This high-speed trendy USB device, that also doubles up as a 1 GB pen drive, is custom made for road-trippers for whom data connectivity is an absolute must. So now it doesn’t matter if you’re in Nainital or Chinchpokli you’ll be able to access the Internet anytime, anywhere!

And what’s more is that unlike any of the other USB devices in the market, this one allows you the convenience of prepaid. So recharge how much ever you need, whenever you need!

Take a look at all the nifty little stuff vLink is loaded with:

• Store music, pictures, videos, data and more in the 1 GB internal memory
• Plug and Play with no hassle of driver CDs
• Internal antenna
• Supports USB 2.0
• Supports Linux*
  

*Selected versions of Linux for data only

TARIFF

EVD	Plan 1	Plan 2
MRP (Rs)	349.00	801.00
Admin Fee (Rs.)	0.00	726.20
Service Tax	10.30%	10.30%
Service Tax (Rs)	32.59	74.80
Value without ST	316.41	0.00
Core Validity (Days)	30.00	30.00
Pool Validity (Days)	30.00	30.00
Grace (days)	90.00	90.00
Inactive (days)	15.00	15.00
Charging rate per minute in Peak Hrs (Rs)	0.25	Unlimited
Charging rate per minute in Off Peak Hrs (Rs)	0.13	Unlimited

While Nokia N97 is the Finns’ first smartphone to feature a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard, the unannounced Nokia 6208 Classic is (almost) the first to have a touchscreen and a regular, alphanumeric keypad.

Yes, you’ve heard well, the giant company is getting ready to launch yet another touchscreen handset under the name of Nokia 6208 Classic.

What’s weird is that, from the info known by now, the 6208 Classic does not run on Symbian 9.4 S60 5th Edition (like the N97 and the 5800 XpressMusic). Instead, it might come with an S40 interface tweaked to work with a touchscreen.

Design-wise, Nokia 6208 Classic is not what you’d call a beauty, but it’s not an ugly phone, either. Here it is:

I think Nokia might have drawn its inspiration from the old 6708 when creating the 6208 Classic.

Anyway, here are the known specs of the new handset:

* 2.4 inch TFT display (touchscreen, as I already mentioned), with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels

* Quad band GSM connectivity with GPRS, EDGE

* 27MB of internal memory

* MicroSD card support

* 3.2MP camera with autofocus and flash

* 130 grams

* 109.8 x 49.3 x 14.7 millimeters

Nokia 6208 Classic could be a handset destined only for the Chinese market, but until some official info about this appears, we can’t say for sure.

Obviously, pricing and release date are also uncertainties, for the moment at least.

Via unwiredview.com

The world of camera phones was hit by the 8MP fever a while ago. We have already seen the INNOV8 from Samsung, which we really liked, even though it was expensive. We have also seen Sony Ericsson's 8MP camera phone - the C905. The phone was impressive but a bit overpriced, and still is, even after a 5k price cut.

The 8MP camera that we are reviewing today is yet again from Samsung and is called the Pixon M8800, and seems to be more of a multimedia feature phone. So let's see what it has to offer and whether it is a better 8MP camera phone compared to the others.

Know more about this phone click here!

Aside from trying to develop Android, soon to have a possible name change, powered devices, what Motorola’s also got under their sleeves is an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network or iDEN device that features a full QWERTY keyboard. The i465, dubbed the Clutch, may be a low end device but meets military-specs for extreme conditions including shock, vibration, dust, and solar radiation.

It’s Motorola’s first device that combines the power of push-to-talk and the convenience of QWERTY keyboard with shortcut keys and software upgrades such as IM-style texting. This type of texting allows for an all-in-one view of incoming and outgoing messages. Other features include –

• A 1.79-inch TFT LCD with a 128 x 160 pixel resolution and 64k colors
• VGA Camera with video capture
• Audio Player
  
• 20 MB user available memory
• Bluetooth 1.2, micro USB
• 2.5mm audio jack (mono)

The Motorola Clutch i465 is expected to be available beginning in Q2 2009, there’s no pricing mentioned yet nor where it’ll ship to first.

Thanks Tech2

Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry Bold smartphone in India with Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance.

The BlackBerry Bold is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world. It integrates 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi and GPS, which can pinpoint the user's location and supports location-based applications and services. It comes with a half-VGA (480x320 resolution at 217 ppi) color LCD that is fused to the undersurface of the lens. The smartphone also comes with a media player for music, videos and photos and a 2 megapixel camera with video recording.

"We at RIM are excited with the response to BlackBerry in the Indian market. Through the widened reach of Airtel, we look forward to penetrate the high level of consumer sophistication in the Indian market by introducing the new BlackBerry Bold which will set new benchmarks in business mobility by integrating elegance with powerful internet speed," said Mr. Jim Balsillie Co-CEO Research In Motion.

"We are delighted with the opportunity to bring the BlackBerry Bold smartphone for Airtel customers" said, Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel. "We are always committed to introduce innovative and cutting edge technology to our users. BlackBerry Bold users will experience next generation technology and also be able to optimize their business and leisure time while on the move."

