Phone New Update: May 2009

LG Arena KM900

LG delivers Arena KM900 in a compact box. This package depicts around five LG Arena phones displaying different screen shots of the new interface. The box itself closes with a magnet and is quite straightforward and neat. Upon opening the box, LG KM900 Arena is visible right away. The LG mobile phone looks beautiful. The size is perfect, just like its weight. The front is silver (shiny) and in addition to the touchscreen monitor, it also features three touch buttons.

Furthermore, there are only four buttons on the LG smartphone the on and off button, the camera shortcut and the volume buttons. Along with the LG Arena cell phone, a data cable, a headset, a battery charger, a software CD and several instruction manuals are packed in the box. The year 2008 was very successful for LG Mobile. Not only thanks to the worldwide sales of 100 million mobile phones, but also because of having conquered a significantly larger market share.

As a result of the high sales numbers, LG has now surpassed Motorola and is well on its way to reach a solid Top 3 ranking. And with the many product introductions announced by LG Electronics, this aim may well become reality. The announced cooperation with Windows Mobile shows that LG has definitely gone into a different direction, together with the new LG user interface, it will suit everybody�s needs.

The coming three years, some 50 introductions of LG phones with Windows Mobile are scheduled. And the fact that Windows Mobile will launch a new version in the market later this year ensures the expectations are sky high. The menu of the LG Arena has changed drastically, thanks to the new S-Class User Interface. The changes are positive by all means. Not only is it beautifully designed from a graphical viewpoint, but it is also easy to work with and proves remarkably smooth.

There are four start windows Shortcuts, Widgets, Contacts and Multi media. These start screens can be changed by moving them, which will make the screen rotate like a cube. Or you can use the middle touch key to do so. A rotating 3D cube will be displayed, at which you can choose the desired screen. Furthermore, there are four shortcuts below the start screen at all times, a keypad to select a phone number, messages, phone list and the menu button.

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Samsung Magnet SGH-A257

Unlike Samsung's recent messaging phones, like the Samsung Impression and the Messager, Samsung Magnet forgoes the slider design and goes for a more straight forward candy bar chassis. However, don't mistake straightforward for boring. The Magnet is quite eye catching with its orange color and slim profile. The handset measures 4.2 inches tall by 2.3 inches wide by 0.4 inch thick and weighs 3 ounces, and it has a nice, solid construction.

The back of the phone also includes a patterned soft touch finish to give it a non slippery texture. Samsung Magnet features a slim design and eye catching orange color. Samsung Magnet's display certainly doesn't attract big praises. The 64.000 color, 2.2 inch TFT display is bright enough, but with a 176x220 pixel resolution, it isn't the sharpest. Text has some slight fuzziness around the edges and pixels are visible in pictures.

That said, everything was still readable and it's on par with other lower end handsets. The user interface is basic and easy to use. You can choose from various menu styles and themes and change the wallpaper and backlight times. Below the display, you have a navigation array of two soft keys, Talk and End buttons, a Back and Clear button, a message shortcut, and a four way directional keypad with a center select key.

The outer controls (soft keys and Talk and End buttons) are spacious but we had some problem with the center set since they were a bit cramped. Sometimes we'd accidentally hit the End key when trying to press the back button, or we'd end up hitting some letter keys when trying to press the down button. The Magnet's keyboard is pretty easy to use, though the keys are a little stiff to press. The full QWERTY keyboard is quite decent.

The shape of the keys are a little reminiscent of the BlackBerry Bold's rectangular with a slight bump to make them easier to press. They are a good size but just a little stiff to press, which slowed us down a bit but nothing horrible. The number keys are highlighted in orange and the bottom row includes shortcuts to the camera, instant messaging, and games and applications. On the left side, there's a volume rocker, and you'll find Samsung's proprietary headset jack or power connector on the right.

AT&T packages the Samsung Magnet with an AC adapter and reference material. For more add ons, please check our cell phones accessories, ringtones, and help page. If the full QWERTY keyboard didn't give it away, the Samsung Magnet's main attraction is its messaging capabilities. The handset includes a Mobile Mail app that allows you to connect to various accounts, including Yahoo, AOL, Windows Live, Comcast, Earthlink, and other providers.

