Amazon Prime Day 2019: How to get the best deals and crack the 48-hour sale

Amazon is all set to host its third Prime Day sale in India. The Amazon Prime Day 2019 sale will run from July 15 to July 16. Last year, the sale ran for 36 hours but this time around, Amazon is looking to extend it to 48 hours. The annual sale has a promising number of deals across all the major categories along with new releases on Prime Video and Prime Music. Additionally, Amazon will be launching 1,000+ products from top brands like OnePlus, LG, Samsung, Sennheiser, etc in the sale.

What is Amazon Prime Day sale?

If you are new to the e-commerce world and unaware of what Amazon Prime Day sale is, it's time that you get clued up on it. To put it in simple terms, Amazon Prime Day sale is a global annual sale event for Amazon Prime members. Amazon introduced the Prime Day sale to India in 2016. Since then, this is the 3rd consecutive year when the event is going to be hosted. 

During the sale period, products will be available at heavily discounted rates. So, if you are not an Amazon Prime member yet, you might miss out on some great deals during this sale period. To recall, Amazon Prime membership costs Rs 999 annually and Rs 129 on a monthly basis. The membership includes free fast delivery, access to Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading, as well as early access to deals.  

Here are some tips to help you make the most of Amazon Prime Day 2019:

No need to pay full price for multiple Prime accounts

Amazon does not have any rules when it comes to the usage of a single prime account on multiple devices. Hence, if someone in your family has a Prime account, you too, have access to the sale. You’ll share the same benefits, like free next-day or two-day shipping. 

This is the right time to use your 30-day free trial

If you are not a member of Amazon Prime yet, this is the right time to start your 30-day free trial. You'll gain access to all the deals without any strings attached. If you're unhappy with your membership. you can always cancel after the two-day sale is over to avoid future membership charges. 

Add items you’d like to buy in your wishlist

It’s natural for a popular product to sell out within minutes during a sale. Hence, it is recommended to add the items you are looking forward to buying in your wishlist. It is also recommended to get on the waitlist. 

Grab the Blockbuster Deals

Amazon offers some great deals under the sections 'Today’s Deals', 'Great Saving', 'Lightning Deals', and 'Deal of the Day'. Always look out for these sections while browsing through Amazon on the sale day. All you need to do to get timely updates is sign up for Amazon Prime Day deals notifications section and you shall never miss out on any deal.

Amazon Prime Day Sale 2019 offers

Apart for the huge discounts, Amazon will be offering some additional offers to help you save more during the sale. Here are some of the additional offers:

Additional savings for HDFC Bank debit/credit card users

If you are an HDFC bank customer, you are eligible for some extra savings during the Prime Day sale. Amazon is offering up to 10 percent instant cashback on purchases made through HDFC Bank cards. The minimum transaction amount needed to avail this cashback is Rs 3,000, whereas the maximum cashback one can receive is Rs 10,000.

Save on your next domestic flight booking travel

Amazon will be offering up to Rs 2,000 cashback on booking of flight tickets using Amazon Pay. Breaking it down, buyers can save up to Rs 400 on tickets costing Rs 4,999, and Rs 2,000 on tickets costing Rs 20,000+. Once you make the purchase, the cashback will be credited to your Amazon Pay balance within 3 working days.

Additional 10 percent discount on using Amazon Pay

You can avail an extra 10 percent discount if you make transactions using Amazon Pay during the sale. Add a minimum of Rs 1,000 and you’ll be eligible for a maximum cashback of Rs 200. You will receive the cashback as Amazon Pay balance by July 20. Remember to verify KYC on your Amazon Pay account to avoid any disruptions.

The best time to buy Amazon devices

If you have eyes on Amazon devices, like the Kindle or the Echo smart speakers, Prime Days are the best time to make a purchase. During the sale days, the discount on Amazon brands and devices is going to be up to 65 percent.

