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KDDI to sell iPhone 5 in Japan

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Japan’s KDDI, a Japanese telecommunications operator, will start selling the upcoming iPhone 5 from the first quarter of 2012, reported Nikkie Business. The fifth generation iPhone is set to be launched on October 15 this year.

Notably, all the new iPhone models so far have been launched in Japan only through Softbank.

The iPhone 5 will come with 5 which is reported to have 200 new features than the previous version of the operating system. The phone will also have the iCloud service from Apple which will allow users to store their music or files on remote services for easy access across different devices including iPhones, iPods, iPads or even personal computers.

Other rumoured features of the iPhone 5 include a 4 inch screen, Near Field Communication chip, 8 camera and compatibility with both GSM and CDMA networks. The phone is likely to run on an A5 chip at 1.2 GHz.

Qualcomm licence rejected: will it impact consumers?

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US chipmaker Qualcomm Inc’s application for internet service provider (ISP) licence, after it won wireless access (BWA) spectrum in June last year, has been rejected by telecom ministry of India.

Reacting to the news, a spokesperson of the company said, “We received a notice from the Indian Department of Telecommunications on September 21, 2011 informing us that the license to the companies formed with our Indian partners, for use of the spectrum, which Qualcomm won at last year’s BWA auction, has been rejected on grounds that we find to be baseless. In fact, the application process was fully complied with, and we will continue to work with the Indian authorities to resolve this matter.”

This move is bound to effect Indian consumers who will lose out on affordable and faster wireless internet services.
“Multiple trials were conducted along with our partners and have been extremely successful. Any further delay in award of licence will deprive the Indian consumers in realising these benefits, thereby severely impacting India’s broadband plans,” the company said to DNA.

4G BWA (broadband wireless access) spectrum was auctioned soon after the auctions last year. While Reliance bagged spectrum in all 22 circles, Airtel got licences for four circles, Aircel for eight, Tikona in five circles, and Qualcomm also bagged spectrum in four circles. BSNL and MTNL had got spectrum even before the auction but have so far launched WiMax in very few locations.

Both and WiMax, called or BWA technology, offer very high speed wireless broadband access at theoretical speeds greater than 100 Mbps; while users can access real speeds of 10 on these networks. What is also good is the fact that LTE is backward compatible with both GSM and CDMA networks.

Nokia’s initiative: Preventing diabetes through SMS

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Arogya World, a USA-based non-profit organisation focusing on healthy living, has announced the launch of a new service that is designed to help raise awareness about diabetes in India. This service makes use of Nokia Life Tools that allows based messages to be delivered directly to subscribers’ mobile phones, creating awareness about diabetes, which is likely to kill a million people this year.

Through this service subscribers are made aware of the ways that diabetes can be prevented. The messages delivered through this service are crafted mainly for people in India, by health experts based in India, the UK and the USA, for both diabetics and non-diabetic patients.

Non diabetics are also included in this because it is believed that diabetes is largely preventable and in 80 per cent of cases it can be completely avoided as well.

Global head of Nokia Life Tools, Jawahar Kanjilal, said: “Mobile phones are ushering in an information revolution in the daily lives of millions, especially in emerging markets. Delivering targeted diabetes prevention messages to a profiled audience using our Nokia Life Tools platform, in a sustained and continuous engagement will, we believe, encourage people to adopt a healthier lifestyle.”

The service will be offered free to the first million users in the sub-continent who have Nokia Life Tools on their phones and subscribe to the Health Channel. No additional download or subscription will be needed to subscribe to this service.

The text advice will be available across India in 12 different local languages between November this year until October 2013 or until one million Indian users have been reached by the service.

New Release: Galactic Shooter lite for Android

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Galactic Shooter Lite, a snooker like game, has been launched for the devices. Its developer, Armada Animations, has tried to present snooker in a totally different way.

