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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 |
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In a bid to boost the Blackberry Mobile services, Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM mobile service operator today announced the launch of Unlimited Chat and Email service over BlackBerry phones just at Rs.99 per month. Before you jump with joy, let me clarify it-The service is only for new Blackberry service subscribers and available on BlackBerry smart phones with Airtel Postpaid connections. As a promotional offer, the monthly service charge of Rs.99 is for first 6 months from the date of activation and after 6 months the regular BlackBerry plan charge of Rs.299 per month will be applicable.
The Data usage is restricted to Email and Messganges data. Internet browsing does not available with this plan.To subscriber the service Airtel postpaid customers can send SMS <take99> to 543210.The offer is valid till 19th February 2010. This service is specilly tailored to access Email via “BlackBerry Personal Mail” while on the move and stay seamlessly connected with instant messaging on your BlackBerry smartphone. “BlackBerry Personal Mail” is a unique offering to customers in India.
The “BlackBerry Personal Mail” service plan offers unlimited access to the industry-leading email and instant messaging features of BlackBerry Service, allowing Airtel customers to access up to 10 supported POP3/IMAP email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail) as well as various instant messaging services (including Windows Live Messenger, GTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger) from a single device.
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010 |
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Nokia has officially announced that they are going to provide free GPS turn-by-turn navigation service for all Nokia smartphones worldwide. There are some Nokia smart phones that are currently enjoying the free GPS navigation such as the 5800 Navigation edition and the 2700 Navigation edition. And they’re adding more phones to get the free GPS, which are listed for you after the jump.
The Nokia’s free GPS service on Nokia Smart phones is also backed by Nokia Ovi Maps, with a new version of the maps to be available that will include high-end walk and drive navigation at no extra cost, turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries as well as detailed maps for more than 100 countries. The Ovi Maps can be downloaded from Nokia website. You’ll also get free event guides, free Lonely Planet guides and Free Michelin Guides on the system.
The Nokia N97 is not in the list above, but it’ll get the Ovi Maps starting from Jan 28, whereas the Nokia N900 will probably not get free navigation. Nokia is to launch smart phones pre-loaded with the Ovi Maps starting in March. The free GPS service on Nokia smart phones surely brings great impact to GPS service providers like TomTom and Garmin.
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 |
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India’s Uninor today announced its first month-end subscriber numbers since the launch in December 2009. By the end of the month, Uninor, which is majority owned by Norway’s Telenor, had secured 1.2 million subscribers in the eight telecom circles where its GSM services are available. “We are building on our launch - scaling up our network and our distribution. We will continue to focus on customer experience, and compete for every new subscriber. In a competitive market it will never be easy, but we have a long term ambition and we have made a positive start,” said Stein-Erik Vellan, Managing Director of Uninor.
The company launched in the circles of Uttar Pradesh (West), Uttar Pradesh (East), Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh on 3 December and in Orissa on 22 December. “Considering that our subscribers currently come from only eight circles, of which one was launched towards the end of the month, these numbers are encouraging. I credit a committed team and thank all our customers for choosing Uninor,” Vellan added.
“As an industrial player, the Telenor Group has a long term perspective on its operations in India. I am satisfied with the response Uninor has got from the Indian consumers, and I am confident that this will spur Uninor in their efforts to be a preferred provider of mobile services in India,” said Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President in Telenor Group, and head of Telenor Asia.
As per guidelines, the company has submitted its monthly numbers to the Telecom Regulation Authority of India (TRAI), and the Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI).India’s Uninor today announced its first month-end subscriber numbers since the launch in December 2009. By the end of the month, Uninor, which is majority owned by Norway’s Telenor, had secured 1.2 million subscribers in the eight telecom circles where its GSM services are available.
“We are building on our launch - scaling up our network and our distribution. We will continue to focus on customer experience, and compete for every new subscriber. In a competitive market it will never be easy, but we have a long term ambition and we have made a positive start,” said Stein-Erik Vellan, Managing Director of Uninor. The company launched in the circles of Uttar Pradesh (West), Uttar Pradesh (East), Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh on 3 December and in Orissa on 22 December.
“Considering that our subscribers currently come from only eight circles, of which one was launched towards the end of the month, these numbers are encouraging. I credit a committed team and thank all our customers for choosing Uninor,” Vellan added. “As an industrial player, the Telenor Group has a long term perspective on its operations in India. I am satisfied with the response Uninor has got from the Indian consumers, and I am confident that this will spur Uninor in their efforts to be a preferred provider of mobile services in India,” said Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President in Telenor Group, and head of Telenor Asia. As per guidelines, the company has submitted its monthly numbers to the Telecom Regulation Authority of India (TRAI), and the Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI).
