Airtel Launches 3G Services in India; Tariffs Announced

Airtel officially launched pan-India 3G services today at a press conference in Bangalore. In a surpisingly sedate event, Airtel unveiled tariff plans, 3G services and a new wireless 3G dongle.

While Bangalore and the rest of Karnataka will get Airtel 3G immediately, it was revealed at the conference that the rest of the circles would be getting the same very soon. Airtel also showed a coulple of their additional 3G services including live video streaming, movies on demand, songs download and live TV broadcast. Except for the live video streaming, all other services worked without a hitch at the press conference.
The main 3G plan from Airtel has a basic monthly rental of Rs. 650 which gives a user 1.25GB of data use. If a user crosses that data limit, then he/she will be charged Rs. 10/MB of use till the bill reaches Rs. 2,000. At that point the  bill is capped so that a user will never have to pay more than Rs. 2,000 but the speed is also brought down to 128kbps. Airtel did say that the network is capable of speeds up to 21MBps but there was no mention of realistic speeds that users can expect on a regular basis.
Along with the main plan, Airtel is also offering, what they refer to as ‘sachet packs,’ essentially time bound 3G packs available for smaller denominations such as Rs. 10, Rs. 45, Rs. 60, Rs. 200, Rs. 450 and Rs. 750.

Top 13 India based Google Doodles at a glance

Google Doodles are not at all alien for us. For the people who live in dreamland, these are custom-made logos visible on Google search engine`s homepage. The concept of Doodles was started way back in the year 1998. However, at that time the frequency of putting it on the homepage was very less. If we look at the present day scenario, we see these customized logo`s quite often.
Google Doodle India

There is obviously some reason behind featuring every Doodle. Most commonly, we see the Google Doodle associated with the celebrity birthday, festive events and historical significant days. If you would have noticed carefully, then at times you must have come across some cool India based Google Doodles.
Here is the list of some of my favourite India based Google Doodles.
1) Children`s Day
Children`s Day
2) Diwali
Diwali
3) Gandhi Jayanti
Gandhi Jayanti
4) Sesame Street (Boombah and Chamki)
Sesame street
5) Holi
Holi
6) Independence Day
Independence Day
7) Makar Sankranti (Festival of Kites)
Makar Sakranti

8) Republic Day
Republic Day
9) Rabindra Nath Tagore Birthday
Rabindra Nath Tagore Birthday
10) Ghoongroo se Google ( Google Doodle India -winner)

Ghungroo se Google

11) My India ( Google Doodle India -winner)
My India
12) Unity in Diversity ( Google Doodle India -winner)

unity in diversity
13) Happy Holiday ( Indian version)
Happy Holiday

Motorola Defy launched in India

Motorola officially announced a new smartphone for Indian mobile market Motorola Defy, Mobile is equipped with Android 2.1(Eclair) OS and it is available with a reasonable price tag Rs.18500/-. It is the fourth android mobile by motorola in India. The first smartphone in India which is launched with a dust proof and water resistant mobile. The features enhanced with the mobile is MOTORBLUR IN where we can manage the emails, social updates and messages from this mobile in easier way..It has 3.7" high resolution touch screen and the display it has resilient display which has great protection from scratches on the screen.

Motorola DefyMotorola Defy has 5MP camera with Dual-LED Flash which gives a great picture Quality, it has 8X digital Zoom with autofocus. The memory of the mobile can be expandable upto 32GB and memory card slot is equipped to MicroSD card and 2GB memory card is equipped with this mobile and 512 MB RAM .

Motorola DefyIn Motorola Defy, there are number of Applications can be installed and it has Android market, Google Maps, Google talk, GMail, Google search and many more.

