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You missed out official LG cookie ZIP and Reliance's android powered Samsung Galaxy i899 (overpriced but EVDO works) and the programmable foreign handsets Yup, CDMA users are not pampered with choices as is the case with GSM.

More specs : Display: 4-inch WVGA (800×480) 16 million color TFT LCD Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor Size: 120.5x 62.8×10.9 (mm) (with standard battery) Weight: 119.9g Battery: 1500mAh Camera: 5M AF CMOS / Flash External Memory Card: SD Card 8GB (up to 32GB) 720p HD video recording and playback support 3.5mm headphone jack I would rather suggest you to wait a year for someone to come forward with phones running in i7 processors

I think it is some short time technical fluctuation Just checked and the tests on speedtest.in and speedtest.net returned figures that dont conflict, 1.16Mbps and 1.49Mbps respectively <BSNL @#$%$ :'( >

@carbinem4 Wikipedia, some part, Wikileaks? hell no! The coverage of a CDMA tower is equivalent to those of 4 GSM ones - These findings and claims are obivious and are made since long and asks for no discovery on my part. I pieced them from the www with few personal remarks. Answered to the query, thats it

You didnt mention your budget or other multimedia requirements, if any.

I got a strong premonition that it is real time, any time

Samsung S8500 Wave runs on 'old' Bada OS that they developed. Bada OS 2.0 is on the way.

Need clarification : MIN (Mobile Identification Number) can vary in the same mobile as it is assigned by the operator. True?

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Thanks a ton for the valuable inputs Updated post!

...the cheapest ones i.e the ones below 10k, might use custom Java based operating systems... It will get the work done, but may not be the best of experiences working with Java.

Another difficulty a prospective MTS customer may face is the accute shortage of recharge vouchers. Though they all flaunt it with wallpapers, not many shopkeepers readily stock MTS vouchers or flexi.

Were you able to swap between Gsm and Cdma quickly? Or are they both active at the same time? Not LG alone, even Samsung makes good OMH handsets and are of excellent quality. Try them next time

@Kanaga - I got close to that

Confirmation on the arrival of the Sony PlayStation phone has finally come. The device is to be rolled out at the Mobile World Congress that will get underway in Barcelona in February. Soon after that, in April, the phone will hit retail outlets. As you all know, the phone comes with a slider pad akin to the PSP Go, and will be powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655, 512MB of RAM. The Sony PlayStation phone will also hide under the hood 1GB of ROM and sport a 4.1 inch display. What we also get to know is that Sony may not incorporate latest games as soon as the phone is rolled out at the MWC event. Source : Gizmocrave

5Mbps! unbelievable speed! Is it 3G itself? And where you from?

CDMA 3G auction will not otherwise happen as the defence forces during a series of meets with representatives from the communications ministry rejected DoT's demands to vacate spectrum in the 1,900 MHz band, that is required.

MTS got pretty good coverage in Trivandrum, Kerala. The network blanket covers 400 towns now and is expanding in rural areas. Also heard that it is good in Bihar, confirm the same. The call and data tariff are better than Reliance but the plans are not numerous. Roaming in circles not cover by MTS will cost dear. The best offering is the 1p/2sec local call tariff other than the Msaver cards in various denominatons. You wont get any cheap night calling rates with MTS. The SMS packs is for Rs.64 and offers 500 free msgs per day, valid for 30 days. Reliance GSM's CC representative seems to be convinced that MNP will be introduced here on or after January 15th '11. But you know how these things work. Hope this clears a bit. Make an informed decision

Dear Rudradeep, When GSM and its subscribers becomes self-possessed it perceives the efficent and congestion free CDMA network as its enemy and seeks to wipe out what is rest of it through high call connection charges. WE, Rimwebians, are fated to lead the CDMA resistance against GSM and its army of corrupt ministers and the future we were raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of current 3G data tariff. LOL

3G is a premium service and if they start offering unlimited or high data useage, it will choke the network and drastically drop the quality Got a call from Docomo CC that if I recharge with Rs.91 the account will be endowed with 200MB 3G data and the speed being a whopping 21Mbps. Validity - 30 days. They fail to realise that it will suit only those who use just check the mails plus light browsing on mobile and not for the kinds of me who stream videos and download

It is the same issue with Facebook, where applications have been transmitting user's personal identifying information to hundreds of advertising and Internet tracking companies. There is chance of abuse cannot be overlooked anywhere.

