More research is out showing that today’s youth view their mobile phones as an extension of the online lives from their PCs.
The report from In-Stat points out that the generation aged 8 to 27 use their mobile phones to access their social networks wherever they are.
This news is great for companies attempting to bring PC [...]

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One more high-end handset LG Voyager that will be available from Reliance for its CDMA users.
The handset was showcased at this year’s Mobile Asia held in Delhi earlier this year.

Steve Koh, country head of LG CDMA elaborates,

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Nokia launched 2 new handsets the Nokia N79 and N85.
The N79 is a candy bar handset where as the N85 is a dual slider much like the N95.
N79
Touted to be a multimedia phone, the handset comes with changeable back covers in five colours: Light Sea Blue, Espresso Brown, Olive Green, White and Coral Red.

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The price of the 3G iPhone stumped those who were eagerly awaiting its launch in India. To counter the ‘non-affordability’ factor doing the rounds among buyers, Vodafone has decided to offer the handset of easy 6 monthly or 12 monthly instalments.
It is rumoured that the company is holding talks with financial institutions to initiate a [...]

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The latest debate is whether the newly launched Nokia N96 is any competition to the Apple iPhone.
While the two handsets are very competitively priced Nokia will be in the range of Rs 32,000 – 36,000 and iPhone through Vodafone will cost Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,000), we think that Nokia N96 wins hands down. Nokia [...]

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 The Palm Treo Pro (christened 850 previously) is a Windows Mobile PocketPC for GSM users.

The handset is not launched yet, but its images have been splashed all over the internet lately.

 Specs &features at a glance (likely changes may occur):
• 400Mhz CPU
• 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM!
• 320 x 320 pixel screen

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A lovely candy bar styled music phone is making its march fast from the mobile giant Motorola. Bundled with music key, FM radio and microSD card slot the W388 sports a VGA camera.. Armed with a  with dual-band GSM (850/1900MHz or 900/1800MHz) support for a good connection the phone supports seven African languages.  Motorola’s CrystalTalk [...]

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The BlackBerry will be on offer from Tata by October 2008.
Despite the controversy courted by the BlackBerry by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, Tata has undertaken to stand up for any policy changes that the government may undertake.

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The Nokia Arte 8800 was launched way back in November 2007. Read Fonearena’s coverage of the launch here.
Read full specs of the range here.
Then Nokia launched the Arte Sapphire; a handset with similar specs and features, changing only the look of the handset with a value adding Sapphire gemstone in the centre of the D-pad. [...]

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I got this email from Vodafone today which released the prices of the iPhone.
Apple products don’t come cheap.
But how many of you will pay 31,000 for an iphone ?
I don’t think its affordable to most people . Also 3G does not make any sense in the indian context.
Vodafone has released the prices but still no [...]

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