Thursday, January 27, 2011

Airtel 3G launched in Chennai

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecom service provider has today launched their 3G services in two of Tamilnadu’s major cities Chennai and Coimbatore





Existing Chennai & Coimbatore Airtel users can avail the 3G service through existing sim cards. For laptop users Airtel has also come up with 3G dongles.


Rate plan

1. PAYG VBC (Pay as you go):The customer will pay the 30p /20Kb for 3G access.
2. Sachet Plans: These plans will have validity of lesser than or equal to 10 days.
3. Standard Plans: These plans are best suited for the mid to high-end users of data and will have a validity of 30 days.
4. FlexiShield Plan: This plan has a combination of free data usage and a low inbuilt VBC rate.
Price is very high even for 100 MB ,If you  have ‘internet usage calculator’ which will help you to chose the right plan according to your data and other usage.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

CES 2011 - Tablet War

Every one knows that Apple iPad tablet kills the Netbook market, but in CES 2011 most of all major manufactures like Dell,Samsung,LG,Blackberry ,Motorola launched their Tablets prodcut to stay in race with Apple. Most Tablets used  Android OS to gain some tablet market share with high performance  hardware  features to support 4G and LTE network .

Netbook market is sure to hit by the many latest tablets with Google and Windows 7 Flavor to makes customers to buy Tablet instead of Netbook.

In the lineup of the top  tablets released in the last couple of days we give you a rundown:




Motorola Xoom - DHOOM




Motorola is dropping a bomb with 3.0 Honeycomb tablet dubbed the Motorola Xoom.
  • A 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2
  • 10.1-incher
  • 4G connectivity
  • 1280 x 800 resolution
  • 5 megapixel camera, 720p video recording and 1080p video playback
  • 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
  • 32GB of onboard storage.

Velocity Micro
 Velocity Micro has just revealed a trio of new tablets: the 7-inch Cruz Tablet L37, the 8-inch Cruz Tablet P38 and the 10.1-inch Cruz Tablet L510
 

L37 is equipped with a 1024 x 600 capacitive touchpanel, 802.11n WiFi, 4GB of internal memory, front / rear-facing cameras, optional 3G, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and a micro-HDMI out port. The P38 is effectively the same, but it relies on a 1024 x 768 resolution display.
The L510 gets equipped with a 1366 x 768 resolution display, NVIDIA’s Tegra 250 chipset and a 1GHz dual-core CPU.

Dell Streak Tablets


Dell Streak 5 incher already exists and launched in India @ 35,000 Rs  and now the company has dropped the 7 inch Streak with the 10 inch teased and slated for next year, Lets take a look at the specs



  • Brilliant seven-inch WVGA (TFT) touch screen display with Gorilla Glass
  • Android 2.2 (Froyo) with Android Market
  • Qik video chat with built-in front-facing 1.3-megapixel webcam
  • Stage User Interface – easy access to the stuff you care about
  • Dual core 1Ghz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor
  • SMS/MMS, SWYPE® virtual keyboard and stereo Bluetooth 2.1 capable
  • Support for Adobe® Flash® Player
  • Support for Microsoft® Exchange e-mail, contacts and calendar
  • 16 GB of internal memory and SD Card slot with support for expandable memory up to 32 GB
  • Dimensions: 7.87″ x 4.72″ x 0.49″

Panasonic Viera Tablet
  • The Android based and will be available in 4, 7, and 10-inch sizes.
  • Android 2.2 with Panasonic’s Viera UI operating on top
  • The 10- and 7-inch models feature HDMI and USB ports, as well as card readers
  • The 4-inch only has an HDMI port.
  • Still Prototypes

View Sonic

ViewSonic swapped some internals and moved to a smaller 16GB SSD, but it's still the same 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor underneath
  • dual-boots Windows 7 Home Premium and Android 1.6 
  • USB 2.0, mini-HDMI, microSD and 3.5mm headphone jack. 
  •  10-incher also sports a 1.3 megapixel shooter on the front for your video chatting needs.
  • Android 2.2 on Tegra 2.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

CES 2011 -Motorola Monster Tablets & 4G phone



In India we still waiting for 3G to roll out, but in US many carriers,started to moving to 4G and LTE network. Today @ CES 2011, Motorola launches its 4G network Tablet and mobile phone which run on android OS.


Future is seeing some big trends such as 4G speeds and increased processing power." Everyone's getting in on this 4G trend, it seems!


Motorola Atrix 4G

  • 1 Ghz dual Core processor
  • 1 GB RAM
  • First 4g phone for AT & T
  • 4-inch QHD display (or 960x 540), 
  • Android 2.2 
  •  front-facing VGA camera and 5-megapixel with an LED flash 'round back, 
  • 1930 mAh battery 






Motorola Cliq 2 

  •   3.7-inch display, 1GHz processor. "4G" support






  Droid Bionic 
  •   1GHz cores in these devices to say that they have "2GHz of processing power."
  •     4.3-inch qHD display, video calling
  •     HDMI Out 
         
      
          
         Motorola Xoom -    world's first Honeycomb tablet

      Apple going to get the heat from CES 2011, as many manufactures going to introduce Tablets to fight with Apple iPad. Motorola's Tablet XOOM is DHOOM for Apple to think about to put Dual core processor in thier  tablet products and Google also comes to support to fight with iOS by introducing  the tablet OS Android 3.0  "Honey Comb". 
  •   1Ghz Dual Core Processor
  • 1GB RAM
  • Adobe Flash 10.1 support
  • Android Tablet OS - Android 3.0 Honey Comb
        
         
             Here is video preview of Motorola XOOM tablet with Android OS 3.0




Source : Engadget
iTechLife -Ramprasad