In this game, users or players have to use their snooker or pool skills in order to achieve the target which is to cover a star with the moon or a smaller planet while avoiding obstacles. The game is based on projectile inputs and users can control the angle, speed and the direction of the hit. The players play as an alien who sits in his space craft and shoots at other planets or stars in order to achieve his goal.

The Galactic Snooker Lite is the first ever Armada animation to feature on the Google Android Market.

The developer has released just the Lite version of this application that gives access to 15 levels with different levels of difficulty and target. The developer also plans to launch the paid version of this soon that will feature 30 different levels with a whole new graphic interface and a level creator as well that will allow users to design their own custom levels.

The Galactic Snooker application is available for free for download from Google’s Android Market. Users can search for the application on their devices or on the computer or alternatively users can also follow this link to download the application.

Uninor Karnataka offer: 20% extra talktime

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Eyeing the festive season, Uninor has rolled out an exciting offer for its customers in Karnataka. This offer will allow consumers to earn additional talk time ranging from 5 -20 per cent based on the recharge valuation.

So on a recharge of Rs 50 one will get a talktime of Rs 55; Rs 100 to give Rs 115 worth of talktime; Rs 175 talktime on Rs 150 recharge and so on.

Yasir Azman, circle business head, Karnataka, said, “We are most definitely the only mobile telephony provider in the state to offer most competitive pricing to our subscribers. Our business proposition has always been to offer seamless connectivity at exceptionally affordable price points and the Extra talk time offer is a step towards meeting that goal.”

Customers can avail this offer by walking into any of the 40 Uninor brand stores or 22,000 retail outlets spread across Karnataka.

Reliance to launch 4G by December

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A great deal of secrecy has been maintained by Reliance Industries about its plans. But the director general of COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India) Rajan S Mathews has confirmed that Reliance is going ahead with plans to launch its network starting December this year.

Speaking to The Mobile Indian, Mathews said, “First BWA network roll-out will happen by December this year, with Reliance Industries taking the lead, followed by operators like Airtel and others who will launch the service by the first quarter of 2012 (December to March).”

He added, “The choice of technology is LTE, but with security clearance and lack of devices for LTE, the launch plans have not been announced so far. However, most of these issues have been resolved and the roll-outs will commence shortly.”

Both and WiMax, called 4G or BWA technology, offer very high speed wireless access at theoretical speeds greater than 100 Mbps; while users can access real speeds of 10 on these networks. What is also good is the fact that LTE is backward compatible with both GSM and CDMA networks.

During the BWA (broadband wireless access) spectrum auction held in June this year, Infotel Broadband Services (now owned by Reliance Industries) won licenses for 22 circles while Aircel won eight, and Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm won four circles each, Tikona won five and Augere managed one.

So far no operator except Qualcomm (which is a technology vendor and participated only to ensure support for LTE technology) has made the choice of technology clear. However, LTE is clearly the more preferred of the two 4G technologies. WiMax is the other but it is losing out to LTE as some established WiMax players like Sprint in the USA are moving to LTE.

Google mulls common apps for tablets and smartphones

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As the world progresses towards the launch of Google Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system, developers at Google have sent out clear message to fellow developers to work on a unified platform. Going forward with the Android ICS launch, there will be no longer classification in between different devices such as tablets and smartphones.

Google, though a post on their developers blog, has sent out clear instruction to developers to work on the application so that they are compatible across platforms.

“Some Honeycomb apps assume that they’ll run only on a large screen, and have baked that into their designs. This assumption is currently true, but will become false with the arrival of ICS, because Android apps are forward-compatible &#151 an app developed for Honeycomb is compatible with a device running ICS, which could be a tablet, a phone, or something else,” Google said on the developer’s blog.

Google has left the option open to the developers as to control the applications from installing on other category of devices if they do not wish it to. So if a developer wants its application to run only on smartphones then thy will have to code it in such a way that it does not allow users to install it on a tablet and vice-verse.

But with this move, many developers will be happy in developing one application which works flawlessly on both platforms rather than being choosy on where to let it work.

