Google Expected to Launch Nexus One in India and Russia
Google is expected to unveil a more affordable version of its Nexus One smartphone with fewer features to attract users from emerging economies like India and Russia.
“Google was initially saying it wanted the Nexus One not to be tied to an operator, to be open and free for anyone to buy it and use it”, said Allen Nogee, an analyst with In-Stat. “It seems like a great philosophy. The problem is in the U. S. the operators have built a web in such a way that’s impossible to do”.
“Nexus One will not come to India in its US avatar, the India specific Google Phone may be a stripped down version and priced lower!”, posted Ankit Vengurlekar, Anchor and Producer at CNBC TV In India after interviewing the Managing Director of Google India, Shailesh Rao and Gaurav Bhaskar.
Intex Dual SIM IN 4470 on Sale for Rs. 3,650
Intex has launched its latest handset, the dual SIM capable (both GSM) IN 4470 in India. The phone, which apart from the dual SIM ability, also boasts of of a feature called “UM (U & Me) Chat”. This is nothing but a live video chat feature that can support up to 4 people conferencing simultaneously. The only obligation is that the other three people should be using the same phone as you are.
The IN 4470 has a 2.4-inch screen with support for 65k (which is less for a screen that size). It supports a multi-lingual user interface and SMS text in four Indian languages – Bengali, Arabic, Hindi and English. Other features include support for FM Radio, a fully equipped music player and video player. The phone supports Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and has support for memory expansion up to 4GB – with microSD cards.
The phone is social networking ready and comes with Widgets for Facebook, Google and Yahoo. The phone has two cameras – both of them with a paltry VGA resolution. But then, we do not expect much from a phone that will make your pockets lighter by just Rs. 3,650.
Self-Charging Handset Developed by Nokia
It is now possible to charge a cell phone without needing a plug-in point to connect your charger.
This had been made possible by Nokia as the experts have created a cell phone which is capable of recharging its battery as it can draw energy from the movements and the motion of the one using it.
It was known that this self-charging cell phone can function with heavier machinery supported with a powerful frame like the radio transmitter circuit and battery.
This frame is equipped with “rail mechanism” and it permits moving of the set side wise as well as horizontally up and down.
The rails, towards the end have strips of piezoelectric crystals which when compressed by the frame helps to produce electricity by phone’s or the user’s movement.
The energy thus produced is stored for further use in a capacitor.
LG Cookie Pep GD510 To Be Launched Soon
LG’s latest affordable touchscreen, the Cookie Pep also known as the GD510 will soon debut in the country.
The phone offers social networking integration with popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. “The all new LG Cookie Pep is in line with our strategy of introducing innovative gadgets and connecting with the youth through relatable propositions.” Said Sudhin Mathur, Business Head, Mobile Communications, LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.
The phone has a touschscreen measuring 3-inch diagonally. The screen produces 256K colours over QVGA resolution. The camera unit is a 3.15MP package which offers video recording at QVGA resolution over 15 frames-per-second. Connectivity options include GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB. The pep also sports a solar panel at the rear which can provide a talktime of over 2 minutes for a 10 minute solar charge.
The company plans to market the phone aggressively through a 360 degree marketing plan. It is purported to be the biggest campaign the company’s mobile division will have launched in India. Priced competitively at Rs. 7500, the Pep is poised to give the slew of latest launches from competitors a run for their money.
Tata Motors all set to launch the electric version of Nano
Posted by Alok in News Today on March 5, 2010
This Monday, Tata Motors unveiled the news of their launching the electric version of the cheapest car Nano in Europe in the coming 2 and half years.
The vice chairman of Tata Motors, Ravi Kant informed reporters on Tuesday that “The electric Nano will be launched in Europe in two-and- a-half year and it will be launched in select markets like Britain and the Scandinavian countries first and gradually in other nations.”
He further stated that “We have not decided the time line for launch of the electric Nano in India, but we are looking at it.” The price of the car will be decided during the time of its launch. Nano EV has a four seater capacity, 160km battery range, speed of 60km/10 seconds. India will export the European version; Nano Europa in the coming two years.
Why Apple purged 6,000 sexy apps
Posted by Alok in Tech Vision on March 5, 2010
After four days of confusion and adolescent hand-wringing, Apple (AAPL) finally spoke out about the change of policy that has removed thousands of risky applications from its iPhone App Store.
The extent of the purge can be seen in a bar graph produced by AppShopper.com, which tracks the number of applications added and removed from the store each day. It shows Apple withdrawing more than 6,000 apps over the space of four days, including nearly 4,000 apps last Thursday alone.
Google vs. Apple: An epic battle
Posted by Alok in Tech Vision on March 5, 2010
On one side, wearing black, weighing in at 4.8 ounces, the 31-month champion of the touch screen phones: Apple’s iPhone!
On another side is the challenger, appearing on every carrier, a new entrant to the heavy-weight battle: Google’s Android!
