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Nokia’s smart phone in C series the Nokia C5 will be  out in market soon. After much waiting  the announcement was made in Germany, Hanover at CEBIT 2010.

The price may be around 135 Euros and can be used for social networking with built in support for using Facebook.

It has Symbian S60 3rd edition feature pack with S60v3 FP2 OS and 12mm thickness weighing 89.3 grams. Nokia C5’s integrated messaging allows to use windows live messenger or Gtalk with 2.2inch QVGA screen.

12 hrs GSM talk time and 26 hrs of standby with free navigation to Ovi maps. Users can download applications from the Ovi Store.

50MB internal memory and MicroSD Slot with 2GB card. Allows Network Connectivity through HSDPA/HSUPA, GPS/A-GPS, 3.5-mm audio jack and FM.

The phone will be available in two colors white and warm grey. Predications are that it will be available between April and June 2010 in Europe, Eurasia, China and middle east.

Apple Mobile phones Become Pocket Banks: An Afghan police officer gets his salary in a text message on his mobile phone. A Kenyan worker dials a few numbers to send money to his family.

The rise of banking transactions through mobile phones is giving a whole new meaning to pocket money in parts of the developing world that lack banks or cash machines.

Mobile money applications are emerging as potent financial tools in rural and remote areas of the globe, allowing people with no bank accounts to get paid, send remittances or settle their bills.

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Microsoft’s effort to address the digital music market has largely focused on its Zune player and Zune Pass subscription service, which have won favorable reviews but few customers. But with the recent unveiling of its Windows Phone 7 Series operating system at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Microsoft hopes to reboot its struggling digital music strategy.

Even the well-received Zune HD device, introduced last fall, hasn’t been enough to convince music fans to convert to the Zune Pass. The company says it has sold only 3.8 million players since 2006, and NPD Group estimated in November that it has a 2 percent share of the U.S. portable media player market, compared with 70 percent for Apple’s iPod.

So Microsoft has made it a priority to expand the Zune service to other platforms. In November, it added the Zune’s video service to its Xbox Live network, consisting of more than 20 million worldwide users of the Xbox 360 gaming console. Since then, Zune communications director Jose Pinero says the number of daily HD video downloads and streams has doubled. Now, Microsoft plans to use its Windows Phone 7 platform to bring Zune to mobile customers.

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The GSM  technologies has provided the world with mobile communications since 1991. In over twenty years of development, GSM has been continually enhanced to provide platforms that deliver an increasingly broad range of mobile services as demand grows.

Where the industry started with plain voice calls, it now has a powerful platform capable of supporting mobile broadband and multimedia services.

GSM is now used in 219 countries and territories serving more than three billion people and providing travellers with access to mobile services wherever they go.

If Apple is really considering price cuts on its just-introduced iPad, the best advice is to make them before launch, not after.

Not today, or tomorrow, but a price drop a week–or even a day–before it goes on sale might give the iPad an incredible boost. I will also describe what other businesses can learn from Apple’s troubles.

The iPad has been gradually settling back to early after a less than stellar Steve Jobs introduction on Jan. 27. The truth is that, for many, a supersized iPod touch just isn’t too terribly interesting.

A well-timed price cut could light a fire under iPad sales. That such a cut would be a bit of a black-eye for Apple would be noticed by only a few.

Just the fact that Apple appears to already be talking to analysts about “nimble” pricing suggests consumer interest in the iPad is less than the company hoped. A post-introduction survey actually found that the more consumers knew about the iPad, the less they wanted one.

Conservative wisdom might be for Apple to save face by keeping prices where they are and dropping them sometime after iPad sales begin.

Of course, some of us still have copies of the $100 rebates Apple reluctantly sent after it cut the price of the original iPhone a mere two months after many of us stood in line to get one on launch day.

If Apple has to wait to take iPad pricing action until it won’t upset early adopters, however, it could take nearly a year. Better to take the cuts early, when Apple will make fans, not enemies.

There are lessons for all businesses here.

Apple is not the first company to have a product launch go a tad sour. A $50-$100 price cut would send hard-core Apple fans over the edge with iPad excitement. It might also convince fence sitters to make their purchases closer to launch day.

That it might cause others to wait for the next price cut would be lost in the noise. Just like the idea that if things had gone well, the price cut would not have been necessary.

It seems clear that a sudden, unexpected, even last-second price cut could turn so-so first week sales into a blockbuster, generating momentum to carry the iPad forcefully into the marketplace.

After all, 16GB iPad for $449 (a $50 cut) is the sort of pricing to which even a jaded tech columnist might succumb.

Rogers, the largest Canadian mobile carrier, is ready to release the CorbyPro B5310, LG Pop GD510, and LG KM555 in Canada. In case you don’t know, the Samsung CorbyPro B5310 features a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display with a full QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA connectivity, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack, a music player, a stereo FM radio with RDS, a 3.2MP camera and a MicroSD card slot. Meanwhile, the LG Pop GD510 has a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, social networking integration (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter), a 3.2MP camera and a MicroSD card slot. And finally, the LG KM555 that boasts Wi-Fi connectivity, a 3 inch WQVGA touchscreen display and a 3.2MP camera. Too bad, there is no info on the release date of these handsets. Stay tuned for more updates.

Verizon Wireless will launch the Motorola Devour Android-powered handset. Too bad, Verizon hasn’t confirmed a price yet, but we’re assuming that the Devour will be cheaper than the Droid because it has a smaller screen and a slower processor. The Motorola Devour features a touch-sensitive navigation pad, a 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, several pre-loaded applications (Gmail, Google Talk, YouTube, Google Search and Google Maps), a pre-installed 8GB microSD card, and Bluetooth.

Samsung has recently launched a new dual SIM phone in India called the B5722 Duos. The handset is equipped with a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display (resistive), a 3MP camera, dual SIM card slots, a microSD card slot (up to 8GB), a music player, an FM radio with RDS, 3D sound output through DNSe, Bluetooth and provides quick access to popular social networking sites. The Samsung B5722 Duos is now available in India for a retail price of Rs 11,680 (about $254).