The long awaited iPhone rebel from Nokia is finally coming to India. Company sources mentioned that the phone would be launched by January 2009.
The Nokia 5800 would be priced at 21,800 and loaded with a whole lot of features. The phone can also handle as many as 60 different languages. It also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with 8GB of disk space. With looks similar to iPhone and the Sony Ericsson X1, it would definitely swallow a piece of the Apple and Sony market space. Read the full story
The Blackberry Storm is surely another big iPhone rival. The striking Blackberry Storm 9530 with its SurePress touchscreen would woo business phone user to buy it.
The Storm would be another addition to the now crowded smartphone touchscreen market. Almost all major companies have comeup with a touchscreen smartphone similar to that of iPhone pushing down its sales and hype to a major extent.
Blackberry launched its Blackberry Bold in India last month which included a huge pack of multimedia features along with an advanced media player and a 2 megapixel camera. Read the full story
Hillary and Obama may have had the worst debates. But they have one common love. And that’s their Blackberry. But then would he have to give up his Blackberry now that he is Mr. President?
Once when Former President Bill Clinton was asked, what would be the “must have” gadget for his wife, he obviously answered “Her Blackberry”. Read the full story
T-Mobile’s G1 or more popularly called the Google phone would be the first Android based handset available in the market. The phone manufactured by HTC has all the features of a smartphone but would it be as reliable as a Windows Mobile or a Symbian operating system?
On a first look at the HTC G1, you would think it is similar to the Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices or HTC’s own HTC Touch Diamond or the Touch Pro. The phone is also very different from an iPhone making it incomparable and one that caters to a completely different audience. Well, it’s at least 100 times better than a iPhone.
QWERTY Keyboard: With its wide, simple and elegant keyboards, they are one of the most comfortable QWERTY keys available on a mobile market today. This is great while composing emails, surfing the web, sending messages or while chatting.
3G and EDGE: The HTC G1 has a built-in support for 3g and EDGE networks which T-Mobile supports enabling high-speed data connection for surfing and downloads.
Communication: The HTC G1 has a rich HTML e-mail client which can synchronize your e-mail messages, your calendar schedules and contact information. The phone also supports POP3 or IMAP.
Online Chat: You can now be connected with your Google Talk™, Yahoo! Messenger ®, Windows Live Messenger and AOL® as T-Mobile supports these in U.S.
Music: The Google Phone for T-Mobile has a pre-loaded application from Amazon with which one can download their favorite DRM-free 6 million MP3 tracks. However, downloading music from Amazon MP3 would require a Wi-Fi connection.
Android Market: The new Android open source operating system has its own feature called the Android Market which has a whole load of applications and services from worldwide developers.
ShopSavvy: Android application to help you do a comparative shopping. Users can scan the UPC code of a product with their Google Phone’s camera during shopping and compare product prices from online merchants with the nearby local store.
Ecorio: Another application on the Android phone developed to assist users to organize and track their daily travels and even check their carbon footprints. The Ecorio also helps users find their impact on environment by calculating the number of steps they take each day.
BreadCrumbz: With BreadCrumbz you can create a visual mapping path using photos.
Highlights
3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with HVGA (320 X 480 pixel) resolution.
Full 5-row QWERTY keyboard.
One-click Google Search™.
Customizable Home screen with instant Email, text message and IM notifications.
Instant access to mobile Internet services (Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Maps™, Google Talk™, Google Calendar™).
High-speed 3.5G network connection.
Wi-Fi technology with seamless transition to open networks.
Android Market™ with access to variety of software and media downloads. (some fees may apply)
3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus.
microSD™ (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slot for all your storage needs.
All you have heard is that there are thousands dying of hunger in India. This is a different story. There are 10,000 mobiles sold every hour states an IDC India report.
The report states that there were 85 million mobiles sold this year 66 million units sold in the last fiscal year which is a 28.9 per cent increase.
Nokia tops the list of handset manufacturing and sales with 52.8 per cent largest market share followed by LG with 10.2 per cent. Samsung ranks third in sales with 8.3 per cent of total mobile phones sold in India as per quarter end March 31, 2008.
IDC India, a subsidiary of CyberMedia Country Manager Kapil Dev Singh stated that “This growth comes on the back of a burgeoning mobile services market and lower entry barriers across various customer categories, as average selling values (ASVs) of handsets continue to fall in the wake of a highly competitive landscape populated by close to 25 vendors.”
GTalk becoming extremely popular, this comes as no surprise. Nokia Corp. would be adding the Google Talk to one of its Nokia 770 handheld Internet browsing device.
Tablets and Smart Phones had options to install third party software to use GTalk. However, Nokia announced that an upgraded version of its Nokia 770 Internet Tablet device will come ready loaded with Google Inc.’s Talk service. This would help Google Talk chat users to have voice conversations and also exchange instant messages through their tablets on move. Read the full story
