Airtel and Vodafone on Thursday announced fixed fee-based plans with different terms and conditions which will allow unlimited use of BlackBerry Messenger Service to their customers.
While Vodafone’s plan to be launched next week under name ‘Go BBM’ unlimited access to BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) for Rs. 5 per day or Rs. 129 per month for prepaid. There will be fixed price of Rs 129 per month for post-paid subscribers, the statement said.
Airtel in a statement also announced unlimited BBM service usage plan for its post-paid customers against monthly rental of Rs. 129. This plan will also provide 300 local and national SMS to BlackBerry handset user, the statement said.
To subscribe, existing and new postpaid Airtel mobile customers on BlackBerry can call 121 or walk-in to their nearest Airtel postpaid activation help-desk.
HTC has unveiled the HTC Titan II, the company’s first Windows Phone to run on a 4G LTE network.
The HTC Titan II comes equipped with a 4.7-inch super LCD capacitive touchscreen display, and offers quick and easy access to the latest movies and TV shows via HTC Watch and on-the-go gaming with Xbox LIVE, the vendor said.
The phone also has a 16 megapixel camera with a wide-angle lens, autofocus, dual LED flash, red eye reduction, image stabilization, a backside-illuminated sensor and a physical camera button. The smartphone also enables 720p HD video recording.
Powered by Qualcomm’s 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, HTC Titan II will feature the latest version of Windows Phone OS and will pack 1,730mAh lithium ion battery.
The new phone will be released exclusively on AT&T in the US in the coming months.
This spring, Motorola Mobility is helping you flaunt your individuality by adding two stylish and unique Android™ 2.3 (Gingerbread) powered smartphones to its growing budget-friendly portfolio. MOTOLUXE is a hip, slim touchscreen device and Motorola DEFY MINI is dustproof and water-resistant, making it the ideal “life proof” phone for active users. And they come in different shapes, sizes and colors – so you can choose a phone that best reflects your personality.
No matter what device you choose, Motorola’s MotoSwitch user interface changes the way you manage your life. With MotoSwitch, your smartphone learns who you talk to and which apps you use and keeps all of that information front and center. The Social Graph feature gives you easy and fast access to the people who really matter. It learns who’s most important to you and uses that information to populate the home screen. The more frequently you communicate with someone, the bigger their icon becomes. The Activity Graph gives you quick and easy access to your favorite apps, automatically changing to reflect the apps you use the most. With Music Now you can easily play your favorite music while the Smart Gallery displays your favorite pictures as collections.
With Google Mobile™ services you’ll be able to search for anything with Google Search™, chat with your friends using Google Talk™, or find your way anywhere you want to go with Google Maps™ with navigation.
Strike While the Iron Is Hot-
The ultra-vogue, very-slim, MOTOLUXE sets the bar high in terms of style with a 4-inch edge-to- edge touchscreen display. This hip device is perfect for writing emails, surfing the Web and watching movies. And, for the amateur photographers out there, the 8-megapixel autofocus camera with flash lets you shoot like a pro and capture life clearly and fully.
MOTOLUXE also sets itself apart with a lanyard slot that has a lighting effect. So you can see when you’ve missed a call, received a text or have an email waiting for you.
Other cool stuff includes:
* Front-facing VGA camera for video chatting with friends and family
* Available in licorice or white
* 1400 mAh battery for up to 6.5 hours of talk time, 19 days of standby time
Strong and Sturdy
Water-resistant, dust-proof and with a scratch resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass display, Motorola DEFY MINI is the ideal smartphone for active users who need a device as resilient as they are. With a 3.2-inch touchscreen good for emailing, texting and browsing the Web, and a long battery-life, you can keep this phone on and by your side all day long no matter where you go, so you’ll never miss a beat.
But wait… there’s more:
* 3MP rear-facing camera with flash
* Front-facing VGA camera for video chatting with friends and family
* Easy access to all your favorite outdoor apps with the “Instrument Dashboard”
* 1650 mAh battery for up to 10 hours of talk time, 21 days of standby time
You can get your hands on MOTOLUXE and Motorola DEFY MINI at Motorola’s booth (LVCC, Central Hall, Booth NO. 8644) at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, January 10 – 13, 2012.
Pricing and Availability
Both devices are expected to be available in Greater China, Europe and Latin America starting this spring. MOTOLUXE is already available in China under the name Motorola XT615 and is expected to be available in Greater China, Europe and Latin America starting in February. Motorola DEFY MINI is expected to be available in China under the name Motorola XT320 and in select countries in Europe and Latin America starting in February.
The Telecom Ministry is likely to terminate the licences of Idea Cellular in six circles, including Delhi, Karnataka and Punjab, and impose an additional Rs 300 crore penalty on the company for violating roll-out obligations.
“The Department of Telecom will soon send notice to Idea Cellular asking them to stop their services in six service areas in Karnataka, Punjab, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi. The department has also imposed a fresh penalty of Rs 300 crore on the company for missing out roll-out obligations,” a source close to the development said.
Nokia’s Lumia 900 “Ace” for AT&T is set to launch officially on Monday at CES 2012, according to insiders, with the smartphone expected to pack LTE for use on AT&T’s growing 4G network.
The Lumia 900 is expected to have a 4.3-inch WVGA display, a front-facing camera, 8-megapixel main camera with flash, and 512MB of RAM,Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.
The phone is expected to cost $249 with a two-year contract.
Bharti Airtel is extending its ‘Har Friend Zaroori Hai, Yaar‘ (HFZ) campaign by launching an all-new online viral initiative at its YouTube channel. Created by Taproot, these 20 videos are inspired by interesting ‘friend types’ or tags created in a brand activity on Facebook. Over the coming weeks, the company will periodically release these videos on the Web and use the concept of ‘gamification’.
“The company has further extended this brand idea with the launch of an all new online viral campaign at its YouTube channel,” the company said in a statement.
“As part of this gamification led initiative by Airtel, everyone keen on watching these videos will need to visit Airtel’s YouTube website and will then be provided interesting cues, by responding correctly to which, they will be able to unlock video levels and gradually move ahead and watch all videos,” it added.
The videos are inspired by interesting friend types such as status update friend, activist friend, dhinchak friend, chipku friend or filmi friend or tags created by the online audience on Facebook during an outreach programme initiated by Airtel earlier.
