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BlackBerry PlayBook to have video chat app

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The soon to be launched PlayBook Tablets, made by the Research in Motion, will now come up with FaceTime like video chat facility.

RIM’s new move can be seen vis-a-vis the success of Apple iPad. RIM has been under pressure due to the success of Apple, which is palpable from the huge demand of the recently launched iPad2.

The BlackBerry Playbook sports better cameras and faster 1 GHz processor, which increases its chances of success in the market. The QNX operating system also allows the device to provide true multi-tasking, which is a sizeable advantage for Research in Motion.

However, on the front, devices scores over Playbook due to higher number of applications. Apple’s iPad 2 also has larger display, and is lighter and thinner at the same time.

The video chat facility is not in the BlackBerry handsets which uses the BlcakBerry operating systems. The video chat has been separated from the BlackBerry Messenger as BBM wasn’t built for the QNX operating system.

And for RIM to accommodate QNX OS in BlackBerry handsets seems improbable now as it have to create an entirely new user interface.

Google updates its iPhone search app

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The design of iPhone search from Google has been updated.

Now named as Google Search app, earlier called as Google Mobile app, it is faster and has an improved user interface.

The moment a search term is typed into the search box, users see a menu of categories in which they can choose which search results they wish to see &#151 images, videos or news. A horizontal swipe opens the category search results.

This is a nice little addition for the users who would like to sort through the search results instead of hitting the small links on the top of the screen.

The app also provides the facility to return to the main search results screen, just to keep track of what, in the first place, you were doing with the Google Search app.

It also provides the users with Google Goggles (image search), Voice Search and they can also look for stuff around the place they are in.

Google apps also remain easily accessible through a button on the bottom of the screen. Whenever the users feel confused, they can always hit the question mark and all the gestures would be explained by the app. Overall, the improvement is substantive and intuitive.

Last but not the least, wherever the search box appears, the voice button is also located there. You can safely leave the keyboard, touch microphone sign and speak into the microphone. Google has improved its voice search capability, which means results from the voice search accurate most of the time.

Acer launches Android smartphone

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Acer today launched its latest based smartphone the Acer Liquid Metal.

Based on the Android 2.2 (Froyo) platform, it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon Core enabling the user to enjoy uninterrupted web navigation at a super speed.

The Liquid Metal is equipped with a curved 3.6″ display with a TFT capacitive touch screen.

The Liquid Metal utilises for on-the-go Internet access at speeds upto 14.4Mbps as well as WiFi allowing data transfer 10 times faster than previous devices.

The signal on the upper part of the telephone notifies the user of missed calls, the need to charge the battery, and new incoming messages clearly.

Acer Liquid Metal’s 1500 battery coupled with intelligent power management means you have up to 8 hours and 550 hours in standby mode.

Acer Liquid Metal comes with 3 popular keyboard layouts. Clever XT9 predictive text support saves you typing unnecessarily and lets you send messages as fast as your fingers can move.

Other features include pinch to zoom feature, 5-megapixel camera with digital zoom, LED flash, free 8GB Micro SD Card (expandable up to 32GB).

It has four touch sensitive control buttons below the touch screen display that gives the user the access to all basic functions of the phone without having to use the touch screen display.

The 5-megapixel camera offers 720p video recording as well as and smile recognition and the Dolby surround sound enhance the video-watching experience.

The Acer smartphone has a new Acer interface, Breeze which allows information to be visible even when the screen is locked. Breeze also allows the user’s to customise their home screen and re-arrange their applications according to their specific needs.

Announcing the launch, S Rajendran, chief marketing officer, Acer India, said, “Powered by a new breed of processors, the Android platform and wireless connectivity, Acer Liquid Metal enables fast and efficient web browsing while providing a host of other unique features that makes it an ideal Smartphone. We will be launching more smartphones in the near future to meet with the growing demands of our consumers.”

Acer Liquid Metal is priced at Rs 20,500.

Lava launches Holi special handset, the KKT 35

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On the occasion of Holi festival, Lava has launched a new handset KKT 35 along with a new application. The new handset to host the application known as “Color Matcher”, which enables the user to pick up any colour as background and can put it in home screen as wallpaper.

Commenting on the launch, Sunil Raina, chief marketing officer, LAVA International, said, “We understand that colours are a way of expressing ones personality and attitude. Normally consumer has a limited choice of selecting colours in a phone .With Color Matcher now you can pick up any colour which excites you.”

KKT 35 is perfect for color maniacs. The dual phone comes in a metallic and super slim body which adds to its exquisite looks.

