Month: July 2010

BlackBerry Curve 9300 Details Leaked

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The BlackBerry Curve 9300(otherwise known as BlackBerry Kepler Curve 3G) is going to be released in the month of August according to preliminary reports. A few details regarding the specifications of the phone have been leaked, which we are presenting here.

According to the rumored specifications, Curve 9300 is going to be a redesigned or refreshed version of the BlackBerry 8500 (look wise similar to 8520 Curve).

Curve 9300 is going to be 3G enabled mid-range phone with a 3 MP camera, QWERTY keyboard, runs on BlackBerry OS 5.0, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1 etc.

BlackBerry Curve 9300 Pictures:

BlackBerry Curve 9300

BlackBerry Curve 9300 Full Specifications:

Display – 2.46” TFT screen, 65K colors
– 320 x 240 pixels
– QWERTY keyboard
– Optical trackpad (touch sensitive)
Camera – 3.15 megapixels
– 2048 x 1536 pixels
Memory microSD up to 32GB
Operating System BlackBerry OS
Network – 85 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 1900 / 2100 (HSDPA)
Connectivity – 3G HSDPA
– Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
– Bluetooth v2.1
– microUSB 2.0
– 3.5 mm audio jack
Battery Standard Li-Ion battery
Talk time —
Stand-by time —
Availability Expected release in August 2010

Price And Availability:

The BlackBerry Curve 9300 release date expected in August 2010. The phone is like to be available on T-Mobile and O2. The price of the Curve 9300 isn’t known yet. Watch this space for an update.

Sony DPF-X95 Digital Photo Frame Launched In India

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Sony DPF-X95 digital photo frame

Sony has launched a digital photo frame DPF-X95 in India, nearly 4 months after its global release. With Sony DPF-X95, you can view all those captured stunning moments of yours on a big 9-inch screen. The photo frame is also coming with multiple playback options and contains 10 slideshow patterns, 17 clock and calendar designs, auto orientation sensor etc.

Sony DPF-X95 digital photo frame standing

Sony DPF-X95 Specifications: Quick View

Display – 9-inch WVGA LED backlite LCD screen
– 800 x 400 pixels
– 16:10 aspect ratio
Memory – Internal: 2GB (up to 4000 pics)
– External: Memory card support (MMC, MS Pro Duo, MS Duo, SD, Compact Flash Type I & Type II)
Formats JPEG/RAW
Extras – Tru Black
– Auto Power on/Off
– Slideshow
– Clock & Calendar

Price And Availability:

The Sony DPF-X95 digital photo frame is now available across all Sony Center stores and selected major gadget showrooms in India at a price of Rs. 11,990 INR (global price: $299).

[How To] Enable All Tabs Preview In Firefox 4

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As Mozilla has made Firefox 4 Beta to be available publicly. My Firefox lovers have already downloaded it and managed to get a first look of what’s in store for the upcoming Firefox 4. Whie we still learn about all the major and minor features introduced in Firefox 4, we thought we would share this minor and handy feature that may interest you. This feature is called “All tabs preview”. It is similar to taskbar-tabs preview, but built right into the Firefox without needing to install additional add ons. By default this is not active in Firefox 4.0, but you can always activate it by following the steps briefed below:

All_tabs_preview_firefox_4

Steps:

1. Type “about:config” in your Firefox address bar and press enter.

2. Accept the warning that you get under “This might void your warranty”. Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise”.

this might void your warranty firefox

3. Now type “browser.allTabs.previews” and look for a entry with the same name (Preference Name).

All_tabs_preview_firefox4
By default, this has been set to “false” which disables the All Tabs Preview feature in your Firefox 4. To enable this, double click on it or right-click and choose “Toggle”, change the value to “True”. Close the about:config window.

4. You can now spot a new “List All Tabs” icon at the top right hand side, just below the close icon of your window. click on the icon to see the preview of all the opened tabs of your Firefox.

