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^^^ My dear friends, this handset is available approximately @ Rs.7000/- only. Some of its specifications are as under : Language: English LCD Size: 3.0 inch, , 16 million colour; PX: 240×320px Ringtone: 64 chord; Ringtone format: mp3, mp4, midi, wav, amr Music: play mp3 at background; support equalizer; dual loudspeakers and can set rings of incoming call Video: MP4, 3GP (Support to play in full screen) Camera: 2.0 MP DUAL CAMERA; support video with sound, the time is depended on storage Rom: 1016K/Micro SD card of 256M included FREE, support to, Document management TXT FORMAT Data Transfer: USB data wire, dual Bluetooth Standby Photo: jpg, gif Telephone directories: 300 groups of contacts, support incoming call with big head sticker, group ring an Messages &Multimedia messaging: 200 SMS, support MMS Schedule power on/off: Support auto start/close Alarm clock: 5 groups; support alarm clock when machine’s closed, and can set from Monday to Sunday. Games: magic suchi More information: MP3, MP4, Handsfree, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, WAP, Handwritten + keyboard input, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, Memory extended, E-book, Dual cards GMS/CDMA network, calendar, memos, health management, calculator, unit conversion, photo editor. Operating Frequency: GSM,CDMA2000 Network Frequency: 900/1800MHz Talk time: 190-260 minutes Standby time: 195-290 hours Time-to-market: 21/01/2008 Shape: Bar phone Weight: 125 g Color: GOLDEN AND SILVER Box-Pack Contains: ZTC S688 Handset Box-Pack Li Ion Batteries - 2 Nos Charger 2 in 1 Type (BATTERY CAN ALSO BE CHARGED SEPARATELY). Stereo Handsfree for Music and Phone call Memory Card-256 MB Micro SD USB cable for PC connection. In all this seems to be a good handsets with above cool features. Regards.

^^^ @Bhavin Shah MY dear friend, as of now EVDO is not supported by Reliance, but in the near future EVDO is expected with Reliance also. Regards.

^^^ @chandan nasta My dear friend, you can't recover a file which has been shredded from your computer. Only top most labs which work as computer forensic can do the trick. Regards.

^^^ Yes my dear Sadik Bhai, cheaper options then this Spice mobile are already available in the market both for CDMA & GSM. Regards.

^^^ My dear friend, their are many lightweight colour phones available with Reliance. Nokia 6275 is one of them. What exactly is your budget ? Regards.

