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Industry First, a dedicated toll free number 1800 420 8282 to buy new Photon Plus connection

• A first-of-its-kind industry initiative that offers instant purchase and delivery of Photon Plus from the comfort of home or office
• Offers an ubiquitous IVR platform and an easy and secured payment gateway process

Hyderabad, January 15, 2010: Introducing a convenient method of purchasing Photon Plus, Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), India’s fastest-growing pan-India dual-technology telecom service provider, has announced the launch of industry first ‘Call and Buy’ service exclusively for Photoners. A dedicated toll free number 1800 420 8282 will guide the customer on every aspect of the product from enquiry, current offers and purchase to home delivery.

The new Call and Buy medium is safe and secure medium of transaction for customers as it ensures the security consideration of online shopping by using telephone IVR payment gateway, wherein the customer instead of revealing their credit card details on a call, types it through their own phone. The typed credit card details are received in the form of dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) which cannot be deciphered by human ear thus reducing the risk of fraud and illegitimate transactions.

“At Tata Teleservices service delivery and customer delight has always taken the center stage in any product life cycle management. By launching an industry first initiative, Call and Buy Photon Plus, we are once again ensuring that customers are benefited first and get the superior quality product information, purchase mechanism and service delivery from the comfort of their home or offices,” said Mr. S Ramakrishna, Regional COO- AP & Orissa Circle, Tata Teleservices Limited.

Photon Plus is a Mobile wireless broadband service that offers speeds upto 20 times faster than any existing mobile wireless technology allowing customers to stay connected ubiquitously. It enables Photoners to access to e-mails, social networking, download and upload large files, photo sharing, etc on the fly.

About Tata Teleservices Limited

Tata Teleservices Limited is one of India’s leading private telecom service providers, having a pan-India presence across all of India’s 22 telecom Circles. The company offers integrated telecom solutions to its customers under the Tata Indicom, Tata DOCOMO, Photon and Walky brands, and uses both the CDMA and GSM technology platform(s) for its wireless networks. Tata Teleservices Limited, along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited, operates in more than 350,000 towns and villages across the country. In November 2008, Tata Teleservices entered into an agreement with Japanese telecom major NTT DOCOMO, and this transaction marks a key step in the strategic evolution of Tata Teleservices Limited. Tata DOCOMO has so far launched GSM services in 15 telecom Circles, and the remaining part of the country is also expected to be covered shortly. In December 2008, Tata Teleservices announced a unique reverse equity swap strategic agreement between its fully-owned telecom tower subsidiary—Wireless TT Info-Services Limited—and Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Limited, thereby becoming the largest independent entity in this space. Tata Teleservices’ bouquet of telephony services includes mobile services, wireless desktop phones, public booth telephony and Wireline services.

For details, visit www.tatateleservices.com , www.tatadocomo.com or www.tataindicom.com

Getting Tata DOCOMO Postpay connection just got simpler!

No need to traverse, just Dial 1800 266 0000 to avail Postpay @ Doorstep Service

• Also announces the launch of new aggressive Postpay per sec “Diet Plans”
• Customers can call toll free number 1800 266 0000 from any mobile or landline

Postpay @ Doorstep is an initiative to help customers get postpay connections with the comfort from their homes or offices

Hyderabad: January 12, 2010: Tata DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today announced the launch of “Postpay @ your doorstep”, an initiative where Tata DOCOMO would assist potential customers with their queries on new post pay connections. Through a simple process, a customer can readily get access to a postpay connection, at his doorstep with expert guidance from Tata DOCOMO.

To avail this service, customers just need to call the toll free number 1800 266 0000 where they would be guided by Tata DOCOMO representatives. The representatives are trained to make use of scientific tools like Bill Plan Calculator that would help suggest the best value plan, customized to the needs of the customer, based on their usage amount and usage pattern. The customer once decided on a postpay plan, the call center executives sends a representative to collect the documents from customer’s location and deliver the SIM card whenever and wherever he desires.

Speaking on this new initiative that will help customers demystify post pay propositions and get a new connection, customized to his needs, at the comfort of their home or offices, Mr. N V Subbarao, Hub Head, South East, Tata DOCOMO said, “Postpay @ Doorstep service will definitely give a big fillip to new postpay customer acquisition numbers. In today’s competitive marketplace, innovating and delivering customized customer experience is a key to brand affiliation and greater services adoption.”

