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Nokia has announced (Karachi – 20th February, 2012), the launch of three feature-packed, mass market smartphones, bringing the most modern and latest smartphone functionality at attractive and pretty price points and including market-leading innovation and advancement with Symbian Belle. The Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 603 extend the range of available designs, features and functionality in the Nokia Symbian smartphone range. Symbian Belle powers all three, with single-tap NFC technology sharing and pairing, the most personal user interface up to now and a more powerful mobile Web browsing experience. In addition to allowing content to be shared between devices, NFC capabilities allow any of the three new smartphones to pair with NFC-enabled mobile accessories such as speakers or Bluetooth headphones and headsets. To extend the range of available NFC-enabled accessories, Nokia is also announcing the launch of the Nokia Essence Bluetooth Stereo Headset, which can be paired with any NFC-enabled smartphone simply by tapping the two devices together.

Despite the fact that all three smartphones contain recognizable Nokia features, they each represent an incredibly distinct set of priorities to allow users to choose and prefer what matters most in a smartphone. The most compact touch screen mono block smartphone in the world (Nokia 700); a sleek and stylish smartphone with the world’s brightest mobile display for indoor or outdoor use (Nokia 701), and Nokia’s smartphone built to match the pace of your life (Nokia 603) all bring firsts to the Nokia product portfolio. 

Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 603 smartphones introduce and launches latest Symbian software update while new NFC-enabled stereo Bluetooth headset takes benefits of  NFC pairing and sharing functionality! 

Nokia 700: Nokia’s smallest smartphone:

At only 50 cubic centimeters, weighing 96gm and at 110 x 50.7 x 9.7 mm, the Nokia 700 not only becomes Nokia’s most compact smartphone in the Symbian range, it is the most compact touch mono block smartphone in the world. What it requires and lacks in size it makes up for in functionality, with single-tap NFC sharing and pairing capabilities, a GHz processor, 3.2 inch AMOLED screen Clear Black display, 2GB of internal memory (with the option of using a 32GB micro SD card for a total of 34GB), HD video capture and 5MP completely and full focus camera with LED flash. The Nokia 700 is also Nokia’s most environmental, Eco-friendly smartphone. With a long battery life, far-reaching and extensive use of ecological materials and features to minimize battery utilization, consumption it is the ideal and perfect smartphone for any environmentally-conscious smartphone user. 

Nokia 701: Nokia’s brightest smartphone:

The Nokia 701 is a shiny, sleek and slim smartphone incorporating the world’s brightest ever mobile phone display, based on a 3.5 inch Clear Black display that makes it perfect and wonderful for indoor and outdoor use. It also has active noise cancellation for the clearest sound quality and, similar to the other new smartphones provides single-tap NFC pairing and sharing capabilities, allowing content to be shared and sound to be streamed wirelessly to headphones and NFC-enabled speakers. Based on the popular Nokia C7 design, the Nokia 701 smartphone also has a 1GHz processor, 8MP full focus camera with dual LED flash and 2 X digital zoom, 2nd front-facing camera and HD video capture. It comes with 8GB internal memory and the prospect, option and possibility to enhance, increase to 40GB by installing a 32GB micro SD card. 

Nokia 603: Nokia’s fast, dazzling and fully featured smartphone:

The Nokia 603 smartphone has a processing speed of up to 1 GHz to match your life’s fast and rapid pace. With amazing and remarkable colors and a bright user interface of 3.5” Clear Black touch screen, it has six entirely, fully customizable home screens that allow you to have all your contacts, messages, widgets, music and friends on your home screen. The Nokia 603 is an NFC-enabled device through which you can play games and share files just by touching your phone to another NFC-enabled handset. With a full focus 5MP camera you can capture wonderful pictures and shoot 720p HD videos. The phone has an internal memory of 2GB with ability to increase to 34GB using a 32GB micro SD card. 

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Telenor cellular company has just now and lately introduced and launches 500MB GPRS bundle for those Djuice prepaid customers who would like higher data transfers on their cell phones. 

Charges Internet Bundle:

• Telenor Djuice customers can avail and benefited from this 500MB GPRS package for Rs 250 per month. 
• There is no tax on any GPRS/EDGE package. 
• This GPRS bundle is not available for Telenor talkshawk prepaid customers. 

Activation Procedure:

• Dial *345*904# from your Djuice to avail this offer 
• To check your Telenor GPRS validity and usage detail dial *999# (10 paisas charges of *999#) 
• GPRS charging pulse is 64KB 

To configure your mobile for Telenor internet settings click here. This 500MB is the largest GPRS bundle from Telenor for its prepaid customers. 

