Jump Games & Manchester United Tie-Up for Gaming Content
Jump Games, a leading publisher and developer of games across mobile platforms and a part of Reliance Entertainment has partnered with world renowned football club Manchester United as their official mobile games partner. The tie-up will see six exclusive games based on the football club coming out of Jump Games’ kitty this year. Jump will be working on a mixture of mobile games content with Manchester United, which will reflect the excitement and interest globally in the team, the club and its players. The games developed by Jump Games will be available globally through local network operators. The first of the six Manchester United mobile games, called MANCHESTER UNITED Word It! will be soon available on all top operators.
This is what Sir Alex Ferguson had to say about the tie-up: “Manchester United, all of us, are delighted in our new arrangement with Jump Games. I think it’s a fantastic venture. And to all our fans all over the world it’s an opportunity to get yourselves involved in it.”
Sony Ericsson Made For India R300 & R306
Sony Ericsson has announced two new phones for the Indian market; R300 & R306. Both these phones sport Radio capabilities. These two phones are targeted at the entry level segment of the market which is fast growing and Sony Ericsson hope to increase their market share which is currently around 8%.
The R300 is a candy-bar with a VGA camera and a 1.8″ 65K TFT display. The radio of the R300 offers AM along with FM tuning. It also has Bluetooth for wireless transfers and an 8MB of internal memory.
The R306 on the other hand is a stylish clamshell. It sports a 1.9″ 65K TFT and an external monochrome screen. This phone supports both flavors of radio; AM & FM. It has stereo speakers, 1.3MP camera and 5MB of internal memory.
As you can notice from the pics the phones sport external controls for the radio just like as seen for the Walkmans.
Lenovo X300 lighter than the Air??
Lenovo will soon add another laptop to its Ultralight X300 Series. The specs are out, here it follows — a 13.3-inch LED backlit 1440X900 screen, an ultralight 2.5 pound form factor, and Intel Merom Santa Rosa Dual Core CPU (2.0 Ghz / 880 Mhz ), a 64 GB SSD, up to 4GB of DDR2 PC2-5300 memory, and 4 hours of battery life. Seems to be better than the MacBook Air atleast as far as specs are considered. Lenovo taking the competition to Apple.
Nokia Announces Phones for Emerging Markets
Nokia has announced two new handsets, the Nokia 2600 Classic, and Nokia 1209. These phones are targeted towards penetration of mobile segment in “Emererging Markets”. The Nokia 2600 Classic offers fully customizable Xpress-on covers and MP3 ring tones support. It also has entertainment features like FM radio and VGA camera. The 2600 Classic has already begun shipping and retails for approximately 65 Euros (Rs 3,725), it’ll be available by the 1st quarter of this year. The Nokia 1209 on the otherhand is meant more for the novice mobile user. It offers cost management features, like prepaid tracker, and multiple phone book allowing up to five people store personal contacts of up to 200 numbers wach on the phone. The 1209 also features a one-piece key mat, dust resistance, and Nokia’s intuitive user interface (UI). The Nokia 1209 will be available during the 2nd quarter of this year, and will retail for approximately 35 Euros (Rs 2,000).
Worlds Thinnest Laptop: Apple’s MacBook Air
Apple has announced its latest MacBook “The MacBook Air” and mind you it’s no ordinary. The MacBook Air is the thinnest laptop ever with a 13.3 inch LED backlit screen, built in iSight camera and a full sized, backlit keyboard. It’s is just 0.16 inches !!! thick. It has a multi touch trackpad and will feature pinch-n-zoom much like seen in the iPhone. Storage is available in two options 80 GB (1.8-inch drive) or a 64 GB SSD. With an astonishing battery life of 5 hours with Wi-Fi turned ON the laptop has a really low power consuming processor. The processor is a special Core 2 Duo chip created for the Air. The lower version of the Air consisting of 1.6 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 802.11n will cost about $1,800 while the higher end with 64 GB flash memory and 1.8 GHz processor is $3,100.
India’s 1st Space Tourist!
Hardik Gajjar a science undergraduate from Ahmedabad will be the countries first Space Tourist. Hardik won UTV’s ‘Bingo Bindass Go to Space Contest’.
This is what Hardik had to say after his win; I’m extremely excited about going to space and also training at NASA. I’m so proud of the fact I’ll be one of the few Indians at NASA. It’s something one can dream of. Just that now it is reality.
Space tourism will take off around 2010 and Hardik will have himself on the tour of his life.
Happy New Year: Yahoo! & AOL’s AIM® now on Windows Mobile
Firstly I’d like to wish all you fringsters a Happy & Prosperous New Year 2008.
Earlier we added Yahoo!™ & AOL’s AIM® to fring’s ever growing network of supported IM services. This addition initially supported only Symbian & UIQ handsets. The fring development team didn’t quite feel right that only the Symbian and UIQ users get to enjoy the new Y! & AIM service. So in the true spirit of spreading freedom they worked through the holidays & added support for Windows Mobile handsets as well.
So wait no more, pick your Windows Mobile handset and download the latest version of fring. Login to fring, then click Options > Settings > Configure Services > Scroll down and select the service you would like to add and away you go.
More exciting features awaits you’ll fringsters this year so stay tuned.
