Vodafone has launched new ‘START STOP’ service for making VAS (Value Added Services) management easy. This would let customers subscribe to popular VAS products just by messaging START, and STOP for deactivating the service from collection of Value Added Services including, Astro & Devotional, Music & Movies, Entertainment, Info & Utilities and Sports. Continue reading “Vodafone launches ‘START STOP’ service for easier VAS management”
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Airtel announces top customer download preferences in 2011, Kolaveri Di tops
Airtel has released its annual survey of customer preferences for this year, Airtel Mobitude 2011. It shows in-depth study of data capturing all content downloaded round the year by over 170 million plus Airtel subscribers in the country. It includes various categories including top cine stars and sports icons, most downloaded songs, various sports, music downloads etc. Talk2me and Live Concert made it easier for the customers to interact with the movie stars, favorite singers & cricketers. Continue reading “Airtel announces top customer download preferences in 2011, Kolaveri Di tops”
MAXX Mobiles launches Dual SIM Touch Screen Projector Phone MAXX Focus
MAXX mobiles has launched MAXX Focus (MTP9), full touch-screen projector phone with Dual SIM support. It has an in-built projector that offers complete entertainment on-the-move. It comes with a 2.8-inch touch-screen display, 5MP camera and is powered by a 208 MHz processor. It has 4 active screens and widgets that lets the users browse through recent applications on the phone and has a range of live wallpapers. Continue reading “MAXX Mobiles launches Dual SIM Touch Screen Projector Phone MAXX Focus”
Vodafone 3G now in Karur, Erode and Hosur in Tamil Nadu
Vodafone has launched their 3G services in Hosur, Karur and Erode in Tamil Nadu. This would let the Vodafone customers experience various exciting 3G services such as faster downloading, video streaming, multimedia gaming, digital TV and much more from their 3G devices. Vodafone 3G is now available in 22 towns in Tamil Nadu. Continue reading “Vodafone 3G now in Karur, Erode and Hosur in Tamil Nadu”
Airtel launches new 3G Unlimited High Speed USB Data Card Plan in Rajasthan
Airtel has launched a new 3G Unlimited High Speed USB Data Card Plan, Airtel Super 950 in Rajasthan. This plan is priced at Rs. 950 / month and it would offer 7.2 MBPS for the first 6 GB data after that speed would be throttled to 20 kbps and remain unlimited for the rest of the month. Continue reading “Airtel launches new 3G Unlimited High Speed USB Data Card Plan in Rajasthan”
BlackBerry Curve 9380 goes on sale in India
BlackBerry Curve 9380 is now available for purchase in India. It is the first all-touch smartphone in the BlackBerry Curve family. It was announced earlier last month and RIM launched the BlackBerry Curve 9380 and the Curve 9350 in India at the end of last month. BlackBerry Curve 9380 is powered by 806 MHz processor and runs on BlackBerry OS 7. Continue reading “BlackBerry Curve 9380 goes on sale in India”
RIM announces Sunil Dutt as Managing Director for India
Research In Motion (RIM) has appointed Sunil Dutt as Managing Director for India. He worked for Hewlett Packard India Sales Pte Ltd previously as President, Personal Systems Group and was responsible for expanding their business in enterprise, mid-market and consumer space. Frenny Bawa, previous Managing Director of RIM quit last month.
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Chaze Mobiles to enter Indian mobile phone market soon
Chaze, a new mobile phone brand by K.R.Mangalam Group is all set to enter Indian market with range of Mobile Phones soon. These phone are targeted at Indian youth market and would be available in competitive price range. It would also come with features such as Announcement System,Auto Call Recording, Answering Machine, Big Sound and more. Continue reading “Chaze Mobiles to enter Indian mobile phone market soon”
Nokia Lumia 800 Pre-Orders start in India
Nokia Stores across India have started to take Pre-orders for the first Windows Phone device from Nokia , the Lumia 800. Most Nokia Priority Stores across the country have the device on display as well. In case you wanted to check out the 1st Windows phone from Nokia , you can walk in and get your hands on the device. In order to reserve your unit , you must pay a small advance in the range of Rs.1000-2000 and the device will be made available in the next 10 days according the the store. The final retail price of the Lumia 800 is not yet fixed due to the fluctuating dollar we assume, but the person in a store hinted at a final retail price of Rs.30000-33000. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 800 Pre-Orders start in India”
Nokia X2-02 Dual SIM Phone – Photo Gallery
Finally Nokia is taking the Dual SIM market seriously in India as the company launched yet another Dual SIM phone , the X2-02 last week at it’s Annual Strategy Sharing Summit in Udaipur. The X2-02 reminds us of the X1-01 but the big difference is the presence of a hot-swappable SIM card slot on the outside. There is a Easy Swap feature which lets to store settings of up to 5 SIM cards. The phone also has a hot-swappable microSD card slot with support for 32GB cards.One of the killer features is the built-in FM Transmitter which Nokia calls as Play via Radio.You can have your own radio station in your car. One can also tune-in to radio stations without connecting a headset , thanks to the internal FM receiver. Continue reading “Nokia X2-02 Dual SIM Phone – Photo Gallery”
Samsung Galaxy Y vs LG Optimus Me vs Micromax A70
Here is the comparison between 3 low-end Android smartphones that are packed with features and also budget friendly. The Samsung Galaxy Y is the latest low end Android phone from Samsung that was launched in October. It packs in a powerful 832MHz Processor that is a plus for the price. The LG Optimus ME was showcased at MWC earlier this year and launched in India this April. The Micromax A70 is the successor of the Micromax’s first Android phone, Micromax A60. The 5MP camera and secondary camera are its big plus. Let’s get into the specs comparison. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Y vs LG Optimus Me vs Micromax A70”
Hands On : Blackberry Curve 9350
RIM launched three new handsets in India recently. We got to spend some time with the three and have put down some thoughts. The first in the line is the new Curve 9350 , a CDMA based device.
Hands On : BlackBerry Curve 9380
One of the more interesting devices out of RIM’s three handset launch recently is the Blackberry Curve 9380. The device is being marketed as the first consumer oriented , mass market full touch Blackberry device. The 9380 is a part of the consumer centric Curve series of devices and looks almost identical to the 9350 from the back.
HTC Rhyme launched in India
HTC has launched the HTC Rhyme in India. It is powered by 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS with HTC Sense UI and comes in 3 distinctive colors. It has a 3.7 inch (800×480 pixels) super LCD display, 5MP Auto-focus camera with flash and VGA front-facing camera, 3.5mm headset jack, Stereo FM radio with RDS, 768 MB RAM, 4 GB internal memory with 32 GB expandable memory.
Airtel offers free Mobile Twitter access for 3 months
Airtel subscribers can now access Twitter on their mobile phones free of cost till 1st March 2012. They can visit mobile.twitter.com or SMS 53000 from their mobile phones to get access to Twitter free without any data charges. This would let the users to view their timeline, find and follow accounts, post new Tweets, see Tweets mentioning them, and reply to other users and retweet their Tweets for free. Those who doesn’t have an account can sign up for Twitter or subscribe to SMS updates of specific users (via short code 53000) on their mobile phones free for the period of this offer.
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