LG launches Lotus clamshell for Sprint. Though it is not coming to us, yet I wanted us to have a view of this Lotus.
This is a Flip phone which talks style and glamour. It features stereo Bluetooth, a 2MP camera/camcorder, Wireless Backup for safekeeping your contact list in case of an untoward event. Other features include MicroSD cards for an expandable memory, integrated GPS, an external display with music control keys, media player, FM Radio and a 176 x 220 pixel resolution and a large internal display with a 240 x 320 pixel resolution and 262k colors. Read the rest of this entry »
CDMA seems to be the buzzword now. Intex Technologies has made its debut in the CDMA market with its dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) handset - IN 5050, a candy-bar model.
It allows users to multi-task by installing two separate SIM cards of two different service providers allowing them to make a shift between the two without switching off the mobile. Read the rest of this entry »
After LG’s CDMA for Indian customers we now get Samsung’s CDMA for the Asian market. We seem to be getting luckier by the day. It is also one of the better mobile phones from Samsung.
Samsung SCH-F639 has an uncanny resemblance to one of it’s sibling - Samsung U600 ulta slim mobile phone. To say the fact it is actually the CDMA version of the Samsung U600, which supports CDMA2000 1X 800 MHz mobile. Read the rest of this entry »
“As various service providers have been given licences in different areas at different periods of time, the Authority feels that keeping the subscriber base as the criteria for deciding the priority of allotment shall be against the level playing field and the principle of equity,” TRAI Chairman Nripendra Misra said in a letter to Telecom Secretary Siddartha Behura.
He said that Department of Telecom (DoT) may consider the auction route for allotment of spectrum in the 800 MHz band (spectrum for CDMA players) with the highest bid received from GSM operators as the reserve price.
This would ensure equity, level playing field and optimal pricing in allotment of CDMA spectrum for 3G services, he added.
The subscriber base of CDMA network of the service provider in any service area is a result of different environment and cannot muster the “test of fairness if it was to become the basis of priority”, TRAI said.
