On the launch of the floating store, one of the delivery boys said, “Before launching, I have to go to Ghat No. 7 at Dal Lake using my own Shikara to receive the package. This process is very time taking and fear of missing orders is always there if we are not on time to take parcels but the thing gets changed after launching the floating store. This development will make life convenient for the Dal Lake people.

Now residents of Srinagar’s Dal Lake no longer need to go ashore specifically to receive their Amazon deliveries: Selec Town’s owner Murtaza Khan Kashi (Amazon’s ‘I Have Space’ Partner) delivers packages to the doorsteps of other houseboats in the Dal Lake and Nigeen Lake areas.

What is Amazon’s ‘I Have Space’ program?

As Amazon scales and expands its delivery network across the country, it continues to enable individuals to unlock their entrepreneurial potential and create opportunities to broaden their horizons through its last-mile delivery program, ‘I Have Space’. Through this program, Amazon India partners with local stores and business owners to deliver products to customers within a 2-4 kilometers radius of their store, enabling them to earn additional income. Launched in 2015, the program has more than 28,000 neighborhood and Kirana partners in close to 420 towns and cities across its network in India.

Dr. Karuna Shankar Pande, Director of Amazon Logistics, India, says, “We are thrilled to onboard India’s first floating ‘I Have Space’ store on Dal Lake, Srinagar. This will enable us to provide customers across Dal Lake and Nigeen Lake with reliable, efficient, and fast deliveries.” 

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OF AMAZON PRIME IN INDIA 

Amazon prime lite is available for Rs. 999, that is much lower as compared to regular plan of Rs 1499 charged annually . Users can have access for prime sale, amazon prime video- the company’s streaming platform.

iOS users can sign up for a new prime lite plan on the amazon app and android users can sign up on amazon india website. 

Benefits of Amazon Prime Lite Subscription

1. Amazon prime lite available at Rs. 999 for the 1 year is cheaper as compared to regular plan Rs. 1499 for the 1 year.
2. Amazon Prime Lite subscribers get the delivery of product purchase from amazon shopping at no additional cost and on the same day or one day delivery. If a user pays Rs. 175 per order additional charge, amazon gives a morning delivery option in that.

Limitation of Amazon Prime Lite Subscription

1. Amazon prime lite gives access for only 2 devices. 
2. Amazon prime lite gives only HD resolution whereas regular plan gives ultra HD resolution on compatible devices.
3. In Amazon prime lite, users can’t skip the ads and also don’t know about the specific details of the duration and frequency of their advertisement.
4. The Amazon prime lite users can’t access it on a web browser. They need apps iOS and android. 
5. Amazon prime lite doesn’t give access for amazon prime music, prime gaming,and prime reading.

OnePlus 11R Smartphone – Price and availability in India

The OnePlus 11R Smartphone comes in two configurations. One with 8 GB RAM and 128GB storage at a price of Rs.39, 999 and a second one with 16 GB and 256GB storage at Rs.44, 999. The new OnePlus 11R Smartphone is now available for pre-order in the country through Amazon, the OnePlus website, and OnePlus app store.

OnePlus 11R Smartphone- Colour Variants

The OnePlus 11R Smartphone is available in two colour variants, one is Sonic Black and another one is Galactic Silver Colour.

OnePlus 11R Smartphone- offers

Credit card and EMI transactions made with ICICI Bank and Citibank cards are eligible for an instant discount of Rs. 1,000. Debit card transactions made with ICICI Bank cards are also eligible for the same. OnePlus is offering an Rs. 2,000 discount on the OnePlus 11R to Red Cable Club members.

OnePlus 11R Smartphone – Specifications in India

• OnePlus 11R Smartphone runs on Android 13 based Oxygen OS 13.
• It is a Dual SIM smartphone.
• OnePlus 11R Smartphone offers three years of OS upgrades and 4 years of security updates.
• The OnePlus 11R Smartphone has a 6.74-inch full HD with (2,772*1,240) curved AMOLED display  
• 16GB of RAM is available on the OnePlus 11R Smartphone, paired with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC.
• The OnePlus 11R Smartphone has 1,450 nits of brightness.
• The OnePlus 11R Smartphone also features a triple-camera setup with a 50-megapixel primary sensor, 2-megapixel of micro camera, and 16-megapixel of selfie camera.  
• OnePlus 11 R smartphone packs a 5,000mAh battery with 100W SuperVOOC flash charging.

In terms of connectivity, the OnePlus 11R Smartphone features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, USB Type-C ports, dual-band GPS.

Under the initiative, Amazon will directly provide 20,000 digital devices to underprivileged young people, in partnership with over 150 large and small non-profit organizations, impacting over 1lakh students across India. Also, customers are encouraged to either contribute in cash on Amazon Pay or give their old mobile phones that will be refurbished and distributed to provide digital learning devices for young people.

 “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to focus the stark digital divide, not only in the field of education but also in access to essential services. Amongst the most adversely affected are young people from marginalized communities. Together with our customers, employees and partners, we aim to bridge the gap by enabling young people with digital devices for continued access to online education and essential services for their families. This is also our way to bring more smiles and add to the festive cheer of Amazon’s Great Indian Festival across the length and breadth of the country,” said Manish Tiwary, Vice President, Amazon India

Through the Delivering Smiles initiative, Amazon India will directly give, and facilitate contribution of digital devices among students and young people from marginalized communities, and aim to contribute to the digitization goals of India.

