Amazon India Hello Moto Sale: Rs.1000 off on smartphones, Rs.2000 off on Moto 360 (2nd Gen)

Moto has brought its popular devices on Amazon.in. As a part of the inaugural offers, it is offering discounts and cashbacks on most of the Motorola smartphones and Moto 360 (2nd Gen) smartwatch. All these offers are available both on the web and Amazon app.

Discounts on Motorola smartphones on Amazon.in

Moto G Turbo Edition– Rs. 11,499 (Rs. 1000 off)
Moto G (3rd Gen) (16 GB) – Rs. 9,999 (Rs. 1000 off)
Moto G (3rd Gen) (8 GB) – Rs. 8,999 (Rs. 1000 off)
Moto E (2nd Gen) 4G – Rs. 5,999 (Rs. 1000 off)

Discounts on Motorola Moto 360 (2nd Gen) on Amazon.in

Moto 360 2nd Gen (46 mm) (Black Metal) Bracelet – Rs. 21,999 (Rs. 2000 off)
Moto 360 2nd Gen (46 mm) Natural Metal with Silver Case and Cognac Leather Band – Rs. 18,999 (Rs. 2000 off)
Moto 360 2nd Gen (42 mm) (Black Leather Band) – Rs. 17,999 (Rs. 2000 off)

Amazon also offers extra 10% off (upto Rs. 1500) on purchase of these devices with SBI Debit or Credit Cards. This is a limited period offer that lasts till March 4th, 2016 or till stocks last.

Facebook now rolling out new “Reactions” button

After over a year of testing and feedback from users, Facebook has started to roll out the new ‘Reactions’ button. It will help users express love, happiness, anger, shock and sadness.

In October last year, Facebook  started testing its new reaction button  that will allow users to express wide range of emotions on the social network through emojis. Now, four months later, the social media giant has started rolling out the emojis to all users. In a blog post, Facebook mention that it had been testing the new reaction buttons and now it’s ready for full-fledged release.

With the new ‘Reactions’ users now have a button to express Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry. Facebook expects the News Feed to be filled with more emotive responses.

To use these buttons on mobile, users need to hold down the ‘Like’ button after which the new emojis will appear. Simply tap on any of them to use it. Similarly, on a desktop, users just need to hover over the ‘Like’ button to select and use the new emojis.

While many had been expecting Facebook to introduce a ‘dislike’ button, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post “Reactions gives you new ways to express love, awe, humor and sadness. It’s not a dislike button, but it does give you the power to easily express sorrow and empathy — in addition to delight and warmth.”

Whatsapp to end support for BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Phone

If you are an avid WhatsApp user and using one of the older versions of BlackBerry, Windows Phone or Symbian, you are out of luck.

If you are still using a BlackBerry smartphone or clinging to an old Symbian-based Nokia phone, it’s high time you may want to consider switching to Android or iOS. Well, your favorite instant messaging application, WhatsApp, is going to end support for BlackBerry, Symbian and even Windows Phone 7.1.

WhatsApp announced it will be ending support for BlackBerry, including BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1 and Android 2.2, and Windows Phone 7.1 – by the end of 2016.

Why is WhatsApp doing this? The reason is very simple — most of the mobile users across the world have shifted to Android and iOS smartphones. WhatsApp elaborates the time it had launched the app in 2009, about 70 percent of smartphones then ran on BlackBerry and Nokia’s Symbian.

But as of now Google,Apple  and Microsoft account for 99.5 percent of sales, which back then had then mere 25 percent of the share. WhatsApp is now looking at the future, and wants to channelize its focus on the current and possible future mobile operating systems, and their updates.

“While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future,” WhatsApp said on its website.

If you are using devices based on these operating systems, you can’t really do much than upgrade to the latest Android, iOS or the new Windows Mobile 10 operating systems.

While BlackBerry users can use the BBM, considering that it is a cross platform messaging platform right. But it is highly unlikely that all of your friends might be using the BlackBerry Messenger. Symbian users can either use apps such as Nimbuzz, which is available for almost all platforms. But these alternatives are unlikely to ensure WhatsApp-like instant messaging or have all contacts with same instant messaging application.