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One of the latest offerings among handsets of Tata Indicom is the Huawei C2900i .
Its a very feature rich low end phone which packs in many features of mid range phones too.
Like high speed internet on the phone or Pc connectivity for surfing internet on PC
.This phone has a in built modem which is capable of speeds of upto 153.6kbps upload or download under CDMA 1x network .Its

100 Rs costlier than the C2900 which is the same phone without internet modem.So for 100Rs more c2900i is worth it.This phone

uses opera mini internet browser for surfing the internet and you can surf any site on it.The sad part is you can not

download anything on this phone but while surfing on the PC there is no such limitation.

Internet Connectivity

This phone has a in built modem which is capable of speeds of upto 153.6kbps upload or download under CDMA 1x network .Its

100 Rs(2.5$) costlier than the C2900 which is the same phone without internet modem.So for 100Rs more c2900i is worth it.This phone

uses opera mini internet browser for surfing the internet and you can surf any site on it.The sad part is you can not

download anything on this phone but while surfing on the PC there is no such limitation.It does not support javascript and

audio/video.Playback.Browsing speed and page rendering is simply awesome but the opera mini browser has some bugs which

causes the phone to restart if you are browsing heavy pages like pages full of images for a long time.But its very rare.The

speed is much faster than GPRS and also EDGE on some service providers.Tata indicom charges 99Rs/month for using internet on phone.

Signal Quality

signal quality is good and call quality is also good among the same same price range handsets.I found full signal strength

all the time even though the tower is 4KM away from my house

Phone display

the display is 128*128 64k colour CSTN display which is very great even the resolution is low and there will be no problem

for reading even the smallest text as the brightness is also great.

Other Features

FM with 20 stations storage.A stereo headset is provided with the phone for FM .The sound clarity is very good but the

earphones lack base.It can also record FM.
It has a voice recorder for voice recording in QCP format
Supports MP3 ringtones
Speaker Phone with good loudness
downloadable apps and games
Call recording

Specifications

Battery 850mAh
Speaker for FM and calls
128*128 pixels CSTN display
Phone Book 500*(3 numbers +1 email+1 fax number+memo)
200 SMS storage on phone or storage on phone memory until it gets full
Weight 75gms

Battery life

Great Battery life.The phone battery lasted for 7 hours of continous internet surfing without any break.The standby time and

talktime is also good with 4hours+ of talktime and 4 days of standby time with 1 hour of internet browsing included.

Price 

1800Rs including all taxes (45.5$ )

Pros

High speed internet browsing
FM with 20 stations capacity
High Battery life
MP3 ringtone
Supports BREW games and apps

Cons

bugs in opera minibrowser
Just 6.46MB of storage space

Overall Ratings

4.5/5 would (have been 5/5 if there was no bug in opera)

Must buy Phone if you are on low budget and want a feature rich phone

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My Pc got infected by a adware which is suggesting me to download spyware remover

So i scanned my system with Spybot search and destroy to remove it but there was none!!! Seems a good adware

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It’s not the first third-party Wiimote we’ve seen, but if the very purple device you see above is what it purports to be, it could well be the very first to actually hit the market, albeit in Europe-only for the time being. Dubbed the “Riimote,” this one comes to us from peripheral maker Snakebyte, which apparently isn’t providing many details on the remote just yet but is promising that it’ll be available in Europe on Feburary 8th for the not-so-bargain price of €39.99 (or just under $60). Those slightly less nostalgic about a certain purple game console than some of us can also rest assured that the controller will also be available in basic black, although it seems you’ll have to stick with the official gear if you want to keep everything coordinated.

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How does a 14.3x Fujinon manual zoom lens, 8th generation 11 megapixel Super CCD sensor and new RP III processor sounds to you in a consumer camera? That’s what you’ll get next month when the $800 Fujifilm S100FS goes big box. Fujifilm’s “most advanced consumer model” features Dual Image Stabilization (optical image and picture stabilization), up to ISO 6400 sensitivity at 6 megapixels (ISO 10,000 at 3 megapixels), 2.5-inch tilting LCD, 3 megapixel burst mode for a maximum of 50 shots at 7fps, and unique film-simulation modes optimized for portraiture, low-contrast (soft), vibrant colors (Velvia), or general use (Provia). Sounds good, but we’ll have to wait for the reviews to see if there’s any substance to the hype.

