coolrajiv 1 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 LG has managed to beat out many of the other big names in the phone biz by announcing the first Wimax compatible mobile, the LG KC1. This Windows Mobile runs on a 5.0 OS but I’m sure that will change considering 6.0 is already out. It has a 2.8 inch touch screen sporting 65K colors. The KC1 also has 2 megapixel camera and supports Bluetooth with an A2DP profile as well. It also has an external memory card slot for microSD cards and comes equipped with 128 ROM and 64MB RAM. Unfortunately we have no idea when the model will be out nor what its price is going to be. Source - http://www.tech2.com/india/news/smart-mobi...-mobile/11372/0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
situ1962 21 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 As there has been a long collaboration between lg and reliance let's hope to see this handset in reliance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coolrajiv 1 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 (edited) If one needs another reminder of how far ahead Korea is in the cellphone space compared to us, here's the LG KC1. It's got WiBro support, which is 4G and lets the phone get Wi-Fi speeds pretty much anywhere. The fast speeds allow the phone to do stuff like remote PC control, streaming videos, video calls and other ridiculously high-bandwidth apps that you could only do over Wi-Fi before. As for features, it's got DMB for live TV, a 2-megapixel camera, 512MB flash, an audio/video player, microSD slot and the front camera for 3G video calling & windows mobile 5 In case you are wondering what is WiBro - It is the Korean name for mobile Wi-Max although it has a much shorter range at 1.5 kms per base station with an aggregate data throughput of 30 to 50 Mbit/s. The LG-KC1 will be available in Korea only for 700,000 KRW ($ 750) Edited August 4, 2007 by coolrajiv Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coolrajiv 1 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 As there has been a long collaboration between lg and reliance let's hope to see this handset in reliance. Dude you can just dream abt this happening Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sadikk 301 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 As there has been a long collaboration between lg and reliance let's hope to see this handset in reliance. Dude you can just dream abt this happening U r right dude, we are not yet ready for 3G, Wimax is just a dream. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HetalDP 947 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 Reliance is not at Interested in Selling Higher than 5000 They Just wanna Push Classics, Classics, Classics, Classics, Classics, Classics, Nothing Else Another thing is WiBro is not Implemented in Reliance or any Operator I am too just Dreaming about 3G WiBro is Far Ahead WiBro is Implemented in Pune and Banglore but VoIP Voice over WiBro is Still not Allowed mean we could use Skype type of Communications but for Full Fledged Telecommunication on that We have to Wait for 5 Years Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 Fixed WiMAX is available in Bangalore & Pune, hope Mobile WiMAX will start soon... the spectrum issues needs to be sorted out for that I guess... aw well Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coolrajiv 1 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 some more pics of this amazing mobile with amazing technology i wish wimax is available asap all over india Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GSV13 0 Report post Posted August 4, 2007 technology is really good Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coolrajiv 1 Report post Posted August 5, 2007 Definitely technology is awesome in this mobile we dont have 3G here & in korea they will be using 4G shorlty Korea is even ahead of USA in having new technologies being implemented Hats off to Korea Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kesav 127 Report post Posted August 6, 2007 Definitely technology is awesome in this mobile we dont have 3G here & in korea they will be using 4G shorlty Korea is even ahead of USA in having new technologies being implemented Hats off to Korea Come on Man !! LG and Samsung, two giants of consumer electronics are from Korea. What we have here just Onida and BPL which are unkown in the world. Where will the technology breed? In Korea or India..... You've an obvious answer..... I don't know why TATA, Reliance and Brilas are sleeping? Why can't we become electronics hub? What's lacking? Why hardware has to be done in Korea and China when software with which it operates is done in India? If both are done in India, Can't we achieve economy of colocation? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coolrajiv 1 Report post Posted August 6, 2007 Definitely technology is awesome in this mobile we dont have 3G here & in korea they will be using 4G shorlty Korea is even ahead of USA in having new technologies being implemented Hats off to Korea Come on Man !! LG and Samsung, two giants of consumer electronics are from Korea. What we have here just Onida and BPL which are unkown in the world. Where will the technology breed? In Korea or India..... You've an obvious answer..... I don't know why TATA, Reliance and Brilas are sleeping? Why can't we become electronics hub? What's lacking? Why hardware has to be done in Korea and China when software with which it operates is done in India? If both are done in India, Can't we achieve economy of colocation? Come on dude accept the fact that Korea has far better internet penetration than India( i think its the highest in world) they already have 3G there.. we r still here proposing abt it discussing abt it god knows when will 3G be implemented finally in India We all know in making Software India "rules" but in implementing new technology(hardware based) advanced technology India sleeps we r ages behind Korea. Accept it buddy India is atleast 5 years behind Korea & USA in adopting new superior technologies . No one in India is bothered abt it everyone in the Dept concerned is sleeping you can think abt this mobile coming to India in 2012 even thats quite generous thinking by me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HetalDP 947 Report post Posted August 7, 2007 Korea is far Ahead of Japan and USA becase of Limited Land to be Covered and Very Less Tower is to be updated and the Subscriber per Tower is amongst the Highest in World So its very economical for them to Upgrade Towers for the Users who wanna give them more Revenue. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coolrajiv 1 Report post Posted August 7, 2007 Korea is far Ahead of Japan and USA becase of Limited Land to be Covered and Very Less Tower is to be updated and the Subscriber per Tower is amongst the Highest in WorldSo its very economical for them to Upgrade Towers for the Users who wanna give them more Revenue. @Hetal Smart investments in broadband there have paid off in the form of a hyperconnected society -- here's how we can start reaping the benefits. A lot of factors have contributed to Korea having the highest penetration in the world in internet connectivity Ninety percent of the country has blazingly fast, 3-megabits-per-second broadband at home, and similarly high-speed wireless connections on the road. The telecom market in Korea is fiercely competitive, and broadband service costs the consumer less than $20 a month. There are 20,000 PC baangs, or Internet cafes, where you can rent a superfast machine for $1 an hour. Online gaming has become a way of life, with nearly 3,000 South Korean videogame companies boasting combined revenues of up to $4 billion. As a result, South Korea has become the world's best laboratory for broadband services - and a place to look to for answers on how the Internet business may evolve. Smart bet on broadband How did this come about? In 1995, the South Korean government made what must rank as one of the most shrewd and far-sighted investments in business history. It spent big on a nationwide high-capacity broadband network that any telecom operator could offer service on, and offered subsidies so that 45 million Koreans could buy cheap PC's. Cost: a mere $1.5 billion. Fast-forward 11 years: Korea is now the most connected and Net-addicted country on Earth. There are a few American companies who have benefited from the South Korean broadband boom: Blizzard, for example, makes a popular online game called Starcraft which is so widely played in South Korea that two TV channels broadcast Starcraft matches between professional players. But the most popular services are homegrown. Cyworld, for example, is a social network owned by a subsidiary of SK Telecom, the country's largest wireless provider. To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life. Users have avatars that visit and can link to each other's "minihompy" - a miniature homepage that's actually a 3-D room containing a users' blog, photos, and virtual items for sale. Cyworld's digital garage sales include music, ringtones, clothes for your avatar and furnishings for your own minihompy. Cyworld has penetration rates that would make Rupert Murdoch, CEO of MySpace parent News Corp. (Research), green with envy: An astonishing 90 percent of South Koreans in their 20s use the service. Celebrities and politicians set up their own minihompies, and the way to get ahead in twentysomething Korean society is to found a popular Cyworld club, or chat room. Printing money Most importantly, Cyworld is a license to print money. The service itself is free (and available on cellphones as well as online), but to buy all the extras - like ringtones and virtual furnishings - will cost you "acorns," the service's virtual currency. Cyworld sells its users $300,000 in acorns every single day. With such a proven revenue stream, Cyworld is expanding fast. It launched in China and Japan last year, and a US launch is slated for later this year. Some might dismiss it as a Korean novelty, but all of Cyworld's elements, individually, have been successful on these shores. And teens and twentysomethings who use social networks tend not to have much brand loyalty to one service if another offers cooler features. SK Telecom's ace in the hole is its experience with running a social network on mobile devices. "Every social network is going to have to have a mobile component over the next year," predicts Jill Aldort, an analyst at Yankee Group. "It gives more stickiness to the service. There's going to be a social networking fatigue factor - users need novelty. And Cyworld clearly has more functionality than MySpace." Whether or not Cyworld succeeds in the U.S., South Korea is going to continue aggressively targeting American Internet users. Its government has set a target of $1 billion a year in online game exports by 2007. NCSoft, the company that runs Korea's most popular multiplayer online role-playing game, Lineage, has found a string of successes in the U.S. by learning quickly what Americans love: its City of Heroes and City of Villains online games were both number one hits here. Lost in translation? To be sure, there is much about South Korean culture that doesn't translate well. The country's love of cuteness is a little too saccharine for American tastes. And part of Cyworld's success can be chalked up to users' incessant message-swapping - not answering a missive from a friend with all due speed is considered a faux-pas in Korean society. There is a chance that the rise of broadband and the rise of online gaming will not be so interlinked on this side of the Pacific (though the runaway success of World of Warcraft suggests otherwise). There's a chance that US social networkers may prefer a stripped-down service with no avatars, bells or whistles. But don't forget that US wireless operators used to dismiss Japanese advances in mobile phones in much the same way. Do users really want to send text messages, watch video on their phones, or buy ringtones, they mused, or is that something peculiar to Japan? Well, as it turned out, they do, and companies that bet early on the notion that technology can cross cultural boundaries, like Sprint Nextel (Research) and Cingular, won out. So think twice before ignoring what's going on in Seoul. That shrewd government investment a decade ago may just have created a broadband hothouse that can give us a glimpse of the Internet culture's future. So this is what is the actual story of Korea is I would say this is how a country like ours can improve by drawing long term plans & implementing it at the same time with surgical precision. Source - http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/08/technology...y0608/index.htm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
