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Airtel Shuts Down Mobile Service In Manipur

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 06:48 AM PDT


India’s largest GSM mobile service operator shuts down its operations in Manipur state leaving over three lakh subscribers in the North East telecom circle in the lurch.

According to the statement by the All Manipur Airtel Workers Union “following continuous attacks by militants on telecom towers and employees associated with the Airtel, the BTS/Mobile Network tower are now switch off which will breakdown the mobile services of Airtel in Manipur state.”

Presently there are 5 Mobile Service Providers (GSM/CDMA) in the North East region – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, Reliance and Tata Indicom. The services of almost all the private operators have been affected except state-owned BSNL.

All the five GSM/CDMA service providers operating in the state having threatened to shut down their operations following threats, attacks and extortion notices from different militant groups in the past few weeks.

The decision of the Airtel Manipur Union to switch off all BTS towers of the service provider will lead to the closure of all Airtel network in the state till a amiable solution is brought. However only those customers located in capital city Imphal were currently being able to use their services.

It is significant to say that different militant groups have demanded huge sums of money from the mobile phone service providers in the state, at least two employees of two different companies have been shot in the past two weeks. The police have so far registered as many as six cases of extortion and threats, but no arrests have been made as yet.

Micromax Launches M2 – Dual SIM Music Phone

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:03 AM PDT


Its again Micromax caught in the move of launching a futuristic multimedia enriched mobile handset which will surely make one stunned and bound to blow head with the beats of music if he/she is so called as music crazy.

Lets come to the point, Micromax, one of the top mobile phone sellers in India is about to launch M2, a music oriented mobile handset supposed to be dedicated for young India.

Priced at Rs.3499 Micromax M2 is equipped with SRS wow HD, Built-in Yamaha Audio Amplifier and a dedicated dome headset for best music experience in its class. It has a unique touch wheel navigation key side by side it has a internal memory of 2GB.

Its 850mAh Li-ion battery is present with the phone for long time music playback capabilities. It also comes with Sleek body, Stylish look, stereo FM, video recording, Bluetooth, 2MP camera etc. etc.

Let's have a look on its features:

Specification Descriptions
Form Factor Bar Style
Network Dual GSM Band (900/1800Mhz)
Display TFT (240*320)
Camera 2.0 MP
Music
  • Multi format Music Play
  • 3.5 mm Audio Jack
Video Playback Yes , (3GP/MP4)
Stereo FM Radio Yes
Bluetooth Yes With A2DP
GPRS/MMS/WAP Yes
Memory
  • Internal memory Upto 2GB
  • Micro SD supported
Battery
  • Type: Li-ion 850mAh
  • Talk Time:8 Hours(maximum)
  • Standby time:6 Days(maximum)
Special Feautre(s) Touch wheel, Furnished Metallic Body

Nokia : 10 Years of Eco Innovation [VIDEO]

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 01:11 AM PDT


In order to create public awareness over environmental issues, World’s leading Mobile Phone maker, Nokia has taken environment issues seriously from last 10 years.

Company’s official blog ‘Nokia Conversation’ released a Video about How Nokia recycles materials for energy production and other purposes, reduces carbon dioxide emissions, decreases the size of its product packages and reduces the energy consumption of chargers, to meet the Green environment slandered.

The company also said that all of Nokia's production plants have environmental certification, and all phones have a product-specific Eco Declaration.

Vodafone SUPER WEEK 2 – Download FREE Games on Mobile

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 11:58 PM PDT


Vodafone, one of India’s leading GSM Mobile Service Providers, today launched an exciting "SUPER WEEKS-2" offers wherein its Postpaid and Prepaid subscribers can Download FREE GAMES on their Mobile Phones!

Vodafone ‘SUPER WEEKS’ initiative launched on 16th April which is one ticket to 6 weeks of FUN and Frolic! Last week Vodafone offers "Connect with friends" on entire social networks (Facebook /Twitter/Orkut)  for FREE as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk.

This week all Vodafone customers across all the circles can enjoy FREE Games Downloading from their Mobile phone via Vodafone Live Service. This offer is only valid for one week (7 Days) from 00:00:00 hours Saturday 23rd April To 11:59:59 PM  Friday 29 April 2011 under SUPER WEEK Offers -2 .

To avail the offer subscriber needs to send SMS 'SUPER' to 111 (toll free).

Sony Ericsson Announces Their First Android Walkman Series Phone W8

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:43 AM PDT


Sony Ericsson Announces Their First Android Walkman Series Phone W8Today Sony Ericsson has announced their first Android Walkman series phone W8.

Looks like it is an XPERIA X8 with a fancy colors and a WALKMAN logo.

The phone will come with a MH410 stereo headset the Sony Ericsson W8 will be available in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam starting from Q2 2011 in three different colours (Azur, Metallic Red and the iconic Walkman Orange).

Its Specifications:

Dimensions : 99 x 54 x 15 mm

Weight : 104 g

3-inch capacitive touchscreen with a HVGA resolution (320×480); 16M colors

Four icons in the corners of the home screen for quick access to favourite functions

Android 2.1 Eclair OS with Timescape UI

600MHz processor with 168MB of RAM

3.15 MP Camera, 2048×1536 pixels, VGA@30fps Video Recording

Walkman player with TrackID music recognition and PlayNow technologies

3.5mm headphone jack

microSD Card slot up to 16GB; Phone memory up to 128MB

WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, A-GPS

SNS integration

Infinite button – press this while listening to a track for more information and content.

Battery 1200 mAh (offers 23 hours and 40 minutes worth of music listening time)

There is no word on the pricing of the phone as of now.

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