Some users are also reporting that their pre-orders have been shipped in the UK and Europe

Press release

Espoo, Finland – The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores. To coincide with the arrival of the Nokia E72, Nokia has also released research* revealing that more people rely on email than on traditional phone calls or text messaging when sending and responding to critical information.
Speaking about the research results, Nokia vice president Ukko Lappalainen said, “The research shows that people are spending an average of five full days per year – equivalent to a full work week – responding to emails. Half of us (46 percent) choose email over voice or text to send and receive important information. The Nokia E72 was designed exactly with this kind of person in mind – it allows the owner to be more responsive and communicate how they want, whenever they want and wherever they are.”

The Nokia E72 builds on the formula from Nokia’s most successful full QWERTY keyboard device, the Nokia E71, and adds important new functionality such as desktop-like email and chat experiences. Morevoer, the latest version of Ovi Maps with A-GPS navigation and compass, an optical navi key and 5 megapixel camera are all packed into the sleek, beautifully-designed handset.

The Nokia E72 also comes with Nokia’s push consumer email service, Nokia Messaging, and now for the first time people can set up instant messaging (IM) directly from the homescreen, accessing communities such as Windows Live(TM) Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Chat. Just like chatting via the desktop, people can respond to friends and colleagues across multiple communities in real-time.

The Nokia E72 can also accommodate multiple work and personal email accounts and, with separate profiles for work and play, allows people to be flexible when it comes to choosing how, when, where and who to respond to. While work emails rank as the most important messages to receive, they are not necessarily the most urgent messages to respond to. According to Nokia’s research, half of respondents (49 percent) prioritise their partners ahead of their bosses or managers (29 percent), colleagues (23 percent) and even customers (31 percent).

The Nokia responsiveness research was commissioned to examine the various factors that influence how people respond to various issues and situations. In addition to the research, an online campaign that invites people around the world to respond to various issues and comments from TED Fellows.

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Samsung have announced the badaOS for their mobile phones. It will be a replacement to the Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. The name “bada” is derived from a Korean word signifying “ocean”. The name was chosen as it represents the endless possibilities with the OS.

Samsung bada is a new open platform that enables a richer user experience in applications on Samsung mobile devices.

Right now no further information on the platform is available. Sasmung only gives us a sneak peek and slight info at an official site.

The official announcement should be in December when Samsung will officially launch the OS along with the SDK.

Here’s the link to the official site

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Google has announced that it has acquired the Mobile Ad Network AdMob for $750 Million. This acquisition will enhance Google’s foray into mobile advertising , while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this growing new mobile space.

In a statement, Google’s Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management, said that, “Mobile advertising has enormous potential as a marketing medium and while this industry is still in the early stages of development, AdMob has already made exceptional progress in a very short time. AdMob is the quintessential Silicon Valley startup — generating impressive year on year revenue growth — and we’re excited to welcome this talented team to Google”.

We have been continuously watching from past few months on how mobile space is growing, with great phones with full Internet browsers and vibrant app marketplaces coming out  and driving the mobile internet usage exponentially. And with great mobile advertising products and effective monetization of the mobile content we think it will skyrocket the growth of mobile internet further more.

What do you say?  Pass on your comments below.

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Nokia announced today that it has filed an infringement complaint against Apple, alleging that Apple’s uberfamous iPhone is infringing on 10 of their patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.

According to a press release from Nokia, these patents have been licensed by some 40 other companies which includes virtually all the leading mobile device vendors, allowing the industry to benefit from Nokia’s innovation whereas Apple has always refused to agree to the appropriate terms of the license and has not paid for the right to use it ever thereby attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation.

We will be covering this new twist with a great detail as it progresses and will be back with more details as soon as we get it.

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The much anticipated Nokia Booklet 3G will be available on AT & T from October 22, which is a few days from now. The device will be available at a introductory price of $299.99 with an AT&T Data Connect plan two-year activation at $60/month. Nokia Booklet 3G will be sold at all Best Buy locations in US and as well as at 50+ Best Buy Mobile standalone stores across USA.

The Intel Atom-powered Nokia Booklet 3G sports a premium design and runs on to-be soon launched Windows 7, It packs in 12 hours of battery life, which enables people to happily leave their power cord behind and still be connected and more productive, all thanks to the built in 16 cell battery inside.

Built of Aluminum chassis, Nokia Booklet 3G weighs around 1.25kg, has a 10.1 inch HD-ready display and is slightly more than 2 cm thin, It supports Embedded 3G/ HSPA  as well as Wi-Fi including Nokia’s broad suite of Ovi services.

The laptop also features a HDMI port for HD video out, a SD card reader, a front camera for video calling, integrated Bluetooth, integrated A-GPS with Ovi Maps, and the latest version of Ovi Suite.

