Snapdeal offers cashback and mobile protection plans on Google Pixel and Pixel XL

Online marketplace Snapdeal on Monday partnered with Google Pixel, the first Google smartphone, as their online retail partner, offering cashback and mobile protection plans. Snapdeal is offering Rs 10,000 instant cashback from Yes Bank, Rs 10,000 e-cash from Yatra and a free mobile protection plan from Allianz worth Rs 5,999 on the Google-Assitant powered Google Pixel and Pixel XL. “Pixel has already established a new benchmark in quality and we are confident that coupled with our offers, this phone is going to be a hot seller for us,” Vishal Chadha, Vice President (Market Development) Snapdeal, said in a statement. Both the Pixel and Pixel XL have similar internals. The phones run on Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 821 chipset – which is also the chipset required to ensure the phone is Daydream VR ready. The Snapdragon 821 chipset houses a quad-core processor with two custom Kryo cores clocked at 2.15GHz and two Kryo cores clocked at 1.6GHz. These are paired with Adreno 530 graphics solution. There is 4GB of fast LPDDR4 RAM onboard. In terms of storage you get two variants – 32GB and 128GB. The Pixel offer a 5-inch Full HD display while the Pixel XL offers a  5.5-inch display with QuadHD resolution. Both run on on the latest Android 7.0 Nougat update and in terms of connectivity, you get a single nano SIM card tray, 4G VoLTE, Wi-fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS with A-GPS and GLONASS, NFC. Both the smartphones feature a 12.3MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture and am 8MP front-facing shooter with f/2.2 aperture. With inputs from IANS