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there is no free lunch. no company offers anything at a loss. here are few fine prints, 1. you pay anything from 3 to 5 lakhs upfront 2. it works on time share basis, so you have to go on holiday where there is vacancy, not where you actually want to go. if there is no vacancy, you can not go. 3. even after paying upfront, you need to pay some amount annually and also some amount at the location for "facilitation" or similar charges 4. even if you do not go any year, you dont get any benefit better invest that amount elsewhere and enjoy holiday as per your choice from the return.

^^^^^^ Good for everyone including Google, Motorola, Lenovo and we customers... How is it Good for customers:- [1] Future Moto phones will come with SD slot [2] Future Moto phones (NOT just from Verizon) will come with bigger battery, as Lenovo is another phone maker concentrates on bigger battery [3] Moto phones may reach India faster with Lenovo than Google [4] More DualSIM (esp C+G) under Moto /Lenovo brand with bigger battery in India What is BAD for us:- [1] Updates will get slower [2] We will miss its near STOCK Android experience [3] More BLOAT in future phones [4] Return of the BL Lock ghost TBH the way Google handled Moto is NOT upto my taste (removal of SD and removing Moto from India). The only good thing Google has done to Moto is faster updates, near Stock UI and minimum bloat only...

Well there are a few factors that make this deal sensible 1 Motorola always operated as an independent company and being Google owned did not change that. There was no monopoly or extra help to Moto except more resources for development. Moto X and G were Moto products not Google ones. Google was very clear from the start that Moto will be treated equal to other oems. So this deal has minimal impact on Moto's product line up 2 Google retains all Motorola patents which was the main reason that they bought them in the first place 3 Google retaims Motorola R&D including skunkworks project ara etc 4 Google could not have turned Motorola around unless they merged nexus line with Moto and pushed Moto as their OEM. But that would have hurt Android and other OEMs would have switched to a different OS sooner or later. So Google let Motorola run independently without any special favors. Android is more important to Google than Motorola. Now that Lenovo has bought Motorola they will push the brand much more and get a chance to make progress in the USA market where they have low presence. Lenovo is the 5th largest OEM and are cash rich so this helps them and Motorola 5 Google was losing $248m each quarter due to Motorola so it helps them to cut losses and focus on R&D 6 Google has licensed the patents to Lenovo and will earn from that

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Now Reliance has Made EVDO activation Easier, Just send a Simple SMS & your EVDO will be activated in 3 hrs, You Just need to Send Below SMS for Activation Postpaid Type HSD send it to 55444 Prepaid Type HSD send it to 55333 Enjoy

