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I go NFS. purchased directly from the phone. it went through at the first try. earlier i was trying through website on PC.

@VA i am getting error for NFS. i am getting this item cannot be install on your device's country. is your google account have US address?

my debit card got rejected. purchased couple of them with credit card. can we purchased apps that were on sale on wednesday?

do google accept debit card? i cnat make payment.

govt also citing the derogatory remarks agaisnt religions. i agree with this. remarks against any religion not accepted. but again, these politicians are the one do it at every moment. they are not penalised.

hashtag has been created on twitter to vent your ire towards sibal. #IdiotKapilSibal

^^^ try it at Appoge or Dubaria Comuters (both are same co). I am using thier cartridges and toners for almost 5 years and good service and good product. they manufacture themselves and provide replacement also if there is any problem. they also do refill. tel no.: 22834124, 40949898 &11 (these are mumbai nos)

RIL plans to offer 4G services on Rs 3500 tablets Source: Economic Times MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries plans to offer high speed data services on attractively priced tablets by 2012-end, which will coincide with the worldwide deployment of an advanced technology that it plans to use, two people familiar with the development told ET. The company had earlier planned to launch services by mid next year on data cards that could be plugged into computers and laptops. The RIL services is based on fourth generation, or 4G, technology which offers faster internet access compared to third generation (3G) services. RIL plans to launch tablets at around Rs 3,500 and bundle it with data offering as low as 1 GB at Rs 10, a tenth of the current 3G prices. RIL's entry and price disruption could therefore nullify the business case for 3G for existing mobile operators, all of whom on an average offer 1 GB of downloads for Rs 100 at present. Analysts also add that the immediate threat posed by RIL's entry will be to operators like Sistema Shyam and Tata Teleservices, the largest players in the dongle business, plug-in devices that provide wireless connectivity to the internet. An industry expert who asked not to be named said: "Frankly I am quite surprised that none of these companies is treating RIL's launch as a threat at the moment. I would think it is time to start gearing up for it. I don't see any of them doing anything." RIL is the only company to have pan-India spectrum to offer wireless broadband services on the 4G technology platform having paid Rs 13,000 crore for these airwaves. It will be launching services based on Qualcomm's long term evolution, or LTE, technology, which is currently in test phase. Global majors like Vodafone, Verizon and Telenor have deployed LTE networks in some developed markets. While subsidising devices will be main pillar of RIL's upcoming 4G mobile services offerings, the company is also analysing lessons from its previous foray into mobility. India's largest private sector company had launched mobile services in 2003, before the group was split between brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani. At the time, it offered mobile handsets at an initial payment of Rs 501. In 2006, after Anil Ambani took charge of the telecom unit of the divided Reliance group, the operator struggled with unpaid bills and wrote of nearly Rs 4,500 crore primarily on account of the discount scheme. The RIL management is still working on structures that will avoid defaults of a similar nature, said one person. The company said its broadband offerings were still in the planning phase and no dates had been finalised. "Infotel Broadband Services is currently in the process of actively evaluating various technologies that will form a part of its pan-India rollout. At this stage, we have neither finalised a date for launching the services, nor the various types of services and associated tariff plans that we would offer at launch," the company spokesman said in an e-mail statement. "It is our intention to make all of our offerings device agnostic, and our services will be supported by a wide variety of devices from multiple vendors. We will, at appropriate times, make announcements about our plans," Reliance Industries spokesperson said. Currently the cheapest tablets in the market are between Rs 12,000 and Rs 13,000, including one of Reliance Communications at Rs 12,999, which it plans to bring down by 50% by late next year as volumes increase. Tablets and smartphones spur increases in data consumption and these services are billed at a premium giving some relief to operators hit by falling profit margins due to hyper competition in the voice calling space. Last year, the industry had forked out Rs 51,000 crore to get 3G airwaves on which they could offer faster data services. A disadvantage that RIL is expected to contend with is the lack of penetration and inflexibility of LTE devices to use other technologies. Here too, history may repeat as in 2003, RIL picked Qualcomm's CDMA technology when all other operators used global system for mobile communications, or GSM. While it was able to garner subscriber numbers, CDMA never became a premium service, and average revenue of Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices the only two CDMA operators at the time, have remained far lower than industry average, forcing them to launch GSM operations in 2008 to garner premium clients.

ok. may be power in coaches fluctuating.

I am facing strange problem while travelling in train. If connect charger to the phone, touch stops working. the bottom buttons work fine. but there is no response to touch. I use same charger everywhere. Only in trains, I found this problem. everywhere else, there is no prob. did anyone face this issue?

