Motorola ELECTRIFY

U.S. Cellular announced today that the Motorola ELECTRIFY™ will join the carrier’s cutting-edge device portfolio later this month. The Android™-powered smartphone is designed to deliver the next generation of multi-media features and a powerhouse dual-core 1GHz processor for 70 percent faster overall performance1 and 75 percent faster browsing than leading single core smartphones2. With a best-in-class display, camera, webcam, loads of software applications and a dedicated media kickstand, customers will be able to seamlessly multi-task throughout the day. The ELECTRIFY will be available for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate along with purchase of a data plan.

“The ELECTRIFY is more than a “smart” phone,” said Edward Perez, vice president of sales and marketing operations for U.S. Cellular. “Its multi-tasking capabilities make it the perfect personal assistant for customers who depend on their smartphone to meet the ever-changing needs of their busy lifestyles. Our commitment to providing a variety of devices that enhance customers’ lives is one of the reasons consumers who switch to U.S. Cellular join the happiest customers in wireless.”

The Motorola ELECTRIFY features a 4.3-inch qHD (Quarter High Definition) touchscreen and a kickstand for convenient hands-free viewing of high-quality movies, TV shows and videos. Plus, with HDMI output and full Mirror Mode, customers will be able to connect to the ELECTRIFY to any HD screen, so the entire family can enjoy the latest movies or hottest new Android games on their television at home.

The ELECTRIFY’s premium 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and auto photo-enhancing software will allow customers to leave their camera at home and still capture incredible photos and videos. The device also features a front-facing camera for video chat on the go. Customers can take and store tons of photos and videos with 16GB of memory on-board that can be expanded to 48GB with a 32GB memory card purchase.

With Motorola’s exclusive webtop application, customers can expand ELECTRIFY’s power to include a larger screen and full keyboard for amazing functionality and productivity. Plug ELECTRIFY into the Motorola HD Station* and connect to an HD monitor to launch a full Firefox 4.0 browser, simultaneously surf the web, stream music, and run useful apps. Customers will have instant access to personal and corporate e-mails and will be able to download photos and videos in a flash on U.S. Cellular’s high-speed nationwide network, which has the highest call quality and network satisfaction of any national carrier.

Smartphone enthusiasts who switch to U.S. Cellular get unique benefits, like new phones faster without continuously signing contracts, free Battery Swap and valuable rewards points for simply doing things like paying their bill on time and referring friends. Points can be used for new phones faster, additional lines, devices, accessories and ringtones. Several of U.S. Cellular’s value-packed national plans are a perfect fit for smartphone customers. The $79.99 Primary Plus Plan is the best value in wireless and offers 5GB of data with unlimited text, picture and video messaging. The plan also comes with 450 voice minutes, free incoming calls, free nights and weekends and free mobile-to-mobile calls. A family of four who switches to U.S. Cellular can save more than $1,000 a year with the company’s National Premium Plus family plan.

The launch date for the ELECTRIFY will be shared within the next few weeks. For more information about all of U.S. Cellular’s deals, plans and phones, and other restrictions on these offers, visit any U.S. Cellular store, go to uscellular.com or check out U.S. Cellular on Facebook.

MOTOROLA ELECTRIFY ™ Features
Talk and Standby Time	Talk time: CDMA: up to 10 hours, WCDMA: up to 9.1 hours; GSM: up to 10.4 hours Standby time: CDMA: up to 8.3 days; WCDMA: up to 13.1 days; GSM: up to 12.2 days
Bands/Modes	WCDMA 850/1900/2100, CDMA 800/1900, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 14.4 Mbps (Category 10), CDMA EV-DO Release A, EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
Dimensions	66.90(x) 126.90(y) 12.20(z)
Display	4.3” qHD (quarter High Definition) Corning® Gorilla® Glass with dual-layer, anti-reflective coating
Weight	158.00 g
Battery	1700.00 mAh
OS	Android™ 2.3.4 (Gingerbread)
Connectivity	3.5mm, USB 2.0 HS, HDMI, BOTA, MML
Network	U.S. Cellular
Messaging/Web/Apps	MMS, SMS, Email (Corporate Sync, Google Mail, POP3/IMAP embedded, Push Email, Yahoo Mail) IM (GTalk), WebKit w/ Flash
Camera	8MP camera
Audio	FM Radio Receive, AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, AMR NB, AMR WB, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA v10, WMA v9
Video	Capture/Playback/Streaming, HD Video, H.263, H.264, MPEG4, WMV v10, WMV v9, DivX
Memory	1GB RAM x 16GB eMMC
Antenna	Internal
Location Services	aGPS, sGPS, eCompass