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 |
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After the huge success of Corby series Samsung India has launched launched Corby Speed , its first touch screen mobile handset on the CDMA platform. Samsung Corby Speed gives data speed of up to 2.4Mbps. The phone supports full Service (Voice + Data) across all CDMA operators OMH SIM Cards like Tata Indicom, Reliance Mobile, MTS and Virgin Mobile. The Corby Speed comes in bold colours and has pop-style contours and curved body design. The phone has a 2 MP camera, 2.8″ display, music player, FM with recording and 80 MB internal memory expandable upto 8GB with a MicroSD. The Indian subsidiary of the South Korean Samsung sells its CDMA phones through two channels - directly in the open market and through mobile phone service providers. “Currently, the ratio of open market sales to telecom operator sales is 20:80. We expect to change to 30:70 next year,” said company vice president Hendrick Lee while launching a range of CDMA Corby.
The Corby Speed, available on the CDMA platform, has the original Corby’s trademarks of bold colours, pop-style contours and stand-out curved body design. Users can update current status and access friends’ updates, live feeds on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The handset also supports various social networking community sites by integrating leading User Generated Content sites such as Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket and other popular SNS sites including Facebook, MySpace and Friendster directly into the handset’s user interface. Users can upload photos and videos to these SNS and User Generated Content sites. The Corby Speed package includes 3 vibrant color fashion jackets - Yellow , White and Black and is priced at Rs. 10,400.
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Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
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The latest LG Chocolate edition handset dubbed LG Chocolate BL40 has been launched in India by the company for providing Indian customers a slim and sleek device supported by cutting edge technology and very user friendly features. The luxurious handset is very similar to the LG Chocolate BL20 and the firm tried to epitomize style and elegance with the help of newly launched device. Major attractions of LG Chocolate device include a 4-inch wide HD LCD screen with 800 x 345 pixel resolution.
The new phone is also loaded with high quality 5 megapixel cameras with Schinder-Kreuznach lens and flash that would make photography experience very interesting in addition to superior quality. The device, with cinematic 21:9 aspect ratio, also supports Wi-Fi connectivity for accessing broadband at a high speed while FM transmitter makes it easy for listening high quality music and media services. The device also represents S-Class UI featuring finger-friendly 3D graphics and it is capable to offer faster email and internet services. It is available for Rs 30,000 across all mobile stores in the country.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 |
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Indian consumers who want style in their mobile phone at an affordable price can now go out and buy one after Nokia announced the launch of its new slide phone - Nokia 6600i Slide . Priced attractively at Rs 13,000, the phone has dimensions of 93.0 x 45.0 x 14.2 mm and weighs just 110 grams.
The new slide phone also has the capability of doubling as a modem. Some of the best features in the 6600i include Nokia Xpress audio messaging, and speed dialing for SMS sending. Nokia 6600i is equipped with a TFT screen of 2.2″ , which supports a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA). It also has a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and double LED flash.
The Nokia 6600i has an in-built Nokia Music player and offers support for mp3, .wma, .aac, eAAC, eAAC+ formats. Furthermore FM radio users can access channels from 87.5-108 MHz with RDS support. Coming to the e-mail features, the Nokia 6600i supports IMAP4, POP3, SMTP formats. Nokia also said that e-mail attachments are also supported by the phone. Web browsing is made easier with the Nokia Browser, while Nokia Maps application offers GPS and navigation support.
The Nokia 6600i has 20 MB internal user memory, which is expandable to 16 GB via the micro SD slot. The new phone is available in black and silver colors and has a talk time of four hours on GSM networks. Nokia 6600i also offers seamless network connectivity support for 3G, EDGE, GPRS, GSM, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, GSM, HSCSD, UMTS (3G) networks, 850,900, 1800, 1900, 2100 services.
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009 |
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LG India has launched its innovatively designed handset dubbed GD900 Crystal for Indian consumers. The device boasts of LG’s advanced touch technology and Gesture Command. The LG Crystal claims to be the world’s first transparent handset and features intuitive 3D S-class UI. The GD900 sports a 7.62 cms WVGA full touchscreen display and incorporates an alphanumeric keypad that doubles as a touchpad for controlling the handset.
