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Idea 3G now available across all districts in Kerala

Idea Cellular has launched its 3G services in Idukki district including towns in high range like Adimali, Munnar, Kattapana, Thekkady, Mayiladumpara, Anakara, Cheruthony, Kumily, Thadiyampadu and Nedumkandam. Idea 3G is now available across all the districts in Kerala. Idea launched 3G service in Kerala last April that is available in Kottayam, Kochi, Calicut, Trichur, Palghat, Kannur, Malapuram, Alleppey, Pathanamthitta, Kollam, Trivandrum and Nedumangad. Continue reading “Idea 3G now available across all districts in Kerala”

Reliance CDMA Android Tablet launched for Rs. 12999

Reliance Communications (Rcom) has launched Reliance CDMA Tab, their new Android tablet for their CDMA customers in India. They launched their Reliance 3G Tab last year. This tablet has 7 inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen and runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has 512 MB RAM and a micro SD card support for external storage and comes with free 4GB SD card. Continue reading “Reliance CDMA Android Tablet launched for Rs. 12999”

Airtel offers Double data on GPRS packs in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

Airtel has doubled the data benefits on its GPRS packs for its pre-paid customers in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. These packs range from Rs 12 to Rs 98 that would offer double data. Rs 149 will continue to offer 4GB of data including 2GB of night data (11 PM to 6AM) and 200 MB of Facebook data. Continue reading “Airtel offers Double data on GPRS packs in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh”

Tata DOCOMO launches new Photon Max Unlimited postpaid plan for Hyderabad customers

Tata Docomo has launched a new unlimited plan for its Photon Max customers in Hyderabad. Tata Docomo launched the Photo Max service last October which is based on Rev-B CDMA technology that promises higher speeds up to 6.2 Mbps compared to their Photon Plus service. Continue reading “Tata DOCOMO launches new Photon Max Unlimited postpaid plan for Hyderabad customers”

MTNL 3G data card now available for Rs.1599

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has announced a special price reduction on MTNL 3G HSPA Data Card that is now available just Rs.1599 for all prepaid and postpaid customers in Mumbai. New customers will get additional advantage of 2 GB Free 3G Data usage (Home and Roam) valid for 30 days on purchase of new 3G Data Card from MTNL CSC and retail partners across Mumbai. Continue reading “MTNL 3G data card now available for Rs.1599”

Option launches XYFI, world’s smallest 3G and WiFi Personal Hotspot

Option, a global leader in wireless connectivity, security and experience has launched XYFI with integrated 3G, WiFi and hotspot connectivity that they claim as the world’s smallest hotspot . It enables up to 8 simultaneous connections, so users can connect their WiFi devices and invite others to share their broadband connection easily and securely. XYFI also connects to WiFi that lets the users to use it as a hub to connectivity and providing carriers with significant WiFi offload benefits. XYFI is powered via USB connection so there is no need of external power supply. Continue reading “Option launches XYFI, world’s smallest 3G and WiFi Personal Hotspot”

Quick Look : Texas Instruments

We bumped into the team from Texas Instruments at the MobileFocus Global event last night. Texas Instruments takes us through some of their products at MWC 2012 and explains why optimization is more important than having faster processor and more cores.

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Quick Look : Raystream HD Streaming

Raystream is a company that offers streaming of HD videos at a unique compression rate. We caught up with them at the MobileFocus event held in Barcelona last night.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos now available in India for Rs. 13,490

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos, Dual SIM Android phone is now available in India from online retailers Letsbuy and Flipkart. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Ace Duos along with a range of Dual SIM smartphones in India last week. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is a Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) smartphone with Dual Standby. It comes with 3.5-inch (320 x 480 Pixels) TFT display and is powered by 800 MHz Qualcomm processor. It has 3MP camera and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos now available in India for Rs. 13,490”

INTEX launches 3G wireless data card for Rs. 2820

INTEX has launched a new 3G data card in India that offers high-speed 3G wireless connectivity with download speeds up to 7.2Mbps and up to 5.76 Mbps upload speeds. It is also compatible with GPRS enabled SIM cards on a 2G platform. Continue reading “INTEX launches 3G wireless data card for Rs. 2820”

Sony smartphone and Toshiba tablet with TransferJet to be demoed at MWC 2012

Sony Phone and Toshiba tablet with TransferJet, high-speed close proximity data transfer technology that would enable 2 devices such as smartphones, tablets etc. to quickly exchange data by just touching the two together to be demoed at MWC 2012. The TransferJet technology combines the speed of UWB (Ultra Wide Band) with the ease of NFC (Near Field Communications). Continue reading “Sony smartphone and Toshiba tablet with TransferJet to be demoed at MWC 2012”

Vodafone announces HTC Velocity 4G Europe’s first LTE device

Almost 4 years ago, LTE (Long Term Evolution) was launched and right now it’s available in several parts of the world, and it’s available in USA via Verizon and AT&T. Now LTE is finally arrived in Europe as Vodafone Germany commercially launched it in Düsseldorf, Germany – Along with Europe’s first ever device known as HTC Velocity 4G (HTC Vivid 4G), and it will be available earlier next month. LTE will be available in all over Germany by late 2012, covering 90% of the country, and they hope to reach 16 million households.

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Samsung and Corning Enter Joint Venture

Samsung has just signed a joint venture with Corning to to manufacture a new range of speciality glass substrates for its OLED equipped devices.

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Airtel offers manual GPRS settings for Non-OTA devices

Airtel has offered Manual Mobile Office Setting instructions for Non-OTA devices after they received complaints about problem in GPRS settings on certain devices. Since the automatic GPRS settings doesn’t work on some devices, these instructions would help the customers to set manual settings for the these devices. Continue reading “Airtel offers manual GPRS settings for Non-OTA devices”

Vodafone 3G now in Tanjore in Tamil Nadu

Vodafone has launched their 3G services in Tanjore in Tamil Nadu. They first launched their 3G services in Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. This would let the Vodafone customers experience various exciting 3G services such as faster downloading, video streaming, multimedia gaming, digital TV and much more from their 3G devices. Vodafone 3G is now available in 22 towns across Tamil Nadu including Tanjore. Continue reading “Vodafone 3G now in Tanjore in Tamil Nadu”