Motorola Defy key Features are:

Quad-band 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Dual-band 3G HSDPA 900/2100
Android OS v2.1 (Eclair)
Adobe Flash 10.1 Support
Latest version of MOTOBLUR with Live Widgets
800 MHz OMAP 3610 processor
3.7-inch widescreen display, 480 x 854 pixels FWVGA 16M color capable TFT Capacitive Touchscreen display Motorola Media Link and Motorola Phone Portal to manage and share media content across desktop, phone and the Web
Location enabled, multi-window HTML5 Webkit web browser
GPRS Class 12
EDGE Class 12
WiFi 802.11b/g/N Wireless LAN
Stereo Bluetooth 2.1+A2DP
3.5 mm headset jack
Stereo FM radio with RDS
Built-in GPS + A-GPS with Google Maps 3.0
Crystal Talk Plus for superior talk quality
1540 mAh Li Po Battery: 7 hrs talktime, 245 hours stand-by time on 2G network
Dimension – 107 x 59 x 13.4 mm
Weight – 118 gms
Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Pinch & zoom and double tap features
2GB internal memory, 512-MB Flash memory
microSD card slot, maximum 32GB storage, 2GB card included
5.0 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, 8X digital zoom, auto-focus
video recording in 720 x 480 pixels resolution @ 24fps.
Video playback H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR WB, OGG, MIDI, AMR NB
Ringtones eAAC, eAAC+, AAC+, AAC, MP3, OGG

Toyota Etios to rule the saloon segment

World's one the top car manufacturer, Toyota is all ready to bring the revolutionary change in the domestic Indian auto market. Maruti Suzuki's and it's Swift Desire were ruling till now but it time go get something different and excellent Toyota Etios, which is entering in the saloon segment soon. The segment has been facing the outstanding growth in recent times and looking at the same. Toyota, a Japanese car maker has launched the beautiful sedan Toyota Etios for the Indian Auto market which proved the company's success by making over 21000 bookings in a short period of one and a half month of its introduction. This depicts the unexpected entry of the car.

Toyota EtiosThis has been speculated that the delivery of Toyota Etios have been started from Jan. 2011 have a long waiting period of around 7 months. If talk about Maruti Swift Dzire it has the waiting period 2-3 months which almost every car takes and the cars of Maruti have faced a drop of 1,000 units in last year. However Tat Indio also faced a drop in demand by 5,234 units in December at the lowest figure of last year.

Toyota EtiosAs the reports says the monthly sales of Maruti Suzuki's Dzire is nearly around 9,000 to 9,500 units and 1,800-2,300 units of Maruti SX4. However, in the month of December it led to a fall by 9,362 units against the 11,115 units. The company reveled that the fall because of the production constraints and all products produced by the company are sold and company is still in the waiting period of 2-3 months.

Toyota EtiosAs it is already being known that Toyota is the best for manufacturing sedan segments cars and with the entry in new segment, the demand for it's new product is increasing at a good pace. This segment is heating up with the launch of Toyota Etios. This car is made exclusive for the Indian customers in the domestic market. The company is expected to give the direct competition to companies like Mahindra Logan, Hyundai Accent, Tata Indigo and Maruti Swift Dzire.

Toyota EtiosNew cars to look forward to this year include Maruti Kizashi, Volvo S60, Nissan Sunny, Maruti Cervo, Hyundai Avante, Toyota Etios Liva and Honda Brio.

Ford Figo awarded as the Best Car for 2010

Ford is one of the leafing car manufacturer in auto Industry . Ford India and its famous small car Figo, together left behind the 29 Indian auto industry in 2010, by winning the Best passenger car in the country. The company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn. Ford introduced various methods for large scale management of an workforce using assembly lines. Frod has been awarded by the three 'Cars of the Year' titles with the prestigious mark of 'Manufacturer of the Year', with the complete broadcast and print media house. It has been proved as the popular compact car by honoured by the 'Indian Car of the Year 2011' award- which is the most revered auto industry award in India.

Ford Figo
Around 60'000 Ford Figo have been sold since March and India have an impressive increment in the annual sales by 184 percent as compared to 2009.
Figo has the hold in its segment and won all the needful trophies to became the best car. These prestigious honour have came across to the general public through print, broadcast and Internet mediums. They have created the awareness against the superb brand building, recognition and acknowledgement of the Ford Figo's features including the amazing design, high class technology, fuel efficient powerstrains and the value for money package these all are meant to fulfill the customers needs and enhance their lifestyle.

