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Conference calling services can be used to hold meetings when attendees are spread out all over the country or even around the world. They can also be used to host teleseminars, classes held over the telephone. There are many affordable conference calling services, but the most affordable are free! Here you will find 30 totally free conference call services.


A few tips on choosing a service:
Estimate how many participants you expect, and make sure you have plenty of lines available.
Many services offer free recording capabilities. If it is important to have a good recording of the call, you should also make your own recording. That way, if either fails you will have a backup.
Some services limit the length of your conference, while others have no limit. Limits are often six hours, but some are less. At least one limits your conferences to just 30 minutes.
Free conference call services typically do not provide the extras, such as a live operator to assist during the call. If you need that, look for a paid service.
Always test a service before using it for an important meeting or a teleseminar. And have a backup service available if something goes wrong or the conference service is not available.
Although no special charges are imposed for accessing a conference calling service, some cell phone carriers do not allow their customers to access certain free conference services. Likewise, “unlimited” long distance plans may charge regular long distance rates for these calls. Call participants may want to check with their carriers before the call to avoid any surprises.
Here is the list of free audio conferencing services, in alphabetical order.

Free Conference Calling Services

Accutalk
Free conferencing (calls and web) for up to 20 people. Paid upgrades available.
AdConferencing
Free conferencing through your web browser and Flash, or over the telephone. Up to 96 participants on a call. Recording is available. Ads are 5 - 6 seconds and play when callers first call in.

Calliflower
Free phone conferencing and interactive chat. Premium plan includes document sharing and international call numbers.
Calliflower Facebook App
Facebook App for free conference calls via Calliflower.
Conference Town
Free telephone conferencing for up to 250 participants.Web control panel and recording available.
Confree Call
Free telephone conferencing for up to 500 participants. Recording not available.
dukaUS
Leader initiates call online and enters numbers to call participants. Limited to leader and five additional participants, maximum of 30 minutes per day.
Foonz
Not a traditional conference calling service. You can automatically invite people on your call list to join you in a call, or send a pre-recorded message out to them. Great for sending notices to groups (e.g., sports teams, clubs and associations, etc.).
Free Audio Conferencing
Free telephone conferencing for up to 100 people. Recording available at an additional charge.
Free Conference Call
Free telephone conferencing for up to 96 participants. Recording included.
Free Conference Calling
Free telephone conferencing for up to 350 participants. Web control panel and recording included.
Free Conference Service
Free telephone conferencing for up to 50 participants. No recording provided.
FreeConCall
Free telephone conferencing for up to 30 participants, no recording available.
FreeConference
Free telephone conferencing for up to 150 people. Recording available at an additional charge. (Some plans limit calls to three hours.)
FreeConferencing
Free telephone conferencing for up to 1000 participants. Web control panel and recording included.
FreedomConferenceCall
Free telephone conferencing for up to 96 participants. Recording included.
Gizmo
Free PC-to-PC calling. Free conference calls. (Toll number for callers not using Gizmo.)
InstantConference
Free telephone conferencing for up to 150 participants. Web control panel and recording included.
Leader Dialog
Free telephone conferencing.
MrConference
Free telephone conferencing for up to 30 participants. Recording available at an additional charge.
MyFreeConference
Free telephone conferencing for up to 30 participants. Web control panel and recording available.
NoCostConference
Free telephone conferencing for up to 250 participants.Web control panel and recording available.
NoCostConference - UK
UK Free telephone conferencing for up to 250 participants.(Phone charges apply.) Web control panel and recording available.
phonesty
German telephone conferencing company.
Powwownow
Free telephone conferencing for up to 50 people. Low-cost international dial-in numbers available on free plan. No recording on free service.
Quality Conference Call
Free telephone conferencing for up to 250 participants.Web control panel and recording available.
Rondee
Free telephone conferencing for up to 50 participants, with free call recording and web-based invitation and response system.
TalkShoe
Calls are automatically recorded and uploaded to the site for public listening. Great for podcasts and other broadcasts.
The Basement Ventures
Free telephone conferencing for up to 250 participants.Web control panel and recording available.
Totally Free Conference Calls
Free telephone conferencing for up to 99 participants. Free recording.
Whistletree
Free telephone conferencing and recording. Lots of management features. Web site indicates several additional features “coming soon.”

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airtel 3g trick 21st june(working 100%)......

