Reliance Jio and Digital announces interesting offers for Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has today announced a new Rs 799 for customers buying new Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. Further, both the Apple cell phone parts will be available on Reliance Digital with 70 percent buyback scheme and Rs 10,000 cashback.

Starting with Reliance Jio offer first, the company has announced a new Rs 799 plan for its postpaid and prepaid users who are planning to buy iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. Under this offer, Jio will offer 90GB of data per month along with free voice calls, SMS and complimentary subscription of Jio apps with the purchase of the device. For prepaid users, the Rs 799 packs come with 28 days validity.

Customers will be able to pre-order Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus at Reliance Jio Store, Jio website, Amazon India, and Reliance Digital and both will be available in stores starting from September 29. Further, the iPhone X will be available for pre-order from 27th October and for purchase from November 03, 2017.

Reliance Digital has also introduced a 70 percent buyback scheme on these etradesupply as well. Under this offer, a customer would be eligible for 70 percent of the original purchase price as buyback amount on the return of the device after a year. Customers can avail this offer at Reliance Digital or Amazon India as well as MyJio app, Jio.com and Jio Store. Apart from this, the company is also offering a cashback of Rs 10,000 for customers who will these devices on September 29 using Citibank Credit Card.

How to fix iOS 11 and iPhone 8 battery life problems

Apple currently offers the standard iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and the smaller iPhone SE. Between them, they're rated for 10 to 12 hours of battery life while browsing the web, checking email, and chatting. But if you've just updated to iOS 11, or you're upgrading to an iPhone 8, you might see a serious drain on your battery power. Rather than cursing and throwing your iPhone — as much as you might want to! — here's what you can do to fix battery life and get on with your life.

Wait for it

Whether you restore from backup or set up as new, your new iPhone or new version of iOS 11 could expend up a lot of power downloading apps, games, mail, photos, and other content. That's because the Wi-Fi radio stays on for a long time, and Spotlight — the iOS search system — has to index everything. When radios and processors can't sleep, power consumption goes way up.

If you've just upgraded the hardware, updated to iOS 11, or restored, give things a day or so to finish up and go back to normal. If you're fine after that, great. If not, keep reading!

Test on standby

In addition to the system taking a while to really finish transferring everything over, we also tend to spend a long time playing with new galaxy s5 screen replacement and new features. That's especially true with things like Live Photos, 12 megapixel cameras, 4K video, iMessage apps, Siri integrations, and more. So the screen stays on, storage gets written to, WI-Fi and maybe cellular radios stay lit up, and power gets consumed.

In other words, if you're battery feels like it's only lasting half as long, the first step to fixing it is figuring out if you're using it twice as much.

So, note down how much battery life you have left. Then put your iPhone down for 20-40 minutes. When you pick it back up, note down how much battery life you have left again. If there isn't a big change while in standby, you're probably okay, and your battery life will return to normal when your usage returns to normal (after the novelty wears off).

If your iPhone continued to drain and drain fast, even when you weren't using it, keep reading!

Reset

Rebooting, restarting, or resetting is the oldest cliche in troubleshooting. Because it works. Sometimes a good reset is all that's needed to kick bad bits loose.

iPhone 8 and iPhone 7 requires different button combo than previous iPhones:

If your iPhone 8 or iPhone 7 stops responding and you can't even turn it off by holding down the power button, you may need

Press and hold down the On/Off button on the right sideWhile continuing to hold the On/Off button, press and hold the volume down button on the left side of your iPhone.Hold both buttons as the screen turns off, and keep holding them until the screen turns back on and displays the Apple logo.

For those previous iPhones updated to iOS 11, it's the same buttons:

Press and hold down both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time.Keep them held down until you see an Apple logo.Let go.For iPhone 6 and later, the power button is located on the right side:

On iPhone through iPhone 5s, and iPhone SE, the power button is located on the top:

Once your iPhone has rebooted, repeat the previous steps and see if battery drain has returned to normal. If not, keep reading!

Check usage

iOS contains a terrific battery usage — aka battery shaming — utility that lets you know exactly which apps and services are using your battery and how.

