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Study – 2G Mobile Phones Better Than Smartphones In Rural Areas

February 22, 2012 admin Mobiles, News
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According to a new study, the people, who are living in rural areas, have to stop using 3G smartphones and instead switch to older 2G versions which are better in making calls from rural areas.

Communication regulator Ofcom’s study has revealed that the feature phones fared better in making, starting and completing calls from rural areas as they allowed more internal space for aerials. ”

“In the more rural areas that the phones have  tested, the feature or entry level phones generally returned somewhat better performance than smartphones for call completion and call setup “, the Telegraph quoted the study, as saying.

The study has further revealed, ”This may be due to the reduced complexity of antenna on these devices and 2G phones not having issues in switching between 2G and 3G networks “.

However both types of phones reported similar sound quality.

Ofcom’s study has also tried to assess whether mobile consumers have well been informed about mobile network coverage.

It has found that though individual phone companies have provided valuable network maps, just three out of every ten consumers consulted them. The study has also found mobile service providers are making progress in addressing poor network coverage both in rural areas and in buildings.

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HTC Hits Indian Markets

February 21, 2012 admin Mobiles, News, Softwares
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The highly anticipated HTC Sensation has finally arrived to Indian market and it can be yours for the price of Rs. 30,699.

The HTC Sensation offers a lot of handy features:

  • Built with a jazzy dual core 1.2 GHz processor.
  • A 960×540 touchscreen phone with Gorilla Glass.
  • An 8 MP Autofocus rear camera with dual-LED flash.
  • The phone also has 1 GB of internal storage and a VGA front-facing camera.

With such a fancy and attracting phone now in the market, Apple Inc. is becoming weary of what it will do to the sale of their iPhones. Steve Jobs hired the best lawyers in town in attempt to ban the import of HTC phones. With the delay of the new Apple phone and Motorola phones, HTC has been given the chance to further narrow the gap in the US market share which will help them against Apple in the third quarter of next month.

However, HTC is facing few problems with the signal connection. If the phone is not help properly it will affect the connectivity of the phone, even if it is held face up in the palm. Apple had similar problems right after the phone was introduced.

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Nokia Has Announced Its Latest Symbian Belle Smartphone

February 19, 2012 admin Mobiles, News
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Nokia has just announced its latest Symbian Belle 603 Smartphone at an event in Turkey.

  • The phone has a 3.5-inch (640 x 360 pixels) ClearBlack display.
  • It offers six home screens.
  • It comes with six swappable rear covers in a variety of colors.
  • It is powered by a 1GHz processor.
  • It has 5.0MP shooter at the back which can shoot 720p HD videos at 30fps.
  • It offers connectivity features like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

The Nokia 603 is the seventh Nokia handset to have incorporated an NFC chip. The phone comes preloaded with some entertainment apps like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Shazam, YouTube and a host of office apps such as Microsoft Office Communicator, Quick Office, Adobe PDF reader and Vlingo. Nokia claims a talk-time of 7 hours. It will start shipping in Q4 and is expected to cost around Rs 13,500 before taxes and subsidies.

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HCL Launched The ME X1 Android Tablet For Rs 10,490

February 19, 2012 admin Gadgets, Mobiles, News
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HCL has introduced its latest 7.0-inch Android tablet, the ME X1 in India, which is priced competitively at Rs 10,490 and is based on the Android 2.3 OS aka Gingerbread.

Its features are as follows:

  • A 7.0-inch (800×480 pixels) capacitive display.
  • 4GB of internal memory which is expandable up to 32GB and comes.
  • 1080p HD video playback support.
  • It has a 2.0 MP front-facing camera.
  • It sports a USB port.
  • A mini HDMI port.
  • Wi-Fi connectivity.
  • It is powered by ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor.
  • It comes bundled with numerous apps such as Fring video chat, Cleartrip.com, Naukri.com, LinkdIn, 99 acres, Book My Show, Moneycontrol.com, ESPNCricinfo.com and Zomato local restaurant search.

The fact that it doesn’t have Google Mobile Suite is quite a downer as you won’t have Android Market, Google Maps, Gmail incorporated in your device. There is no built-in 3G connectivity either but it comes with a microUSB-to-USB adapter and is compatible with USB modem dongles.

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Sony Ericsson Will Only Sell Smartphones From 2012

February 18, 2012 admin Mobiles, News
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The company has revealed today during its third quarter earnings release that now the Android smartphones account for over 80 percent of Sony Ericsson’s total sales.

The company is planning to shift its entire portfolio to smartphones by 2012 as its Average Selling Price rose to Euro 166 in this quarter, up 8 percent year-on-year and 6 percent sequentially. Its XPERIA series of Android smartphones accounted for 12 percent of total Android smartphones market in value and 11 percent in volume this quarter. Sony Ericsson shipped 9.5 million phones in the quarter.

The company has revealed that the Android-based Xperia smartphone sales now account for more than 80 percent of sales and we have shipped 22 million Xperia smartphones to date. We will continue to invest in the smartphone market,shifting the entire portfolio to smartphones during 2012.

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HP TouchPad Set To Launch July 1

February 17, 2012 admin Mobiles, News, Softwares

It has been a long time coming, but finally Hewlett-Packard (HP) looks as though it may be ready to unleash its TouchPad tablet upon the world. With the likes of Apple, Samsung and Motorola already battling hard within the tablet arena, HP is hoping that the recently announced July 1 launch of the TouchPad will see it hit the ground running.

Powered by webOS 3.0, the Wi-Fi-enabled TouchPad is going to be available in 16GB and 32GB variants, which come with respective price tags of $499.99 USD and $599.99 USD. 3G or 4G models are expected later in the year—although HP hasn’t confirmed which network its deal with AT&T favours.

