Ever wondered to what level convergance can actually reach. First our phones doubled as a MP3 player, then they bundled as a mass storage device., then as a Camera . Few of our phones could also double as a Flash torch light. But that feature was long reducing in usage as they did not offer … Continue reading “Use your Nokia phone as a flashlight with PhoneTorch for SymbianOS 9.4 5th Edition”
A good news coming in for enterprise phone lovers.. Motorola have unveiled a business phone – Motorola MC55. You can view some snaps and check out a brief specifications of the phone In the following few lines. Brief Specifications: 3.5” 320X240 Touch Screen OS – Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Querty Keyboard Wireless LAN Bluetooth Wi-Fi … Continue reading “MC55 Enterprise Phone Unveiled by Motorola”
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 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”
Idea Cellular and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced that the BlackBerry will soon be available to Idea customers. Idea will offer a broad range of BlackBerry smartphones and services for enterprise and individual customers on its network, nationally. The BlackBerry solution provides customers with easy wireless access to email, phone, calendar, web and multimedia … Continue reading “BlackBerrys on IDEA – What an Idea!”
BSNL has recently announced the launch of a special SMS booster plan for its customers using which one can send unlimited SMS to National and Local mobiles for just 10 paisa. Initially a customer need to recharge their BSNL mobile with Rs. 50 worth SMS booster pack and then, as said earlier, they can send … Continue reading “Celebrate Women’s Day with BSNL SMS Booster Plans!”
The LG-GM730 is the newest phone among LG’s easy-to-use smartphones line-up to come. The company has recently signed a special contract with Microsoft, allowing them to be the first manufacturer of a phone with the new version of Windows Mobile 6.5. On top of Windows Mobile, the LG-GM730 will provide LG’s dynamic, direct and intuitive … Continue reading “The LG GM730 Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone”
Although it is becoming a habit with us at Fonearena, we would like to assure all our readers we are not gloating. Yet! We have been covering the mobile scene with such alacrity and timeliness that sometimes, when a handset is launched in India we realise we’ve already covered its global launch. Similarly, when the … Continue reading “Samsung Pixon – 8 Megapixel camera phone unleashed in India”
If you remember well , we conducted a valentines day contest We are announcing the winners of the contest today . Sorry for the delay , mainly caused by so many entries and new handset launches @MWC 2009 We eliminated the entries and picked the lucky winners using a random number generator. Some of ur … Continue reading “Valentines Day Contest Winners”
IPhone has been the only phone with Multi Touch feature . HTC G1 does not have it .. But there’s a possibility of Nokia 5800 getting multi touch support as demonstrated in this video
When Asus released its P565 smartphone in November 2008, we at Fonearena had covered the launch. Read the coverage here. The latest reports in from sources claim that the company has pulled the plug on this handset after entering into a partnership with Garmin (a Taiwanese company) from the beginning of last month onwards.
The Samsung Valencia, a Windows Mobile powered handset was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona recently at the Microsoft counter and surprisingly not at the Samsung counter. Specs & features: • 393 MHz processor • 128MB RAM • 128MB ROM • 320×240 QVGA display • 3G • AGPS
Fonearena had covered the launch of the LG KF300 almost one year ago as it had hit global markets. Read the full coverage here. The same handset has now been launched in the Indian market in the price band of Rs 8,500. The reason for the after-thought launch by LG is unknown. While the specs … Continue reading “LG KF300 launched in India”
Just as we are bracing ourselves to catch version 6.5 of Windows Mobile on handsets such as LG-GM730, HTC Touch Diamond 2 and HTC Touch Pro 2, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has recently confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 will be available sometime next year. Although no specific data has been set yet, it is certainly … Continue reading “Windows Mobile version 7 in 2010”
I just went to the local BSNL Mobile Counter and enquired about the availability of 3G SIM Cards.. I was a bit sad to hear when the person at the counter told me that , they are expecting the cards by April 20th 2009. That’s nearly 2 months away from now We have see the … Continue reading “BSNL 3G SIM Cards to be issued in April 2009”
