Nokia N97 mini in India:
Nokia, world leader in manufacturing mobile handsets today announced the latest addition to its Nseries range, Nokia N97 mini in India which is a cheaper alternative to the Nokia N97.
The Nokia N97 mini mobile is equipped with QWERTY keyboard and fully customisable homescreen, stylish stainless steel cues, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, featuring a tilting 3.2" touch display, 3.5 mm headset jack and a powerful camera for experiencing quality photography and it has 8 GB internal memory for addressing storage needs of customers.
The Nokia N97 mini is a smaller mobile computer that has been designed for the style-conscious consumer.
Nokia N97 mini also comes with Lifecasting with Ovi through which users can publish their location and status updates directly to their Facebook account and other features include a digital compass, TV-out, document viewer, Flash Lite 3, video and photo editor, push email and multimedia player.
"More and more people today want to bring their physical and online worlds together via the internet. The Nokia N97 mini is designed for this new social internet and to help navigate people and places. Moreover, it comes in a pocket-friendly size for those out and about. With live feeds, personalized content, Lifecasting with Ovi, Ovi Mail and Ovi Store, the N97 mini provides web centricity to user in a compact case." said V Ramnath, Director-Operator Channels, Nokia India.
Nokia N97 mini available in three colours, viz, cheery black, garnet and white. The device will start shipping in the last week of November 2009 at Rs. 30,939 /-
Courtesy: Nokia India
Fly Mobile, the pioneers in dual SIM phones in Europe and a brand owned by the Meridian Group, headquartered in UK, today announced the launch and availability of two of its dual-SIM touch-screen mobile phone models in India that are high on design and loaded with features.
Targeted primarily at youth who not only love their music but love to flaunt their phones too, the two new dual-SIM touch-screen models- Fly MC160 and Fly E106, available for as low as Rs. 5,300 /- onwards, are all set to break the touch screen phone price barrier.
While touch-screen phones from other brands with similar features are pegged at Rs. 8000 /- onwards, these two mobile phones are poised to take the market by storm. Not to forget the fact that unlike competition, the MC160 and E106 have the dual-SIM capability which allows users to have two GSM connections in one instrument, making them an attractive proposition.
According to Mr. Prem Kumar, Chief Executive Officer (India Operations), Fly Mobile, "It is our constant endeavor to capture not just the requirements but also the aspirations of the users through continuous consumer research. These inputs are then incorporated into our products as features. This is possible only because we have our very own design and development facilities involved in incessant innovation enabling us to come up with superior products at unbelievably affordable prices. Of course, it also sets us apart from brands that are merely traders in cheap imports."
The Fly Mobile MC160 is a dual-SIM touch-screen phone that comes with a Yamaha chipset which produces music quality that touches the heart. What's more, this tri-band bar phone also has motion sensors, 3.2 mega-pixel camera, FM radio with FM recording capability, talk time of 4 hours and standby time of 200 hours, internal memory of 87 MB and expandable memory up to 8 GB, Bluetooth, EDGE and GPRS functionality.
Fly Mobile MC160's touch screen with 240 x 320 pixels resolution and 262K colours display ensures a brilliant representation of multimedia content with sharp and clear image. Additional features include MP3 ring tones, speaker phone, video recording, self-help feature, A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Protocol), card slot, mobile tracker with remote control capabilities, privacy protection feature, and a phonebook that can store up to 2000 records. Last but not the least, using a USB cable and expandable memory of the card inside, the phone can double up as a pen drive for data storage as well. This efficient phone is available at an affordable price of Rs. 6,000 /- only.
The Fly Mobile E106 is a sleek looking dual-SIM full touch-screen phone that's slender enough to slip into your pocket, and budget as well, easily. The main attraction is the crystal clear 2.4" QVGA screen with 262K colours and 240 x 320 resolution that displays images vividly enough. This dual-band phone also sports features like loud FM radio without earphones, FM recording capability, Bluetooth, GPRS, talk time of 4 hours and a standby time of 240 hours, A2DP, live MSN, motion sensors, 2 mega-pixel camera, speaker phone, card slot, MP3 ring tones, video recording, expandable memory up to 4 GB and a phone book that can hold 1000 records. This light weight and slender phone that can be used as a pen drive as well (as and when required using the USB cable and the expandable memory card) is available at an unbelievable price of Rs. 5,300 /- only.
Courtesy: Fly India
Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C :
Samsung Electronics Hong Kong today announced the launch of the Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C, a colorful and curvy designed full-touch phone with Handwriting, Cartoon User Interface (UI) and Upgraded Facebook Widget.
"Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is the most stylish communicator and is a must-have for trendsetters," said Billy Chen, director of the Telecommunications Team, Samsung Electronics Hong Kong. "The eye-catching colors and sensual design of Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C bring fun, vitality and excitement to users. This phone is designed to complement a dynamic lifestyle with the combination of Social Networking Services, usability and design. Customers can express their own style with pop colors and design, while staying connected with Social Network Widget access to Social Networks."
The Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is compact in a curved body design with pop-style contours making it easy to grip. This phone has four vivid color options -- Pudding Yellow, Citrus Orange, Cherry Pink and Whipped Cream White -- enabling customers to express their individual tastes. It also comes with two additional changeable covers – patterned "Fashion Jackets" and a black cover. In addition to the versatile exterior, the Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C has multiple options for colorful UI themes; it is fun and entertaining to operate the mobile phone in the exclusive Cartoon UI.
With the combination of Social Networking Widgets and Communities features, the Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C offers simple one-click uploads of favorite photos or video to popular Social Networking sites, including Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket and Friendster. This Samsung Anycall first-ever Twitter Widget and Upgraded Facebook Widget provides automatic notifications of news feeds, comments, and status updates. It also allows full browsing of inbox, profile, and friend status that allows users to stay connected with their friends.
