News from India the most happening mobile market
Proto.in 2008 concluded last week in Chennai. Check our Proto.in page for more.
Mobile Monday Chennai is getting ready for its second edition in February. So if you are in Chennai and want to be part of the Mobile Monday please visit Mobile Monday Chennai Website
We are also looking for Speakers for the event.
All mobile operators in India are trying to save money by not sending hard copy of bills to Subscribers.
Telecom regulator Trai has mandated all service providers to provide a hard copy of the bill free of cost to its post-paid subscribers.
The order would be effective from January 24, and applicable across all types of tariff plans of mobile — GSM and CDMA — and fixed line services
Ebills and Epayments are the things to blame. Personally I see a need to have a printed copy of my mobile bill for my own records.
Mobile banking payments and mCommerce might finally get some users in India. ICICI Bank has launched its Mobile Banking Application called iMobile to all its users. The application can let you do most of the actions you can perform over internet banking.Below is the main screen of the application. As a security feature the application asks you to enter a PIN before entering this screen.The PIN is set during the first use and when the application is activated.
In order to tryout the application , I installed it over GPRS on my N82 and then tried doing a Prepaid mobile recharge.
The experience was great . Check below for the screenshots and more info. Continue reading “ICICI mobile banking application iMobile”
Sony Ericsson R300i Radio
Launched on 24 January 2008, the R300i is a Radio phone as the name suggests. According to the company, music is an essential part of Indians, and that’s the reason the two handsets R300i and R306i have been launched.
Specs and Features at a glance:
• GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900
• VGA camera
• Integrated stereo speakers Continue reading “Sony Ericsson R300i Radio”
Sony Ericsson R306i Radio
A variant of the R300i Radio, this handset boasts of a 1.3 megapixel camera in addition to the Radio playback features of its cousin.
Specs and Features at a glance: Continue reading “Sony Ericsson R306i Radio”
For the handset that has almost the same features as the T270, this is what the Vice President and Head of Entry Level products at Sony Ericsson had to say in New Delhi, “We have developed two phones that meet the needs of two distinct audiences,” said Howard Lewis. “The T270 and T280 build on the appeal of iconic Sony Ericsson phones like the T610. They are good looking and tick all of the right boxes; whether it’s for the business user wanting a compact work phone or the everyday user looking for a classic, stylish camera phone.”
Specs at a glance:
• 1.3-megapixel camera, 4x digital zoom
• FM radio RDS
• Java
• Polyphonic ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Vibrating Alert Continue reading “Sony Ericsson T280”
Sony Ericsson launched four new handsets in New Delhi – T270, T280, R300 Radio and R306 Radio.
Sony Ericsson T270
A slim candy bar handset that has a glass finish.
Specs at a glance:
• Slim design – width 13mm
• Speaker phone
• FM Radio
• WAP 2.0 XHTML
• No Camera
• Music tones – (MP3)
• Bluetooth technology
• Navigation key
• Picture wallpaper and Wallpaper animation
• Picture messaging (MMS)
• Alarm clock, Calculator, Calendar, Stopwatch, Tasks, Timer
• Java
• Polyphonic ringtones Continue reading “Sony Ericsson T270, T280, R300 Radio and R306 Radio – 4 new handsets to choose from!”
We had covered long back in June 2006 about possibility of Reliance entering GSM business in India
Now Forbes is telling us that Huawei Technologies of China has won a 500 million USD contract from Reliance India for GSM Network hardware and installation and the contract spans 3 years. Airtel and Vodafone are battling it out already in the GSM space and State owned operators are facing losses. Will entry of Reliance make things worse for them ?
Regarding the CDMA scene in India , Reliance and Tata Indicom are the sole players and its a different ball game altogether.
Continue reading “Reliance all set to enter GSM business after CDMA”
Nokia is on a mobile phone launch spree. Sometime back the company said that they will be launching 30 new phones in 2008; it seems that they were pretty serious about that. Yesterday they launched 2 phones for the budget minded and now today Nokia launched Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism , new addition to Nokia’s prism collection. Continue reading “Nokia launches Fashion Phone 7900 Crystal Prism”
Reliance seems to be singing the Blogging song with their latest Reliance Mobile Blog Ad on TV screens across India.
Reliance Mobile Blog is the latest addition to the features of their mobile offerings. The classical song which plays is ” You got the whole world in your hands “. With mobile penetration sky rocketing in India this new feature seems to be mainly targetted at Youth.The AD shows a pretty young girl who encourages users to share your dairy on reliance mobile world. The advert seems impressive and well taken. It seems like the AD is taken in Singapore. I checked out the Official Site and found that users are uploading mainly images and videos. So this might well be termed as Multimedia Mobile Blogging . But my worry is that since such a service is data intensive, how much time will it take for me to upload an image/video etc. I badly want to get my hands on a reliance phone and try out this service.
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Hyderabad based IMImobile seems to be the powering this service for largest CDMA operator in the country.
FoneArena and blogging have some good connection . We got covered by NDTV for mobile blogging
Check out our mobile blogging guide
Nokia today launched 2 new phones for the budget-minded customers in the emerging markets like India and China. The Nokia 2600 Classic and Nokia 1209 are for budget-minded consumers and offer range of features and exchangeable covers. Nokia 2600 will be available in emerging markets in Q1 2008 and has started shipping from Nokia manufacturing facilities. Nokia 1209 will be made available in Q2 2008.
Continue reading “Nokia launches 2600 Classic and 1209 2 new phones for emerging markets”
I m really excited as Im going to be attending Proto.in 2008 – An event to showcase startups in India.
Im interested in the Telecom and Mobile sectors and the first session tomorrow deals with these two sectors.
We might see some product launches and some cool new ideas being presented by Startups.
We will be covering most of the action here on FoneArena as we are an Online Media partner for Proto.in 2008.
Would be great to meet some folks over at Proto.
With camera phones becoming an important part of the gadget repository of a mobile individual, accessories for these phones are sprawling in the market. Recently, Brando launched the Telescopic Zoom lens for Moto RAZR. Continue reading “Lens Cleaner for Camera Phones”
ASUS P750 PDA has been launched in India. One more smart phone release and this one is, at first glance, quite plain looking.
The handset is a complete business applications and connectivity set that will allow users to carry their office communication device in their palms.
Specs at a glance:
• Weight 5.1 oz
• Dimensions 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.7 inches
• TFT Display 2.8 inches
• 64 MB RAM
• Windows Mobile 6 Professional
Features:
• HSDPA3.6Mbps
• Bluetooth V2.0+ EDR
• WiFi
• USB 1.1
• Triband GSM (GSM 900/1800/1900)
• 3.5G high speed network coverage
• Built-in GPS antenna
• 3.2 Megapixel Camera
• Autofocus
• Recordable Image Formats: JPG
• Camcorder: 320x240pixel , 15frame/sec
• Recordable Video Formats: 3GPP, MPEG4
• Touch Screen Continue reading “ASUS P750 PDA launched in India”
By mid-2008, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, BSNL, will offer CDMA services to mobile users across the country.
The application rendered by BSNL for a full-fledged CDMA mobility license has been approved. Since BSNL is State-owned, it was exempted from shelling out Rs 1,651-crores entry fee, performance bank guarantee fee etc for the CDMA license.
“The initial investment for this project will be approximately $500 million,” said BSNL CMD, Kuldeep Goyal.
