Top 5 Value for Money Mobiles under Rs. 5000 – Dec’10

some decent value for money mobiles available in Indian market under Rs. 5,000.
Before starting I would like to let you know some essential facts of under 5K price range. This range is flooded with China clad Indian mobile manufacturers e.g. Lava, G-Five etc. No doubt these companies dominate under 5K segment but the major issue with these manufacturers is the quality. They add the features just for the hake of it and there is no perfection guaranteed. Normally I try to avoid these phones in the list compilation.
Getting a decent phone under 5K is definitely a tough job since manufacturers tend to compromise a lot due to budget constraint. But boy, don’t you worry. Hum hain na. Lets see what are the best available options in the market under 5K.
And yes, since 3G has entered India, I have tried to incorporate more 3G mobiles in the list.

Top 5 Mobiles under Rs. 5000 for December 10

1. Samsung Squash C5010 – Price in India : Rs. 3499

An entry-level 3G GSM mobile phone which weighs just under 81g. Supports a range of connectivity options including Bluetooth v2.1, 2G & 3G connectivity up to 384 Kbps

• 2.0 inches, TFT, 65K colors
• 1.3 Mega Pixels main camera
• VGA front camera for video calling
• MP3/AAC/FM player
• Java, 3G, email
• Social networking services
• Expandable up to 8GB

2. Nokia 2730 Classic – Price in India : Rs. 4149

Aesthetically beautiful 3G, up to 3.8 Mbps data transfer speeds, combined with Windows Live Messenger support lets you stay connected and keep up with mails with ease.

• 2.0 inches, QVGA, TFT, 256K colors
• 2 Mega Pixels camera
• Support For E-mail Attachments
• MP3 player and FM stereo radio with RDS support
• 3G, Java, Games, Opera Mini
• Expandable up to 2GB

3. LG GU285 – Price in India : Rs. 4529

Sports a 1.3 megapixel main camera and a VGA camera in the front for video calling. The LG Buzz GU285 is preloaded with all the SNS apps, Instant messengers and games. Its easy and quick Internet and Email functionality supports up to 5 email accounts with ease and the Scheduled SMS feature allows you to send a pre-typed SMS at a specified time and date.

• 2.0 inches, TFT, 256K colors
• 1.3 Mega Pixels main Camera
• VGA video call camera
• Expandable up to 8GB
• 3G, email

4. Motorola Starling EX115 – Price in India : Rs. 4749

Looks a bit like Samsung Omnia Pro. Features like is a Dual Sim, 3 Mega Pixel camera, 32 GB expandable memory (generally found in high-end phones), battery backup of 10 days standby and 3 hours talk time etc. makes it a great buy. No 3g though

• 2.3 inches, TFT 256K colors
• 3.2 Mega Pixels Camera
• Dual Sim (GSM+GSM), Qwerty
• Expandable up to 32GB

5. Samsung mPower TV S239 – Price in India : Rs. 4899

Last phone of the list is dedicated to our CDMA readers who are looking for an option to go 3G for a budget. Samsung S239 is a 3G CDMA handset which comes embedded with the MobiTV to get bufferless access to 50 Live Channels. Since It is developed on the OMH platform, can be used with any CDMA operator. 3G connectivity (up to 2.4 Mbps) is also well optimized for Tata Photon/Reliance Netconnect.

• 2.4 inches QVGA Display, TFT 262K Colors
• 1.3 Mega Pixels Camera
• 3G, Java, Games
• Expandable up to 16 GB

Please note that all the price are as on 5 Dec 2010 and can be changed later on.

Karbonn Brings in a Battery of Phones

Amongst the low-budget multimedia phone companies, Karbonn has not hit the Indian market too well. Looking at the K10 and K560, you might just agree. They're now trying to counter that with quantity, as they plan on launching ten new phones with varied features and prices.

The specs of all the phones are not officially out, but in brief the Karbonn K111, K11 and K514 fall in the multimedia category while the Karbonn K550i, K424, K343, K316, are music phones. The Karbonn K451i doesn’t boast of any features apart from good battery life. We’ve found some specs from various sites on the K1414 and K25i.

