As all of you have already read, Chennai said hello to some serious technology development, though not commercially available as of yet. Yes Chennai witnessed the launch of 3 G services yesterday . But we covered it yesterday.There is another technology the government has been promising to launch for a long time.
Yes you got it right, it’s about MNP or mobile number portability. Continue reading “Come August, say Hello to Mobile Number Portability”
Well if you have a Nokia smart phone options are that you can well go ahead and dump your magnifying glasses as Nokia have launched a new application in the Nokia beta labs , called, Nokia Magnifier.
In short its a magnifying glass for your smartphone.
Nokia Magnifier application utilizes the existing camera functionality on your Nokia S60 phone. It can be used to improve readability in every-day life situations such as reading “fine print”. Anyone who has difficulty seeing “fine print” or small objects can benefit from using this application readily available on their S60 phone. Nokia Magnifier has a built in stabilizer to reduce the effects of a shaky hand and negative filter enabling users to switch from light to dark backgrounds improving readability. By using the existing camera technology, users can also snap a picture of the enhanced image for later reference.
Continue reading “Nokia launches Nokia Magnifier Magnifying Glass”
Philips Tapster
The name should reveal it all. Though Philips is not very prominent in the Indian Scenario, they are really very good in technology aspects. Philips is actually a technology leader when it comes to Audio and the Green technology. And they are also known for their exceedingly high capacity batteries and reliable low featured focussed phones. Coming to the post , as the name suggests yes and as the picture shows we are talking about Philips latest Bluetooth Headset. So what is peculiar, lot of them are being made from almost everyone including Nokia, Samsung, SE, Iqua, etc. So what is its speciality. Continue reading “Philips Tapster”
Expansys is a major online retailer in Europe and have quite some good reputation and if they are to believed, its good news folks!
Yes, they have posted on their website that Nokia N86 is available for pre-order from them. And what is more inviting and mouth watering is that they have also given it a release date which also co incides with the predicted date conformed by Nokia, which is, July 22, 2009, that does lie in the 2nd Quarter doesn’t it.
Continue reading “Expansys posts N86 Available for Pre Order”
Mobile telephony has entered the Third Generation in India with the launch of 3G services in Chennai, India. Today the 3G services were officiated by the first call being made by The Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nade, Shri M. Karunanidhi and the call was received by the IT & TELECOM Minister A. Raja.
“Considering the need for faster penetration of 3G, and the need for telecom access to rual areas, the Government policy will allow telecom infrastructure sharing between commercial telcos as well as infrastructure providers,” Mr.Raja said. DoT also plans enable mobile number portability (MNP) in major cities by August, and in other towns by end of this year. Bids have been invited of providing MNP switches
Continue reading “BSNL Launches 3G Services in Chennai, India.”
I often see my cousin and I finding it difficult to actually select multiple sms’s for deletion and also for choosing photos to appear as wall papers or even multiple delete without having to each time choose the mark all, mark options in the option menu every time we wanted to in the Nokia 5800.
Thanks to Juriy Bakunin aka JBAK, who was kind enough to notify the short comings, he has released a wonderful application called the JBakPensil. It is the key that allows you to do multiple selection. Older S60 Nokias have this, the new one don’t have it anymore. It allows you to select any 1 key to emulate the pencil key to have the multiple selection option so as to be able to do several editing, selecting and deleting actions at once.
It’s got enough lime light more than a billion downloads and enough share of fame and critics choice. Here is Nokia’s attempt and breaking the groundbreaking software trend that won Apple a million hearts. Apple sold more handsets merely for their support of the App store.
Now Nokia have decided to take things in their stride and come this may Nokia are starting their own version which is going to be called the Ovi store. Continue reading “Nokia App Store is officially called as Ovi Store!”
Nokia just introduced their latest version of the highly popular Nokia Maps v3.0. It has a inbuilt synchronisation with their very own all in 1 service the Ovi. Also it has got better maps than ever before, enhanced Drive and Walk navigation.
Some advantages from the previous editions include the following as found from the Nokia Beta labs page Continue reading “Nokia Maps v3.0 released.”
Well the last fiscal quarter was really brutal and in a sense really thrashed almost every company man kind knew left right. Nokia too suffered a slight loss in its marginal sales and its percentage hold in the world market share. Even then it managed to sell a million plus Nokia 5800 and also launch a hugely innovative sales campaign for it. But then it is closing its (Jyvaskyla) Jyväskylä site and scaling back at its Salo production facility (pictured).
Nokia is well known for its impeccable fashion of announcing new handsets in typical panache, like how no body would guess or expect. But in a recent video two new Touchscreen phones called as the Ivalo and Madeleine were leaked [Courtesy : Nokia Roadmap Leak].
The video features Nokia N97 Designer Axel Meyer
Ivalo
The picture that you see above based on the way it looks or atleast how they want it to look is supposed to be the Ivalo. It packs a 3.5″ wide touchscreen, 32GB ROM, AGPS, FM transmitter and receiver, 5MP camera, WiFi, TV-out and Bluetooth. Wow thats quite some specs. Cool just waiting for it to land in the stores. Continue reading “2 More Nokia TouchScreen phones expected to be lauched soon”
Just hot on the heals after announcing the first firmware update version 11 for the Nokia 5800 Nokia have taken the logs directly to Firmware version v20.0.012. This is the latest firmware version that is available for Nokia 5800 users via the NSU.
The firmware update brings about native geotagging of your photos. This new firmware re-enables the feature that allows the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to save location information from the phone’s GPS receiver to your photos, so that you can browse them by location on Flickr or Share on Ovi.
Continue reading “Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Firmware Update – v20.0.012”
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is indeed a good phone and owing to its brand new OS it does have some glitches. Anyways who does get things right in the first move. So Nokia have decided to get things right and have released the First Firmware update for their mass market touch phone Nokia 5800. We in India dont have to bother to actually download the firmware as all phones bought after Jan 10th have the firmware pre installed. Continue reading “What does the Firmware v11.0.08 have in store for your Nokia XpressMusic 5800”
Yes you saw it right. Google Maps for Mobile, the native S60 version, just hit v3.00 an hour ago.It looks awesome and very user friendly as always. Several new features and minor improvements in the user interface have been provided. The main change is the addition of Google Latitude, Continue reading “Google Maps v3.0 released.”
The Nokia N78 has got a new firmware update v20.149.051.1. It sure does make the phone more stable and has still few missing items that we always wished the phone had.
Dailymobile.se has posted the complete firware change log. Given below for your viewing.
Change Log of the new Firmware update v20.149.051.1 – Continue reading “Nokia N78 gets Firmware Update to 20.149.051.1”
Reliance Communications launched its GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) service here yesterday as part of the recent nationwide service initiative.
A company press release said that customers choosing reliance Mobile GSM service can avail a unique plan, which offers up to 100 per cent savings to those having ARPU(Average revenue per user) less than Rs 100 in the state at a one-time subscription charge (including GSM SIM) of Rs 35 only.
