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Fancy creating your own mobile phone, built to your specifications? Then head over to zzzPhone, a firm that lets you customize your handset just as you like it,when ordering.

When ordering a mobile phone from zzzPhone, you choose a base model and colour, then pick what components you like, and their specifications. You can add functionalities such as a high-resolution 7-megapixel camera sensor, GPS features, or additional storage of up to 4GB to your phone, in the same way Dell sells its computers.

US-based zzzPhone said it uses the same “high quality components as major brands Motorola, Nokia, Palm, and Samsung; these unlocked, tri-band mobile phones deliver features that exceed those offered on the ultra-popular Nokia N95 and Apple iPhone, at less than half the price.”

For more details, click here…

I found some sites, which are good in sending free SMS to any mobiles in India. please update your comments about those services, also add up more good ones, if any.

http://cellity.com
Install their free application in your mobile to start sending free sms. cellity works with any country, with any phone & SIM Card.

http://www.vakow.com
It’s a community of people who love SMS Forwards. You can post your SMSes and find new ones to share on phone, email or Orkut

http://160by2.com
A free sms service quite popular in india for sending free sms to any mobile phone number but it requires registration but you can send group sms to at most 10 mobile numbers ,you can also maintain phone book and lot more in this site.

Google Calender

Get the verification to register your mobile in Google Calender by following the steps below

1. Click on “Settings” at the top of any Google Calendar page, then select the “Mobile Setup” tab.
2. Select your country from the “Country” drop-down menu.
3. In the “Phone number” field, enter your phone number.
4. Select your carrier from the drop-down menu, if applicable. However, if the “See Help Center for supported providers” link is displayed, please check to see if your provider is supported before requesting your verification code.
5. If your carrier is supported, click on the “Send Verification Code” button and wait for a text message to be sent to your phone.
6. Once you receive this message, enter the code you received in your text message into the “Verification code” box and click on the “Finish setup” button.

Happy Texting!!!

When SMS was introduced at the beginning of the 90ies in Europe, it was basicly free. There were SMS gateways all over the Internet. But then the carriers were recognizing the marketing potential of SMS, and slowly the prices per single message were rising until they reached 49 ct (in Germany at the end of the 90ies). Only when parents were stunned by the SMS cost of their children, protests started to mount, and then the diverse regulation offices in the different countries were trying to limit SMS prices, so there were actual plans which included for example 1000 short messages per month.

A standard SMS message contains up to 140 bytes (1120 bits) of data - this takes care of the 160 characters allowed in your text message. This might not make sense at first, until you realize that SMS uses 7 - not 8 - bit characters - leaving you with 128 possible character values instead of the normal 256. So 1120bits/7bits = 160 characters.

So our total message length is about a tenth of a kilobyte (.13671875 Kbytes). In terms that the iPod generation would understand - if you had an iPod with a tenth of a kilobyte you could fit 1/4000th of a song on it. I assume here and for the rest of this article that 1 song = 4 Megabytes.

If you divide 140 (the total number of bytes available to you) by 20 (the cost per message), you find that you are paying 1 cent for every 7 bytes of data. This leaves you with a cost of $1,497.97 for the 1024Kbytes contained in a single megabyte. iPod users: It would cost you $5,991.88 to transfer - not even to buy - a single song via SMS.

I found this article give us more insight about the play behind this SMS business, Read More…

Throw your digital camera, and buy a Samsung G600 phone which offers a 5 mega pixel camera. It is a slim slide model with wide and big screen, bluetooth and micro SD. It delivers 262K color with 2.3-inch TFT QVGA display and standard USB port. This model will available in India soon, and the price is not yet known here.

Read Review1, Review2

Read Full Specifications of Samsung G600 Here..

 iPhone- (which combines an innovative touch-screen interface with the media-playing abilities of the iPod, is sold only in the U.S)is hacked by a 17 year old teen - George Hotz. confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile’s network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone’s cellular technology.

Hotz posted Thursday to his blog, is complicated and requires skill with both soldering and software. It takes him about two hours to perform. Since the details are public, it seems likely that a small industry may spring up to buy U.S. iPhones, unlock them and send them overseas.

Hotz himself spent about 500 hours on the project since the iPhone went on sale on June 29. On Thursday, he put the unlocked iPhone up for sale on eBay, where the high bid was above $2,000 midday Friday. The model, with 4 gigabytes of memory, sells for $499 new.

Click here to see his Blog posts 

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Google’s announcement in the fall that it would release free software for mobile devices fired the imagination of thousands of developers around the world anxious to build the next billion-dollar technology business. Now they are grumpily asking: “Where’s the code?”  Google admits that the software development kit it released in November is a work in progress and does not include all the software needed for a phone. The kit also does not include any source code,though Google had promised that Android’s code would be available for developers to examine and modify.

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EyeMobile Engine takes mobile gaming and navigation to new heights. This software-only solution uses the existing camera on a mobile device to deliver a gesture-based interface to mobile applications. An entertaining and intuitive alternative to conventional button interfaces, EyeMobile allows users to do anything they would normally do with their mobile device, such as play games, answer calls, make menu selections or scroll, pan and zoom in on photos, simply by shaking, rocking or rolling their device. With the EyeMobile Engine, handset manufacturers can offer all the benefits of gesture recognition technology, without the expense and real estate of adding specialized hardware. The EyeMobile Engine Application Programming Interface (API) also provides application developers with the means to integrate motion control into their applications, much as they do with current conventional controls such as keys and buttons

Get more information about GestureTek and its technologies at http://www.gesturetek.com  and http://www.gesturetekmobile.com.

Are you tired of the unwanted marketing/promotional calls from your provider/Private banks / Insurance companies ? I was getting around 6-7 unwanted calls per day, and then i came to know about the DONOT CALL REGISTRY. it worked for me to stop all unwanted call they should start something like Do not call ever legislation!

The official site for National Do not call registry, if even after registering you number some marketing company is pestering you it has all the details on how to take appropriate action.

Here is the list of links for each provider’s DCR

• BSNL Mobiles / Landlines

• Airtel

• IDEA Cellular

• Vodafone

If you have problems to sign up the registry. call up your customer service department and they will enter it for you.

How to use : i’m using Airtel post paid connection, the link will ask you for your number, and when submitting, they will send you a 4 digit authentication code as a SMS, after entering that code your number will be successfully added to the DNC registry. and they will send you a confirmation SMS also. it will take upto 48 hours to activate your status.

The 4.8-ounce sliver of glass and aluminum is an explosive device that has forever changed the mobile-phone business, wresting power from carriers and giving it to manufacturers, developers, and consumers.

It is very interesting and an Inspiring story on wired regarding Apple’s iPhone which has shaken up the entire mobile industry, the challenges faced by Apple which had started work on the same four years ag..

Read here the full story behind iPhone

Nokia filed patent for Mobile device with virtual keyboard.The patent application can be viewed Here (PDF link).