Somewhere in the fine print of this festive season sits the largest single offer most buyers will walk straight past: a UPI discount of 10%, apparently without a cap. The Vivo V80, launching in India today, has been leaked with exactly that. Pay by UPI and the ₹79,999 model reportedly drops to ₹71,999. That is…
Updated 6 October 2026 with OPPO’s official prices. The leaked box images were right: the F35 Pro’s printed ceiling is ₹79,999 and it launched at ₹49,999. Leaked images of the OPPO F35 Pro’s retail box put the box MRP at ₹79,999. Nobody is going to pay ₹79,999 for it. OPPO has now confirmed the real…
The sales start this week — Amazon’s Great Indian Festival on 8 October, Flipkart’s Big Billion Days with early access the same day — and your feed is already full of percentages. Before you tap anything, here is the one thing worth knowing about festive sale discounts this year: the number they are measured against…
Short answer first, because the panic deserves one: no, you are not about to start paying UPI charges. Scanning a QR code will still cost you nothing on 16 October, whatever your WhatsApp groups are saying this week. What is actually happening is narrower, and it starts on 15 October 2026 — not 1 October,…
Google will sell you its AI plan in India for ₹199 a month — the lowest AI subscription price on the market here. That is less than a month of Netflix Mobile, for a tool that writes, edits images, makes video and comes with 200GB of storage. It is a genuinely good deal. It is…
You ask ChatGPT to summarise a long article. You read the summary. A day later, you remember the summary — not the article. New research suggests AI summaries do something more troubling than that. In a study from Georgetown University and the University of Washington, people who read a misleading AI summary answered questions about…
Google has started testing a Flipkart buy button inside Gemini and AI Mode in India. Ask about a phone, and instead of a list of links you may now get a product card with a Buy option that takes you straight into checkout. It is a small test today — a limited group of users,…
Here is a number worth sitting with: 89% of Indian smartphone buyers say AI phone features influence what they buy. Only about 30% actually own a phone that can run them. Both figures come from the same study — a Flipkart and Counterpoint Research report on Indian smartphone buying, published earlier this year. Nearly nine…
ChatGPT Voice just stopped being a party trick. As of 23 September 2026, you can talk to ChatGPT and have it actually check your email, find a free slot in your calendar, and search your Slack — without touching the keyboard. OpenAI shipped three upgrades at once, and the plugin one is the change that…
The Mahindra BE 6 Sporteq is the first Indian car you can hold a proper conversation with. Say “it’s cold in here” and it works out that you want the AC turned down — no memorised command phrase required. That is because Mahindra has become the first Indian carmaker to build an in-car assistant on…