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Dec 15 to jan 14 2011-12  Rs 75
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A G l i m p se o f t h e f u t u r e
æ
Ravishing Vidya
There is nothing dirty about Vidya Balan's
gadget love P 22
æ Superphone
P 26
æ Reviewed
LG Optimus Net, BlackBerry
Curve 9380, BlackBerry Bold
9790, Sony Ericsson Xperia
Arc S and more P 51
Showdown
Motorola RAZR XT910, Nokia Lumia 800 and
Apple iPhone 4S pitted against each other P 38
æ
Stay Active to stay
Connected
Operators on a disconnection spree to
accomodate new connections P 42
Samsung Omnia W
P 56
first call
T
he future is always just a second ahead of us, but there
are times when we pay special attention to it. And one
of those is when a year draws to a close. Like many of
its predecessors, 2011 was a busy year in the
world of mobile technology. We saw the usual flurry of
products and innovations. We saw new brands emerge, even
as some established players stumbled. New partnerships were
forged, while some older alliances showed signs of strain. New
leaders emerged, even as some of the older ones passed into
history and legend. It was, to quote a famous author, the best of
times and the worst of times, depending on which perspective
you took.
So what will 2012 hold in store for us? Cloud computing,
voice recognition, artificial intelligence, yet another iPhone?
We could have sat at our desks, sifted through reams of data
and come out with our predictions, but we decided that a better option would be to ask those very people who are most
likely to be involved in what happens in 2012 - the members
of the industry. Which is exactly what we have attempted to
deliver in our cover story - 2012, as seen by the major players
of the mobile world. And as George Santayana advised to never
forget the past, we have also quizzed them about 2011.
One of the amazing things about the progress of technology
is the number of spheres it can influence. The app and tablet
revolution has not just added a new dimension to the lives of
adults, but can also be used to develop the lives of young ones.
In our ‘Cell Clues’ segment, we bring you a few apps that will
help in the positive growth of your child and at the same time,
throw in some tips to protect your kid from technology abuse
- tech is a two-edged sword, remember. We also take a closer
look at the growing popularity of recharging your mobile connection online, fuelled by free gifts from websites offering this
service. Our ‘SpotLight’ feature highlights this growing trend.
When it comes to handsets, 2011 certainly decided to go
out with a bang. It literally rained high-profile superphones in
the Indian market with the likes of the Nokia Lumia 800, the
Motorola RAZR, and the iPhone 4S arriving on Indian shores.
While we did our usual reviews on them, the temptation to
pit them against each other in a no-holds-barred contest was
hard to resist, so we did just that. You can read who emerged
the winner in that titanic struggle. There were other worthy
handsets released across all segments too, and as usual,we have
reviewed them for you.
It just remains for us to wish you and your dear ones a very
happy and prosperous 2012. And it seems apt to sign off with
our prediction for 2012 - it will still see us striving to deliver
the latest and most relevant information to you about the
mobile world. In the most readable manner possible.
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Pankaj Mohindroo |
Editor-in-Chief
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Nimish Dubey | Consulting Editor
Rajesh Sharma | Editorial Expert Technology
Ujjwal Narayan Mishra | Editorial Expert VAS
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Mukesh Kumar Singh | Assistant Editor(H)
Harshita Rastogi | Correspondent
Waseem Ansari | Reporter
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Volume VII Issue XI, December 15, To January 14, 2011-12
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Headon
Which is the best superphone of
all?
lead
Story
Welcome the
new year
with new
hopes, aspirations and
technological
innovations
cell-ebrity
26
22
The oolala girl, Vidya Balan,
reveals her techy side
Infocus
35
Digital navigation in India is finally
catching up
What We
Want
32
The glitterati spills out their
wishes from the techno world
for the coming year
Face To Face
Sanjay Sinha, VP-mobile content, ACL Wireless, shares his
views on the changing trends
in the India VAS industry
Lavina Tuaro, senior VP, Voice
Products and Music, UTV
Interactive discusses the
emerging market of mythological content on mobile platforms
Letters
10
Mobile Doctor
12
Consumer Forum
14
News
16
Spotlight
42
Not using your phone to makes calls? You
might face the danger of being disconnected.
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Ann Goh, regional sales manager, Mobile, South East Asia,
Jabra talks about company's
focus areas and more in the
Indian market
Y. Guru, managing director,
Celkon Mobiles shares their
investment and expansion
plans for the Indian market
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Technology can make learning
and discovery fun too
iball ips-261-touch
Xage m324 q.bar
rage power
lg optimus net
samsung omnia w
motorola defy +
blackberry curve 9380
sony ericsson arc s
blackberry bold 9790
motorola razr xt910
nokia lumia 800
apple iphone 4 s
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D. Shivakumar, managing director, Nokia India shares his experiences with Indian consumers
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cell clues
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Chief Speak
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just in
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HTC Rhyme, Nokia Asha 300 and BlackBerry Curve 9350
CDMA hit the Indian market
sneak peek
A brief preview of Samsung Nexus Prime and Nokia X2-02
et-cetera
From Laptops to hard drives to wireless headsets and innovative
charging solutions, we bring you everything from the techno world
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smart apps 72
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ABHAY LOVES
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gadget secrets P 20
SHOWDOWN
Samsung Galaxy
Note takes on HTC
Flyer P 74
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Ericsson Xperia
Ray and more P 51
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for the mobile world. To know anything related to mobile world, one
can simply go through this magazine
and get all the information. Keep up
the good work.
-Rajesh Kumar, Dehradun
big time Bollywood fan and always keep an eye to see which actor
is going to reveal his/her gadget love in the next issue. As Akshay
Kumar is my favourite Bollywood actor I request your team to
kindly consider him at some time for your Celebrity column. My
regards and warm wishes to the My Mobile team.
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I have been reading My Mobile magazine for the last one year and
it has really enhanced my knowledge about gadgets and gizmos. I
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he biggest problem that one faces
while going on a trip is to find the
right places to visit and the right hotels
to live in. Yes, there are a lot of websites
online but what if you get an application that
can help you but what if you have an application that can get you live information on the
go. This is what TripAdvisor does for you.
It is a very popular service, which has
been there for long but now it is available
across platform on iOS, Android, etc. A
number of new features is being added too.
For instance now its not just about the best
hotels, you can also get real time information about the happenings around you. The
feature is called 'Near Me Now', which gives
you latest information about the happenings
around your location. You can also find the
best attractions in the city across various categories like guides, spa, landmarks under the
‘Things To Do’ feature.
It tells you about the places to stay, eat
and see and even hotel or restaurant has the
average price and reviews mentioned with
the name. A map stays in the background
and you can easily checkout the directions to
the place. There are a number of forums that
you can search for on the basis of destination
and topics. Overall it’s a useful application for
those who wish to make all the preparations
before leaving or those
who want to go with the
flow after reaching their
dream destination. 
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KILLER ON THE
LOOSE More undead
killing, more fun
ombies and guns are a great combination, especially if you are using the
later to kill the former. Contract Killer
is a hit in the mobile gaming arena and those
who liked the original will fall right in love
with Contract Killer Zombies as well. Yes, you
play as shooter who is a contract killer on a
wheelchair and is stuck in a Zombie infested
land. You have a partner called Evelyn, who
helps you in getting supplies, saving people,
etc., while you covrt her back as she runs
around. There is a map on which various
missions are listed and more appear when
you clear the existing ones. Apart from the
dollars, you also earn experience points. Both
Evelyn and other survivors can get attacked
by the zombies and you need to save them
before their life lines end. You can shoot the
zombies directly or just blow up the explosive
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barrels lying around but they come in a little
later. As you kill, you earn points and dollars which you can use to get more weapons.
There are various types of missions like getting supplies, saving other survivors, etc. You
can toggle between your guns and use the
usual swipe gestures to tweak the direction
and angles. The graphics, dialogues, music
and effects blend together superbly to get
you into undead slaughter mode. As you keep
achieving the targets the number and types
of zombies increase. The game is available for
free on the Android Market and once you get
comfortable with the whole swipe
to aim thing, it proves to be murderously engaging. 
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I really like the news
section in the magazine which has been a part of the magazine for
the last six-seven months. One of the most pleasant things about
the magazine is its design which I must appreciate for being so
colourful. The magazine is complete in itself. I hope that you keep
readers like me informed through your prestigious magazine.
-Rahul Kumar, Ram Bagh, Bihar
ne of the hardest things to change in a phone is its appearance. In fact, it’s
the first thing that we get bored of even when we haven’t tried and tested
all the features of a device. But now there is way to add a zing to your
phone’s design. This can be done through the My Skin My Style removable adhesive-based vinyl covers that not only make phones look better but also protect
them from normal wear and tear. Offered by Poojara Telecom, Rajkot, Gujarat,
these mobile skins have been developed for various models and can be stuck to
the front as well as the back panel. The skins come with gaps for features like
camera, volume keys, etc., without any rough edges. All you need to do is stick it
to the phone, and you are ready to go. These skins are repositionable, so you if you don’t get it right the first time,
you can reposition them again. These stick-on
skins are easily removable and don’t leave any
residue, making them easier to peel off and
remove. These covers are available in various designs and the prices vary from
model to model (starting from Rs 499). 
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TECH SPECS
Hi, my heartiest good wishes to My Mobile team. I like your
magazine a lot but every time I feel that it contains more of advertisements and less of content. Every month when I purchase it
and hope that this time I will get to read more and interesting
content. The content of your magazine is always very interesting,
but I find it very less because it seems to finish almost as soon as
I get the magazine in my hand. I request you to kindly increase the
content in your magazine as readers like me are more interested in
enriched content than in advertisements.
-Manas, Kolkakta
SKIN-DEEP BEAUTY! Changing
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Battery | Li-Po 1500 mAh
Screen | 16million, colours
Talktime/Standby | Upto 6.8 hours/
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GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
Bluetooth/ WiFi | Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity | Shared
Camera | 8.0 megapixel
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | 3D panorama shots
Price: Rs 19,000
Pocket sized..
At a time when most cellphone manufacturers have been trying to come out with large
touchscreen displays, Sony Ericsson has gone
in the opposite direction and come out with
the sleek and relatively small Xperia Ray.
Sporting a 3.3 inch display, the Ray is mere
9.4 mm thin, and weighs just around 100
grammes, making it one of the lightest touchscreen smartphones around. And it looks very
nice indeed. The front is dominated by the 3.3
inch, 854 x 480, display and below it are two
soft keys for Back and Menu, and one semicircular hard key between them for Home,
which also glows to show notifications (cool!).
The sides are relatively plain with just the volume rocker on one side, and a micro USB port
on the other. The top houses a 3.5mm audio
jack and the power and screen on/off button, while the back houses the 8.0-megapixel
camera and LED flash. All in all, the Xperia
Ray looks like a compact, classy device, which
is likely to appeal more to the fairer sex for
its sheer lightness and relatively small factor,
but is smart and sleek enough to be liked by
men who are not too attached to large touchscreens as well.
...and a performer too
Beneath that rather small form, however, lurks
a good deal of power. The Xperia Ray runs on
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and packs in all the
connectivity options you can think of ranging
from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to GPS and 3G. A 1
Ghz processor and 512 MB RAM ensure that
all apps keep running smoothly on the device.
And those who smirk at the relatively small
display will be taken aback at just how bright
and brilliant it can – it is no super AMOLED
– but at 297 ppi, packs in a lot of pixels into a
small space, making it excellent for watching
videos and browsing the Web (yes, there is
support for Flash), although you might find
yourself straining your eyes to read some
of the smaller fonts. The Ray is relatively
lightweight in terms of internal storage – you
barely get 300 MB free when you start out
– but that is rectified to an extent by a 4 GB
microSD card which is part of the package.
Very good multimedia...of
course!
One of the star performers of the device is
the camera, which is also capable of capturing
720p video. It comes with the Exmor R for
Mobile CMOS sensor (which we had also seen
in the Xperia Arc) and with a host of shooting options including smile and face detection
and image stabilisation. And when the colours
were right, it pulled off some staggering shots
and excellent videos. You can even take 3D
shots using the 3D Sweep Panorama feature
(you will need a 3D TV to see them, though).
However, the LED flash proved unequal to
delivering similarly brilliant performance
in low life and night conditions. Given how
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Also, suggest if there is any
phone better than the listed ones.
-B. KARTHIK
Among the phones that you have
shortlisted, you can go for LG
Optimus Net. However, you can
also check out HTC Explorer
which is a good phone within
your price range.
I want to know if Nokia E-5 supports GPS with A-GPS or not.
-Bishal Limbu
Yes, Nokia E-5 supports GPS with
A-GPS.
I want to buy a mobile of Nokia
handset costing up to Rs 20,000.
I personally like Nokia C7; however, want you to kindly suggest
if Nokia C7-01 is better than this.
Can you also give me the market
price of both?
-Mithun.M,
I want to purchase a tablet computer which costs about Rs 4,500.
Please guide me and send me full
details of the gadget.
-Ashish
You will have to wait a little more
to get a tablet in this price range.
Currently the price range for a
tablet starts from Rs 8,000.
I want to buy a T-Mobile phone.
Could you please tell me whether
I can rely on the company and
also, if the handset would successfully work in India? How
is the browsing speed on the
phone?
-Rajesh
T-Mobile is an operator in
USA and not a handset brand.
They usually take a Samsung,
BlackBerry or any other brand’s
phone and re-brand it as
T-Mobile. These phones are usually locked to T-Mobile networks
and you will have to get them
unlocked to use them in India.
This is usually not advisable for
any device.
The Nokia phone is just 701
and since it runs on the latest
Symbian Belle Operating System,
has 1 GHz processor and is
capable of HSDPA speeds of 14.4
Mbps and HSUPA speeds of up to
5.76 Mbps.
I want to buy an Android phone
and need your help to choose the
right one for me. I have shortlisted LG Optimus One P500
Thunder, LG Optimus Net, LG
Optimus Pro, Samsung Galaxy
Fit, and Samsung Galaxy Pop. I
would like you to suggest the best
among these considering that I
want a good battery backup and
features worth putting in so much
money. My budget is Rs 11,000.
I want to know if Nokia N73 has
a flash player to watch videos
through online streaming. If not,
then which mobile in the Nokia
N series has this option available.
Also please tell me that which
phone supports Flash Player 9.
-Pankaj Singh
Nokia N73 is a very old phone
and does not come with flash
support to watch online videos.
Recently no new N series phones
have come to India. Infact now
Nokia has C series, E series and
numeric phone models. Currently
all Symbian^3 and above (Anna,
Belle) come with Flash Player 9
support.
Between Sony Ericsson Xperia
Arc, Samsung Galaxy S Plus,
Samsung Galaxy SL or HTC
Desire S, which phone should I
buy? Also give me the best features of the phone or phones you
would suggest.
-Rahul Kumar
The best among your shortlisted phone is the Sony Ericsson
Xperia Arc which has a 1 GHz
processor, 8.0-megapixel
autofocus camera. You can
also opt for HTC Sensation
XE which has just been
launched but you might
have to shell out some extra
money for this one.
Among the latest set of
smartphones available in
the market, please suggest a good 3G phone that
runs on either Android
Ice-cream Sandwich OS or
on Android 2.3.3. Also, it
should have Wi-Fi support,
at least 5.0-megapixel camera and stylish looks along
with other good features.
My budget for buying a
new phone is Rs 20,000.
-Saurabh Sah
There is no phone running on the latest Android
Ice-cream Sandwich
Operating System in this price
range. However, you can choose
between Samsung Galaxy Plus
or Galaxy SL which have been
updated to Android 2.3 Operating
System and fall within your budget. Both the phones have a good
performance.
I have a Nokia 5610. Whenever I
try and download some app from
Ovi store or any other portal,
it shows a message saying that
the SIM is not verified. Please
suggest some measures to correct this issue. Also, how can I
upgrade the operating system of
Nokia 7210 Supernova?
-Nihit Kumar
To resolve this issue, you will
have to talk to your operator and
get your account verified before
being able to download apps. For
upgrading your phone you can go
to Nokia.com/software and follow
step wise instructions there. In
case you don’t feel comfortable
in doing it yourself, please visit a
customer care centre and request
for an upgrade.
I want to buy a touchscreen
phone with Phonebook capacity of 1000 plus, Hindi/Marathi
support, 2000+ SMS storage and
various types of folder creation
option under the message save
option. Additionally, it should
have a good music performance
especially through the loudspeaker. I use Nokia 6233 at present
and it carries most of these features except touchscreen. Please
guide.
-Pradeep Lunawat
You can opt for Nokia C5-03
which is a complete touchscreen
phone in the affordable category.
I need to buy a new CDMA
mobile phone which must carry
two features namely Auto Call
Record & SMS Back-up to memory card. Budget is not a problem
but I would prefer some phone
that costs up to Rs 5,000. The
more the additional features, the
better it will be.
-Deepak Jaiswal
There are no CDMA phones from
MNC brands that have Auto Call
Record & SMS Back-up features.
Among the Indian brands too this
choice is very limited.
Is your mobile phone
acting strange? Email
your queries at
[email protected]
and our mobile doctor
Arshdeep Singh will
suggest remedies for
your ailing device.
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Complaint 1
I bought a HCL ME tablet model
number AM7-A1 on June 17 this
year. It worked smoothly for ten
days but then stopped working at
all. To complain against the same,
I went to the Noida branch of
HCL. The product was under full
warranty so they said that they
would replace it with a new one
and kept the old one with them.
After that they tried to give me
an old tablet as a replacement
but I refused to accept it. After
three months on 14 October,
they did replace my tablet with
a new one of serial number
311Dev000076. But the replaced
device did not work well for even
a moment. The moment we left
the showroom it got switched
off and didn’t work at all. We
immediately went back and registered a complaint. They again
kept the faulty device. After
about a month, they gave me
another tablet of serial number
411DEV001038. This one also had
a problem and stopped working after ten days. It too is with
them and nothing has happened
so far. I am fed up going to them
and requesting for replacements.
Please help.
-Shailesh Giri
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something had been downloaded
on the mobile. When I told them
that nothing had been downloaded, they talked to me very
rudely and told that they would
not return the balance at any
cost. Please help me as they have
deducted the balance.
-Raj Nayyar
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screen. I have given it for service
and its screen has been changed
twice. But the problem still
remains. This is the third time
that I am facing the same problem. I live in a distant place and
have to travel 200 km to visit the
service centre. It is really time
consuming for me to visit them
again and again, so kindly help
me out with this problem.
-Santanu Tripathy, Orissa
HTC's Reply
Looking in to the matter
some time ago. After I submitted my documents, the cashier
asked for Rs 125 for the pack
which was actually costing Rs 25
only - on my objecting, I was told
that it was a franchisee Vodafone
gallery and thus charged extra
money for a number that seemed
good to them. They would
charge extra for a number with a
same digit ending. Please help.
-Ashley Dcosta
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Complaint 5
Complaint 7
I bought a Nokia E-5 in February
2011. The handset started troubling me after about five months
time, when it abruptly switched
off and would not revive. When
I removed its back cover and
checked the battery I found the
acid of the battery leaking. I
showed it to Nokia Care where
I have a Nokia N8 with serial
number 352684041267787. The
camera on the phone is not
opening and is showing "System
error." I approached Nokia Care
at Cell Point, B 100 A, South
City-1, Near Signature tower,
Opp. HUDA Gymkhana Club,
Gurgaon. They stated that they
will have to update the mobile
but they have version 022.014
whereas my version is 025.007,
which was updated over the air
on 27 October. They do not know
when this version will be available with them and even refused
to give me a job card. Does this
mean I will not be able to use
the camera? My phone warranty
is upto 31st October 2011. Please
help.
-Kishor Naik
Nokia's Reply
Customer already taken the
delivery of repaired handset and
working fine.
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Complaint 2
I own a BSNL prepaid SIM with
phone No. 8900596421. On 11
November, my balance was
around Rs. 280 or Rs 282 in the
early afternoon hours. However,
when in the evening I checked
my balance, it was down to Rs
134 for no reason. I lodged a
complaint in BSNL (complaint
number K11WB1125868) on the
same day. They told me that
they would contact the technical department and inform me
about it. When I contacted them
after two days, their response
was the same. After five days,
they told that the balance had
been deducted for GPRS usage.
When I told them that I had the
GPRS pack of Rs 98 with 3 GB
free Internet usage and 1 month
validity which I got recharged
on 8 November, they said that
Complaint 3
I bought a Spice M5700
touchscreen handset on 9th of
July this year. I was highly disappointed with the touch interface
of the handset as it started
malfunctioning right from the
moment I started using it. I put
up with it till 17th October, when
its touch went dead. I gave it to
the service center the other day
but have not received it till date.
The IMEI number of my handset
is 91110255104389905, please help.
-Deep Nayan, Muzaffarpur
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Complaint 4
I bought a HTC Wildfire in
March 2011 and have been facing
regular problems with its touch-
they termed the acid as water
and refused to consider its warranty. Helplessly, I paid for its
repair and received it back after
two months. Now, a new problem has come up - its camera
has stopped functioning. When
contacted, the company said that
they can’t do anything about this.
I am very disappointed and want
my handset replaced. Please help.
-Sonakshi Madan
Nokia's Reply
The customer is not contactable
since last 6 days so we have sent
a mail to him.
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Complaint 6
I bought a new Vodafone SIM
card from a Vodafone gallery
Are you being harassed by
a celco that doesn’t hear
your plea? Email your
issues to
consumer-forum@my
mobile.co.in and we will
take up your cause with
the concerned company.
Kindly mention your
contact number at the
end of the Email so that
we can get in touch with
you. Whenever possible,
also provide us complete
details of the correspondence with the celco.
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OPERATORS & TARIFFS
Value Added Services/Applications/
Games
Vodafone launches 3G services in
Hosur, Karur and Erode
Nokia reveals its DRM free music service, Nokia music unlimited
Vodafone India, one of country’s telecom service providers, announced the launch of its
3G services in Hosur, Karur and Erode city
of southern India’s Tamil Nadu state. Now,
Vodafone customers in these cities can experience various exciting 3G services such as
faster downloading, video
streaming,
multimedia
gaming, digital
TV and much
more. With
the launch
of 3G services in these areas, customers can
communicate and experience the advantage
of adding power of mobility to the Internet.
Currently, Vodafone has launched 3G services
in 22 towns in Tamil Nadu including Chennai,
Ariyalur, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Kodaikanal,
Madurai, Ooty, Palladam, Ranipet, Sivagangai,
Sriperumbadur, Trichy, Pondicherry, Salem,
Tiruppur, Sivakasi, Vellore, Pondicherry,
Villipuram, Karur, Erode and Hosur.
Nokia has announced the availability of Music
Unlimited Service on its Series40 (S40) phones. The
service will be available on the newly introduced
feature phones – Nokia X2-02, Nokia Asha 200 and
Nokia Asha 300 and will offer young music listeners
to download and share free music from the collection of songs from the Nokia Music Store.
Nokia Music Unlimited, which was so far available on selected hi-end devices, received
positive response from the consumers and
Nokia is now all set to give price-conscious
music lovers a faster entertainment experience by offering this music service on its
latest affordable range of phones.
Nokia’s DRM free music service comes packed
with features like DRM-free tracks pre-activated on the device,
easy browsing, downloading & renewal through the device itself etc. With this free service
consumers can discover, enjoy and share latest, high quality music in a fast, easy and safe
way irrespective of time and place.
It also offers local and global music with an abundance of legal tracks from a range of
artistes including international and local, global labels like Sony Music Entertainment and
EMI Music, and Nokia’s local partnership with Indian Music Industry, Hungama that represents major labels including Yash Raj, Tseries, and SIMCA (South Indian Music Companies
Association), amongst others.
Idea brings affordable smartphones
to promote 3G services in India
Evernote for Windows Phone Update
Idea Cellular, India’s telecom service provider
announced the launch of a range of 3G smartphones starting at Rs 5,850 onwards. It is said
that company has come up with affordable
range of smartphones to drive penetration of
data services in the country. As a special introductory offer, Idea is offering data services
worth Rs 3,500* in a Rs 259 pack bundled with
the new 3G smartphones.
Hence, for the smartphone which is priced
at Rs. 5,850, Idea 3G user gets it for a value of
just Rs. 2,609. The Idea 3G Smartphones are
running on 2.2 Android Operating System and
also have a 3.2-megapixel camera, touchscreen,
GPS Navigator software, FM radio and MP3
Player. They offer WiFi, Bluetooth connectivity along with social media Apps such as
Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, browser Opera Mini,
and pre-loaded Google and YouTube, besides
a range of other high-end smartphone features
and Idea TV.
These 3G devices can also act as Wi-Fi
routers. The new Idea 3G smartphones will be
available at all major mobile retail stores and
Idea outlets across all major cities in India.
Evernote released its new
version 2.1 in the market,
which is packed with some
new features and improvements. Evernote for Windows
Phone 7 now lets you pin
the things you need right on
your home screen, let you
quick access to features, notes
and notebooks etc. You can
pin notes and notebooks on
your home screen that you
access frequently. To pin a
notebook or tag, swipe to the
relevant screen, then tap the Pin button at the bottom of the screen. On the home screen
the tile will include a number showing how many notes are related to the notebook or
tag. New version of Evernote will also allow you to create a template. Template notes can
take a number of different forms. You can create simple text-only templates, or you can
make templates that simplify a complex workflow. The update also adds major improvements to the application’s text editing capabilities and also adds support for a number of
languages, including Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified
and Traditional), Dutch, and Polish. Some other additional capabilities include background
sync, search integration and sharing note on social networking sites.
Now access your bank account anytime anywhere
with Vodafone’s m-Paisa
Calling it a product for financial inclusion, Vodafone has introduced m-Paisa in collaboration with HDFC bank. The initiative
will take banking to millions of unbanked Indians with the use
of mobile phones. m-Paisa will allow customer basic banking
transaction on the mobile phone and even deposit and
withdraw cash at appointed Vodafone M-paisa outlets,
without having to go to bank branches. The product offer
transaction in five easy steps. The service has already
been a success in different parts of Africa and has over 17
million customers.
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Policy& Regulations
HANDSETS & MORE
Nokia launches three new handsets for the
Indian masses
Nokia India recently launched its three handsets Nokia
Asha 200, Asha 300 and Nokia X2-02. While the Nokia
Asha 200 and Nokia X2-02 are in the dual SIM phones
category, Asha 300 is a touch based single SIM phone.
Nokia’s Asha series – Nokia Asha 200 and Nokia Asha
300 – and Nokia X2-02 come equipped with the Nokia
Music Unlimited service. The handsets have Nokia
browser and Web apps for better Internet browsing
experience alongside entertainment. Their memory is
expandable up to 32 GB and they also feature enhanced
music player, built-in FM radio and Bluetooth connectivity. Other than these common
features, all the phones have some additional features.
HTC Sensation XL launched in India
HTC has recently come up with its new entrant in
the market HTC Sensation XL. The phone is based
on Android 2.3 OS and has 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. The phone can be considered as an upgraded
version of its Sensation model which is already
available in the market. It has 1,730 mAh battery and
768 MB of RAM and internal storage of 4GB, which
can be expanded up to 32 GB via microSD card.
The Sensation XL comes with 4.3-inch LCD and has
8.0-megapixel camera. On connectivity front, the
smartphone supports Wi-Fi, GPRS, Bluetooth and 3G.
HTC Sensation XL offers users a Beats Audio experience, which allows them to easily manage songs and
playlists even while delivering unmatched audio quality. The phone comes in red and black colour combination and is available in all major
stores across the country at a price of Rs 33,990.
Research In Motion Announces Sunil Dutt as
Managing Director for India
Research In Motion (RIM) announced the appointment of
Mr. Sunil Dutt as Managing Director for India. Sunil Dutt
is an industry veteran with 27 years of extensive experience in the Indian technology and telecom sector.
Commenting on his appointment, Sunil Dutt - managing director, India for Research In Motion said, “India has
achieved considerable success in RIM’s global business in
recent years. I am excited to be part of RIM and to help
drive this success further.”
Earlier Sunil worked for Hewlett Packard India Sales
Pvt Ltd as President, Personal Systems Group and was
responsible for expanding their business in enterprise,
mid-market and consumer space. Prior to that, Sunil
worked on senior positions for companies like Samsung
India Electronics Ltd, Nokia India Pvt Ltd, Whirlpool of India Ltd, Wipro Limited and
Philips India.
PNY Launches M1 Attaché USB Flash drive
PNY Technologies, a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of memory upgrade modules, announced the new M1 Attaché USB Flash
drive. The flash drive comes in a casing made of zinc alloy with a
fine texture to give it a rich feel. The matte finish makes it resistant
to gathering fingerprints and dust. The drive is water resistant and
durable. It comes with a lanyard attached to its end to easily attach
it to a keychain, purse, belt, etc. Its tiny dimensions and large capacity
makes it a very convenient medium of sharing and storing pictures, movies, music, games, work documents and more. The drive works with all
recent versions of Windows and Mac OS 10.3 and above. The drive comes
with 5 years warranty.