Ford FigoThe managing director and president of Ford, Michael Boneham conveyed that the Ford Figo was their change for the Indian market and it has been performed exeptionally well, it is really appericiating that the peole had a wide choice in the market but still they liked Figo. He added that because of Ford Figo's customers they have won the honourable award.

Ford FigoThe car rulls in thousand of customers, 40% of them were the people who buy the cars for the first time, they shown the unbelievable trust on the newcomer car. Figo also seeks tremendous support from the social sites as well. Various popular websites and blogs organised their independent polls and visitors voted the car as 'Car of the Year'. Ford also gained the popularity with the Ford Fiesta, Ford Ikon and the Ford Endeavour performing well in their respective segments in the year of 2010.

Ford FigoNew cars to look forward to this year include Maruti Kizashi, Volvo S60, Nissan Sunny, Maruti Cervo, Hyundai Avante, Toyota Etios Liva and Honda Brio.

India's Rs. 1600 Tablet - Sakshat, Gets Hit by a Setback

It’s been quite a while since we first saw the cheapest tablet in India. The tablet was supposed to come at a price of Rs. 1600 and the launch was due on the 15th of January. Well, the date has passed but there's news now that the tender to make these tablets, which was previously given to HCL has been cancelled.


I belong... to no one

According to sources, the tender for the tablet was handed to HCL, but a mail doing the rounds inside the Ministry of HRD said that the selected vendor was making demands that were unreasonable. The Rs. 60 Crore tender is up for grabs again, so it’s time to wait and see who will actually take the dive.

While it looks like HCL has not confirmed about the news, there is no mention of it on government websites either. Also, it seems to be that the tablet was under a lot of speculation about it being completely outsourced from China.

We’ve had our share of delayed promises really, right from Mobile Number Portability to 3G Connectivity and now we have the tablet thingy. Maybe the government is not to be blamed completely, the fact that two parties should know about the whole deal before signing a contract is not rocket science.

Anyhow, the only option left is to wait (again!) and watch.

The Google Nexus S to be Launched in India as the Samsung GT-I9003

Android fans will remember the heartbreak and the rage that came with the Google Nexus One no-show in India. The phone was supposed to release here in a watered down avatar and obviously, we weren’t too happy about it, but it never did. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Google’s second generation smartphone though, because the Gingerbread-bearing Nexus S is supposedly on its way here in all its glory.

The Nexus S - India bound?

AndroidOS.in broke the news earlier, thanks to a tip from one of their Hyderabad readers who learnt about the impending release via a Samsung sales representative. Mrigesh, the reader, had just purchased a Galaxy S which turned out to be dead on arrival. Samsung were unable to replace his unit due to a shortage and instead told him to wait until February, because they were going to be bringing the Samsung GT-I9003 to India. That might just happen to be the model number for the Nexus S that comes with a Super Clear LCD screen - the one that is sold everywhere except the US and UK, who’ll be getting Super AMOLED versions.

Samsung are one of the top-selling brands in India and their Android phones are a huge hit here. They’d want to capitalise on this we’re sure, so don’t be surprised if the phone does end up launching here in February. We just hope it’s released here at an unlocked price lower than EU’s, which is €650 (Rs. 38,900). For more information on the Nexus S

Sony’s “Next Generation Portable”

Sony rolled out its next-generation PlayStation portable gaming system today, with similar appearance to its current PlayStation portable, but with a higher-resolution 5-inch 960×544-pixel OLED touchscreen.
Calling it the “Next Generation Portable” (but it’s clearly marked PlayStation), Sony showed a new user interface similar to the iPhone. It’s controlled by what Sony says are the first dual analog control sticks. Also on board are social gaming capabilities, location-based games, and compatibility with Sony’s PlayStation 3 gaming console.
A surprising feature are touch controls on the front and back of the unit. It’s also equipped with front and rear cameras, motion sensors, and both Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. Sony didn’t say which processor would power the hand-held gaming device, mentioning it would be the “most advanced.”

Sony says its PlayStation portable gaming system will be available at the end of this year, in time for the holiday season.