Airtel Digital TV : What is the Difference from other DTH

Planning to bring a Satellite TV to your home? If so, there are a lot of options are available like Airtel Digital TV, Tata Sky, Dish TV, SUN TV etc. Furthermore, the mobile telephony war has provided a way to a great price war in the segment of direct-to-home (DTH) television.  Today Airtel Digital TV has revolutionalized our way for watching television in India. Now the television viewers need not to rely on the false assurances of cable operators.

Airtel DTH Online Offer

Airtel DTH

Airtel Digital TV, a direct-to-home service offering by Bharti Airtel Ltd., brings for you the excellent quality picture and sound. With interactive features, it provides us the viewer control over the control. This digital television uses MPEG-4 digital compression along with DVB-S2 technology which transmits using INSAT 4CR 74 degree E. Some of exciting features of Airtel Digital TV are discussed below:-
•    This digital TV provides you a fabulous viewing experience by using MPEG4 DVB-S2 technology that will give guarantee you an unmatched picture quality and great sound.
•    With its innovative interactive services, the user can have a great experience of the magic of interactive TV such as booking movie tickets for himself and his family, surf the internet, planning your dream holiday, and much more.
•    You can also enjoy your favorite songs with All India Radio. There are ten channels to choose from that offer the best music on air. Moreover, there is no requirement to buy a separate receiver.
•    Now you can also view the last channel you are watching in the case of power failure. The Power resume function will remember your last channel which you are viewing when the power goes off and when the power comes back on, you can get back your channel whatever you are viewing.
•    Airtel Digital TV also comes with universal remote that will allow you to manage both your television and set top box with a single remote.

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A comparision between Apple iPhone and Blackberry



Apple iPhone Vs Blackberry

Smart Phones market really heating up, business folks around the country will be faced with the decision of switching to the trendy new iPhone or upgrading to the iPhone. To determine whether the grass really is greener on the iPhone side of the fence, the article chronicles the experience of a venture capitalist (who wishes to remain anonymous) who has been using an iPhone and a BlackBerry 8800 side-by-side for the past few weeks. His conclusion: despite the overall attractiveness of the iPhone, it lacks too many vital features to replace the BlackBerry as the corporate weapon of choice.

For starters, a BlackBerry set up with Microsoft Exchange Server sports intelligent push email while the iPhone does not. When an email is sent to an account on a BlackBerry, the message is downloaded immediately and an LED on the phone notifies the user that he or she has a new message. The iPhone, on the other hand, recognizes new messages at most every 15 minutes and must be checked actively to see if anything has arrived. This deficiency makes handling email on the iPhone slower and less efficient; it also translates into wasted battery power as users need to perform the extra step of opening the iPhone’s email program every time they want to check for new mail.

Perhaps even more significantly, the iPhone fails to synchronize as well as the BlackBerry. When a BlackBerry user changes a calendar event or some contact information on his or her desktop computer in Exchange, the changes automatically appear on the BlackBerry. This makes keeping track of basic business information a snap because one never has to worry about acting on outdated data or manually updating one’s handheld. In contrast, the iPhone does not synchronize calendar and contact information wirelessly, which makes it less dependable for information ultimately stored on a server.

In addition to these major drawbacks of the iPhone, our venture capitalist cites the following as reasons to prefer the BlackBerry:

* The BlackBerry 8800 possesses GPS, which makes Google Maps much more useful, especially for turn-by-turn directions
* The iPhone lacks basic cut and paste capabilities
* Despite Apple’s reputation for superior user interface design, the BlackBerry possesses keyboard shortcuts that make navigation around and between applications a breeze
* The BlackBerry’s phone quality is better than the iPhone’s
* The Safari browser is certainly more stunning than the BlackBerry’s primitive browser, but the iPhone seems to load even text-only pages more slowly than the BlackBerry over the EDGE network
* The BlackBerry possesses a general contacts application that makes contacting people by any given method more convenient
* The battery runs out faster on the iPhone simply because it is used for more tasks. This makes it less reliable for when one must take the device somewhere overnight without the opportunity to recharge.