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The well known and respected iPhone hacker Nate True has discovered some very, very interesting information concerning Apple’s latest update, 1.1.3. According to Mr. True, the boys and girls in Cupertino have all but prepped the device’s OS for native applications, altering the functionality of SpringBoard to display additional apps, changing the ownership of applications to a unified “mobile” user, and moving the location of preferences to the accompanying non-root directory. Additionally, SpringBoard now boasts widget support via a class called SBWidgetApplication. All of these technical and seemingly minor details will apparently make it easier for developers to create new applications for the phone, though Nate says they’ll also break existing native apps in the process. All we ask is that developers get those NES and SNES emulators ported quickly and safely to the new system.

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Some days back my friend’s PC got restarted when he was burning a rewritable cd and then his cd became useless as whenever he inserted the cd on his windows xp system his system got hanged. So an idea came in my mind can we erase the cd using any linux distro???

I had kubuntu installed in my PC so i booted kubuntu and then inserted the disc in the DVD-RW drive. Fortunately kubuntu detected the cd-rw without any problem and i erased the disc using K3B cd burning application which came bundled in kubuntu and voila …. my friend was able to use his cd in windows xp without any problem.

So if ever you face such kind of problem then give linux a try as it will solve your problem for free

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The trademarking sleuths over at Trademork have themselves another doozy. Samsung Electronics just filed a trademark on “SyncPaper” in relation to “electronic ink display devices; computers; MP3 players; mobile telephones; DMB receivers” and more. The “Paper” part of the trademark seems relatively straightforward given that Samsung was showing off a 40-inch E Ink Vizplex display back in May in addition to a bevy of flexible displays over the years. Now if only we could figure out what “Sync” was referring to. A wireless e-book reader like the Kindle perhaps? Samsung — the number 1 CE brand globally — is conspicuously absent from the burgeoning e-book reader market after all. What do you think oh gentle, omniscient reader?

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Even before samsung trademarked syncpaper, we had been selling cheap home
theatre systems. Our home theater
department has been working hard to get you the best systems
installed in your home. When you purchase a home theater system from us we will
put your name in a draw for car speakers. To view
signal voltages from your car
amplifiers use an oscilloscope. The rectifiers will
convert those signals from alternating current to direct current. The sound
from your car
subwoofers will be less harmful.

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After many days i cilcked on firefox to use it ,the main window opened and the closed and a message appeared Check this screenshot for the message

it seems like microsoft made this virus to force people to use Internet Explorer
No offence intended

Go to a cell phone
festival and you’ll find great deals. A cell phone that was priced for $200
might be priced for $100. You might get a free cell phone
battery while you’re there. Check out the new cell phone
security software stand and fill out an order form for free sprint
phones. Get cheap deals on printers at the computer sale and on your way out pick up the brochure on
how to avoid a virus on a microsoft windows os. Your new laser
printer can print such brochures in a flash.

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The Dark Age of Nokia’s CDMA relations may be finally drawing to a close. After a series of forgettable rebranded Pantechs (seriously Nokia, what the crap was up with that?), we were encouraged last year by the introduction of the rather low-end 2135 candybar, an honest-to-goodness Nokia that seemed to indicate Nokia / Qualcomm relations might — might be warming. This device features EV-DO data and Bluetooth, but that’s about all we can gather from the few FCC docs that aren’t protected by the confidentiality clause at the moment; we don’t know who it might be headed for, whether it runs S40 or S60, or any other juicy little bits of information that would make the Nokia faithful on Verizon and Sprint drool.

A nokia cdma network on nokia
phones is faster than a gsm network. Unlike CDMA networks, GSM used in samsung
phones, has wider coverage without roaming charges. The mobile phones which use CDMA have
greater advantage over GSM. Now when every house has at least a computer printer and scanner, every
person should have cell phones and pdas
for every purpose. The cell
phone importance is pretty high since it allows greater efficiency
in the business. The hp printers
are also a must for organizations efficiency.

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