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PSP comes to Mobiles – Consolidation of Handheld gaming devices begins!
Sony had announced some time back that it will release Sony Playstation mobile store which will enable people to play PSP games on ‘certified’ mobile phones. Earlier, it was believed that this would mean Sony phones only but this was…
Google plays a joke with Indian Android Developers, removes India from list of supported countries…
Indian Android developers were over the moon when the news broke that now Indian Android developers could sell their paid apps on Google Play store. Looks like their happiness was extremely short-lived. In last 24 hours, Google has removed…
No Roaming Charges for Mobile Users! Is it actually helpful?
If someone has been listening to DoT lately (instead of political parties in general) there is important update on the telecom front. It was announced yesterday that the country shall be unified and no roaming shall be applied anymore.…
Google Play store opens paid apps for Indian Developers!
This is really great news for thousands of Indian Android developers. According to the reports, Indian developers are now allowed to publish paid Android apps on Google Play store. Till now Indian developers had to rely on advertising to…
New features of Apple iOS 6, criticism of Maps
Apple has launched iOS 6 with new features including Facebook Integration, Maps, enhanced Siri and Panorama. The new mobile OS is available to be downloaded wirelessly or through iTunes and has more than 200 new features, claims Apple.…
Apple Launches iPhone 5 – The Smartphone War for Dominance Heats Up
For innumerable bloggers and tweeters who fueled fervent speculations right up to the last minute leading to Apple's much-hyped launch event, the adrenaline has finally faded away.
The last few weeks have been extremely fast-changing for…
A quirk in recent smartphones
Smartphones have been here for a long time now. Blackberry is a company that only deals with smartphones. Apple became the world’s largest company launching a single smartphone model a year. Almost every company have their high end phones…
HDFC Bank launches Android Mobile Banking App
HDFC Bank has recently launched its Mobile Banking App for android based smartphones. Promising 'banking on the move', the app can be used by customers with Android devices to make up to 30 banking transactions. To download the app,…
3G connectivity in India [My experiences]
This week I finally took the long awaited plunge into the world of 3G. My phone was asking for the fun of 3G for a long time now and last week I gave into its whims. Now, this is not a review exactly as a week is not enough to assess the…
Smartphone Market Growth Comparison – India vs China
China & India are respectively the biggest Mobile markets in the world. While China recently crossed the 1 Billion mobile subscriber mark, India is still short with total mobile subscriber base of about 930 million. Smartphones sales…
3G Data traffic increases 78% in 2012
Nokia Siemens Networks, who provide and manage nearly one-thirds of 2G and 3G Networks for telecom providers in India have come out with some interesting growth numbers on mobile data traffic in India. According to their MBit Index…
Google Nexus 7- Why it may fail in India unless it changes some things…
Google Nexus 7, the latest and greatest android tablet ever to come has been launched in US and it is literally flying off the shelves. Which to be honest is not all that shocking. If anyone analyzes the specifications of the tablet and…
Tablet without Internet, is it of any value?
Now, this might not be a question that everybody has thought over but this is something I have had in my mind since a long time. What is the value of a tablet without a net connection? A smart phone too loses a lot of its value if it…
Batteries – The real Bottleneck to bigger mobile revolution!
My first computer was PIII-550MHz, 64 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD. It ran Windows 98 and I was a proud owner. My first smartphone has processor- 800MHz, 256 MB RAM and 8 GB memory card and it irks me often. Sometimes it hangs while an app and…
Samsung Galaxy S3: The 3 S’s behind the Success of the Smartphone of 2012
Samsung Galaxy S3 is undoubtedly the Smartphone of the year 2012… The much anticipated phone of the year was launched with much fanfare on June 3rd 2012. In less than 3 months, the phone has sold over 10 Million units and has been…
How Indians skipped wired wagon and gone wireless!
India is a strange nation with even stranger habits… We are not adaptable to newness and generally prefer the older ways to the new horizons. The biggest proof of this might be the technological advancement that our country has seen. It…
The Duplicate Mobile phone Market in India – Who is responsible?
We have always been witnessing a strategic competition between big ‘cell phone manufacturing’ companies like Nokia, Samsung and Apple to cover large market share, bring emerging technologies and more. But, there is a bigger competitor for…
Can Sony and HTC Capitalize On the Dual SIM Boom?
Dual Sim mobile sales are booming in India with over 71 million unique subscribers in India that is around 61% of the whole mobile phone sales in the country. A recent report by Neilson also states that a large portion of the consumers are…
Mobile internet users in India moving from TV, Newspapers to mobiles & tablets
Online audience measurement platform Vizisense's recent study about mobile internet usage in India puts forward interesting figures. The study reveals that crores of Indian mobile users have cut down their print newspaper and TV consumption…
Can Nokia Bounce Back? Scenarios for a Nokia revival…
In 2007, Nokia was the undisputed champion and the biggest brand in the mobile phone industry but it is no longer a heavy weight. Nokia which was valued at $150 Billion in 2008 but has now slipped to an overall valuation of only $6 Billion.…