Reliance Communications and Research In Motion (RIM) launched the first prepaid service for the BlackBerry® wireless solution in India. This first of its kind ‘pay as you use’ pricing model in India is in line with Reliance Communications’ strategy to extend BlackBerry services to customers who are looking for cost-effective options, giving customers flexibility and control over their expenses for wireless services. Reliance Communications has been on the forefront of offering a wide range of prepaid options to consumers across its data cards, mobile phones and fixed wireless phones offering. This prepaid service option is available on a range of BlackBerry smartphones including: The BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition smartphone, which operates on both CDMA & GSM networks The BlackBerry® Curve™ 8330 smartphone on CDMA networks The BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 smartphone on GSM networks The BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8100 smartphone on GSM networks The BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 smartphone on CDMA networks, and  The BlackBerry® 8703e smartphone on CDMA networks For further query, customers can visit any Reliance World or Reliance Communications...

  RIM, Zain Malawi, and EMS (Emitac Mobile Solutions) yesterday announced the launch of the BlackBerry solution in Malawi underscoring Zain’s commitment in modernizing telecommunication industry in the country. At launch, BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service will be offered as well as the BlackBerry Curve 8900, the lightest and thinnest BlackBerry mobile device with QWERTY keyboard. Zain subscribers in Malawi will be pleased to enjoy easy access to multimedia, email and other services on the go.  

Samsung Company presented in the Korean market a new mobile phone SCH-W760 The main feature of novelty is a front camera for video, with its infra-red lights, thanks to this feature videophone can be used even in total darkness. However, in this case, the user image, transmitted counterpart, will be black and white. Specifications Samsung SCH-W760: • Cellular GSM and WCDMA / HSDPA (7,2 Mbit / s) • 2,8-inch AMOLED-display with WQVGA resolution and supporting 16m colors • 3 MP Camera • S-DMB receiver • Bluetooth interface • Battery capacity 1000 mAh • Talk time - up to 240 minutes (WCDMA), up to 430 minutes (GSM) • Standby time - up to 360 hours (WCDMA), up to 450 hours (GSM) • Dimensions - 109x51, 9x13, 9 mm • Weight - 114 grams The cost of such an unusual phone is $ 460, sales of Samsung SCH-W760 in Korea operator SKT has already begun, but is not yet known when the novelty appears outside the Korean market. Source: GSMPress...

Operating system for smartphones and communicators Windows Mobile 6.5 was announced in February 2009 at Mobile World Congress. The first device in this platform to be released in the 4 th quarter of 2009, but it is now known that all could be held a month ahead of schedule - in September 2009, They should be the HTC Diamond2, HTC Touch Pro2 and LG GM7300.  New version of mobile operating system offers a significantly redesigned graphical user interface. Now it is optimized to work without a stylus. Icons are placed in a cage of hexagons. Options menu in the navigation display, and gradually occupy the entire screen. As described in Microsoft, hexagons have been chosen not casually. In this form «button», according to the developers, and users will be more convenient to click on one finger. The new system also brings more opportunities for web-surfing. When a web browser at the bottom of the screen displays the main display mode settings. Adobe Flash Player is built directly into the browser. Along with WM 6.5 on the MWC announced two new service - My Phone and Windows Marketplace. My Phone is designed for synchronization of personal data stored in memory and on the server. The second service is a nothing more than an Internet shop...

Recently, in our news was mentioned mobile phone for the elderly, it has released a western company Profoon Telecommunicatie - Profoon PM-505. Phone convenient and easy to use. Now Russia can boast of such telephone company «Telesystems» released on the market «Special cell phone», the device provider just for the elderly and people with disabilities. Very pleased that begins the formation of such a segment of mobile phones in the mobile market. «Special Cell Phone » does not contain any special features, he has a big set of buttons, they are located in three series of two buttons each (provided for low). This dial is not necessarily - each button is programmed to a particular subscriber, and that the pensioner was able to reach that subscriber, it will need to click one button definition. Another useful feature - the possibility of SMS-mailing to all programed numbers if the subscriber does not go to the link at the desired time. Should be very helpful to caregivers, nurses and relatives. Also, the device has an alarm clock, which always reminds the owner of the need medication. Source: GSMPress...

It is now 30 years since the release of the first portable player in Japan and Walkman's «Soundabout» abroad. Japanese engineer Nobutoshi Kihara specially formulated for its general director of Sony Akio Morita, who was often in flight and are  deprived of opportunities to listen to their favorite musical opera. Trademarks of Sony is also a: «Pressman», «Watchman», «Scoopman», «Discman» and «Talkman», which were used for the names of a wide range of portable devices for entertainment. After the «Discman» for CD players came out of use in the late 1990's, Sony began to use the name «Walkman» to most portable audio devices company. The first Walkman model TPS-L2 came on sale in Japan 1 July 1979. In the UK, was released player with stereo playback and two jacks for headphones, enabling two people to simultaneously listen to music (although the player is sold with only one pair of headphones, MDR-1). Where the Pressman had a record button, the Walkman was the button «hotline», which has stepped up a small built-in microphone, the sound of which partially overlaps the sound of music, allowing the listener to communicate with one another. A...

