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…
Claude Opus 5.5 arrived on 22 September 2026, and Anthropic paired it with something users have wanted for a long time: a button that resets your usage limit. It landed in the middle of the busiest AI release week in months — OpenAI and xAI both shipped new models within 48 hours. So this is…
The Vivo V80 launches in India on 6 October 2026, and Vivo has already confirmed the headline features: a huge 7,200mAh battery, triple 50MP ZEISS cameras, and a very bright 1.5K AMOLED screen. It arrives right in the middle of the festive season, aimed squarely at the crowded ₹40,000 camera-phone segment where Vivo sells more…
The OPPO Find X10 series is coming to India, and it is coming fast. OPPO launched it in China on 22 September 2026, and the India debut is tipped for the end of October — most likely around 28 October, right in the middle of the festive season. The headline is a phone that costs…
Big Billion Days 2026 starts on 9 October, and Amazon’s Great Indian Festival starts a day earlier, on 8 October. Both dates are now confirmed. Here is what almost nobody has noticed: the GST Council meets on 7 October — the day before Amazon’s sale opens — and the phone industry has asked it to…
TypeSafe AI came out of stealth on 15 September 2026 with $40 million and a model that is deliberately not a chatbot. The TypeSafe AI model is called Jev. You cannot have a conversation with it. Ask it something and it does not write you a paragraph — it returns a number, a probability and…
The GST on mobile phones in India is 18%. The industry has just formally asked the government to cut it to 5%. If that happened, every phone you can buy today would get roughly 11% cheaper overnight. On a ₹79,999 Galaxy S26 FE that is ₹8,813 back in your pocket. Here is what has actually…