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Mobile Prices In India Increase From April 2013- Taxes Hiked

The Union Budget 2013 has been a mixed bag. Its been good for some industries and not so good for some. The mobile industry belongs to the latter group. The country is witnessing an unprecedented increase in the number of smartphone users but the Budget 2013 is not at all conducive to this growth. Mr.P.Chidambram, the country’s finance minister has announced that the mobiles costing more than Rs.2,000 will become costlier from 1-6 percent.

The Finance Minister, at the time of presenting the Budget, stated, “About 70 per cent of imported mobile phones and about 60 percent of domestically manufactured mobile phones are priced at Rs 2,000 or below. I do not propose to change that (excise duty) in the case of low priced mobile phones. However, on mobile phones priced at more than Rs 2,000, I propose to raise the duty to six percent.” And mobiles costing north of this, are pretty much all the smartphones on offer.

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Discount On Facebook Access On Airtel And Reliance Mobile Networks

Facebook tied up with Airtel and Reliance to provide its users discounted data access. Facebook said that three out of every four people on Facebook uses messaging. It makes messaging most popular activity on Facebook. For messaging a user buy more data plan. And Facebook messaging and chat is available more than 6000 mobile phones. Facebook Messenger and Facebook is the most popular apps on Android and ios. So that’s why Facebook  partnerships with mobile operators to provide free or discounted data access to Facebook messaging for their subscribers.  Facebook tied up with more than 18 operators in 14 countries including Airtel and Reliance in India.

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Discount On Facebook Access On Airtel And Reliance Mobile Networks

Airtel Opera Web Pass Features And Details

Airtel – worlds 4th mobile service provider and Opera Software came together to launch a new service which is the first of its kind in India. From Opera Web Pass you are able to subscribe pay-as-you-go services from Airtel.  From Opera Web Pass Airtel customers may able to subscribe hourly, weekly, monthly as well as unlimited data plans easily. Airtel provides services more than 20 countries of Asia and Africa. And Opera browser which is available to download on any operating system and all type of mobile devices has more than 300 million people. For mobile customers who don’t have data plans on their mobile handsets now can easily access web with Opera Web Pass.

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Google Play Books Launched In India

After the launching of Google play now Google also launched books on Google play in India. But still it does not launched movies and music for Indians. Books on Google play gives you access to millions of books of thousand of different writes and authors. It also let you read books on your smartphones and on web. Till you can only able to download apps and games from Google play but now you can also download books from it. You can also share them to your friends or family. You can give ratings to books and recommended them to others.

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Firefox For Android 20 Beta Released- Supports Low End Phones Now

On 19 Feb 2013, Firefox 19 was launched for android. It has built in PDF viewer. So you don’t need a third party software to view pdf files on your android device. Before launching beta 20, users need to install a third party app. And the main problem with Firefox 19 is that it does not work on lower-end phones. It also does not has theme support and Chinese localization.

But just after a week, on February 25, 2013 Mozilla launched Firefox 20 removing all above issues. That shows the hardwork done by Mozila team on fixing issues. Now Firefox on android supports themes and Chinese localization  Mozilla team also lowered the system requirement to 384 MB of RAM and QVGA displays. So it can also work on lowered end device. Download Mozila Firefox on your Android device from here

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Free 3G Unlimited Data Plan For Aircel Customers

Aircel India’s 5th largest GSM mobile service provider launches a new 3G trial plan in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka or Odisha. In this plan Aircel is offering unlimited data access to its customers. New and existing Aircel subscribers can activate this plan on their 3G enabled handsets. Aircel is calling this plan Aircel 3G Mornings.  To activate this plan simply dial *122*456# from your 3G enabled mobile handset.  After activating this plan it offers unlimited data access from 6:00AM to 9:00AM.

Hamir Bakshi, Regional Business Head – Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Odisha, Aircel, said, “Aircel is the pioneer in data and has brought a revolution in the data industry with products like the PocketInternet (2G) and PocketInternet Smart (3G).

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Nokia Lumia 520 and 720 Leaked Before Launch

Nokia has give it all they have in them to the Lumia series of smartphones and with the company discontinuing their propreitary OS, Symbian, the Windows Phone OS is going to be the only OS that will power their devices in near future. But the only problem the Lumia series has is that the number of smartphones in the range is quite less and the devices are not present in every segment for different consumers. And Nokia is all set to expand their range of smartphones under the Lumia series.

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