We received a "Communication Error" the first time we tried to hook up our Yahoo account, but we entered our ID and password again and everything went smoothly, though it took a couple of minutes for the phone to retrieve our messages. The inbox view is simple but it works. There are tabs for your Draft and Sent messages, though you have to go through a couple of menus to get to your other folders. The Magnet also comes preloaded with three instant messaging clients AIM, Yahoo, and Windows Live. The phone comes with a 500 contacts address book and includes room for multiple numbers, an e-mail address, and notes.

For caller ID purposes, you can assign a photo, a group ID, or a custom ringtone. Other phone features include Bluetooth, quad-band world roaming, three way calling, a speakerphone, a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, a WAP browser, as well as organizational tools like a calendar, a task list, notepad, and currency converter. Samsung Magnet is equipped with a VGA camera with 4x digital zoom and a self timer.

You can choose from three sizes, and you also get white balance settings and effects. Picture quality is pretty much what you'd expect from a VGA camera. You could make out the objects in the image but it wasn't the clearest shot and colors were a bit washed out. Once done, you can send your photos via multimedia message, upload them to HP's Snapfish photo service, or set it as your background image. The Magnet offers 16MB of RAM.

Apple MacBook (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M)

Internally, the big news is an Nvidia chipset with improved integrated graphics, while the "unibody" aluminum chassis, the buttonless (or more accurately, all button) touch pad, and edge to edge glass on the LED-backlit display are the major physical changes on the outside. While the base model keeps the same $1,299 price (our review unit was the upgraded $1,599 version with a faster processor, a bigger hard drive, and backlit keyboard), you lose the FireWire port in the transition.

And the $1,299 model gets you a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, rather than the 2.4GHz CPU. The higher end model keeps the same 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, but also costs $100 more. Both new MacBook models operate on a faster front side bus, (from 800MHz to 1066MHz) and move from DDR2 memory to DDR3. Even with the slower base model CPU and missing FireWire, the new MacBook represents both an impressive value and an impressive feat of engineering although it's hard to expect anything else from Apple's flagship computer product, which has been a consistent favorite for several years.

The most obvious changes are physical. The familiar white and black bodies have been replaced with an aluminum chassis that looks nearly identical to the new MacBook Pro, only smaller. The actual construction for both the new MacBook and MacBook Pro now follows the MacBook Air model, with a solid block of aluminum carved down, rather than a thin outer shell that has had support struts added to it.

The result is a lighter and thinner, yet stronger, chassis that feels more solid and substantial a notable feat, as the previous MacBook models were already extremely sturdy. Another notable new feature is a radically redesigned touch pad. This larger touch pad uses multi touch gestures similar to those found on the iPhone, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro, and offers a much larger surface area than previous 13 inch MacBooks thanks to the elimination of a separate mouse button.

In fact, the entire touch pad depresses like a button, although a simple tapping (as on a PC laptop) will also work once you turn that option on in the settings menu. The all button touch pad concept is actually a bit difficult to get used to, and feels slightly clunky at first compared with a traditional fixed position touch pad. On the other hand, there are some useful new gestures you can hide all your apps by sweeping four fingers up on the pad, and you can also designate one corner of the touch pad as a "right click" zone.

Most useful, perhaps, is sweeping four fingers left or right, which brings up the application switcher. Once you get used to that, going back to a regular touch pad would be difficult. The 13.3 inch wide screen LCD display offers a 1,280x800 native resolution, which is standard for screens between 13 and 15 inches in size. It provides for text and icons that are highly readable, but we'd love to see Apple move into the 16:9 display universe, as in the case with new systems from Sony, Hewlett Packard, and others.

Apple has also added LED-backlit displays (previously available on the Pro models), which means a thinner lid and some battery life benefits, plus the edge to edge glass we're seeing more often on multimedia systems, such as the HP HDX18. The glass, however, also grabs stray light rays with ease, making the glossy screen seem that much glossier a problem if you prefer matte screen finishes.

