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Nokia India Offering Free Extended 1 Year Warranty For Purchases Till April 13, 2010

April 17, 2011March 29, 2010 by bharath

Well, folks if you are planning to buy a brand new Nokia E-series or N-series phones in the near future, here is a one good reason why you should prepone your purchase plan !!

Nokia India is offering free extended 1 year warranty (worth Rs. 1,414) for all new Nokia E-Series and N-Series devices purchased during the period March 13, 2010 to April 13, 2010 at no extra cost.

Through this offer, according to Nokia website:

After your Nokia Limited Warranty expires, you can receive repair and support for an additional 12 months – from set-up to help with new features to repair options.

nokia care extended warranty offer

So now you can get a awesome 24 months warranty for your Nokia N-Series or E-Series device as opposed to usual 12 months warranty.

Please do note that You can ONLY avail this offer at Nokia Priority Dealers (you can find nearest priority dealer here)

Via Nokia India official release

Update: Offer expired

Beam Telecom Broadband Speed Upgrade: A Report

March 23, 2010March 22, 2010 by dennis

beam cable logo

Reports are coming in from the Beam Telecom Broadband users in Hyderabad that their Broadband Speed has been upgraded with no extra cost. Users report that they are getting higher speed from last 10 days. This up gradation of speed came into light when one of the customers who wanted a new connection when contacted the Beam Cable agent, offered him with up to 768 kbps speed for Rs 600 (INR) per month whose official speed is 256 kbps.

Though the speed upgrade is not officially confirmed, the increase in speed is almost confirmed with all the users of Beam Cable Broadband known to us.

The speed upgrade is to be as follows:

Per Month Charge Rs (INR)	Official Speed	*Upgraded Speed (Unofficial)**
600	256kbps	768kbps
850	512kbps	1Mbps
1000	1Mbps	2Mbps

*this is a report from the users which is not officially confirmed

The above given packages speed are confirmed by the users, other packages speed could not be confirmed currently.

A User Survey by Techrena dot Net Reports:

Rs 600 Package user getting 75-85KB/s Download Speed

Rs 850 Package user getting 100-110KB/s Download Speed and so on

Well as other competitive ISPs like Airtel Broadband is also upgrading their speeds for free, Beam Telecom is also expected to do so. Another hi-speed Wireless Broadband Network is Tikona WI-BRO.

The official packages taken from the Beam Official Site is given below:

Details		Monthly	Half-Yearly		Annual Packages
Packages	Speed up to	Subscription	Subscription	Savings	Subscription	Savings	Free Vouchers
B-Max400	128kbps	400.00	2300.00	100.00	4500.00	300.00	4500.00
B-Max600	256kbps	600.00	3300.00	300.00	6000.00	1200.00	6000.00
B-Max850	512kbps	850.00	4675.00	425.00	8500.00	1700.00	8500.00
B-Max1000	768kbps	1000.00	5500.00	500.00	10000.00	2000.00	10000.00
B-Max1500	1Mbps	1500.00	8250.00	750.00	15000.00	3000.00	15000.00
B-Max2500	2Mbps	2500.00	13750.00	1250.00	25000.00	5000.00	15000.00
B-Max5000	4Mbps	5000.00	27500.00	2500.00	50000.00	10000.00	15000.00

As we can see that till date(22-03-2010) the package speeds are not yet updated. We are expecting an official announcement from the ISP soon.

If you want a new Beam Broadband connection you can call: 040 66 27 27 27 or visit: beamtele.com

Update @ 23/03/10 : It’s now official.We have heard the announcement from Beam Tele management about the free speed upgrade through SMS, where they claim that Beam Telecom is the fastest broadband in India !!

Airtel’s Free Speed Upgrade Dhamaka For Broadband Users

March 23, 2010March 22, 2010 by bharath

Airtel, one of the India’s top broadband ISP has taken revolutionary step to provide a minimum internet browsing speeds of 512 Kbps to all the broadband customers in India.

This could change the face of whole internet in India if other broadband service providers take this seriously and come up with similar steps to provide Hi Speed internet at affordable price.

In a press announcement released today by Airtel, the company announces that it will upgrade the speeds of all the existing customers to 512 Kbps by June 2010 notably at “no extra cost”.Also customers with 512 Kbps and 1 Mbps plans would get double speed upgrade to 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps respectively.

Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom service providers, in an unprecedented move is upgrading speeds of all its existing customers (on 64, 128, 256 Kbps) to a minimum of 512 Kbps. Further, customers currently on 512 Kbps plans and 1mbps plans will have their speeds doubled to 1Mbps and 2Mbps respectively.

Airtel has also announced the launch of ‘Impatience Plans’ offering internet browsing speeds of 4 Mbps starting from as low as Rs. 899.

Airtel Impatience Plans Tariff (4 Mbps):

Plan Name	Impatience 899	Impatience 1099	Impatience 1399	Impatience 1799
Speed	4 Mbps	4 Mbps	4 Mbps	4 Mbps
Rental (Rs.)	899	1099	1399	1799
High Speed Download (in GB)	6	12	25	50
Option 1: Unlimited Data Transfer Plan	Post Hi Speed download continue browsing @ 256 Kbps
Option 2: Continuous High Speed Plan	Continue at 4 Mbps @ 10 paise/MB per additional MB (Post High Speed download)

Kudos to Airtel for this wonderful speed upgrade, we hope this could help in taking broadband in India to a next level.

If you don’t know yet, Airtel is also offering Unlimited mobile internet (GPRS) at Rs.98 apart from offering free unlimited national and local SMS.

Update: Well, we have yet another free broadband speed upgrade, this time from Hyderabad based Beam Telecom, read Beam Tele free speed upgrade report.

Airtel Offering Unlimited Mobile Internet (Via GPRS) With RC 98

July 3, 2010March 20, 2010 by bharath

It’s offers time for Airtel users in India.Few days back we have blogged about Airtel launching unlimited national & local SMS offer.Now Airtel is also offering unlimited internet via GPRS for its mobile users.

Launch of many of these unlimited plans can be attributed to the on-going Indian Premier League (IPL) 2010.Airtel thought this would be the big opportunity introduce some offers and get the attention of the users, for that matter targeting mainly youth section of the users.We need to recall that Airtel once used to offer unlimited (virtually) GPRS internet in the forms daily pack and monthly pack.And now as Aircel and Tata Docomo are offering similar plans which are attracting the younger generation, Airtel had no option left but to come out with such unlimited offers.

airtel unlimted internet gprs

We can see Airtel promoting unlimited SMS offer, Unlimited GPRS internet offer and reduced night calling rates offer through Sharman Joshi of “3 Idiots” Bollywood movie fame.

Unlimited Internet Plan Tariff:

Prepaid:

May vary depending on your circle.For most circles you have to do a recharge for MRP Rs. 98 /- (RC 98) in order to activate this offer which is valid for one month from the date of activation.You can also dail #567 from your Airtel mobile if you have balance more than Rs. 110+ and opt not to go for a separate recharge.

Postpaid:

Postpaid users can avail this offer for a monthly rental of Rs. 98.SMS “INTERNET” to 121 to activate this pack.

For more information, visit Airtel mobile internet offers page.

Note:

This unlimited plan is not truly ‘unlimited’, as it has a limit for data usage up to 2 GB, beyond this limit, the data usage will be charged 30paise/50KB.

The free usage includes data browsed only through Mobile Office (MO) settings.Be careful here, of you activate this pack but still use browsing using Airtel Live settings, you’ll be charged for that.

To get Mobile Office internet settings, SMS “MO” to 543210 (Toll Free)

You can use this pack even while roaming in India, however it doesn’t apply to international roaming.

Update: You may also want checkout Uninor’s unlimited mobile internet plan Rs.90

Tikona WI-BRO Broadband Plans And Tariffs

March 21, 2010March 20, 2010 by bharath

Tikona logo

Tikona Wireless Broadband Service (WI-BRO) :

Tikona, is the new entrant into the fastest growing broadband networks in India.But Tikona is completely different from other current broadband services because Tikona sets up access point through towers (for wireless access) on each and every apartment / building where it’s services are required.Thus all the users in that locality (with in the wireless access point accessible range) can enjoy Wireless Broadband with the help of a modem supplied and installed by Tikona digital networks team.This means that if you have a laptop and if your building is Tikona access point enabled, you can have the freedom of surfing the internet sitting any where in your house.