K1414 looks pretty

K1414 is a touchscreen phone with access to Twitter and EBuddy services. The phone supports Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) and has the standard features of Alarm, PC Modem Adaptability and Stopwatch. Here’s a list of the specs for the K1414:

• 3.2-inch touchscreen WQVGA display with a resolution of 320 x 400 pixels
• GPRS
• Bluetooth with A2DP
• 3 Megapixel camera
• 62 MB memory expandable up to 16 GB

Although there’s no mention of the price, Flipkart has slapped a Rs. 4990 tag on it.

The K25i is a QWERTY keypad phone that has some social networking features. It has instant chat messengers like Yahoo! & MSN and has Java & Email support. The other specs are as follows:

• TFT Display Screen with QWERTY keypad
• GPRS/EDGE
• Bluetooth
• 2 Megapixel camera
• Memory expandable up to 8 GB through a Micro SD slot
• FM Radio

The phone is priced at Rs. 4550

State of the Mobile Web, November 2010

This month, the report reflects on a year of growth for Opera, but more importantly, growth for the mobile Internet. Passing milestone after milestone over the year, our users took the full Web experience to their hearts and browsed an incredible 340 billion pages in the first 11 months of 2010 (compared to 129 billion pages in the first 11 months of 2009).
With more than 80 million users in November, the yearly trends reflect a user base spanning teenagers with smartphones in Western Europe to users of basic feature phones in developing countries. We look beyond borders, and beyond issues of economic development, to present the most rounded picture of the mobile Web available today.
Who are the risers of the mobile Web throughout 2010? Who has seen their star dim? Our statistics show that while some popular websites such as Facebook are staples of the mobile Web, there are significant movements bubbling just below the top sites. Twitter and Zedge are just two of the sites that rose significantly on a global basis, while waptrick and Friendster became less popular as the year progressed.
We believe people with access to information lead more social, more informed and more empowered lives. Growth in mobile browsing means the Web is pushing beyond its traditional borders. If the first era of the Web was about expanding the capability and content of the Web, the second age is clearly about access. Every page view and every new user represents an opportunity to expand the reach of the Web. We believe that is something to celebrate — not only during the holidays, but every day — for we truly live in a remarkable age.
In our regional spotlight, the focus is on Latin America, where we saw tremendous growth over the last year. In Brazil and Ecuador, for example, the number of people using Opera Mini increased significantly, setting the pace in a region where mobile web use is evolving rapidly.
Happy browsing, and happy holidays!
Jon von Tetzchner,
Co-founder, Opera Software

Highlights

• As shown in Part 1 of the report, Opera Mini saw significant increases in all three categories of growth in November 2010: unique users, pages viewed and data consumed. In all, 80.0 million people used Opera Mini in November, 44.6 billion pages were served, and 6.3 petabytes of operator data were compressed for Opera Mini users.
• As seen in Part 2 of the report, Nigeria passed the United States in terms of total Opera Mini users in the month of November. The United Kingdom, Belarus, Philippines, Poland, Bangladesh and Germany all went up in the ranking of top 20 countries. Turkey was a new addition in November, as Malaysia fell off the list.
• In Part 3 of this month’s report, we look at countries in Latin America. The top 11 countries using Opera Mini in that region are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Honduras.
• Some numbers: From November 2009 to November 2010, page views in the top 11 countries of Latin America increased by 543%, unique users increased by 298% and data transferred increased by 447%.
• Growth rates in Latin America: Brazil and Ecuador lead the top 11 countries of the region in terms of page-view growth (1535.9 % and 860.4 %, respectively). Brazil and Colombia lead the top 11 countries of the region in growth of unique users (575.6 % and 333.7 %, respectively). Brazil and Dominican Republic lead the top 11 countries of the region in growth of data transferred (1181.5 % and 599.7 %, respectively). Costa Rica leads the top 11 countries of the region in page views per user, with each user browsing 694 pages on average each month.
• In the top Latin American countries — except for Brazil — Google, Facebook, Live, and YouTube variously occupy positions 1 through 4 in the site rankings for each country. In Brazil, Orkut replaces Facebook, but Facebook is still in Brazil’s top 10 list of sites.
• We looked at the top 10 handsets used in each of the top 11 Latin American countries. Out of the 110 total handsets listed, 66 of them were Nokia, 29 of them were Sony Ericsson, 2 of them were LG, 1 of them was Samsung, 5 of them were BlackBerry and 7 were Apple.
• In Part 4 of this month’s report, we look at the top sites and handsets worldwide at the end of 2010 (through November) compared to the top handsets and sites observed at the end of 2009. We also compare Opera Mini growth rates (for the period between November 2009 and November 2010) in different regions around the world.
• Twitter and Zedge are two sites that rose significantly on a global basis, whereas waptrick and Friendster became less popular as the year progressed.
• Thirteen handsets made the top 30 list in November 2010 that were not present on the list in November 2009. Nine of them were Nokia handsets, one was a Sony Ericsson handset, one was an Apple handset and one was an LG handset.
• Between November 2009 and November 2010, Latin America showed the fastest growth in terms of Opera Mini users (up 308%), pages viewed (up 545%), and data transferred (up 487%), followed by South Asia. Africa and the Middle East were also at the upper end of the spectrum in terms of unique user growth, pages viewed, and data transferred.
• East Asia grew surprisingly quickly (up 335%) in terms of data transferred via Opera Mini even though that region’s unique user and page-view growth rates were significantly lower in comparison.

