HTC Desire C Launched

by Mobilemaniac on 16 May, 2012

HTC has unveiled its new Desire C model. The device is equipped with lots of advanced features that too at an affordable price. The handset is in-built with Ice Cream Sandwich while its beats audio technology provides great quality of sound.

The handset has a HVGA display screen of 3.5 inch that is engrossed with enduring metal frame and is powered by HTC Sense 4.0 UI. Capture the beautiful moments on a go with its 5 mega pixels camera and share when with the use of a single button with the friends through Twitter, Facebook and other such social networks.

Customers who purchase this handset will be blessed with up to 25GB of online storage for free by using Dropbox, which will enable the user to decrease the load on it internal memory of 4 GB as well as on 512 MB RAM. It is also compatible with microSD card slot. The device is enhanced with powerful 600MHz processor.

It will be nothing compared to LG Optimus, Samsung Galaxy S III or even to HTC One X. But surely it has many exciting features available in affordable price.

The handset will be available in white and black colour, on all networks especially with the operators having the benefit of stocking the NFC or non-NFC version of handset.

Orange mentioned that the handset will be available from the month of June; it will be sold to PAYG consumers for £169.99 and on the instalment of £20.50 per month for the duration of two years.

T-Mobile has also proclaimed the pricing of the handset that will be sold from the month June. The cost of the device will be £169.99 for PAYG consumers including a top up of £10 and for free at the monthly instalment of £15.50 for the period of two years.

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LG Optimus 4X HD to emerge in Europe next month

by Mobilemaniac on 16 May, 2012

LG has announced its pan of introducing its Optimus 4X HD in Western Europe next month.

The quad-core phone running on Android Ice cream Sandwich does have a 4.7 inch True HD IPS display.

The most notable feature of the phone is its biggest battery among the quad-core smartphones.

LG claimed that the phone’s Media Plex feature can zoom into and out of a video programme while playing back. In addition it has a User Experience application which allows users to have notes over any screen image, which can be saved and then shared with friends.

Jong-Seok Park of LG informed that the phone with the fast processor, wonderful display and largest battery is the first of its kind by the company to feature User Experience. With the rapid consolidation of the smartphone segment, software and hardware are decisive for the phone to stay on top. The fact that LG is strong in both is proved in the new phone.

After Europe, the phone will surface in Asia, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) South America and Central America in the following months.

Incidentally, LG Mobile has signed up a dealership deal with ITV2 for its reality show The Exclusive. The sponsorship will be for mobile and online broadcast and will support the introduction of the mobile handsets of the L series.

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Budget phones from Nokia

by Mobilemaniac on 16 May, 2012

Nokia has introduced two new affordable handsets for the youth and urban users who want to use the facility of internet service.

Its new dual-SIM Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 phones both with a display of 1.8 inch, can connect to web by means of a browser which allows compression of websites in the cloud, causing a reduction in data consumption by almost 90%. The home screen does have Facebook and Tweeter.

Nokia also provides 40 numbers of Electronic Arts (EA) games. The devises possess external memory of 32 GB.

The model Nokia 110 will be available for purchase in the second quarter of 2012 at around GBP 28. Nokia 112 will be available from third quarter of the year and the cost will be slightly more, at GBP30.

Mary T McDowell of Nokia informed that the consumers of the current days are constant internet enthusiasts, who want to gather a lot from the net and share with their friends. High data costs should not stand on their way of gaining knowledge and imparting it with others. Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 are brought out to meet their needs, at a rather cheap rate. The phones combine surfing the net, apps, social media, entertainment etc. They have a long battery life.

On the whole the phones will suit the youth of the present generation, mostly in the urban.

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HTC Sensation 4G upgrade to ICS announced

In the last few weeks, it seemed like customer of the HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile will not get their official updates to Ice Cream Sandwich till the month of June, at least through the leaked roadmap. The statement made by the service provider has proposed a sooner delivery date of the upgrade, after the reports of its necessary testing was completed successfully. Whereas the T-Mobile said that the update will be provided very soon, but they did not specify any fixed date for the availability of the update. But now T-Mobile has announced the release of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Sensation 4G on May 16.

Tomorrow the users will be offered with the updates for their device manually. Getting this update will enhance the phone to Android 4.0.3. This upgrade will provide the system software of 3.32.531.14710RD as well as HTC’s Sense 3.6 to the handset. But the saddest part of this update is the necessity of modify the users account in order to get Wi-Fi Mobile Hotspot support that will help to install the update. This made others to ponder over the means of getting upgrade for the Amaze 4G that is inclined on the same roadmap by the mid of June. But at present it has not mentioned any particular date is set. Whereas now Amaze’s web page published that the update will be provided in the upcoming weeks.

