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E-commerce site Amazon is set to kick off its first Amazon Prime Day Sale in India, along with 12 other countries worldwide. The Amazon sale will see some major price discounts, offers, and deals on varied smartphones, electronic products, and other items across many categories on July 11. The Amazon sale begins on Monday, July 10 at 6pm IST , while the main sale day is on Tuesday, July 11. A reminder that this sale is only applicable for Amazon Prime members and the yearly membership for Prime is at Rs. 499. Amazon sale deals on mobile phones, and other gadgets Talking about smartphones first, the Xiaomi Redmi 4 will be made available in an open sale at Rs. 6,999 starting at 5pm IST today. OnePlus is offering its 6GB RAM/64GB storage OnePlus 5 variant with an extra Rs. 2,000 off on exchange offer in the form of Amazon Pay balance; both variants of the smartphone will get the buyer a Rs. 250 discount on Marsboy portable speaker. Smartphones from Honor (Huawei’s Terminal brand) ...

Amazon's virtual assistant makes it easy to assemble a voice-activated smart home. Here's how to put her to work. You've probably noticed an awful lot of stories about Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa -- particularly the many ways in which she can take control of the connected home. There's good reason for that. Voice control has become the smart home's gateway drug of choice, and Alexa's been right at the tip of that spear , with standardized control over lights, locks, and more as a core use case. In the meantime, Amazon's sold millions of Echo and Echo Dot smart speakers, and third-party manufacturers have put Alexa into everything from lamps  and thermostats to TV sets and refrigerators . In sum, Alexa is just about everywhere these days -- and that means that there's an ever-growing number of people looking for ways to put her to good use for a smarter, more convenient living space. If that sounds like you, and you're looking for...

 The truth is there's no such thing as an objectively "best" smartphone. There's a fastest smartphone, and a phone with the best screen, and maybe a phone with  the best camera  . But, so long as it hits a baseline of  good  enough performance, the best total package is the one that works best for you. I say this because over the past year I have come to appreciate Apple's iPhone SE much more than I anticipated. I am someone who cycles through phones like it's my job (because it is), and I only bought Apple's small-screen handset on a lark last April, after shattering the screen on my old Moto X. Nothing about the iPhone SE's  spec sheet  is particularly impressive. It runs on Apple's A9 chip, which is more than a year old. Its screen isn't anything special by modern standards. There's no 3D Touch. Its back camera is easily outclassed by today's flagships, and its front camera is entirely average. Most notably, its whole design is ...

Apple has placed orders for bendable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels with Samsung Electronics for use in 70 million handsets this year, sources told Nikkei Asian Review. The large order suggests that Apple expects its new premium iPhone 8 to be launched late 2017 to fly off the shelves. A supply chain source familiar with iPhone designs revealed the size of the order, which was in line with an estimate by David Hsieh, senior director at research company IHS Markit. It will be the first time Apple adopts a curved OLED screen for its iPhones, marking a major overhaul and generating high expectations for the model. "Apple has ordered 70 million units of OLED panels from Samsung this year, while Samsung is preparing to churn out as many as 95 million for Apple in 2017, in case demand exceeds expectations," Hsieh said. He says Samsung will be the sole OLED supplier to Apple as it has the most advanced technologies in this field. "It is also possi...