“What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS,” enthused HP’s Jon Rubenstein in an official statement.“The platform’s unmatched features and flexibility will continue to differentiate HP products from the rest of the market for both personal and professional use,” he added. “This is only the beginning of what HP’s scale can do with webOS.”

Other features of it are as follows:

  • The TouchPad include a 9.7-inch display (1024×768).
  • A 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor.
  • A front-facing 1.3 mega-pixel camera.
  • Bluetooth 2.1+EDR .
  • Onboard GPS.
  • A shoulder weight of just 1.6lb.

HP has also said a more spacious 64GB model will be available. However, it has not yet revealed that particular model’s pricing. Although the initial TouchPad launch will be restricted to the United States, the device is being expected to arrive in European markets such as France, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom a few days later. Canadian consumers should have access come mid-July, with those in Australia, Hong Kong, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore and Spain likely to receive it before the close of 2011.

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Facebook Hid Video Chat Feature In New iPhone App

February 16, 2012 admin Mobiles, News

Primary thing is that there was the secret iPad app, which is being hidden within the official Facebook iPhone app and now there’s a video chat feature inside the new Facebook Messenger app.

When will the social network learn to stop hiding things?

It has barely been hours after the Facebook Messenger app has launched that the folks at 9 to 5 Mac discovered that it contains a video chat feature or at least some of the components required for video conferencing.

Apparently both the iPhone and Android versions of Facebook Messenger have “very rudimentary” code which references some sort of video calling. Unlike the hidden iPad app though, this feature can’t be activated or used just yet.

It is being speculated that the mobile video chat service would be linked to the Skype-powered video chat feature built into the Facebook website, but there is no official word from Facebook regarding any plans for such a mobile app addition at this point.

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Windows 7 Will Lead Microoft Operating

February 15, 2012 admin Mobiles, Softwares
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Analysts at Gartner have forecast that Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system (OS) is going to be running on 42 per cent of in use PCs by the end of the year.

According to Gartner, the means the end of Windows XP dominance and is a result of improvements to IT budgets this year and last. It has also helped that 94 per cent of new PCs are being shipped with Windows 7 this year.

Annette Jump, research director at Gartner has reported, “By the end of 2011, nearly 635 million new PCs around the globe are being expected to be shipped with Windows 7. Many organisations have been planning their deployment of Windows 7 for the last 12 to 18 months, and are now moving rapidly to Windows 7.”

However, Windows isn’t the only operating system to see higher take-up. Mac OS X saw an increase of 0.7 per cent in shipments between 2008 and 2010 and Gartner predicts it will grow to 4.5 per cent of PCs by the end of this year and on to 5.2 per cent by 2015.

Gartner further added, “Shipments will grow stronger in mature markets where consumers are buying into the Apple product ecosystem.”

The forecast predicts that Windows 7 will be the last of Microsoft’s operating systems to be deployed through “big corporate migration”. Gartner believes that organisations will turn to “alternative client computing architectures” and opt for virtualisation and cloud solutions over the next five years.

Because of the barrier of application migration from Windows, Gartner expects Linux to remain a niche OS with a market share of less than two per cent. As for other OS options such as WebOS, Android and Chrome OS, well, Gartner doesn’t think they will gain any significant PC market share.

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Launch Of HTC Radar – Windows Mango Smartphone In India For Rs 23,990

February 13, 2012 admin Gadgets, Mobiles, News
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Coinciding the launch of Windows Phone 7.5, today HTC and Microsoft India has today announced the launch of first Windows  7.5 Mango smartphone, HTC Radar in Indian market for Rs. 23990 (MRP Rs. 25490).

The Radar is featured as follows:

  • A 3.8-inch WVGA (480X800 pixels) SLCD display.
  • A 1GHz Qualcomm processor.
  • 512MB RAM.
  • Comes with 8GB of internal storage (6.54GB available) but has no microSD card slot.
  • Its 5.0 MP rear camera can shoot videos in 720p resolution while the VGA front camera is good enough just for the occasional video call.
  • It features HTC’s unibody design, which feels super sturdy and premium.
  • Its 1520 mAh non-removable battery is claimed to provide up to 10 hours of talktime on GSM and up to 8 hours on 3G.
  • A committed camera button rounds off the feature list here as users can now click away even when the phone is locked.

Unlike Android, where there is a noticeable difference between 1GHz processor/512MB RAM and a 1GHz processor/1GB RAM configurations, we could not see any lag/sluggishness with the Radar. That’s probably got to do with the Windows Phone 7.5 platform.

Unlike the Samsung Omnia W, which feels plasticky, HTC has done a remarkable job with the hardware build and quality. Well, that’s all we have for the moment, till our review which should be up in the coming days.

The HTC Radar truck-loaded with exciting features experiences such as search, Gaming, Email and social networks across Bing, Office, Xbox LIVE, Facebook, Twitter and more. The device completely integrated Microsoft Exchange and calendar alongside the Microsoft Office Hub are among the various niceties users can expect. Users can also navigate the web efficiently thanks to Internet Explorer 9.

The device is equipped with G-sensor, proximity sensor, and ambient light sensor as well. While as connectivity option, it has Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G HSPA ( 14.4 Mbps download speed) and GPRS/EDGE options.

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Nokia 800 Windows Phone Ads Surface

February 12, 2012 admin Mobiles, News
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There is still about a fortnight to go before Nokia World but Nokia’s wares are already surfacing on the Internet. Take for instance this ad above for Nokia’s most-awaited smartphone in a long time, its first Windows Phone device codenamed Sea Ray, which is going to be marketed as the Nokia 800. It looks very similar to the N9 in this ad and we would be surprised if there are many hardware-specific differences between the two. At the moment, we can confirm the presence of an 8.0 MP camera.

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