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A while ago I wrote about why it did not make sense for me to buy an iPhone 3G in India, and why I purchased a Nokia N82 instead. However, a combination of the N82 and the iPod Touch is a different matter altogether. It costs about the same as the iPhone in India and offers a far, far better overall experience.

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Arrington on Techcrunch talks about the possibility of Amazon licensing its Kindle ebook reader hardware specs and trademark to third-party manufacturers:

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Recent smartphones from Samsung, HTC and LG indicate that Nokia’s finally got competition in the high-end space. However, it’s going to take more than engineering skills to succeed in India’s tough mobile market. Consistent phone branding, clear messaging and a solid distribution network are as important, and that’s where Nokia’s streets ahead. Can the competition catch up? Read more

Being able to choose to be contacted by either voice, IM or SMS is an extremely attractive proposition. Using all three from the same device, though, is the holy grail of unified communication. With VoIP, smartphones and IM, we might be getting pretty close to that.

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(This post began as a reply to a comment question on my previous blog post about iPhone 3G. It’s also a complete re-write of an earlier post.)

My experience with the Internet on my Nokia N82 has been more than satisfying, but that might well be a result of my usage pattern. Your mileage may vary. And yes, my ideal internet-access device would be iPhone, but I’ve already written about why iPhone is a no-no for me.

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iPhone 3G, finally, will be available in India on August 22nd through Airtel. While I’m excited about the world’s most revolutionary phone meeting the world’s fastest growing market, I’m not buying one for myself. Instead, last month I purchased a Nokia N82 Black, having decided that iPhone 3G was not for me. Why would I pass up the chance to own perhaps the sexiest piece of electronic hardware in the country?

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Your contact list and calendar events on your mobile phone have nothing to do with the contacts and calendar items on your Outlook, even though most of them are the same. For instance, you store contact numbers in your phone and email info in Outlook’s contacts. Shouldn’t they both be connected? Shouldn’t the reminders/events you set on your phone, or the meetings you enter in your Outlook calendar be available at your desk and while you’re on the go?

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Today’s article on Mashable proves a prediction I made months ago about the superiority of native mobile phone applications over mobile web-based ones.

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Having waded thru non-stop coverage of the iPhone 3G on the blogosphere and twittersphere the past several days (speculation, anticipation, purchase, review, musings), I wonder if one needs to follow an entirely different set of people to understand what the mobile world is really like, and where it’s headed.

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What do we put online today? What sort of people put all those things online? Is there a pattern? And is there a way you can figure out whom to target with your web startup? (And how much money you need to make from each user?)

We began leaving a data trail online with email in the late 90s with Hotmail, all the way to actual videos with YouTube. Major landmarks were search history with Yahoo! and then Google, and profile information with Myspace (and then Orkut and FB).  Today we put not only text, but photos, music, video, maps online. Read more

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