Showing posts with label Google Phone. Show all posts
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Motorola launches second Android phone
Motorola Inc. introduced its second phone based on Google Inc.’s Android software, fighting for a bigger share of the growing market for Web-equipped phones to reverse more than a year of sales declines.
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The phone, called the Droid, features a larger screen than Apple Inc.’s top-selling iPhone and has higher resolution.
The phone, called the Droid, features a larger screen than Apple Inc.’s top-selling iPhone and has higher resolution, said co-chief executive Sanjay Jha. It will be available Nov. 6 on the Verizon Wireless website and in retail stores, Motorola said. The price will be US$199.99 with a two-year agreement after a US$100 mail-in rebate.
Motorola is rebuilding its mobile-phone division around the Android operating system to entice consumers who abandoned its handsets in favour of the iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry. Motorola’s share of the phone market dropped by almost half in the second quarter from 10% a year earlier, according to Gartner Inc.
“We’ve been missing from the market,” Mr. Jha, 46, said in an interview. The Droid “absolutely does” get Motorola back into the game with a better operating system and a faster Internet browser, he said.
Based on Android 2.0, a newer version of the Google operating system, the device allows users to run multiple applications at once, features voice-driven Web searches, and has one of the “fastest Web browsers available today,” Mr. Jha said.
T-Mobile USA Inc. will begin selling the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company’s first Android phone, the Cliq, on Nov. 2 for US$199.99 with a two-year contract.
“Droid boasts impressive specs and reviews from the blog community have been very favourable thus far,” said Matt Thornton, an analyst with Avian Securities LLC in Boston. “This should give some indication as to how the device will be received by the consumer, the press and the investor community.” Thornton has a “positive” rating on the stock.
Motorola plans more Android devices. At least one of those will be sold through a third carrier, Mr. Jha said. The Droid will be available through multiple carriers outside the U.S. later this year, he said.
Mr. Jha declined to comment on how Android phones will affect earnings. The company will report third-quarter results tomorrow. Analysts predict profit of less than 1 cent a share, excluding some items, the average of estimates in a Bloomberg survey.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
TIMELINE: Motorola banks on Google phones for comeback
Motorola Inc, seeking to regain market share, unveiled a cellphone on Thursday based on Google Inc's Android mobile software, in what is viewed as the handset maker's most important product launch in years.
Here is a look at Motorola's highs and lows over the years.
* 1928: Galvin family establishes Galvin Manufacturing. Its first product was a power converter.
* 1930: Changes name to Motorola. Three generations of Galvins lead Motorola until Christopher Galvin's 2004 ouster.
* 1943: First public offering of Motorola stock for $8.50.
* 1973: Motorola's Martin Cooper makes the first mobile phone call on a prototype of DynaTAC.
* 1984: DynaTAC becomes commercially available. It is later known as the "brick" when surpassed by lighter, smaller phones.
* 1989: Launches its first flip-phone, MicroTAC, which has a plastic cover that flips open to reveal its keypad.
* 1994: Motorola dominates cell market with a 32.5 percent share, versus Nokia's 21 percent, according to Gartner.
* Mid-1990s: The first digital wireless networks are built in Europe, but Motorola is slow to discard analog for digital.
* 1996: Launch of StarTAC, first of Motorola's clamshells with a lid that hinges open to reveal screen and keypad. It is popular, but Motorola's market share still slips that year.
* 2000: Motorola's market share is now 13 percent versus Nokia's 31 percent, according to Gartner. Motorola's market share hovers in mid-teen range for next few years.
* 2004: Late in the year Motorola launches Razr, an ultra-thin phone that quickly becomes a design icon. It is promoted by Cingular, now part of AT&T Inc.
* 2006: In July, Motorola says it has sold 50 million Razr phones and CEO Ed Zander promises sales of 500 million. But by late 2006, carriers are heavily discounting Razr. Some give it away to attract new subscribers. Motorola results start to disappoint and its market share peaks around 23 percent.