It supports multiple format video players, which enables to play videos&#151 AVI, MP4, and 3GP. It has a wide 2.4 inch TFT screen. digital camera.

Its other features include Chat style SMS, Mobile tracker, conversation recording, Support, web camera, answering machine, FM radio, games, and 3.5 mm audio jack.

It also features excellent powerful 1400mAh battery that would enable the users to talk up to nine hours.

The company has hoped that the new handset will attract the young urban youth.

The phone is avialble at all retails stores for Rs 3,950.

Vodafone launches 3G services in UP

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Vodafone has launched its services in Uttar Pradesh, with Lucknow and Kanpur to begin with followed by Allahabad and Varanasi in the next two months. Remaining cities of UP will be covered in due course.

Vodafone will offer internet access at speeds up to 21.1 Mbps. It will offer various data plans starting from Rs 100 for 100MB to Rs 1250 for 5GB. Other goodies like free and will also be given.

For purpose users can pay Rs 650 for 1GB and 1250 for 5GB of data, users also have option to buy long duration packs like in Rs 6250 you get 5 per month for six months. No unlimited plan has been launched but 5GB should be sufficient for most use cases.

Currently, customers in east Uttar Pradesh will have access to Vodafone 3G services at no additional cost.

Vodafone is one of the last players to roll put its 3G services, Tata Docomo and Reliance communication were the first to launch 3G services in December in the country.

Airtel and Aircel have also launched services recently and are fast ramping up with several launches in the last couple of week. Idea cellular and Stel are the only remaining service providers who have not launched the service so far.

Tata DoCoMo launches 3G services in Ahmedabad and Baroda

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Tata Docomo, the GSM arm of Tata Teleservices, has launched its services in Ahmedabad and Baroda. With this, Tata Docomo completes the phase I launch of its 3G services which is now available in 17 cities across Gujarat.

Tata Docomo was the first operator to roll out 3G services in the country including Gujarat in November 2010.

Tata DOCOMO’s 3G services are available in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Godhra, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Junagarh, Nadiad, Anand, Vapi, Valsad, Bharuch, Ankleshwar, Amreli, and Gandhidham.

“Our 3G services have received a phenomenal response from customers across Gujarat till date and today, we launch our 3G services in Ahmedabad and Baroda. While 3G as the next-generation of mobility, brings with it better voice clarity through Voice, fewer call-drops and high-speed Internet access,” Nipun Sharma, chief operating officer, Gujarat, Tata Docomo said.

“Our customers can now access 3G services both on pre-paid and post-paid platforms with the combination of various plans available on voice and data. These services will enable richer communication through video calls and video SMSs, mobile Internet,” he added.

Tata Docomo, offers plans under Small Screen and Large Screen categories. Small Screen plan works best for those mobile phone users who need both 3G voice and data connectivity, while the Large Screen plan is for those customers who want to use 3G services to access the Internet on their laptops, PCs and Tablets.

Small Screen Plan starts from Rs 11 to Rs 2,001 offering 10MB to 15GB of data usage. Priced between Rs 350 to Rs 2,000, the Smart Life Plans on pre-paid comes bundled with data usage and talk time. For large screen plans customer has option of unlimited packs starting Rs 1000.

Docomo also offers Video Calling, Mobile TV, Live Darshan / Aarti. 3G plans for a full month starts at Rs 90.

Tata Docomo 3G E stick (wireless data card) with Large Screen Plans is available in three different formats 3.6 Mbps, 7.2 Mbps, and 21.1 capable sticks priced at Rs 1699, Rs 1999 and Rs 4,200 respectively. It can be activated with the first recharge of Rs 109/- which comes bundled with 5GB data free for the period of one month.

Micromax M2

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Continuing with its innovations, Micromax has now launched the new M2 handset.
M2 is a dual phone with a music bias.

From the first look itself it reminds of the Apple iPod, and being a dedicated music phone it justifies it also to some extent.

The M2 features an industry first ‘click wheel’, which is a mechanism similar to the one found on the iPod used for navigation by both motion touch and click. The 2 inch display has a QGVA resolution, while the M2 features a camera as well.

It sports a multi format MP3/Video player and a 2GB on board memory for storage. The saddest part is that the memory is non expandable, which means you will have to stick to 2GB for life or you can wait for Micromax to launch another version maybe a M3. The connectivity is standard with a 3.5 mm headset jack.

The phone comes with bundled full sized adjustable headphones probably to justify its price of Rs 4,500.

It does come with a handsfree kit too. The phone’s sound output is SRS wow certified, so music quality is expected to be better. The battery is an 850 lithium ion battery pack, which should ideally power it for 1-2 days of music and calling, but not on the bigger headphones.

