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| Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| Nokia 6300 - Pre-launch Review |
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 Looks like Nokia is determined to challenge the Moto Razr's slim and sexy looks. Nokia will be releasing the Nokia 6300 in Q1-2007 in India.
The Nokia 6300 is a GSM/EDGE (900/1800/1900 MHz; 850/1800/1900 MHz) triband phone. It is 11.7 mm thick, slightly thicker than Motofone and its clones which are mere 9mm. Nokia 6300 has a 2 inch 240 x 320 pixels (TFT) QVGA with up to 16.7 million true colors
Imaging : 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom. Awesome.
Multimedia: Video recorder and player. Music player supporting MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, H.263, H.264. FM stereo radio with Visual Radio. Streaming video (3GPP). DRM release 2.0
MMS: OMA MMS 1.2 for creating, receiving, editing and sending multimedia messages (messages up to 300 KB) Push to talk Instant messaging. Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging (AMS) - to send voice or sound clips via MMS
Memory: 7.8 MB internal user memory. Expandable memory: microSD card up to 2 GB
Connectivity: Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate (includes SIM access and Headset and Handsfree profiles) and stereo support for headsets.
Battery talk time is expected to last for 3.5 hours. And guess the price tag ? Maybe around Rs15,000 [$300] ?
Tags: Mobile India, Nokia, Nokia 6300, Nokia Motorola
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| Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
| Motofone - Low Cost Localized Mobile Phone |
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 Earlier this month during Motorola's CTO, Warrior's visit to India we had reported about Motorola's plan to launch low cost mobile phone in India. Motorola has branded the low cost phone as Motofone and will be launched in India in the couple of days.
Both GSM and CDMA versions of the phone are available and is modeleld on the basis of Moto Razr, just 9MM thick. Motofone has introduced a fantastic feature - Voice Prompt localized in several Indian languages English, Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi, Telugu and Kannada. Battery talk time is 300 minutes.
The GSM version of Motofone phone will be sold around Rs1,600 in a bundled offering with Bharti Airtel Ltd, Idea Cellular Ltd and BSNL.
Tags: Mobile India, Motorola, Motofone India,Telecom India
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| Published on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 1:59 PM |
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| Sunday, November 26, 2006 |
| LG offers KG110 localized phone to Airtel Mumbai |
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 LG India will offer Bharti Tele-ventures Ltd, Airtel customers in Mumbai a localized handsets LG KG110.
This mobile phone is exclusively designed for Airtel customers only and has some unique features such as coloured display, 32 Polyphonic ringtones, a phone book of 500 and SMS facility in English, Hindi or Marathi.
To avail this offer, you should be subscribe to a new Airtel pre-paid account. This offer will provide customers with 2 years incoming and outgoing validity, free Airtel to Airtel outgoing calls worth Rs 2499 with a validity of 24 months.
Tags: Mobile Deals, Mobile India, Airtel, LG Phone
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| Published on Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 6:34 PM |
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| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| Nokia N91 with 8GB and N97 with 20 GB Hard Drive ? |
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 Mobile India had an exclusive coverage on Nokia N Series Music edition in October. We had reported about the 8GB internal HDD on N91. These devices Rock!!!
The Nokia NSeries is the convergnce of phone with your music player. Nokia is a big pusher of Symbian phones and Symbian last month announced that 100 Million phones are out in the market running on Symbian platform. If you are a company like Apple or Microsoft just concentrating on music player, time to short both AAPL and MSFT.
 Our insiders have tipped that Nokia N97 maybe a direct hit on iPod and Zune. Unconfirmed reports say that N97 is expected to have a 20GB HDD. Time to transfer your songs to N97 and push your iPod on eBay :-)
Some of the other promising features of N97 are, 3-inch QVGA (240x320) display, a 5 megapixel digital camera with flash, 2.4x optical zoom and 20x digital zoom, video recording at 15 fps, an FM radio tuner.