* 2007: Motorola shocks with a big first-quarter loss and its market share drops to 17 percent. Activist investor Carl Icahn begins pushing for the company to split up, buy back shares and fire its CEO. By July, the clamor for Zander's ouster increases after Motorola posts its second quarterly loss in a row and Apple Inc ups the ante with the launch of the iPhone. Motorola ends 2007 with 9 percent market share.
* January 2008: Greg Brown replaces Zander as CEO. Motorola posts a loss for three out of four quarters of that year.
* February 2008: Motorola says to spin off phone unit. Plan has since been postponed to "beyond 2009" amid continuing losses in its cellphone unit.
* April 2008: Motorola ends Icahn proxy battle.
* August 2008: Sanjay Jha becomes Brown's Co-CEO and head of mobile devices. Analysts, investors applaud the choice.
* October 2008: Jha reveals plan for Android phones, thousands of job cuts and refocusing Motorola on fewer operating systems. Motorola ends the year with less than 7 percent market share.
* December 2008: Jha, Brown promise to cut their own salaries by 25 percent.
* 2009: Motorola investors flee after a first-quarter loss, but the stock rallies again on a second-quarter profit. Jha's progress reports help push Motorola shares up more than 150 percent to a close of $7.85 on Wednesday, September 9, from a March low of $3.10.
* August 2009: Motorola flags September 10 Android announcement. Shares jump 11 percent in a single day ahead of the news.
* September 10: Motorola unveils Android phone.
Here is a look at Motorola's highs and lows over the years.
* 1928: Galvin family establishes Galvin Manufacturing. Its first product was a power converter.
* 1930: Changes name to Motorola. Three generations of Galvins lead Motorola until Christopher Galvin's 2004 ouster.
* 1943: First public offering of Motorola stock for $8.50.
* 1973: Motorola's Martin Cooper makes the first mobile phone call on a prototype of DynaTAC.
* 1984: DynaTAC becomes commercially available. It is later known as the "brick" when surpassed by lighter, smaller phones.
* 1989: Launches its first flip-phone, MicroTAC, which has a plastic cover that flips open to reveal its keypad.
* 1994: Motorola dominates cell market with a 32.5 percent share, versus Nokia's 21 percent, according to Gartner.
* Mid-1990s: The first digital wireless networks are built in Europe, but Motorola is slow to discard analog for digital.
* 1996: Launch of StarTAC, first of Motorola's clamshells with a lid that hinges open to reveal screen and keypad. It is popular, but Motorola's market share still slips that year.
* 2000: Motorola's market share is now 13 percent versus Nokia's 31 percent, according to Gartner. Motorola's market share hovers in mid-teen range for next few years.
* 2004: Late in the year Motorola launches Razr, an ultra-thin phone that quickly becomes a design icon. It is promoted by Cingular, now part of AT&T Inc.
* 2006: In July, Motorola says it has sold 50 million Razr phones and CEO Ed Zander promises sales of 500 million. But by late 2006, carriers are heavily discounting Razr. Some give it away to attract new subscribers. Motorola results start to disappoint and its market share peaks around 23 percent.
* 2007: Motorola shocks with a big first-quarter loss and its market share drops to 17 percent. Activist investor Carl Icahn begins pushing for the company to split up, buy back shares and fire its CEO. By July, the clamor for Zander's ouster increases after Motorola posts its second quarterly loss in a row and Apple Inc ups the ante with the launch of the iPhone. Motorola ends 2007 with 9 percent market share.
* January 2008: Greg Brown replaces Zander as CEO. Motorola posts a loss for three out of four quarters of that year.
* February 2008: Motorola says to spin off phone unit. Plan has since been postponed to "beyond 2009" amid continuing losses in its cellphone unit.
* April 2008: Motorola ends Icahn proxy battle.
* August 2008: Sanjay Jha becomes Brown's Co-CEO and head of mobile devices. Analysts, investors applaud the choice.
* October 2008: Jha reveals plan for Android phones, thousands of job cuts and refocusing Motorola on fewer operating systems. Motorola ends the year with less than 7 percent market share.
* December 2008: Jha, Brown promise to cut their own salaries by 25 percent.
