Read Indian newspapers on mobile using NewsHunt

February 8th, 2010 by mobiclue | No Comments | Filed in Software

NewsHunt mobile newspaper software

Last year we reviewed IndiSMS, an application for sending and receiving SMS in local Indian languages. ETERNO INFOTECH, the creators IndiSMS has launched another useful mobile software for Indian users. The app called NewsHunt can deliver live local news updates from all online Indian newspapers on installed mobile devices. The application has a very user friendly design that uses can configure to select and set their favorite newspaper. NewsHunt then connects to the corresponding news server and provide real-time news updates. So that you don’t need to open application interface for latest updates. NewsHunt is complete free to download and use. The only requirement is to have unlimited or GPRS plan.

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Download Firefox mobile application

December 22nd, 2009 by mobiclue | No Comments | Filed in Software

Mozilla is at present the second largest browser maker in the world with its Firefox web browser. Firefox browser is the output of an open source project that is intended to work on several operating systems including Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. The major advantages of Firefox are its capability to load web pages faster and customization possibilities with the use of plugins or Addons The large number of available Addons makes it more than a browser. It’s a long term urge from mobile users for a mobile version of Firefox. Mozilla has been working on the same from the last few years. The Firefox mobile browser named Fennec is now almost nearing its completion. Currently there are two test versions of Fennec available for download, Fennec beta for Nokia Internet tablets and Fennec Alpha for Windows mobile. We have downloaded the latest version of Firefox mobile application, Fennec beta 5. Have a look at the features we found with this version.

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SBI mobile banking application download

December 6th, 2009 by mobiclue | 1 Comment | Filed in Software

Few months back we covered mobile banking applications provided by Indian banks like ICICI, HDFC and Citi . Mobile banking applications further simplifies the customer needs by taking everything on their palm. They can pay bills, insurance premium, mobile bills, make transactions, get balance info or mini statement. Private Banks are these days much faster than centralized banks in rolling out next generation banking facilities. ICICI, HDFC, Citi and few other banks introduced internet and mobile banking for the first time. The initiative form SBI to launch mobile banking application and allied service would help millions of Indians who rely on the largest Indian bank for their daily financial requirements. This mobile banking facility from SBI is known as SBI freedom. The basic requirement to download the application is a Java enabled handset and GPRS connection.

So far the supported device includes Palm, Sony Erisccon, Nokia, Windows mobile, Samsung, LG and others. You can download the generic mobile application if your handset is not in the list.

Features of SBI Freedom mobile banking:

Mobile fund transfer using NEFT.
Mobile bill and insurance premium payment.
Get statement and balance in SBI account.
Request cheque book and other services.

Central Government has implemented certain rules regarding mobile banking services. These rules are also applicable for SBI freedom mobile banking service. That is you can make only 5000/10000 max for bill/merchant payments respectively. SBI mobile banking application and the activation of services are free. But there is a charge associated with SMS and GPRS usage. Contact your customer care for GPRS plans.

SBI Freedom mobile banking registration:

SBI Freedom mobile banking registration is a two-step process.

Step1:

First the customer needs to send an SMS in specific format to 567676 and then reach ATM or SBI branch for one time verification.
SBI Freedom SMS format: “MBSREG Nokia N97” to 567676
Change mobile phone brand and model as per requirements.
Customer will then receive a message with download link to SBI mobile application, user name and MPIN that is needed to sign into the application.

They can also Download SBI mobile application to PC from this link. Use PC suite or compatible application to transfer the application to mobile device and install.

After installation sign into SBI mobile banking service with the default MPIN received. It should be changed to new 6 digits MPIN using the settings or using the prompt when the application is launched for the first time.
Those who don’t have Java supported mobile device can also use SBI freedom mobile service. For this they need visit SBI mobile WAP site and sign in using MPIN.

Step2: Reach SBI bank branch to ATM center for mobile number verification.

Reach SBI bank branch and sign up the appropriate form. Or reach the nearest SBI ATM and enter debit card. Go to services mobile banking > register and then enter the mobile number to complete verification process.

