Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Sir Richard Branson, Welcome to india

One more global Player among Mobile operators lands in the "worlds fastest growing mobile segment".

Yes, ‘Virgin Mobile’ services are being offered to consumers by Tata Teleservices through a brand franchise with the Virgin Group. Virgin Mobile India is an association between Virgin Group and Tata Teleservices which will facilitate Tata Teleservices with its experience and expertise in designing, marketing and servicing TTL’s Virgin Mobile branded products for the youth segment.

Virgin Mobile India

Some of the publicity schemes include

Get paid to receive calls –
Virgin Mobile customers will get 10 paise credit for every in-coming minute they receive from any network.
Easy Handset upgrades:
Mobile is India’s first CDMA service where all customers will be on RUIM (SIM)-based phones, thereby giving them the convenience of upgrading their phones without having to change their number or re-enter their address book.
True Care:
All Virgin Mobile customers will be called back by the same call center agent to address their query
Call more for less –
After the 1st 2 mins of calls each day (which will be charged at Re1) all Virgin Mobile customers nation-wide will automatically be able to call any local network at any time of day for only 50 paise per minute

Will it be a hit or will loose charm in front of the biggies like Rcomm and Bharthi Airtel?, only time will answer

Anouncement: Nokia+Microsoft & Google Loves Web and Mobile

Two major announcements from two giants in there own sense

Nokia announced Microsoft's silverlight availability for S60 and S40

Nokia today announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS, the world's leading smartphone software(1), as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Adding support for Silverlight will extend opportunities for developers to create rich, interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a consistent and reliable way

[via Nokia press ]

Google announced there Google Gear for Mobile devices
[ source google mobile blog ]

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Weekend Masti: 3250 under my knife, finally

My Sunday afternoon went in fixing my Nokia 3250
It had a strange problem!! CAll ,Disconnect and The Center Enter button of Joy stick weren't responding. SO took the risk of ripping it open and see for my self, what the heck was wrong? #$@%.

After disassembling completely got know tghat the connect had got loosened a little bit of tweaking and there it was working like a charm now :)

After months of suffering, now i will be able to surf the web on my Mobile again