Android and LiMo in Open Source Race The race is on: A consortium of 32 companies has joined a classic battle for primacy with their demonstration of mobile phones to compete with devices that will run Google Inc.'s fledgling Android operating system. The LiMo Foundation – which includes such software companies as McAfee Corp. and Purple Labs and telecommunications giants such as Samsung – showed off 18 handsets Wednesday at the World Mobile Conference in Barcelona. Some of the devices are ready for market. Just two days earlier, also in Barcelona, chip makers Texas Instruments Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. began demonstrating prototypes of handsets based on Android – for which no one offered a launch date. The promise of both operating systems is that – because they are based on open-source software – they will allow developers to quickly and freely add new applications. Anyone hoping to create new applications for competing proprietary programs from Microsoft Corp., Palm Inc., Research in Motion Ltd. or Nokia Corp.'s Symbian must pay licensing fees. That openness could speed the drive to integrate the Internet into mobile phones. It's already drawing numerous handset manufacturers, mobile operators, software companies to chip makers. The LiMo Foundation, which draws its name from Linux and mobile phones, was launched last February in an effort to build a mobile phone platform that would allow more devices to work together. Google also began working on Android last year with industry partners, in the Open Handset Alliance. The initiatives overlap in many ways, which is reflected in the number of companies participating in both, including LG Electronics, Motorola and Samsung as well as chipmaker Texas Instruments. In all, LiMo has 32 members to Open Handset's 34. And the numbers in both are growing. So far, however, there are no signs they will pool their efforts. "These companies are united in a deep philosophical way around an operating system, with a group of industry leaders who are sharing technology to create a new operating system for handsets," Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation, said of that collaborative. "LiMo is real technology making a real platform that goes straight to handsets." A key difference between LiMo and Android is that Google is presenting Android to its partners as a completed operating system, whereas the partners in LiMo have incorporated components from the various member companies and are finishing it together, said John Rizzo, a LiMo board member who is vice president for research and development strategy for the U.S. branch of Japan's Aplix Corp. "The platform is made up of existing, proven components," Rizzo said. "Part of the effort is to provide a cost-effective platform for everyone involved." The LiMo-equipped handsets shown Wednesday in Barcelona include models from Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung. Each contains just some pieces of the still-evolving platform. Consultant John Strand of Strand Consulting in Copenhagen, Denmark, was skeptical that either initiative would have much impact on the mobile market because primacy depends on getting onto a majority of devices, which is tough in a fragmented market. A formidable obstacle looms in the form of Nokia, which controls 40 percent of the handset market and relies on Symbian, a proprietary operating system it partially owns. "LiMo is just a group of people trying to create an alternative to Symbian and Microsoft. But Microsoft gets out to more phones and has a bigger development community," said Strand. Antivirus software maker McAfee is eager to be on the ground floor of an operating system with LiMo, never having done that with a computer platform. "This is a unique opportunity for us to be involved from day one. We've been half a step behind the bad guys, now we can be half a step ahead," said Victor Kouznetsov, senior vice president for McAfee's mobile security solutions. Data protection is increasingly important on mobile phones as Internet applications become more prominent, and the trend has already taken off in Asia, Kouznetsov said. Martin Cooper, the CEO of wireless company ArrayComm Inc. and an early developer of mobile phone technology, agreed that collaboratives will help developers create more new applications. But he said barriers remain to the digital revolution – chiefly the cost of data transmission. "Digital was supposed to change our lives. It hasn't happened yet," Cooper said. "I'm here to say that the revolution has started. It will take a long time. Believe it or not, revolution takes about a generation. This generation has started now."

^^^ @chandannasta My dear friend, the frequency of RAM can be checked on the RAM itself. It is clearly stated on the RAM stick itself. You can check it out yourself. Moreover old motherboards supports frequency of PC100 RAM only. But still can't say may be your motherboard support PC133 also. Just check it out. Regards.

^^^ My dear Kumaar it seems that Nokia Care is going to be nuts in the near future. Regards.

^^^ @chandannasta MY dear friend, you can surely install extra stick of 256mb of RAM in your system. But be sure its frequency should match to your old RAM which is already installed. I think you must be having RAM of frequency PC100. If this is correct, then you have to install another 256MB RAM of PC100 frequency only. If you install PC133 or any other frequency supported RAM then eventually you will face the problem of system restart and Blue Screen of death. As microsoft doesn't provide updates for windows'98 anymore, I think your system might be full of bugs. The best thing which you can do as of now is : 1. Install additional RAM 128 ro 256 MB. 2. Format your Hard Disk. 3. Install Windows XP. Thats it. Nothing better can be expected for your system then this. Regards.

^^^ Thats a very very very very great news my dear friends. Lets hope that Dot should amend the national numbering plan as soon as possible so that we all can take the benefit of number portability service. This is a much awaited service. This should be started at the earliest. Regards.

^^^ Nothing in news like this till date my dear friend.

^^^ @gauravjc Congrats for the new purchase my dear friend. You had purchased LG RD3000 at the correct price including RUIM. Do also post your experience & review about this handset after some days so that other members could also get the benefit. Regards.

^^^ Now the man already learnt the lesson my dear friends. Hope he will not do it again throughout his life. Regards.

^^^ @sougata Thats really a very great news my dear friend. Soon we are going to have custom made mobiles. Its going to be huge success. Regards.

^^^ Welldone my dear Ravjeet. Hats off to you. Regards.

