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Jil Sander and LG to launch Windows Phone smartphone

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Jil Sander and LG to launch Windows Phone smartphone

German Fashion Designer, Jil Sander will team up with LG to launch a new Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone with custom user interface and custom accessories. Microsoft reported the same at its official blog but surprisingly the company has not allowed any custom skinning of the Windows Phone 7.5 so far. The Jil Sander Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone will initially available in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and UK. There is no word yet on its availability in India.

Sander has custom designed the smartphone and LG has offered its engineering expertise. This smartphone will come with custom blue colour bearing theme and custom icons designed by Jil Sander. Besides that, the Jil Sander Shopping that offers deals, link to Jil Sander boutiques and connect with other Jil Sander fans will come preloaded on the phone.

In the Jil Sander smarphone, LG has added 1 GHz mobile processor, 16 on-board storage, a 5 megapixel camera, and quad-band GSM network. Besides the handset, Jil Sander will also design custom accessories for the smartphone.

In past, the first version of Windows Phone 7 did not allow any custom user interface tweaking or skinning by the smartphone manufacturers. But with the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update, the things appear bit differently. While this special limited edition smartphone will have custom user interface but not so heavy that it changes the basic user experience of Windows Phone. Soon we shall get to see number of Windows Phone devices from HTC, Samsung and others with respective custom user interfaces.

Fring improves video chatting experience on Android

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Fring improves video chatting experience on Android

With Skype boosting their video conferencing capabilities and adding video stabilisation, Fring has also improved its own application and have added newer and better video conferencing features for users with its latest application update.

Fring has also updated the application and made it more responsive and secured by removal of several bugs, although details of the same are not available but the new update promises a better performance overall.

The Fring application makes use of the DVQ (Dynamic Video Quality) technology a creation by Fring labs. This technology ensures better video and audio transmission by automatic adjustment of the video and audio quality based on the type of internet connectivity available for the device.

But along with the upgrades and the improvements, Fring has also announced the closure of the Fring playgrounds Beta application. Now the Fring Playgrounds will only be available as a part of the original Fring application.

The updated Fring mobile is available for download from the Android Market. Users can locate the application through their phones or alternatively users can also follow this link to download application.

BlackBerry services restored in India: RIM

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A day after reporting email outages for several hours, Research In Motion on Tuesday said that the services has been restored.

“BlackBerry messenger services have been restored in India yesterday late evening. “, a RIM spokesperson told The Mobile Indian on Tuesday.

BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered internet and messenger outages for several hours on Monday . The Canadian company has also apologized yesterday for the inconvenience.

“We apologize to any of our customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa still experiencing issues. We’ll bring you an update as soon as we can,” it said in a statement.

Reportedly, around three to four million BlackBerry users in India have been affected by the server outage.

Is iPhone’s 3.5 inch screen the best?

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Recently Apple unveiled the iPhone4S with a 3.5 inch screen size, contrary to the popular speculation. It was widely believed that the latest device would come with a 4 inch display.
Incidentally, all the versions of iPhone and iPod Touch devices have the same 3.5 inch screen. All the applications in the Apple App Store are also optimised for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices for the same reason.

There must be something which makes the 3.5 inch screen of iPhone popular, that too at a time when there are several other devices out in the market which are selling with bigger screens, especially the Samsung Galaxy S2 screen which has almost one inch larger (4.27 inches) screen.

A designer named Dustin Curtis has posted an interesting information on his blog. He says, “I’ve been wondering why Apple chose to make the iPhone 4S’ screen 3.5 inches when other comparable phones with and Windows Phone 7 have larger, more inviting screens. When you first see a phone with a 4 inch or larger screen, it seems like a much better experience. I thought it was a technical decision, and it could be, but since switching to an Android phone &#151 a Samsung Galaxy S II, the ‘best Android phone you can buy, anywhere’ &#151 15 days ago, I have realised another huge downside of larger screens: when holding the phone with one hand, I can’t reach the other side of the screen with my thumb.”

At the same time, it is not really impossible to use the Samsung Galaxy S2 screen size with one hand, but the task is difficult for the users because fingers need to be stretched completely to reach the other opposite corner, which is not a convenient option.

On the other hand, just by using their thumb, users can reach the whole of iPhone’s screen easily. In the landscape mode, both the phones are good to cover entire screen with the two hands, so the problem only occurs in the when users would like to use only one hand.

