All this is happening because of the down to earth call rates due to the intense competition which has made the call rates to come down to as low as 1Ps/ Pulse.

This Drastic decrease in call rates has had the Telecom providers in a fix as the revenue is plummeting very drastically in a very short time.

According to Statistics the average revenue per subscriber or ‘Arpu’(Average Revenue Per User) that telecom companies in India earn has plunged 30% to Rs160 per month — one of the lowest rates in the world — from around Rs225 a year back.

According to a Telecom Expert "The Customer care queries are increasing drastically due to the congestion in the networks due to the increase in the number of users, and this has shown a way for the telecom providers to gain Revenue from different sources.

Accordingly The different users have changed the features in their Customer care interface to suite the charges which are being implied on the customers first by Airtel, then Loop mobile and then Vodafone.

this is what the different Network providers had to say:

A Vodafone Essar spokesperson said: “We changed our IVR system very recently. If you call 111, the IVR will ask whether you want to register a complaint or do something else. If it’s a complaint, the caller will be asked to terminate the call and dial 198, which is toll free. But if you need to talk to an agent, a message will tell you that the call will be charged at 50p for three minutes.”

Loop Mobile spokesperson said the Ruia Group company plans to roll out a big advertisement campaign for customers. “We have already sent SMSes to our subscribers that some calls to customer care will be charged from April 1.”

A Reliance Communications spokesperson said the company’s customer care numbers have always been toll free if the caller calls from a Reliance number. He said the company will also provide the number 198toll free for complaints as directed by Trai.

There are estimated to be 500 million mobile phones in India by the end of 2010, so this shows that there is going to be a drastic increase in new users,, so this has waged a war in the Mobile indusrty. With the likes of Docomo shocking the industry with 1Ps/sec all the network providers have had to decrease the call rates to be in the competition.

With Aircel and Uninor coming into the Indian market have further added to the woes of the already present Providers by introducing lesser call rates then the existing ones. So now the call rates have come down to 0.5 Ps/sec for local calls and 50 Ps/min for STD.

This is getting better and better for the common public as now everyone can afford having a mobile phone due to these less call rates.

Here is the list of the Mobile Network providers in India:

Steve Jobs unveiled it by his own hands.

The Apple iPad has the following Specifications:

Dimensions:

• Height – 9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
• Width – 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
• Depth – 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
• Weight – 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model, 1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G mode
• Screen: 9.7-inch LCD screen
• Resolution: 1024×768 pixels

Battery Backup:

• 10 hrs on full usage
• 1 month on standby

Location services:

• Wi-Fi
• Digital compass
• Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
• Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

Hardware:

• Chip - 1 GHz Apple A4 chip. They went in-house instead of going to Intel.
• Memory - Three models with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB solid state hard drives.

Features:

Videos: The large, high-resolution screen makes iPad perfect for watching any kind of video: from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts and music video.

Images: Th Albums can be seen as a stack and one tap opens up the stack to show all the pictures.

iPod App: With the iPod app, all your music is literally at your fingertips. Browse by album, song, artist, or genre with a simple flick. To play a song, just tap it. iPad even displays album art at full size. Listen to your music with the powerful built-in speaker or with wired or Bluetooth wireless headphones.

iTunes: A tap of the iTunes store icon lets you browse and buy music, TV shows, and podcasts — or buy and rent movies — wirelessly, right from your iPad

App store: iPad runs almost 140,000 apps from the App Store. where you ca find Gaming apps also.

iBooks: It is a new native application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that allows you to browse, download and read e-books given presently by Penguin, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillian and Hachette and also McGraw-Hill.

Maps: See maps on the go with the help of the 3G version, where we can get the GPS facility whereas in the basic Wifi enabled piece we cannot enjoy  the GPS facility.

Notes: Te massive screen makes it easy to jot down notes even in a class. Its the same as seen in the iPhone and the iTouch

Spotlight Search: helps you search each and everything present on the iPad in just one go.

Pricing:

$499: 16 GB, Wi-Fi only
$599: 32 GB, Wi-Fi only
$629: 16 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
$699: 64 GB, Wi-Fi only
$729: 32 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
$829: 64 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G

There was a lot of Expectations form the device, but it let us down very badly. Lets see where the iPad went horribly wrong.

No Multi Tasking:

This device which is supposed to be a gadget built to fill in the gap between a smart phone and a Mac, does not support multi tasking, then how in the world can they say that it is something near to a laptop. Even a basic Smart phone supports Multi tasking. This is the major let down by apple they just copied the Features of the iPhone and elongated it into the iPad.

The least apple could have done is including Multi tasking into the iPad, to make it something worth giving a try.

The Design:

What can be told about the design, it is just a copy of Apple iPhone minus the curves. The Design is just taken from the iPhone and put into the iPad it is just an Elongated thinner version of the iPhone.

Apple could have done much better than just making it a taller brother of the iPhone, with the same central key and the Sleep buton on the top.

Does not Support Flash:

This is another disappointing feature, the iPad does not support Flash and this is the same taken from the iPhone, insted of correcting and including Flash Apple has just made it more worse by  not including Flash atleast for the iPad.

This means that we cannot have Flash based games and the Flash based websites cannot be viewed to their full capacity.