Despite all of these criticisms of the iPhone, our venture capitalist admits that he would switch over to the iPhone if only it supported push email, calendar and contacts synchronization, and GPS. For him, the prospect of ridding his pockets of a separate device for music (an iPod nano), as well as enjoying all of the iPhone’s slick features (such as full-featured web browsing, stocks and weather apps, and its YouTube program), makes the iPhone very tempting. However, until Apple resolves these shortcomings (and perhaps Google makes its applications, especially Gmail, work as seamlessly with the iPhone as Microsoft makes Exchange work with the BlackBerry), others are going to have to pry his BlackBerry from his cold, dead hands (his words, mind you, not ours).

Reliablity Score
As per a study conducted by Square Trade, a mobile phone warranty firm, BlackBerry cellphones had twice the malfunction rate than the iPhone in the first year use. Square Trade had released a study of 15,000 individual handsets covered under the company's policies.

From the study, it was found that Treo had the worst failure rate of 16.2 per cent in the first 12 months of usage. BlackBerry phones showed up 11.9 per cent failure rate while iPhone's malfunction rate was 5.6 per cent. Canalys research report mentioned that Apple cruised ahead of RIM.

Apple's iPhone reported majority of problems with touchscreen and battery. Even the glossy and smooth outer made it difficult to handle and slip out. Battery issues of around 1 percent reported for BlackBerry and Treo compared to half percent of iPhone. To be noted, SquareTrade's study didn't have software issues fixed by firmware updates under their scanner.

SquareTrade projected that iPhone's failure rate might become nine to 11 percent in next two years, which are estimated figures since the phone hasn't been there for long. While Blackberry and Treo hand sets got projected failure rate of 14.3 percent and 21 percent respective.

Reliance started Unlimited Plan Reliance Netconnect

Are you looking for a reliable and flexible internet connection for your laptops? If so, a wireless internet card will be the right choice for you. Today, data cards come equipped with ease, great value and excellent speed. They have given a tough competition to other internet connectivity options like DSL etc. Reliance Netconnect +, one of the best wireless connections in the country, is the most suitable for both desktops and laptops. It offers download speed up to 3.1 Mbps and upload speed up to 1.8 Mbps.

Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ comes with EVDO technology that will allow you to access Internet at the very high speed. The network of this high speed broadband is available in many cities in India. So you can easily browse the internet in across 24,000 towns and 6 lacs villages and major highways, railway routes, remote locations etc. With simply plug and play, an individual can easily use this device. Reliance has recently introduced its unlimited plan wherein now you can get unlimited internet usage with Reliance Netconnect Broadband+.

Coverage Areas
Agra, Ahmedabad & Bopal, Ajmer, Anand, Ankleshwar, Bangalore, Bhilwara, Bhiwadi  Bhopal, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, coimbatore, Daman, Delhi, Dewas, Dhar, Ernakulam, Erode, Gandhinagar ,Goa, Guntur, Halol, Hosur, Hyderabad, Indore Jaipur, Kakinada, Kancheepuram, Kanpur,  Kolkata,  Kollam, Kota , Lucknow, Ludhiana Madurai, Mangalore, Manipal, Mumbai , Mysore, Nagpur, Nasik , Palakkad , Palladum, Patiala  Perundurai, Pondicherry , Pune, Rajahmundry, Salem, Silvassa , Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Tirupur, Udaipur, Ujjain,Vadodara, Vapi,  Vellore, Vijayvada, Visakhapatnum

Choose your plan and get:

