Insurance for LG Mobiles

Now here is help for those who have a tendency to forget their mobile phones on counter tops in stores or on public transportation.

LG Electronics has tied up with United India Insurance Co. Ltd. and is offering a Mobile Theft Insurance Plan for its customers at no extra charge.

All LG GSM handsets bought on or after April 1st 2008 will be insured against theft for a period of one year from the date of purchase.

Anil Arora, Business Group Head, LGEIL, “Loss of mobile due to theft is a major concern for handset buyers. Customers stretch their budget to purchase latest handsets, and cannot afford to lose them. LG Mobile Theft Insurance plan would provide a perfect solution to this. We not only guarantee for providing the best phones in the market but also guarantee to safeguard customer’s interest in case of mobile theft.”

The buyer should lodge an FIR within 24 hours of losing the handset, block the SIM card with the respective service provider and send the information to the insurance company within 7 days. Continue reading “Insurance for LG Mobiles”

New Dual Sim offering from Samsung – D780 Duos

Samsung recently launched the tri-band Samsung D780 Duos. A rather stylish candy bar design, this handset is loaded with goodies.

Specs and features at a glance:

• 2.1 inch, 256k colour, QVGA display
• 2 megapixel camera
• USB 2.0 data transfer
• Bluetooth with an A2DP profile
• microSD card support for external memory
• Media player for music and video
• FM radio

The D780 allows both SIMs to be active at the same time. Continue reading “New Dual Sim offering from Samsung – D780 Duos”

Reliance Communications launches Educational Portal on Reliance phones

Reliance Communications launched an exclusive educational portal on Reliance mobile phones, offering services such as exam results, college admissions, event calendar of exams, admission deadlines, mock tests etc. The portal will also have the list of top universities, colleges, secondary education boards as well as career options.

To use, subscribers have to call 53030101 (Exam Guru) and they will be guided by an IVR instructing them to press 1 for exams and admission, 2 for information on top colleges and universities in the country, 3 for career options, 4 for Board Exams and 5 for SMS based subscription.

These services can be accessed at a rate of one rupee per minute for which the user will have to subscribe to the “Exam Guru” pack, which is priced at Rs. 10 and carries a validity of 10 days. Continue reading “Reliance Communications launches Educational Portal on Reliance phones”

More dope on the 3G iPhone

3G iPhone blah blah blah…you must be tired reading all these rumors that are going around the world for the 3G iphone. Every soul who knows something or the other about mobile phones and iPhones is talking about 3G iPhone. Even big shots like Walt from the WSJ are giving their speculations about when the iPhone is going to come. But now there are more evidences being found that the 3G iPhone might be coming pretty soon. The iPhone SDK 3.0 was released sometime back and some of the more inquiring kind of people have dewelled deeper into that SDK documentation and found out that the new iPhone will have SGOLD3 chipset which is 3G enabled so it proves that the iPhone which is coming in June at the WWDC 2008 has to be a 3G iPhone and thats not all this particular chip supports 5 megapixel camera and MPEG 4 video. That means that the iPhone that is going to be launched at the WWDC is going to be a multimedia powerhouse man..I am just waiting to read more about it..

TATA to offer JuiceCaster service to customers

In February, We had covered the story of California-based JuiceCaster’s foray into India. Read the story here.

Tata Teleservices announced that it will offer JuiceCaster 6.0 mobile social networking services. Tata subscribers will be able to access JuiceCaster 6.0 as a downloadable application on their Windows Mobile and BREW handsets.

Subscribers of Tata Teleservices will thus be able to publish multimedia content from their camera-enabled mobile phones to any person, group, Internet Web site, or desktop.