Kanimozhi and five other get bail in
2G scam case
The Delhi High court recently granted bail
to five people along with Dravida Munnettra
Kazhagam (DMK) party’s M K Kanimozhi,
accused in 2G scam case. The two-judge panel
granted bail to Sanjay Chandra, the managing
director of Unitech; Vinod Goenka, Chairman
of Etisalat’s India partner DB Group; and three
executives from Anil Ambani’s group. All the
accused were in jail since April 2011. Former
Telecom Secretary,
Siddharth Behura was
however denied bail.
Kapil Sibal
speaks on offensive
Internet content
Telecom and
Information
Technology Minister
Kapil Sibal recently met executives from
Facebook, Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft and
asked them to screen the content that is published on social networking sites like Facebook,
Twitter, etc. Sibal urged these companies to
monitor user generated content and ensute
that no offensive content gets posted online.
As reported by different media in the country,
Sibal at his meeting showed executives’ material
online that could be inflammatory; other content
was obscene and defamatory. “We have to take
care of the sensibilities of our people and have to
protect them,” Sibal told reporters. Responding
to the minister’s comments Facebook in a statement said that they already have policies in place
to ensure that no offensive metrial gets posted
on the site. It added, “We recognize the government’s interest in minimising the amount of
abusive content that is available online and will
continue to engage with the Indian authorities as
they debate this important issue.”
Techiewood
Emran Hashmi wants to endorse HTC
Bollywood’s serial kisser Imran Hashmi is a
much bigger gadget fan then we thought of. The
actor is presently using three handsets i.e. iphone
4S, BlackBerry Bold and one of Samsung’s latest
Android phone. Though the actor is using different OSes but finds android the best because he
finds it more user friendly and rich in content.
On being asked if Imran would like to endorse
any specific mobile
brand, the actor revealed
his love for HTC. “If
given an opportunity, I
would love to become
the face for HTC,” said
Hashmi. The actor also
confessed that he is
hooked to messaging
services and gaming on
mobile phones.
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India mPowered
India Telecom 2011 was flagged off with lots of fanfare in Delhi. The
theme of this year’s event was ‘m-powering India.’
I
ndia Telecom 2011 got underway on
December 7 in New Delhi. The threeday event, whose theme was ‘m-Powering India,’ was inaugurated by Prime
Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. Also present
on the occasion were Kapil Sibal, Minister
for Communications and Information
Technology, Milind Deora, Minister of
State for Communications and Information
Technology (D), and Sachin Pilot, Minister of
State for Communications and Information
Technology(P). The Prime Minister also
released the India Telecom Report at the
event. The theme of the event ‘m-Powering
India’ was based on the fact that though the
telecom sector has witnessed phenomenal
growth in the wireless space, this growth
has been largely confined to metros. Rural
and semi-urban India still remain largely
untouched by it.
Speaking on the issue, Dr. Manmohan Singh
said, “It is a matter of great satisfaction for us
that the India Telecom sector is growing at a
fast pace, but focus should be on empowering
the rural sector of the country. There should
be broadband connectivity for all village
panchayats in the country.”
While acknowledging the contribution of
regulatory bodies and policy makers of the
country, the Prime Minster said, “Our telecom
tariffs are the lowest in the world. All this is
possible due to the continuous efforts of our
regulatory regime. The growth in the sector
has been driven by various initiatives taken by
policy makers from time to time.”
The event serves a platform to promote
opportunities in the telecom sector for pushing economic growth and for attracting FDI.
Speaking on the occasion, Kapil Sibal said,
“India is a land of opportunities. There is a
huge investment opportunity in the telecom
sector as in the next five years there will be Rs
6.5 trillion investment in it.”
Sachin Pilot put forth his views and said
that after seeing a hike in the numbers of subscribers, now the focus would be on delivering
the quality services.
“The Government understands that there
are significant challenges and will work hard
to achieve the targets. The focus will be on
exploring new and emerging opportunities in
the sector,” he said.
The event aimed to showcase the latest
technologies, while exploring the potential
of untapped technologies and services such
as green solutions, Wi-Max, 3G, and mobile
financial services through exhibitions and conferences. The event hosted several information
sessions such as “Socio-economic impact of
mobile connectivity,” “Mobile: Powerful tool
for enabling financial services,” and “Valueadded services enhancing quality of life and
regulatory framework to achieve policy objectives.”
More than 250 exhibitors from 36 countries
marked their presence in the event. n
c e l l- e b r i t y
“I am not a very application
person”
She has been setting the screen on fire
with her performance in The Dirty Picture.
But Vidya Balan has a tech side to her as
well. We caught up with her to discuss
Bollywood and tech Harshita Rastogi
What do you think of Silk Smitha? I would like to
say Silk was a world famous dancing star of the 80s
and the first to be named after a fabric. She had an
enigma of her own. My character in the film Dirty
Picture is also a dancing star, so Milan Luthria, the
director, decided on using her name for my character, but only name and not the life story. The movie
has nothing to do with her life.
Can you give a famous dialogue from the movie?
“Kuch logon ka naam unke kaam se hota hai, mera
badnaam hoke hua hai”…
Do you think with this movie the zero figure
trend will die out? Well I don’t know about the
trend but all I have to say is that I have always celebrated my curves. I am a woman and like to look
like the same.
What according to you is the mantra of a successful movie? Film-making is all about team effort.
Everyone in the team needs to work hard in collaboration to make it a success. We have all contributed
in equal measures to make this film possible. Indian
films are mostly male character oriented; however,
The Dirty Picture has a female protagonist to take
all the attention.
How does it feel to be a part of a woman centric
movie like this one? It feels great to be a part of
a female lead movie. I think it is high time that
women get more logical roles in the industry.
Which phone do you use to stay connected?
BlackBerry Bold and iPhone 4 are the phones that
keep me connected to my loved ones anywhere and
everywhere.
Which applications do you use on your handsets? I am not a very application person.
Also, I am not very well conversant with
the iPhone as I have recently purchased
it. So, cannot think of anything other
than BBM at the moment.
Do you also socialise on social networking sites? If not for personal
use, then probably for promotionl
purposes… Well unfortunately, I am
not on any of the social networking sites,
be it Facebook or twitter. Besides, I don’t feel that
these really help in the promotion of a movie, as I
have created the buzz about my latest without using
them. I feel we all use different media to promote
our films and going SNS does not go down well
with me. n
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Augumented
Reality
2012:
What’s
Next?
The
new
beginning
Cloud
Computing
Multi-core
Processors
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Entertainment
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Apps
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Like every year, 2012 comes with its own baggage of hopes and aspirations. Even as
analysts and astrologers come out with their predictions of the year to come, we take a
look ahead to 2012 – and cast an eye back on 2011 – with some of the leading names of
the mobile industry through a series of questions. One thing we do know – THEY will
be very much in the news in 2012
Tech that rocked 2011
Alpna Doshi | CIO, Reliance
Communications Limited
3G-based services took India by storm last
year. Several telecom companies are now paying close attention to next steps on 3G applications and the huge advancement in mobile
technology. The future lies in converged telecom and such advancements are taking us a
step closer to “The Internet of Things.”
Prashanth Adiraju | directornew platforms business group, Intel
South Asia
The highlight has clearly been a new category
of mobile computers, called Ultrabooks. Intel
aims to re-invent mobile computing once
again with the Ultrabook category by marrying the best of PCs and tablets, providing the
most complete and satisfying of these experiences in one device.
Viral Oza | marketing director,
Nokia India
The most important technological advancement of last year, to my mind, would be the
availability of high end innovations on entry
level devices. Not only does this make services
like music and maps available to all but also
helps us reach larger audiences across India.
Shishir Singh | director – product
marketing consumer & SMB Dell India
With the growing pool of tech savvy consumers who started looking out for convenience of
using devices that allow for easy convergence
of their digital lives with better portability,
connectivity and entertainment features, the
introduction of our range of tablet and smartphones was a major milestone for Dell in India
which saw a good response from consumers.
P.Balaji | managing director, Sony
Ericsson India
The year 2011 witnessed some of the most
significant and revolutionary developments in
the telecom industry. While Android invasion
rose in 2010, a big lap was accomplished in the
following year owing to Android’s quarterly
market share inching over 50 per cent in in Q3
2011 (Gartner). Moreover, the online conversations in India around smartphone OS shows
that the Android mania is leading consumer
discussions.
Sunil Lalvani | director,
enterprise sales, Research In Motion India
The year 2011 was forecast as the year of
tablets and looking back, we can see the evolution of this category or the ‘third screen’
taking the technology experience a notch
higher. While the smartphone segment has
seen constant growth, it’s the tablet category
that took the market by storm this year, with
variety in technology, content, form factor and
price points. Several factors such as increased
Internet usage, lower tariffs and availability
of relevant content for Indian customers has
accelerated the adoption of tabletsin India.
Vishal Dhupar | managing direc-
tor, Asia – South, NVIDIA
In the year where tablets and smartphones
have been continually rolling out with
upgrades in either operating system, camera
quality, apps or more, NVIDIA stepped up
with a quad-core mobile processor which
will not only provide up to five times faster
computing (when compared to Tegra 2), but
also offer this exceptional processing speed
while consuming lesser power! Earlier this
month we announced the Tegra 3 to the world.
This Tegra system-on-a-chip (SoC) features
a quad-core processor with a 5th companion
core specifically designed for work requiring
little power, and an additional 12-core GeForce
GPU. So, there are no limits to the capabilities
of a smartphone/tablet powered by the Tegra
3, since consumers can listen to audio/video
files, play games, search directions, access
innumerous apps and still save on battery for
late-night book reading!
Industry. Telecommunication in India is a very
productive market, and has bloomed brilliantly
in past few years. 2011 year has seen many
developments but with two of the latest operating systems like iOS 5.0, and Android 4.0,
they certainly are the biggest one.
Rothin Bhattacharya |
EVP, marketing, strategy & business
development, HCL Infosystems
Labeling is an important development given
the increasing concern to save energy. It is
set to gain traction in the coming days, with
various PC manufacturers taking to it. HCL
Infosystems introduced its BEE range of laptops in March 2011. The Bureau of Energy
Efficiency is expected to come up with a
schedule for covering laptops, desktops and
office-automation products for mandatory
compliance. The main purpose to introduce
these BEE labeled laptops is to ensure that
manufacturers and brands conform to norms
appropriate to the energy conservation standards and to help customers make informed
decisions while buying them.
Ranjit yadav |
country head, mobile and IT business,
Samsung India
I think the year was truly a year of convergence. On the one hand you saw a plethora
of smart mobile devices like smartphones ,
tablets and the Galaxy Note being introduced.
On the other, thousands of applications were
developed which offered consumers opportunities to personalise their devices as never
before.
Prem Kumar | CEO, Meridian
Telecom
We consider the energy
efficient innovation and
evolution are the key
factors behind
the growth
of any
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Five things to look out for
æ Since the Internet is going to be the future;
all thanks to mobile Internet- Internet of
Things (IoT) appears to be a technology to
watch out in 2012. With this, objects that are
connected to the Internet can identify, sense
and communicate data.
æ Context-aware computing will improve the
quality of interaction with the end user or an
object.
æ Next-Generation Analytics will change
the way we make decisions. These NextGeneration Analytics will move from analyzing
what happened (history) to analyzing real-time
information to predict the future
æ The focus of apps will shift from consumer centric apps to enterprise specific.
Organization leaders will have to manage a
diverse approach to app stores and segment
apps by risk and value.
æ Cloud computing will have a broad long
term affect on most industries. Organisations
will continue to move from understanding the
cloud to decisions about which workloads to
implement on cloud services. The focus will
be more on hybrid cloud computing combin-
ing external public cloud services and private
cloud services.
Prashanth Adiraju | directornew platforms business group, Intel South
Asia
æ We expect to see continued explosion
of connected devices. It will be an era of
“always connected” and mobile connectivity
will become the preferred way of accessing
the Web (all types of devices, from phones to
notebooks). The concept of being “online” and
“offline” will become irrelevant.
æ Consumers are driving this era of computing. Consumers will continue to drive
usage models, further blurring the distinction
between types of devices notebook, tablet and
smartphones. It will be a multi-device environment and no one device will be sufficient.
æ IT vendors and service providers will be
looking to “bring cloud to the people” – it will
be as much a consumer story as an enterprise
story.
æ As more people gain access to computing, there will be a race to innovate around
services, apps, content. E-commerce, social,
gaming and location-based usage models will
strongly emerge.
æ The mobile revolution will continue to
drive more devices and data consumption,
demanding more energy, efficiency and secure
data centers to support the overwhelming
Internet traffic.
Nokia India
æ Further blurring of lines between mobile
phones and smartphones
æ Location-based services being pushed to
the next level
æ Even tighter integration of social experiences with location and commerce-based
services
æ India’s emergence as an apps superpower
æ Increasing number of people using the
mobile to access the Internet
æ One of the key trends to watch out for is
the innovation in the form factor – the laptops
are getting slimmer, and at the same time
are packed with performance. We believe
that mobility will dictate the form factor of
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1. Viral Oza | marketing director, Nokia
India
2. Vishal Gondal | god-in-chief, India
Games
3. Sunil Lalvani | director, enterprise
sales, Research In Motion India
4. Shishir Singh | director – product
5. Ranjit Yadav | country head, mobile and
IT business, Samsung India
6. Neeraj Aggarwal | partner & director,
Boston Consulting Group ( India) Pvt.
Limited
7. Apoorv Nagpal | managing director,
SAREGAMA India Limited
8. P.Balaji | managing director, Sony
Ericsson India
Ericsson India
æ LTE is indeed an emerging technology, in
the US and will follow in Japan
æ Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich will
offer new features from Android with the
current experience.
æ NFC or Near Field Communications is a
promising technology that ensures benefits
to consumers and businesses. It simplifies
transactions, data exchange, and is expected
to become a widely used system for making
payments by smartphone.
æ Mobility and Cloud - Research highlights
the exponential growth in the number of
mobile services using the cloud and the
number of mobile phone users that access
applications through the cloud. Telecom
operators are essentially developing effective
cloud services and applications, which can be
accessed easily and securely across a variety
of mobile devices
æ App Penetration - Applications are
increasing becoming an integral part of
mobile user interface, and with an open OS
like Android, the scope to create and download apps has only increased further.
Vishal Dhupar | managing director, Asia – South, NVIDIA
æ In one word: Mobility – On the front end
to the back end
computing devices in the years to follow. We
expect to see a proliferation of devices in different screen sizes to meet different needs
as accessibility of information-on-the-go,
becomes inevitable.
æ We will see huge use of flash memory
in consumer devices, entertainment
devices, equipment and other embedded
IT systems.
æ Given the focus on driving cost efficiencies, productivity and business growth, we
will continue to see technologies such as virtualization lead the way. Desktop virtualization would be critical in this aspect.
æ Cloud computing is at a tipping point
and we see it as a big opportunity for growing businesses to keep up with their growth
without having to invest in and manage their
infrastructure.
æ Besides gaming, which already is a
lucrative area in the mobile app development
domain, there’s a trend towards building
apps that use location based services and
also provide content sharing over social networking. The other trend in the mobile apps
domain is to empower knowledge workers
while on the move with powerful mobile apps
that connect them to their enterprise business
apps at the back-end: CRM, ERP, HRM, or
even custom apps like business process automation, etc.
æ Visualization:
Innovative use of images
and interactive technology to explore large
and high-density datasets
æ In-memory computing and cloud technologies
æ Web will be high on 3D
æ GPUs to become mainstream for
Scientific and Technical Computing
Telecom
æ Even already with so much upgradation,
processor and OS is the most exciting thing
to watch out for
æ Mobile 3-D to drive user acceptance
æ Revolution in the Android and iPhone
platforms
æ Cloud Computing
æ Green Technology
Ranjit yadav |
Samsung India
æ New smartphones across different OS
platforms
æ Growing number of applications and
higher downloads
æ Ability to write, crop and edit text while
on the go on devices like the Galaxy Note
æ New sizes in tablets
æ Easier connectivity with 3G.
What’s not
happening
Snooping of SMS like the way Gmail snoops our
e-mails. Apart from regulatory hurdles, there
is strong customer sentiment against telco’s
snooping on their customer communications.
While customers have accepted e-mail operators snooping their personal emails, the same is
not an accepted practice for SMS yet.
Prashanth Adiraju | directornew platforms business group, Intel South
Asia
3D technology across a range of communication
and entertainment platforms that promises a
whole new level of immersion, interaction and
realism WILL NOT BECOME a mainstream element of cinema, TV, Internet, video games and
even mobile phones.
Viral Oza | marketing director, Nokia
India
We definitely don’t see people using lesser of their
mobile phones, or only youngsters using apps
–apps will become more ubiquitous
We do not see the need for the traditional notebook or desktop form factor dying out, though
we do see an evolution in terms of design and
functionality to offer consumers the power to
do more, be more flexible and convenience.
While tablets will continue their growth story
along with Tegra through the coming year,
I don’t see them replacing laptops until Ice
Cream Sandwich grows in popularity and Win8
on ARM provides enough comfort and familiarity to the average consumer to make him switch
to a tablet for most of his computing needs.
Rothin Bhattacharya | EVP,
marketing, strategy & business development, HCL Infosystems
There have been talks on the deterioration of
PC market in India. But we feel that the sentiment is premature. Devices like tablets and PCs
serve different needs of the consumers and
demand for these devices will co-exist.
Telecom
I don’t see much happening in terms of price
points. Not much movement on that front is
likely
lead story
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Which tech’s going to rock
Technology will enable context based services
thereby improving user experience and capturing the imagination of the people. Major
trends that I expect to see are: contextual
and social user experience, mobile centric
applications and services, increasing measures
towards network security, cloud computing.
Prashanth Adiraju | director-
new platforms business group, Intel South
Asia
The unprecedented demand for computing
from client devices to the cloud will continue
in 2012 and this will continue to create significant opportunities for the industry.
Nokia India
We can expect Location Based Services to
take off in a big way next year. Location is
one of the main enablers that deliver services
to users. Context-aware services will be key
for mobile apps, and location is a key enabler
of that. Social networking will continue to
flourish. Mobile commerce and payments will
spread further with technologies like NFC.
We expect to see a proliferation of devices in
different screen sizes to meet different needs
as accessibility of information-on-the-go,
becomes inevitable. However, while mobility
is growing very fast we also see maturity in
customers growing where they are identifying
their need and priority between mobility and
sharing/higher screen size.
Ericsson India
We believe that NFC can revolutionise applications making it simpler to make transactions,
exchange digital content, and connect electronic devices with a touch. It just requires
somebody to take the lead.
Sunil Lalvani | d irector,
As businesses and individual customers are
rapidly embracing latest in technology in their
office or personal lives we will see rapid proliferation of NFC technology in the near future
both globally and in India too. Augmented
Reality adds a new dimension to location
based search, making the function a lot more
relevant to its users. Mobile gaming is the next
big thing in the telecommunication space with
advent of social gaming in India. Social gaming started in India with the launch of games
on the social networks, but now this has been
extended to the smartphones and tablets with
games created specifically for these form factors. Motion sensor gaming is another technology that will evolve in a couple of years.
With our lives turning constantly mobile, we
believe that a user’s mobile device is their
most personal computer. This trend will only
continue over the next year. We also expect
to see today’s high-end mobile technology
moving down to lower price-points as it’s succeeded by the new generation. While there
will always be a core of early adopters who
demand the latest and greatest, affordability is
the key to bringing a new level of mobile experience to the masses. Another trend we have
noticed is that TVs are becoming important
display devices for consumers. Increasingly,
tablets and super-phones are being integrated
with HDMI output and are supported by quadcore devices capable of driving them. Hence,
when at home, users will prefer to view content on the largest screen available to them
and will be able to conveniently do so on their
TVs by next year. We can also see the advent
of console-quality gaming onto tablet devices
along with PlayStation/Wii controller compatibility.
Rothin Bhattacharya | EVP,
marketing, strategy & business development, HCL Infosystems
India has the world’s second-largest mobile
phone users with over 865 million and more
than 200 brands. In such a scenario technology will evolve in all ways whether it’s about
operating systems and processor or connectivity and various other possible developments.
In short we will experience everything we
missed this year.
Ranjit yadav |
Samsung India
We expect the trend of smart mobile devices
getting stronger in 2012 - new sizes of tablets,
new smartphones as well newer applications
across platforms.
Vishal Gondal | god-in-chief,
India Games
Clearly in 2012, we will see application stores
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gain more popularity and we expect around
30 million people to game next year. There
are going to be more touch devices and better
data connectivity for people to be able to get
a better experience. So the avenues of gaming
are going to improve considerably in the coming year.
Apoorv Nagpal | managing
director, SAREGAMA India Limited
In the coming year, we expect that there will
be better business models in place that will
enables consumers to get good quality music
free of cost and also allow music companies to
make money. Music will be used in innovative
ways and things like musical games, etc., are
expected to gain popularity.
Neeraj Aggarwal | partner &
director, Boston Consulting Group ( India)
Pvt. Limited
In 2012, we expect that there will be more
clarity on the policy front for the telecommunication industry in India. This will help
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Favourites of 2011
iCloud is good and has an interesting product conceptualization. The manner in which it allows you
to sync all your devices seamlessly and share data
across all your gadgets is an impressive feature. It
will be good to see how Indian audiences accept
this service.
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Viral Oza | marketing director, Nokia
India
My favorite devices/services were the Nokia Lumia
family, Nokia Asha devices and Music on S40
Ericsson India
One of my current favourites is the Sony Ericsson
Xperia Arc S. With customized apps, entertainment
services and exclusive operator data offers, it is a fully
loaded device which would appeal to the current
generation of tech-savvy, well-informed and smart
consumers.
9. Prashanth Adiraju | director-new
platforms business group, Intel
South Asia
10. Alpna Doshi | CIO, Reliance
11. Prem Kumar | CEO, Meridian
Telecom
12. Vishal Dhupar | managing director,
Asia – South, NVIDIA
13. Rothin Bhattacharya | EVP,
marketing, strategy & business
development, HCL Infosystems
in giving it the right push. Also a
lot depends on the regulations to
facilitate mergers and acquisitions,
which will lead to much needed
consolidation in the industry.
Prem Kumar | CEO,
Meridian Telecom
Developments in convergence will
be an interesting way technology
will evolve next year. Also there
will be developments in the mobility applications space involving
search, social networking, mobile
transactions, etc. Speaking of
mobility, we will also see increasing use of mobile devices and
tablets in the workplace. In the
enterprise space cloud computing
will evolve further as companies
and even the government will
turn to cloud computing for better
data management and at optimum
costs.
Sunil Lalvani | director,
I love my BlackBerry Curve 9380. it’s a beautifully crafted first all-touch smartphone in the
BlackBerry Curve family. It is both stylish and
easy-to-use, featuring a brilliant 3.2” high resolution
all-touch display. Additionally, I enjoy been con-
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nected with my friends and family and with BBM 6
and socially connected apps.
Vishal Dhupar | managing director,
Asia – South, NVIDIA
My favorite product/service will have to be
Virtual Graphics Platform powered by Quadro and
virtualization. I am excited about this, because it
connects Quadro with Tegra and it is an interesting
use case.
EVP, marketing, strategy & business development, HCL Infosystems
For me the X1 ME TAB has been my favorite product. The applications pre loaded in the X1 are very
useful and help me in staying connected and entertained on the go.
Ranjit yadav |
Samsung India
Difficult to choose between the Samsung Galaxy
S2 , Samsung Galaxy Note and the Samsung
Galaxy Tab 750... guess all three.
Prem Kumar | CEO, Meridian Telecom
It’s great that we finally saw the launch of 3G services in India. This has taken the Internet surfing
experience on mobile to the next level.
consumer products, as well as Advanced Exchange
warranty on our smartphones and tablets.
Prashanth Adiraju | director-new
platforms business group, Intel South Asia
From Intel’s perspective, some of the innovative products and services for the year 2012 will
include Ultrabook, which will change mobile computing in 2012; Ivy Bridge processors, which will
go a long way in revolutionising the computing
performance by lowering powering consumption,
adding new security integration, enhancing integrated graphics and improving popular wireless
display capabilities in notebooks; and cloud computing, which will continue to transform the way
businesses function.
Shishir Singh | director –product
We believe that our customer services and solutions will be the key differentiator for Dell over the
next year for both the home as well as the commercial segments. We have steadily been building
our capabilities in the area and have been the
first to offer unique support services like Onsite
service and Complete Cover warranty on all our
Ericsson India In 2012, we intend to shift the
entire portfolio to smartphones; aiming to provide
the best user experience for those looking for
premium features, performance, and even various
media that provide entertainment on-the-go.
Vishal Dhupar | managing
director - South Asia, NVIDIA Graphics
You can expect some pretty exciting new developments in the fields of mobility and visual computing. Overall, the industry will continue its love
affair with all things mobile. One particularly interesting trend to look out for will be increasingly
visible technology like virtual instrument panels
in cars and highly sophisticated in-car entertainment, etc.
EVP, marketing, strategy & business development, HCL Infosystems
As you must be aware, we have introduced our
new X1 ME tablet. Since the mobility space is
still relatively new to the Indian customer, we are
positive about the response that this product will
receive in 2012 in the Indian market.
infocus
Hrishita Bhatt recently
turned Producer with the
film ‘Shakal Pe Mat Ja’ and
it shows in her tech wish
for 2012, which revolves
around video calls.
“Technology has always
been changing and I hope
it will continue to do that
to make our lives easier
and better. I wish that in
2012 video calling really
kicks off and makes one
closer to one’s near ones
even when one is not at
the same place,” she says.
Now that is what we call
being video-sensitive!
-Hrishita Bhatt
He may be known as Bollywood’s
serial kisser, but what Emran Hashmi
yearns for is simplicity in gadgetry. If
that sounds hard to digest, just check
out his wish for the coming year. He
says, “I wish gadgets to get slightly
userfriendly, because the simpler
they are, the better they are to use.
Also I wish to own a gadget which
performs all the actions really fast.”
2012
-Emran Hashmi
What the
Stars Want
While running out of creative juice is not a problem for Indian Ocean’s drummer and vocalist Amit Kilam, he certainly hopes that 2012 will see smartphones
that do not keep running out of battery juice. He says, “We are on tour most of
the time and that’s when the problem with the phone battery arises. I wonder
out of all the features why do the manufacturers not improve on the battery
back-up of smartphones? In the new year I wish to own a smartphone with a
great battery backup”.
-Amit Kilam
We expected Ashish Shah, a
known fashion photographer in
the industry, to wish for something magical in the camera
department. Or maybe something
radical in image editing and
graphics. How wrong we were! He
surprised us all by coming up with
a rather quirky answer. After pondering the issue with due seriousness, he came up with a wish for
a gadget that many will be lining
up to buy, if it ever makes it to the
market. “I certainly need a gadget
which cooks up some excuses on
my behalf to my girlfriend while I
am working,” he said.
-Ashish Shah
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Ramona Arena who was seen
in bollywood hits like Kabhi
Khushi Kabhi Gum, Aetbaar,
Kuch Naa Kaho and is also
a famous VJ is really tired of
being struck in jams for hours
and carrying two handheld
devices to communicate. In
2012, she hopes to have, “A
feature like a map with live
satellite images which shows
me the current traffic status in
the area I am in, up to the area
I want to be in. Also, I desperately feel the need of a
high-end dual SIM phone,
which the industry still
lacks. I hope both my
wishes get fulfilled this
year.”
-Ramona Arena
What does the celebrity crowd
expect from the new year in tech terms?
We cornered some very well known
names to get an idea of what they
would want in their tech baskets in the
year 2012, if they had a genie on call
Harshita Rastogi
Reality show winner and professional
singer, Abhijeet
Sawant, is clearly a
devotee on the altar
of 3G and good looking devices. Asked
what he would want
in tech in 2012, he
said, “I wish to own
a phone that stands
out in video calling
so that it becomes
an experience in
itself.” And here we
were expecting him
to wax eloquent
about some fancy
music player!
-Abhijeet Sawant
Pritish Nandy, a
known journalist and
media personality,
gets the award for
the more creative
tech wish of them
all for 2012. “I want
to rub my cell phone
and see a genie pop
out and ask me for
three wishes. I have
my wishes ready for
years now,” he said.
Now, THAT is some
wish.