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Motorola EX212, EX119, EX109 Mobile Phone Price in India

Motorola Mobility today launched 3 slim stylish dual-SIM mobile phones in India. Motorola EX212, EX119 and EX109 sport different designs and form factors to accommodate the varied taste of consumers in India.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for Sony Xperia

London – Sony Ericsson is once again teaming up with EA Mobile, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and the world’s leading mobile games publisher, to deliver games for its flagship gaming smartphone – Xperia PLAY - with access to one of the most popular modern warfare action games of all time, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Read more..

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Motorola DEFY

Motorola DEFY is dust proof and water resistant protecting uers from life's little challenges like a sudden rain shower, spilled drink or dropping your phone in the sand. It also features a large, resilient Corning® Gorilla® Glass display that has outstanding protection against scratch damage. And Crystal Talk® PLUS vanquishes noisy environments with two microphones which intelligently filter out background noise and amplify voices so users don't need to shout.

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Motorola Photon 4G Price

Offering a phone packed with a powerful balance of features to complement a consumer’s personal and professional life, Sprint (NYSE: S) and Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced the July 31 availability of Sprint’s first international 4G smartphone, Motorola PHOTON™ 4G. Motorola PHOTON 4G, featuring a 1GHz dual-core processor, will cost $199.99 (excludes taxes) with a new line or eligible upgrade and two-year service agreement1.

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Nokia Series 40 Phones - Explore Apps

Espoo Finland, June 28, 2011 - Nokia announced today "Create for Millions" a global competition that brings consumers and developers together to create applications for Nokia's Series 40 mobile phones. Create for Millions also provides developers an opportunity to bring Java and web apps to millions of consumers worldwide and win their share of cash and prizes valued at one million euros. Nokia's Series 40 mobile phones play a key role in Nokia's strategy to bring the Web to the next billion, particularly in emerging markets where a consumer's first web experience is often through the mobile phone. As the largest mobile platform in the world by volume, more than half a billion Nokia Series 40 mobile phones are in consumer's hands today. continue reading..

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MDN Recharge - Free Recharge by: www.mohith.net

Mohith.net Mobile Recharge (MDN Recharge) offers a free mobile recharge in a unique random way. MDN Recharge supports all major mobile networks in India. All Free Recharges will be sent via E-Recharge (Easy Recharge). For this we've partnered with leading online mobile recharge service providers. Learn more on how to Get a Free Recharge

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Nokia C7 shipments begin - Official News from Nokia

Espoo, Finland - The smartphone for the design-conscious social networker, the Nokia C7, has started shipping to customers around the world. The second Nokia smartphone based on the new Symbian platform, the Nokia C7 follows hot on the heels of the company's entertainment powerhouse, the Nokia N8.

The Nokia C7 combines stainless steel and glass in a sleek, full-touch design. The 3.5 inch AMOLED display is ideal for networking, with updates from Facebook and Twitter fed directly to the home screen, as well as one touch access to many popular email accounts including Ovi Mail, Yahoo!® Mail and Windows Live(TM) Hotmail. The Nokia C7 also opens up a world of apps, games, videos, and web and location-based services through the Ovi Store.

"The Nokia C7 is our second smartphone based on the new version of Symbian to hit the market," says Jo Harlow, head of smartphones at Nokia. "Designed specifically with the style-conscious consumer in mind, the Nokia C7 also brings excellent social networking abilities, making it perfect for people who want to check-in and stay up to date."

