WhatsApp Payments via UPI starts rolling out in India.

I’m sure you have been waiting for a long to try out WhatsApp’s highly-anticipated UPI-based payment feature on your mobile. Finally, the wait is over and WhatsApp has stated that they are testing out its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based Payments. As of now, it's only rolling out in India for Beta testers of WhatsApp. Considering the large user base of the messaging app in India the payments platform integration may give another boost to digital payments. Currently, the feature is only available for Android users however for the iOS users it is expected to arrive soon this year.

As per the report of last month, WhatsApp was in the process of integrating its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with several Indian banks such as HDFC, State Bank of India, ICICI and Axis bank. This new ‘Payments’ feature can be accessed from the Chat window in the Attachments menu. You can then click on Payments, which will then prompt you to link to your UPI. To make sure that WhatsApp Payment is working, the first thing that you need to do is that you’ll have to link your respective bank account to the messaging app. Now, this is where the UPI payment is going to come in handy. This will enable a user to use their registered WhatsApp number to set up the process. This is also an alert for the other wallet companies like Paytm, Google Tez, PhonePe, MobiKwik that WhatsApp might eat their market.

As per the current update, WhatsApp has a customer base of around 1.5 billion people throughout the world in which 200 million users are only from India. So the experts believe that if this new payment feature works well in India and goes viral, then it will take a new turn towards digital transactions in the country. To get this feature handy on your mobile you will not have to download anything new however you will have to wait for the company to roll out an update for your number. Please let me know in the comment section below what is your thought about this new feature being rolled out by WhatsApp.

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List of Smartphones that will get Android Oreo Update in coming months.

In August, 2017, Google revealed its new mobile operating system called Android Oreo 8.0. Google officially released the beta version of the developer preview of the OS in March, 2017. So the wait is over and all the mobile manufacturing companies have already started rolling out Android Oreo update. If you are wondering when will your device get the Android Oreo update, please check the below list to find out the smartphones getting Android Oreo 8.0. Note : This is not a finalized list of smartphones that’ll receive the Oreo update in coming months. To check if your phone is there in the list, you can press Ctrl+F in your keyboard and type the name of your device. Here are all Mobile devices expected to receive Android Oreo 8.0 update: Samsung Galaxy S8 Galaxy S8 Plus Galaxy S8 Active Galaxy Note 8 Galaxy Note FE Galaxy S7 Galaxy S7 Edge Galaxy S7 Active Galaxy J7 2017 Galaxy J7 Max Galaxy J5 2017 Galaxy A7 2017 Galaxy A5 2...

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Zooper Widget is back in Play Store, after being disappeared mysteriously for a week.

One of the best features of Android is, you can customize almost any visual element and then you can make it your own element. Earlier we had to download a third-party launcher and then only we can add any widget to customize our phone. Those days were gone and now after the launch of Zooper widget, you don’t have to download any third party launcher to apply it. You can directly install the app from Play Store in your default user interface. Now the question is, what is a Widget? A widget is basically an element that can be applied to the Home screen of an Android device to change the looks of the phone. For a long time, Zooper Widget has been providing users the with extreme flexibility to customize their Android devices and I personally have been using this app from a long time to customize my Android device and it works well. Well, the app has mysteriously disappeared from Play Store on 15 December 2017 for a week and again it returned back to the Play ...

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