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Acer Stream with 1GHz CPU, Android 2.1 , 720p HD video recording

Acer has just launched the Acer Stream during an event in China / Taiwan and the specs looks pretty impressive.The phone is powered by a 1GHz Snap dragon processor and runs on Android 2.1+ Acer UI. The display is a 3.7inch AMOLED touchscreen.

There’s 3G/HSDPA,WiFi(n) ,Bluetooth, mini HDMI. The phone also packs a 5 MP Camera which does 720p HD video recording. The phone is just 11.2mm thick. There is over 2GB of inbuilt memory in addition to a microSD Card slot

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Samsung Star Nano 3G lands in India at Price of Rs.7320

Samsung India has launched it’s cheapest 3G touchscreen phone in India the Star Nano 3G. The Star Nano 3G is the latest addition to the Star series which had the Samsung Star and Star3G and WiFi.Samsung is calling this phone ‘My first 3G touch phone’  and is aimed at the youth

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Vodafone ISD packs for Karnataka lets you save upto 60 percent

Vodafone prepaid users in Karnataka can save up to 60 percent on ISD Calls to USA , China , Gulf and several countries with new ISD packs from Vodafone. Under this scheme calls to USA and Canada are as cheap as just 4p/sec.For example users can do an e-topup for Rs.17 and make calls to USA and Canada at 4p/sec which tranlsates to Rs.2.40 per min.

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Visa and Monitise form JV to offer mobile financial services in India

Visa Inc.  the world’s largest retail electronic payments network and Monitise plc leaders in the development and operation of mobile financial services, today announced the formation of a joint venture that will provide a technology platform for financial institutions and mobile network operators in India to offer a range of mobile financial services to consumers in the country Continue reading “Visa and Monitise form JV to offer mobile financial services in India”

g-Fone 571 Dual SIM Blackberry 8900 look-alike for Rs.4000

Seems like  Bright Telecom is perfecting the art of making Blackberry look-alikes. After lauching the gFone G588 , the company has launched yet another Dual SIM handset – g-Fone 571 which bares a lot of resemblance to the Blackberry Curve 8900 aka Javelin. Although it looks like a Blackberry it does some stuff even a BB can’t do like Dual SIM. Continue reading “g-Fone 571 Dual SIM Blackberry 8900 look-alike for Rs.4000”

Micromax X330 Dual SIM Phone

Micromax has launched the X330 a Dual SIM phone which also comes with a Dual LED Torch Light. The phone also packs a MP3 player and FM Radio.   Incase you want to click pictures you can do so with the 2 MegaPixel Camera. There are a couple of interesting features in the X330 which are Folder Protection and Widget Wallpapers

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MTS launches services in Pune

MTS the telecom arm of Sistema Shyam Tele Services Ltd (SSTL) has launched Voice services in Pune and is expanding it’s operation across Maharashtra. As a Promotional offer it’s charging 1 paisa for 4 seconds for calls within it’s network.  The company now offers data servers under the MBlaze brand in 17 cities in the state including Solapur, Kolhapur, Sangli, Jalgoan and Ahmdnagar

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HTC Desire getting Android 2.2 FroYo on June 23rd ?

The is a  fresh rumor that the HTC Desire might get the latest android update aka FroYo on June 23rd. We know HTC is already working on bringing the update to all HTC android devices sold in 2010.

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BOLT 2.1 Available for Download

Bitstream the company behind the Bolt Mobile Browser has released the 2.1 version of it’s BOLT Browser which was in a Beta for sometime. What’s cool is that the company is claiming that the browser has the best mobile browser video support. If that’s true then its some serious competition for Skyfire.  This version has HTML5 Video support in addition to Flash. Bollywood sites such as hungama and bollywoodhungama are supported.

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Blackberry now offering 18 months warranty on BBs

Did you put off your Blackberry purchase just because you were not happy with a standard 12 month warranty ? Well starting now, RIM will offer 18 months warranty on all Blackberry handsets sold in the country !

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Samsung Champ Official Photos

Here are some official photos of the just announced Samsung Champ aka C3300K or Champion which is seen as the Star successor. Finally some non corby phones from the Korea phone maker. The Champ looks like it will be a ht like the Star due the aggressive pricing by Samsung. It’s just a cheap entry level touchscreen phone with Music,Radio, Camera and pretty much basic stuff ! Continue reading “Samsung Champ Official Photos”

Airfone Music Mania Series launched

Airfone has launched a bunch of handsets underthe Music Mania Series. The name has got something to do with the audio chipset which produces high quality sound and the ear earphone noise cancellation according to the company’s claims. They have launched 6 new handsets in this category ranging from Rs.1400-Rs.3600

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India 3G Auctions Winners Announced

The Department of Telecom (DoT)  just posted the list of winners for the 3G Auctions in various circles. Airtel , Aircel ,Reliance, Idea, Tata , STel won atleast 1 circle. Videocon and Etisalat did not win even one circle ! Once the formalities are over we should expect commercial services to be offered by the winners starting from September 2010

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Fly Booom MC105

Fly Mobile has launched the Booom MC105 with an inbuilt amplifier and a 30 x 40 mm speaker . Yeh it claims to go BOOM with an extra ‘o’  and aims to be your Portable Music system in a relatively small form factor. and reasonable price . Apart from the Bo0om’s Music capabilities It’s a Dual SIM phone so you can make calls too ! Continue reading “Fly Booom MC105”