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Symbian^3 Delights Top
Yes, I'm admittedly a long standing Symbian fan boy who appreciates a flexible and mobile optimized operating system, fine grained network access control to keep my data roaming charges under control and who's manufacturing company is not spying on me and also not telling me what I can and can't do with my mobile device. Uh, long sentence. For a number of weeks the N8 has now become my everyday device and quite admittedly it's a huge leap beyond the Nokia N95 I hung on to as all Nseries devices that followed were just not what I was looking for. Fortunately this has changed with the N8 and I've even adapted to the touchscreen, although it is still something of a let-down not to have a real keyboard anymore. Lots of reviews are out there saying good and bad things about the N8 and Symbian^3 and the one which reflects my impressions best is over at AllAboutSymbian in 6 parts . So I won't start raving about the great camera, the cool multitasking, etc., etc. but I'd rather like to write down a list of improvements I noticed in usability that have gone into Symbian since the N95. Most of them are just small things but they have a huge impact on usability: RAM plenty: The N95 was one of the few devices with ample RAM for running programs. Later models have had less leading to frequent complaints in the blogosphere. The N8 again has plenty of RAM and despite heavy multitasking I haven't had a single out of memory error yet.  Remote Phone Lock: A bit hidden and not advertised at all, but there's now a remote phone lock via SMS functionality with an SMS reply when the phone has been locked. Gives me a lot of peace of mind because I hate typing in an unlock code every 5 minutes. Timed Profile: An expiry time can be set when switching to the 'meeting' , 'silent' or any other profile. It frequently happened to me so far that I forgot to switch my phone back to normal mode once a meeting was over and frequently had missed incoming calls afterward.  Date and Profile always shown: One of the few things I always disliked on the N95 was that I couldn't see the date when I was in any other profile than the standard one. That's fixed now! Alarm clock easily reachable from home screen: A tap on the time display and I'm in the alarm clock feature right from the front screen. I use it a lot so that's very helpful. HDMI TV out: Like the N95, the TV output is great for showing pictures and videos. Bluetooth Headset range: The Bluetooth chip and antenna in the N95 had a very limited range and I found it to be pretty much unusable when the phone was in a pocket. The N8 now has a really good implementation and streams music to a headset even at a significant distance through an office space. Incredible! FM transmitter: Every now and then I take the car to work and listening to podcasts and music stored on the mobile phone is now so easy. Just switch on the radio, tune to the frequency set in the FM transmitter settings on the phone and there you go. No fiddling with a cable, plugging the phone into something, etc. etc. The transmitter is even strong enough to blast over a radio station on the given frequency. Clock on the standby screen: The N8 is the first phone I've used that shows the date and time in big numbers on the screen when the device is locked and the screen is off. Great stuff! Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support: For long emails and other things a full QUERTY keyboard can't be replaced by anything that attached to a mobile device. I've had a Bluetooth keyboard for years which is again supported by the N8. And on top, even Bluetooth mice are supported. Ovi Maps improvements: As I travel abroad a lot I very much like the downloadable maps as there are no data charges except for retrieving the ephemeris data for the GPS receiver. Getting a first fix only takes a few seconds and scrolling through the maps is much faster now than on the N95. Very smooth and both search and navigation work like a charm. Profimail touch: For many years I've used Profimail as my mail client as it is highly customizable, knows how to partially download emails (again, good to keep roaming charges down) and is very stable and mature. I've heard that Mail for Ovi has matured to a good state by now but I see no reason for switching. For Symbian touched based devices, there are a number of slick features in Profimail now, one of them being a circle that pops up when one keeps the finger on an email or inside an email on the display for a bit with a number of options what to do next distributed around on the circle. A native Opera Mini: Forget the build in browser, I need speed no matter where I am and what network is available at the time. Opera Mini uses a network based compression and is ultra fast and now also available as a native application on the N8 . Ueber-cool! Touch phone and one hand use: And the last one today, but most important, is that the form factor of the device and the OS enable me to use the phone with one hand, despite the lack of a hardware keyboard. A must have for me! Great work, thanks a lot to the Nokia and Symbian teams! P.S.: Oh yes, and there is Angry Birds... ;-)
 
