Bharti launches triple sim mobiles

India's top telecom services provider Bharti group Sunday entered the country's mobile handset market, launching eight triple SIM phones priced between Rs.1,750-7,000.

Beetel Teletech, a subsidiary Bharti Enterprises, launched the 'Beetel' range of phones that includes "a gaming QWERTY phone, triple SIM offering GSM+GSM+CDMA, the first phone to house a complete movie and a 3G phone with an exceedingly well designed and easy user interface."

The phones will offer a bouquet of value added services including popular social networking applications such as Facebook, a mobile commerce partner NgPay and a mobile portal browser.

"Through our range of product offerings we intend to address the value for money seeking Indian consumer who is keen on having innovative technology coupled with design features at attractive prices," said Vinod Sawhny, chief exeuctive, Beetel Teletech.

In the first phase, the Beetel mobile phones will be available through a nationwide distribution network of over 4,000 outlets across Delhi, Haryana, UP, Uttaranchal, Rajasthan, Punjab and the seven North Eastern States.

The company plans to establish its presence across India by the end of the current fiscal.

The phones powered by GPRS technology will allow users to make free calls and send messages.

As per Industry estimates, mobile handset industry has grown exponentially with 108 million mobile phones sold in the country in 2009-10, resulting in sales of Rs.27,000 crore as against Rs. 25,910 crore during the previous year.

Faster growth is expected in the coming years as the mobile replacement market that currently stands at 55 percent, is expected to reach 70 percent by 2010, according to Boston Consulting Group.

Bharti's entry into the cluttered handset market will add to the worries of mobile manufacturing majors, Nokia and Samsung, whose margins have come under increasing pressure in recent months from Chinese and smaller Indian mobile firms.

According to the Voice&Data 100 Indian Telecom Survey, these Indian brands strengthened their presence in the domestic handset market in 2009-10, growing at the expense of market leader Nokia. Even though the Finnish company's remained the leading seller of mobiles in India, its share came down to 52.2 percent from 64 per cent last year.

The mobile handset market grew 4.2 percent by revenue during the last fiscal compared to 7.9 percent in 2008-09. Around 108 million mobile phones were sold in the country during 2009-10, adding up to Rs 27,000 crore sales, up from Rs 25,910 crore the previous year.

Motorola hopes to launch tablet computer in 2011

Mobile phone giant Motorola hopes to expand its product line beyond cell phones and the company is looking at launching its tablet computer early next year.

"We want to make sure that any tablet that we deliver is competitive in the marketplace, and I think all of us will make sure that we will only deliver (computer) that when that occurs," Motorola's India-born co-chief executive Sanjay Jha said.

"Hopefully, that's early next year. The tablet would be Motorola's answer to Apple's iPad, which has dominated the market since its launch in April this year," added Jha.

Apple said in June that it has sold three million of its iPad tablets.

Jha has tried to turn around Motorola's troubled cell phone business by refocusing it on smart phones powered by Google Inc's Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal said.

"Google has made clear it doesn't think the latest version of Android, called Froyo, is appropriate for tablet devices," the paper quoted Jha as saying in a conference call.

The report added that Jha has said he would not roll out a tablet until the technology is ready.

"I will only develop a tablet if it is sufficiently compelling," he added.

Jha further said he is eager to get into the tablet business, but indicated that he is thinking about new forms of mobile computing.

He is also interested in models that are "even more smartphone-centric. Other phone makers have also been lining up their tablet computers to take on the iPad."

Samsung Electronics unveiled its seven-inch Galaxy Tab in the US market today, while Dell too launched a five-inch tablet.

Google Docs editing on mobile will be possible in few weeks

Google document editing will be possible in Android and the iPad in few weeks time. Finally the demand of users who has been asking for it since Google launched its own mobile OS has come true. Mobile users have been able to view documents hosted by the Chocolate Factory for years, and since many Android users find themselves incredulous that editing isn't possible, the addition will be a welcome one.

"In the next few weeks, co-workers around the world will soon be able to co-edit files simultaneously from an even wider array of devices,"said David Girouard, President of Google's enterprise group, in a post to a company blog.

For corporate users, Google has launched two-factor authentication for mobile users. One of the factors is the mobile device itself, but it's still a step up from securing solely against a password. That feature is available to enterprise users immediately, rolling out to the hoi polloi over the next few months.
Google demonstrated progress in adding collaborative editing of Office documents for Docs users on Windows desktops and laptops, a move that would let companies do without SharePoint, one of Microsoft's top money makers.

Mobile document editing is an enviable consequence of Android's move into the tablet space, and Google's provision for the iPad is unsurprising as the company seeks to make cloud editing standard. Editing of Google Documents on the move makes the cloud platform a lot more attractive, and might transform more of those 30 million users from experimenting early adopters into regular users.

MSI launches F-series laptops in India at Rs. 37,000

MSI has launched four new F-series laptops which comes with Intel Core i5 microprocessors. The four new F-series laptops are FX400, FX600, FX700, and FR600. The F-series which is the first in the country to bring Intel Wireless Display technology is priced in the range of Rs. 37,000 and Rs. 53,000 depending upon the configuration.

The new range of laptops run on Intel Core i5 processors with Intel Turbo Boost and Intel Hyper-Threading technologies. MSI claims that new GPU Boost Technology will make the best GPU power by automatically switching graphics modes.

Coming to the Intel WiDi (Wireless Display)technology, it allows the user to stream HD audio-video content to a HDTV wirelessly, using a special adapter. However, the necessary requirements for that to happen are a minimum of 4GB RAM and Windows 7 (64-bit) OS.

The F-series notebooks come loaded with Nvidia GeForce GT 325M GPU with 1GB GDDR3 video memory for better gaming and graphics experience. MSI states that GPU Boost technology helps maintaining balance between performance and battery life.

The FX400 comes with a regular 1.3 megapixel web cam while the rest models have 720p HD quality capable webcams. In terms of sound, the FX700 equips obstruction-free sound providing speaker technology implemented in collaboration with Dynaudio and THX. All F-series notebooks come with HDMI port and have 250GB-320GB internal storage.