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Tata Docomo, Samsung join hands for 6 CDMA phones

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Tata Teleservices yesterday announced that the company will reach out to customers with one common brand&#151Tata Docomo&#151cutting across CDMA and GSM. But that not all as the company has also tied up with Samsung for handsets bundled with free voice minutes under a ‘Dil Khol Ke Bol’ promotional offer.

Sunil Tondon, head, mobility services and device management, Tata Teleservices, said to The Mobile Indian, “Any of our existing or new customers who purchase any of six of the Samsung handsets we have shortlisted will be able to make 1,000 minutes of voice calls free for five months under the promotional scheme.”

He further added, “We have shortlisted six Samsung phones of which five are single CDMA phones and one is a dual SIM phone which will support both CDMA and GSM network.”

The offer of 1,000 free voice minutes will be available on Samsung’s M Power txt M 369, Galaxy Pop 1559, Guru B539, Guru Dual W139, M Power Music F219 and M Power TV S239.

Evernote gets updated for BlackBerry

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Evernote, the cross platform note-taking and synchronizing application, has announced its latest update for BlackBerry smartphones.

With the update of Evernote, BlackBerry smartphone owners running BlackBerry OS5 and above will get all the improvements of this upgrade that include: offline note cache, that allows users to keep a local copy of the note created using the Evernote application on the deice itself even when there is no data connectivity. Along with that the speed of the Evernote application has been improved considerably, and also with the offline cache the users will be able to access notes faster than ever.

Along with these the application also gets a few small but notable additions that will definitely make work easier. So users will be able to sync any file type with their free or paid Evernote space as long as it complies with the size limitations. Along with that the synchronization process for the application and the notes has now been tweaked to support multiple sessions so users can stop the sync in between and begin from where they stopped last time.

The updated application can be downloaded straight from the BlackBerry store or can also be obtained from the Evernote website.

Apple planning a 7 inch iPad?

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There have been numerous reports in the past about Apple considering a smaller iPad, which were immediately refuted by the company. Steve Jobs also had publicly clarified earlier he wasn’t interested in building a smaller iPad. But this time the news seems to be on a more solid footing. There is a news report from a Taiwan website which suggests Samsung and AU Optronics have sent smaller screen samples to Apple, probably for use in smaller iPad.

The iPad Mini will probably be launched by 2012, but that’s still at the rumour stage. The reason why Apple is thinking along these lines is probably because Kindle Fire is also being launched soon, which may not be an iPad killer but is affordable product which will create some competition for Apple.

According to The Mobile indian, Apple is planning an iPad 3 by early 2012. Now the two news reports may merge somewhere yet but we don’t know how and when. Apple seems to have calculated its options well, since the screen size is slightly bigger than 7 inch, it’s actually 7.85 inch which is likely to result in better images and lower prices at the same time.

The reported iPad Mini is probably to target emerging markets which are more price sensitive, but it is difficult to visualize how the cost would come down just by reducing the size of the screen. The Amazon Kindle Fire is anyway a subsidized device which will make money through content sales. May be Apple will focus more on iCloud services, but these reports should still be taken with a pinch of salt.

Foursquare to become easier to use than ever

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Foursquare to become easier to use than ever

Foursquare, a company that makes geolocation based app, plans to simplify user experience in their and plans to make it work more in the background when users are doing other things on their smartphones.

The days might soon be over when users had to deliberately launch the Foursquare app and check in to different locations manually, whenever they walked into, say, a restaurant or any other place.

The Foursquare functionality of checking into different locations has been incorporated into their products by Google, Facebook and Groupon as well, but the company has weathered it by making sure users get a better experience in the physical world.

The app now has about 10 million users worldwide who have checked into the app more than one billion times by now. The Merchant Platform of the app has seen about half a million businesses signing up with a view to promote their businesses and interaction with their customers.

The Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley was quoted by VentureBeat as saying, “We want to build tools that change the way all the people in this room experience the real world”.

Currently, the Foursquare app leads the category of location-based services despite its attempts to change the shape of its initial offering. In the meantime the company has survived the attacks from Facebook Places, Gowalla and Google Latitude. Dennis Crowley believes the new features in the app such as Foursquare Radar and Foursquare Explorer are likely to seen improved user adoption than ever.

The Foursquare founder agrees users have to think before they start using the app, and that it doesn’t come naturally to most. But using Foursquare in 5 would be much easier due to better integration of the app with the new version of Apple’s operating system, where using the app does not mean launching it separately.

Nokia Windows phone images leaked

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Nokia is all set to announce its Windows Phones during this years ‘Nokia World’ event starting October 26 in London. But just before that press images of the Nokia 800, one of the Windows Phones from Nokia has been leaked.

The phone looks exactly like the Meego based Nokia N9, even the colours that the phone will be available in are identical. Pokectnow has reported.

The phone comes with a 3.7-inch touch screen and will be available in shades of black, blue, and pink. The specifications of the phone are not known. However if N9 similarity is any indication it will surely be a powerful device.

Nokia 800 (codenamed SeaRay) and two other devices are expected to be available in the market by 15 November. Nokia and however have an uphill task of having a powerful enough phone at the launch to at least match the specifications of the recently launched offerings in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (which also happens to be the first Android 4.0 running device and Motorola Droid Razr.

