Smart home
Amazon Prime Day Sale 2022 India Dates Out: Deals, Offers Revealed
Deals, discounts, and offers during the Prime Day sale 2022 in India will kick off at 12am on July 23 and will run through July 24. Amazon said that the 48-hour sale event would bring over 30,000 new product launches from over 400 Indian and global brands including Samsung, Xiaomi, and Intel.
There will also be 2,000 new product launches from over 120 small and medium businesses (SMBs) such as XECH, Cos-IQ, Himalayan Origins, SpaceinCart, Mirakii, Karagiri, Nirvi Handicrafts across categories including electronics, fashion & grooming, jewellery, handmade products, the company said.
Customers using ICICI Bank and SBI cards and EMI transactions will get 10 percent discounts on various products during the sale.
Amazon will bring up to 55 percent discount on its Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices under the Prime Day sale in the country. There will also be deals across smartphones, consumer electronics, appliances, TVs, kitchen, daily essentials, and toys, among others. Further, the online marketplace is touted to bring deals on Amazon Basics Fire TV Edition TVs during the sale.
The Prime Day sale will also bring deals on Alexa inbuilt smartphones, smartwatches, speakers, TVs. The Amazon shopping app on Android as well as Alexa on Echo devices will be able to provide details about the two-day event by saying, “Alexa, what is Prime Day?”
In addition to the deals and discounts on various items, the Prime Day sale will bring rewards of up to Rs. 2,500 to customers paying for their bills and recharges and sending money using Amazon Pay. These rewards will be available until the beginning of the sale event.
Amazon Prime members will also get unlimited five percent cashback on Prime Day purchases using the Amazon Pay ICICI Bank credit card. Signing up for the credit card is also claimed to bring Rs. 2,200 in rewards.
The Prime Day event will additionally bring the release of two Indian Amazon Original series, namely Modern Love Hyderabad in Telugu on July 7 and Comicstaan Season 3 in Hindi on July 14. Prime members are also teased to get two additional “highly anticipated” titles that will be announced close to the Prime Day sale.
Amazon will also offer Prime members up to 50 percent discount on purchasing most add-on subscriptions among the 12 video streaming services that are bundled under Prime Video Channels.
Similarly, Amazon Music users in India will get two playlists: Desi Vibes in Hindi and Fully Tolly in Telugu. Indic language playlist will also feature star artists including AR Rahman, Jubin Nautiyal, Ritviz, and others headlining from Bollywood, Indian Pop and independent pop scene in Hindi music.
Prime Reading users will get 18 e-books to read for free across fiction, history, investing, philosophy and children’s books, including the bestseller One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat, Think Straight: Change your thoughts, change your life, Chanakya in the Classroom, Irrfan Khan: The Man, The Dreamer, The Star, among others.
Last month, Amazon announced that the Prime Day sale will be held between July 12–13 for Prime members in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and the US. The online sale will also go live for the first time in Poland and Sweden — alongside the other major countries.
Amazon at the time also announced that its Prime Day events will be held in India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates later this summer. The e-commerce giant is also hosting the loyalty sale in Egypt for the first time.
Last year, the Prime Day sale was conducted in India between July 26–27.
Apple TV Set Could Compete With Offerings From Popular TV Manufacturers
Gurman writes that Apple is “evaluating” the development of an “Apple-branded TV set” in his newsletter, which suggests that the company is at a very early stage. However, MacRumors points out that this is not the first time that word of Apple’s plans to make its own TV have surfaced online — the company was rumoured to be developing its own TV as early as 2009.
Apple’s purported TV set would arrive as part of several smart devices being developed by the company, according to Gurman. The journalist previously revealed that the first of these devices would be a wall-mounted smart home hub that could control other devices and offer support for features like video calling.
However, Gurman says that if the smart home hub fails, Apple could “rethink its smart home ambitions once again”. The company is said to be working on a more advanced version of the smart home hub, equipped with a robotic arm, that could arrive with a higher $1,000 (roughly Rs. 84,400) price tag.
If the company is thinking of developing its own TV set, the company would face competition from several manufacturers such as Sony, Samsung, LG, and Sharp — these firms offer a range of TVs across price models, while Apple can be expected to introduce a model with high-end specifications.
Apple’s TV set could also offer support for features available on its TV box that include Siri, HomeKit, and more. It’s currently unclear whether Apple will use the same operating system — tvOS — on the purported TV set.
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Apple’s Wall-Mounted Display Might Not Support Third-Party Apps
According to the report, Apple’s first smart home device powered by Apple Intelligence will comprise a 6-inch display that appears to resemble two iPhone units placed next to each other. It will reportedly be equipped with a camera and built-in speakers that enable support for video calls, and it can be used with optional bases that are equipped with speakers.
Apple is also developing a new operating system for the new wall-mounted display that is codenamed “Pebble”, according to Bloomberg. It will reportedly feature a customisable home screen that shows icons for various apps, while widgets will provide information at a glance.
The first-generation smart home device, codenamed J490, is expected to feature support for the company’s applications such as Apple News, Apple Music, FaceTime, and Safari, but it is unlikely to include an App Store, as per the report.
While the wall-mounted display is expected to operate independently, it will reportedly require an iPhone to be set up. There’s no word on the hardware powering the device, but we can expect to offer performance on par with Apple’s A17 Pro chip or an M1 chip, along with 8GB of RAM.
Apple has spent over three years on developing the new wall-mounted display and the company plans to launch the device in March 2025, according to the report. It could be available in black and silver colourways.
Meanwhile, another advanced smart home device that is equipped with a robotic arm that can move a display is reportedly in development. It is unclear when Apple plans to launch this device, but it could be priced as high as $1,000 (roughly Rs. 84,400). Meanwhile, the wall-mounted display is expected to have a much lower price tag, according to the report.
Apple Picks Goertek to Produce New Products Arriving in 2026
In a post on Medium, Kuo states that Apple is planning to launch its first smart home IP camera device in 2026, which will offer wireless connectivity with Apple’s other devices, as well as software integration with Siri and Apple Intelligence. According to supply chain analyst, the company is looking at a long-term goal of annual shipments of over 10 million, and has picked China-based Goertek to be the sole assembler for the product.
Apple’s second product will be an upgraded version of the company’s AirPods truly wireless stereo (TWS) earphones, Kuo claims. The analyst predicts that the company’s upcoming AirPods will also focus on health-related features, and that these earphones will be assembled by Goertek
Earlier this year, Apple announced that the AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) would be updated with support for using the headset as a hearing aid — the company received approval from the US FDA in September.
In 2023, a patent related to a wireless audio product was spotted online, that suggested Apple was working on AirPods sensors that could measure brain electrical activity, while another report claimed that Apple was designing a new AirPods Pro model that could monitor body temperature using inbuilt sensors.
Citing supply chain reports, Kuo claims that Goertek’s relationship has Apple has “normalised” in the second half of 2024, months after it lost many orders due to “supply compliance issues”. Goertek is expected to be the sole supplier for the smart home IP camera, and the primary supplier for the next-generation AirPods.
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