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Amazon India Rolling Out its Electric Delivery Rickshaws by 2025

This Monday, Amazon India announced it has begun to work on its electric vehicle (EV) delivery fleet in India that intends to introduce 10,000 EVs on the streets by the end of 2025. Isn’t it amazing? This move has been initiated as part of the company’s global Climate Pledge, as declared in September 2019. Additionally, the overall pledge endeavors to introduce one lakh electric delivery vehicles in action globally. This way, the move in India is the initial step towards accomplishing that object.

Talking about the initiative, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos in the morning itself announced the company’s plans via a tweet. He tweeted, “the company has started to roll out its fleet of electric delivery rickshaws. Fully electric. Zero carbon. #ClimatePledge.” Moreover, the tweet by CEO Jeff Bezos also includes a video where he is riding an electric rickshaw. His tweet indicates that electric vehicles such as e-scooter and rickshaws will be eco-friendly with zero carbon.

In one of the press announcements, the company also admitted that they are planning that by 2025, the 10,000 electric vehicles are in action which would include the three-wheelers as well as the four-wheelers. Additionally, the company also revealed that in the current year, i.e., 2020, these EVs would be in action across 20 Indian cities. The cities include major cities like Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Bengaluru in Karnataka, Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Delhi NCR (National Capital Region), Hyderabad in Telangana, Nagpur, and Pune in Maharashtra.

The company continued, it has been working with a range of Indian OEMs to manufacture and design the fleet of electric vehicles, ensuring viability & secure deliveries. As a part of the global Climate pledge, Amazon declares that the company has its plans to introduce 10,000 electric vehicles that will be in action by the end of 2025. Furthermore, for long-term purposes, the company is planning to launch one lakh electric vehicles into its delivery fleet by 2030. The electric vehicles would preserve the earth from four million metric tons of carbon every year by 2030- the company further stated. Notable growth in the Indian e-mobility industry in the past times has directed to high-level innovation in technology, and more reliable motor including battery elements.

Besides, the company in its press statement also said, “the government’s focus to promote the acceptance & adoption of electric vehicles in India, and initiatives on establishing the charging infrastructure with the FAME 2 scheme urged the company to stimulate and outline its concept for electric vehicles in India. Talking about the rollout, Vice President, Customer Fulfillment – APAC & Emerging Markets, Amazon, Akhil Saxena quoted, “At Amazon India, we are committed to building a supply chain that will minimize the environmental impact of our operations. The expansion of our Electric Vehicle fleet to 10,000 vehicles by 2025 is an integral milestone in our journey to become an energy-efficient leader in the industry. We will continue to invest in the electrification of our delivery fleet, thereby reducing our dependence on non-renewable resources.”

This initiative of Amazon India not only helps people efficiently travel from one place to another but will preserve our globe.

Amazon Web Service Drops Price for Its Storage Services With Introduction of New One

Amazon Web Services

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a significant drop in the price of its storage services. The company also introduced several new features for developers who wish to use the Glacier cold storage service of AWS.

The new prices which most of the developers will be concerned about are of S3, which is AWS’ primary cloud storage service. Unlike the six pricing tiers previously, S3 will now feature only three: 0-50 TB; 50 TB-500 TB; and 500+ TB. In most of the places, the prices for S3 will fall by about 20 percent.

In case of Glacier, which AWS’ cold storage service for data that one want to keep in a safe spot but would not be using too much, the price drops are even more significant. In three of the AWS regions (Ireland, Oregon and Northern Virginia), you can now store your data for a mere $0.004 GB/month. This is a straight 43 percent drop in the price of Amazon Glacier.

The more important news for Glacier user is the addition of 2 new retrieval choices. Glacier is set up in a way that it usually takes a while before a data is ready for download. And, this is what lets AWS to provide the service at a very low price; however it can only be used for cold storage and nothing else. Now, Amazon is introducing 2 new option to Glacier which lets users to pay a little extra to receive their data quicker — or one can save a little more by receiving it even slower than Glacier’s default 3 to 5 hour waiting period.

Now, with the new ‘expedited’ option, you will just need to pay $0.03 per 1 GB and $0.01 per request when you get back data and you will get your download within 5 minutes. Amazon Web Services claims that this feature will work best for users who have data in TBs in Glacier.

Moreover, there are 2 types of expedited data retrievals: one is on-demand and second is provisioned retrievals. While On-demand retrievals functions as per the rules mentioned above, Provisioned retrievals are different from it. They will cost about $100 per unit making sure that the facility for your expedited retrieval is available whenever you require it. Every $100 unit promises that you will be able to perform 3 expedited retrievals every 5 minutes with up to 150MB/second throughput. In case you don’t go for these extra units, the expedited retrievals will only be allowed when the capacity to accomplish them will be available.