Yes. But should be rooted. listen the video carefully. You read the post our can also ask video creator Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

For those who are rooted and like to play with ROMs, this CWM 5.0.2.7 supported by ROM Manager. so you can directly install/update ROM without going into recovery or ODIN. More details on XDA go through review before updating and decide on your own check out the video for how to update the CWM

I installed ACS v5 ROM on epic and running excellent for last 3 days. no sprint bloatware and CIQ but its rooted. also there are not Calculator and Calender. but those can be installed using Root explorer. its good fast and provide better battery life. i liked the dialer and transparent notification bar.

nice teaser ad by samsung.. specially for iPhone lovers.. http://www.youtube.com/embed/6h5JSojJN3Y

Telecom CEOs seek PM intervention on 3G roaming issue Source Amid differences between Telecom Ministry and companies on the 3G roaming pact, CEOs of top telecom firms, including Bharti Airtel [ Get Quote ] and Vodafone, have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's [ Images ] intervention in the matter. "We seek your most urgent intervention to ensure that contract and promises are honoured otherwise the reputation of an acclaimed, transparent auction, will be harmed irreparably," they said in a joint letter to the Prime Minister. The letter was jointly written by Bharti Enterprises Chairman and Group CEO Sunil Bharti Mittal [ Images ], Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and Vodafone Group Plc CEO Vittorio Colao. The issue pertains to the pact among major service providers, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular [ Get Quote ], for providing 3G roaming network on a pan-India basis. Other service providers, like Tata Teleservices [ Get Quote ] and Aircel, had entered into a similar agreement to offer services in six circles. The 3G roaming agreement among the players did not go down well with the Department of Telecom (DoT) which felt that these alliances were in violation of the terms and conditions of the third generation (3G) spectrum agreements which it signed with operators in June last year following the auction. In their letter to the Prime Minister, the CEOs even demanded refund of investment made by the companies in the 3G auction, and later on the infrastructure. In the letter, the CEOs said, "We also submit most respectfully that, in the event that 3G Intra-Circle Roaming (ICR) is now deemed impermissible, then, it would be a clear breach of our contract and the pre-auction confirmation given by the Government. "In that eventually, we request that our spectrum auction payments be refunded to us with interest (as) compensation for all the capital investment made by us." It also pointed out that the licenses allotted to the companies were specifically amended in 2008 to incorporate the right to do intra-circle roaming, without any conditions. "We are completely astonished to hear that the Government is now considering a reversal of its earlier stated position and seeking to question the legally or permissibility of 3G ICR arrangement. This is tantamount to reneging on the Government's promises made through the technology-neutral licence and the 2008 licence amendment and the Q&A confirmations provided before the 3G auction," it added. The Law Ministry too has supported the DoT's view that such spectrum-sharing agreements among service providers are in violation of licensing norms and conditions.

HTC's S3 loses Apple lawsuit Apple won a U.S. trade case brought by HTC's S3 Graphics over a method of compressing images to appear three-dimensional on an electronic display. The U.S. International Trade Commission said S3's patent rights weren't violated by Apple in a notice released Monday on the agency's website with the full decision to be released later. The commission gave no reason for its decision. An agency judge found in July that Apple's Mac computers infringed two S3 patents, while devices that run on the iOS mobile operating system, including the iPhone and iPad table computer, didn't. The six-member commission reviewed the entire decision, including the effects of Apple's agreements with Intel and Nvidia for graphics chips. HTC, which announced it would buy closely held S3 for $300 million after the judge issued his findings, was counting on a victory to bolster its patent battles with Apple. The commission is also reviewing an agency judge's determination that HTC infringed two Apple patents, and may take a look at a judge's findings that cleared Apple of infringing HTC patents. Apple and HTC of Taiwan have other patent- infringement cases against each other, and S3 has filed a second patent case against Apple at the trade agency. S3 of Fremont makes image-compression technology and its Texture Compression feature is used in Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation portable gaming systems. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/21/BUQC1M26F4.DTL#ixzz1ePUWsH7j

^^^^^ 1) Any bugs in official new rom - No. but Anupe (fellow Rimwebian) and there are few in US had restart problem and had to do factory reset. So data/app were lost. 2) Will i loose the root and if yes, can i root it again after updation to e122 - You may. but rooting is possible. 3) WIll i loose the evdo settings as i have evdo activated - No. 4) Will i loose the 3rd party applications on updation. - Refer to answer 1