Therefore, those users who choose their devices just because they have a bigger screen, may do well to consider buying a tablet after all. Apple could have easily trumped the competition by choosing to go with a larger screen, may be a 4.3 inch one but it didn’t because the company sees some genuine merit in maintaining the screen size of 3.5 inch.

GhostGuitar app for iPhone, iPad now live

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GhostGuitar app for iPhone, iPad now live

Yonac, a mobile application developer, has developed a new GhostGuitar app that allows users to play air guitar, which means that you can create guitar tunes without really holding a physical guitar.

This has been made possible with augmented reality. The GhostGuitar app works with 4.2 running devices that have a front facing camera such as iPhone 4, iPad 2 and iPod Touch (fourth generation). Amongst several other guitar apps, the GhostGuitar app promises the real air guitar fun.

The app detects user’s hand movement, for instance right hand, performs the gesture of strumming the strings and left hand fingers manipulating the fret board, to create music.

User can also perform picking individual strings on the air guitar simulated on the device’s screen. For starters, users get to choose the type of guitars to play along with chord progressions and use effect pedals.

Once the user gets hang of air guitar and effects, the ‘Ghost Band’ practice will give almost real jam session experience. The app supports 44.1 kHz quality audio and offers touch-free air guitar in true sense.

GhostGuitar can be slotted as one of the fun apps for the iOS devices that involve the user physically and give more real-like experience of air guitar. We can expect couple of applications like this for iOS devices and the platform can give some competition to the Kinect for Xbox 360.

Micromax A70 is the third most-searched handset: TMI survey

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Micromax A70 is the third most-searched handset: TMI survey

In the last few months, handset marketers have been launching touchscreen phones on a regular basis in India; the impact of this phenomenon is now being reflected in The Handset Hotlist survey (October 2011). Seventeen of the 25 phones that made it to the list are touchscreen devices.

The Handset Hotlist, based on a survey of online preferences, is brought out by The Mobile Indian (www.themobileindian.com), and is released every month. The list is based on the surfing patterns of about seven lakh unique visitors who visited the site in September, 2011, and searched for and viewed information about mobiles on the website’s Handset Guide, which lists more than 1,400 models.

Sreekant Khandekar, director, The Mobile Indian, says, “Since the Hotlist was first released, handsets from Nokia and Samsung have dominated the list. However, this time around, three models from Micromax and Sony Ericsson have made it to the list.”

According to The Handset Hotlist for October 2011, eleven of the 25 most exciting mobile handset models are from Nokia. Samsung follows next with six, while Micromax and Sony Ericsson have four models each on the list.

Nokia C2-03, a basic phone with S40 operating system that costs Rs 4,500 was the most-searched mobile phone on The Mobile Indian, replacing Nokia C5-03, which held the top position for the last three months.

Micromax A70, which has consistently been the most searched-for model among Indian brands and has figured in the list for the last four months, is now placed at No. 3, the highest position for the A70 so far.

Samsung-Star-II-Duos-C6712, a feature phone with 3.2 camera, stood at No. 4, followed by its stable mate, Samsung-Galaxy-Ace-S5830, an smartphone with 5 megapixel camera.

Top 10 Indian Challengers

The Top 10 Indian Challengers for October saw a huge change as seven new handsets made it to the list for the first time, with Micromax dominating the list with seven handsets.

The Challengers list was introduced in August, and has a ranking of the 10 most exciting handsets from Indian marketers, based on the preferences of visitors to the handset guide section of The Mobile Indian.

Commenting on the Challengers list, Khandekar says, “In the Challengers list, touchscreens are the flavour of the month as eight out of 10 handsets that consumers searched for were touchscreen mobiles, with an average screen size of about three inches.”

Micromax bags the top five spots in the Challengers list, with its A70, X560, X222, Q80 and Van-Gogh-X450. The other handsets that feature in the list are Spice-Mobiles-M-6700-Cappuccino (No. 6), Karbonn-A1 (No. 7), and iBall-Aura-V36 (No. 10).