HTC Site : http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one/ HTC Support Site : http://www.htc.com/www/support/ Sprint Site : http://www.sprint.com/landings/htcone/ Sprint HTC One User Guide : http://support.sprint.com/global/pdf/user_guides/htc/one/htc_one_ug.pdf Engadget Review : http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/12/htc-one-review/ HTC One India site : http://www.htc.com/in/smartphones/htc-one/ The World's Number ONE phone? Initial Observations : 1. Very convenient size to handle. 2. Absolutely brilliant build quality. The HTC's Aluminum Unibody is a class apart from Samsung. Feels very solid in hand. 3. 4.7" Super LCD 3 screen is brilliant and brightness is better than Note 2. Though overall the Super AMOLED of Note 2 can be called slightly better. 4. The Beats Audio sound quality is just brilliant, the best I have seen yet on any phone. 5. The 4MP camera is again brilliant. Don't go by mega pixels, the sensor quality is far superior to anything seen on many phones. Front Camera is 2 MP. 6. It is on stock 4.3 and as a existing Note2 owner, I had no issues transitioning to this device. If anything the level of customisations is now miles ahead. 7. Easily handled with One hand. 8. GPS locking is without any error and very very fast, even better than Note2. 9. 32GB in built memory but NO option to add micro sd card. Though I feel that amount of memory is sufficient. Also the micro usb/mhl port supports usb chips upto 64MB by special cable. 10. NO dedicated camera button. 11. Notification light is present. 12. Sufficient 2300mah battery lasts a day but Note 2's battery is still the benchmark which lasts even upto 2 days for normal usage. 13. The back is all aluminum with sandwitched poly carbonate and is NOT openable. Micro SIM slot is on the side which supports GSM sims with full 3G. So this in effect is the First World Phone (CDMA+GSM) that I have owned. Though only one netwrok works at a time. Also there needs to be some GSM sim installed (working or non working) otherwise the phone gives 4G error. 14. Awesome 3G speeds. What I don't like: 1. I am told that some people are facing "Purple Photos" problem in low light shooting. No such issues faced by me. 2. Some people are also getting 3G speeds problem, not faced by me. 3. No flip case in box (cost cutting nowadays?). 4. No kickstand. Even with these, it is now the arguably one the BEST DESIGNED phones in the world at the moment. Now for some PHOTOS: The Phone The Box is slick and thin The Box opened in multi layers The Box's total contents. Notice the black charger, USB cable and Beats Audio Red headset. Close up Shots of the Camera (also note the noise cancellation mic on the back) and the back. The back also supports NFC. The top showing the Power Button with built in IR blaster. I use it also as a remote to control my Tata Sky Box and Samsung TV. Also visible the 3.5mm audio jack. The Micro SIM Slot on the left side The right side features only these slick volume controls. Also visible the 2MP front camera which also clicks brilliant photos and videos. The bottom features the micro usb port (reverse configuration than Samsung) and the microphone The blink feed Home Page is highly customizable Brilliant photo quality Size comparison with Samsung Note2

@Alduais60 you can refer to the post number #11. Follow the steps mentioned over the link

^^^ Sorry, it's a CDMA only phone. It doesn't have GSM radio, hence it can't be programmed in GSM.

Absolutely NO... Reason All of the above.. And further whatever you invest, calculate interest on that... you can go for holiday in interest amount only... They are charging annual fees in the name of maintenance... ( you are paying for their part) add this to your interest amount... go for holiday...:lol: E.g 300000@10% = 30000 interest Annual fees. = 10000 ----------+-------------- 40000 Let's go holiday... :p:p sent from Motorola DROID BIONIC HD on Reliance Wireless

Ha ha ha ... Tumko Gabbar chahiye .... woh bhi zinda!!

Thanks a lot.. Done with biometrics... Kids are allowed inside but not required.. If kids are there, they will take actual photo.. If not, we have to give his/her photo. Now keeping fingers crossed for tomorrow's interview.. Thanks for your everyone's wishes..