• Create new Gprs settings in your mobile phone 
• Put proxy as - 208.53.161.44
• Put Proxy as - 80 
• Put Apn (access point) as airtelgprs.com 
• Set Homepage as - 203.1115.112.5   OR   122.170.122.214

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window 8 mobile......

Microsoft is trying hard to catch up with Apple and Google in the tablet and mobile operating software race. The software giant took a big-step earlier this week by announcing that it would be manufacturing its own tablet, the Surface running on Windows 8 OS.
Today it announced a newer version for its mobile OS,  Windows 8, which will succeed, Windows 7  for mobile. Window 8 for mobiles will be release in October this year. So what are the key features of Microsoft’s new OS? Here’s a quick look:
Support for dual core and multi-core processors: Its a step that Microsoft had to take since the Windows 7 phone did not support phones with multi-processors. With rivals like Samsung,  HTC, Apple releasing phones with quad-core processor, it makes very bad consumer choice to go for a Windows phone which won’t support a faster processor.
But is Microsoft too late in the multi-core processor race?  Will Windows 8 be much faster? It remains to be seen.
Will support bigger screens:  It seems that  Windows Phone 8 will support two new screen resolutions—1280×768 and 1280×720, thus catching up with all those high-res smartphones already available in the market.

Windows 8: Just catching up with iOS and Android. Reuters

NFC wireless sharing: Near-Field communication technology is being used by all major mobile manufacturers for their flagship devices. Samsung’s Galaxy SIII to HTC’s One X, they all have NFC capabilities. Finally Windows 8 phones t00 shall support this capability.
Internet Explorer 10: Android’s Explorer and Opera mini might be popular for mobile browsing but Microsoft’s Windows 8 for mobile will have the latest IE10. Nothing remotely interesting here.
Wallet: Microsoft is hoping to capitalise its mobile venture, by launching the digital wallet feature. It will keep debit,credit cards, coupons, boarding passes and other important information of users. It can be used to pay for mobile purchases. But will this be better than Google’s failed Wallet?
Nokia Maps: Microsoft is collaborating with Nokia to bring Nokia’s Ovi maps for users of Windows 8. With Google and Apple both planning to launch 3-D maps, will Nokia’s maps stand a chance against them?
Apps: This is one department where Microsoft really lags behind its competitors. App developers still prefer Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android. With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to lure developers. With Nokia promising to help launch Zynga’s popular Draw Something and Words with Friends on Windows phones later this year, things could start to look up. The app store for Windows 8, Marketplace, will also support app downloads in over 180 countries.
Windows Phone 8 will also support a total of 50 languages.
In essence Windows 8 is just catching up with Android and iOS. If truth be told, it’s not offering anything radically different to users. Sadly the new OS won’t be available to current Windows 7 phone users.

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Letest Review: Samsung Galaxy S III

The phone is finally here. We have been using it for the last 10 days. Does it live up to the expectations? Is it the best Android phone — nay make it the best smartphone — ever made? Is it worth the hefty price tag? Many questions, we know. Let's find the answers.

Shiny but feels little cheap
Samsung has (once again) used lots of glossy plastic in its flagship Android phone. Though, the phone is solidly built. Unlike the somewhat industrial design of Galaxy S II that has straight lines, the new Galaxy has a curvier feel to it (Samsung says the design is inspired by a pebble). Pebble or no pebble, the added roundness does make the phone feel better in the hand. That said, SGS III is a big device and unless you have large hands, you will find it little unwieldy if you use it with single hand.
There is faux metal strip that runs around the device. Unlike Galaxy Nexus, which is also made by the Korean company, SGS III has three buttons under its huge 4.8-inch screen. The 'home' is a plastic button while the other two — 'options' and 'back' — are touch sensitive buttons. The curves on SGS III give it understated but premium looks though we are not sure how the device will fare in the future once the gloss and sheen wears off the plastic.
Samsung's flagship Android phones are known to pack in hefty hardware. SGS III is powered by Exynos 4412, a quad-core processor built by Samsung using technology from ARM. The CPU runs at 1.4Ghz and its four cores can ramp up or down their speed independently. This helps save the battery. The graphics duty is handled by four chips of Mali 400. It is the same graphics processor that is found in Galaxy S II but in SGS III it runs at a faster speed. The phone has 1GB RAM, 16GB storage with support for a microSD card upto 64GB. The primary camera captures images in 8 mega pixels and videos in up to 1080P resolution. This camera has backlit- illuminated sensor that helps it in low-light photography. The secondary camera sports a tag of 1.9MP.
At least on paper, SGS III is a device that leads every other Android out in the market. But does this

hardware make it the best phone?
(original story: times of India)

