Smashing Phone

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India tied up with world leading Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia for bundling several 3G handsets with its services. BSNL is the country’s third leading mobile service operator with 24 per cent market share and in terms of subscribers.

One of the senior officials of the company said that the PSU tied up with mobile giant Nokia to provide handsets for its 3G subscribers. “Nokia India has partnered BSNL in bringing to Indian consumers 3G services on a host of Nokia devices,” said Nokia India Head for Operator Channels, V Ramnath.

For BSNL 3G services several Nokia’s handsets are considered like

• Nokia 3120Classic
• Nokia 5800Xpress Music
• Nokia N79
• Nokia 5320
• Nokia E71
• Nokia N81

Owners of those gadgets will get talk-time and data packages through different price plans. Ramnath said “We are also in discussions with BSNL to offer its subscribers a combination of free as well as paid for applications in order to further enhance consumer experience.”

BSNL introduced 3G mobile services in last February. The services facilitate various video streaming applications on cell phones for example

• Live TV
• High Speed Data Download
• Movie Downloads
• Callers See Each Other

The company tied up additionally with consulting wing of Swedish Telecom machinery wholesaler Ericsson as an exclusive part of its current ‘Go To Market’ strategy. PSU senior officials said “It will perform network improvement and optimization services for the core, radio and transmission networks installed by its parent Ericsson.”

One of the largest window mobile manufacturers, Palm will be releasing their new mobile phone Palm Pre on the market soon. It is already been expected that the new Palm Pre will make life more easier and whole lots of new feature will be in it. One of the new features that Pre contain is, it has the ability to pulls out different online calendars at once, instead of searching the information that you want. There are also tons of features that the new Pre has. Let’s check them out,

Connected calendars and contacts
It is called Palm® Synergy™ which is a new feature used by Pre. It brings your Outlook, Google and Facebook® calendars together with one logical view of your day. This is another fun part, if you have more same contacts in different places, Pre can link them up, which will make your search easy.

Notification bar
Text messaging or calendar appointment appears as notification which emerges at the bottom of the screen. You will be informed what’s going on without those buzzing tones that will loose your concentration.

Multiple activities
Pre also allow you to open multiple tasks and operate them easily between email, photo, maps, website and whatever you want. Pre lets you flip through the multiple tasks, move them around or even throw them off screen.

Browser and other Integrated Applications
Pre has an incredibly fast browser which allows you to see the websites the way they were meant to see. The more exciting thing is, the application design for the Palm webOS™ platform work hand in hand with other application on the phone. For example, if you buy a movie ticket and you can also add the times right to your calendar.

Email, Wi-Fi and GPS
Pre lets you to check your email from Outlook® or other personal accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo and AOL. It also lets you take the advantage of Wi-Fi hotspots or you can find your self from the GPS. Pre has everything you need to everywhere you go.

The Outstanding Design
The slide out keyboard will let you type your text easily and fast. Close it up and you will have your pre for music, photos, websites or even full screen video.

These are some sexy feature that new Pre has and let’s end it with the details of Pre,

• It has the Palm® webOS™ operating system.
• EVDO Rev A 3G network system.
• HVGA high resolution Touch screen.
• Hardware QWERTY type keyboard.
• The Pre lets you browse emails with Microsoft Outlook® with Microsoft® Direct’s Push innovation. Also supports other personal accounts such as Yahoo, MSN, Gmail.
• The messaging system has integrated messaging systems like MMS and SMS, .
• Pre has built in GPS.
• 3 mp camera , LED flash light and extended depth of field.
• motion sensor, proximity sensor and much more
• lots of video, audio and image formates supported
• Wifi and bluetooth.
• 8GB memory and USB mass send support
• Compatible of Palm® Touchstone™ charging dock.
• Dimension of pre are
  • Width: 59.5mm (2.3 inches)
  • Height: 100.5mm (3.9 inches)
  • Thickness: 16.95mm (0.67 inches)
• And it only weights 135 grams (4.76 ounces).

The mobile phone user of Japan will soon be turning their cell phones to the skies to charge. One of the top wireless carriers of Japan, KDDI Corporation said that, in June, it will begin selling a solar-powered, water-resistant cell phone. And their handset is made by Sharp Corporation.

KDDI wants to step up a base for the eco-friendly products. It planned to make available eco-friendly products to all the ordinary people. In the way to make success of their aim, solar-powered mobile phone is one strong step. The Tokyo-based company said lower use of electrical energy will assist to decrease carbon dioxide productions.

A 10-minute sun-powered charge will give sufficient juice for one minute of talk time and almost two hours of stand-by time. And the solar charge can boost up to 80 per cent of the phone’s battery.

Yet, the company has not said about the cost of this echo-friendly product.

Few months ago, in February, Korean Samsung Electronics launched world’s first solar-powered cell phone. And the company states the cell phone is prepared from the extract of recycled plastic which comes from water bottles.

The official partner to DLF IPL 2009 Vodafone Essar (VE) announced Friday (17 April) that it reduced international roaming call charge by up to 85% for its postpaid consumers roaming to South Africa (SA) throughout the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament. Vodafone is offering several special rates in joint venture with the leading SA mobile services provider Vodacom.  Vodacom is a joint venture company with the Vodafone Group. Officials said the special offers are applicable to every VE postpaid consumers in SA till the IPL finals match on May 30.

In a statement the country’s second largest mobile operator said ”Vodafone Essar’s postpaid customers can select Vodacom as their default network while roaming in South Africa during IPL and enjoy up to 85 per cent discount on calls, SMS and GPRS services.”

According to new offer consumers can make local calls at Rs 12.6 per min and international phone calls at Rs 34.8 per min. Every local incoming call is at Rs 12.5 per min and SMS is at Rs 5 per sms. Customers can also enjoy some other discounted benefits.

Nokia’s hot selling 5800 Xpress Music handset just got a little bit improved. The update is intended to progress the performance and add new functionalities to the device. A new firmware version for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, v11.0.008, has been available. All variants of the handset should do well in the update. Nokia’s senior vice president for devices, Soren Petersen said in a statement that,

“The update includes great improvements in the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.”

The software update assures faster Internet data downloads better e-mail and search service, and additional camera support for a burst mode that permits users to take multiple pictures with single button pushes.

Other features which are improved into the 5800 XpressMusic for update:

• Symbian S60 5th Edition UI should become faster after the update is installed.
• Second camera now supports photo capture in addition to video calls.
• Improvement in-device search experience.
• Built-in Mobile Dictionary supports 38 languages and includes voice playback in new update.
• New application update allows you to verify for new application updates.

And the new update can be downloaded through the Nokia Software Update application.