Nokia announced 8800 Carbon Arte

Nokia has announced the launch of a new handset, Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte with its external body made up of carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel.

The latest addition to the premium 8800 series comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus, high quality audio, an OLED display, a generous 4GB memory capacity and a very premium feel.

A light-weight slider mobile phone features minimalistic and seamless surfaces. The handset with 3.2 megapixel camera includes 3G capabilities, high quality audio, OLED display, 4GB expandable memory along with anti-fingerprint coating.

For connoisseurs, there is the anti-smudge fingerprint coating to ensure that the beautiful phone stays that way for a long time. The 8800 Carbon Arte will be available in the third quarter of 2008 and will be sold at an estimated price of 1100 Euros (Rs 70,273 ).

The iPhone 3G is available in 8GB and 16GB at Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,100 in India

Vodafone has revealed its iPhone pricing. The iPhone 3G is available in 8GB and 16GB at Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,100 respectively. And as you have already pre-registered with us, you can get it before others do. All you need to do is drop in at a select Vodafone Store between August 20 and 21 and confirm your booking by paying Rs 10000 through cash or credit card. Don't forget to show the iPhone booking SMS, which you would have received from vodafone, when you visit the Vodafone Store to make the deposit.


Thats the shocking price for apple iphone 3G people expecting price less than Rs.24,000 for iphone 3G. In US iphone 3G price is $199 (8GB) and $299 (16GB).

Are you going to purchase iphone 3G ?

Nokia N96 iPhone Killer Hits India

Nokia’s much awaited, fully loaded, dual slider, the N96, has been launched in India almost a month and a half before the UK launch that was set to be the first. Bravo - is what I have to say. This cross between the N81 with its glossy trims and the N95’s dual slide component makes for a great handset overall.

The N96 has a 2.8-inch TFT display with a 240 x 320 pixel resolution and 16 million colors. It runs on a Dual ARM 9 264 MHz CPU and comes with 128MB RAM, 256MB storage memory and a whopping 16GB of internal memory as well as microSD card support in case you feel that 16GB is just not enough. The handset also has an accelerometer for automatically rotating the display.

Net connectivity the N96 is equipped with Wi-Fi, 3G support with HSDPA speeds, EDGE class 32, GPRS/WAP, Bluetooth with A2DP and microUSB v2.0 for data transfer. When it comes to multimedia the N96 should feel like a pro with a 5 MP auto-focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics. It’s also capable of video capture (VGA 30fps) and it comes with an LED flash which in my opinion is not a good thing since the N82 has a Xenon, but ok. Just around the camera’s lens is a kickstand that when opened allows the handset to be propped up for comfort of viewing. The N96 also has a secondary VGA videocall camera in front.

Speaking of pre-loaded features, Nokia has been gracious enough to the Indian audience by providing plenty of Bollywood freebies. The N96 will come preloaded with the movie ‘Om Shanti Om’, 50 music videos, music tracks in Hindi and English and 3 N-Gage games with an unlimited license on for the 3rd edition of Asphalt Urban. It will also have 3 country Nokia Maps that include Singapore, UAE and of course India and a 3 month Navigation license for 8 Indian cities.

Apple and Nokia have not yet announced the prices of their models, but according to industry sources, both phones having 3G enabled features, which allow high quality net surfing, video and music download etc, would be priced in the same range.

Though the phone would be available from September, consumers can pre-book the phone from across 2,000 Nokia outlets across the country from Wednesday.

Yahoo Buzz Opens Doors To Everyone

Yahoo’s Digg-like effort to leverage reader gestures and third party content in determining the most popular news, removes it’s barriers to entry tonight.

Until now only a hundred or so invited publishers could post news to Buzz. This was a big plug - Yahoo pushes a few Yahoo Buzz stories to their home page every day, resulting in huge, server-melting traffic surges to the lucky third party sites. Starting tonight, the invitation requirement is gone, and anyone can submit their stories to Buzz.

It’s hard to compare Buzz to Digg. Like AOL’s Propeller, they chose to add editorial discretion in determining headlines to reduce gaming. That also seems to make users less interested in participating, though. In Yahoo’s case the fact that they promote headline stories on the home page of Yahoo gives them a huge traffic boost, which skews results.

Stories can be submitted here once it goes live in a few hours.