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2009 Will Indeed be the Year of Touch Screen Mobile Phones Posted: 13 Jan 2009 12:37 AM PST As I already told you that 2009 would be the year of N97 and touch screens for Nokia, there is one more news from Mobile Arsenal that, of the 37 million touch screen phones sold in 2008, Samsung sold over 10 million touch screen phones in the year 2008. Mobile phones with touch screens were there in the market from many years but the actually trigger was pulled when iPhone was launched and everybody wanted to have a touch screen phone with multi touch functionality. and this shot up the demand. In the year 2009, the demand for mobile phones with huge touch screens will be more and that is the reason Nokia is gearing up and developing technology that can be used in touch screens across all price points. So this year you will see more and more of touch screen phones being launched.

Video:Blackberry Storm Hands-On Preview Posted: 13 Jan 2009 12:21 AM PST Vodafone finally launched the Blackberry Storm in India yesterday. Here are two videos that show preview of the Blackberry Storm on Vodafone from ePrice.

Vodafone India Launches Blackberry Storm Posted: 12 Jan 2009 05:13 PM PST With the news of Vodafone bringing the much awaited Blackberry touch screen, the Storm, confirmed long time back, the operator finally launched the phone in India for Rs. 27,990. The wait is over for all Blackberry lovers who were waiting for this touch screen phone. When this phone was launched by RIM, everybody was making a hue and cry about it being a iPhone killer but let me tell you this phone, though good, is no where an iPhone killer man. The phone will be available to all Vodafone customer from Jan 15th. To get its customers acquainted with this handset, Vodafone will be opening 150 experience zones across the country in their own as well as modern mobile phone outlets, may be like Mobile Store. So what is this concept of experience zone, its like you can go there and handle a live phone and actually experience how the phone will actually function if you buy one. This is a new concept that is rapidly being adopted by mobile phone companies and operators pioneer being Nokia's Experience stores. Vodafone must have been really disappointed with the response it got when iPhone 3G came on Vodafone's network. May be experience zone is part of their strategy where they educate customers about the phone and then these people are more likely to buy the phone. Anyway, coming back to the Storm, its sports an impressive 3.25 inch high resolution clickable touch screen with feedback, 3.5mm standard headphone jack, 1GB on board memory expandable to 16GB with microSD/SDHD card, built-in accelerometer. You will also get lot of cool on-board applications that are built for the Storm like Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Flickr Uploader and you can also edit your Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. Blackberry Strom seems to be promising handset. Blackberry in India has always been looked as a handset for the corporate or business people. As Strom has lot of multimedia capabilities, is this outlook of people bound to change? Till date Blackberry is considered to be a handset of e-mail addicts and not mobile Internet addicts. What do you think? Let your thoughts pour in.

Nokia Locate Sensor will Locate Anything for you Posted: 12 Jan 2009 07:45 AM PST Nokia's upcoming NSeries touch screen phone the N97 was showcased this time at the CES 2009. Along with the N97, Nokia also demonstrated a unique GPS based application that keeps a track of your valuables. This physical wireless location tag was showcased by Nokia in the CES 2009. You just need to attach this tag to something like keys or you cannot afford loosing and you are all set. Next time somebody flicks that things from your pocket or purse or you accidentally drop it somewhere, the application sitting on your N97 will point you in the direction of your lost valuable and will also tell you how far it is from you. Just like they show in Hollywood movies. This is just a prototype that has been developed by Nokia's Research Center. To know more about what this application and physical tag can do for you, head over to Electric Pig and get informed more about this new applications. Whoever has said that mobile phone is the Swiss knife of the tech world is indeed correct.

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