Consumer durables gaint Videocon today announced that in the next 100 days it will be rolling out its commercial GSM mobile services in 100 Indian cities and expects 10 million subscribers in three to four years. According to the earlier announcement the company plans to use its extensive all-India dealer network (over 10,000 existing Videocon dealers) to reach customers and expects to have 10 million subscribers in 3-4 years of launch.
The operator will also tie-up with Planet-M” & “Next” electronics retail outlets to sell its GSM Sim cards. Videocon Telecommunication Ltd (VTL) which has been recently renamed to Videocon Mobile Service is the subsidiary of consumer durables major Videocon Group. It is one of eight new operators who has received UAS licenses for 15 telecom circles to provide mobile services.
Microsoft on Monday announced that its Windows phone 7 operating system for mobile phones will be available by this Christmas season, as a whole new platform that incorporates social networking, music, video, photos and games to provide a rich, personalised user experience. At the Mobile World Congress that opened here, Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer unveiled the features that the Windows Phone 7 to be manufactured to specifications laid down by the company, will offer.
The phones will support the capacitative touch interface now popular with users, and revolve around the concept of ‘hubs’ on-screen for people, pictures, office and mail applications, music and video. Making the hubs the core of the navigation system, with dedicated keys for start, search and back - the most frequently used functions - and providing the ability to display configurable individual ’tiles’ on the display screen for the people and applications that matter most to the individual user will differentiate, in Microsoft’s view, the Windows Phone 7 from the personal computer, and other phones.
Thus, a user can feature tiles for individuals, which would show connected activity for them on Facebook, Windows Live and so on. Full-featured synchronisation and integration capabilities with other Microsoft products such as Office, Outlook, the music player Zune and the gaming platform X-Box Live has been built into the new system.
Samsung India has announced the launch of its Android based Galaxy Spica i5700 for the Indian market. This android based smart phone has been debuted in the UK and Russia in the month of October and now is all set to entice the Indian consumers.
Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica is the version of the Samsung Galaxy i7500. Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica comes with a capacitive screen measuring 3.2-inches with a resolution of 320×480 pixels supporting 16milion colors. AMOLED technology provides truly saturated beautiful colors with good image quality. It vaunts HVGA touch screen display, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS and Google mobile services, Google search, Gmail, calendar, You Tube and Google talk applications etc.
This new Android based smart phone has a full QWERTY keyboard with Bluetooth activation/deactivation. The Spica runs Android edition 1.5 and comes equipped with 800MHZ processor in comparison to the 528MHz core integrated into the i7500.
The phone is incorporated with a 3.5mm headset jack and 3.2Mega Pixel auto focus camera with Geo-tagging feature. A MicroSD card slot has 32 GB expandable memory with 180 MB storage and it has a standard Web-kit based browser. Other features include Accelerometer sensor, larger capacity battery Li-Ion 1500 mAh that produce up to 650 hrs standby and up to 11 hrs 30 min talk time.
Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700 is the first Android phone to support DivX and Xvid files. This new smart phone is available in Black-Red and White-Green colors and is tagged at a price of Rs. 14,750 with one year limited warranty.
Samsung India has launched the C5130 in Indian market. Designed specially for users with active social life, the handset’s homescreen comes with 8 favorite SNS shortcuts including Orkut, Picassa, Facebook, and YouTube. Owing to its integrated full HTML browser and 3G capability, users can easily surf internet on their devices, at a faster speed. With this capability, users can access favorite sites for news, weather updates and various blogs.
“The C5130 mobile is clearly targeted at the youth who are looking at staying connected with their friends at all times, need fast and easy internet access and good multimedia features in their phones, all features being made available to them in an attractively priced package, as indeed the C5130 does”, states Ranjit Yadav, Director -IT & Telecom, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. The Samsung C5130 offers a 1.3 megapixel camera with image editor functionality to edit images and customize them as well. It supports Bluetooth that allows users to upload and share images with their loved ones.
The C5130 packs in MP3 player and FM Radio which entertain users while on the go. Users can customize the look of their devices as it is pre-installed with three types of user interface. The handset supports expandable memory up to 8GB, mobile tracker and talktime up to 13 hours. Users need to shell out Rs. 6,200 to purchase the stylish Samsung C5130 slider handset.
Nokia the worlds leading mobile phone giant today announced the launch of Nokia 6700 Slide and Nokia 7320. The Nokia 6700 Slide and Nokia 7230 GSM mobile phones are compatible with UMTS/3G network and also optimized for social networking direct from the mobile phone over the internet.
The Nokia 6700 Slide features include 5 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Dual LED flash and capture key, Internet browsing with HSDPA and HSUPA and support for email and Ovi chat, FM radio and music player and support for up to 16GB microSD memory card. The phone packs S60 based operating system and it comes with 3G/UMTS connectivity. Its functions are useful in the way they should be. There are sufficient features to makethe phone an interesting alternative and viable option compared to many other handsets.