Following the release of this social-networking centric device, Nokia will be setting out to find the most active Facebook user from the more than 1.4 million fans on Nokia's own global Facebook page. Nokia will then pick five finalists who will each be provided with a Nokia C7 to organize a party using various social networks. The fan who best captures their party through Facebook - generating the most coverage with updates and posts - will win a Nokia C7 for themselves and 20 of their friends.

The estimated retail price of the Nokia C7 is EUR 335 before applicable taxes or subsidies, with pricing and availability varying from region to region, operator to operator.

About Nokia

At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device - from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and solutions for communications networks globally.

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Microsoft launched iPhone App

Finally, Microsoft has launched an IM app for the iPhone, just a few hours before the launch of Apple's fourth version of iPhone operating system (iOS4). Windows Live Messenger for iPhone includes many key features that users expect from an IM app, reports Jessica Dolcourt of cnet.

The new IM app includes features like social networking and e-mail. It provides one screen to Windows Live helping users to update their status. There is also a button that takes the users to their e-mail in-box.

There is another feature in the app that enables the users to add friends, to chat and to send e-mails. The chat screen allows open conversation and helps the users to switch among them. There are options in the last screen allowing users to upload photos, take new ones and view their windows Live Gallery with it. In Addition, the screen also enables users to tag photographs.

There are some features that need to be materialized. Though the app has triple checking credentials, logging off, signing back in, and reinstalling the app with some more reboots thrown in, the app shows the user as Someone on Windows Live, despite having uploaded photos of the users.

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Top Free iPhone Apps - Get Ultimate iPhone Apps!

The apps that come with your iPhone are just the beginning. Browse the App Store to find hundreds of thousands more, all designed specifically for iPhone. Which means there’s almost no limit to what your iPhone can do.

The following are the top 148 free iPhone and iPod Touch applications in all categories in the iTunes App Store based on downloads by all iPhone users in the United States.

148apps.com
We launched this site shortly after the iTunes App Store launched. The purpose of 148Apps.com is to provide you with the very best in iPhone and iPod Touch applications through our numerous reviews and latest news sections. Our goal is to sort through the best of the best and provide you with that information so you don’t have to spend your days in front of an iPhone just to find the perfect app for you.

In addition to the reviews and news, we keep track of what’s selling, what’s new and what prices are dropping in the iTunes App Store. We are also on Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed.

appcraver.com
AppCraver is a website that is obsessively dedicated to iPhone applications and to the emerging iPhone app economy. We believe that iPhone 2.0 is the beginning of something big—something as important as the desktop in 1991, or the Internet in 1995. While mobile computing has always been talked about as a possible new frontier, history will remember 2008 as the year the tide finally changed and the app—and the Internet—moved into the cell phone.

techradar.com
We're unashamedly geeky about it. So we'll tell you what we think without fear or favour. That's what we're about.

We're able to promise this because we're the largest UK-based consumer technology news and reviews site, our editorial independence backed by the weight of the UK's largest technology publisher plus objective test data from the TechRadar Labs.

Our experienced writers also operate under Future Publishing's 20 year old policy of a cast-iron guarantee of editorial independence.

TechRadar will tell you about the coolest new stuff. We'll work hard to bring you original quotes and exclusive access. We'll review it more thoroughly and carefully than anyone else. We'll explain how it works and why you should care (or not).

Then it's up to you. Add your own comments and opinions. Review gear for yourself. Discuss the latest developments on our forums.

There's no monopoly on the truth here - tell us what you think.

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4G in India: TRAI Letter to Telecos & Manufacturers

4G refers to the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards. It is a successor to 3G and 2G families of standards. The nomenclature of the generations generally refers to a change in the fundamental nature of the service, non-backwards compatible transmission technology and new frequency bands. The first was the move from 1981 analogue (1G) to digital (2G) transmission in 1992. This was followed, in 2002, by 3G multi-media support, spread spectrum transmission and at least 200 kbit/s, soon expected to be followed by 4G, which refers to all-IP packet-switched networks, mobile ultra-broadband (gigabit speed) access and multi-carrier transmission. Pre-4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX and first-release 3G Long term evolution (LTE) are available on the market since 2005 and 2009 respectively.

