Vodafone Comes With Competitive Price for Blackberry’s Unlimited Email Service; Just Rs. 299!

vodafone If you remember, in a recent post, our co-author – Ritu published about a unlimited email plan for Airtel Blackberry users worth RS. 499 per month. This plan once activated, lets a blackberry users access unlimited email and Instant messengers (like Gtalk & Yahoo) for one complete month. But surprisingly, immediately after Airtel’s announcement of this plan, Vodafone too launched exactly a similar plan but for a better and competitive rate.

This plan by Vodafone costing Rs. 299 per month would give a Vodafone customers exactly the same benefits as in the case of Airtel but the only difference is its price. Airtel charges Rs. 499 and Vodafone declared the same services for just 299 bucks a month. Well, if you are planning to activate this plan, let me tell you, unlimited usages will be only for accessing Email and not browsing the Internet

I say Vodafone is finally curious about attracting more and more corporate users towards its brand. Hope there would be more such competitive offers in the days to come. 🙂

Related: Unlimited Email and Instant Messaging plan for Rs.499 on Airtel BlackBerry

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Celebrate Women’s Day with BSNL SMS Booster Plans!

bsnl BSNL has recently announced the launch of a special SMS booster plan for its customers using which one can send unlimited SMS to National and Local mobiles for just 10 paisa.

Initially a customer need to recharge their BSNL mobile with Rs. 50 worth SMS booster pack and then, as said earlier, they can send as much SMS to any number (mobile) or any network across the county for just 10 paisa for one full month.

So BSNL customers what are you waiting for? Just recharge your mobile with this SMS Booster plan and celebrate women’s day with joy!! 🙂

Happy Women’s Day!!

Link: Official Release

Nokia 5130 Playing Music Hands On Video

Do you want to listen to the latest numbers on Nokia’s latest affordable phone the 5130 XpressMusic ?

Catch the phone playing music in this hands on video

Well we have one more video of the phone .. check out the flashing lights on the music keys ?

And you can watch the Videos in High Quality ! We love Youtube

Nokia 5130 XpressMusic Exclusive Photo Gallery

Nokia 5130 XpressMusic is the latest affordable music phone from nokia available at great price of Rs.6200

We managed to get some photos of the phone and even video footage ..  check out the photos below

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How To : Get an Apple iTunes USA Account for free and download items from the US App store

Spotted a cool free app or free download on the iTunes App Store but did u get a irritating message that the item is not available in the India iTunes Store

Well show you How To Get an Apple iTunes USA Account for free and download items from the US App store

Step 1: Get latest version iTunes (8.0.2.20) is the version we tested the hack on.

Set the country to USA using the dropdown at the bottom

Step 2 : Search for mocha vnc lite in the iTunes Store

Step 3 : Click on the free vnc lite app to download it .

You will be asked to sign-in to your itunes account.

At this step click on Create New Account at the top of the dialog Continue reading “How To : Get an Apple iTunes USA Account for free and download items from the US App store”

Nokia N96 Review with Video

Rita a.ka DotSisx has put together a great Video Review of the Nokia N96 in High Quality [specs]

She does a quick tour of this dual slider phone running S60 3rd edition FP2 and demos the features of this N-Series superstar.

Music playback
video movie playback

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The LG GM730 Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone

The LG-GM730 is the newest phone among LG’s easy-to-use smartphones line-up to come. The company has recently signed a special contract with Microsoft, allowing them to be the first manufacturer of a phone with the new version of Windows Mobile 6.5. On top of Windows Mobile, the LG-GM730 will provide LG’s dynamic, direct and intuitive S-Class User Interface.

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Samsung Pixon – 8 Megapixel camera phone unleashed in India

Although it is becoming a habit with us at Fonearena, we would like to assure all our readers we are not gloating. Yet!

We have been covering the mobile scene with such alacrity and timeliness that sometimes, when a handset is launched in India we realise we’ve already covered its global launch. Similarly, when the Samsung Pixon was launched in September 2008, Fonearena covered the launch. Read the coverage here.

Specs & features at a glance:

3.2-inch WQVGA (240 x 400 pixels) touchscreen featuring Samsung’s TouchWiz UI with auto screen rotation

Samsung widgets on the desktop

3G (HSDPA), GPRS/EDGE

Internal GPS

DivX, Xvid, mp4 file support

Music Player with SRS 3D surround sound

MicroSD card support

8MP AF camera with LED flash x16 digital zoom, auto-focus, fast-shutter, face detection

Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0 (micro)

FM Radio

Geotagging

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Valentines Day Contest Winners

If you remember well , we conducted a valentines day contest

We are announcing the winners of the contest today .

Sorry for the delay , mainly caused by so many entries and new handset launches @MWC 2009

We eliminated the entries and picked the lucky winners using a random number generator.

Some of ur comments were over 160 Characters and we could not consider them

Here are the winners !

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Unlimited Email and Instant Messaging plan for Rs.499 on Airtel BlackBerry

Airtel and Research In Motion (RIM) introduced a new service plan specifically for Airtel customers in India.

The BlackBerry® Personal Mail service plan is an innovative offering that provides Airtel customers with unlimited email and instant messaging (IM) on BlackBerry® smartphone for just Rs. 499 per month. It is the first service plan priced at less than Rs. 500 to offer unlimited email and IM to BlackBerry smartphone customers in the Indian market.

Unlimited BB Rentals as high as Rs.1500 . And this plan comes as a surprise.

Looks like users are using accessing email from their devices much more nowadays.

And interestingly RIM has started to sell Unlocked BBs in India. We will update you on tat as well

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Fastest business phone in the world Asus P565 to be withdrawn

When Asus released its P565 smartphone in November 2008, we at Fonearena had covered the launch. Read the coverage here.

The latest reports in from sources claim that the company has pulled the plug on this handset after entering into a partnership with Garmin (a Taiwanese company) from the beginning of last month onwards. Continue reading “Fastest business phone in the world Asus P565 to be withdrawn”

Samsung Valencia unveiled

The Samsung Valencia, a Windows Mobile powered handset was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona recently at the Microsoft counter and surprisingly not at the Samsung counter.

Specs & features:

393 MHz processor

128MB RAM

128MB ROM

320×240 QVGA display

3G

AGPS Continue reading “Samsung Valencia unveiled”

LG KF300 launched in India

Fonearena had covered the launch of the LG KF300 almost one year ago as it had hit global markets. Read the full coverage here.

The same handset has now been launched in the Indian market in the price band of Rs 8,500. The reason for the after-thought launch by LG is unknown.

While the specs of the handset, re-capsulated below remain the same, the only addition seems to be inclusion of the Mobile Tracker. Continue reading “LG KF300 launched in India”

Windows Mobile version 7 in 2010

Just as we are bracing ourselves to catch version 6.5 of Windows Mobile on handsets such as LG-GM730, HTC Touch Diamond 2 and HTC Touch Pro 2, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has recently confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 will be available sometime next year.

Although no specific data has been set yet, it is certainly going to be quite an exciting OS to look forward to.

We look forward to the 6.5 version handsets that have stiff competition coming in from Palm’s Pre, TouchFlow, RIM and even LG’s new S-Class 3D UI this year! How exciting for a mobile enthusiast!

Nevertheless, since Windows Mobile has been around for a long enough time, its users do appreciate the various upgrades it’s been through. Continue reading “Windows Mobile version 7 in 2010”