When someone promises 4G speed reaching up to 135Mbps, in an internet-scarce country like India, the market can only go crazy. And so it did after September 5, when Reliance made the Jio SIM available to public under Welcome Offer. The situation has changed in the last one month. Numbers by Ookla, the company behind world's most popular speed test app, show that the Jio speed is down significantly compared to how it was earlier. Although, don't count out Jio yet. The same report by Ookla also says that despite its imperfections Jio is actually a big deal and has changed the 4G market in India

Ookla has recently released a report based on speed tests done in India since the launch of Reliance Jio. The report shows an exponential increase in 4G users across India. Since these numbers are based on people using Ookla's Speedtest app the real number should be higher. According to Reliance Jio, it has registered over 1.6 crore customers in Welcome Offer, which doesn't include users who registered before September 5.

India grabs Jio with both hands

A graphic presentation by Ookla shows a continuous increase in 4G speed tests in first nine months of 2016. These tests are conducted across all the networks providing 4G services. In January, only 97,630 people used the app to test 4G speed. In August the number was 2,742,413, and took a massive jump to 8, 214,512 in September 2016, the month when Reliance Jio became more widely available.

The metrics company has also presented a graph showing, first a gradual increase in 4G speed tests and then a sudden jump in September. The following graph shows Reliance Jio users in the blue colour and rest of the 4G users with purple colour.

By August 16, the number of people testing 4G speed stands at somewhere around 8 million across

country. Out of these 8 million people are shown to be using Reliance Jio. Then in the next one month, on Sept 16, the number of Reliance Jio tester jumps to over 21 million, which is about 5 million more than the officially recorded number of Welcome Offer users.

But what about the promised speed?

As we have seen, and continue to do so, queues of people outside Reliance Digital store, the popularity of Jio was never in doubt, what is up for question is the speed promised by Reliance Jio.

Users have continuously moaned and groaned about the falling speed but now since we have the numbers released by Ookla, we can confirm their groans are not fake. The struggle is real.

The data released by Ookla shows that mean download speeds for 4G capable phones dropped 23 per cent month-over-month. In September alone the mean download speed has fallen from 11.31 Mbps to 8.77 Mbps.

It should be noted that while the mean download speed is still 8.77Mbps, according to Ookla, it doesn't mean most users are getting the speed. In our experience we have registered speed as low as 0.5Mbps and also as high as 25Mbps. Reliance Jio users have also complained of abysmal speed on the network.
Good speed or not Reliance Jio has definitely managed to make its mark not just in India but globally as well. The 4G surge has been so powerful that the global data has also been affected. Take a look at this graphs.






























The graph shows that global 4G test stayed at around 10 million throughout the year and from Aug

16 to Sept 16 the company recorded a jump to more than 20 million tests on 4G LTE networks.


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Xiaomi recently announced their latest products that include a tablet running on Windows 10. The Mi Pad 2 supports with a large 6,190mAh battery which supports 5V/2A fast charging via USB Type-C port.























Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 Specifications:
◾Processor: Intel Atom Quad-core X5-Z8500, 2.24GHz
◾RAM: 2GB dual-channel LPDDR3 RAM
◾Internal Storage: 64GB
◾Display: 7.9-inch IPS display | 2048 x 1536 resolution, 326PPI
◾Camera: 8MP f/2.0 primary camera | 5MP front camera
◾Battery: 6190mAh battery with 5V/2A fast charging
◾Dimensions: 200.4 x 132.6 x 6.95mm
◾Weight: 322 grams
◾Windows 10

This upcoming tablet will be available in two colors: dark grey or champagne gold. The 16GB version of this tablet will cost $156 and 64GB will cost $203. and will go on sale in late December in mainland China.

Ever since the early days of its conception, Facebook has revolutionized the way we interact with information — one of the most important being the way we categorize it: with "likes," "comments" and "shares." There is one emotion, however — manufactured in large quantities on social media networks like Facebook — that's hard to neatly wrap up: empathy.

"I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a Q&A at Facebook's headquarters. "Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we're working on it and shipping it."

The shift comes after a very palpable limitations to the way people interact with news on Facebook — "what they really want is the ability to express empathy. Not every moment is a good moment," says Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg is weary of the Reddit model, where upvotes get a post more attention while downvotes do the opposite. The whole idea of the upcoming "dislike" button is to let users express feelings other than simply "liking."

There is no word on when this feature will go live. All Zuckerberg offers is that "it's surprisingly complicated to make an interaction that will be simple."

Twitter        has      been overhauling   Direct    Messages over the past several months,



 and today it's announcing an enormous change:

 plans to lift the classic 140-character limit. Starting in July, DMs will seemingly be able to run as long as you'd like, turning it into much more of a typical instant message and group chat service.
The limit stays for normal tweets


It's a sensible movie — the 140-character limit was always more of a nuisance in DMs, since they're private and not meant to be the same type of quick info bite as a tweet. It'll also be a huge help to companies that run customer service on Twitter. Twitter has already made it easier for companies to do that by giving them the option to let anyone initiate a DM, and now they'll be able to send long messages back and forth, rather than being arbitrarily restricted.


Twitter traditionalists don't have to worry much: "You may be wondering what this means for the public side of Twitter," writes Sachin Agarwal, Twitter's DM product manager. "Nothing! Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today."

There's no specific date on the change beyond "July." That should still give you enough time to prepare yourself.

Gionee’s global product launch event in Beijing made official two of the more highly anticipated phones of late.

 The Elife E8 comes with flagship specs and focuses on photography, while the Marathon M5 aims to impress with battery life.

 Gionee also launched the Gionee Wallet mobile wallet system in collaboration with WeBank. In an emailed statement, Arvind R. Vohra, Country (India) CEO & MD of Gionee Smartphones, said "Both M3 & E7 have seen massive success in the Indian market and with the announcement of the power packed M5 and next gen E8 we are sure that the Indian smartphone market will experience the future technology today," tipping a launch in India in the near future. The company at the launch of the Gionee Elife S7 in India had indicated the same.

my thoughts regarding this release is a bit uncertain , we are seeing smartphones getting cheaper and cheaper  every day,at this time people are less likely to buy a chines  flagship. what were gionee thinking while launching these beast? well  one thing is for sure this is not ment for markets like india.

well what do you think , will you buy a 40,000(or 30,000) rs smartphone that's made in china and does not have any service centers

see the detailed spec and report here

what do yo think about these smartphones? do comment.....

Idea Cellular has hiked data tariffs by over 18% for its pre-paid subscribers in Delhi-NCR with effect from June 3.


The company may also hike data tariffs in five or six more circles soon.