T-Mobile “MyTouch 3G- second phone on Google’s Android operating system” Plans to Launch on July

t_mobile-mytouch-3gT-Mobile on Monday announces availability of MyTouch 3G on July, the second phone on Google’s Android operating system. Google first announced Android in 2007. It gives the operating system to manufacturers for free. Google has 5,000 applications available for Android from its network of developers.

It’s the first of 18 new Google-powered phones coming worldwide by the end of the year. Tech and telecom analysts expect Sprint to have an Android phone by year’s end.

T-Mobile has sold 1 million of its first-generation Google phone, the G1. That’s tepid compared with the 21.2 million iPhones sold in the last two years, but T-Mobile says it’s thrilled with the response. It expects the new phone to sell at a faster clip.

The MyTouch is smaller, can sync with Microsoft Outlook and has an improved battery, Andrew Sherrard, T-Mobile vice president Said that we have addressed some of the concerns from customers. The Current T-Mobile customers can order beginning July 8 for delivery later in the month. General retail availability is planned for early August. The touch-screen phone made by HTC sells for $199 with a new two-year contract. T-Mobile will offer a discounted rate for current customers but hasn’t finalized pricing.

T-Mobile’s selling point is personalization, with customizable menus, wallpapers and icons. A new program called Sherpa learns your favorite locations and preferences and makes recommendations accordingly. The phone also has instant access to Google services.

Acer introduces Five Rich Multimedia smartphones

Acer on Thursday announced its entry into the Indian smartphone market by launching five feature-rich multimedia handsets priced between Rs. 24,000 and Rs. 35,000.

Unveiling the phones, Acer Senior Corporate Vice-President Aymar de Lencquesaing, who is also President of Acer’s Smart Handheld Business Group, said that The official launch in India marks the first step of our smart handheld business group in one of the world’s largest and fastest growing mobile markets. Our phones are designed to deliver a seamless convergence of functionalities for both personal and professional use.

Acer smartphones will be marketed by Delhi-based Vision Distribution Pvtd. Ltd. Initially, Acer phones will be available in top eight cities, including the four metros. We will then gradually expand to State capitals and mini-metros. Stating that out of the 70-lakh phones being sold every month, only one per cent or 70,000 phones are smartphones priced at over Rs. 15,000 that are mainly sold in top ten cities including the four metros, Mr. Babbar added that they were targeting 10 per cent of this market.

Informing that Acer smartphones are being imported from Taipai, he further said they had tied up with all top retailers including Croma and Reliance to retail Acer phones.

The company also announced its plans to introduce more handsets soon, starting from Rs. 16,000 to capture the fast growing Indian mobile market.

LG launches LG KM900 Arena – the first mobile phone equipped with a Dolby Mobile surround sound system

LG has rolled out its latest high end touch screen phone LG KM900 Arena, boasting of its Dolby Mobile surround system and a slew of multimedia features, in the Indian market.

LG publicize the LG KM900 Arena as the first mobile phone equipped with a Dolby Mobile surround sound system in the global market.
LG claims that the KM900 Arena uses the Dolby Mobile surround sound system from Dolby Laboratories to give out exhilarating surround sound experience, and the phone sports a new 3D S-class user interface for thrilling audio and video quality.

The 105g KM900 Arena features a large 3.0 inch WVGA display screen supporting 16M colors and delivering 4 times sharper resolution than standard QVGA screens.

The Features LG KM900 Arena:

* It comes with an inbuilt FM radio.
* It comes with an internal memory of 8GB, which can be expanded to 32 GB.
* It has a capable of handling 40GB storage loaded with music and movie files.
* It is also capable of sharing video and photos on social networking sites.
* The phone offers support for WiFi, a TV-Out feature, and 3G HSFPA 7.2.
* This Phone offers 5 MP camera with auto focus, capable of D1 recording and capturing DVD-resolution videos. The camera is capable of recording 120 frames per second slow motion video.
* It is equipped with a powerful battery offering up to 30 hours of MP3 playtime.
* It has features such as Google Mobile Service, GPS and geo-tagging.

The LG KM900 Arena is available in the price range of Rs 24,990 – Rs 35,000 in India. The KM900 Arena is available in black and silver titanium colors, at the LG retail outlets throughout the country.

INTEX Hero mobile Comes with 45 days stand-by Battery Life Time

Intex Technologies has launched a mobile handset for rural India with 45 days battery life. The mobile handset comes with very useful features.

In rural areas where electricity outage is the norm, the 45 days standby time for the mobile phone is a feature that people cannot ignore. The mobile manufacturing companies are now devising new strategies to reach out India’s predominantly rural areas where mobile density is still low.