* 2009: Motorola investors flee after a first-quarter loss, but the stock rallies again on a second-quarter profit. Jha's progress reports help push Motorola shares up more than 150 percent to a close of $7.85 on Wednesday, September 9, from a March low of $3.10.
* August 2009: Motorola flags September 10 Android announcement. Shares jump 11 percent in a single day ahead of the news.
* September 10: Motorola unveils Android phone.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Google Voice Challenger Ribbit Mobile Launches
The company is not yet positioning its cloud-based phone messaging service as an enterprise offering
Ribbit Mobile has launched a cloud-based service that enables users to combine multiple phone numbers, make calls from the Internet, and receive transcribed voicemails.
Like Google Voice, Ribbit lets calls ring multiple phone numbers and can transcribe voicemails as searchable text files. Upon receiving a call, Ribbit Mobile can ring various landline, mobile, and soft phones services such as Skype and Google Talk, and users can answer and initiate calls from a PC.
Unlike Google's offerings, Ribbit Mobile users don't have to adopt a new number, as it works with existing mobile phone numbers.
Ribbit described the offering as a form of personal customer-relationship management (CRM). Users will also be able to see a caller's Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn messages when receiving a call. Ribbit said this "caller ID 2.0" gives context to verbal conversations. An online backup service is also offered.
Ribbit's service will be open to third-party developers, which is why the company is not yet positioning its service as an enterprise offering. The company said it is focused on building a solid communications platform that can be used by developers for consumers and businesses alike. iPhone and BlackBerry application are on the way, and Ribbit says it envisions multiple enterprise-focused apps eventually emerging from the developer community.
The company will also be rolling out a developer rewards program which will compensate content creators based on how much their apps are used.
This is aimed at making Ribbit's app process more of a meritocracy than other app environments, the company said.
The service is currently in beta. It includes unlimited automated voicemail transcriptions and calls. Ribbit Mobile will have tiered pricing that ranges from free to $30 a month when it comes out of beta. Users can sign up at Ribbit's Web site for an invitation.
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Ribbit Mobile has launched a cloud-based service that enables users to combine multiple phone numbers, make calls from the Internet, and receive transcribed voicemails.
Like Google Voice, Ribbit lets calls ring multiple phone numbers and can transcribe voicemails as searchable text files. Upon receiving a call, Ribbit Mobile can ring various landline, mobile, and soft phones services such as Skype and Google Talk, and users can answer and initiate calls from a PC.
Unlike Google's offerings, Ribbit Mobile users don't have to adopt a new number, as it works with existing mobile phone numbers.
Ribbit described the offering as a form of personal customer-relationship management (CRM). Users will also be able to see a caller's Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn messages when receiving a call. Ribbit said this "caller ID 2.0" gives context to verbal conversations. An online backup service is also offered.
Ribbit's service will be open to third-party developers, which is why the company is not yet positioning its service as an enterprise offering. The company said it is focused on building a solid communications platform that can be used by developers for consumers and businesses alike. iPhone and BlackBerry application are on the way, and Ribbit says it envisions multiple enterprise-focused apps eventually emerging from the developer community.
The company will also be rolling out a developer rewards program which will compensate content creators based on how much their apps are used.
This is aimed at making Ribbit's app process more of a meritocracy than other app environments, the company said.
The service is currently in beta. It includes unlimited automated voicemail transcriptions and calls. Ribbit Mobile will have tiered pricing that ranges from free to $30 a month when it comes out of beta. Users can sign up at Ribbit's Web site for an invitation.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Microsoft outsmarted Windows Phone OS rings in the new
The oft-renamed Windows mobile phone platform has never matched the glitz of the iPhone or BlackBerry. But is that about to change?
Among smartphone users, Windows Phone – the handset operating system formerly known as Windows Mobile – tends to not to provoke excitement. This is a space dominated by flashy handsets such as the iPhone, now in its third incarnation – with its OS X operating system also at 3.0 after just two years – and by buzz about new operating systems such as Google's Android and the Palm Pre's WebOS.
