First spotted a couple of days ago at Nokia’s Ovi Store, the 5250 is getting closer to being announced. The Finnish handset vendor has uploaded the user agent profile (UA Profile) of the phone a few minutes ago that reveals some specs of the phone.

As expected, the 5250 will indeed be an entry-level touchscreen [...]

With so many leaks related to Motorola’s Droid 2 taking place, we couldn’t help but wonder what about the Milestone 2 – the GSM version of the Droid 2, which will take over from the Milestone. It would seem but natural for Motorola to launch a GSM variant for markets other than the US but [...]

The Bluetooth SIG, the group responsible for setting Bluetooth standards and notorious for releasing information about unannounced phones, has revealed the existence of an LG T325. Destined for Europe in August, there is very little information available about this touchscreen phone apart from the fact that it supports Bluetooth, is 3G-enabled and well, has a touchscreen. From the looks of it, we’d reckon it has a 3.2 inch display and in all probability falls under the brands Cookie range. We are fairly certain it won’t be long before LG officially announces this phone.

Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry handhelds, will release an update for its application store called App World that will provide users with a BlackBerry ID to enable them to retain their downloaded apps (both free and paid) when they shift to another BlackBerry smartphone.

The update, currently in beta and available to [...]

Fly Mobile has launched the DS160 in India, a phone with 16 hours of talktime and 30 days of standby time. Priced at Rs 2,153, the DS160 has a massive 1800 mAh battery, which even smartphones do not provide.

Notable among its features is a VGA camera, FM radio with recording and FM alarm, call [...]

Spice Mobile has launched a new phone in India aimed at sporty youngsters. The Spice M6 comes pre-embedded with a ‘Sports Zone’ that keeps track of latest news from the world of sports via feeds from Yahoo! Sports properties like Yahoo! Cricket, Yahoo! Tennis and Yahoo! F1. For online social networking, the M6 comes pre-installed [...]

Huawei, the Chinese telecom infrastructure vendor, has announced the launch of 20 new phones that it will retail under its own brand in India. The phones, based on Qualcomm’s chipsets, have been classified under two sub-brands – Hang Out and Android. The Hang Out series will have phones in the entry and mid-level segment in GSM, 3G and CDMA varieties. Huawei will retail these phones across India from August 1. The vendor already manufactures cellphones and USB modems for carriers in India.



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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of the Indian government is set to enforce a regulation regarding Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) ratings of cellphones sold in India, according to a notification sent to all handset vendors in the country. The regulation will apply to phones whether they are imported or manufactured in India.

DoT has decided to [...]

Nokia’s e-mail service, Ovi Mail, has not even shed its beta tag and it is already attracting attention from India’s security agencies, according to a report in The Economic Times. According to the report, the Intelligence Bureau has written to the Department of Telecommunications that it is against the continuation of Nokia’s e-mail service.

Security [...]

Airtel, India’s largest private GSM carrier, has finally got control of airtel.com domain name. Until now, airtel.in was the official homepage for Airtel. Earlier, Vodafone controlled airtel.com, which represented Airtel Movil of Spain, a carrier in which Vodafone had acquired a majority stake in 2000.

However, the domain airtel.com was put up for auction sometime [...]