RelianceTies up With Coolpad For Smartphone

Reliance Webstore Limited, the retail venture of Reliance ADA Group, has signed a strategic and exclusive distribution agreement with Coolpad Communication Private Limited. Coolpad Communications is the Indian Joint Venture of the Hong-Kong listed China Wireless Technologies Limited. This agreement marks Coolpad’s formal foray into the Indian handset market. It also marks a diversification of Reliance Webstore Ltd into the open market handset retailing business through its exclusive Reliance World and Reliance Mobile stores.



Reliance Webstore Limited will be the exclusive distributor of Coolpad’s range of handsets in India. The company is planning to roll-out five models of Coolpad dual-mode handsets in India by December 2009.

Commenting on the agreement, Sarup Chowdhary, Director & CEO, Reliance Webstore Limited said, “Our agreement with Coolpad Communications follows the successful test marketing of the brand across several cities in India. The dual-mode smartphones will leverage Reliance's nationwide presence in both CDMA & GSM services. The agreement with Coolpad is strategic to our larger participation in the Indian telecom retail sector.”

China Wireless’ India Joint Venture Head and Coolpad’s Managing Director, Sami Al-Lawati said, “Coolpad’s entry into India is timed to tap India’s 3G market potential as we plan to introduce 3G-enabled dual-mode smartphones in the market soon. Our partnership with Reliance Webstore Limited will help us access end-consumers in over 700 Indian cities, enabling Coolpad to drive product development in line with specific customer needs.”

Coolpad and Reliance Webstore will roll out smartphones in the sub-8000 price-range. The Coolpad 2938 is priced at Rs. 11,000 (MRP).

Micro-USB Mobile chargers for mobiles by 2012

Why do you need a different mobile charger for Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola mobile phones? Now GSMA and 17 leading mobile operators and manufacturers have agreed to implement a cross-industry standard for a universal charger for new mobile phones by 2012.

They promise the universal charging solution (UCS) will be widely available worldwide and will use Micro-USB as the common universal charging interface. They promise that by January 2012, majority of all new mobile phone models available will support a universal charging connector.

How does a Universal mobile charger benefit you? A universal charger will let you use the same charger for future handsets, and be able to charge your mobile phone anywhere from any available charger!

Universal Chargers have Environmental Impact - UCS chargers will be energy efficient and will come with a 4-star or higher efficiency rating, which will be three times more energy-efficient than an unrated charger. Since it would drastically reduce the number of manufactured chargers by 50 per cent, it will also help to reduce greenhouse gases in manufacturing and transporting replacement chargers.
You can thank GSMA - The GSM Association represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry and unites 750+ world’s mobile operators, and 200+ companies including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers etc. It was with their initiative only that some of the world’s largest mobile operators and manufacturers (3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile and Vodafone) have agreed UCS.

This is great news and will surely simplify mobile phone usage. Till this becomes a reality, I guess we will have to continue with our multiple chargers f0r different cell phones or get a multi-phone adapter.

Nautiz X5 Rugged PDA Released

Handheld Europehas just announced their new flagship PDA - Nautiz X5. This rugged smartphone has been rated IP65, making it 100% dust-proof with the ability to hang out in the shower with you.

The full-featured PDA comes with an impressive 806 Mhz processor and an array of advanced features such as a full 3.5-inch VGA screen (480 x 640 pixel resolution), integrated 3 mega-pixel camera with autofocus capabilities, integrated barcode scanner, WLAN, Bluetooth, 3G cellular capabilities, and GPS with InstantFix II. IThe Nautiz X5 comes standard with 256 MB RAM and 512 MB built-in Flash storage. The long-life 4400 MAh Li-ion battery provides more than all day performance, is rechargeable and hot-swappable.