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Monday, May 24th, 2010 |
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LG Fathom VS750 has just been officially announced by Veirzon Wireless – not long after the largest US carrier has unveiled the LG Ally, its newest Android 2.1 smartphone. LG Fathom VS750 is a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 smartphone and, like the Ally, it comes with a 3.2 inch WVGA touchscreen display, and a sliding QWERTY keyboard. Unfortunately, the Fathom’s display is resistive, so the handset will most likely not be updated to Windows Phone 7 when this comes out later in 2010.
The Fathom further features EV-DO and HSDPA connectivity (it’s a global smartphone), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.2MP autofocus camera, and a 1GHz processor (not sure if it’s Snapdragon or not). Verizon’ business sales channels will sell the LG Fathom starting May 27, while other channels should get it on June 3. The new smartphone costs $149.99 on contract (after a $100 mail-in rebate) and requires a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan and an Email and Web for Smartphone plan.
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 |
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Samsung has announced yet another cheap touchscreen phone, called Samsung Champ .The new Champ is a rather unusual handset, because it has a really small QVGA touchscreen display that measures only 2.4 inches. Even Samsung’s Corby phones (know for being utterly affordable) have larger displays (2.8 inches).
The Samsung Champ also features TouchWiz Lite, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm headset jack, access to Samsung Apps, 1.3MP camera and MicroSD card support. Samsung Champ should be available starting June, in emerging markets in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The phone will have different color versions, including black, white, brown, and pink.
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 |
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India’s leading mobile manufacturer, Nokia has announced on Wednesday to introduce two new handsets-’Nokia X’ and ‘Nokia C’ by the end of this year. Nokia India, Regional General Manager, Chandan Dang said, “We are going to launch two new phone series, Nokia X and Nokia C within the current quarter in the country.”
He also revealed that these handsets are aimed at mid and high level users whose range will start from Rs. 5,000. Right now we have Nokia N and Nokia E in the country where Nokia N is targeted to high end users and Nokia E to the professional people. Moreover Nokia is also planning to launch Linux based Maemo software incorporated phone in India within next three months.
See More: Lava Mobiles.
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 |
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IMImobile, the global technology partner for operators, media providers and enterprises and IL&FS Education & Technology Services limited, one of India’s leading education and training company, today announces the launch of “English Seekho” on mobiles. Introduced with an intent of teaching conversational English language to the non- native speaker, the “English Seekho” initiative will offer a complete ‘On the go’ learning solution.
IMImobile and IL&FS together have taken the initiative to cut down the communication barriers and make the learning experience sufficiently easy so that casual lessons enable a non-native English speaker to effectively pick up English. This most effective and interactive way to learn English language will address the problems faced by non-native English speakers like junior level clerks, traders, unskilled laborers, frontline staff, taxi drivers, restaurant waiters, farmers and others who face problems understanding the English language and conversing in English. The content is available for users’ proficient with 7 Indian languages – Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam and it also provides its users grammar lessons through SMS.
IMImobile provides an immersive, innovative and highly interactive IVR lesson that allows users to learn and practice lessons as well. It also has a testing session at the end of each lesson ensuring a positive learning outcome. English Seekho is a voice based learning solution focusing on learning spoken English for the non-native speaker. The course structure consists of 10 chapters and 44 lessons with one lesson per day of 5-8 minutes. The curriculum provides a special focus on interviews, getting jobs and on job training. The total length of the programme is of 350 minutes. The range of service offerings includes focusing on social English speaking on various occasion with various people, interactive IVR lessons as well as practice and recall sessions with multiple choice questions.
To use this application the user needs to call the IVR number and select the language of their comfort. After that they need to select the specific sub-sections of their choice. This application is available at a subscription cost of Rs. 30 per month and call browsing charge of 30 paise per minute.
Madhavan Iyer, Vice President Managed Services, IMImobile said, “We have always been working towards innovation in telecom VAS space, and have realised that the huge potential the medium presents can only be unlocked by expanding the consumption boundaries. Our association with IL&FS Education is another step to expand definition and benefit boundaries of the end consumers. With this alliance we are confident of providing the mobile users an intelligent platform that will enable them to eventually get acquainted with M-learning and thus utilize its services to the fullest.”