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Apple removes 4G from Their iPad 4G

Following constant grievances from customers stating that Apple’s third iPad 4G that was released has forced the company to rename their device. The complaint was that both the name and the advertisements talking about the gadget have been rather deceptive. Therefore the company has dropped the term 4G from the name iPad 4G.

The latest of the iPads can be availed of together with compatibility to Wi-Fi only and also Wi-Fi and mobile broadband. The predecessors to the new iPad consisted of support for the most commonly utilized 3G data network systems that were offered by every network in the United Kingdom.

In fact Apple had advertised that the new iPad would support 4G in spite of the fact that there were no 4G networks available in the country when the advertisements were given.

Another point to keep in mind is that even at a latter date when the 4 G network happens to be launched in the country the latest iPad would not be supported by it for the simple reason that Other than the UK many other nations also utilize frequencies that are entirely different from the frequencies used in the United States.

A handful of user in the UK got in touch with the Advertising Standards Authority to make complaints that the 4G names were ambiguous.

Apple has since revised what people should do and say at online stores and said that they were given the choice of either Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and cellular models and also points out that the devise would function well with quick data mobile networks.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.10.1 hits the US market

The successor to the Galaxy Tab 2.10 that was launched the previous year, the Samsung’s Galaxy Tab2.10.1, was exhibited to the people at the MWC held at Barcelona in 2012 and has reached retailers in the US market in a matter of just three months after its introduction, and will be made available to the public on the 13th of May.

The Galaxy 10.1 inch tablet that has a 1280 x 800 pixels resolution is fitted with a 1GHz dual-core processor and is loaded with 16GB of internal space for storage and this space can be expanded by the use of a microSD card slot. It also features a 3 MP primary camera that faces the rear and a secondary VGA webcam that the user can utilize for video chat. The Galaxy 2.10.1 tablet runs on Android’s version 4 Ice Cream Sandwich and had the company’s own Touch Wiz that runs the hardware. The cost of the Galaxy Tab 2.10.1 is $399.99 and any one who would be interested in buying the tablet after reading or hearing about it’s specifications, have the option of visiting places like Amazon, Best Buy, WalMart, Office Depot, hhgregg, Tiger Direct or other stores so as to get their hands on one of the units immediately.

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Mobile phones permitted in ‘Virgin Atlantic’ flights

As per ‘The Telegraph’, Virgin Atlantic passengers will have the privilege of using the mobile phone during their flights. They can also receive and send text messages and surf the net. Virgin Atlantic will be the first airliner to permit these, though British Airways allows the passengers to write texts and access the web, during their journey between London and New York.

These facilities will be available initially with the company’s Airbus A330, which is receiving a GBP100 million investment, taking off from London to New York and later with Being 747 planes, which incidentally are on for a GBP 50 million refurbishment. The plan is to provide the facility to at least 20 planes on around ten routes by the end of the year.

Steve Griffith of Virgin Atlantic informed that the airlines took this decision as most of the passengers expressed their desire for communication during the flights. He expects Wi-Fi to be available for Boeing 787 Dreamliner by 2014.

However, there will be some limitations. The phone should not be used while taking off or landing. The phone will switch off when it is 400 KMs from the US.

Due to limited bandwidth only basic web access can be availed over General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).

The travelers will have to pay roaming charges.

Incidentally, the mobile phones were not allowed in the planes for safety reasons, as the waves generating would interfere with that of the navigation system of the aircraft.

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RIM upgrades the management team

Research in motion has appointed Frank Boulben as its chief marketing officer and Kistian Tear as the chief operating officer.

These appointments according to RIM will enhance the management team prior to RIM’s release of the latest Blackberry 10 platform and it aims to expand the customer base all over the world.

RIM’s president and CEO, Thorsten Heins said that Frank and Kristian brings comprehensive knowledge about the swiftly changing wireless market. They will help RIM as they aim to provide long term benefit to their shareholders. Frank and Kristian has earnest awareness of the latest trends in the field of mobile communication as well as in computing.

Tear before joining RIM was serving as the executive VP for Sony mobile communication. Earlier he held variety of positions of operational leadership along with Ericsson not only in Europe but also in Latin America and Asia.

Mr. Tear will supervise all the operational works for services and handhelds; it includes global sales, research and development, products, production and supply chain.

Tear also stated that RIM plays a major role in the mobile industry and he is delighted to be a part of it. He is enthusiastic to work with talented employees of RIM and also harnessing their creativity and ingenuity for the advantage of about 77 million Blackberry consumers across the world. He also aims to help the firm to attract the new Blackberry customers.

Mr. Boulben will supervise the RIM’s global marketing efforts. Earlier Boulben was the former executive VP of planning, marketing and sales for the LightSquared. Prior to this he rendered his valuable service for Vodafone group and Orange.

