RIM just had it’s Q2 conference call and it was mentioned that the playbook will receive an update to O.S 2.0 which will have many new features including video store where you will be able to rent movies and TV shows.
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Google Voice Actions, that lets you control your Android phone or tablet with voice command now supports additional languages like British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. This would let the users in users in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain to call contacts, send texts, browse the web and do much more using voice commands in their own language. Continue reading “Google Voice Actions for Android now supports British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish”
Vorce [voh-krey], instant language translation app allows users to communicate instantly with anybody from anywhere. It translates your voice into other languages instantly and magically speaks what you’ve said into the selected language when you flip the phone horizontally. The language options include English (US/GB/AU), Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese and Chinese. Continue reading “Vorce – Instant language translation app for iPhone”
eBay India has launched their app for iPhone users. The would let the Indian users log in to their eBay account and shop items. You can also search for an item, get instant alerts when you are outbid or when an auction ends and also compare prices in the store against eBay prices using the phone’s bar code scanner. Continue reading “Shop, Search and Compare prices with eBay iPhone app for India”
Research in Motion today declared the results for the quarter ended Aug 27 2001 and the company saw revenue drop to $4.2 billion. Surprisingly the revenue from services crossed $1 billion as the BlackBerry subscriber base saw a 40% growth to cross 70 million. The company managed to ship 10.6 million smartphones and 200,000 units of the Playbook during this quarter. Although it was not a great Q2 for RIM , it was not so bad considering the new devices like the Bold 9900 hit the stores only towards the fag end of the quarter. Hopefully Q3 will be a better quarter considering the global launch of the OS7 devices. The company has promised a QNX based mobile platform next year.
Nokia has released the list of popular Symbian apps in the OVI store in India. These apps are based on the popularity such as download, rating etc. among the users in India. These apps are of different categories like Entertainment, Social, Communication and Games. Continue reading “Nokia OVI store Top Symbian Apps in India”
Nokia has launched their Nokia 100, single SIM and Nokia 101, Dual SIM phones in India. These phones were announced in the last week of August. The Nokia 101 is Nokia’s fifth dual SIM phone and it is also the most affordable dual SIM Nokia phone till date. Both these phones run on Nokia’s S30 platform. Continue reading “Nokia 100 and Nokia 101 phones launched in India”
Samsung Electronics has just made an announcement that it’s investing USD 70 million in the Noida mobile manufacturing facility. Seems like India is one of the top 3 mobile markets for Samsung globally.This facility in Noida is Samsung’s 6th manufacturing unit outside Korea and employs over 4000 people. This facility in Noida is also capable of handling TVs , Refrigerators , ACs and Washing Machines in addition to mobile phones. Surprisingly Samsung also has a manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur , Chennai where Nokia also has a pretty big factory. Press Release after the break .
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Idea 3G services are now available across 145 towns in UP West and Uttrakhand that makes them largest 3G network in this region. They expanded their 3G services to 128 more towns in this region in July and the data traffic in semi-urban regions seems to be growing. They have also launched Double Dhamaka 3G offer and 3G packs starting as low as Rs.7 Continue reading “Idea 3G now available across 145 towns in UP West and Uttrakhand”
SK Telecom , a Korea based telecom operator , has just introduced its next generation USIM cards which add NFC capabilities to phones lacking it. NFC is used to enable cell phone based payments , mobile advertisements and even peer to peer communications.
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PVR Cinemas has launched their Android and iPhone apps. These app not only lets you see the current and upcoming movies in the PVR cinemas, but also lets you book the tickets for the movies running in 154 PVR screens in 20 cities across India. The Android app is Java based app, so everything is touch, and you can’t use the menu keys. Continue reading “Book tickets from your iPhone or Android Phone with the PVR Cinemas App”
An Anonymous tipster just sent us this image of the rumoured Micromax A85 which is expected to be Micromax’s first high-end device. The device is the photo we received looks much more attractive than the one we saw in the earlier leak. As excepted , it is running on Android and expected to be powered by a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU and support HSDPA and WiFi networks.
Sprint USA has announced LG Marquee that has 4 inch bright NOVA display and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It features 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel rear-facing autofocus camera with flash and 2 megapixel front-facing camera. The device would also come with Sprint ID and there Sprint ID packs for apps, ringer tones, wallpapers, widgets and more. This phone is the LG Optimus Black but it comes with few changes like different back cover and the Android 2.3. Continue reading “Sprint announces LG Marquee, coming on October 2 for $99.99”
Vodafone Smart, also known as Vodafone 858 Smart is now available in India. Vodafone has not officially released the phone but it is available for sale on Flipkart. This phone has 2.2 inch touch and runs on Android 2.2 (FroYo). It features 528 Mhz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor and has 2MP camera. They officially launched the Facebook phone, Vodafone Blue last week. Continue reading “Vodafone Smart now available in India for Rs. 6695”
One of the most popular cross platform messaging services ie WhatsApp is finally making its way over to Windows Phone 7.5 which is also known as Mango. WhatsApp sent across a cryptic message via its official Twitter channel which indicated that it was working on an app for Mango.