One of the most heated battles among technology companies was waged this year between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp "The reason that Microsoft is so focused on Google is because Google is chipping away at Microsoft's crown jewels of Office and Windows with their online applications," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "While Microsoft plays defense on the applications/operating system front, they're attacking Google on search and online services. Search is the key to Google's success since Web ads account for more than 90% of its revenue. If you can steal some eyes from Google's search engine, you cut into their ad revenue and, perhaps over time, cripple them." But this fight extends beyond search. Google pushed hard this past year to move its cloud-based office applications into the enterprise. Taking on Microsoft's ubiquitous Office applications was a bold move that could prove lucrative if it succeeds. Microsoft, however, isn't sitting back and watching Google move into that territory. The company announced this year that it plans to move its Office applications to the cloud and take on Google head-to-head. Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group, said we're likely to see more industry players, such as Apple Inc. , Mozilla Corp. and News Corp. aligning against Google. "Both companies are largely betting their collective futures on this battle so the stakes are huge," Enderle said. "Microsoft is going to partner and try to starve Google out of content and partners. Google is going to work against Microsoft's pricing model and starve them out of money. Both are, for once, largely going after each other's relative weaknesses and leveraging their respective strengths, so this will likely be a battle for the history books." These tech behemoths are battling each other on a dizzying number of fronts in the consumer, government and business markets, the U.S. court system and the court of public opinion Let's examine 10 battles Microsoft and Google fought against each other in 2010. Legal wars Google and Microsoft each accused the other of being monopolistic in 2010, with Google, for example, suing to the U.S. Department of the Interior for favoring Microsoft in the bidding for a cloud-based e-mail contract, and Microsoft joining a group that's trying to block Google's planned acquisition of a travel software company due to fear that Google would dominate the online travel search market. Just for good measure, Microsoft also testified against a Google project to scan millions of books and, separately, filed patent complaints against Motorola for its phones based on Google's Android mobile operating system. Microsoft has worked on softening its stance toward open source software, so the Android lawsuit illustrates just how seriously Microsoft is taking the threat posed by Google's mobile phone platform. War for the desktop Not content with dominating the search market, Google took aim at Microsoft's signature Windows operating system business by releasing a prototype version of the forthcoming Chrome OS. Google is so confident that it's reportedly dumping Windows for internal users, supposedly because Microsoft's OS isn't secure enough. While analysts say Chrome OS is no Windows-killer, just yet, that doesn't mean Microsoft shouldn't be worried. If Google's vision of a "100% Web" world comes to fruition, Microsoft may have some catching up to do. But Microsoft's Tim O'Brien, senior director of the Platform Strategy Group, dismissed Chrome OS in an interview earlier this year, saying "The browser isn't the operating system. The operating system is desktop Linux and it runs one application and one application only, and that's Google's browser." Browser battles Speaking of Web browsers, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the most widely used tool for surfing the Web, and this year Microsoft took a leap forward with the beta of IE9, which is performing well in early HTML5 testing. But Internet Explorer usage has been going down steadily nearly every month, while Google's Chrome is nearing 10% market share just two years after its release. With the arrival of the Chrome Web Store, Google is poised for even more growth in 2011. Security No modern tech rivalry would be complete without accusations about putting users at risk of viruses and malware. In June, Microsoft accused a Google security researcher of putting Windows customers at risk of "broad attacks" by publishing code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability, after Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy published some proof-of-concept attack code related to a bug affecting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Ormandy says he was acting alone, and that Google shouldn't be blamed. Ormandy also complained about Microsoft's tendency toward "bug secrecy," and said he would have been ignored if he had reported the problem without a working exploit. Separately, Microsoft and Google have criticized each other over an IE8 security flaw that Google had been pushing Microsoft to fix since at least December 2009. Microsoft finally fixed the bug in October of this year, and appeared to make amends with Google. Smartphones In many of the battles fought by Microsoft and Google, Microsoft is the market share leader and is simply attempting to avoid losing users to the upstart Google. That is not the case in the smartphone arena. Google's Android has become one of the three major platforms in the United States, along with the iPhone and BlackBerry. Three hundred thoughsand new Android phones are being activated every day, better than Apple's iPhone. Microsoft has completely revamped its mobile platform with Windows Phone 7, but it still has to convince consumers to buy the phones. So far, Microsoft isn't saying how many have been sold. The pressure is on: Microsoft's board of directors complained about "loss of market share in the company's mobile phone business" when it decided not to award CEO Steve Ballmer the full bonus he was eligible for. Office software While Microsoft has struggled in the mobile world, it still dominates the e-mail and productivity software market with Microsoft Office in much the same way Windows dominates the desktop OS market. But Google is coming on strong with Google Apps, a cloud-based set of productivity tools including Gmail and Google Docs. Google claims to have signed up more than 3 million businesses, but Gartner estimates that Gmail has captured less than 1% of the enterprise e-mail market. Battle for the cloud Despite Google's lack of market share, the company's innovations have forced Microsoft to greatly expand its cloud-based offerings. Microsoft is fighting against numerous competitors on the cloud front, including Amazon's EC2, which Microsoft counters with Windows Azure. The threat from Google Apps is one reason Microsoft is overhauling the cloud-based versions of Office, Exchange and SharePoint with Office 365, which is available in beta and will see a broader release next year. Consumer e-mail and search While Microsoft dominates enterprise e-mail and productivity, the battle between Microsoft's Hotmail and Gmail has been nip and tuck, with each webmail service claiming more than 40 million U.S. users. Microsoft overhauled Hotmail this year with new online editing capabilities for Office documents, and more than two dozen other enhancements for business and home users. When it comes to Internet search, Google claims about two-thirds of the market, but Microsoft is plotting to improve Bing's standing by partnering with both Facebook and Yahoo. Battle for government customers Google and Microsoft are both going after the lucrative government market for e-mail and office productivity tools, with Google signing up the City of Los Angeles and the U.S. General Services Administration, while Microsoft just announced a 120,000-user cloud deal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. As mentioned previously, Google sued the U.S. Department of the Interior "after the agency solicited bids for cloud-based e-mail and messaging services [while] specifying that bidders must use Microsoft products," the IDG News Service reported in November. One key to winning government business is complying with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Microsoft recently gained FISMA certification for its cloud computing data centers, six months after Google, but is still waiting for FISMA approval for hosted Exchange and SharePoint. The war of words Finally, let's take a look at the war of words waged by Microsoft and Google as they try to win the battle of public perception. In May, a Google executive said Microsoft was already too far behind in the cloud apps market, while in November Microsoft said Google is failing in the enterprise. Google seems to recognize that business customers aren't ready to give up Microsoft just yet, and has built several products specifically to plug gaps in Microsoft tools. For example, Google built a Gmail message continuity service to make e-mail work during Exchange outages, and "Chrome Frame" to bring pre-IE9 versions of Internet Explorer into the modern age. (Microsoft scoffed that Chrome Frame simply doubles the attack surface of IE8.) Google has a few successes to crow about when it comes to swaying public opinion. One survey named Google the "world's most attractive employer," with Microsoft ranked seventh, and in August Google surpassed Microsoft in an annual Japanese survey of corporate brand perception. Google could even pass Microsoft in market capitalization, as Apple did earlier this year, some observers are speculating. While a typical IT pro probably deals with Microsoft products more than Google's, consumers may be more familiar with Google's messaging because of the way the media covers the companies. According to the Pew Research Center, 11.4% of technology stories focus on Google (compared with 15.1% for Apple) while only 3% focus on Microsoft. Now that 2010 is almost over, we can look forward to the Microsoft-Google rivalry ratcheting up even more in 2011. Who do you think will eventually have the final grin? Sourced info from Network world, pcworld and the world wide web

The specs about the 2mp cam include 'digital zoom' This one is EVDO Rev.0 or Rev.A? No one seem to mention that.

It is a JAVA enabled phone. No green robot

Motorola have lined up couple of Tegra 2 processor smartphones for release early next year. The first being the Olympus or MB860.