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Google sells Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion By Jacob Kastrenakes 7 Hours Ago Google is selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, giving the Chinese smartphone manufacturer a major presence in the US market. Lenovo will buy Motorola for $2.91 billion in a mixture of cash and stock. Google will retain ownership of the vast majority of Motorola's patents, while 2,000 patents and a license on the remaining patents will go to Lenovo. At the deal's closing, Lenovo will pay Google $660 million in cash and $750 million in stock, while the remaining $1.5 billion will be paid out over three years. GOOGLE BELIEVES LENOVO CAN TURN MOTOROLA INTO "A MAJOR PLAYER WITHIN THE ANDROID ECOSYSTEM." "Lenovo has the expertise and track record to scale Motorola Mobility into a major player within the Android ecosystem," Google CEO Larry Page said in a statement. "This move will enable Google to devote our energy to driving innovation across the Android ecosystem, for the benefit of smartphone users everywhere." Google initially bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion back in 2012, but it said at the time that it was mainly interested in the company's patent portfolio. Now, Google is offloading its subsidiary's handset business, which has been losing hundreds of millions each quarter since the purchase. Google will hold on to Motorola's ambitious Advanced Technology and Projects group, however, and it previously sold off Motorola's set-top box unit for over $2 billion. Though patents are a large part of what drew Google's interest to Motorola in the first place, those patents haven't been as helpful as Google initially hoped. Google seems to have highly overvalued Motorola's portfolio, which hasn't been able to bring in nearly as much in royalties as either company seemingly expected. It also hasn't been able to use those patents very aggressively, seeing them fail when used in an attempt to block sales of the iPhone. The entire ownership of Motorola has been something of a headache for Google, and it appears that it's finally time for Google to cut its losses. That's good news for Lenovo, which has been vocal about its intention to move into the US smartphone market this year. Lenovo hasn't made much headway with that until now. It made a bid for BlackBerry late in 2013, but its offer was ultimately blocked. Now, it'll see a much stronger start with the purchase of Motorola. Motorola actually marks Lenovo's second acquisition announcement this month: just last week it said that it had reached a deal to buy IBM's x86 server business. The purchase of Motorola plays to Lenovo's experience in taking an established brand and building upon it. It purchased its ThinkPad business from IBM in 2005, and has gone on to create a continually successful line of laptops from it. Lenovo is certainly hoping to do the same with Motorola, which has consistently built strong devices but has often struggled against competitors with more marketing muscle. "The acquisition of such an iconic brand, innovative product portfolio and incredibly talented global team will immediately make Lenovo a strong global competitor in smartphones," Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said in a statement. "We will immediately have the opportunity to become a strong global player in the fast-growing mobile space." "WE WILL BECOME A MUCH STRONGER NUMBER THREE SMARTPHONE COMPANY." Both Lenovo and Google have high expectations for Motorola coming out of the acquisition. Motorola said the acquisition will help it to achieve the rapid growth it's looking for. "With the recent launches of Moto X and Moto G, we have tremendous momentum right now and Lenovo’s hardware expertise and global reach will only help to accelerate this," Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside said in a statement. In an alleged email to employees, which has been leaked to TechCrunch, Page said that he believes Motorola will do better under a company that can fully commit to a focus on smartphones. "The smartphone market is super competitive, and to thrive it helps to be all in when it comes to making mobile devices," Page wrote. "It’s why we believe that Motorola will be better served by Lenovo." On a conference call discussing the acquisition, Yuanqing said that Woodside and Motorola's existing management team would be staying on board. Yuanqing also said that he felt the two brands were complimentary, and that both the Motorola and Lenovo brand would remain in use where they were already strong. "A detailed plan will be made after we close the deal," Yuanqing said. "WHY AM I SO CONFIDENT? I HAVE SEVERAL REASONS." Despite Motorola's ongoing struggle to reach profitability, Yuanqing is extremely optimistic about what it will do under Lenovo. "Why am I so confident? I have several reasons." Yuanqing cites five: it will immediately make Lenovo a major smartphone company in the US and give it relationships with over 50 wireless carriers worldwide, Motorola is an established and respected brand, the deal includes important patents and licenses, it will help address new markets with a diverse smartphone lineup, and it brings along Motorola's expertise in mature smartphone markets. Despite his intention to continue using the Lenovo name where it's strong, Yuanqing emphasized that the Motorola name would play a major role in its ability to compete in the United States and other major markets. "We had a similar opportunity with the Think brand, and we succeeded," Yuanqing said. He believes the acquisition will ultimately make Motorola a far stronger smartphone manufacturer, turning it into a capable competitor against the industry's giants. "We will become a much stronger number three smartphone company," Yuanqing said, referencing Motorola's position as the third-place Android smartphone manufacturer in the US. "Motorola brings a strong brand, brilliant engineering, great products, [and] outstanding relationships with retailers." News of Lenovo's acquisition of Motorola comes just a day before Google reports its quarterly earnings. Investors have been interested to know what Google plans to do about Motorola's mounting losses. Tomorrow may not deliver them good news from the previous quarter, but it appears that Google has given its final answer. Source Google, Motorola