According to the Nokia the phone will be available in six colours including pink, red, petrol blue, aluminum, lime and purple. The Nokia 6700 Slide will retail in India for Rs.11000 and will be available in early 2010.
The another slider Nokia 7230 3G GSM mobile phone features include a 2.4-inch display, 3.2 mega pixel camera, FM radio, Bluetooth, Xpress audio messaging and 2GB memory.The phone will run on S40, OS and its comes in Colors-Graphite and Hot Pink. The Nokia 7230 is enable with 3G/UMTS connectivity at 384 kbps. The Nokia 7230 will retail in India for Rs.7000 and will be available in early 2010.
Nokia E72, the much awaited device has finally arrived in India. Nokia E72 device is considered the successor to the very famous E71. Nokia E72 brings a rich mobile email and instant messaging experience right out of the box, making it the perfect device for people that want to be productive in both their personal and professional lives.
Ilari Nurmi, Vice President at Nokia said, “Despite the outstanding market performance of the Nokia E71, we still continually look for ways to enhance the device,” “So we included the desktop like email experience from the Nokia E75 and gave it a new optical navigation key for more intuitive scrolling through menus, emails and fast panning of images. We also upgraded the camera to 5 megapixels and added a standard 3.5 mm audio jack.”
The phone also comes pre-installed with Nokia Messaging and a host of Office Productivity Suites. For the first time, users will be able to set up instant messaging (IM) accounts provided by Nokia Messaging direct from the home screen. In just a few steps, device owners will be able to connect to their favorite IM accounts such as Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi, amongst many others.
Other notable features include A-GPS and compass with integrated Maps, including lifetime walk and 10 days of turn-by-turn navigation if activated within the first three months. Conversations are also clearer with active noise cancellation, and a torch can be activated with a single press of the spacebar key. Nokia E72 has more or less everything that the E71 fell short of. The phone has been priced at Rs. 22,989.
LG India has launched of 3 new handsets in the mobile category - GW525, GT505 and GM730. Resembling miniature computers all three handsets offer features that boast of powerful processors, abundant memory, easy operating systems and social networking services. Designed with usability in mind, LG’s offerings will highlight the touch friendly, easy to navigate and user friendly interface which delivers an easier and faster experience for users. The new phones not only possess features that ease out business operations but also offer great social networking tools.
The new range offers seamless and unrivalled mobile experience making them an extremely convenient device. We are positive that these new offerings will function as a complete professional as well as personal organize and play a pivotal role in growing the mobile handset category in the coming months . said Anil Arora, Business Group Marketing Head, LGEIL. The GT505 not only gets the user to their destination; it also affords them fast connection to the internet once they are there, either via WiFi or HSDPA 3.6. Take a photo with its 5.0MP
Built around a 3D cube layout, the S-class UI of LG GM730 and Windows Mobile combination makes the device quite easy to operate. Email, for example, is easier to set up and use because the phones schedule and contact lists are connected. This means users can send and receive messages using less key presses than on regular smartphones, making the process of sending an email smoother than ever.
Advanced multimedia features such as a 5 megapixel camera, MP3 player and numerous action-packed games make this phone a full-featured entertainment device. The LG-GM730 incorporates LGs signature style with a slim, seamless profile and smooth, stylish rounded edges. At just 11.9 mm and highlighted by an elegant chrome band, this slim handset is the perfect on-the-go device for new as well as experienced Smartphone users.
A brilliant set of gadgets by LG are priced at a very affordable range in various store in India. LG GW525, GT505 and GM730 are priced at Rs. 14000, Rs. 15000 and Rs. 22,500 respectively.
Acer, the PC maker has debut in the mobile phone segment and has revealed its first android based smartphone on 14th of October. The handset is the world’s first Qualcomm Snapdragon processor based and world’s first Android 1.6 high definition smartphone.
The new handset is a part of Acer’s Liquid series and its model is Acer A1 Liquid. The Liquid features a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor for snappy response, a Wide VGA (800 x 480 pixels) resolution capacitive touchscreen display, and high-speed HSPA data connectivity. A1 is the third smartphone after the TG01 and the HTC HD2 to feature a 1GHz processor. It is also the first Wide-VGA smartphone in the market that should easily benefit from the latest release of the Android 1.6 Operating System (aka Donut).
The A1 Liquid is equipped with a 3.5-inch capacitive display that also aims to take full advantage of 3D gaming and to offer users a better Android experience. It will also feature a new UI. The phone will arrive with GPS system. The A1 Liquid will have all latest technology like 3G involved which will help users for social networking and video streaming.
The worldwide availability of the MSI U210 netbook will spread to the U.S later today when MSI makes it official.
You can already find it on Amazon or Newegg for $430. The U210 is a 12″ computer that runs on an AMD Neo processor, as a 1366×768 display, 2GB of memory and a 250GB hard drive.
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