MoDeMo – Where The Mobilists – Show & Tell

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If you are a person who likes mobility and like meeting like minded people MoDeMo is the place to be.

MoDeMo – Mobile Demo

MoDeMo is a one day event aimed at being a place to show, share and discuss the most interesting and trendiest things in the wireless and mobile space in India. It hopes to gather early adopters, trendsetters, experts, developers and entreprenuers among others to summarize the happenings of 2007 and collectively provide glimpse into trends in 2008 in the burgeoning mobility space. Continue reading “MoDeMo – Where The Mobilists – Show & Tell”

HTC touch Dual up for grabs in India

The HTC Touch Dual which was announced in october should be finally up for grabs this week at various stores across the country in India

The HTC Touch Dual is priced at Rs.29,990 and would be available for purchase at all HTC retailers across the country

The HTC Touch Dual is a great improvement to the HTC Touch which had only a touch screen and the physical keypad was missing . 

The new touch phone adds a real Touchable physical keypad in addition to the TouchFlow Display

Will you be willing to pay almost 30k for this phone ?

Sony Ericsson W960i Live Pictures

Dailymobile.se just posted some live pictures of the Sony Ericsson W960i which might come any time to India. The phone is a Nokia N95 and Apple Iphone competitor with touchscreen , wifi and the likes.

The phone has 8GB of memory and a TV quality screen and a 3.2 Megapixel Camera

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Vodafone India plans JV to expand operations in India

Vodafone is currently in expansion mode in India. According to a Wall Street Journal report

Vodafone is planning Joint Venture to speed Indian Expansion.

Theres a lot of rivalry between telecom operators in India but when it comes to cutting costs they seem to be joining hands. Setting up towers is a very costly deal for the tel cos.

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Reliance launches Rural Mobile Application Contest

If you are a mobile application developer and want to win up to Rs.13 lacs in prizes checkout the

Reliance Rural Mobile Application Contest

Applications can be developed for both CDMA and GSM technologies.

Eligibility

The contest is open to those who are registered with the Reliance Developer Program and includes:

Software Professionals
Self- employed Professionals
Students
Companies
Content vendors/ aggregators

Contest registration ends on 25th December 2007

Verizon Wireless – Use any app and any device from 2008

Some good news for Verizon wireless users. You might no longer need to stick to the devices offered by Verizon.

Come 2008 , you might be able to use Any App Any Device according to a company press release.

This is a seen as move to tackle the Android – gphone launch and also Apple’s 3G iPhone plans.

But wait there’s a catch. These devices need to be tested and approved in a 20 million facility.

Any device that meets the minimum technical standard will be activated on the network.

More information is expected in early 2008.

Interesting note : Verizon is not part of the Google open handset alliance 

Nokia E61i, N81 and N95 8GB get new firmware

Some good news for Nokia E61i , Nokia N81 and Nokia N95 8GB users . Nokia has released the latest firmwares for thes phone which are available for download via Nokia software update.

I have to try upgrading my Nokia E61i to the latest firmware this weekend.

Heres a screenshot below from Aallaboutsymbian shows the latest firmware for the N95 8gb as v11.0.026

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Nokia E61i gets predictive input accoring to e-series

I will try it and post my experience.

WARNING : Upgrading Firmware might break your phone and you will loose all data on the phone

So please upgrade only if you know what you are doing !!

Opera Mini 4 get the full web on your phone

Opera Mini 4 is out for download and has already crossed 1 million downloads. Its a great piece of software to browse the full web on even a low-end phone over a insanely slow GPRS connection.

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For folks how have not heard about Opera – Most of you would have heard about Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox for the PC. There is also another widely used browser called Opera which is known very well for its mobile offerrings.

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Win a free Nokia N95 N81

Looks like Nokia is promoting its NSeries lineup again in India.

The N95 , N95 8GB and N81 are available in the market and they are the most recent entrants to the NSeries range.

You can win a Nokia  N95 and N81 by signing up at the Nokia’s digital playground

The Contest runs only till the 30th of November , meaning you just have 14 days more to try our luck

So Hurry up !!

Thanks to Rajiv for the tip-off

3G Coming soon to India

The Indian Government has announced its 3G policy today

Till now in India a GSM or 3G Handet makes no difference. Most Smartphones are have 3G , but never used.

Time might have come for us to use the 3G feature in our phones.

Government is opening up the battle for GSM players and CDMA (EVDO) players

Bidding among the operators might start shortly.

 

Nokia N82 leaked on website

Some guy from mobile-review has posted the Real Pics of the Nokia N82 and we proved to be right when we wrote Nokia N82 Confirmed

The photos below are taken from the Nokia website.

The Nokia N82 looks has the looks  Sony Ericsson – atleast the keypad.

Seems like its inspired by the K810, W880i.

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Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte and Nokia 8800 Arte just out

Nokia has just announced 2 new 3G handsets The 8800 Sapphire Arte and the Arte which are a part of the new Arte Collection

Key Features

  • Stunning 2.0″ QVGA 240×320 pixels, OLED display with up to 16 million colors
  • 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with 8x digital zoom
  • 3G capabilities
  • 1 GB built in memory space
  • MicroUSB all-in-one-connector
  • Anti-fingerprint coating on metal and glass

DESIGN

Timeless elegance combined seamlessly with the latest technology.

MATERIALS AND QUALITY OF CRAFTSMANSHIP

Premium materials crafted with an exquisite attention to detail create a phone that feels solid and substantial, yet slides open smoothly and effortlessly.

UNUSUAL FEATURES

Rare, stylish features like touch sensitive controls and living wallpaper underline a magical sense of exclusivity.

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Nokia N82 Confirmed Almost !!

We can almost confirm that the Nokia N82 is coming soon.

Looks the the section below which was got my nokia’s site.

Series 60/3.1 Nokia N82

This says it all

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Also notice the image below taken from the Nokia beta labs site

Nokia N82 is listed in the list of Compatible devices.

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We already posted tat Nokia N82 might be announced

Sony Ericsson W380i walkman phone

Sony Ericsson added one more low end phone to its walkman phone range – Sony Ericsson W380i Walkman phone

Sony Ericsson TrackID functionality

You can store upto 271 songs on the 512 MB card or tune in to the nearest FM Radio Station.

Hear a song on the radio you don’t recognise but really like? Use the W380’s TrackID feature to tag a clip from the phone’s radio (or any external source) and find out instantly who sings it, what it’s called and which album it’s from.The TrackID functionality, available on the W380, the W890 and a host of other Walkman phones – is one of the phones most popular features. Latest figures show that every second, someone, somewhere, is using TrackID™ to identify a song they love.

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Sony Ericsson Gesture Control Feature

This W830 phone comes with the new gesture control feature which lets you mute calls or silence the alarm with a wave of your hand.The W380’s Gesture Control feature allows true ‘handsfree’ handling of your calls for the first time – show it off to your friends!

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Sony Ericsson W830i Price and Availability

This clamsheel phone will be available for purchase in early 2008 in 2 colors  Electric Purple and Magnetic Grey.

Theres also a 512 MB memory card in the package

Now word on the pricing yet
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For Specs and Price check out our Sony Ericsson W380i phone page