Exclusive products launching on Prime Day

Amazon is also planning to launch about 1,000+ products during the two-day sale. The launches include a range of products from big brands like OnePlus, Samsung, Honor, IFB, etc. Mostly, the new launches in mobile category include a new colour variant of an already-existing  smartphone. Here are some of the to-be launched products:  

OnePlus 7 Mirror Blue variant

Samsung Galaxy M40 in Cocktail Orange

LG W30 Aurora Green

Amazfit BIP Lite smartwatch

New Intel-powered laptops 

You can check the new product launches on this page.

Participate in Amazon App Quiz Contest to win rewards

Amazon Prime Day Quiz offers contestants a chance to win Rs 9,999 as Amazon Pay balance. However, the contest is app-only. To be an eligible contestant, log in to your account in the Amazon app and participate in the contest. A lucky draw for the Amazon App Quiz will be held across the entire Contest Period and 20 lucky participants will emerge as winners through a random draw of lots.

Prime Video

While the Prime Day 2019 sale is still a week away, Amazon has already kicked off things with new releases on Amazon Prime Video. From July 1 to July 14, Prime Video will feature one major 'blockbuster' release every day. Prime Video is a free online streaming service for Prime subscribers.

Amazon will also offer celebrity curated playlists during the days leading up to the Prime Day 2019 sale, and stream its Prime Day concert on July 11 on Prime Video.

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JioGigaFiber, JioFiber or JioHome: Reliance Jio asks users to pick a name for its FTTH service

Reliance Jio has asked its users to name its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service, which is rumoured to launch country-wide in the next three months. According to a several reports, the company has asked its users to pick one of the following names: JioFiber, JioHome or JioGigaFiber. Jio apparently sent a notification to its users on the MyJio app. While we couldn't spot the notification on the MyJio app, a Twitter user has posted screenshots of the message. You can see the same below.

 

#jiofiber #jiohome #jiogigafiber #jioFTTH @reliancejio @JioCare pic.twitter.com/SuNyd5hp9V

— Ni3 (@007Ni3) July 8, 2019

 

Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani had announced the JioGigaFiber service last year at the company's annual general meeting. The registrations started on August 15 last year.

The company has already announced that the service would be made available simultaneously in 1100 cities across India, but it recently updated the number of cities to 1600. In the areas where the Jio GigaFiber service is already present, the company offers 100GB free data at 100Mbps speeds for a month. Further, it is also being reported that the company will offer a new 50Mbps broadband annual plan for Rs 2,500.

A report said that this particular plan will have limited benefits when compared to the Rs 4,500 plan. Reportedly, the router bundled with this plan is said to support single band channel only and will offer lower speeds of 50Mbps instead of 100Mbps. In a previous report, it was said that the company is looking to offer a combo service consisting of fiber, landline and TV services for Rs 600 per month.

“While the triple combo—which will offer 600 channels with seven-day catch-up option, landline and 100 Mbps broadband—will be priced Rs 600 a month, the tariff for adding other smart home services may cost extra and depending on the plan, the tariff could go up to Rs 1,000 a month,” the person with the knowledge of the development was quoted as saying.

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AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs and Radeon RX 5700 series of graphics cards launched in India

AMD has announced a bunch of new products in India, which includes its new Ryzen 3000 series of processors and RX 5700 series of graphics card. The company’s Ryzen 3000 series CPU line-up consists of eight new chips. It includes the 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X, the Ryzen 9 3900X with 12 cores, octa-core Ryzen 7 3800X, Ryzen 7 3700X, hexa-core Ryzen 5 3600X and Ryzen 5 3600 chips. There are also the Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 3 3200G APUs. Moreover, the company has also announced two new GPUs, the RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700. 

AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPUs

AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series of chips are the first to be built upon AMD's Zen 2 architecture that use a 7nm manufacturing process. The top-end chip in the line-up is the Ryzen 9 3950X, which features 16 cores and 32 threads. It has a TDP of 105 Watts and features base frequency of 3.5GHz. On boost, it can clock speeds of up to 4.7GHz. The CPU is slated to hit the shelves in September 2019. Coming to the Ryzen 9 3900X, the CPU features 12 cores with 24 threads and runs at a base speed of 3.8GHz with a 4.6GHz boost speed. With a TDP of 105 Watts, the chip has 6MB of L2 and 64MB of L3 cache. It is priced at Rs 35,990 in India without tax. 