Pingo Call India at cheap rates : less than 3 cent per min

Pingo Calling cards is not at all new to regular readers of this blog. It is one among the most wiedely used calligng cards by NRI's to call India. It is simply because of the cheap calling rates, good voice quality, good customer support and time to time nice offers.

Another good thing about Pingo is that apart from offering local access number, it also offers a softphone for those who don't find a local access number for them. This way people from all over the world can use Pingo softphone for making voip calls (call quality is also satisfactory).

As we know the current rates to India are very low about 1-2 cents per minute. However, these rates are for Pc to Phone calls, the phone to phone calling rates still being about 2.5-3 cents per minute. Here Pingo proves to be a good choice as it also offers cheap rates apart from above said benefits.

Talking about the deal Pingo is offerig. Under its May'09 plan, Pingo is offering

$5 bonus on $10 sign up
$10 bonus on $20 sign up
+
50% off calls on Wed
for the next two months.

This means that if you buy credit worth 10$ then, additional 5$ will be added to your account. It takes about 5-10 days for additional credit to be added to your account. If you buy $20 credit then you will get Free 10$ extra.
This simply means that effectively you get 33% discount or in other words your effective call rate to India will be just 3 cent per minute.

Now as it is also offering 50% off on Wednesday (for next two months), this means your effective call rate to India on wednesdays will be just 1.5 cent per minute (hey man..this is cheapest I guess...leave those betamax comp..).

Speed dial up to 25 of your friends.

100% call quality satisfaction guarantee.

Easy online account management.

Earn $5.00 with refer a friend.

50% off calls on Wednesday promotion will be available starting 2nd month from your sign up. Example: If you signed up in May, your 50% off calls on Wednesday promotion would be applied for June & July months.

Overall a very good offer by Pingo Calling cards.

Rebtel : India Big Talker Discount Campaign (Call India at 2.9 cents/min)

With already so many voip providers in the market offering so low call rates to India, it is difficult for other too survive without cutting their call rates.

I guess, the campaign of cheap calls lead by Nymgo, Mediaringtalk followed by ActionVoip, SmartVoip has resulted in many other big names to lower the call rates to India.
Rebtel, a really very big voip provider with millions of users all around the globe has launched Big Talker Discount Campaign.

Rebtel Big talker Discount campaign is for people who want to make cheap calls to India. Firstly let me tell you the calling price. You are offered 2.9 cents per minute to call India. I know the rate aint the lowest in the market, But still the deal aint bad at all.

Now lets talk about the plan which Rebtel is offering " Big Talker Discount Campaign".

Rebtel subscribers will be able to make calls at a reduced rate to India for a 60-day period following a prepayment of $25 USD or more. The offer is valid for qualified payments from 09/03/ 2009 until 6/8/2009.
The offer allows subscribers to make calls at a reduced rate of $ 0.029 USD per min instead of the standard rate of $ 0.049 USD per min.
Subscribers are eligible to the reduced rate for up to 60 days after their qualifying payment.

If the rate is not the lowest then why should you subscribe to Rebtel service.

Rebtel offers voip Phone to Phone calls. Nymgo, Mediaringtalk are Pc to Phone.
Rebtel ain't run with your money or cheat you. Rebtel is a very old voip provider, and I am sure many of our blog readers must already be aware of Rebtel service. (Rebtel has been discussed a lot of times on this voip blog).
Rebtel will keep the promise and won't increase the rates as like ActionVoip and other betamax services.

Guys, if you want to receive the daily updates of such offers directly in your mail, then its better to subscribe to this blog.

Nymgo Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Unlimited Calling plan expried

As we all know, Nymgo is the world's leading voip provider offering unlimited calling plan. Apart from that Nymgo is also known for offering very low rates to various destination in world. Specially calling to India, Nymgo provides very cheap rates (1.3 cents per minute).

Sometime back, Nymgo stopped its unlimited plan for India, Pakistan. However it slashed its Pay as you go rates so that people can still enjoy cheap rates to these destinations.

Now, Nymgo's unlimited plan for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has expired. And to keep its low rates promise Nymgo has again lowered its Pay as you go rates for calling these destination.