Part 1: Growth

Number of users

In November 2010, Opera Mini had over 80.0 million users, a 4.9% increase from October 2010. Since November 2009, the number of unique users has increased 91.8%.

Pages transcoded

Opera Mini users viewed over 44.6 billion pages in November 2010. Since October, page views have gone up 7.3%. Since November 2009, page views have increased 137.3%.

Data consumed

In November 2010, Opera Mini users generated over 677 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since October, the data consumed went up by 10.0%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 6.3 petabytes of data in October. Since November 2009, data traffic is up 137.

part 2: Country snapshots for November 2010

Top 10

Snapshot: Indonesia

• Page-view growth since November 2009: 60.5 %
• Unique-user growth since November 2009: 70.4 %
• Data transfer growth since November 2009: 66.8 %
• Page views per user: 626
• Data transferred per user (MB): 6
• Data transferred per page view (KB): 10

Top 10 sites in Indonesia (unique users)

1. facebook.com
2. google.com
3. detik.com
4. youtube.com
5. yahoo.com
6. wapdam.com (new)
7. twitter.com (6)
8. wikipedia.org (9)
9. getjar.com (8)
10. vivanews.com (new)

Top handsets for November 2010

1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
2. Nokia 2700c
3. Nokia 2730c
4. Nokia 6300
5. Nokia C3
6. Nokia 5800d
7. Nokia 2330c
8. Sony Ericsson W800
9. Nokia 2690
10. Nokia 6303c

Snapshot: Russia

• Page-view growth since November 2009: 123.8 %
• Unique-user growth since November 2009: 33.3 %
• Data transfer growth since November 2009: 99.1 %
• Page views per user: 713
• Data transferred per user (MB): 13
• Data transferred per page view (KB): 18

Top 10 sites in Russia (unique users)

1. vkontakte.ru
2. yandex.ru
3. odnoklassniki.ru
4. mail.ru (7)
5. google.com (4)
6. wikipedia.org (5)
7. tegos.ru (6)
8. spaces.ru
9. my.opera.com
10. sasisa.ru

Top handsets for November 2010

1. Nokia 6300
2. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
3. Nokia 2700c
4. Samsung S5230
5. Sony Ericsson W800
6. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
7. Nokia N73
8. Nokia 5800d
9. Nokia 6303c
10. LG KP500

Snapshot: India

• Page-view growth since November 2009: 416.9 %
• Unique-user growth since November 2009: 301.4 %
• Data transfer growth since November 2009: 350.7 %
• Page views per user: 433
• Data transferred per user (MB): 7
• Data transferred per page view (KB): 17

Top 10 sites in India (unique users)

1. google.com
2. facebook.com
3. orkut.com
4. youtube.com
5. getjar.com
6. zedge.net (9)
7. yahoo.com (6)
8. songs.pk (7)
9. wikipedia.org (8)
10. vuclip.com

Top handsets for November 2010

1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
2. Nokia 2690
3. Nokia 2700c
4. Nokia 2730c
5. Nokia 3110c
6. Nokia 7210c
7. Nokia N70
8. Nokia 5233
9. Nokia 6300
10. Nokia N72