Managing music, pictures and video is made easy with the inclusion of Roxio Media Manager for BlackBerry as well as Roxio Photosuite 9 LE in the BlackBerry Desktop Manager software. For users that manage their collection with iTunes, the new BlackBerry Media Sync application provides a simple way to sync iTunes digital music collections with the smartphone.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone also comes with a newly enhanced, high performance browser. The trackball mimics a mouse, making it easy to navigate sites in "Page View" or "Column View" or to zoom in on specific parts of a web page, while various emulation settings allow users to choose between the full desktop-style HTML content and layout or the mobile version.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone comes with a 624 MHz mobile processor, 128 MB Flash memory plus 1 GB on-board storage memory, and a microSD/SDHC memory card slot that is accessible from a side door. DataViz Documents to Go is also preloaded, enabling users to edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the smartphone.

The BlackBerry Bold also features a new acoustic design that increases the size of the phone's audio sweet spot, improving listening quality and clarity. It comes with support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits (including car kits that adhere to the Bluetooth Remote SIM Access Profile) and other Bluetooth peripherals, noise cancellation technology that offsets background noise, a powerful speaker phone and support for polyphonic, mp3 and MIDI ring tones.

The smartphone works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which enables advanced security and IT administration within IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise environments, as well as BlackBerry Professional Software for small businesses.

It also works with BlackBerry Internet Service, which gives users access to up to 10 supported work or personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts).

Priced at Rs. 34,990, the BlackBerry Bold will be available by the end of September 2008 at authorized channels nationally.

Article By Tech2

India's state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will erect 19,000 towers in two phases to extend mobile phone connectivity to all villages in the country, the government said Wednesday.

"Some 8,000 mobile towers will be erected by the end of this year under Phase-I of the shared mobile infrastructure scheme," India's Telecommunications Minister A. Raja told a parliamentary committee here Wednesday.

Another 11,000 towers will be erected in the second phase, he said while addressing members of the Consultative Committee of Parliament attached to his ministry.

BSNL will also procure 93 million GSM lines so that people in all villages in the country having a population of more than 1,000 can avail of mobile phone services, he said.

GSM stands for Global System for Mobile communications and is the world's most widely used mobile phone technology.

"The government is giving the highest priority to extending telecom facilities to rural and remote areas of the country," he said.

To provide broadband connectivity, the government will initially connect 5,000 blocks, the smallest administrative unit in India, by wireless broadband, he said.

Villages coming within a radius of 10 km of a block headquarter will be covered by such connectivity.

This will benefit schools, public health centres, village administrative bodies (panchayats) and the community service centres (CSCs) meant to provide e-governance and data services to rural areas.

This will be done soon after new spectrum is allocated to the various telecom operators. This activity will be funded with the support of the universal service obligation (USO) fund, he said.

The USO fund is created from a 5 percent universal service obligation levy that the government charges all telecom operators in India.

The fund is meant to support extension of connectivity to areas where private operators do not enter for lack of adequate profitability.

To ensure widespread rural connectivity the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition government has kept a target of 500 million telephone connections by 2010 and 750 million connections by 2012, Raja said.

He hoped that this target would be surpassed.

He said to promote expansion of rural wire line and wire line based broadband services, the government has recently decided to waive off the license fees for rural wire line.

The government has also decided to give USO fund support to BSNL and reduce USO levy from 5 percent to 3 percent for covering more than 95 percent of the development blocks, he said.

This was in accordance with a recommendation of India's telecom regulatory body Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), he said.

The Minister also said that BSNL will launch during the current year value added services like mobile banking, mobile advertisement, tele-education and lost mobile tracking systems.

BSNL will also provide wireless broadband services and upgrade its mobile network to third generation (3G) levels. It will also provide high-speed data services.

News from Tech2

Virgin Mobile will now allow customers to purchase products and services online from its site, www.virginmobile.in.

Apart from the convenience of buying from home, customers will be rewarded with additional talk time, extra messages and other freebies. For example, the 'Bak Bak' offer will provide online customers Rs 100 worth of free talktime, 500 free SMS', lifetime validity and a free prepaid connection, on purchase of every handset.

After buying the desired phone online and making the payment via debit or credit card, the handsets will be delivered to the customer within 24 - 48 hours and the requisite documents for proof of identity will be collected in person. The connection will get activated post verification.

M. A. Madhusudan, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Mobile India said, "With 44% of the total internet population in India within the age group of 19-24 years, this medium has become an integral part of youth's lifestyle. It is therefore logical for us to extend our presence to the online space and offer our customers the convenience and comfort of buying Virgin Mobile connection at the click of a button."

The company has tied up with Blue Dart for delivery of handsets, and with Billdesk for payment authorization. In the near future, the company also plans to bolster its online portfolio by making available product bundled offers, facility of gifting a phone and an option of recharging and topping-up the Virgin Mobile phone online.

Original Article From CompareIndia