Present Nymgo rate for calling Bangladesh : 4.9 cents per minute.
Present Nymgo rate for calling Sri Lanka : 7.4 cents per minute.

But this time I guess Nymgo is not offering a good deal for these countries. Specially for calling Bangladesh. With the recent changes in Bangladesh Voip rules, many other voip providersare offering very cheap rates. Recently Vopian decreased its rate to just 2.1 cents per minute. SmartVoip is also offering low rate of just 2 cents per minute.

Well Nymgo this time you are not the cheapest and you need to lower your rate a bit further if you want to keep your promise.

Guys, if you know a better deal for calling these countries ( Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) then do let us know, so that we all can make cheap voip phone calls.

Get a Free US Phone number and receive calls

Hi,

Voip is growing and so are the calling rates falling. Apart from cheaper calling rates, what does it offer...? Lets today talk about getting a free incoming number from another country. Suppose if you are living in India and doing your business in USA, what number will you give to your customers (a Indian number....lol..no ways..). Its better to give them a number of their country so that they can connect to you free...!!

Apart from that, many a times while registering at some websites you require to give your phone number. Then too, its better to give them your virtual phone number (just give them your free incoming phone number). Now comes the major point, many trial voip offers can be completed with this number. I mean you can receive the verification call on this number, and get the free voip credit. I guess many voip websites are offering such voip trial offers (surf this blog and you will find many).

Bueno Social networking has recently stared offering Free USA incoming phone numbers. You can choose from a varied range of phone numbers.

Just Visit Bueno.com
Enter your details. Choose a number.
Verify your email address.

Your account interface will open. You will be asked to download a plugin for both IE and Firefox. After that your a Web based dailer will load. Now if someone calls you on your incoming number, you will receive the call on this dialer. (Calls received on your PC).

I have checked it, and it works great. A good deal for many. Power of Voip.

Hey if you want to receive such post updates directly in your mail, then its better to subscribe to the service. You will always be updated with latest in voip best deals.

Dell G2410

The 24 inch Dell G2410 is plainly designed with angular features and a black matte finish. The bezel measures a short 0.75 inch long on all sides and the middle of the bottom bezel has a slightly raised silver Dell logo on it. The panel is nearly 1 inch deep (In comparison, most 24 inch models we've tested have a panel depth of more than an inch) however, the back of the display which houses the backlight, connection options, and ventilation system extends another 1.5 inches, bringing the full monitor depth to about 2.4 inches.

The panel width measures 22.4 inches long average for a monitor of this screen size. The rectangular footstand measures 10.75 inches in width, with a depth of 6.1 inches. The footstand is a short 0.5 inch tall. We saw only minimal wobbling when we knocked the display from the sides, but with such a long and flat footstand, you'd really have to knock it hard before it toppled.
The bottom of the bezel sits about 2.75 inches from the desktop, but unfortunately, this screen height is neither adjustable nor is there a screen rotation or pivot option useful if you prefer portrait mode.

The capability to tilt the screen back 25 degrees is the only ergonomic feature included. To keep the price and energy footprint down, Dell only includes DVI and VGA as connection options. You're out of luck if you want to connect an external Blu-ray player, since there is no HDMI which is a mainstay on most monitors this size. The most improved feature of the Dell G2410 is its on screen display.

The OSD follows Dell's recent stellar, labelless design last seen in the SP2309W and S2409W. This OSD, however, is even simpler and easier to use with more features. Four buttons line the lower right hand corner of the bezel. Pressing any of the buttons brings up the OSD, which pops up parallel to the button array, each option corresponds to one of the four buttons. Once a new menu comes up, the function of the buttons change dynamically, as the top two buttons become the up and down arrow buttons used to navigate though the newly seen menu.

Since any button labels for the OSD are actually on the screen, calibrating the display in a dark room proved painless. Pressing the button next to "Energy Modes" on the OSD brings up a menu for choosing three different modes that determine your monitor's energy footprint. Choosing Standard lets the user manually set the display's brightness. Energy Smart activates the ambient light sensor and caps the screen brightness at 66 percent.

