Ability to check email messages while travelling to office is one of the most useful features of my Nokia N73 phone. However recently I bought a LG 6600 handset. The new mobile does not have GPRS. So I started researching on how to get my emails as sms on the mobile.
Yahoo mail sms alert yahoo provides an email alert service. Apart from the alert you shall get the message as sms on your mobile too. However currently it is availabl for airtel customers only. You need to pay Rs 30 …

My project for second hand mobiles is doing quite well. I have got more than 70 second hand mobile phones for sale already. While I await the second hand mobiles market to pick up, I am starting work on a price comparison site for mobiles.
As the first step of this new project, I was researching about online stores for buying mobile phones. Thought I shall just share the list with you.

http://www.themobilestore.in
http://www.gadgetsguru.com
 http://www.futurebazaar.com
http://www.9tech9.com
http://cafegadgets.com
http://www.homeshop18.com
http://www.shopmania.in/
http://shop.in.com/

I am looking at traditional sites like rediff and indiatimes as well. Though have not quite figured them out yet.
Please let …

I have been working on contacthello for the last 1 month. The basic idea of contacthello is very simple. It will allow people to  sell second hand mobiles   and  buy second hand mobiles online.
contacthello was very simple to build. Actually this consists of hardly 3 php pages only. The main challenge will be getting users to the site. I was confident that it will be easy as the quality of result on google for second hand mobiles is quite bad. But now looks like it is going to be …

The Attraction of chinese mobile phones 
What do you think will be the price of a smart mobile with touchscreen, multiple SIM card slots, 3.2 Mega Pixel Autofocus Camera, a 2GB MicroSD memory card with expandable memory upto 8GB?

>30,000
20,000-30,000
10,000-20,000
<10,000

Well one of these chinese mobile phones is available for less than Rs 2000. That is the attraction of the chinese mobile phones. If you want a handset with all the latest features but do not have a good enough budget, then you will do well to check out some of …

The biggest problem in going with a cdma connection like reliance or tata indicom was that you got tied to the service provider. Changing the connection meant, you had to say good-bye to your mobile handset as well. Not any more. Many mobile handset manufacturers have come up with dual sim mobile phones to solve this problem. Dual sim mobile phones support two SIM cards in a single handset.
Spice, Samsung, Fly and Motorola have already launched dual sim mobile models. Nokia and LG have plans of introducing dual sim mobile …

What do you do with your used mobile phone once you have decided to buy a new mobile phone? You sell it either on some local store or through an online store like contacthello.
Have you ever worried about the data that is present in your used mobile phone, that you are selling to someone else? Seems like you are not alone. A survey conducted by BT, the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd and Edith Cowan University, Australia found that a fifth of second hand mobile devices contain sensitive company and personal information.
Also nearly …

What do you do when the mobile phone manufacturer comes up with a much cooler handset just 6 months after you have purchased a cool mobile phone?
You have 3 choices

Continue with your existing mobile phone
Gift your used mobile phone to your younger sibling
Sell your used mobile phone

I have thought about it for quite sometime now. All the 3 methods have their pros and cons. However I think that option 3 is your best option. I will use the method of elimination to prove that selling your used mobile phone is …

Opera has come up with the latest state of the mobile web report. It lists the top 10 websites visited by Indians from their mobile phones. As expected google properties rule the list with google.com and orkut.com at the no.1 and no.2 positions respectively. Youtube is at the no.6 position!!! I was really surprised to find that people use youtube from mobile. I mean the internet connections in India hardly support youtube even on the laptop.
Top 10 sites in India (# of unique users)

google.com (Search)
orkut.com (social networking)
yahoo.com ( search + …

You are driving back home and think of getting some flower for your wife. Now how do you find out a good florist at that goddamned place? Well a number of local search providers on the mobile are trying to solve the problem for you.
Local search can be accessed in 3 different formats: over the phone, through your mobile browser and through sms.
Voice based local search: Basically you call up a number and the service provider gives you the required information. This method is really helpful when you need the information right …

More and more people are using their mobile device to access the internet. However most of the blogs including binaryday are designed for the desktop users. So it is a good idea to get a mobile version of the blog.
wirenode.com allows you to create a mobile version of your blog in less than 1 minute. Your blog needs to have a rss though.

Simply enter the url of your blog and hit “mobilze blog” (see image above). Wirenode finds out the url of your rss automatically and creates the mobile version of …

Wanna know what is there in your gmail inbox or need to read the new scrap in ur orkut without login ..Just activate the orkut and gmail notifier addons on ur fring application.
As per my promise here , i am using this add ons and i must say i am extremely satisfied with the results..
Gmail Notifier:
 It is one of the addons available on fring application. By enabling this addons
you will get nofification as soon as new email is recieved in ur inbox.
Steps to activate this gmail notifier:
   1. Install fring as …

       
Well gmail has become synanamonous to our daily life… and Life without gmail access horible especially if  u work in IT industry as most of the companies have banned gmail.
But if u own a mobile especially symbian like what i have ( ) and have a unlimited data access , then there is no way ur network admin can keep u away from gmail.
Gmail client can be dowloaded by accessing m.google.com/mail  from ur phone browser.
It will download a small SIS file and u are all set to access gmail.
Apart …

  
I have been using Nokia E61i since Nov 2007. No wonder it is one of my fav gadzet and best buddy. Reason behind this is it allows me to be online on gtalk thru fringe.. check my mywalkin emails thru Profimail and access gmail thru gmail client.
So here are my two cents on how to use ur phone more smartly..
1. Fring:- Fring is one chat messenger which can help u to be online on all 4 people messengers at one go.
U can very well connect to yahoo /gtalk/skype/MSN and SIP.
Steps …

Nokia has started accepting pre-bookings for the N96 phone. You can prebook a Nokia N96 by paying Rs4,000 here
You can read our views on comparison of N96 with iphone to help you choose the right mobile phone.

`I had previously discussed about the 8 megapixel camera phones on this blog. However none of those mobiles are available in the market, yet. This time I shall be discussing the camera phones available from nokia in the Indian market.

Model
Price
Resolution

Nokia-1680 Classic
3,000
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-2600 Classic
3,500
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-2760
3,650
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-6070
4,000
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-2630
4,000
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-5070
4,300
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-6080
4,500
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-6085
5,400
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-3110 Classic
5,400
1.3 megapixel

Nokia-5000
5,600
1.3 megapixel

Nokia-3110 Classic
5,700
0.3 megapixel

Nokia-3500 Classic
6,200
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-5300 XpressMusic
7,000
1.3 megapixel

Nokia-7610
7,200
1.0 megapixel

Nokia-6233
8,100
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-3120 Classic
8,300
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-6300
8,400
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-7310 Supernova
8,800
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-N72
8,800
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-5220 XpressMusic
8,900
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-E50
9,200
1.3 megapixel

Nokia-5310 XpressMusic
10,200
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-6233 Music Edition
10,300
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-N70
10,579
2.0 megapixel

Nokia-7500 Prism
10,800
2 megapixel

Nokia-N70 ME
11,100
2 megapixel

Nokia-5320 XpressMusic
12,800
2 megapixel

Nokia-5700 XpressMusic
12,800
2 megapixel

Nokia-N91
12,900
2 megapixel

Nokia-E51
13,000
2 megapixel

Nokia-E65
14,500
2 megapixel

Nokia-6500 Classic
15,000
2 megapixel

Nokia-6110 Navigator
15,300
2 megapixel

Nokia-N76
15,300
2 …