Launch Settings from your Home screen.Tap on Battery.Wait a moment for Battery Usage to populate.

Tap on the Show Detailed Usage button to get a breakdown of foreground and background power usage.Tap on Last 7 Days to get a broader look at power consumption over time.

It can be tricky to understand, but here's the deal: If you see iCloud Photo Library there, and you've just upgraded, it's a sign you're downloading thumbnails and things should return to normal when you're done. If you see Facebook there and it says 4% on screen and 40% on background, it's a sign something has gone wrong.

At that point, you can force quit a rogue app and likely get your power consumption back to normal.

Double click the Home button to bring up the fast app switcher.Swipe to the app you want to force quit.Touch the app card and flick it up and off the screen

If an app appears to be consistently misbehaving, you can try re-installing it or even switching to an alternative app or a service's website for some of your activity.

Restore as new

Sometimes restoring from an old backup, especially a backup of a different device like an iPad, can be less than ideal. Cruft builds up and things just don't run like they used to. Sometimes your once-fresh setup also goes stale.

If you suspect that's the case, you can suck it up and set up your iPhone as new. Yes, it can be an incredible pain in the apps, but if you have a significant and continual problem, and nothing else can fix it, setting up as new can be a solution.

It's the nuclear option, no doubt about it. You will have to set up almost everything again, including passwords and settings, and you will lose all your saved data like game levels, health, and activities, but in most cases, your battery life will be better than ever.

How to restore your iPhone as newBattery cases and banks

If you need to go longer than the built-in battery in your iPhone will allow, one option is to get an external battery. You can either get a battery case or. a battery bank. A battery case keeps everything tightly packed together but limits the size and scope of the power source — it can't be too big to fit in your pocket, and it typically can't power other devices as well. A battery bank can come in all shapes and sizes and can often charge multiple devices, even at once.

I have both a battery case for my samsung galaxy s5 screen replacement and a battery bank with two charging ports for my iPhone 7 Plus and iPad. They've both been lifesavers, especially when traveling. Here are some of iMore's favorites:

Best battery casesBest Battery BanksLow Power Mode

If your battery life is normal but you want to get even more out of it, case or no case, you can use Low Power Mode. It turns off processes and otherwise conserves as much power as it can.

Launch the Settings app from the Home screen.Tap Battery.Toggle Low Power Mode to on.

You can tell when Low Power Mode is enabled by looking at the color of the battery icon — it turns yellow. It will automatically turn off any time you recharge above 80% or more, so if you want to keep it on, you'll need to switch it on every time.

You can also switch on Low Power Mode quickly by using Siri. Just say "Hey Siri, turn on low power mode!"

If even Low Power mode isn't enough — you're stuck in the wilderness, at a conference with poor reception and no power — there are a few other hacks you can try.

Turn down the screen brightness.Set Auto-Lock to 1 minute.Use headphones instead of the speaker if you have to listen to audio or music.Hide the Clock app in a folder. That animation uses GPU cycles. (Okay, silicon geeks only.)Contact Apple

Every once and a while, you get a problem you just can't solve. Like any electronics, sometimes things go wrong. If you have AppleCare or AppleCare+, you should absolutely book a Genius Bar appointment and avail yourself of it. If you don't live close to an Apple Store, you can call 1-800-MY-APPLE in order to set up a mail-in repair.

The most expensive iPhone X hands on reivew

The iPhone X is one of the most exciting phones released this decade – but not because it offers anything particularly innovative or new.

It’s exciting because it’s the most radical redesign of an apple screen repair yet, tying together a number of key trends in the industry and adding in a level of polish that will attract legions of Apple fans to upgrade, and spend another couple of years in the iCycle.

But this change doesn’t come cheap, and nor will it appeal to those who enjoy a degree of continuity in their upgrades.

This is a new way of interacting with your iPhone, a way that allows you to enjoy more of iOS at any one time, and alters the way you use apps with the increased screen size.

iPhone X release date and price

Let’s get the important bit out of the way first: the iPhone X is one of the most expensive flagship phones ever made. It’ll retail at $999 / £999 / AU$1,579 for the basic model.

