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.”

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).

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.

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.

Key features of Mondi:

• Windows Mobile 6.1
• 4.3-inch touch screen
• Customized Windows Mobile interface
• Five home screen panels
• Web widget
• Favorite contact
• Microphone
• Headset jack
• Voice-over-IP programs supported like Fring
• Program list
• Picture gallery screens
• QWERTY keyboard
• Keys are very small, shiny, slippery and rectangular
• Can navigate with cursor keys
• WiMAX
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• GPS driving directions software supported
• 4 GB of memory
• External memory card slot
• 3-megapixel camera
• HDMI out port

Slick, black plastic Mondi is just barely fit into your hand. The Mondi, Samsung’s first such device for mobile service provider Clearwire and plans to sell through the provider in the second quarter of the year. However, Samsung did not reveal pricing.

5730 Xpress Music

The handset is the company’s first device CWM handset with a QWERTY keyboard and dedicated gaming keys. Additionally, Nokia’s latest Homescreen software provides direct access to music, games and several other applications such as Facebook, photos maps, messaging and Ovi Contacts. The Ovi Contacts lets CWM users see which of their ‘friends’ are online and chat. They can also view what music they are listening to. The authority is promising 26 hours of playback time on a single charge. The expected price of 5732 is about €280 and it will available in June.

5030 Xpress Radio and 5330

The 5030 Xpress Radio is a great collection of Nokia family. The handset is aimed at emerging markets. It has a traditional soap bar design and comes with an internal FM radio antenna. It facilitates with one-touch radio and channel selection keys. The rough price of the cell is less than €40. It is going to hit the shelves in the second quarter of 2009. On the other hand, the 5330 is a top slider with appealing much the same capabilities as the 5730 Xpress Music. However, it sells price could be around €160. It is expected to available in market at the same time like 5730.

Usually, every Nokia’s new edition makes a noise all over the world. People from different part want to stay with Nokia’s new one. That’s why, the company plans to expand its CWM service. The service is now only available in Britain and Singapore. Nokia wants to introduce it into Italy, Australia, Sweden and Mexico in the next few months and later several other countries.

“We are looking very actively also at this opportunity. We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging.” He also said,

Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication.

Nokia’s huge level of manufacturing and selling market must help them enormously in their foray into the PC business. And its also know-how with mobile devices, as shown by their greatly successful products, will no doubt also be a positive and strong issue in obtaining customers when they will introduce their product.

It is easily predictable that, with the rising convergence of laptops and mobile phones, Nokia’s timing seems accurate. There’s no word on when it will actually put a laptop out on the market, but whatever it is Nokia is going to have to make certain that its initial model makes its mark. If they continue their latest product with their embrace of open source software trend in the laptop market, we must able to see some smart and easy usable products.

Here Netbiscuits announced at the same time that it has partnered with AdMob, the world’s largest mobile-advertising service, to provide its consumers with the advertising firm’s ad placement tools. Netbiscuits says its software will offer users the option to integrate ads in mobile video and some other media. However, the terms and conditions of the deal were not revealed. Netbiscuits is a company that provides a Web software platform for mobile development and advertising. On the other hand, Google said last Friday that now mobile-phone users can modify Google Spreadsheets. The company says users can view, edit, sort, as well as filter spreadsheets on a range of mobile devices, including the iPhone and T-Mobile G1. Many think this step give the users a touch of modern technology.

• If the 7th or 8th digit is 08 or 80 then your set is manufactured in Germany.
• If the 7th or 8th digit is 01 or 10 then your set is manufactured in Finland.
• If the 7th or 8th digit is 13 then your set is manufactured in Ajarbaijan.
• If the 7th or 8th digit is 00 then your set is manufactured in any other country.