Samsung and BIGFlix to launch My Movies

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Samsung has announced that it has partnered with BIGFlix to launch My Movies, which is a video on demand application to offer full length feature films.

My Movies will be available on Samsung Galaxy S, SII and Galaxy Tab 750. My Movies will offer consumers over 2000 hours of videos movies, trailers, TV shows and music videos, currently all the content is free.

Ranjit Yadav, country head, Samsung Mobile and IT said, “By providing consumers with India relevant applications and rich content on our smart mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, we are seeking to make their experience with our devices more engaging and immersive.”

My Movies offers a catalogue that allows the users to access movies, TV shows and music videos with single touch. The premium video content and movies will be available across Samsung devices.

“In the second phase, My Movies App shall offer premium content to the users on subscription as well. The subscription service will allow the user to watch full length feature films and over 1000 movies with no interruption from ads” Samsung said in a statement.

S Mobility launches two new music phones

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S Mobility, formerly known as Spice Mobility, a Indian Mobile phone brand, has launched two new Music phone called ‘Samba, and ‘Carnival’. The phones are priced at Rs. 3599.

The handset has a ‘Party Light’ feature that makes the handset glow during the music playback (based on the type and mood of the song). The phones come in four vibrant colours – Midnight Blue, Fiery Red, Grayish Black and Tangy Orange.

The company claims that the phones are loaded with a software that enhances the music/ audio processing coupled and comes with Spice wireless speakers & stereo earphones.

Both the phones support Dual function. The Samba sports a 2.2 inch screen with multitap keypad, while the Carnival has a key pad and a broad 2.2 inch screen.

Both the phones sport a 1.3 shooter that can also capture and play videos. Other features include expandable memory upto 8 with a Free 2 GB Memory card, FM with recording, 950 battery with claimed of 4 hours and a 3.5mm audio jack.

Dilip Modi, Managing Director, S Mobility said “We at S Mobility, believe in innovations and consistently working towards providing futuristic technology through our devices. The two new products launched today are targeted to the youth with surround music, lights and bright attractive colours. “

Nimbuzz gets video chat and calling for iPhone

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Nimbuzz, a cross platform messenger application and service provider, has announced the roll out of an updated application for iPhone and PC users. With the use of this new application two users will be able to make video calls right from within the Nimbuzz application, without paying any additional video calling charges.

Users will be able to make and receive video based calls both over WiFi and networks. And along with that the new application will also allow users to make use of the video calling and texting feature of the Nimbuzz application using a 2G network as well.

Commenting on the occasion, Jamshed V Rajan, country manager, Nimbuzz India, said, “At Nimbuzz, we believe in providing the best possible communication platform for our users. With 3G becoming popular and with smartphones with front cameras in vogue it was only natural for us to get into video calling. In fact, we have done one better by introducing a video chat as well wherein users share the video streams with each other but communicate by text.”

Along with this launch Nimbuzz has made clear its plans regarding Symbian and devices and soon we can expect to see video supporting Nimbuzz applications for both Symbian and Android based devices as well.

The updated Nimbuzz mobile can be downloaded from Apple’s App store. Users can locate the application through their phones or, alternatively, can also follow this link to download application.

Facebook messenger comes to BlackBerry

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Popular social networking website Facebook which already had a dedicated messenger application for both the and the platform has announced the launch of the Facebook messenger for the BlackBerry platform as well.

Blackberry smartphone users as a result of this development will be able to make use of the Facebook messenger service right from their smartphone without having the need to log in the web interface.

Along with the new addition Facebook has also updated the exiting application for both the Android and the iOS platform. Apart from that users will now get support for 22 and 12 new languages for Android and iOS respectively.

This Facebook messenger application provides integration with the address book on the device and thus lets the user chat with contacts that are on Facebook.

Besides text based chat, Facebook chat on the web has enabled video chatting as well and there is a huge possibility that it will soon be brought to the Facebook messenger on mobile.
The updated Facebook messenger mobile is available for download from the Apple App store, Android Market and BlackBerry app store.

Dolphin browser 7.0 for Android launched

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Dolphin has released a new version of the mobile browser for and with this they have upgraded to the Version 7.0.

In the latest release of this mobile browser developers have added the most sought after feature any smartphone and tablet user could ask for, called the Dolphin Sync. With the use of the new Dolphin Sync feature users will be able to sync their browsing preferences, bookmarks and gestures across all Android tablets and smartphones to access content immediately and personalise their browsing.

In the new release there are significant enhancements to Webzine feature as well. Apart from just some performance tune ups the browser will now be showcasing 16 most popular Webzine channels directly on the home screen, making it easy to access on-demand content even quicker.

What makes this browser unique and interesting to android users is the inclusion of gesture based controls that let user’s control web using gestures through touch screens.

The dolphin browser for smartphone is available for download exclusively from Getjar.com till October 23 following which it will be made available on the android market as well.

Dolphin 7 browsers is a free to use application with compatibility for all devices running Android version 2.0.1 and above. Users can also follow the direct link to download this application on their devices or can locate the software through the Getjar marketplace as well.

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