The ambient light sensor will adjust the brightness based on the level of light in the room the lower the ambient light level, the lower the brightness automatically adjusts. Energy Smart Plus is identical to Energy Smart, but adds dynamic dimming, which automatically dims the backlight when the screen shows an image that is overly bright or all white. As you change options that affect your energy footprint brightness, the three energy modes you'll see an Energy Gauge in the OSD.

The gauge is a meter that dynamically changes based on how much power your monitor is consuming. Take your brightness to full and the gauge goes into the red. Bring the brightness back down and your gauge responds by turning green. Ultimately, the Energy Gauge is not that useful, as it depends primarily on your monitor's current brightness level however, this is a welcome first step and we'd like to see Dell and other vendors continue to develop its usefulness.

Aside from the energy mode options, OSD options include the mainstays brightness, contrast, and various color options. The presets are separated into two categories Graphics and Video. There are six Graphics presets to choose from: Standard, Multimedia, Game, Warm, Cool, and, of course, Custom. The movie presets are Movie, Game, Sports and Nature. The presets do not change anything other than the Red, Green, and Blue color balance and therefore how well each setting works will be subjective.

Also, there are options to adjust the hue and color saturation in addition to options like setting the OSD to stay on screen up to a minute useful for anyone who will spend a good amount of time calibrating. The Dell G2410's 16:9 aspect ratio supports a "Full HD" 1.920x1,080 pixel native resolution. This continues the trend of more and more monitor vendors moving toward 16:9 from 16:10 because high definition content in particular 1080p movies can fit onto a 1.920x1.080 pixel screen without distorting the image.

Microsoft Zune 120GB

The design of the Zune 120 is almost entirely unchanged from the Zune 80 we reviewed last year. The back of the Zune is now black instead of silver and the face of the player is covered with a glossy plastic that, although pretty, is more prone to smudges and scratches than the metal finish on last year's model. We're happy to see that the increase in the Zune's hard drive capacity doesn't translate into a thicker design.

The Zune 120 measures the same 4.3 inches high by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep as the Zune 80. Also, no changes have been made to the Zune's navigation controls, headphone jack, hold switch, dock connection, and 3.2 inch glass covered LCD. Considering Apple's strategy of altering its iPod design every fall (for better or for worse), it's a little unnerving to see the Zune's hardware design at a standstill.

The upshot of the Zune's lack of design tinkering is that it maintains the product's compatibility with the handful of accessories designed for the player. The bulk of the third generation Zune's improvements are found by flicking through its main menu. New menu items for Games and Marketplace have been added alongside existing selections for Music, Videos, Pictures, Social, Radio, Podcasts, and Settings. The Zune's primary purpose as a high quality portable music player hasn't changed.

If anything, the enhancements offered by the third generation firmware have bolstered the unique music discovery and sharing features that have differentiated the Zune from the very beginning. One of the more notable new features on the Zune is a Marketplace selection in the main menu that allows you to browse, preview, and download music directly from Microsoft's Zune Marketplace online store.

Within the Marketplace submenu you can choose between browsing Top Songs, Top Albums, and New Releases, or search for specific music by keying in a few letters. Songs can be previewed for 30 seconds with the option to add them to your virtual cart or purchase and download immediately. By signing up for Microsoft's Zune Pass music subscription service (a free 14 day trial is available), you can download unlimited music to your Zune for a flat fee of $15 a month.

Otherwise, you'll need to purchase songs a la carte by setting up a payment account in the Zune desktop software. Your Zune needs to be connected to a Wi-Fi hot spot in order to take advantage of the Marketplace feature. Fortunately, Microsoft has improved the Zune's ability to step through public Wi-Fi hot spots, and it's even struck a deal with fast food giant McDonald's to have the Zune supported by the Wayport Wi-Fi hot spots found in many McDonald's restaurants. If your local Wi-Fi requires you to enter a password, you can enter it manually using the Zunepad. The Zune will remember and associate your Wi-Fi passwords so that you'll only need to enter them once.

RingoMax : Working Voip in UAE, Offers cheap calls to India

A large part of Free Pc to Phone calls readers are from UAE. And because not many voip providers work from UAE, peopl from UAE pay a lot of money for making international calls.