Table 1: Top 25 Handset Hotlist for October 2011

Rank SeptRank AugChangeBrandModelPrice (in Rs.)3GOS
132NokiaNokia-C2-03 4500NoS40
21-1NokiaNokia-C5-03 8600YesSymbian
341MicromaxMicromax-A70 8000YesAndroid
462SamsungSamsung-Star-II-Duos-C6712 6000NoJava
52-3SamsungSamsung-Galaxy-Ace-S583014700YesAndroid
65-1NokiaNokia-C612200YesSymbian
71811Sony EricssonSony-Ericsson-txt-pro 7469NoJava
891MicromaxMicromax-X560 5350NoJava
9123Sony EricssonSony-Ericsson-W812000YesAndroid
10133NokiaNokia-X718000YesSymbian
1110-1SamsungSamsung-Galaxy-Pro-B751010100YesAndroid
12142SamsungSamsung-S3850-Corby-II 5600NoJava
1311-2NokiaNokia-C2-01 3800YesJava
14–newNokiaNokia-70119000YesSymbian
15172NokiaNokia-C5-00 7500YesSymbian
16–newMicromaxMicromax-X222 2500NoJava
17–newSony EricssonSony-Ericsson-Xperia-Mini-Pro15400YesAndroid
1816-2NokiaNokia-X2-01 3500NoJava
19–newMicromaxMicromax-Q80 5000YesJava
20–newNokiaNokia-E52 9909YesSymbian
21–newSamsungSamsung-Chat-527 5300YesJava
22–newNokiaNokia-C6-0113600YesSymbian
23–newNokiaNokia-X1-01 1800NoS40
24251Sony EricssonSony-Ericsson-Yendo 5200NoJava
25–newSamsungSamsung-Galaxy-Fit-S567010000YesAndroid

Table 2: Top 10 Indian challengers for October 2011

Rank SeptRank AugChangeBrandModelPrice3GOS
110MicromaxMicromax-A708000YesAndroid
220MicromaxMicromax-X5605350NoJava
3–newMicromaxMicromax-X2222500NoJava
4–newMicromaxMicromax-Q805000YesJava
54-1MicromaxMicromax-Van-Gogh-X4503500NoJava
6–newSpiceSpice-Mobiles-M-6700-Cappuccino4600NoJava
7– newKarbonnKarbonn-A17000YesAndroid
8–newMicromaxMicromax-A55-Bling-28000YesAndroid
9–newMicromaxMicromax-EG3338000YesJava
10–newiBalliBall-Aura-V366000NoJava

Uncertainty over in app purchases in iOS

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Apple iPhone users may face some problems during in purchases in future. Reportedly Apple has filed for the patents of in app purchases that allow users to buy the advanced or full version of an application after experiencing a demo version.

However another company, Lodsys claims the rights of in app purchases and Apple has been paying license fee to it since the time in app purchases were enabled for the devices.

And the tussle between Apple and Lodsys over the in app purchases has now brought the uncertainty over whether users will continue to be able to make in app purchases conveniently from within their apps or they may have to switch to outside stores in future.

The Apple patent application talks about product purchase offer, a transparent and translucent purchase interface, an application server linking app to the users, and the advertisement which will represent the app to the users. It also talks about providing the opportunity to the users to buy the product from a separate store as well &#151 basically, these things are just a description of how an in app purchase works.

High speed 4G services coming to India from January

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The long wait for fast wireless services is finally getting over at east for people of Madhya Pradesh where Augere, a UK based company which provides wireless broadband services, will launch its services using TD services beginning January. Augere had won BWA (broadband wireless access) spectrum for Madhya Pradesh circle last year.

Bhopal will be the first city in India to get the fourth generation mobile telephony services in January followed by other important cities in the region like Indore, Raipur, Gwalior and Durg in the next three months. Other cities and towns will get the services during the course of the year.

Augere has selected Ericsson for network roll-out and maintenance. The TD LTE technology is capable of speeds up to 100 and is backwards compatible with (CDMA as well as GSM) which means that customer will be connected to 3G where 4G network is not available.

Lars Stork, chief executive officer of Augere Wireless broadband India, said, “We are delighted to be one of the first wireless broadband service providers to announce our plans for the launch of 4G services in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. LTE is a new technology that will enable us to offer high speed and a quality customer experience through 4G wireless broadband services”.

Reliance Industries in the only pan India player in this space and will determine what the pricing of the services will be given the sheer that they will have. Other winners include Aircel (8 circles), Tikona Wireless (5 circles), Airtel (4 circles) and Qualcomm (4 Circles).

Apart from Augere non of the operators have announced their plans for the 4G roll-out so far. However, it is almost certain now that LTE will be the technology that they will use.

RIM announces BlackBerry Tag

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Research In Motion has announced the launch of its latest innovation, BlackBerry Tag, which The Mobile Indian had earlier reported.

BlackBerry Tag will help users to share contents with just a tap on their (Near Field Communication) enabled BlackBerry smartphones.

