News from India the most happening mobile market
For all you HTC TOUCH WIN MO fans in India, here is some sweet news for your ears. HTC 8282 Touch HD, the WinMo Monster is available through select retails (your favorite Mobile Showrooms in India).It retails for close to a whooping 42k INR. And it’s worth it for its mere 3.8 HD screen. Wow, and it’s got awesome Multimedia capabilities as well.
If you are HTC fan or a Windows Mobile , PDA user or if you are waiting for the next Android phone from HTC who made the G1 Google Phone then some good news for you all !
Like the Nokia Internal Roadmap leaked earlier now HTC’s entire 2009 Handset line up has leaked ..
The new HTC handsets include the Touch HD Pro which succeeds the HTC Touch HD,Iolite and Iolite II.
The Android phone – HTC hero, the Tungsten for T-Mobile and the HTC Jasper for Sprint. AT&T will get the Topaz and the Barium.
The last one, the pink, HTC Hero seems to run Android. Nice to see more Android devices in the making.
There are 25 handsets in total and the they are below followed by pics .. Continue reading “HTC 2009 Handset line up gets Leaked !”
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.
Continue reading “Apple iPhone Most Selling Phone in USA = Worst in India”
As the spread of mobile increases, it makes you wonder about the fine line between what is perceived as luxury and necessity.
One mobile – Necessity
Two mobiles – Luxury
No Mobiles – Happiness
On 17th January 2009, the TDSAT (Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal) held a Seminar in Pune on the topic Disputes resolution in Telecom & Broadcast from where certain interesting facts about Mobile phones emerged.
**India has 374 million telephone lines
**Off this 336 million are Mobiles!
**336 million Mobiles are distributed amongst 250 million GSM and 36 million CDMA
**Around 10 million mobile lines are added every month Continue reading “Interesting facts about Mobile phones in India”
The BlackBerry’s first touchphone the 9500 or Storm was officially launched in India yesterday.
At Fonearena, we had covered the unveiling of the handset in Oct 2008. Catch the coverage here
Its also the first touchscreen blackberry phone and its different from other BBs which have full QWERTY keypads. Continue reading “BlackBerry Storm launched through Vodafone in India”
The Nokia N95 and N82 are most popular phones from the Nseries clan.
But the N79 ,N85 and N96 are the new kids on the block .
We managed to get some pictures of these phones for you.
We even have a review of the N85
More pics after the jump Continue reading “Nokia N79 N85 and N96 N-series Photo Gallery”
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was just launched in India.
We have been covering the launch and we managed to get our hands on the phone so that you can see whats
in the package.
We are bringing you the Live Hands On and UnBoxing of the phone
Continue reading “Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Live Hands On and UnBoxing”
The wait is finally over .. For those of you who missed the Pre-booking , the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now available for purchase all over India at Nokia Retail outlets and a great news for you.
The price is Rs.19,990 only and has been reduced from the previous price of Rs.22500
Continue reading “Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Launched in India for 19990”
Virgin Mobile recently announced a partnership with ‘My Space’ to bolster its youth-centric services portfolio in India.
‘My Space’ social networking services will now be available on Virgin Mobile WAP-enabled phones at no extra cost*on handsets starting at just Rs. 2,999.
Users can access MySpace by simply clicking the MySpace link on vBytes and logging in the user ID and password. New users can begin by creating a fresh id and password.
(* Users pay a daily charge of just Rs. 5/- for accessing vBytes)
Continue reading “MySpace now available on Virgin Mobile in India”
LG india have launched their new handset in the Dynamite series : LG KP 199. Some of the features are :
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,” Reliance regional hub head Arvind Kumar told reporters at the launch.
The Punjab circle GSM market is dominated by telecom majors Airtel and Idea (till recently Spice) and the entry of Reliance is likely to make the competition even more keen.
Offering a Reliance GSM prepaid SIM card for a one-time charge of just Rs.25, Reliance officials said the inaugural offer to subscribers would provide 100 percent savings to the sub-Rs.300 users. Continue reading “Reliance Mobile launches GSM services in Punjab”
After the comparison between G1 and the iPhone we at Fonearena had presented, here is our comparison of Nokia 5800 with the Apple iPhone 3G
As we had mentioned earlier, regardless of the outcome of the comparative study, Apple should sure be proud of its achievement – of the iPhone setting the benchmark for all future super phones.
Nokia has always been at the forefront of environmental initiatives. With their Take-back campaign, they have proved that they do care.
With this campaign, Nokia aims to encourage handset users to dispose off their unusable or old handsets and accessories of any brand at recycle bins installed at Nokia Care Centres and Nokia Priority Dealers.
Users will be given a gift for participating in the campaign and Nokia will plant a tree for every dropped mobile.
Kicking off the campaign from New Delhi, it will soon be replicated across 1300 outlets across the country.
The recycling will be undertaken by reputed companies. Continue reading “Nokia starts Environment Initiative to Recycle mobiles”
Understanding the China Mobiles movement in India
Introducing our Guest ,Amit Nayak, CEO, GEEK IT STORES .
Chinese mobile phones are flooding the indian mobile market and are giving tough competition to reputed brands.
But they have also been hitting the headlines due to poor quality or due absence of IMEI number.
Amit will clear your doubts regarding chinese mobile phones.
Are you a china mobile customer?? Are you using Chinese mobile? Are you safe using a such a phone ,
from health & legal point of view!! Continue reading “China Mobiles movement in India”