At the ML Summer School, students have the opportunity to explore machine learning skills with Amazon’s expert scientists. This is a three-day program where students will get the opportunity to learn key ML techniques such as supervised learning, deep neural networks, probabilistic graphical models, dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, and sequential models directly.

Rajeev Rastogi, VP – India Machine Learning at Amazon said, “Our aim is to prepare students for science roles – this will help to reduce the gap between the growing demand for ML roles across companies and the talent pool with applied ML skills.

The Amazon ML Summer School is open to pre-final or final year students pursuing a Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD degree across 20 select Indian campuses. Eligible and interested students will take an online assessment on basic ML concepts and math fundamentals such as probability, statistics and linear algebra. A batch of top students will be selected for ML Summer School, which will take place from 9-11 July.

In the official blog, Parag Gupta, Head of Amazon Devices, India mentioned “We have combined the far-field voice technology of Echo devices with the much-loved Fire TV user experience so that customers can use the convenience of Alexa to control their entertainment.”

Users can watch their favorites from Prime Video, Netflix, YouTube, Disney+ Hotstar, Zee5, SonyLiv, Voot, and others and also tune to live TV channels with cable or set-top box providers.

Amazon Fire TV Device works on an ultra-powerful Hexa-core processor, to deliver a fast, fluid experience, with instant access to Dolby Vision and 4K Ultra HD content at up to 60 frames per second. The all-new Fire TV Cube provides cutting edge far-field voice recognition with eight microphones and advanced beamforming technology to suppress noise, reverberation, content currently playing, and even competing speech to make sure Alexa clearly hears your request when placed next to your TV.

The all-new Amazon Fire TV device is available in India at INR 12,999 starting today on Amazon.in and select Croma and Reliance outlets. 

Amazon Prime members will have access to shows like On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Ted Talks Daily, the habit coach, the Musafir stories, and The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma. There are over nine million podcast episodes available in multiple languages and of different genres like motivation, business, technology, comedy, music, and fitness on Amazon prime music.

Amazon podcasts will also support Amazon Alexa. Therefore, users can  ask, “Alexa, play On Purpose with Jay Shetty” or “Alexa, play last week’s episode of Ted Talks Daily.”

Amazfit Bip U Pro price

In India, Amazfit Bip U Pro is priced at Rs. 4,999 and will be available in three colors – Black, Green, and Pink via the Amazfit website and Amazon India from April 14.

Amazfit Bip U Pro specifications

Amazfit Bip U Pro has a 1.43-inch HD TFT-LCD color display (320×302 pixels) protected by 2.5D Corning Gorilla 3. The smartwatch has an option to choose from 50 watch faces to customize the display and also user can upload their own picture as the background. Health tracking metrics like stress monitoring, SPO2, breathing training, and menstrual tracking are available in it. It is 5ATM (up to 50 meters) water-resistant in nature.

Another new feature of the smartwatch is the built-in Amazon Alexa that allows users to set the alarm, control music, provide weather forecasts, sports updates, traffic updates, and other real-time information by voice.  Furthermore, it has over 60 sports modes, which include running, cycling, yoga, dancing, skating, kickboxing, among others. To monitor the heart rate, it offers two PPG bio-tracking optical sensors.

In addition, the Amazfit Bip U Pro keeps track of menstrual cycles and sends out reminders. It also has a stress monitoring function and breathing exercises to help you manage the user’s stress levels. In terms of battery life, the Amazfit Bip U Pro is said to last up to 9 days on a single charge.

Millions of customers accessed Alexa on over a hundred smart devices – speakers, smartphones, headphones, laptops, fitness trackers, and more

Alexa, the most loved voice service is completing three years in India. On its 3^rd Anniversary, Amazon India announced a 24 hours sale starting 12 midnight on February 15. The Amazon Alexa devices 24-hour sale offers exciting deals on Echo Devices, attractive smart home bundles, and more.

“Be it the Echo device in the living room, 100+ Alexa built-in devices or your favorite smartphone, it is heart-warming to see users across the length and breadth of the country across age groups find value and adopt Alexa in their daily lives”, said Puneesh Kumar, Country Leader for Alexa, Amazon India. “For us it’s always Day 1 as we learn from our customers and continue to add new features, improving Alexa’s understanding on topics that matter to users locally.”

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Amazon India on Wednesday launched Academy to help students preparing for the JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) for entrance to engineering colleges. The online preparation platform will offer students with in-depth knowledge and practice papers required for the JEE, through the curated learning material, live lectures, and comprehensive assessments in Math, Physics, and Chemistry. The beta version of Amazon Academy will be available free of cost on the web and the Google Play store.

Amazon Academy offers JEE mock tests prepared by experts to help students in JEE exam preparation. Amazon Academy will also hold live All India Mock Tests (AIMT) at scheduled intervals. It will also offers live sessions where they can engage with expert faculty, learn concepts, and clarify doubts in real-time.

Amazon Academy not only provides material for JEE exam preparation, but also for those who are preparing for BITSAT, VITEEE, SRMJEEE, and MET exams. The content is currently available for free and will continue to be for the next few months.