Inter-Operability Testing (IOT) Process Flow Top
 
India's tele-density reaches 60.99 with 723.28 million subscribers in September 2010 news Top
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 723.28 million as of 30 September 2010, up 2.39 per cent from 706.37 million in August 2010. With this, the overall tele-density in India touched 60.99, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said in a release. The number of wireless subscribers increased to 687.71 million at the end of September 2010 from 670.60 million in August 2010, recording a growth of 2.55 per cent. Source
 
India's Telecom Scam: How Can a Corrupt System Be Cleaned? Top
The telecom scam that recently forced the resignation of telecom minister A. Raja defrauded the country to the tune of nearly US$40 billion. Since telecom is an industry that links backward and forward to several others, the total economic cost could well be hundreds of billions of dollars. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India estimates, based on the auction of spectrum for 3G services which happened subsequently, that the Indian exchequer was defrauded to the tune of Rs. 176,000 crore (around US$40 billion) in the 2G spectrum sale. Source
 
Mobile number portability will improve quality of service Top
In the early 1970s when my father got married, among the pieces of advice he received from his uncle, he recalls one the most: "Young man, now that you are married, have you booked a phone for yourself?" My father answered in the negative as he had heard that getting a phone connection meant a long 10-year wait and 'sifarish' (recommendation). This aversion to booking a phone connection was further reinforced by the then communications minister C.M. Stephen's statement in the parliament a few years later: Those unhappy with the service are welcome to return the phone connection as we have several lakhs waiting in the queue for a phone. Source
 
GSM, not CDMA, ringing in growth for RCom, Tata Tele Top
Tata Teleservices, for example, had added 38.1 million GSM subscribers by September 2010 since they launched services in June 2009. During this period the CDMA user base of the operator by just about 3 million from 38 million in June 2009 to 40.9 million by September. Similarly, RCom got 41.2 million GSM subscribers since its launch in December 2008, even as its CDMA subscriber base increased by just about 6.5 million from 48.6 million to 55.2 million. Going by the current rate of growth the two operators will soon have more GSM subscribers on their network than CDMA even though they had launched the latter network more than seven years ago. Source
 
Wireless Tele-density Reaches 57.99 In September Top
India's telecom subscriber base increased to 723.38 million in September from 706.37 million in the previous month, registering a modest 2.39% growth, while the overall tele-density stood at 60.99, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) said in a statement. The total number of wireless subscribers rose by 2.55% to 687.71 million during the month versus 670.60 million in August, while the wireline subscriber base during the month declined marginally to 35.57 million from 35.77 in the previous month.With this, overall wireless and wireline tele-density stood at 57.99 and 3.00 respectively. State-run telecom operators BSNL and MTNL hold market share of 83.48% in the wireline market. Source
 
India's mobile connections at 687.71 million Top
India added 17.10 million mobile subscribers in September, taking the total number of cellular users to 687.71 million as on Sep 30, official data revealed Thursday.According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the wireless phone user base grew 2.55 percent to 687.71 million in September, from 670.60 million in the previous month. With this, the total telephone subscriber base in the country, both wireless and wireline, touched 723.28 million. The total telephone density reached 60.99 percent.The growth in India's wireless phone category was led by state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited with an addition of 2.28 million users, 13.36 percent of the net addition in September, taking its user base to 78.3 million. Source
 
Stakeholders thumbs up to TRAI's new regulation Top
Stakeholders in telecom industry have welcomed the regulation issued by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) under new Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations 2010 which aims to put massive control on unsolicited calls and SMSes from telemarketers. "The recommendations are overall positive. TRAI has addressed the customer's problem and has not killed the industry at the same time. The registration process of telemarketing firms has also been simplified. This will bring more companies on board. Overall it has given relief to genuine players who always followed rule," said Dr Shubo Ray, president, Internet and Mobile Association of India, in an interaction with CIOL. Source
 
India Telecom Regulator Issues Guidelines For Telemarketing Top
India's telecommunications regulator Wednesday asked telecom service providers to allow only registered companies to use their network to market products, as it set rules to control telemarketing. Under the regulations, issued following complaints of increasing number of unwanted calls, marketing companies have to register themselves with telecom service providers to use their networks, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said on its website. Source
 

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