Gadgets and Gizmos

LG’s Watch Phone Makes Its Way to India

This mobile phone and watch rolled into one snazzy device allows convenient communication coupled with a Bluetooth headset. LG has used materials and stylistic elements found in watches from top manufacturers to ensure that users will be comfortable wearing it for any occasion.

The Watch Phone has a curved tempered glass face, high quality metal casing and is a mere 13.9mm thick. It also packs in 3G Video Telephony (VT) service and GSM Network capabilities.

Priced at Rs. 49,900 it features 7.2 Mbps 3G HSDPA compatibility, enabling high-speed data transmission and video phone calls using the built-in camera.

Kindle books now available on BlackBerry

Mumbai: BlackBerry has partnered with Amazon to get direct access to Amazon Kindle’s books. Blackberry will offer around 4,10,000 books for free from Kindle, according to DuniyaLive.

Blackberry models Bold 9700, Tour 9630, Curve 8520 and 8900, Storm 9530 and 9550, and Bold 9000 will have this new reading feature. So f
ar the launch has been announced on for U.S. customers but it is expected to spread to other customers worldwide pretty soon.

TTSL Crosses 60 million subscriber adds nearly 3 million subscribers in Jan

Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) added more than 2.98 million subscribers in January 2010.Tata Teleservices Limited added 2,981,853 new subscribers in January 2010 from its CDMA and GSM operations put together. In December 2009 too, TTSL had showed a healthy growth in new subscriber additions, adding 3,336,476 new subscribers.

The company has now led in new subscriber additions for six consecutive months,and have now emerged as the fifth-largest telecom operator in the industry, with over 60 million subscribers.

TTSL also launched recently new mobile telephony brand T24 on the GSM platform, in partnership with Future Group. TTSL Coupled with offers such as Pay Per Call Flexi Plan from Tata Indicom and BuddyNet from Tata DOCOMO, as also the recent launch of Virgin Mobile’s GSM services, Tata Teleservices’coustomes can now choose a plan and brand in accordance to their lifestyle and usage patterns, and stay connected at on the industry’s best network.

LG launches `Ice Cream’ phone in India

NEW DELHI: Korean major LG’s `Ice Cream’ phone has come to India. The company has announced the launch of its latest clamshell handset, KF350, also known as the `Ice Cream’ phone, in India.

LG KF350 is targeted at the fairer sex and has been launched to mark the International Women’s Day (falling on March 8).

KF350 has a 2.2-inch QVGA, TFT display capable of displaying 262K colors. It also comes with an external LED Matrix display that can display the time and other notifications.

The mobile phone’s other features include a 3 megapixel camera, QVGA video recording, FM Radio and a full-fledged music player. There’s 25MB of internal memory that can be increased to 2GB using a microSD card. Connectivity options include WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML browser, Bluetooth and microUSB. EDGE over GPRS is also supported. (more…)

Samsung Jet 2 Reaches India

Samsung has announced its latest touchscreen handset dubbed the Jet 2 in India. The Jet 2 is an obvious successor to the “original” Jet announced last year.

If you thought the Jet 2 was a major upgrade over the previous phone, be prepared to be disappointed. The Samsung Jet 2 basically is the same old Jet with some software tweaks. The hardware, however, remains the same. The features are almost the same too. We’re talking about the 3.1 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, TouchWiz 2.0 UI, Wi-Fi, GPS, DNSe & SRS Sound Effect technology. The imaging bit is handled by a 5MP camera. The 800MHz processor, same as the one on the original Jet continues to do the number crunching here.

Like the previous Jet, this one too allows multitasking. Samsung’s own Dolphin browser can be used to browse the World Wide Web in its full glory. It even supports multiple windows. Of course, you can also install Opera Mini and other Java based browsers if you need more options.

The new Jet doesn’t even come with the updated version of Samsung’s own TouchWiz UI but comes with the older version. There are other UI enhancements though which claim to provide a “superior and differentiated experience.” The media gate UI, as Samsung calls it, features one finger zoom which can be used while browsing the Web, viewing photos or TXT, PDF and PPT files.

The Jet is priced at Rs. 19,500 and is now available at a Samsung dealer near you.