Add "No Smart Phone" to you "To-Do List" for Healthy Regime.

According to study carried out by researchers from Kent State University, Spending more time than required time may lead you unhealthy life.

New York Daily news reported that the researchers found out that the persons who spent lot of time on their phone, more than 14 hours per day were less fit than those who spent about one and half hour a day.

Add "No Smart Phone" to you "To-Do List" for Healthy Regime.

Indian Mobile Manufacturer Micromax emulating the Samsung Strategy ?

Micromax is an Indian consumer electronic company which mostly deals with Telecom related devices. With Canvas inventory, Micromax has occupied second position in smartphone market share overtaking other popular brands like Nokia, LG and Sony. Before introduction of Canvas 4, Micromax mantra was to offer premium phone features with decent hardware at affordable price. But now I sense a change in its strategy, following Samsung type of success strategy. Here is why I fee so.

Indian Mobile Manufacturer Micromax emulating the Samsung Strategy ?

Nokia outsources symbian to Accenture to save cost.

Nokia, the world's largest phone maker, will now outsource the work related to Symbian to Accenture as part of a plan to slash annual spending by 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion).

With Nokia-Microsoft tie up, Nokia can now save 1 billion euro (business research and development costs), or 18 percent, by 2013 from 5.65 billion in 2010.

Nokia outsources symbian to Accenture to save cost.

Guide: How to stop unwanted(telemarketers) calls and SMSes

With the new Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) regulations, effective from March 1, 2011, we can hope some relief from the unwanted calls and SMSes.


Here are some of the proposals by TRAI:

Under the new guidelines consumers can choose their preference to receive or not to receive commercial communication from seven pre-defined categories. Users also have the option to either block all commercial calls and SMSes or to block only commercial calls while receiving SMSes of their choice.

Guide: How to stop unwanted(telemarketers) calls and SMSes

Google's Nexus S shocks Google engineers with its outer atmosphere performance.

The team from Google were happy and have been taken by pleasant surprise after Nexus S, the Official Google's second phone, was found working even fine even at the earth's outer atmosphere - at 60,000 feet.

The tiny Androids strapped to seven payloads to test the outer limits of Nexus S were carried into the Earth's outer atmosphere using weather balloons, the Daily Mail reported.

Google's Nexus S shocks Google engineers with its outer atmosphere performance.

UK loses 20,000 mobiles per day : Survey

Love you mobile???? Then be careful. You may be next. According to an English media report, in Britain, one out of six lost his/her mobile phone in the past 12 months and a whopping 20,000 mobile phones are either lost or stolen every day in Britain, says Daily Mail media report.

Most of them tend to lose their mobile during nights out in pubs or clubs, a considerable proportion of the 7.3 million missing phones went missing on holidays.

UK loses 20,000 mobiles per day : Survey

Rcom 3G service at selected cities in India goes live.

Reliance communication is the second private player to start 3G services in India by launching its 3G services in four circles making on 13th Dec.

The for four circles which RCom has launched the service are has a dense mobile subscription and are high spenders which includes three metros Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and other in Chandigarh.

Rcom 3G service at selected cities in India goes live.

Major Tech co. in bid to grab candian mobi gaint Nortel.

According to Reuters unnamed sources, many mobile related companies gonna show their interest in Nortel Mobile buyout.

Filed bankruptcy protection back in June 2009, has approx 4,000 patents worth over $1 billion. We may seen apple and google going aggressive on this bid. Blackberry's RIM, Motorola and other may also show their interest in Nortel's wide range of portfolio.

Major Tech co. in bid to grab candian mobi gaint Nortel.

Nokia servers in India, now its BlackBerry time?

With Indian Govt surveillance on every bit of info passing by any medium or devices and adding pressure on the respective companies, Nokia has announced installation of a server in India to enable security agencies lawfully intercept its email and messenger services.

Nokia India Vice President and MD D Shivakumar called on Home Secretary G K Pillai today and handed over the letter, saying the company has conformed with all requirements suggested by the law enforcement agencies.

Nokia servers in India, now its BlackBerry time?

It Official, India crossed 687.71 million mobile subscriptions

Before 30-sept 2010, India added 17.10 million mobile subscribers making the total number of mobile users to 687.71 million according to official data.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the wireless phone user base grew 2.55 percent to 687.71 million in September, from 670.60 million in the previous month.

With this, the total telephone subscriber base in the country, both wireless and wireline, touched 723.28 million. The total telephone density reached 60.99 percent.

It Official, India crossed 687.71 million mobile subscriptions

UK to get 4G networks by end of 2012 or early 2013.

Now Britain people will enjoy the much more speed on their smartphones.

Ofcom's chief executive Ed Richards has announced timetable at the FT World Telecoms Conference, which will pave the way for next-generation mobile services in the UK.

