There is a lot of craze about iPhone in India. Everyone seems to be interested in the product. However the pricing of 8 GB iPhone for Rs 31000 and 16GB for Rs 36100 is a big spoiler.
The question is how many pieces of iphone will sell in the first 7 days from launch in India? Please leave your view in the comments.
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Cricket is the first app related to cricket in the iphone apps store. This one costs you 99 cents. It provides latest cricket information, team related news, and live scores from CricInfo. It lets you refresh the screen manually or automatically every 2 minutes.
I am sure there will be many more cricket related application developed after iphone’s launch in India. Till then enjoy with this application.
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Nokia has unveiled its 8800 Carbon Arte premium mobile phone. It is a 3G enabled mobile phone with 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus.The Carbon Arte 8800 sports a slider mechanism. The 8800 has a 4 GB built-in memory. Anti-fingerprint coating on the body protects it from smudges on the metal and glass.
Its exteriors are made of carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel. Moreover, it comes bundled with soundtracks and wallpapers created exclusively for it.
The phone comes with a turn-to-mute silencing mechanism, that allows users to silence incoming calls quickly and in a discrete manner by simply turning the phone over, screen-side down.
Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte phone is expected to be available at an estimated price of EUR 1,100 exclusive of subsidies and taxes in the Q3 of 2008.
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Typically there is no requirement for buying a handset. You need documents to get a connection. However you need a set of document to purchase the iphone from airtel. This requirement is there as you will need to get a connection along with the handset.
If you are an existing Airtel customer then you just need to carry your existing Airtel SIM card. However if you are not an existing airtel customer then you will need the following documents to buy Airtel Post Paid or Prepaid connection:
1) Proof of Identity and Address (Passport/Arms License /Driving License/Photo Identity Card having Address/Election Commission Id Card/ Ration Card with Photo and Address of person whose photo is affixed/CGHS/ECHS Card)
2) Photograph
3) Proof of Address ( Ration Card/Water Bill not older than last 3 months/Telephone Bill of fixed line not older than last 3 months/Electricity bill of state company not older than last 3 months/Income tax assessment order/Vehicle Registration certificate/Registered Sale or Lease Document
Most probably there will be a queue to purchase the iphone. So ensure that you have all the documents handy. Else you may have to come back empty handed after standing in the queue for 3-4 hours.
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And it is same as the price offered by Vodafone 
i.e 8 GB (Black) for Rs 31000 and 16GB (White & Black) for Rs 36100. I was rather hoping that they will offer the iPhone cheaper than vodafone so that I can get one with binaryday’s adsense earnings.
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Vodafone has introduced 3 different postpaid plans for its iPhone users. However existing vodafone postpaid customers may opt to continue with their current plan. However if they want to have the ability to do data browsing on the iphone, they will have to opt for one of the data plans introduced by vodafone.
There are 3 distinct data plans :- iPhone Data Pack 199, iPhone Data Pack 499 and iPhone Data Pack 699.
iPhone Data Pack 199 The user shall have to pay a monthly rental of 199Rs. For 199Rs you get a free data usage of 50mb per month. Any additional data usage shall be charged at 5p/ 10kb or 5Rs/mb.
iPhone Data Pack 499 The user shall have to pay a monthly rental of 499Rs. For 499Rs you get a free data usage of 250mb per month. Any additional data usage shall be charged at 5p/ 10kb or 5Rs/mb.
iPhone Data Pack 699 The user shall have to pay a monthly rental of 699Rs. For 699Rs you get a free data usage of 600mb per month. Any additional data usage shall be charged at 5p/ 10kb or 5Rs/mb.
From 199 to 499 you get 200 mb of free data usage extra. At 5rs per mb that is 1000Rs of data usage for additional payment of 300Rs. Similarly from 499 to 699 plan you get 350mb worth 1750Rs free for 200Rs more. So clearly spend good amount of time in deciding which plan will be required by you.
Most important point: Make sure not to exceed the free data usage limit. Else at 5Rs/mb you will be dead.
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Vodafone has come up with postpaid plans for the iphone in India. They have 3 different plans with monthly rentals of 499Rs, 799 Rs and 999 Rs. All the 3 plans have identical tariff structure of 60p/min for local call and 1r/min for std calls. You will get 199,249 and 299 Rs worth free call time under the 3 plans respectively.
The data browsing charge is priced at 5p/10kb or 5 Rs per 1 mb. That looks too expensive. However vodafone is providing 50mb, 250mb and 800mb of free browsing for the 3 plans. So anyone using the Iphone 999 plan will not need any additional data. That makes the plan look attractive to me.
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Untill today I never knew that Lenovo makes mobile phones. The Lenovo P990 is a cool slider phone. It comes with GPS capabilities. Looks like the P990 is targetted at the chinese market. The handset from lenovo supports handwriting recognition in 2 languages i.e english and chinese.
The Lenovo P990 has a 3″ display with 240 x 320 resolution. It also features SIRFStar III GPS receiver chipset, a 2 megapixel camera, a 3 core CPU and microSD memory card slot for memory expansion.
The price of the handset is not known yet.
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TRAI has allowed ISP (Internet Service Providers) to offer unrestricted internet telephony services in India. What this essentially means is that users will be able to call (dial) to mobiles and landline phones in India from their computers. Under existing norms, a voice call can travel between two computers but not from a computer to a mobile or a fixed phone.
As per the TRAI recommendations, the STD service providers would be connected to ISPs through public internet for the purpose and the two service providers would have mutual agreement for the same.
The Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), a technical arm of Department of Telecom, will work out the number plan for the ISPs to enable them to offer telephone services. “Telephone numbers from identified blocks shall be allocated to ISPs, Unified Access Service Providers, Basic Service Providers and Cellular Mobile Service Providers for internet telephony,” TRAI said.
With a view to make internet telephony secure, TRAI said, all ISPs interested to provide unrestricted internet telephony would have to install “Lawful Interception” equipments.
I believe that this will be more beneficial to corporate customers than to normal users (retail customers) like us. Reasons:
For corporate customers, where the volume of calls is really high this is definitely a boon because they can now deploy VOIP Phones over their Wide Area Networks and can virtually run their internal phone usage for free, independent of the phone service providers. BPO and IT companies will really benefit from this. This will bring in substantial cost savings for these companies. “This is a welcome step particularly for the Indian IT-BPO industry,” said the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or NASSCOM.
But this will mean a loss in revenues for the telecom operators and it will definitely not be welcomed by them. But I believe that they should have a long term perspective of the view. Rather than opposing this they should provide better broadband internet connectivity to the users. In fact as I see the way forward will be rolling out of WiMAX services in coming years, with wi fi enabled mobiles and voice communication moving over from switching networks to IP (internet) networks.
This is a welcome recommendation from TRAI and lets hope government approves it fast.
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TRAI seems to be too keen on ensuring a smooth entry of Reliance into the GSM domain. It is planning to ask the Department of Telecom (DoT) to take action against GSM operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular if they fail to connect their networks to Reliance Communications’ (RCOM) GSM network by August 21, 2008.
The GSM operators say that their existing interconnection agreement with Reliance covers only the CDMA technology and Reliance needs to enter into a fresh set of agreements for its GSM service. However Reliance is of the view that the existing interconnect agreement covers both GSM and CDMA services.
It is not clear who is wrong. However TRAI’s promptness in directing the other players looks strange to me. This is an agreement between 2 parties. They should settle it themselves. It is not like Reliance did not have enough time to sort out these things with the GSM players.
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Idea cellular and Rajshri production have come together for one of the most innovative experiments in mobile value added services. The experiment is Akbar Birbal Remixed, a funny show that shall be available to the idea cellular subscribers on their mobile.
The Akbar Birbal Remixed show features the loud and brazen Mumbai Don, Akbar Anna and his intelligent, witty and ever-bankable right hand, Birbal Bhaiya. The show will have 90 episodes of 3 minutes each. The shows are absolutely funny.
Subscribers of idea cellular can choose from three payment plans - pay per download for Rs 15 per episode; weekly subscription of Rs 50 per week; and monthly subscription of Rs 150 per month. 15 rs for a 3 minute show sounds a bit too high. The pricing seems to be the only spoiler in this awesome idea.
However people who want a laugh while on the move will not mind paying 15Rs for a good laugh. Or you can watch the show for free at rajshri.com
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A loss of mobile handset is a nightmare for many mobile users. You loose all your contacts, sms messages, pictures and videos.
Airtel provides a really useful solution to find lost mobile phone in the form of Lost Mobile Tracking System. The service costs you Rs30 per month. However you will need a GPRS eneabled handset and Airtel Live must be enabled on your mobile phone. After that download the software at http://airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/Airtel.in/airtel.in/home/foryou/mobile/prepaid/services/lmts/download/ and activate the service through “Services for You” link.
The software acts in the background. Once the new owner of the mobile changes the SIM card, it will send a sms with the new number to pre selected numbers.
However looks like the software will be useless if the new owner formats the mobile before changing the SIM. For these scenarios a more usefu solution will be to use the mobile tracer to find your lost mobile
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Nokia announced the launch phone, of its latest mobile Nokia 3610 fold. The mobile phone has 1.3-megapixel camera with 6x digital zoom on its outer flap and an external display showing the time and other relevant information.
Besides this the phone also boasts for having the organizer features, text and multimedia messaging, microSD slot for memory expansion, music playback and a 2,62,000 color display. The handset would be available in red, green and blue colours.
The phone is expected to be released during the third quarter of this year. However, the company has not disclosed any information about its price.
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Palm recently made public the details of the Palm Treo 850 on a company website. The Treo Pro is expected to compete with the RIM BlackBerry Bold and Apple iPhone and is percieved to be Palm’s way of facing the competition from Motorola, Samsung, Apple and RIM.
The Palm Treo 850 is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 and it encompasses features like a 2.4-inch 320×320 resolution touch screen, microSD expansion slot, 2.0 megapixel camera, QWERTY keyboard and WiFi. Sporting a built-in radio, the phone will have a 3.5 mm headset jack, a micro-USB jack for transferring data and 100 MB of RAM. In a glossy black and white colour scheme, the smartphone is expected to be leaner and more compact than the Palm Centro.
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I am not sure if Techies in India have realized the oppurtunity that the iphone store presents to us. I think this is one ares that is begging to be dominated by us. Surprisingly I have not seen much enthusiasm about the same in the Indian blogosphere.
Think about it. The apps store has sold apps worth more than 30 million $ in 1 month alone. Even after taking apple’s cut from this the developers have made 21 million $ or 80 crore rupees in 1 month!!!! source
Why do I say this domain is begging to be dominated by us? Because of the long tail phenomenon. The top 10 apps accounted for only 9 million or just 30% of the total.
It means that there are lot of apps that made small amount of money. What is one strength that is required to win a fragmented market like this?? It is the ability to be the low cost producer. Which country has that capacity in abundance?? That is the logic for my conclusion that the iphone apps market shall be completely dominated by Indian techies.
Only if we wake up to the oppurtunity fast enough. The window of oppurtunity remains open till the apps market gets its dominant player.
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