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Airtel has announced a special offer for its all Fixed Line Customers. All Airtel Fixed Line Users will enjoy free calls to other Airtel Fixed Line Customers on 7th, 14th, 21st Feb 2010 (i.e. The upcoming 3 Sunday’s). The usage of Fixed phone have been heavily affected by the recent price drops of calls rates on mobile phone’s. Most of the fixed line operators are now depending on broadband users.

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India, Telecom Operators Airtel, News, Offers, Telecom Operators, Valentine's Day

Virgin Mobile in partnership with Tata Teleservices is raising the heat in Telecom industry again. A few months back industry was shook up with the pay-per-second plans. Now Virgin Mobile is all set to revamp the Indian Telecom Industry once again with its low calling rates.

Interesting part is Virgin Mobile uses the network of  Tata Teleservices and still being able to provide calling at such a low rate. So now you can imagine how telecom operators used to fool us with high charges an year back.

The group will start its services from southern region of India and other parts will be followed up till end of March 2010. Virgin Mobile will provide STD calling rates at 20p/min without any top-up packs, in order to capture the market space, however the other tariffs details are yet to be declared.

Not only this but they will also be offering itemised bills to all their customers at no extra charge. Also if the bill complaint is now answered with a span of 48 hours, the bill will become the liability of  Virgin Mobile. Now this generates a true win-win situation for the users.

The big players such as Airtel, Reliance are creating a no-match for the cheap rates provided by the new telecoms. Its interesting to see where this competition is going to end. ”India is the first country where Virgin Group will be offering both CDMA and GSM services” said Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group.

Number portability is also expected to launch by the same time i.e. March 2010 end, thus creating a new room for Virgin Group to grasp customers from other teleco’s.

How will you respond to this move – Stay with current 1p/sec plan (60p/min) or go with the new scheme as 20p/min?Leave your thoughts in comments.

India, Telecom Operators Mobile, News, Popular, Telecom Operators, Virgin

Nokia is all set to sell the upcoming passion of youth like hot cakes. Its no other than the heart throbbing Nokia N97. But before it gets out in streets you may get a chance not just only to see it, touch it, use it but you can own one. Nokia has sponsored 10 Nokia N97 in India and many more worldwide and are giving them away for free before its official launch.

Well you can figure it out from my words above, how special this handset is and how much am I personally excited about this release from nokia. N97 features ultimate features making us not to call it a phone but a internet tablet. We checked out the features of Nokia N97 when it was officially declared and now we have its official release date and price.

If you are located in India you have a great chance to win a Nokia N97. The contest will start from June 15 and will continue till June 19 across the 5 most popular tech blogs of India. You can enter at any one of the five sites which will be giving away two Nokia N97 each and answer some very simple questions by digging the site’s archives. Each participant can enter only once per day at one site and multiple entries will be discarded.

List of sites running the contest:

The list of blogs where contest are being held are provided below:

1. Digital Inspiration : http://www.labnol.org | Contest Details.
2. Techtree : http://www.techtree.com | Contest Details.
3. FoneArena : http://www.fonearena.com | Contest Details.
4. Thinkdigit : http://www.thinkdigit.com | Contest Details.
5. Brajeshwar : http://brajeshwar.com | Contest Details.

Official Release Date & Price of Nokia N97:

Nokia N97 will be available at all Nokia Priority Stores and Nokia Dealer in India on 23rd June 2009. Nokia N97 is priced at 35,000 INR. You can also fill your details here to get notified by Nokia about the launch.

Update 1 of Day 1 [15-06-2009 8:00 AM]:

The contest is up and running. The question for Day 1 is It makes your Internet experience more personal and the the correct answer is Widgets. Do try you luck on any one of links above.

Note: Do not post on multiple sites, this will get your entry discarded. However, different family members can apply.

Update 2 of Day 2 [15-06-2009 8:15 AM]:

Today’s question is Thanks to this feature, you won’t need a keypad. What is it? and the answer is just Touch (not Touchscreen). Wish you all the best!

Update 3 of Day 3 [16-06-2009 9:00 AM]

Nokia is today busy in popularizing their Ovi Store. The question for today is ” A virtual store that lets you store, share and access content”. And the answer is Ovi Store.

Update 4 of Day 4

Q: The first six characters on a modern keyboard.

A: QWERTY

Update 5 of Day 5

Q: Largest phone storage available for any Nokia.

A: 32GB

We will keep a watch at all the five sites above and provide more updates on this contest daily so stay tuned at LifeBaker.com don’t forget to subscribe to our feed here. You can also visit the official site of this contest at http://www.searchforn.com/.

Mobile Feature, N-Series, N97, News, Nokia, Popular, Top

We all know about the first Google OS (Android) based mobile – T-Mobile G1.  Though it has been only launched in US as of now, but it has created an impact all over the world. Recently, phandroid has reported about the cool deal going on at Costo. They are giving away G1 for just $80. Read more…

Mobile Android, Google, Mobile, T-Mobile

Ever imagined a Torrent Client on you mobile device? Nope? Then take it in reality. Symtorrent is a torrent client which runs conveniently on your mobile phone saving your huge electricity bills generated by your computers.

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Mobile Applications Mobile, Nokia, S60, Symbian, Torrent

In 2005 Nokia brought a revolution in Mobile Industry with its N95. Since then the  products launched by Nokia like the Nokia N96 or the Nokia N85 were the clones of Nokia N95 with a little changes. But finally here the next big thing in the Higher End Mobile Market and is getting ready to shake the market once again. Its a multi-touch screen phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. No its not a computer but it does sport the features to replace the “Netbooks”. Its the very new N97 from Nokia, the world leader in mobile phones market and its a part Nokia’s famous N-Series.

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Mobile Feature, Mobile, N97, Nokia, Review, Symbian, Top

Windows Mobile is the platform known for its power but a slight downside with Windows Mobile Devices is that you have to whip off the stylus every time you need to operate the device or use your nails which can cause scratches on screen.

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Mobile Applications Application, Mobile, Windows Mobile

The T-Mobile G1 was launched some time back and got popularity being the first Android powered handset. The tech fans were excited about the launch and some of them got their hands over to catch the upcoming Google OS (Android).

The reviewers were however disappointed with the lack of an on-screen keyboard. It seems like HTC was in a hurry of releasing the G1 to capture the tag of “World’s First Android Handset Maker” and didn’t want to wait till Android completes its on-screen keyboard. Android platform is still in development and the team is currently testing the On-Screen Keyboard. The video we got from Talk Android reveals the all new keyboard of the Android. Read more…

Mobile Android, Google, Mobile, Operating System

Fringsters (the people working at fring) have been really doing a great job by spreading their very cool application to almost each and every mobile device. The famous iPhone was no separate from their list. After a long active development of fring for iPhone, its finally out of BETA and is now straight seen at Apple App store.

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Mobile Applications Application, Chat, Fring, IM, iPhone, Mobile, News, Podcast, Video, VOIP, Youtube