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Advertisement Feature: Garmin India brings more joy to this festival with the all-new Venu SQ Smartwatch

Garmin India, a unit of Garmin Ltd. today launched their pocket-friendly yet feature-loaded latest GPS smartwatch: Venu Sq and the Venu Sq Music Edition. The Venu Sq is built with bright colour display, sleek design and best suited for every part of your day while keeping a track of your health and fitness activities.
The new Venu Sq series boasts over 20 built-in indoor and outdoor sports apps including Pilates, yoga, strength training, running, pool swimming, cycling, golf and many more supporting its users with extensive workout required to inspire movement. Adding more to it, the Music edition features on-device music storage for phone-free listening.

Apart from the sports app, the smartwatch also comes loaded with health monitoring features including advanced sleep with Pulse Ox2, respiration tracking, abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low), menstrual cycle tracking, stress tracking with relax reminders, hydration tracking and more. Bringing more convenience to the users, the Venu Sq supports battery life of up to six days in smartwatch mode and up to 14 hours in GPS mode.
Ali Rizvi, Director of Garmin India said, “We at Garmin have always focused on fulfilling the needs of our customers with the best of quality products and high-end technological innovations. Today, with the launch of Venu Sq, we are now entering into a new market segment under which people can buy a Garmin smartwatch at a competitive price with premium features including 20 built-in sports apps, on-device music storage, advanced sleep with Pulse Ox2 with the broadest range of 24/7 monitoring features available on the market.”

Venu Sq’s robust suite of workout options also includes preloaded workouts on the watch, preset workouts available to download from Garmin Connect, and “create your own” customizable workouts. Whether training for a 5K or something longer, the Venu Sq is compatible with Garmin Coach, free training plans adapted to a runner’s goals and performance, complete with a virtual personal trainer for added motivation.
Innovative Body Battery energy monitoring also lets users monitor their energy level which can help with scheduling workouts, rest times and sleep. The Venu Sq series provides all-day connection and convenience with a host of smart features including notifications, music storage, safety and tracking, and more.
The new series of Venu Sq will be available for ₹ 21,090 and the Venu Sq Music will be available for ₹26,290.

QUIBI | QUICK BITES, BAD STORY

From the day Quibi was launched, I had my eyes fixated on it. Firstly because it was Meg Whiteman who raised an eye popping USD 1 Billion, secondly it was trying to enter a space where the grand daddies like Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon are heavily invested and willing to lose billions for their share of eyeballs. Literally this time. Back in India, I used to get these OTT platform startup pitches and my reply was simple: it is the airline business which will make you a millionaire from a billionaire. There is no way under the sun that any new OTT platform without any strategic bundle can be a profitable and sustainable business. Case in point, Netflix – Early mover advantage and the man Reed Hastings is simply outstanding. Let’s look at Amazon- Its prime membership and e-commerce play is big to keep churning content and throwing it for free. Imagine in future while you are watching an Amazon original and a pop up comes selling you any of its products. They are building their own advertising audience ready to be monetized in a few clicks Disney + Hotstar – For them the stakes are too high not to be in this space and even MX player for The Times of India is backwardly integrated with their own production jungle and their media muscle. Zee5 – Similarly if they don’t have their own OTT they will not be relevant any more, and if you are still not tired of all the above then there’s YouTube with billions of hours worth of free content which you can keep watching with your next generations ahead.

Coming back to Quibi, with its 10 minute – 5 USD service, on the face of it is a great idea. We want smackable content and just like 20/20 cricket matches, they are the need of the hour. But how many will pay for it? 10 minutes is a free spot served by YouTube. At first, the idea of mobile-first content, 10 minutes content and a great team led by Meg Whitman who has been associated with HP, Procter & Gamble, Walt Disney and that this will succeed was a no-brainer. But having attempted many startups myself and failed in many I can vouch that what looks on the surface as a brilliant idea, sometimes does a somersault once it goes on the floor. The project faced skepticism from the beginning, but there was a Hollywood heavyweight of Katzenberg’s reputation involved. As former chairman of Walt Disney Studios and a co-founder of DreamWorks Animation, it seemed that if anyone could disrupt the OTT shape in mobile viewership patterns, as Quibi was trying, it would be Katzenberg.

It’s easy to blame the present times for any failed business, but OTT and streaming apps have seen a huge uptick. But possibly, for Quibi dearth of content production since they were new in the business and the content factory was slammed with hard “Covid brakes.” In spite of shows like 50 states of fright and a dream team with 1.7 billion dollars in funding , streaming is a complicated space to disrupt. It’s almost like the e-commerce business after Amazon, Flipkart. That is where your search ends.

Big Boy Toyz Brings India’s first VR Technology Showroom Tour to India!

Well!

BBT has its own way of doing stuff and staying at the top of the game.

They’ve done something innovative this time, which is India’s first virtual reality showroom tour.

All of you pre-owned luxury car enthusiasts will be able to witness the entire showroom experience on your smartphones.

Big Boy Toyz has promised that you will be getting the same exceptional experience found at their store physically. They have recently launched their application for Android and iOS devices, by the name BBT, featuring online bookings, 360-degree view of cars via photos and videos, BBT merchandises, and a secured payment gateway.

“We’re elated to introduce advanced technology in the pre-owned luxury car space. With the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we wish to support our 4.5 million customers from across the world.”

Mr. Jatin Ahuja, MD and Founder at Big Boy Toyz

“Ever since the crisis has restricted our customers from visiting our store offline, they’ve been relying on the technology to get the latest updates, raise a query for prices, and even make purchases, and by bringing the virtual tour to India, we are giving them the very best of Big Boy Toyz when it is most required.” He added.

The BBT mobile application, launched this month, now has more than 10,000 active users and has received a generous amount of feedback from its loyal community of luxury car fanatics. The application is loaded with diverse features such as ‘sell you car in under 29 minutes’ and ‘video calling for contactless sales’. The application is the most convenient destination to shop for second-hand premium cars ranging from Aston Martin to Ferrari to Land Rover, and many more. You can discuss your top choices, receive expert opinion, and can also compare your pick against your feasibility.

“We are followed by more than 4 million users on social media and about 1 Lakh users visit our website on daily basis, while only a fraction of this number has seen or visited our grand showroom in person. We get so many messages where people wish to see our showroom but couldn’t due to the lockdown and social distancing norms. With this striking feature, we can virtually represent each car in our showroom and give them a 360-degree view of what they want to purchase. This helps in speeding the buying decision and customers feel confident”, added Jatin.

As COVID-19 puts an operation limitation on Big Boy Toyz, the 11-year-old pre-owned luxury car brand moves to the online channel to provide remote services with a plethora of features and offers to not miss.

You can download the app from this link: https://www.bigboytoyz.com/app

Mercedes Benz EQC SUV | Are We Ready For Electric Cars?

Mercedes Benz has brought the EQC SUV to India and after a nice long drive and testing its features, we are here to make you decide if it’s worth all the hype. To stop making you wonder more about the car, we have asked all the necessary EV questions. What is the battery tech? What is the range? What features does it offer? And most importantly, is it worthy of that three-pointed star.