So are you planning to buy one? Do tell us via comments.

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Cashing on the phenomenal growth of Twitter since a year, Airtel is launching a third-party application that allows you to receive Twitter SMS updates directly onto your phone called “tweetSMS”.

Initially when Twitter was launched, they had SMS updates option and they were sending the users their replies and their friends updates via SMS but somewhere in 2008 Twitter stopped sending free SMS updates to users, and instead started teaming up with different service providers around the world to create an economical and easy way to get SMS updates on your phone. In India, Twitter has teamed up exclusively with Airtel to offer the SMS service for an unknown period of time.

Atul Bindal, President, Airtel Mobile Services added that this is one of their consumer-connect initiative to help retain high-end customers and also bring in more subscribers, especially the youth brigrade onto their network. Kunal Bajaj, MD of consulting firm BDA Connect. agreed to Mr. Bindal’s Statement and added that the launch of tweetSMS is clearly intended as a retention and brand image play rather than a revenue play. However, after mobile number portability is introduced, it could help attract other subscribers to the Airtel network.

To signup for tweetSMS, An Airtel subscriber simply has to SMS Signup to 53000 and then follow the instructions that comes via SMS to complete the registration process and start tweeting. This application allows you to stay in touch with your twitter friends and also update your status without needing any internet connection on your phone. However note that the cost would be Rs 1/SMS sent.

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DS 100 has been designed especially for Indians with features like “Talk and See” and “Hello India” at an affordable price . The Talk and See feature enables users to talk on the phone and simultaneously use the torch (in-built towards the bottom of the phone) for light. The “Hello India” feature enables mobile phone users to converse through SMS written in Hindi. DS100 also offers an MP3 Player with an expandable memory of upto 2 GB as well as supports GPRS capabilites. The DS100 is priced at Rs. 1,785.

DS 150 comes with a 1.77-inch display and microSD card support of upto 4GB. It also includes an on-board camera, MP3 Player, FM alarm and Stereo FM with recording and also supports GPRS for for internet browsing. The DS 150 is priced at Rs. 2,300.

DS 180 is a dual SIM candybar phone which comes with a 2MP Camera and a 2.2-inch 262k colours TFT display along with Bluetooth. The DC180 is priced at Rs.3,800.

DS 200 is a multifunction phone with colored screen and an host of multimedia features that includes a VGA Camera, a MP3 Player with Wireless FM, expandable memory of upto 4 GB and Bluetooth with A2DP support. The DS 200 is priced at Rs. 2,990.

The MC 160 is a touchscreen dual SIM phone along with motion sensors. It also features a 3.2 MP Camera and also boasts of a long battery life. The MC160 is priced at Rs. 5,500.

The V170, is being coined as a “Corporate Multi-utility Phone”, which can store more than a 1,000 numbers and also offers an easy import / export of contacts from one SIM to the other and also to the phone memory as well. It also features Call Reject, an Instant SMS facility, a Mini Digital Diary, a Mobile tracker, an Audio Player, a FM Radio with Wireless FM functionality and also with recording. The price of V170 is being kept under wraps and is available only under request.

So which phone are you buying this Diwali? Do tell us via comments.

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MindTree, the popular IT Solutions Company is now getting into the development of Mobile phones now.

This new division in MindTree called N!Mo (Next in Mobility) will deal with conceptualizing, designing,and developing white-label mobile devices for different service providers and OEMs who will in turn brand them and sell it in the global forum.

Samartha Raghava Nagabhushanam, the founding director of Kyocera Wireless India, which MindTree acquired recently, will head the N!Mo division in MindTree.

This new division in Mindtree is expected to bring in revenues of $9 Million (42 Crore Rupees) in the next 6 months and help MindTree in achieving the $1 Billion target by 2014.

(Source: The Times of India)

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Tata Docomo currently offers two different plans for the BlackBerry data service — the “Do 299″ plan and the “Do 899″ plan.

The “Do 299″ plan offers unlimited data usage for e-mail and instant messaging, whereas the “Do 899″ plan offers unlimited data usage for Internet, e-mail and instant messaging.

However, the Voice plans have to be  subscribed separately by the user.

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AT&T has finally announced that, on September 25, it is going to roll out a software update which is going to add the required support for sending and receiving MMS messages for all its iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers.

One of the major qualm of iPhone customers was the lack of MMS support from the AT&T side although iPhone had added the MMS support in its 3.0 Software Upgrade.

AT&T has stated that the projected high data usage of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities was one of the main reason behind the delay in the rollout of MMS Support for all the iPhone 3G and 3GS Customers. You can read the complete AT& T’s company statement here.

Now that AT&T is rolling out MMS Support for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers, I wonder how long will it take for Vodafone to roll out the same thing in India. What do you say? Do Pass on your comments.

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