Ninad Vengurlekar, Head of New Media in Education at IL&FS Education says – “Globally M-Learning is still at a nascent stage and therefore IL&FS Education is having deep engagements with its subscribers to develop the right instructional methodology and content that can impact learning. For example, English Seekho is built on IL&FS Educations’ long experience in teaching english skills to over 200,000 rural and urban youth and school children. We believe that M-Learning is more about quality of education delivery and less about mobile technology and hence our product development efforts in m-learning have been slow and cautious, rather than fast and frivolous. VAS, by default provides scale in India, and therefore we are focused on developing strong learning outcomes for our products.”
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010 |
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Yamaha India has launched R15 Special Edition in combination of red and white shade like we have seen before in Fazer, FZ16 & FZS. The limited edition version is same like the R15 in terms of technology and engine. R15 Special Edition id packed with state-of-the-art technologies, it boasts performance worthy of a supersport model and a body design that evokes the image of the YZF-R series and gives visual expression to the quality of its ride.
R15 Special Edition is powered by 149.8cc Fuel Injected liquid cooled engine that will be producing an almost impossible 17bhp with maximum torque of 15 Nm at 7500rpm; which makes it like the most powerful bike under 200cc range and has a 6-speed Transmission. Yamaha is showcasing its potential for India with some real performance. Yamaha R15 Special Edition is priced at Rs. 1,11,000 (On-Road Mumbai)
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010 |
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The Garmin-Asus series of GPS-oriented Nuvifone phones has introduced a new phone that’s a bit more affordable while providing all the same GPS features as its bigger brothers. The new Nuvifone M10 has a 3.5-inch resistive touchscreen (65K colours, 480×800 pixels resolution) and runs on the new Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system – the only phone in India to come preloaded with this latest version, according to Garmin-Asus.
Other features of the phone include a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus (but no flash), 4GB of internal flash memory (expandable via microSD), Pocket Office, push email, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP and, of course, GPS with A-GPS. Recognizing that location is relevant to every aspect of every day, the Garmin-Asus M10 is designed with location information at its core and it delivers the most advanced location experience on a Windows phone. Navigation functions – available in both Hindi and English – are linked to frequently used applications such as calendar, contacts, email, internet browser, and messaging; making an exceptionally intuitive and smooth navigation experience. All of the maps come pre-loaded on the phone’s internal memory.
The M10 also has highway mode that tells drivers the next three upcoming street exits so they can plan ahead. The device is ready for automotive navigation out-of-the-box, and it includes everything a customer needs to use the device in a car, including a powered cradle and windshield mount. The Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 is available in India at Rs. 19,990.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010 |
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Of the 500 million odd mobile subscribers in India, around 94% are prepaid, making India one of the world’s larget markets for prepaid topup. According to estimates, every month recharges worth 2 billion USD are sold in India. Most of these are sold through distribution networks created by the mobile carriers. Many attempts are being made to use technology to make this huge logistics chain more efficient. One of the players in the mobile recharge space is mobikwik.com which sells directly to the end user through the web. A customer needs to create an account, make a payment with credit card, debit card or netbanking and get the mobile topup instantly.
Though recharge through internet is convenient, a large section of India’s population do not have access to internet. Mobikwik.com has solved this problem by creating the world’s first recharging system through SMS. Since SMS facility is present in all mobile handsets, this means around 400 million people can now recharge their mobile phones anywhere,anytime. The format of the SMS is very simple: RCamountcellnumber. For example, if a user wanted to recharge 9810598105 with Rs 10, an SMS like RC 10 9810598105 needs to be sent to mobikwik’s cell number ( 9711981981). Currently this service is available only to Indian mobiles.
“Going to a mobile recharge shop is a big hassle, especially for women and elderly since they are either occupied or too infirm to walk. Buying recharge is not like buying vegetables or grocery because the customer need not see,feel or taste the product he/she is buying. All that matters is that recharge should be done correctly. Therefore, mobile recharge is a perfect opportunity to be sold by employing intelligent technology” , says Bipin Preet Singh. Mobikwik.com has managed to create a unique service which is fast, user friendly and might change the logistics of mobile recharge in India.
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010 |
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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.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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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.
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Friday, February 12th, 2010 |
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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.
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