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Download Opera mobile 10

November 3rd, 2009 by mobiclue | No Comments | Filed in Software

Opera is known for their web browsers in desktop and mobile platforms. Their mobile based applications include Opera mini and Opera mobile, which are currently shipped along with thousands of mobile devices. Last month we have seen Opera releasing beta version of Opera mini 5.0 web browser for Java enabled mobile phones. Today they have further improved their mobile browser portfolio by the releasing of Opera mobile 10 beta . While Opera mini brings full web experience in small entry level handsets, the premium Opera mobile application is enhanced and specially built for high-end smartphones. Opera mobile is one of the the first professional non- native mobile browser for Windows mobile and Symbian smartphone platforms. Beta version of Opera mobile 10 is now freely available for download.

Opera mobile 10

Opera mobile 10 supports touch enabled Symbian S60 V5 devices like Nokia N97, Nokia 5800 Xpress music, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5530 Xpress music, Nokia 5230, Sony Ericsson Satio, Samsung Omnia HD etc. Its very hard to find out the differences between Opera mini and Opera mobile on a comparison . Interface of Opera mobile 10 is same as it was in Opera mini . Features like Faster page load timing, tabbed browsing, support for new web standards, password manager, option to save images and web pages, improved typing assistant, speed dial etc. found in Opera mini 5 are also available in Opera mobile 10.

Though Opera mobile 10 and Opera mini 5 have lot of improvements in user experience, I still prefer BOLT 1.5 and SkyFire as my favorite mobile browsers for Symbian . The major advantage of these browsers is that they can play Youtube videos without leaving browser window.

Download Opera mobile 10 beta .

Opera mobile 10 also supports few Nokia Nseries and Eseries deices . Click on continue installation if the devices initiates warnings during installation.

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Eset Mobile antivirus for Symbian

October 9th, 2009 by mobiclue | 1 Comment | Filed in Software

ESET is a world leader in Antivirus and Internet security solutions for Windows ,Linux and mobile devices  . Their NOD32 and Smart Security are known for superior detection rates and and faster performance . We earlier covered Eset mobile antivirus for mobile phones and PDAs with Windows mobile OS . ESET yesterday announced the Symbian version of their mobile antivirus that will work with Nokia ,Sony Ericsson , Samsung , LG and other phones . The competing PC antivirus vendors like Kaspersky ,Symantec and F-secure already have Symbian version version of their mobile antiviruses .This move from ESET would provide advanced virus protection for the mostly used mobile OS platform in the world .

Eset Mobile antivirus for Symbian  :

Eset Mobile antivirus Symbian features :

Eset mobile antivirus supports Symbian S60 V3 ,and Symbian S60 V5 touch devices like Nokia N97 ,Omania HD , Nokia 5800 Xpress music , Nokia X6 , Nokia N97 mini  , Nokia 5530 Xpress music   and Nokia 5230 Xpress music. The free trial version of Eset Mobile antivirus will work for 30 day with full automatic updates .Features includes real-time protection and heuristic analysis of unknown viruses affecting Symbian platform  .

Download Eset mobile antivirus .

Requirement : 1 MB free memory . 

Note :This is beta version of mobile antivirus that is under testing .

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Download BOLT 1.5 mobile browser

October 7th, 2009 by mobiclue | No Comments | Filed in Software

Bitstream announced brand new BOLT mobile internet browser 1.5 for Nokia , Sony Ericsson , Samsung , LG ,Windows mobile and other Java supported smartphones and Blackberry devices . BOLT browser is free advanced mobile web browser and alternative to Opera mobile , Opera Mini , SkyFire , UCweb ,T-shark and others . The young browser is pretty good than Opera mini and SkyFire in some of its features achieved in its short term of development . Its faster as Opera mini and better than other browsers in page load time . Other notable facilities in BOLT mobile browser are less memory requirement and capability to stream Youtube videos within its interface . Download BOLT 1.5 here .


BOLT mobile browser 1.5 

The browser doesn’t have a professional looks like Opera mini 5.0 . But  the page quality and load time superior or comparable with any other mobile browser in the market . BOLT browser support feeds , history lists and favorites . It can save images and web pages for future use . The interface includes a cursor so that you can move freely over pages , copy-paste whenever required . Youtube playback in Opera mini uses Real Player or other streaming music player in  mobile device . For this browser exits and the videos are opened in video player . SkyFire and BOLT 1.5 support on- browser playback of Youtube videos .

