After Airtel and BSNL, Vodafone[1] too has decided to take on Reliance's Jio Phone with its own ultra-affordable smartphone[2], which has an "effective" price of Rs. 999. It's called the Bharat-2 Ultra[3], and it's been made in partnership with Micromax[4], which also developed the 4G-enabled feature-phone Bharat 1[5] for BSNL. The Micromax Vodafone 4G smartphone will be available in November with a down payment of Rs. 2,899, and users will need to recharge with Rs. 150 per month for the next three years to keep it going.
At the end of the first 18 months, Vodafone will deposit Rs. 900 in your Vodafone M-Pesa wallet, followed by Rs. 1,000 another 18 months later. As for the phone itself, the Micromax Bharat-2 Ultra has a 4-inch WVGA display, powered by Spreadtrum SC9832, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB internal storage. There's a 2-megapixel rear camera, and 0.3-megapixel front camera. The Micromax Vodafone 4G smartphone runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Nokia 7 first Chinese flash sale a success
The first flash sale of the new Nokia 7[6] in China was a huge success[7], according to two reports, with the phone going out of stock in minutes, after e-commerce sites JD.com and Suning reported receiving over 150,000 registrations in total. There's no word on how many units have been sold, though. Pre-registrations for the Nokia 7 had begun immediately after the official launch in China on October 20.
The phone sits between the Nokia 6[8] and Nokia 8[9], given its numbering, and has two variants: 4GB RAM at CNY 2,499 (about Rs. 25,000), and 6GB RAM at CNY 2,699 (about Rs....