World Tinniest PC Source Glenda Kwek November 21, 2011 - 4:03PM The "Cotton Candy" USB that's actually a PC. Photo: Flickr user seelensturm , FXI Tech and Fairfax Media. Norwegian developers have created one of the world's smallest computers on a USB stick. The device, dubbed "Cotton Candy", allows users to turn any screen on a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone into a terminal that accesses the USB's operating system, cloud services and apps. The USB - weighing 21 grams, about the weight of a bag of fairy floss - would also work with television sets, set-top boxes and games consoles, the company, FXI Technologies, said. Advertisement: Story continues below One of the world's tiniest personal computers. Photo: FXI Tech "We've turned things upside down, eliminating the screen and delivering the power of a PC and the web to any screen," FXI Technologies's founder and chief executive Borgar Ljosland said. The tiny device, which uses Google's Android operating system and is expected to retail for about $US200 in the middle of next year, has been touted as a way for the search engine giant to get Android on a wider range of electronic devices beyond the smartphone and tablet. "From TVs to car stereo head units to refrigerators and lighting fixtures, it seems no piece of consumer electronics is out of Android's reach," Wired magazine wrote. "And, ultimately, getting Android on as many devices as possible gets Google's search bar and services on to multitudinous screens beyond the desktop environment. This potentially means more ads served, and more revenue for the search company's core business." The specs, as supplied by FXI Technologies: ARM® Cortex-A9 (1.2GHz) CPU, an ARM Mali-400 MP (Quad-core) GPU, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, HDMI output and the Android operating system. The USB decodes MPEG-4, H.264 and other video formats and display HD graphics on any HDMI equipped screen. Content is accessed through a secure FXI web portal and can be controlled via smartphones, keyboards, mice and other USB peripherals.

Galaxy Nexus outdoes iPhone in browsing, but not graphics Source With a new Google phone--and the first one to be delivered withAndroid 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich--on the horizon, the iPhone 4S rivalry is inevitable, and we've got some benchmark data to fan the flames of the feud. The soon-to-be-released Samsung Galaxy Nexus has been run through the benchmark gauntlet and AnandTech compiled the results to find it bested all comers in the web browsing department. The Google phone was put through a pair of browsing benchmarks--Sunspider Javascript Benchmark 0.9.1 and Rightware Browsermark--and it came out with the top results in both cases, ahead of the Droid RAZR running Gingerbread and iPhone 4S running iOS 5, which swapped turns in the 2nd and 3rd place spots. The Galaxy Nexus running Ice Cream Sandwich melted all the competition in the browsing department.(Credit: AnandTech) All this means that the Galaxy Nexus appears to render Web pages faster than all the other leading phones on the market right now. Anand credits a combination of a fast processor and software enhancements in Ice Cream Sandwich: The CPU side of things is comparable to Apple's A5, although the cores are clocked noticeably higher than the 800MHz we saw in the iPhone 4S....The real advantage the Galaxy Nexus has is on the software side. All of the goodness of Honeycomb makes its way to a handset along with even further optimization work. One of the early Galaxy Nexus owners ran the usual browser benchmarks on his phone and shared the results with us. Google has obviously done a lot of browser optimization in ICS as performance is now better than even Honeycomb. It's not a complete victory for the Galaxy Nexus however. It wasn't able to keep up with the iPhone 4S in the graphics department. In fact it was significantly out done by the beefier GPU in the latest iPhone in two framerate benchmark tests: (Credit: AnandTech) It should be noted that the Galaxy Nexus should still have plenty of GPU heft to deliver a fine experience, and that benchmark data doesn't always hold up in a real world full of bottlenecked networks and buggy apps. But I'll save that for a later chapter in this tale of yet another epic gadget feud. Via: Gizmodo.

check out this video on ICS. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57325419-251/android-4.0-ice-cream-sandwich-review-cool-confident-chaotic/

But its damn expensive. Such cost is not justifiable in a any way. There are many who will spend such amount. Its just waste of money. Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

^^^ agreed Anupe. In fact any cloud based services. Unless we have better data plans and good net connection it is useless. Even currently, FUP will make this worthless.

i would say its about 10 to 15% lesser than EC05. couple of times, I got error for ESPN cricinfo. so may be that might be problem. now i have uninstalled it and will update.

@prafull can you post the link for the ROM? my Epic again started giving battery problem. i dont know if some app or something else.

+1 for Rajan... & :signthankspin: