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Are you following me on Twitter? If not, its about Time, because then you would have known the Sony Ericsson Vivaz a lot better than you already do. I have been test-driving the Vivaz for the past 2 Weeks to find out the Things i like about it and which i hate about this Handset. So this little Overview about the Vivaz is brought to you twitter-style, each random Sentence in 160 Characters or less!
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In a interview with Rediff Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology has made a interesting prediction that phone calls could become totally free in India
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Samsung has announced yet another phone for the Indian market and no it’s not a Corby series member but the Monte S5620 according to CellPassion . The S5620 is a part of the Monte series and was leaked in January and was formally announced at MWC in February and the price is surprisingly just Rs.8850 for a Touchscreen phone with Wi-Fi and a 3 Megapixel Camera.
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UPDATE : It was apparently an April Fools Day Prank.
After a long delay the iPhone 3GS was finally launched in India by Airtel and Vodafone
Now , there are fresh rumors that the iPhone 3G (older model) getting a major price cut in India . There are some leaked documents which show the new pricing for the Airtel iPhone 3G. The price of the iPhone 3G is as cheap as Rs.18499 more than 10000 rupees lesser than the current price .
Etisalat DB is one of the few companies who have not started services in India despite possessing a license. Now they are going to start offering mobile services under the Cheers banner. Their website went live just minutes ago and it seems a bit slow.
Professional Networking service LinkedIn which is pretty popular amongst professionals and executives has released the first version of their mobile app for Blackberry phones. Since a lot of corporate users might be using a BB handheld , this app should help them stay in touch on LinkendIn. The iPhone app was launched recently and looked pretty impressive. One of the coolest things about the Blackberry app is the integration with BlackBerry email, calendar and contacts applications. Continue reading “Blackberry LinkedIn App now available for Download for free”
As anticipated, the Mobile Number Portability has been further delayed by 3 months to June 30th. Continue reading “Mobile Number Portability further delayed to June 30”
The Videocon Group, one of India’s leading global business conglomerates which recently released an arsenal of mobile phones has now launched its GSM mobile services. The service offering a scheme of ‘sub 1 paise effective tariff’ will be available in 100 cities all over the country. Mr.Venugopal Dhoot, the chairman of the Videocon Group launched the service in Chennai with actress Shruti Hassan during the inauguration ceremony. Continue reading “Videocon launches GSM Mobile Services in Chennai”
The DoT or Department of Telecom has announced the pre-qualified bidders for the 3G auctions which are set to take place in India next month. 9 Companies had submitted their bid for the 3G Spectrum and all the 9 telecom companies have qualified to take part in the 3G auctions . Let’s take a look at them
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The 3 big guns of the telecom world Bharti Airtel , HTC and Qualcomm have joined hands to launch the HTC Smart in India and a reasonable price of Rs.9990. The phone is the world’s first 3G smartphone powered by the Qualcomm BREW platform and features a 2.8 inch touchscreen , 3.5 mm audio jack, HTC Sense UI , 3.0 Megapixel Camera. Continue reading “Bharti Airtel , HTC and Qualcomm launch HTC Smart at Price of Rs.9990”
HTC is teaming up with Airtel and Qualcomm to announce to the HTC Smart for India today . We had posted some news about the launch earlier and apparently HTC is going to do a lot of marketing for the HTC Smart which is based on the Qualcomm BREW platform. The Smart aims to bring smartphones to the masses and guess what there is even HTC Sense UI on this phone. The Sense UI is mostly found only on high-end HTC devices. Continue reading “HTC Smart launching in India today on Airtel”
Sony Ericsson recently announced the XPERIA and VIVAZ range of mobile phones for India. XPERIA X10 and siblings X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro made a debut along with VIVAZ and VIVAZ Pro. The cellphone maker also announced Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor as it’s India brand ambassador . You might have already seen Kareena in the Sony Vaio X laptop ads and now can expect to watch her in the promos for the upcoming Sony Ericsson phones Continue reading “Photos : Kareena Kapoor is Brand Ambassador for Sony Ericsson”
Uninor recently launched its operations in 8 Indian telecom circles and gained about 3.6 million customers in just 3-4 months and it is now looking to expand in Maharashtra and Goa telecom circles.
TATA Indicom has now rolled out BlackBerry plans for its prepaid mobile users too and has also introduced industry first BlackBerry weekly plans wherein prepaid customers can avail weekly BlackBerry usage benefits without having to pay for an entire month.
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Motorola unveiled the GSM version of the hugely popular Droid for India in the form of the Motorola Milestone. This is the first Android 2.1 based handset to be launched in the country. The phone is one of the thinnest QWERTY sliders in the world with a huge 3.7 inch capactive touchscreen. And whats the coolest part is the Milestone comes preloaded with lifetime free access to fully voice-guided street-level navigable maps of 401 cities in India through MapMyIndia. We would love to try that !
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