Tags: Mobile India, Nokia NSeries , iPod,
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| Published on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 9:18 AM |
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| Saturday, November 18, 2006 |
| Airtel Launches SongCatcher in India |
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 Bharti Airtel Ltd, has launched instant SongCatcher for Airtel customers. What is SongCatcher ? SongCatcher lets you download a song from Airtel if it is available in their database. Currently Airtel has 25,000 songs in their database.
How SongCatcher works ? Say, you are listening to a song being played on FM radio and you would like to download the song - All you will have to do is, just dial a number and hold your phone within 1 meter of the device playing the song. SongCatcher uses voice recognition technology powered by SK & CC of South Korea and identifies the song and will let you download it to your mobile phone.
Call your Airtel customer care to know the fees and other details.
Tags: Mobile India, Airtel SongCatcher , Mobile Music, Mobile Entertainment
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| Published on Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 9:29 AM |
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| Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| Worlds slimmest phone now in India - Samsung - X820 |
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 The world's slimmest phone, Samsung X820 is now widely available in India.
X820 weighs mere 65gms and is 113 * 50 * 6.9mm. It has 80 MB shared memory and a 2 megapixel camera. It also has a 256 K color display ina sleek TFT. Equipped with Media playback and supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC as well as WMA files.
The phone runs on tri-band GSM/GRPS/EDGE networks (900/1800/1900) and offers Bluetooth as well as USB connectivity. The battery can easily last for 2 days.
The retail cost of Samsung X820 is Rs 11,500 in Bangalore, India. |
| Published on Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 8:49 PM |
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| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| Blackberry Pearl 8100 launched in India |
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RIM, has launched Blackberry Pearl 8100 in India. It is for businessmen and employees on the move where e-mail is a part of their nervous system. The Pearl is different from its previous peers because this has camera, Mp3 player and all the features required to make it a truly upscale mobile phone.
It has trackball at the center. A QWERTY Keypad. Slightly thicker than a Moto RAZR. It has the same UI as its past peers. E-mail and Web is what the pearl is meant for. It can sync with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus. It comes bundled with Google Talk and Yahoo! messenger.
You asked for a Camera and you got it. It has 1.3 megapixel cam. The music player on the Pearl is capable of MP3 and AAC playback with ID3 tags support. Pearl doesn't have FM capability. Pearl 8100 is a tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone. It has Bluetooth and USB interface. Blackberry pearl is priced at Rs 24,900 in India.
Tags: Mobile India, Blackberry , Blackberry Pearl
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| Published on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 11:42 AM |
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| Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| Will cellular marketing take off in a big way ? |
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 We have heard talks from various startups and mobile service providers about cell phone marketing becoming the next big medium in India. When ?
Lets have a look at what's in-play and what's holding them back ? The only successful mobile campaign is by Hutch in Mumbai. Hutch runs and manages a campaign on behalf of restaurants and cinema halls offering discounts on Tuesdays when the demand is the poorest. Another similar service is offered by burrp! - when you download business card of an establishment, you may also get a gift cupon.
What's Holding them back ?
"Advertisers want to bulk message the subscriber base of a telecom company, which amounts to spam. Telcos are very rightfully opposed to this," he says. Kejriwal has a slightly different perspective" said Arvind Rao, CEO, OnMobile
"No responsible telco will reveal details about their users. The telco will not be willing to participate until it has a business proposition and the necessary permission from the subscribers" said Naveen Chopra, Chief Marketing Officer, Hutch
"Mobile advertising is only a supplementary medium. We will need to have more traditional agencies spreading it as a part of the media mix. But there is need for intervention from specialist agencies to support the mainline agencies too" said R Lakshminarayanan, CEO, Mudra Marketing Services
Adding to their woes is low penetration of higher-end handsets which means advertisers have no choice but to test SMS based ads only. OR They can go for a model where mobile calling can be free.
