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OPPO F1 Plus, ‘The Selfie Expert’, now in Rose Gold
MUMBAI: OPPO Mobiles, a leading global technology brand, has recently announced a new variant of the company’s successful product OPPO F1 Plus, the ‘Rose Gold’ model. The new model is now available in market.
As an upgraded version of the Selfie Expert, the F1 Plus is taking selfies to a whole new level by sporting a world leading 16MP front camera with F/2.0 aperture and ISOCELL sensor. The F1 Plus 16MP front-facing Hi-Light Camera has been purpose-built for catching clear, vivid photos in any lighting condition. Paired with the new Selfie Panorama feature, Beautify 4.0 and the front-facing Screen Flash, the Hi-Light Camera will allow users to get the perfect shot on the first snap, anywhere and anytime. Rounding out the F1 Plus’s outstanding photography experience is the fast, steady and crystal-clear 13-MP rear shooter.
The 5.5-inch, all-metal unibody 4G device runs amazingly fast with a powerful Octa-core processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of ROM (expandable upto 128GB) on the all-new ColorOS 3.0 system. It also comes with a lightning fast, intelligent front facing fingerprint sensor which is able to recognize a fingerprint to unlock the phone in only 0.2 seconds. The F1 Plus comes with OPPO’s patented VOOC Flash Charge, which reaches a 75% charge after just half an hour of flash charging.
The F1 Plus has been well received with great response witnessed in the pre order period and sales kick offs in major cities. Pre-orders were taken across India in the middle of April with lucky draw winners getting OPPO F1 Plus phones signed by Yuvraj Singh, OPPO’s First Sports Ambassador for this cricket season.
In parallel to the success of F1 Plus, OPPO has also been expanding its retail presence across India with store launches in major geographies like Jaipur, Chennai and Maharashtra. The launch of OPPO stores is a part of constant efforts to provide the customers with an interactive and informative buying experience. OPPO is also ranked No. 4 globally in the Top 5 Global Smartphone Brands as per the IDC report.
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
