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Another whammy from Nokia , N-Theatre with the Nseries

Nokia never ceases to surprise us. Nokia has recently introduced the N-Theatre, a unique offer that will enable Nseries buyers to watch DVD quality movies, anytime, anywhere.

Buyers of the Nseries range including the Nokia N79, N85, N95, N95 8GB and N96 will be entitled to select

five movies of a specific genre from a choice of 5 genres viz., action, comedy, thriller, drama and assorted on a free 4 GB multimedia card from the Nseries movie library. The offer is valid till June 2009.

Choosing from Hollywood and Bollywood hits may be tougher than choosing the Nseries model you want! Just read the list of movies available and you’ll know what we are talking about! Continue reading “Another whammy from Nokia , N-Theatre with the Nseries”

5 Free Group Messaging Services in India

Ever wanted to send free SMS to a group of friends inviting them for a party or a function? You keep sending such group invitation using your mobile and shelling a large amount of talk time? Just try out any of the below mentioned free group SMS solutions in India and save a large amount of talk time.

Mytoday is among one of the first services started by Netcore solutions which provided one of its kind services and followed it are many other services like Tagg, SMSGupshup, Vakow, GoogleSMSChannels, etc.

SMSGupshup – This is the service, that brought change to the Indian group messaging solution. Though, Netcore’s Mytoday was launched much prior to SMSGupShup but Gupshup was hit just because of its huge investment in advertising and marketing its product.

Tagg.in is another entrant in free group messaging solution in India followed by Rajesh Jain’s Mytoday and webaroo’s SMSGupShup. Tagg.in was initiated by another commerce graduate – Ashish Deora who was the founder of AOL broadband in India. Though Tagg.in also tried hard to market its product, it remained far behind Mytoday and SMSGupshup because of the downtime their service faced many times in the past.

Vakow is a service that you MUST have come across for sure, if you are a twitter fan. Apart from free group messaging solution, another advantage Vakow has over all other free group messaging services is that it used to update your twitter account using the SMS that you send to their 10 digit mobile number. But it seems even this service (sending tweets via SMS) has also now went down as I am unable to use it since last couple of months.

GoogleSMSChannels – A service that does not needs a description. This free group messaging solution is in testing phase of Google and as such tagged as ‘Labs’. Though Google was late to come out with such a service, but its definitely worth using once. The biggest advantage with Google SMS Channels is, unlike any other free group messaging solutions, it delivers the SMSs at a very fast rate and that is not all.. Its the only free group messaging services in India supporting SMS publishing of full 160 characters without any ads in the footer.

Group messaging lovers out there, now its your work to use the above mentioned services and rate them on the comments section below. 🙂

Nokia E75 Unboxing Video FoneArena

Nokia E75 is the latest email centered handset from Nokia .

You saw the preview of it in a teapot

Its features the Nokia Messaging Application

Other great features include a 3.2 MP Camera , Full QWERTY Keyboard (we are loving it already)

Here is the unboxing of the E75

The E71 too will make a short guest appearance in the video coz a lot of us are crazy to find out if E75 is worth the upgrade from e71 .. watch the video and decide for yourself

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Making of the Vodafone Zoozoos

“ZooZoo” the word making buzz around the blogosphere, spreading from mouth to mouth like fire and getting millions of fan followings not only from India but from around the globe. Recently our co-editor Sandeep wrote an article – “Zoozoo makes you laugh” wherein he mentioned that those animated characters featured in Vodafone ads are not computer generated characters and are real human beings.. This fact fascinated me to find out on how the idea of Zoozoo came into the minds of Vodafone guys and how these Zoozoo series of ads were shot..

So here’s a quick video featured on CNN IBN featuring the making of Zoozoos:

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Buy Nokia N-Gage in your city in India – No Credit Card Needed

If you play a lot of games on your mobile, then some good news for you . Have you ever tried to buy a game and were disappointed you had to pay using a credit card ?

We’ll we already told you about Oxicash and that N-Gage is LIVE in India

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Nokia 5900 Leaked with Pics

Nokia 5900 the upgraded version of the hugely popular 5800 XM is already in the works .

We saw some interesting pics of the 5900 XpressMusic

Interesting features

Full Touchscreen
Phone is much thinner
Display is Wider
Design is very similar to the N96 – so expect a 5 MegaPixel Camera
Same Symbian S60 5th Edition

more pics below

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ASUS P835 Touchscreen business phone in India

ASUS announced the launch of the P835, its touchscreen PDA for the Indian market yesterday.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, this handset has a 5 megapixel camera and boasts of a WVGA resolution for its 3.5 inch touchscreen.