Tags: Mobile India, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Advertising
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| Published on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 7:24 PM |
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| Sunday, November 12, 2006 |
| Mobile Handset Manufacturers Market Share in India |
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 You asked for it, and you got it. Market share of cell phone handset manufacturers in India. Here is the latest statistics.
Nokia: As expected with rocking sales day after day, year after year, can you expect them to be slackers ? No Way. Their marketshare was whopping 73% in Sept-05 and at the end of Aug-06 it had increased to 77%.
Motorola: The American giant has woken and is trying to catch Nokia in India. Indians love Nokia so much that it may just be a Mission Impossible for Motorola. Motorola has grown from 2% market share in 2005 to 10% in Aug-06.
Sony-Ericsson: What went wrong is anybodies guess. It lost market share in the past year from 8% to 5% at the end of Aug-06.
Samsung: Another loser in the cell phone handset war in India. Samsung lost 5% market from 9% to 4% at the end of Aug-06.
Others: Other lesser mortals like LG, Panasonic, Siemens and Philips together have a mere 4% market in India.
Tags: Mobile India, Mobile Handset Market India, Nokia , Motorola
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| Published on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 7:19 PM |
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| Wednesday, November 08, 2006 |
| Reliance India Mobile video streaming to go Live |
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 Reliance Communications Limited, will turn the switch on for mobile video streaming for the first time in India on Thursday when Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer will deliver his keynote in India.
Mobile video streaming is similar to a webcast and is useful to provide online video of popular event footage to millions of viewers on a mobile phone.
Currently, 50% of Reliance India Mobile handsets can support video and audio streaming. I am sure, Wedding and Birthdays will be the most streamed occasions.
I am still not very clear from this article how can I subscribe to a stream that is being done by my friend in Mumbai ? Has he got to inform me ? Or will I be able to search for available streams ?
Tags: Mobile India, Reliance India Mobile , Mobile Video , Mobile Stream
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| Published on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 at 2:08 PM |
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| Sunday, November 05, 2006 |
| Nokia to Ship 20 Millionth handset manufactured in India |
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 Nokia India unit located at Nokia Telecom Park near Sriperumbudur, Chennai will ship 20 Millionth handset manufactured at this location.
Jukka Lehtela, Director-India Operations, said,
"It has been an exciting eleven months with many challenges and successes. When we started production, our target was to meet domestic requirements. However, today we are already exporting to South East Asian countries. On every metric, we have seen tremendous growth".
PM Manmohan Singh visited the facility in Chennai today.
Tags: Telecom India, Nokia
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| Published on Sunday, November 05, 2006 at 1:13 AM |
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| Friday, November 03, 2006 |
| Motorola to launch entry level mobiles |
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 Finally, the folks at Motorola have realized the needs of an Indian consumer - Low cost Mobile with FM. FM is very popular in India and with the entry of Reliance BIG FM in the market, listeners have been enjoying Local, National and International music. This will get the Aaam Addmi to Rock'n'Roll wherever he is :-)
Motorola's executive vice-president and chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior said,
"This is a mass market product. It will have basic phone features and FM radio. Motorola has been working on developing and launching sub-$40 handsets specifically targeted at developing markets including India. These handsets are meant to give us volumes"
Tags: Mobile India, Motorola, FM Mobile, Low Cost Mobile
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| Published on Friday, November 03, 2006 at 12:32 AM |
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| Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| Lakme Fashion Week on Web and Mobile |
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 Lakme India fashion week will be available Live on the web. The event's content will be made available for your mobile phones as well.
To access the webcast of the event live, check out Sify's Lakme website.
To get the latest updates on your mobile, send an SMS to 7007 with code "LFW". Users can also log on to Mauj's WAP website for some coverage. Download the latest Wall papers, Videos and Video Ring Tones of the event from Mauj. Check out Mauj for more details.
Tags: Mobile India, Fashion India, WebCast
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| Published on Thursday, November 02, 2006 at 12:35 AM |
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