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Jio has announced a new offer for those buying an Oppo smartphone. Under the brand new Jio Oppo Monsoon offer, the telco is offering benefits worth “up to Rs. 4,900” though you may have to wait a long, long time for most of those benefits to get realised. The offer is being extended to both new and existing Jio SIM users, though you will have to buy a new Oppo 4G phone to get these benefits – existing users are out of luck. Specifically, the benefits are being offered to those who use the Jio 198 or Jio 299 recharge, which offer 2GB and 3GB of 4G data respectively every day and each come with 28-day validity. Jio Oppo Monsoon offer details The Jio Oppo Monsoon offers runs from June 28, 2018 to September 25, 2018. As for the benefits, Jio users will get 36 instant cashback coupons worth Rs. 50, taking the total cashback amount to Rs. 1,800. These vouchers can be used against subsequent monthly recharges for any Jio subscriber, and are valid till September 30, 2021....

The last couple of years have been eventful for the Indian streaming space. Ever since players like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video jumped into the scene, the market has seen an increased amount of quality online content from Indian artists, be it stand-up routines, movies, or TV series. In June last year, Netflix managed to rope in one of the pioneers of Indian indie cinema, Anurag Kashyap, for Sacred Games, the first Netflix Originals Web series to be made in India. Gadgets 360 got access to the first four of the eight episodes of the show and here’s our review with mild spoilers. Mild Sacred Games spoilers ahead Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra’s book with the same title, follows the life story of Mumbai-based gangster Ganesh Eknath Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who is established as one of the country’s biggest criminals with dozens of murders under his belt in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but someone who been out of action for the past 15 years. The story begins with S...

The week just past had some big stories, with plenty of action in the world of telecom, as seems to be the case every week. Apart from new plans and offers from telecom operators such as Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone, and BSNL, we also saw an announcement related to in-flight connectivity in India, the launch of the Xiaomi Redmi 6 and Redmi 6A, the start of the MIUI 10 Global Beta ROM rollout, changes in Facebook and Google ad policies, a ban on cryptocurrency mining on Apple’s mobile devices, and the launch of the Uber Lite Android app, among others. Let’s start with the launch of the Jio Double Dhamaka offer. Jio is offering 1.5GB of additional data per day on prepaid recharges priced between Rs. 149 and Rs. 799. The offer ends on June 30. Notably, the pack validities remain the same, and maintain other features like a post-FUP speed of 64kbps, unlimited calls, free 100 SMS messages per day, and access to Jio apps. Reliance Jio also launched a Rs. 499 recharge with a validity ...

The Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox One X could get Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant soon. Microsoft’s own virtual assistant, Cortana has been available on the Xbox One family of consoles for some time now albeit not in all regions. Although you can only use Cortana via a headset, it seems it won’t be the only one in the near future. The company plans to allow you to choose which assistant you want to use with your Xbox One and will prompt you to install the Xbox skills app for your choice of assistant to get connected and control your console with voice controls through a smart speaker that won’t need you to use a headset. According to a report on Windows Central citing a “reliable source who is familiar with Amazon and Microsoft’s efforts to link Alexa and Cortana”, the Kinect and Devices option in work-in-progress Xbox One OS builds have a section called Digital Assistants that lets you use your Xbox One with these options. At the moment, the full set of features for these are un...