Smooth performer
Let's start with the screen. Similar to other Galaxy flagship phones, SGS III uses a Super AMOLED screen. It has a resolution of 1280x720 pixels (720P) and is very sharp. But the best feature about the screen is somewhat saturated colours it shows. While for photographer they may seem inaccurate, mainstream users will find colours on SGS III vibrant and pleasing. Brightness, however, is an issue.
At least subjectively we did not find the screen on SGS III as bright as the one on SGS II. The problem was also compounded by the way auto-brightness is handled by the phone. It seems too aggressive. Though a software update should fix it. Still in the grand scheme of things, these are minor issues. The SGS III screen is one of the best we have ever seen on a phone. It is just that it could have been better.

 

SGS III is very fast and snappy phone. The device is very smooth irrespective of tasks it is running. Multitasking is lag-free. And so is web browsing, whether a user is zooming on to a page or playing embedded videos. Navigating around the phone, playing 1080P videos, applying filters to images and reading PDF documents barely stress the phone. The GPS on SGS III is incredibly fast and accurate. This should appeal to people who like to use their phone for navigation or to find their way in unknown cities.
SGS III runs Ice Cream Sandwich aka Android 4. But the user interface is the next version of Touchwiz, Samsung's own customized skin. Touchwiz doesn't look as elegant as the default Android interface or HTC Sense, which is used on One X. But if you can live with the looks, there is a lot of functionality backed in the device. For example the modified notification bar in SGS III gives users option to toggle 10 settings!
Samsung has also put several unique features in SGS III. Some of these, like Direct Calling and Smart Stay are useful. S Voice, meanwhile, just like its iPhone counterpart Siri, is more of a gimmick. Features like Smart Alert, which lets a user know about missing calls and messages, are plain unnecessary because users anyways get to know it through LED notification.

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Samsung launches dual-SIM Galaxy Ace Duos for Rs. 15,090

Samsung has launched the latest addition to its Galaxy line-up in the form of dual-SIM Galaxy Ace Duos. This upgraded version of the Galaxy Ace is now available at a price of Rs. 15,090.
The Galaxy Ace Duos runs on Android 2.3 with Samsung's TouchWiz UI interface on top. It has a 5MP auto focus rear camera and features a 3.5-inch TFT touch screen display with a 320x480 pixel resolution.

Under the hood, the device is powered by an 832 MHz processor, has 512MB RAM and 3GB internal memory, which is expandable up to 32GB via microSD card. The smartphone supports GSM networks on both SIM cards. The Smart dual-SIM feature automatically forwards incoming calls to SIM 2, even if the person is on a call with SIM 1. The device also comes with a standard 1300mAh battery. Other features include FM Radio, 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0.

The smartphone will join the already existing GSM+CDMA version of Galaxy Ace Duos in the country

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Unblock airtel sim and use 3g tricks for free(latest update)

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NEW BIGGER IPHONE WITH IOS6

Some of the features coming to iOS 6.

(Credit: James Martin/CNET)

Apple's iOS 6 software development kit comes with a new Auto Layout feature. And now, some are wondering whether that indicates Apple will be launching a new iPhone this year with a larger screen.

Auto Layout essentially allows developers to establish parameters for how user interface elements show up on a screen. Depending on a device's resolution, those elements will move to their correct place, based on the parameters established by the developer.

TechCrunch yesterday asked whether that feature indicates an iPhone with a larger display will launch soon. The blog said that it spoke with one developer who said that Auto Layout is a necessity before Apple can launch devices with different resolutions. The idea is that if Apple launches the long-rumored iPhone 5 with a 4-inch display, its resolution will be different than theiPhone 4S', requiring developers to have Auto Layout in place to keep a consistent experience across devices.

But does it? Apple currently offers three iPhones. Two of them -- the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 -- come with the same 960x640 resolution. The iPhone 3GS comes with a 480x320 resolution. It's possible Apple is helping developers more easily handle that. What's more, Auto Layout could be a way for Apple to help improve how iPhone apps are displayed on iPads, though it likely wouldn't be the only solution to make them look better.TechCrunch also pointed to tweets developers, Matthew Wilkinson and Dmitry Zakharov, sent out last week, saying that Auto Layout "screams new device sizes [are] coming soon."

