We told you about the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) yesterday and also brought you various cool things happening at the Mobile World Congress this year. We will now tell you about some more more interesting stuff from Day 2 at the MWC. Of all things at the MWC, what drew the most attraction from everyone was the launch of super cheap mobile phones from Vodafone.
Vodafone Launches World’s Cheapest Mobile Phones
Vodafone showcased two mobile phones – Vodafone 150 & Vodafone 250 – at the MWC this year and they claim these to be the cheapes mobile phones in the world. The phones are priced at $15 and $20 respectively. And the features that these two phones pack in really put other Phone manufacturers to shame.
Vodafone 150 is a Black & White phone and sports a miniUSB connector, alarm clock and a calculator and games among apps. The phone also has a talktime duration of 5hours. Vodafone 250 has a 128×128 pixels colour screen and boasts of a 5-way navigation key, a 1.45-inch display & FM radio in addition to all the features that the Vodafone 150 model already has.
India being a growing market for Cellular conusmers, these phones should find a nice market here. Moreover consumers these days have more than one cellular phone with them for various purposes and the general consumer looks for cheap but good and heavy duty phones. This is one situation which these phones can address.
Blackberry To Ship In-House Browser From Now On
Smartphone Giant, Research In Motion (RIM) showcased an all new Web Browser for it’s Blackberry devices which it will start shipping with it’s forthcoming Mobile Phone Devices. The new browser has support for HTML5, CSS3, and DOM L3, JavaScript and AJAX pages and is based on the WebKit browser engine which incidentally powers the browsers on the Android, iPhone and all symbian phones. The browser can also pan, zoom and scroll through websites loaded, and RIM claims that it’s more network-efficient than other mobile browsers. All the existing customers can also switch to this new browser via an automatic update which will be shortly released by RIM.
Future Google Products To Focus On The Mobile Web
“The future of the web is Mobile!” – this is not a lame proposition as it is correctly justified by Google CEO Eric Scmidt who talked about Google’s new idea of “Mobile First” while delivering a keynote speech at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Eric announced that future Google products would predominantly be pushed for mobile devices since Google thinks Mobile is the high volume end-point. According to Google’s statistics, Android OS is made available on more than 65 mobile devices and 65,000 such units ship daily.
He also revealed Google’s plans of building applications that leverage on cloud servers and network operators with the ultimate goal of eliminating bandwidth hogging. Google also announced the addition of German as the fourth language in its speech system and showcased the optical character recognition tool, which was quite impressive.
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