Pathik Shah

Micromax Andro A60 Review: First Look

Micromax has officially unveiled its new budget Android phone – the Micromax Andro A60, at the Micromax Bloggers Meet. It is priced at around Rs 8000 and seems to be a good budget option. The Micromax Andro A60 will probably be the cheapest Android phone in India.

Micromax Andro A60 Review

The Micromax Android A60 will sport a 2.8 inch resistive touchscreen display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and will come with a 3.15 MP camera. It will be powered by a 600 MHz processor and comes with 150 MB internal memory and support for up to 32 GB microSD cards.

It will offer 3G connectivity as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1. It will run the Android 2.1 Eclair OS. It might get an upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo some time in 2011. Except for the display, the Micromax Andro A60 seems to be a good phone.

But in the same price range, I would also check out the Spice Mi-300 which offers a much better display and a 5 MP camera.

Micromax is also planning to launch another Android phone with a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen display, Android 2.2 Froyo and better hardware. They are also working on an affordable 7 inch Android tablet.

If you can increase your budget, you may want to check out the Best Android Phones in India

This is another ingenious way to use Google’s SMS Channels for India. If you want your Orkut scrap updates to be delivered directly to your mobile via SMS instead of having to login to Orkut everytime to check for scraps, you can use this tutorial.

Just log on to your Orkut Profile and get your Orkut User ID / UID. You can do that by right clicking on your Profile pic or name > Copy Link address / Copy Shortcut.

Just cut out the UID part of the that link, it is the 20 digit number at the end of your profile URL. – http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Copy that 20 digit number and append it to this string.

http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid= such that it becomes http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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This tutorial will show you how to access WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) sites on your PC. Sometimes you may want to access the mobile versions of your favorite sites on your PC, but some browsers don’t support WML (Wireless Markup Language) and wont be able to display the pages.

To open WAP sites on your PC, you can use online WAP emulators or use software to do so.

Emulators:

You can use various online WAP emulators which allow you to access WAP sites using a web interface.

Some of the most popular ones include:

1. dotMobi WAP Emulator – http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php

2. WAPTiger WAP Emulator – http://www.waptiger.com/waptiger/

3. TagTag WAP Emulator – http://tagtag.com/cgi/wapemulator.cgi

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After days of speculation about Nokia‘s new announcement, finally the cat is out of the bag.

Official Press Release

Nokia has unveiled the new Nokia N97, its flagship N Series model. It sports a huge 3.5 inch, 640 x 360 pixel display with a QWERTY keyboard, 32 GB onboard memory, a 5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, A-GPS and the latest version of the Symbian OS – an upgraded version of the 5800 XpressMusic‘s Symbian OS v9.4 S60 v5.

It is priced at EUR 550 and is expected to be available by Q2 2009. The days of the iPhone, Xperia X1, HTC Touch Pro surely seem numbered.

Not many details are out yet, keep watching this space for more details.

Official Press Release