Simply put, Apple has a tendency to cover its tracks by way of reasonable doubt. And although it's entirely possible that an iPhone 5 with a 4-inch screen is launching soon, thus requiring Apple to deliver Auto Layout, it might also be a catch-up feature to address current development concerns.

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fastest super computer-IBM

An IBM supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s fastest, according to theTop500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on June 18 announced that a supercomputer called Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was ranked the world’s most powerful computing system. This is the first time since 2009 that a U.S.-built supercomputer has taken the top spot on the Top500 list.

Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany. Sequoia was built for NNSA by IBM.

A 96-rack IBM Blue Gene/Q system, Sequoia will enable simulations that explore phenomena at a level of detail never before possible. Sequoia is dedicated to NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program for stewardship of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, a joint effort from LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, IBM said.

“Computing platforms like Sequoia help the United States keep its nuclear stockpile safe, secure, and effective without the need for underground testing,” said NNSA Administrator Thomas D’Agostino, in a statement. “While Sequoia may be the fastest, the underlying computing capabilities it provides give us increased confidence in the nation’s nuclear deterrent as the weapons stockpile changes under treaty agreements, a critical part of President Obama’s nuclear security agenda. Sequoia also represents continued American leadership in high performance computing (HPC), key to the technology innovation that drives high-quality jobs and economic prosperity.”

“Sequoia will provide a more complete understanding of weapons performance, notably hydrodynamics and properties of materials at extreme pressures and temperatures,” said Bob Meisner, NNSA director of the ASC program, in a statement. “In particular, the system will enable suites of highly resolved uncertainty quantification calculations to support the effort to extend the life of aging weapons systems; what we call a life extension program (LEP).”

Uncertainty quantification, or “UQ,” is the quantitative characterization and reduction of uncertainty in computer applications through running very large suites of calculations to characterize the effects of minor differences in the systems. Sources of uncertainty are rife in the natural sciences and engineering. UQ uses statistical methods to determine likely outcomes.

NNSA officials said the Sequoia system will be an important tool used to support stockpile life extension programs, including the B61 and the W78. By reducing the time required for these studies, total costs are also reduced. In addition, the machine is expected to enhance NNSA’s ability to sustain the stockpile by resolving any significant findings in weapons systems, bringing greater power to the annual assessment of the stockpile, and anticipating and avoiding future problems that inevitably result from aging. All of this helps to ensure that the nation will never have to return to nuclear testing, the NNSA said.

“Sequoia is an exciting achievement and not just for its speed and energy efficiency, but also for the important and complex work it can support to safeguard the nation’s nuclear stockpile,” said Colin Parris, general manager of IBM Power Systems, in a statement. “With supercomputers capable of 16 sustained petaflops, our ability to affect strategic change in areas like life sciences, public safety, energy and transportation that make our world smarter is greater than ever. The improvements in affordability, performance, efficiency and size that Sequoia delivers will also enable a broader set of commercial customers to implement HPC for their competitive advantage.”

Supercomputers such as Sequoia have given the U.S. confidence in its nuclear weapons stockpile over the 20 years since nuclear testing ended in 1992, the NNSA said. The insight that comes from supercomputing simulations is also vital to addressing nonproliferation and counterterrorism issues as well as informing other national security decisions such as nuclear weapon policy and treaty agreements.

The NNSA/LLNL/IBM partnership has produced six HPC systems that have been ranked among the world’s most powerful computers including: The Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) Blue Pacific; ASCI White; the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Purple; Blue Gene/L; Blue Gene/P; and Blue Gene/Q, Sequoia. ASCI White, Blue Gene/L and now Sequoia all attained a number one ranking on the Top500 list.

Sequoia is primarily water cooled and consists of 96 racks; 98,304 compute nodes; 1.6 million cores; and 1.6 petabytes of memory. Though orders of magnitude more powerful than such predecessor systems as ASC Purple and Blue Gene/L, Sequoia will be roughly 90 times more power efficient than Purple and about eight times more than BG/L relative to the peak speeds of these systems.

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latest airtel 3g trick 16th june (working in blocked sim)

Create New Settings In Your Mobile Phone

                                    Access Point =  airtelgprs.com

                                      Proxy/IP=  67.208.113.125

                                                     Port = 80

                             Homepage =  http://203.115.112.5

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apple iOS6 features(explained in detail...)

