Facebook phone - Vodafone Blue

Vodafone and facebook came together to launch the facebook phone in India. Named Vodafone Blue, the facebook phone comes with dedicated buttons and customized interface to support facebook. Vodafone Blue has features which makes users easy to update status, share photos, comment and for easy browsing of facebook. The mobile contacts sync with the facebook profile.

Vodafone Blue also comes with application, Palringo Chat Suite which supports gtalk, AIM, iChat, Facebook Chat, ICQ and more.  Other applications include an email client (with POP3 and IMAP support) and Opera Mini web browser.

With all these features, facebook phone, the vodafone blue, comes for a price under Rs. 5000.

Vodafone blue features -

• a 2.4"  TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels


• QWERTY Keyboard layout


• 40 MB internal memory. MicroSD expandable up to 16 GB


• GPRS and EDGE support


• Bluetooth v2.1, USB v2.0


• 200 Mhz Processor


• FM Radio with 3.5mm audio jack


• Audio/Video Formats : mp3, aac, wma, mp4, h.263


• Price: Approximately Rs. 4750

Even though called as the Facebook phone, the only way to connect to internet is through GPRS, EDGE. There is no 3G nor WLAN support which is quite disappointing but with such a price tag, it is what we pay for.

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Philips Xenium X806 Dual Sim

Philips phones are probably not so popular in India but it does compete for its share in European and Russian Market. Philips mobiles are known for their exceptional battery life. After a long time Philips is releasing a touch phone in India. Little late to the market but strong enough as it claims a battery life of 1 month in stand-by mode. The phone will be released on 7th September 2011.



Specifications -

• Dual SIM GSM Network


• 3" TFT Touch Screen with Resolution 240 x 400px (155ppi)


• 47mb Internal Memory, MicroSD Card Slot expandable upto 8GB


• GPRS Class 10, EDGE Class 10, Bluetooth and USB Connectivity


• 5MP Camera, 2560 x 1920 pixels, AutoFocus with LED Flash


• VGA Video Recording @ 15fps


• Support for mp3, wma, wav, h.263, h.264 and mp4.

The phone is expected to cost around Rs. 10,000. Undoubtedly overpriced. Let us just wait and see for its actual price.

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Yet another Projector phone - Micromax X40

When the big brothers of mobile industry stays away from projector phones, here comes Micromax's new projector phone Micromax X40. After Intex, Spice and G'Five, Micromax debuts its first projector phone. X40 has more features than just the projector. It comes with support to read multiple office format documents like Word, Excel, Powerpoint and even PDF.



Phone features -

- Dual SIM Capability

- a QVGA 2.4" screen 240 x 320 pixels with 262k colors.

- 2 MP camera with resolution 1600 x 1200 pixels

- Bluetooth and USB connectivity

- WAP, GPRS, EDGE support

- FM Radio,  MP3 Player

- 80MB inbuilt memory expandable upto  4 GB

- Multi format document reader supporting Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF documents

- Preloaded applications like Facebook,  Nimbuzz, Opera Mini, Snaptu, Mundu Radio etc..

Price: Approximately Rs. 4800

The phone also comes with a portable Tripod and Transceiver. Price looks competitive to its specifications.

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Nokia announces budget phones Nokia 100 and 101

Nokia has announced two new phones Nokia 100 and Nokia 101. Nokia though fails to compete with the higher end phones with its Symbian, it is doing quite well in budget range mobile phone segment. Nokia 100 and 101 look identical but Nokia 100 is totally a basic phone with not much features.

Nokia 100 and Nokia 101 are aimed for the population that travels and finds difficult to recharge the battery every often. Nokia claims that these two phones are going to give a 35 hours stand by time.

Nokia 100

Symbian Series 30 Operating System

1.8"  TFT display with resolution 128 x 160 pixels with 65k colors

500 phone book contacts

FM Radio

Torch Light

Price: Approximately Rs. 900

Nokia 101

Symbian Series 30 Operating System

1.8"  TFT display with resolution 128 x 160 pixels with 65k colors

Dual SIM ( but not Dual Stand-by)

MP3 Support

FM Radio

3.5 mm Audio jack

Memory Slot - Memory expandable up to 16GB

Price: Approximately Rs. 1200

With this Nokia 100 probably becomes the cheapest phone to be released in India.

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RIM announces Blackberry Curve phones

Research In Motion has announced three new phones to the Blackberry Curve series. Blackberry Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370. All the three phones are identical in looks and almost similar in features except for the network capability and the built-in memory. Blackberry Curve 9370 is capable of both CDMA and GSM connectivity with 1GB built-in memory while the other two, Blackberry 9350 and Blackberry 9360 support only CDMA connectivity with 512MB of built-in memory.

All the three phones have -

• A 2.44" display with 480 x 360 Resolution


• 512 MB of RAM


• 800 MHz processor


• BlackBerry OS 7.0


• 5MP Camera with LED Flash and resolution 2592х1944 pixels


• VGA Video recording


• Bluetooth, Wifi 802.11n, A-GPS and NFC

The three phones are expected to arrive at the end of September 2011 and aimed to be available at lower prices.

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