You don’t need us to tell you that’s a lot of cash for a smartphone – the cost of creating this new all-screen device has meant Apple’s ramped up the price, presumably both to offset the higher development and production costs and to protect its higher margins.

In terms of when you’ll be able to get your hands on it, the iPhone X release date has been set for November 3, with pre-orders going live on October 27.

It’ll be coming to the major territories first, with the UK, US and Australia all tipped to be included in the first wave of shipments.

We’d heard for months of a possible delay to the iPhone X, thanks to the complexity of component manufacture forcing the timescale back – it’s rather surprising to see that it's happened though, as recent rumors seemed to have taken the schedule change off the table.

That said, even the first release wave looks likely to be rather limited as rumors of stock delays have surfaced once more - if you want an iPhone X, getting one in 2018 is pretty unlikely.

Screen, screen and more screen

Right, let’s get down to the new stuff, and when you pull this phone out on the train you can be sure of one thing: it looks entirely different to anything that’s come before from Apple.

It’s rare that we see Apple jumping on a trend this early, but 2017 has been the year when the bezel has begun to disappear from the smartphone, and the iPhone X has jumped emphatically aboard that train.

Apart from the Essential Phone, the new iPhone looks like one of the least-bezelled apple parts on the market. The lip on the top of the 5.8-inch screen is the only thing that gets in the way of you and the new operating system, with the effect rather stunning.

Sat next to last year’s iPhone 7, the iPhone X is a completely different device. The effect of the wider and fuller screen is going to really impress, especially if you’ve not held the Samsung Galaxy S8, which has a similar display.

It's hard to overstate how beautiful this screen is – and that's not hyperbole brought on by extreme fatigue. It's deep, rich and smooth, and draws level with Samsung in the quality stakes easily.

iPhone X hands on review

The iPhone X is one of the most exciting phones released this decade – but not because it offers anything particularly innovative or new.

It’s exciting because it’s the most radical redesign of an iPhone yet, tying together a number of key trends in the industry and adding in a level of polish that will attract legions of Apple fans to upgrade, and spend another couple of years in the iCycle.

But this change doesn’t come cheap, and nor will it appeal to those who enjoy a degree of continuity in their upgrades. This is a new way of interacting with your iPhone, a way that allows you to enjoy more of iOS at any one time, and alters the way you use apps with the increased screen size.

iPhone X release date and price

Let’s get the important bit out of the way first: the iPhone X is one of the most expensive flagship phones ever made. It’ll retail at $999 / £999 / AU$1,579 for the basic model.

You don’t need us to tell you that’s a lot of cash for a smartphone – the cost of creating this new all-screen device has meant Apple’s ramped up the price, presumably both to offset the higher development and production costs and to protect its higher margins.

In terms of when you’ll be able to get your hands on it, the iPhone X release date has been set for November 3, with pre-orders going live on October 27. It’ll be coming to the major territories first, with the UK, US and Australia all tipped to be included in the first wave of shipments.

We’d heard for months of a possible delay to the iPhone X, thanks to the complexity of component manufacture forcing the timescale back – it’s rather surprising to see that it's happened though, as recent rumors seemed to have taken the schedule change off the table.

Screen, screen and more screen

Right, let’s get down to the new stuff, and when you pull this s6 edge screen replacement out on the train you can be sure of one thing: it looks entirely different to anything that’s come before from Apple.

It’s rare that we see Apple jumping on a trend this early, but 2017 has been the year when the bezel has begun to disappear from the smartphone, and the iPhone X has jumped emphatically aboard that train.

Apart from the Essential Phone, the new iPhone looks like one of the least-bezelled phones on the market. The lip on the top of the 5.8-inch screen is the only thing that gets in the way of you and the new operating system, with the effect rather stunning.

Sat next to last year’s iPhone 7, the iPhone X is a completely different device. The effect of the wider and fuller screen is going to really impress, especially if you’ve not held the Samsung Galaxy S8, which has a similar display.