A 4G system is expected to provide a comprehensive and secure all-IP based solution where facilities such as IP telephony, ultra-broadband Internet access, gaming services and streamed multimedia may be provided to users.

This article uses 4G to refer to IMT Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced), as defined by ITU-R.

An IMT advanced cellular system must have target peak data rates of up to approximately 100 Mbit/s for high mobility such as mobile access and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility such as nomadic/local wireless access, according to the ITU requirements. Scalable bandwidths up to at least 40 MHz should be provided.

In all suggestions for 4G, the CDMA spread spectrum radio technology used in 3G systems and IS-95 is abandoned and replaced by frequency-domain equalization schemes, for example multi-carrier transmission such as OFDMA. This is combined with MIMO (i.e. multiple antennas(Multiple In Multiple Out)), dynamic channel allocation and channel-dependent scheduling.

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Free SMS - Top Free SMS Providers in India

Short Message Service (SMS) is the text communication service component of mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between mobile phone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers. The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging, as well as the user activity itself, in many parts of the world.

SMS as used on modern handsets was originally defined as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters, to and from GSM mobile handsets. Since then, support for the service has expanded to include other mobile technologies such as ANSI CDMA networks and Digital AMPS, as well as satellite and landline networks. Most SMS messages are mobile-to-mobile text messages, though the standard supports other types of broadcast messaging as well.

160by2.com
160by2 (a SMSCountry initiative) endeavors to revolutionize the very concept of sending SMS - from a PAID service to a FREE service. You can now send free SMS messages, 80 characters long, within India to all your near and dear.

Way2sms.com
SMS communication totally cost free to mobile users, at the same time, enables advertisers to reach out to millions of mobile users through the revolutionary concept of 'Mobitisement' (advertisement on mobile phone).

This pioneering effort has already captured the imagination of millions of mobile users across the globe. More than four lakh users visit Way2SMS every day, and they are just not from India alone, but come from as many as 126 countries globally!

Mobile users can register at absolutely no cost with Way2SMS.com, and start sending out text messages to their near and dear ones across the country. Receivers of the messages need not be registered Way2SMS users.

Spicesms.com
SpiceSMS.com is one of the first websites to offer free SMS service. We started in 2004 under the iMobile banner & have entered into the 5th year of providing free SMS to India. Our website & back-end were recently revamped providing better services than ever.

Yourmint.com
YouMint.com is owned by MobileTree Ltd, a company registered in England. MobileTree’s parent company is a London based holding company for 3 telecom related businesses and works closely with over 400 mobile operators globally i.e more than 60% of all mobile operators in the world!

Indyarocks.com
Indyarocks.com is an online and mobile social entertainment platform for Indians across the Globe. It allows members to build and leverage their network of contacts and share games, bollywood content, music, photos, videos and blogs in many incredibly powerful ways. The platform is designed to provide you with unlimited freedom of expression. Plus, you can invite your non-Indian friends too to experience the rich Indian culture through Indyarocks.com

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Nokia vs Apple - Smartphone War

Nokia Oyj, the world's largest mobile handset company, has launched a slew of smartphones to check its declining share in this growing segment of the market, where it faces stiff competition from Apple's iPhone and Google's Android-based devices.

The Finland-based company is still the market leader in the smartphones segment with a 41 per cent share, but is under pressure to hold on to the title.

It today launched its N8 model in the Asia-Pacific region to fend off its competitors. N8 is the first phone to be launched with Nokia's improved Symbian 3 operating system. The phone will be available globally, including India, from September onward and is priced at 370 euros (Rs 21,019).

The industry sees the N8 as an attempt by Nokia to win back customers moving on to a host of phones from Taiwan's HTC, whose phones are based on Android systems - Apple's iPhone 4, and Blackberry. The N8 offers 8 of GB memory, faster access to social networking sites like FaceBook and Twitter and high quality video recording.