Both Ryzen 7 3800X and Ryzen 7 3700X CPUs feature eight cores and 16 threads. They have a TDP of 105 Watts and 65 Watts respectively. The Ryzen 7 3800X is priced at Rs 28,490, while the Ryzen 7 3700X costs Rs 24,990 in India, without tax. Coming to the six core Ryzen 5 3600X and Ryzen 5 3600 chips, both have 12 cores but a TDP of 95 and 65 Watts respectively. As for the Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 3 3200G APUs, they will be available for Rs 10,990 and Rs 7,190 in India, discounting tax. These two chips are based on the company's previous Zen+ architecture and are equipped with Radeon Vega graphics processors. 

AMD Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs

As mentioned earlier, AMD has announced two new GPUs in its Radeon RX 5700 line-up. The new graphics cards are touted to be more powerful and energy efficient than the current Radeon RX Vega series. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is priced at Rs 30,990 and the Radeon RX 5700 will cost you Rs 26,990. There’s also a souped up, 50th Anniversary Edition Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU that the company has not launched in India. 

The new AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards are built upon the company's new RDNA graphics architecture, which is codenamed Navi. They employ a new 7nm manufacturing process, which is touted to improve performance while drawing less power. The two cards support interfacing with X570 chipset-based motherboard, on the PCIe 4.0 interface with compatible Ryzen 3000-series CPUs. The Radeon RX 5700 XT features 40 compute streams and comes with 2,560 stream processors.

As we noted in our review, “The new architecture is not only performing better than competing solutions but is also better priced and thus offering better value for money in the Indian market.” You can read our full review of the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU here. As for the RX 5700, it features 36 compute units with 2,304 stream processors. Both the GPUs feature 8GB GDDR6 memory. 

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NASAs Hubble Telescope spots star formation in NGC 972 galaxy

One of the most vital NASA tools, the Hubble Telescope, has captured an image which shows ‘spring season’ in a galaxy far away from Earth. According to the US space agency, the telescope has captured an image from Space showing bright and colourful pockets of star formation, which are blooming like roses in a spiral galaxy named NGC 972. The galaxy is situated about 70 million light-years away. 

According to NASA, the orange-pink pockets are created because of a reaction between the Hydrogen gas and the intense light streaming outwards from nearby newborn stars. In the image, you can see the bright patches amid dark, tangled streams of cosmic dust in the galaxy. The NGC 972 galaxy was found by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1784.

“Astronomers look for these telltale signs of star formation when they study galaxies throughout the cosmos, as star formation rates, locations, and histories offer critical clues about how these colossal collections of gas and dust have evolved over time. New generations of stars contribute to and are also, in turn, influenced by the broader forces and factors that mold galaxies throughout the universe, such as gravity, radiation, matter, and dark matter,” NASA said.

The development follows another cosmic spectacle that the Hubble Telescope captured last week. The telescope captured an image of celestial fireworks that have been happening for nearly 170 years in the universe. These fireworks started when a super-massive star underwent an outburst. The star is named Eta Carinae and it is pegged to have a mass (in its early days) equivalent to that of 150 suns.

The explosions, which is emitting gases from the star in a double-star system 7,500 light-years away, are glowing in red, white and blue. The explosions are taking shape of bipolar ballooning lobes gas, filaments, and dust, the US space agency said. The eruption is so huge and bright that for a time it was a point of navigation, and now is still visible to the naked eye.

Recently, NASA celebrated the 29th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. It was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discover on April 24, 1990, deployed in space on the next day and entered service on May 20. NASA will soon be launching its successor - the James Webb Space Telescope in early 2021. Reportedly, it will have a huge upgrade over the Hubble telescope and will be able to peek further into deep space.

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Google Chrome Play button in testing phase

Google Chrome is reportedly getting a play button. First spotted by ZDnet and Techdows, the new feature is being tested on Google Chrome’s development platform, Canary. It lets users control music playback/video playback on any tab, regardless of the tab you’re on.

