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Acer enters mobile arena with 4 new handsets

Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market around the world, announced the launch of four Pocket PCs, falling into three groups, fulfilling consumer’s needs and views over the mobile market.

Acer targeted its new devices at various mobile Internet usage preferences and consumer attitudes, after surveying over 30,000 consumers. The new devices include M900, F900, X960 and DX900.

The new handsets the company announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona are not the only ones that will come from Acer in 2009; more are expected to be unveiled later this year.

Group 1: Acer M900 and DX900 – Smartphones that communicate, inform and entertain

The first group would include trendy and demanding users who need their smartphones to offer a lot in communication, information and entertainment experience.

Acer M900

Aimed at the power user, this is a handset that has it all: great features and smart looks.

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Two new economy LG Radio handsets GB106 GB110

Well, considering the rising popularity of the radio, it is only but expected that radio enabled handsets are gaining popularity in the country.

Keeping the target audience of students and the youth in mind, LG recently launched two new handsets GB106 and GB110 with Radio capability and a new feature: The “Intenna” FM radio do away with the need to attach a headset to turn on the music. Both handsets are capable of accessing all radio stations without connecting the wired headset to be used as an antenna since they come with an integrated FM antenna.

LG GB 106
LG GB 106

Anil Arora, Business Group Marketing Head, Mobile Communication, LG Electronics Pvt Ltd. said, “We are happy to launch LG GB110 and LG GB106 which offer a completely new experience to its users. These powerful but affordable mobile sets offer mobile music on the move. At LG, we lay emphasis on understanding the customer needs and work towards meeting their expectations through our new offerings. This launch is in line with our philosophy of providing the best to our customers. I am positive that with the key feature of Intenna FM, these handsets will catch on everyone’s attention and be well accepted.”

Specs and features:

• 1.5-inch colour display

• Extensive phonebook memory

• Stylish leatherite carry pouch

• Black and Gray colours

While the LG GB106 also features an anti theft mobile tracker, the LG GB110 comes up with additional features like a VGA camera, a micro SD card slot (expandable up to 2 GB and 1GB card included) and MP3 full song play back.

LG GB 110
LG GB 110

Price:

LG GB110 is priced at Rs. 3,100 and the GB106 is priced at Rs. 2,100.

Business emailing on Nokia just got easier with email@mobile

Access to real-time business e-mail on the MS-Exchange just got easier for mobile professionals with an easy-to-use, groundbreaking patent pending software solution “email@mobile” from Adroit Claretdene Infotech.

Users can now use their ordinary Nokia phone with WAP 2.0 mobile browser to wirelessly access their corporate e-mail when away from the desk through email@mobile without any monthly subscription.

email@mobile is a simple, affordable and easy-to-use solution that enables users to access their business e-mails on any ordinary Nokia phones like 5310 express, 6300, 3110c etc. (S40 series) while providing security and ease of maintenance for the IT department. Users can read text/ Word, PDF attachments, reply or compose new email, delete or send email, set up address book, View image and add image attachments from any basic Nokia mobile handset. Continue reading “Business emailing on Nokia just got easier with email@mobile”

New Mobile game from BMW for iPhone users

Its raining games at the iPhone Application Store.

BMW Mini’s financial arm has launched “Mini Liquid Assets,” a mobile game available for download at no charge from the iTunes App store.

“Mini Liquid Assets” is an interactive game modelled after the traditional encased water jet games, infused with the Mini brand and intuitive controls that take advantage of the iPhone and iPod touch user interface. BMW’s Mini hopes to increase brand awareness among Apple’s coveted demographic using the application.

The car
The car

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Toshiba TG01 Another iPhone killer

Known so far for their incredible and reliable gadgets, Toshiba entered the mobile phone market with a bang yesterday with the Toshiba TG01.

The largest screen possible 4.1-inches with a WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) resolution and a slim 9.9mm body makes this one of the better picks amongst mobiles of this category, G1, iPhone or BlackBerry Storm.

This doll runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon platform using a Windows Mobile 6.1 OS and has a customized 3D UI. Continue reading “Toshiba TG01 Another iPhone killer”

FREE National and Local SMS on Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile recently introduced a revolutionary youth focused proposition by making SMS the new voice of the youth by ushering in genuine freedom of sending SMSs by making it FREE without any extra pack or upfront commitment.

Virgin Mobile customers will now be able to send 100 National as well as 100 Local; a total of 200 SMSs free daily after just paying for the first 3 SMSs on each leg (National and Local respectively) to any network.

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Offers revolutionary free SMS proposition without any pack
  • Customers just need to pay for first 3 SMSs daily and thereafter 100 SMSs are free
  • First 3 Local SMSs charged at Re. 1/- each
  • First 3 National SMSs charged at Rs. 1.50/- each
  • Post which 200 SMSs are free; 100 Local and 100 National SMSs free daily
  • SMSs can be sent to any number across all networks in the country

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Beware of hoax SMS says Airtel

Bharti Airtel posted an advisory on their website, advising subscribers to beware of certain ‘Unsolicited fraudulent SMS’s’ circulating on the network. According to the Airtel disclaimer, the recent chain of messages informs recipients that they have ‘won a prize and need to call to collect their prize’. On calling the number in the text message, subscribers are billed a high amount (up to Rs. 500/min). Airtel said they noticed these SMSs in one of their circles and are advising subscribers to ignore them. Airtel also warned that replying to such SMSs could result in viruses being downloaded on the subscriber’s phone.