-Pritish Nandy
Chetan Bhagat,
famous author and
now the brand ambassador for Huawei
Mobiles, wishes to get
back alphanumeric
keypads in mobile
phone. Missing their
features, he says,
“They might
be the trend,
but I don’t
really find
touchscreens
comfortable
enough to type
or use. With
all the smart
and exclusive
features the
phone carries, I
wish the phone
manufacturers
bring back
the alphanumeric keypad
this year”. He
COULD try some
BlackBerry handsets, we think.
-Chetan Bhagat
She may have become
the fantasy of millions
after The Dirty Picture, but
Vidya Balan seems tired of
the trappings of success,
in particular the constant
need to talk to her fans
and the media. Her idea
for a dream gadget in 2012,
therefore, was: “In the
year 2012, I wish for a gadget that smartly answers
all the media questions
in my voice. It should
actually speak my mind
to the media, that ways
I would easily promote
my films and escape from
the tiring sessions with
media.” We know many
media persons who would
be heartbroken if that
were to indeed happen.
-Vidya Balan
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fa c e t o fa c e
“This is a time
of enormous
opportunities”
In spite of formidable
challenges facing it, the
Indian VAS market has been
witnessing definitive and
desirable changes. Sanjay
Sinha, VP-mobile content,
ACL Wireless shares his
thoughts about the Indian
VAS scene Heena Jatav &
Mukesh Kumar Singh
Where does the Indian VAS market
stand today? How is it different from
the global trends? This is the moment of
unprecedented challenges for VAS in India.
Consumer trust is low, no killer application
in sight, the regulatory regime is rigorous,
yet this is the moment of enormous opportunities. The old VAS order - with operator
delivered, operator promoted and operator charged services - is definitely under
stress. Conventional media (SMS/Voice)
and the message (Bollywood and cricket
in content) are being tested. While it may
be too early to say alternative models have
emerged, there are some decisive movements. Device centric, app store based, ad
supported and D2C models are beginning
to emerge. Wireless data (2G, 2.5G and 3G)
is growing like never before.
There is also some notable divergence
between India and global VAS trends.
Historically VAS usage globally is
higher in comparison - SMS penetration in India under 50 per cent
while it’s as high as 80 per cent in
countries like Indonesia and China.
Voice-based VAS on the other hand
has a high penetration in India.
What percentage of operators’ revenue comes from VAS? 12 to 18 per
cent of revenue is currently generated from VAS in India.
How would you measure the
success or failure of VAS? For
me, the criteria for success are
(a) user uptake, speed and volume (b) user engagement, average usage per customer, and (c)
user retention, life-span of user.
I firmly believe that financial
rewards are a natural outcome of
success in these parameters.
What are the challenges
facing monetising of VAS
content? The prevailing VAS ecosystem in India has certain built-in
inefficiencies. The revenue distribution
between players in the existing value
chain is heavily skewed in favor of carriers. Lack of transparency in reconciliation
and delayed payment cycle further amplify
problems. There are other challenges.
Reaching the customer is foremost among
these. The most prevalent, powerful and
cost-effective medium - bulk SMS (OBD
and WAP push)- is now under stress
on account of regulatory restrictions.
Moreover bulk of the high ARPU users are
registered under DND (Do Not Disturb)
which means you can’t reach them. The
advertising medium is too expensive to
merit ROI. Average wallet size of mobile
subscriber, which some reports claim to
under Rs 10, is another big challenge. So
even if there are demand and supply, there
may not be enough money for transaction.
What is the most popular VAS in India?
Will we see the Indian market graduating
from Bollywood and cricket related apps?
The most popular VAS service, so far, has
been the CRBT (Caller Ring Back Tune).
This is the number one service in terms
of penetration as well as revenue, for most
carriers in India. The good news is that
VAS in India is already moving beyond
Bollywood and cricket. There have been
some significant innovations on VAS front,
especially on consumer utility sphere.
Mobile learning, jobs, health, search, classified are new VAS buzzwords. There has
been some laudable push from carriers in
these areas. Then there are mobile advertising and payment, expected to grow
exponentially in next 2-5 years. n
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GPS and the
Art of Navigation
There was a time when finding
your way about town meant
having to stop and ask passers-by,
or getting tangled in a foldout
map. Thanks to technology,
you now have a new option
– using a handy gadget or
app to tell you where you
are and where you
wish to go. That
is the magic
of GPS
Harshita
Rastogi
T
he days of relying on strangers, street
signs and paper maps to find your
way about town are coming to an
end, all thanks to a new technological superhero called geo-positioning. Once the
preserve of just a few niche devices, GPS is
now available in just about every smartphone
and tablet, and is making its way to notebooks.
What’s more, even personal navigation devices
(PNDs) are getting mainstream now and are
more affordable than in the past – you can get
one for less than Rs 10,000 now.
Directions from satellites
in the sky
Navigation devices and apps today not only
help you locate a place but give you further
detailed information, ranging from restaurants
to historical monuments to bank ATMS and
public libraries and hospitals. If something
is important
enough to be mentioned in a map, it is a fair
chance that you will be able to see
it on an app or a device. The main motive
behind these is simply to simplify the complexities of mapping.
Although initially used by defence forces,
GPS-driven devices now are steadily going
mainstream. These work on signals received
from dedicated satellites that help locate the
device’s location with surprising ease, serving
up latitudinal and longitudinal information.
When you enter the name of the destination,
the system would locate the route and sometimes, also would suggest the best amongst
all possible routes you should opt for. There
are devices that give voice commands on
turn-by-turn directions with visual displays
of the route as you follow the directions men-
tioned. A new development is the emergence
of A-GPS or assisted GPS. While GPS works
purely on radio signals from satellites, A-GPS
has the extra provisions to make use of mobile
network resources that help locate and utilise
signals from satellites in low signal conditions
as well. A-GPS resolves these signal problems
by using data available from a network provided by a third party, and works a whole lot
faster than conventional GPS, although it does
tend to work effectively only when a cellular
network is present. Rare is the smartphone
today that comes without GPS or locationbased services that allow you to share your
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location or provide information based on
where you are.
PNDs, ANSs, and phones
GPS navigation devices for consumers include
PNDs and automotive navigations systems
(ANSs). PNDs are actually mini computers
that are based generally on a smartphone OS
(Windows CE is the most preferred option)
and come with positioning capability as well
as navigation functions. They often come
embedded with maps provided by companies
such as TomTom, i-GO, Map My India, and
SATNAV. An ANS, on the other hand, is based
on satellites for functioning and is designed
keeping in mind the navigation requirements
of an automobile – these generally come fixed
with cards. They use GPS to obtain the position of the user and surroundings as per the
information fed in the map database given in
the unit. But stand-alone navigation devices
have of late been facing stiff competition from
smartphones that come with GPS/A-GPS and
give the user to install a variety of mobile
based navigation applications. Many cellphones in fact even come preloaded with their
own maps and navigation software – Nokia
was one of the pioneers in providing free
navigation on its phones. Viral Oza, marketing
director, Nokia India says, “Navigation services
like Nokia Maps are adopted for ease of use
and faster and better performance to find places and the best way to get there. Such services
have been appreciated by consumers in India.”
due to the limitation of network, which often
occurs in remote villages and hill side towns,”
he points out. “Unlike phones, there is no call
or message to disturb the continuity in the
connectivity which results in a better user
experience”, explains Jitendra Sharma, a rigorous traveller. However, Harsh Rathore, an IT
professional, feels that mobile phones can do
the navigation task pretty well too. “Being new
to the city I need to look into the navigating
application on my phone for help for some
or the other reason, and thus it is of great
use. When the purpose is being served on
my mobile phone, why would I carry another
device for help or invest so much in a dedi-
Phone or PND?
PND manufacturers, however, claim that
smartphones pose no threat to them.
“Possessing expertise in standalone navigation
device for over 20 years now, we think that
though smartphones provide navigation app,
they are not as professional as a GPS navigator.
We are dedicated devices and work on a single
device and thus, offer services in better ways.
Moreover, we fix issues about sunlight reflection and provide a bigger and better display
screen. Also, navigation apps on mobile phone
often do not work in no signal zones”, says
Tony An, marketing director for Garmin Asia.
“We are optimistic about demands of standalone navigation devices. People are still willing to purchase a camera even though their
mobile phones have a built in camera”, said he.
Yoginder Yadav, a trekker echoes this sentiment. “While navigation services on mobile
phones are undoubtedly handier and easily
accessible, the dedicated PND are exclusively
for navigation based services and thus, work
best to serve the purpose especially in outdoor locations. Also, one cannot rely on live
mobile navigation in low signal or dead zones
cated navigation device? Also, I think a phone
is more convenient to use,” he says.
Both devices have their plus and minus
points. While dedicated navigation devices
are better at catching satellite signals and tend
to lock on to your location a whole lot faster,
mobile phones with GPS receivers perform
more than adequately in urban, well-connected
areas and save the user from the need to carry
an extra device. What’s more, the Internet connectivity of mobile phones let you share your
location on social networks or mail your location directly from the device. Perhaps this is
why many developers have started coming out
with map solutions for mobile phones as well
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as PNDs. Whether you opt for a dedicated
device or an app for a cellphone, one thing you
will not lack is choice. There are a number of
dedicated PND manufacturers offering several
models of such devices across different price
segments, while several cellphones today
come preloaded with navigation software, and
also come with a wide selection of apps that
can be downloaded to them. Many of them,
like Google Maps, are even free of cost.
And of course, there are other innovations
taking place in the space.“We are always innovating and bringing better features at even better prices. We have recently supplied almost
650 devices of a connected 4-in-1 PND for the
Bihar Government,” reveals Amit Prasad, MD
and CEO of SatNav Technologies. “The device
has Navigation, Tracking, Logging and can also
be used as a tablet/phone! We are the only
company in the country to have such a product today. We have also added the lost mobile
protection software as a bundled offering with
our navigation software for smartphones.
Thus, the customer gets all-India navigation,
and at the same time also gets a tool to protect
his smartphone from getting lost.”
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But it would be naive to assume that these
device are infallible. Let it not be forgotten
that they depend heavily on the maps installed
on them to pinpoint your location as well as
serve up routing facilities. In a country like
India where constant constuction is the rule
rather than exception, roads often get blocked
and routes diverted, it does take long for a
GPS-driven device to get out of date, simply
because its maps are not updated quickly
enough. Data providers say that collecting
data in India is a challenge in itself due to the
unplanned division of areas into segments.
Names of roads and monuments change frequently, and new ones pop up at the rate of
knots – the Commonwealth Games held in
Delhi made almost every PND in the country
obsolete as they came with new roads, routes
and landmarks. Moreover, the addressing
system is again not very systematically done
creating difficulties for data collectors – it is
still very difficult to search for addresses on
mobile devices!
In these circumstance, updation of data
at regular intervals becomes a necessity for
the service providers. “We use the best of the
technology as per the geographical and
climatic conditions of the area, and localised
team of well educated professionals to work
on field for collecting data. The updated data
collected is send to the R&D centre in Mumbai
where at regular intervals the final updation
in every segment of our mapping solutions
takes place. You can find our updated versions
of solutions every quarter”, says Rajat Tandon,
country director-sales, NAVTEQ. SATNAV’s
Amit Prasad concurs on the need to update
information. “Updating maps is a continuous
exercise. Other than our workers on field,
we have a dedicated group of ‘citizens mappers’ who are our GPS enthusiast and give
map inputs about their city on regular basis,”
he told us.
But in spite of these challenges, prospects
for GPS devices in India remain bright. Rajat
Tandon, country director-sales, NAVTEQ
points out “About 70 per cent of the people
are aware of navigation services. However,
many have still never used these. As per our
reports, out of this 70 per cent, about 24 per
cent have actually used GPS devices or navigation based mobile application. This percentage
is expected to rise in the coming years. The
in-car GPS device manufacturers feel that the
Indian automobile market is gaining momentum with every year. The volume of manufacturing units is increasing year by year and we
think that the market would keep growing.”
The day is not far off when you will ask a
mobile device rather than a stranger for directions. That is the magic of GPS allied with
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The Superphone
Face-Off
The Nokia Lumia
800, Motorola
RAZR XT910 and
the iPhone 4S
have all hit Indian
shores within
days of each other.
Which is the best
option for the
Indian consumer
looking for a super
smartphone? We
put the three in
the ring for a toeto-toe slugfest
Nimish Dubey
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eldom has the Indian consumer been
as spoilt for choice for a high-end
smartphone as in the past few weeks.
The month of November has seen
no fewer than three devices, each claiming to
be the best in its particular segment, being
launched in the country – the Nokia Lumia
800, Nokia’s first Windows Phone device; the
Motorola RAZR XT910 , which brings Android
to the iconic RAZR series, together with
Kevlar; and the iPhone 4S, the latest edition
of the device that many people still refer to as
the Godphone. With all of them priced in the
region of Rs 30,000 or more, and each of them
representing a different platform and brand,
those looking for a high-end smartphone (a
“superphone,” we would say) are in for a tough
choice. We decided to pit the three devices
against each other on different parameters.
Hardware
The results:
Looks
We have rarely seen so much smartphone eye
candy. The iPhone 4S retains the sleek good
looks of the iPhone 4 with its mix of glass and
metal, the Lumia 800 comes with the minimalistic beauty and curved display of the N9,
while the RAZR XT910 redefines smartphone
anorexia and introduces Kevlar as a smartphone component. While choosing between
the three was tough, we ultimately got swayed
by the iPhone 4S – it was simply the most
outstanding and eye-catching design of the
three. The RAZR’s slimness got it second spot.
The fact that the Lumia 800 came in third just
shows how tough the competition was.
Ranking: 1. iPhone 4S, 2. RAZR XT910, 3.
Lumia 800
This is again a very tight call. In terms of processor, the RAZR XT910 and iPhone 4S boast
dual core processors, and all three devices
come with stacks of storage capacity, 8.0megapixel cameras, and very good displays.
However, factoring in everything, we would
award this round to the RAZR because of its
combination of powerful processor and very
good display. The iPhone 4S edges out the
Lumia on grounds of its dual core processor,
which eclipses the single core one found in
the Lumia, even though that performs at the
rate of knots. Very tight finish again.
Ranking: 1. RAZR XT910, 2. iPhone 4S, 3.
Lumia 800
User Interface
And yet another battle that goes right down
to the wire. While the iPhone 4S features the
incredibly intuitive iOS interface with a notification bar, courtesy of iOS 5, the RAZR brings
the goodness of Android Gingerbread
with its browsing and social networking
muscle, and the Lumia 800 banks on the
incredible fluidity of Windows Phone 7.5.
The Lumia would have taken this round
but for the Siri factor on the iPhone 4S
which gives users a whole new way to
interact with their devices – by simply
uttering normal commands. The RAZR
XT910 comes third simply because it does
not bring too much new to the Android
table.
Ranking: 1. iPhone 4S, 2. Lumia 800, 3.
RAZR XT910
VS
Preloaded software
In terms of what already comes on the
device, the category throws out a clear winner with the Lumia 800 winning by a mile.
The device comes with everything a user
would need from a browser to a complete
office suite to excellent e-mail and social
networking support, along with navigation
software from Nokia. The RAZR XT910 with
its lethal combination of Google services and
Motorola add ons comes second. The iPhone
4S trails in third, simply because of the three,
it comes with the least pre-installed goodies
not going beyond the basics – yes, there are
apps for just about everything on it, but you
need to get out and get them.
Ranking: 1. Lumia 800, 2. RAZR XT910, 3.
iPhone 4S
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Downloadable apps
how super it claims to be. And when it comes
to basic phone tasks and performance, we
found the Lumia coming to the fore with
good call quality, the best battery life of the
lot, and the best handling of text messages
of the threesome. The RAZR XT910 came in
second mainly because of its awesome call
quality while the iPhone 4S came third, being
a decent rather than outstanding performer in
the phone department.
This was a no-brainer, with the iPhone 4S
sweeping away the opposition in terms of
quality. While Android and Windows Phone
both have a decent number of apps, they cannot match the iTunes App Store for sheer
quality, be it in productivity or entertainment
apps. The RAZR XT910 came in second, while
the Lumia 800 trailed in third, very much the
outsider in this category, although with every
chance of catching up in the coming days.
Ranking: 1. Lumia 800, 2. RAZR XT910, 3.
iPhone 4S
Lumia 800
Camera
Value for money
Normally cameras are considered as mere
add-ons to the entire smartphone experience
but when the competition is so tight, they
do become factors. We must confess that we
had expected the Lumia to boss this segment,
given Nokia’s amazing track record in cameraphones (we get goose pimples when we think
of the N8 and even the N95). However, the
iPhone 4S swept the decks with the competition with amazing detail and depth in both
videos and still images. The Lumia performed
creditably while the RAZR was frankly disappointing.
Even those ready to cough out a fair bit for
their devices demand bang for their bucks.
And in this category, the Lumia 800 scores,
offering a fair deal for its price tag of approximately Rs 29,000. The iPhone 4S ironically
comes second, in spite of its massive price tag
of Rs 44,500, because it simply is doing things
that no other device can. The RAZR’s price of
Rs 33,990 however seems stiff when you consider that equally powerful devices on Android
like the Samsung Galaxy S2 are available for
lesser.
Ranking: 1. iPhone 4S, 2. Lumia 800, 3. RAZR
XT910
7. Entertainment
Each device offers something special for different kinds of users. While those loving gaming
will find the iPhone 4S to be their device of
choice, the RAZR XT910 comes across as the
best in terms of sound quality, and the Lumia’s
display is awesome for watching video and
films. Frankly it is a very close finish, but we
would incline towards the iPhone 4S in this
department too as one can do so much more
on it to pass the time. The RAZR XT910 edges
out the Lumia for second spot, thanks to its
awesome sound and the fact that it is very
good in the video department, whereas the
Lumia excels mainly in the latter.
Lumia 800
Web browsing and online
performance
The RAZR XT910 takes the mantle here
thanks to its excellent browser that supports
Flash and also Android’s seamless integration
with various social networks. It is a very close
finish between the iPhone 4S and the Lumia
800 for the second spot, but we would go with
the iPhone 4S because of its improved browser
(tabs, options to read later) and massive app
The month of November
has seen no fewer than
three devices, each
claiming to be the best in
its particular segment,
being launched in the
country – the Nokia
Lumia 800, Nokia’s first
Windows Phone device;
the Motorola RAZR XT910
, which brings Android
to the iconic RAZR
series, together with
Kevlar; and the iPhone
4S, the latest edition
of the device that many
people still refer to the
Godphone
reservoir which lets you get information in a
variety of ways from the Web. The Lumia 800
performs respectably but comes third.
Ranking: 1. RAZR XT910, 2. iPhone 4S, 3.
Lumia 800
General phone performance
A phone is a phone is a phone, no matter
Ranking: 1. Lumia 800, 2. iPhone 4S, 3. RAZR
XT910
Conclusion
If one were to just go by numbers, the iPhone
4S seems to have an edge over the Lumia 800
and the RAZR XT910, winning on five parameters and coming second on three. However,
it is actually run very close by the Lumia
800 which wins on three parameters, each of
which is of critical importance to relatively
new smartphone users – preloaded software,
general phone performance and value for
money. The RAZR on the other hand seems to
be a good blend of style and substance, winning two categories (including best hardware
and online performance) and coming second
in five, showing it to be a very consistent
performer. In the end, as always, it seems to
boil down to what a person needs. Those
looking for a smartphone that looks great
and performs brilliantly and have no budget
constraints should simply opt for an iPhone
4S, those on tighter budgets but still seeking
high performance levels would love the Lumia
800, while those who want a blend of style
and performance but are not willing to go the
whole hog as far as expenditure goes would
find themselves attracted to the RAZR XT910.
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Inactive
Connection
Dead
Phone!
The move by a leading
service provider to
terminate those connections
that they considered
“inactive” has stirred up
Indian subscribers once
again. What is the rationale
for this move? And is it a
fair one? We take a closer
look Heena Jatav
T
here is never a dull moment in the
life of the Indian mobile user – tariffs
get hiked, SMSes get limited, and the
kind of spam one receives changes
from day to day. Now, added to the mix is a
decision by Airtel, to cancel its prepaid mobile
connections which have been inactive for
more than two months i.e. 60 days. As per the
company’s announcement, disconnected numbers will be allotted to new customers after
two months.
According to Airtel, any subscriber who
does not make any outgoing call or SMS
and does not recharge their number within 60
days can be considered an inactive user, and
runs the risk of their connection
getting cancelled. As of now, all service pro-
viders have a policy that a number has
to be recharged with Rs 200 within six
months to enjoy uninterrupted lifetime validity service. But as per Airtel’s new decision, a
subscriber now has to recharge the number
or make outgoing calls within 60 days or face
disconnection.
Consumer “sufferage”
Just like in the TRAI decision to restrict the
number of SMSes that could be sent from a
single SIM, here too the consumer seems to be
at the receiving end. After all, there are plenty
of consumers who keep a relatively inactive
second phone connection for a variety of very
valid reasons:
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tions with the regular one only for call
receiving purposes.
People who travel to other states generally
keep multiple SIMs so that when they move
outside their hometown, they need not to
buy a connection again or suffer roaming
charges.
People who frequently visit India from
abroad.
Consumers who are living in areas where recharge coupons are not readily
available.
Consumers who have given a SIM to their
old parents who can just receive calls.
Students who live in another town for
study or job purposes and visit their hometown once or twice a year.
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Tata- Minimum Rs 200/- recharge in six
months is mandatory otherwise SIM will be
deactivated. And if there is only incoming call
but no outgoing calls then also the SIM will
be deactivated because the system does
not track incoming calls.
Airtel- At least one
outgoing or incoming call
is necessary within fifteen
days otherwise the SIM will
temporary deactivated and if
there is no call or recharge
within two months
then the SIM will
be permanently
deactivated will
be allotted to
another customer after
three months.
Airtel’s move could adversely
affect all these users, whose only fault
was trusting them with their money.
But why is Airtel doing this? The
reason is simple – it is running out of
numbers. Literally.
The numbers
game
Airtel has the
biggest subscription
base in the country with
a total of 1,718,46,824
(prepaid and postpaid)
wireless subscribers in
August 2011. The company says that its
decision is being taken on the grounds of
a shortage of phone numbers and it will
affect Airtel’s 20 million subscribers across
the country. As per TRAI’s recent data,
Bharti Airtel has 88.86% subscribers under
VLR (Visitor Location Register)
which reflect that the
company has
22.86% inactive
subscribers.
Visitor Location
Register (VLR)
is a temporary
database of subscribers who have
roamed into the particular area which it serves.
Each base station in the network
is served by exactly one VLR - hence a
subscriber cannot be present in more than one
VLR at a time.
Airtel is not the only operator facing this
problem. Other operators too have a
significant numbers of inactive subscribers.
As per TRAI’s data, out of the total 865.71
million subscribers in the country, 608.63
million were active on the date of Peak VLR
for the month of August 2011, BSNL CDMA
excluded. The proportion of VLR subscribers
is approximately 70.30 per cent of the total
wireless subscribers’ base reported by the
service providers. Circle-wise, J&K has the
highest proportion of VLR subscribers with
79.49% followed by the North-East (77.70%)
and Assam (76.83%). Mumbai has the lowest
proportion with 59.23%. Service Provider wise,
Idea leads the tally with 91.55% followed by
Bharti (88.86%); Etisalat is at the bottom
with 31.86%.
A revenue-garnering bid?
Impact on consumers
The worst sufferer in this case will be those
subscribers who have opted for lifetime
validity service because as of now they are
required to recharge their account once in a
six month period and in most of the cases not
even then. “I have not recharged my number
for more than six months but it is still working. I rarely use this connection that is why I
do not recharge it frequently,” said M.K Singh,
a businessman from Delhi.
When we tried speaking to TRAI officials,
they dodged the question and maintained
that the rule of Rs 200 recharge in every six
months still applies. On the other hand the
operator representatives claim that this is a
new regulation implemented by the regulator.
What about other operators?
While they have not spoken publicly on the
matter, other operators too seem to be following a policy on the lines adopted by Airtel.
When company officials refused to comment,
we went to their customer care centres and
got these responses:
Idea- If there is no outgoing call or SMS for
two months then SIM will automatically get
deactivated.
Vodafone- If there is no outgoing or
incoming activity on SIM for two months then
it will be considered as inactive and will be
disconnected.
Aircel- If there is no call/SMS on the number for 45 days, it will be deactivated. It does
not matter whether a subscriber is recharging
the number or not.
Reliance- Minimum Rs 200/- recharge in
three months is necessary otherwise the SIM
will be deactivated.
The industry is abuzz with rumours that the
decision is just an attempt by operators to
increase their earning. The subscriber base in
India has crossed 800 million but according
to the data released by DOT (Department of
Telecom), of these nearly thirty per cent are
inactive, which do not generate as much
revenue as their active counterparts.
Since subscribers need to recharge their
connection every two months or use their
thus-far inactive numbers more frequently,
there is no doubt that the decision will bring
in more revenues. However, some feel that,
thanks to the decision, service providers
will be able to figure out the actual number
of active subscribers on their network and
improve their services to increase their
subscriber base. Which side you believe is
up to you.
Use that inactive connection–now!
So what happens if you have not been using
your connection for a while? According to
customer care executives of the service providers we met, the customer will be informed
via SMS and call that his/her number is an
inactive number and will be permanently
deactivated if soon there is no call made from
it. Airtel has also mentioned that the new
decision would be clearly communicated to all
the customers at the time of purchase of new
connections as the information will be printed
on the cover of a SIM pack.
The news can be considered alarming for
subscribers who do not use their alternate
SIM frequently. Our advice to them –make a
call on it or risk losing your connection
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For Rewards,
Recharge! :
Who said recharging a phone connection was just about
getting a certain amount of talk time? Thanks to a number of
online recharging options, a customer today can get much
more each time they recharge their connection
Heena Jatav
F
or most people using a prepaid
mobile phone connection – and there
are millions – the whole process of
recharging their connections is all
about a regular task that is necessary to stay
accessible on their handsets. This generally involves going to a person providing
the recharge facility and either obtaining a
recharge coupon or doing a transaction over
the phone – pretty routine and humdrum,
which is a pity, because recharging your
phone connection can be fun. Like most
things these days, you can go online and
recharge your card. Of course, if you are routine type you can head over to your mobile
service provider’s website and make a transaction. However, that is not your only option
– there are a number of websites which not
only let you recharge your connection online,
but even offer rewards for doing so. These
could vary from discounts to extra talk time.
Recharge, get more
FreeCharge.in is one of these websites that
provide interesting offers on mobile recharge.
FreeCharge facilitates prepaid recharges for
all leading service providers (Mobile, DTH,
and Datacard) under one roof. The USP of
the site is that the customer not only gets an
instant recharge, but also get discount coupons of equal or more value (corresponding
to recharge amount), delivered to their doorstep. The company has about 50 partners,
and customers can choose discount coupons
of their choice ranging from McDonalds to
Shoppers Stop.
“The company started with McDonalds
and CCD, and today has an association of
about 50 partners with the list growing day
by day. Some of our esteemed partners/retailers are: McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Yatra, Goibibo,
Café Coffee Day, Barista, PVR Cinemas, and
Croma,” says Kunal Shah, CEO, FreeCharge.
Of course, if you are
routine type you can
head over to your mobile
service provider’s website
and make a transaction.
However, that is not your
only option – there are a
number of websites which
not only let you recharge
your connection online,
but even offer rewards
for doing so. These could
vary from discounts to
extra talk time
in. Often the word ‘Free’ comes with hidden terms and conditions and appears an
attempt to pull the wool over the customers’
eyes. Shah however, denies that any such fine
text exists on his site. “FreeCharge.in was
conceived with the idea that customers do
get the value out of their recharges, which
in turn would encourage repeat purchase
behavior, thereby increasing footfalls for
the couponing partners/retailers as well.”
FreeCharge.in recently added DTH and Data
Card recharge services to its portfolio and is
gunning to be the leading coupon brand in
the nation. Another website that offers more
for every recharge is Rechargeitnow.com.
The site has over 3.5 million registered users
and witnesses over 1 million transactions
per month. Those who recharge get free discount coupon from its partners like Dominos,
BigFlix, and Ferns ‘N’ Petals, as well as free
recharge coupons.
“We are engaging in this initiative purely
from the view of creating an additional layer
of value to our customers. The focus has
been on offering clear tangible benefit to our
transacting customers,” says Sharat Jain, CEO,
Rechargeitnow.com.
AnytimeRecharge.com is another player in
this segment. The site has 2.6 lakh registered
customers and more than 300 customers
recharge their mobile numbers daily from it.