The newly launched mobile handset from Intex features:

*FM radio
*Camera
*Expandable memory
*MP3 audio player
*1000 contacts phonebook memory.

The phone comes equipped with a powerful 1800mAh rating battery the phone offers a talk time of 9 hours and 45 days stand-by battery life

This mobile handset is priced at Rs 2999 only.

Nokia 2730 classic Features

The Nokia 2730 classic comes Internet-ready, and works with Nokia’s range of emerging market services.

Today The power of the internet is undeniable. The mobile technologies catalyze the growth of the informal sector across the world, empowering local entrepreneurs and having an immediate and lasting impact on people’s lives.

Nokia 2730 classic supports Nokia Life Tools service. Nokia Life Tools is a service that enables people to make better informed decisions, find timely and relevant information, access learning opportunities and enjoy entertainment regardless of time or place.

Nokia 2730 classic is Nokia’s most affordable 3G phone offering faster access to the internet and a richer browsing experience. The Nokia 2730 classic is ideal for staying connected with friends and family.

This phone supports, SMS, Speed dialling for SMS sending, list of recently used numbers in message editor, multiple SMS deletion, EMS picture messaging (send and receive), MMS version 1.3, message size up to 300 kb, automatic resizing of images for MMS, Nokia Xpress audio messaging and common inbox for SMS and MMS messages.

The main features of Nokia 2730 classic:

– Dual-band UMTS support (either 900/2100 or 850/1900)
– 240 x 320 pixel display
– 2 megapixel camera
– microSD expandable memory (up to 2GB)
– BlueTooth
– comprehensive multimedia player
– FM radio
– 3.5mm audio socket
– Users can sign up for Ovi Mail on the phone
– maximum talktime from the 1020 mAh battery is up to 3.3 hours on 3G and 7.4 hours on GSM with around 17 days standby time
– Nokia 2730 classic is very lightweight just 88 grams.

Nokia 2730 Classic really does look very impressive. it is available in Black and Dark Magenta colour combinations. The Nokia 2730 classic is expected to start shipping in the third quarter of 2009.

Bharti Airtel – The first Indian telecom to have 100 million users

Bharti Airtel, which launched its mobile operations in Delhi (1995). On Friday it announced that it has become the first Indian telecom to have 100 million users. Others which have achieved the milestone are China Mobile and China Unicom.

Bharti Airtel the country’s largest mobile phone operator looking at big-ticket acquisitions abroad in its quest to double its subscriber base, after it became the third Telecom in the world to have more than 100 million customers on a single network.

Bharti’s chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said that If we focus on India alone, we will reach 200 million (users) in the next two-and-a-half years, but this will happen much faster if we make an acquisition.

The Singapore’s largest telecom operator SingTel, which owns 30% in Bharti, said that it would be happy to increase its holding in Bharti. Mr Mittal said he would play a global role within the company as it seeks to expand outside India. My job is to get 100 million from outside, while the Airtel team here will get the next 100 million from here. We want to take our success story, which is built on low cost, high volumes and high minutes of usage to the world.

On the ongoing controversy over the allocation of spectrum, the airwaves on which mobile signals travel, he said that the telco would have no objection if the government decided to allot this scarce resource through auctions.

Earlier this year, it hired German communications major T-Mobile’s chief technology officer Joachim Horn and just prior to that, it had roped in B Srikanth from Unilever UK and Shireesh Joshi from beverages and chips maker PepsiCo China. Bharti has been lining up top global talent of late and analysts say the hiring of these top executives could be an indication that the telecom is arming itself for a big-ticket acquisition.

Samsung- A touch for every lifestyle

The new Samsung Star S5230 and the Samsung Preston S5600 which have been launched. These phones join the popular line of touch screen cell phones. These phones are 2.5G and 3G respectively and both of them utilize Samsung’s TouchWiz GUI. The S5230 sports a 3-inch WQVGA display whereas the S5600 sports a 2.8-inch QVGA panel. They both brag of compact design and intuitive usability.

The Samsung Star S5230 measures a mere 11.9mm in thickness. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera for crystal clear pictures. It is capable of recording QVGA resolution videos at up to 15 fps. It has an internal storage of 50Mb which can be further expanded to 8GB via a memory card slot. There exists an accelerometer to flip between portrait and landscape orientations. The presence of an on-screen QWERTY keyboard aids texting and emailing. Additionally, there is handwriting recognition for ease-of-use. The Photo Contact option allows users to call a contact by simply touching an appointed image.

