Spice is holding a press conference with Qualcomm on August 19 in New Delhi and we have a fair idea what it is all about. In all likelihood, Spice will launch its first Android smartphone based on Qualcomm’s MSM 7227 SoC platform. Launched as the Mi300 in Malaysia a month ago, the smartphone has a [...]

Airtel has joined hands with Nokia to offer Ovi Life Tools service to its subscribers in India. Airtel users can now make the most out of this service even without GPRS connectivity on their basic or low-end handsets. The service provide agricultural benefits to the rural class by offering weather updates, crop advisory; educational benefits [...]

Yeah fellas, you heard it right. Nokia has announced a new version of the Nokia X3 which is the first S40 device by the Finnish vendor to sport a bizarre combination of a touchscreen display and a keypad. This baby is christened as the Nokia X3 Touch and Type and will come with 3G and [...]

RCom has introduced a very noble service, the Braille Bill service, for the visually impaired in our country. It will be available for RCom’s postpaid customers and will provide details of current usage, bill amount, last dues, last payment and adjustments made. The Braille Bill will be dispatched to the visually impaired customers through post [...]

A couple of years ago, we used to share a joke – “soon every convenience store would have their own brand of cellphones.” It was the time when companies like Micromax were trying to set up base in the market and we were busy dismissing them and other like them as mere fly-by-night operators. Of [...]

Tata Indicom subscribers can now call 50007, record a voice message that will be posted to their Twitter account. Called ‘Call n Tweet’, the service has been developed by Kirusa. Users will have to first link their phone number to their Twitter account by registering at www.callntweet.com. Users will be charged 80 paise per voice [...]

After a ong wait, HTC has finally launched the Desire in India along with Tata DoCoMo, which will offer 500 MB of free data for the first six months. The Desire is basically an HTC branded Nexus One with HTC’s Sense UI on top of the stock Google Android 2.1 UI. On the specs front, [...]

All right, we literally love the sound of this. Vlingo, the folks who have given us some really super voice to text software, have made their Android application free. What’s more, unlike Google Voice Actions, you do not need a Froyo-running phone to use it – it works just dandy on Android 2.1 and 2.0. The [...]

Looks like its pouring dual-SIM phones here in India. This time it’s Lemon Mobiles which has added a touchscreen phone-iT 717 to its dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) range. It comes with a pre-embedded Opera Mini browser and a social networking app Nimbuzz that lets you operate multiple messengers like Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo! in one interface.

The phone sports [...]

Intex Technologies has added yet another dual-SIM phone, IN 3080E Glider, to its huge Dual-SIM product portfolio that comprises 27 models. The new handset has a new design and improved specs but has inherited the same slider from factor of the older IN3080.

The IN3080E has a 2.4-inch display, a VGA camera, video player, Bluetooth, GPRS, [...]