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Samsung Sells 50 Million TouchScreen Handsets

Samsung touch screen mobile phone has now crossed the 50 million mark globally in sales this month, which make it one of the competitors to watch out for, in this fast-growing touchscreen market segment.

Samsung has sold approximately around 40 million touchscreen devices this year through November end, compared to around 10 million in the year 2008. The growth in sales of this phone also shows the rapid adoption of touch screen phones by all the consumers who enjoy its intuitive user interface, powerful multimedia features and sleek designs. Continue reading “Samsung Sells 50 Million TouchScreen Handsets”

Nokia E72 is finally in stores

Good news y’all ! Nokia E72 is finally in stores after some delays

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Some users are also reporting that their pre-orders have been shipped in the UK and Europe

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Espoo, Finland – The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores. To coincide with the arrival of the Nokia E72, Nokia has also released research* revealing that more people rely on email than on traditional phone calls or text messaging when sending and responding to critical information. Continue reading “Nokia E72 is finally in stores”

Samsung badaOS

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Samsung have announced the badaOS for their mobile phones. It will be a replacement to the Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. The name “bada” is derived from a Korean word signifying “ocean”. The name was chosen as it represents the endless possibilities with the OS.

Samsung bada is a new open platform that enables a richer user experience in applications on Samsung mobile devices.

Right now no further information on the platform is available. Sasmung only gives us a sneak peek and slight info at an official site.

The official announcement should be in December when Samsung will officially launch the OS along with the SDK.

Here’s the link to the official site

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Google Buys AdMob for $750 million

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Google has announced that it has acquired the Mobile Ad Network AdMob for $750 Million. This acquisition will enhance Google’s foray into mobile advertising , while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this growing new mobile space.

In a statement, Google’s Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management, said that, “Mobile advertising has enormous potential as a marketing medium and while this industry is still in the early stages of development, AdMob has already made exceptional progress in a very short time. AdMob is the quintessential Silicon Valley startup — generating impressive year on year revenue growth — and we’re excited to welcome this talented team to Google”. Continue reading “Google Buys AdMob for $750 million”

Nokia Sues Apple. It Says iPhone infringes on ten different patents

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Nokia announced today that it has filed an infringement complaint against Apple, alleging that Apple’s uberfamous iPhone is infringing on 10 of their patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards. Continue reading “Nokia Sues Apple. It Says iPhone infringes on ten different patents”

Nokia Booklet 3G to be on sale from October 22 for $299

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The much anticipated Nokia Booklet 3G will be available on AT & T from October 22, which is a few days from now. The device will be available at a introductory price of $299.99 with an AT&T Data Connect plan two-year activation at $60/month. Nokia Booklet 3G will be sold at all Best Buy locations in US and as well as at 50+ Best Buy Mobile standalone stores across USA.
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Airtel Launches TweetSMS to send/receive tweets on your phone

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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Fly launches a series of Dual SIM handsets for Diwali

With Diwali just around the corner, Fly Mobiles has announced 6 New Dual SIM handsets namely the DS100, DS150, DS 200, V170, V180, and MC 160.

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MindTree to develop Mobile Phones now

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MindTree, the popular IT Solutions Company is now getting into the development of Mobile phones now.

This new division in MindTree called N!Mo (Next in Mobility) will deal with conceptualizing, designing,and developing white-label mobile devices for different service providers and OEMs who will in turn brand them and sell it in the global forum.

Samartha Raghava Nagabhushanam, the founding director of Kyocera Wireless India, which MindTree acquired recently, will head the N!Mo division in MindTree.

This new division in Mindtree is expected to bring in revenues of $9 Million (42 Crore Rupees) in the next 6 months and help MindTree in achieving the $1 Billion target by 2014.

(Source: The Times of India)

Tata Docomo Launches Blackberry Services

Tata Docomo has recently launched its blackberry service offering both the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones to its customers in India.

Tata Docomo currently offers two different plans for the BlackBerry data service — the “Do 299” plan and the “Do 899” plan.

The “Do 299” plan offers unlimited data usage for e-mail and instant messaging, whereas the “Do 899” plan offers unlimited data usage for Internet, e-mail and instant messaging.

However, the Voice plans have to be subscribed separately by the user.

AT&T Finally To Launch MMS for iPhone On September 25

AT&T has finally announced that, on September 25, it is going to roll out a software update which is going to add the required support for sending and receiving MMS messages for all its iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers.

One of the major qualm of iPhone customers was the lack of MMS support from the AT&T side although iPhone had added the MMS support in its 3.0 Software Upgrade.

AT&T has stated that the projected high data usage of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities was one of the main reason behind the delay in the rollout of MMS Support for all the iPhone 3G and 3GS Customers. You can read the complete AT& T’s company statement here.

Now that AT&T is rolling out MMS Support for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers, I wonder how long will it take for Vodafone to roll out the same thing in India. What do you say? Do Pass on your comments.

Nokia Announces Nokia Money- Its Own Mobile Banking Service

Nokia has just introduced its new mobile financial services called as Nokia Money with a primary goal to offer access to basic financial services for all the mobile phone users. This provides every user with the possibility of using just a mobile handset to manage all your finances and also the ability to make necessary payments using only their mobile handset. Nokia believes that this service will be beneficial for many users of mobile phones and will become their first service, finance manager. Continue reading “Nokia Announces Nokia Money- Its Own Mobile Banking Service”

Sony Ericsson Jalou Announced!

Sony Ericsson Jalou is a fashion phone which has a very unique design inspired by jewellery. The Sony Ericsson Jalou features are:

73 x 45 x 18.2 mm, 84 grams
2.0 inch TFT Screen with 240*320 Resolution, 1.3 inch External Monochrome Screen
100MB Internal Memory, micro-SD card slot
GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, Bluetooth, USB
3.15 Megapixel Camera, Geo-tagging, QVGA Video Recording at 15Fps, Video Light, Video Call Continue reading “Sony Ericsson Jalou Announced!”

Ovi Mail hits the 1 million mark milestone

With over one million accounts activated in just over six months, Ovi Mail is quickly emerging as the email account for the developing world.

Since it is specifically designed for on device set-up, people can get their first email address and create and manage their accounts without any PC at all.

Tom Furlong, head of Consumer Messaging at Nokia said “More than just reaching a company milestone, this proves to us that there is a real appetite in the developing world for these types of tailored services“. He also added that “For first-time email users, Ovi Mail provides a digital identity and we are thrilled by its rapidly rising adoption rate“. Continue reading “Ovi Mail hits the 1 million mark milestone”

Nokia E52 , 6730 classic and 6600i slide coming soon to India .. launch date not far away

Apparently Nokia has launched the much anticipated E52 along with 6730 classic and 6600i slide in Taiwan / China according to a Taiwan based site ePrice . Some pics from the launch below .. The E52 looks hot !

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