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The Moto Q phones – smart phones to liberate you

Motorola unveiled its latest smart phone loaded with features, ideal for the business traveller.

At .45 inches width, it is amazingly sleek and stylish. It runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 platform and is packed with features such as voice activated dialling, a 1.3 megapixel camera with photo lighting, Bluetooth wireless, stereo sound, MP3 music player, and video and web surfing capabilities.

Features:

• 2.4” colour screen
• Integrated 1.3 mega-pixel camera
• Windows Media Player Mobile
• Video capture with sound and playback
• Dual stereo-quality speakers
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Spice up your life with Spice S7

If you are a music buff and cannot do without hooking on a pair of ear plugs, the Spice S7 is just for you.

The latest addition to the Music Spice Series, this handset targets the mid segment buyer and is ideal for young college goers.

Features:

• Bluetooth
• Wireless Music (A2DP)
• 1.3 mega pixel camera with flash
• 2.0-inches screen in 262 Colour
• Video and Photo caller ID
• Expandable memory up to 1 GB with T-Flash card

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HTC Touch Cruise

For navigation ease, get your very own HTC Touch Cruise

Equipped with a built-in GPS receiver and TomTom Navigator 6 software, with the HTC Touch Cruise, navigation will like taking a breath; easy, subconscious and invigorating. The handset is sleek and compact, with power packed features.

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BPL Mobile Tracker – SMS based lost phone watchdog

Being a mobile phone blog we get numerous requests from desperate users who have just lost their phones. Sadly we cant help.

BPL Mobile has come up with an interesting Mobile Tracker solution which sends out an SMS when the SIM Card on your mobile phone is changed. The software works only on some GSM / Nokia Symbian handsets which include

Symbian Series 60 First Edition

7650
3650
3600
3660
3620
Ngage
NgageQD

Symbian Series 60 Second Edition

N70
N72
N90
6630
6680
6681
6682
6600
6620
7610
7710
3230
6260
6670

Symbian Series 60 Third Edition

E65
N91
N80
N73
N71
E70
E61
E60
E50
5500
3250
N95
N93
6290

Thats good news only for Nokia users.35 Handsets are supported as of now.

Features

Rs 149 one time fees. No Monthly Rentals.
Works in the background as a watchdog
Application icon is always hidden and will not allow thief to uninstall
Easy to setup and use
Can be used on all GSM Networks

Mobile Tracker Home Page

Nokia E61i Review

Nokia E61i is an enterprise phone loaded with features. It gives Blackberry handsets some serious competition.

Update : Nokia E71 is out and chk out the review

The handset fits snuggly in the hand (at least for me)

The design is impressive and has luxury touch added to it due to the metallic finish similar to the 8800

The phone is an upgraded version of the E61 which lacked a Camera and had a primitive browser. But the built of the E61i is much better than the E61. The keypad has undergone a transformation for the better.

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Sony Ericsson P1

Sony Ericsson P1 is a revolutionary phone which tries to redefine the definition of a Business Class phone.

The P1 is a notworthy competitor for the Nokia E90 Communicator and Nokia N95

Also the P1 will replace the P990 in the production line we suspect

Highlights

25% reduction in size compared to P990i
Support for most mobile email protocols
3G, Wi-fi, bluetooth(stereo) ,Infrared
3.2 Megapixel Camera and a additional Video calling Camera
Dual function keyboard,Stylus,Touchscreen
Rich Media support
Memory Stick Micro Expansion upto 4gb with 512 in package

Price and Availability

Expected to be available in Q3 2007 which is the current quarter in selected markets.

The phone might hit Indian market soon.

Get more info about the specifications here Sony Ericsson P1

Nokia 7500 Prism

7500 Nokia 7500 Prism is the latest fashion phone from Nokia.It was launched in China earlier this week.

Features

Series 40 platform
16 million colors TFT QVGA-display
2 Megapixel camera with flash
microSD expansion slot
Micro USB port and Bluetooth interface

Samsung goes Symbian S60 with the SGH-i400

Samsung announced the Symbian S60 phone – SGH i400 at Madrid,Spain. The phone is Samsung’s 2nd Symbian phone after the i520.

