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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Official Pics

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Many analysts have called it the game over for Sony Ericsson but this is not stopping the folks at SE from innovating.The SE Satio was an impressive handset considering the Symbian implementation. And now the SE Xperia X10 with Android. Nice to see a brands going with multiple platforms these days. All this means healthy competition and more choice for the consumer. Hope prices are realistic !  Here are some SE X10 pics straight from the SE HQ
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Google Voice Search Arrives To Nokia S60 phones

Do you use a Nokia N Series/ E Series S60 phone to search on Google? Isn’t typing every query a bit too laborious with the 12-digit Keypad on these phones?

If you said “Yes” to any one of the above, here is some amazing news to you all. Google has now launched Voice Search for all the Nokia S60 Phones.

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Forum Nokia India Announces Annual Developer Conference

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FORUM NOKIA INDIA ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL DEVELOPER CONFERENCE

~ Invites registrations to a unique interactive platform to ‘Unlock the Star’ in you! ~

~ To feature latest in mobile application development and distribution through Ovi Store ~

Nokia today announced the Forum Nokia Developer Conference’09 to be held on the 7th December 2009 at the Taj Residency, Bangalore. Titled ‘Unlock Star’, the conference aims at leveraging the limitless possibilities of the mobile device to drive developer success.  Mr. D Shivakumar, VP and Managing Director, Nokia India along with Ms. Purnima Kochikar, Vice President, Forum Nokia and Developer Community will deliver the opening keynotes, addressing leading software developers, network operators and content partners about Nokia business and technological development opportunities.

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Sony Ericsson Satio , Yari and Aino launched in India

Sony Ericsson has finally launched the Satio a.k.a Idou along with the Yari and Aino phones in India.While the Satio is the most impressive of the three and packs a 12 Mega Pixel Camera and runs Symbian OS and sports a pretty large touchscreen display

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Samsung Omnia HD Review Part-3: Software and Accessories

Scr000004In this rather late third part of the review of the Omnia HD, we bring to you a low down on the software that makes the Omnia HD a performer.

As you all know the Omnia HD is Samsung’s first S60 5th edition device and the third touch screen S60 phone to be launched. Samsung with a good experience in touch screen phones, has for some reason failed to deliver a product that sets it apart from an N97 or a 5800. Sure, in terms of the hardware and the camera performance, the Omnia HD is one helluva performer, but some downright silly niggles keep the Omnia HD from becoming a high seller. The good part of it, a firmware update can easily fix it. Continue reading “Samsung Omnia HD Review Part-3: Software and Accessories”

Nokia N97 version 20 firmware now out for download

n97v2-1 The new software update for the Nokia N97 which is due in October is finally out for download now over Nokia Software Updater and FOTA. This firmware update mainly brings improved touch screen scrolling and Improved OVI Maps 3.1 with 3D Maps. Continue reading “Nokia N97 version 20 firmware now out for download”

Cricket T20Fever for iPhone and iPod Touch – Trailer

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Cricket T20 Fever is a cricket game for the iPhone platform and is developed by IndiaGames . It promises a realistic and entertaining experience of the game of cricket to hard core cricket fans and casual gamers alike. The game fine tunes the tried and tested methods of previous cricket games and adds as many new features to make it a feature packed game of remarkable diversity. Continue reading “Cricket T20Fever for iPhone and iPod Touch – Trailer”

Vote for the Nokia Cityman of the Year

nokia-india-citimanDilin who used to write here at FoneArena is one guy crazy about phones.His pic has been shortlisted at the Nseries blog for the Cityman of the Year contest. Nokia has picked 10 entries of the final round and Dilin is one of them. Continue reading “Vote for the Nokia Cityman of the Year”

Samsung Jet Review

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With millions spent on Research , Unique Marketing strategy with lot of fanfare Samsung had launched “smarter than smartphone” Samsung JET with the model number S8000 It is loaded with features according to the specs sheet – 800mhz CPU,AMOLED resistive touchscreen.3D cube interface ,  3.1-inch display, 5-megapixel camera, DivX/Xvid support, Wi-Fi and 2 GB built-in memory. One can easily fall in love with it once it gets in hand because it’s so light and act as a status symbol too. The Form factor is really worth appreciating considering the feature set. Lets dive in and find out if its smarter than the smartphone in this Samsung Jet Review Continue reading “Samsung Jet Review”

HTC Touch2 Comes to India on Reliance GSM

HTC Corporation has launched the new compact, sleek and stylish smartphone HTC Touch2 in Indian Market for Reliance Mobile’s GSM subscribers. Reliance Communication, a company with a customer base of over 90 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers and which ranks among the Top 5 Telecom companies in the world is the foremost telecom operator to present HTC Touch2 handset in India. Also HTC Touch2 claims to be HTC’s first touch phone embedded with Microsoft’s newly released Windows Mobile 6.5 that enables its users to do all the things they want to do on phone easily.

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Nokia announces Cash Back Offer for Diwali – Khareedo Now Ya Pachhtaao

Nokia is inviting you to make this Diwali memorable with its first ever cash back offer in the country.

image Also a few special Diwali applications have been launched for the festival season.You might already seen the TV ads for Khareedo Now Ya Pachhtaao campaign. If you happen to buy a Nokia phone during this period do let us know how much you won by scratching the card.

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Nokia Music India Gets Festive and Offers 100 free tracks. Download Now!

Here is some news that would excite any Music Lover like me. The recently launched Nokia Music Store India has decided to give 100 free tracks to download for all the all Music fans out there on the account of Diwali. The free tracks range from various genres such as Bollywood, South, International, Devotional etc. It also includes the latest chartbusters from Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English songs.
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Airtel Launches TweetSMS to send/receive tweets on your phone

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Cashing on the phenomenal growth of Twitter since a year, Airtel is launching a third-party application that allows you to receive Twitter SMS updates directly onto your phone called “tweetSMS”.

Initially when Twitter was launched, they had SMS updates option and they were sending the users their replies and their friends updates via SMS but somewhere in 2008 Twitter stopped sending free SMS updates to users, and instead started teaming up with different service providers around the world to create an economical and easy way to get SMS updates on your phone. In India, Twitter has teamed up exclusively with Airtel to offer the SMS service for an unknown period of time.

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