Great news for Mobile Developers in and around chennai.
Nokia is starting of its Open C Events in the Country.
If you are wondering what Open C is about but are interested to find out, then head to the venue.
Venue
Le Royal Meridien
1 GST Road,
St. Thomas Mount,
Chennai – 600 016,
Tamil Nadu,
India.
Date 24th April 2007, Tuesday
Time 09:00 – 17:25
Mobile phone theft whom to blame?
Mobile phone theft is on the rise in India.
A huge section of India’s working population use public transport.
IT, Call center jobs have lead to an increase in purchasing power.
Low Cost handsets have also lead to an increase in mobile phone users.
In a country of vast geographical distribution, the mobile phone has
transformed from being a luxury to a bare necessity. Cell phones have
become so common and theft also has risen dramatically over the past 2
years.
Major locations where theft occurs are railway stations, bus
stops, traffic signals, pathways Motorists who use their mobile when
driving might not only be risking their lives but also be a potential
target for the culprits. Of late there have been too many incidences of
bikers being robbed on roadways.
Insurance Cos had stopped offering Mobile Theft Insurance due to a
large number of false claims.
When you loose your mobile phone, more than anything it’s the personal
information that really matters.
Some pointers to avoid mobile theft
* Avoid using your mobile phone in heavily crowded areas
* Avoid using your mobile phone in public transport
* Avoid lending your mobile phone to strangers who might try to trick you
* Don’t talk while driving
* Avoid leaving your handset in your vehicle
* Do not leave you phone unattended in any place, even at your home
Vodafone Essar will be the new name of the old Hutch venture in India. This move comes after Vodafone’s acquistion of HTIL.
Asim Ghosh, Hutchison Essar’s current chief executive, will be chairman and chief executive officer.
Arun Sarin will be the Vice Chairman.
Ravi Ruia will non-executive chairman
Hi Folks,
We have updated the prices of all phones available in the market.
You can check the consolidated price list page as usual here PriceList
Do post your feedback here.
Nokia unveiled the latest E series at 3GSM 2007. The much slimmer E series range is bundled with a lot of additional features. E65, E61i are the sleek mobiles in dark red and brown black colours. Both devices run on S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS 9.1. and have WLAN, GPRS and EDGE connectivity. Navigation and usability have been made easy with the “D-ring.” The center is a large square select button, and around it that is a raised, beveled square ring that controls the direction
The E65 has a 240×320 screen (QVGA), camera, MicroSD slot, and WCDMA (3G), EDGE, GPRS and WiFi connectivity whereas the E61i appears to be a tweaked version of E61 and has a QWERTY layout. The other models at the 3GSM 2007 by Nokia were the E90 and 6110.
The E90 has a two stage hinge, one stage that opens fully to put the screen at 90 degrees to the keyboard and a second stage that is adjustable from 90 to 180 degrees. The screen is pretty large anmd website can be viewed without the scrolling and resolution troubles.
The 6110 features Nokia Navigator, which includes many of the features that must be purchased as add ons to Maps like directions and city guides.
The other models were Nokia N77 and 3110. N77 has stereo Bluetooth support, microSD memory card slot, a 2 megapixel camera and 3G support with video calls. On the other hand 3110 is a perfect mid range phone with 1.3 megapixel camera, a stereo FM radio, Bluetooth, Infrared and tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support.
Nokia 3110 Classic – the successor to the 3100 ?
Hutch has changed colors since it started operations in India.
I remember seeing Hutch first in the Orange. They then changed to pink and blue.
Now after Vodafone has taken over Hutch , will Hutch move to Red synonymous with India’s other largest telecom provider Airtel.
It would be interesting to see what Vodafone does with Hutch.
The battle’s finally over ? Atleast IBN Live says so.
The long battle amongst the Telecom biggies for the aquisition of Hutch India might be over.
Vodafone has won the bid for $19 Billion.Essar is happy about the deal and the price. Vodafone is said to have even offered Essar to become a partner firm.
Hutch is expected to announce an official statement tomorrow
via [ibnlive]
The new version of Windows Mobile – 6.0 is coming and devices using the new operating system are expected to be available in the second quarter of 2007.
Whats in
The OS will be unveiled at the 3GSM in Barcelona next week.
M.Thiyagarajan of Bangalore,India is the person behind Motvik – a startup in the mobile media space, its flagship product WWIGO (pronounced as ‘vigo’) stands for ‘Webcam Wherever I Go’.
It allows a user to transform a bluetooth enabled camera phone into a wireless webcam to be used along with a PC/Laptop. Currently in private alpha testing it would be soon made available for wider public use.”
I m going to test this app soon and post my impressions on the same here.
Wow !! Its so great to see some activity happenning in the Indian Mobile Space.
Spice Mobile Phones which is being promoted by the Spice Telecom Group has come up with a rather interesting phone the S1000
Features
Specifications
| Network | GSM 850/900/1800/1900 |
| Connectivity | Wi-fi, Bluetooth ,IrDA |
| Memory | RAM 128 MBROM 64 MB
Expansion : Mini SD (512 MB in package) Up to 2GB |
| Display | 240×320 pixels ,65k TFT Touch screen with Handwriting Recognition |
| Camera | 1600×1200 pixels, flash,zoom,video recording |
| Tones | Polyphonic,MP3 |
| Battery | Talk time : upto 5 Hours Standby : 6 Days |
| Messaging | SMS,MMS, Email |
| Operating System | Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ 5.0 Pocket PC Edition |
| Software | Word, Excel, PowerPoint Viewer, Java Enabled |
PriceThe handset is Priced at Rs.34999
The K810 is an upgraded version of the K790,K800 . Its a true cyber-shot phone with a 3.2 Megapixel image stabilized Camera, Auto-focus,Xenon Flash. It also sports a secondary video-call camera in the front.Network is Tri-band with 3G.
Interestingly there’s no EDGE but there’s Bluetooth and USB .
No pricing information is out yet. But the phone must be available for purchase in by Q2 this year.
Memory Expansion is the form of Memory Stick Micro – it comes with a 128MB card in addition to the 64MB onboard.
Highlights
Sony Ericsson K200
Sony Ericsson K220
Sony Ericsson J120
Sony Ericsson J110
Apple’s iPod was a winner. Microsoft Zune entered the market after iPod Nano and is still struggling hard for market share. Now after the official launch of Apple’s iPhone, who knows , Microsoft might be putting together the Zune Phone.
some info
Folks !! iPhone is coming in June
via [crunchgear]
When India is still not ready to implement 3G Telephony, reports suggest that China has launched a 4G standard in Shanghai which might be the first fourth generation mobile network in the world. This network as developed as a part of the FuTURE project costing about 19.3 Million USD
3G is not available in mainland China even today and the country is expected to issue 3G licences later this year.
Should India dump 3G and go straight for 4G ?
Some questions remain unanswered.
via zdnet
