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Aircel’s Appstore PocketApps -Aircel subscribers can download free and paid applications using multiple channels such as GPRS, WAP and SMS.

by Paul Joseph June 23, 2011 Featured

Aircel commercially launched its mobile application store PocketApps for its post and prepaid subscribers across India in August last year. Aircel was the first operator to launch an application store in partnership with Infosys for its subscriber’s across all platforms and handsets. PocketApps was the fourth app store in the country. Application categories in PocketApps Currently, seven categories of applications are available at PocketApps. 1) Everyday Convenience, 2) Education and Career, 3) Finance, 4) Health and Living, 5) Games, 6) Music and Fun, 7) Social Networking Everyday Convenience apps offer services such as bill payments, ticket bookings, local searches and news etc. Education and Career apps are for students. They are meant to make learning fun and help people plan their career. Apps in this section include MobileMaths, which helps with mathematical calculations; and Shakespeare’s World, which helps improve vocabulary. Finance and Business apps aid users in taking charge of their portfolio, and apps such as Loan Calculator and Money Manager help them make investments. Health and Living apps perform the functions of gym instructors and fashion magazines, and help you keep a check on your weight, maintain a workout schedule, and get fashion news. In this section, you can try apps such as The Gymlog and vClinic Mobile Wellness. The Games section has games with great sound effects and graphics; and Music and Fun apps allow you to create ring tones and share them with friends, and let you take your music collection along. In this section there are apps such as Vringo and Foice. Socially connected apps allow you to stay in touch with your friends and do a lot on social networking sites such as Facebook. While surfing PocketApp to download apps, users are informed of the price and size of each app. This information is displayed against applications on the list page. Once you click on the application you wish to download, the size and price of the application can be seen just beside the download button on the detail page.

Tagged as: apple, appstore, appstores, business, calculator, download, friends, games, health, music, pocketapps, sms, social, user, youth

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What is USSD – Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)?

by Paul Joseph June 19, 2011 Featured

Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is a technology unique to GSM. It is a capability built into the GSM standard for support of transmitting information over the signaling channels of the GSM network. USSD provides session-based communication, enabling a variety of applications. USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is a menu-based system that enables interfacing with content based services. Instead of a browser, which requires an internet / GPRS connection), the USSD menu acts as browser to pull content to the phone.  USSD is somewhat faster than SMS because it  is a session-based communication, unlike SMS, which is transaction based. USSD is used as an excellent technology to enable roaming with mobile prepay service .Mobile chatting and friend finder applications are another perfect use for USSD as a menu driven application enabling other applications. USSD is the front-end to these types of applications, which require a menu and fast connections for the user interface. It is important to note that friend finder applications require location determination/management and presence/availability technologies and applications to allow the closed user group to detect if, when, and where members are available. How does it work ? Type *121# on your Airtel phone and dial the number will give you a list of options pertaining to your Airtel subscription.

Tagged as: does-it-work, mobile, phone, service-data, signaling, somewhat-faster, user, ussd, vas

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Two Events & Thoughts on LBS

by Paul Joseph May 3, 2011 Featured

Update after a long break!! Tweets too have slowed down, will resume pace soon :) After long, I attended a couple of events last week. One was the Navteq developers event on LBS (where I was part of the panel) and the other was Cellstrat event on Mobile Web & Apps. The events were so-so and did not offer great insights. Some keynotes ended up as sales pitches and panelists (on the topic of mobile apps innovation) said they are not app-users when asked to list their favorite apps. :-| Anyways, here is what I spoke at the LBS panel. (Title was ‘Future of Location Based Services: 3G & Beyond’) I briefly touched upon 3 ideas on location based services & presented some strawman thoughts. Not really presented answers or identified the silver bullet for location services – Well, if only I can :) My first point Is there something that can be called purely a

Tagged as: business, customer, education, government, india, location, location-based, mobile, moment, opinion, people, silver, social-networking, tracking, user

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Micromax X395 Mobile Features & Specifications

by Paul Joseph March 26, 2011 Featured

Micromax mobiles are aptly associated with innovation and style. The affordable price tags that accompany the wide range of Micromax mobiles make them a great buy. Micromax has been at the helm of offering cost effective solution to shoppers and mobile phone users from across India. The all new Micromax X395 is one such innovative handset that comes in a stylish innovative design and the latest multimedia features and applications. The Micromax X395 is embedded with a 6.1cm QVGA Screen Display with Unique Reflective Keypad, and Dual SIM facility. The 1.3 Mega Pixel Camera, and MicroSD Card supporting up to 8GB enhance the user experience. The multimedia features are augmented by the Multi Format Music Player, FM Radio, Sound recorder, Motion Sensor to switch Sim Card, JavaScript support, Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP and Opera Mini Web Browser. The features and specifications of the Micromax X395 are as follows: · Display: 6.1 cms QVGA · 240 x 320 pixels · Motion Sensor · Camera: 1.3 megapixel · Multi Format Music Player · Stereo FM Radio/Recorder · JAVA · Bluetooth · Video Player/ Recorder · GPRS/WAP/MMS · Expandable Memory of up to 8GB · Battery: Li-ion 800mAh · Talk Time: Up to 3 hours · Standby Time: Upto 6 days · Weight: 73.2 grams The Micromax X395 is loaded with the 800mAh battery which offers incredible talk time up to 3h and stand by time for 6 days. The handset comes in a candy bar form factor with a dimension of 115 x 52 x 11.4mm and operates at Tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz frequency. Priced optimally, the Micromax X395 makes a great buy.

Tagged as: micromax, micromax-x395, motion-sensor, multi-format, music, music-player, opera, screen-display, user, video, wap

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LG India announces LG T325, P520 & T310i Mobiles

by Paul Joseph March 11, 2011 Featured

LG unveils its three new mobile phones in India- LG T325, P520 and T310i for the Indian market. All three phones are loaded with rich Internet and features. All these new hand sets are equipped with social networking features. Features and specifications of LG T310i are as follows: * 2.8-inch resistive touch screen * Wi-Fi * Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP * 2 Mega pixel camera * expandable memory up to 4 GB * FM Radio * 3.5 mm audio jack * Built in social networking apps The LG P520 specifications are as under: * Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP * 2 Mega pixel camera * Memory expandable up to 4 GB * FM Radio * 3.5 mm audio jack * MSN messenger * Dual SIM * 2.8-inch resistive touch screen LG T325 has the following specifications: * 2.8-inch touch screen * 3G * Wi-Fi * Bluetooth * 2 Mega pixel camera and front-facing camera * Memory expandable up to 16 GB * 3.5 mm audio jack * Windows Live * Yahoo Messenger application LG Mobiles new all three new handsets, LG T325, P520 & T310i are impressively designed and is embedded with features that will enthrall you. Besides, the user friendly specifications and affordable pricing will further entice you.

Tagged as: further-entice, memory, t310i, user, windows, windows-live, yahoo, yahoo-messenger

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