10/14/2015

Is Cyanogen Breaking Ties with YU Televentures?

The new popular brand in the smartphone market in India shook the whole market with their low priced but high in performance phones and with pre-installed CyanogenOS, that is YU Televentures.

YU has released four phones as yet, YUreka, YUphoria an YUreka Plus, YUnique all three came with CyanogenOS with guaranteed update and probably this is was main reason why many chose an YU phone over another stock android smartphone.

The phones were and are still sold online, exclusively on Amazon and YUnique is sold on Snapdeal. Recently the Yunique, YU's budget smartphone came available on stock android, no CyanogenOS at all.

And a few days later all the available smartphones of YU with CyanogenOS became unavailable and now comes with stock Android.

What Special in CyanogenOS?

Stock Android is good but CyanogenOS is a bliss. It comes with a lot of inbuilt security and customizability functions that you don't see in stock android, even the latest versions. CyanogenOS is maintained by an independent and open group of developers known as 'Cyanogen'.

CyanogenMods are ROMs that can be flashed on almost any phone, but CyanogenOS is built to function perfectly with a phone and that is why people loved the YU phones and so do I, as a I own an Yuphoria with CyanogenOS 12.

Wouldn't be Cyanogen available for us?

It is an open source project and anyone with any phone capable of running it can run! And the special thing about YU is that your warranty of the phone is not void if you flash your ROM unlike other brands, you have the full freedom to do any hacking and still claim the warranty during it's period!

You don't know how to flash ROM? No worries, YU will help install CyanogenOS 12 from 825+ service centers around the country. 


Buy the phone, keep the Stock android if you like but if you want to experience an even advanced YU phone then go to a service center and get your phone the CyanogenOS 12

So really Cyanogen is no longer available with YU?

There has not been any official statements. The Wikipedia page says that YU holds the official rights of CyanogenOS in India and if it were to break the ties for any reason there would have been an official statement of some kind, but there are none.

We did a small research to make sure it wasn't true and what we find doesn't leave any hint of them breaking ties.

The official CyanogenOS web page still displays the YU phones with CyanogenOS in the list of their CyanogenOS phones: https://cyngn.com/get-cyanogen-os

The model of the phones with stock android are suffixed with an "A", whereas the initial model name is still in use and it says it comes with CyanogenOS



We aren't still sure of why YU has planned on releasing stock Android phones but this doesn't mean it has broken up their ties with Cyanogen, at least not as yet. CyanogenOS will be available to you if you want it, just go to a service center and ask for it.

New CyanogenOS 12.1 is coming


On the contrary YU has announced the release of CyanogenOS 12.1. It will be soon available on all YU phones with CyanogenOS 12 as an OTA update. 

Yes, check the official announcement on the blog: http://blogs.yuplaygod.com/index.php/2015/09/28/get-ready-to-play-god/

Don't worry just get your phone.

If the sole reason for buying an YU handset was CyanogenOS then go and order an YU phone from Amazon and take it to a service center near you to get the much loved CyanogenOS on your phone.




Also be sure to check for ongoing deals on these phones. Recently Yuphoria (with stock Android) is now being sold for Rs. 5999 in an lighting deal. Check back to get deals and offs.


10/10/2015

Plans for Chief Minister Special Award Scheme for Matriculation 2015 Students [Assam]

CMSAS, short for Chief Minister Special Award Scheme is an initiative started by the Assam state education board SEBA to award the Matriculation or HSLC (High School Leaving Certificate) students who secured more than 50% marks in the examinations.




The awards for CMSAS were presented in January 2015 for the students who passed the 2014 Matriculation Exams, and the eligible students were award an Android Tablets, total 46,300 units were awarded as per the official source.

This Years CMSAS Award

The news from the official source confirms the award for Chief Minister Special Award Scheme will be presented for the 2015 Matriculation students who secure above 50% parks from the SEBA board.

This year the estimate number of tablets has increase from 46,300 (2014) to  54,400! 
An estimate of fifty four thousand and four hundred students this year will be rewarded the tablets as per CMSAS.

Congrats to every student who has secured above 50% marks and are eligible for the award, we hope you a bright future.


Other Initiatives and News

The Assam state education board has two initiatives to encourage the students to involve themselves in the technological field and thus awards them with Desktop/Laptops/Tablets.

ARBAS (Anundoram Boroah Award Scheme) is also an initiative by the Assam state education board which awards the students who secure 1st Division in the Matriculation exams and are presented Laptops. (before Desktops were presented and with an option for cheque of equal amount)

CMSAS is for students who secure over 50% marks but less than 1st Division.

Top Web Host Services in India to pay with Net Banking [2015]

With the burst of Internet use more and more professionals and businesses are looking to go online. There are a lot of ways to get online, either a Facebook page, or a social profile, or better than the best getting a website up!

But there's one problem that many Indian faces: Payment method! Most of the best hosting services are based in other countries and you can pay only with a credit or debit card, but even if you have one it has to be activated to be used for overseas transaction and that's the main problem.

In the following list we have highlighted some of the best web hosting services providing Linux Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Windows Hosting etc. for which you can pay using Internet Banking easily without any hassle.

1. Bluehost - Quality Web Hosting in India

BlueHost is one of the most popular web hosting service in the World. It is a reliable web host, it provides good up times and the prices are low as well even for multiple site hosting. 

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You can use different hosting in BlueHost like Linux Hosting, Windows Hosting, and/or specialized hosting for WordPress with 30 day money back guarantee if you aren't satisfied. BlueHost also provides low cost VPS for your large scale applications.  

>> You can pay using Credit Card/ Debit Card and Net banking easily. 

2. BigRock - Rock solid web hosting in India

BigRock is India one of the most popular web hosting service. BigRock as most other web host provides Linux, Windows Hosting, WordPress hosting, CMS Hosting (Joomla etc.) and e-Commerce hosting.

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Choose the one which suits you need at very low prices.

>> And you can pay in number of payment methods like Credit/Debit Card, Internet Banking, Demand Draft or Cheque, Direct Bank Deposit.

So it is very convenient to buy with BigRock and get a solid web hosting for your work.


There are a lot of other options but we recommend you these two as they have great support team and also has simple and straightforward money-back guarantee policy which will keep you secure if you just want to try out these hostings.