Boulben said that RIM is the leader in the mobile world while the global icon is Blackberry. It is known to all how quickly the mobile arena progresses. According to him with Blackberry 10 platform, RIM will be able to change the way the enterprises and peoples interact with other. Hence he did not miss the opportunity to become the part of it.

 

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Viber Chat Application on BlackBerry and Windows Phone

The chat application called Viber seems to be in the run against What’s App, Skype and many others applications that are used for cross-platform communications.

The Viber app allows calls for free, free text messaging as well as photo sharing and is said to be compatible with double the number of platforms when compared to other above mentioned apps.

Viber can already be availed of on the Android and iOS and will soon be available in Beta version on the Windows Phone and the BlackBerry.

This app that was being utilized by over 70 million users allowed the user to chat over a variety of phone interfaces, permitting transmission of text messages, images and calls absolutely free of cost. This was the way in which it functioned on both the iOS and Android phones, because calls were yet to be enabled on the latest editions. As to when this feature would take to arrive was yet to be confirmed by Viber.

Viber Founder and CEO, Mr. Talmon Marco stated that they are of the opinion that when users were linked to the Internet they should encounter free and excellent quality experience and Viber attempted to make this possible for people making use of any model of mobile phones to stay in touch with one another.

He said that the Android version of Viber was appraised by them the previous year and they had found that it was a very handy and simple to use application and the inclusion of additional interfaces by which people would be able to stay in touch only helped to increase its usefulness.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 set to emerge in summer

As Samsung Galaxy S3 is set to emerge in the second half of the year, Network service provider Virgin Media has announced fabulous discounts for its customers.

The subscribers can possess the phone without paying the full amount towards the cost, when it lands in the UK.

The subscribers are also eligible for £5 discount on the monthly tariff. Otherwise, they can receive double quantity of texts and data and more minutes of talk time in comparison with the other deals of Virgin Media.

These are only some of the range of exclusives provided by the company.

Incidentally, Samsung and Visa have disclosed that Galaxy S3 has the privilege to be official phone for the London Olympics, which will commence on July 27th, as well as Paralympic games.

DJ Lee, who is in charge of Sales and Marketing in Mobile Communication Business of Samsung, stated that most of the Samsung phones, including Galaxy S3 have been created to meet the needs of the common people. Their capabilities have also been looked into while manufacturing the phone. They should be able to operate the phone and make use of the facilities with ease.

It is the most ideal device for all to use during the Olympics. With the inclusion of mobile payment application of Visa, the smartphone customers will be comfortably placed.

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Launch of BlackBerry Curve 9320 affirmed

by Mobilemaniac on 12 May, 2012

RIM officially has launched its latest Blackberry curve 9320 for its customers who are concerned about their budget. The price of this amazing handset is relatively less with £139.99 or rather the device is available at Three networks for free at the monthly instalment of £15. This gadget will also be available on the other networks and plans in the near future.

The key specifications of the handset are a 3.2 mega pixels camera, FM radio plus 3G, GPS, a dedicated BBM key, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. It has slot for microSD memory card to boost its internal memory of 512 MB. The memory card of handset can be expanded up to 32 GB. The device is powered by a 1450mAh battery that has a long battery life of 18 days in standby mode with a single charge in a week.

This might be because the gadget has a small size display screen of only 2.44 inches. The display screen of the phone is not a touchscreen. The maximum screen resolution of the device is 320 x 240 pixels. Below the display screen it has a QWERTY keyboard in Curve-style that helps the user to send instant messaging.

This amazing gadget is enhanced with BlackBerry OS 7.1. Whereas on the side it has BBM keys will introduce messenger application that also has twitter and Facebook integration. It is reported that the launch of this handset in the UK will be on May 14th.

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TU Me app launched by Telefonica

Telefonica of Spain, the principals of network provider O2, is launching a new app to enable free calls and texts for iPhone users.

The app ‘Tu Me’ will be on iOS initially but it will also be on Android very soon.

TU Me permits the smartphone users to converse, communicate through messages etc without disturbing their quota of call minutes and texts. The operations can be done from one control within a screen, without the need of switching apps or tabs.

TU Me will be a challenge for Skype, Viber and Whatsapp apps.

The service also permits sharing of photos. The communications of users are stored in a timeline format, enabling easy access to past conversations.

The data are stored in the cloud, so the message will be in tact even if the device is somehow lost. Any iPhone owner can take advantage of the service, irrespective of the network.

The app can function via Wi-Fi as well as 3G.

Stephen Shurrock of ‘Telefonica Digital’ is excited to inform that apps on smartphones are extremely popular, but TU Me goes a step further.

By putting all communication needs in one place, that to without extra charges, TU Me allows the users to be in touch with their dear ones.

It also helps the company in recovering some revenue that services like Skype have been pilfering.

TU Me app can now be downloaded from Apple app store.

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