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Come rain or snow storm, get the latest update on your mobile in J&K

The winter this year has frozen the boots off North India. It is February mid and yet the snow just ceases to stop dropping out of the sky, much to the discomfort of those living in these regions.

Not only is normal life thrown out of gear, those who have to travel on business or work often get stuck in tedious traffic jams on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway – the major road link between the Kashmir valley and the rest of India. Continue reading “Come rain or snow storm, get the latest update on your mobile in J&K”

Nokia E51 without Camera launched

Business users who have had to leave their mobile phones in the security terminals of office complexes due to security rules that disallows cameras at the work place can now buy the Nokia E51 without a camera.

The new handset has all the features of the E51 with Camera.

For more on the features of the handset, read the review posted by Fonearena. Continue reading “Nokia E51 without Camera launched”

Video calls with the Nokia 3120 classic

Nokia 3120 classic is a 3G device that offers video calls, web browsing, music downloads and email.

Features:

• Intuitive user interface, large tactile keypad, a great quality 2” QVGA display
• 2 megapixel camera with flash, as well as a video conference camera

Its a highly upgraded version of the immensely popular Nokia 3120

Continue reading “Video calls with the Nokia 3120 classic”

Samsung L320

Samsung L320 A clamshell handset launched alongwith its near-namesake the L310, this handset has almost the same features and specs.

Specs at a glance:

• GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
• GPRS/EDGE
• 93.4 x 44 x 17.9 mm
• Display – 176 x 220 pixels, 1.9 inches

Features:

• TFT, 65K colours
• Polyphonic, MP3
• 20 MB internal memory
• MicroSD expandable memory card slot Continue reading “Samsung L320”

New L310 and L320 from Samsung

It’s raining handsets this year. While we saw handsets being launched in India by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and Asus, it is now the turn of Samsung.

Samsung launched two new handsets that it says, targets the female of the species; a go getter who likes to be seen with a cool gadget. The L310 and L320 are clamshell phones for the fashion conscious.

Samsung L310

Specs at a glance:

• GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
• GPRS/EDGE
• 93.4 x 44 x 17.9 mm
• Display – 176 x 220 pixels, 1.8 inches

Features:

• TFT, 65K colours
• Polyphonic, MP3
• 20 MB internal memory
• MicroSD expandable memory card slot Continue reading “New L310 and L320 from Samsung”

Sony Ericsson R306i Radio

Sony Ericsson R306i Radio

A variant of the R300i Radio, this handset boasts of a 1.3 megapixel camera in addition to the Radio playback features of its cousin.

Specs and Features at a glance: Continue reading “Sony Ericsson R306i Radio”

Sony Ericsson T280

For the handset that has almost the same features as the T270, this is what the Vice President and Head of Entry Level products at Sony Ericsson had to say in New Delhi, “We have developed two phones that meet the needs of two distinct audiences,” said Howard Lewis. “The T270 and T280 build on the appeal of iconic Sony Ericsson phones like the T610. They are good looking and tick all of the right boxes; whether it’s for the business user wanting a compact work phone or the everyday user looking for a classic, stylish camera phone.”

Specs at a glance:
• 1.3-megapixel camera, 4x digital zoom
• FM radio RDS
• Java
• Polyphonic ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Vibrating Alert Continue reading “Sony Ericsson T280”

Reliance all set to enter GSM business after CDMA

We had covered long back in June 2006 about possibility of Reliance entering GSM business in India

Now Forbes is telling us that Huawei Technologies of China has won a 500 million USD contract from Reliance India for GSM Network hardware and installation and the contract spans 3 years. Airtel and Vodafone are battling it out already in the GSM space and State owned operators are facing losses. Will entry of Reliance make things worse for them ?

Regarding the CDMA scene in India , Reliance and Tata Indicom are the sole players and its a different ball game altogether.
Continue reading “Reliance all set to enter GSM business after CDMA”

The LG KW838 Chocolate

I am a Reliance user and have been meaning to upgrade my handset for a very long time. I have a Nokia 6325 which is a neat handset, but lets face it, in the world of 3-5 megapixel cameras, MicroSD memory card options, Bluetooth, GPRS, GSM etc, this handset is antiquated.

But Reliance has few upgrade options that along with features, look super chic too. I don’t want a Black Berry, LG Chocolate hasn’t enough features, and the Nokia handsets by Reliance are just not good looking enough.

And then I come across this news item:

The latest LG Chocolate Phone KW838 can handle both CDMA and GSM cell phone signals. Continue reading “The LG KW838 Chocolate”

Nokia launches Fashion Phone 7900 Crystal Prism

Nokia is on a mobile phone launch spree. Sometime back the company said that they will be launching 30 new phones in 2008; it seems that they were pretty serious about that. Yesterday they launched 2 phones for the budget minded and now today Nokia launched Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism , new addition to Nokia’s prism collection. Continue reading “Nokia launches Fashion Phone 7900 Crystal Prism”

Reliance Mobile Blog

Reliance seems to be singing the Blogging song with their latest Reliance Mobile Blog Ad on TV screens across India.

Reliance Mobile Blog is the latest addition to the features of their mobile offerings. The classical song which plays is ” You got the whole world in your hands “. With mobile penetration sky rocketing in India this new feature seems to be mainly targetted at Youth.The AD shows a pretty young girl who encourages users to share your dairy on reliance mobile world. The advert seems impressive and well taken. It seems like the AD is taken in Singapore. I checked out the Official Site and found that users are uploading mainly images and videos. So this might well be termed as Multimedia Mobile Blogging . But my worry is that since such a service is data intensive, how much time will it take for me to upload an image/video etc. I badly want to get my hands on a reliance phone and try out this service.

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Hyderabad based IMImobile seems to be the powering this service for largest CDMA operator in the country.

FoneArena and blogging have some good connection . We got covered by NDTV for mobile blogging

Check out our mobile blogging guide

Nokia 5610 Approved by FCC

FCC has approved Nokia’s 3G music Phone Nokia 5610 Xpress music. Here is the FCC Document for this handset. Now one more adds up to Nokia’s line of Xpress Music phones. Nokia 5610 Xpress Music phone is a 3G Slider. Continue reading “Nokia 5610 Approved by FCC”

ASUS P750 PDA launched in India

ASUS P750 PDA has been launched in India. One more smart phone release and this one is, at first glance, quite plain looking.

The handset is a complete business applications and connectivity set that will allow users to carry their office communication device in their palms.

Specs at a glance:

• Weight 5.1 oz
• Dimensions 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.7 inches
• TFT Display 2.8 inches
• 64 MB RAM
• Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Features:

• HSDPA3.6Mbps
• Bluetooth V2.0+ EDR
• WiFi
• USB 1.1
• Triband GSM (GSM 900/1800/1900)
• 3.5G high speed network coverage
• Built-in GPS antenna
• 3.2 Megapixel Camera
• Autofocus
• Recordable Image Formats: JPG
• Camcorder: 320x240pixel , 15frame/sec
• Recordable Video Formats: 3GPP, MPEG4
• Touch Screen Continue reading “ASUS P750 PDA launched in India”

Sony Ericsson Using SMS for Customer Feedback

Mobile handset users today are treated as God by the mobile handset manufacturing companies. Even if the customer says something with respect to the mobile it can of great importance to the manufacturer. Mobiles like other products get damaged and people get them repaired from the company certified repair centers. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson Using SMS for Customer Feedback”

Animated SMS’

Sending and receiving SMS is growing at rapid pace. People are so much into sending SMS that a new SMS language has come up and most of the SMS are written in that language, they way it used to be for instant messengers. Continue reading “Animated SMS’”