"Nokia N8 is a great device for people who want to create content, connect to their preferred networking site," Nokia Senior Vice President, Smartphones, Jo Harlow said.

The world's largest mobile phone-maker is also trying to lure developers to write content and make applications for its devices. Better content and improved software are the major reasons for increasing sale of iPhones and Android devices, whereas Nokia seems to have lagged behind.

Nokia launched two other models today. One of them, the X6, has 8 GB of memory and is targeted at entertainment seekers with services like unlimited music downloads, social networking, chat and games. The other, the Nokia X5, has 2 GB of memory (expandable to 32 GB) and offers music and networking services.

These phones will also be available from September. The Nokia X6 is priced at 225 euros (Rs. 12,790), while the X5 will cost 165 euros (Rs. 9,370), exclusive of taxes and subsidy.

The company has also made a late entry into the dual SIM handset segment with the launch of its C2 and C1 models, which are priced in the range of 30 euros to 45 euros. Other mobile handset-makers in the Indian market had introduced dual SIM handsets, where two SIM cards can be used, a long time ago.

Nokia also introduced two low cost, low memory phones in the price range of 35-39 euros (Rs. 1,998-Rs 2,215).

There is a plethora of smartphones from international companies like LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson flooding the Indian market. In addition, local companies like Videocon, Fly, Zen and many others are entering the growing segment. The resulting competition could bring down smartphone prices.

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Apple iPhone Pre Orders Stopped - Apple Apologies

Apple today apologized for the iPhone 4 ordering mess yesterday, and boasted that it and its carrier partners had taken more then 600,000 orders for its new smartphone.

Meanwhile, AT&T confirmed that is has suspended pre-orders through its site and stores.

"We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock," Apple said in a statement released Wednesday, referring to the ordering bungles that left many users frustrated and angry.

Apple added that demand for the iPhone 4 was "far higher than we anticipated," which resulted in "many order and approval system malfunctions."

Apple's and AT&T's Web sites essentially collapsed under the load, returning errors and time-outs when many customers tried to place orders. By the end of the day, both Apple and AT&T had exhausted the supplies they'd set aside for delivery on June 24, the official iPhone 4 launch date.

"It was extremely frustrating," said Brian Marshall, a Wall Street analyst with BroadPoint AmTech. "I continue to be extremely frustrated with AT&T and its service." Marshall said he had tried 10 or more times Tuesday to order an iPhone 4, all unsuccessful.

"That's par for the course for AT&T, unfortunately," said Marshall.

For its part, AT&T said that sales were 10 times higher than the first day of iPhone 3GS pre-ordering in June 2009, and added that it had received more than 13 million upgrade eligibility requests during the day, a number three times higher than the record.

"Given this unprecedented demand and our current expectations for our iPhone 4 inventory levels when the device is available June 24, we're suspending pre-ordering today in order to fulfill the orders we've already received," AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said in an e-mail Wednesday.

AT&T has removed the iPhone 4 from its Web site. Currently, only last year's iPhone 3GS can be found there.

Siegel did not set a date when AT&T would again take iPhone 4 orders. "The availability of additional inventory will determine if we can resume taking pre-orders," he said.

Apple, however, still shows the iPhone 4 16GB and 32GB models as available on its online store, with a projected ship date of July 2.

Unlike Apple, AT&T's statement did not mention customers' encounters with its ordering system, or apologize for the problems.

Some customers had to go to great lengths to make sure their orders were processed as promised. Computerworld reader Dennis Hoffman, for example, placed his iPhone 4 pre-order with AT&T between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, just hours after the carrier started taking orders. Later in the day, however, Hoffman received an e-mail that said his order had been canceled.

Hoffman spent hours Tuesday night working his way through AT&T's online chat and telephone customer service, but was eventually rewarded when an AT&T representative restored his order and said he would receive it on June 24.

