There are more Mobile Phones than Toilets in India according to UN

According to a recent report published by the United Nations (UN) – India has more mobile phones than toilets. This means that Indians can attend calls on their mobile phone more easily than attending nature’s call.Funny but true. The growth of the India Mobile Phone market and Telecom market is a big success story as far as numbers go. India is the 2nd largest mobile market in the world next to China.  The cost of owning a mobile phone and connection is incredibly low these days. It’s quite interesting how they compared mobile phone populating to number of toilets.

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Photo Gallery – Sony Ericsson X10 Luster White + Comparisons !

A great Design, white Colour with some Chrome Accents, a gigantic 4″ capacitive Touchscreen with a 854×480 Resolution, a 8.1 Megapixel Camera, Android OS with a major overhauled Interface and much more. Is the X10 Sony Ericssons (literally) big Saviour? Will it hold up to the Expectations!?

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Vodafone Celebrates 100 Million Customers Milestone by making its customers Fly to the Sky

vodafone airshipOn March this year, Reliance achieved 100 million customers mark followed by Airtel and then Vodafone followed the two leading Indian telecom operators. To celebrate this precious achievement, Vodafone is now making select customers fly to the sky for free on Vodafone air ship (images of Vodafone airship).

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Nokia N900 Launching in India really soon, Price around Rs.25000

Nokia N900 is finally launching in India really soon. We have learnt that the price of this linux monster is going to be around Rs.25000 or upwards

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Nokia C3 – Cheap QWERTY phone at Price of Rs.5500 with Wi-Fi

Nokia seems to have a launched a fully loaded phone – the Nokia C3 , at a very affordable price.  It’s the world’s first QWERTY phone based on the S40 platform. Till now S40 phones had only T9 keypads which were not comfortable to type a lot. The C3  brings messaging and social networking to the masses. It comes with Nokia Messaging tailored for Series 40 meaning that you can open an email account without having to logon to a PC if you are those parts of the world where PCs don’t exist. Continue reading “Nokia C3 – Cheap QWERTY phone at Price of Rs.5500 with Wi-Fi”

Sony Ericsson Zylo and Spiro Walkman phones announced

Sony Ericsson seems to have dropped numbers from its phones altogether. They have just announced two new phones the Zylo and the Spiro which are Walkman phones with Social Networking features.

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LG BL40 Review Part-1: Design

Now we’ve had the LG BL40 for quite some time and we’ve used it quite a bit here and there. So much so that it’s apt to talk about the design of this phone.

Now the LG BL40 is a long device! at 128mm it’s easily long, it’s thin – 10.9mmm and at 51mm it’s not very broad too. It’s easily a super model in in the world of mobile phones.

The phone is easily the most unique in terms of it’s design and also the screen size. At 345 x 800 pixels and 4.01 inches, this thing sure has the widest screen in the business.

You must be wondering why am I talking of these things and not the design of the phone. Well that is because these dimensions are important to understand how the phone is when it comes to the looks and design.

the BL 40

As you can see the Bl40 does not have any buttons on the front fascia at all, everything is on the capacitive screen. The sides of the BL40 house buttons for the Camera, MP3 player and the volume. The MP3 player is on the left side while the remaining are on the right. These buttons are chrome plated and run along the entire left and right side of the phone.

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Apple iPad Price in India

Apple has broken sales records of the iPhone with the iPad selling over 300,000 iPads in the first few days and during the iPhone 4.0 OS event ,  the number stood at 450,000. Many of those 4.5 lac iPads are shipping out of the us through unofficial channels.Apple iPad is already selling in grey markets in India and it’s available on Ebay too. But the price of the iPad in India is almost the cost of 2 iPads.  The price was insane initially  but has stabilized a bit, still not realistic.

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Nokia 5235 Comes With Music shows up on Nokia India website

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music India

Nokia announced the 5235 Comes with Music handset last December and was expected to be available for purchase in First quarter of 2010.

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Cool Video from Nokia Siemens Networks – The Truth About 3G

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Nokia Siemens today announced that it’s going to manufacture 3G products in its Chennai facility in India . Here is a cool video made by them which shows the Truth about 3G

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Vodafone Launches custom Opera Mini Browser for low-cost phones on 2G Networks , India first to get it

Opera Mini is a must have apps for anyone looking to browse the web on a mobile phone without draining the battery or paying expensive data charges. Now Opera has teamed up with Vodafone to bring a custom version of the Opera Mini browser to low cost phones running on 2G Networks

Vodafone announced cheap phones for emerging markets during  MWC 2010 But it’s not clear if these phones will get the Opera Mini browser

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Olive Wiz First QWERTY Triple SIM phone at Rs.6000

Olive Telecommunication has launched the Olive Wiz which is the first QWERTY Triple SIM phone to be launched in India. The phone has support for Dual SIM GSM and Single SIM CDMA connection. The phone has a full QWERTY keypad , 2 MegaPixel Camera  and comes loaded with Opera Mini Browser

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Airtel Broadband Internet Down

Airtel Broadband Internet is down in Chennai for an extended time since today morning ! Looks like lots of my friends are also facing the same problem. It is crazy when Internet goes down and you are not even informed of the issue by the Service Provider. And even calls to the Airtel Customer Care number 121 did not go through.

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