Tariff Plan Monthly Rental Free Usage Bundled/Month Extra Usage Roaming Anytime/Day Usage Night Usage Broadband+ Pay as you go Rs. 299/- Nil Nil Rs. 1 / MB Nationwide* Broadband+ 512 MB Rs. 499/- 512 MB Nil 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 10GB @ Night  Rs. 499/- Nil 10 GB 50 p /Min Nationwide Broadband+ 1 GB Rs. 650/- 1 GB Nil 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 2 GB Rs. 750/- 2 GB Nil 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 3 GB Rs. 850/- 3 GB Nil 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 1 GB day, 10 GB Night Rs. 849/- 1 GB 10 GB 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 2 GB day, 10 GB Night Rs. 949/- 2 GB 10 GB 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 3 GB day, 10 GB Night Rs. 1049/- 3 GB 10 GB 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 5 GB Rs. 1099/- 5 GB Nil 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 10 GB City Rs. 1099/- 10 GB Nil 50 p / MB Citywide Broadband+ 5 GB day, 10 GB Night Rs. 1298/- 5 GB 10 GB 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 10 GB day, 10 GB Night City Rs. 1298/- 10 GB 10 GB 50 p / MB Citywide Broadband+ 10 GB Rs. 1250/- 10 GB Nil 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 10 GB day, 10 GB Night Rs. 1449/- 10 GB 10 GB 50 p / MB Nationwide Broadband+ 15 GB Rs. 1750/- 15 GB Nil 50 p / MB Nationwide Day usage - 6 AM to 10 PM ; Night Usage - 10 PM - 6 AM

Unlimited Plans Plan Name Monthly Rental (Rs) Free Usage at speeds up to 3.1 Mbps(Downlink) Usage Beyond Bundled Usage at speeds up to 155 Kbps Monthly Discounts (Rs.) Total Discounts over 12 months (Rs.) Silver 950 5 GB Unlimited 200 2400 Gold 1100 10 GB Unlimited 200 2400 Platinum 1500 15 GB Unlimited 200 2400

Time based plans Plan Name Monthly usage Extra usage Monthly tariff Daily 60 1800 mins 0.50 per minute Rs. 500/- Daily 120 3600 mins 0.50 per minute Rs. 750/- Day & Night plan 3600 mins/day & 5400 mins/night 0.50 per minute Rs. 950/-

* Nationwide coverage will ensure Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ coverage in 70 major cities and seamless integration with High Speed 1x for National coverage.

- Please note that day/night classification of a particular session will be done on basis of session start time i.e. If the session starts in Peak time/Day Usage (6 AM to 10 PM), it would be classified as a day session and if the session starts in Off-peak time/Night Usage (between 10 PM to 6 AM), it would be classified as night session.

- Minimum guaranteed speed on Netconnect Broadband+ is 256 Kbps subject to technical feasibility.

Netconnect Broadband⁺Prepaid tariff Plans

Pay Rs. 2299/- to get a Netconnect Broadband+ USB Modem and get

• Life time Validity

Choose for any of the below mentioned Prepaid Broadband+ plans

Pack Price Validity Broadband+  300MB Pack Rs. 250/- 30 Days Broadband+  700MB Pack Rs. 500/- 30 Days Broadband+  1GB Pack Rs. 715/- 30 Days Broadband+  3GB Pack Rs. 935/- 30 Days Broadband+  5GB Pack Rs. 1,210/- 30 Days Broadband+  10GB Pack Rs. 1,379/- 30 Days Broadband+  15GB Pack Rs. 1,925/- 30 Days Broadband+  1GB Pack Rs. 200/- 1 week Broadband+  6GB Pack Rs. 1500/- 3 months Broadband+  18GB Pack Rs. 3,000/- 6 months

Additional usage @ Rs. 1 / MB
Any discounted plan will not be carry forward if customer migrates to any other plan during the offer period.

What I love about Airtel Blackberry 8520 !

Blackberry Reviews

Blackberry 8520 Smart Phone

I tried Blackberry 8520 I really liked it. The finish is not as great as Blackberry 8900, but it is only for 16K. I am trying to find if I can get it for less. Here is a comparison between the two:

The best thing I like about 8520 is the trackpad (just like the trackpad on the laptop). It is better than a track-wheel. My hands get sweaty and greasy and makes trackball difficult to use at times. Over a period of time dirt/lint also tends to find its way inside the trackwheel compartment and has to be opened for cleaning. The trackpad is so responsive! All new BlackBerry Phones from now on will have the trackpad.The difference between Curve 8520 Vs Curve 8900:-

Camera: 2MP Vs. 3.1 MP. 2MP is enough for phone camera. The BlackBerry 8520 has 2MP camera with 1600 x 1200 pixels. It also comes with QVGA that enables me to capture my best moments of life. To click good quality pictures I already have a proper camera. For 4 x 6” (10 x 15 cm) prints, a VGA camera (640 x 480 or 0.3 MP) resolution is good enough. 

