iPhone X sales in India started today at 6pm local time[1], with long queues outside Apple resellers in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and other major cities. People were lining up outside the stores hours before the sales started in order to get their hands on the new Apple[2] phone, though supply is expected to fall short of demand. iPhone X[3] pre-orders started last Friday, and people who pre-booked the handset should receive it today, with a South Delhi retailer saying that others may forget about getting it for at least the next 3-4 days. For those unaware, this is the first wave of iPhone X availability globally; the iPhone X price in India for the 64GB and 256GB variants is Rs. 89,000 and Rs. 1,02,000, respectively.
A teardown of the new Apple flagship by iFixit has revealed that the smartphone has a two-cell battery and an L-shaped battery pack[4]; the combined capacity is 2716mAh. Another notable thing is that the logic board of the handset is 70 percent smaller than that of the iPhone 8 Plus[5]. The handset also packs 3GB SK Hynix LPDDR4x RAM, wireless charging coil, Qualcomm modem. The handset got six out of 10 in repairability from iFixit.
WhatsApp suffers global service outage
Popular messaging app WhatsApp suffered an outage[6] affecting users across the world, leading to #whatsappdown[7] becoming a trending hashtag in several countries. According to Down Detector, India (especially the western regions), South East Asia, and Europe were severely affected, while there were a few reports of the outage from the Americas, Africa, Russia, and Australia. The WhatsApp[8] outage started at 1pm IST, and service was back...
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