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Basic tips for better mobile battery life

Shajan Jacob — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:10:56 +0000

As the use of mobile phones are increasing the competition between mobile companies are also increasing.
Most people prefer the mobiles with good battery back-up than other specifications.
but a few only are getting the same. The battery back-up is low not only because of the manufacturer but of the user.
Here are some tricks and tips to increase the stand-by time of y0ur phone…

*Decrease the LCD brightness of your mobile as much as you can.
*Set your display back-light time as to 5 seconds. Most of the phones comes with 10 or 20 seconds as default back-light time.
*Use ‘vibrate’ or ‘ring tone’ as the Ring alert. Don’t use both. Ring tone will be better than the other.
*De-activate all the unwanted tones and alerts (like ‘warning tone’ ‘connection tone’ ‘error tone’ etc)
*Don’t overcharge the mobile. It will lead to the battery to expand.
*Charge your phone if necessary.(if the battery charge is below 20%)
*Charge your phone only with the charger you got from the phone provider.
*Don’t allow your battery to fully empty.
*Calling & Image capturing takes more charge than the others.
*Switch off your phone in places that having low Network range or no range.

Gtalk on mobile using Gotalkmobile

Shajan Jacob — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:58:36 +0000

Most of the mobile users like to chat with their friends. But chatting via SMS is little bit expensive and slow. If you have gprs in your mobile, you can chat with your friends in Gtalk with the help of the application called gotalkmobile . GoTalkMobile is GTalk instant messenger (IM) client for your J2ME-enabled cell phone. It’s used for sending and receiving Google Talk and Jabber instant messages just like SMS, via GPRS at no additional cost! It’s written in J2ME, and we have MIDP1.0 and MIDP2.0 compatible versions.
By this application you can also send files on your mobile to your friends.

You can download this application by visiting the site http://gotalkmobile.com from your mobile phone.

TATA Docomo – GPRS settings for mobile browser

Shajan Jacob — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:59:51 +0000

Previous article we miss the settings for TATA Dodoma’s Gprs settings. Find the following settings and save it as DOCOMO_GPRS

1. Account Name – DOCOMO_GPRS
2. User Name – Blank
3. Password – Blank
4. Proxy – Enabled/yes
5. Access Point Name –TATA.DOCOMO.DIVE.IN
6. Full Internet Access Point Name – www
7. Proxy and Server address – 10.124.94.7
8. Proxy and Server Port – 8080
9. Homepage – http://divein.tatadocomo.com
10. Authentication Type – Normal

Access internet ( GPRS ) in your PC using a mobile Phone

Shajan Jacob — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:08:54 +0000

For this, all you want is a GPRS enabled mobile phone. As India’s biggest connection provider-Airtel & Aircel offers the cheapest intrnet plans, i like to share, how to take internet in PC with the help of a GPRS enabled mobile phone with any of these SIMs.
You can get the mobile office settings from the service provider by calling the customer care. Save the setting you get & activate that configaration in your phone. Then, you have to connect that phone to your PC via Bluetooth, infrared, or cable connection. Cable connection is better because it gives more internet speed than other ones.

Just click the network icon in the task bar and hit the connect button there. then you will get a new dialog box. Leave all the columns blank except the dial number. Type *99***1# (for idea, aircel, airtel ) as dial number.
Then just click the dial button in the bottom. Its all the things you want to do. Now you are connected to the internet.

