Galaxy S3 Lauched in India

Samsung has released the latest version of its highly successful Galaxy series in India, the Galaxy S3. After the huge success of Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S3 the third mobile in this series.

You can see the full phone specs here.
The phone is available for 43,180 rupees in India. Please note that this is the 16Gb version of S3. Samsung debuts S Voice along with device which is equal ant to Iris in Android and Siri in iphone.

H.C. Ryu, Samsung's vice president of sales and marketing, said that India is one of the top three strategic markets in the world for Samsung.

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smartphone from facebook ?

We all use the facebook app in our mobile phones but soon we will be using facebook's own smart-phone. A big part of facebooks traffic is coming from Mobile phones.

During the 1st quarter this year Facebook had 901 million users and in those 500 million of those used their mobiles to access facebook. The migration of web users to smart-phones and tablets was named in Facebook’s regulatory filings for its recent flotation as one of the main threats facing it as a business. It currently makes no meaningful revenue from mobile app users, who are growing in number more rapidly than traditional website users.
It quoted a Facebook employee as saying the site's founder Mark Zuckerberg was "worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future... Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms".

To improve its fortunes, the social networking giant is planning to release a smartphone by next year and has picked up former Apple engineers who had earlier worked with the development of i phones and i pad to help with the effort.

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Mobile Advertising From Airtel

The recent deal with Airtel and Qualcom will help Airtel strengthen its 4G mobile service plans in India, with a followup of mobile advertising along with it. The mobile advertising platform will help business reach all corners of the world especially rural areas.

Advertisers can choose from a selection of platform which includes Mobile Internet, Messaging and Airtel direct to Home services. This will help advertises to reach the target audience.

This is an introduction to mobile advertising in India, with am emerging economy and large population its going to be a success. This type of advertising will be an efficient medium says Bharti. Airtel believes mobile ads revenues will grow 40 percent over the coming few years.

Bharti hasn’t revealed whether the mobile advertising services will be expanded overseas. As well as being India’s biggest operator, it operates in 20 countries worldwide, with more than 50 million customers in Africa.

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Samsung galaxy s3 pre booking india

You can pre-book your s3 here.
Samsung has announced that we can pre order Galaxy Samsung S III from their estore by paying a inital amount of Rs. 2000. The colour choices which are available now are Pebble Blue and Marble white. Samsung is also offering free bluetooth headset with every handset which is pre-booked.

Even though the price in India is not yet announced the launch price is expected to be Rs 35000. Currently Galaxy note is selling at price of Rs 32000 so we cannot expect to be price lesser than galaxy Note.
Reportedly the pre-orders have crossed 9 million in few days, worldwide.

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Samsung Galaxy Note buyers in India will get a free pair of Sennheiser headphones

I stumbled across an article on IBNLive that discusses the Pocket. At the end of said article they talk about the Galaxy Note:
“Samsung also announced an exciting consumer promotion on its premium Galaxy Note. Any consumer buying a Galaxy Note between today and May 31, 2012 can avail free Sennheiser headphones, download free music and games, download full version of Angry Birds Space free and get a free flip cover.”
Anyway, if you’re in India, and are thinking of buying a Galaxy Note, now you have more reason to snatch one up. And if you don’t need the accessories, then don’t bother picking them up, since you’ll probably just throw them away.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 --> London Olympics Official Phone

Reports have been appearing online that the Samsung Galaxy S III - to be unveiled in London on 3 May - will be the official handset of the 2012 Olympic Games. They point to the location of the Unpacked launch event and its timing (delayed from the universally expected date of February this year).

Pocket-lint has also had some indications that the new handset could well be stacked with exclusive Olympics content.
In June last year, during Samsung's Olympic campaign press conference, we were told by David Song, then managing director of UK and Ireland, that the company would be launching a special-edition Olympic Games handset - one that would be able to view live streams of the action.
"We are going to launch a smartphone that all the UK citizens can enjoy," Song teased. "Even if they are not in the stadiums, they will be able to see [the events] on their devices."
Additionally, Visa revealed at its own European security summit in Frankfurt that it was working with Samsung on an NFC-enabled device that would have "special Olympic content" and be an "iconic" Olympic phone. It also said the new device's "commercial availability" would be "global" - much like the latest reports of the Samsung Galaxy S III.
Added together, these statements suggest that the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S III will come with both NFC and a special dedicated portal for London 2012 Olympics Games live footage.
What is highly unlikely, however, is that Samsung will create an Olympic Games branded edition of the much-anticipated phone. Not only will its shelf life be restricted to the event's duration, but who wants to carry around a top-of-the-range Android handset adorned with the London 2012 logo on it?
Thankfully, tech site BGR says its sources report there will be only two designs of the Samsung Galaxy S III - one in blue and black, the other in white. The site also says there will be 16GB and 32GB versions and a 1080p HD display.
One thing's for sure, we don't have too long a wait to find out.

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