Apple More Profitable Than Nokia in handset business

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Apple has been setting records everywhere it goes and the cellphone industry is not an exception. Apple has enjoyed tremendous success with the launch of the Apple iPhone.

Now according to sources, Apple also seems to be making more profit by selling it’s iPhone than the profit made by the cellphone giant-Nokia. Apple surpassed Nokia or the first time in the 3rd quarter of 2009 to become the most profitable handset maker. Continue reading “Apple More Profitable Than Nokia in handset business”

iPhone Facebook Developer Quits!

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Joe Hewitt, the brains behind the Facebook application for the Apple iPhone has quit further development of the application.

“Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project. My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt Continue reading “iPhone Facebook Developer Quits!”

Nokia to launch Point and Find in India by 2011

“What You See is What You Can Get”. Wondering what does this statement mean? This is what Nokia’s ‘Point & Find’ will do.  Nokia has announced its plan to start rolling out its augmented reality tool ‘Point & Find’ for mobile phones next year. The US and Europe will be the first to get the new tool in early 2010, while it will be launched in India in 2011.nokia-point-and-find Continue reading “Nokia to launch Point and Find in India by 2011”

Fujitsu Phone can swim and take pictures under Water

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The Fujitsu F-08A works 1.5m under water and it clicks pics too . At the Fujitsu booth at Symbian Exchange last month, i saw this cool phone dipped inside a bowl of water. Its got a 5MP Camera , GSM/3G Network support, NFC,GPS , MobileTV and a Music player. I just put the camera in self timer mode and wanted to see if the camera worked fine. ( and the handset runs Symbian )

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RIM unveiled a new service platform for Blackberry developers

RIM unveiled a new service platform for Blackberry developers which will enable the developers to build highly responsive, location-aware and revenue-generating applications for BlackBerry smartphones. This new services platform will offer advertising, payment, content push and new location services.

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RIM and Adobe tieup to bring Adobe tools to Blackberry

Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Adobe Systems expanded their collaboration and announced that creative professionals and application developers will be able to use the Adobe Flash Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite content development and authoring tools to easily create rich content and application experiences for BlackBerry smartphones.

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Channel99.in Mobile Magazine – Download loads of content for free for a limited time

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Have you ever heard of pocket magazine? A magazine that has almost all the information anywhere, anytime you want, including entertainment, information services, live news, live sports etc and the most important point is its free for the user (Except the charges charged by operators for browsing & content download charges )

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Motorola Droid Enjoys Great Sales!

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Motorola might be on the road to recovery with their new handset. The Motorola Droid which is the company’s first Google Android device and an Apple iPhone Competitor.

The device had tremendous hype even before its release starting with rumours, leaked pictures etc. Now a week has passed since it’s release and sources say that Motorola might have sold as many as 100,000 Motorola Droid phones over the weekend. Continue reading “Motorola Droid Enjoys Great Sales!”

Nokia Messaging launches a new site Messaging.Nokia.com

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Nokia Messaging Team has announced over their blog, that they have launched a new site messaging.nokia.com.

This site will capture everything related to Nokia Messaging i.e. Email, IM, Social Networking and Ovi Mail across S60, S40, and Maemo devices. The site also offers some helpful how-to videos and brings in content from user guides, the official Nokia support forums, BetaLabs, and from blogs and Twitter. Continue reading “Nokia Messaging launches a new site Messaging.Nokia.com”

Sony Ericsson Releases Full Specs of XPERIA Pureness

Sony Ericsson has released full specifications of its niche transparent Phone XPERIA Pureness.

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The phone is 4″ x 1.7″ x 0.5″  in dimensions and weighs around 70 grams. It has a Transparent scratch-resistant monochrome 1.8” TFT. It has upto 88MB of internal memory with an expandable external memory of upto 2GB. Internet can browsed on the phone using NetFront Web Browser. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson Releases Full Specs of XPERIA Pureness”

O2 Now Allowing iPhone Unlocking but with Restrictions!

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As Orange released the Apple iPhone 3GS on it’s network, O2 felt that it needs to come up with something good for it’s customers too. Hence they decided to unlock the Apple iPhones for their customers. The Apple iPhone unlocking is available to O2 customers in the UK from 10th November onwards but under the following conditions: Continue reading “O2 Now Allowing iPhone Unlocking but with Restrictions!”

Samsung badaOS

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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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