Display resolution: 8900 is much better. But 8520 is pretty good too. It's much better than my current phone and I never felt any problems with the current one. The screen size is fairly big. I do not intend to watch videos on it or I would have gone for something like the iPhone.

Trackpad: I love the trackpad of Blackberry 8520. This mobile phone comes well equipped with touch-sensitive optical trackpad along with music dedicated keys. It also supports QWERTY Keyboard that is useful for easy typing your messages.

RAM: 128 Vs. 256 - Both have the same processor (512) and without the 3G in either of them 128MB is more than enough to run any application. The BlackBerry 2520 also has 256 MB internal memory.  3G will probably take over a year to be rolled out and better phones would come out then. I will probably switch to a better version of Bold or Storm once that happens.

GPS: 8520 does not have GPS. Google maps triangulation has been good enough for me (not exact, but close enough). This feature will permit you to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers. I have just downloaded My Location app to my mobile phone and after that, it pinpointed me to within a block of my place. Have you tried this? You can search the map, get directions etc. Pretty much like a GPS Enabled Device.

Finish: 8900 has a better finish/is more stylish. But 8520 seemed sturdier to me. There are no chrome plated parts. Sides have rubber so the paint wont wear off from constant friction in the pocket. If dropped, the rubber side panel should absorb the impact better. 8520 is much cheaper and dropping it wont hurt me as much : )

If I was spending 26K I would spend a little more just get the bold which is actually better (3G, screen, processor). This is what I was planning to do, but new Blackberry bold and Blackberry storm are about to come. Their launch and getting a good deal on them would take a few months, SO I am buying this with the idea to replace it after a year if it is worth doing so.
By concluding, if you are not taking the iPhone, you should try the Blackberry 8520. I think it is excellent for its price as well as its features. Very little incremental benefit for the amount you pay on upgrading to the current 8900 or bold.

Blackberry Smart Phone 9630 - Bold & Beautiful

  blackberry 8830 Mobile Phones

Although India now has over millions of CDMA subscribers, yet these subscribers never had much of a choice when it came to high-end Smart Phones. Outdated versions of Windows Mobile smartphones have ruled the roost for a long time, till Reliance Communications (R-Com) has launched Blackberry services in Sept 2007, and with it, the Blackberry 8830 World Edition Smartphone.

Let us consider the new Blackberry Tour 9630, the spiritual successor to the 8830 World Edition. This is a Hybrid phone that works on both CDMA and GSM networks and it is capable of roaming across the world, on any kind of network. Hence the name is Tour. This gadget also comes equipped with 3G on both CDMA (EVDO), and GSM (UMTS/HSPA), so the data speeds should be pretty good once 3G becomes widely available in India.

The Blackberry Tour 9630 is not a Dual SIM phone. This phone will be powered by a hybrid SIM card from Reliance Communication which is the exclusive retailer of the device in India.

The screen of this widget is attractive, sharp, and very easy to read in daylight as well as dark due to the auto light sensor. It runs the 4.7.x BlackBerry operating system, which features many improvements over the previous generation.

As far as form factor goes, it’s a BlackBerry 8900-size shell, with a BlackBerry Bold-like keyboard. The smaller size is obviously a major advantage, as the Bold can be quite a bother to carry, but cramming a Bold-style keyboard isn’t really the best thing for this form factor. It does not make for as a smooth a typing experience as the standard small keyboard on the Blackberry Curve or Blackberry 8900.

Feature-wise, A-GPS is included in the gadget, so you can easily run Google Maps, or for that matter, any other mapping / navigation software (MapMyIndia has navigation Software for BlackBerry phones). On the flip side, when it comes to connectivity, this phone lacks Wi-Fi support, which is very disappointing. Also, the Tour still uses the “Pearl”, the infamous Blackberry trackball that tends to get jammed with prolonged use.

The Blackberry Tour’s battery life also didn’t seem to be on par with its GSM brethren (about 3 hours of talk time and a day and a half of standby in our test).