It also supports multi-format and DNSe to make it user-friendly and for better audio quality. Through Shazam’s Find Musicservice the phonefeatures music recognition. Browsing the Internet is easy with the accelerometer sensor for auto-rotation. In addition, the product arrives in several colors including Soft pink and Snow white.

Samsung expands its A touch for every lifestyle strategy .
The Samsung Preston S5600 shares many similar features with the Samsung Star S5230 such as camera, accelerometer and PMP functionality. However it has added benefits like 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity and 80MB of standard memory and also with an 8GB-capable card slot. Favorite applications can be accessed with ease. It features music recognition using Shazams Find Music service and Multi-codec support including H.263, MPEG4, and WMV. Samsung Preston will be available in an assortment of colors including Sweet pink, Snow white, and Charcoal grey colors.

People from Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East Africa, South East Asia and South West Asia will get to view a new television commercial for Samsung Star from end of May .It will be available in Europe and Asia from May. Again, there has been no mention about the pricing. However it is expected that the pricing will be reasonable considering the fact that high-speed data connection is not available. To add on to their pride, two million handsets have already been pre-ordered according to Samsung.
Focusing on consumer-oriented strategy, Samsung will deliver various full touch products for every lifestyle.

Nokia launches Nokia E75 – a new addition to its E-series phone

Nokia on Wednesday launched the new addition to its E-series range, Nokia E75.

The latest model Nokia E75 offers Nokia Messaging Service, which will allow users to send e-mails while on the move.

Nokia India marketing director Vineet Taneja said that today’s world Business mobility is now a necessity. We plan to partner with telecom operators to provide this phone to the end consumers.

The Nokia E75 boasts of full desktop e-mail functionality along with both standard keypad and qwerty keypad to give an ease-of-use experience to the customer.

The Nokia E75 phone supports high standard multimedia experience with 3.2 megapixel camera, autofocus, flash and comes integrated with a music player, media player, FM and internet radio,

Nokia E75 Priced at Rs.26,299, the phone will support all features of messaging services such as e-mail solutions like – Gmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail, Sify and others.

SAMSUNG Enters into 8 MEGAPIXEL PHONE CLUB WITH PIXON (M8800)

SAMSUNG Enters into 8 MEGAPIXEL PHONE CLUB WITH PIXON (M8800)

The World’s leading mobile manufacturer Samsung has finally launched 8-megapixel touch screen camera phone, namely SAMSUNG Pixon or M8800 in Indian market.

The cellphone cum digicam has a 3.2-inch WQVGA large full touchscreen (240 x 400 pixel resolution) that supports Samsung TouchWiz user interface for intuitive tap, sweep, drag and drop operations.

The handset comes with in-built autofocus camera which can take a photo with maximum image resolution of 3264*2468. The phone has features like face, blink, and smile detection, dual LED flash, Wide Dynamic Range, Advance Shake Reduction, GPS geo-tagging support.

In addition, the camera phone can also record amazing WVGA movies at 30fps or QVGA at 120fps.
The phone supports video player formats such as DivX, Xvid and MP4.
Apart from main camera, Samsung Pixon also has a secondary front camera for video-calls.

With internet connectivity, the phone offers support for both HSDPA high speed Internet with up to 7.2 download speed and UMTS capability.

Other features of PIXON or M8800 is:

  • 3G capable Samsung Pixon M8800
  • onscreen QWERTY keyboard
  • onscreen handwriting recognition
  • FM radio
  • a multi-format music player with SRS 3D surround sound
  • Bluetooth with A2DP
  • TV-out
  • microUSB socket.

The company claims that the device is powered with a high-capacity 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery which supports up to 290h standby time and up to 3h and 40m talk time.

The SAMSUNG Pixon is priced at MRP of Rs 28,750.

NOKIA JOINS 8 MEGAPIXEL PHONE CLUB WITH N86

nokia N86

Nokia N86 is a dual slider phone which comes with 2.6-inch 320×240 brighter OLED screen, 8GB of onboard memory a MicroSD card slot which can be increased this to 16GB, micro-USB, stereo Bluetooth, A-GPS , an integrated FM transmitter and it weights approximately 150 grams. And like all other N series it also comes with a top-notch Web browser, full sync capability with a PC and TV-out support for slide shows, plays music and video, and supports a range of e-mail accounts, including Microsoft Exchange.

What makes it different from other N-series phone is its new 8 megapixel camera.  Nokia N86 has wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens on the back with autofocus and a mechanical shutter capable of snapping at 1/1,000 second and it also captures 640×480 video at 30 frames per second. The camera is supported by two LED flash light instead of one which makes it powerful enough for excellent photography and video capture. The Nokia N86 8MP will start retailing in Q2 2009 with an estimated price of 375 euro