The number of mobile phone subscribers in India rose to 893.84 million in December with a a growth of 1 per cent, according to the data showed by TRAI . Idea Cellular alone signing 2.39 million new subscribers and about 292.4 lakh (29.24 million) mobile phone subscribers have opted for mobile number portability ( MNP ).
The wireless user base grew 1.07 per cent with an addition of 9.47 million subscribers, from 884.37 million in November. Overall teledensity in India reached 76.86 per cent . With this, the total number of telephone subscribers, including land line holders, touched 926.53 million.
However, of the total 893.84 million wireless subscribers, only 646.77 million subscribers were active subscribers on the date of peak visitor location register (VLR). VLR is a temporary database of the subscribers who have roamed into the particular area, which it serves. Each base station in the network is served by exactly one VLR, hence a subscriber cannot be present in more than one VLR at a time.
The total number of subscribers of Idea Cellular stood at 106.38 million. Uninor added 2.13 million subscribers to take its subscribers count to36.31 million.
Bhart Airtel added 9,60,143 customers taking its subscribers base to 175.65 million while Reliance Communications added 9,48,743 users increasing its subscribers count to 150.08 million susbscribers.
State-owned BSNL and MTNL added 7,50,467 and 34,143 users to have 96.76 million and 5.68 million users respectively.
According to the data, the broadband subscriber base grew 1.3 per cent from 13.13 million in November to 13.30 million in December. However, the wireline segment declined marginally from 32.96 million in November to 32.69 million in December.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Samsung GALAXY S Advance – Dual Core 1GHz Processor, 4″ Super AMOLED Display
Samsung announced the launch of the Samsung GALAXY S Advance . Samsung GALAXY S Advance has 4.0” Super AMOLED displayand is powered by a dual core 1.0 GHz processor and HSPA 14.4 Mbps . It runs on Android Gingerbread platform and has 5MP Auto Focus camera with LED flash .
Designed for those who define themselves by the phone they carry, the GALAXY S Advance strikes a balance of style, power and performance. It will be available in Russia starting from February, and then be gradually rolled out in CIS, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Latin America and China.
Dual Core performance, curved design and Super AMOLED display
Powered by a dual core 1.0 GHz processor and HSPA 14.4 Mbps connectivity, the GALAXY S Advance has been built with power and connectivity in mind, delivering great versatility and a highly responsive user interface for easy multitasking. Application start-ups are faster with virtually no lag time, and the user experience is boosted with smoother screen transitions, faster image processing, and enhanced Web download and browsing performance.
The GALAXY S Advance’s curved glass design enhances handling of the phone and fits the user’s facial form easily and naturally. Its 4.0” Super AMOLED display provides the stunning visuals users have come to expect of Samsung GALAXY smartphones, offering unparalleled color reproduction and ensuring that photos and videos captured with the device’s 5MP camera can be enjoyed with vivid clarity.
The Samsung user experience
Running on Android Gingerbread and featuring Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface , the GALAXY S Advance enables users to stay connected through the Samsung Hubs and ChatON services . Music Hub offers a full music store experience with access to over 11 million tracks and the ability to fully personalize users’ own music catalogues. Readers Hub offers access to over 2.3 million e-books, 3,500 magazine and 200 newspaper titles; while the hugely popular GameHub offers access to thousands of catalogued games supplemented by gamer news feeds and news.
Samsung’s cross platform communication service, ChatON connects all phone users into a single community using phone numbers instead of usernames and passwords, provides aneasy instant messaging, group chatting and sharing of content in multiple formats—images, video, voice, contacts, calendar—to make messaging simpler and more intuitive than ever.
The GALAXY S Advance also features Find My Mobile , a unique lost-phone management system that ensures secure phone data encryption in case of phone loss, and that enablesusers to trace their lost phone directly via the Web or even delete the device’s data remotely.
Samsung GALAXY S Advance product specifications
Network HSPA 14.4Mbps 850/900/1900/2100EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900
Process 1 GHz Dual-Core Processor
Display 4.0” WVGA(480×800) Super AMOLED display
OS Android 2.3(Gingerbread)
Camera Main(Rear) : 5 Megapixel Auto Focus Camera with LED FlashSub(Front) : 1.3 MegapixelCamera
Video Codec : MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, VC-1
Recording/ Playback : 720@30fps
Audio Codec : MP3, AAC, AAC＋, eAAC＋, WMA, AC3Music Player with SoundAlive3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS
Value-added Features Samsung TouchWiz/ Samsung L!ve Panel UX
Samsung Apps
Samsung Kies 2.0/ Samsung Kies air/ AllShare
ChatON(Downloadable via Samsung Apps)Readers Hub(Downloadable via Samsung Apps)Music HubGame Hub
＊Service availability differs by region
GoogleTM Mobile Services- Android Market, Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps,Syncing with Google Calendar
Polaris Office
Find My Mobile
A-GPS
Connectivity Bluetooth technology v 3.0 High SpeedUSB 2.0Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Sensor Proximity, Accelerometer, Geomagnetic, Light, Gyroscope
Memory 8/16GB User memory ＋ 768MB(RAM)microSD (up to 32GB)
Size 123.2 x 63.0 x 9.69 mm, 120g
Battery Standard battery, Li-ion 1,500mAh
*All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice or obligation.
Apple Dethrones HP As Top PC Vendor : Canalys
Apple became the top PC vendor in Q4 2011 overtaking HP, reports Canalys. Apple shipped over 15 million iPads and five million Macs, representing 17% of the total 120 million client PCs shipped globally in Q4. Overall, the total client PC market, including desktops, netbooks, notebooks, and pads grew 16% year-on-year. Excluding pads, the client PC market declined 0.4%.
