Samsung ChatON App for Android now available for download
- Category: Android Apps
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by Kunal Khullar
Samsung had announced their cross-platform communication service called ChatON in the month of August. Well now it is officially available for users on Android from Samsung’s app store. The app can be used across various platforms including Android, Bada, iOS, BlackBerry and PC.
The features of the ChatON app include:
- Supports many platforms and devices. Users can chat freely through ChatON. Currently, ChatON supports Android, bada, Samsung feature phones, and it will support iOS, and Blackberry OS soon.
- ChatON provides multiple ways to make your communication richer. One on one Chat, group chat, broadcasts, animation messages, pictures, videos, audio, location info, contacts, calendar.
- Using ChatON, create your own unique animated message by drawing.
- ChatON provides group management features for easy group chats.
- ChatON provides an interaction rank which tells you how often you chat with your buddies.
- In every chat room, you can easily see all sent images and videos in a trunk.
- Got something to say to your buddies? Use Buddies say...
- Support for upto 25 languages.
You can visit here to download the app for Android devices over here.
Nokia E6-00 and other Symbian Anna devices get firmware update
- Category: Nokia
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
A firmware update v025.007 from the previous v022.014 is now available for Nokia’s E6-00 touch and QWERTY device. The size of the update is about 169MB and is said to bring better stability, improved performance and a few updated applications.
A few changed that I noticed are as follow:
- Better and smoother functioning of the mobile browser and switching between the tabs.
- Improvement in the keypad backlight. Earlier when screen brightness was set to minimum, the keyboard backlight was turned off. But now this is fixed.
- Also the device is a bit faster than before.
With this there also seems to be a small update worth 936kb available for all other Symbian Anna devices N8, E7, C7, C6-01, X7. The update can be downloaded OTA or via Nokia Suite. Have you got the update yet?
Google Translate App for Android now with Conversation Mode
- Category: Android Apps
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by Kunal Khullar
Google had launched an update to Google Translate for Android with an experimental feature called Conversation Mode, which enabled users to translate speech back and forth between languages. The app has now been upgraded and Google has expanded the concept by adding new languages including Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. The app supports text translation among 63 languages, voice input in 17 of those languages, and text-to-speech in 24 of them.Google Translate for Android now supports text translation among 63 languages, voice input in 17 of those languages, and text-to-speech in 24 of them.
To use the Conversation Mode, speak into your phone’s microphone, and the Translate app will translate what you’ve said and read the translation out loud. The person you’re speaking with can then reply in their language, and Conversation Mode will translate what they said and read it back to you.
There are also some added features to make it easier to speak and read as you translate. For example, if you wanted to say “Where is the train?” but Google Translate recognizes your speech as “Where is the rain?”, you can now correct the text before you translate it. You can also add unrecognized words to your personal dictionary. When viewing written translation results; you can tap the magnifying glass icon to view the translated text in full screen mode so you can easily show it to someone nearby, or just pinch to zoom in for a close-up view. The app is now also optimized for larger screened devices like tablets.
The app is available for device with Android 2.2 and up. Download the app over here.
Charge your devices on the go with Belkin’s Power Pack
- Category: General
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by Kunal Khullar
Belkin India has today launched a portable charging device called The Belkin Power Pack. It can be used to charge MP3 players, smartphones, Bluetooth devices, portable gaming systems and other USB rechargeable electronics.
The Belkin Power Pack allows users to charge their phones/tablets on the go even when no charging points are available. It is accompanied with a 6 inch micro USB to USB cable that allows users to use their gadgets even while they are being charged. The Power Packs has a feature called the StorageSafe that allows it to hold charge for many months, allowing it to lose only 5% charge each month.
The Power Pack is available in three models that have been designed specifically as per user’s requirements. The Power Pack 1000 uses a 1000 mAh, suitable for mobile phones. The Power Pack 2000 uses a 2000 mAh battery and fully charges the Smartphone. The Power Pack 4000 uses a 4000 mAh battery, can fully charge smartphones or rapid charge tablets. The Power Pack also has LED indicators that display charge status.
Devices like these are very useful as one can juice up his/her device without the need of a power point.
Prices:
Power Pack 1000 - Rs.1,999
Power Pack 1000 - Rs.1,999
Power Pack 2000 - Rs. 2,699
Power Pack 4000 - Rs. 4,799
Apple bans the sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia
- Category: Apple
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by Amol Mathur
Apple has been successful in getting Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1’s sales banned in Australia with a preliminary sales injunction. The federal court in Australia has agreed to the fact the Samsung had infringed two patents held up by Apple. Apple had appealed that Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has the same design, packing and UI as that of Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The court found the claims to be right and has given a verdict by which it has temporarily stopped Samsung from selling its Tab 10.1 in Australia.
Samsung now has to either wait for the next fully fledged trial before it could start selling the 10.1 but that is not going to happen before early 2012 or eventually take a step back and cancel all its plans to sell the tablet in Australia.
Recently Samsung has also opened a pop-up store near Sydney Apple Store, where it is said to be offering its best selling Galaxy S II at $2. Since then, the tension between the two companies has raised to a higher level. There are many more cases filed against both the companies around the world. We can only hope that both the companies sort out their differences and the consumers get the opportunity to use the product they wish to buy, because at the end of the day ‘Consumer is the King’.
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The iPhone 4S gets torn down, thanks to iFixit
- Category: Apple
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by Kunal Khullar
Here we have iFixit again doing what they are good at, tearing down gadgets. This time it’s the recently announced Apple iPhone 4S. The insides of the 4S reveal the A5 dual core processor, the 8 MP camera sensor, Qualcomm’s MDM6610 chipset, the 960 x 640 pixel Retina display, and loads more.Check out the pictures below, and we advise you to NOT try this at home as it may seriously damage your handset.
For more on the tear-down visit iFixit over here.
BSNL Chennai and Tamil Nadu revise its prepaid 3G Data plans
- Category: BSNL
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by Amol Mathur
Gone are the days when BSNL used to provide affordable 3G data plans. BSNL has now revised and reduced the data usage and also increased the price of a few 3G data plans in Chennai and Tamil Nadu. Starting with plan 103, the revised MRP is 101 and data usage has been reduced from 250MB to 225MB. The popular plans like 1102 and 1503 which give data usage of 10GB and 15GB respectively are now priced at 1801 (1261 till 31-12-2011) and 2251(1576 till 31-12-2011).
Two new plans priced at 1251 (751 till 31-12-2011) and 3102 have been introduced giving a data usage of 5GB and 15GB and come with a validity of 30 days and 180 days respectively. All other plan details are as below.
With effect from 01.01.2012, the revised data RCV without the discounted price (i.e. MRP Rs. 1,251, 1,801 & 2,251) will come into effect.
October 19 is Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime Day
- Category: Samsung
- Friday, 14 October 2011
- Written by Amol Mathur
We all know that October 11th was the day when Samsung was coming out with ‘Something Big’ but that eventually got postponed maybe because of Steve Jobs sudden demise. But now, Samsung has sent out fresh invites for an October 19 event to be held in Hong Kong.
So it should be the day Samsung takes the covers off the Nexus Prime. We also know that it runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS so on the same day we’ll also see the release of the new OS. As for the ritual that has been followed every time Google launches a new OS, the Ice Cream Sandwich Statue has arrived at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View.
Stay tuned with us for more on both the ICS and the Nexus Prime.
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Plan Rs. 449 and Rs. 849 are only available on prepaid. After the free usage Data rate of 1 paisa per 12 KB across all plans will be applicable. 