^^^ @abhish My dear friend, as Arun already told above that you can use the PCMCIA to USB adapter. I'm attaching a pic for the same so that you can have a better outlook of PCMCIA to USB adaptor. Regards.

^^^ The above offers seems to be really cool. But they are available for certain circles only not nationwide. Execpt Surf All Night Offer, which is available for all cities. Regards.

^^^ That been a good thing if no such kind of directory being available for mobile numbers my dear friends. Regards.

And This Year's Winners Are .... The just-concluded GSMA 2008 in Barcelona, Spain, served to open consumers' and developers' eyes to the vast array of devices and platforms available. As in the years past, categories for awards this year included Best Mobile Game, Best Mobile Messaging service, Best Billing and Customer and Customer Service... and of course, the one we’ve been anxiously waiting for: Best Mobile Handset. As expected, the night was quite star-studded, with the presence of writer and producer Isabella Rossellini, Bollywood actress Sherlyn Chopra, and, from the music world, Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am, all of whom were at hand to present the awards. "As we celebrate 20 years since the foundations for global mobile communication were laid, this year's winners demonstrate not only how far we have come, but also the limitless possibilities of where innovation and inspiration can take us in the years ahead," said GSMA CEO Rob Conway. I’m very pleased to report that our very own Bharti Enterprise got two distinct awards: the GSMA Chairman's Award (given to Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder, Chairman & Group CEO Bharti Enterprise); and Best Billing and Customer Solution Award (for Bharti Airtel's mChek on Airtel Mobile Payment Service). Brilliant job; way to go Bharti! The Best Mobile Game Award went to Cellufun's Call of the Pharaoh and Glu Mobile's My Hangman, while the Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service went to Microsoft, for its Windows Mobile 6. Finally, the Best Mobile Handset award went to the Sony Ericsson W910i. If you’re shocked, get in line.

HTC Shows Off the P3470 Yet another phone with promise unveiled at the World Mobile Congress; the quad-band P3470 from HTC, will set "a new standard in affordable smart phone, GPS-based devices," according to the company. The highlights of the phone are GPS navigation, a touch-screen, and long battery life (what's claimed is 350 minutes of talk time and up to 240 hours of standby time). This is a Windows Mobile 6 device; the display is a 2.8-inches QVGA TFT LCD touch-screen. TomTom Navigator 6 is included for navigation, but the company says the supplied software could vary depending on the country. Incidentally, there's a GPS antenna connector so one can hook it up to an external antenna for better reception. A 1GB microSD card is supplied with the phone; it has 256MB of Flash and 128MB of internal memory. Then there's a 2 mega pixels camera and Bluetooth 2.0. Interestingly, there's no 3G or Wi-Fi. The P3470 will be made available in some European countries later this month, and will be priced at about $650.

^^^ @Dhiraj My dear friend, you can nearly use any handset in prepaid with almost any schemes available with any operator. Your PPC will surely work in prepaid lifetime scheme. Go ahead. Regards.

^^^ My dear friends, actually Sadik Bhai has posted the correct information. The price will really be $699. Actually this card is Class 6 type card with high transfer rate of 20MB/s. Even then also this seems to be very very costly. As Kumaar Bhai also said above. In this price we can have high performance Core2 Dual PC. Regards.

^^^ @ampl1f1er My dear friend, I suggest you to go for Coolpad. But not sure if it will work in US or not. Regards.

^^^ @imshyam My dear Shyam, why to discuss the hang problem only with those who are facing the same ? You can even discuss the problem with us also, who do not use this particular handset. Regards.

^^^ @sougata My dear friend, you may be right that BSNL is quite old in offering bundled products. But here is the point of pricing. The touch screen pocket pc mobile or bundled Nokia were not provided below the standard price. But in this new bundle offer BSNL is offering much more less rates for a Colour and FM enabled handset. What more can a subscriber expect of, where he is getting back for what he has paid in the form of talk time. Anyways, in my point of view this is quite an attractive offer for middle class. Regards.