IBM massive strage technology for phones

Mobile phones today are the called the Swiss knives of the technology world. They have everything right from a camera to a music editing software. The functions that are available on today’s mobile phones are unlimited, the only thing that is unlimited is the memory. Though there are many phone is the market that can carry up to 16 gigs of data and some might be coming in the next 2 to 3 months that will cary more than that like the iPhone 32 GB. But thats all, todays phones need to have memory that is massive to carry all your music and multimedia files and a battery life to support that memory. May be IBM was working on this and not they are working on a mobile storage technology that can store ten times the dat that is stored today on a normal mobile phone and also enhance the battery life. IBM’s racetrack technology will be able to store information inside the walls of the silicon wafers…cool. So once this memory commercializes it will be the death of PMP’s cause whey anybody will buy a PMP when you have a mobile phone with IBM’s racetrack technology.

Google launches Native Search Client for Symbian OS

Google has recently launched a native search client for the symbian os. Ready to be downloaded from your mobile phone(just point your browswer to google.com and search). This application really offers excellent navigation features. It directly allows you to update your current location., immediate map access.What more it even appears as a tool bar ready application on the active stand by screen. Its just simply usable and a really functional application.

Continue reading “Google launches Native Search Client for Symbian OS”

By 2010 India to have 500 million mobile phone users

Nokia’s Indian arm has predicted that India’s rising mobile phone using population will touch the 500 million mark by 2010.

In what is clearly sunny news for the Telecom sector, out of 500 million, 60 million users will have mobile video capability and 100 million will prefer mobile music services.

D Shivakumar, vice president and managing director of Nokia India, while speaking at the Goafest Conclave predicted that half the subscribers will be accessing the Internet through mobile phones. Continue reading “By 2010 India to have 500 million mobile phone users”

Configure Gmail On Your Mobile Phone

Here is the short tutorial which allows your to configure Gmail Account on N95: (IMP: You must enable POP3 access of Gmail Account. Hint:Look inside Setting and POP forwarding Options on gmail web site)

  1. Open Messaging Application
  2. Goto Mail box. It asks you ‘No mailbox defined. Define now?’, Choose Yes.
  3. Mailbox setup wizard will start. Press start to continue
  4. Mailbox Type choose POP3, Press Next
  5. On next screen type your email address xxx@gmail.com (IMP: press the Pencil Key and highlight your email address then press Copy. This will save you typing)
  6. Press Next
  7. Enter pop.gmail.com as Incoming mail server, Press Next
  8. Enter smtp.gmail.com as Outgoing mail server, Press Next Continue reading “Configure Gmail On Your Mobile Phone”

Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge

Nokia is strengthening its efforts to promote mobile gaming on mobile phones and handheld devices. As a part of this initiative it has launched the worldwide Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. This challenge will drive game developers all around the world to develop world-class games that will be used on mobile phones. Continue reading “Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge”

Hummer H2 is back

French based handset OEM, Modelabs has announced the HT2 HUMMER mobile phone. This is the second Hummer branded mobile phone that is being announced. The product will be launched under the exclusive partnership and licensing contract with Hummer. Apart from its rugged look the main features of the phone include: Continue reading “Hummer H2 is back”

Apple iPhone SDK 3.0 released

Apple has released the 3.0 version of iPhone SDK for iPhone developers. The 2.0 Beta version of the iPhone SDK was pretty hit among the developers and many third party application companies announced games and software exclusively for the iPhone, courtesy the iPhone SDK. Continue reading “Apple iPhone SDK 3.0 released”

Nokia launches much awaited N-Gage

Nokia finally launched the much awaited N-Gage mobile games service on April 7th 2008.

If you are a Nokia user, now can find, try and buy high-quality made-for-mobile games directly from your Nokia handset. Isn’t that awesome!!!

If you are an avid player, you can connect with other players through the N-Gage Arena community, meet friends, find others to play multiplayer games, discuss topics on the message boards and via live chat, and participate in tournaments and hosted events. WOW!

“With N-Gage we’re offering a seamless experience for people around the world to try and buy games that are engaging, accessible and have wide appeal,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, vice president of games, Nokia. “We’re very excited to get this into the hands of our customers, because with them we will shape the future of mobile gaming.” Continue reading “Nokia launches much awaited N-Gage”