We are waiting for 3G and mobile number portability since a long time. There have been a lot of delays since a long time, now it looks like there would be a final decision on the MNP service at least by October 31, 2010.

The TRAI, in a recent announcement has directed mobile operator in the country to implement MNP by October 31 this year or be ready to face the consequences. If that wasn’t all, the Department of Telecom (DoT) made it clear to operators yesterday that the infrastructure for and tests for porting numbers from one service provider to another are to be completed before September 1. If they fail to do that, the service providers would be barred from launching new commercial services in any area, starting September 1.

With mobile number portability we would be able to retain our number even if we want to change our service provider. This will lead to a lot of competition between the mobile service providing companies. Mobile operators have delayed MNP a lot over various problem due to which last deadline June 30 was missed.

Let’s see if the mobile operators are able to do the needful by the October 31.

Indian Government has given Research In Motion (Blckberrry) August 31st the deadline to resolve the government’s security concerns over BlackBerry service. This has become a huge issue let’s see what happens.

Its been more than a year since Google’s “community collaboration” tool Google Wave was launched at the 2009 I/O conference and people were waiting for invites to join it. Now the google has decided to shut down the service due to very low adoption rate.

The service will not shut down completely for now, the account would still be accessible and Google has reaffirmed that the service would be running through the end of the year. They have also that technology used in the Wave would be integrated into other Google projects. Existing users can easily ‘liberate’ their content from Wave.

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said that the failure of Google Wave is just the failure of an experiment. “Remember, we celebrate our failures. This is a company where it’s absolutely OK to try something that’s very hard, have it not be successful, and take the learning from that.”

We have seen a lot of swanky tablets around the market nowadays but nobody can beat this not so swanky looking tablet from India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development for a challenging price of Rs. 1,500 or $35 only. This one is way cheaper than the $75 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) option.

This Rs.1,500 device has the form factor of a tablet and supposedly has a 7-inch touchscreen display. It is capable of browsing the web and comes with a keyboard as well. The device has got about 2GB of RAM, Wi-Fi connectivity and a USB port, which is pretty amazing at such a budget. The tablet has been developed by the government in collaboration with premier scientific institutes like the IITs & IISc.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has plans to reduce the price of this device further down to just $10. If every thing goes according to plan we would be able to see many students sporting the revolutionary device.

The all new Apple iPhone 4 have been in enough controversy in last few days. A website have reported a iPhone 4 catching fire. The brand new iPhone 4 caught on fire while being hooked up to a computer using the Apple USB cable that accompanied the device.

The phone was bought into an AT&T store in the hope of getting it repaired. However, the phone was damaged beyond repair. An Apple Store did confirm that this did appear to be a defective USB port and not a user error. According to sources the bezel of the device had got extremely hot and the USB port in the phone got melted a bit.

The owner is waiting for his phone replacement.

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There has been a lot of news of the Blackberry’s upcoming slider phone the BalckBerry 9800, yet again there has been a huge image leaks of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 9800 by a website. The market name of the phone is still unknown. The software is identified as version 0.9, but you can clearly tell from the UI that it’s running BlackBerry 6. The phone is AT&T-branded, and it starts up with a carrier logo screen. We hope to see more news on this soon.

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The phone has been fitted with a 2.2” TFT screen that displays images in 262K colors. The phone has got a basic 2 MP camera and allows VGA video recording at 30fps. It has got 3.5mm audio jack. Its network capabilities spread over GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS HSDPA 850/1900/2100, UMTS HSDPA 2100 and EDGE 850/900/1800/1900.

The phone weighs about 84gms with dimensions 111mm x 49mm x 15.5mm. It is available in two color combinations, namely, black and silver or black and red. It offers a talk time of about 12 hours 30 min and standby time of around 420 hours on a GSM network. It provides for approximately 4 hours 56 min of talk time and about 475 hours of standby time on a UMTS network.

It has pre-installed Widget Manager 2.0 app with which users can access social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace on the stand-by screen of their devices. EAS Push e-mail facility and modem connectivity have also been provided with the phone. 3G users can avail of faster internet speeds and access web browser Netfront 3.5.

The pricing is still under cover and it is expected to hit select markets within the third quarter of this year. Stay Tuned!

We’ve been hearing about Nintendo’s 3DS from quite a while, and now Nintendo is showing it off at its E3 press conference. Mario built company is presenting its superior its glasses-free technology which is better than others. It takes 3D gaming along with you wherever you go.

The upper screen is only 3.5-inches. There is a slider on the side that lets you tweak the 3D effect, enabling you to adjust its depth based on your distance from the screen, or turn it off entirely. As with the current DS, the bottom is a touchscreen, and is not 3D.

The analog stick like thing is being called as “Slide Pad” by nintendo. There is a gyro, motion sensor, which is compatible with DSi games, and has two cameras enabling 3D photos. Nintendo is showing off two colors, red and blue.

There is still no release date or price as of now. Stay tuned for further updates.

iPhone 4 is available for pre-order at AT&T store. iPhone 4 in white is unavailable for pre-order. Pricing for a SIM-free and unlocked iPhone 4 is set at £499 (16GB) or £599 (32GB) in the UK or €629 (16GB) and €739 (32GB) in France. Pre-orders are limited to two per customer.

It looks like AT&T servers are struggling to keep up, as the AT&T’s iPhone 4 upgrade ordering systems have collapsed.

The BlackBerry Pearl 9100, featuring a 20-key condensed QWERTY keyboard, and the BlackBerry Pearl 9105, with a 14-key traditional phone keyboard. Both smartphone models include SureType software that can complete words as the user types.

It features a optical trackpad unlike its predecessor having a trackball, a 3.2 MP camera with flash, support for up to 32GB of additional memory via micro SD cards and dedicated keys for volume adding to convenience. The most important of all 3G (HSDPA) makes its way into these, and its just in time with the ending of the spectrum auctions in India.

The Pearl 3G also features -

• 360 x 400 sharp-resolution display (238 ppi)
• 3G, EDGE/GPRS, Wi-Fi (supports 'n')
• Built-in GPS for location-based applications
• Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, USB 2.0 (micro)
• 624 Mhz processor with 256 MB Flash memory
• 3.2 MP camera with zoom, autofocus, flash and video recording
• MicroSD card support
• 3.5mm handsfree socket

The pricing and availability of the handsets is still not declared but according to us they must be in range of Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 25,000. We expect to hear about the exact details in few days. So stay tuned for our word on the phone when it comes on shelves.