Airtel To Launch iPhone 4 in india By OctoberAirtel To Launch iPhone 4 in india By October

Bharti Airtel,India’s leading mobile service provider will launch Apple’s latest device iPhone 4 in India by October this year.That’s incidentally the time when private operators would be rolling out their 3G services in India.Vodafone has already hinted that they will bring iPhone 4 in fast growing Indian mobile handset market.This has been reoprtedly revealed by Mr. Snajay kapoor,CEO,Bharti Airtel at the sidelines of CII industry meet.

“We are working with Apple and hopefully we will launch in September-October timeframe” Said Mr Sanjeev Kapoor,CEO Bharti Airtel.

Apple has already revealed in their press release that they would be launching iPhone 4 in 88 countries by september this year.India is one of those 88 countries although not mentioned specifically in press release.The launch of iPhone 4 in India with the two leading operators gives Apple an opportunity to vie for the market share in growing Indian Smartphone market.Although it will have competition with smartphones like Motorola Milestone(Android based) and Nokia N 900.

It is to be seen at what price this becomes available keeping in mind that iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G are available at a very high price.iPhone 3GS 32 GB is available at Rs.41500.Hopefully after the launch of iPhone $ the prices of iPhone 3GS and 3G will go down.

iPhone 4 is the latest device from Apple stable and features Face time video calling,retina display which gives highest screen display ever built in a phone.

iPhone 4 features:

• Facetime video calling
• retina display
• 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
• HD video recording and editing

Nokia N8 mobile the most desperately expected smartphone

Nokia N8 enables people to create compelling content, connect to their favourite social networks and enjoy the latest on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps. That makes it one of the most desperately expected mobile phone. The Nokia N8 will be available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010. Nokia N8 mobile has a 12 megapixel camera and HD quality videos can be made, edited with built-in editing suite. N8 provides a true home theater experience with HD quality film and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. Also, one can plug the device to their home theatre system with an HDMI cable. N8 facilitates access to local and global Web Television services to receive TV programs, news and entertainment from CNN, National Geographic, E! Entertainment and Paramount etc directly on their homescreen. You can update your status, share the location you presently at and photos. Also, you can view live feeds from your Twitter and Facebook account in a single app directly on the home screen. Your social network’s calendar events may also be transferred to the device calendar. Nokia N8 equipped with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation. It has internal built-in storage of 16GB which can be further expandable up to 48GB with a Micro SD card. Also, one can easily transfer their large files to memory stick with the USB On-the-Go.

Nokia is also offering application developers a new platform where they can innovate more applications and tools. Nokia N8 has bundled Qt, a software development environment. Qt will enable easy application development can be deployed across Symbian and other software platforms.

But Nokia enthusiasts want more from their N8…..

Most of the people on various blogs and forums are discussing about low and ancient hardware Nokia has chosen for its future flagship N8. Nokia N8 offers 256MB RAM memory, which may be enhanced to 512 MB to add more power to it. Also some are worried about N8’s upgradeability to Symbian^4 or Meego when released.

Technical Profile:

System: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

OS: Symbian^3

Form Factor: Touch screen monoblock

Dimensions: 113.5 x 59.12 x 12.9 mm (L x W x H)

Weight: 135g

Display: 3.5 inch widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) capacitive touch

Battery: 1200mAh BL-4D

Media Storage/Memory: 16GB mass memory + micro SD card slot, 135MB internal memory, support up to 32GB memory cards. RAM256 ROM512

Video Playback: Video recording, Performance: encoding

25fps, decoding 30fps,

File Formats:H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.263, Real Video 10, ON2 VP6, Flash video

Music Playback: FM radio, FM transmitter, MP3 player,

Supported codecs: MP3,AAC,eAAC, eAAC+,WMA,AMR-WB, DRM support, DRM: OMA DRM 2.0

Main Camera:

• Lens: Carl Zeiss optics

• Image capture: 12 megapixels

• Video capture: HD 720p

• Aperture: F2.8

• Focal length: 5.4

• Flash: Xenon flash

Connectivity:

• Nokia Adapter Cable for HDMI CA-156

• WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n

• BT3.0 with support for stereo headsets

• Positioning with GPS, A-GPS, WLAN and Cell-ID

• Micro-USB 2.0 high speed for file transfers and charging

• USB On-the-Go

•Nokia AV connector 3.5 mm for audio input/output and TV out

• HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps

Available colors:

•Dark Grey •Silver White •Green •Blue •Orange

Touchscreen Phones Under Rs. 8,000

The touchscreen genre is ‘now’ technology that makes interacting with your mobile a little more interesting but if you’re worried that your bank account will scream out in agony at the thought of the expense, here are a few options that are under Rs. 8000. These are the some of the latest devices to hit the Indian shelves.

• Samsung Star Nano 3G – Rs. 7,320

The Nano 3G is one of the cheapest 3G enabled devices on the market at the moment. It’s designed to offer users speedy net connectivity in a small sleek package. It uses Samsung’s own TouchWiz UI complete with multiple desktops and widgets that can be dragged and dropped. For the social networker, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Gtalk, AIM and Palringo chat options are available. Push email is also available. The Nano 3G also features -

• a 2.6-inch touchscreen, 240 x 320 pixel resolution

• 3G, EDGE/GPRS support

• Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0

• 1.3MP camera

• FM radio

microSD card support (up to 16GB)

• LG Cookie Fresh – Rs. 7,800

LG has added yet another Cookie to their popular range of mid-level touchscreen devices, the GS290. It’s a funky new handset that features a native Facebook application and also supports gesture shortcuts as well as handwriting recognition. Image and video editors are also pre-loaded. The new Cookie also features LG’s Live Square function for favorite or frequently used contacts. LG’s Cookie Fresh features -

