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| Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
| Samsung Ultra Edition 9.9 D830 Slim Phones |
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With the success of Moto Razr, the world has started chasing Slim Phones just like Men seeking a slim date ;-) . Nokia entered the segment of Slim Phone late but with a rocking Nokia 6300. Samsung is giving Motorola a tough time in India with it's cool new D830.
 (The Phone featured above is, Samsung D900 and costs Rs 19,000 in India).
Samsung D830 is a tri-band GSM/GPRS phone without 3G support. It comes with a 2.0 MegaPixel Camera without any flash or auto-focus but the clarity of pictures are cool. The phone has Bluetooth along with stereo A2DP support for wireless headsets while on the move. It also has USB 2.0 support. D830 has around 80MB of internal memory and it also comes with a microSD/TransFlash memory card slot. D830 like its peer doesn't have FM Radio. However you can play music in any of the following - MP3/AAC/WMA player  (Samsung Ultra Edition 9.9 D830 is as shown above)
Battery life is approximately half a week with average talk time. Samsung Ultra Edition 9.9 D830 is priced very aggressively and costs mere Rs 9,000 in India.
Tags: Mobile India, Samsung India, Slim Phones, Mobile Handsets
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| Saturday, December 23, 2006 |
| BSNL's any Indian Language SMS application |
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 State owned BSNL which deployed a multilingual disastser alert system for mobile subscribers have announced the availability of new Java application that will enable you to send SMS in any Indian language.
The multilingual SMS application is developed by Bangalore / Bengalooru based Geneva Technologies. This is being offered at no additional cost to BSNL customers and is likely to increase SMS traffic on BSNL network as BSNL has a huge rural subscriber base where local language rules.
Requirements for Multilingual SMS:
Java enabled Handset with MIPD 2. GPRS enabled SIM and facility to download the application.
At the time this article is being written the Java application was not available on BSNL's WAP portal. Contact your customer service if you are interested in the same or your local mobile vendor who will install the application locally.
Tags: Mobile India, SMS India , Mobile Localization, BSNL
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| Published on Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 6:52 AM |
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| Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| Nokia - New Years Eve Party Mumbai |
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 India's leading handset company, Nokia is a throwing a grand party across 5 cities in the world - Mumbai, Hong Kong, New York, Rio and Berlin on the eve of new year.
In India, Nokia will Rock'n'Roll at the Andheri Sports complex in Mumbai. Nelly Furtado will perform with A R Rehaman, Shahid Kapur and Priyanka Chopra. To book your ticket, SMS "TKTS" to 5555 or contact one of these locations Nokia Outlets, Cafe Coffe Day, PlanetM or CineMax Multiplex. Also check out the NewYearsEve website.
Also they have some contest, contact your nearest Nokia Priority Dealer and win a ticket to party at Hong Kong. Offer valid on Nokia 5300 Xpress Music, Nokia 5200, Nokia 5500, Nokia 3250, Nokia 6233, Nokia 6270 and Nokia 6280 at Nokia Priority Dealers in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Pune. Tags: Mobile India, Nokia India, New Year Party 2007, Nokia New Year
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| Published on Friday, December 22, 2006 at 12:13 AM |
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| Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| Mahabharat live on Reliance Mobile |
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 Earlier this month, Indian comics were distributed on Mobile. Just a while ago, Reliance Mobile announced it's tie up with Rajshri Films Ltd to secure the rights of popular epic, Mahabharat to stream Mobisodes[ Mobile Episodes] to its mobile subscribers. Subscribers of Reliance can watch the Mobisodes on Mobile TV. They can also download short video clips of Mahabharat and games.
Check out your RWorld now :-)
Tags: Mobile India, Reliance Mobile, Mobile TV , Mobile Entertainment
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| Published on Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 1:00 AM |
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| Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| Indian Music Legends on Nokia N series |
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 After Bollywood Monetizing heavily on the Mobile Platform, it is time for Nokia. Nokia executive Vineet Taneja along with India's famous Ghazal Singer, Jaggit Singh, launched Nokia N Series Music edition pre-loaded with 100 songs by Indian Music Legends - Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Mohammaed Rafi and Mann Dey.