Tariffs:

Limited usage plans (All offer speeds at 2 Mbps):

These are circuit breaker plans (with bill limit)

Details	CB299	CB449	CB549	CB999	CB1249
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs.)	299	449	549	999	1249
Free Usage (MB)	1000	1500	2500	5000	7000
Charge beyond Free Usage (Rs./MB)	1	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
Circuit Breaker Deposit – One time (Rs.)	300	500	500	1000	1500
Guaranteed Max Bill Amount (Rs.)	599	949	1049	1999	2749
MBs Consumed till Maximum Bill Amount	1300	2125	3125	6250	8875

Unlimited Plans:

Unlimited plans are the plans that most users look for in any broadband service.Tikona is offering unlimited plans starting from Rs. 499 /- (150 Kbps) the maximum speed under UL plans is 1000 Kbps which you get if you take UL 1249 plan.

Fun Unlimited Plans:

These are special plans that provide internet surfing at 2 Mbps for first 400 MB of usage in FUL 799 plan, 200 MB in FUL 599 and 100 MB in FUL499 plan respectively every month.

Details	FUL799	FUL599	FUL499
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs.)	799	599	499
Download Speed (Kbps)	600	300	150
Installation Charges (Rs.)	500	500	500

Other Unlimited Plans:

These UL plans offer varying speeds at day and night.Night surfing speed gets almost doubled in each of these plans.

Details	UL1249	UL899	UL649
Download Speed	600 Kbps	300 Kbps	150 kbps
Download Speed (22:00 – 10:00) hours	1000 Kbps	600 Kbps	300 kbps
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs./Month)	1249	899	649
Installation Charges (Rs.)	500	500	500

Premium UL plans:

Details	FMC2499*	UL4999	FMC1499*	UL2999
Download Speed	2Mbps	2Mbps	1Mbps	1Mbps
Monthly Plan Charges (Rs./Month)	2499	4999	1499	2999
Installation Charges (Rs.)	500	500	500	500

[*]FMC 1499 and FMC 2499 have usage limits of 15 GB and 50 GB per month respectively, while other plans have unlimited usage limit.

Note: Modem installation charges for all the above plans would be Rs. 500 /-

Toll Free Number : 1800 20 94276

via Tkiona

BSNL EVDO Card 3.1 Mbps Unlimited @ Rs 750 !! (Up To March 31)

March 10, 2010 by bharath

BSNL EVDO 3.1 Mbps Unlimited plan only @ 750 Rs, Hurry up (Till March 31, 2010 only):

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) has taken a very big step forward towards offering high speed internet at an affordable rate to the internet users in India.BSNL today has announced 3.1 Mbps unlimited plan under its EVDO card at rupees 999 INR 750 INR.

This comes as a real good news for all those who are eagerly waiting for such an unlimited plan at affordable price (Rs. 750).BSNL EVDO is the best option if you want to get high speed wireless broadband in India, though there are private firms operating in this arena, their services level do not match up to the state owned BSNL.But the twist here is that this is a promotional offer and valid for post-paid activations till March 31, 2010.Existing prepaid would get the unlimited data usage plan at Rs 650.

BSNL has also launched another plan but this time in Pre-paid, data usage priced at 5 Paise per 100 KB i.e Rs. 1 for 1 MB of usage.

BSNL EVDO Post-Paid TARIFF [As seen in BSNL website]

Sl.No	FMC* (in Rs.)	Monthly free usage (in GB)
1	199	0.5
2	299	1
3	449	2
4	649	5
5	999	Unlimited

[*] FMC – Fixed Monthly Charge

Summary (Rs 750 unlimited EVDO card plan)

Plan Type: Postpaid

Price : Rs. 750

Data usage : Unlimited

Pros:

Affordable (at Rs. 750)

Free all India roaming

Cons:

High price if the EVDO router (Rs. 21,000, no rental option)

Unlimited plan only in Postpaid connection

Being a promotional offer [It’ll be Rs. 999 again after March 31, 2010]

BSNL EVDO Ad:[Click to see larger size image]

Vodafone Launches App Store In India, Crosses 10000 Downloads Already !

March 8, 2010 by bharath

Vodafone Essar India (earlier known as Hutchison Essar) has just announced that it’s newly launched mobile application store has crossed 10000 downloads.According to Vodafone, the app store service has been operational since Feb 15, 2010.

In an announcement dated 5th March 2010, the company has announced that the app store was initially launched on 15th February 2010, without any promotion or media release.Now after receiving relatively good number of downloads (10k downloads in 22 days), Vodafone has decided to reveal the world about the existence of its app store service in India.

