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The Government has allowed handset makers another year to move from an older standard for certifying batteries to a new one. The decision, manufacturers said, will give them enough time to comply with the rule and reduce the time required to take products to the market, ET reports. The Bureau of Indian Standards has informed companies that it will allow concurrent running of two battery certification standards issued in 2012 and 2015 till August 2017, after which only the latter one shall remain. “If manufacturers who have models as per 2012...

Handset makers have reportedly against putting a panic buttons on the existing mobile devices as directed by DoT. Handset makers want the rule be applied to only new devices. According to the Economic Times report, handset makers have clarification on the cut-off date for putting panic buttons on the new devices. The handset makers have said that the maintenance release (MR) for known versions of the software would be anywhere between $500,000 and $750,000 (Rs 3.35 crore and Rs 5 crore) per device software version. “Considering the huge number of models accumulated...