On Monday, Apple offered the first glimpse of iOS 6 during the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. Though the updated mobile operating system won’t arrive until sometime this fall, it’s never too early to start drooling over the new features. We already covered the flagship features of iOS 6—like seriously updated Siri, majorly overhauled Maps, and systemwide Facebook integration—so here’s a look at some cool features coming in iOS 6 that you may have missed.

A new Share screen

In iOS 5, when you tap to share a photo, you get a long list of sharing actions to choose from—whether it’s posting to Twitter, sending an email or iMessage, or some other option. iOS 6 adds Facebook sharing as an option, along with sharing to various Chinese social networks. (That’s a nod to how important the Chinese market has become to Apple.) But Apple decided against cramming more buttons into that panel.

Instead, iOS 6 presents you with a new, icon-based sharing screen. It uses icons to represent the apps and services that you can share your content with and looks quite a bit like the iPhone’s home screen.

New Siri functionality

Flagship features added to Siri include the voice-driven personal assistant’s arrival on the third-generation iPad. Siri also gains the ability to answer questions about sports and movies in iOS 6, and it will be integrated with turn-by-turn directions in Maps. But the virtual assistant gains several other new features as well that might have escaped your attention.

In iOS 6, you’ll be able to compose new tweets and Facebook status updates with Siri—and both capabilities appear to be implemented smartly: If you link your friends’ Twitter usernames to their Contacts entries, Siri automatically translates their real names as you dictate. That is, if I say, “Tweet ‘Excellent dinner last night with Jason Snell, Dan Moren, and Serenity Caldwell,’” Siri will automatically compose a tweet like “Excellent dinner last night with @jsnell, @dmoren, and @settern.”

On the new iPad, Siri can answer questions about weather and stocks, even though Apple hasn’t (yet) ported its Weather and Stocks apps to the iPad. Apple did show a glimpse of a new default Clock app for the iPad, so we won’t be shocked if Stocks and Weather finally make the leap to the big screen before iOS 6’s official release, too.

Spotlight tweak

If you have lots of apps, sometimes it’s hard to figure out precisely which homescreen they’re located on. In iOS 6, Spotlight makes that at least a smidgen easier, by listing the name of the folder a particular app is nestled inside when it appears in the search results.

Reminders improvements

Apple introduced the Reminders app in iOS 5, and it looks to score some helpful updates in iOS 6. Apple says that you’ll be able to set location-based reminders from the iPad. Even better, you’ll be able to tap in addresses where you’d like to be reminded manually, a feature currently missing from Reminders; at present, you can only set reminders for locations linked to addresses for your existing contacts.

Also new in Reminders will be the ability to reorder your tasks as desired. And Apple told developers that iOS 6 includes a new Reminders API, which should make it possible for third-party apps to integrate with the Reminders database. That means that you could use Siri to set Reminders which would in turn be visible in your third-party task management app of choice.

Call rejection

Sometimes, you can’t take a call when your iPhone starts ringing. You can already quickly send a call to voicemail by tapping the Ignore button, but iOS 6 adds more powerful options for when you’re too busy to answer. When your phone rings, you’ll see a button on the screen akin to the new camera shortcut on the lock screen in iOS 5.1—a switch that you slide up to trigger.

When you do so, you’ll see options to send the caller a message, or to remind yourself to call the person back later. If you choose to send a message, iOS offers several default options; you can also save custom responses. Your iPhone will then attempt to iMessage or SMS the caller with your note, while also sending them straight to your voicemail.

Other features

Near the end of the iOS portion of the keynote, Apple showed a slide listing a host of other features included in the iOS 6 update. Among those were Game Center challenges, the ability to connect Game Center friends from Facebook, VoiceOver improvements, personal dictionary in iCloud (for adding your own terms to the dictionary, which can sync between devices), and per-account signatures in Mail. Also on the list was improved privacy, which—as a new option in Settings—will let you control which apps can access which bits of personal data, like your Contacts, Calendar, or Photos. Other features on the list included autocorrection for every keyboard, Bluetooth MAP support (which is commonly used to help cars better offer hands-free communication with Bluetooth devices), kernel ASLR (which aims to make data even more impervious to snooping from malicious attackers), custom vibrations for alerts, redesigned stores (for the App and iTunes stores), IPv6 support for Wi-Fi and LTE, word highlights for speak selection, improved keyboard layouts, alarms with songs, and faster JavaScript in Safari. Apple also says iOS 6 includes a global HTTP proxy option, which would supplant the current approach, limited as it is to per-connection proxy settings.

