30 Nov 09 Commpetition forces RCOM to slash SMS Rates
The Rate war for SMSes now begins in India. Today RCOM unveiled two new SMS plans. RCOM GSM and CDMA subscribers will get “unlimited SMS plan” by subscribing to this plan @ Rs.1 per day. In second plan one will get Rs. 0.01 per SMS by subscribing tariff voucher of Rs.11 per month. Just to compare 5000 SMSes will cost you just USD 1.The new tariffs are add-on plans and applicable to both pre-paid and post-paid customers.
At present, The average SMS rate in India is between 40 paise and 60 paise per message and the lowest SMS rates given by TATA DOCOMO which charges 1 paisa per character.RCom also aiming at new customers from high SMS usage groups of the GSM community, such as young professionals and youth across India. It will also benefit to RCOM when number portability will come in India.
The RCom move is expected to be followed by other operators. The rate war began with the per-second pulse billing started by Tata DOCOMO, soon followed by other operators.
Tags: CDMA, GSM, number portability, Rcom, sms, TATA DOCOMO
21 Sep 09 Nokia makes it easy for blind to read sms: Braille
Nokia beta labs has brought Braille to cellphones that will greatly help the visually impaired to read messages on a mobile device. Nokia Braille Reader uses vibrations to convey the message in a unique manner. This service can currently be used in the following touchscreen offerings from Nokia – N97, 5800 XpressMusic, N97 mini, 5530, 5230 and X6 models.
Nokia developed this technology along with Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired and Tampere University. But this really makes me wonder when we have voice controls that can read out messages to the users, why do we need a app that will provide the touch feel? Its certainly a great app and a nice job done by Nokia, but is there enough marginal utility?
Tags: blind apps, blind sms, messaging, mobile for blind, nokia beta labs, Nokia Messaging, nokia sms, sms
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