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Chinese iPhone
2007-12-15 06:22:00
Those nifty Chinese people can't seem to control their urge to reverse-engineer just about every gadget released. The long list includes Nintendo Wii (called Vii), Nokia N95 (called NokLa N95), PlayStation and more recently Meizu's M8, which blatantly rips off the iPhone. Now, another Chinese manufacturer looks to take it up a notch with yet another iPhone copycat, with an almost similar user interface, a touchscreen display, the same kind of accelerometer to switch from portrait to landscape mode with just a tilt. One dandy feature we could appreciate is the shake to answer a call feature.Source: Gizmodo
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Android, the first ever video demo!
2007-12-14 12:19:00
A funny video showing how Google could you know screen our calls and insert ads there too! :DSource: UnWiredView
More About: Video , Demo , Android

TV on the go by Spice
2007-12-14 09:45:00
Spice is offering up to 13 TV channels to its subscribers including NDTV, Times Now, Zoom, Bindaas, and Cartoon Network. Spice customers can also watch the forthcoming ICL Cricket matches live on their mobile phones. It supports up to 50 mobile phones including the Nseries, S60v2 devices, and Sony Ericsson's K, Z, W series phones.By messaging "SPICE TV" to 50789 or calling *789#, users can get the Spice TV app on to their mobile phones, although I don't see a point in watching TV at GPRS speeds with all the buffering and other delays while actually watching it.Source: TechGadgets
More About: Spice

Make Money with Moola
2007-12-14 06:47:00
Moola is a cool new site with a twist, you get paid for playing games and winning them.There is also an option to earn play money by using their own customized Google Search Engine. Have fun and make money at the same time!I have got a 100 invites to give away so click here to register
More About: Money , Make Money , Make , Moola

Video recording now possible on iPhone
2007-12-14 05:44:00
Only Jobs knows what he was thinking while releasing iPhone without the standard video recording feature, but iPhone hackers save the day once again continuing the work where Apple left off. Granted, it's much now recording at a mediocre 15 frames per second but hey, this only means things will get better :DStart drooling iPhone fanboys, here is the video.
More About: Video , Iphone , Recording , Video Recording , Cord

Let your mobile buy your clothes
2007-12-14 05:29:00
Imagine a mobile phone that helps you buy clothes, without getting into a busy store? Nice huh? How about furniture too?Nokia is trying to make this a reality with a new phone they are developing, which uses image recognition to identify the picture of an item clicked a pic of in a store. The phone then loads the store's internet site and you can buy the item online. This item will then be delivered to you in 24 hours. Another handy feature could be its built-in translator which scans menus and helps you decipher all those foreign dishes for you.Source: Spluch
More About: Mobile , Clothes

MOTOMING2 released
2007-12-14 05:20:00
MOTOMING2 (A1600) is going to hit the shelves in February with a few improvements over its predecessor, the original MOTOMING (A1200).The A1600 Linux-based smartphone gets a faster processor, a 3.2mpx cam with LED flash, GPRS (huh!?!), Assisted GPS, and the ever-welcome addition of Wi-Fi. There are also three games thrown in for your itchy fingers.Make it yours in February 2008.Source: UnWiredView
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Get YouTube on your Symbian phone
2007-12-13 04:01:00
By Samir seems to working wonders on a daily basis. After Nokmote, YTplayer is another amazing application that lets you watch YouTube on the go, on your phone. You will need to have Flashlite 3 installed on your Symbian phone for this to work as it's a .swf file. It's still a beta project and limited in functionality but leave it Samir to finish it pretty soon!Let's hope By Samir continues to churn out more Symbian goodies and as always we will gobble them the moment they are online!You can download the beta version here.Source: AllAboutSymbian & By Samir
More About: Youtube , Phone

Service Pack 1 for Office 2007
2007-12-12 10:34:00
Hot on the heels of Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 comes the Service Pack for Microsoft Office 2007. It brings in fixes for known bugs, some improvements, and a new feature that automatically retrieves info from Wikipedia and pastes it into documents.Download it here (219 MB).
More About: Office 2007

Vista SP1 now available
2007-12-12 09:26:00
The much awaited and needed Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Vista is here. It is a release candidate and is available for download on Microsoft's site currently and through Windows Update. No idea about its size yet though.Get the installer here (400 KB)Source: Engadget

Street Lights powered by......Shit
2007-12-12 08:41:00
The town of Thiruneermalai in Tamil Nadu, India, puts it's stinking waste to good use to generate up to 3000 watts of power, enough to keep the street lights running at night. Waste from around 240 houses is collected in a sump and the methane gas produced by all of that powers a generator. And all this doesn't even generate odor to trouble the people living around the sump. The town is now mulling over using animal waste to generate more biogas.Click here to watch the video.Source: Gizmodo & National Geographic
More About: Street , Shit , Lights

Tips if you have lost a cell phone
2007-12-12 08:11:00
Raise your hand if you’ve ever lost your mobile phone. C’mon, don’t be shy. That’s better! Don’t worry; it happens. Aside from the fact that you lost something that probably set you back a pretty penny, you’ve also probably lost your entire contact base with numbers, names, email addresses, the works. Everything that’s taken you months or years to accumulate is gone in one fell swoop. But given the scenarios these days I’m willing to bet that more than the phone, most of us would fret about losing all that data. So here a few tips on how you can prevent data loss.Backup and Data TransferYou have to understand that you can only back up your data on the PC provided your phone has PC connectivity. It could be via USB, Bluetooth, Infrared or Wi-Fi if the device allows for it. But backing up your data is the best thing to do as soon as you get a new mobile. If you’re moving from an older version all you need do is copy your contacts on to your SIM card so you wont have ...
More About: Lost , Phone , Cell Phone , Tips , Cell