The auctioning of 4G spectrum will be done in the first half of 2012, according to Mr Richards. Which means the spectrum will become available from late 2012 or early 2013.

UK to get 4G networks by end of 2012 or early 2013.

Mobile number portability from October 31

(IANS) The telecom regulator said on Thursday that mobile number portability (MNP) will be implemented nationwide from October 31, ruling out any further delay.

The MNP is a service that allows a mobile user to change his operator while retaining the number.

"There will be no further delay in the implementation of MNP," Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman JS Sarma said in New Delhi.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) had said on Wednesday that the operators must ensure that all inter-operator tests for porting the numbers from one service provider to another are completed before September 1, 2010.

Mobile number portability from October 31

Mobiles have 18x more bacteria than toilet handle.

The average mobile phone carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men's toilet, tests have revealed.

One of the phones in the test had such high levels of bacteria that it could have given its owner a serious stomach upset.

The findings from a sample of dozens of phones by Which? magazine suggest 14.7 million of the 63 million mobiles in use in Britain today could be potential health hazards, reports the Daily Mail.

Hygiene expert Jim Francis, who carried out the tests, said, "The levels of potentially harmful bacteria on one mobile were off the scale. That phone needs sterilising."

Mobiles have 18x more bacteria than toilet handle.

More than 5 Billion Mobile Phone Connections Worldwide.

According to the reports of Wireless Intelligence, more than 1 Billion new connection were added in just one and half (18 months) year, which mean now there are more than five billion connections worldwide.

In many regions, penetration exceeds 100%, where there is more than one connection per person in the country.

"If you just take the UK in 1987, when the first mobile companies launched, an industry insider predicted a maximum of 10,000 phones.

"Now almost every adult, child and domestic pet seems to have one, given that 30 million phones are sold every year in the UK," he said.

More than 5 Billion Mobile Phone Connections Worldwide.

Samsung favours Wimax tech for mobile broadband .

PTI: South Korean electronics and telecom firm Samsung on Wednesday said that it is in talks with operators for setting up their networks and indicated that most of them are likely to opt for Wimax technology for offering mobile broadband services.

Mobile operators are looking at two separate technologies for offering mobile broadband services. These are Wimax and Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Both Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex (TD-LTE) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) are broadband wireless access (BWA) are similar but rival technologies.

Samsung favours Wimax tech for mobile broadband .

Costliest iPhone, iPhone 4 Diamond Edition.[PIC]

iPhone for the Higher Class with a Ding is on the way.Thanks to Stuart Hughes for sharing the info and what it looks like so-called iPhone 4 Diamond Edition. As you can see, not only does the phone pack a smattering of diamonds (including  Apple logo), but it's a white iPhone 4 (32GB), and unlocked, not strucked with AT & T : P  Anyways it is expected to cost $ 20,000. So are ready to shell out that much?

Costliest iPhone, iPhone 4 Diamond Edition.[PIC]

Documents leaked to BGR show Apple Knows About iPhone 4’s Flaws.

According to documents leaked to Boy Genius Report , AppleCare representatives are being given a strong company line to deliver to unhappy iPhone 4 owners who complain about reception issues.

Employees are told to say that the device’s reception performance “is the best we have ever shipped” and that its critical antenna flaws are “a fact of life in the wireless world.” They are told not to perform service on iPhones with these problems and instead to give customers a PR-driven recitative instead.

One law firm is even preparing for a class-action lawsuit against Apple and is soliciting iPhone 4 customers to contact them about reception issues.

Documents leaked to BGR show Apple Knows About iPhone 4’s Flaws.

Microsoft Kin is set to be Stopped.

The Kin, two Microsoft-branded phones targeted at teenager users, is all set to be no longer available.

The Kin, formerly known as “Project Pink,” was revealed in April and lauched on the Verizon network in May. However, ominous signs emerged for the phone’s demise after Microsoft cut the price of the Kin in half.

Here is Microsoft’s official statement on the Kin:

“Microsoft has made the decision to focus on the Windows Phone 7 launch and will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones.”

Microsoft Kin is set to be Stopped.

Atlast, Verizon gets its hand on iPhone.

Verizon Wireless will start selling the iPhone in January of next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. While this is hardly the first Verizon iPhone rumor.

Bloomberg is citing two people familiar with the matter

Atlast, Verizon gets its hand on iPhone.

Samsung Vibrant to come with copy of 'Avatar' and 'SIMS 3'

Samsung Android Vibrant (a variant of the Galaxy S) launches on T-Mobile July 21. Each handset will come pre-loaded with a copy of Avatar and the mobile game The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition.

This is good news as you might be able to able to see Avatar on AMOLED Screen.

Samsung Vibrant to come with copy of 'Avatar' and 'SIMS 3'