About CellSniper
CellSniper is an award winning mobile
security application developed by NSS,
that protects your privacy and
prevents misuse of data in lost
handsets. What does CellSniper do?
Lock
CellSniper automatically locks the
handset on restart. The handset can
be unlocked by a password known
only to the owner. The handset may also be locked remotely by sending
the CellSniper password in a particular
format via SMS to the phone.
Trace
CellSniper traces any new number that
might be used on your handset. When a new SIM card is installed, alert
messages are sent to predefined
numbers entered by you,notifying
them that your handset is in use with a
new number. The alert message will
also recover your IMEI number and location* information in the form of
lattitude and longitude.
Wipe
CellSniper can remotely delete all
personal information on the phone via
SMS using a WIPE string that you control. Even if the handset is
operating on a new number, you only
need to send the WIPE string in a
message to the new number. The WIPE
string is configured by the owner and
can be edited or changed when required.
Remote Call Back*
Remote call back feature enables the
user to hear or spy on the
conversation of the person who has
stolen the phone. This can be achieved by sending a normal SMS to the
number received through the Alert
message. When the user sends an call
back SMS to the target phone, the
mobile would automatically call back
from which the remote call back message came from.
Synchronized Data Backup Solution*
Sync option allows easy access to
over-the-air mobile data backup and
restores service (SyncML).
Password Protected Uninstall* To uninstall, the user has to enter the
application login password; if the
password is incorrect then the phone
would be locked and the alerts would
go to the user friends. This would
restrict from uninstalling the application by the unauthorized
person.
THIS SOFTWARE IS A LIFETIME PERIOD
OF USAGE...NOT A MONTHLY OR
ANNUALLY PERIOD...
About Hyde HYDE is a Symbian mobile phone
application developed by NSS,that
helps the end user hide their SMS/MMS
(s) or blocks unwanted calls. The
active functions of Hyde are controlled
through the filter settings which may be customized by the user at any point
of time.
What does Hyde do?
Contact
Hyde will maintain a list of its own
contacts known as ‘ Hyde Contacts’ . Hiding SMS/MMS
• Message Interception based on ‘ Hyde Contacts‘ . • Hidden SMS/MMS can be access and act upon from within a HYDE
application.
• SMS/MMS can be auto deleted upon receiving and there will be logs on
deleted messages.
Voice Call Interception
• Intercept and drop voice calls based on ‘ Hyde contacts‘ . • Complete log for rejected calls Filter
• HYDE application can filter incoming calls and messages according to the
filter preference that is configured.
• Supports three types of filters; ‘ Whitelist’ , ‘ Blacklist ’ and ‘ Profile’ . • Whitelist: Blocks all calls except those on the Whitelist.
• Blacklist: Blocks all calls on the Blacklist.
• Profile: Appropriate actions will be taken according to the profile that is
assigned to a particular HYDE Contact.
Actions ranging from rejecting calls,
Auto-Deleting messages and HYDE
notification message on hidden SMS/
MMS and rejected calls. THIS SOFTWARE IS A LIFETIME PERIOD
OF USAGE...NOT A MONTHLY OR
ANNUALLY PERIOD...
HAVE AN INSURANCE FOR UR MOBILE
These are some of the important Android Mobile tricks you must need to know:
Cell Battery, WiFi
Usage etc Info *#*#4636#*#*
Restore Factory Settings
*#*#7780#*#*
Format Phone
*2767*3855# Launch service mode*#*#197328640#*#*
Test WiFi
*#*#232339#*#* or
*#*#526#*#* or
*#*#528#*#*
Device test such as vibration and lightness
*#*#0842#*#*
Display touchscreen version *#*#2663#*#*
Touchscreen test
*#*#2664#*#* Distancesensor test*#*#0588#*#*
Display memory version
*#*#3264#*#*
Display WiFi MAC address*#*#232338#*#* GPS test
*#*#1472365#*#*
Other GPS test
*#*#1575#*#*
Bluetooth test*#*#232331#*#*
Display Bluetooth physic address*#*#232337#*#
Start Gtalk monitoring
*#*#8255#*#*
PDA, Phone, H/W, RFCallDate*#*#4986*2650468#*#*
PDA and Phone
*#*#1234#*#*
FTA SW version
*#*#1111#*#*
FTA HW version*#*#2222#*#* PDA, Phone, csc,
*#*#44336#*#*
Packet Loopback
*#*#0283#*#*
LCD test *#*#0*#*#*
Melody test*#*#0673#*#*
or
*#*#0289#*#*
Troubled mobile phone giant Nokia on Tuesday said it was confident it could reverse sagging fortunes and remain a market leader amid stiff competition from rivals such as Apple and Samsung.
