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Samsung Stores gets Suraksha certification to ensure customer safety

South Korean smartphone and electronic equipment maker Samsung has got Suraksha certification for its exclusive stores in India. Samsung has announced that all its Exclusive Stores in India have become Suraksha Certified. This certification means that the security of customers visiting these stores will be ensured. In this troubled time of Corona, customers can buy their favorite electronic equipment and smartphones at these stores by following social distancing completely. Suraksha Stores is a kind of public initiative, under which store employees ensure customers to shop in a safe environment.

Special care will be taken to protect customers

Samsung has claimed that before opening their exclusive stores, they are taking special care of sanitization keeping in mind the safety of the customers. Hand sanitizers have been mandated to be made available at all exclusive stores. Also, it has been made mandatory to use sanitizer at every touch points, anti and exit doors in the store. Social distancing guidelines issued by the Government of India will be fully followed in these Samsung Exclusive Stores.

Contactless payment boost

The company also informed that a distance of 1.5 meters would be ensured between customers in these exclusive stores. Also, constables working in these stores have also been trained for hygiene and safety advice. Customers will be encouraged to make digital contactless payments at these exclusive stores. The card swiping machine for contactless payment will be fully sanitized before customers can use it. Not only this, these guidelines have been issued to the employees in these stores to add welcome hand to the customers in the store.

These offline stores, which have been closed for more than two months, can be opened soon. The government may further relax the lockdown rules from May 31 onwards, due to which shops in markets, shopping malls are expected to be opened with conditions. However, even in the ongoing Lockdown 4.0, the Central Government had given permission to the State Government and District Administration to open stand-alone electronic items shops. Due to this, permission was given to open electronic items shops in many small cities. Electronic shops are also expected to open in major cities from 1 June. In such a situation, Samsung has completed its preparation.

#NAYABHARAT: We are going towards a digital phase- Amit Doshi

Welcome to Dainik Jagran Digital's new series #NayaBharat. Today's sipods of the series have joined us with Amit Doshi, CMO of Lenovo India. Siddhartha Sharma, Editor of Jagran Hightech, spoke to Amit Doshi about the new India after Kovid-19, its challenges and other industry issues. So let's know this conversation in detail-

Siddhartha Sharma- What is the impact of overall Kovid-19 on Lenovo in India or the entire computer industry?

Amit Doshi- Kovid-19 After the lockdown, the situation will not be like it was before and it is certain that as we work, as we have social relations which is our way of working, that is going to change completely. In the first few days, we have seen that it has had an impact on demand. As stores are opening a few, shops are opening, we are getting a lot of requests from consumers which we are trying to fulfill on our behalf. Secondly, if we talk about offices, then we really have to bring comfort. Like we are talking to each other from remote working right now, it makes a big difference, how meetings happen. How the day's schedule goes, how we are able to engage with each other and how is the productivity. In this, we have seen some demand, which are companies where the workers used to work in the office, where there were desktops, now laptops are being provided overnight. There are also some customers where we need help, so both these big changes are coming, what we are saying, learn from home or work from home.

Siddhartha Sharma- How Business Model Will Change, Post Kovid-19?

Amit Doshi- People will be more comfortable with online business than before. People would like to connect with stores through digital medium, so if I go then I will plan and go. People will take precaution till at least the first three to four months. The other thing, I am finding it absolutely, that people will try to find out at least where the stores are not open or where they are not able to go, they can connect with the help of remote technology, can they Can select the product. So those are two or three things that we are trying to facilitate. All our stores are listed in Google My Business. We are trying to enable consumers to communicate with our stores through SMS, WhatsApp. Where possible, our sales staff can easily demonstrate through video. During this time there are also many people who have not bought Lenovo products and need service and their brands are not able to service, then we have opened after sale service for all brands for some limited time so that we can help. So what we have right now is Objective to Fold, one has to understand what is happening, what are the customer's expectations. According to the expectations of our channel partners, according to our strategy and mold our plans and other help we can provide to the customers at this time and where they need us, we can be with them, this is our goal at this time.

Siddhartha Sharma - Lenovo and all other computer manufacturing companies also play an important part in the SME's and MSME's sectors in India. The government has come out with a relief package for these sectors, so what is your opinion about it?

