2009 November - Part 2

Uninor tariff plans and launch date

November 19th, 2009 by Mobile Blog Team | 107 Comments |

After Tata DoCoMo, another international-desi mobile network Uninor is about to launch their services across 22 telecom circles in India. Uninor is the joint venture of Telenor Norway and UniTech Wireless in India. Telenor already have their footprints in our neighboring countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan. Uninor will concentrate on GSM and other related value added services in India. They are currently setting up their regional offices, network coverage, making tariff plans and tower sharing agreements etc. Reportedly, they have contract with Nokia Siemens Network for deploying next generation 2G network across all sanctioned telecom circles. We expect Uninor to launch their GSM service before the end of this year.

Increase mobile internet speed

November 14th, 2009 by Mobile Blog Team | 69 Comments |

We earlier covered few methods to access free GPRS from Airtel mobile in India. One of the main problems of GPRS internet is that it’s very slow. BSNL started 3G services in many states of the country. But rest of India relies on GPRS service for accessing mobile internet. The speed of mobile GPRS varies from 6 KB/sec and above based on network availability and plans chosen. Most time we won’t get the advertised mobile internet speed. One solution is to increase mobile internet speed use a mobile web browser like Opera that uses special compression technology to deliver web pages. Another method is to use mobile software like NetworkAcc. Network accelerator aka NetworkAcc from emobistudio tunes mobile internet access both in device side and network side. It can be used to speed up internet in 3G, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi and other telecommunication networks.

Dell Mini 3 price and specifications

November 14th, 2009 by Mobile Blog Team | 4 Comments |

Dell, the famous computer manufacturer announced their plans to join the Smartphone race by officially unveiling Dell mini 3. We earlier covered the unofficial appearance of Dell mini 3 in China. The official press release today confirmed the upcoming release of Dell mini 3 to China and Brazil. Dell mini 3 is a Android phone. Specifications of the devices include 3.15 mega pixel cameras, 3.5 inch touch screen, 3G, Wi-Fi GPS etc. They have also mentioned that they have tie-up with few telecom companies in US, Europe and some other Asian countries that would be used to launch Dell mini 3 in those markets.

Samsung announced Bada mobile OS

November 12th, 2009 by Mobile Blog Team | No Comments |

Samsung Bada OS features and screenshots

Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant announced that they are working on a new mobile operating system called Bada OS. Samsung currently manufactures mobile phones based on Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Limo Linux and few other platforms. The new Samsung Bada OS will be open source, and will have a user friendly interface and architecture that would help developers to write applications much easier. Bada in Korean means Ocean. This name indicates that possibility of the new operating system is limitless .
Samsung also announced that they will be stopping production of phones based on Symbian OS owned by Nokia and plans to reduce the number phones based on Windows mobile. Open source mobile OS platforms are getting popular day by day. Nokia also released some part of the Symbian kernel for open development . But it might be Samsung’s business strategy to make more phones on its on Bada OS platform . We expect the first series of Bada enabled phones to ship by the first quarter of next year. Screenhsots and features of Samsung Bada OS would be available soon.

LG GW620 price and specifications

November 6th, 2009 by Mobile Blog Team | 2 Comments |

Last month we informed you about LG GW620, the first Android smartphone from Korean electronics giant. LG unveiled GW620 through a press conference where they also announced notable features of the phone. Finally for the first time its available for Rogers customers in Canada as LG Eve. Eve would be the name for the Canadian or US version of GW620. There are rumors stating that for other places it would be called as LG Etna. Specification of LG GW620 Eve includes 3 inch touch screen with slidout QWERTY keypad, 5 mega pixel auto focus camera , accelerometer sensor,WiFi, 2GB card with support upto 16GB and GPS.

Samsung Behold II price on T-Mobile and plans

November 6th, 2009 by Mobile Blog Team | 1 Comment |

Samsung and T-mobile are expected announce the availability of Samsung Behold 2 smartphone for its customers in USA. The specialty of Behold 2 is its completely redesign and shift in software platform to Google Android. Samsung Behold 2 will include Android OS 1.5 with Samsung TouchWiz UI over it . Samsung Behold will be the fourth Android phone from T-mobile after G1, MyTouch 3G and Motorola Cliq . Specifications of Behold II includes 3.2 inch AMOLED touch screen 5 mega pixel autofocus camera, GPS, upto 16GB expandable memory, WiFi etc. The exact details, retail price and plans of Behold II will be announced by Samsung and T-mobile at the scheduled press conference on November 12.

Samsung Behold II

The first Behold from T-mobile had already created good impressions on public. That device was totally different in looks as we said earlier. On a close look at the specifications and design revels that new Samsung Behold somewhat similar to Samsung Galaxy .

Preliminary specifications of Samsung Behold 2 :

3.2 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen , 5 mega pixel autofocus camera , WiFi ,Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP , GPS, accelerometer sensor ,inbuilt Google applications for Talk ,Gmail, Youtube and navigation .

Samsung Behold 2 price :

T-mobile and Samsung will launch Behold II for its US customers on November 18 for a price tag of $250 with 2 year contract . Currently in India we have Samsung Galaxy Android phone available trough Tata Docomo . So we don’t expect any possibility to introduce a similar phone in a different name .

Acer Liquid price and specifications

November 5th, 2009 by Mobile Blog Team | 3 Comments |

Acer is known for their cost effective laptops and netbooks on Microsoft Windows platform. Only few of us know that they also have mobile phones based Windows mobile operating system. Last month they released Acer neoTouch smartphone with the launch of Windows mobile 6.5. Acer neoTouch is now available in selected markets for a price of around 520USD. Now Acer is into Android phone market with the launch of Acer Liquid smartphone. Acer Liquid is the the first Android device to include Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Major features of this device includes Acer user interface 3.0, 5 mega pixel autofocus camera with LED flash, upto 32GB expandable card slot, 3.5 inch capacitive touch screen display etc. Liquid will be initially shipped with Android OS v1.6, and there would be chance for upgrade to OS 2.0 later.

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