Iphones and Android phones

Pramod Thomas — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:00:34 +0000

What is rapidly changing in this world? I should say, it is the mobile phone technology. The only question remains is that how fast. It’s in the speed of light! Companies are pumping tonnes of money in this sector. Earlier the big news was Google is going to present mobile phones to the world. All the existing giants shook their shoulders. In reality Google phone didn’t come. Present news says apple has lost it’s most celebrated iphone 4G model. Lot more has happened after the outbreak of this news.
In November 2007 Google unveiled Android-an extremely versatile open-source mobile phone platform. CEO Eric Schmidt calls Android as “one of the most liberal licenses in the world.” In common sense one can imagine that the “stolen” 4G will have elaborated features than 3G iphones. Which one is more powerful apple iphone or google android enabled phones. Android is just an operating system whereas apple iphone is a complete package, this is the main difference among them. Regarding usability iphone is excellent. But Google offers numerous services to the clients (to the world!). All these services will be available in Android enabled mobile phones. In the business sense which gives an advantage for Android.
Apple calls 3G iphone as “the fastest, most powerful iphone yet”. The listed features of apple iphone include video recording, voice control, digital compass, MMS, spotlight search, landscape keyboard, updated 3D graphics delivery and upto 32 GB storage. The going to launch 4G iphone will be having fascinating features!!. Regarding Android the fight between Google and Microsoft is well on. Microsoft now says Android is against patent. In the beginning Google has tie-ups with almost all the major handset makers to promote Android. Comparing to apple iphones, Android enabled phones are cheaper. 3G data speeds, accelerated 3D graphics and a touchscreen are the major advantages of Android phones as stated by the developers themselves. Since it is open source Android has got more acceptance among users. (it is freedom and democracy after all!!).
If we step into the shoes of a customer and think we will understand certain differences between iphone and Android phones. iphone needs many applications running to use it as a phone. But in Android it is simple. There are more inbuilt features in the iphone than Android phones which reduces customer’s freedom. Now apple has studied almost all the features of Android phones. Hope are on that it will come up with more advanced features in 4G iphones. For sure the war now is shifted to mobile phone technology. We are going to witness more in the recent future.

Nokia N97 Touch Screen

Shajan Jacob — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:01:26 +0000

Nokia N97(successor of N96) is a touchscreen “mobile PC” in the N series by Nokia with a fold-out QWERTY keyboard. This phone is Nokia’s second touch screen phone(after Nokia 5800) based on the Symbian OS S60 5th edition platform. This phone was released in US on 9th June 2009 & on 26th june 2009, it was released worldwide. This phone ships with trial versions of Quick office, Aadobe reader, mobile map etc… Nokia released the new firmware with kinetic scrolling for the N97 to address the the major issues present in the firmware the device launched with.

However, the new firmware still causes problems with some functions of the device.The sleek New Nokia N97 integrates the web into life and seamlessly connects to our friends and favourite online services. Choose from thousands of applications, games, themes and more from the Ovi Store. With the optional DVB-H Nokia Mobile TV reciever, SU-33W it is possible to watch television on the phone. This phone comes with a screen of 640*360 pixels (16:9 ratio) 3.5 inches TFT LCD display with upto 16.7 million colours.
This phone offers a camera of MegaPixel with CarlZeiss Tessar lens.
Its current firmware (RM-507)20.2.019/(RM-505)21.0.045. It has a single CPU of 434mhz ARM11.It has a RAM of 128mb and a storage 32GB on-board(about 29.8GB user available).It has HSDPA(3.5G),HSDPA (3.5G),Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900.
Its connectivities are WLAN 802.11b/g, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0, TV-out (PAL/NTSC),fm transmitter.
This phone supports Audio playback: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA
Video playback: MPEG-4 SP, RealVideo, Flash Video.

Manual GPRS Settings for Airtel, Idea, Hutch, Bsnl, Aircel

Shajan Jacob — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:47:59 +0000

Internet users are increasing day by day. Now most people take internet from their mobile phones. Anyone can take Internet from GPRS enabled mobiles if we have the GPRS settings from the connection provider. But, as the mobile GPRS users increased, the connection providers became busy.
here the use of manual settings come…
If we know how to make the GPRS settings manually, we can make it our self we don’t want to wait for the connection provider’s settings.

Manual Settings for Hutch Gprs

1. Account Name – Hutch_GPRS
2. User Name – Blank
3. Password – Blank
4. Proxy – Enabled/yes
5. Access Point Name – portalnmms
6. Full Internet Access Point Name – www
7. Proxy and Server address – 10.10.1.100
8. Proxy and Server Port – 8080
9. Homepage – http://hutchworld.co.in
10. Authentication Type – Normal

Manual Settings for Airtel Gprs

1. Homepage – any page you want to set.
2. User Name – Blank
3. Password – Blank
4. Proxy – Enabled/yes.
5. Proxy and Server Adress – 202.56.231.117
6. Proxy and Server Port – 8080
7. Data bearer – GPRS or Packet Data.
8. Access Point Name – airtelgprs.com
9. Authentication Type – Normal
10. Use preferred access point – No

