Android 2.1 will bring to the motorola milestone include features such as zoom with multi-touch, animated wallpapers, apps for Google maps, weather reports and news as well as various bug fixes.

Motorola Milestone powered with Android 2.0 (though in other markets Android 2.1 versions have been launched) will soon knock the India door and is expected to be powered with Android 2.0 though in other markets Android 2.1 versions have been launched.

The Motorola Milestone may be available at price Rs. 34,000 (approx).

On March 22 , Hopefully the handset will be officially launched in India. Motorola Milestone features and specifications includes 3.7 3.7 inch WVGA touchscreen display, full QWERTY keypad and 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and auto focus.

The handset has a camera and has capability to shoot in the night and also has options for image stabilization

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The Indian companies made three tablets called MagicTile by EAFT, Compal tablet by Compal and the Adam tablet by Notion Ink which will be powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 250.

Yesterday, Nvidia displayed the all three Tegra 250 powered tablets at an event in Mumbai. Nvidia Tegra 250 was priory seen at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in January.

Nvidia new Tegra 250 incorporates eight independent processors that can handle 1080p HD video playback, decode as well as encode. The SoC also has 32-bit LP-DDR2 memory along with 12-megapixel camera sensor support. It has Adobe Flash 10.1 acceleration and Open GL ES 2.0 specifications that would enable you to watch HD movies or videos on websites such as YouTube.

The other Indian after Notion Ink that brigs the tablet is – EAFT, Everything At Finger Tips. The Magic Tile tablet by this company runs Android OS and supports the custom MagicTile user interface. besides Tegra 250 SoC, the Magic Tile has 500 MB RAM, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, 7-inch Capacitive Touch screen, 1.3megapixel camera, 4GB internal memory, microSD slot, optional 3G, WiFi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth, HDMI out, and USB ports. Apart from that, MagicTile also has.

Compal’s tablet has much of the similar specifications as that of MagicTile with a few differences. Compal tablet will come in 7-inch (800×480) and 10.1 (1024×600) touch screen display sizes. This tablet does not support WLAN, Bluetooth and GPS but it has 3G network support.

Tegra 250 system chip flaunts with 140 hours of music playback and 16 hours of HD video playback with a single charge, making consumption of about 1.5W.

All these tablets that would be based on Tegra 250 SoC will give tough competition to Apple’s A4 SoC equipped iPad.

Bharti Airtel Ltd. has reached at a deal with Apple Inc. for selling the iPhone 3GS in India in the upcoming months.

Bharti Airtel is India’s largest mobile phone operator by the users that has submitted its bid for participating in bandwidth auction to get the third generation, 3G mobile services.

The bidders who would achieve success would be permitted to provide 3G services commercially from Sept. 1, 2010.

This high-speed service on the 3G bandwidth is going to offer the Indian telecom companies a chance to attract the big premiums for the multimedia capabilities in domestic market that is already over flown with rough competition with minor margins.

The latest version of Opera Mini for the iPhone was displayed at the Mobile World Congress 2010 around two months ago.

Now once again Opera is planning to showcase the browser at the CTIA Wireless which is scheduled on March 23. No one was permitted from Opera to capture photos or videos of browser at the MWC but at the CTIA, people would be able to see as well as show the Opera Mini running on the iPhone.

it seems that Opera is approaching towards submitting the approval application to the Apple App Store folks in the near future. Opera Mini eventually duplicates the operations of Safari for iPhone which a rigid no for any application subjected to the strict app approval rules of app store. The only possible reason Apple may approve it is due to enormous public pressure or any sort of deal with Opera.

So just wait for the CTIA Wireless and watch out what the Opera Mini brings for us.

Amazon.com has revealed “Kindle for Mac” application which enables readers over the world to enjoy reading Kindle books for free of cost at their Mac computers.

The Kindle Store in US presently provides around 450,000 books that include New Releases and 102 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers. Thus it becomes the unique place where you can find some of latest most popular books in the digital format. T you can now easily read the Kindle books on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, and iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac.

Jay Marine, the director of Amazon Kindle said,” Kindle for Mac is the ideal companion application for customers who own a Kindle or Kindle DX. For those customers around the world who don’t yet have a Kindle, Kindle for Mac is a great way to instantly access and read the most popular new releases as well as their old favorites.”

Kindle for Mac integrates Amazon’s Whispersync technology which saves and synchronizes bookmarks and previous page read across various devices on its own.
Using Kindle for Mac can be beneficial to the users with the following features:

* Buy, download and read numerous books available in the Kindle Store
* View notes and highlights marked on Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle for iPhone
* Read the books in complete color including children’s books, cookbooks, travel books and textbooks
* Access the library of old purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers for free of cost.
* Select from 10 variant font sizes and adjust words per line.

