Friday, 15 May 2015

Why My Airtel App gets my vote

I am a Airtel user who is a working professional. besides managing my home and office I have a touring job. This makes me chase deadlines and I am  always on the look out for bill payment dates. As I use both prepaid and Post paid services of Airtel I am constantly looking for the best offers and deals. However this takes up precious time. Luckily for me and all those Airtel subscribers who want a good deal from their service provider and also those who want to stretch their money to the fullest come the app from Airtel that offers a reward for doing a recharge. Yes there is no Typo. You read it right. Every time you do a recharge you get a surprise gift. The reward is called a Airtel Surprise and come to us thanks to the My Airtel App.  
The best part is that the reward is usually in the form of a coupon that the user can make use of at their convenience. Coupons can be from a range of coupons from common day to day use and popular brands that everyone uses . The coupons cover a wide representation of categories from wellness, shopping, food, beverages entertainment etc . So a recharge can earn you a pleasant surprise reward from brands like amazon.in, flipkart.com, Myntra.com, VLCC, PVR cinemas, Café Coffee Day, Archies etc. This concept of Airtel Surprises consists of a extensive range of rewards that leaves its subscribers and users pleasantly surprised.
Another aspect that makes this App fit into my lifestyle so well is that I can customize it and create shortcuts and add them to a Tab called “I Want To” this way all the tasks that I want to do frequently such as a recharge , Bill Payments, View Balance and Data consumption information can be easily viewed by me. In all there are a number of category shortcuts that I can add under “I want  to ”  section. This includes
Bill payments
Recharge
Buy packs
Record a program
Order games
View balance
Data consumed
Check recharge history
This basically is convenient way of customizing my app for doing and making available only those features that I need and use. This customizable feature earns it some brownie points from me.

The Next big hurdle while using an app is how to make payments from within an app. For me security of my financial information like credit card number etc is an area of major concern. On this account this app scores full marks as this app makes paying bills of both Postpaid connections,fixed lines and DTH connection both easy and very secure because of two very important factors. Firstly it has PCIDSS certification that is the industry standard propriety standard solution being employed by Credit card handling agencies. This makes my credit card transactions very secure. Secondly it lets me save my credit card information so that I do not have to enter it again and again. This feature sppeds up my transactions. Overall this app makes life easy and saves a lot of time .

Thursday, 7 May 2015

Kapil da jawab nahin and his EkNayiLeague



Kapil Dev is coming with his new #EkNayiLeague and just what is it? My prediction is that it is a game shop with Kapil Dev as the host.In the quest to delve to find the answer to this question I look around and I see ads about Kapil Dev and his #EkNayiLeague are all over television channels. Go to the internet and watch any video and pops up an ad about Kapil Dev's #EkNayiLeague. The moment I log into twitter I see a flood of tweets inquiring, and asking questions about #EkNayiLeague. Looking deeper I find that these videos are teasers and emphasize the importance of playing with heart will lead to losing. This statemet emphasizes two important things one there is some kind of game play is involved and secondly there is some sort of skill that makes use of mental skills and emphasis is laid on not playing this league with ones heart.Kapil dev is a legend who played exemplary cricket and made India proud when he led the Indian team to the 1983 world cup victory. Whatever Kapil Dev does people end up saying Kapil da jawab nahin just as used to be said in the famous shaving cream ad that Kapil Dev used to be featured in in his hay days. There are a lot of signs that indicate that this is going to be a game show that too celebrity based. As he says in one of the video promos or teasers that stars do not retire. He emphasizes the importance of women in the field of sports and the way they have brought India a lot of Laural's at the international and highest level of sports. This indicates to me that women sports person would find a place in the new league. When Kapil Dev talks about how Yuvraj Singh has made a comeback after recovering from cancer shows that sports persons who have made a comeback and excelled and other people who have excelled after overcoming injury and illness would also find themselves being a part of this #EkNayiLeague. Cricket and bollywood go hand in hand so I feel that #EkNayiLeague is bound to have a fair representation from bollywood . However there would be no place for just good looking people or people that play with their heart. Kapil Dev ji gives importance to the fact that if you play this league with your heart then you are going to lose. In one of the clips he addresses comedy show host Kapil Sharma who brings us his laugh riot comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil. I feel that it is not a mere coincidence that he picked up a TV star with a very high TRP ratings . TV personalities would find a place in the new league but with the caveat that if they play with their heart they would lose. So the new show is about to unveil and the mystery would unfold when Kapil Dev reveals the details on his twitter account @therealkapildev till then your guess is as good as mine.