The application store is available to customers through data enabled handsets. Customers can send a message APP to 111 (toll free) and also access the store through the portal Vodafone live! by clicking a link on the home page. Over 15% of applications are available free of charge while the majority of paid applications are priced in the range of Rs. 5 to Rs. 30.

So as you can see in the above excerpt, to access the app store, the users can simply type APP and send a message to 111 (toll free Vodafone no).The store has over 800 applications in the categories: Entertainment, Utility, Finance, Social Networking, Games, etc. consisting of both Indian and international apps as well.You can explore all the free available apps (around 15%) before you can buy paid applications which costs you from Rs 5 to Rs 30.

Airtel Announces Unlimited National SMS Packs Across India

March 5, 2010 by bharath

Airtel which has enjoyed the monopoly over the Indian mobile services is now facing the stiffest competition from the other mobile operators who have slashed down rates and are coming up with innovative offers, thanks to the likes of Tata Docomo and others like Aircel.Even Reliance is pulling large number of mobile users through their “Simply Reliance” plans that offers cheaper national /roaming calls and SMS.

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Airtel seems to be working out on minimizing the users migration, and it is evident now as they have come up with the Unlimited National & Local SMS pack across India.

The only difference is that unlike Reliance, which is offering the uniform rates across all the states, Airtel is offering this service for different tariff rates for different states.

Airtel is promoting this offer big time through Television Ads with “3 Idiots” fame Sharman Joshi.

Check out this Airtel Unlimited SMS Pack page to find out the exact tariff for your circle (for prepaid subscribers).

Postpaid subscribers can enjoy this Unlimited National/Local SMS pack at a monthly rental of Rs. 99.SMS “UNLIMITED” to 121 to activate this SMS pack.

Note:

This is not actually fully unlimited offer, Fair usage policy applies to this, meaning that there may be limit on the number of SMSs that you send on any given day (ex: 500 SMS per day !)
The free SMS offer doesn’t work on the Customary/ Festival days (Blackout days), Airtel will charge Rs, 1 per local SMS, Rs 1.50 per national SMS on these days.

Samsung Jet 2 Mobile Phone Specification

February 25, 2010 by dennis

Samsung Electronics has announced Jet series in India with the launch of Samsung Jet 2. It’s the same as original Jet but apparently with an “easy-to-use user interface of a conventional mobile phone” and provides consumers the benefits of advanced features of a smart phone.

The Jet 2 feature set remains the same with 800MHz applications processor, 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (WVGA), Dolfin browser, DLNA compatibility, Media browser, one-finger zoom, FM Radio, SNS widgets and Smart Unlock. The phone runs on TouchWiz UI 2.0 but also features Motion UI and Media Gate 3D.

The full specifications and features has been described below.

Feature	Description
Network	2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
Display	AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 16M colors Size 3.1 inches, TouchWiz v2.0 UI, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Motion UI, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Memory	Internal 2GB / 8GB External microSD, up to 16GB
Connectivity	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP microUSB 2.0
Camera	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash Geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, wide dynamic range Video 720×48 30fps, QVGA
Processor	Qualcomm MSM6246, 800Mhz processor
Music	MP3/WMA/eAAC+/WAV player, Stereo FM radio with RDS, FM recording
Battery	Li-Ion 1100 mAh Stand-by Up to 422 h (2G) / Up to 406 h (3G) Talk time Up 8 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 5 h (3G)
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
GPS	A-GPS support, Route 66
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, IM, Push Email
Colors Available	Black, Mystic Purple

It has some more Smartphone features like Multi-tasking Manager, Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync®, Continuous Shot, Panorama Shot, Mosaic Shot, Frame Shot, Fast 3D Touch and Motion-Response Interface.

The price in India will be Rs 19500 (INR) according to Samsung Retailer.

Brand Name	LG GD510 aka LG COOKIE PEP
Physical Details	Weight: 3.2 oz. Dimensions: 4×1.9×0.6 in.
Display	3″ WQVGA full touchscreen 256k colors 240 x 400 pixels(resolution)
Memory	42MB internal memory Expandable up to 8GB (using memory card)
Talk time	4.1 Hours 300 Hours standby time
Camera	3.15 Megapixels Max res: 2048×1536 pixels
Audio Playback formats	eAAC, MP3, WAV
Video Playback formats	H263, H264, MP4
Network	EDGE, GSM, UMTS (3G)
Connectivity	Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP MicroUSB
Colors	Silver

LG GD510 Cookie Pep Specifications: