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N900 is finally launched in India

Harry — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:41:51 +0000

Rub your eyes guys. Nokia N900 has finally been launched in India. The Linux based mobile phone from Nokia finally made it’s way into the country. Although the price tag will blow a hole in your pocket but we’ll get to that later on. The phone was of course openly available through you-know-what routes in India but now it’s officially out so it’s better you buy one from Nokia directly.

Nokia N900 is a Maemo 5 based Internet tablet with some power packed features. It boasts of a ARM Cortex A8 processor, Open GL ES 2.0 graphics, WVGA screen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard. You want more? You got it! N900 also comes with 32GB of memory and it’s extensible up to 48GB using the expansion slot. The monster mobile accompanies a 5MP camera along with standard GPS and FM services.

The phone will cost Rs. 30,639 in India ($650 US). Now cost may be a factor here. I’d say you’re better off buying a brand new desktop or even better go for a decent netbook and a cell phone at the same price. There are plenty of smartphones out there in the Indian market priced decently in the range of Rs 9000 to Rs. 15000. You can get a Dell Mini for like Rs. 17000 with Windows 7 here. I doubt if anyone would spend this money on buying N900 in India.

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New Cell Phone Numbers in India

Harry — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:27:00 +0000

PS: Those who aren’t on the nerd side of the planet, MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a popular cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value.

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Nokia unveils Ovi Store!

Harry — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:05:51 +0000

Nokia has unveiled it’s own Ovi store for mobile phone consumers. Nokia’s Ovi Store will go live later this year during May. Nokia plans to offer a wide range of services to consumers like applications, games, podcasts, widgets, videos etc. using Ovi Store. The content available on Ovi Store will be based on S60 and S40 based Nokia mobile phones. Ovi Store will target content based on the user’s location and other personalization features.

Nokia plans to target around 300 million mobile phone users by the end of 2012 for Ovi Store. It’s obvious that Nokia’s Ovi Store is a major opportunity for application developers and content providers. Already there are four million registered developers on the Forum Nokia portal. It’ll also be interesting to see how Nokia’s Ovi Store competes with the highly successful Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPhone 3G smartphones along with Microsoft also jumping into the app store scene. It’s a war we all wanna see where the users get spoiled for a choice.

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Go Green with Samsung Blue Earth Phone!

Harry — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:16:44 +0000

Samsung has come up with an innovative mobile phone which is powered by solar energy and is totally eco-friendly. The phone features the look of a rounded pebble a solar rear panel that, Samsung claims, the users can always count on. For those of you who are worried about rainy days, the Samsung Blue Earth phone includes a DC charger which is good enough to sail your Titanic calls to safe shores during rainy days. The phone is touch driven and looks absolutely great. Take a look here.

The retail box for the Samsung Blue Earth phone shall be made entirely from recycled paper. The mobile phone itself is made from recycled water bottles and is free of harmful constituents. A special eco-mode sets your phone to conserve energy by switching your phone into an energy efficient mode.

The phone will be displayed by Samsung at the Mobile World Congress 2009. I’ll keep you posted on more details about the phone.

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Vodafone brings BlackBerry Storm to India

Harry — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:54:20 +0000

Vodafone is bringing the BlackBerry Storm smart phone to India. The impressive touch screen phone features a 3.2 MP camera, GPS, Media Player, 3.5mm stereo jack, on-screen keyboard, Bluetooth v2.0, 1GB on-board memory and 128MB flash memory.

Seems like quite a decent power packed BlackBerry smart phone. It’s priced at Rs. 27990 in the Indian mobile phone market. The price is lower than BlackBerry Bold which has been priced at Rs. 34990. I’ll still wait for the prices to come down. Way down to be precise!

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Toshiba unveils TG01 Smartphone

Harry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:27:35 +0000

While Dell might still be some distance away from shocking the iPhone, Toshiba has wowed us with the announcement of it’s TG01 smartphone. The TG01 smartphone from Toshiba offers a really amazing fast processor and a beautiful it-will-make-your-jaw-drop screen. Toshiba’s latest smartphone will feature Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It’ll be the first mobile phone to incorporate this processor. The phone shall also include a 4.1? WVGA resistive touchscreen display with on-screen trackpad, HSDPA, aGPS, G-sensor, microSDHC support and DivX support. If that’s not something wow then what is?!

The handset is expected to run on Windows Mobile 6 with a complete flash support. The phone will be on display at MWC 2009. Let’s see how it kicks some iPhone ass!

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Dell is launching smartphones!

Harry — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:11:24 +0000

Dell is entering the smartphone market soon. At least the rumors say so! Dell’s smartphones, codenamed as ‘MePhone’, would be based on Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platform. The expected date of general availability of Dell’s smartphones is early September 2009 (09/09/09 as per rumors). It is believed that Dell would focus on ‘customizable’ smartphones. Customize what? Hardware, software? Of course there are no obvious details as of now.

The smartphone would come in all touch screen and slide-out keyboard versions. It’s clear that Apple’s iPhone has got some competition coming towards it. I’m personally sick of the so called iPhone killer phones that have only left the iPhone grinning it’s way to glory. We’ll have to wait and watch on how Dell’s smartphone tackles the ever populating smartphone market. RIM’s Blackberry could also feel the heat.

It’ll be more interesting to watch how Dell markets the smartphones in the big Indian mobile phone industry. The high priced iPhone 3G left most of the mobile phone buyers hungry and waiting for an alternative.

Could Dell break the iPhone spell in the mobile phone market? You never know!

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Nokia 5800: Another iPhone killer?

Harry — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:22:41 +0000

She is finally here! Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic is Nokia’s latest entry into the world of modern touchscreen phones. Earlier nick named ‘The Tube’, the Nokia 5800 is sure to impress a lot of people in India. Does it kill the Apple iPhone dream in India? Come let’s find out!

The Phone

The new Nokia 5800 features a resistive touchscreen. For people like me who’d love to tap fingers on the touch screen it might come as a not so good news. The move, says Nokia, was to fulfil the demand for particularly Asian consumers who prefer handwriting recognition to keyboards. Hence the stylus option. The LCD is impressive though not quite glossy but removes the glare to a lot of extent. Suitable for heavy users. There’s a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a speaker at the back, 3.5 megapixel camera, dual LCD flash, GPS, WiFi and a microSD slot, a free 8GB card!

The Software

Nokia 5800 is a S60 based phone. The interface has been chopped up to produce a touchscreen ready interface. For text input there’s a full screen keyboard on the display for you to tap onto. For those who love T9 there’s a portrait display mode as well. The web browser isn’t as powerful but you can always spice it up by installing your favorite browser and applications.

The Apple iPhone Comparison

Apple managed to sabotage the Indian iPhone 3G dream earlier this year with a heavy price tag. Nokia 5800 may not include a sugary price tag as well but it is always expected to come down to being affordable here in India. The specifications say that Nokia 5800 is superior to the iPhone 3G. For now you can pre-book a Nokia 5800 and wait for that call from their representative telling your how big a hole they’ll blow up in your pocket for this piece of beauty.

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Google’s Android powered phone is coming!

Harry — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:46:49 +0000

It’s official! The well known Google Android powered phone is all set for launch. T-Mobile is launching the first Android powered mobile phone on 23rd September this year. Invitations to the launch event have leaked all over the net. The HTC-manufactured phone would be launched at a media-only event and the phone is expected to hit stores next month in October all over US.

The Android powered phone will combine an iPhone style touch screen technology along with a job ball, accelerometer like the one in iPhone. The most speculated feature attached with Android is that it’s open. Any developer can register, develop applications for Android powered phones and submit it to the online Android marketplace.

Pricing isn’t out as yet but reports suggest a price tag of around $400 without contract. You can expect HTC to officially launch the phone in India by the year end. Will Android live up to it’s expectations? Well, we’ll see!

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Photos: iPhone 3G goes butt naked!

Harry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:01:49 +0000

The Apple iPhone disassembled. Cool! More photos here. While here in India, we’re waiting for an iPhone 3G. With nothing much to do we Indians settle with discussing the iPhone 3G prices in India. Almost every geek I meet or talk to asks me the price of an Apple iPhone 3G in India. Give me a break!

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