“We wanted to give our consumers a super luxury experience and therefore, developed a handset that touts a gorgeous sliding keypad - the LG GD900 Crystal. The phone’s transparent touchpad feature adds to the personality of our consumers and gives gizmo geeks a wonderful reason to possess it. Not only this, we have made a creative use of hardware through Gesture Command that provides control via simple, on-screen finger movements. We are positive that our new handset will become a winning model of the year,” explained Anil Arora, Business Group Marketing Head, Mobile Communications, LGEIL.
To launch a feature, users simply need to press the handset’s multitasking button and draw one of the 12 easy symbols on the keypad. Further, users can also assign symbols to any of the device’s nine multitasking-enabled features. The transparent phone is also inclusive of a dedicated graphics chipset offering comprehensive multimedia experience.
The Crystal comes with 1.5GB of internal memory and allows expansion till 16GB. The mobile phone packages Wi-Fi capabilities, Dolby Mobile enhanced sound and DVD resolution video recording, 8 megapixel auto-focus camera and media player. The LG Crystal is offered in chrome and titen shades and is made available at all retail outlets nationwide for Rs 26,000.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
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HTC today introduced a new Android-based handset in the Indian market named, HTC Tattoo which offers the user to customize the handset. The handset is positioned around three core principles of HTC Sense, Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected. The handset has a 2.8-inch QVGA display, comes integrated with Google Search, Google Mail, Android Market, 3,2 mega pixel camera, 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and expandable microSD.
The handset is also being offered as part of a bundled package to Vodafone Essar subscribers. As part of the offer, Vodafone subscribers buying thehandset will be offered 20 MB of data per month free for 3 months. The offer is available till January 31, 2010. It is available for a price of Rs 18,400 in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and Rs. 16,990/- in the Rest of India.
Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Vodafone Essar, “We are delighted to provide this exclusive offer to our customers. We recognize devices like the HTC Tattoo enable greater internet connectivity and heavier data usage, and we hope our customers will enjoy the experience with this free data plan.”
“The HTC Tattoo introduces a more natural way for reaching out to the people and accessing important information in a much more easier and hassle-free manner. HTC Tattoo empowers its owner to personalize it in a simple yet powerful manner and enjoy a most distinct mobile experience” said Mr Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
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Samsung brings double treat to all mobile phone enthusiasts by launching the vibrant CorbyTXT and Corby Mate in India. Both these handsets boast of a QWERTY keypad, meant for heavy ‘texters’.
The messaging and emailing experience is further elevated with innovative features like buddy list, chat style SMS, easy Email set up wizard, instant chat messenger and popular SNS sites. The Corby handsets support the various social networking community sites by integrating User Generated Content sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket and other SNS sites like Facebook, MySpace and Friendster.
“These phones are designed to meet the heavy messaging needs of youth, with their QWERTY keypad for quick messaging access, easy email set up and quick access to popular social networking sites. The focus with the Corby series been to offer our consumers choice: choice in terms of the colour of the handset, choice over how they stay connected and choice over the features and functionality that best suit their unique personalities and needs to stay connected,” marked Ranjeet Yadav, Director IT & Telecom, Samsung Electronics.
The CorbyTXT and Corby Mate allow users to update their current status and access friends’ updates, live feeds Facebook, MySpace and Twitter through pop-up SNS. The B3210 features quick launch buttons on the front of the handset offering instant access to key functionalities including music player, camera and messaging application. However the titan grey colored B3313 slider is designed to offer easy mobility and quick touch access to various applications. The Samsung CorbyTXT and Mate carry a price tag of Rs. 7900 and Rs. 7300 respectively.
[Via: unwireindia]
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Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
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Despite a tough regulatory environment for mobile banking in India, Nokia expects to soon roll out its financial and banking services in the country under the banner of ‘Nokia Money’. The world’s largest mobile phone company has initiated talks with six banks in India who will be responsible for cash management and handling banking regulatory issues. As per Nokia’s strategy, it plans to tap its huge network of 1.9 lakh phone retailers and dealers who will act as the consumer point and banking correspondents.
Nokia will offer an universal platform where the mobile phone can be a medium for banking, international remittance, payment of utility bills, pay merchants for goods and services and buying tickets. “India figures amongst the top 20 countries where we plan to roll out Nokia Money in the first phase. While at present Indian banks may have a mobile banking platform, it is limited to a single bank and telecom operator. What we plan to offer is a full-fledged service which will bring together all banks, operators and even handsets of other brands,” said Teppo Paavola, global head of Nokia Money service. Talking about the regulatory challenges in India, Mr Paavola said the key issue will be to turn the Nokia retailers into Nokia Money agent.
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