India’s rural mobile phone users have crossed the 100 million mark. This figure is really important from India’s point of view and opens gate for opportunities for both mobile phone companies and operators alike. At the end of first quarter of 2009, the number touched 109.7 million subscribers, which is grown by 18% as compared to the number of subscribers in the last quarter of 2008. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has announced this positive growth in rural mobile phone subscribers. The rural market in India has always been a very lucrative prospect for mobile phone players like Nokia and Samsung who have feature rich low-end phone for rural mobile phone users. Nokia is ahead of its competitors when it comes to tapping the rural market. It also launched, Nokia Life Tools for rural customers and the project kicked off in the state of Maharashtra. Nokia also launched the Nokia 1202 few months back for the rural market with support for 9 languages. Companies like Samsung are also catching up with Nokia with respect to their initiatives for the Rural Indian mobile phone consumer. Enough for the urban consumers, rural is the way to grow for these companies in India.

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An iPhone running Windows 95? Define “running.” As you can see, most of the play is going on in an emulator on a computer that is no doubt outfitted with a processor more powerful and RAM more plentiful than several iPhones put together. Still, you can see the OS barely getting by on the phone itself. I’m not sure what this is worth outside of causing a few, “Oh snap! Look what they did!” reactions. But I think the vid does a good job of inducing those. The team is still awaiting a 3G S, which should bump performance considerably.
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Since ages Chinese government freaks out when its citizens access the Internet without any restrictions. Now to control the access of Internet by mobile phones users, the government is planning that the iPhone, which is soon going to come in China will have no Wi-Fi functionality. WTF man, iPhone or iPod Touch without Wi-Fi is like having a high-end machine gun without any real bullets. Wi-Fi is one of the main features of these two sexy multi-touch devices and not having it is foolish. Anyway, these efforts of the Chinese government’s red tapism are futile as the Chinese market is already flooded with iPhones that have made their way through the gray market and if Apple and the Chinese government get iPhones with no Wi-Fi (totally modified hardware), the rate of people going for gray market iPhones will anyway rise. Both China Unicom and China Mobile are the probable operators who might be bringing the iPhone in China.

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iPhone 3GS. Is it worth it? Is it worth the upgrade? Noah from PhoneDog reviews Apple’s newest phone. Read the rest of this entry »