Mobile World Congress Day 1 Roundup

Mobile World Congress kicked off in Barcelona, Spain on February 15th. We saw a big announcement being made in the form of Windows Mobile 7 from Microsoft. We bring to you what created a buzz at this event right on day 1.

We saw the release of Windows Mobile 7. Microsoft got nearly everything right this time. Sadly, they have not released all the technical details regarding the OS but only announced that the first Windows Mobile 7 series phone will start only at the fall of this year. Click here for a detailed account of Windows Mobile 7.

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Virgin Mobile comes to Maharstra: Local Calls at 20p/min and 40p/min; Rs 69 will Get You 500 SMSes a day

As part of their plan to bring GSM services to all of India within this financial year, Virgin Mobile has expanded their GSM services to Maharashtra.

Virgin offers incredibly low calling rates, with a mere 20 paise per minute for local and STD calls to other Virgin Mobile numbers, and a 40 paise per minute for local calls to numbers other than Virgin Mobile. STD calls to non-Virgin Mobile numbers will be at a low rate of 50 paise per minute. The operator will only be offering prepaid plans for subscribers.

Opera Mini on the iPhone!

Opera Mini, possibly the best browser for Java based mobile phones has been announced by Opera for the iPhone. While the browser is still not available for public use, it is surprising that it is there for the iPhone OS at all.

Since a while Apple has allowed for developers to create browsers for the iPhone under the condition that they use WebKit as the browser engine. Does this mean that Opera has adapted the iPhone version of the browser to use WebKit instead of their own Presto? If Opera does use its own engine, it will be forbidden from appearing on the Apple store, and will only run on Jailbroken iPhones. This is also the reason that the Mozilla Firefox browser is not available on the iPhone yet, although it will be making its way to Android soon.

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Mobile World Congress 2010: The Expectations

There is some good news for all mobile phone enthusiasts. Mobile World Congress, arguably, the biggest mobile phone expo is all set to kick off from February 15th. You should not doubt the appeal of this event as this same event last year gave us the massively popular Sony Ericsson Satio, Samsung Omnia HD, Nokia N86, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Magic and HTC Touch Diamond 2. The congress is being held in the beautiful location of Barcelona, Spain this year and will last until the 18th of February. This event promises to pick up from where CES 2010 left. and has a lot of expectations riding on it this year. We all are waiting for the first glance of Windows Mobile 7 or to see what the HTC Bravo is all about; this event will put and end to the suspense and mystery surrounding many such products.

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Google Buzz your Social inbox

A new venture called Buzz, from Google, might soon do away with the need for constant social networking emails in your inbox. Google Buzz, which is being rolled out to all Google account holders, aggregates all your social data into one thread in your GMail inbox.

Google Reader users might have noticed some nice social features which allowed you to follow other people and see the items they choose to share. In Google Reader, one could share interesting posts that they come across with others who chose to follow them and could even post updates much like any social network.

The features were quite useful, but frankly did seem quite out of place in an application which is essentially an RSS reader. Now as part of the GMail interface they perhaps make a little more sense.

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