It's hard to overstate how beautiful this screen is – and that's not hyperbole brought on by extreme fatigue. It's deep, rich and smooth, and draws level with Samsung in the quality stakes easily.

AdvertisementHowever, what’s different here is that the screen on the iPhone X extends right to the bottom of the device, with the physical home button nowhere in sight.

That’s going to be one of the biggest changes for any Apple fans looking for continuity in their iPhone experience, as they’ll need to alter the way they whip through their phone.

The resolution of the screen has – thankfully – been upgraded from the iPhone 7, as the sub-HD pixel count wasn’t really something Apple could hope to get away with in 2017 in the face of such strong competition from the rest of the industry.

Apple’s users don’t want to move away from its ecosystem, but if certain specs aren’t met these days then envy can develop when galaxy s6 edge screen replacement are shown off at the bar – so the iPhone X has been upgraded to match its rivals, with a resolution of 2436 x 1125 on the new Super Retina HD display.

The only reason the pixel count needed to be upgraded was that there’s a definite boost to be had with the sharper screens that makes apps look better and web-browsing a more beautiful experience – and with Apple charging as much as it is for this phone, it needed to bring a better screen.

But what the Cupertino brand has always been good at is making the experience good without worrying too much about the spec list – which is why the fact that previous iPhones didn’t have the sharpest screens didn’t hurt it.

The LCD screens had a decent contrast ratio and were colorful and bright – qualities that are as engaging as chucking in a load more pixels.

But the move to the OLED display in the iPhone X has definitely brought an upgrade, with the blacks deeper, the colors richer and, well, the overall effect just brilliant.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has been dubbed the best display on the market – and now Apple is using the same technology in its iPhones.

The overall mix of technology is great, and really brings about a special-looking iPhone, rather than Apple rehashing the same tired design again.

Android copycats the iPhone X

Every year we see dozens of me-too Android phones that ape the iPhone, except for one big, round giveaway: they lack Apple's instantly recognizable home button. Now that the iPhone X trades in its most defining visual feature, it's going to be easier than ever to make Android phones that look like an expensive iPhone, at a fraction of the price.

 

With Apple's iconic round button gone, it's going to be much harder to tell Apple's copycats from the original at first glance, especially once those other phonemakers figure out how to get the bezel-less look down pat. And especially once you slap on a case. (Xiaomi already figured out bezel-less design with its aspirational Mi Mix; now followed by the Mi Mix 2.)

 

We mostly see iPhone lookalikes coming from Chinese phone makers, such as Huawei, OnePlus, Xiaomi and Oppo, but there are plenty of other brands that attract buyers by making simpler smartphones that resemble other premium iphone 6s screen replacement cost . Slim bezels, rounded edges and similar color palettes are easier to ape than expensive hardware within.

 

No more home button on the iPhone X also means these manufacturers no longer have to worry about including their own oblong fingerprint sensors on the front (they can go to the back).

 

While some of these companies take a more subtle approach to echoing the iPhone, others, like Oppo, aren't afraid to take "inspiration" from Apple, from the icon layout down to physical looks.

 

 

The Oppo R11 very closely mimics the iPhone's design, though its home button is a giveaway.

 

In relatively rich countries like the the US and UK, the iPhone X will sell widely. But in a global landscape, the iPhone X will top every other iPhone as a status symbol that far fewer can afford. It's no coincidence that lookalike phones often hail from China, a market of billions that Apple's been trying to crack for years. Homegrown vendors like Huawei and Oppo do well there, their midrange devices selling like hotcakes even with a slight premium over even cheaper rivals. Clearly, looks matter.

 

If there's one area that Android vendors may have a tricky time mastering, it's slashing the bezels. Just doing all the work to achieve a bezel-less iphone 6s display price isn't as easy as it sounds, and other Android manufacturers may not want to yet dedicate resources to mass production until they see proof of the iPhone X's commercial success.

 

However, once the initial investment is made for bezel-less designs and screens that take up nearly all the phone's face, we'll start seeing it trickle down from premium phones like the iPhone X, LG G6 and V30, and the Galaxy S8, S8 Plusand Note 8.