Some features like full text search and capability to create and edit notes and highlights are expected to be included in the Kindle for Mac app very soon.

You can visit www.amazon.com/kindleformac and download the Kindle for Mac application for free now.

Codemasters has unveiled latest International Cricket 2010 game for PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms. The Action Cam feature in the game would provide on ground perspectives to the pitch’s action that can make the game more ‘alive’.

This project involves Trickstar Games team consisting the developers of Ashes Cricket 2009 and Brian Lara series. The game is expected to arrive later this summer.

International Cricket 2010 will be including 16 nations which will also integrate English, Australian and Welsh squads also. In a game you can easily create your team to play at variant 21 stadiums as the game provides players as well as team editors. The gamers would also be able to hold new instantaneous tournaments and compete with all other gamers playing online using the multiplayer mode.

The new feature called the Action Cam supplements the conventional broadcast views that offers the players with better experience. The latest Power Stick feature would enable the users to experience a real battle feeling as it provides a 360 degrees direction control along with analogue power to batsman so that he can hit the balls beyond the boundaries or can take a quick single run.

If you often use Orkut and own an Android phone, then there is good news for you from Google that has revealed the launch of an Orkut widget for the phones supporting Android platform.

Orkut is a well known social network in Brazil as well as in India where Facebook also finds neglected to be at the second position. However, Facebook has done a good job to make an edge over Orkut’s dominance in India but it could not to do so in Brazil. The Orkut app flaunts with features like Live Folders and photo upload options straight from phone. The Live folders feature enables the users to scroll through the friend list even if you are not online and are not in a data connection. You can even get scrap notifications in the real time.

You can download the Orkut app from the Android Market.

The Google Buzz widget would help to post text, photos and stuff straight to the phone. You can also tag the posts. It is friendly with devices which have Android OS 1.6 installed.

To add widget, follow the simple instruction-go to Menu > Add > Widgets > Google Buzz.

HTC is all set to defend itself legally after Apple banged 20 patent infringement lawsuits on the company. HTC has sent an official statement showing its discrepancy to the Apple’s actions. Thus HTC will fight legally for all the accusations made on it.

Jason Mackenzie, the vice president of sales and marketing of HTC America said,” We strongly disagree with Apple’s (AAPL – news – people) actions and plan to use all the legal tools available to defend ourselves.” He also added, “HTC has always taken a partnership-oriented, collaborative approach to business. This has led to long-standing strategic partnerships with the top software, Internet and wireless technology companies in the industry as well as the top U.S., European and Asian mobile operators.”

HTC is going to take pure advantage of Google’s support that it has shown opposing Apple’s allegation. This is the Apple’s indirect attack to the developing Android-HTC partnership.

HTC has made sure that this legal fight won’t be disturbing any operations or mobile handset businesses. However HTC hasn’t given any hints about suing Apple but Mackenzie’s legal approach will surely take some action against the act.

A social networking website getting honored as the most visited site in U.S. by 2010 was a matter of joke few years ago.

But it is not at all a joke now when in 2010, Facebook , world’s widest social networking website has built a record to overtake Google and claim as the most visited website in U.S. it has been a big achievement by Facebook that was recently started in 2005.

Facebook has managed to attract more users than Google in US. The growth rate of Facebook growth is an astounding 185 percent year-by-year that is much above Google’s minor 9 percent.

It is important to mention that this data is only considered with the Google.com domain and not Google services such as YouTube or Gmail. However, Google’s Orkut is well known in Brazil and India and it has recently made a spatter with Google Buzz.

right now Facebook has over 400 million users and the number is increasing steadily.

Now we have its office in India as well where it is planning to expand and edge Orkut’s dominance and de-facto social network in India.

Nokia has declared its plans of bringing “Comes with Music” service in India before this year ends. This service is currently running just in the UK and Singapore and now the Indian users would also be able to enjoy the unlimited music.

Nokia Comes with Music service enable users to download unlimited music from Nokia’s current “Nokia Music” service that is for free of cost. Thus you would be able to access over 3.5-million music tracks of almost every genre, Indian as well as international labels which are stored by the Nokia Music Store.

According to Nokia, this launch would help in restraining the problem of music piracy in India by offering the consumers with unhampered access to music. Vineet Taneja, Nokia India’s marketing director feels that these services that remain almost free of cost attract the people to get music lawfully instead of preferring the pirated music.

The phones tagged with price of Rs. 6,000-7,000 will be integrated with this musical service. You can even sync the music with your PC and play it on different platforms with no DRM hindrance