• a 3-inch touchscreen with a 240 x 400 pixel resolution

• EDGE/GPRS support

• Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0

• 2MP camera

• FM radio

• microSD card support (up to 16GB)

• 3.5mm handsfree socket

• Nokia 5233 – Rs. 7,333

The Nokia 5233 is a lower end version of the 5800 XpressMusic handset. It’s simple and lightweight handset that’s designed to be comfortable to use. The 5233 runs on a Symbian OS with a Series 60 touchscreen UI. Nokia has also included their media bar, a touch-sensitive key just above the display, making it easy to access media files etc. Access to Nokia’s Ovi Store (preloaded) enables you to download apps and games. The handset also comes bundled with Ovi Maps even though it doesn’t have a GPS module. The 5233’s other features include -

• 3.2-inch display with a 360 x 240 pixel resolution

• EDGE/GPRS

• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0 (micro)

• 2 megapixel camera

• 3.5mm handsfree socket

• FM radio

• microSD card support

Why Samsung Monte is Best 3G Phone in Mid Range category

Many people keep asking me which phone to purchase If i have a budget of Rs.8000 to 9000 and I always recommend them this phone Samsung Monte 3G S5620.The reasons why I love this phone are:

• Stylish ,sleek, good looking touchphone. Look & design wise, In my opinion Samsung Phones are the best
• It’s a 3G phone, not only 3G but more than that HSDPA or 3.5G phone.It means it can give download speed of upto 3.6 Mbps and upload speed of upto 384 Kbps if you use 3G HSDPA connection.
• Over and above that it has wi-fi which Samsung Star 3G and Samsung Metro do not have.Having wi-fi,HSDPA,touchscreen phone in the budget of Rs.8500 is a great deal.Isn’t that?
• It also has A GPS (Google maps/latitude) and Bluetooth A2DP(Samsung Star 3G doesn’t have both).Bluetooth A2DP enables one to use wireless A2DP headphones.
• It has much bigger touchscreen of 3.0 inches TFT capacitive with 262K colours.Viewing videos on this big phone is real delight.Once 3G becomes prevalent ,watching Mobile Tv and Youtube videos in landscape mode will be real delight.people would be seen watching cricket matches live flocked around the phone just in the manner as earlier used to when small portable TVs arrived in India in early eighties.
• The media support is decent with audio playback in MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA formats and video in MPEG4, H.263, H.264. The addition of a 3.5mm audio jack is pleasant.
• It has front camera and supports video calling which many Nokia phones in this range do not support(For example E63,E52 doesn’t have front camera).Video calling is one attractive feature of 3G which would be very popular initially when 3G gets prevalent in India.My advice is just watch out for front camera and video calling feature availability if you are purchasing a phone keeping in mind 3G feature as many phone do not support this feature.

So overall it’s a good phone feature rich for such a price.More on Samsung Monte S5620

Reliance Mobile introduces Samsung Galaxy i899 – India’s first Android powered CDMA handset

In a move that would redefine the Smartphone user experience in the country, Reliance Mobile and Samsung Mobile today announced the launch of India’s first Android powered CDMA handset Samsung Galaxy i899. Combing a unique blend of performance and elegance, Samsung Galaxy i899 will offer an enhanced experience of seamless Speed Data on the Move offering speeds upto 3.1 Mbps to Reliance Mobile customers. The new Smartphone available only on Reliance Mobile network will also be the first CDMA device to be launched in India pre-installed with Android Market – an online applications store developed by Google for Android devices.

“The launch of Samsung Galaxy i899, Smart Phone, is in line with our strategy to offer next-generation services with unmatched voice clarity, hi-speed wireless data network access and ultra-fast application downloads on India’s largest and only nationwide CDMA mobile service to Reliance Mobile customer,s”said Vrajesh Shelat, Head of Handset & Data Services, Reliance Communications.

The futuristic touch-screen CDMA smartphone would also enable high-speed access to popular social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, YouTube as well as Gmail, GTalk and Google Maps. Featuring a 3.2” AMOLED touch-screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a media player and expandable memory upto 32GB, Samsung Galaxy i899 comes with popular Smartphone features including support for phone, email, text messaging, Wi-Fi, HTML web browser and more.

LG Mobile brings EVDO based Cookie Zip for Rs 8299

After the successful launch of its LG Cookie Fresh and LG Cookie Plus , LG mobile has further strengthened its Cookie portfolio with its latest slim and stylish CDMA phone Cookie Zip which is going to compete against Samsung Corby Tv plus to some extent. LG 510 also called Cookie Zip boasts on its USP of working on EVDO which provides high speed data access with speed up to 3.1 Mbps and supports applications like Live TV on Mobile . It will offer services like faster networking, video messaging, video streaming, caller tunes, song ID and push to talk & many more which enables the handset with Ultra high speed data communications. LG 510 is packed with 2 MP camera , internal memory of 72MB and upto 4 GB expandable memory, FM Radio,Bluetooth 2.1 ,900 mAh battery a 5 hour talk time and a standby time of over 150 hours. LG Cookie Zip is a 7.6 CM WVGA full touch screen CDMA mobile phone and comes loaded with intuitive flash UI that gives a wonderful browsing experience Social networking applications have been kept in focus like recent launched other LG mobiles and social Networking applications like Face book, MySpace, Twitter and Orkut are part of this model The phone also features Panchang application that will provide information about one’s future The phone has been priced at Rs 8299 for Indian markets. At a time when most of the mobile handsets are launched for GSM users , LG 510 will definitely lure CDMA mobile users for its EVDO compatibility and applications built around social networking and entertainment