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Karbonn Mobiles today announced the launch of its latest range of devices for the Indian market. This latest range consists of two value for money mobile phones the K777 and K485.

The Karbonn K777 is priced at Rs.4500, while the K485 comes at a price of just Rs.3500.The Karbonn K777 is a dual SIM (GSM) mobile phone, with a classy and chic design. The handset is sleekly built with a thickness of just 9.5 mm and comes in a rich and stylish black colour.

Karbonn K777 is equipped with a 2.4-inch QVGA screen and a large ergonomic keypad for easy input. The elegant looking mobile phone sports a unique graphic user interface and fun, user friendly features along with unique menu styles and wallpapers.
It incorporates a 3.2 megapixel camera for high quality pictures and videos and comes with a variety of modes and effects as well as photo editing tools. The handset comes pre-loaded with Java applications, games, Opera Mini web browser and Google search.

The Karbonn K777 also features an MP3 player, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, Video Player, Bluetooth A2DP, GPRS Class12, and an expandable memory upto 8GB, making it a perfect combination of features and style. The Karbonn K777 is available at a Market Operating Price of Rs. 4500.

Karbonn K485 is an attractively priced sleek dual SIM (GSM) multimedia phone with a 2.4-inch touchscreen and dedicated music keys.

The K485 features FM Radio, MP3 Player, Video Player, Video Recording, Digital Camera, WAP, GPRS, MMS and an expandable memory upto 4GB.
The phone comes with some great user friendly features like handwriting recognition, an attractive user interface and Hindi language support. The Karbonn K485 is available at a Market Operating Price of Rs. 3500.

Samsung Electronics, a leading mobile phone provider, today launched its new smartphone platform “bada” in India.

The ‘bada’ platform was launched at the ‘Global Developer Day’ organized by Samsung Electronics in Bangalore today. Samsung “bada”, meaning “ocean” in Korean, is a driving force in accomplishing Samsung’s vision of a ‘smartphone for everyone.’

Samsung bada will offer a feature-rich, ‘open’ platform for providing enhanced mobile experiences to consumers, and a complete mobile ecosystem through a developer support program that both the developers and consumers will benefit from.

Based on Samsung’s accumulated expertise in developing advanced mobile phones, the company will enable its users to enjoy ultimate mobile experience through superb features.
Samsung bada possesses the following key characteristics:

User-interactive:

Based on Samsung’s signature TouchWiz User Interface, Samsung bada platform provides an easy, simple, and intuitive UI without compromising efficiency. To enhance creativity and user interactivity, Samsung bada provides flash control, web control, motion sensing, fine-tuned vibration control, and face detection. Also, it supports sensor-based, context-aware applications. By using various sensors such as accelerometers, tilt, weather, proximity, and activity sensors, application developers can easily implement context-aware interactive applications.

Service-oriented:

Samsung bada differentiates its position by supporting various service-centric features such as social networking, device synchronization, content management, location-based services, and commerce services – all supported by back-end bada servers. These ground-breaking developer-friendly features support developers to implement various services with minimal effort.

Open and configurable:

Samsung bada enables developers to take full advantage of mobile device capabilities to create compelling applications with ease. Applications can use device functions to make phone calls, send messages, or access the contact list. Also, various service applications can share information such as personal profiles, social relations, schedules, or contents with a simple user confirmation in order to provide services with greater personal relevance and cooperative service extension. The flexibility of the bada platform makes it applicable to a wide range of devices than any other mobile operating system.

India’s National Telecom backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today launched its 3G GSM mobile and High Speed Wireless Internet services (Data services) in Pune city in Maharashtra & Goa telecom circle.

BSNL 3G services was inaugurated by Mr Aloke Kaul, Chief General Manager, BSNL Maharashtra Goa Circle, Mr. Mohansingh Rajpal Mayor of Pune, Mr. Yogesh Mangalsen Behl Mayor, PCMC in a grand launching ceremony at Hotel Le Meridien. Mr Mohanlal GM Mobile and Mr.VK Mahendra Principal General Manager, BSNL Pune was also present in the launching ceremony.

Mr. Alok Kaul, GM BSNL stated “BSNL 3G Mobile service” is now available to all postpaid and prepaid subscribers of Pune city and we will expands the 3G services in 55 cities across the Maharashtra and Goa circle shortly.
bar, Ichalkarnaji, Karad, Sawantvadi, Alibagh, Karjat, Khopoli, Mahad, Pen, Solapur, Pandharpur, Washim, Latur, Bhusawal, Hingoli, Jalna, Buldhana, Wardha, Yeotmal, Gondia, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli and some more cities in Maharashtra-Goa circle by the end of July-2010.

To know more on 3G tariff call 1503 or 1800-180-1503 or click here BSNL 3G Prepaid Plan in Details

Nokia unveiled new X series mobile - X5-01 at the Nokia Connection Event in Singapore. It runs on S60 3rd edition. It features a 2,36 inch display and has a QWERTY keyboard under the dasboard. It boasts a 5 megapixel camera with 4X digital zoom and LED Flash. For music lovers, it provides a playback of up to 24 hours.The Nokia X5 has a 3.5mm universal jack and it features dedicated music keys and loud speakers, and will include access to Ovi Music, and to Comes with Music in some regions.
Key Features of Nokia X5-01
Dimensions : 74.3 mm x 66.4 mm x 16.8 mm (L x W x T)
2,36” display with up to 262k colors (320x240)
Internal Memory : 200 MB
External Memory (microSD) can be expanded upto 32GB
5 megapixel camera with 4x digitial zoom and LED flash
Share photos and videos with Ovi Share
Standby time : Up to 16 days
Talk time : Up to 4 hours, up to 3.5 hrs (3G)
Music playback : Up to 24 hrs
WLAN
GPRS/EGPRS multislot class 32
Bluetooth 2.1 with enhanced data rates (EDR)
Micro-USB connector, USB charging
3.5 mm AV connector
Availabe in 5 colors - Pink, Azure, Graphite Black, Yellow Green, Purple - Nokia X5-01 is priced at around EUR 165. It will be first available from Q3, 2010 in Indonesia. Details of its availability in other countries are not yet avaialble.

