Infinix Hot 6 Pro review: Adept budget phone with big screen, good battery

The Infinix Hot 6 Pro boasts a powerful 4,000 mAh battery, which lasts for around two days. However, charging times are not good and the phone takes more than two hours to go from 0-100%

Infinix, a smartphone brand owned by Hong Kong-based mobile phone manufacturer Transsion Holdings, on July 11 launched the Infinix Hot 6 Pro at Rs 7,999. The phone sports a 5.99-inch screen in 18:9 ratio, dual rear cameras and a 4,000 mAh battery, making it a solid proposition in an entry-level smartphone segment.

For a budget smartphone, the 5.99-inch HD+ resolution screen stretched in 18:9 aspect ratio looks optimal. It reduces the phone’s overall dimension, making it comfortable to hold and easy to operate. The screen is bright and there is no visible touch lag. The screen and touch calibration is also on spot, making it a budget device that feels like a mid-ranger. The screen supports eye care mode, which calibrates it to warm settings for extended on-screen usage without causing any discomfort to eyes.

Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 quad core system-on-chip (SoC), paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory -- expandable up to 128 GB through microSD card – the phone runs smoothly and performs basic tasks like calls, messaging, casual browsing without hiccups. However, due to entry-level process with limited resources, the phone shows minor lags here and there, especially with processor intensive apps running in background.

The Hot 6 Pro comes loaded with Android 8.0 Oreo operating system out-of-the-box, based on Infinix’s Hummingbird XOS 3.2 system user interface (UI). The interface is smooth, but has a lot of bloatware pre-installed such as Flipkart, Carlcare, Facebook, Magic Movie, Palmstore and PHX Browser apps.

In terms of imaging, the Hot 6 Pro boasts a horizontally stacked dual-camera setup at the back with a 13-megapixel primary sensor, mated with a 2MP depth sensing lens. The rear cameras manages to take average-to-decent photographs in normal day light but struggles in low-light conditions. The in-build portrait mode, which uses depth sensing camera for enhanced bokeh effect, is not bad either and the portraits come out clean with good focus on object and proper focus and background segmentation.

The 5MP selfie camera on the front takes average shots with overexposed backgrounds at times and hazy focus even during day light conditions. At night, the front camera struggles to impress.

For device unlock, the phone sports fingerprint sensor on the back, which works fine. The phone also supports face-unlocking mechanism, which uses front camera to detect face to unlock the phone. The face unlock feature works fine under normal light, but tends to miss the face during low light. However, the phone features front flash that could be used in dark for front camera to recognise face and unlock the phone.

Article Source : RS

Union Bank of India Invites Applications For Credit Officers. Apply Now

Candidates willing to take up the post can apply for the same till October 21, 2017 (Saturday).

Union Bank of India (herein after called the Bank) is inviting applications for the posts of Credit Officers. Candidates willing to take up the post can apply for the same till October 21, 2017 (Saturday). The number of vacancy is 200 for SC (49), ST (24), OBC (65) and UR (62). The qualified candidates would be paid on the pay scale of 31,705 - 45,950. In addition, Special Allowance, Dearness Allowance and other allowances will be payable as per prevailing rules and regulations in the Bank. Further, the officer will also be eligible for amenities like residential quarters/lease rent in lieu of quarters, LFC, reimbursement of medical/hospitalization expenses and other perquisites as per the policy of the Bank.

Exam Centre: The Online Examination, if conducted, may be tentatively held on 25.11.2017 at the following centers: (a) Bengaluru (b) Delhi (c) Kolkata (d) Lucknow (e) Mumbai. However, the Bank reserves its right to decide the examination centers and dates at its sole discretion. The full address of the Venue and the Date will be advised in the Examination / Group Discussion Call Letters, which will be issued in case the Bank decides to hold the Online Examination / Group Discussion. In case the Online Examination / Group Discussion is held, the call letters can be downloaded from the Bank’s website 'Union Bank of India' under "Careers" link.

Eligibility Parameters:

Age: Minimum 23 years and Maximum 32 years

Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in any discipline with minimum 60% aggregate marks from a University/Institution/Board recognized by Govt. of India/approved by Govt. Regulatory bodies.

Post Qualification Work Experience: Post Qualification Work Experience in processing of credit proposals in officer cadre with any Scheduled Commercial Bank for a minimum period of two years immediately preceding the cut-off date of application as per this Notification is mandatory.

How to Apply:

HOW TO APPLY: The candidates can apply only online from 04.10.2017 to 21.10.2017 (both days inclusive) and no other mode of application will be accepted.(more)

Jobs galore at engineering colleges, pay offers up 15%; highest at Rs 39L

Tech institutes beat economic slowdown; salary packages up 10-15%

Despite a downturn, India's leading engineering colleges other than the IITs have found good final placements in top companies in India.

Both average and highest pay packages at campuses are up 10-15% from a year ago thanks to a surge in domestic offers. While there have been reports of the health of the Indian software services sector deteriorating and beginning to jolt the job market, this news comes as a major relief.

“Placements are very good compared to last year. Many companies are visiting for multiple profiles,” RS Walia, training and placement head at Delhi Technological University told Economics Times.

Hiring is up 15%, said Walia, with companies including Amazon, Directi, PwC, L&T, Maruti Suzuki, Airtel and Samsung recruiting more this year. “We are also targeting a large number of first¬timers for the 2017¬18 session,” he said.

Let us take a look at campus placements of some of India's top-notch engineering institutes:

BITS Pilani University: Placements at the three campuses in Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad started in early August. Nearly 586 students were placed by the end of September, up from 546 a year ago. Qualcomm (50), Oracle (48) and Microsoft (38) have picked the maximum number of students so far at BITS Pilani University.

Highest offer: A cloud-computing software company Nutanix offered the highest salary package at Rs 39.48 lakh, up nearly 13% from last year.

Average Salary has gone up 10% to Rs 16.05 lakh.

NIT Warangal: Uber has made the highest offer so far at Rs 36 lakh, according to a report in Economic Times. Qualcomm has made the maximum number of offers at NIT Warangal, along with Amazon and Fidelity. (more)

IIT Kharagpur bags 200-plus pre-placement offers in top MNCs

The placement season will begin on December 1, later this year

IIT Kharagpur students have bagged over 200 pre-placement offers for the first time in top multi-national corporations, including some based abroad.

Companies like Goldman Sachs, Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Adobe Systems and Wipro have offered more than ten PPOs each, the institute said in a release on Wednesday.

The placement season will begin on December 1, later this year.

Offers have been pouring for the final year students as an outcome of internships which the students went for during the summer recess.

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"This is an encouraging sign for us that companies recognise our students' hard work and motivation during the internship," said Debasis Deb, Professor in-charge of the Career Development Centre at IIT Kharagpur.

According to him, several factors like versatility, wide choices in course curriculum available through flexible academic programmes, dedicated and experienced faculty strength and a strong presence of the alumni across most of recruiting organisations resulted in the huge number of PPOs.

IIT Kharagpur has also received over 200 internship offers for the pre-final year students for the summer of 2018.

The institute authorities expect to cross the tallies of past years in internship offers for the academic year 2017-18, the release said.