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New Li-Ion Battery might keep your phone’s charge for days

One of the researchers at Stanford University might makes our lives easier . They have found a way to use silicon nanowires to significantly boost the power of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries which are commonly used in mobile phones.

The latest innovation is as a result of the battery developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion, known as Li-ion, batteries.

Yi Cui has published his findings under “High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires ” Continue reading “New Li-Ion Battery might keep your phone’s charge for days”

Poll : Mobile Internet Usage in India

Hi Readers,

The Apple iPhone has increased the mobile internet usage in the USA and UK.

But in India its a different story , only a small percentage of mobile users use internet on their mobile phones.

We are running this poll titled “Do you use internet on your mobile phone ?”

We have kept the choices damn simple .. Just an yes or a no..

Do vote and ask your friends to vote as well

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MoDemo – a report

Modemo was a single day event held at Bangalore . You can see the announcement.
The event was held at the Airport Road office of ThoughtWorks International.
The folks behind MoMo Bangalore have put together this event.

About 20 Demos were presented.
The coolest part was meeting people who are doing / tracking mobile stuff.
The crowd comprised of a gentle mix of people from startups, hobbyists, product brands and the likes.

The event went on from 9am in the morning to about 6:15pm in the evening.
Rajan from MomoBangalore made the welcome speech and mentioned that the idea of a MoDeMo is inspired by a
similar event in the Silicon Valley. Continue reading “MoDemo – a report”

December 07 Mobile Prices Update

Hi Users,

We are sorry for the delay in updating the prices earlier.

We have updated the prices for over 150 Models we will be releasing the updated pricelist for remaining 100 models soon.

Nokia New models of the Month

Sony Ericsson

SONY ERICSSON W580i

SONY ERICSSON W910i

SONY ERICSSON K850i

MoDeMo – Where The Mobilists – Show & Tell

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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Continue reading “Sony Ericsson W960i Live Pictures”

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.

Continue reading “Vodafone India plans JV to expand operations in India”

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.

Continue reading “Opera Mini 4 get the full web on your phone”

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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Continue reading “Nokia N82 leaked on website”