But the Youtube playback in SkyFire requires the mobile device to have more memory. BOLT mobile browser 1.5 supports almost all phones as its built with Java .

Download  BOLT mobile browser 1.5 ( For Nokia ,Sony Ericsson ,LG ,Samsung ,Windows mobile and other Java phones )
Blackberry version is also available .
Update : Opera announced  Opera mobile 10 beta browser for Symbian S60 V5 touch devices.

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Opera mini 5 download

September 17th, 2009 by mobiclue | No Comments | Filed in Software

Opera , the world leader in mobile browsers announced the beta version of upcoming Opera mini 5 . Opera currently have stable Opera mini 4.2 and Opera mobile web browser . Opera mini series is free , but Opera mobile is a premium payed application . Opera mini is known for its first time efforts to bring real web experience to small mobile screens . The advantage of Opera mini is that you don’t need an advanced mobile phone to browse web pages .Even wap enabled Java phones with reasonable memory can install Opera mini . The latest version Opera mini 5.0 is now available here for download .

Opera mini uses sophisticated compression mechanism that reduces the size of the data before its transferred to the client . So there by it renders web pages faster and results in lesser data charges .The latest Opera mini 5 adds another steps to the original PC like browsing in mobile phones . It now supports tabs , touch screens ,speed dial and includes a password manager . Opera mini 5 will work with all Nokia ,SonyEricsson ,LG,Samsung and other Java supported mobile devices .

Mobiclue.com searched on Opera mini 5.0

Opera mini faces competition from native mobile web browsers and independent products like BOLT ,UCweb ,Skyfire etc . Among which Skyfire is the real competitor that made Youtube and other web videos available on mobile videos though their latest release . Opera mini supports only limited Youtube playback from version 4.2 onwards . But ultimately it holds the first position of mobile web browsers for its simple design ,large number of supported mobile models ,fast and clean rendering etc . The latest Opera mini 5 is designed to work with Symbian S60 touch phones like Nokia 5800 , Nokia X6 , Nokia 5530 and Nokia N97 mini and Nokia 5230 ,Sony Ericsson Satio ,Samsung Omnia HD etc . The controls are specially built to support touch .

Download Opera mini 5.0 .

Opera mini 5.0 features :

Tabbed browsing : Tabbed browsing lets the Opera mini 5.0 users to open multiple websites at same time , on tabs . Just move the cursor or finger to move on through the side-by-side view of opened pages .

Engineered for speed : As said earlier Opera mini 5 concentrates more on mobile internet speed . You can set the clarity of the web pages based on speed and data plan . Pages are first transferred to Opera servers to compress them before reaching Opera mini 5.0 UI .

Speed dial :Speed dial as found on Opera 10 PC web browser is now available on Opera mini 5.0 . This helps the users to move on to their favorite web pages easily .

Password manager :Opera Mini asks the users to save passwords when logging in password protect web pages . So these web pages can be accessed later without typing the password again .This feature saves lot of time on mobile portals .

You can save web pages , bookmark ,search using Google and access history using Opera mini 5.0 settings menu . Over all the new Opera mini 5.0 awesome in design and features . A worth upgrade !! .

Update : Opera announced Opera mobile 10 beta browser for Symbian S60 V5 touch devices.

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Microsoft OneApp for mobile

August 26th, 2009 by mobiclue | No Comments | Filed in Software

Microsoft announced the development of an all in one mobile application ,OneApp for accessing its services like Bing ,Windows Live messenger as well social websites like Twitter , Facebook from GPRS and 3G powered mobile handsets . Apart from this ,OneApp also includes games ,web applications and custom user built mobile application using OneApp software developer kit that is expected to be available in coming months . .Microsoft OneApp is designed to work will medium low end mobile phones to high end phones .The size of the applications is only 115KB, and will consume only very little memory . The application will have cloud support and data compression technologies to make it work perfect with internet enabled mobile phones . More details and launch date of Microsoft OneApp will be available soon . Keep subscribed to our newsletter as we provide download links when developer version emerges .