Source via Telenor:

Mobilink Jazz brings its valuable customers an indomitable IDD offer. Now you can talk with your loved ones in the US and Canada at an extremely remarkable charge of Rs. 14.99 for an entire 30 minutes. To avail and benefit from this special promotion, just dial 456 before desired number and connect across borders with unrivalled convenience. Mobilink Jazz believes in rewarding its customers with offers and products that are without comparison in value. With the largest customer base in Pakistan, Mobilink Jazz guarantees unmatchable rates and quality of service that you can always depend upon.

Terms & Conditions:

• Customer will have to dial 456 before the number e.g. he will have to dial 456001<city code><number>. 
• Every call that the customer makes to USA with the prefix 456 will be charged at Rs. 14.99 +tax for 30 minutes. 
• Government taxes apply on Rs. 14.99 / 30 minutes and the deduction will be Rs. 17.91 / 30 minutes 
• This offer is not valid and applicable to premium numbers of USA 
• No subscription and daily charges apply 
• New charges, rates will be valid for 24 hours a day (no time window restriction) 
• The package, offer is valid till 29th February, 2012 
• Offer will be available for all Jazz, Jazba and Indigo customers. 

Source via Mobilink.

Apple Inc’s share of China’s flourishing and booming smartphone market sliding for a second straight quarter in October-December, as it lost ground to inexpensive local brands and as some shoppers delayed, held-ff in anticipation of after the iPhone 4S launch last month. China, the world’s largest mobile phone market, has not been easy for Apple Inc’s, which is seizing and grappling with a lawsuit from a local firm over the iPad name and problems at its suppliers’ factories over wages and working conditions. With the number of mobile subscribers set to top 1 billion in China this year, there is aggressive competition among South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Nokia, Apple and local firms Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp.

While Apple recover and regain its peak blemish as the world’s largest smartphone seller in the fourth quarter and for last year all together, it slipped to 5th place in China, overtaken by ZTE. Apple’s China smartphone market share slid to 7.5 percent from 10.4 percent in July-September. In the last quarter, Samsung blow Nokia off the top period, taking 24.3 percent of the market, in excess of three times Apple’s share, data from research firm Gartner showed. Nokia’s market share more than halved last year, from above 40 percent in the first quarter to below one fifth by the fourth quarter.

“Chinese handset makers have been keenly promoting their smartphones with China’s three telecoms operators, so we observed ZTE and Huawei increase and gain noteworthy and significant market share,” said Taipei-based Gartner analyst CK Lu. Gartner said this week it expected Apple’s iPhone market share to fall for a couple of quarters as the novelty of its latest 4S model wears off. In the first quarter of last year, ZTE had a market share of just 3 percent, but ended 2011 ranked 4th with in excess of 11 percent market share.

Chinese firms are slowly but surely shifting up towards the higher end of the market, exposing, and unveiling additional feature-packed smartphones. ”If you want to sell handsets to the mass market, a simple rule of thumb in China is that the handset cost has to be close to 70 percent of the monthly salary,” said Jayesh Easwaramony, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan in Singapore. ”Today, an iPhone is in excess of two month’s salary.” This, said Easwaramony, gives the likes of Huawei and ZTE the prospect to provide to a mass market that is captivated by the iPhone, but doesn’t have the purchasing power for it. 

WORTH, VALUE FOR MONEY: 

The quality of Huawei’s phones is reasonably high and its fine value for money compared to the iPhone,” said Dale Dai, a 28-year-old sales executive from Beijing. Dai, who uses his Huawei phone to write weibo, or Chinese microblogs, surf the Internet and make calls, recently bought a new Honor smartphone for 1,800 yuan ($290), nearly a third of the cost of a new iPhone 4S at 4,988 yuan. But given the absolute and sheer size of the Chinese market, just targeting the highest end users should be adequate for Apple, though it’s not always been a smooth ride. 

Last month, shoppers in Beijing threw eggs at the Apple store and fought with police when they were told the iPhone 4S would not be on sale as planned and scheduled. In Shenzhen, some genuine iPhones and iPads are smuggled in from Hong Kong, while sellers also take benefit of Apple’s status, popularity by packaging forged iPhones in iPhone 5 boxes – even before the 4S was launched. In Hong Kong, Apple resorted to an online lottery reservation system for the 4S model after crowd control matters upset initial sales. Analysts anticipate Apple to stem its slip in market share in China by signing up another carrier. 

China Unicom, the country’s No.2 telecoms operator, is at this time the only carrier to officially take the iPhone. It has not officially given its iPhone sales, but analysts estimate it has sold around 3 million iPhones since signing a contract with Apple in 2009. China Telecom Corp Ltd, the third and smallest operator, is expected to be next to settle a similar agreement with Apple later this year and analysts predict it would sell about 1.4 million iPhones this year if it can reach a deal with Apple by May, rising to 2-4 million new iPhone users in 2013. (Reuters)

It comes into view that compilation and collections becoming a solid task at WiMAX operators. Just as a pattern, Qubee is offering and presenting its customers a chance, prospect to win iPad, webcam and wireless mouse by just paying their bills in February 2012. After paying the bill, customers will get registered into a lucky draw through which prizes will be publicized, announced and will be posted on Qubee’s website and on Qubee’s Facebook page. 

