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Reliance Unlimited Facebook Messenger For Rs.16 Per Month– How To Activate?

by Rohit Khurana • December 28, 2012

Good news comes along with Christmas for all Facebook lovers. Reliance communications recently announced its latest ‘Facebook Messenger Plan’ for all its prepaid GSM subscribers. Under this plan all users will get access to unlimited Facebook just for Rs.16 without any extra usage charges. This offer is available for all the subscribers throughout India. The existing Reliance GSM customers can activate this plan by sending a text message “FB” on 53739 from their handsets. The plan will be activated from that moment and until the subscriber unsubscribes it deliberately it will keep refurbishing in every thirty days.

As Mr. Nilanjan Mukherjee, the Wireless-Chief Officer of RCom, quoted” We are confident that ‘Facebook Messenger Plan’ with unlimited usage of Facebook without any extra data charges is set to provide a compelling new experience with incredible affordability to Smartphone users across the country on our superior network. We are hoping this offer to trigger a significant shift of youth customers using Smartphones to our superior network.”

Airtel Launches Public “Wi-Fi Hangout” Service In India

by Rohit Khurana • December 28, 2012

“Wi-Fi Hangouts” is the latest pre-paid Public Wi-Fi service launched by Airtel. Although this service has been launched in Delhi, NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore but considering the present scenario it may soon spread out in other cities as well. This Wi-Fi Hangout will be available for access at several public spots like restaurants, cafes, clubs, etc. Though the paid Wi-Fi concept is not unknown in India but Airtel’s initiative definitely provides it a new commercial touch to this domain that had been missing earlier.

Users will be able to use these Airtel public hotspots by activating ‘Airtel Wi-Fi Zone” vouchers that are available on Airtel’s official website. There are different vouchers available at various rates, depending upon the need the user may choose the voucher of its choice. The various plans that are available are: for Rs.20 (provides internet for 30 minutes), Rs.30 (provides internet for an hour), and Rs.50 (provides internet for two hours). All the three vouchers will provide the users with unlimited internet usage. Any further queries will be answered at toll free number 18001022244.

Times of India launches “Alive” Augmented Reality News Application

by Ritij Khurana • December 27, 2012

Nokia hired SRK and used the Nokia City lens with Augmented Reality app to sell the complete Lumia series. It was quite the capable application and following in its footsteps in another application which has been launched by India’s largest media group in India. The Times of India has launched an Augmented Reality News application and has been named Alive. It was launched on the 16th of December with an estimated 15,000 downloads a day but it went on score 2,50,000 downloads with 3,00,000 augmented reality views! That is quite a number for any application, let alone a news application.

HTC Budget Windows Phone 8– HTC 8S Launched At ₹19,359

by Hans Gogia • December 24, 2012

The long awaited budget WP8 smart phone, HTC 8S is finally available for sale in India. HTC 8S is an entry level Windows phone 8 handset that was announced along with HTC 8X in November this year but wasn’t available anywhere. HTC 8S is the third Windows Phone 8 smart phone launched in India after HTC 8X and Samsung ATIV S. Online retailer Saholic.com has made the listing of the device visible with status ‘In Stock’ for ₹19,359.

Zen Mobile Launches 7 Inch Tablet PC UltraTab A700 At Rs.9499

by Ritij Khurana • December 24, 2012

When Zen mobile started its operations in India, it had its work cut out. They knew they were going to be competing with Micromax and hired someone to sell their products whom Micromax hadn’t. They had the power of Amitabh Bachchan but Big B could not really sell their phones that well. To enhance the youth appeal , they got Imran Khan and Deepika Padukone to sell their mobiles but even they could not sell the brand well. Then they realized that it were the products they needed to focus on and they better start concentrating on the product power rather than star power.

Zen Mobile had brought in the UltraTab A900 in October and today has launched its smaller screened sibling, a 7 inch inch tablet with ICS , namely the UltraTab A700 3G, for Rs 9,499. The USP of the tablet is that it offers 3G connectivity through a 3G external dongle as well as a SIM card. Adding to it are the voice calling capabilities of the device which lend it a big plus in its favour over other budget tablet makers. The screen is a 5 point Multi-touch capacitive unit with a 1.3 MP in the front for your video calling.

Lenovo Launches Yoga Convertible Ultrabooks

by Ritij Khurana • December 24, 2012

When HP was going all guns blazing, how could Lenovo, currently the global leader in computing be left behind in launching products for a market as important as India. Lenovo has brought in the Yoga series of tablet-cum-laptops in the India market and the advertisements of the next gen devices from Lenovo have been all over the television. And they now look well en route on gaining from the new found momentum in the tablet-laptop convertible segment.