Chief executive Stephen Elop said at a regional telecoms fair in Singapore that the Finnish company was making good on promises to overhaul itself and unveiled a new high-end phone, the N9, to bolster his claim.
"Earlier this year Nokia outlined a new course to change our direction. Just four months and ten days later, on June 21st, today, a new season is beginning at Nokia as well," Elop said at the CommunicAsia 2011 industry expo.
"We have shifted our organisation, we have a clear strategy and we are focused on delivering results."
Nokia hired Elop, a former Microsoft executive, last September as its market share slumped in the face of competition from Apple's iPhone, Asian rivals led by Samsung, and Canada's Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry.
In February, the company said it was going to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating system for its future smartphones to do battle with Apple's iOS and Google's Android software, a favourite among Asian manufacturers.
Nokia has seen its global market share dwindle after other companies came up with sleeker mobile phones offering a wide range of applications from games to business software.
Nokia phones accounted for at least eight out of every 10 phones sold in Asia at one point, according to the CommunicAsia programme but analysts said the company now faces an uphill task to stay in the lead.
Nomura Equity Research has forecast that Nokia's share of the entire mobile phone market will decline from 25.1 percent in the first quarter this year to 19.9 percent in the fourth quarter.
In the smartphone sector, the decline is steeper, from 25.5 percent in the first quarter to 13.1 percent in the fourth quarter -- which would result in Samsung ending Nokia's 14-year streak as world number one.
In addition to Samsung and Apple, Taiwan's HTC is also starting to rival Nokia, Nomura said in a June 12 report.
"By the end of 2011, we doubt that Nokia's market share in Western Europe, APAC (Asia Pacific), or North America will be higher than low- to mid-single digits at best," it said.
"This implies that Nokia has lost relevance in these markets -- markets that are brand conscious and technology aware. Not only has Nokia's brand value fallen, but it seems unlikely that WP7 is about to leapfrog Android or the iPhone," it added.
According to information technology research firm IDC, the Android operating system will account for 43.8 percent of the global smartphone market by 2015, with Windows Phone 7 taking 20.3 percent, Apple's iOS 16.9 percent, Blackberry OS 13.4 percent -- and Nokia's Symbian holding a mere 0.1 percent.
Nokia boss Elop said he was confident that the firm's first Windows 7 model will be launched later this year "and we will ship our products in volume in 2012."
The N9 features an "all-screen" display devoid of the "home" button present on the iPhone and other high-end devices, although it does not run on Windows Phone 7 software.
However, it has a function that allows users to link it to dedicated accessories such as a headset or speakers by simply touching the phone against them.
Delegates had mixed reactions to the Nokia chief's upbeat statements.
"Nokia will survive but probably in a different style, a different way. They will evolve," said Marcus Tan, Asia-Pacific managing director of mobile advertising firm Smaato, who visited Nokia's booth in CommunicAsia.
"With the influx of tablets and iPads or iPhones, I think the market will evolve and Nokia will be one of the leading players in the industry."
But Singaporean technological blogger Lester Chan was not as optimistic.
"As a phone, I would say that Samsung, definitely, Blackberry, iPhone will overtake Nokia, it's just a matter of time," he told AFP, adding that the leadership change would happen in "two, three years' time."
The $35 tablet has done a good job of playing hide and seek with us over the past year popping up every now and then. Last year in August we got a close look at the device and were blown away with it's potential and price point. In 2010, HRD minister Kapil Sibal promised, on Gadget Guru, that the $35 tablet would see the light of day in 2011 and it seems he will stand true to his word.
The device, which will be subsidised by the Indian government, is aimed at educational institutes. NDTV sources have confirmed that the first batch of 1000 units of the device is under production. It is being produced in India and will be delivered to the Ministry in another 10 days. The HRD Minister aims to provide a million units to the higher education system in the country.
As far as specifications of the device goes, the $35 tablet has a 7-inch touchscreen, video conferencing, Wi-Fi, USB port, SIM card slot, 32GB HDD and 2GB RAM. When the device was demoed on Gadget Guru, it was powered by the Android OS. The prototype unit also had a resistive touchscreen and required a stylus to navigate. Some pre-loaded educational apps too are expected to ship with the device. Recent reports on the Internet also suggest that the device will be powered by an open source Linux OS.
The HRD Minister had told Gadget Guru that it is his aim to bring the price of the device down to $10. That may be a long-term plan, but for now we really can't wait to see the device in action and revolutionise the education system in India.
Finnish handset maker Nokia Corp. plans to introduce its first mobile phones using the Microsoft Windows operating system this year, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.
Nokia is facing steep competition from competitors in several products. At the top end of the market it is struggling against smartphones such as Apple's iPhone, Research in Motion's Blackberry as well as Android, and on the lower end against emerging market phone makers who are dropping their prices.
