Pre-booking of handsets is nothing new here in India. The trend started with Apple opening up the pre-booking for the iPhone 3G and then many pre-bookings from different mobile phone companies followed that also includes Nokia. Pre-bookings are opened for those handsets, which generally are hyped up by the company and the users are eagerly waiting for them. This time Nokia has opened up the pre-booking of its first E-Series phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the E75. E75 was launched by Nokia @ the Mobile World Congress 2009. Nokia has also improved it email client with this phone to handle HTML and also edit office documents, so kind of a Blackberry killer. E75 is a Quad band GSM phone with dual band HSDPA @ 3.6 mbps. The phone features a 3.2 mega pixel snapper without LED flash and a 2.4 inch QVGA screen with a resolution of 240 x 360. Other features of the phone include, multimedia support with video recording at 30fps in QVGA quality, A-GPS, FM Radio, Wi-Fi and 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone has a dual home screen so that you separate your work and personal life and when it comes to memory cards, the phone supports microSDHC cards and has a microUSB socket. Now the good part is that this phone will be launched around March 13th 2009 and will be priced around 389.99, which comes to around INR 28,000.
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In what seems to have become a weekly occurrence, OS 4.7.0.114 has been leaked for the BlackBerry Storm 9500 and 9530 (Verizon version). Though it may not materialize as an official software update, is is worth considering - at your own risk, of course. Updates include new copy and paste functionality, full QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode, a change from “Enter” key to “Go” key when browsing the web, and improvements in regards to accelerometer speed.
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