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Speaking about the idea behind the reward
for recharge concept, B. Shabari Nadh, founder & CEO, AnyTimeRecharge.com says, “As
the margin is very thin in this industry, these
kinds of deals give value addition to both
customer and the merchant.” The company
gives double value of the recharge done by
its customers by providing discount coupons
of double the amount. “Our customers get
Rs. 300 /- value for a Rs. 100 /- recharge as
customer pay Rs 100 and get the talktime for
it. Also they get printed discount coupons
worth of Rs 100 and e-coupons worth of
Rs 100,” he explains. AnytimeRecharge.com
charges minimal courier amount of Rs 4 for
coupon delivery and there is no extra charge
for e-coupons.
Pay online, it’s secure!
While an increasing number of people are
getting their phones recharged online, there
is also a large chunk of people in the country
who despite being have an Internet access
are wary of doing any kind of transaction
online, for reasons of security. Which is
understandable, given the rising levels of
cyber crime. However, the owners of these
mobile recharge sites were quick to assure us
on this front. “FreeCharge has tied up with
leading payment gateway’s like CCAvenue,
Techprocess, Citibank, ICICI, and BillDesk,
Presently, the online
recharge market caters
approximately two to
three percent of total
mobile recharge market
in India. The scope for
growth is therefore,
massive, especially when
you consider the fact that
more people are getting
online in the country with
every passing day
who have different security measures (PCI
certification, encryption, firewalls etc…) along
with multi layer architectural and 128, 256
bit encryption facilities for preserving the
confidentiality of the data. Also, FreeCharge
does not store any bank account details or
sensitive information, but it is the payment
gateways that have access to the same,” Shah
asserts. Jain points out that Rechargeitnow.
com has been secured by GeoTrust for
security against user data theft and secured
against unauthorised use of credit cards by
MasterCard secure code and Verified by Visa.
“The payment gateways we work with sup-
port 3D secure authenticated payment protocol to ensure the highest level of security
transacting online,” he says. “Additionally, our
direct relationship with operators across both
mobile and DTH gives us a full 360 degree
view into each transaction making each transaction auditable and transparent.”
The rewards keep coming...
India has approximately 840 million prepaid
subscribers and the Average Revenue Per
User (ARPU) is approximately Rs 100 which
shows the huge size of the mobile recharge
market. Presently, the online recharge market
caters approximately two to three percent of
total mobile recharge market in India. The
scope for growth is therefore, massive, especially when you consider the fact that more
people are getting online in the country with
every passing day. The rewards are therefore
likely to keep coming as more players enter
this segment and compete with each other.
The winner of course is the customer who is
not only spared the trouble of going out and
finding a vendor who can recharge their connection but can now do so from the comfort
of their own homes and get rewarded as well.
Recharging is well on way to becoming less
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“Indian Consumers Are A
Unique Bunch of People”
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D. Shivakumar, managing director, Nokia India, has a long association
with the Indian telecom industry and has seen it through its ups and downs.
As he moves on to a bigger role to manage Africa and Middle East along with
India, we caught up with him to reminisce on his great Indian adventure
Sonia Sharma
As the leader of the biggest mobile phone
brand in the country, what would you
term the highlights for Nokia? And where
do you think the company could have
done better? We could have been significantly ahead in the dual SIM segment. That
is something that we didn’t do right, to have
a Dual SIM product range at the right time.
However, we have tried a number of business models and innovations, which is good
as we have experimented a lot. I think we
have built a great brand, a great institution
with great people and we are proud of that.
We are also proud of the partnerships that
we have made in this ecosystem. So we did
a lot of things right not just for Nokia, but
for the ecosystem on the whole.
After such a long association with
Symbian, Nokia has now collaborated
with Microsoft to offer Windows Phone.
Do you think that Windows Phone has
the calibre to compete with the likes of
Android and iOS? Absolutely. All the work
that we have done on Windows Phone
makes it stand apart and tough enough to
compete in the market. The consumers
see it as a fluid, modern and very quick
operating system. They see the social and
e-mail integration as very useful to them
and appreciate it. Things like Nokia Drive,
Nokia Mix Radio are of great value to them.
Overall there is an excellent integration
between hardware and software built with
some signature Nokia experiences that
makes it unique. I think you can’t sell plain
hardware – you need an augmented product
that offers a complete experience.
How are the current fluctuations in the
economy affecting the mobile phone business? Will prices go up? This Rupee-Dollar
fluctuation affects top line significantly so
we will be able to see the effects of these
fluctuation in the results we see reported in
the next 12 to 18 months. There will be an
adverse effect on the ICT industry where
the purchases are in Dollars. As of now from
Nokia, there is no price increase of mobiles.
The average selling price of the phone will
go up because of the replacement market
kicking in. When that will happen, people
will want phones with higher specifications.
I believe that a recession or a slowdown is
too big an opportunity to waste and this
Diwali is a great example for it. We saw that
the brands that had innovative products did
very well during Diwali because the consumer was spending money on what gives
them best value and experience. If you don’t
offer innovation, you cannot survive through
a slow down.
When new brands had emerged in India,
you had said that there would be no consolidation for the devices segment, just
sudden death for some brands. Do you see
that happening? Yes, it is happening now
in India and you can see it. A lot of brands
are just withering away or not making their
media commitments. There is a lot of pressure on them. The mobile industry has been
like that throughout. It is a hyper competitive, hyper innovative market which relies a
lot on brand, innovation and scale. So this
is not a market where you can just have
a niche offering. Only genuine innovation
works here and there is no scope for amateur innovation.
What are your views on Foreign Direct
Investment in retail? Do you see it as a
step that will end traditional retail in
India? Winston Churchill in the 1940s, I
think, said that India is a country of shopkeepers and that is true. The reason is that
to get into distribution in India you don’t
need education, capital or space. So it has
become a surrogate employment generator
and the laws have also favoured the growth
of retail in India. The average Indian mom
I have worked with
Indian consumers for
more than twenty years
and I think they are a
unique bunch of people.
They take to brands
slowly but they also
give them up slowly.
Brands have huge
aspirational role in
their life
and pop store is more efficient than the
western mom and pop stores. So there is
no way that the big chains will eat away the
traditional stores. But these chains have an
important role to play in developing an efficient supply chain to benefit the producer,
consumers and the country. So there is a
concurrent role for both.
You now have Africa, which again is
another growing market as your responsibility. How do you see it as similar or different from India? I would think that both
India and Africa can learn from each other.
For example, the role of mobility when
institutions are not there is something very
different in Africa. India, on the other hand,
is very different. What is common of course
is that Africa has conditions that are similar to India with similar GDP, high prepaid
market and young population. The other
commonality is passion. Africa has passion
for football, India has for cricket. Passion for
music and movies is also strong in both the
regions. But the most important thing is that
the significance and importance of mobility is huge so building it around that for the
consumer is a great opportunity.
How would you define the quintessential Indian consumer? I have worked with
Indian consumers for more than twenty
years and I think they are a unique bunch of
people. They take to brands slowly but they
also give them up slowly. Brands have huge
aspirational role in their life and those who
write books saying brands are dead are very
wrong. I think Indians relate to brands in a
very big way and especially to a brand like
Nokia which has changed the lives of Indian
consumers. Every time I talk to Indian consumers, their pride in the brand and what
they want to do around it and how they
want the brand to be seen is amazing.
I think they have taught me a number of
lessons about aspiration, quality, about a
price-value equation, and not just price.
Some of the lessons have been very humbling. The Indian consumer rewards you if
you are a good brand, future thinking and
innovative. And punishes you if you sit on
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HTC Rhyme Gingerbread OS with latest HTC’s Sense interface
H
HTC Rhyme is a smartphone running on Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread)
and Qualcomm MSM8255 1 GHz
Scorpion processor. It has 3.7” WVGA
touch-sensitive TFT display with four
capacitive buttons place below the screen
and a VGA camera for video calling.
The phone has 5.0-megapixel camera
with LED flash that lets user take instant
pictures. Internal memory of the phone is
4GB with the option of increasing it to
32GB using a microSD card. Additionally, an
8 GB microSd card comes bundled with the
sales pack. The highlight of the phone is
that it can be charged in style by placing the
phone into a charging dock that too is bun-
Nokia Asha 300 A Ray
of Hope
N
okia Asha 300 is a touch based single
SIM phone that comes equipped with
the Nokia Music Unlimited service.
The handset has been designed considering
the convenience and usability in mind as it
includes Nokia browser and Web apps for better Internet browsing experience. The phone
has 1 GHz processor and the memory of the
phone can be expanded up to 32GB. The
phone also feature an enhanced music player,
built-in FM radio and Bluetooth connectivity.
The phone promises to give fast data connectivity through 3G and access to numerous
apps in the Nokia Store. It has a 5.0-megapixel
camera and allows strong SNS integration on
the go. The phone has standard Li-Ion 1110
mAh battery which is expected to give talktime of up to 7 hours. The phone is available
in Graphite, Night Shade, Gold, White Silver,
Pink and Red colours. Its MRP stand at Rs
7,409. n
dled with the sales pack.
The phone is designed to give its users
rich internet experience as it allows surf the
web in style with multi-window browsing.
The box pack includes “charm” and “tangle
free headset”, other accessories as shown in
the pictures/videos are not available in
India market. It comes with 1600 mAh non
removable battery which is expected to give
a talktime of up to 10.3 hours and standy by
of 295 hours on 2G netwroks. The HTC
Rhyme is available expected to cost around
Rs 26,500 in India.n
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BlackBerry Curve
9350 A CDMA Curve on
OS 7
B
lackBerry’s new handset Curve 9350 is the first
phone based on new BlackBerry 7 OS for the
CDMA users in India. It is a slim and stylish phone
which comes with the iconic BlackBerry QWERTY keypad, known for its comfort. Adding to its functionality is
an optical trackpad for easy, one handed navigation. The
phone comes with 5.0-megapixel camera with flash. For
connectivity the phone offers Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and
there is GPS for location based services. The new
BlackBerry 7 OS delivers the fastest BlackBerry experience. It also comes with new, pre-installed apps and services like Social Feeds that combines all your updates and
offers a convenient interface. Adding to this is the very
popular BlackBerry Messenger service.The phone is also
equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The BlackBerry App World offers a number of
applications and games. The phone comes with expandable memory option and can support microSD card of up
to 32 GB. The phone is priced at Rs 20,990 and available
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sneak peak
Samsung Google Nexus
Prime The next of Nexus
T
he much awaited Samsung Google Nexus Prime is soon
going to be launched in India. The handset will be the first
to run on Ice-cream Sandwich operating system, the latest
version of Android Operating System. This with Dual-core 1.2 GHz
Cortex-A9 processor is expected to give a lightening fast performance. The Nexus Prime will also have a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen which will measure about 4.5 inch in size. Other
than basic features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, the
handset will offer NFC support for a better sharing experience.
The internationally showcased Nexus Prime also comes with
4G LTE capability but one will have to wait and watch to see
whether the same capability is launched in Indian version too.
The phone has a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calling. There is a 5.0-megapixel primary camera too and it will come
loaded with features like touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection,
etc. Radio lovers will miss FM radio in the phone.
The phone is packed with a Li-Ion 1750 mAh battery seem to
ensure a good backup. With all these powerful features loaded in
the phone, it is speculated to be a tough competitor to the apple
4S. The phone is expected to cost anywhere between Rs 35,000 to
Rs 40,000 in the Indian market. n
Nokia X2-02 Dual SIM
delight for the masses
T
he dual SIM phone market is constantly gaining
momentum these days and is expected to grow
even more in the future. Nokia has recently entered
this segment but has successfully wooed the customer
with its offerings. The latest from the brand in this category is the X2-02 which will come bundled with Nokia
Music Unlimited service for the feature phones. This service will allow music lovers to download and share free
music from the collection of songs from the Nokia Music
Store. Other than this service, its music features like Play
via Radio feature, FM recording, in-built loud speakers and
dedicated music keys will give the user a complete music
experience. The Nokia X2-02 will also feature a Nokia
browser and Web apps for a better Internet experience.
The handset is expected to have an expandable memory
of up to 32GB. It wil also have the Easy Swap dual SIM features that give users the option to personalise up to five
SIM cards and hot swap them. The phone is expected to
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The loudspeaker grills on
the back cover makes a
statement
IPS-261-Touch
For that touchy, typey
feeling
At first glance, we must confess to feeling a
trifle let down by the iBall IPS-261-Touch. The
phone looks average and thanks to its hefty
2300 mAh battery, is also a bit on the heavy
side. The phone has a 2.6 inch TFT screen
which has lot of soft keys placed right behind
it. It also has an alphanumeric keypad which
we found not very impressive. There is a 3.5
mm audio jack and USB on the right side of
the phone whereas the back panel contain
loudspeakers, camera and flash. Users can
use almost all features of the phone with both
touch and type features.
There is an icon for accessing the main
menu from the screen, which you can also do
by pressing the OK button of the D-pad. The
phone comes with a resistive display which
offered a decent response, although we would
have preferred a stylus. The home screen has
three panels and can be customised by placing widgets and shortcuts on them. The lower
part of the screen also contains Menu, Dialler,
Internet shortcut keys among others.
118.19 mm
Average looks
Pros
 Free

Touch and Type feature
Cons
Multimedia front
The IPS-261-Touch comes with two cameras,
with the main one being a respectable 3.15
megapixel, but we were frankly not impressed
with the results. That said, the camera comes
with some editing options to improve the picture quality. The camera can also shoot videos
although alas, they too are of average quality.
The sound quality of the phone was, however,
very good on both loudspeaker and headphone
mode, even though the audio player of the
phone lacks sound enhancement features like
equaliser settings, 3D sound effect, etc. The
phone has good FM reception and can easily
search all available channels even in low network areas. One can save up to 25 FM channels and can also record from the radio, with
files getting saved in AMR and WAV format.
The phone comes with some preloaded basic
apps and games like Mobile Tracker, Motion
Sensor, F1 Race, Puzzle and Magic Sushi. In a
neat touch, the phone’s motion sensor works
for changing wallpapers, music and FM channels along with other features, provided you
give the phone a firm shake. For connectivity purpose, the phone has GSM, GPRS and
Bluetooth but does not support 3G. The phone
has internal memory of 250.5 KB which can be
expanded up to 8 GB with the help of micro
SD card. Battery back up is, however, superb
– that big battery comfortably got us past two
days of hectic use.
4GB memory card
54.19 mm
A
bit heavy
 Average
tech specs
Size | 118.19x54.19x14.63 mm
picture quality
Alternatively
The iBall IPS-261 Touch comes with a price
tag of Rs 3,500. The other option in the same
price category is the FLY E321 which is also a
touchscreen phone, and costs Rs 3,490. One
can also consider the Nokia C2-03 touch and
type which costs Rs 4,600. n
Weight | 135 grams
Memory | 250.5 KB, microSD
Battery | Li-ion 2300 mAh
Screen | 262,144, colours
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Talktime/Standby | up to 18 hour /
up to 600 hours
verdict
7
GPRS/3G | Yes/No
Looks
Bluetooth/WiFi | Yes/No
Features
8
Phonebook Capacity | 2000
ease of use
8
Camera | 3.15 Megapixel
performance
7
Frequency | GSM 900/1800
value for money
7
overall
Others | Dual Camera, Mobile
Tracker
Price: Rs 3,500
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Xage M234 Q-Bar
Affordable gaming on
the go
The camera comes with
flash which is not very
You have to credit Xage for making its new
dual-SIM phone, the M234 Q-Bar, stand out in
the looks department. The phone looks sleek
with and its metallic black chassis, will catch
more than the odd glance and is compact
enough to fit comfortably into most hands..
The alphanumeric keypad is laid out in a manner that makes it resemble a QWERTY one,
with various dedicated shortcut keys to its left
and right side.
The front panel has a 2.6 inch screen with
two D-pad styled keys on both the sides of
the D-pad. Also given on the home screen is
a strip of various shortcut keys to various features available on the phone. The back panel
design
 Different
keyboard
layout
The island type
keypad is comfortable
to use
which is at best a basic performer. The FM
reception on the phone works well even in low
frequency zones, with decent sound quality.
The Q Bar supports GSM plus GSM SIMs.
There are two different keys given to make
or receive calls. Other than this, the handset
Cons
tech specs
 Orindary
Size | 114.4 x 58 x 8.8 mm
Pros
 Sleek
114.4 mm
effective
Sleek looks
1.3
MP camera
 2.6
inch screen
is small for
gaming
is a mix of metal and plastic, which, however
tends to retain fingerprints.
Game performer
One of the biggest strengths of the handset
is its gaming. It comes with two gaming
options namely Game and Gaming Zone,
which are packed with arcade games of
different types ranging from actions to
puzzles to races. There are some very notable
titles in here such as Mario, Contra, and
Pac Man. While this is not the first phone to
come with games preloaded, its spacious
keypad structure lets you play games
comfortably. We did, however, wish that the
screen was a bit larger.
The phone also comes with a shortcut key
on the right side of the keypad for accessing
Facebook. There is also a 1.3-megapixel camera
58 mm
Weight | 59 grams
comes with Bluetooth and GPRS facilities. The
1100 mAh battery gives outstanding backup,
easily getting past a day.
Memory | 269.5 KB, microSD
Alternatively
Battery | Lithium 1100 mAh
The Xage M234 Q-Bar is priced at Rs 2,699.
You can consider the Byond Game Store
priced at Rs 3,299 as an alternative. n
Screen | 65,536 colours
Talktime/Standby | Up to 6 hours/Up
to 288 hours
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verdict
8
GPRS/3G | Yes/No
Looks
Features
ease of use
8
perfoRmance
8
value for money
8
Others | MP3 player, FM radio,
Loudspeaker
Price: Rs 2,699
overall
82%
9
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Rage Power Sleek
Saying it in red and white
The Rage Power is Rage’s latest entrant in the
entry level, candy-bar phone segment. And it
sure does not look entry-level at first glance
with its catchy combination of shiny red and
white colours and sleek design. The front and
back panels of the phone are red and a white
strip runs on the side panel. Dominating the
front of the phone is a 2.4 inch QVGA screen,
just below which is a square silver color D-Pad
with six soft control keys. To the left are two
separate calling buttons, for SIM one and
SIM two (the Rage Power supports two GSM
SIMs) and a MP3 shortcut key. The right hand
side has a contact shortcut key, power on/offcum-call end key, and a camera shortcut key.
The phone’s sides are completely bare, save for
Pros
Cons
 Eye
 No
 Decent
 No
catching
appearance
set of
features
support
for micro-USB
3.5 mm
jack
tech specs
Size | 119.9 x 57 x 14.1 mm
Weight | 105 grams
Memory | 145 KB, microSD
Battery | Li-ion 2200 mAh
Talktime/Standby | up to 11 hour/ up
to 1000 hours
GPRS/3G | Yes/No
Others | FM Radio, Two GSM
Price: Rs 1,999
a multipurpose port for
charging/connecting the
headset at the bottom of
the phone.
You can’t use micro
USB and headphones
with a 3.5 mm jack on this
device because it supports
only mini USB for multiuse. An alphanumeric
keypad follows the control
key cluster. The handset
has Hindi language support so you can also type
in Hindi. The keys are
well-spaced and comfortable to use.
119.9 mm
looking budget warrior
Apps station
On the multimedia front,
the Rage Power comes
with an audio/video
player, 1.3 megapixel camera with dual LED flash
support and FM radio.
The music quality of the
phone is acceptable on
loudspeaker and good on
earphones. The same goes
for the reception on the
FM radio mode. Reception
on the FM radio was quite
good and we were able to
scan quite a few channels even while sitting
indoors, although we needed to attach earphones to get it working. You can store up to
30 radio stations in its memory and also play it
in the background.
The 1.3 megapixel camera takes snaps of
up to 1280x1024 pixels resolution and frankly,
the quality of the pictures is not much to write
about. The camera also has some extra features like image setting, white balance, scene
mode and effect setting, which are handy,
though.
You can also shoot videos in normal, low
and high mode and recordings can be saved
in AVI format. You can transfer files via connectivity options like Bluetooth, GPRS and
mini USB. The handset also supports auto call
recorders, enabling you to save calls without
any annoying beeps. The internal memory of
the phone is 145 KB which can be expanded up
to 8 GB through a microSD card.
Battery life is on the better side – the 2200
mAh Li-ion battery provided up to 11 hours of
talk time and comfortably lasted us through a
There is a dedi−
cated key for
music
57 mm
couple of days.
Alternatively
The Rage Power costs Rs 1,999. Other options
include the Samsung E2230 for Rs 1950, but
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verdict
Looks
8
Features
8
ease of use
8
performance
7
value for money
8
overall
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LG Optimus
Net A Touch of
Affordable Android
Hey there, regular-looking!
After having tasted success with its Androiddriven Optimus One, which offered users what
was at that time a recent version of Android
(Froyo, 2.2) at a relatively low price, LG has
attempted to repeat the formula with the newly
launched Optimus Net. Unlike most LG devices which have a sleek form factor with angular
design, the Net is a bit stocky, and looks “regular.” There is a 3.2 inch touchscreen in the front
with four keys below it for Options, Home,
Back and Search. The deep black front panel
is complimented by a contrasting while back
panel that hosts a 3.0-megapixel camera. The
front and the back blend on the sides, forming
a dynamic wave-like effect that is pleasing to
the eye. The sides, incidentally, host a 3.5 mm
jack, USB cum charging port, power cum lock
key and the volume keys. Overall the device
looks decent, but is unlikely to attract much
attention on account of its appearance.
A taste of Gingerbread
The Optimus Net runs on Android
2.3.4, also known as Gingerbread,
which you can customise in best
Android tradition, with folders,
shortcuts, widgets and the like.
You can choose any of these as the
default screen. The notification
bar at the top gives access to silent
profile, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and
data connectivity. You can also
The four hard−
ware keys offer
a lot of conve−
nience
The home screen
can be customised
easily
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of the phone is good. One full charge lasts
more than a day with extensive usage.
Pros
 Affordable
Alternatively
 Android 2.3.4 OS
The LG Optimus Net costs Rs 10,200. Other
options that you can consider are HTC
Explorer costing Rs 10,500 or Nokia 500
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 Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity
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Cons
tech specs
 No secondary camera for video
calling
 The browser lacks Flash
support
access the music player from it. At the bottom of the screen are four touch buttons for
calling, Contacts, Messaging and Menu. You
can integrate your Facebook, Twitter, Google,
MySpace and MS Exchange accounts and
view photos, and updates from the Contacts
section itself. In a neat touch, the dialer
comes with smart dialing, making calls a
whole lot easier. The Optimus Net is capable
of providing HSDPA speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps
and also comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The browser comes with multi-touch capability but lacks Flash support. You can open multiple tabs and every time you open a new one
it gives you bookmarks of previously accessed
pages for convenience. Facebook and Twitter
apps do not come preloaded and there is no
integrated SNS app either, which is disappointing. Polaris Viewer lets you open office
files but you cannot create any. The phone
has GPS with A-GPS support and you can use
it with Google maps which can offer basic
directions and location search. Apart from
Android Market, the phone comes with a link
to LG World from where one can download
LG SmartWorld, which is another repository
of applications for your LG phone. There is an
app manager which lets you stop apps running
in the background and the download function
lets you see all the downloaded apps at one
place. An interesting feature is the Remote
Call app that lets LG customer care remotely
diagnose any problem with the phone without
you having to go to the service centre. Once
you call the customer care, the agent gives you
a six digit code. You have to enter the code in
the phone and it gives remote access of your
phone to the customer care agent. Handy.
Multimedia mania
The Optimus Net comes with a 3.0-megapixel
fixed focus camera and does not have a flash.
113 mm
 No flash for the camera
Size | 113 X 59 X 11.7 mm
Weight | 121 grams
Screen | 262,144, colours
Talktime/Standby | Upto 12 hours/
Upto 581 hours
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
59 mm
The picture quality is acceptable and the highest image size that you can choose is 2048
x 1536 pixels. You can also choose the image
quality as normal, fine or super fine and geotag stills. On the video front, it can shoot
videos of 640 x 480 resolution at 24 frames
per second. The video quality is just about all
right. You can add colour effects to the videos
and adjust the video quality. You can share
stills through Smart Share, Bluetooth, Email,
Facebook, Picassa, Twitter, MMS and Social +
(which uploads images to all your syned SNS
accounts in one go). Videos can be shared
with Smart Share, YouTube, MMS, Bluetooth
and e-mail.
For music enthusiasts, the Optimus Net
comes with a music player that is pretty plain
vanilla with no equaliser presets or sound
effects. The sound levels are good but the treble was a bit high. The songs get sorted on the
basis of artists and albums and you can choose
to shuffle or repeat them. The FM radio comes
with a nice scrolling mechanism for channel
search - you can switch it off and on from the
homescreen itself and also play it through the
loud speaker.
The internal memory of the Optimus Net
is pretty low at 150 MB but it can be expanded
using a microSD card which is under the back
cover but hot swappable. The battery backup
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | Polaris viewer, Remote Call
Price: Rs 10,200
verdict
Looks
7
Features
8
ease of use
8
perfoRmance
8
value for money
9
overall
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Samsung Omnia W
Samsung’s Slice of Mango
Pros
 Windows Phone 7.5 OS
 Super AMOLED screen
115.6 mm
 1.4 Ghz processor
Cons
 No expandable memory
 Picture quality could have been
better
 Browser does not have Flash support
Samsung smart
Samsung has joined the Windows Phone fray
in India with the Omnia W. A touchscreen
device with a brilliant super AMOLED display,
its sleek design and all black body make it easy
to carry and flaunt. There is just one hardware
key below the display, flanked by two capacitive keys for Back and Search. There is also
secondary camera for video calling. The back
panel has a 5.0-megapixel camera with flash
with the camera key, power-cum-lock key and
volume rocker placed on the sides. The Omnia
W is compact and well designed and will
definitely demand a second look.
Mango season
As one cannot skin the Windows Phone OS,
the interface of the Samsung Omnia W is just
like other Windows Phone devices. It runs on
Windows Phone 7.5 OS, known as Mango. The
lock screen displays time, day and date with
any of the notifications like missed call, new
SMS or e-mail. Swiping it up reveals the home
screen which has
the well-known
tiled interface.
58.8 mm
The overall functioning of the
phone primarily uses side swipe where swiping on the right of the homescreen brings out
the menu that is listed alphabetically. Similarly,
in the People tab or Marketplace, more options
or functionalities can be accessed by swiping sideways. The People tab comes with
Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter integration so
you can see all social network activity at one
go. Facebook integration can also be seen in
the calendar that integrates events from your
Facebook account to the phone’s calendar. The
same can be done with Google and Windows
Live activities. The touch response of the
device is great and it offers multitouch support
for the picture gallery as well as the browser.
Internet Explorer lets you open multiple tabs
and pin a particular web page on to the homescreen, although it lacks Flash support. There
are no preloaded SNS apps, but you can always
download them from Windows Marketplace.
Additionally, once you sync your SNS accounts
with contacts, you can update your status
directly from there. There are Bing maps that
can show you a your position even when you
are indoors and are reasonably accurate.
Mail, connectivity and calls
As far as e-mail goes, the device comes with
support for Microsoft Exchange along with
other popular POP and IMAP accounts. It
comes with pre-loaded settings for Windows
Live, Outlook (Exchange and Office 365),
Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. If you have configured multiple accounts, you can simply link
them and create one linked inbox to access
all the e-mails at one place. You can use the
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MS Office suite to create and edit documents,
spreadsheets and presentations. The device
comes with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, and
lets you create a Wi-Fi hotspot and share
your data connection with up to five people.
Samsung’s AllShare app is also included in the
feature list that allows you to share content
over Wi-Fi. There is Bluetooth connectivity
for wireless headsets but file transfer is still
not supported. One thing that really bugged
us was unlock screen access. If you get an
incoming call, you first have to unlock the
screen and then accept the call. Also, there is
no cut and paste option - you can only copy
and paste content. Multi-tasking remains
limited: you cannot end tasks, only switch
between them. Also, only apps supporting
multi-tasking on Windows Phone 7.5 (and not
all apps do) can run in the background.
The power
The interface
cum lock
is very finger
key is placed
friendly and
on the side
lively
instead of top
tech specs
Size | 115.6 x 58.8 x 10.9 mm
Weight | 115.3 grams
Memory | 8GB, No
Entertainment menu
The Omnia W has a 5.0-megapixel autofocus
camera with LED flash. The picture quality was decent but we have seen better on
Samsung phones. You can choose resolution,
photo quality and use the macro mode for
shooting. There are no other options apart
from adjusting contrast, sharpness, saturation, ISO, etc., in the camera app but there is
a separate app that lets you capture panorama
mode, beauty shot, etc. The camera hardware
key is a great addition as it takes picture taking easier, although you can touch anywhere
on the screen to initiate shutter release. As
far as the videos go, the camera is capable of
taking 720p videos, which again are of decent
quality. There is a FunShot app that allows you
to shoot pictures using various effects.