All tabs preview firefox 4 icon

To disable this feature, go back to the third step and change the value of browser.allTabs.previews back to “false”.

Tip: Learn how you can run two different builds of Firefox on the same computer.

Airtel Offering Free Facebook Access Till August 31

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Free Facebook on Airtel

India’s leading telecom operator Airtel in an attempt to make youth use its internet services via GPRS (Airtel Live), has announced a free access to the popular social networking site Facebook free till August 31, 2010. During this period, Airtel users can browse the mobile version of the Facebook site, which is currently available in English and Hindi. The company has also said the site will soon be available in five other Indian languages which include Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

How To Activate:

Just type “FACEBOOK” and send as SMS to 54323 to get started you will soon receive a reply message with the following content:

Free browsing of Facebook! Click on http://m.facebook.com to enjoy Free. To avail the free offer, Save Airtel Live Setting as default. Valid till 31 Aug 2010

Please remember that browsing any site other than Airtel Live portal and Facebook would cost you (pay per data).To surf all the websites, you need to use Airtel RC 98 which gives you unlimited mobile internet (up to 2GB) for 30 days.

It’s worth to note that Uninor, another mobile operator, is also offering similar free (sort of) access to Facebbok, twitter and LinkedIn in a different way for it’s MyConnect unlimited internet users.

Via Airtel PR

Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 & Beta 2 Builds Available For Download

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Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Screenshot:

Firefox 4 beta 1 screenshot

Mozilla has recently unveiled a new Beta version (yeah, it’s still buggy and under testing) of  upcoming Firefox version, Firefox 4. Users can get a rough idea about how the upcoming Firefox 4x versions would be by installing this beta version of Firefox. You can download Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 and Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 Pre Build from the Mozilla’s directory of nightly builds links for which are posted at the bottom of this post.

Changes in Firefox 4.0 Beta :

1. New User Interface simple in line with Windows Aero in Windows 7 and Windows Vista also supports the new Glass translucency effect. This version  supports multiple tab previews much like in Internet Explorer 8.

2. The menu bar has been repositioned at the top most left of the windows, which you might have seen in the latest Opera browser too.

Firefox 4 menu

3. Another change includes the change in the position of the tabs. Until Firefox 3.6, the tabs are used to be placed below the address bar, which is not the case in this new version. Tabs are neatly placed above the address bar like Google Chrome.

Firefox_4_address_bar

Download Firefox 4.0 Beta:

Update:Download from Firefox Beta page (available for public download)

[Tip] Install Two Different Versions Of Firefox On The Same Computer

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Today I wanted to install and test the latest Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 version on my laptop where I had already installed Firefox 3.6. I didn’t want to loose all my customised addons and other preferences that I have been using in Firefox 3.6, at the same time I should also test the latest Firefox 4 beta version. The option to use portable version of Firefox, is obsolete here. So in short, my PC should have both the Firefox builds installed and should be able to run both independently. I looked for a possible solution, and I think I was successful in  accomplishing the task, hence I’m sharing it here:

Steps:

1. First download and install the new Firefox version (Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 in this case). Don’t worry Firefox will keep your old installation as such and will install Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 in a separate folder.

2.  Now go to run (by pressing Windows button + R) command, and click “Browse”.

run windows browse

3. Locate the “firefox.exe” from the program files and click “Open”. It will show

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" [If you are not able to see backslashes “\”, see the image below:

Firefox.exe shortcut path

in the run command filed.

4. Just append “-p -no-remote” to it and click OK.

run program path

It will open Profile Manager.

5. Under user profile manager, you will just find an entry called “default”. Rename it to something like Firefox3 or whatever version you are using.

Firefox User Profile Manager

6. Now create a new profile (something like “Firefox4”) through the “Create Profile" Wizard”.

7. So by now you will have two user profiles for Firefox.

choose user profile

8. Now create two separate shortcuts for both the versions on your desktop.

Firefox desktop shortcuts two different builds

Right-click on the shortcut for the older version and under shortcut target append the following line:

-p Firefox3 -no-remote

[ replace “Firefox3” with whatever your profile name that you had given].