Worse, Microsoft has had to play catchup to Apple, Google, Palm and even RIM, introducing an "app store" for Windows Phone after its rivals had done so – and after insisting that nobody was making much money from Apple's iPhone App Store. In January 2007, its chief executive, Steve Ballmer, dismissed the iPhone as "the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine". In fiscal 2008/9, the iPhone sold 20.4m units – compared with an estimated 18m Windows Phone licences. (Microsoft has not given numbers for the year, but has not said they were any higher than 2007-08.)
Call for more style
In short, Windows Phone has an image problem – which has not been altered by rebranding it.
Besides the endless name changes (from PocketPC to Windows Mobile to Phone), the Windows phone platform has been regarded as a dull tool for corporations instead of a strong player in the consumer market, and its user interface has never been much to write home about. Third-party vendors have gone so far as to build their own front ends to hide its perceived ugliness, though offerings such as HTC's Touch-Flo haven't always been an entirely good thing, placing a further burden on the phone's CPU.
Yet Windows Phone is the determined tortoise of the smartphone world, having been around since 1996. Microsoft hopes that its next version – snappily named 6.5 – will end its reputation as a plodding also-ran and spur it to catch up with flashier hares such as the iPhone and HTC Hero.
But is it enough? Roberta Cozza, principal analyst with Gartner, says no. "It's too little, too late. WinMo has been struggling in the consumer market. 6.5 is a small improvement in the look and feel, but it's not comparable with efforts from other vendors."
The irony is that what had seemed like a sure thing – aiming a mobile form of Windows squarely at the business users who had it on their desktops – has turned out to be a mistake.
At its core, the OS offers enterprise solutions such as Office apps and support for Exchange, Microsoft's email and collaboration application. This has made it popular with corporate IT departments; consumers, however, have been less impressed. And the BlackBerry was already there to grab market share.
All this is changing, says James McCarthy, Microsoft's business manager for mobile communications. The next release, probably in September, "pays real attention to the consumer". Certainly, the new look places it much more firmly in the arena with the iPhone and LG Viewty.
The whole interface has had a makeover, aimed at making it much more intuitive and finger-friendly. Until now, using Windows Mobile has tended to require a stylus – fiddly, easy to break and to lose – because the screens on the devices have been small and packed with information.
A lot of care has been taken with the home screen. There's no need to drill down to an application: if it tells you you have an email, you can launch it right away.
Microsoft will also launch a series of related products, from an app store to MyPhone, an online backup service that already works well in beta.
Perhaps the most important thing for any smartphone is the ecosystem that grows up around it. Apple's App Store for the iPhone registered 1.5bn downloads in its first year, and rivals quickly followed: RIM, which makes the BlackBerry, has its App World, Nokia its oddly named Ovi World, and there's the Android Market for handsets running Google's Android. "It's a battle of the ecosystems," says Cozza. "Microsoft needs to come up with a strategy around an application marketplace."
Microsoft had left the apps business to partners such as Handango, but now would argue that it's doing precisely that. With its app store Windows Marketplace for Mobile (it's rubbish at names), it understands that it must offer at least some apps when it launches 6.5. There will be 20,000 available, and McCarthy says "We're busy making sure that they work with the handsets – there's a ton of work going into that."
Consumer challenge
The key question is whether Microsoft can be a big player in the consumer space. The figures suggest it has some catching up to do. According to Gartner, Windows Mobile has a steady 10% or so of the OS market – competing against proprietary Sony Ericsson and Samsung systems, as well as Symbian, which runs on Nokia and some other phones, and the offerings on the BlackBerry, the iPhone, Android and Palm. Its share of the smartphone market has fallen as the iPhone has wormed its way into corporations, by licensing Microsoft Exchange so that it can handle ActiveSync push notifications and calendaring.
However, says US-based analyst Michael Gartenberg, "of course it's not late to the party". He reckons that the new version of Windows Mobile will "have a lot of appeal to consumers" and that it "builds on a solid foundation". Gartenberg, vice-president of strategy and analysis at Interpret, argues that other smartphone manufacturers still cannot match Windows Mobile as a business offering.