Despite the bad parts, the Tour is still the best CDMA phone money can buy today.  Firstly, it is too expensive (Rs 27,990) for a phone with so few features. Secondly, the Blackberry Tour 9630 was launched in July 2009 in the US, and it has taken six months to get to India. In today’s smartphone market, so much changes in six months, that there are already reports of an updated Tour in the pipeline, with OS 5.0, Wi-Fi, and the Optical Trackpad.


If you’re searching for a good CDMA phone, and not necessarily a world roamer, you need to wait a few months, and the Curve 8530 should launch in India. This mobile phone has Wi-Fi, GPS, OS 5.0, does multimedia pretty well, and has that fancy Optical Trackpad as well (and should be priced around Rs 16-17,000).

More than any other factor, this phone suffers from poor launch timing. Blackberry should have launched the Tour six months earlier.

Airtel Digital TV is the magic of digital entertainment in this digital world

The Airtel Digital TV is the magic of digital entertainment in this digital world. Airtel has also joined the Direct-To-Home Satellite TV Services.  Now enjoy the convenience of a Universal Remote (single Remote) for TV and set top box. You can enjoy the array of channel with the array of movies. The Airtel Digital TV is also providing the MPEG4 DVB-S2 Technology so you can get exceptional picture and the sound quality with this latest technology. The Digital TV is inbuilt high definition audio with the Dolby sound. With 5X Clarity.

It is very user friendly and easy to understand. Now Airtel Digital TV is with All India Radio, so you can enjoy the uninterrupted music only on Airtel Digital TV. The plan are very attractive and affordable, and with the digital sound quality. In the era of Updates you will enjoy more features like Astrology, Best of Sports, Latest Updates, news, Current affairs only on Airtel Digital TV. Airtel Digital TV gives you the facility to watch the movie on demand so now you can watch the latest Hollywood and Bollywood movies on Airtel Digital TV as per your demand. Now the Digital TV is Game Console you can play online game on your Airtlel Digital TV. There is a facility for pay per view on Airtel Digital TV. Now Airtel Digital TV is in all over India, you can enjoy the services of Airtel Digital TV anywhere in India with all the channels and various offers.

The Online recharge facility is also available anywhere in India. You can recharge your Airtel Digital TV by Online Credit card, Debit card Master card, Visa Card, Net Banking or mCheck anywhere in india. The Airtel Digital TV is available all over india with the very strong network and Crystal clear Screen.

Tata DOCOMO Introduces Innovative Value-added Service

Tata Docomo is one of the leading private Telecom Service providers of India. It has recently launched a unique VAS service – first of its kind in the country. This service is a reverse ringback tone facility when the caller gets to hear the tune that he sets for himself, instead of listening to the conventional tring-tring or other caller tunes set by the called party. Now you can dance on your own favorite tunes with first in the industry ‘My Song’ service from Tata Docomo. The service allows the callers to listen the songs of their choice when they call anybody. So to avail this ultimate service, Tata DOCOMO Post-Paid and pre-paid mobile phone subscribers can dial 543217 and can select a song of their choice across different categories/genres for instance, Regional, Classical, International tunes, Bollywood hits and much more. After that, whenever you make a call to your dear ones, each time you will get listen to the chosen song rather than being forced to hear what others have chosen.


In ‘My song’ service, you can set up to a maximum of three different songs for three different mobile numbers. After the activation of this service, you can keep a tab of all the details of the service on the fly. Furthermore, you can also download songs on your personal selection and will be played in a shuffle. By announcing the launch of this new service, Mr. Gurinder Singh Sandhu, Head marketing of Tata Docomo said, “With My Song, we have introduced yet another unique service which offers a refreshingly different telecom experience to Tata DOCOMO customers. When you make a call, you usually have to listen to someone's caller tune which might not be your taste. We believe My Song service is an extremely relevant & innovative offering that is in line with our aim of being THE refreshingly different brand in the telecom clutter. We have been doing it & we will keep doing the new. This launch is a breakthrough that adds an entertainment value and relevance to the task of waiting for a call to be answered.” So enjoy your favorite tunes with this ultimate service from Tata Docomo.