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| Sunday, January 21, 2007 |
| Airtel SBI Mobile Credit Card for Farmers |
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The Indian farmer is all set to go Hitech with the introduction of Mobile / Wireless credit cards by Bharti Airtel Ltd in association with State Bank of India.
A pilot project is under way in 9 villages and full commercial deployment may take another 12 months. Currently, farmers in India are provided with Kisan Credit Card, which is just a piece of paper. [Private Bank's Rural Credit facility is much more secure and sophisticated with Bio-Metric identification].
How does the Mobile Credit Card work ?
A farmers data can be loaded onto a mobile phone and radio frequency identification technology allows this data to be retrieved remotely. Does this mean our existing handsets don't work ? Or where is the data loaded onto ? Into a SIM ? Now when the farmer wants to do the purchase, he can walk into the shop and the shop keeper needs a specialized phone which will act as a card swipe machine when the customers phone is within 20 cms range ? Will the farmer authorize the transaction through his phone ? What about other security features ? Hopefuly, they'll all be addressed.
Telcos in India who now see Villages as future growth markets are set to woo farmers with all these kind of applications such that mobile becomes a platform for communication in India rather than the bulky PC.
Tags: Mobile India, m-Commerce India, Mobile Credit, Airtel SBI Card
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| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| Buy Tata Indicom PostPaid Connections Online |
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 Tata Indicom today became the first service provider in India to sell Post-Paid conenctions on the web. Tata Indicom unveiled, iChoose platform to BUY Tata Indicom Post Paid connections with a wide variety of Mobile handsets.
The service is not available on a PAN India basis but covers major states. The site is very well laid out and is also giving the customer an option to choose his own number amongst the pool of available numbers. Mere 20% of cell phone subscribers in India and Asia are Post Paid while 80% of them opt for prepaid connections.
Tata Indicom is a CDMA based service provider and has 14.4 Million mobile subscribers in India.
Tags: Mobile India, Tata Indicom, Post Paid Mobile, CDMA
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| Published on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 11:43 AM |
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| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| iPhone the Converged Device from Apple Inc |
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 Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone the coolest looking device that every hip person wants to carry around. Let’s check out what’s the super hype all about. This announcement in San Francisco turned all the heads from the boring CES 2007 show in Las vegas.
Cool Features :
• Mobile Phone + Camera + WideScreen iPod + Video
• Desktop-class e-mail, internet browsing, Maps
• Revolutionary Touch screen phone, no conventional phone buttons
that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac.
• Built-in Wi-Fi.
• QuadBand GSM phone.
Pricing :
$499 (for 4GB model)
$599 (for 8 GB model)
Carrier:
Cingular Wireless (US).
Availability:
June 2007 (US Only)
Late 2007 (Europe)
Early 2008 (Asia)
Nokia said that iPhone is an interesting phone. Nokia should hire some really good designers and architects to compete iPhone.
Tags: Mobile India, iPhone, Convergence , Multimedia Phone
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| Published on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 3:29 PM |
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| Nokia N93i - Ultimate Camera & Video Phone |
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 Nokia will be releasing a new version of N93, N93i, specifically targetting the professional photographer and videographer.
N93i lets you record 90 minutes of DVD-like quality video. Or show-off your photography skills with Carl Zeiss optics. Share your favorite photos and videos online by uploading direct from the Nokia N93i.
N93i is a triband phone with EDGE/GPRS support. It has a 3.2 Megapixel camera. It has 50MB internal memory and a 2GB MiniSD card. It has FM radio and supports MP3/AAC/M4A/eAAC+/AAC playback formats. It also supports .3gp, .mp4, MPEG-4 video, H.263 video file formats.
N93i has following connectivity interfaces - USB 2.0, Infrared, WLAN 802.11E and Bluetooth. So far the only phone with all the interfaces a converged device can have :-)
Tags: Mobile India, Nokia N93i , Video Phone , MultiMedia Phone
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| Published on at 9:32 AM |
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| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 |
| Sony W200i walkman phone by May 2007 |
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Sony Ericssoon has unveiled the launch of Sony W200i walkman phone in the budget / low cost phone series. It is a TriBand GSM phone with GPRS and MMS support.
Key features of W200 are 128x160 pixel display, 0.3 megapixel (VGA resolution) camera and the Sony Ericsson W200 doesn't come with Bluetooth. It has internal memoery of 128 MB and expandable memory using Memory Stick Micro cards - with 128Mb in the box and with a maximum capacity of 1Gb. It has FM radio, Infrared and USB support.
The W200i will come in Pulse White and Rhythm Black colors as shown above and below.
Tags: Mobile India, Sony WalkMan Phone,Sony W200i , Sony Ericsson |
| Published on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 at 10:55 AM |
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| Nokia N76 launch by April |
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 Nokia will luanch the slim flip N76 model in India by March-2007.
N76 is very sleek with following dimensions 106.5 x 52 x 13.7 mm and the weight is 115g. It has 2.4 inch color screen.
It has a 2 MP camera with 20x digital zoom. It truly fits the N series Music edition with a 2 GB SD Micro storage.
Suggested retail price in India for the N76 is Rs 23,500.
Tags: Mobile India, Nokia N76, Nseries , Music Phone
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| Published on at 10:34 AM |
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| Sunday, January 07, 2007 |
| Wireless Subscribers Growth Estimates |
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 India is the fastest growing Wireless market in the world and is expected to grow 47% in FY2007 and 31% in FY2008 according to Citigroup wireless research group.
Current Mobile subscriber base in India is 143 Million and here is the circlewise break-up of each operator.
Citi's revised targets suggest that India is likely to have 239 Million mobile subscribers by the end of Marc-2008 and around 313 Million subscribers by end of March-2009 representing a mobile phone tele-density of 21% and 27% respectively.
India is likely to achieve a wireless tele-density of 51% in 2016 with mobile subscriber base at 665 Million.
Tags: Mobile India, Wireless India , Wireless Subscribers, Citigroup Wireless
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| Published on Sunday, January 07, 2007 at 9:38 AM |
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| Tuesday, January 02, 2007 |
| Bangalore Railways Starts SMS Ticketing |
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 We have already know about mobile ticketing for weekend entertainment. Everybody is aware of the efficiency of our South Western Railways staff and the fight to get a platform ticket when you bid adieu to your loved ones.
Some Good News. Airtel and BSNL Cellone mobile users in Bangalore can purchase their platform ticket by sending an SMS to 64629 [Airtel] or 3939 [BSNL] with content "PFT". The cost of the ticket is Rs 4 billed to your Mobile. After you send the SMS you will receive a confirmation code which you have to key into an vending machine at the station and the physical ticket will be dispensed to you.
However, Spice, Reliance, Hutch and Tata Indicom Mobile users have to still go and stand in the Queue to get their platform ticket.
Tags: Mobile India, SMS India , SMS Ticketing, Mobile Ticketing
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| Published on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 8:52 PM |
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