Amit Doshi - Whatever is the relief package and whatever I have heard so far, it will definitely help revive the sector. If we look from our industry point of view, SME's and MSME's are a very important part of the industry, our market and if SME's helps, about the working capital or any other assistance which will help, it will make SME's better. We will be able to compete and build our enterprise for the future and as far as the future is concerned, you will also agree, we are going towards a digital phase and as much digitization will happen, we are confident that we will help the industry. Will make every effort. Our products, our solutions, we are bringing a lot of new offerings. One is our new offering in which we try to manage the IT department completely. Bringing rentals where if SME's are not able to buy, then we are looking at all the plans on which we can help SME's.

Siddhartha Sharma- Lenovo has been a very leading brand in Edutech in the country. During the era of Kovid we have seen that Edutech has done a lot of innovation, so Lenovo has done something to help a school-college or Edutech partner?

Amit Doshi- So far our presence has been in EduTech through devices. If you are the leading educate providers of India, you take the example of BYJU's, then it has all the ingredients that they run on all Lenovo tablets. Just like we have some other tie-ups where the learning that we have on our tablets has been optimized, the first presence that we had was through it and going forward, we are very confident that we bring a lot of solutions For the three people who are in this ecosystem, students, teachers and schools and who are educate providers. And the footprint that we have, from devices to solutions, we will be able to complete the entire requirement. If we talk about now, we have launched a platform called Smarter Aid. This was always the plan of our platform, but its requirement increased further in lockdown. The biggest problem in India, if we talk about education, is the shortage of teachers. If you look at the requirement, there is a shortage of about 1 million teachers in India. According to which the supply of teachers is not complete, which is the learning need of the students. So Smarter Aid is a smart platform where if you are a student you can register and you can say that I have to study this subject if you are in grade 5 or grade 12. And on the other hand, if there are people who want to teach, want to volunteer, they have passion, passion, and they can teach to do volunteer. So we announced this some four weeks ago, this platform and its response has been quite fantastic so far. In total, we have some 1,300 teachers who have given us their complete details. Those who we have verified and who are on the platform and we are now inviting students to come and register on the platform. They can find the teacher they want to study and all this service is free.

Siddhartha Sharma- My question to you in the end is, how do you see the new India? There should be a message for the industry that you want to give to EduTech.

Amit Doshi- According to me, New India can see from two dimensions. First dimension, where it is about health, it has been a big wake-up call for all of us, so I believe that a new India will be where all the people will have awareness about health, about infections. , About hygiene, about sanitation. The second dimension is how we can move forward with digitization and digital technology. We saw that which was a matter of mobile payment, when demonetisation took place, a lot of people tried at that time. It was not that mobile payments were not there earlier. At that time, many people tried mobile payments and many people connected with it and what I am feeling is that here is the matter of work from home or learn from home or the use of technology in new ways. Yes, many people will try. And the new India will be very aware according to technology.

Oppo Reno 4 series will not have to wait much, the company revealed the launch date

There has been a lot of discussion that Oppo is working on its new Reno 4 series. Under this series, the company is planning to launch Reno 4 and Reno 4 Pro in the market. So far, many leaks and revelations have come out about these smartphones. After which users are eagerly waiting for their launch, which is going to end soon. Because the company has officially revealed its launch date.

Oppo has shared a video post on China's micro-blogging website Weibo and it has been informed that Oppo Reno 4 and Reno 4 Pro smartphones will be launched on June 5. Currently, the company will launch in China. According to the video teaser that surfaced, both these smartphones have a punch-hole display feature for the selfie camera. At the same time, Reno Glow is written in very big letters on the back panel of the phone, as well as OPPO branding.

Oppo Reno 4 and Reno 4 Pro have triple rear camera setup with laser autofocus and LED flash. According to the image revealed, in addition to a SIM slot and a USB C port, external speakers are also provided in the lower panel. The power button is present in the right panel of the phone. Looking at the image revealed through the video, it is clear that this series will not have the feature of 3.5mm audio jack.

However, it has already been clarified by the company that the upcoming Oppo Reno 4 Series will be introduced on the Snapdragon 765G chipset. According to leaks surfaced recently, a 4,000mAh battery will be available with 65W VOOC 4.0 fast charging support. These smartphones will be launched with 5G support.

iQOO 3 price reduction, now available in India with starting price of Rs 31,990

Smartphone maker iQOO cut the price of its popular device iQOO 3 only last month. At the same time, the company has once again announced to reduce its price. The price of the phone has been reduced by Rs 3,000. But users can avail this discount only for limited time only. After the discount received by the phone, there is a chance to buy it with an initial price of Rs 31,990.

