July, 2014

FlipKart Affiliate API

At last FlipKart has introduced its Affiliate Application Programming Interface(API) to all its affiliates.

Update:
We developed a sample application using Flipkart API, you can take a look at MobiSphere.in

I’m excited to see a wide range of innovative applications which make use of these e-commerce APIs to facilitate/help the end users with their smart buying decisions.

The API generates the response in the following 2 formats:
1. JSON: JavaScript Object Notation (Recommended)
2. XML: Extensible Markup Language

With this initial API release FlipKart is providing Product Base Info and Product Shipping Info. Product Base Info contains all the basic attributes of the product which includes title, category, price etc. Product Shipping Info contains shipping related information regarding the product.

For more details, log into your FlipKart affiliate account and visit the link: FlipKart Affiliate API

I’m happy to see Indian e-commerce site providing API facility. I’ve been mailing FlipKart support team asking for this from years now. I’m very happy to see this coming and more excited to see developers innovate with their product ideas.

Now you will start seeing more and more product comparison sites and ready-made scripts which you can purchase and host to start a comparison site instantly!

Would love to know if you have any innovative ideas which you want to see developed ..if something seems worth, will try to develop it.

For now, my best wishes too all developers who will start testing the API’s immediately.

Xiaomi Mi3 launched in India for Rs. 13,999

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has announced the launch of Mi3(company’s flagship device) in India at a very competitive price tag of Rs. 13999 and it’ll be available on FlipKart from 15th of July 2014.

Order Mi On FlipKart

Mi3 is 8.1mm thin, 145 grams light, and houses an aluminum-magnesium alloy frame, coated with 3 layers of thermal graphite.

Specifications:
5-inch full HD(16:9) IPS display with corning Gorilla Glass protection,
1920×1080 display resolution with 441ppi,
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC with quad-core 2.3GHz CPU,
Adreno 330 GPU,
2GB RAM,
16GB internal storage (non-expandable),
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13 megapixel rear camera(with dual LED flash),
With its Sony Exmor sensor(BSI sensor, f/2.2 aperture) it can take 1080p videos,
2 megapixel front camera,
Connectivity: 3G, Wi-Fi(Dual-band Wi-Fi 2.4Ghz/5Ghz), Bluetooth, GPS, NFCT
3050mAh battery,
( 500 hours of standby time
50 hours of music playback
25 hours of talk time
21 hours of 3G Internet use )

MIUI 5 on Android 4.3

(Xiaomi Mi3’s competitive price and awesome spec’s are surely going to challenge existing budget phones like Moto G and Moto E. Looking at its spec’s, we can even say, it’s a tough competition to high end smartphones like Moto X, Nexus 5 etc..)

Note:
Xiaomi phones don’t come with the Play Store and Google apps in China, but they’re said to support them in India.

Order Mi On FlipKart

Xiaomi is also launching its Mi Power Bank of 10400mAh and 5200mAh capacities along with its Mi3 android flagship device.