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When Isha Talwar learnt riding a bike in 20 minutes
Chennai : Actress Isha Talwar fulfilled her long time desire to ride a bike in the forthcoming Telugu actioner “Raja Cheyyi Vesthe”, starring Nara Rohit in the lead.
“It was a lot easier than I thought. Although I was really tense, it took me just 20 minutes to ride the bike on my own,” Isha told IANS.
Initially, the makers gave Isha a Ducati bike to ride.
“When I looked at the bike, I knew it’d be too heavy for me to ride. I requested the bike to be changed and that’s when it was replaced by a Yamaha RX 100. I even have a scene where I have to ride with Rohit on the bike,” she said.
In the film, which releases in cinemas on Friday, Isha plays a character with an agenda.
“I play a catholic called Chaitra. Unlike the regular heroines, she has a strong purpose. It’s the kind of role that will leave audiences with something to debate about,” she said, adding she also got to perform some action scenes.
A trained dancer, Isha got to showcase her dancing prowess in the film.
“For the first time in my career, I’ve got to dance to a lovely, peppy number. A lavish set was specially built for the song. I had so much fun to finally dance in my own film,” she said.
Isha’s last Telugu outing was the 2013 blockbuster “Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde”. Since then, she’s been quite busy with a slew of projects in Malayalam filmdom.
“Post “Gunde Jaaria”, the kind of work I got was not as good as what I was getting from Malayalam industry. Since I played the second lead in my last Telugu film, everything that I got after that was in the same zone,” she said.
Isha currently has two more Malayalam projects in her kitty.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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