With a Windows Mobile phone, he says, you can not only take pictures and keep up with Facebook and Twitter, you can also edit a Microsoft Word document or an Excel spreadsheet and then email it to your colleagues – which you can't (yet) do with an iPhone. Business people who need that are also consumers who want to keep up with their social networks, he notes, adding that Windows Mobile offers the best of both worlds.
Cozza concedes that Windows Mobile is "a strong platform for enterprise", but adds that for a smartphone to succeed, it needs to blur the dividing line between business and consumer users. RIM, with the BlackBerry, has done that smartly, she says.
But, counters Gartenberg, Windows Mobile already does that. What Microsoft needs to do now is to tell the story of its latest version of the system. "There's a lot of negative perception about WinMo," he says, adding that there's everything to play for.
"Six platforms can't survive," he says. "The battle is hardly over yet. "Cozza is more cautious: "We will have to wait and see," she says.
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Among smartphone users, Windows Phone – the handset operating system formerly known as Windows Mobile – tends to not to provoke excitement. This is a space dominated by flashy handsets such as the iPhone, now in its third incarnation – with its OS X operating system also at 3.0 after just two years – and by buzz about new operating systems such as Google's Android and the Palm Pre's WebOS.
Worse, Microsoft has had to play catchup to Apple, Google, Palm and even RIM, introducing an "app store" for Windows Phone after its rivals had done so – and after insisting that nobody was making much money from Apple's iPhone App Store. In January 2007, its chief executive, Steve Ballmer, dismissed the iPhone as "the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine". In fiscal 2008/9, the iPhone sold 20.4m units – compared with an estimated 18m Windows Phone licences. (Microsoft has not given numbers for the year, but has not said they were any higher than 2007-08.)
Call for more style
In short, Windows Phone has an image problem – which has not been altered by rebranding it.
Besides the endless name changes (from PocketPC to Windows Mobile to Phone), the Windows phone platform has been regarded as a dull tool for corporations instead of a strong player in the consumer market, and its user interface has never been much to write home about. Third-party vendors have gone so far as to build their own front ends to hide its perceived ugliness, though offerings such as HTC's Touch-Flo haven't always been an entirely good thing, placing a further burden on the phone's CPU.
Yet Windows Phone is the determined tortoise of the smartphone world, having been around since 1996. Microsoft hopes that its next version – snappily named 6.5 – will end its reputation as a plodding also-ran and spur it to catch up with flashier hares such as the iPhone and HTC Hero.
But is it enough? Roberta Cozza, principal analyst with Gartner, says no. "It's too little, too late. WinMo has been struggling in the consumer market. 6.5 is a small improvement in the look and feel, but it's not comparable with efforts from other vendors."
The irony is that what had seemed like a sure thing – aiming a mobile form of Windows squarely at the business users who had it on their desktops – has turned out to be a mistake.
At its core, the OS offers enterprise solutions such as Office apps and support for Exchange, Microsoft's email and collaboration application. This has made it popular with corporate IT departments; consumers, however, have been less impressed. And the BlackBerry was already there to grab market share.
All this is changing, says James McCarthy, Microsoft's business manager for mobile communications. The next release, probably in September, "pays real attention to the consumer". Certainly, the new look places it much more firmly in the arena with the iPhone and LG Viewty.
The whole interface has had a makeover, aimed at making it much more intuitive and finger-friendly. Until now, using Windows Mobile has tended to require a stylus – fiddly, easy to break and to lose – because the screens on the devices have been small and packed with information.
A lot of care has been taken with the home screen. There's no need to drill down to an application: if it tells you you have an email, you can launch it right away.
Microsoft will also launch a series of related products, from an app store to MyPhone, an online backup service that already works well in beta.
Perhaps the most important thing for any smartphone is the ecosystem that grows up around it. Apple's App Store for the iPhone registered 1.5bn downloads in its first year, and rivals quickly followed: RIM, which makes the BlackBerry, has its App World, Nokia its oddly named Ovi World, and there's the Android Market for handsets running Google's Android. "It's a battle of the ecosystems," says Cozza. "Microsoft needs to come up with a strategy around an application marketplace."