LG Optimus Q2 slider handset announced

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LG Optimus Q2 slider handset announced

LG has announced a new handset with slide-out full keyboard &#151 Optimus Q2. The new LG Optimus Q2 slider handset features a 4 inch bright display and houses a dual-core 1.2 Ghz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. Measuring just 12.3 mm thick, the new Optimus Q2 is expected to be launched in South Korea next week. There is no word on its price and availability in other regions of the world.

Yet another handset in the Optimus family, the new Optimus Q2 is expected to compete against the HTC Desire Z handset that has 14.2 mm thickness and Motorola DROID 3 which is 12.9 mm thick. By default, this LG slider handset comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

LG has used a 700nit bright 4 inch display built using IPS panel technology for the Optimus Q2 and is expected to support 480×800 pixel resolution. Under the slim 12.3mm chassis, the Optimus Q2 features a slide out full Qwerty keypad which has spaced out curved keys for better typing and tactile feedback.

The Optimus Q2 comes with a dual-core 1.2 Ghz Nvidia Tegra AP25 with 1 RAM and promises to support 1080p full full video playback along with support for DivX and XviD media codec formats. That means it can play your regular .avi files out of the box.

This slim slider handset features a 5 camera with single flash which is capable of recording 1080p full HD video recording. There is also a front facing VGA camera meant for video chat or video calling.

Wireless connectivity department has 3.0 that consumes low power and offers high speed data transfer. Besides, the handset supports networks and WiFi Direct for faster mobile web browsing and using social networking applications.

LG Optimus Q2 packs 1500 battery which can easily offer about 7 hours to 8 hours of depending on the fact that data connections and WiFi are switched off.

It seems LG is certainly trying to catch up with its competitors by packing better hardware in its new smartphones. Hopefully this handset is available to more markets by next month at a competitive price and totally lures the folks who always wish to have a full Qwerty keypad along with a large screen Android smartphone.

Windows 8 may have phone calling capability

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A technology blog has noticed some hitherto unnoticed elements in the user interface of Windows 8, which suggests the new operating system from Microsoft may have the phone calling feature as well. The new operating system is likely to arrive in 2012.
According to iStartedSomething, the Windows 8 user interface has a live tile which is named “Missed Calls”.

Another indication is visible in the ‘People’ of the Windows 8 which stores all the contacts. There, every contact also has the option to “Call Mobile”.

Right now, it’s difficult to be sure whether Microsoft intends these features for the tablets or it wants the Windows 8 operating system to replace Windows Phone 7 eventually. The blog also says the Skype acquisition of Microsoft may also somehow fit into this picture.

From what is known about Windows 8 so far, the operating system will run on both tablets and conventional personal computers. It will have both versions of user interface – touch-centric and traditional desktop, and users will be able to switch as per their convenience. Even the Internet Explorer will have two versions, optimised for both the versions of user interfaces.

Lode Runner X comes to Xperia Play

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Lode Runner X comes to Xperia Play

It seems as if the whole world is going after the classics once again, and is coming up with more and more revamped versions on the classic games for the platform. Following the trend, Tozai Corporation of Japan in collaboration with Sony Ericsson has announced the launch of its legendry game Lode Runner in the form of Lode Runner X exclusively for Xperia Play.

Taking the game way up ahead in terms of the overall graphics quality and playability, Tozai has presented the Lode Runner in a totally new way. Along with that, the developers have added a couple of new levels and puzzles to solve too for the users.

Tim Harrison, head of content and marketing strategy for Sony Ericsson said: “Xperia Play is a unique Android smartphone that sets a new standard in mobile game play and we are committed to bringing more exclusive content to the device. Lode Runner is a franchise with great resonance in the gaming community, so we are particularly looking forward to bringing this brand new and exclusive version to Xperia Play.”

The game has just been announced and is not available readily in the Android Market. The game will be available for download on Xperia Play smartphones only starting November this year.

Earlier also, we had reported the launch of two classic games &#151 Space Invaders and recently announced R type, optimised for Android smartphones.

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