Idea launches mobile banking service

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Idea cellular has launched a mobile banking service called ‘Idea MyCash’, which is powered by Axis Bank to offer basic banking services including money transfer, using the mobile platform.

Axis bank and idea cellular has signed a MoU last December to offer financial products and services offered by the Bank through the mobile operator’s retail outlets.

Under this service idea cellular retailers will act as business correspondent of the Axis bank and will help the users open no frills bank account.

Users will also be able to deposit and withdraw money from their account through these retailers.

“Axis Bank in association with IDEA Cellular is offering a branchless banking solution that provides the elements of security, access and convenience in a cost effective manner. This association in a larger context enables the Bank to undertake financial inclusion by providing a host of financial inclusion products and services through the IDEA mobile platform and offered through select IDEA retail outlets” Shikha Sharma, managing director and chief operating officer of Axis Bank said.

“Idea MyCash, in association with Axis Bank, will ride on our deep rooted network to make banking services accessible to millions of Indians and include them in the economic development through financial inclusion” Sanjeev Aga, Managing Director, Idea Cellular commented.

Similar services have been launched by ICICI bank and SBI in partnership with operators like Vodafone and Airtel.

App Review: Shoot and Tag

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Only a handful of applications are fortunate enough to be endorsed by Nokia and even a fewer are added in its beta labs. The latest addition to the Nokia Beta labs is the Shoot and Tag application.

The application while recording a video automatically splits it in various bits or chapters so that the next time you need not to go through the whole video to look at a particular part of the video.

The does it through a software that automatically detects change in the subject during video recording.

For example, while shooting a natural scenery you shift to your kid doing something strange, so the shoot and tag application will detect the change in the subject and will tag the video and make a separate chapter out of it, with the new subject in its thumbnail preview.

Using this app, users can record short as well as longer videos depending on the capacity of their device. There is no limitation of size with this application.

However, this application does not allow the hardware button to be used for the video recording, so if you have a habit of using the hardware button for video recording you might have to struggle a bit with it.

Pricing and availability completely depends of Nokia and their liking or disliking of this application. As of now the application seems promising and can be downloaded from the Nokia Beta Labs or by visiting the following link https://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-shoot-and-tag.

Top phones for senior citizens

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Top phones for senior citizens

Although a high camera, faster performance, high resolution displays and multimedia are becoming key identifiers of a good mobile phone; these features are nothing more than a nuisance for some, especially elders.

With age our eyesight and hearing weaken. For old people, using a normal mobile phone is quite a task in itself. So rather than let the elderly struggle with cell phones, we have identified some mobile phones that are specifically designed for them.

iBall Aasan

The iBall Aasan might look like a funny little mobile phone but for senior people it is nothing short of a boon. Its extra large back-lit keys and large but simple display are very easy on the eye.

The design of this phone is such that it fits easily in the palm and does not cause any discomfort while holding. The shortcut keys are placed on the side for easy access and include buttons for torch and wireless FM radio.

The phone features a loudspeaker and the earpiece is tuned at a louder volume as compared to most other mobile phones. One of the remarkable features of this device is its SOS feature. This emergency feature allows the user to send a pre-recorded emergency message to five preset numbers at the touch of a button. After that the phone calls the numbers one after another until a call is answered, if not the phone repeats the loop three times.

It is priced at Rs 3,500.

Skymoon D1201

You might have not heard about this manufacturer but you will find its phones in the market soon. The D1201 is a small mobile phone but with a big keypad and a 1.7 inch display, for easy readability and operation.

This phone also features a flashlight and wireless FM. There are shortcut keys located on the sides that can be used to access FM and the torch, and to control the volume.

The design of this phone is quite similar to that of the iBall Aasan.

It is priced at Rs 1,500.

Other cell phones that provide great functionality for senior people are available only in the international market. However, people in India can buy them through channels such as Ebay Global. Two of such phones are mentioned below.

Samsung Jitterbug

Even though senior people like simplicity and prefer functionality over design, Samsung has dared to provide the first clam-shell cell phone for them.

The keypad is big with backlit keys that make readability better in both bright as well as dark light conditions. The phone features dual displays, with large character size and powerful speakers that make listening to calls possible in both noisy and quiet environments.

It is priced at Rs 3,700.

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When it comes to mobiles for seniors, all phones feature a big keypad and big character display. The major benefit of this phone is the emergency response feature, but in India you won’t be able to use it.

Here you will be using it as a basic phone with loudspeaker, wireless radio, and flashlight &#151 all standard features found on such devices.

It costs about Rs 4,500.

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