Nokia will start to deliver the Windows-based mobile phones in bulk next year, CEO Stephen Elop said in a speech at a technology trade show in Singapore.
"Our primary smartphone strategy is to focus on the Windows phone," Elop said. "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012."
Elop has acknowledged Nokia has been too slow to meet the challenge from competitors and has hinted that the company would drop its cellphone prices. Last month, the company warned both sales and profit margins in the second quarter would be substantially below previous forecasts.
Nokia also unveiled on Tuesday its N9 smartphone, which is based on the MeeGo platform. The company said it plans to launch up to 10 new Symbian-based smartphones over the next 12 months.
Elop said the N9 would go on sale later this year, but declined to specify the date or price.
Nokia developed MeeGo last year in a partnership with U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp. In February, Nokia turned to Microsoft's Windows Phone software as its main smartphone operating system.
iPhone and iPad maker Apple Inc. has come under the scanner of the Competition Commission of India for allegedly limiting the availability of its products to a few service providers using its dominant market position. A customer has filed a complaint before the Commission under section 4 of the Competition Act 2002 that Apple is curbing the customer's choice by limiting the availability of iPhones and iPads in India to a limited number of service providers, besides its signature stores.
At present, iPhone's latest version is available in India through Aircel and Bharti Airtel.
"The complainant has also alleged that a user can only download software from the i-store and the others are not recognised by the device," a senior CCI official told PTI.
When contacted, Apple has said that they have not received a copy of the complaint made to the CCI.
The Commission is due to take up the matter for consideration by the end of this week, sources said.
The Commission, which became fully functional in 2009, with the appointment of a chairman and six members, has the power to check anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position, drawn from Sections 3 and 4 of the Competition Act, 2002. Beginning June 2011, the Commission also received powers to check high-voltage mergers and acquisitions, with the notification of section 5 and 6 of the Act.
Smartphone character "Talking Tom" has signed with a top Hollywood talent agency in a sign that "apps" are out to break the bonds of mobile gadgets and hit films and television.
"Talking Tom" has become a global sensation since it was launched by startup Outfit7 in Slovenia in July of 2010. The digital "pet cat" is an app that responds to touch and repeats what is said to it with a funny voice.
"Outfit7 has quickly established itself as a leader in the mobile entertainment space," said William Morris Endeavor (WME) co-chief Ari Emanuel.
"We see a tremendous opportunity for the company and its characters across multiple entertainment platforms," he continued.
The digital feline was quickly joined by more "Talking Friends" characters that have been downloaded a combined total of more than 135 million times while soaring to mobile gadget popularity.
On Monday, Outfit7 announced that characters "Tom" and "Ben the Dog" are being represented by WME, which has a dazzling client list that includes actress Keira Knightley and pop queen Lady Gaga.
"It's a great validation, not only for our business but more so that apps are becoming a legitimate form of entertainment up there with films, TV, and videogames," Outfit7 chief marketing officer Paul Baldwin told AFP.
"And in some ways they have become more powerful because you can't carry those other ones around in our pocket, touch them and poke them."
Tablet computers and smartphones take centre stage at a major Asian telecoms fair that opens on Tuesday, with struggling phone maker Nokia making a new push to reverse its eroding fortunes.
Industry behemoth Apple, whose iPad has a stranglehold on the tablet market, will be absent from the CommunicAsia expo, preferring to stage its own iconic events in California.
But Nokia will be back after a 10-year absence as the troubled Finnish giant looks to make a big splash in a bid to regain its market share, which has been eaten up by Apple and other rivals.
It will be joined by Asian brands as well as BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) of Canada at the four-day trade event.
Nokia's chief executive Stephen Elop will deliver a keynote address Tuesday in which he will provide an overview of the company's new strategy and an update on its partnership with US software giant Microsoft.
Elop is also expected to speak on the importance of the regional market to Nokia, which accounted for at least eight out of every 10 phones sold in Asia in its heyday, according to CommunicAsia.
Nokia declined to say why the company decided to return to the expo after its last participation in 2000 but one analyst said the move showed how important the region is to the company's future.
In the intervening period, Nokia had held solo exhibitions outside the CommunicAsia venue in what was seen in the industry as a sign of supreme confidence in its brand.
But times have changed after Apple and other companies like Samsung eroded the Nokia hegemony.
While it remains the world leader in mobile phone handsets, Nokia has seen its global market share dwindle.
Nomura Equity Research forecast in a report that Nokia's market share in terms of the number of units sold -- for both smartphones and feature phones -- is expected to decline from 25.1 percent in the first quarter of this year to 19.9 percent in the fourth quarter.
