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HTC and RCom bring Windows Mobile 6.5 powered Touch2

Kunal Gangar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:30:02 +0000

India’s one of the first Windows Mobile 6.5 equipped phones have arrived, courtesy HTC and RCom. The Touch2 brings the new OS experience laden with an intuitive TouchFLO user interface and internet surfing RCom’s GSM network. Although HTC will sell Touch2 as an unlocked device, users buying from RCom can enjoy free data usage of 200MB per month for the first six months.

If you’re worried about the internal features, the phone is decently spec’d with a 528MHz processor, 2.8-inch touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera, GPS, microSD card slot and more.

HTC has set the price to Rs. 24,490 for MP and Maharashtra whereas the rest of India can buy it for Rs. 22,490.

Full Specifications:

Model : HTC Touch2
Processor Qualcomm MSM7225, 528 MHz
Operating System: Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 256 MB
Dimensions: (LxWxT) 104 X 55 X 12.9 mm (4.1 X 2.16 X 0.51 inches)
Weight: 110 grams (4 ounces) with battery
Display: 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
Network: HSPA/WCDMA – Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds; Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
Europe/Asia: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Device Control: Zoom bar
GPS: Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity: Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR and A2DP, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, 3.5 mm audio jack, HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB 2.0)
Camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus
Audio supported formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, M4A
Video supported formats: WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, AVI
Battery: 1100 mAh Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Talk time: Up to 370 minutes for WCDMA; Up to 440 minutes for GSM
Standby time: Up to 500 hours for WCDMA; Up to 370 hours for GSM
Expansion Slot: microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter: Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A

RCom in trouble – May have inflated revenues and evaded license fees to government

yogen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:54:13 +0000

India’s Department of Telecommunication had ordered a special financial audit into the books of some telecom operators including RCom, Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular. This audit was conducted in May this year and the findings for RCom are out.

Parekh and Co., the official auditors appointed by the government, submitted an audit report to the DoT yesterday whose findings state that for the FY’08 actual wireless revenue earned by the company was only Rs 12,298 crore as against Rs 15,213 crore reported to the shareholders, which is an over reporting of Rs 2,915 crore. It also found that RCom evaded licence fee and spectrum fee to the tune of Rs 315 crore.

When contacted DoT sources confirmed receipt of the report by auditors Parekh and Co and said that it is yet to examine the findings. An RCom spokesperson said that,

“RCom is in full compliance of licence terms and conditions; Auditors’ alleged comments are biased and appear instigated by corporate rivals. Premature leakage of confidential report to media reflects the Special Auditors’ prejudice/bias.”

The report on RCom would now be examined by a four-member committee of Department of Telecom, headed by Member (Finance). DoT is awaiting the report of four other companies namely Tata Teleservices, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea from the respective auditors appointed by it and the government.

China Wireless and RCom partner up to sell handsets

yogen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:51:40 +0000

China based mobile handset maker China Wireless Technologies has officially entered the Indian high-end Smartphone market in partnership with Reliance Communications. This joint venture plans to retail high-end dual-sim handsets in the market under the brand name, ‘Coolpad’. The venture will unveil three Coolpad models initially and will further bring in four models by December.

China Wireless Technologies will invest Rs 400 crore as capital and operating expenditure in the Indian market over the next three years. It expects to clock in a revenue of Rs 800 crore in the next five years.

The company plans to recruit 300 people by the end of 2009 and is expecting to take the count to 1000 by the end of next year. It also has a proposal to start a Research & Development centre in India by the beginning of 2011. The company officials believe that its venture with RCom is in line with its strategy to penetrate overseas markets and take a leadership stance in the global dual-mode market segment.

Simply Reliance

yogen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:52:46 +0000

The Anil Ambani managed Reliance Communications is up to something big, its new ‘Simply Reliance Plan’ simply signifies its big plans. Since the time Reliance launched its telecom venture it has consistently stood out among mobile operators because of its simple yet awesome plans, here it brings us another one.Simply Reliance is a plan for both the prepaid as well as postpaid subscribers on RCom’s GSM and CDMA networks. This plan offers a flat rate of 50 paise per minute and per SMS across the country and across all operators be it mobile or landline. The company has promised that this plan comes with no hidden charges or daily deductions.

“From today, every Indian consumer can enjoy up to 46 per cent saving in their monthly bill. It is available to any category, any technology across India. It is definitely affordable to every consumer be it rural or urban,”

Reliance Communications’ Chief Marketing Officer, Personal Business, Nilanjan Mukherjee, told reporters.