Other features for developers include audio and video sampling during playback, Pass Kit (for interacting with Passbook), VoiceOver gestures, the ability to control camera focus and exposure, a Web Audio API, Game Center in-app experience, game groups, video stabilization, frame drop data, pull-to-refresh on Table views, a means of supporting in-app purchases of iTunes Store-hosted content, in-app Bluetooth pairing, remote Web Inspector, rich text on label fields and text views, CSS filters, crossfade with CSS animations, and a face detection API.

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Nokia launches Pureview 808 smartphone @ Rs 33,899

Nokia on Wednesday launched its much-awaited cameraphone 808 Pureview in India. It will be sold at a Best Buy price of Rs 33,899.

The smartphone has a 4-inch wide screen and runs on Symbian Belle. It boasts of 41 MP sensor and the advanced imaging innovation featuring Nokia's award-winning Pureview technology and Carl Zeiss optics. This makes it among the best smartphones available in India currently.

Read here for a list of the other latest camera phones that challenge cameras.

Nokia has a tie-up with Dolby Laboratories that has helped it introduce a rich cinematic sound output in 808 Pureview which features both Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Headphones technology. In addition, Nokia is bundling a Dolby Headphone with Pureview 808.

Besides, Pureview has two microphones that capture a near perfect sound recording to make the videos with rich CD-like audio recording enabled by Nokia Rich Recording, earlier only possible with external microphones.

Above all, its new pixel oversampling technology, superior low-light performance and the ability to save in compact file sizes for sharing in email, MMS, and on social networks, the Nokia 808 Pureview promises the users to capture high-quality images in any conditions. Pureview also has full HD 1080p video recording and playback with 4X lossless zoom.

Significantly, a software upgrade promised by Nokia with the latest Belle feature pack software upgrade for its other smartphones will add cinematic 5.1 Dolby surround sound for better music and movies experience to handsets like Nokia 700, 701 and Nokia 603.

With Dolby technologies in its smartphones, Nokia claims to turn them into devices which can deliver high-definition (HD) content with Dolby Digital Plus 5.1-channel surround sound to HDTVs, audio/video receivers, and home theater systems.

Pureview 808 comes in only black and white colours and will be available across Nokia retail outlets starting Thursday with an MRP of Rs 34,999. It is powered by a single core 1.3Ghz microprocessor which seems inadequate but according to Nokia, the phone has another processor dedicated to the camera function, thus ensuring a reasonably good performance. It has a 16GB internal storage, expendable up to 32GB with a microSD card. The RAM seems rather low at 512MB.

Speaking at the launch, Vipul Mehrotra, director and head of smart devices, Nokia India said, "Nokia has always been known for its imaging legacy. What started off with a simple objective to create the most advanced imaging device, the Nokia 808 Pureview has evolved into something extremely revolutionary.

PTI adds: Mehrotra, however, clarified that the handset would not compete with cameras per se. "We are not looking at competing with cameras. Users can do other things with Pureview 808 apart from just clicking pictures," he said.

Asked if one would see the Pureview technology coming to its other handsets, Mehrotra said, "We would like to introduce this technology across our lines of products."

"Nokia is a full line player with focus across product lines. Our aim is to bring innovation at every price point, be it the Asha series or the Lumia devices. We would look at taking the Pureview technology, which has taken five years to develop, across categories," he added.

Priced at Rs 33,899 MRP, the phone is also placed cheaper than Samsung's SIII (Rs 43,180) and HTC One (42,999).

Till now, Nokia was offering 12MP as the highest available capacity for cameras with its N8. It offers low-cost phones, especially under its Asha series, while its high-end smartphones include the Windows-powered Lumia series.

Nokia has struggled in the past in the smartphone segment with Korean giant Samsung and Apple grabbing major share of the global pie. It is betting big on its tie-up with Microsoft (to bring Windows operating system to mobile phones) and Pureview 808 to help it reclaim its numero uno spot.

As per a Gartner study, Samsung topped mobile phone sales (with 86.6 million units) in the January-March 2012 quarter, dethroning Nokia which could sell only 83.2 million units.

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