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Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Max, the flagship of its last year’s series, has received major price cuts in India through Flipkart’s Big Billion Days 2025 sale and Vijay Sales’ festive offers. Buyers can now avail discounts, bank deals, and exchange offers, making the premium smartphone more accessible ahead of the festival season.

iPhone 16 Series discounts across platforms

Flipkart Plus and Black members get early access to Apple’s iPhone 16 series, with substantial price reductions across models:

iPhone 16 (128GB) now retails at ₹51,999, down…

At Meta Connect 2025, the spotlight may have been on Mark Zuckerberg’s sweeping vision for an AI- and AR-powered future—but it was Chris Cox, Meta’s Chief Product Officer, who pulled back the curtain on how the company plans to get there.

In a closed-door roundtable with select media, Cox spoke candidly about the debut of Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses and Neural Band, design battles with EssilorLuxottica, the race with Apple in wearables, and the thorny questions of privacy that come with AI.

For the first time, users get a full-colour,…

The OnePlus 15 is almost here, and the first teasers are giving us a glimpse at a phone that looks very different from what we’re used to. Over the weekend, at the 2025 Peace Elite League (PEL) Summer Finals in China, e-sports stars gathered for a photo with a mysterious new OnePlus device. The post didn’t say the name, but it’s hard to miss what the brand was hinting at: the OnePlus 15.

OnePlus 15 real-life photo has been revealed!

It shows an entirely new design, with a flat frame and a camera housing with a rectangular shape placed on the…

I’ve used a lot of phones with stock Android, and truthfully, they’ve all felt the same — functional, clean, but rarely exciting. So when the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL landed on my desk, I was ready to be underwhelmed. What else can Google possibly add, I thought.

Turns out, plenty. The Pixel 10 Pro XL doesn’t just refine the Pixel experience — it feels like the first truly premium Pixel. After years of lagging behind Samsung and Apple on design, this is the first Google phone that finally feels on par with the Galaxy S25 Ultra and iPhone 17…

Ever been in a WhatsApp group where you nod along but secretly have no idea what’s being said? Or maybe you’ve got friends or family hell bent on practicing the latest new language they are learning with you over text. Well, that’s about to change.

WhatsApp is finally rolling out in-app message translations for iPhone and Android users. Starting today, you can long-press any message, tap “Translate”, and instantly see it in your preferred language. It works across 1:1 chats, group chats, and even Channel updates — no copy-pasting to another…

Tech consultancy Accenture has proposed setting up a new campus in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, aiming to eventually add about 12,000 jobs to its workforce in India, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The move follows similar deals by IT firms Tata Consultancy Services and Cognizant, which are leveraging a new state policy offering leased land at ₹0.99 ($0.0112) per acre to large firms willing to generate employment.

India is already Accenture’s largest employee base globally, with more than 300,000 of its 790,000…

It usually takes a few weeks for iPhone users to discover any quirks with a new model — but the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are already in the headlines, and not for a good reason.

Social media and early durability tests are buzzing about ‘Scratchgate,’ a term coined by fans and tech enthusiasts after noticing how easily Apple’s latest Pro models scratch, particularly around the sharp edges of their aluminium bodies.

Where it scratches and why

YouTuber Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything put the iPhone 17 Pro series through his usual durability…

India’s smartphone exports have surged to $11.7 billion between April and August 2025, marking a 55% increase compared to the same period in 2024.
The United States remains the largest destination for Indian smartphone shipments, with exports reaching $8.4 billion—a staggering 193% jump from $2.88 billion a year ago. Notably, Apple’s exports from India accounted for $8.5 billion during this period, up over 77% from $4.8 billion in April–August 2024.

Typically, smartphone exports to the US dip in August and September, but this year the trend…

The Flipkart Big Billion Day 2025 sale, which started with heavily discounted deals on premium smartphones including Apple’s iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, has drawn sharp criticism from consumers after reports of mass order cancellations emerged.

The sale, aimed at clearing older stock, saw the iPhone 16 128GB variant listed at ₹51,999 and the iPhone 16 Pro 128GB at ₹75,999 — prices significantly lower than usual.

The discounts were available for Flipkart Black and Plus members from September 22, while regular users could access the deals from…

Surat-based AI app-building startup Rocket has raised $15 million in seed funding round led by Salesforce Ventures and Accel, with participation from Together Fund. According to the company, the capital will be deployed towards R&D, product development, and setting up its North American headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Founded by Vishal Virani, Rahul Shingala, and Deepak Dhanak, Rocket’s platform allows users to create production-ready applications directly from natural language prompts. Unlike other AI coding tools that generate snippets or…