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We have updated the prices for a lot of popular phones for Jan 2010. You can find the updated list here
Seems like the reports we gathered the last week regarding Google Nexus One is coming to reality. As reported by Engadget, Google has officially announced a press gathering for Android on the January 5th. While the page doesn’t itself reveal much, we are expecting the launch of Nexus on this day. Continue reading “Android Press Conference : January 5th”
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Finally, after a long 2 year wait, Apple has officially announced the Apple iPhone with Unicom as its official network provider. But, as it always is with Apple, the Chinese versions of the iPhone will be shipping without what may be it’s most important feature, WiFi.
Yes, apple have released a WiFi-less iPhone, something that I consider very important since the iPhone’s software is kinda designed to always work best on WiFi networks. But if you Chinese guys(and ladies) can live without WiFi then you can always pick them up at 4,999 yuan($730) and 6,999 yuan($1,025). This pricing is quite strange since a regular iPhone 3GS(with wifi) can easily be bought for $835 in the black.
But this WiFi-less version of the iPhone may soon disapear considering that this initial batch was built when the Chinese government had it’s WiFi ban in force and since this was recently lifted I guess it won’t be soon before we see WiFi coming to these chinese iPhones. Maybe this is why the folks over at 163.com are reporting that there aren’t many people rushing to buy the iPhones.
Sources:
http://mashable.com/2009/10/30/china-iphone-wifi/
Mobile users are always craving for the next handset be it a low end basic phone or a kick ass smart phone. Thanks to a lot of competition in the market. We have a lot of choices when buying a new phone. That being said , still some phones are on their way to shops India. So we decided to put up this poll to figure out which handset is being anticipated the most amongst FoneArena readers
Here are the winners of the MyPhone contest. The winners walk away with a free copy of MyPhone software !
Thanks to all for the awesome response . The really lucky winners are ,
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To encourage your participation in the community and also to reward valuable information. We are going to give away a lot for freebies starting from now. Continue reading “Share Your Views and Win Free Stuff !”
MChek is one of the most used mobile payment processing service, using which you can easily send and receive money to your bank account or else pay for goods or services, book air/railway tickets from your mobile, or pay your postpaid mobile bill and recharge prepaid mobiles. MChek is one the most used payment processing service and was first adopted by Airtel about a year ago.
Continue reading “After Airtel, TATA Indicom Ties up with MChek for Mobile Payment Processing!”
I remember well, its not too long that we posted about Aircel’s launch in Bangalore followed by Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh). And now its turn for New Delhi circle and as expected, the whole NCR region has been covered with Aircel’s network initially.
Continue reading “Aircel Continues its National Launch Drive; Launched Services in NCR”
There’s a lot of good news coming in for BSNL customers since the last 1-2 months. First it got the most awaited 3G services, then number of VAS followed by very good STVs that we discussed in our recent posts.
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BPL Mobile- One of the country’s oldest cellular service provider has recently changed its brand name to Loop Mobile. So, if you are tired looking into the old fashioned BPL logo, then here is the brand new revamped logo of BPL mobile (now called as loop mobile.)
Since a year or two, the use of mobile banking has seen a tremendous growth. Using mobile banking, any mobile phone user can send or receive money just by press of mobile buttons. In the past, there were many similar useful applications like NGPay, Airtel Mchek, etc for easy processing of mobile payments and mobile transactions.
TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) today announced the revised interconnection usage charges (IUC) for domestic calls and slightly increased them for incoming international calls. To be more specific, the domestic IUC has been reduced to about 33% approximately and IUC for international calls has been increased to 40 paise instead of 30 paise presently.
Also, according to reports, it has been made clear that the reduction in domestic IUC would be affective for all types of calls such as Fixed to fixed, mobile to fixed, and fixed to mobile. And the above changes would be made effective 1st of April onwards.
For those who don’t know what exactly is Interconnection usage charges, it is the charge levied by the telecom company to whom a call is being terminated to. For example a call is being made by a Vodafone customer to Airtel customer, then Vodafone will have to pay some amount of IUC (as fixed by TRAI) to Airtel .
In the previous years, as and when there were changes in the IUC, the call tariff by the mobile phone operators also affected accordingly. According to TRAI, even this time, it expects this initiative to reduce domestic call charges in India as domestic IUC has been reduced to about 33 percent. Hope this step by Indian Telecom watch dog (TRAI) will bring down domestic call tariffs (specially in mobile phones).