Customers can zoom-in and out image or web page by simply pressing on the screen with the One Finger Zoom feature. The Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is also the first Samsung Anycall phone with a Chinese English Dictionary function. The innovative Smart Unlock function allows customers to unlock the phone and access functions or perform actions directly by drawing a preset alphabet from A to Z on the locked screen. This combination of speed and convenience is truly unrivalled. Built-in Chinese English Dictionary function makes learning English vocabulary easier and hassle free.
The Samsung Anycall Corby S3650C is equipped with rich multimedia features, including a 2.0 Mega-pixel camera with Smile Shot, music player, and FM radio with RDS. With 50 MB of internal memory and microSDHC support (up to 8 GB), users can store favorite songs, photos, and videos. Bluetooth V2.1 and USB 2.0 provide fast connections to mobile peripherals, PCs and other devices for more convenient file transfers.
Courtesy: Samsung Electronics
World's first transparent design handset:
LG brings in the World's first transparent design handset with new Gesture Command touch navigation feature. Riding high on its classy designs, innovative aesthetics and excellent user interface, LG Electronics India Limited launched a completely new design concept of transparency with its LG GD900 Crystal. Rich on its arty appeal, the world's first transparent phone, LG GD900 with its drop-down touchpad is extremely beautiful, stylish and remarkably usable.
Ready to make a fashion statement, this new chic handset will make a perfect arm-candy and make you stand out from the crowd. Along with its appealing look, the LG-GD 900 has a heart of a winner. It is the first phone to feature LG's next generation touch technology and Gesture Command, which complements the much-praised 3D S-Class User Interface.
The handset features an 8 megapixel autofocus camera that displays photos on a high resolution 3-inch WVGA LCD touchscreen and with the auto-rotating display, photos look great every time. The handset also has a MP3 player and can hold up to 32GB of music, photos or data using the expandable memory card slot. The phone is Wi-Fi enabled, allowing user to connect to the internet via wireless hotspots and it also supports Bluetooth 2.1 for secure, high-speed connectivity to other devices.
The LG-GD900 Crystal's slide-down Crystal Touchpad first appears to just be an alphanumeric keypad, but it actually doubles as a touchpad for controlling the phone. It can be used like the trackpad on a laptop computer but also recognizes handwriting, responds to multi-touch commands and enables a new way of navigation called Gesture Command.
The crystal touchpad is completely transparent and illuminated with a soft glow. This scratch resistant design made from tempered glass and reinforced by a band of Liquid metal ensuring extended use.
"We wanted to give our consumers a super luxury experience and therefore, developed a handset that touts a gorgeous sliding keypad - the LG GD900 Crystal. The phone's transparent touchpad feature adds to the personality of our consumers and gives gizmo geeks a wonderful reason to possess it. Not only this, we have made a creative use of hardware through Gesture Command that provides control via simple, on-screen finger movements. We are positive that our new handset will become a winning model of the year," says Mr. Anil Arora, Business Group Marketing Head, Mobile Communications, LGEIL.
The LG GD900 Crystal Priced at Rs. 26,000 /- , the mobile phone is available in Chrome and Titen color choices at all retail outlets across the country.
Courtesy: LG Mobile India
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The folks behind Livescribe, the smartpen/pencorder/computer stick/dictapencil (remember?) have finally made good on an old promise: to open it up to 3rd-party applications. That's right folks—now there's an app store for pen and paper.
Before we get into the new stuff, a refresher from our original review:
The Livescribe Pulse Digital Smartpen records your notes two ways: it creates digital copies of everything you write by hand while recording audio at the same time. It also goes one step further and links the two together, so you can quickly access audio by tapping parts of your notes. All of this is uploaded to your computer where the Livescribe software archives and makes your notes fully searchable. In addition, it offers features like a calculator, [demo] translator, and a paper piano that plays a mini piano you draw on paper.
That last part, at least at the time, felt like a bit of a tease: the ability to tap on a flat, printed paper calculator or a piano that you'd drawn yourself was plenty cool, but didn't amount to much more than a tech demo. More to the point, it gave an extremely vague sense of potential, since the functions, translator aside, were some of the most obvious implementations of a technology that could clearly do much more complex things. But just what, we had no idea. Enter the application store:
As far as the mechanics go, this is straight mobile app store from top to bottom, from the new SDK to the web interface to the (not yet finalized) 35% skimmed off the top. As far as apps go, this is new territory. Remember—the interfaces for these things need to be drawn on paper by the users, or printed on special cards.
This may sound like more of a nuisance than a feature, but in the demos I saw, it worked. In the translation app, for example, you simply draw a series of buttons to serve as translation triggers, and sloppy or lopsided as they may be, they register just fine. The video poker app, which displayed adorable little cards on the pen's screen during play, demanded a slightly more complicated paper interface, which also worked seamlessly.
The trick will be for app developers—and Livescribe says there are thousands interested—to come up with novel ways to use this bizarre new interaction model. I mean, the way the Pulse can precisely read and distinguish marks on its dot paper means that a developer could theoretically design almost any kind of interface, from the playful and literal—I was shown a crudely sketched guitar that played back various chords—to the abstract—users could simply be asked to draw and assign their own buttons in whatever style they want. This, combined the the Pulse's audio recording, text recording and handwriting recognition, makes for an unfamiliar, but potentially very powerful, set of tools. Speaking of which, back to the store:
It's in beta now, and launched with a healthy selection of apps to sample, mostly ranging from free to about $10. (With one $100 exception.) Apps are run in a Java virtual machine, and built using a spanking new SDK, available for free here. Anyone who has a Pulse can access the store now, though you may need to upgrade your pen's firmware. Have at it, folks. [Livescribe]
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