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Hi Friends, Checkout GPSWatch, an innovative app from Interchain Solutions (founded by one of my friends) http://www.i10n.com GPWatch is an J2ME application that interfaces bluetooth GPS (which costs around 3-4k) to bluetooth enabled mobile phones. The application intially showed latitude longitude and other details now they have come out with a latest version which shows maps from Virutal India (Move by Microsoft and Indian Govt to convert all town maps to electronic form) . The application actually traces you on street level maps, its quite amazing......I live in Bangalore and I can see myself moving over every street, cross road, main road....it supports zooming in and out to many levels too. I use it on K750i with Airtel, the application requires GPRS to download maps, I donno if it can work on reliance phones where internet is not available to Java applications directly. But nice app...If someone uses GPRS enabled GSM connection, buy a BT GPS equipment for 3k and try the magic out.

Hi Ashok, it would work perfectly on 6670 mobile....my friend uses 6670. just mail your problem to support@i10n.com You are partially right....newer phones come with what is knows as E911 (which is simlar to GPS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E911 - has more info on E911 GPS uses satellites to track, E911 uses cell phone towers to track....GPS can provide you accuracy of about +/-1m whereas E911 ~Kms. For GPSWatch and navigating on maps, you will need real GPS.

It should work on PDA becos they usually support J2ME applications. Did you notice, they have a pro version which does not use GPRS (or any internet based service) which means the application should work immediately on all high end reliance phones !!!

GPSWatch iNTERCHAIN Solutions has announced GPSWatch, its first mobile software product for Bluetooth GPS Users. iNTERCHAIN Solutions, Mar 16, 2006 GPS Watch is a powerful yet simple J2ME application that transforms your Mobile Phone into a professional Global Position Tracking System. With vast device support, GPS Watch stands as the best option for wide range of users looking for GPS features. GPS Watch has been carefully designed by Engineers with strong expertise on mobile application making it simple, elegant and feature rich. It uses simple data transmitted by your Bluetooth GPS receiver to chart intuitive reports like Speed, Accelration, Performance Statistics, Position information apart from the high level reports including latitude, longitude, altitude information. With GPSWatch, users can trace their own maps while using the Trace Feature or load existing maps from PNG image files. GPS Watch tracks the current position on the trace map or PNG map thus facilitating easy navigation based on the map. Apart from being a powerful standalone application, GPS Watch provides KML waypoint exporting feature that enables you to use the data collected on your phone on Google Earth or other tracking applications. iNTERCHAIN Solutions is a startup venture found by engineers with strong expertise on mobile applications. http://www.i10n.com Though not many of the CDMA phones are listed there except 6255, I think it should work on many phones that comply to their techincal requirements.

GPX Import Export Feature added in GPSWatch Pro iNTERCHAIN Solutions, Mar 22, 2006 Complying to common standards and towards fulfilling one of our community member's request, we are now providing both the existing proprietary and the new GPX import export functions on GPSWatch Pro version. The GPX import export will make the interface of the application more complaint to open standards and this feature will be a standard in our upcoming releases. Existing customers can request for updates for this feature. iNTERCHAIN Solutions is a startup venture found by engineers with strong expertise on mobile applications. http://www.i10n.com GPSWatch Pro & Lite 2.1 A newer version with better features !!! iNTERCHAIN Solutions, Mar 23, 2006 GPSWatch 2.1 has all the goodness of the existing version, plus some useful goodies like + Wider Bluetooth GPS Device Compatibility + New Direction Compass Report with Bearing and Time to Reach destination statistics. + ASG (All Scalable Graphics) architecture which adapts to your screen size to give you the best presentation. (Fixes overflowing texts). Both the enhancements will be a part of both the Lite and the PRO versions.Existing customers can request for updates for this feature. iNTERCHAIN Solutions is a startup venture found by engineers with strong expertise on mobile applications. http://www.i10n.com

Hi Tanveer, You misunderstood the product...It will work on most mobilephones supporting bluetooth, you may have to purchase a Bluetooth GPS device which sells for around 3000rs. I'm using a Holux GPSlim 236, Nokia 6255 and GPSWatch Pro....Its quite interesting to see the stats on my phone..... Vishnu

Buddy you are confused by the naming I guess. There are basically two standard cables for all nokia sets. DKU5 (Serial) DKU2 (USB) To my knowledge DKU2 is the latest offerring and is available in ebay for around 250rs. I'm sure it is not the original cable but should work. Vishnu

Guys, Facing problem with uploading files >6.5 MB? Try using Nokia PC Suite 6.6 from http://www.nokia-asia.com/nokia/0,,78342,00.html This software has two interfaces for transferring music 1. Access File system which gives you a drive access to the MMC as well as phone 2. Transfer music. One more thing, you can use flash as a flash light by going to video mode and setting flash on !!! Hope this helps u all. Vishnu (Proud owner of 6255) <TOPIC MERGED!>