The phone has to be synced with
Microsoft’s Zune software to transfer music
and videos. You can also create ringtones
from the music stored in your PC but that is a
very lengthy and cumbersome process. Music
gets sorted on the basis of artists, albums and
genres, there is a Connected Media that lets
you stream content over Wi-Fi. Sound quality
is good over both loudspeaker and headsets.
The device comes with FM radio, which is
usually missing from first generation smartphones of many bands and operating systems.
The reception is good and the interface is sim-
Upto 370 hours
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | All Share, FM Radio
ple to use. The Omnia W comes with a builtin memory of 8 GB but it cannot be expanded
further. Like all Windows Phone 7.5 devices, it
too performed without any lags. And it really
surprised us in the battery department, easily
lasting a day of extensive use.
Alternatively
The Samsung Omnia W is priced at Rs
18,990. Those looking for Windows Phone 7.5
devices can also look at the HTC Radar, which
costs Rs 23,000. You can also consider Sony
Ericsson Xperia Ray priced at Rs 19,000. n
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verdict
Looks
8
Features
8
9
ease of use
perfoRmance
value for money
8
9
overall
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Scratch proof,
Motorola
Defy + The
dust proof,
gorilla
glass
display adds
to the phone’s
Tough Phone!
107 mm
strudiness
59 mm
Still Defy-ant
Earlier this year, Motorola had surprised everyone with the Defy, a phone that was waterproof, dustproof and oblivious to scratches,
and still managed to look good enough (we
have seen our share of rugged ugly devices)
and performed brilliantly. Now, Motorola has
unveiled its successor, the Defy+. Yes, it still
remains water proof (we dunked it into Pepsi,
tea and coffee) and dust proof and thanks to its
gorilla glass front, is still very scratch-resistant.
In fact, in appearance, it looks every inch
the successor of the Defy, with the same 3.7
inch 854 x 480 touchscreen display with four
touch keys for Menu, Home, Back and Search
beneath it. The sides are relatively Spartan,
with one side having the volume rocker and
the other the USB port, which can be covered
by a flap.
On the top is the 3.5mm jack, which again
can be covered by a flap, and right next to it,
almost too close, is the power and screen on/
off button – we found ourselves hitting the
3.5mm jack a tad too often for comfort. The
back houses the 5.0-megapixel camera and
flash together with a sliding mechanism that
locks the cover solidly, stopping any water
from going through.
The phone is not the slimmest we have
seen and some people might actually be put
off by the sight of the visible screws on the
side, as well as the bulky port covers, but it
was still remarkably compact and fit easily
into most hands – remarkable for a device
with such a large display. All in all, it is very
reminiscent of the original Defy, which is not
really a bad thing, unless you are the types that
hankers for change.
The plus factor
But if the Defy+ looks very much like its predecessor, its innards are rather different. For
one, it has a much more powerful processor,
a 1 GHz affair, powering it and running on it
is Android 2.3. The interface too has a few
subtle changes with Motorola’s Blur skin over
Android complete with new icons, a few new
apps and effects, a battery manager, a data
manager and an onscreen keyboard that supports SWYPE input. RAM remains unchanged
at 512 MB, internal storage is a healthy 1GB
(expandable to 32GB) and when it comes to
connectivity, you have all the options that you
could want in a smartphone, ranging from 3G
to Wi-Fi to GPS and Bluetooth.
And the improved specs definitely result in
a much snappier performance from the handset than we saw in the original Defy. There
were almost no lags even when we opened
multiple tabs in the browser and ran several
apps at the same time – things did get a weebit slower when we got into high definition
gaming, though. On the subject of the browser,
it supports Flash and renders websites very
well indeed.
Social networks and e-mail (most popular
services are supported) work smoothly with
nary a hitch. The SWYPE functionality comes
to the fore while typing as this is a relatively
narrow device – the conventional keyboard
just gets way too cramped and sliding your
finger across letters seems so much easier.
Good performer
On the multimedia front, the Defy+ does very
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Pros
 Solid scratchproof, dust proof
build
 Boosted specifications
 Very good price
Cons
 Very ordinary camera
 Battery life suffers when Blur is
turned on
 Some might not like the screws
and port covers
decently. It has a music player that supports
most popular formats and while sound on the
loudspeaker might seem a tad on the lower
side, things were a whole lot better on the
headphones. Video played well though without
any stutters.
However, the camera proved to be a
massive let down, churning out very
ordinary images and mediocre video.
The sharp-ish processor meant that we
could download and play some relatively
high-end games from the Android Market
and the presence of FM Radio was welcome.
Call quality was, in best Motorola tradition,
excellent.
Like all Android touchscreen devices,
the Defy+ too guzzles battery at the rate of
knots, especially when you make the most of
Android’s social networking muscle. However,
in the case of the Defy+, we found our battery
draining out very rapidly whenever we turned
on the widgets in the Blur interface – yes,
they are pretty, no doubt but they do consume
battery, notwithstanding the best efforts of
Motorola’s own battery manager. We would
therefore advise keeping push-based Blur services to a minimum and turning off widgets in
the interests of battery.
All said and done, the Motorola Defy+
proves to be a very worthy upgrade to the
original Defy. It retains its strong points, while
throwing in much better hardware and software, even while not pushing up the price by
too much.
tech specs
Size | 107 x 59 x 13.4 mm
Weight | 118 grams
Memory | 2GB, microSD
Upto 384 hours
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Alternatively
Others | SWYPE Input, Motorola
The Motorola Defy+ is priced at Rs 17,000. A
good alternative to this is the Samsung Galaxy
S LCD which packs in similar specs but has
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GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
Looks
8
Features
8
ease of use
8
perfoRmance
8
value for money
8
overall
Price: Rs 17,000
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BlackBerry
Curve 9380
Moving up the
Curve
BlackBerry OS
Touch that Curve
The Curve series is known as the affordable
side of BlackBerry, serving up the legendary
QWERTY experience at costs that are significantly lower than high-end devices. However,
with the new Curve 9380, RIM has introduced
the first full touch Curve phone in the market.
The device comes with a 3.2 inch capacitive
touchscreen taking up the majority of the
front panel. Below the touchscreen is the
optical trackpad flanked by four keys, two on
each side. These keys are placed on a single
plastic plate and are not easy to press. The
overall build and design of the phone is sleek
and solid, even though it is not heavy. In fact,
it reminded us a lot of the full touchscreen
Torch released recently. All in all, we found it
7.0, optimises the
touch experience
extremely comfortable to use.
Seven up
The Curve 9380 runs the new BlackBerry
OS 7, just like all recent BlackBerry handsets.
However, unlike the fast processors seen on
the likes of the new Bold and Torch, the new
Curve runs on an 806 MHz processor. For
the most part, it performs well, although we
did face a bit of a slowdown especially with
multiple apps running together. Despite being
a complete touch device, the interface of the
phone is the same as seen in other non-touch
Pros
 BlackBerry OS7
 NFC capabilities
 Good multimedia performance
Cons
 No secondary camera for video
calling
 A bit expensive
 Onscreen keyboard keys are too
small
Capacitive touch
of the phone is
comfortable to use
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Fun times
Weight | 98 grams
On the multimedia front, the phone comes
with a 5.0-megapixel camera with an LED
flash, It has features like face detection,
geo-tagging, continuous shot, and image
stablisation. The convenience key is set by
default as a shutter release key but you can
always use a soft key too. The highest resolution that one can set is 2592 x 1944 pixels.
The picture quality of the phone is good
especially in well lit conditions and the flash
helps to an extent in taking pictures in the
dark too. The Curve can capture only 640 x
480 resolution videos and the quality is as
good as it gets in this resolution. You can
opt for image stablisation and video light
for shooting videos. The video player on the
device is capable of playing 1080p videos
with ease.
For the music lover, there is just the
music player and no FM radio. Songs get
sorted on the basis of artistes, albums, and
genres. Sound quality is very good - a pleasant surprise. For sound enhancements, the
Curve comes with headset music equalisers and audio boost features. The usual
suspects like the BlackBerry App World,
BlackBerry Messenger are present to offer
the trademark BlackBerry experience.
The internal memory stands at 512 MB but
can be expanded. The battery of the phone
was a pleasant surprise – easily lasting more
than a day of heavy usage, which is quite
good for an all-touchscreen device.
Alternatively
109 mm
BlackBerry 7 OS devices.
The top of the screen gives access
to quick settings and device options,
below it lies the profile, notification
and universal search button, and at
the bottom lies the app tray with
five classifications namely Frequent,
Favourites, Media, Downloads and
All. In the minimised mode, you can
see just the first row of icons and
need to pull it up to see the whole
app tray. The icons have been given a
colourful touch which we have seen
before and the interface is pretty
smooth and intuitive, with the trackpad making navigation and selection
a whole lot smoother. In the Contacts
mode, apart from the usual details,
you can also choose to view the contact’s recent activity on BlackBerry
Messenger, Facebook, e-mail, etc.
Speaking of which, it’s a no-brainer
that the Curve 9380 comes with support for all prominent e-mail clients
and you can also opt for enterprise
services on the device. Needless
to say, you need to subscribe to
BlackBerry services to be able to use
Internet or e-mail on the phone.
As far as connectivity is concerned, apart from 3G, the Curve
also offers Wi-Fi connectivity. The browser
on the phone comes with multi-touch but
lacks Flash support. The browser interface is
minimalist and easy to use. The mouse cursor can be easily controlled using the trackpad and makes browsing a whole lot easier,
and The input method consists of a touch
QWERTY keypad both in the portrait and
landscape mode. Well, while those accustomed to touchscreens might not find it too
cramped, we must confess that we were left
wanting for a larger keyboard, especially
given our experience with BlackBerry’s
excellent devices.
The social feeds apps combines all
your activity on Gtalk, Facebook, Twitter,
Yahoo! Messenger, BBM, and Windows Live
Messenger into one window along with
the subscribed RSS feeds. You can choose
which one to keep and which to drop. The
Documents to Go office suite that comes
pre-loaded on the phone lets you create and
edit MS Office documents.
The Curve 9380 comes with the standard
BlackBerry functionality that caters to your
work needs efficiently. We just wish the
interface could have been tweaked a little
to make things more interesting. There is
NFC capability on the phone, although its
utility is limited at the moment, thanks to
limited apps.
60 mm
tech specs
Size | 109 x 60 x 11.2 mm
The Curve 9380 is priced at Rs 20,900.
Those looking for an all touchscreen device
in this range can also try the Samsung
Galaxy SL, which comes with a 4.0 inch
touchscreen, 5.0-megapixel camera, runs
Android, and is available for Rs. 17,000. n
Battery | Li-Ion 1230 mAh
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verdict
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
Looks
8
Features
8
ease of use
8
perfoRmance
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | Social Feeds, Audi Boost
Price: Rs 20,990
value for money
9
8
overall
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Sony Ericsson
Xperia Arc S
Slim and Smarter
Pros
 Android 2.3.4 operating system
 8.0 megapixel camera
 Improved processor
Cons
S for slim and sleek
Like the first Arc, which grabbed a lot of
attention, the Sony Ericsson Arc S too is a
touchscreen phone with a beautifully curved
body. In fact, as far as the design and style of
the phone go, both devices seem identical.
It comes with a 4.2 inch display powered by
Sony’s Mobile BRAVIA engine, that makes it
appear large but is surprisingly light. Below the
screen are three hardware keys for Back, Home
and Menu. The silver highlights on the side
complement the sleek form factor and host a
number of ports and keys like the HDMI port
which is covered by a silver flap, 3.5 mm jack,
volume rocker, camera key and the charging
port. Like the Arc, the Arc S is also a stunner
but honestly, we would have liked some sort
of a differentiation between the two devices in
terms of appearance.
 Fingerprint magnet screen
Up-to-date Android
 No secondary camera
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc S runs on
Android 2.3.4. Although the interface remains
similar to that seen on the first Arc, enhancements have been made for a better gaming
experience and the OS also supports IP telephony and Near Field Communications. The
hardware has been pumped up too - the Arc
S runs on a 1.4 GHz processor and is packed
with 1 GB of internal memory while the RAM
 Looks very similar to the
previous Arc
The touchscreen offers a
fast and fluid experience
The 3.5 mm jack lets you
use headphones of yor
choice
The cured slim shape
of the phone justifies
the Arc tag
stays the same at 512 MB. There are five customisable homescreen panes, with an Overview
mode which shows you the panes floating on
the screen. Pretty but not very useful.
Sony Ericsson’s Timescape combines all your
SMS, SNS, e-mail and voice communications
and works smoothly with its scrollable tiled
interface. There are five soft keys at the bottom of the homescreen for Media, Messaging,
Menu, Contacts and Dialler. There is no smart
dialing but you can easily integrate your SNS
contacts list with the phonebook and view
details from a single tab itself. The phone
comes with support for all popular e-mail
clients including POP and IMAP and also supports Microsoft Exchange. A neat touch is an
e-mail app in which the screen gets divided
into two parts, letting you view a preview of
selected mail on one side, while displaying the
list of mails on the other. Very tablet-ish. The
phone comes with LiveWare manager, which
lets you set the behavior of your handset when
paired with an accessory. For instance, you can
set the device to open the music player each
time you plug in your headphones, or go to
picture frame mode each time you connect a
charger. The browser has full Flash support
and you can open multiple windows and use
multi-touch to zoom in and out. There is an
OfficeSuite document viewer on the phone.
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Getting connected
tures and keeps mail and social networks running, apart from normal calling and texting.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc S offers a
wide range of connectivity options such as 3G,
Wi-Fi, USB v2.0 and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR.
Apart from that you have a 3.5 mm jack, a mini
HDMI port and a USB On the Go feature.
However, you will have to buy the HDMI cable
and USB adapter separately. On the application front you can also share data over Wi-Fi
using the Connected Devices feature. There
is a special application which collates all the
Facebook videos and music from your friends’
list along with the list of games that your
Facebook friends share on Facebook, and gives
you the option of installing these games on
your mobile phone.
Alternatively
The Arc S is priced at Rs 26,000. Other
options that you can consider are Samsung
Galaxy S II for Rs 27,000 or if you wish to go
for a different OS you can opt for Nokia Lumia
800 costing 29,990. n
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tech specs
125 mm
Size | 125 x 63 x 8.7 mm
Great sound, cool camera
For music lovers, the phone comes with a
music player and FM radio. There are equaliser pre-sets to improve the sound quality
using the XLoud feature. The sound of the
music player is good through loudspeaker and
even better through the headphones. The 8.0megapixel camera takes really crisp pictures.
Shooting modes include smile detection,
scene recognition, panorama and 3D sweep
panorama. However, 3D panorama is cumbersome to use as you have to get the right sweep
and move in the right way to get results,
which even when you do everything right,
are not exactly mind-blowing. You have touch
capture and geo-tagging options. For videos,
the camera can capture 720p HD videos and
comes with face detection and infinity modes.
Picture and video quality are both
good. As far as the playback goes,
Weight | 117 grams
Upto 415 hours
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
63 mm
the phone is capable of playing 1080p HD
videos with ease, although there is no dedicated video player on the phone. Thanks to the
faster processor, the Arc S performs snappily.
However, battery life is standard Android – be
ready for at least one charge a day if
you are a power user, who
takes lots of pic-
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | Facebook music and video,
Live Ware manager
Price: Rs 26,000
verdict
Looks
8
Features
8
ease of use
8
9
perfoRmance
value for money
8
overall
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5.0-megapixel
camera takes
decent pictures
BlackBerry
Bold 9790 Getting
Bold-er Still!
Pros
 Impressive battery
 New BlackBerry OS 7
 NFC support
Cons
 No video calling
 No Flash support in browsing
 No Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities
Mini Bold
Sleek form factor makes
it easy to manage
Comfortable
QWERTY keypad is
good for extensive typing
The Bold series from RIM has been known
for its powerful handsets, generally spread
across large and smaller sizes. The Bold
9900 ushered in the touch and type trend
in the high-end smartphones from RIM, and
now the next Bold, the 9790, adds a smaller
form factor and more affordable price tag
to the series. It has a 2.4 inch horizontal capacitive touchscreen, with a full
QWERTY keypad below it. Below the display comes an optical trackpad with four
separate keys for calling, Menu and Back.
And unlike the Bold 9900, the 9790
has no silver coloured borders running
along its sides.
The QWERTY keypad is comfortable to use, although the corners
are a bit tapered, and the corner
keys did not give a firm feedback
on being pressed. The back panel
has the 5.0-megapixel camera
with flash. The microSD card is
under the battery cover but is
hot swappable. The phone is
light and will fit comfortably
into most hands – something
we could not have said about the
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various scene modes like night, beach, auto,
face detection, close up, etc., and you can
access the gallery, geo-tag option, flash and
scene modes from the viewfinder istelf. The
picture quality of the camera is acceptable.
The phone is capable of capturing 640x480
videos, which are of decent quality but the
absence of HD video recording rankles.
However, it can play 1080p HD videos very
well, although the small screen is not really
ideally suited for them.
As with many recent BlackBerry devices,
we were very impressed by the quality of the
sound in this device, be it on calls or on the
music player. There are headphone equaliser
presets and audio boost to enhance the sound
quality of the phone. The songs get sorted on
the basis of artists, albums and genres but on
the downside there is no FM radio. The music
player can be controlled with the volume keys
on the right side of the phone with the mute
button doubling up as a play and pause button
and volume keys for skipping back and forth.
The battery backup of the phone is good.
One full charge easily made it through the
day with continuous Wi-Fi, e-mail and a
couple of hours of video playback. The phone
comes with 8GB internal memory that can be
expanded further using a microSD card. All
in all, the Bold 9790 is a snappy performer,
thanks in no small measure to the 1GHz processor and 768 MB RAM on the spec sheet.
There is also support for NFC, although we
will be needing more apps to really get the
most out of it – still, it does make the device
future proof in that department.
110 mm
rather wide Bold 9900.
The BlackBerry Bold 9790, like most
new BlackBerry handsets, runs on
BlackBerry OS 7. The home screen has
a functional area at the top and a bar at
the bottom that reveals the shortcut panels. The top is the notification area, on
whose left are the profile settings and on
whose right lies the universal search. At
the bottom lies a bar that has five panels
which segregate apps into All, Favourites,
Frequent, Downloads and Media. You
will notice a significant change in the
icons - instead of the usual unicolour
outlines, the icons are colorful.
Long pressing on any icon reveals a
mini menu, which allows you to set it as
a favourite, move it, hide it, delete it or
launch the full menu. You also get the
option of which panel should be visible
and which should be hidden. Yes, all in
all, a massive improvement over the relatively dull BB interface of the past.
Work, apps...
One of the benefits of using a BlackBerry
is that you know that you are in good
hands when it comes to your enterprise
needs. But the Bold 9790 takes care of
your work and personal life as well. The
device has enterprise e-mail and support for POP and IMAP accounts. For
instant messaging, there is Windows
Live, Yahoo! Messenger and Google
Talk, while Facebook and Twitter apps come
preloaded for social network addicts. There is
also a Social Feed application that combines all
your communication through Google Talk, RSS
Feeds, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger and
Yahoo! Messenger in one window.
The Bold’s browser has multi-touch but
does not support Flash. BlackBerry Maps are
present but don’t run in this region so you
will have to depend on third party software
(we like Google Maps best) for navigation and
finding your whereabouts. For the security
conscious, there’s a BlackBerry Protect app
that is capable of remote locking, data wiping
and also backing up and restoring data on to
a new BlackBerry phone. The device comes
with Documents To Go pre-loaded on the
phone and it lets you open, create and edit
MS Office files on the phone. The QWERTY
keyboard is super as always for typing, making
this a great device for those who like to write
as well as speak words.
All work... and play too!
As mentioned earlier, the Bold 9790 is not
just about work. It comes with a 5.0-megapixel
camera which is complemented with flash,
geo-tagging and image stablisation. There are
60 mm
tech specs
Size | 110 x 60 x 11.4 mm
Weight | 107 grams
Alternatively
Battery | Li-Ion 1230 mAh
Upto 432 hours
The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is priced at Rs
27,490. The other option that you can consider
is Samsung Galaxy S II priced at Rs 27,000 and
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S costing Rs 26,000
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verdict
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
Looks
8
Features
8
ease of use
perfoRmance
8
value for money
8
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
9
overall
Others | 1080p video playback
Price: Rs 27,490
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Motorola Razr XT910
The Razr Returns...With
Android
RAZR thin
candybar
Few phones have captured the
world’s imagination like Motorola’s
iconic RAZR series. These devices carved
a niche for themselves with their good looks,
metallic build and clamshell form factor. And after
a brief sabbatical, the RAZR is back and in a smartphone avatar. And in best RAZR tradition, it seems that
Motorola has let its designers go wild in their imagination
for the new RAZR XT910. Yes, we must confess that we are a
bit disappointed that it lacks the clamshell form factor, but on the
flip (pun intended) side, it is anorexically thin, measuring a mere
7.1 mm at its thinnest point, and has a body made of Kevlar which is
said to be five times tougher than steel (the Batman uses it for his costume, which is good enough for us).
The 4.3 inch Super AMOLED screen is a delight and the presence of
gorilla glass means that it is scratchproof, making this one of the toughestbodied devices we have seen since the Nokia N8. You cannot remove the
back panel and the battery is not detachable. There are two slots on the right
side where you can put the micro SIM (no regular SIM slot here) and the
microSD card. The 3.5 mm jack, HDMI port and USB port are placed at the top.
Despite its big size, it is ergonomically designed and is convenient to use. Yes, it
is unlikely to stand out in a crowd as spectacularly as it predecessors did, but it
does have more than its fair share of style, thanks mainly to the materials used in
its manufacture.
Android, with a Moto flavour
The RAZR is one
of the slimmest
smartphones in
the market
The microSIM card
slot and microSD
card slot is placed
under the flap
The XT910 runs on the latest version of Android, 2.3.5. The interface has been
jazzed up and now you have a different lock where the whole screen moves in the
unlocking motion. You can also access the camera and sound profiles from the
lockscreen itself. There are five homescreen panels and you can tap on the home
key to see all of them together. You cannot add more panels but these can be customised easily. The menu too is spread across panels and these can be sorted as
All Apps, Recent and Downloaded. You can also create groups and then view apps
group wise. Pressing the home button longer gives you access to recent apps that
you have viewed accssed.
The dual core 1.2 GHz processor under that sleek hood means that the RAZR
performs at a decent speed. A new feature on the phone is Smart Actions, which
lets you define conditions to launch any function of the phone. For instance, the
screen will go dim if the battery goes down, the ringtone will change when the
phone is charging, and so on. You can create these rules and set triggers for
them. It might sound a bit complex but is an excellent option as the phone
pretty much does everything on its own once you have set it up nicely.
The Social Networking application combines a number of SNS services including LinkedIN and Orkut, bringing all social networking activity to one screen. You can choose to see all updates together or one
service at a time. MotoCast is another application that allows you to
stream content wirelessly from your PC to your phone. You need
to add the MotoCast account on your phone and download the
application on the PC. Contacts have strong SNS and e-mail
integration and you can send e-mail, see profiles, send message on social sites, and write on your Facebook wall
from the Contacts tab itself. Completing the online
experience is the browser, which comes with full
Flash support.
On the productivity front, you can
open and edit MS Office documents using QuickOffice, and
can type away using the
Big display adds to
onscreen QWERTY
the phone’s func−
keypad that
tionality
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The fun side
The XT910 comes with a 8.0-megapixel autofocus camera but there
is no hardware key for taking pictures, making it a bit tricky to
use. There are various scene modes like macro
and portrait and you can
shoot in single shot mode,
panorama and multi-shot
mode. The picture quality
of the camera is just about
acceptable, which is a bit
of a letdown in such a
high-profile device. Geotagging is possible both
for stills as well as videos
(the camera can capture
full HD videos, incidentally). A neat addition in the
video mode is the Audio
scene option that lets you
capture sound manner.
The video quality of the
phone is good.
The device comes with
a music player that can
play either through the
phone’s library or via the
MotoCast library. There
are two types of equalizer
presets, one for the loudspeaker and the other one
for headphones, with the
latter having more options.
The loudspeaker sound
is good but is frankly stunning on the headphones.
There is no FM radio on
the phone but Internet
Radio can compensate
and you can hear podcasts
68.9 mm
too. Needless to say, you can
share content over Wi-Fi using DLNA.
The internal memory of the phone is 8GB and can be expanded
using a microSD card. The battery backup of the phone is good - one
full charge goes beyond a day with continuous usage.
Alternatively
The Motorola RAZR XT910 is priced at Rs 33,900. If you
are looking at an Android device with similar specifications, you can also opt for the Samsung Galaxy S2,
which comes with a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED
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Cons
Pros
 Sentimentalists will miss
 Slim and built with Kevlar
the clamshell form factor
 Good specifications (dual
 MicroSIM needed
core processor, 8.0 MP
camera)
 Good SUPER AMOLED
display
 Relatively ordinary camera
with no dedicated camera
button
tech specs
Size | 130.7 x 68.9 x 7.1 mm
Weight | 127 grams
Upto 305 hours
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
130.7 mm
also supports SWYPE input. A
MOTOPRINT app lets you access
printers wirelessly and take printouts
directly from the phone. The phone comes with
support for just about every sort of e-mail and with
mulitple connectivity options, including 3G, Wi-Fi,
HDMI, and DLNA.
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | MotoCast, Social
Netwroking app
Price: Rs 33,900
verdict
Looks
8
Features
8
ease of use
8
9
perfoRmance
value for money
8
overall
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Nokia Lumia 800 Lumia,
Pros
Lumia, Burning Bright?
MS-Nokia’s firstborn
The first Nokia Windows Phone has hit the
Indian market - the Nokia Lumia 800, which
runs on the latest Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, also known as Mango. The Lumia
800 has a curvy body similar to the N9, which
alas has not come to Indian shores. The front
is adorned by a 3.7-inch gorilla glass display
(which was susceptible to fine scratches from
normal usage) with three touch keys below
it for Back, Home and Search. The sides hold
the camera, power cum screen lock and the
volume keys. At the top is the USB port and
micro SIM card slot. Putting in the micro SIM
card (yes, you need one) is cumbersome as
you first have to push open the USB port
cover and then slide and pull out the micro
SIM card tray, which we think is silly really.
The back cover cannot be opened and the
battery is not detachable. All said and done,
the Lumia 800 stands out in terms of smooth
looks and stylish form factor. It is available in
colours Black, Cyan and Fuschia colours
with other popular POP and IMAP accounts as
well as settings of popular Webmail services.
You can create and edit MS Office documents
with the bundled MS Office suite. For connectivity, there’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G. You
can also create a Wi-Fi hotspot and share it
with up to five people. The Bing search engine
comes with both voice as well as visual search,
but text scanning was not that accurate. There
are other niggles. If you get an incoming call,
you first have to unlock the screen and then
accept the call, unlike in other touch devices
where a single gesture suffices. Cut and paste
is also missing, although you can copy and
paste content. Multi-tasking too is a bit limited
- you cannot end
tasks but just
switch between
them. Finally,
you still cannot transfer
files over
Bluetooth!
 Great form factor and very
decent specifications
 Very good display
 Excellent battery life for a
large touchscreen device
Cons
 Same interface as other
Windows Phone devices
 No expandable memory
 Needs a micro SIM
Mango juice...sweet, most
of the time!
116.5 mm
The interface on the Lumia 800 remains
the same finger-friendly, tiled one seen in
Windows Phone devices. And it looks gorgeous on the AMOLED ClearBlack display.
Swiping on the right of the homescreen
reveals a Menu with apps listed alphabetically, while in the People tab, swiping reveals new activities by
contacts, recently accessed
contacts and all contacts.
The phone comes
with Facebook,
LinkedIn and Twitter integration so you
can see all social activity under one tab.
The Calendar automatically integrates
events from your Facebook account. There
is multitouch support for the picture gallery and the browser (no Flash support,
though). There are no preloaded SNS
apps, but you can always download them
from the Windows Marketplace. Moreover,
once you configure the accounts in the
People tab you can send updates through
your profile there. The device comes with
support for Microsoft Exchange along
The Nokia touch
61.2 mm
Although the UI of the device remains standard Windows Phone, Nokia has added a
few interesting apps for the users. The App
Highlight feature collates and suggests some
apps for the phone. The Surprise Me feature
lets you shake the phone to scroll through
apps under the Surprise Me tab. Then there
is Nokia Drive that offers free voice guided
driving navigation on the phone, and Nokia
Maps that offers directions for driving, walking
and public transport options. For multimedia
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the vicinity of Rs 29,990. Windows Phone fans
could try the Samsung Omnia W which also
comes with an AMOLED display but has a
slower processor and a 5.0-megapixel camera
and costs Rs 19,500. On Android, the Samsung
Galazy S2 offers a 1.2 GHz dual core processor,
a 4.0-inch SUPER AMOLED display and an
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with Carl Zeiss
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Size | 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm
3.7 inch diplay
Weight | 142 grams
is convenient to
work with owing
Memory | 16GB, No
to the Metro UI
Upto 265 hours
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | Nokia Maps and Drive app
Price: Rs 29,990
verdict
lovers, Tune In gives you
one-touch access to streaming music online.