These set of N series Phones with pre-loaded 100 songs will cost between Rs 20, 000 and Rs 30, 000. The songs come with DRM and you won't be able to transfer the songs to any other mobile. Transferring maybe done from certain handsets but they can't be played on any other handset :-)
This is a very good initiative from Nokia however, paying additional Rs 3,000 for 100 songs seems to be pricey? Right ?
Tags: Nokia N Series, Mobile India, Mobile Music, Nokia Music Edition
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| Published on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 6:29 PM |
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| Hutch introduces i-mode to Indians |
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 Troubled Hutch CEO, Asim Ghosh is showing no signs of weariness. I haven't been able to test their Plant Hutch services but looks like they want a bigger pie of the Mobile Value Added Servieces market.
Asim Ghosh negotitated with Japanese NTT DoCoMo to introduce i-mode technology to Hutch customers in India. What is i-mode anyway ? i-mode is a proprietary packet-based information service for mobile phones. i-mode delivers information (such as mobile banking, and train timetable) to mobile phones and enables exchange of email from handsets.
To use i-mode, you need to use i-mode enabled phone and here are some popular i-mode phones,
In India, Hutch plans to import i-mode enabeld handset and intends to sell them below Rs 4,500. i-mode service is charged just like the GPRS and in Japan where it is very popular, subscribers pay as high as $ 25 / Month to avail i-mode services.
Tags: Mobile India, i-mode India, Hutch i-mode, i-mode Phones
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| Published on at 6:21 PM |
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| Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| Toshiba Mobile Phones to Rock India |
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 With Japanese mobile phone market nearing saturation with 75% penetration, Toshiba is looking overseas for growth. Toshiba is Microsoft's preferred vendor for Laptops and tablet PCs and is also manufacturing Microsoft's music player - Zune.
Toshiba will initially launch one GSM mobile handset in India within a few weeks, which would be marketed and distributed by the company along with a UK-based trading company in the country
Toshiba is in tie up with HCL Infosystems Ltd to market and service Toshiba Laptops in India. It is not clear if HCL will be the retailer for Toshiba Mobile Phones in India as company officials didn't take any questions.
Toshiba has several models of Mobile phones TS808, TS705, TS608 and TS605.
Tags: Mobile India, Toshiba Mobile, Toshiba India, Mobile Phone
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| Published on Thursday, December 07, 2006 at 8:48 AM |
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| Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| Nokia N Series - Podcast Phones - Multimedia Computers |
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 As I have already said in the past, Nokia is quietly racing towards convergence adding more and more features to their phones.
Podcast is one of the successful applications of Web 2.0 and it didn't take much time for Nokia to enable their N series phones to be Podcast compatible [You can subscribe and listen to Podcasts. Can't record one like in iPod, but using external applications and depending on the amount of memory available, you can record a Podcast]
Nokia has released few N series phones as Internet Editions / Multimedia Computers. N80, N91 and N93 are Podcast compatible. Though you have to install this software to listen to Podcast. I am wondering why can't the same software be installed on N70 and still be able to listen to Podcasts ? Any ideas ?
Tags: Nokia N Series, Nokia Podcast, Mobile India, Nokia Multimedia Phone
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| Published on Monday, December 04, 2006 at 11:07 PM |
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| Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| Nokia Mobile TV with Doordarshan in India |
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 Nokia, India's number one mobile handset company in association with state owned TV network, Doordarshan will launch Mobile TV in Jan-07. Nokia will power this service using its DVB-H broadcast mobile TV open standard-based technology.
During the pilot project, Doordarshan will test the reception quality, coverage and explore the options of supporting different service schemes such as advertising and interactive services.
How is Mobile TV broadcast different from 3G streaming already available on platforms like Planet Hutch ?
Mobile TV works by receiving a digital TV broadcast signal optimized for mobile devices from the air in much the same way as TVs at home do. While in case of streaming video service over 3G or GPRS each user gets a dedicated stream. In case of Mobile TV, one simultaneous TV broadcast stream can be received by any number of users.
Tags: Mobile India, Mobile TV, Mobile Video, Nokia
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| Published on Friday, December 01, 2006 at 8:33 AM |
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