Samsung recently launched the tri-band Samsung D780 Duos. A rather stylish candy bar design, this handset is loaded with goodies.
Specs and features at a glance:
• 2.1 inch, 256k colour, QVGA display
• 2 megapixel camera
• USB 2.0 data transfer
• Bluetooth with an A2DP profile
• microSD card support for external memory
• Media player for music and video
• FM radio
The D780 allows both SIMs to be active at the same time. Continue reading “New Dual Sim offering from Samsung – D780 Duos”
Reliance Communications launched an exclusive educational portal on Reliance mobile phones, offering services such as exam results, college admissions, event calendar of exams, admission deadlines, mock tests etc. The portal will also have the list of top universities, colleges, secondary education boards as well as career options.
To use, subscribers have to call 53030101 (Exam Guru) and they will be guided by an IVR instructing them to press 1 for exams and admission, 2 for information on top colleges and universities in the country, 3 for career options, 4 for Board Exams and 5 for SMS based subscription.
These services can be accessed at a rate of one rupee per minute for which the user will have to subscribe to the “Exam Guru” pack, which is priced at Rs. 10 and carries a validity of 10 days. Continue reading “Reliance Communications launches Educational Portal on Reliance phones”
3G iPhone blah blah blah…you must be tired reading all these rumors that are going around the world for the 3G iphone. Every soul who knows something or the other about mobile phones and iPhones is talking about 3G iPhone. Even big shots like Walt from the WSJ are giving their speculations about when the iPhone is going to come. But now there are more evidences being found that the 3G iPhone might be coming pretty soon. The iPhone SDK 3.0 was released sometime back and some of the more inquiring kind of people have dewelled deeper into that SDK documentation and found out that the new iPhone will have SGOLD3 chipset which is 3G enabled so it proves that the iPhone which is coming in June at the WWDC 2008 has to be a 3G iPhone and thats not all this particular chip supports 5 megapixel camera and MPEG 4 video. That means that the iPhone that is going to be launched at the WWDC is going to be a multimedia powerhouse man..I am just waiting to read more about it..
Google has recently launched a native search client for the symbian os. Ready to be downloaded from your mobile phone(just point your browswer to google.com and search). This application really offers excellent navigation features. It directly allows you to update your current location., immediate map access.What more it even appears as a tool bar ready application on the active stand by screen. Its just simply usable and a really functional application.
Continue reading “Google launches Native Search Client for Symbian OS”
Nokia’s Indian arm has predicted that India’s rising mobile phone using population will touch the 500 million mark by 2010.
In what is clearly sunny news for the Telecom sector, out of 500 million, 60 million users will have mobile video capability and 100 million will prefer mobile music services.
D Shivakumar, vice president and managing director of Nokia India, while speaking at the Goafest Conclave predicted that half the subscribers will be accessing the Internet through mobile phones. Continue reading “By 2010 India to have 500 million mobile phone users”
Nokia is strengthening its efforts to promote mobile gaming on mobile phones and handheld devices. As a part of this initiative it has launched the worldwide Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. This challenge will drive game developers all around the world to develop world-class games that will be used on mobile phones. Continue reading “Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge”
French based handset OEM, Modelabs has announced the HT2 HUMMER mobile phone. This is the second Hummer branded mobile phone that is being announced. The product will be launched under the exclusive partnership and licensing contract with Hummer. Apart from its rugged look the main features of the phone include: Continue reading “Hummer H2 is back”
Apple has released the 3.0 version of iPhone SDK for iPhone developers. The 2.0 Beta version of the iPhone SDK was pretty hit among the developers and many third party application companies announced games and software exclusively for the iPhone, courtesy the iPhone SDK. Continue reading “Apple iPhone SDK 3.0 released”
Nokia finally launched the much awaited N-Gage mobile games service on April 7th 2008.
If you are a Nokia user, now can find, try and buy high-quality made-for-mobile games directly from your Nokia handset. Isn’t that awesome!!!
If you are an avid player, you can connect with other players through the N-Gage Arena community, meet friends, find others to play multiplayer games, discuss topics on the message boards and via live chat, and participate in tournaments and hosted events. WOW!
“With N-Gage we’re offering a seamless experience for people around the world to try and buy games that are engaging, accessible and have wide appeal,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, vice president of games, Nokia. “We’re very excited to get this into the hands of our customers, because with them we will shape the future of mobile gaming.” Continue reading “Nokia launches much awaited N-Gage”
Teenagers today carry three things, lotsa attitude, lotsa information or misinformation as some people like to say and yeah a mobile handset. Mobile phones today have become cheap and a necessity of our life that even teenagers carry them. Continue reading “Teens loosing interest in Nokia”
WayFinder Active is a free GPS application for mobile phones consisting of mobile maps, GPS recording and statistics designed for people involved in outdoor adventures and activities such as running, hiking, skiing, trekking, trailing, biking, racing or other activities.
Useful features include detailed statistics such as maximum, current and average speed during each activity, plus the distance traveled and calories burned. With a built-in compass and a “Reverse Route” feature, users can easily find a route to anywhere. With the introduction of free Way finder Active, Way finder also brings the topographic maps of North America to mobile phones. Continue reading “WayFinder Active – Serios competition for Nokia Sports Tracker”
Nokia released 4 new economy handsets at the “Growing Together 2008” conference held in Johannesburg.
The four new handsets include: the Nokia 5000 with a 1.3 mega pixels camera, which is claimed to be Nokia’s first camera phone at this price point (between Rs 3000 – Rs 5500); Nokia 2680 Slide; Nokia 7070 Prism; and Nokia 1680 Classic.
Continue reading “Nokia 5000, 2680 slide 7070 Prism and 1680 classic 4 new Economy handsets”
So screamed the headlines in almost all Business dailies.
The Videocon group is interested in buying Motorola’s handset business.
Motorola’s handset wing is struggling for survival, as was evident from their poor showing at all world events such as CES 2008 and MWC 2008.
“We have hired one of the world’s top three investment bankers who will convey our interest to buy out the mobile handset business of the US company,” Group Chairman Venugopal Dhoot told Business Standard.
According to Dhoot, Videocon is ready to launch its pan Indian GSM mobile operations at an investment of Rs 6000 crores.
“The Indian market for mobile phones is around 120 million units a year and we have our own retail chain stories (Next) that we can leverage. Also, we can transfer the manufacturing plant to India to leverage cheap labour in the country,” added Dhoot. Continue reading “Videocon to bid for Motorala’s Mobile business”
Goldstriker is the company that pimps up mobile phones with diamonds and gold. Goldstriker has pimped up many popular phones from Nokia and now it has again pimped up the iPhone after pimping the iPhone earlier in 24ct Gold. Continue reading “Goldstriker iPhone in Red Grain Leather”
The DoT (Department of Telecommunications) Government of India has issued a stern warning to telecom companies to put the required security system in place within 15 days or stop the services.
Officials in DoT said a directive had been issued to service providers to work with officials of Blackberry licensor Research in Motion (RIM) of Canada to provide fool-proof security system.