Voip is blocked in UAE, so people aint able to make cheap voip calls. Some people do use VPN like Hotspotshield but there were complaints that it is not legal to use it in UAE.

So, while searching for a voip solution to work from UAE and let people make cheap calls to India, Pakistan and other countries we came across Ringomax.com

What Ringomax offers -:

The Killer application to bypass ISP blockage -: Ringomax offers you a Pc application that is the Dialer or softphone. Ringomax Dialer will not work on any VPN connection or on Hotspot Shield. Its designed to work without VPN connection & Hotspot Shield. Only use Ringomax Dialer on a Normal internet Connection.

Money back garunteed to work in UAE: Ringomax promises that their Voip software work in UAE, and they offer money back garuntee for voice quality.

Download the dialer and register a user name and password. Recharge your account through credit card or by a Reseller.

Now talking about the call rates offered by Ringomax. (Now you already know that these are Pc to Phone rates as the service is Pc to Phone calling).

Ringomax is charging 1.7 cents per minute to India. Considering that if it works from UAE, it will save you lot of bucks.

The only problem is that Ringomax is in beta stage, the website is not preperly updated, no Contact phone number etc. Another thing being the legal issues. Its better to confirm it first with these guys that their service is legal, if it aint then better use it at your own risk. It will be better to buy less credit first (buy minimum), test Ringomax service and if it works for you then you can buy more credit.

Tuitalk Login Problems : Tuitalker Not Configured

In the month of February '09 we posted about making absolutely free calls to India using Tuitalk. This was the first free calling offer to India (i mean the unlimited one) and we were the first to blog about it.

A lot of people from all over the world made free calls to India, and the blogpost was a big hit. However within a month, the Tuitalk service started giving problems such as "incorrect username/password", some people were not able to login into their Tuitalk account, and many other similar problems : like Tuitalk Login Problems, Tuitalker Could not be configured error.

Tuitalk still worked for many but the call duration (tuitalk offers free talktime minutes every day varied for some). Recently some of my friends in US told me that they are again able to make free calls to India using Tuitalk. Well, I visited the tuitalk website and saw some change in their country list (policy you can say), which answers many of our questions.

To remind people about Tuitalk, it is an advertisement based Voip provider. You need to download their Voip PC application (softphone), watch some ads after which you can call your destination for free.

People from all over the world except (India and Turkey) can use Tuitalk for making free calls. This means you can make free calls from UK, USA to India but you cannot make free calls from India to India. (I guess Tuitalk tracks your IP address to know that you are using Tuitalk software from India).

Apart from India, you can use Tuitalk for maing free calls to other 40 countries.

Please fill your extened profile to get more limit of free talktime. With extented profile I guess you should get about 10 free minutes daily.

Well this is totally free calling offer to India, and should work for you guys. So, please let us know if you are able to make free calls to India or not. If not, please post the problem you are facing so that we can help you correct it. Enjoy the power of Voip. We have already discussed the login problem, tuitalker not configured error, Tuitalk Call error, connection error in our previous posts!

Sanyo SCP-2700

Sanyo SCP-2700 has a very straightforward design, and looks a little like a lower end version of a BlackBerry, or a thicker version of the Pantech Slate. Measuring 4.3 inches long by 2.4 inches wide by 0.6 inch thick, Sanyo SCP-2700 is encased in glossy plastic with a checkered texture design on the back. Sanyo SCP-2700 is also quite lightweight at 3.4 ounces. It feels good in the hand, but the glossy surface does make it prone to fingerprints.

On the front of Sanyo SCP-2700 is a decent 2.2 inch diagonal display with 65,536 colors and 320x240 pixel resolution. We would've liked 262.000 colors instead, but since the SCP-2700 isn't a very high end phone, we were fine with it. The screen looks nice and bright, and the text is legible and sharp. You can adjust the backlight time, the size of the input font, and the sleep mode timer.

Underneath the display is the navigation array, which consists of two soft keys, a square navigation toggle with middle confirmation key, a dedicated text messaging key, a back key, and the Send and End/Power keys. The aforementioned toggle is mapped to four user defined shortcuts, while the middle confirmation key leads to the main menu when on standby mode. All the keys are sufficiently raised above the surface, and are easy to use.

