GetJar Mobile App Store Now Seeing 3 Million Downloads Per Day

July 29th, 2010 6:57 pm

By Sanjay Bafna

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World’s biggest independent Mobile app store GetJar today announced that it has reached three million downloads per day. With this achievement GetJar is second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion downloads till the time.

GetJar app store is available across all mobile platforms including Android, BlackBrry, Java, iPhone, Symbian and also for Windows Mobile. It provides more than 70,000 mobile applications to consumers in more than 200 countries.

According to the GetJar, As of July 2010, FaceBook, eBuddy Messenger YouTube, Nimbuzz and Yahoo! Mobile remained among the top, with Games “Warships Sea on Fire” and “Racing Mania” top among its category. Other leading categories include Lifestyle, Read more…

Categories: MOBILE Apps

Uninor Launches GPRS Service In Mumbai, Maharashtra, Kolkata & Bengal

July 29th, 2010 4:38 pm

By Sanjay Bafna

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Uninor today announced the launch of its much awaited GPRS services for its prepaid subscribers in Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, West Bengal and Kolkata telecom circles.

Subsequently, GPRS Data services will be available through a base plan with tariff of 10p per 10kb. Customers will also be able to access the service through two products or GPRS Packs dubbed as – Myconnect 9 which comes at Rs. 9 that’s valid for 3 days and allows free browsing or data access upto 60 MB and myconnect 90 priced at Rs. 90 that’s valid for 30 days with 3GB of free browsing and data transfer.

Aprt from the Data Usage, for both plans,- subscribers also can enjoy Unlimited Free browsing on social networking websites such as twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn as well as Free access to MyUninor – Uninor’s WAP portal. The usage beyond free data will be charged at 10p per 10kb. MMS service on Uninor will be charged at Rs. 5 per MMS. Read more…

Categories: UNINOR

BSNL Launches EVDO Enabled RUIM Card with All India Roaming

July 29th, 2010 2:54 pm

By Sanjay Bafna

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In a radical move to boost the EVDO Data and Mobile services India’s National Telecom backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the pan-India Launch of EVDO enabled R-UIM/SIM card with all India Roaming facility (except Mumbai/Delhi) over its CDMA mobile services.

BSNL’s RUIM/SIM Card (Removable User Interface Module) can be used with any CDMA phones as well as EVDO enabled OMH-capable handsets like Samsung Corby TV, LG 510 and Blackberry 9630 to access High Speed Data services up to 3.2 Mbps and Voice calling subscriber can also use the RUIM card with any EVDO Data cards as their requirements.

BSNL’s New RUIM prepaid card comes with life time account validity and 3 different inbuilt tariff plans. RUIM with basic Plans comes at Rs.39 with talk time of Rs.10 Read more…

Categories: BSNL

Aircel Intros STV-18, Own Net Local Calls at 10p

July 29th, 2010 1:09 pm

By Sanjay Bafna

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AIRCEL, one of the fastest growing Pan India telecom operator today announced the launch of new  STV-18 (Special Tariff voucher) for its prepaid GSM mobile service customer in Mumbai and Maharashtra-Goa telecom circles.

Aircel’s new STV-18 is specially tailored to provide maximum benefits for Unlimited Own-Net callings at 10 paisa/min. The operator claims that its new offer is far better and affordable from all other offers available in Mumbai and Maharashtra circle by various mobile operators wherein Own-net calling benefit is limited to to 10 mobile numbers.

The STV-18 is priced at Rs.18 wherein one can make Unlimited Local calls to any Aircel numbers at just 10 paisa per minute. Remaining tariffs such as Other Local, STD, Read more…

Categories: AIRCEL

Vodafone India Upsets Its Huge GPRS Userbase With An ‘Untrue’ GPRS Plan

July 29th, 2010 3:05 am

By Chethan Thimmappa

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Vodafone India Upsets Its Huge GPRS Userbase With An 'Untrue' GPRS PlanVodafone Essar the Second largest Telecom Operator in India is Feared to lose its GPRS Subscribers due to its negligence and having introduced a very ‘Untrue’ GPRS Plan.

To Recap, Vodafone didn’t have any GPRS pack from long time, and recently came with an Unlimited GPRS Pack for a Bonus Card of 95 in Some States and Rs 98 in others where it Offered Unlimited GPRS for 30 days (with 2GB limit as a fair Usage Policy) .

Vodafone though attracted lot of users with its unlimited pack, It Failed Big Time.Getting Recharged for Vodafone’s 95 Bonus Card is nothing but activating ‘Vodafone Live’ in your Handset.Where The Subscriber has to Use “Vodafone Live” as the access point.

Let us List one by one, what Vodafone Fails to deliver in its 95 GPRS Pack. Read more…

Categories: VODAFONE

Tata Docomo Wins Over Airtel & Aircel in GPRS Speed Test at Secunderabad

July 28th, 2010 7:22 pm

By Tarun PK

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Tata Docomo Wins Over Airtel & Aircel in GPRS Speed Test at SecunderabadWe had delivered the  GPRS Speed Test Report comparing Vodafone and Tata Docomo at different Times of a day in Bangalore. You Can analyze the Complete Speed Test report which we conducted in Bangalore, Docomo winning the GPRS Speed Race here.

This Time we Conducted the Test at Secunderabad with the help of TelecomTalk Reader Srikapardhi K who conducted Tests at different Times of the day Comparing Three Major Telecom Operators Airtel, Tata Docomo and Aircel .

Let Us See the Results of GPRS speed test of all these operators one by one. Srikapardhi K has  used his Nokia N900 to test the Gprs speed by using the SpeedTest App mobilespeedtest.com at Shivaji Nagar-Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Read more…

Categories: GENERAL

Move Aside Apple Its Samsung Apps Making The Waves

July 28th, 2010 2:05 pm

By Sanjay Bafna

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Move Aside Apple Its Samsung Apps Making The WavesSamsung today announced the list of top 10 mobile apps in bada platform Samsung app  store was created in September 2009 to provide Samsung smartphone users a dedicated online application destination.

Samsung Apps has more than tripled the size of its stores in most European and Asian markets — and now offers a multitude of new applications, including games, social networking, e-books and health-related tools.

Samsung Apps was created by and is overseen by Samsung’s Media Solutions Center (MSC), which is also responsible for bada platform development, Social Hub and various other contents. After recognizing the growing importance of content and applications, the MSC was established to develop content strategy and tools across the company’s business divisions.

List of Most downloaded Samsung apps. Read more…

Categories: MOBILE Apps