Features

2 MegaPixel Camera
Large 2.3 inch 256K Colors QVGA Display
Slider Form factor
microSD Memory Expansion – upto 4 GB
Stereo Bluetooth
Weight of 92 grams
GSM/GPRS /EDGE Network Support
Dual Stereo Speaker

The i400 will be launched in Russia somewhere in July 2007 and then move on to European countries a bit later.

Forum Nokia Open C Roadshow comes to Chennai

Great news for Mobile Developers in and around chennai.

Nokia is starting of its Open C Events in the Country.

If you are wondering what Open C is about but are interested to find out, then head to the venue.
Venue

Le Royal Meridien
1 GST Road,
St. Thomas Mount,
Chennai – 600 016,
Tamil Nadu,
India.

Date 24th April 2007, Tuesday
Time 09:00 – 17:25

Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.0

The new version of Windows Mobile – 6.0 is coming and devices using the new operating system are expected to be available in the second quarter of 2007.

Whats in

Vista Look
Improved Office and Outlook 2007 integration
Windows Live platform
File Transfer possibility in Live Messenger
Improved HTML Email support

The OS will be unveiled at the 3GSM in Barcelona next week.

Spice Mobile S1000 Windows Mobile Phone

Spice Mobile Phones which is being promoted by the Spice Telecom Group has come up with a rather interesting phone the S1000

Features

Windows Mobile OS
Touchscreen
2.0 Megapixel Camera
Wi-fi , Bluetooth, Infrared
miniSD Memory Expansion

Specifications

Network	GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Connectivity	Wi-fi, Bluetooth ,IrDA
Memory	RAM 128 MBROM 64 MB Expansion : Mini SD (512 MB in package) Up to 2GB
Display	240×320 pixels ,65k TFT Touch screen with Handwriting Recognition
Camera	1600×1200 pixels, flash,zoom,video recording
Tones	Polyphonic,MP3
Battery	Talk time : upto 5 Hours Standby : 6 Days
Messaging	SMS,MMS, Email
Operating System	Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ 5.0 Pocket PC Edition
Software	Word, Excel, PowerPoint Viewer, Java Enabled

PriceThe handset is Priced at Rs.34999

Sony Ericsson completes UIQ acquisition

uiq Sony Ericsson completed the acquisition of the Swedish software company UIQ Technology AB from Symbian Ltd. UIQ Technology, which uses Symbian OS, licenses the UIQ user interface and application development platform to mobile phone vendors worldwide.

Sony Ericsson has already used UIQ 3.0 in the P990 smartphone, M600 messaging phone and W950 Walkman phone.

UIQ Technology will operate as a separate business subsidiary of Sony Ericsson.

via [UIQ]

Symbian opens office in China

Symbian committed to long-term investment in China

Beijing, China – January 16 2007 – At an official ceremony in Beijing, Symbian Limited today announced an office opening in China to support the growing business development and market operations of its licensees and ecosystem partners in the region. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS™, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones to the world’s leading handset manufacturers.

iPhone GUI based Iphony for Palm forces Apple to threaten Blogger

The iPhone fever seems to have hit some Palm addicts.

There was a iPhone like launcher utility which was launched a certain while ago. Its called Iphony.

But Apple seems to have taken this seriously and forced a blogger to remove links to the App.

Folks , you can head over here to see the video:PDA Mexico

via: [engadgetmobile]

Sony Ericsson M600i

Sony Ericsson M600i is a perfect multitasking phone.The highlighting features are the secure push email,internet and intranet access. The sleek design with 2.8-inch QVGA high resolution touch-sensitive display makes it easy for accessing the internet, watching videos and images. M600i has got a dual form keypad which houses both the QWERTY form and normal keypad apart from the handwriting recognition that makes it easy for writing emails and messages.

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