Tata DOCOMO has also recently launched its new “Diet Plan” with the claim that with these plans the customers’ bills would go from “fat” to “fit”, an assured savings due to its aggressive per sec plans. As part of the new plans, at 299 rental customer can get 36000 local seconds free (600 mins), and all local and STD calls @ 1p/sec.

Customers with high usage pattern can also opt for other value based plans – Diet 499, Diet 799 and Super Diet Plan 1099

To know more about our postpay plans please visit www.tatadocomo.com/postpaid.aspx

About Tata Teleservices Limited:

Tata Teleservices Limited is one of India’s leading private telecom service providers, having a pan-India presence across all of India’s 22 telecom Circles. The company offers integrated telecom solutions to its customers under the Tata Indicom, Tata DOCOMO, Photon and Walky brands, and uses both the CDMA and GSM technology platform(s) for its wireless networks. Tata Teleservices Limited, along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited, operates in more than 350,000 towns and villages across the country. In November 2008, Tata Teleservices entered into an agreement with Japanese telecom major NTT DOCOMO, and this transaction marks a key step in the strategic evolution of Tata Teleservices Limited. Tata DOCOMO has so far launched GSM services in 15 telecom Circles, and the remaining part of the country is also expected to be covered shortly. In December 2008, Tata Teleservices announced a unique reverse equity swap strategic agreement between its fully-owned telecom tower subsidiary—Wireless TT Info-Services Limited—and Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Limited, thereby becoming the largest independent entity in this space. Tata Teleservices’ bouquet of telephony services includes mobile services, wireless desktop phones, public booth telephony and Wireline services.

For details, visit www.tatateleservices.com www.tataindicom.com or www.tatadocomo.com

Nokia today unveiled the new addition to its Eseries range, Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging. Nokia’s latest full QWERTY smartphone brings a rich mobile email experience right out of the box, making it the ideal device for people who want to be productive in both their personal and professional lives. The Nokia E72 comes with Nokia’s push consumer email service, Nokia Messaging and onboard clients for Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. The Nokia E72 will be available in the Indian market 2 colors – Zodium Black and Topaz Brown at an MRP of Rs. 22989/- only.

The Nokia E72 builds on the formula from Nokia’s most successful QWERTY keyboard device, the Nokia E71, and adds important new functionality such as desktop-like email experiences. Accessing popular accounts such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Ovi Mail and thousands of other email service providers is simple through improved on-device email setup, with the same easy to use UI integrating all of the owner’s corporate email accounts as well.

On the launch Mr. Vineet Taneja, Marketing Director, Nokia India said, “Today consumers are looking for solutions that give them flexibility to manage time in a way that they can juggle and balance both work and life. They are looking for ways to connect with their friends and peers while on the go which has led to proliferation of email on mobile. According to a research conducted by Nokia, globally people are spending an average of five full days per year – equivalent to a full work week – responding to emails. Close to half of the consumers (46 percent) choose email over voice or text to send and receive important information.”

He further added, “With the latest Nokia E72, consumers will be able to accommodate multiple work and personal email accounts and, with separate profiles for work and play, which will allow people to be flexible when it comes to choosing how, when, where and who to respond to.”

Nokia E72 includes an Opti NAVI Key for more intuitive scrolling through menus, emails and fast panning of images. Conversations are also clearer with active noise cancellation, and a torch can be activated with a single press of the spacebar key. The office capabilities have been updated with a new version of Quickoffice, which delivers Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility as well as free version upgrades when new features become available. Nokia E72 has 5 megapixel camera and a standard 3.5 mm audio jack. The handset comes with A-GPS and compass with integrated maps.

Key features of Nokia E72

• Best in class messaging:- easy setup for business and personal email; Enhanced PC-like email user interface
• New Optical Navi™ key for convenient and easy scrolling through menu, emails, internet browser, maps and images
• Boosted Performance:- 5Mpix autofocus camera; excellent voice call clarity with active noise cancellation technology; faster mobile broadband connectivity over HSPA and WLAN
• Designed with quality stainless steel and aluminium
• Memory:- Up to 250 MB internal memory, 8GB microSD in sales box, support for up to 16GB microSD memory card
• Full QWERTY handset with boosted performance for all your Email needs

Nokia E72 is one of those handsets everybody is talking about long before their release. There may be nothing much to talk about – after all everyone knows what to expect of the Eseries and they have never let us down. But still, savoring the next batch of Eseries steel is always a pleasure.

The Finns keep feeding business ammo to the market and there’s nothing out of the usual at first sight. We already tasted the new Eseries generation and the E52 and E55 were the usual good healthy meals. The E72 though needs to be nothing short of delicious.