Google is calling this feature ‘Global Media Controls’ and the same has been enabled this week for testing on Chrome’s Canary platform. With the feature enabled, users will see a play button that lets them control media playing on any tab, without the need for switching tabs. The Play button is placed right next to the URL, tapping on which opens a pop-up window. The window provides information about the current song being played and has options to Play/Pause, move to the next or previous song.

The feature is still in it’s testing phase, therefore it is reportedly buggy and crashes almost every time one tries to pause a video. The feature might come handy to Chrome users that keep multiple tabs open at a time. There’s no news yet on the wider availability of the feature. 

How to enable Global Media Controls on Chrome?

To test the Global Media Controls on Chrome, you must have Canary browser installed. On the browser, head to chrome://flags/, and search for ‘Global Media Controls’. When the result appears you can enable it. Relaunching the browser will bring play button to your browser.

 

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Xiaomi Mi CC9e could launch as the Mi A3 Globally: Report

A Xiaomi smartphone with the model number M1906F9SH has been submitted to the FCC for approval. The model number matches that of the Mi CC9e that launched in China a week ago. Speculation circulating the internet suggest that the smartphone could launch as the Mi A3 in international markets. This speculation arises from a US FCC listing which suggests that the device could launch as an Android One smartphone. The design of the smartphone submitted to the FCC is very similar to the Mi CC9e. The dimensions of the phone submitted to the FCC also match the Xiaomi Mi CC9e.

Further, the schematics reveals that the device could support either a dual-SIM setup or a single SIM and microSD card setup hinting at a hybrid SIM slot on the device. The FCC listing suggests that the device will sport a 48MP rear camera with artificial intelligence (AI) features.

Since the rumoured Mi A3 is based on the launched Mi CC9e, let's take a look at the specifications on offer on the Mi CC9e. This device sports a 6.088-inch AMOLED display with an HD+ resolution and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 SoC. It also sports an in-display fingerprint sensor. For the camera, the smartphone has a 48MP primary camera sensor with an f/1.79 aperture lens on the back. It is supported by an 8MP wide-angle sensor and a 2MP depth sensor. On the front is a 32MP sensor. 

A 4030mAh battery powers the entire package with support for 18W charging. However, the phone comes with a 10W charger in the box. It has lauched in three variants - 4GB/64GB for CNY 1,299 (approx Rs 13,000), 6GB/64GB for CNY 1,399 (approx Rs 14,000), and 6GB/128GB for CNY 1,599 (approx Rs 16,000).

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PUBG banned in Jordan citing negative effects on the citizens

PUBG has been one of the most popular mobile games in the recent past. The online multiplayer Battle Royal game pits players against each other in a virtual fight to the death. However, it hasn’t been well received by the government officials in many countries around the world. The game has been banned in Iraq and the Indonesian province of Aceh. It was also banned in Nepal and the Indian state of Gujarat for a short while. Now, a source in Jordan's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) told Roya News that it has warned users about the game saying it "had negative effects on its users, which led to it being officially blocked."

Social media users had doubts that the game was banned after they reported that a notice saying, "Server did not respond. Please try again later," appeared on the screen when players attempted to play the game. The TRC decided to ban the game after it reviewed the study of the World Health Organization (WHO), which classified PUBG as a violent game that leads to addiction and social isolation.

Often linked to the blokbuster book and film series, “The Hunger Games”, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) has expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. It was first released in Steam’s early access beta program in March 2017. However it was not until 2018 till the game took-off. It is one of the most-played and best selling games of all time, selling over 50 million copies worldwide by June 2018, with over 400 million players in total when including the mobile version.

Due to its popularity, PUBG is considered as the defining game of the Battle Royale genre. However, in May, Chinese tech giant Tencent ceased offering the game, instead directing users to a newly launched and nearly identical programme it created.

PUBG is widely popular in Jordan. However, psychologists in the country have often warned the game encourages violence and contributes to bullying among the youth.

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