After spam and phishing mails, spam SMSs are making their presence felt. Such SMS hoaxes are not a new phenomenon in India and cash in on the recipient’s incredulity by making use of ‘get rich quick’ themes and ‘free gifts’ to allure mobile phone users. Continue reading “Beware of hoax SMS says Airtel”

Nike launches new iPhone application A must for soccer fans !

Nike has launched a mobile application called Nike Goal.  The application targets Italians who love soccer as well as Nike as a brand.

The iPhone application is an extension of the company’s Nikefootball.com site.

“The purpose of the application is to provide a free service to Italian football [soccer] fans who want to stay connected to the game and the teams and players they support,” said Martina Zavagno, digital marketing and ecommerce manager at Nike Italy. “For us at Nike, connecting with our consumers by providing them great, innovative products and services is a must,” Ms. Zavagno said. “Nike Goal has been launched with this in mind. Nike’s consumers expect us always to be ahead of the game,” she said. “Nike Goal is our kickoff of the game on the iPhone platform. The application right now provides just basic services, but we see it as a starting point. We have a lot of ideas in mind, but we want to grow gradually, adding features and services our consumers want to see on the application.”

Available in Italian and English, the application will soon cover the European Football Championships in the early part of this year.

Mobilemarketer.com

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Interesting facts about Mobile phones in India

As the spread of mobile increases, it makes you wonder about the fine line between what is perceived as luxury and necessity.

One mobile – Necessity

Two mobiles – Luxury

No Mobiles – Happiness

On 17th January 2009, the TDSAT (Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal) held a Seminar in Pune on the topic Disputes resolution in Telecom & Broadcast from where certain interesting facts about Mobile phones emerged.

**India has 374 million telephone lines

**Off this 336 million are Mobiles!

**336 million Mobiles are distributed amongst 250 million GSM and 36 million CDMA

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LG Watch Phone GD910

The LG Watch Phone – GD910 was glimpsed at the recently concluded CES 2009 event and is only a glimpse of what LG is working on for the next iteration of mobile phones.

Nicole Lee from CNet was lucky enough to gather info about the LG Watch Phone and was surprised at how easy it seemed to dial numbers on the tiny dial pad, even though the screen only measures 1.43 inches diagonally.

According to LG, texting will be done in a similar manner with a virtual T9 keypad.

The glass screen on top works as a capacitive touch screen, while on the right side of the watch are three buttons: the Talk, Clear, and End buttons, respectively. The Watch Phone’s speakers were surprisingly loud even at the event.

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BlackBerry Storm launched through Vodafone in India

The BlackBerry’s first touchphone the 9500 or Storm was officially launched in India yesterday.

At Fonearena, we had covered the unveiling of the handset in Oct 2008. Catch the coverage here

Its also the first touchscreen blackberry phone and its different from other BBs which have full QWERTY keypads. Continue reading “BlackBerry Storm launched through Vodafone in India”

Is Apple iPhone Nano coming soon

Rumours are rife about the launch of a smaller version of the iPhone called the Nano in the near future…some speculate as early as Q4 of 2008 (which ends in March 2009).

It is also predicted by these analysts that the Nano will be cheaper than the iPhone.

According to Kevin Chang, a JP Morgan analyst based in Taiwan, Apple is actually looking to “launch a cheaper version of the iPhone in the fourth quarter that could be based on its iPod Nano music player.”

Now this is good news for Indian mobile lovers. Considering the hype surrounding India as one of the fastest developing mobile markets in the world, it can be assumed that the Nano (if launched) will make it to Indian markets soon. Continue reading “Is Apple iPhone Nano coming soon”

MySpace now available on Virgin Mobile in India

Virgin Mobile recently announced a partnership with ‘My Space’ to bolster its youth-centric services portfolio in India.

‘My Space’ social networking services will now be available on Virgin Mobile WAP-enabled phones at no extra cost*on handsets starting at just Rs. 2,999.

Users can access MySpace by simply clicking the MySpace link on vBytes and logging in the user ID and password. New users can begin by creating a fresh id and password.

(* Users pay a daily charge of just Rs. 5/- for accessing vBytes)

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Downloadable mobile application for iPhone users by Kraft Foods

The iFood Assistant, an iPhone and iPod touch application was launched by Kraft Foods, the world’s No. 2 food company recently. It offers consumers access to food and meal-planning ideas. The application targets consumers on the go looking for recipes.

The application can be downloaded from the Apple App Store for installation on any iPhone or iPod touch.

“Our goal is to help make consumers’ lives easier by helping them find the perfect food idea for any occasion, create quick shopping lists and find the nearest grocery store – all just a finger-tap away,” said Ed Kaczmarek, director of innovation for new services at Kraft.

The iFood Assistant includes more than 7,000 tested, searchable recipes with detailed instructions and video demonstrations and an alternative horizontal view to follow along while cooking. Continue reading “Downloadable mobile application for iPhone users by Kraft Foods”