Sunil Jain / New Delhi March 21, 2005 If you have perfect hindsight, and who doesn’t, it’s easy to see that Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Infocomm actually got the short end of the stick even while Ambani believed he was on to a good thing by walking away from the bidding for the fourth cellular licence (this was finally auctioned for Rs 1,633 crore in July 2001). Instead, Ambani began offering full-blown mobile services on the fixed-line limited-mobility licence he got by paying a license fee of a much lower Rs 410 crore. For, after the cellular phone firms forced the government to take action, Ambani had to pay another Rs 1,095 crore to match what had been paid by them for the fourth cellular licence apart from an additional Rs 485 crore as penal interest. But surely that’s a foolish argument to make, for when Infocomm decided to stray from the straight and narrow, it didn’t know it would have to make the additional payments. The point, however, is that even if Infocomm didn’t know this, its gamble was not worth the risk. If its advisors/managers had thought through things, they would (should) have seen that each one of their perceived advantages would fall along the wayside, indeed some even collapsed before Infocomm embarked on its strategy of misusing its fixed-line limited-mobility licence to provide full-blown mobile services. A useful way to go through the argument is to examine in detail each of Infocomm’s perceived advantages. One reason given for Infocomm deciding to walk out of the bid for the fourth cellular licence (Infocomm bid Rs 581 crore in the second round of the 4th cellular bid before walking out) is supposed to be that it wanted to use CDMA technology as this was superior to the GSM one used by cellular firms. While the technological superiority is not proven, the fact is that in September 1999 itself the government said firms could use any technology, GSM or CDMA. Another big advantage limited mobility phones had was that they were treated on a par with fixed-line phones, and so got to keep 60 per cent of the revenue paid by their customers each time they called another phone. Cellular phone companies, by contrast, got to keep just 5 per cent. So, if an Infocomm customer called a Hutch cellular phone and paid Rs 10 for this, Infocomm kept Rs 6 of this. If the reverse happened, Hutch kept just 50 paise. But, in April 2001, when the cellular phone companies protested, the Group on Telecom and IT (GoT-IT) changed this and Infocomm also got to keep just 50 paise—this, by the way, happened even before Infocomm got its fixed-line licence with limited mobility. Calling Party Pays (CPP) was the biggest advantage using the fixed-line licence with limited mobility was supposed to offer Infocomm. So, if a Hutch subscriber called an Infocomm subscriber, he was forced to pay Infocomm for the incoming call. But if an Infocomm subscriber called a Hutch subscriber, he paid nothing to Hutch. Effectively, not only did Hutch subscribers have to pay a higher tariff in comparison with Infocomm ones, they even subsidised Infocomm’s operations. Well, if Infocomm’s managers had thought this through, they’d have realised the party wouldn’t go on forever. It didn’t, and in January 2003, the cellular firms cited discrimination against their customers and cut off links to Infocomm and other “limited mobility” players. Immediately, the government allowed them CPP—so when an Infocomm subscriber called a Hutch one, he paid Hutch for the incoming call. Not only did this level the field, it allowed cellular firms like Hutch to offer free incoming calls to their subscribers—in the two years a fter this, the cellular industry’s subscriber base has tripled. Walking away from the fourth round of cellular licences had another impact. At the time of the bid for the fourth cellular licence there was no (repeat, no) telecom player that had an all-India presence. The only one with a near pan-India presence was Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and it didn’t have the lucrative markets of Delhi and Mumbai. MTNL, the other PSU, had Delhi and Mumbai but didn’t have anything else. Hutch had Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, but didn’t have Chennai, Andhra and Karnataka (it got the last three in the fourth round after paying Rs 465 crore). Bharti, today’s real biggie, didn’t have Mumbai, Maharashtra, Gujarat and a host of others, and won these in the fourth round after paying Rs 692 crore. So, if Infocomm had stayed on in the fourth round and bid out the others, the only way Bharti and Hutch could have got a pan-Indian presence would be by buying out existing players in each circle and that would have dramatically hiked their costs—and since only one of Bharti or Hutch could do this, there would be only one other pan-Indian player today instead of two. The other area where Infocomm decided to be too clever was in relation to international calls, where it came up with something called Home Country Direct to avoid paying an Access Deficit Charge (ADC) of Rs 4.25 per minute to BSNL on any incoming overseas call on its network. This is what the company has been fined Rs 150 crore for and will have to pay another Rs 600 crore to BSNL and MTNL —indeed, Infocomm is lucky its licence wasn’t cancelled and its directors punished for this as has been done to others who’ve been caught doing similar stuff in the past. Well, guess what? Till the second ADC regime came into place, foreign carriers paid local firms like Infocomm and Hutch anywhere between Rs 3 and 4 per minute each time they carried an overseas call on to their networks. So, if Infocomm had simply chosen to challenge the ADC order, it probably wouldn’t have needed to indulge in this activity! If, as his well-publicised visit to the telecom regulator’s office was aimed to convey, Anil Ambani is indeed going to get Infocomm as part of the settlement with his brother, he’d do well to examine the quality of advice the firm has been getting so far. suniljain@business-standard.com

Hi Guys.... Please wait...Let me make the price cuts clear... In the following plans STD charges (intercircle) has been reduced from 2.99 to 2.49 New Joy 149 New Joy 149 w/ mobile pack Budget Plan On Net Pack's validity holds good only to Reliance mobiles...calls to reliance FWT/P & wired phones will cost 40 p There is no change in the tariff structure of other postpaid plans. In prepaid 220 & 440 plans, the free outgoing call facility holds good only to reliance mobiles. Thats it...Not a very good news eh.... Vishnu

Hi Prats, i need a deactivated RIM handset, do you have any ideas to give away your LG2010?