Friday, November 27th, 2009
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.
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Reliance Communications , India’s largest and only nationwide operator offering both GSM and CDMA mobile services, today initiated a radical move in the Indian telecom industry by making SMS’s more affordable to all mobile customers in India. Reliance Mobile customers can avail of two revolutionary SMS tariff plans:
- ONE PAISE PER SMS
- UNLIMITED SMS’s @ Re. 1 PER DAY
The new SMS tariff plans are add-on plans and are applicable for all Reliance Mobile customers irrespective of CDMA or GSM network as well as prepaid and postpaid customers.
“SMS continues to grow every year with more and more innovative ways of utilizing its potential coming in the forefront. Indians are using SMS as a mode of communication to keep in touch with friends and family. With select subscriber groups, SMS is a preferred communication mode over voice calls. On account of significant tariff disparity in the recent months, it has lost its due share of attention. Considering this, Reliance Communications with its 1st in the industry initiative, aims to revitalize SMS usage in the country”, said Mr. Mahesh Prasad, President - Reliance Communications.
“Like our earlier Simply Reliance offerings of Local, STD and Roaming calls at 50p/min and 1p/sec from any Reliance mobile to any phone on any network, yet to be matched by any competitive offering. With this best in the industry initiative, we offer significant value not only to our existing 9 Crore CDMA and GSM customers, but are also aimed at gaining new acquisitions from high SMS usage groups of the GSM community such as young professionals and the youth across India”, he added.
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
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.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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.
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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
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
Tata DoCoMo , the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices announced its launch of services in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand i.e. circles of UP (East) and UP (West) on Monday. It is offering its popular pay per second billing tariff as well as pay per character for SMSes. For these two circles, the company has earmarked $ 500 million worth of investments.
The service will cover 505 towns and about 17,000 villages in the two circles. A retail network comprising of more than 50,000 outlets will compliment the sales & distribution and customer service processes.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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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