Talk about the discount given to iQOO 3, only ICICI credit card users can avail this benefit. Instant discount of Rs 3,000 is being given to users on ICICI credit card. This discount is available on all variants of the phone. After the discount 8GB + 128GB (4G) model price is Rs 31,990, 8GB + 256GB (4G) model price is Rs 34,990, 12GB + 256GB (5G) variant price is Rs 41,990. While their original price is Rs 34,990, Rs 37,990 and Rs 44,990.

iQOO 3 specifications and features

iQOO 3 has a 6.44 inch Full HD + Super AMOLED display and its screen resolution is 2400 x 1080 pixels. The phone's screen is coated with Corning Gorilla Glass 6. It works on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor. It has a 4,400mAh battery with 55W Super FlashCharge technology for power backup, which can charge 50 percent of the phone in 15 minutes.

iQOO 3 has a quad rear camera setup. It has a 48MP primary sensor, a 13MP telephoto lens, a 13MP wide angle lens and a 2MP bokeh effect. This smartphone works on Android 10 OS. The phone has multi turbo and ultra game mode features to give users the experience of better gaming.

Infinix Hot 9, Hot 9 Pro launches in India, know price and specifications

Hong Kong's phone maker Infinix has been teasing its hot smartphone series Hot 9 for the past several days. At the same time, the company has finally officially launched Hot 9 in the Indian market. Infinix Hot 9 and Hot 9 Pro have been launched under this series. Both of these smartphones will be made available for sale on Flipkart, the exclusive e-commerce website. Let's know the complete detail from their price and availability to features.

Infinix Hot 9 and Hot 9 Pro Price and Availability

These smartphones have been launched in the budget segment. The Infinix Hot 9 is priced at Rs 8,499 and will be available in the 4GB + 64GB storage model. The cell phone will start on June 8 at 12 noon. At the same time, the price of Infinix Hot 9 Pro is Rs 9,499 and this price is of 4GB + 64GB model of the phone. It will be available for sale from June 5 to 12 noon.

Infinix Hot 9 and Hot 9 Pro specifications and features

Both these smartphones have a 6.6-inch IPS LCD display. This phone works on the MediaTek Helio P22 octa-core chipset. Both these smartphones based on Android 10 OS have a 5,000mAh battery for power backup, which comes with 10W fast charging support. At the same time, users will get the facility of fingerprint sensor.

There will be slight differences in the camera section of Infinix Hot 9 and Hot 9 Pro. However, both have a quad rear camera setup. Hot 9 has a 13MP AI quad rear camera. Whereas Hot 9 Pro has 48MP primary sensor, 2MP macro lens, 2MP low light sensor. At the same time, the phone has an 8MP front camera.

India will now have 11 digit mobile number, TRAI releases new recommendations

The new recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) include a 'Unified Numbering Plan' for mobile and landline service. Under this plan, it has been suggested that the digits of the mobile number should be changed to 11 instead of 10. At the same time, it will be mandatory to make zero before calling from the landline. However, there is no need to apply zeros when calling from landline. All these mobile numbers in India will change as soon as these new recommendations are implemented. About 10 billion mobile numbers will be affected by this.

According to the new recommendation introduced by TRAI, the way you dial an inter-service area mobile call from a fixed line phone, in the same way it will become mandatory to call zero for calling a mobile phone within the service area as well. TRAI's new recommendations are not only for mobile numbers and landlines, but it also suggests changing the number of mobile numbers to be distributed for dongles to 13 digits.

The recommendations introduced for landlines are suggestions to shift mobile numbers from 10 to 11 digits and the first digit of these 11 digits will be 9. At the same time, the mobile number of 10 numbers is distributed for the dongle, while the TRAI recommends that the mobile number of the dongle should be changed to 13 digits instead of 10.

Fixed line numbers must be moved to sub-levels of 2 or 4. Let me tell you that some time ago some operators had issued landline connections with numbers starting from 3, 5 and 6, however, this number is not currently in service. Now TRAI has recommended to take these closed connections to sub-level of 2 or 4. This will allow mobile operators to use these closed connection numbers for future mobile phone connections.