Qubee stated that all customers who pay their bills in February, for-example from February 3rd to February 29th 2012 will be qualified and eligible for draw. Upon winning, Qubee customers will be able to collect their prizes from preferred and selected Qubee stores after authentication and confirmation. 

Qubee said it is a limited time offer. 

For more information please visit Qubee.

Warid is informed about special offer .Those Warid customers living in Karachi can currently make free unlimited calls to all Warid numbers from 12 AM to 12 PM. All this comes at fixed daily charges of Rs. 3.99 plus tax.

Warid Offer Details:

• Free Warid to Warid calls from 12 AM to 12 PM 
• Daily Charges: Rs. 3.99 plus tax 
• Customer will be charged on-net and off-net call as per package plan from 12pm till 12am. 

How to Subscribe:

To activate Karachi offer, write “KHI”, or “Karachi” and SMS to 4337. Offer will obtain renewed automatically everyday. In case of low balance, Karachi offer will be deactivated and it has to be subscribed again. 

Unsubscribe Call helpline: 321.

Terms & Conditions:

In case of low balance, Warid Karachi offer will be deactivated and it has to be subscribed again. SMS will be charged as per the package plan. To get take advantage of free calls, subscriber has to be in Karachi City. Any customer who subscribes to the offer from outside Karachi would be charged 3.99 plus tax but will not be able to get benefit from or avail free calls. 

Warid Karachi offer can be subscribed both by existing and new subscribers. This is a limited time offer & only for Prepaid subscribers. Karachi offer is valid, applicable for Warid to Warid calls only. Offer expires at midnight 12am. All charges include government taxes and levies in addition to a 19.5% federal excise duty. Each recharge done through scratch cards and Warid Ezeeload includes 10% withholding tax. Using SIMs without proper documentation is a crime – PTA

Summary:

For the first time in Pakistan, Ufone conceitedly and proudly brings the all new BlackBerry Torch 9860. With the eventual in form and feature, this shiny, sleek and stylish innovative smartphone is a must have. BlackBerry Torch 9860 is equipped with full QWERTY keypad, a super responsive touch screen and a convenient track pad to ensure that your BlackBerry know-how and experience is that of a great one and nothing less. So hug yourself and jump directly and immediately into the marvelous world of BlackBerry with BlackBerry Torch 9860 and discover new satisfaction of work and play all in one place.

Features Available:

The BlackBerry Torch 9860 features comprehensive functionality, including: 

All-in-one design:

Enjoy fluid display and smooth movements for an incredible touch experience, and never compromise on efficient typing with classic QWERTY keyboard on your BlackBerry 9860.  

Liquid Graphics:

Experience fluid animations, instant response times and stunning visuals on a Liquid Graphics™ touch screen and enjoy an exciting multimedia experience. 

Ample memory:

With BlackBerry 9860 enjoys 2.5GB onboard memory, which is easily expandable up to 32 GB. 

Speedy Processing:

With a 1.2GHz processor, experience browsing, socializing and downloading at blazing fast speed. 

BlackBerry 7 OS:

Experience the next-generation OS software which has evolved to deliver smoother and faster performance. Response times. 

BlackBerry Browser:

Seamlessly load your favorite videos on the BlackBerry 7 browser providing an incredible scrolling and zooming experience. 

WIFI and GPS:

The smartphone is equipped with built in Wi-Fi® connectivity and GPS location-finding capabilities. 

Camera & Video:

Capture beautiful memories on a 5 MP camera with flash and record high quality videos with720p HD video recording functionality. 

• 5 MP cameras 
• HD video recording 
• Continuous auto focus 
• Image stabilization 
• Face detection 

Media Player:

• Audio formats: wma, .mp3, wav, eAAC 
• Video formats: .mp4, .H. 263, H. 264. 

Specifications:

The Nokia N9: a unique all-screen smartphone” Press Content & Event Pictures. This event held in Sheraton Hotel Karachi 12 December, 2011.

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Nokia cellular company has announced the winners of its MakeMyApp competition 2011 in recent times. The competition winners in each category received the prize money of 400,000/- PKR in cash while a special winner bagged the prize money of 100,000/- PKR together with a Nokia E7 for a truly ground-breaking and innovative app. The four categories for which applications could be submitted were Entertainment/ Fun & Games, Business Productivity, Easier Living and Think Green. Continue reading ‘Nokia MakeMyApp Competition Winners Announced 2011:’ »