Microsoft had left the apps business to partners such as Handango, but now would argue that it's doing precisely that. With its app store Windows Marketplace for Mobile (it's rubbish at names), it understands that it must offer at least some apps when it launches 6.5. There will be 20,000 available, and McCarthy says "We're busy making sure that they work with the handsets – there's a ton of work going into that."
Consumer challenge
The key question is whether Microsoft can be a big player in the consumer space. The figures suggest it has some catching up to do. According to Gartner, Windows Mobile has a steady 10% or so of the OS market – competing against proprietary Sony Ericsson and Samsung systems, as well as Symbian, which runs on Nokia and some other phones, and the offerings on the BlackBerry, the iPhone, Android and Palm. Its share of the smartphone market has fallen as the iPhone has wormed its way into corporations, by licensing Microsoft Exchange so that it can handle ActiveSync push notifications and calendaring.
However, says US-based analyst Michael Gartenberg, "of course it's not late to the party". He reckons that the new version of Windows Mobile will "have a lot of appeal to consumers" and that it "builds on a solid foundation". Gartenberg, vice-president of strategy and analysis at Interpret, argues that other smartphone manufacturers still cannot match Windows Mobile as a business offering.
With a Windows Mobile phone, he says, you can not only take pictures and keep up with Facebook and Twitter, you can also edit a Microsoft Word document or an Excel spreadsheet and then email it to your colleagues – which you can't (yet) do with an iPhone. Business people who need that are also consumers who want to keep up with their social networks, he notes, adding that Windows Mobile offers the best of both worlds.
Cozza concedes that Windows Mobile is "a strong platform for enterprise", but adds that for a smartphone to succeed, it needs to blur the dividing line between business and consumer users. RIM, with the BlackBerry, has done that smartly, she says.
But, counters Gartenberg, Windows Mobile already does that. What Microsoft needs to do now is to tell the story of its latest version of the system. "There's a lot of negative perception about WinMo," he says, adding that there's everything to play for.
"Six platforms can't survive," he says. "The battle is hardly over yet. "Cozza is more cautious: "We will have to wait and see," she says.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Google says no to voice facility launch in India
A couple of months after internet search engine Google launched Google Voice-its service allowing internet to mobile phone calls, the company today said the service could not be launched in India due to legal constraints.
“While India is a key market for us, product-wise, and despite the fact that Google Voice is slated to be an important part of our portfolio, we will not launch it here, because of restrictions laid by law,” said Vinay Goel, head of products, Google India.
According to Clause 1(14) of the revised license scheme of internet telephony services launched by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), voice over internet calls are allowed in three situation:
First, if the calls emanate from a personal computer (PC) in India to a PC outside the country; second, where a PC in India is used to call a telephone outside India; and third, from an IP-based H.323/SIP Terminal in India to similar terminals in India and abroad.
This means that while users would be allowed to call telephones outside the country, calling telephone users within India is a problem.
“So, while launching the service is legal, and acceptable, at best it would be a half-service because users would not be allowed to make PC to telephone calls within the country. We do not see any justification in launching a half-service,” Goel said.
Google eyes mobile internet users
On the back of a three-fold growth in internet users in India and the growing smart phone market, Google has set its sight on mobile phone internet users. “Going forward in the Indian market, Google will increasingly customise products to suit users on mobile phones. We have, for example, customised Google Instant as a phone application,” Goel said.
According to the company’s assessments, the primary factors driving growth of mobile internet users would be the fact that India boasts of some of the cheapest internet data plans across the world. Added to this, increasing SmartPhone penetration especially with the arrival of the sub-10, 000 category would boost the market as well.
“India currently has about 100 million internet users, about 10 per cent of the overall population, which means there is a huge unexplored market,” Goel said.
“While India is a key market for us, product-wise, and despite the fact that Google Voice is slated to be an important part of our portfolio, we will not launch it here, because of restrictions laid by law,” said Vinay Goel, head of products, Google India.