In the smartphone sector, the decline is steeper, from 25.5 percent in the first quarter to 13.1 percent in the fourth quarter, according to Nomura.
Until competitive new products are launched, "it is hard to see how management can arrest this decline", the report said.
While pleased with Nokia's return, show organiser Singapore Exhibition Services says this year's fair -- held for the first time at the massive Marina Bay Sands exhibition centre -- will also feature a number of first-timers including social game titan Zynga.
San Francisco-based Zynga is the creator of massive hits such as FarmVille and Cafe World that have drawn millions of followers globally.
A spokesman for RIM said the Canadian handset maker will be displaying its Playbook computer tablet and new BlackBerry Bold 9900 touchscreen smartphone at its booth.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies, which has been a part of CommunicAsia since 2000 and boasts the biggest exhibit space this year, will showcase its new Huawei MediaPad tablet that runs on Google's Android platform.
At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore Nokia unveiled their first MeeGo based smartphone the N9.
Interestingly the device will feature no front-facing hardware buttons making it the world's first button-lesssmartphone. Users will just need to double tap the display to activate the phone instead of pressing a hardware button.
The N9 will boast of some other formidable features such as an Unibody design, a 3.9-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 854x480, a 8-megapixel autofocus camera featuring a Carl Zeiss lens with 720p HD recording capabilities, NFC (Near field Communication), Dolby surround sound and 1 GB of RAM.
The device will be come in two variants, one a 16 GB and a whopping 64 GB one. The N9 will be available in three colors black, cyan and magenta.
The use of the MeeGo operating system will be a departure from Nokia's aging Symbian platform. It will feature a carousel-like view for the home screen with the space divided into calls, applications and social media. Users will be able to now swipe from edge-to-edge of the display to switch between applications making the user interface intuitive in-comparison to Symbian, which required users to go through various steps. MeeGo will feature a powerful web browser based on the webkit engine.
Previously, MeeGo was supposed to be Nokia's next generation platform but in February Nokia entered into a landmark partnership with Microsoft which resulted in Nokia adopting Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform in process rendering Symbian obsolete and leaving MeeGo's future in doubt.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it has been chosen to provide next-generation communications equipment to KDDI, Japan's number two mobile phone operator.
KDDI is scheduled to start a commercial service using long-term evolution (LTE) technology next year, Samsung said in a statement without disclosing the value of the deal.
Global mobile operators are preparing to launch new technologies allowing faster wireless data transmission to cater to increasingly popular smartphones and tablets.
Samsung, the world's second largest mobile phone maker, already provides LTE equipment to wireless carriers in the US and the Middle East.
It said it is working to offer commercial LTE services to eight mobile operators around the world.
In Tokyo, KDDI said the Korean firm would provide small base stations, especially in cities. It earlier selected NEC Corp and Motorola Mobility Holdings to build the large stations for its LTE network.
Samsung said it aims to introduce the best technology "for hotspots in extremely dense user areas that require higher capacity mobile broadband, whilst simultaneously improving service quality in weak-signal areas".
A Japanese company has come up with a new way to charge your mobile phone after a natural disaster or in the great outdoors -- by heating a pot of water over a campfire.
The Hatsuden-Nabe thermo-electric cookpot turns heat from boiling water into electricity that feeds via a USB port into digital devices such as smartphones, music players and global positioning systems.
TES NewEnergy, based in the western city of Osaka, started selling the gadget in Japan this month for 24,150 yen ($299), and plans to market it later in developing countries with patchy power grids.
Chief executive Kazuhiro Fujita said the invention was inspired by Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left 23,000 people dead or missing, devastated the northeast region and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
"When I saw the TV footage of the quake victims making a fire to keep themselves warm, I came up with the idea of helping them to charge their mobile phones at the same time," Fujita said.
The pot features strips of ceramic thermoelectric material that generate electricity through temperature differentials between the 550 degrees Celsius at the bottom of the pot and the water boiling inside at 100 degrees.
The company says the device takes three to five hours to charge an iPhone and can heat up your lunch at the same time.
"Unlike a solar power generator, our pot can be used regardless of time of day and weather while its small size allows people to easily carry it in a bag in case of evacuation," said director and co-developer Ryoji Funahashi.
TES NewEnergy was set up in 2010 to promote products based on technology developed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan's largest public research organisation.
It also makes and markets equipment to transform residual heat from industrial waste furnaces into electricity.
The company says the pot will be used mainly in emergency situations and for outdoor activities, but also has uses in developing countries.
"There are many places around the world that lack the electric power supply for charging mobile phones," Fujita said.
"In some African countries, for example, it's a bother for people to walk to places where they can charge mobile phones. We would like to offer our invention to those people."