The phone comes with an 8.0-megapixel
camera with Carl Zeiss optics, which unlike
Nokia’s recent high-end offerings, comes with
autofocus. It performs OK, both in video and
still mode. The dedicated camera key helps in
focussing as well as taking snaps, and you can
choose between a number of scene modes.
For music, you have to sync with Microsoft’s
Zune software to transfer content on to the
phone – you are, however, restricted to the
16GB onboard storage, which is not expandable. There is also FM radio, with an easy to
use interface. The sound quality of the phone
was acceptable. Thanks to 512 MB RAM and a
1.4 GHz Snapdragon processor, all this works
at the rate of knots. Battery back-up is good
– we were able to get through a day very comfortably with social networks and mail running
with a few hours of calls.
Alternatively
The Lumia is expected to retail at a price in
Looks
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Features
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ease of use
perfoRmance
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The secondary
camera comes in
handy for video
chatting
iPhone 4S High
Performance, High
Price
Looks familiar...
One glance at the iPhone 4S will tell you why Apple did
not call it the iPhone 5 – it looks exactly like the iPhone 4.
Both have have the same proportions – 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3mm
– although at 140 grams, the 4S is marginally heavier. The
front is dominated by the 3.5 inch 960 x 640 retina display
with only the home button beneath it. The sides are metallic, and on the left are the volume buttons and the silent
mode slider, while on the left is the micro-SIM try. The
top has the 3.5 mm jack and power/screen on/off button,
while on the lower part are the charging port, speakers and
microphone. The back houses the camera with LED flash
and the legendary Apple logo. As in the iPhone 4, the feel
of the device is nothing short of awesome, thanks to the
premium materials used. Yes, it does look “glassy” and
feels a tad delicate but it fits comfortably into most hands.
Yes, we are disappointed that the 4S looks exactly like the
iPhone 4. But that sure as heck is not going to stop us from
flaunting it – it still looks that good.
...with changes under the hood,
Sir(i)...
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I Know!
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Siri- the virtual assistant offers a good value
addition
There ARE changes, however. The 4S comes with a
powerful A5 dual core processor, which makes it work
at a discernibly faster clip than the iPhone 4, which was
no slouch in the speed department itself – this becomes
evident while playing resource hungry games like Infinity
Blade 2. The camera too has been upgraded to an 8.0megapixel one with an f/2.4 aperture, which can shoot full
HD video. And we can go on record saying that we have
not seen such clarity from a camera on a mobile device,
including the amazing N8. The fact that you can tweak
images and video on the device itself with minimum fuss
is a colossal bonus.
The most spectacular difference, however, between the
iPhone 4 and 4S is the presence of Siri. A virtual assistant,
Siri responds to your voice commands, and attempts to
carry out various tasks, ranging from searching for terms
on the Internet to making calls and sending mails and text
messages to telling you what the temperature is. What
makes it different from previous voice command software
is the fact that you can talk to it normally – if you have
specified a person as your spouse in your contacts, you can
simply ask Siri, “Call my wife” or “Remind me to meet my
wife at 10.30 tonight.” In most cases, yours will be done.
Using Siri is easy – you either hold the phone to your ear
until you hear a beep-like sound or long-press the home
key. Yes, it does have issues with Indian names and terms,
but if you speak slowly enough, you will find yourself
increasingly addicted to it, especially because the responses are so “normal” and even witty. We have lost count of
the people who asked Siri to marry them, only to be told
“we hardly know each other” or that marriage was not covered in her End User Licence Agreement. It is early days but
we think Siri could redefine how we use handsets.
...and the same rocking UI and apps!
Running alongside these improvements are the silky smooth
iOS interface and vast app repository that lets you do just
about anything on your device. The addition of a notification
bar in iOS5 lets you keep upto speed with your mails and
messages without opening specific apps a la Android, and
thanks to the outstanding retina display, everything looks just
gorgeous. iOS itself remains as intuitive and simple as ever
– you just tap on icons to use the app or function you want –
and the touch experience remains unparalleled. So much so
that we have stopped complaining about the absence of Flash
support on the otherwise superb Safari browser or about the
absence of expandable storage. Multi-tasking, social networking, gaming, music, videos – honestly, they all work a charm
on the device, and with the introduction of iCloud, the need
to connect your device to iTunes is far lesser. We also did
not experience any problems with calls, although battery
life took a hammering when we heavily used the camera
and Siri. You will struggle to get through a day on a single
charge if you are a power user of either or just love to play
lots of games.
Alas, all this literally comes at a massive price – starting
at Rs 44,500 for the 16GB version, the iPhone 4S is the most
expensive regular edition smartphone in the country. Which
really restricts it to those who have deep pockets and are
crazy about technology, photography, gaming and Siri. And
that seems a tad unfair.
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Alternatively
The iPhone 4S starts at Rs 44,500 for 16GB. If you want the
iOS experience minus Siri, we would recommend the
iPhone 4, which starts at Rs 34,990 for 16GB, or the
iPhone 3GS at Rs 20,990 for 8GB. On the Android
front, you can try the Motorola Razr which is
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115.2 mm
tech specs
Size | 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm
Weight | 140 grams
Memory | 16GB,32GB,64GB
Upto 200 hours
GPRS/3G | Yes/Yes
Frequency | GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Others | Dual Core processor
Price: Rs 44,500
Pros
verdict
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 Improved processor
Looks
 The best camera we have seen on a mobile
Features
9
ease of use
9
perfoRmance
9
device
 Virtual assistant, Siri
Cons
 Very stiff price tag
 Looks exactly like the iPhone 4
 Battery drains fast
value for money
6
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Smart apps
Tales With
Touch Book reading
gets a new touch on
the iPad
F
airy tales never grow old, but the ways
of telling them change. And in this
department the iPad seems poised to
provide stiff competition to the likes of popup books and of course, one's granny, thanks
to apps like Touchy Books, which recapture
the magic of all the classics and modern day
stories for children of various age groups.
There are books for +1 age group kids,
grouped as pre-beginners, +3 called beginners, +6 group called intermediate, and +8
which is termed advanced. The app offers
books in seven languages namely Spanish,
English, French, German, Japanese, Italian
and Chinese. There are a number of
books available for purchase, although you can
even try a few books as samples before buying
the full version.
Once you buy a book, you can choose to
read it yourself or let the iPad do the reading.
There is an autoplay option too that works
like a slideshow, and reads and flips the pages
on its own – a whole lot of fun if you want a
hands-off experience. There are other neat
touches too - you can skip to a particular
page, interact with the elements in the story
and rate a particular book and if you are the
paranoid parent type, can add parental control
for kids and easily edit the books kept in the
bookshelf of the application.
So if there is a classic that you would
like your kids to read,
but cannot find it in
your local book store,
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Apple iPad2
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Get a Glympse
Where art thou?
W
hether you are lost in a new city,
or trying to get to a party venue or
worst of all, stuck in a potentially
threatening situation, letting know people
know your whereabouts could at times be
the small line that separates life from death.
Glympse is an application that allows you to
do just that, without having to punch in a long
address as SMS or trying to get directions
over a call.
Once you download the application on
then send it whenever you want.
the phone, you can simply share you
best part is – the person who
location with your friends and family
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receives the Glympse does not
through SMS, e-mail as well as social
need to have the software on their
networking sites like Facebook and
phone or computer to see where
Twitter. Once you do that, you can
you are – all they need is a browser
choose the time duration between 10
and the Internet. The app is simple to use,
minutes to four hours for which you want
though it does need a good Internet connecpeople to see your location and for that time,
tion, and is available for free download from
those you send the Glympse (yes, that's what
the Android Market. n
it's called) will be able to see your real time
location. So, if you wish to meet someone and
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are en route, you can send a Glympse with
We tested it on the
that location set as a destination, and also
Sony Ericsson Arc S
with a message if you wish. Once you send a
Glympse you can set it as you favourite and
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Smart apps
Just Dial to Find
Out India’s Yellow
also through e-mail. One of the most
popular of these is JustDial, which is now
available as an application on your Android
device. Download the app, and all you need to
do to get the information you need is
enter the category or company name and the
location.
Instead of putting in the location you can
ellow Pages are a very useful source of
also choose the Near Me option to literally
information about local businesses and
choices in your vicinity. It actually works!
vendors, but do tend to get outdated
You can do a city-wise search too – just
and are bulky to carry around.Fortunately,
enter the name of the city or choose
there are services that have provided
from the list of cities already in the
you with such information over a
Rating app. The app is available for two
call. Just dial the call center number,
countries - India and the USA. When
ask for the relevant numbers and it
you choose a city, you get Hotkeys for
is sent on your phone via SMS and
Pages call service
comes to Androids
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nine search options of restaurants, movies,
events, hotels, deals, Tag Your Friend (TYF),
doctors , fuel stations and ATMs. The deals
and Tag your Friend feature, however, are not
functional yet. The app needs data connectivity all the time so if you are on roaming, it
would be better if you use Wi-Fi wherever
possible. Overall, it is a useful
application to get information in
a simple and convenient manner.
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Sony Ericsson Arc S
boredom buster
Defend Your
Castle Bow and
arrows, spells,
monsters...
F
ans of the Plants vs Zombies or Eggs
vs Chicken will love this tower defense
game which has a mythical touch to it.
You are the guardian of the city wall and have
to kill all the monsters that come in waves to
attack it with their (yes!) boxing gloves. As
you keep advancing the variety of monsters
increase and after a few levels you also have
to fight a boss battle. How do you do it? There
are two ways – you can either opt to use a
bow and arrow or just resort to magic spells.
Shooting a monster is as simple as touching
to release an arrow in its direction, but alas, it
needs more than one arrow to kill a monster.
The spells come in handy when there are
hordes of monsters coming together – you can
choose from spells like Firewall, Glacial Spike
and Lightening strike - but these take some of
your Mana (life force used for magic) when
you use them.
Mana does get replenished with time but
while it does, you could be in a spot.
There is a store where you can use your gold
coins earned by killing the monsters and
crystals for upgrades. More upgrades become
available as you progress further in the game.
While the game can be downloaded for free
from the Android Market, there are a number of in app purchases in case you wish to
get more coins and crystals without wishing
to get your hands dirty crossing the levels.
There are ads in the game but these are hardly
noticeable in the heat of battle. If
you do well, you can pick up honours like Monster Hunter, and so
forth. Loads of fun. n
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S
Rating
85%
boredom buster
Christmas With
A Zombie Twist
doll physics game where the clowns are trying
to take all the gifts from Santa’s bag and you
have to flick them around to kill them and
stop them from reaching the sack of gifts.
There are different types of Zombies and
they can come from the ground or from the
air. Apart from flicking them around you
his Christmas, take some time out and
can also use extra weapons like candy guns
save Santa’s residence – yep, we are
to shoot them down. Every time a clown is
talking about a game that lets you be
killed, it releases a gift and you need to
the savior of the North Pole! The game
touch on it to collect it. These clowns
is called Zombie Circus: North Pole
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also release special weapons that you
Invasion and you have to save the
can later use on them (how ungrateNorth Pole from Zombie clowns
ful!). There are 60 levels in the game
who have come to town with the
and the difficulty keeps increasing as
Zombie Circus. It is bbasically a rag-
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you keep crossing the levels. Apart from the
usual Zombies, you will also have to battle
five bosses.
You can play the game either in campaign
or survival modes. From the beginning the
game kind of hooks you up, but frantic flicking
can tire your fingers. There are bonus rounds
too where you can launch giant snowballs
on snow skating clowns to kill as many as
you can. The game can be downloaded for free from Windows
Marketplace. Go get it! . n
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Nokia Lumia 800
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Battling
Brain Eaters!
The little grey cells
fight back
A
nyone who knows their horror literature will tell you that
zombies eat brains – well, even
the undead need some sort of sustenance to live (?). But what if the brain
had the power to fight these zombies
and save itself ? I Smell Brains game
builds upon this extremely brainy
notion. You have to defend the Brain
Replicating Ailen Drifter or BRAD (no
relation of Mr Pitt, we are sure) from
the attack of various types of zombies. This BRAD is a huge pile of grey
matter and has a few offspring. The
zombies attack these offspring and eat
them up and you have to defend them
using various power capsules that
grow on BRAD’s surface. Some just
crush these zombies and others (those
with maggots in it) blast them away. If
all the offsprings get eaten, the game is
over – brain death.
There are different types of zombies, skeletons, mummies, etc., that
attack BRAD. You get more points if
you kill them in combos. The game
can be played in either story mode or
survival mode, with a tutorial to help
you learn the ropes about gameplay. In
the story mode there are various levels
which have waves, while in the survival mode there comes just one wave
after the other – you can choose which
you prefer. Gameplay is a mix of touch
as well as accelerometer. You just have
to touch the power capsules to make
them fall on the zombies. This works
fine if the zombie is right beneath the
capsule but if you have to make it fall a
little further, then you will have to tilt
your device to get the right trajectory
for hitting the target. The graphics and
gameplay are simple and yet, the game
does get a bit difficult to play and you
have to manage the attack properly in
order to combat the zombies which
attack from both directions. Monsieur
Poirot surely could not have meant
this when he referred to using the
“little grey cells” to solve mysteries.
The game is available for free download on the BlackBerry App World for
the PlayBook. Get it. Using a brain was
never this much fun. n
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Blackberry Playbook
Rating
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boredom buster
R
The Spirit of Indiana
Jones Grab an idol...run!
default you get the avatar of Guy
are is the person who
Dangerous who is your no-frillshas not enjoyed the
attached average explorer. Collect
adventures of Allan Quatermain
cash and you can unlock other
and Indiana Jones on their TV
characters who are adept in
sets and cinema screens. If there
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various skills. The longer you run
was a swashbuckling adventurer
the higher your score. You need
inside you waiting to get out, try
to complete objectives like Novice
Temple Run, an unlimited runRunner on running 500 meters,
ning game where you an adventurer
Pocket change on collecting 100 coins,
who is escaping vicious guardians of
etc. You can also buy more coins. The 3D
the temple after you take the sacred idol
graphics of the game are very realistic
from it (never a wise thing, we say). To save
and you need to swipe your finger in the
yourself from these vicious animals you
right direction to make your explorer turn.
have to run through the ruins of the ancient
Compellingly athletic and
temple and keep dodging obstacles like
available for free from the
tree roots, gaps in the corridors, even while
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collecting as many coins as possible in the
way. These coins come in handy for getting
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fa c e t o fa c e
“Mythology based content
is a big market!”
UTV Interactive recently launched ‘Divya Kathayein, an audio product,
targeted at Indian consumers who love mythology. Lavina Tauro,
senior vice president, Voice Products and Music, UTV Interactive
talks about the product and the idea behind it Heena Jatav
What is the idea behind bringing mythological content to handsets? Mythology based
content is significantly consumed across
different mediums in our country be it television, big screens or mobiles. After Bollywood
and Cricket, it is the biggest market for
business in the entertainment sector. With
this background, we at UTV Interactive
launched ‘Divya Kathayein’ which would provide the masses in the country mythological
content on the go. With busy lifestyles, very
few have the time to read up on their deities.
This product gives them the opportunity to
gain knowledge on their deities anytime and
anywhere. Another factor that led UTV to
launch content on mythology on mobiles was
the recent success of the flagship
product – Audio Cinema. Its phenomenal success within just two months of its launch reiterates that voice products are in huge demand
in the country, as long as the content appeals
to audiences.
the focus is more on Hindu devotional
content, but we are talking to different content providers to acquire content for other
religions.
What is the demand for religious content on
the mobile platform? Mythology/Devotion
based content is a big market and consumed
significantly across the country. This goes
in tune with our religious backgrounds and
orientations. Success of mythology content
across platforms be it television, films, etc., is
noteworthy and has gained significant share
in the mobile VAS market as well. 15-20 per
cent of total mobile downloads is dominated
by devotional content in India. This number
itself showcases the popularity and demand of
religious/devotional content.
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What were the challenges you faced while
conceptualising the content? Precision.
Mythology is a very sensitive topic and any
error in content would spell trouble. We have
to be extremely careful with the content that
we publish. It has to be 100 per cent error free
so that it cannot hurt anyone’s sentiments
and for this, the content development process
requires a lot of meticulous research.
What will be the target region and age
group for your ‘Divya Kathayein’? With
Divya Kathayein we aim to reach out to users
in the remotest of corners in India and to provide them with content which they can access
even with their most basic mobile phones.
The core age group is between 18-35 years.
Are there any plans to come up with products for other religions like Christianity,
Sikhism, etc., in the near future? Yes, the
plan is to make this a complete devotional
offering in the near future. However for now,
spot light
Child’s Play!
Contrary to popular belief, messing around with
gadgets and apps will not curb your child’s development.
If used properly, they could even help the learning process
Heena Jatav
A
ccording to an international study,
children begin using electronic
devices at approximately seven
years of age with televisions and
desktop computers being the first gadgets they
generally use. And if that seems far-fetched to
you, then you need to meet Rajbir Singh who
knows almost everything about a smartphone
and hands out app recommendations, advice
and suggestions at the drop of a hat. He is
all of eight years old. It took him just a few
minutes to tell me about an app, download it
on to my phone and give a tutorial. And no,
he is not an aberration. Daksh, a four year old,
has not yet learnt to speak properly but finds
it no big deal to head to the Internet to watch
his favourite cartoons like Chhota Bheem and
Ben 10.
However, many parents get alarmed when
they see their relatively young children spending a lot of time using cellphones, watching
television or working on a computer, as they
fear this would stop them from participating
in outdoor activities and even make them antisocial. While we would go so far as to say that
their fears are totally unfounded, the fact is
that getting familiar with gadgets at a young
age need not always have a detrimental effect
on children. Many in fact could actually help
their personality development and maybe even
provide them with new avenues to express
their creativity. Today, there are numerous
applications and gadgets which can not only
entertain but also educate your young ones.
What makes them particularly effective is the
fact that they are a far cry from the conventional board and chalk methods of teaching
that are getting increasingly predictable, and
are therefore more interesting.
What’s more, with tablets and smartphones
getting more accessible and in some cases,
affordable, developers too are coming out with
interesting applications that are targeted at
children. These applications teach everything
from colours, mathematics, geography to
computers, science, art, etc. Indeed, there
is such a huge variety of apps out there for
children that parents could have a tough time
making up their minds about which one to
use. We explored the wonderful world of
children’s apps and well, here are a few that
caught our eye:
Kids ABC PhonicsThe app is suitable
for those who want
to teach the alphabet
to their toddlers in
an interesting way. The application displays a
very large image of a letter. By clicking on the
image, it changes from the letter to a picture of
an object that starts with that letter. The app
also contains a test mode in which you can
check the knowledge of your child. It displays
a picture and a child needs to recognise the
correct alphabet with which its name starts.
Basic, but lots of fun.
Available on- Android Market
Price- Rs. 208.05
Christmas Story BooksChristmas is around the
corner and if you want to
gift something exciting
to your child, then we
would recommend this
very handy app. The app
comes filled with four Christmas books and
carols. The books come with animated pictures and some very good music and there are
also some exciting features like ‘Movie mode,’
which when enabled, automatically turns the
pages and ‘Read to Me’ which reads books to
children. An excellent way to develop the reading habit, we think.
Available on- iTunes App Store,
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Android Market
Price- Rs 51.62 for Android, Free on the iTunes
App Store
Vocabulary BubbleThis is a great way to
build your child’s vocabulary. The app comes
with more than four
hundred words along with their meanings and
definitions. The smooth graphics ensure that
your child’s attention will not falter as they go
through bubble after bubble. Who knows, your
vocabulary might improve too.
Available on- iTunes App Store
Price- Free
Kids First Puzzle
HD Pro- Another
vocabulary builder,
the app is designed
to teach new words to your child. There is
a jigsaw element to the puzzle in which the
child is asked to form a picture and then also
spell out words. Beats sitting back and learning passively – we must confess even we were
tempted to join in the picture-forming.
Price- Rs 101.99
Test Your English- As its
name indicates, this app
will help your child in
improving their English.
It contains different tests
like Grammar exercises, Synonyms, Idiom
tests etc. There are more than three hundred
tests to go around, often with multiple choice
answers and even the option to play a game, so
there is plenty of learning to do.
Price- Free
Monkey Preschool
Lunchbox- The app
is targeted to get
toddlers into learning mode just before
they join school. The
game revolves around helping incredibly cute
monkeys pack a lunchbox but thrown into the
mix also are seven different games that teach
children about colors, letter, counting and
other basic skills.
Available on- iTunes App Store, Android
Market
Price- Rs. 103.76 for Android , approximately
Rs 51 for iOS
Countries of the WorldThe app is designed to teach
your child the names of
countries, their capitals, their
flags, languages, religion,
currency, and other details. It
also contain a test mode and
in a neat touch, audio clips
to help in correct pronunciation. It might seem a tad dry at times, but in
terms of utility, it is a geographical wonder.
Price- Free
Sudoku- The famous mathematical puzzle game is
here, and is a terrific aid to
your child’s memory. The
app supports undo and
redo button and also allows
one to make rough notes, if
necessary. The app contains
six difficulty levels and you
might to tangle with some of the tougher ones
yourself if you think the lower levels are too
easy. It is not ALL child’s play.
Available on- iTunes App Store
Price- approximately Rs 51
Math Bingo- The perfect
app for your wannabe
numerical wizard. The game
is simple - you solve a math
problem to fill the bingo
spots. As soon as you fill
all the empty spots you will
be awarded with Bingo Bug
to play with. Now, who said mathematics was
boring. Or scary?
Children and Gadgets–
Some Guidelines :æ Parents can set a lock on the app
store to stop children from downloading inappropriate material.
æ Parents should stay with children
while they use gadgets.
æ The brightness of displays should
be adjusted in keeping the light of
the room they used in. Being too
bright or too dull could have an
adverse effect on the child’s vision.
æ Parents should take care that children do not end up using apps that
are not meant for their age group –
all apps come with age limit specifications.
æ Gadgets like phones and tablets
should be ideally kept in covers
while being used by children to
minimise the possibility of
damage.
Available on: iTunes App Store
Price- approximately Rs 51
Cinderella Puzzle
Book HD- This app
offers a colourful HD
representation of the
famous Cinderella fairy
tale. The app contains
25 pages of beautiful illustrations with voice
over narration that are bound to hold your
child’s attention. Top that off with jigsaw puzzles and colouring games which ensure that
the magic of the story remains long after your
child has heard it.
Available on:- iTunes App Store
Prize- Approximately Rs 102
Apart from applications, there are a number of gadgets that can educate and entertain
your child in equal measure. Gadgets like electronic kids laptop, electronic dictionary, kid’s
camera are some of the exciting products on
the list.
The Government of India also seems to be
looking to make gadgets more accessible to the
younger generation, as can be seen from its
Aakash tablet initiative.
Although that tablet is targeted at older
children, we are sure it won’t be long before
apps for young ones start appearing on it. We
would however insist that while apps and gadgets can make a positive difference to the life
of your child, they are not enough by themselves. A healthy outdoor life is necessary too.
A perfect life would be a balance of the
two – ignoring either would be depriving your
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“We are looking
for some hot
branding in India”
The market for Bluetooth accessories
is expanding in India, and Jabra is
hoping to grab a sizeable part of it.
Ann Goh, regional sales manager,
Mobile South East Asia, Jabra shares
company’s plans in this regard
Heena Jatav and Harshita Rastogi
How is Jabra’s relationship with India going?
It has been an interesting experience. We have
been here for six years now and our company
has taken a new direction here. We are focusing on Indian market considering it the largest
market after china, and are thus, putting in
more investment so as to expand our business.
We have also changed our distributors and are
looking at expanding our resources in India.
You talk about expansion. Are you planning
to set up a manufacturing unit or exclusive
stores in India? Well, as far as manufacturing unit is concerned, in the short term, no,
we don’t see it happening, but I won’t say
that it not going to happen. However, it surely would
happen in the long term, possibly when we attain the next
level in the market here. Also, as far as exclusive stores are
concerned, if the response from the consumers will keep
on gaining heights then you would definitely see our stores
here soon.
What is the size of your share in accessory market of
India, especially when it comes to Bluetooth devices? It
would be difficult for me to share the numbers but I can
definitely say that we have been doing really well lately
because of the changes we have made in our portfolio. In
the midst of rebuilding the whole channel and branding up,
as per my estimation, we have got about 5 to 10 per cent of
the market share. However, we are sure that we have the
aggressive strength to grow by leaps and bounds in coming
years. Since we have done the recessing of channels, our
numbers have doubled in the last two quarters. We are definitely looking for some hot branding in India.
What is that one thing that sets your brand apart from
other Bluetooth accessory brands? Jabra is a niche brand
with about 140 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. One thing different about Jabra is
that we only concentrate on handsfree devices working on
Bluetooth. We know about the expectations of our
consumers and design products as per their requirements.
Besides this, as a global brand, we have a much stronger
product portfolio to cater to our segments of as compared to
our competitors in the market.
What would you say is your target segment? I would put it
like this, in total potential consumers our targeted segment
would vary from country to country. In India, we focus more
on the mid-high end tier. That defines the cream of the
mass market. In terms of category, one of the key focuses
is on the music category. So for Jabra, it’s not only the call
based features to be focused on but the music as well. We
do both calls as well as music.
Since India is a price sensitive market, what are your
pricing strategies? Most of our products are high-end, costing as high as Rs. 8,000. But, considering the mass market
size here, we have developed an entry-level headset to cater
to low-end customers. However, we have no plans to launch
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The real Slim
Shady The Ultrabook
cometh
I
ntel would like us to believe that it is the
next form of mobile computing – notebooks that are thin to the point of being
anorexic, work incredibly fast, pack in lots of
processing power and weigh just over a kilo.
The faithful call them “ultrabooks,” Apple fans
call them “MacBook Air clones.” And the first
of these to land on Indian shores is the Acer
Aspire S3. And while the sleek grey aluminum
casing and 1.3 cm thickness does remind us of
the MacBook Air, this is no mere clone. It
packs in a very powerful processor, Intel Core
i3/i5/i7 processor, depending on the model
you pick; has a full 13.3 inch display of 1366 x
768 resolution; 4GB RAM; a 320 GB/ 500 GB
hard drive; two USB ports and a full HDMI
port as well, with Windows 7 running under
the hood. All this in a body that weighs
around 1.3 kg and can be carried around comfortably. Thanks to the relatively large display,
the keyboard is spacious too, making typing a
pleasure. What’s more, the device works at the
rate of knots – it literally came out of sleep
mode in around a second and handled multi-
ple tasks and even some relatively low-end
gaming without too many hassles. It would of
course have been even faster if it had been
running on Flash storage like the MacBook Air
does, but we are not quibbling with what we
have. Top that off with seven hours of battery
life and you have a device that will turn heads
and even work very well for road warriors. We
have saved the best for last – the prices start
at Rs 49,990, which is a good Rs 6,000 lesser
than the 11-inch MacBook Air. Windows users
finally have a notebook to take on the Air. n
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Packing gigs in
micro space
All the storage you
would want on a
microSD
M
obile phones and tablets may be
coming with more storage than
ever before today, but there are still
times when one finds oneself running short,
especially if one is a compulsive film watcher
or high-def game player. So, if you think that
even the 16 GB storage that comes packed
into some of the high end handsets is not
enough for your storage needs, we would recommend investing in Sandisk’s 64 GB Micro
SD card XCI. The card is a blend of red and
violet colour which sets it apart from others.
When it comes to the
functionality, it is capable of
transferring data at fast
speeds, although our experience of it was a bit mixed in this regard. The
company claims that card has a data transfer
rate of 30 MB per second, but we sometimes
found it reaching barely 14 MB per second –
of course, it could just be an issue of the
device we were transferring the data to. And
if you are using a MacBook Air or any other
notebook that uses flash memory and are
being restricted by the relatively
limited storage on these devices, you
could consider picking up one of these – thPe
sales pack comes with an adaptor that will let
you use the card with most card reader slots.
It can even serve as a very decent back-up
memory storage card for those who do lots of
shooting with their cameras. Mind you, all
this does come with a price tag that might
shock some- Rs 14, 799. Still, it is a price
worth paying if you are the types that needs
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Jabra Hits the
Streets Groove in style!
B
luetooth headsets have been
gaining popularity steadily
thanks to the fact that they do
away with the tangle of cables that
accompany their wired counterparts.