“There are no conditions applied. This is not one of those where we show a headline rate and if you try to actually interpret it, actually comes to three times the cost, the single rate of 50 paise per minute applies to all local and STD calls as well as any mobile landline, CDMA or GSM from anywhere in India, existing or new pre-paid customers have to purchase a one-time special tariff voucher for Rs 48 to enjoy lifetime validity, however, post-paid users can migrate to the plan by paying a monthly subscription fee of Rs 99,” Mukherjee said.

RCom also confirmed that the group will phase out all the existing plans by mid October and offer only the new plan to all prepaid and postpaid users. Existing Reliance subscribers can get this plan by 1800-100-3333 or by SMSing SIMPLE to 55454.

Source: The Financial Express

Reliance announces Blackberry Tour for CDMA subscribers

Kunal Gangar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:54:12 +0000

Reliance today announced RIM’s latest Blackberry device dubbed as the Tour. Tour is chic looking device, bragging lots of features in a slim 14.2mm chassis. The CDMA powered Blackberry Tour features global roaming, thanks to GSM and CDMA network support and features a vivid 2.44-inch display, 256MB flash memory, full QWERTY keyboard, 3.2MP camera with flash, full HTML browser, GPS, microSD card support and 1400mAh battery promising to give about 5 hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time.

Reliance will sell the device for Rs. 27,990 but for users booking it by Oct 31, they’ll be eligible for two months of free Blackberry Internet Service.

If GSM Reliance users feel a bit left out, there’s some good news for them too. Reliance has confirmed to launch a GSM version of Tour soon.

‘Reliance E-Lite’ plan for BlackBerry users

yogen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:28:51 +0000

Reliance Mobile has finally accepted competition and has introduced the pocket friendly, BlackBerry E-Lite plan which offers unlimited access to email and instant messaging (IM) on BlackBerry smartphones for a monthly cost of Rs. 299. Airtel and Vodafone already offer similar plans costing the same. For a complete list of BlackBerry plans and our review, click here

RCom adds 3.3 million users in Feb.

Rohan Kamath — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:27:42 +0000

Rcom seems to be on a roll, with largest number of users added in Jan and Feb compared to any other operator in the country. Last month the count stood at 3.3mn, which is higher than what others managed to rope in. RCom believes that the results are a clear sign of the operators increasing dominance in the Indian Telecom market.

We Say: Though these figures represent GSM as well as CDMA users, the numbers are expected to increase in the coming months. We are of the view that this is the beginning of RCom’s continuous attempt to strengthen its foothold in the market.

Airtel brings unlimited email plan for Blackberry users

Kunal Gangar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:26 +0000

Airtel and Blackberry makers, RIM have announced a new plan specifically for India. The plan dubbed as BlackBerry Personal Mail service plan offers Airtel Blackberry users unlimited email and instant messaging services for just Rs. 499.

However, before you jump with joy, let me clarify it again – its “Unlimited email and instant messaging”. In other words, you don’t have unlimited internet browsing but only IM and push email service.

Features:

We Say: Blackberry is all about push emails and I think if the user is looking for emails on the go, this is the thing to go for.

Airtel Blackberry

Reliance launches 2 killer prepaid plans in UP

Rohan Kamath — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:39:46 +0000

Reliance CDMA users in Uttar Pradesh have even more reasons to cheer. RCom has launched a couple of prepaid plans targeting CDMA plans who feel the need to make STD calls to other Relaince users. The two recharges targets users who buy bulk recharges, evident by their recharge values of Rs.2,222 and Rs4,444.

The former i.e. 2,222 gives users free local and STD talktime to other RCom users of 500 minutes every month for 12 months. The latter too gives users the same amount of free minutes each month, not for 12 months, but for lifetime. Overall the plans look quite great but we the operator would surely charge the users more for calls to other operators.

Reliance GSM boasts about its 3G capabilities

Rohan Kamath — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:32:47 +0000

Reliance is positioning itself as a 3G ready service provider. Go to its site and you are welcomed by an ad, which boasts about its sim cards being 3G ready. This is not all, as it has self acclaimed its own plans to be the best one being offered currently.

Given below is a gist of the call and SMS charges:

Local calls and SMS: Re.1
STD Calls: Rs.1.5
Incoming calls (roaming): Re.1
National SMS: Rs.1.5

All this comes with a sim card that is 3G ready and will allow you to make the best of it, only if it launched. With regards to the top-up options on offer, you can opt for a Rs.10 recharge, which gives you talktime of Rs.6.9 to Rs. 100 recharge with talktime of Rs.87.

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