HTC Corporation has launched the first Windows phone with HTC Sense in India — HTC HD2. Powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, The HD2 uses the 4.3-inch ‘capacitive touch’ display to make viewing, zooming and resizing websites, Microsoft Office files, PDF documents and pictures easier.

Utilising Qualcomm’s new 1Ghz Snapdragon mobile processor, the HTC HD2 offers enhanced performance that improves the speed of applications, videos, games and more, according to the company.

Tata DoCoMo has announced an exclusive offer with this launch. Tata DoCoMo customers who purchase an HTC HD2 phone will get an exclusive offer to browse the Internet and download 500MB of data per month free for a period of six months. It will be also premiering the HTC HD2 exclusively at Tata DoCoMo Dive-In stores to offer first-hand experience to customers.

The HTC HD2 will be available at a market operating price of Rs 39,990 in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, and Rs 36,990 in the other parts of the country.

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“The iPhone is the phone with the most tricks on the market. What possibly could we do to trick it up more? Bless it with the finest precious metal and jewels,” Hughes told PC Advisor.

The iPhone 3G Supreme ships with a 7kg chest, which is made from a single block of granite, offset with Kashmir gold and with Nubuck top grain leather inner lining.

The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds totalling 68 carats. On its back, the Apple logo comprises of 53 diamonds totalling 1 carat. The rare, single cut 7.1 carat diamond acts as the front navigation button. The device is encased in a solid 22-carat gold case that weighs 271gm.

Stuart Hughes designed the phone for the Liverpool-based Goldstriker International.

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So the next time you need to order a pizza, enquire about a taxi service, call up a florist or in case you want to access the plethora of information available on the Internet while you are on the road just use search by voice on GMA on your Nokia S60 phones to initiate a Google Search on your mobile. The free-to-use application helps users search for updates on cricket and local business listings. The application automatically detects your location. So now as soon as you enter a pizza or pharmacy query and it will return results closest to your current location.

In addition to this, Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 also has a smart suggest feature which suggests search terms query, thus minimising typing in case you are using the cumbersome mobile key board and this result in faster completion of your query term.

Announcing the launch, Vinay Goel, head, products, Google India, said, “There’s no denying the importance of search by voice in India, and the extension of Google’s search by voice feature to more mobile handsets is a natural next step for our mobile strategy. Speech is one of our key innovations in the mobile space out of the India engineering centre. With millions of new mobile users being added every month Google Mobile App’s will provide them with a quick and easy way to get the required information whenever and wherever they need it.”

Voice search speeds up the entire experience and the process of conducting a Google Search using your mobile. All you have to do is to download the Google Mobile App from m.google.co.in on your phone!

Google Mobile App on your Nokia phone enables you to: get rid of typing on the mobile keyboard… just speak your queries; search for business, weather and film information without specifying where you are; and start a Google search with just one click. Suggestions appear as you type, to save you time.

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Maps for Mobile version 3.2 was released for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices in July, as we reported, and the new version for BlackBerry includes many of the same new features. The Layers feature enables users to see additional information overlaid on top of maps, including transit lines, Wikipedia data, Google Latitude information, search results, traffic, and directions.

The new software can be downloaded by browsing to m.google.com/maps.

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The HTC Touch2 Opera Mobile and IE Mobile provide users with an accurate display of desktop style Web pages, allowing to view pages conveniently. The Zoom Bar allows to swipe your finger on your browser page or photo to view contents in an optimum size.

Powered by the new Windows Mobile 6.5, the HTC Touch2 users can download games and applications all from the Windows Marketplace. In addition, Microsoft’s new My Phone service enables you to automatically back up and synch photos, music, contacts and text messages for free from the HTC Touch2 to the Web.

“The HTC Touch2 is a compact Windows Mobile device which delivers a familiar touch experience that our consumers relate to, have experienced in the past, and expect in the future from the house of HTC,” said Ajay Sharma, country head, HTC India. “The Touch2 expands HTC’s portfolio of touch-based phones and will deliver an advanced touch experience to a broader group of people whether it’s making a call, chatting with friends on Facebook or simply responding to an important email, the HTC Touch2 gives you an immense sense of control.”

The HTC Touch2 comes with an exclusive offer for Reliance Mobile customers. As part of this, RCom is bundling six months free data usage of 200MB per month.

Vrajesh Shelat, head, wireless data business, Reliance Communications, said, “Reliance Mobile is the first telecom operator in India to launch the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform with the HTC Touch2 smartphone. Through this cutting-edge device, our customers will be able to enjoy a host of Windows Mobile Applications on our 3G ready network. Our association with HTC and Windows Mobile is a crucial step towards achieving our goal of having a leading market share in the fast-growing smartphone segment.”