But for the most part, they have predictable designs which do not really stand
out in a crowd. Jabra, however, has put a
spin on them with the uniquely
designed Jabra Street 2, which are anything but run-of-the-mill.
Tipping the scales at a very lightweight 30 grammes, it has a long stylish
lanyard which you can wear around your
neck. You can also tuck it in your outfit’s
pocket or in your bag. Not only does
Jabra Street 2 look different (and good as
well!) it also delivers excellent sound in
terms of quality, letting you listen to
music from your mobile without any
hassles – it supports most Bluetooth
enabled devices which possess A2DP
connectivity. You
can play, pause, go
to the next track,
return to the previous
one, and control volume
without laying a finger on
the device which is the
source of the music. Starting
the Jabra Street 2 is very simple press and hold the answer/end button
for just 5-6 seconds until the Jabra logo
placed on the device turns blue in
colour. Battery life is decent – a couple
of hours of charging yielded up to eight
hours of music. Jabra Street 2 comes in
Black and White colour with earphones.
Place it wherever you like and make
your own style statement – we honestly
cannot remember when headphones
looked so stylish and yet were so simple
to use. These stylish headphones are
priced at Rs 3,799. n
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Seagate GoFlex
Satellite Gigabytes
meet wireless storage
blended with Wi-Fi
I
f you are a gadget and gizmo freak
who is always running short of
storage space to keep information,
then Seagate has just the product for
you. The Seagate GoFlex Satellite not
only lets you save and store up to 500
GB of data on it, but in a very neat
touch, also can easily stream your
entire media library wirelessly to your
iPad or Android tablet. The drive also
lets Android and smartphone users
access it at the same time. There is no
need even to be connected to an
existing to be connected to a Wi-Fi
network all you need to do is turn on
the GoFlex Satellite, head off to the
settings menu on your device and you
will be able to connect to it. However,
in the case of the iPad, you will need
to download an app before you can
use this device – the GoFlex Media,
which is available for free download
from the iTunes App Store. A glossy
black plastic top panel of the GoFlex
Satellite has two small lights, one for
power, and one to let you know it’s
wireless connection is active. It also
synced with our PC with minimum
fuss and at a decent clip. As per the
specifications, the device comes with
up to 5 hours of battery life and 25
hours of standby time – not a bad deal
at all for Rs 11,500. n
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Ready, Aim...Click
Another feature rich
camera from Canon
C
anon has been a leader when it comes to
cameras 230. It has brought to the market
another enticing shooter called the
Canon PowerShot SX220 HS. The camera goes
really well in terms of look and is very comfortable to hold. The smartest part is the flash that is
been placed right on the top panel. As you
switch on the camera, the flash opens up automatically and can be put down if not required.
All the function keys other than zoom in/zoom
out cum picture click button are given alongside
the LCD panel. However, you may miss a dedicated “delete” button which is usually present in
most cameras. Unlike other cameras, it offers a
scroll wheel to view pictures, which we think is
very thoughtful. Coming to the picture part, the
camera can click pictures at 12.1-megapixel, and
packs in an HS System which helps you take
images in all situations. Another feature worth
noting is its 28mm lens with 14x optical zoom
that helps you take wide angle shots to frame
landscapes and zoom in on distant object. You
can also shoot videos in full HD with stereo
sound. The optical zoom feature can be used for
filming while Dynamic IS reduces the effect of
shake and movement while shooting on the
move. It has a large 7.5 cm (3.0”) high resolution
PureColor II G LCD screen.
You can shoot in high speed bursts and also
slow motion, which is neat. And there is a provision of joining various video clips together from
the same day into a single VGA movie – convenient, we think. The camera is available for Rs
15,995. Not a bad deal, we think, especially for
those who want a compact device with decent
shooting firepower. n
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Charged by the
Sun Solar power to
juice up your mobile
devices on your PC
I
f you are the type that frets about the
amount of energy you waste just recharging your gadgets, Amzer has an interesting product for you. In response to the call
to go green, the company has come out with
a very innovative alternative to charge your
device without relying on electricity. It calls
on the most powerful energy source in the
solar system – that of the sun. It absorbs the
solar energy and stores it in the form of
energy which is further used to charge electronic devices.
The Solar Charger is extremely comfortable to carry and is actually shaped a bit like
a slightly overweight smartphone – no, it
does not look smart but in this case, beauty
really is skin deep. The unit is white in
colour and has a solar plate on the front
panel and a power jack with a full USB port
on the top panel. You can switch it on or put
it off using the slider given on the right side.
On the left is a button which gives an LED
read out about the status of the charger - if
the four lights present on the top left of the
front panel are on, then the charger if fully
charged. It comes with a 3500mAh polymer
Li-ion battery that would give you a reasonably good power backup and lets you charge
most smartphones a couple of times.
Incidentally, the device can be used to
recharge all sorts of mobile phones, MP3
players, digital cameras, and portable gaming
devices. It is small enough to fit into a pocket if need be.
Best of all, it also can work as a normal
charger – you can charge it through a wall
charger, car charger or USB port. Not bad for
a price tag of Rs 3,059. n
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What’s
the good
word! A feature
packed e-dictionary
C
asio’s Electronic Dictionary EWB2000C is a small handheld device
that comes with integrated reference
material in digital form. The Electronic
Dictionary can not only find meanings of the
English/French words but do a variety of
other functions like translation, finding correct spelling, checking plural, noun or past
tense of the verb. In addition to that it can
also find other grammatical information about
a word. You can look
up for synonyms or
antonyms, collocations of
a word, and can also check
the parts of speech for a word.
An inbuilt loudspeaker helps in
checking the correct pronunciation
of any desired word. The dictionary
looks like a mini computer and is portable
and compact to fit in your bag and work even on
the move. The dictionary comprises 11 complete
Oxford dictionaries of English and French and
the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia and has a
Multilingual Word and Phrase bank, which has
the meanings of any key word or phrase in six
different languages. On the hardware side, it
comes bundled with USB cable and earphones.
Mind you, at Rs 14,995, it does not exactly come
cheap. n
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One for the
Professionals
Portable and powerful
option for road
warriors
are slightly protruding, which makes them
quite comfortable to type. It runs on Windows
7 Professional 64-bit OS, with 4 GB of RAM.
There is an Intel core i-7 processor and for
graphics, Intel HD graphics and an AMD
Radeon HD 6490M.
There is a fingerprint scanner for security
freaks, and as far as storage goes, our unit had
a 500 GB hard drive. There are two USB 3.0
ports on the left panel along with one
T
he latest entrant to Dell’s Vostro range
is the Vostro 3350. At first, the 13.3 inch
HD display of our unit did look a little
small but it packs in a 1366 x 768 resolution.
The keys are in the form of small squares that
Ethernet port and the DVD R/W drive, while
the right side houses the VGA out, HDMI out,
e-SATA cum USB port and a headphones and
mic port.
The front panel has the card reader and
LED indicators for the battery, Wi-Fi, power
and HDD. We got about five hours of usage
out of the eight cell battery which is par for
the course for a notebook of this size. At Rs
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T
Charging gets
really portable
A portable yet affordable
USB charger
his seems to be the gadget era on an average, many of us find
ourselves carrying at least two
gadgets with ourselves on our travels
on a normal working day, be it a mobile
phone, tablet, notebook, camera, media
player or e-book reader. However, for all
the utility they provide, these gadgets
are hostages of their battery life and
need to be kept charged to give their
best. You could opt to burden yourself
with a whole string of chargers, or just
carry a single portable device. For those
opting for the latter, iGo India has come
out with a device called the iGo
Keyjuice Charger.
This pocket sized charger is surprisingly compact (it is little more than a
small matchbox in size) in size and
weight. It opens up to reveal a micro
and mini USB connectors attached to
the full size USB 2.0 connector unit
through rubber strings. It is compatible
with smartphones and other gadgets
that have support for a mini or micro
USB port. The charging unit can be
used for syncing purposes as well.
As per the company’s claims, the device
would work with most phones, including BlackBerry, Motorola, HTC,
Samsung and other leading brands. We
did use it with many brands and
encountered no problems, although it
did seem to take more time to power up
our handsets than a regular charger. One
headache we did have though was in
folding and unfolding the device as we
found it too tight to open easily.
The device scores high on portability,
you can easily carry it in your purse or
can attach it to a key chain or lanyard.
The iGo KeyJuice USB charger is priced
at Rs 599 – a reasonable price to be
freed of a multiple charger burden. n
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Spin’s the Key Flash
drives with style and
security
T
he USB drive has become very much ubiquitous today and is the preferred option for quick
and portable storage for many people. However,
there is not much to distinguish different USB drives
from each other, storage apart. Which is perhaps why
pen drive manufacturers are trying to make their
products available in multiple designs and colours.
And the latest to traverse this path are two small,
sleek and stylish pen drives by Strontium, Spin USB
2.0 and Key USB 2.0. While Spin USB is sleek and
smart, Key USB is extremely small. Spin USB comes
in combination of red and black colours and also
comes with password protection for user data.
The data transfer experience from both the drives
was good as it transfered data at around 20 MB per
second speed. Spin USB also has a small ring placed
on the top of it, which can be used to hang the drive
like a key chain. As far as Key USB is concerned, the
drive is one of the smallest pen drives available in
Indian market – so much so that you could actually
lose it! Strontium Spin USB 2.0 is available at Rs 399
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“Service is always our focus”
A relatively new
player trying to carve
a niche for itself in the
competitive Indian
cellphone market is
Celkon Mobile. We
caught up with the
company’s MD, Y. Guru
to ask him just how the
company proposes to
make its presence felt
Harshita Rastogi
Celkon Mobile is an emerging brand in the
Indian Mobile Industry. What strategy are
you following for catching the eyes of the
consumer? We believe that the right product
is the key to sustain oneself in the market.
Hence, we concentrated on getting the right
product proposition. While being rich in features, we are offering products at much better
prices than other players. That has placed
Celkon among the top brands in India with
sales of over 3 lakh per month.
What measures do you take to ensure
good after sales service and customer satisfaction? Service is always our focus. Unlike
any other company, we had first set up our
service centres and network and then started
our sales operations in India. Similarly, all our
spare parts are procured with the product and
are readily available for after sales service.
Currently, we have more than 400 authorised
Celkon Service Centers across India which
assure good quality service to our consumers.
The Indian mobile market is highly competitive. What value proposition do you
offer to your consumers? Celkon Mobiles
has been started with a long term goal to offer
superior quality products. The quality norms
that we follow in terms of software, hardware
and accessories has helped Celkon in being
recognised among trusted quality companies
in this sector in India. Another very important
feat for us is that among all Indian brands, the
product rejection percentage (failure rate) for
Celkon is the lowest.
What innovation can we expect in terms of
features in upcoming devices from Celkon?
We are the first company to launch a Dual
SIM 3G QWERTY phone C999 in a price band
of Rs 3,500. We are also the first company to
launch a dual Sim Android mobile, A-1, at less
than Rs 5,000. We have recently launched a
dual SIM touch and type QWERTY mobile,
C227, at Rs 3,700. Finally, in our C770 model,
we have loaded forty films in a 2 GB memory
card – a first in India. It also comes with a 2.4
inch display, big battery, better sound, and we
have priced it at just Rs 1990.
How important is the rural sector in your
strategy? We have designed some of our models to suit this sector. If you look at our roadmap, we have big battery mobiles, big speaker
mobiles, big torch mobiles, and regional language support. Also, we have been preloading
regional content (Movies /Songs etc) in some
of our mobiles and that’s been a huge success.
Can you tell us about your investment and
expansion plans. We have made a turnover of
Rs 100 crores during our first year (2010-2011),
and for the current year (2011-2012), we have
projected Rs 400 crores. We have projected
for Rs 1000 crores for the year 2012-13.
Have you tied up with any service providers? Yes., we did tie up with a few operators
in the past and offered some product bundling
offers, and will be associating with one major
operator soon. n
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MODELS
SUB-ENTRY LEVEL
BYOND
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
CELKON
BY 809
BY 120+
BY 255
BY009
107 x 46.3 x 14.7
110 x 46 x 14
110.7 x 47.5 x 12.5
111 x 41.7 x 14.5
C207
NEW
108 X 46 X 16
C33
C 66i
NEW
108 X 46 X 16
NEW
NA
90
120
120
120
79
75
NA
Talktime/Standby (hours)
4/240
10/480
4/192
10/240
6/120
6/120
15/300
Screen (colours)/Size (inch)
NA/1.5
NA/1.5
NA/2.0
NA/2.0
65,536/1.8
262,144/2
262,144/2.4
Inbuilt/Expandable memory
NA/2GB
NA/2GB
NA/4GB
1016KB/.4GB
468KB/8GB
303/4GB
NA/16GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
NA/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
No/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
NA
VGA/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
Yes/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
100
1000
500
1000
1000
500
500
Weight (grams)
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Music Player/FM Radio
Form Factor/T.Screen/QWERTY
Burn test Rating
No/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
NA
NA
Propriety
Propriety
RTOS
RTOS
RTOS
NA/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
1,249
1,799
2,099
2,399
1,499
1,599
2,299
MODELS
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
JOSH
PARAMETERS
LG
NOKIA
JB 89
JB 189
A180
A190
GS 155
1280
100
Dimension (mm)
NA
NA
106.5 x 45 x 13.75
106.5 x 45 x 13.75
103.9 x 44.5 x 13.9
107.2 x 45.1 x 15.3
110 x 45.5 x 14.9
Weight (grams)
NA
NA
65.4
72
67
81.92
70
Model
3/72
5/120
17/882
5/150
15/720
8.30/528
7.2/840
65,536/1.8
65,536/1.8
65,536/1.5
65,536/1.52
262,144/1.5
Monochrome/1.36
65,536/1.8
650KB/4GB
NA/2GB
NA/No
No/No
1MB/2GB
NA/No
NA/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
Camera/Flash/Video
Yes/No/Yes
Yes/No/Yes
No/No/No
No/No/No
VGA/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
2,000
300
500
500
500
500
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Dual Band/No
Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Dual Band/No
Dual Band/No
Dual Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
Operating System
Proprietary
Proprietary
NA/No
NA
NA
Symbian S30
S30
Frequency/Dual SIM
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
No/Yes
No/Yes
Yes/Yes
No/Yes
No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
1,999
2,499
1,300
1,500
1,900
1,050
1,350
YMOBILE DEC 15 to JAN 14 2011-12
96 MY
MODELS
NOKIA
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
ONIDA
101
C1-02
X1-01
C1-01
110 x 45.5 x 14.9
108 x 45 x 13.8
112.2 x 47.3 x 16
108 x 45 x 14
G 695 Style
NEW
RAGE
KYS 99 Sound
119 x 51 x13.2
NA
NEW
Robo V
104.15 x 43.2 x 15.10
69.6
77.5
91.5
78.8
100
NA
75
7.2/840
10.4/504
13/1032
10.4/540
7/NA
NA
4/250
65,536/1.8
65,536/1.8
65,536/1.8
65,536/1.8
65,536/2.4
65,536/2.4
NA/1.8
NA/No
64MB/32GB
NA/16GB
64MB/32GB
NA/8GB
NA/8GB Expandable
45K/4GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
No/No
Yes/No
No/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
VGA/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
No/No/no
300
1000
300
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
500
1,000
500
1,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
Dual Band/No
Dual Band/No
Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Dual Band/No
No/No/No
Yes/No/No
No/No/No
Yes/No/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
No/No/No
S30
Symbian S40
S30
Symbian S40
NA
NA
NA
No/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
84
NR
NR
NR
NA
1,500
1,800
1,850
2,200
2,299
2,499
1,249
MODELS
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
RAGE
PARAMETERS
Model
SAMSUNG
Smart
Desire
Striker
Flame
Dimension (mm)
104.15 x 43.20 x 15.10
115 x 46.5 x 16
114 x 46 x 16.5
115 x 48 x 14
117.5 x 50.5 x 15.6
119.9 x 57 x 14.1
107.4 x 45.5 x 13.6
Weight (grams)
75
85
100
95
120
105
64.5
4/300
4.5/300
6/500
4.5/300
4.5/300
11/1000
9/560
NA/1.8
NA/2
NA/2.0
NA/2.0
65,536/2.4
65,536/2.4
65,536/1.43
45KB/4GB
45KB/4GB
45KB/4GB
250KB/8GB
85KB/4GB
145KB/8GB
1MB/No
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Turbo
NEW
Power
NEW
1081
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
Yes/No/Yes
Yes/ No/Yes
Yes/ No/Yes
1.3MP/ No/Yes
1.3MP/Yes/Yes
1.3MP/Yes/Yes
No/No/No
Phonebook Capacity
500
500
300
1,000
500
500
500
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Dual Band/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
N/A
N/A
NA
NA
NA
N/A
Properitory
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
76
78
76
NA
NR
78
NR
1,499
1,549
1,699
1,799
1,799
1,999
1,000
YMOBILE 97
DEC 15 to JAN 14 2011-12 MY
MODELS
myguide
SAMSUNG
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
SKY
E 1085
E1175
E2230
E2232
3011
STAR i
LIBRA
107.4 x 45.5 x 13.6
108.7 x 46.1 x 14.1
109.2 x 46.0 x 14.9
109.2 x 46.0 x 14.9
110 x 45 x 12.2
NA
NA
64.5
72
79
79
85.5
NA
80
9/560
12/650
14.7/660
NA/500
8/700
5/200
7/300
65,536/1.43
65,536/1.52
65,536/1.8
65,536/1.77
65,536/2.0
NA/1.8
262144/2.0
1MB/No
1MB/No
4MB/8GB
20MB/8GB
20MB/8GB
150KB/4GB
294KB/4GB
No/No
No/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
Yes/No/Yes
1,000
1,000
400
400
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
500
1,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
Dual Band/No
Dual Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
No/No/No
No/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
Operating System
Properitory
Proprietary
Properitory
Properitory
Propriety
Spread Trum
MTK
No/No
No/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Burn test Rating
1,000
Dual Band/No
Yes/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
1,050
1,275
1,950
2,000
2,499
1,400
1,660
SKY
UFX
PLANET
401
Star
Bizz
Dimension (mm)
NA
102 x 43 x 15.5
107.6 x 45.6 x 12.6
98.5 x 54 x 13.3
115.5 x 50 x 17
114.8 x 51.6 x 15.4
115.5 x 49 x 17
Weight (grams)
NA
55
95
80
90
NA
98
MODELS
Price in Rs.
PARAMETERS
Model
V3
VIDEOCON
V1414
NEW
V1451
NEW
V1533
NEW
8/300
3/300
3/120
3/200
4.5/200
5.0/250
5/250
262144/2.0
NA/1.8
65,536/1.8
268,144/2.0
262,000/2.0
262,000/2.4
262,000/2.2
100KB/4GB
128MB/2GB
64MB/2GB
28MB/4GB
NA/8GB (4GB+4GB)
NA/4GB
NA/4GB+4GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
1.3MP/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
Yes/No/Yes
Yes/No/Yes
0.3MP/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
500
1,000
200
500
500
500
1000
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
MTK
NA
NA
NA
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
2,400
1,999
1,523
2,199
1,799
1,999
1,999
98 MY
MODELS
VIDEOCON
PARAMETERS
Model
V1476
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
NEW
110.7 X56 X14.6
V1452
V1477
NEW
114.2 x 50.2 x 17.5
NEW
110.1 X 55.2 X13.9
V1448
NEW
114.8 x 49.7 x16
V1635
NEW
115.5 x 51 x 16.5
V1535
NEW
113 x 48.5 x15.8
V1532
NEW
114.4 x 51.4 x14.3
96
NA
96
110
100
NA
101
6/300
7/240
6/300
7/240
6/300
6/216
6/216
65,000/2.0
65,000/2.4
65,000/2.0
65,000/2.4
262,000 / 2.4
65,000 / 2.2
65,000 / 2.2
NA/4GB
NA/4GB
NA/4GB
NA/4GB
NA/4GB
NA/4GB
NA/8GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
800
500
800
500
2,000
1,000
1,000
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Operating System
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Burn test Rating
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
2,099
2,099
2,199
2,299
2,299
2,399
MODELS
Price in Rs.
NR
1,999
XAGE
PARAMETERS
Model
ZEN
M171
M180
M702
M117
X381s
X400i
M16
Dimension (mm)
112.5 x 46 x 14.8
105 x 45 x 14
112 x 48 x 13.8
109 X 47 X 9.5
106 X 43 X 14
108 X 44 X 15
109 X 45 X 13
Weight (grams)
55
51
67
59
NA
95
99.9
NA
NA
NA
NA
2.5/180
10/720
4/220
262,144/1.8
65,536/1.8
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.2
65,536/1.5
65,536/1.5
65,536/2.0
NA/8GB
NA/2GB
NA/8GB
NA/8GB
No/2GB
No/2GB
NA/4GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
No/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
No/No
No/No
No /No
Camera/Flash/Video
Yes/No/Yes
No/No/No
Yes/No/Yes
Yes/Yes/Yes
No/No/No
No/No/No
1.3MP/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
500
100
1,000
500
500
500
500
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Tri Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Yes/No/No
No/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
SP
MTK
MTK
MTK
NA
NA
NA
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
1,599
2,099
2,199
2,499
1,699
1,999
2,499
YMOBILE 99
DEC 15 to JAN 14 2011-12 MY
myguide
MODELS
ENTRY LEVEL
BYOND
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
CELKON
BY 260
BY011
BY007
Gamestar
110 x 49 x 11
116.7 x 50 x 14.8
111 x 47 x 14.5
114.3 x 45.5 x 13.6
C 227
NEW
117 X 57 X 13
INQ
A1
NEW
108 X 46 X 16
Mini
102.9 x 45.8 x 12.8
120
125
120
100
99
75
90
4/240
13/600
10/480
4/400
6/120
6/120
3.3/260
NA/2.2
NA/2.2
NA/2.2
NA/2.4
262,144/2.8
262,144/3.2
262,144/2.2
NA/16GB
1016.5KB/4GB
1016KB/4GB
319.5KB/8GB+8GB
256MB/16GB
2GB/32GB
50MB/4GB
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
2.0MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/No
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
2,000
2000
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Propriety
Propriety
Propriety
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
1,000
Quad Band/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Propriety
RTOS
Android 2.2
NA
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
78
NR
NR
NR
2,899
2,899
2,999
3,299
3,699
4,999
3,500
MODELS
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
PARAMETERS
Model
INQ
LG
Chat
C105
T 300
GX 200
A200
S310
S365
Dimension (mm)
114.5 x 61 x 12.8
114.5 x 59 x 13
95.8 x 50.5 x 11.9
104 x 48 x 13
99.8 x 51 x 15.8
114 x 48.4 x 10.5
117 x 50.9 x 11.5
Weight (grams)
122
94
77
93
95
86
NA
3.5/285
16/650
8/500
NA/680
NA
13.5/800
14.5/559
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.0
65,536/2.2
262,144/2.2
NA/2.4
100MB/4GB
4.7MB/4GB
20MB/4GB
80MB/8GB
128MB/8GB
14.5MB/8GB
9.7/16GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
3.2MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/Yes/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
NA
1,000
1,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Tri Band/No
Quad band/No
Quad Band/No
Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
NA
NA
Generic
Generic
NA
Generic
Generic
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Slider/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
84
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
5,100
2,800
3,750
3,750
3,800
3,900
4,050
100 MY
MODELS
LG
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
JOSH
A350
T515
C375
GX 300
T310i
JT301
JM500
116 × 53.3 × 12.85
105 x 57.3 x 12.9
113 x 61 x 12.9
116 x 51 x 12.8
95.8 x 51.0 x 11.9
NA
NA
91.45
105
NA
NA
86.5
NA
NA
12.5/328
NA/NA
16/789
NA/NA
14/569
3/120
7/240
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.8
262,144/2.3
65,536/2.2
262,144/2.8
262,144/2.8
262,144/2.2
256MB/32GB
NA/4GB
78MB/8GB
30MB/4GB
18MB/4GB
NA/4GB
No/4GB
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
1.3MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
NA
1,000
1,000
800
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
NA
Frequency/Dual SIM
Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/NA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
1,000
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Operating System
Generic
Generic
Generic
Generic
NA
Proprietary
Proprietary
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Burn test Rating
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
4,700
5,100
5,300
5,350
2.999
3,299
MODELS
Price in Rs.
NR
4,050
PARAMETERS
Model
JOSH
MOTOROLA
NOKIA
JB 325
EX109
EX212
EX119
C2-00
X2-01
C2-01
Dimension (mm)
NA
102 x 59.5 x 12.8
106 x 53 x 13.9
103 x 60 x 9.9
108 x 45 x 14.65
119.4 x 59.8 x 14.3
109.6 x 46.9 x 14.6
Weight (grams)
NA
87
105
87
74.1
107.5
89
5/72
8.3/500
6.25/625
8.3/680
5.75//460
4.3/480
8.4/430
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.0
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.4
65,536/1.8
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.0
36KB/4GB
59MB/32GB
5MB/16GB
50MB/32GB
16MB/32GB
128MB/8GB
75MB/16GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
Yes/No/No
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
500
200
800
1,000
1,000
Shared
2,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
QUAD Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/R99
Operating System
Proprietary
NA
NA
NA
Symbian 40
Symbian S40
S40
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Quad Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Clamshell/No/No
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
82
NR
4,899
3,400
5,100
5,700
2,550
3,700
3,950
YMOBILE 101
DEC 15 to JAN 14 2011-12 MY
MODELS
myguide
NOKIA
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
ONIDA
C2-02
C2-03
X2
102,8x51,2x17
103 x 51.4 x 17
111 x 47 x 13.3
F090 Sparsh
NEW
96 x 54 x 14.3
KYS 70 movieking NEW
114.5 x 50 x 14
F099 Sparsh
NEW
99 x 56 x 13.1
F930 3G
NEW
113 × 47 ×14.4
110
115
82
80
65
120
94
5/600
5/400
13.3/540
4.5/NA
8h/NA
4.5/NA
8/NA
65,536/2.6
65,536/2.6
262,144/2.2
65,536/2.6
65,536/2.4
65,536/2.8
65,536/2.2
10MB/32GB
10MB/32GB
48MB/16GB
NA/8GB
NA/8GB
NA/8GB
NA/8GB
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1,000
2,000
1,000
1,000
Weight (grams)
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
1,000
1,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
Dual Band/No
Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/Yes
S40
S40
Symbian S40
NA
NA
NA
NA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Slider/Yes/No
Slider/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
84
NR
NR
NR
NR
4,100
4,700
4,700
2,899
2,999
3,299
3,299
MODELS
Price in Rs.
Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM Dual Band/GSM+GSM
PARAMETERS
ONIDA
SAMSUNG
Model
F101 Sparsh
E2152 Guru 36
2222
3213
C3200 Monte Bar
Ch@t C3222
3303 Champ
Dimension (mm)
111.5 x 58.8 x 13.5
111.6 x 46.3 x 13.5
109.5 x 61.3 x 11.85
112.8 x 46.4 x 13.2
111.8 x 46.9 x 13.3
109.7 x 58.1 x 12.3
96.3 x 53.9 x 12.9
Weight (grams)
120
80.4
90
80.6
77.3
95
90
NEW
4.5/NA
11/660
11.4/550
8.2/550
8.2/500
11/500
12.3/666
262,144/3.2
262,144/2.0
262,144/2.2
65,536/2.0
262,144/2.0
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.4
NA/8GB
NA/2GB
45MB/16GB
36MB/8GB
40MB/8GB
54MB/8GB
30MB/8GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
1.3MP/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Dual Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
NA
Generic
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
3,499
2,600
3,000
3,300
3,300
3,500
3,500
102 MY
MODELS
SAMSUNG
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
Metro Duos C3322
C5212
C3530
113.97 x 47.9 x 13.99
112.7 x 48.6 x 14.3
112.2 x 46.7 x 11.9
Champ Duos E2652
Metro C3560
99.90 x 54.90 x 12.95 94.8 x 46.7 x 16.59
Metro C3752
Champ 3.5G S3770
97.9 x 19 x 16.4
NA
88.9
98.7
90
88
89
93
NA
10/500
13/281
13/550
14.3/476
12610
13.3/900
6/350
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.6
262,144/2.2
65,536/NA
262,144/2.8
46MB/16GB
60MB/8GB
50MB/16GB
50MB/16GB
40MB/16GB
40MB/16GB
30MB/16GB
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
2.0/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/No
1,000
1,000
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Frequency/Dual SIM
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
NA
Quad Band/No
Tri Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Operating System
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Propriety
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Clamshell/No/No
Slider/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Burn test Rating
76
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
3,860
3,900
4,200
4,400
4,400
4,900
MODELS
Price in Rs.
