India Blocks Fake IMEI Mobiles

Yesterday in India Millions of unbranded and largely Chinese mobile phones were disconnected by mobile service providers. It was all because of fake, invalid, illegal IMEI numbers. This action was taken by the Government of India for security purposes. Now mobile phones with no valid IMEI would not be connected to any mobile network across the country. According to Mobile companies about 25 Million such phones are being blocked. People prefer to buy cheap cell phones from gray market with lot of features but it seems that won’t be happening anymore.

Only One Maemo Smartphone by Nokia in 2010

We get to find out through Reuters that during next year Nokia will launch only one Smartphone with its new Maemo OS. That’s some bad news for everyone especially for Maemo enthusiasts. This movement gives an idea that Nokia is still loyal to its Symbian platform. It should be noted that Nokia is always full of surprises so one never know what might we see next year.

First Solar and WaterProof Mobile

Launched in Japan by Sharp the worlds first waterproof and solar powered mobile phone, amazing isn’t it? Soon we would be seeing more such phones in market. No need to carry a charger when on beach and no worry of it getting wet while there. Perfect for campers and hikers in short for people interested in outdoor activities where there is plenty of sun for mobile to charge. According to manufacturers 10 minutes of direct sunlight gives 1 whole min of talk time, good for emergency call if something goes wrong.

Nokia R&D Layoffs

Just four days ago Nokia lay off 330 jobs in Finland, Denmark (R&D) and yet again today it is said to have cut around 220 R&D jobs in Japan. The reason behind this layoff is said to better align company’s operation with its focused portfolio. By all this we assume that Nokia would now focus on smaller number of more iconic devices going forward instead of 50 or more phones a year. The other reason we find behind this layoff is Nokia losing market share to other competitors especially Apple resulting in less profits as before. It should be noted this year alone Nokia layoff has reached more then 4000 employees world wide.

Nokia shift from S60 to Maemo

There were lots of talks about the Nokia new platform Maemo and its future, everyone was a bit confused would S60 remain or be taken over by Maemo? Now this confusion is somewhat solved, Nokia would still be coming up with phones using S60 platform but by 2012 switch would be made from S60 to Maemo gradually. It is seen that Maemo is far developed and strong platform compared to S60 and is the one for the future handsets by Nokia. Now we can wait for another phone by Nokia using Maemo, that would surely give an idea way the Nokia is moving ahead.

Money Transfer Future Top Application

It is said that by 2012 money transfer and payments over mobile phones are likely to be among the top 10 applications.
Even now money transfer over mobile is already popular in most of the developing countries and keep on attracting more users. Also the recent poll had shown that money transfer application had top the list beating out well known search, browsing and location based services.
Money Transfer through cell phone is more convenient and time saving but all this comes with challenges as well as security concerns which are to be looked at seriously in coming years.

T-Mobile Sold Data

According to the information watch dog, T mobile UK mobile phone company staff is said to have sold millions of records from its thousand of customers without their knowledge.
It is said the details been sold to brokers for substantial sums and the data was allegedly used by other firms to cold call customers of the unnamed firms as there contracts neared expiry.
It is said soon the people involved in this would be prosecuted and Mr Graham the Information Commissioner is preparing a case to send such people to jail so that people data won’t be sold to third parties in future.

Nokia in 2015

Want to know how life would be with mobile phones in 2015 then you need to check this video. The video paints a picture of life in 2015 based on Nokia’s research and development. This video was recently shown in this week Finland conference “Nokia’s The Way We Live Next”. It gives an inside idea of Nokia future and what Nokia is trying to do with its Ovi services. Also we get an idea how our all data be accessible all the time and easily merged.

Click on here to watch the video

More New Useful Applications for Windows Mobile 6.5

The applications we find interesting and useful we can’t resist writing about them so here we go again with three new applications for Windows Mobile 6.5.
Ever felt to know about weather, before planning a party, wedding, picnic or some business event, wanted to see right weather conditions for things to go well, then Elecont Weather is the best application to all about weather before hand. The best part to this application is that it provides one with to the point required information. This application gives one a 10 day weather forecast with Barometer, Alerts for sever weather, Alerts for solar activity, even hour by hour forecast, current weather conditions and much more. Application is really user friendly and got animated effects to give a nice touch to it. This application works both with smart phones and Pocket PC and data on it is supplied by WSI Corp.
When it comes to battery life of smart phones we are always trying to find ways to save battery and at same time want to use applications, to solve this problem we got a nice application Elecont Resource Manager. Elecont Resource Manager helps you to take entire control of your Windows Mobile device. It keeps a check on CPU usage with which help unused power consuming applications are closed, also you can optimize your device and increase its battery life.
Microsoft has come with a wonderful concept of Home/Today screen for Windows Mobile device. To add more to this idea Elecont Quick Desktop came up with three new features: contacts with ability to make phone calls and SMS, websites, documents or applications with ability to start them, the bar with running applications with ability to switch between them. The good thing about this application is you feel as if you working on Windows desktop. Another best thing about it is that task manager can be used to check and control application usages.

Serious Market Share Lose for Windows Mobile

The new market research has shown that just last year in Q3 Windows Mobile has lost a 28 percent of its smart phone market share and this year alone in Q3 its market share further dropped from 11 percent to 7.9 percent., Where as Apples iPhone market share had gone up from 12.9 percent to 17.1 percent, as did RIMs share from 16 percent to 20.8 percent. Symbian share had dropped 10 percent from 49.7 to 44.6 and Google got 3.9 percent market share so far. With recent popularity of Android, Microsoft need to focus more before it further losses its market share.