So the shortcut will look like this after editing:

Firefox 3.6 shortcut profile name

Add the following line to the shortcut for the new version (Firefox 4.0 Beat 1 here):

-p Firefox4 -no-remote

[Replace “Firefox4” with whatever profile name that you have chosen]

The shortcut now appears as shown:

Firefox 4 Beta shortcut with profile name

Save the shortcuts and give them appropriate names so that you can distinguish them.

Now you can use these shortcuts to open either of the Firefox versions at ease. However, please be noted that you cannot run the two different versions/builds at the same time.

The trick involved here is all about using Firefox user profiles.Without using profiles, if you try to open the Firefox 3.6 version with Firefox 4.0 beta 1 also installed, then it’ll only going to launch Firefox 4 instead of the other.

Uninor Unlimited Mobile Internet Plans Tariff

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Matching up to the mobile unlimited internet plans of the other mobile operators in India (Airtel RC 98 for instance), Uninor has launched two affordable unlimited mobile internet plans MyConnect 90 and MyConnect 9 for its customers. Uninor is a joint venture of Norway’s Telenor and India’s Unitech group. Debuted in 2009 in India, the mobile network is still relatively considered as infant in a country which is considered as the one of largest countries with high mobile penetration.

Uninor’s new mobile internet plans are in fact far more affordable than Airtel’s RC 98 and unlimited plans of some other mobile operators. If we compare the Airtel’s RC 98 with Uninor MyConnect 90:

Uninor unlimited internet 90

Airtel RC 98 Vs Uninor MyConnect 90

>> Airtel’s data transfer limit is 2 GB where as Uninor’s Rs.90 pack gives internet browsing worth 3 GB for free

>> Uninor is offering free browsing for Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn sites (meaning that the data browsed will not be counted under the data usage limit)  where as Airtel doesn’t. Considering  fact that most of the youth in India spend their browsing these social networking sites, it saves a lot of data

>> Uninor being a relatively new entrant with less subscriber base, hence the network congestion should be less and this in turn should result in a better browsing speeds at least theoretically when compared to Airtel with huge number of users like you trying to access the internet.

Uninor Unlimited internet tariff plans:

Internet Plans Price Benefit Validity Charges
MyConnect 90 Rs. 90 Free internet browsing up to 3 GB 30 days 10p/10kb beyond free usage
MyConnect 9 Rs. 9 Free internet browsing up to 60 MB 3 days 10p/10kb beyond free usage

Advantages:

– Unlimited internet access (3 days for Rs.9 pack, 30 days for Rs. 90 pack)

– Free browsing for social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

Samsung :) Smiley SGH-T359: Affordable 3G Phone Full Specifications

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Samsung has released three mid-range phones for T-Mobile Samsung 🙂 Smiley SGH-T359, Gravity 3 and Gravity T.

Samsung 🙂 Smiley will be an entry-level phone model with 1.3 MP camera with 2x digital zoom and video recording, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3G connectivity, up to 16GB microSD support, 184 MHz processor, Bluetooth 2.1, T-Mobile Social Buzz, mp3 player, etc.

Samsung 🙂 Smiley Pictures:

Samsung Smiley

Samsung Smiley

Samsung Smiley

Samsung 🙂 Smiley Full Specifications:

Dimensions 99.6 x 59.4 x 15
Weight 112.8 g
Display – TFT, 256K colors
– 240 x 320 pixels
– QWERTY keyboard
Memory – Internal: 50 MB
– External: Up to 16GB microSD
Camera – 1.3 megapixels
– 1280 x 1024 pixels
– 2x digital zoom
Processor 184 MHz processor
Network – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 1700 / 2100 (UMTS)
Connectivity – 3G (Up to 384 kbps)
– A-GPS
– Bluetooth v2.1
– microUSB 2.0
Audio/Video formats – MP4/H.263/H.264 (video)
– MP3/eAAC+/WAV (audio)
Extras – Web2go
– T-Mobile Social Buzz
– Social Networking Integration
Battery Standard Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery
Talk time – Up to 5 hrs (2G)
– Up to 6 hrs (3G)
Stand-by time – Up to 20 hrs (3G)
– Up to 13 days (2G)
Availability Released in June 2010, Available in markets

