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Citi Bank Customers Can Now Easily Transact on their Mobile using Citi Bank Mobile Banking Application!

Since a year or two, the use of mobile banking has seen a tremendous growth. Using mobile banking, any mobile phone user can send or receive money just by press of mobile buttons. In the past, there were many similar useful applications like NGPay, Airtel Mchek, etc for easy processing of mobile payments and mobile … Continue reading “Citi Bank Customers Can Now Easily Transact on their Mobile using Citi Bank Mobile Banking Application!”

Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) Reduced; Will Mobile Call Charges Come Down Further?

TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) today announced the revised interconnection usage charges (IUC) for domestic calls and slightly increased them for incoming international calls. To be more specific, the domestic IUC has been reduced to about 33% approximately and IUC for international calls has been increased to 40 paise instead of 30 paise presently. … Continue reading “Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) Reduced; Will Mobile Call Charges Come Down Further?”

Syniverse to Provide Mobile Number Portability in India

Syniverse has been chosen as one of two providers to implement number portability clearing house and centralized database services for India’s 350 million mobile users. Mobile Number Portability means that you can retain your old mobile number with a new operator . Say you move from Vodafone to Airtel . You can continue to use the … Continue reading “Syniverse to Provide Mobile Number Portability in India”

Vodafone Comes With Competitive Price for Blackberry’s Unlimited Email Service; Just Rs. 299!

If you remember, in a recent post, our co-author – Ritu published about a unlimited email plan for Airtel Blackberry users worth RS. 499 per month. This plan once activated, lets a blackberry users access unlimited email and Instant messengers (like Gtalk & Yahoo) for one complete month. But surprisingly, immediately after Airtel’s announcement of … Continue reading “Vodafone Comes With Competitive Price for Blackberry’s Unlimited Email Service; Just Rs. 299!”

Pick of the winners at MWC: Nokia E71, BlackBerry Storm 9500 SurePress Screen etc

Several awards were given away at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress. Nokia made it to several categories as a winner. The GSMA CEO’s Award for Outstanding Environmental Contribution – Nokia The GSMA’s inaugural Green Mobile Awards recognised an overall sensitivity to, and contribution, to environmental leadership with this the first GSMA CEO’s Award for … Continue reading “Pick of the winners at MWC: Nokia E71, BlackBerry Storm 9500 SurePress Screen etc”

HTC Magic G2 Google Android phone unveiled

HTC Magic is the successor the first Google Phone. Its a sleeker version of the G1 sans keyboard. The second Google Android smart phone was unveiled at Barcelona this week jointly by HTC and Vodafone Its the first touchscreen only android phone . yes its getting closer to the apple iphone . Its got a … Continue reading “HTC Magic G2 Google Android phone unveiled”

Apple iPhone Most Selling Phone in USA = Worst in India

Apple iPhone might have broken records with respect to sales , market share etc.in USA market over the past 1.5 years since its launch in June 2007 at MacWorld The first gen phone was launched at 399 and 499 USD including the 16GB version which we unboxed for you.

Reliance Mobile launches GSM services in Punjab

Reliance Communications Monday announced the launch of its GSM mobile services in Punjab, becoming the first telecom operator in the circle to have both GSM and CDMA services for mobile users. “The service will cover 460 towns, 11,741 villages and a number of national, state and other highways, tourist and religious places throughout the state,” … Continue reading “Reliance Mobile launches GSM services in Punjab”

Google G1 now available to Android developers in India

The T-Mobile G1 would be available for purchase to Android Developers in India but branded as the Android Dev Phone 1but carries the same specs as the G1 Android Developers in 18 countries including India can now purchase the Google Android Phone Its both Network and Hardware unlocked and is mainly made available to android … Continue reading “Google G1 now available to Android developers in India”

Lost your mobile phone what can you do

Mobile phone theft is very high in India We often get emails and message from users telling ” I have lost my mobile phone today what can I do ? ” The sad truth is that you can’t do much after you have lost the phone. You can block the phone number and phone with … Continue reading “Lost your mobile phone what can you do”

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 … Continue reading “HTC G1 coming to India, shows up on Univercell’s site”

Google Phone in India for 8200

The HTC G1 or the first Google Android phone has already sold 1 .5 million units (pre-orders) Its priced at $179 in America and comes with a 2 year contract. Reports suggest that HTC is in talks with Indian operators to bring the Google Phone to India for as little as Rs.8200 but reports also … Continue reading “Google Phone in India for 8200”

How Nokia might win the Touchscreen War in India !

Ever since Steve Jobs rolled out the iPhone in Jan’07 MacWorld, mobile phone manufacturers were highly uncomfortable of missing the touch screen bandwagon. The Finnish mobile giant is now armouring its artillery with Nokia 5800 a touch screen gizmo code named “tube”.With just three physical buttons and equipped with 8GB microSD memory card it can … Continue reading “How Nokia might win the Touchscreen War in India !”

JoikuSpot Light – Make your mobile a hotspot

Hello readers, I am Dr. Anirudh Sharma and I will be featuring guest articles here on fonearena. I would like to star my fonearena quest by reviewing a very useful software that you can use to turn your mobile internet to a Wifi hotspot and use it on your laptop. I have been using JoikuSpot … Continue reading “JoikuSpot Light – Make your mobile a hotspot”

Will you get your Vodafone iPhone on easy instalments?

The price of the 3G iPhone stumped those who were eagerly awaiting its launch in India. To counter the ‘non-affordability’ factor doing the rounds among buyers, Vodafone has decided to offer the handset of easy 6 monthly or 12 monthly instalments. It is rumoured that the company is holding talks with financial institutions to initiate … Continue reading “Will you get your Vodafone iPhone on easy instalments?”