The WVGA resolution offers five times the number of pixels of most phones and delivers the best document, photo, movie and website viewing experience possible. The handset also comes loaded with an improved version of the ASUS proprietary glide user interface.

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Nokia E52 Eseries Phone announced

Nokia today launched the E52 the much awaited successor the the E51

here is how the latest entrant to the eseries clan looks , say hello to the Nokia E52

Whats coolest about the phone is that it gives you 8 hrs of talk time in such a slim form factor.

Theres are got 23 days of stand by time.

its also got Nokia messaging integrated like the E75 and E55

For the first time we are seeing Noise Cancellation in the spec sheet from the Finnish phone maker Continue reading “Nokia E52 Eseries Phone announced”

3 Free Chat Applications for Nokia 5800

Though there are a lot of mobile applications for chat, only few currently support Nokia 5800. Therefore I thought, why not make a list of applications which supports Nokia 5800 and also supports multi IM networks.

Here is a list of 3 such applications which has 5800 support and also caters to all the prominent IM Networks like GTalk, Skype, Yahoo, MSN etc.

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Vodafone ZooZoo makes you Laugh

During the 1st IPL(Indian Premier League) season when Vodafone took over Hutch, they launched the Happy to Help series of advertisements which were very interesting and made you smile. Now Vodafone are at it again wth their ZooZoo advertisements.

ZooZoos are characters featured in the advertisements showing the various services provided by Vodafone. The characters were created by O&M for Vodafone. Explaining the idea behind the campaign, Rajiv Rao, executive creative director, O&M says, “We created a special world in which all the product stories get told. A world which is real yet different, strange yet simple, warm and lovable. All the specific product stories and services get told in this world of Zoozoos, making the messages more charming.” Continue reading “Vodafone ZooZoo makes you Laugh”

Take Screenshots on Nokia 5800 using ScreenSnap

As a Mobile Application Blogger, One of the most important application I need is a ScreenShot Application. Therefore I was looking for such an application for Nokia 5800 when I stumbled upon ScreenSnap.

ScreenSnap is a free application that allows you to capture screenshots on your 5800 and save it as an image file on your phone. To take a screenshot, you just need to press the predefined combination and its done. The screenshot will be saved in the memory card under the “Screensnap” folder.

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Windows Mobile 6.5 Marketplace Now Open for Submissions

We have been covering about windows mobile and you might know about the upcoming 6.5 version of the OS. If you are a mobile developer and want to develop applications for the new phones running WinMo 6.5, we just heard from Microsoft that developers can now submit applications to the Marketplace (from May 1st)

Below is a copy information we received about the mobile market from Microsoft Continue reading “Windows Mobile 6.5 Marketplace Now Open for Submissions”

SMSFame: Send Unlimited Free SMS in India Without Ads

In the past, we have come across many free SMS messaging solutions, using which you can send free SMS to any number in India without incurring any charges and sometimes, you even have the ability to send SMS without even disclosing your name or identity. (It is useful while advertising a product or so) but the only disadvantage among such free messaging solutions is the receiver of the SMS will get the desired message along with an Ad that the free SMS providers add to make good the loss they incur for giving away free SMSing solution. Continue reading “SMSFame: Send Unlimited Free SMS in India Without Ads”

A Brief Analysis of the Indian Mobile Subscribers Growth in March 2009

Recently the Cellular Operators Association of India revealed the statistics of the growth and present subscriber base of all GSM operators operating in Indian territory. According to the report of COAI (Cellular Operator Association of India) Aircel had the highest growth in the month of March with the exact growth rate of of 5.73% over the previous month followed by Loop mobile, Vodafone, Airtel and other operators. Continue reading “A Brief Analysis of the Indian Mobile Subscribers Growth in March 2009”

Soon Virgin Will be Operating GSM Services in India

This definitely would bring into your minds, how Virgin mobile started its services in India with a bang and a ‘hatke’ style. It is the first and the only Telecom operator in India to pay its customers even for receiving a call, though recently the Get paid on incoming charges was reduced.

Well, about its GSM launch plan, Jamie Heywood, deputy CEO, Virgin Mobile India, said, in a conference, that they (Virgin mobile) is already serving other parts of the world with both GSM and CDMA services, and even in India, they would soon launch its GSM services. Continue reading “Soon Virgin Will be Operating GSM Services in India”