After the successful deployment of service delivery platform in South zone TeleDna leading VAS technology and infrastructure provider, today announced that BSNL has successfully deployed TeleDNA’s SDP (Service Delivery Platform) in the West Zone.

TeleDNA SDP offers numerous advantages, enabling BSNL to seamlessly integrate multiple messaging platforms, mobile contents & applications and manage diversified services through unified network access.
TeleDNA SDP paves the way towards an IMS-compatible services platform where multimedia services can be made available to BSNL customers.

“With 3G services of BSNL in the west zone, there will be a lot of demand for offering innovative value added services and billing models. TeleDNA has deployed the best in breed platform for BSNL and we believe that our SDP will address the increasing demands of the customers and give BSNL a competitive, technological and financial edge over competitors,” said Mr. Praveen Nallapothula, CEO, TeleDNA Communications Pvt Ltd.

Tata Teleservices Limited, India’s fastest-growing dual-technology (GSM and CDMA) telecom service provider, today announced that it has added 2.33 million new subscribers in the month of May 2010 to cross the 70-million-subscribers milestone in a short span of just over five years since the launch of its mobile telephony services in early 2005.

The achievement of 70 million by Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited is all the more commendable as the company has shown a subscriber growth rate of more than 100 per cent in the last 12 months from 35 million subscribers in May 2009.

As the numbers suggest, Tata Teleservices Limited has shown an extremely aggressive and consistent growth in new subscriber additions over the last year.

Commenting on the landmark achievement, Mr Anil Sardana , Managing Director of Tata Teleservices Limited , said “We thank and appreciate every subscriber’s faith in us as a transparent, caring and efficient telecom services company. With each new milestone crossed, we have raised our own internal benchmarks—in keeping with our larger objective of consistently enhancing and improving our standards, and of providing our customers with differentiated and lifestyle-impacting telecom services. The achievement also bears testimony to the efforts that have been put into making our network and services the best in the industry, we will continue to innovate and evolve, providing world-best products and offerings to our subscribers.”

The last financial Year has been an extremely successful one for Tata Teleservices Limited, wherein the company introduced its new GSM brand Tata DOCOMO, introduced its industry-changing ‘Pay-Per-Second’ and ‘Pay-Per-Call’ tariff plans, unleashed industry-best products like Photon TV and Mobile TV, and offered lifestyle-impacting products like Buddynet, diet-sms and many others.

“With the countdown on 3G services having begun, we will continue to walk the innovation path, providing our customers with differentiated products and services which will take telecom to the next level. We are working closely on the creation of such relevant products with our partners, particularly NTT DOCOMO, which is acknowledged as the world leader in telecom technology development; and look forward to the next wave in Indian telecoms,” Mr Sardana added.

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is now associated with Zen Mobile as its Brand Ambassador. According to the agreement, Mr. Bachchan will endorse and promote the products offered by Zen Mobiles.

Zen Mobiles is geared up to launch a slew of QWERTY and multimedia mobile handsets loaded with social networking experience for Indian market. The company plans to leverage its association with Mr. Bachchan through an exciting media campaign and various interactive consumer related activities in the coming months.

With the telecos preparing for the 3rd Generation services, the race to capture the current GPRS market is heating up. Having paid a huge amount for the 3G license, its evident that the 3G service is not going to be exactly cheap.

So the next best option is the GPRS service and that’s what every telco is getting into.With new packs and low rental plans being introduced in every other circle.

One of our users has been kind enough to test out the competition between TATA Docomo and Vodafone, not on the pricing but on speeds and given his verdict.

Speedtest was done with Nokia 5230 handset using Mobilespeedtest.com Conducted at Yelahanka, Bangalore City.

Mi-Fone the latest handset manufacturer in the Indian market has launched 3 new mid range QWERTY keypad handsets just like the same old blackberry.

Mi-Fone has initiated an advertising campaign to support the launch of MI -Q range (Mi-Q1,Mi-Q+,Mi-Q5) that is reflective of its consumers and the spirit of its mobile phones: capable, trendy, confident, cheeky, and uncompromising.

It is feisty and brash, taking the battle for the young Indian consumer directly to other mobile phone manufacturers. It is edgy and risky, unashamedly announcing Mi-Fone’s foray into the QWERTY space.

It is about recognising your ability and capacity to move mountains. It is impetuous yet not foolhardy. Indian’s today tire of being the whipping boys of the globe and are standing up and working for what they deserve, carving a place for themselves. So too is Mi-Fone with this campaign, the first of which launches the Mi-QWERTY range driven by the tag line “Darker The Berry … The Sweeter The Juice”.

“The Mi-Q family is designed to give our young consumers a ‘Blackberry experience’ at a fraction of the cost, while maintaining a high aesthetic. Our advertising campaign is meant to incite and evoke and inform our target market. It may be tongue-in-cheek but it also clearly demonstrates our willingness to compete for our market, which has been side-lined by the bigger brands through pricing,” explains Mr. Patel.

The campaign is all about featuring the new handsets with all its looks and features. Cheeky, fresh, pushing the envelope Lifestyle campaign designed to engage, and make a comparative impression.

The phones have been designed specially targeting the youth customers primarily in the markets of Africa and India.The phones speaks for itself – Suggestion is that Darker Berries from Africa are sweetest .