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ICICI ,Citi and HDFC bank mobile applications

August 23rd, 2009 by mobiclue | 1 Comment | Filed in Software

Mobile and internet banking are growing at a faster rate all over the world . Recent studies showed that more than 40% of banking transactions in Japan , US and other developed nations are through internet enabled mobile handsets . Almost all private and nationalized banks in India offer internet banking .Among which , ICICI ,Citi ,HDFC and SBI , SIB ,AXIS banks offer customized mobile banking solutions . The private banks like ICICI ,HDFC and Citi proved their extra edge on technology by launching Java based mobile applications ,that further provides more security and options to mobile banking experience .All these applications are capable of checking account balance ,credit-debit card details , doing fund transfer ,loan-insurance payment , bill payment etc .

ICICI imobile mobile banking application :

ICICI’s mobile banking solution is named as iMobile . A link to download imobile application can be obtained by sending an SMS IMOBILE to 5676766 from any GPRS enabled handset . This Java application is capable of running on small as well as high-end mobile devices . First you need apply for ICICI internet banking through your local branch . The details of mobile banking ,PIN number and further details can be collected from the bank representative after activation .ICICI bank customers can transfer upto 5000 INR per day to ICICI and other bank accounts . They can pay their mobile bills and insurance premium up to Rs 10000 per day from each account .Account Balance , demat/loan details ,credit card purchase history all can be accessed from the same application . ICICI banks iMobile application is free service for all existing customers of the bank.

HDFC bank ngpay mobile banking application :

HDFC bank mobile application ngpay (next generation pay) can be downloaded from here . Like ICICI imobile ,HDFC customers should first apply for internet banking and InstaQuery from their Local HDFC branches . After activation they can download the mobile application and access all HDFC bank services from mobile . They can pay mobile bills, book railway tickets ,plan travel through Makemytrip ,Yatra ,Deccan and other partners ,check bank balance , transfer funds to another account or debit cards,pay credit cards and insurance premiums ,shop for products and pay online.

Citi bank mobile application :

Citi bank is not much popular bank (in India) like ICICI and HDFC .Customers who opt for mobile banking should first register for internet banking and provide their mobile number . After activation they can download Citi mobile application by sending an SMS MBANK followed by last 4 digits of their Citi Bank Debit/Credit card number to 52484. The download URL will be then despatched via another SMS . Citibank mobile is currently available for Citi branch banking ,Suvidha and Credit Card Customers . They also provides mobile banking facilities discussed above .

These mobile banking softwares are officially provided by ICICI , Citi and HDFC banks . But customers should contact the respective branches before providing their account information to these applications .

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Mobiola Web Camera turn mobile camera to webcam

August 20th, 2009 by mobiclue | No Comments | Filed in Software

Quality of a web cameras that are shipped with PCs or the ones available on market falls in the rage of VGA to 1.3 mega pixels . If you have mobile phone with good camera , now you don’t need to worry about purchasing an additional web camera for video chats and taking high quality snaps instantly transferable over web .Mobiola web camera is a software that let you to use your mobile phone camera as a webcam .Mobiola web camera has a PC side software as well the mobile side . The videos taken with mobile camera will be aired through Bluetooth or WiFi or directly connected through a data cable .It will be then available on included PC side application or instant messaging softwares with video support .The latest version of Mobiola web camera works with Windows mobile ,Blackberry ,Symbian Nokia and UIQ .

Mobiola Web Camera mobile side Mobiola Web Camera PC side

First we have to establish a connection between PC end application and mobile end application of Mobiola Web Camera .For this find out the port to which the USB is connected and enter exactly in PC application . Mobiola Web Camera will turn the connected mobile device to a web camera that can be used with Google talk ,Yahoo messenger ,Skype or any other compatible application .These are some additional features of Mobiola web camera for Windows mobile ,Blackberry and Nokia Symbian .

Add effects to captured video and photos.
Display real-time mobile screen on PC .
WiFi,USB and Bluetooth connectivity .

Mobiola web camera is a shareware mobile software . You can purchase this application for 19.95 USD or download it as a 7 day trial version .

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