Marshall has projected iPhone sales during 2010 at 40 million units, a 59% increase over 2009, with 8.8 million of those selling in the quarter that ends June 30, a jump of 68% over the same period last year. "These are very conservative," he said. "I have a high degree of confidence that Apple will exceed those numbers."

Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Radio Shack and Wal-Mart are slated to kick off in-store sales on June 24.

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Nokia n2690 has been released in India

Nokia has unveiled Nokia N2690 a new low price mobile phone in Indian market. Nokia Priority dealers are selling this mobile phone at Rs 3700 . The biggest advantage of this mobile is its memory (8 GB) which can actually beat other mobile phones and also it will create a demand from young Indian youth. After launching this gadget Nokia has started a new era in mobile phone technology (giving huge memory space in cheap rates.)

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The special features of Nokia N2690 contains a Bluetooth 2.0 +EDRBluetooth stereo, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm AV connector, MP3 player, Email,VGA camera. As every body aware of Nokia’s Battery life so there is no need to worry about the power because N2690 gives maximum talk time of 270 mins and standby time of 335 hrs. You can also connect your mobile phone to any amplifier for listening the songs in a good sound.

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Apple's iPhone Pre Order Taken Here - Order Now!

Cupertino, CA (June 15th): Get your iPhone 4 on day one. Just select your model, choose an AT&T plan, then pre-order online or reserve for in-store pickup. When you actually click the links, Apple’s bouncing around some bad link error messages, but if you want to preorder your iPhone 4 for pick-up or delivery on June 24th, Apple’s preorder website is now live. You might want to keep refreshing it until the kinks go away. (Update: the preorder forms are now working). Order iPhone 4

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Nokia 2690 Price in India is Rs 3700/-

World's No on Mobile Company Nokia has launched its Nokia 2690 Price in India. This is the greatest news that expected for Nokia 2690 Price is just Rs 3700/- App. in Indian Market while its features a like a multimedia mobile. External Memory card extends it multimedia experience. Listen to local radio stations.

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Nokia 2690 includes a 1.8-inch TFT display that supports 262K colors and resolution 128 × 160 pixels. This is one of the smaller displays and the only justification for Nokia including such an offer down-rated is that the Nokia 2690 is a phone with low price budget.

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Apple's top paid App developed by Indians

Bangalore: Two Indian born Stanford graduate students have created a $3.99 application in the iPad. It is the top paid app in the entire iPad section of the App Store.The Pulse Reader app in the iPad was developed by Akshay Kothari (23) and Ankit Gupta (22) at the Institute of Design of Stanford University.

Kothari said the project was inspired by 'a personal frustration at the whole news reading experience' on mobile devices. The stylish and easy to use news aggregator service was developed in the Launch Pad class, where the budding entrepreneurs are given an opportunity to develop and introduce a product in just ten weeks.

Pulse is a clean and visual news aggregator and the reader takes up to 20 news sources that can be followed and a visual mosaic of the news can be created. The article can be tapped and a clean rendered view of the news story can be presented. The app allows users to see text-only versions of articles, which are basically cleaned-up versions of a news site's RSS feeds, or to see the full articles as they are presented on the Web. It also lets sharing articles through Twitter and Facebook by passing the individual sharing tools presented by each news site.

News organizations are yet to get accustomed to iPad strategies but are quite hopeful about the success of pulse. "You absolutely do not have to give away something great for free," said Michael Dearing, a former eBay executive who is a teacher of the Launch Pad class. "If you build something great, people will pay you for it," added Dearing.

Nearly 15,000 people have downloaded this app and it has generated more than $40,000 in revenue, taking into account Apple's 30 percent cut. Akshay and Ankit have created a company, Alphonso Labs, and are now working on versions of the app for other devices, as well as talking to potential investors.

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Top 5 Android phones

Bangalore: After it was launched couple of years back, Android based phones are today becoming a preferred choice for mobile users across the globe. According to NPD Group, the unit sales for Android smartphones ranked second among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. BlackBerry OS and the iPhone OS ranked first and third respectively. So, which are the top five phones powered by Google's Android that are creating a buzz in the smartphone market?