NR
3,600
SAMSUNG
PARAMETERS
Model
SONY ERICSSON
Corby II
Star II
Chat 3G 527
Spiro
Cedar
W150i Yendo
Mix Walkman
Dimension (mm)
109.9 x 60.6 x 11.7
107.5 x 54.0 x 12.4
103 x 55 x 12
92 x 48 x 18
111 x 49 x 15.5
94.0 × 52.0 × 16.0
95.8 × 52.8 × 14.3
Weight (grams)
102
94
96
90
84
81
88
9.3/620
8.2/900
3/288
4.3/476
12.5/420
4/400
9.6/465
262,144/3.14
256K/3.0
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.6
262,144/3.0
21MB/16GB
30MB/16GB
80MB/32GB
5MB/16GB
280MB/NA
5MB/16GB
256MB/32GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/Yes/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
1,000
1,000
2,000
2,000
1,000
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Dual Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA, HSUPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA, HSUPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Operating System
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
NA
NA
NA
NA
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
Slider/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
NR
NR
NR
80
NA
NR
NR
5,350
5,600
5,700
4,300
4,400
4,900
5,800
YMOBILE 103
DEC 15 to JAN 14 2011-12 MY
MODELS
myguide
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
SKY
UFX
V3
PLANET i
101
201
301
501
Astro
103.8 x 57.6 x 11.5
110 x 47.6 x 12.2
110 x 47.6 x 12.2
111 x 49 x 11.5
116 x 59 x 13.2
107 x 54 x 12.6
VIDEOCON
V1575
NEW
112 x 60.4 x 14.8
90
54
58
99
79.5
118
NA
7/300
3/300
3/300
3/300
4/360
3/200
4/250
65,536/3.2
NA/2.2
NA/2.2
NA/2.2
262,144/2.2
265,144/2.6
65,000/2.4
71.8MB/8GB
128MB/8GB
128MB/8GB
128MB/8GB
128/8GB
128MB/8GB
NA/4GB
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
2.0MP/Yes/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3 MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
250
2,000
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
MTK
NA
NA
NA
NA
Nucleus
Nucleus
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
78
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
4,800
2,699
2,799
2,899
2,999
2,700
2,699
MODELS
Price in Rs.
VIDEOCON
PARAMETERS
Model
V1805
MT711
M20
Z 77
M40
115 x49 x13.5
108 x55 x11
112 x 60 x 16
111 x 47 x 14
108 x 45.6 x 14.7
114.5 x 48 x 14
Weight (grams)
95
NA
88
109
94
100
106
NEW
V1666
ZEN
99 x 56 x 13.5
V1545
XAGE
Dimension (mm)
NEW
NEW
4.0/100
5/320
3.5/300
NA
4.5/250
5/200
5/200
65,000/2.8
65,000/2.4
262,000/2.8
262,144/3.2
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.4
NA/4GB
58.5MB/4GB
NA/4GB
NA/16GB
No/microSD
10MB/4GB
No/4GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
1.3MP/No/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
Yes/Yes/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
2,000
1,000
2,000
500
1,000
500
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus
MSTAR
NA
NA
NA
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
80
82
2,799
2,999
3,199
4,699
2,599
3,299
3,599
104 MY
MODELS
MID LEVEL
ZEN
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
LG
NOKIA
Z82
S10
Z90
T325
P520
5233
C3
111 x 58 x 12
107 x 47 x 16
68 X 68 X 16
102.4 x 56.4 x 11.9
109.1 x 56.2 x 12.95
111 x 51.7 x 14.5
115.5 x 58.1 x 13.6
106
124
96
92.5
120
115
114
5/220
2/100
2.5/240
7.9/381
23.8/454
7/438
7/800
262,144/2.4
65.536/2.2
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.8
256,000/2.8
16.7million/3.2
262,144/2.4
9MB/4GB
NA/4GB
25.9MB/4GB
30MB/16GB
13MB/4GB
70MB/16GB
55MB/8GB
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/Yes/Yes
3.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
500
500
2,000
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
1,000
1,000
Shared
Shared
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Symbian S60
Symbian S40
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Slider/No/No
Swivel/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
84
80
82
82
84
80
NR
4,799
4,999
5,399
6,700
6,700
6,100
6,200
MODELS
Price in Rs.
NOKIA
PARAMETERS
Model
SAMSUNG
C5
X3-02
C3-01
C5-03
500
Wave 525
Primo S5610
Dimension (mm)
112 x 46 x 12.3
106.2 x 48.4 x 9.6
111 x 47.5 x 11
105.8 x 51 x 13.8
111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1
109.5 x 55 x 11.7
118.9 x 49.9 x 12.8
Weight (grams)
89.3
78
100
93
93
100
91
12/630
5/430
5.30/405
11.5/600
7/500
15/900
15.67/960
16.7million/2.2
262,144/2.4
262,144/2.4
61million/3.2
16million/3.2
262,144/3.2
262,144/2.4
50MB/16GB
50MB/16GB
30MB/32GB
40MB/16GB
2GB/32GB
100MB/16GB
110MB/16GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
2,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Symbian S60
Symbian S60
Symbian S40
Symbian S60
Symbian Anna
Bada
Proprietary
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
NR
84
NR
NR
NR
80
NR
7,800
7,800
8,200
9,000
10,000
5,700
5,800
YMOBILE 105
DEC 15 to JAN 14 2011-12 MY
MODELS
myguide
SAMSUNG
PARAMETERS
SONY ERICSSON
Model
Star II Duos 6712
Monte S5620
Star Duos B7722
TXT
W20 Zylo
Text Pro
Elim
Dimension (mm)
109.5 x 56 x 12.2
108.8 x 53.7 x 12.4
113.5 x 55.5 x 14.3
106 X 60 X 14.5
103 x 52 x 16
92.0 × 53.0 × 18.0
110 x 45 x 14
Weight (grams)
100
92
112
95
115
136
90
10/550
9.5/769
12.5/420
3.2/416
4/339
5.1/400
10/430
262,144/3.2
262,144/3.0
262,144/3.2
262,144/2.55
65,536/2.6
16.7million/3.0
252,144/2.2
30MB/16GB
200MB/16GB
250MB/16GB
120MB/32GB
260MB/16GB
100MB/32GB
280MB/8GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
3.15MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
1,000
2,000
Shared
2,000
Shared
2,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Operating System
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
NA
Generic
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
Slider/No/No
Slider/Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
NR
86
NR
82
80
82
NR
5,800
6,700
9,500
6,300
6,800
7,400
8,000
MODELS
HIGH END
PARAMETERS
Model
SONY ERICSSON
NOKIA
SAMSUNG
J20 Hazel
C6
C6-1
700
701
X7
Wave II S8530
Dimension (mm)
102.0 x 49.5 x 16.0
113.4 x 53 x 16.8
103.8 x 52.5 x 13.9
110 x 50 x 9.7
117.2x56.8x11
119.7 x 62.8 x 11.9
123.9 x 59.8 x 11.8
Weight (grams)
120
150
131
96
131
146
135
4/430
11/400
12/420
7.14/403
17/504
6/450
14.1/625
16million/2.6
16.7million/3.2
16.7milloin/3.2
16million/3.2
16million/3.2
16.7million/4.0
16million/3.7
280MB/16GB
200MB/16GB
340MB/32GB
2GB/32GB
8GB/32GB
8GB/32GB
2GB/32GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
2,000
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
NA
Symbian S 60
Symbian 3^
Symbian Belle
Symbian Belle
Symbian Anna
Bada OS
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Slider/No/No
Slider/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
84
9,100
12,500
14,400
16,300
17,900
21,000
15,000
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
106 MY
MODELS
TAG HEUER
PARAMETERS
VERTU
Meridiist GMT Stainless
Steel/Black PVD
Link
Meridiist Steel & Gold
Ascent
Constellation Ayxta
Ascent Ti
Constellation Quest
Dimension (mm)
112 x 46 x 15.5
118 x 67 x 16.6
112 x 46 x 15.5
117 x 46 x 19
100 x 48 x 18
115.5 x 49 x 13.1
116 x 60.8 x 12.7
Weight (grams)
155
200
155
148
174
160
165 to 185
Model
7/392
6.5/336
7/392
4.8/300
6/300
5/300
7.5/349
262,144/1.9
16million/3.5
262,144/1.9
16million/2.0
16million/2.4
16million/2.0
8GB/32GB
NA/NA
256MB/8GB
NA/NA
8GB/32GB
100MB/8GB
4GB/No
16million/2.46
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
No/No/No
5.0MP/No/Yes
No/No/No
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
3.15MP/Yes/Yes
3.15/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
Shared
1,000
2,000
2,000
1,500
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/R99
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
NA
Andriod OS 2.2
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/No
Yes/NA
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Clamshell/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
Strating 2,80,000+/
3,50,000+
Starting 3,25,000+
Strating 5,40,000+
Starting 2,89,000
Starting 3,47,000+
Starting 3,68,000+
Starting 3,86,000
MODELS
ENTERPRISE LEVEL
PARAMETERS
Model
VERTU
APPLE
BLACKBERRY
Signature
iPhone 4
Curve 8520
Curve 3G 9300
Curve 9360
Dimension (mm)
130 x 42 x 13
115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3
115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3
109 x 60 x 13.9
109 x 60 x 13.9
112 x 62 x 14.2 mm
109 x 60 x 11.2
Weight (grams)
166
137
140
106
104
130
98
iPhone 4S
NEW
Curve 9380
NEW
3.5/300
14/300
14/200
4.5/408
4.5/461
5/336
5.5/360
16million/2.0
16million/3.5
16million/3.5
65,536/2.46
65,536/2.46
262,144/2.44
16million/3.2
4GB/No
16GB,32GB/No
16,32,64GB/No
256MB/microSD
256MB/32GB
256MB/32GB
512MB/32GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
No/No/No
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
2,000
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/Yes/R99
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
NA
iOS4
IOS 5
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS 7.0
BlackBerry OS 7.0
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
NR
85
82
82
NR
NR
82
Starting 7,22,000+
34,500/40,900
37,500/44,600/57500
9,600
14,000
19,200
20,990
YMOBILE 107
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MODELS
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BLACKBERRY
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
Bold 9780
Play Book
Torch 9800
109 x 60 x 13.9
194 x 130 x 10
111 x 62 x 14.6
Bold 9790
NEW
110 x 60 x 11.4
9860
9810
9900
120 x 62 x 11.5
111 x 62 14.6
115 x 66 x 10.5
104
425
161.1
107
135
161
130
4.5/456
NA/NA
5.5/432
5.1/432
4.7/337
6.5/296
6.3/296
65,536/2.44
16million/7.0
16million/3.2
16million/2.45
16million/3.7
16 million/3.2
16 million/2.8
256MB/32GB
16,32,64GB/No
512MB/32GB
8GB/32GB
2.5GB/32GB
8GB/32GB
8GB/32GB
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
YesYes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
NA
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
NA
Operating System
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS
Blackberry OS 7
BlackBerry OS 7.0
BlackBerry OS 7.0
BlackBerry OS 7.0
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Slider/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Slider/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Burn test Rating
NR
82
86
82
NR
82
82
22,000
26,500, 32,500, 37,500
27,000
27,490
28,500
28,500
32,000
XCD35
Aero
Streak
Venu Pro
Explorer
Wildfire S
114 x 56 x 12.2
122 x 57.9 x 11.7
121 x 64 x 12.9
152.9 x 79.1 x 10
122 x 63.5 x 15.2
102.8 x 57.2 x 12.9
101.3 x 59.4 x 12.4
MODELS
Price in Rs.
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
DELL
Venu
NEW
HTC
120
104
164
220
192.8
81.3
105
4/216
5/400
NA
9.8/400
7/NA
7.6/485
4/120
262,144/3.5
262,144/3.5
16million/4.1
16million/5.0
16million/4.1
262,144/3.2
16million/3.2
512MB/16GB
Yes/32GB
512MB/32GB
512MB/32GB
8GB/32GB
90MB/32GB
512MB/microSD
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
3.15MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Frequency/Dual SIM
Tri Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Operating System
Android OS v2.1
Android OS v2.2
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Android OS v2.2
Android OS v2.2
Windows Phone 7.5
Android OS v2.3
Android OS v2.3
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Slider/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
NR
NR
80
80
NR
NR
82
8,700
12,500
19,500
20,800
29,000
10,500
13,600
108 MY
MODELS
HTC
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
ChaCha
Salsa
S-510 Desire S
Radar
T8698 Mozart
S710-e Incredible S
A9191 Desire HD
114 x 64 x 10.7
109.1 x 58.9 x 12.3
115 x 59.8 x 11.6
120.5 x 61.5 x 10.9
119 x 60.2 x 11.9
120 x 64 x 11.7
123 x 68 x 11.8
124
120
130
137
130
135.5
164
4/120
4/120
4/120
10/480
4/120
4/120
6/120
262,144/2.6
16million/3.4
16million/3.7
16million/3.8
16million/3.7
16million/4.0
16million/4.3
512MB/32GB
512MB/32GB
1.1GB/32GB
8GB/No
512MB/8GB
1.1GB/32Gb
1.5GB/32GB
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Android OS v2.3
Android OS v2.3
Android OS, v2.3
Windows Phone 7.5
Windows Phone 7
Android OS, v2.2
Android OS, v2.2
Yes//Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
82
NR
82
86
80
NR
NR
14,800
15,100
22,500
23,990
23,800
24,500
25,800
Evo 3D
Flyer
IDEOS U8500 X2
IDEOS U8800 X5
126 x 65 x 12.05
195.4 x 122 x 13.2
12 x 58 x 12.8
120 x 62 x 11.6
MODELS
Price in Rs.
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
HTC
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
Rhyme
NEW
119 x 60.8 x 10.85
Sensation
126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3
Sensation XL
HUAWEI
NEW
132.5 x 70.7 x 9.9
130
148
162.5
170
420
115
130
6.3/265
4/120
11.8/360
9.3/358
8/320
5/300
8.2/380
16million/3.7
1GB/32GB
16million/4.7
16million/4.3
16million/7.0
262,144/3.2
16million/3.8
1GB/microSD
16.7million/4.3
16GB/No
1GB/32GB
1GB/32GB
NA/32GB
2GB/32GB
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Android OS 2.3
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS v2.3
Android OS v2.3
Android OS, v3.3
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Android OS v2.2
Android OS v2.2
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
NR
80
NR
NR
80
NR
80
26,000
30,200
33,000
34,000
37,000
8,999
14,999
YMOBILE 109
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MODELS
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LG
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
Optimus Me P350
Optimus One P500
Optimus Pro C660
Optimus Net P690
Optimus Black P970
Optimus 2X
Optimus 3D
108 x 57.5 x 12.2
113.5 x 59 x 13.3
119.5 x 59.7 x 12.9
113 x 59 x 11.7
122 x 64 x 9.2
123.9 x 63.2 x 10.9
128.8 x 68 x 11.9
110
129
129
121
109
139
168
11/626
8/550
NA/NA
12/581
2 GB/32GB
14.5/421
13/450
262,144/2.8
262,144/3.2
262,144/2.8
262,144/3.2
6/375
16million/4.0
16million/4.3
155MB/32GB
170MB/32GB
150MB/32GB
150MB/32GB
16 million/4.0
6.4GB/32GB
8GB/32GB
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
3.5MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Operating System
Android OS v2.2
Android OS v2.2
Android OS v2.3
Android OS v2.3
Android OS v2.2
Android OS v2.2
Android OS v2.2
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Burn test Rating
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
NR
84
NR
NR
82
84
82
6,900
9,600
9,600
10,350
19,000
27,000
34,000
Fire
Fire XT
Milestone XT800
Dimension (mm)
116.5 x 58 x 13.45
114 x 61.9 x 11.95
120 x 61.8 x 11.4
107 x 59 x 13.4
249.1 x 167.8 x 12.9
130.7 x 68.9 x 7.1
115 x 58.9 x 12.8
Weight (grams)
110
84.3
137
118
730
127
126
MODELS
Price in Rs.
MOTOROLA
PARAMETERS
Model
NOKIA
Defy+
NEW
Xoom 3G/WiFi
RazrXT 910
NEW
E5
7/504
9.7/720
5.4/100
7.10/384
32GB/MicroSD
9.4/305
7.3/400
262,144/2.8
262,144/3.5
16million/3.7
16million/3.7
10/336
262,144/4.3
262,144/2.36
512MB/32GB
512MB/32GB
1GB/32GB
2GB/32GB
16million/10,1
16GB/32GB
256MB/32GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
3.15MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
1,000
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/GSM+CDMA
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/Yes/Rev. A
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS v2.1
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS 3.1
Android OS, v2.3
Symbian S60
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
82
84
80
82
84
NR
NR
9,100
12,200
16,500
17,500
32,990/39,990
33,990
9,600
110 MY
MODELS
NOKIA
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
ONIDA
E6
N8
E7
115.5 x 59 x 10.5
113.5 x 59 x 12.9
123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6
Lumia 800
NEW
116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1
Andy Android
SAMSUNG
NEW
114 x 63.5 x 13.5
Galaxy Y 5360
Galaxy Pop S5570
104.0 x 58.0 x 11.5
110.4 x 60.8 x 12.1
133
135
176
142
125
97.5
106.6
14.4/681
12/390
9/430
13/265
8/NA
6/120
9.5/570
16.7million/2.46
16.7million/3.5
16million/4.0
16miilion/3.7
262,144/2.6
262,144/3.0
256,000/3.14
8GB/32GB
16GB/32GB
16GB/No
16GB/No
235MB/32GB
160MB/32GB
164MB/32GB
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
12.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/GSM+GSM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Symbian Anna
Symbian^3 OS
Symbian^3 OS
Windows Phone 7.5
Android 2.2 froyo
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS, v2.2
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Slider/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
80
86
76
82
NR
NR
NR
15,500
21,500
25,600
29,990
6,999
6,800
7,700
Galaxy Fit
5830 Galaxy Ace
I9003 Galaxy SL
Galaxy S Plus I9001
Galaxy R I9103
Galaxy SII i9100
Dimension (mm)
110.2 x 61.2 x 12.6
112.4 x 59.9 x 11.5
123.7 x 64.2 x 10.59
115.6 x 58.8 x 10.9
122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9
Weight (grams)
108
113
131
115.3
119
MODELS
Price in Rs.
SAMSUNG
PARAMETERS
Model
Omnia W I8350
NEW
125.70 x 66.70 x 9.55 125.30 x 66.10 x 8.49
132
116
10.4/642
12/520
12.8/750
7/370
17.3/480
22.5/660
19.3/710
16Million/3.3
16million/3.5
16 million/4.0
16million/3.7
16million/4.0
16million/4.2
16million/4.27
160MB/32GB
158MB/32GB
4GB/32GB
8GB/No
16GB/32GB
8GB/32GB
16GB/32GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
5MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Yes/Yes/HSDPA
Operating System
Android OS,v2.2
Android OS, v2.2
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Android OS, v2.2
Windows Phone 7.5
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS, v2.3
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
82
82
NR
84
NR
NR
NR
9,000
13,000
17,000
19,000
22,000
23,000
27,500
YMOBILE 111
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MODELS
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SAMSUNG
PARAMETERS
Galaxy Tab 730
Model
Dimension (mm)
NEW
230.9 x 157.8 x 8.6
SONY ERICSSON
Tab 10.1 1750
W8
Experia Mini
Experia Mini Pro
Active
Neo V
256.7 x 175.3 x 8.6
99.0 × 54.0 × 15.0
92 x 53 x 18
92 x 53 x 18
106 × 60 × 14.5
116 × 57 × 13
453
565
104
136
136
95
126
NA/1750
16GB/No
4.75/446
5.4/331
5.4/331
3.2/416
6.9/430
16million/8.9
16million/10.1
16.7million/3.0
16.7million/3.0
16.7million/3.0
16million/3.0
16million/3.7
16GB/No
9/NA
128MB/16GB
320MB/16GB
320MB/16GB
120MB/32GB
1GB/32GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
2.0MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
3.2MP/No/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
Weight (grams)
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA Yes/Yes/HSDPA,HSUPA
Android OS, v3.1
Android OS, v3.1
Android OS v2.1
Android OS 2.3
Android OS 2.3
Android OS 2.3
Android OS 2.3
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Slider/Yes/Yes
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
NR
82
86
NR
NR
NR
NR
32,500
34,000
8,900
13,000
15,500
16,000
17,500
MODELS
CDMA
SONY ERICSSON
PARAMETERS
CDMA
Experia Ray
LT15iXperia Arc
Arc S
R800i Xperia Play
V3 Gem
Samsung Hero Plus 159
Samsung B209
Dimension (mm)
111 × 53 × 9.4
125.0 × 63.0 × 8.7
125 × 63 × 8.7
119.0 × 62.0 × 16.0
106 x 44 x 13.5
108.5 x 45.8 x 13.3
108.0 x 44.8 x 14.3
Weight (grams)
100
117
117
175
63
70
72.3
Model
6.8/430
6.55/430
7.4/460
8.25/625
2/NA
3/230
4.3/470
16million/3.3
16.7million/4.2
16million/4.2
16 million/4.0
NA/1.5
65,536/1.52
65,536/1.52
300MB/32GB
1GB/32GB
1GB/32GB
512MB/32GB
NA/No
597KB/No
351KB/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
No/No
No/No
No/No
Camera/Flash/Video
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
8.1MP/Yes/Yes
8.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
Phonebook Capacity
Shared
Shared
Shared
Shared
200
1,000
1,000
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Quad Band/No
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
Android OS 2.3
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS, v2.3
Android OS, v2.3
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
REX
BREW
BREW
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
No/Yes
No/Yes
No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
86
82
84
NR
NR
NR
19,000
23,000
26,000
31,000
999
1,000
1,100
112 MY
MODELS
CDMA
PARAMETERS
Model
Samsung Hero B189 Samsung Superstar
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
105 x 44 x 13
NA
V3 Xing
Samsung Hero B319
Samsung B379
Samsung B339
V3 Ashwa
100 x 43 x 13.1
108 x 45.4 x 14.7
109.5 x 45.4 x 14.2
108.20 x 47.10 x 14.35
109 x 46 x 14.5
71
NA
70
NA
75
75.7
100
3.3/250
3.3/212
2.5/NA
3/257
4.3/470
4.3/470
8/400
65,536/1.5
65,536/1.5
NA/1.8
65,536/1.52
65,536/1.5
65,536/1.52
65,536/1.8
NA/No
NA/No
NA/8GB
1MB/No
351KB/No
351KB/No
64MB/2GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
1.3MP/No/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
500
500
500
500
1,000
1,000
500
Frequency/Dual SIM
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA
GPRS/EDGE/3G
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
BREW
BREW
REX
BREW
BREW
BREW
BREW
Operating System
Burn test Rating
No/No
Yes/Yes
No/Yes
No/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NA
NR
NR
NR
NR
1,399
1,399
1,499
1,499
1,500
1,800
1,999
MODELS
Price in Rs.
No/No
Bar/No/No
CDMA
PARAMETERS
V3 V26
Samsung Guru 539
3 Sleek
V3 Dew
V3 Boss
LG 6160
Samsung Guru
Muzik 219
Dimension (mm)
105.2 x 46.5 x 15.2
109.6 x 44.9 x 14.0
110 x 48 x 14.2
102.4 x 56 x 13.45
110 x 58.5 x 13.5
NA
112 x 46.3 x 15.3
Weight (grams)
82
77.5
82
80
98
78
NA
Model
3/NA
6/720
2.5/NA
4/160
3.5/NA
3.30/NA
4/230
NA/1.8
65,536/1.77
NA/2.2
65,513/2.0
NA/2.0
65,536/1.5
65,536/1.7
NA/2GB
2.5MB/4+4GB
NA/2GB
64MB/4GB
NA/4GB
NA/4GB
14MB/2GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
No/No
No/No
No/No
No/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Camera/Flash/Video
1.3MP/No/No
No/No/No
VGA/No/No
1.3MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/No
No/No/No
1.3MP/No/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
500
1000
1,000
500
500
NA
1,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
GPRS/EDGE/3G
No/No/No
Yes/Yes/CDMA1X
No/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/No
Yes/No/No
Yes/No/No
REX
REX
REX
BREW
BREW
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
REX
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
YesYes
Yes/Yes
Yes/NA
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
1,999
2,336
2,249
2,500
2,599
2,550
2,700
YMOBILE 113
DEC 15 to JAN 14 2011-12 MY
MODELS
myguide
CDMA
PARAMETERS
Model
Dimension (mm)
Weight (grams)
LG 6210
Samsung Guru Dual
CDMA
V3 Quick
V3 Pearl
LG 6400
Duos 169
Mpower TV 239
106 x 47 x 14.5
114.9 x 47.8 x 14.1
107 x 59 x 12.9
119 x 50 x 15
109 x 47 x 13.7
115.5 x 48 x 15.9
118.5 x 50 x 12.45
72
86.7
110
85.5
NA
110
87
6/300
6.5/300
3.5/NA
3/NA
3.30/410
4.5/250
4.4/420
262,144/NA
65,536/2.0
NA/2.4
NA/2.4
262,144/2.0
65,536/2.2
262,144/2.4
13MB/4GB
7.41MB4GB
NA/32GB
NA/8GB
15MB/4GB
42MB/8GB
85MB/16GB
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
YesNo
VGA/No/Yes
No/No/No
2.0MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/No/No
1.3MP/No/Yes
VGA/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Camera/Flash/Video
Phonebook Capacity
1,000
1,000
500
500
1,000
1,000
2,000
Frequency/Dual SIM
CDMA/No
Dual Band/GSM+CDMA
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
Dual Band/CDMA+GSM
CDMA/No
Yes/No/NoJ2
Yes/No/No
No/No/No
No/No/3G
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/CDMA 1X
Yes/Yes/EVDO Rev.0
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
NA
REX
REX
BREW
BREW
BREW
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Qwerty
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/No
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
2,950
3,500
3,499
3,999
4,500
4,500
4,600
MODELS
Price in Rs.
BREW
Yes/Yes
CDMA
PARAMETERS
Model
Galaxy Pop CDMA
Blackberry 8530
Blackberry Curve
CDMA 9350
Blackberry 9670 Style
Blackberry 9650
Dimension (mm)
112x60.95x11.96
115.5 x 48 x 15.9
110.9 x 60.6 x 12.1
109 x 60 x 13.9
109 x 60 x 11
96 x 60 x 18.5
112 x 62 x 14
Weight (grams)
102.3
NA
106.6
105
99
131
136
Samsung TXT M369 Samsung Duos 259
4.5/420
4.8/230
5/320
4.5/252
NA
4.5/252
5/312
262,144/2.2
262,144/2.2
262,144/3.14
65,536/NA
NA/2.44
65,536/NA
65,536/2.44
104MB/16GB
40MB/8GB
164MB/microSD
256MB/32GB
512MB/32GB
512MB/32GB
512/32GB
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Camera/Flash/Video
2.0MP/No/Yes
1.3MP/No/Yes
3.15MP/No/Yes
2.0MP/NA/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
5.0MP/Yes/Yes
3.15MP/Yes/Yes
Phonebook Capacity
2,000
1,000
Shared
1,000
Shared
Shared
Shared
Frequency/Dual SIM
GPRS/EDGE/3G
Operating System
Burn test Rating
Price in Rs.
CDMA/No
CDMA/CDMA+GSM
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
CDMA/No
Yes/Yes/Yes
Yes/No/No
Yes/Yes/EVDO RevA
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/No
Yes/Yes/Rev. A
Yes/Yes/Rev. A
BREW
Proprietary
Android OS 2.2
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS7
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
Bar/No/Yes
Bar/No/No
Bar/Yes/No
Bar/No/No
Bar/No/Yes
Clamshell/No/Yes
Bar/No/Yes
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
6,000
6,000
8,900
12,400
20,990
22,500
24,000
114 MY
Inviting Business Proposals
We would like to introduce ourselves as the leading electronic
manufacturer and trading house (importer & exporter) in India
with a global presence. Our turnover base is in excess of
Rs 15,000 Cr ($ 3 Billion).
Our expertise is in the undernoted areas and we undertake import / export and
manufacture of undernoted hardware for a number of leading brands in
the country.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Mobile Handsets.
Telecom Equipment.
Color TV (CRT, LCD, LED) - in all sizes.
Computers, Laptops & Monitors.
Memory IC & Memory Board.
All electronic components.
The above is supported by a strong financial standing & robust infrastructure as under :
a.
b.
c.
d.
A strong credit rating & bank letter of credit facility.
Ability to import / manufacture on behalf of importer / deliver to destination.
80 offices & warehouses across all states in India.
Full-fledged , end -to -end logistics handling capability with a 500 strong
truck fleet.
We welcome business proposals for the above noted areas.
Please write to :
Senior VP – Commercial at [email protected]
RNI REG NO./DELENG/2005/15033
DL (ND) - 11/6100/09-10-11
(Posting Date 19-20 of every month)

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