The BlackBerry Tag was announced by RIM co-chief executive officer Jim Balsillie during his keynote presentation at the GITEX conference in Dubai.

“BlackBerry Tag is an exciting and innovative feature that makes sharing contact information and multimedia content effortless and seamless,” said Jim Balsillie. “BlackBerry Tag opens a new dimension to the BlackBerry platform that is powerful, simple and intuitive and we think it will be welcomed by both users and developers.”

Using this new functionality, BlackBerry users will be able to share contact information, documents, URLs, photos and other multimedia content by simply tapping their BlackBerry smartphones together. It will also enable friends to instantly add one another as contacts on BlackBerry Messenger by just tapping their phones with one another.

BlackBerry Tag takes advantage of NFC capabilities of the recently launched BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones, and these are the first BlackBerry smartphones that will support BlackBerry Tag. The BlackBerry Tag will be an integrated part of the 7 and will be delivered to devices around the globe in the form of and OS upgrade that is expected soon.

RIM has also announced its plan to make BlackBerry Tag available through APIs on the BlackBerry platform, allowing software developers to take advantage of “tap to share” functionality from within their own applications.

Lenovo launches two Android tablets in India

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PC maker Lenovo has announced the launch of its IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad tablets in India. Lenovo will also launch an entry level tablet &#151 IdeaPad A1, in India in coming times.

“Over the next six months, Lenovo will introduce tablets of varying sizes and platforms,” added the company in a release.

IdeaPad K1

The IdeaPad K1 is the Lenovo’s first Honeycomb tablet, and one of its first aimed at the casual user. The tablet comes with a 10 inch capacitive touch display, and is on the heavier side weighing 0.75 kg.

Design wise the tablet is slightly of trend but looks good, there are four colour choices silver white, black, red and grey, to choose from.

The tablet comes armed with Android 3.1 and Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core ARM Cortex A9 clocked at 1.0 Ghz. Besides, it has 3G, Bluetooth, WiFi connectivity options.

IdeaPad K1’s battery, as per the company, would provide up to 10 hours usage time. It also comes integrated with 2 front camera and a 5 megapixel back mounted webcam. card reader, mini HDMI connector and optional docking port are also available.

Its capacitive touch screen also promises 10 point multi-touch.The IdeaPad also will come preloaded with 40 apps specially customized for Indian users.

It comes in two variants &#151 32 (3G) for a price of Rs 29,500 and 32 GB (WiFi) for Rs 33,990.

ThinkPad

ThinkPad on the other hand is aimed at business users, this Lenovo tablet offers some corporate friendly features such as Computrace which can find the tablet if it is lost or stolen and users can even remotely freeze the device or delete all the data remotely if it can’t be recovered. It also comes with Citrix Receiver which allows the tablet to remotely access PC desktops and use the applications as if they were running natively.

This 10.1 inch tablet comes with NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core mobile processor with built-in Adobe Flash Player, and Android 3.1 operating system.

ThinkPad Tablet comes with an optional digitiser pen, a full-size port, full-size SD card slot, and mini-HDMI for connecting to external projectors and displays, as well as an optional ThinkPad quality Keyboard Folio Case with optical TrackPoint.

Offering a 10.1 WXGA (1280×800) display, the ThinkPad tablet also comes with scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass. The ThinkPad Tablet allows users to view and edit Microsoft Office documents with the preloaded Documents to Go by DataViz. Users can also plug in the Keyboard Folio for fast, comfortable and accurate typing and mouse control

With WiFi connectivity, 2 GB of free cloud storage, a standard size USB port and SD Card Reader and Lenovo’s unique file copy utility, sharing media files and documents with other people and electronic devices is easy. Users can keep in touch with friends and business contacts using Lenovo’s exclusive SocialTouch app.

IdeaPad A1

IdeaPad A1 is the smaller and the cheaper tablet offering from Lenovo, that will be launched in India at a later date. The Lenovo IdeaPad A1 features a 7-inch dsiplay with 1024 x 600 resolution, 1GHz TI OMAP A8 processor, 2GB of internal storage, GPS, Bluetotoh, WiFi, micro SD slot, 3 megapixel rear facing camera, and 0.3 megapixel front facing camera. On the software side of things the IdeaPad A1 leaves the Honeycomb for bigger siblings and comes with Android ‘Gingerbread’ 2.3.

It will come in 16 GB version with WiFi support with a price of Rs 14,990.

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