Motorola Droid

This is one phone that many believe can give the toughest competition for Apple's iPhone. The phone is distributed exclusively by Verizon Wireless in U.S., which promoted the Droid as an Apple iPhone-alternative. The phone features 3.7-inch 854 x 480 touchscreen display with a 5-megapixel low light capable digital camera and a full QWERTY physical keyboard. The Motorola Droid runs Android version 2.1. The Motorola Droid comes with a 16GB microSD memory card.

Droid is powered by ARM Cortex A8 CPU clocked at 600 Mhz the same processor that powers the iPhone 3GS and the Omnia HD. Motorola has christened the phone as Milestone in India, which is expected to be launched soon with a speculative price tag of around Rs.34,000.

HTC Legend

The Legend is touted to be the successor to the HTC Hero, which was on the top five smartphones list from 2009. The HTC Legend brings many improvements, which include an optical trackball, aluminum unibody enclosure, a slightly faster processor and more RAM. Most importantly, it runs on Android OS v2.1 (Eclair), while the former was launched with Android OS, v1.5 (Cupcake).

The 3.2-inch AMOLED screen is slightly smaller than that of an iPhone, but supports the same resolution: 320x480 pixels. HTC Legend was launched in India in April this year at a price of Rs. 25,990, while the Hero was launched at Rs. 31,990 in most parts of India.

Nexus One

The much awaited phone developed by Google, codenamed 'HTC Passion', is manufactured by HTC Corporation and it hit the markets early this year. Google currently offers Nexus One on the T-Mobile and AT&T networks in the U.S. The Nexus One has a 3.7 inch AMOLED screen with PenTile matrix pixel arrangement. The phone features a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash and digital zoom, GPS receiver, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and 802.11b/g WiFi capabilities.

The Snapdragon processor in the phone allows for advanced capabilities including 720p video playback. Though Google has officially not launched the phone in India, those interested to buy it can do so by taking the online route for around Rs. 34,000.

Acer Stream

Though Acer is a relatively new entrant in the smartphone arena, with just three phones under its belt, its large presence in the PC market can help the company to compete with the top smartphone players. Acer's third Android phone comes with several improvements over the Acer Liquid, and the Liquid E. It features a 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, capable of 480 x 800 pixels and it runs Android OS, 2.1 (Eclair).

The phone is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 1GHz processor. The phone is capable of recording 720p videos with its 5-megapixel camera. The Acer Stream comes with 2GB memory built-in, with a free 8GB memory card in the box. It supports microSD cards up to 32GB. The phone's launch date in India is yet to be announced.

Samsung Galaxy S

This is the first Samsung phone that comes with the Android operating system. It features a 4-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, which is capable of displaying 16 million colours. The phone is powered by 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and also features 5-megapixel autofocus camera, capable of recording 720p video footage at 30fps.

The Samsung I9000 Galaxy S will come in two versions, with 8GB and 16GB of internal memory respectively and they will both have a microSD card slot. Launched just few days back with a price tag of Rs.28,000, the phone has the potential to take on the big guys in the space.

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iPhone, BlackBerry helps in finding Corruption

Mexico City: Curbing corruption may be easier with a new application that enables users of iPhones and BlackBerrys to catch police taking bribe and also check traffic instructions.

The new application created for iPhone and the iPod will soon be available to BlackBerry users. It has a traffic-fine calculator, a map showing directions to parking lots where vehicles are impounded after their drivers violate traffic rules.

The anti-bribe programme costs 20 pesos (about $1.50) in the virtual Apple store, and in less than three months has had more than 11,000 downloads, the administrator of the Futuro Movil company, Daniel Martinez Landeros, said.

Apart from having the list of emergency numbers, the programme gives information about the type of vehicles allowed to commute in any specific area on a particular day and restrictions about the use of old vehicles.

The company has also developed an application to keep users updated about the traffic along their way and alternative routes.

The system will inform the users about road accidents, detours besides giving them access to the history of each vehicle to see if it has any traffic fines pending.

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