According to Clause 1(14) of the revised license scheme of internet telephony services launched by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), voice over internet calls are allowed in three situation:
First, if the calls emanate from a personal computer (PC) in India to a PC outside the country; second, where a PC in India is used to call a telephone outside India; and third, from an IP-based H.323/SIP Terminal in India to similar terminals in India and abroad.
This means that while users would be allowed to call telephones outside the country, calling telephone users within India is a problem.
“So, while launching the service is legal, and acceptable, at best it would be a half-service because users would not be allowed to make PC to telephone calls within the country. We do not see any justification in launching a half-service,” Goel said.
Google eyes mobile internet users
On the back of a three-fold growth in internet users in India and the growing smart phone market, Google has set its sight on mobile phone internet users. “Going forward in the Indian market, Google will increasingly customise products to suit users on mobile phones. We have, for example, customised Google Instant as a phone application,” Goel said.
According to the company’s assessments, the primary factors driving growth of mobile internet users would be the fact that India boasts of some of the cheapest internet data plans across the world. Added to this, increasing SmartPhone penetration especially with the arrival of the sub-10, 000 category would boost the market as well.
“India currently has about 100 million internet users, about 10 per cent of the overall population, which means there is a huge unexplored market,” Goel said.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Intex Mobile Projector Phones
Intex Projector Mobile Phone V.show Specifications
1. Projection upto 61 inches of screen/wall with a high intensity projection of 10 lumens and QWVGA resolution.
2. Projection can be enjoyed up to a distance of 12 ft (between the screen/wall and the phone).
3. Battery life of 3 hrs when watching the projection. So you can watch whole movie at once without charging.
4. Touch-screen Dual SIM (GSM + GSM).
5. Dual Screen mode (phone screen mode and projector screen mode are simultaneously active).
6. Dual Camera and a Dual Card memory slot of 8 GB each to expand the internal memory of 64 MB.
7. FM radio (wireless and wired) enabled, with GPRS connectivity and has an 3.2 inches dust resistant touch screen.
V.Show Price in India
This phone is available at around 12K in India, and with little bargain you can get this phone at Rs10000-10500.
So, what can you do with this phone.
Mobile Projector phone allows you to watch movie on the wall screen. Download the movie in your phone's (may be some companies start giving phones with pre loaded movies) : these movie are just 250 MB's, watch these movie at high resolution screen.
Apart from that, what's now possible is that start a video conferencing call directly from your phone. With 3G already in your phone, you have option of making video calls using this high speed internet. Project this video on the wall, and start a video conferencing call. What's the best part is you can do all this for free. From free calls, its time for free video calls.
You must have done video chat on your PC. Now it will be possible on your mobile Phone. I am waiting if Google start their Google Video chat for phone, with Google Voice already in the market.
1. Projection upto 61 inches of screen/wall with a high intensity projection of 10 lumens and QWVGA resolution.
2. Projection can be enjoyed up to a distance of 12 ft (between the screen/wall and the phone).
3. Battery life of 3 hrs when watching the projection. So you can watch whole movie at once without charging.
4. Touch-screen Dual SIM (GSM + GSM).
5. Dual Screen mode (phone screen mode and projector screen mode are simultaneously active).
6. Dual Camera and a Dual Card memory slot of 8 GB each to expand the internal memory of 64 MB.
7. FM radio (wireless and wired) enabled, with GPRS connectivity and has an 3.2 inches dust resistant touch screen.
V.Show Price in India
This phone is available at around 12K in India, and with little bargain you can get this phone at Rs10000-10500.
So, what can you do with this phone.
Mobile Projector phone allows you to watch movie on the wall screen. Download the movie in your phone's (may be some companies start giving phones with pre loaded movies) : these movie are just 250 MB's, watch these movie at high resolution screen.
Apart from that, what's now possible is that start a video conferencing call directly from your phone. With 3G already in your phone, you have option of making video calls using this high speed internet. Project this video on the wall, and start a video conferencing call. What's the best part is you can do all this for free. From free calls, its time for free video calls.
You must have done video chat on your PC. Now it will be possible on your mobile Phone. I am waiting if Google start their Google Video chat for phone, with Google Voice already in the market.
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