Latest Buy back offers by Apple

Apple India offers up to Rs. 40,000 buy back discount on purchase of new laptops

When everybody is heading towards the mobile platform and smaller devices, Apple is trying to lure laptop customers by giving buy back offers to boost sales.

It is offering up to Rs 40,000 buy back discount on purchase of new Mac laptop in India when turning  in your old Mac for exchange. It is an advertisement in a leading daily, apple offering discounts upto Rs 40,000 if you give a Mac that is less than two years old in exchange. It offers Rs 30,000 for turning in Apple portables between two and three years old and for those between three and four years old it is Rs. 25,000. If your Mac is older than four years you are out of luck. There is no end date mentioned.

These discounts are offered only on Mac laptops and not on Mac mini, iMac and Mac Pro. 

You can even try your hand with Windows laptops by querying at your local apple dealer and check the buy back offer. But for the windows side it will be on the lower side.

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Facebook Messenger for Desktop to be shutdown on March 3

Next Web report states that Facebook Messenger for Windows desktop will be shutting down on March 3. It coincides within days of Microsoft's announcement that the official Facebook Messenger app will be coming to Windows Phone 8 devices within weeks.

Facebook messenger to shut down on March 3

"We're sorry, but we can no longer support Facebook Messenger for Windows, and it will stop working on March 3, 2014. We really appreciate you using Messenger to reach your friends, and we want to make sure you know that you can keep chatting and view all your messages on http://www.facebook.com,"the message on top of the app stated.

Facebook messenger for Win was  released Mar 12. An Apple update for OS X version was expected to be launched but given that the Win version has shut down, it seems unlikely. Facebook is likely to concentrate on Messenger for Windows Phone devices, and other mobile devices, instead of focusing on desktops. Another report stated that Facebook Messenger for Firefox was also shutting down on March 3.

Facebook is cutting of all these services in order to focus mainly on mobile related activities where it has a lot of scope. It has axed a lot of services like email, desktop messenger firefox messenger. 

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Micromax Funbook Mini P41oi

Micromax Funbook Mini P410i

The Micromax Funbook mini P410i tablet is with a 7-inch TFT LCD display with 1024x600 pixels resolution. The Android base version is 4.1.2  and supports dual SIM (GSM+GSM) with voice calling.

Features

It is powered by a quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz dual-core MediaTek (MT8377) processor along with 1GB of RAM. The rear cam is 5MP rear fixed focus camera, 2MP front-facing fixed focus camera, 4 Gb inbuilt storage which is expandable upto 32GB and a 2800mAH battery. It can deliver upto 6 hours of talk time and up to 120 hours of standby time. The Micromax Funbook Mini tablet will be available in White

It is still unlisted.

Key specifications

• 7-inch TFT LCD display with 1024x600 pixels resolution
• 1.2GHz dual-core MediaTek (MT8377) processor
• 1GB of RAM
• 5MP rear fixed-focus camera
• 2MP front-facing camera
• 4GB internal storage (exp upto 32 GB)
• Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
• Dual SIM suppor
• 2800mAH battery

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Micromx Canvas Tab

Micromax Canvas Tab P650E

The Micromax Canvas Tab P650E is available online via an e-commerce website at Rs 8,999. This is a CDMA variant of the Canvas Tab P650 launched last year.

Features

It comes with a 7-inch display and is powered by a quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz along with 512 MB of RAM. It runs on the older Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0. The rear cam is 2MP, VGA front-facing camera, 4 Gb inbuilt storage which is expandable upto 32GB and a 3000mAH battery. It supports single SIM with support for CDMA networks.

It is listed on Infibeam.

Key specifications

• 7-inch display
• 1.2GHz quad-core processor
• 512MB of RAM
• 2-megapixel rear camera
• VGA front-facing camera
• 4GB internal storage (exp upto 32 GB)
• Android 4.0 ICS
• SIM support (CDMA)
• 3000mAH battery

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Making Voice calls on WhatsApp

Now you can speak on WhatsApp, that is what is the latest buzz after takeover by Facebook. This is to come to WhatsApp from coming June. It has 450 million customers and has been bought by Facebook last week and a lot of developments and new additions are being made to WhatsApp. The facility of voice calls is another one. This will rolled out in a phased manner first in Android, Apple iOS phones and then later in blackberry, Nokia, Windows based phones. Currently WhatsApp has got voice messages but that can be only heard only after the message has been received by the person. In the latest effort here two persons can make voice calls between one another. There are many other services like viber, line, wechat offering voice calls but let us watch out what change WhatsApp brings about with the competition.

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