The floods in Thailand, that impacted hard drive assembly plants, caused mild disruption to shipments during the quarter, but the side effectsare likely to be felt in the first half of 2012.
Among the other top five PC vendors, only Lenovo managed to increase its market share, by a relatively modest two points, compared to Apple’s six-point gain over the same quarter a year ago. Acer, Dell and HP – the hardest hit – all lost market share. Now the second largest client PC vendor worldwide, HP will struggle to compete with Apple following the end of its Touchpad.
Lenovo continued to close the gap on HP, thanks to successful investment outside of core markets. The acquisition of Medion in Germany helped Lenovo double its shipments in Western Europe during the second half of 2011. The vendor’s decision to use Android for enterprise and consumer pads gives it a better opportunity than HP to continue gaining market share.
Dell placed fourth among the top five PC vendors, followed by Acer. Acer’s shipments continued to decline, as a result of the pad’s impact on the netbook market. It did, however, make headlinesat the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in January, when it revealed its S5 Ultrabook. Unsurprisingly, Acer and other vendorshave been quick to announce their support for the new Ultrabook form factor, with the view of driving innovation and renewed customer interest in notebooks.
Pads accounted for 22% of total PC shipments during Q4 2011. In addition to Apple’s strong performance, the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet by Barnes and Noble boosted volumes in the U.S. market, allowing both vendors to claim spots among the top five worldwide pad makers, in second and fifth place respectively.
The floods in Thailand, that impacted hard drive assembly plants, caused mild disruption to shipments during the quarter, but the side effectsare likely to be felt in the first half of 2012.
Among the other top five PC vendors, only Lenovo managed to increase its market share, by a relatively modest two points, compared to Apple’s six-point gain over the same quarter a year ago. Acer, Dell and HP – the hardest hit – all lost market share. Now the second largest client PC vendor worldwide, HP will struggle to compete with Apple following the end of its Touchpad.
Lenovo continued to close the gap on HP, thanks to successful investment outside of core markets. The acquisition of Medion in Germany helped Lenovo double its shipments in Western Europe during the second half of 2011. The vendor’s decision to use Android for enterprise and consumer pads gives it a better opportunity than HP to continue gaining market share.
Dell placed fourth among the top five PC vendors, followed by Acer. Acer’s shipments continued to decline, as a result of the pad’s impact on the netbook market. It did, however, make headlinesat the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in January, when it revealed its S5 Ultrabook. Unsurprisingly, Acer and other vendorshave been quick to announce their support for the new Ultrabook form factor, with the view of driving innovation and renewed customer interest in notebooks.
Pads accounted for 22% of total PC shipments during Q4 2011. In addition to Apple’s strong performance, the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet by Barnes and Noble boosted volumes in the U.S. market, allowing both vendors to claim spots among the top five worldwide pad makers, in second and fifth place respectively.
E-Tutor Tablet, India’s First Cloud Based Tablet for Students Launched
India’s first cloud based tablet solution for school children, ‘ e-tutor tablet ‘ has been launched by a joint venture by two Kerala based IT firms. This tablet developed by Cell Technologies and OzternTechnologies can be used by students from Class 1 to 12 . It is priced at Rs 7,500 , inclusive of content, the product would be available in the market from April onwards.
The product is also aimed at making internet a safer place for children. E-tutor tablet safeguards the connectivity from the personalized Tablets PCs provided as a part of the solution, and restrict it to connect to internet only through the synchronization module in the product.
Lessons will be made available to the learner through personalised Tablet PCs, and regular content updates will be made available through a unique cloud – tablet synch mechanism, thus making sure that the device connects only to the relevant locations to access content.
Cloud computing is a technology that uses internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralising storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.
Ranjith Balan, founder and managing director of e-tutor, said that this will be the first complete solution for education to be made available on Tablet PCs. He said:
“The teacher can easily explain concepts using the digital whiteboard that is set up in the TabletPC. Using e-tutor learning tablet the students canaccess what was taught in the classroom and canalso access the collaborative learning platform for discussions on relevant topics taught in the classroom”
Detailing on the technology, Saiju V Stella, CEO of Oztern Technology, said cloud computing technology can bring about a major leap in the way technology is being used in the educational sector. He said:
“Most of the technology products available in themarket today for education act as teaching aids rather than learning aids. Cloud computing also fulfills another major social commitment by reducing the carbon emissions, from dedicated servers and data centres that consume huge amounts of energy, thus making computing moreenergy efficient and green,” said Stella.
The product is also aimed at making internet a safer place for children. E-tutor tablet safeguards the connectivity from the personalized Tablets PCs provided as a part of the solution, and restrict it to connect to internet only through the synchronization module in the product.
Lessons will be made available to the learner through personalised Tablet PCs, and regular content updates will be made available through a unique cloud – tablet synch mechanism, thus making sure that the device connects only to the relevant locations to access content.
Cloud computing is a technology that uses internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralising storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.
Ranjith Balan, founder and managing director of e-tutor, said that this will be the first complete solution for education to be made available on Tablet PCs. He said:
“The teacher can easily explain concepts using the digital whiteboard that is set up in the TabletPC. Using e-tutor learning tablet the students canaccess what was taught in the classroom and canalso access the collaborative learning platform for discussions on relevant topics taught in the classroom”
Detailing on the technology, Saiju V Stella, CEO of Oztern Technology, said cloud computing technology can bring about a major leap in the way technology is being used in the educational sector. He said:
“Most of the technology products available in themarket today for education act as teaching aids rather than learning aids. Cloud computing also fulfills another major social commitment by reducing the carbon emissions, from dedicated servers and data centres that consume huge amounts of energy, thus making computing moreenergy efficient and green,” said Stella.
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