Asus partner with Home Credit India to offer buyers 0% interest on phones

 By Vaibhav Jain on May 10, 2017       

Home Credit India Finance Pvt. Ltd, one of India’s leading NBFCs and Asus have partnered to offer users an easier and hassle-free way to purchase Asus smartphones in India. Home Credit India is now offers a zero percent interest on smartphone purchases.

Through the association, Home Credit India offers interest free EMI for consumers looking to buy Asus smartphones. Home Credit customers may purchase a Asus smartphones at 0% interest rate from over 8500 retailers across the country.

For now, the scheme is only available for selected Zenfone Smartphones including the Zenfone 3 Max 5.2, Zenfone 3 Max 5.5, Zenfone 3s Max, Zenfone 3 5.2 and Zenfone 3 5.5. Below are the Scheme details:

Asus Zenfone 3 Zoom with 5000mAh battery is now up for Grabs in the US for $329

 By Vaibhav Jain on May 10, 2017       

The Asus Zenfone 3 Zoom is now officially available in the U.S. just for $329 and that’s a pretty crazy low price for a Smartphone with such an amazing specifications. 

Just like the 2015 Asus Zenfone Zoom, the Zenfone 3 Zoom prioritizes mobile photography with optical zoom. The device features a 12MP dual-camera setup which can magnify up to 12X with digital zoom. 

The Zenfone 3 Zoom comes with a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 5 protection, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage with microSD card slot (expandable up to 2TB). The device runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow and will be soon upgraded to Android 7.0 Nougat. Asus also plans to add RAW support with Nougat.

The Camera centric smartphone comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 625 processor paired with a huge 5000mAh battery. You can grab the Zenfone 3 Zoom via  Best Buy and Amazon.

Confirmed: The Iconic Nokia 3310 (2017) Will be Available in Germany from May 26!

 By Unknown on May 10, 2017       

Speculations are rife about the comeback brand Nokia smartphones availability as the vendor said they'll be available from Q2 2017 at the launch event in MWC 2017. While the company chose to keep silent over the availability, e-commerce sites started taking pre-orders of the phones in various countries. 

Especially in European countries, the Nokia 3310 was up for pre-order from different sites, and all of them mentioned the same shipping date as May 26. Nonetheless, the date was not confirmed by HMD back then. 

However, the company has now confirmed that the iconic Nokia 3310 will be available to purchase in Germany from May 26, the same date as what e-commerce portals mentioned. This news is posted by Roland Quandt on his Twitter handle as he received an official info from the company. 

That said, the official global availability of the feature phone is yet to be known along with Nokia's Android phones availability as well. 

Indians are Consuming More than 50 Million WhatsApp Video Minutes Per Day More Than Any Other Country Globally

 By Unknown on May 10, 2017       

Back in November 2016, WhatsApp introduced the video calls feature to its platform, and the company now says Indians are in love with the feature. According to the Facebook-owned company, Indians are consuming a total of 50 million video minutes each day.

This number may not be a surprising one as an excess of 200 million users are active on WhatsApp, making it the largest than any other country. 

Across the globe, the company is receiving a total of 340 million video calls, out of which 50 million is from India. The video calling feature is a huge hit for the company because of its simple user interface. 

Currently, WhatsApp has over 1.2 billion active users, and the number is significantly increasing with every passing day. The company is also working to add various new features to the application. 

Meizu Officially Releases its Flyme 6 OS to OnePlus 3T and Various Other Smartphones

 By Unknown on May 10, 2017       

Some days ago, it was tipped that Meizu will release its Flyme OS to other Qualcomm chipset powered smartphones. Meizu, a couple of days ago officially released its Flyme OS 6 to a good number of smartphones. The notable smartphone here is the OnePlus 3T. Yes, you can now install Meizu's Flyme OS 6 in a OnePlus 3T. 

Other smartphones included in the list are Nexus 6P, ZUK Z2, Xiaomi Mi Note, Xiaomi Mi 3, high-end Redmi Note 3, Nexus 6, Redmi Note 2, and various other phones. Meizu also said that it would be adding more smartphones to the list in coming days. 

However, the real surprise is that the OS being released to Qualcomm chipset smartphones as all the Meizu smartphones are powered by MediaTek chip. Also, it's easy to sideload a ROM to any MediaTek chip that the Qualcomm ones. 

As expected, the procedure to get the ROM on the supported device is by flashing it, and for that, you need a device with an unlocked bootloader. You can download the firmware by clicking the link below. 

Meizu Firmware download