No USB Slot:

There are no USB slots included in the iPad, which also adds to the misery of using this Tablet, we cannot transfer stuff from other computers easy and fast. The only thing which we can do is use this tablet as a Netbook and god knows why Steve made the statement that this is a device which will fill in the gap between Smartphone and Laptops, and it is just another Net book like the many other devices we can find out there.

No Camera:

There is neither a camera, the feature available in the iPhone is also absent in this.

The Same Apps as iPhone:

The iPad supports the same Apps as that of the iPhone, without any Flash even the Apps which support Flash cannot be used in this. The App developers are left helpless due to this and we have to suffer with the same 3rd party apps available in the App store.

No Full GPS:

The Wi-Fi-only versions flat out have no GPS support whatsoever. The basic versions have to compensate of GPS. The 3G versions have Assisted GPS, which makes use of the cellular connection to help pinpoint your location.

No SD Slot:

The absense of an SD slot makes the iPad memory very costly, with 15$ for 250 MB we have to shell out a lot of money to get to the higher end version of the iPad.

The Pricing is based on the memory:

For a Tablet i think this is just a lame thing to do, by placing the pricing based on the memory and that too by  giving 250 MB for 15$ is such a shame.

Overall looking at the Device we can say that, iPad is not living up to its expectations. There were way too high expectations on the device and it has got nothing near it.

"We can say that iPad is just and Elongated iTouch"

IMEI number-The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)

The chennai police has implemented a easy method to trace your lost mobile phones with the help of just your imei number and that too just by sitting at home. You can see the method click here

This number can be used to recover Stolen Mobiles by tracing the mobile via a complex system of GPRS and internet.

How to get the imei number:
There are 2 ways to find your imei number:

1)

Take your phone and then all you have to do is

Dial: *#06#
And then you will get a 15 Digit number which is your imei number.

2) The second method is to check behind your phone under the battery, where you can see a 15 digit number which is your imei number.

The Palm is going to release its updated WebOS 1.3.5 today i.e on 28th Dec 2009. This is some good news for the Palm pre owners who can get their Palm Pre's updated and wnjoy the following features:

• Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.
• QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of video sent via MMS.
• Launch Google Maps or Sprint Nav when tapping an address from contacts.
• Customers can nowdownload over 2G connections if necessary.

Updating your Phone is always necessary to maintain it and keep it going, so Pre owners just go for the Update when it is released any time today.

There is no official announcement on the Palm support site, but it is given in the Sprint site.

Nokia is going to release its Dual sim Phones in the second quarter of 2010.

Samsung, LG, Motorolla the  internationally accredited brands have forayed into the Dual sim market, and been quite successful. And there is also some stiff competition from the local makers like Spice , Acer, Intex, Airfone and Karbonn.

So Nokia which has the confidence of the costumers to be a genuine and a sturdy phone maker with a reputation of rolling out reliable phones.

The Dual sim market is flourishing all because of the demand of costumers, and Nokia which has already lost its first place in the UK market will not let Samsung take its position in India too.

So The second quarter of 2010 will be interesting to see what moves other Companies will be taking to compete with Nokia.

In all this Cat fight between the Companies costumers are then ones who are getting benefited.

Apple has announced a Media event to release its products in its typical and trademark manner, hope we can see Steve Jobs again in his Blue jeans and Black tee, and bring out another Gadget of the decade for the next 10 yrs.

As read in Appleinsider.com

"Apple has reportedly scheduled a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010, for a major product announcement."

The expected announcements for the 2010 Media event are:

• The most anticipated Apple Tablet.
• The subscription plan for video content on iTunes.
• The release of the new Gen iPhone with 4G.
• The upgrade of the iPhone camera to a much needed 5Mp along with a much needed Flash.
• Full Screen Versions of the Apps available on iTunes for a January Demo.

"Apple reportedly wanted software to scale beyond the 320x480 pixel size of the current iPhone and iPod touch screen, but said that applications that can accommodate the larger screen size will run "just fine" on the new device" (Source: Apple insider.com)

So be ready for the Apple Media event and keep an Eye in this space for more updates related the the Event.

Apple which has neglected on the camera section in the last two iPhones, has finally took the right step, as it has apparently ordered 40-45 million camera units from OmniVision Technologies for 2010.

There are some high expectation with the Media Event scheduled for Jan 26.

• The next generation iPhone has to have some changes in :
• The cam
• And a flash to support the awesome camera, hopefully in the Apple sign which will make it a masterpiece.
• The Hardware
• The Overall look has to change (getting bored looking at the same thing all these years)

And what else can we say everything else is just so perfect in the iPhone.

So looking forward to the release and the official announcement for the next generation of the iPhone.

Specifications:

Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches and 11.2 ounces (317 grams)

Data: Support for AT&T (for US) and WiFi networks (free WiFi access at B&N stores)

OS: android

Storage: 2GB storage with microSD card slot

Display: 3.5 inch color touchscreen lower display

Multimedia: MP3 player (mono speaker) and 3.5mm jack

Battery: Removable and rechargeable battery(chargeable via MicroUSB). Lasts upto 10 days.

Formats Supported: Formats supported iclude: ePub, PDB, MP3, PDF, and JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc.

Nook will have access to its online bookstore that includes books, newspapers and magazines.

Nook can hold up to 1,500 e-books.

We can go through millions of eBooks with the help pf Wifi and 3G.

I think with the Android OS installed in it, we can download the Android Apps onto it when it gets Jailbroken by some great soul......