The HTC Touch2 will be available at a market price of Rs 24,490 in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and Rs 22,490 for the rest of India at all leading authorised HTC resellers across the country.

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Some one-touch effects are included, such as Vibrant, which saturates colors. Pop presents a multi-image rendering with alternating colors, while Border adds a white frame, and Vignette Blur softens edges while keeping the center sharp. Other effects include Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow and Soft Black and White.

Completed images can be uploaded to Photoshop.com, where up to 2GB of files can be stored for free. The website allows users to further edit, host and share photos.

The app also supports undos and redos, and can save an original copy of a photo at the beginning of the editing process. It requires iPhone 2.0 firmware, and is a free download from the App Store.

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The web software also offers users the ability to browse localities by category instead of using the search function. If a user is searching for nearby bicycling activities, they can browse to “recreation” and select the bike category, for example.  All of the new features are available by browsing to google.com on a mobile device and clicking the “local” tab.

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HTC Tattoo – Breathe a Bit of You Into Your Phone

It’s time your phone reflected your style, your world. Choose a unique color your HTC Tattoo, or even design a cover yourself. Set the artist inside free, as you craft a phone interface that is just right for you. And never miss out on all the amazing things happening in your world with social networking integrated to the core of Tattoo.

HTC Tattoo is all about you. It’s the first phone that can be customized inside and out. Decide how your phone looks, then decide what you want to look at. Texts? Twitter? Your photos? When you’re done customizing HTC Tattoo, you’ll have a phone that speaks loudly about who you are and what you’re into.

Your phone is by your side 24/7 and looks do matter. With HTC Tattoo, you don’t just pick the look, you make the look, by designing your own personal skin for the phone. Next, you decide what really matters to you on your phone. So if you’re into chatting, texting, and tweeting, you’ll put all your communication widgets and apps right on your front screen. If you’re into games, you’ll visit Android Market and download all the games you want. Put them right on the surface – ready to kill boredom whenever it tries to come out.

This 2.8-inch touchscreen device is pretty compact (106 x 55.2 x 14-mm / 113 grams) inspite of the features it carries. So count in a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM, a 3.2MP autofocus camera, 3.5-mm headset jack, microSD slot, internal GPS, 900/2100MHz HSPA/UMTS and quad-band GSM/EDGE, 802.11b/g WiFi, digital compass, accelerometer, and Bluetooth 2.0. Yes, you will not miss the trademark Sense UI experience as HTC has extended it to this device as well. The covers are apparently fully customizable – and hence the device flaunts the name “Tattoo”.

HTC Tattoo Specifications

• Qualcomm MSM7225 528MHz processor
• 512MB ROM
• 256MB RAM
• 2.8″ touchscreen LCD display at 240 x 320 resolution
• 900/2100MHz HSPA/UMTS
• Quad-band GSM/EDGE
• 3.5mm headset jack
• microSD memory card slot
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• Built-in GPS and digital compass
• Bluetooth 2.0 support
• 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus

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Using the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol, Google Sync, now allows to get Gmail messages pushed directly to a mobile phone. Users can configure the function to automatically push Gmail messages to the phone’s native e-mail application. That means your Inbox will be always up to date when you have always-on internet connection. For sure, Google Sync for Mobile still allows to sync just Contacts, Calendar or Gmail or any combination of the three.

Google Sync allows users to selectively choose which information to sync with their mobile devices. The service also works both ways, helping to quickly organize events or use a computer as a backup for the mobile device. To try Google Sync, visit m.google.com/sync from your computer.

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Google told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that Apple did indeed reject the Google Voice application from the iPhone store, despite contrary statements from Apple.Both Google and Apple have responded to questions posed by the FCC about the status of the Google Voice application. Apple said that it was still considering the application.

But Google, whose full comments only surfaced on the FCC Web site on Friday, said that Apple informed it that the Google Voice application was rejected because “Apple believed the application duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone. The Apple representatives indicated that the company did not want applications that could potentially replace such functionality,” Google wrote in the letter.

Apple did not immediately reply to a request for comment about Google’s filing, but in a statement made to The Wall Street Journal it insisted that it has not rejected Google Voice and that it continues to discuss it with Google.

Apple serves as gatekeeper for applications in its iPhone App Store. It has offered a few guidelines about what is not allowed, but has come under fire for rejecting some applications apparently only because they compete with services from either Apple or AT&T.

Google contends in the filing that Apple delivered the news about the rejection of the Google Voice application verbally, during a phone call between Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of product marketing, and Alan Eustace, Google’s senior vice president of engineering and research.

Source: PC World