anujit

Yeah, I don't think thats the way these phones (Motorola A840) work. Typically these phones allow you to use the CDMA service nationally and the GSM service when you roam international. So essentially Tata would give you a GSM SIM card that you can use with the phone while roaming outside India. The main advantages for this phone is that it will allow you to seamlessly switch between CDMA & GSM while roaming globally and it does not require you to store/sync phone nos/messages etc between two different (CDMA & GSM) handsets.

The best of what... these apps were freely downloadable a long long time ago.

Yeah but it doesn't work too well. It's 11 PM now in bombay (thats where I set the weather/time to). And Google shows me a sunny screen. Of course most people would have rushed out to look for the sun (but thats a different story)!

it looks cool....

I am most disappointed to see that people haven't yet started speculating about the gPhone and how it will cure world hunger! Cummon people lets hear how Reliance will adopt the phone and slash prices at the same time!!!

Are you sure thats the rate. Usually theres a service provider charge & heft tax added to it. Typically makes the calls around Rs. 90/min

Anurag: Dude, I don't think thats an apples to apples comparison because the V3M has EVDO and more internal memory (23 MB vs 8 MB) and some other jazz built in. The i has a better display though. But I agree with you 12.5k for a 1 year old phone (that too from Motorola) is certainly not worth it.

Mobile cams are pretty ****y. I'd rather go in for a E61 over the E61i. Unless the i version has some more features.

Every one and every thing is a "iPhone killer"!!!! But dudes how do you kill something that doesn't exist!!! Or that 100% of these self proclaimed experts no squat about in terms of specs/features and of course how it will do in the market. These killer reports are insane! Everything is compared to a product that not more than 5 people outside Apple have seen/touched for not more than 10 minutes each. If you see a touch screen phone people... call it a touch screen phone.

EVDO probably will be launched around mid 2008, but don't hold your breath. What do you mean by antenna? you mean a signal booster? why do you need that?

Yeah BSNL/MTNL guys are lucky. Upto 2 Mbps! Wow!!! But its not available on the unlimited downloads scheme!!!

In that case HP they will close their CDMA business... and move it all the GSM? Is that what you're saying.

I really don't think that can be technologically done, i.e. keeping the voice calls in CDMA & data in WCDMA. Of course dual mode handsets are available nowadays at premium pricing. However none of them can run both modes simultaneously. So CDMA players can either go EVDO or rot in hell. HP dude seem to through a lot of engineering hoola at us dumb non-techie folk. Somehow you don't want to agree that WCDMA stuff cant run on CDMA handsets. Just three questions... how can CDMA and WCDMA exist in the same space? Has anyone ever done it? What makes you think RIM will?

2 points to make: 1. Vodafone bought the 67% stake for US$ 11.1 b not $19 b. 2. HP dude - its going to be EVDO not WCDMA for RIM moving forward.

Yups thats right Arun.