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Standard Chartered India has a mobile app!

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Though it is named Breeze India (!) and requires Adobe Air to be installed on Google Android.

Such a wonderful bank. It cannot provide a native app that does not require a third party component that a lot of us would love to keep away from our phones.

Reviews are fun to read… I got rid of it as soon as it asked me to install Adobe Air. No thank you.

Do us a favor… Create a mobile website instead. And hire a better tech company to manage your backend.

System requirements? Breeze works on devices with Android v2.2 (and above) running on a 1-GHz processor. Neat!

God bless Congress party. Petrol price hiked by Rs. 5!

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So, election results came out day before and the government did not waste another day in announcing a major hike in the price of petrol.

It is up by around Rs. 5. This comes to around 9%. This is insane.

I believe in some places, you would be paying close to around Rs. 70 per liter of petrol. Maybe more.

I switched to diesel cars around 3 years ago because I was tired of dealing with the regular hike in petrol prices. Diesel is usually spared as it is used by public transport. It won’t be long before they start targeting diesel as well.

What is the next best option? There is none. Public transport sucks. Hiring a private auto or car costs a lot more. the government continues to claim that oil companies are still losing money and another price hike is coming up. They would not lower the taxes that pretty much double the retail pricing of petrol. The money oil companies is supposedly losing is what they are paying to the government itself. Just fix the damn taxation structure. Control inflation. Let people live their lives.

Dell India sends me a spammy SMS

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Dell India sends me a spammy SMS

The content:

Dear Cust, your system’s warranty is expires on 24-Oct-09. Kindly contact Dell @ 18004259047, Mon-Fri , with the S.Tag:B2CJ2BS for more information.

Well, I do own this laptop. Warranty has indeed expired. But that was way back in 2009. The laptop is currently lying useless at my place because of some issues in the display. I am not getting it fixed because of the high costs involved when you have to go through the official channel.

The problems with these SMS messages are several:

1. I never subscribed for such alerts from Dell.
2. The message does not really say what it is for.
3. The language is messy and has grammatical errors.
4. They want me to call them! I mean wtf.
5. And so on…

The message originated from LM-Dell. So I assume that they are sending it through Loop Mobile in Mumbai.

PS. I am facing some issues with the ultra expensive Dell LCD Monitor I have. But looking at the mess they have created in India, I am avoiding contacting them for this too.

Annoyance: Standard Chartered India does an Airtel

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Converts my mom’s account to e-statements. The backend panel has no option to revert back to paper statements.

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And of course, they make it extremely hard to get your statements even online. You only have access to three months worth of transactions on their backend.

They do provide 12 months worth of PDF statements but only if you have opted to receive statements by email. And only after the day you enable that option. WTF.

So, in simple terms… You cannot have both paper and e-statements. If you opt for paper statements, you lose your rights to have access to 12 months worth of statements online through PDF. In any case, you cannot access more than 90 days worth of transactions in their backend.

I have no idea why I am continuing doing banking with Standard Chartered India.

Standard Chartered India continues to send me the same old crap when I ask them to fix their system…

I regret to advise you that due to the system constraint, you will be able to view only last three months transactions through our internet banking. However, a print of your online statements can also be taken by accessing the Print option on the top right hand corner of your Personal Home Page.

Of course, asking for a printed statement costs like 150 bucks for each page.