It doesn’t take Michael Buffer’s “let’s get ready to rumble” introduction to know that Apple and Google are squaring off for what looks to be an epic battle of the smartphone platforms. Apple made that loud and clear on Tuesday when it announced it would sue HTC, the maker of the Nexus One “Google phone,” over 20 alleged patent violations.
Experts say Apple is an aging champion that is feeling threatened by the momentum surrounding new-to-the-game Google’s Android platform.
Skinput : Make ur body an input device
Posted by Alok in Tech Vision on March 4, 2010
Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface. In particular, it resolves the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. It collects these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approach provides an always-available, naturally-portable, and on-body interactive surface. To illustrate the potential of this approach, there are several proof-of-concept applications on top of our sensing and classification system.
Turn your arm into a phone with Skinput
Posted by Alok in Tech Vision on March 4, 2010
What if your skin could serve as an interactive surface? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have produced Skinput, an experimental device that turns the body’s largest organ into a touch screen.
Incorporating a pico projector into the armband turns the device into a body display, a bit like MIT’s SixthSense technology. Skinput could relay tapped commands to mobile devices or PCs via wireless technologies like Bluetooth.
Skinput has an accuracy of up to 95 percent in detecting tapped spots and works even when the body is in motion, according to the researchers, who are presenting a paper at the 28th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in April.
Apple sues HTC over iPhone patents
Apple is suing phone maker HTC, alleging that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents related to the user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware of the iPhone.
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, said Tuesday in a statement. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
HTC makes a number of mobile phones based on Google’s Android operating system.
Apple said that the lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.
Sony: Stop Playing Older PS3s Until Bug is Fixed
Posted by Alok in Tech Vision on March 1, 2010
Sony said Monday that the company has confirmed that a date glitch has prevented users of older PlayStation 3s from connecting to the PlayStation Network. Sony also warned users to stop playing the affected consoles, or risk losing data.
The issue surfaced over the weekend, and Sony said it had begun addressing the problem. Users also discovered that the newer “slim PlayStation 3s were not affected, which Sony confirmed Monday.
But the bug may persist for up to 24 hours, Sony said, and Sony said warned users not to try and use the console because of the risk of losing data.
In a statement, Sony confirmed that customers have been unable to connect to the PSN, and that the issue “affects the models other than the new slim PS3,” the company said.
“We believe we have identified that this problem is being caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system,” Sony said.
‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ Completes 750 Weeks
Posted by Alok in Movies Plaza on March 1, 2010
The essence of love rules the world but never was felt so strongly on screen as the love story ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ of 1995 that has made an outstanding 750 week’s continuous screenings in a cinema hall at the Maratha Mandir hall in Mumbai.
Considered as one of the biggest romantic blockbusters of Hindi films, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ has made a landmark in film history by completing 750 weeks in a single theatre in Mumbai on this Sunday.
Sensational hit ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ which features the top notch actors of Bollywood industry Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol was promoted under the famous banner of Yash Raj production and was directed by Aditya Chopra. The film made a powerful impact with compact houses in the openings that created rave reviews all over the world after its release on Oct 20, 1995.
Today ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ of Yash Raj Film is considered as the most enduring film that is still running in theatre in a streak of fifteen years.
Robbers ‘loot’ Hema Malini’s bunglow!
Posted by Alok in Movies Plaza on March 1, 2010
The yesteryear beauty actress Hama Malini’s bunglow Gokuldham in suburban Goregaon has been robbed. According to the enquiry cash and gold ornaments collectively valued at Rs 80 lakh have been stolen. Hema Malini was out of station and was in Nagpur.
Buzz up!
The theft was noticed when the actress returned from Nagpur. According to police, the robbers must have entered the house by breaking the window and has decamped with Rs 75 lakh cash and gold ornaments worth Rs 5 lakh.
Googles dark side – google conspiracy
Posted by Alok in Tech Vision on February 28, 2010
The google.com conspiracy- what does google get up to with all that info? what do u think of this video?
Sachin Tendulkar’s double century blows away talk of 50-over demise
Posted by Alok in Cric Today on February 28, 2010
So 50-over cricket is dying, and only muscle-bound, switch-hitting and reverse-sweeping batsmen can survive in the modern one-day jungle. Pah! Sachin Tendulkar certainly blew those couple of absurd and trendy notions asunder last week with his record-breaking one-day international double century against South Africa.
Its greatest glory was that it was an innings with which any era could identify; one of stunning convention and wonderful simplicity, full of straight-blade shots from a bat that somehow appears broader than any other.
There were cover-drives aplenty, all directly from the text book, which was not bad for a man who was so concerned about the stroke that he recently made a Test century with barely a single drive.
The area behind the bowler was explored relentlessly and the leg-side boundary found regularly with a late flick of the wrists. This truly was a victory for placement over power.
I hope the myopic county chairmen who voted against 50-over cricket were watching. This is a form of the game that must prevail. And if properly marketed and scheduled (is it any wonder that county 40-over matches are more popular when played in high summer rather than the Arctic April afforded 50 overs?), it can do.