Mobile operator MTS-Ukraine in the framework of anti-crisis program for subscribers to announce the launch fare ''MTS Just Great''. The new proposal is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses and allows to make cheap calls within a corporate network, as well as the numbers of other mobile operators.  Connect to the new tariff «MTS Just Super» all new and existing business customers can contract a form of service from 1 July to 31 August 2009. This rate is intended to support small and medium-sized businesses, and its key advantages are: • Lack of license fee and no monthly payments required; • The lack of fee for all outgoing calls within Ukraine; • 0.05 UAN  per minute. - Low Rates for calls within the corporation; • 0.5 UAN per minute. - A single low rate for all areas in Ukraine; • The value of minute call to other countries - from 1 UAH / min. without the PLC in the ordering of a 4-packet services «Unlimited International». The new tariff is available for new connections in all the stores of MTS-Ukraine. Existing contract subscribers can also take advantage of MTS tariff proposal «MTS Just Great». The cost of conversion is 49 UAN. Source: GSMPress...

From 1 July 2009 launched a new tariff plan for young people «DJUICE Besley». «DJUICE Besley» - is unrestricted communication within the network DJUICE only for 30 UAH. for 30 days. The new plan is aimed at young people, which a lot of communicating, exchanging MMS and surf the Internet.   Customers who activate the starter package DJUICE, with effect from 1 July, will be able to go to the tariff plan «DJUICE Besley» free of charge. The cost of moving to a new tariff plan for other subscribers DJUICE reach 20 grn. When replenishing the account for 30 UAH. or more subscribers, who served on the new tariff plan, receive free calls within the network, without a fee. Cost of call minutes to other subscribers of any mobile and fixed communications in Ukraine-UAH 1. In addition to free calls, subscribers «DJUICE Besley» may receive bonuses: packages of 5 and 20 to exchange MMS messages with other subscribers DJUICE - 1,5 and 3 grn. per week respectively. And «DJUICE Besley» offers Internet packages to 10 MB for 10 UAH. a week. Purchase a package MMS or internet packages, you can dial 477, or via self «My DJUICE». Packages are available in unlimited quantities. Duration of the bonus...

  The company Philips has released new phone Xenium X630. Mobile device is made in an elegant design, a classic monoblock with a digital keypad, with the following set of characteristics: a screen diagonal of 2.4 inches with resolution QVGA, supporting 262 thousand colors, a camera at 3.2 MP, embedded radio, interfaces Bluetooth (with the profile A2DP) and USB 1.1. The amount of internal memory is 80 MB, but there is support for cards microSD (up to 8 GB). Dimensions of the device constituted 111,8 x48, 9x15, 1 mm, weight - 118 grams. Phone does not support 3G cellular communications, and can only work in networks GSM. You can also note the unusual for devices of this class control - mini-tachpad, which is located between the display and keyboard.    The main feature of the phone is its battery capacity, which is 1530 mAh. What allows the phone to work out to 12 hours of talktime and up to 50 days in standby without recharging the battery. Data on the value and start selling Philips Xenium X630 yet. Source: GSMPress...

Company Phonesuit presented one of the most, perhaps, interesting accessories for the iPhone-3GS-new full-mini -  projector, which is known as Mili Pro. Fit of Mili Pro does not differ from the communicator, but despite this he includes: Built-in speakers, stand to adjust the height and angle of display, as well as lens, capable of issuing at the outlet of the picture with a resolution of 640x480 pixels on a surface with a diagonal of 5 to 70 inches, said that the best is the diagonal of 40 inches. The projector can also broadcast a picture with the players iPod, from a computer via VGA, as well as consumer electronics through standard «tulips». Charging Mili Pro from the built-lithium-polymer battery that provides three hours of continuous operation. Source: GSMPress...

Tryi Yeh has developed an interesting concept mobile phone called Cheers, which can be associated as a toast. And it fully justifies the title of his appearance, the phone is a narrow rectangular bottle to whiskey. The player buttons do not exist - the entire front panel glossy touch screen. Cheers is located inside the fuel cell on the basis of alcohol, he mounted a "cork", which is on / off switch and a control to quickly switch between the functions of the phone. Cheers-this is not the first mobile device that runs on fuel cells, but because of its design, many succumb to it. Source: GSMPress ®

Ten companies producing mobile phones June 29, submitted a memorandum, which pledged to bring into the territory of the European Union, only phones with the same chargers. Since 2010, sold in the EU phone chargers are equipped with micro-USB connector.   The list of signatories included: Nokia, Samsung, Apple, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments.Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM, produces communicators Blackberry).   According to the European Commission, this decision will make life easier for users of cellular services and reduce the amount of garbage dumped from the old charges.   "Today the EU - an abundance of charges. Many of them work only with one particular phone model. Almost every household has an excessive number of" zaryadnikov ", which several thousand tons of garbage a year," - said the European Commission. Source: GSMPress ®  

Operator Beeline (JSC «URS» and OOO «Golden Telecom») invented a new marketing move to sell seed packets Beeline «boom», now starting packages can be purchased at street vending machines selling drinks and snacks in the center of Kiev. Starter Packages «boom» packed in tin cans that are decorated in yellow and black colors. Manufacturers hope that by doing so, it would be more convenient and accessible at any time of day to buy seed packets. Sales carried out in 20 vending machines selling drinks and snacks. «Bum-Bank» is aimed mainly at young people. Director of Marketing Beeline Anton Volodkin noted that such a creative and European approach to the retail sale of mobile services was necessary, because the young people leading an active life, in need of this kind of decisions, where not only chocolate and coffee are available at any time of day and night, but also services. The cost of start-up package «boom» in the «Cup» design - 15 UAH., Of which 5 grn. arrive at a balance of subscriber numbers after activation.   Source: GSMPress...