Samsung's Solar Powered Mobile

Samsung India introduced the world's first solar-powered mobile phone `Solar Guru' (Guru E1107) which enables users to charge the battery anywhere the sun is shining. This phone is specially developed by keeping in mind the needs of consumers in areas where electric supply is unstable.

The handset has the capacity to provide around 5-10 minutes of talk time with one hour of solar charging. This phone will be lauched in market by mid of June at a price of Rs 2,799.

Planning to buy Nokia 5320

Lost Mobile last month. I m planning to buy Nokia 5320 device. Device looks cool, but I am more worried about it's Sound quality. 5320 is express music edition, but i have heard song on my friends 5320, it is not upto the mark. Will post more about 5320 once I bought.

Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95

I was browsing net and found something. I am not sure it is true or not.

source : osnews

In what can only be called "totally frakking awesome", someone installed Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95. By using DOSBox, Polish developer Marcin-PRV was able to install the ageing operating system on the Symbian-powered smartphone, allowing both operating systems to run side-by-side.

Sure, it might not be particularly useful or usable, but that doesn't mean it isn't totally cool. The screen is rather small, and I guess the mouse is being controlled by the five way pointer of the phone, but the phone itself is powerful enough to run Windows 3.1 easily, and I'm sure Windows 95 wouldn't be too much trouble either. DOSBox was used to emulate a 486-class processor.

The use of this? Well, fun, mostly, and a sense of "why not?". I'd love to be able to run Windows 3.1 on my Nokia E71; not because it would make any sense, but just because it's cool. With phones getting ever more powerful, there's enough spare cycles in there to dedicate to silly things like this.

Universal Mobile Charger By 2012

Barcelona, Spain — Universal chargers for mobile phones could be widely available by 2012, resulting from a commitment by 17 leading mobile operators and the GSMA global cellular trade group, announced this week.

The GSMA is calling upon the cellular industry to adopt micro USB as the common standard interface for phone chargers and to conform to energy-efficiency targets that would cut the energy consumption of the chargers by 50 percent.

AT&T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and T-Mobile are among those supporting the initiative announced at Mobile World Congress.

The group hopes that by Jan. 1, 2012, the majority of all new mobile phone models worldwide will support the universal charger as well as the high energy-efficiency targets.

source : Twice

Yahoo! Mobile application

A brand new Yahoo! Mobile application which is available for the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android.

Yahoo says this new application is “a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet” and provides “an open environment within which consumers can bring together their favourite content and services.”

Yahoo has also announced a partnership with Opera and thus the Opera Mini 4.2 browser is to be integrated in Yahoo! Mobile smartphones, and the app will be available generally as of March 2009.

Among the features that Yahoo! Mobile brings together, we must mention:

• Quick Yahoo! mobile search
• New maps tools
• Easy access to email and social network accounts
• Instant messaging
• Address book & calendar tools
• The latest news, stocks, RSS feeds, weather, horoscopes etc

source : unwiredview

HTC - Android Device

Vodafone and HTC Corporation have announced the HTC Magic smartphone, Vodafone’s first Android-powered mobile.

"The announcement of the HTC Magic is an important step for Android and the Open Handset Alliance," says Andy Rubin, Senior Director of Mobile Platforms at Google.

Features of HTC Magic :
- a QVGA touch screen display
- Handwriting recognition
- MicroSD card support
- Wi-Fi, 3G, EDGE/GPRS
- Bluetooth only for mono headset, USB (mini)
- 3 megapixel AF camera
- GPS

HTC Magic also includes variety of email options like Gmail, Pop3, IMAP.

Nokia E75 & E55

Nokia has officially announced two new E-series phone, that is E75 and E55. Both the devices has company’s new email user interface and they both come with Nokia messaging for corporate email communication. It will give user full desktop email experience. Both devices has new email user interface, Nokia Maps, Ngage Gaming, 3.2 MP Camera, USB 2.0 & lot more..

Nokia E75 has QWERTY keyboard and one click access to most commonly used programs. Whild Nokia E55 is looks like advance version of E51 with similar features expect the keypad. Strong point of Nokia E55 is it can provide up to 28 days of stand by.

Nokia E75 will be available starting March 2009, for an estimated retail price of 375 Euros, in three color versions: black, red and a rather odd light-brown. Nokia E55 will be available for purchase in the second quarter of 2009, for 265 Euros,