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MeeHive Personalized News on iPhone/iPod Touch App Review

I have been playing with the MeeHive iPhone App for over a week now and im should say I that its a simple app which makes news consumption on your iphone very easy.

In the following Review of the Meehive app which is a Free Personalized News App for the iPhone/iPod Touch I would highlight the interesting features of this app.

Meehive Home Screen

This is the screen you would see once you have filled your interests.

Interests is nothing but topics you are interested in . ex:iPhone , Nokia , India etc.

the Homescreen gives you access to all the hot news based on your areas of interest and you can read the full article on the corresponding website without having to leave the app. See the FoneArena Nokia handset leak below

It renders the webpages using the full power of Safari so that you can have a great mobile news reading experience.

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Nokia 5730, 5330, 5030 XpressMusic Phones for 2009 launched as leaked

Nokia 5730, 5330, 5030 XpressMusic Phones have been launched as leaked earlier

Looks like Nokia has started to unveil its 2009 lineup one by one and party did not end after MWC.

This launch marks the addition of 3 new Comes with Music Devices and also launch of the Music Store in many markets . Dunno when its coming to India .

Read on for specs and info about the phones.

Nokia is certainly capturing the iPod market in emerging markets.

“We’ve sold more than 425 million devices with a digital music player and more than 700 million devices with an FM radio, which clearly shows that the mobile phone is the natural device for listening to the music and carrying it with you,”

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Nokia 5030, 5330, and 5730 XpressMusic phones leaked before official launch

Nokia 5030, 5330, and 5730 XpressMusic phones have been leaked just now by a dutch website called allaboutphones

The 5730 specs look pretty similar to our predictions

Looks like Nokia will offer multilingual keypads on the xpressmusic series like we saw in the 5130 photo gallery

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Nokia 5730 XpressMusic to be launched today Virtually

Nokia is certainly cutting costs . Its unveiling more and more handsets virtually online .

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is most likely to be launched online today at events.nokia.com

The 5730 looks like a clone between a XpressMusic phone and a Eseries phone. The 5630 XpressMusic was out Just before MWC and 5730 looks like a fully loaded version of the former

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Use your Nokia phone as a flashlight with PhoneTorch for SymbianOS 9.4 5th Edition

Ever wondered to what level convergance can actually reach. First our phones doubled as a MP3 player, then they bundled as a mass storage device., then as a Camera . Few of our phones could also double as a Flash torch light. But that feature was long reducing in usage as they did not offer that functionality and the feature could tend to be over used which actually caused the camera flash light to diminish in quality and life time. Ofcourse like all technologies the right amount of usage always matters.

Well with that caution here is re introducing the flash light functionality into your S60 5th Edition Nokia Phones.[5800, n97]

Anyway, Harald Meyer has come to the rescue withPhoneTorch for S60 5th Edition, in full Symbian Signed form. Continue reading “Use your Nokia phone as a flashlight with PhoneTorch for SymbianOS 9.4 5th Edition”

Security Issues Hovers Over 3G Services

Its really sad to know that, after the launch of 3G services with lots of hardships, they are now being convicted to create some security issues for the nation. As of now, there are no ways to monitor 3G calls on real time basis and the Intelligence Bureau is concerned about how secure they are (3G services) for the nation.

Reportedly, its been said that, the Intelligence Bueareu of the country wants to halt 3G services in the country until such real time monitoring mechanism is implemented, whereas telecom companies are of the view that, such monitoring mechanism should be implemented by the security agencies of the country as they are concerned about such security issues.

Well, as of now, there are no such official notice about pausing the services but its for sure that 3G will be a hot point of debate in the days to come.. Hope everything goes well! 🙂

Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 on the Nokia N82

Rita has manged to hack her phone to run windows 3.1 and 95 on the Nokia N82 ..

See it for yourself in the vid below ..

Till now we thought that Nokia N82 could run only symbian ?? She proved us wrong !

She managed to get her hands on a Symbian port of DosBox which is an x86 Emulator

Well we are not responsible if your phone screen goes kaput after you trying hacking your phone.

Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) Reduced; Will Mobile Call Charges Come Down Further?

TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) today announced the revised interconnection usage charges (IUC) for domestic calls and slightly increased them for incoming international calls. To be more specific, the domestic IUC has been reduced to about 33% approximately and IUC for international calls has been increased to 40 paise instead of 30 paise presently.

Also, according to reports, it has been made clear that the reduction in domestic IUC would be affective for all types of calls such as Fixed to fixed, mobile to fixed, and fixed to mobile. And the above changes would be made effective 1st of April onwards.

For those who don’t know what exactly is Interconnection usage charges, it is the charge levied by the telecom company to whom a call is being terminated to. For example a call is being made by a Vodafone customer to Airtel customer, then Vodafone will have to pay some amount of IUC (as fixed by TRAI) to Airtel .

In the previous years, as and when there were changes in the IUC, the call tariff by the mobile phone operators also affected accordingly. According to TRAI, even this time, it expects this initiative to reduce domestic call charges in India as domestic IUC has been reduced to about 33 percent. Hope this step by Indian Telecom watch dog (TRAI) will bring down domestic call tariffs (specially in mobile phones).

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Now Recharge BSNL Mobiles Online!

Just a couple of hours ago, BSNL has announced the launch of a new service, wherein, Prepaid mobile users can easily recharge their mobiles online using their net banking account or credit cards.

Though, there were already online services for paying postpaid bills, but the ability to recharge prepaid mobiles online is an innovative offering by BSNL.

For recharging your mobiles just head over to this page, and create an user id. Once you have access to login to BSNL portal, you can recharge your mobiles online at any point of time.

Quick highlight:

BSNL customer can recharge Prepaid mobiles online by logging into BSNL Portal
Mobiles can be recharged either with recharge vouchers or top up cards
Customer needs to use net banking a/c or credit cards to pay for the recharge
Customer will receive an SMS confirmation once the recharge has been done.

Link: BSNL Online Recharge

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Syniverse to Provide Mobile Number Portability in India

Syniverse has been chosen as one of two providers to implement number portability clearing house and centralized database services for India’s 350 million mobile users.

Mobile Number Portability means that you can retain your old mobile number with a new operator .

Say you move from Vodafone to Airtel . You can continue to use the Vodafone number on Airtel network when this service becomes available. Continue reading “Syniverse to Provide Mobile Number Portability in India”

Nokia E75 Videos

Nokia E75 [specs] is expected to hit the stores in a month our too and our source tell us that the E75 is expected in March End / April

So we decided to bring you some official videos of the phone in action

Nokia E75 in Detail

This video shows the highlights of the phone and is a short promo

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BlackBerrys on IDEA – What an Idea!

Idea Cellular and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced that the BlackBerry will soon be available to Idea customers. Idea will offer a broad range of BlackBerry smartphones and services for enterprise and individual customers on its network, nationally.

The BlackBerry solution provides customers with easy wireless access to email, phone, calendar, web and multimedia applications, as well as access to thousands of other mobile business and lifestyle applications.

BlackBerry smartphones will now be available from Idea stores, leading modern trade, and multi-brand outlets across 15 circles of Idea Cellular’s network, throughout the country. Idea Cellular will offer BlackBerry Enterprise Server support to corporate customers and other organizations that manage their own email servers. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise and provides advanced security and IT policy controls to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.

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

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. 🙂

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Celebrate Women’s Day with BSNL SMS Booster Plans!

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