Nokia E72 official photos

There’s no need to tell you the Nokia E72 walks and talks business. The big one though has greater responsibility to carry. We guess the E72 will not fear being judged against the best messengers in its class. But it will certainly look back to a haunting shadow within its own family. The Nokia E72 can certainly go where the E71 would not venture. But it’s not only the equipment (of which the E72 has aplenty) that makes a winner.

Key features:

• Quad-band GSM support
• 3G with HSDPA 10.2Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps
• Landscape 2.36″ 16M-color display of QVGA resolution
• Comfortable full QWERTY keypad
• Optical trackpad on the D-pad
• Symbian 9.3 OS, S60 UI with FP2
• 600 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB of SDRAM
• 5 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology, DLNA support
• Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS support, digital compass
• Accelerometer for turn-to-mute
• 250 MB of internal memory, microSD expansion, ships with a 4GB card
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP support and microUSB v2.0
• FM radio with RDS
• Remote Wipe
• Great battery life
• Office document editor (including MS Office 2007)
• User-friendly Mode Switch for swapping two homescreen setups
• Smart dialing
• Full Flash support
• Great audio output quality
• Lifetime Nokia Messaging subscription

Main disadvantages:

• Optical trackpad is not as handy as we’d like
• Limited camera features, no geotagging, video recording maxes out at VGA@15fps
• No DivX or XviD support (can be enabled, possibly requiring a purchase)
• No TV-out functionality
• No dedicated camera key (trackpad compensates for that)
• Poor loudspeaker performance

Eseries are always trying to get more skills on their resume. But the one that’s supposed to be the next big thing in its class is really pushing it. Nokia didn’t have to try and experiment with the E72. Build muscle on the E71 was their main objective. And by the looks of it they did more than well. The E72 promises richer experience and superior skill. But it will still be expected to deliver more than the sum of its parts if it wants to prove anything to the standard-setting E71.

Nokia E72 in our office

The Eseries spirit is all there – and we guess in-house competition is always in the picture. The E72 is bold and impressive, but manages to keep its cool too, as befits a conservative business handset. Armed and dangerous or polite and elaborate – the E72 will be whatever you want it to be. So, make up your mind, and take the jump. We’re unboxing and feeling the cold Eseries steel in our hands.

San Francisco: Internet search giant Google has unveiled its first mobile phone and increased the pressure on Apple’s iPhone in a mobile market that many analysts predict will come to dominate the internet in the coming years.

Google’s Nexus One is also called iPhone killer by many analysts. Nexus One beats iPhone in many criterias such has camera and pricing. In terms of pricing plans in the U.S for unlimited usage, Apple’s iPhone cost $3,780 over 24 months as compared to Google’s Nexus one $2,580, almost 50 percent more, according to Tech Crunch.

Google said it would sell the phone from its website for $530 and will ship the phones to the UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. Customers can also buy a subsidized device together with two-year service plans for $180, from the top U.S. carrier Verizon, as well as fourth-placed carrier T Mobile.

“The Nexus One belongs in the emerging class of devices which we call ‘superphones,’ with the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset making it as powerful as your laptop computer of three to four years ago. It’s our way to raise the bar on what’s possible when it comes to creating the best mobile experience for consumers,” said Andy Rubin, Vice President of Engineering, Google. “We look forward to working with handset manufacturers and operators to bring more phones to market through this channel worldwide.”

Lets take a look at technical specifications of this phone. The phone has 3.7″ AMOLED 480×800 WVGA display and weighs 130g. Camera is quite impressive with 5 megapixel auto focus with flash and geo tagging. It has a 512MB Flash, 512MB RAM memory and comes with a 4GB removable SD card. Memory can be extended upto 32 GB. In terms of audio, it has a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack with four contacts for inline voice and remote control.

It also has the typical Android features like Google Maps Navigation, Email, Phone book, Android Market and Quick Contacts. The phone also has a voice-enabled keyboard for all text fields. User can speak a text message, instant message, tweet, Facebook update, or complete an email. User can also record Hi-Res MPEG4 video, and then upload to YouTube with one click.

Google previously released its Android operating system for phones, which has been adopted by manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola and HTC. But the Nexus One is the first device to be branded by Google and sold directly to customers.

“The Nexus One represents the unique combination of design and innovation two companies like Google and HTC can have when they collaborate,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. “The Nexus One continues HTC’s strategy of offering people a portfolio of phones that meet their diverse needs.”

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