Below the navigation array is the QWERTY keyboard, which is what makes Sanyo SCP-2700 a messaging phone. The keyboard is a little small, like that on the Palm Centro, but we really liked how tactile the keys are. The keys are raised above the surface, plus they have a bubble like texture that makes it easy to type. There's also a dedicated emoticon key that brings up the different emoticons while you're typing out a text message.

The dedicated speakerphone key is on the bottom right of the keyboard. On the left spine are a charger jack, a dedicated camera key, and the volume rocker, while a 2.5mm headset jack sits on the right spine. On the back is the camera lens and an external speaker. There is no flash or self portrait mirror. Sanyo SCP-2700 doesn't have a lot of features going for it, but it does do messaging very well, which suits its primary purpose.

It has a basic 600 entry phone book, with room in each entry for six phone numbers, three e-mail addresses, a Web URL, a street address, and a memo. You can assign contacts with a photo for caller ID and to different caller groups as well. You can also assign one of 37 polyphonic ringtones for incoming calls, text messages, picture mails, and voice SMS. Other basic features include a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calendar, a countdown timer, a stopwatch, a voice memo recorder, and a world clock.

There's also a wireless Web browser, Bluetooth, instant messaging (AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo), e-mail, and voice SMS. There's also GPS support for location based services like Sprint Navigator. Truly, the star feature of Sanyo SCP-2700 lies in its messaging applications. It doesn't just have the standard text message functionality it also supports threaded text messages, which are usually available on higher end smart phones only.

This means you get to view a text message within the context of a conversation, rather than as just a single message. Sanyo SCP-2700 also supports multiple e-mail accounts from an array of providers like Sprint's own PCS Mail, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail, as well as your own POP or IMAP e-mail account. Only PCS Mail requires a Web browser to access.

Amazingly, Sanyo SCP-2700 can also receive your work e-mail. You can either use your employer's Outlook Web Access or use Sprint's own Mobile E-mail Personal Account. The latter requires a software download and a rather tedious Web interface that will link your work e-mail to the phone, so it's best if your company has OWA running.

Free calls from UK (BT landlines) to India and worldwide

A large part of Free Pc to Phone calls blog readers are from UK (actually a large part of indians are settled in UK). Telecom companies earn a good money when these NRI's connect to their loved ones in India. But we have found some solution using which people from UK can connect to India for free (they can make free calls to India).

Firstl lets see how can you make free calls to India and other countries. (No need to register, no credit cards required. )

1. Simply dial the access number 0870 494 52522.
2. When connected, at the dial tone, dial the international number you want to call
3 E.g. for a call to Delhi India, you dial: 0870 494 5252 wait for dial tone and then dial 0091 11 2731 XXXX … it’s that easy!

Now where the catch...?
hmmn..this service is quite similar to what many Australian companies offer. (They also give a local mobil access number dialing which you can connect to India for free).
Now you only pay for connecting to this local UK number (0870 494 5252 ). BT announced that from 16th January calls to numbers starting 0870 will be included in Calling Plans and therefore free to dial from BT landlines at certain times. So, if you are using BT landlines then you can make free calls to India (first just check with BT if you can call this local UK number for free, you may end up paying high if it aint free, so better to check the call rate first).

Others, too may check with their respective telecom provider if this number of eligible for free cap minutes. If its include then voilla, you can make free calls to India, Pakistan or just any other country.

However, if dialing this number aint free for you, just check the call rate to this number and make cheap calls.

For international users, I was wondering if we can found some way to connect to this number for free (using VOIP), then we too can make free calls to anywhere in world. I am too finding a solution.

Not only India, Pakistan, USA, Canada, Nepal, African countries, using this way you can call mist arts of the world for free. I guess this works only on weekdays and not on weekends ( I am not too sure of it, so better to check this too.)

PS: I found this local number and this method posted in some forum, so thought of sharing on this blog. It may no work but still worth trying. So, are you able to make free calls to India using this way..? Have to confirmed the rates to this local number with BT. Please share your views in the comment section...!

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