Furthermore, in case you don’t mind how much time it takes to retrieve your data out of Glacier, then the latest ‘bulk’ options is perfect for you. In bulk option, you retrieve requests may take about 5 to 12 hours, but it will only cost $0.0025 per 1 GB and $0.025 for every 1,000 requests.

Well, a really great news for folks looking to or already are taking services from AWS.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/aws-drops-its-storage-prices-and-launches-new-cold-storage-retrieval-options/

Lenovo to Launch Lenovo Phab 2 Plus in India on Tomorrow

Lenovo Phab 2 Plus

The Chinese multinational technology company, Lenovo is going to launch a new Smartphone in India tomorrow. The Smartphone is named as the Lenovo Phab 2 Plus which is a sequel to the previous Phab Plus. The new device was unveiled at the Lenovo Tech World Conference which was held in San Francisco in the June month along with the Phab 2 Pro.

The Smartphone comes with a huge 6.4-inch full HD display (1920×1080 pixels resolution) and on top it comes with a 2.5 D curved glass. The Lenovo Phab 2 Plus is powered by a MediaTek MT8783 octa-core processor having 3GB RAM and 32 GB space as internal storage which is expandable up to 128 GB with a microSD card. The device sports a dual camera setup at the rear which has dual 13MP camera lenses and has a laser guided autofocus system. The Smartphone also features an augmented reality mode which is useful for creating photos and videos with superimposed effects similar to a virtual background.

Among the other highlights, this device comprises support for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Audio Capture 5.1 surround sound which is believed to be quite striking. Also, the Smartphone has a fingerprint scanner at the backside. Other features of this device includes a 4,050 mAh battery, an 8MP front camera, Wi-Fi, 4G LTE support, GPS, Bluetooth, microUSB and dual SIM support.

The Lenovo Phab 2 Plus was announced by the company with a price tag of $299 which is going to be about Rs 19,900 INR. So, one should expect a price of anything below Rs 20,000 when it launches in Indian market. In India, the device will be made available through Amazon.in.

It is difficult to classify the target audience for this new Smartphone, but as the features and dimension suggests, the only Smartphone which seems to be in the same class is the newly launched Xiaomi Mi Max.

The Xiaomi Mi Max features a 6.44-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels resolution) 342ppi display. It has a 16MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera. This dual-SIM handset supports 4G LTE with VoLTE and comes with a massive 4850mAh battery. All these and other features make Mi Max a tough competitor against Lenovo Phab 2 Plus.

Top Shopping Applications for this Diwali

It’s the time of celebration, the festival of lights, prayers, sweets, a time well spent with family and shopping. Diwali is a five Day Festival and every day you need new dresses to wear and gifts for your relatives and friends. Everyone wants to do their Diwali shopping; a lot of exciting offers, cashback offers, etc. Mobile apps play an essential role in helping people with your shopping. There are many ways and applications you can use to search for stuff on your Smartphone for this Diwali shopping. Mobile apps allow you to compare prices latest prices on your mobile app. Shopping is so much easier the last year. Here we suggest your best shopping applications for this Diwali-

Amazon is one of the top-notch shopping Mobile apps. You can find any product here and enjoy lots of deals and exciting offers. For example, the great Indian festival sale will run from October 25-28. The tagline for these deals is- There are deals, and then there are lighting deals. This app also helps you if any product is unavailable; sign up and get the notification on your phone.

Snapdeal

On the top is the search bar alongside an essential choice menu, special offers, and deals of the day on Snapdeal. This is followed by a list of categories, for example, electronics, fashion, and lifestyle. The application also works rapidly on a 2G data network, yet it takes time to load the images. On selecting a product, you can view the rating for the standard delivery by the seller, followed by a perspective of different sellers and critical features.

Jabong

If anyone wants to shop only for clothes, Jabong is for you. This is followed by various categories, including men, women, men, kids, home fashion, designers, and Top brands. One cool feature on Jabong is the “Shop the Look” option that takes you to another page altogether within the application featuring all the dresses, bags, and accessories. In addition, the best offer cost shows up in a similar window, demonstrating the discount you can benefit from. Tracking the order within an App is easy.

Myntra

This is a heavy application and takes time to load. In addition, the home screen is dominated by the offers only, isolated into various heads. The experience of shopping on the application isn’t terrible; however, we favored the Myntra website.

Flipkart

Flipkart’s Big Diwali shopping sale will also be active between October 25-and 28 and offer significant discounts on smartphones, headphones, Smartwatches, and more. Flipkart also provides big exchange offers. When launched on the same network connection, the Flipkart App took a considerably longer time to load. One good thing about the Flipkart application is the quick tutorial that pops up when using the application.

Almost all e-commerce apps are so heavy and take so much mobile storage. So we prefer those which take little hold and give you excellent services. Need a shopping Mobile App, Contact [email protected]. AppSquadz is one of India’s leading mobile application development companies and the UK. Expertise in Android, iOS, and web apps. We have 15+ years of experience with team members.