Manual Settings for Airtel live

1. Account Name – Airtel_live
2. Homepage – http://live.airtelworld.com
3. Username – Blank
4. Password – Blank
5. Proxy – Enabled/yes
6. Proxy and Server Adress – 100.1.200.99
7. Accespoint Name – airtelfun.com
8. Proxy and Server Port – 8080
9. Data bearer – GPRS/ Packet Data
10. Authentication Type – Normal

Manual Settings for Idea Gprs

1. Account Name – idea_GPRS
2. Username – Blank
3. Password – Blank
4. Homepage – http://wap.ideafresh.com
5. Proxy and Server Port – 8080
6. Proxy and Server adress – 10.4.42.45
7. Databearer – GPRS / Packetdata
8. Acces Point Name – imis
9. Proxy – Enabled/yes
10. Authentication Type – Normal

Manual Settings for Bsnl Gprs

1. Account Name – BPL WAP
2. Username –
3. Password –
4. Proxy – Enabled/yes
5. Homepage – http://wap.mizone.bplmobile.com
6. Proxy and Server address – 10.0.0.10
7. Proxy and Server Port – 8080
8. Acces Point Name – mizone
9. Data bearer – GPRS/ Packetdata
10. Authentication Type – Normal

Manual Settings for Aircel Gprs

1.NAME : Aircel Online
2.Homepage :http://google.com
3.User Name :Blank
4.Password :Blank
5.Use preferred Access Point :aircelgprs or aircelwap
6.Open Access Point Setting
7.Proxy:Enabled
8.Proxy address :192.168.035.201
9.port :8081
10.Data Bearer : Packet Data

Tabbed mobile browser – Opera Mini 5

Albin Sebastian — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:26:04 +0000

Opera has released the new version of mobile browser Opera mini. This time opera introduce Mobile browser with Tabbed browsing. Opera mini 5 have some new features like speed dial, password manager, virtual keyboard etc. full screen mode is also a great advantage for Opera mini. Now Opera mini is also available for android. Opera Mini compresses pages by up to 90% before being sent to your phone, meaning faster page-load times than in other mobile Web browsers.

Features

Speed Dial — You can set your favorite sites in speed dial. This help us to avoid typing urls each time.

Tabbed browsing — Browse several Web sites at the same time.With a touchscreen phone, you can enjoy even easier tab switching with visual tabs.

Virtual Keyboard – There is an effective virtual keyboard for you touch phone. This will help to auto fill the urls from the history

Password manager — Opera Mini is a virtual memory bank, securely saving all passwords for e-mail, social-networking sites, online banking and more.

Find in page – Search option is a nice feature to find text in the sites.

Progressive loading – Opera mini will show a progressive bar inn the address bar.

Download manager - No need to wait for finish downloading, you can browse the same time, also it can handle multiple instance of download

Video

Download
Download to your computer : http://www.opera.com/mini/next/download
Go to following URL from your mobile browser : http://m.opera.com/next

Green Charging utility for Symbian to Save Energy

Albin Sebastian — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:44:55 +0000

We don’t monitor our phone while sharing it. Many people charge their mobile while sleeping. It may cause for wasting the energy. Green Charging is a mobile application that will assist you in saving power. Once the battery is fully charged, this application will alert with a sound effect. So we can immediately switch off the charger. It Prevents Global Warming along with power saving. It will also display Battery charge status, Standby time and Talk time. So it will also work as a battery meter. This application is available in Nokia OVI store. It is a free application. This software is developed by Impetus Technologies . Use this application and Make a Greener Planet

Download : Green Charging

Divx player on Nokia 5800 Touch Screen

Albin Sebastian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:11:19 +0000

I was trying to run a divx video on my Nokia 5800. But default real player doesn’t play that video. So I downloaded Divx player from some downloading sites. Buts it wont work and giving error message “Player Expired” “A new version of this player available. Press ok or go to http://mobile.divx.com to get the latest version”. So I downloaded the latest divx player “DivXPlayer_S60_3rd.sisx” from http://mobile.divx.com .

I opened the application and its showing some demos list also. But it is not compactable with touch screen, So I cant click on the menu. I searched a lot to get a solution. Finally I got it, but it is not so simple

You can map your Menu key and the Camera key for that application with a software called Garmin Virtual key.

You can download the key map from following link

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J5R51LJZ

It cam be used in Nokia’s Other versions like Nokia 5230, 5233

Download Divx Player : http://labs.divx.com/system/files/private/DivXPlayer_S60_3rd.sisx