Price And Availability:

Samsung 🙂 Smiley has been officially released and is available in the mobile markets via T-Mobile at a retail price of $149.99 (Even More Plus) or the price of the phone would be $19.99 (on 2-year agreement) which just works on T-Mobile only.

New Feature: Blogger Stats Comes To Blogger In Draft

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Blogger has just launched a new almost real-time like visits tracking to blogger.com blogs via

Blogger in Draft (which means that it is still in testing phase).

Though we have tools like Google Analytics, people still want to see their visits in real-time. But if you think that you are just a beginner with Blogger and not completely comfortable with all those advanced features in Analytics, then this is probably the one that you just needed.

Blogger Stats offers all basic information about your site visits in a far better easier way. You can see visitors details during intervals of one hour/day/week/month like which posts are getting most visits, the referring pointing to your blog, the geographic location of your visitors etc. [Checkout “Overview”, “Posts”, “Traffic Sources” & “Audience” tabs].

Just login to draft.blogger.com, and checkout the “stats” tab on your blog dashboard to get started.

Blogger stats tab

Samsung SHW-M110S Full Specifications

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What’s up with Samsung these days ? Like how Nokia rolled out half-a-dozen Nokia 5800 lookalike models after the phone’s initial launch, Samsung is launching different phone models (with different names!) , which are all more or less variants of Samsung Galaxy S (yes, didn’t we cover Samsung i897 Captivate, Samsung Vibrant and Samsung Galaxy Tab ?)

Coming to Samsung SHW-M110S Galaxy S, this is the South Korea’s Samsung Galaxy S version with almost similar features but differs in the storage where, 14 GB user available storage is available besides 2 GB internal memory and up to 32 GB microSD card support. Samsung M110S Galaxy S also offers a DMB TV-tuner, SKT’s T-Store support, Kyobo e-book app etc.

Samsung M110S Galaxy S Pictures:

Samsung SHW-M110S Galaxy S

Samsung M110S Galaxy S Full Specifications:

Dimensions 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm
Weight 121 g
Display – 4” super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
– 480 x 800 pixels
– Multi-touch input
– Swype text input
Camera – 5 megapixels
– 2592 x 1944 pixels
– Autofocus, touch focus, face and smile detection
– Video rec: 720p HD @ 30fps
– Sec. camera: VGA
Memory – Internal: 2GB, 14GB user available storage
– External: Up to 32GB microSD
Processor 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor
Operating System Android OS v2.1 Eclair
Network – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 850 / 1900 / 2100 (3G HSDPA)
Connectivity – 3G (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps)
– Bluetooth v3.0
– Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
– microUSB 2.0
– A-GPS
– 3.5 mm audio jack
Audio/Video formats – MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 (Video)
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC (Audio)
Extras – DMB TV
– TouchWiz 3.0 UI
– Accelerometer sensor
– Proximity sensor
– Stereo FM with RDS
– Social networking apps
– Digital compass
– Doc editor
– Preloaded Google products
– Flash Lite v3.1
Battery Standard Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery
Talk time – Up to 15 hrs 30 mins (2G)
– Up to 7 hrs 50 mins (3G)
Stand-by time – Up to 590 hrs (2G)
– Up to 490 hrs (3G)
Colors Black, Grey
Availability Expected release in Q3 2010

Price And Availability:

The Samsung Galaxy SHW-M110S has been launched and is available for sale in South Korea. The price of the phone is around $790 which is pretty much high for such a device.