Try a phone before you buy it
2007-12-12 07:46:00
Sure, you could get down to a store, talk to the surly sales guy, and get a hands-on experience with a demo piece, but Tryphone is actually giving you an opportunity to try it here, on the world wide web. Explore the phone's features with their simulator before you decide to go ahead and buy it.They have only got a couple of phones online as of now, but that may change soon with the addition of more phones. Try the iPhone , Samsung Juke, LG Muziq, and the Blackberry Pearl until then.Source: BoyGeniusReport & Tryphone

iPhone, invention of the year: Time Magazine
2007-11-01 17:01:00
Apple's iPhone has been named the invention of the year by The Time Magazine .The reasons? It's cool design, the innovative multi-touch screen, it's fully featured operating system, and the fact that it's going to get better with time.The iPhone has already sold more than 1.4 million units and is still on a roll.Incidentally, YouTube was Time's Invention of the Year in 2006.Click Here to read more
More About: Iphone , Time Magazine

Switch your screen from portrait to landscape, just like the iPhone
2007-11-01 06:30:00
rotateMe is a freeware application for Symbian OS 3rd edition devices, which allow you to switch your phone screen from portrait to landscape and vice versa. It was created by a French developer, By Samir.One of the best things about iPhone and iTouch is the way it auto-rotates to landscape or portrait mode, depending on the way you hold it. Thanks to By Samir, you can now have this on your N95 too!rotateMe v.20rotateMe apparently uses the motion sensor already available on the N95, which is primarily used by the camera to change orientation when taking pictures.Here is a video of rotateMe at work on N95 (French).Version 2.0 is also available for N73 and N80, although there is no automatic changing due to the lack of motion sensor on these two phones. But you can use a hotkey to switch between landscape and portrait modes.Note: You need to sign the .sis file before you install it.
More About: Screen , Landscape , Iphone , Switch , Portrait

I Knew You Would Come
2007-10-31 14:15:00
There were two childhood buddies who went through school and college and even joined the army together. War broke out and they were fighting in the same unit. One night they were ambushed. Bullets were flying all over and out of the darkness came a voice, "Harry, please come and help me."Harry immediately recognized the voice of his childhood buddy, Bill. He asked the captain if he could go. The captain said, "No, I can't let you go, I am already short-handed and I cannot afford to lose one more person. Besides, the way Bill sounds he is not going to make it." Harry kept quiet. Again, the voice came, "Harry, please come and help me." Harry sat quietly because the captain had refused earlier. Again and again the voice came. Harry couldn't contain himself any longer and told the captain, "Captain, this is my childhood buddy. I have to go and help." The captain reluctantly let him go. Harry crawled through the darkness and dragged Bill back into the trench. They found that Bill was d...

Tutorial: How to sign a Symbian application
2007-10-31 13:12:00
Here’s how you can generate your digital certificate and sign your unsigned Symbian application successfully: Softwares Required : Developer Certificate Request Tool [ Download ]Sign SiS Tool [ Download ] Generating a Developer Certificate : - Register and create an account at SymbianSigned .com - Make a directory on your PC. e.g.- c:cert - Install Developer Certificate Request Tool. - Launch the above program. – Step1: Enter “c:certmycert.csr” in the textbox and click “Next”. – Step2: Set ACS pub id available > NO, Type “c:certmycert.key” in private key file textbox and “mycert” as password. Click Next. – Step3: Fill out your location details accordingly. Click Next. – Step4: Add your phone IMEI (type *#06# on your phone), Press Ctrl+A to select all capabilities and click “Add”. Click Next. – Click “Finish” and “Close”. We have generated certificate request file (mycert.csr) which will help us acquire a developer certificate (mycert.cer)...
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A good site for N95
2007-10-31 12:48:00
Stumbled across N95 Best Tips & Tricks today. Looks like a cool site with lots of helpful tips. Here are some other useful sites for N95 and Symbian in general.Another useful site completely dedicated to the N95.This is a site with a lot of free apps available for all Symbian phones.A very useful site with lots of freewares, sharewares, exhaustive information on Symbian phones, and a much resourceful forum.Will try to post any other interesting ones I come across.
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Concept Phone: N96. If only it was real!
2007-10-30 16:42:00
Nokia fans on a French Spanish forum decided to do a followup to their already cooked up phone, N96, this time as an N-GAGE gaming phone and the result is a stunningly beautiful phone.The "specs" for this would be:Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) WCDMA 2100, HSDPA6 megapixel camera3.2 inch 16-million color displayWi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0Full QWERTY keyboard and numeric keypadDMB TV and FM RadioFour audio speakersBuilt-in GPSFull touchscreen with motion sensors and joystick navigationDimensions 102.5×56x17.6 mmWeight: 115gNow all we have to do is wait for Nokia to stumble upon the design and make it real. Is that too much to ask?
More About: Phone , Real , Concept

First Post on blog.indiarant.in!
2007-10-30 16:33:00
We have finally moved to blog.indiarant.in. I have received reports that the site is real slow. I will try to correct this as soon as possible. Thanks for the support!
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