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Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Touch phone launched in India

Nokia launched its much awaited Touch Screen Music handset the Nokia 5800 in India.

Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is the ultimate music and entertainment device that will bring touch User Interface to a broad segment of Indian consumers as well as provide them with a newer & better way of experiencing music. The device along with offering a variety of input methods including a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, also has a pen stylus and for true music enthusiasts, a plectrum.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a music and entertainment device complemented by a touch interface. Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the Web and to online sharing.

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Nokia Internal Roadmap Leaks

Call it a gigantic leak if you want, we’re calling it an early Christmas gift. The candy shop is open: Nokia’s internal roadmap has just been revealed by anonymous tipster to Engadget Mobile. What is an internal roadmap? Well it’s the products under development by Nokia, even before they become prototypes available for testing. Yeah, THAT early. But it’s our chance to delve through the numbers and the incomplete specs, and see what our beloved Finnish manufacturer will be up to.

It’s not one, but 13 Smartphone models under development that we’re looking at here, with tons of exciting handsets that we sure hope will see the actual light of day.

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HTC G1 coming to India, shows up on Univercell’s site

As we had predicted before , the HTC G1 which we unboxed earlier is coming soon to India.

HTC might bundle the handset with an Airtel Connection like RIM does for BlackBerry. HTC also offers a few phones exclusively on Airtel. Univercell shows this phone as coming soon and its priced at Rs.25000 or 500 USD

This is an interesting price point as iPhone 3G , Omnia and Xperia are all more costly than G1

G1 is definitely not a phone you would buy for its looks .. But still these are the phones which are making the news these days .

Would you buy the G1 for 25000 ?

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iPhone in trouble! Suit filed against Apple and AT&T for ‘defects’ in the iPhone

Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC are being dragged to court by Avi Koschitzki who claims that the iPhone 3G is defective.

The suit was moved from the Nassau County Supreme Court, the state court where it was filed by plaintiff, to a federal court in the Eastern District of New York. The primary complaints are with the allegedly easily breakable casing and spotty 3G network coverage.

“The 3G iPhones do not and cannot adequately perform due to the insufficient 3G bandwidths and AT&T infrastructure,” the suit says. The suit is “based upon information and belief that the 3G iPhones demand too much power from the 3G bandwidths and the AT&T infrastructure is insufficient to handle this overwhelming 3G signal based on the high volume of 3G iPhones it and Apple have sold,” the suit says.

The class-action suit may include consumers that bought defective iPhones designed, marketed, manufactured, distributed and sold by the defendants. Continue reading “iPhone in trouble! Suit filed against Apple and AT&T for ‘defects’ in the iPhone”

Samsung I7110 Announced & Reviewed

At the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, Samsung announced a new beast after its stellar Innov8. The Samsung I7110 is an S60 3rd Edition FP2 device that has a lot to brag about. An awesome 2.4″ OLED screen, a 5MP camera with LED flash, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, an optical mouse for a more intuitive browsing experience, an accelerometer, built-in GPS with geotagging and navigation (only 10 European cities supported), an FM Transmitter.

Being an S60 device, the I7110 will allow you to install tons of 3rd-party applications and hence transform it into a mobility powerhouse. At only 12.9mm thick, and with a metallic body, the I7110 is definitely a looker and a very tempting alternative for the Nokia N85.

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vKewl by Virgin Mobile – Economical + Camera + Video recording – great buy!!

vKewl launched by Virgin Mobile is an economical handset with a 1.3 mega pixel camera and Video Recording capability, perhaps the only one in this price range with these features. The handset also includes lifetime incoming validity and a prepaid connection.

Specs & features at a glance:

• 1.8-inch TFT LCD

• 176 x 220 pixel resolution display

• 262k colours

• Preloaded games

• microSD card slot

• WAP

• Modem

• MP3 player

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Which is Favorite Mobile Application ? Vote Now

You can now vote for your favorite mobile application at the second annual Open Web Awards presented by Mashable.

There are are lot of mobile applications we love

Google Maps

Gmail

Shozu

Qik

Fring

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Sony Ericson Xperia X1 & HTC Touch HD Fusion

Amongst all eagerly awaited Windows Mobile devices, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and the HTC Touch HD take the crown as the most interesting, innovative and promising handsets. Luckily, both of them run a cool layer on top of Windows Mobile 6 to avoid users frequent interaction with that horrible and outdated interface. The Xperia X1 has the 9 panels system and the Touch HD has the TouchFLO 3D, both of which allow for a huge set of shortcuts to different Windows Mobile functions, in a finger-friendly designed interface.

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SE Xperia X1 launched in India!!!

India is fast becoming the launch pad for hi-end mobile phones. Sony Ericsson launched the Xperia X1 in India a good two weeks before the US launch. WOW!

At Fonearena, we have been tracking the Xperia since Feb 2008 and covered the handset extensively. Read the coverage here.

While the specs and features of the Xperia are on Fonearena and can be viewed here, we take another look at what is touted to be SE’s most flamboyant handset.

The X1 has killer looks and an arc-slider design, with fully functional nine customisable panels, a 3-inch clear wide VGA display, a full QWERTY keyboard, 4-way key and optical joystick navigation and a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera within a quality metal-finish body. Phew!

It is SE’s first Windows Mobile handset and has the highest data transfer rate (HSDPA/HSUPA) and WiFi support. Continue reading “SE Xperia X1 launched in India!!!”

Nokia E63 announced

Nokia announced another addition to its Eseries range, the Nokia E63 at Espoo, Finland.

A mid range handset (priced at a reasonable Euros 199 or Rs 12100 approximately exclusive of applicable taxes) that has a QWERTY keypad and features that are useful to people who need to manage their business and personal lives equally well.

“Our research shows that people want a device that deals with both their personal and professional lives, but helps them to separate the two. When someone sits down at lunch, they want to update their social network or browse their personal email account and they don’t want work getting in the way of that. It’s another great case of technology adapting to the people that use it,” says Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President, Nokia. “The Nokia E63 is a new proposition for Eseries – a messaging device where people will be just as involved in their social network as they are in their business network.” “People use Eseries to access their corporate mail, review their calendar and work in their business network, so the Nokia E63 still includes Wi-Fi connectivity, easy access to Mail for Exchange and dedicated key access to contacts, calendar and email” he adds.

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Samsung INNOV8 vs Sony Ericsson C905

Put not one but two boiling hot and new devices with an astonishing 8MP camera each, against each other and you’ve got yourself the perfect battle. And it’s a royal one. The INNOV8, Samsung’s latest prodigy when it comes to S60 3rd Edition has just gone head to head against the C905, Sony Ericsson’s beast. It wasn’t an easy fight.

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Stream your videos LIVE straight from your mobile phones with QIK

Qik is an amazing new software that allows every mobile user to share their moments live with their friends, family and their world with the click of a button from anywhere in the world.

Qik’s free service allows users to stream video live to the Internet from their mobile phone, while those watching the videos on the web can engage in live interactive chat with the person broadcasting.

Engaging two-way communication, a vision of the future?

“It’s a real milestone for mobile technology that an advanced utility like Qik is now available on mass market cell phones,” said Ramu Sunkara, co-founder and CEO of Qik. “We have been astounded by the use of Qik by smartphone owners, and are excited to see what mass market cell phone users will stream live to the Web.” Continue reading “Stream your videos LIVE straight from your mobile phones with QIK”