook'. The name is self explanatory, the device has two screens. Just to make it clear, this is more of a laptop than a tablet. There is a virtual keyboard. The specs include 4 GB RAM, 640 GB HDD, Ethernet and Wi-Fi.

As far as pricing is concerned, Acer has got it bang on. The A500 will cost you Rs 27,900 and the 'Dual Screen Notebook' will cost you Rs 69,999

Apple to launch iPhone 4 in India by May end. Airtel already starts pre-registration.

The iPhone 4 is going to be launched in India very soon.

This news has now been confirmed as Airtel has started pre-registrations for iPhone 4.

Airtel has started pre-registrations, interested people can either fill up the form with requisite details or can SMS iPhone4 to 121 for more detals.

As of now, no information on exact release date and pricing have been made public.

According to some rumors, Apple could launch The iPhone 4 in India as soon as this month end(may end).

As far as pricing goes, The iPhone 4 will cost you anywhere in upwards of Rs 30,000 for the 16GB device.

We will keep you updated as and when any more official statement is made by Apple.

HTC to launch 7 android devices in India, including HTC Evo, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Sensation

The HTC Wildfire S will be launched in India in May.

HTC has a long list of Android devices lined up for the Indian markets. Its believed that besides The Wildfire S, HTC will launch 7 Android devices in India which includes The HTC Evo and The HTC Sensation.

The Sensation is the flagship phone of HTC and its definitely one to look out for.

These devices will be priced in the higher segment, prices will start from Rs 15,000 upwards for the HTC Wildfire S.

Twitter buys TweetDeck for $50 Million

TweetDeck is one of the most popular twitter clients. Almost one-third of twitter users use TweetDeck to tweet. Twitter must have thought that its not a good idea to let TweetDeck enjoy so much autonomy, hence this buy-out was inevitable.

TweetDeck was initially in talks with UberSoft. UberSoft is a company that has been on a buying spree of late. The company has been buying many twitter clients in the recent past.

The exclusivity deal with UberSoft ended this April and hence, TweetDeck could respond to the offer made by Twitter. UberSoft was ready to pay around $30 Million for TweetDeck whereas Twitter is paying nearly $50 Million.

There were speculations that UberSoft may start a rival micro blogging site to compete with Twitter and with all these popular third party Twitter clients with it, Twitter must have taken this a big threat.

Hence Twitter was ready to pay nearly $20 Million extra.

BlackBerry PlayBook and Motorola Xoom to be availale in India very soon.

After the launch of the iPad 2 in India, other manufacturers are gearing up to launch their tablets in India pretty soon.

Apple caught everyone off guard by launching the iPad 2 within 3 months of its US launch.

The BlackBerry Playbook which received a pretty ordinary response from reviewers is already available for pre-order on HomeShop18.

The Motorola Xoom, which is a honeycomb tablet and has received outstanding reviews from people all over the world is also available for pre-order on HomeShop18.

These two tablets will definitely eat into Apple's share of the tablet market in India. The iPad 2 went out of stock in India in just 1 day of its launch, we don't expect anything like that to happen with any of these two tablets, but still the Xoom will catch a lot of eye balls.

In terms of pricing too, the iPad seems to have an upper hand over the PlayBook. The 16GB model is priced at Rs. 32,999, 32GB is priced at Rs. 39,299 and the 64GB model is priced Rs. 45,999.

The 32 GB model of Xoom would cost you Rs 38,500. These prices are obviously more than what you would pay when the devices are actually launched and available off the shelves in India.

An official statement from both BlackBerry and Motorola is expected in the coming days.

What's wrong with Sony? Attack after attack, Customer Details being Compromised.

Barely a few weeks ago, gamers were trying to find out as to why The Sony PlayStation Network was down for so long. Little did they know that Sony had intentionally shut down The PlayStation Network because there had been an attack on the network by hackers.

The PlayStation Network had been down from April 20 and Sony made a public statement about the incident on April 28. The 8 day gap makes one believe that the attack was pretty severe.


Following the security breach by hackers, it came to be known that around 77 Million users personal details including name, addresses, birth dates and the most crucial, credit card information had also been stolen.

A few days later, some security researchers made claims that a list of 2.2 Million PlayStation Network users credit card details were up for sale. Claims were made that the hackers even tried to sell the stolen data back to Sony but Sony refused.

As expected, Sony has rubbished these claims as being false.

If all this wasn't enough, Sony was hit by another attack in which it is believed that details of 25 Million more Sony customers has been compromised.

Interestingly, this breach happened a day before the PlayStation Network breach, but came to light only after a review took place because of that breach.

This breach happened on the Sony Online Entertainment PC games Network. Apart from 25 Million existing customers, records of around 10,000 customers were stolen from an outdated database. It is believed that in this attack, debit card details of customers in Austria and Germany had been stolen.

Sony is having to face flak from all corners owing to all these breaches. The SOE(Sony Online Entertainment) Network has also been shut down for the time being.

iPad 2 arrives in India, already out of stock in just 1 day

The iPad 2 has finally arrived in India. It's been just two months since iPad 2 hit stores in the US.

The iPad 2 became available in India just yesterday, that is on 29th April 2011, and it comes as no surprise that Apple stores across the country are already out of stock.

Coming to the pricing :

Wi-Fi 16GB Rs.29,500
Wi-Fi 32 GB Rs. 34,500
Wi-Fi 64 GB Rs. 39,500

Wi-Fi + 3G 16 GB Rs. 36,900
Wi-Fi + 3G 32 GB Rs. 41,900
Wi-Fi + 3G 64 GB Rs. 46,900

Why is twitter better than Facebook to promote your Blog/Company ?

Twitter is better than Facebook to promote your blog/company.

Well I'm not really a social media expert or even anything close to that but still I'm writing this post may be because I've been following Jeff Buallas a bit too much lately.

Twitter as we know is a microblogging site whereas Facebook is a full fledged social networking site where you can chat,play games,upload pics and make albums and a host of other things that you cant imagine to do on Twitter. Imagine playing farmville or poker on twitter, funny eeh.

In spite of all these things that you cannot do on twitter, I still say that twitter is better, you must be thinking I'm nuts.

Normal routine of a normal guy who regularly uses facebook would be to log-in and then check for new notifications, check out his wall and feeds from a few friends and then sit down to chat using the sloppy chat feature that facebook provides. Facebook would tell you that this certain user spent a total 1 hour on Facebook, but still thats of no use to you as he still has not checked out your company/blog page on Facebook. This is precisely why I say twitter is better than facebook.

Now coming to Twitter, lets see the daily routine of a tweeple. He logs in and checks his time line. He reads your tweets and even clicks the links in them. People on twitter have nothing to do except for reading tweets and this is where twitter scores against Facebook.

The bonus is actually on the person who writes those tweets to make them more and more eye-catching. Writing tweets that tend to catch the viewers attention is an art in itself.

Re-tweets are one of the best way to get followers on Twitter. The more your twitter handle is mentioned in other people's tweets, more are the chances of you getting new followers.

One more thing that makes twitter better is that recently Facebook has come under heavy attack from spammers. There are new ways to spam everyday, fake apps to fake events, Facebook is fast becoming vulnerable to these spammers. Twitter has fared better in this respect as it is still more or less spam free.

So rather than spending time on managing your company/blog page on Facebook, you should concentrate on your twitter handle.

Happy Tweeting :)