Snapshot: China

• Page-view growth since November 2009: 82.3 %
• Unique-user growth since November 2009: 76.7 %
• Data transfer growth since November 2009: 119.0 %
• Page views per user: 287
• Data transferred per user (MB): 3
• Data transferred per page view (KB): 12

Top 10 sites in China (unique users)

1. baidu.com
2. google.cn (3)
3. kaiqi.com (2)
4. taobao.com (5)
5. sina.com.cn (4)
6. qq.com (7)
7. 163.com (6)
8. 3g3h.com
9. soso.com (10)
10. renren.com (back on the list)

Top handsets for November 2010

1. Nokia 5130
2. Nokia 5000
3. Nokia 2700c
4. Nokia 7100
5. Nokia 2730c
6. Nokia 3208c
7. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
8. Nokia 2690
9. Nokia 2220s
10. Sony Ericsson W800

Reliance Infotel’s LTE ready tablet for Rs 8,000

Mukesh Ambani’s company Reliance Infotel, which is the only company with pan India spectrum to launch BWA services, has plans of selling tablets at less than Rs 8,000.

Just to have an idea how cheap Infotel’s proposed tablet will be, consider that it will be about one fourth the price of a high end device such as Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which costs Rs 35,000; or a third of the price of a medium range device like the Olivepad from Olive Communications, which sells at Rs 27,000. Of course, prices in general might go down by the time Infotel’s tablet is available.
Our sources tell us that the company is currently testing tablets from almost 15 Taiwanese vendors. It has already decided that it will use LTE technology for its network.
Infotel is likely to announce its plans in the first quarter of 2011 and will start network roll-out soon after.
While the specs of the tablet are not known, our sources are certain that it will use LTE, or Long Term Evolution high speed broadband technology.
Apart from that some of Infotel’s tablets are expected to run on Android OS and the cheapest ones might use custom Java based operating systems.
It is said that tablets will be key to the mass market adoption of broadband and Infotel is expected to ensure that access devices are cheap, the same as Reliance Communications did when it entered the market with CDMA almost a decade ago.
India has been a laggard as far as broadband adoption goes, and analysts have pointed fingers at two main aspects, device cost and lack of content.
Infotel hopes that it is solving at least one of these problems. The company said in a presentation to its investors that it will also concentrate on creating an eco system to ensure quality content, and we expect them to already be working on it.

Google Beats Facebook On Mobile Web, Says Opera

Opera Software's latest State of the Mobile Web report highlights the browsing behavior of its 80 million users. In the U.S., the big winners are Google and Apple.
 

Opera releases data generated by its users each month. In November 2010, Opera notes that its Mini browser saw significant increases in unique users, pages viewed and data consumed. Some 80 million people used the Opera Mini browser in the month of November, viewing 44.6 billion pages. According to Opera, its server-side compression crunched down 6.3 petabytes of data.

Year-over-year, Opera Mini's page-view growth climbed 103.1%. The number of unique users swelled by 28.4%, with the average user viewing 422 web pages per month. The average user consumed 10MB of data, and the average web page was just 2Kb.
Facebook was the king of the mobile internet hill in 2009, according to Opera, maker of the Opera Mini and Mobile browsers for handsets. This year, Google regained the top spot worldwide.
Globally, the top 10 web sites as ranked by Opera are 1. Google; 2. Facebook; 3. Vkontakte.ru; 4. Youtube; 5. Odnoklassniki.ru; 6. Yandex.ru; 7. Yahoo; 8. My.opera; 9. Mail.ru; 10. Getjar. 

In the U.S., the top 10 web sites look more familiar; 1. Google; 2. Facebook; 3. Youtube; 4. Wikipedia; 5. Yahoo; 6. My.opera; 7. Accuweather; 8. ESPN.go; 9. NYtimes; and 10. Myspace.
Turning to the handsets making use of Opera Mini, it's no surprise to see that worldwide, the numbers favor Nokia. They are: 1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic; 2. Nokia 2700c; 3. Nokia 6300; 4. Nokia 2690; 5. Apple iPhone; 6. Nokia 2330c; 7. Nokia 2730c; 8. Nokia N70; 9. Nokia C3; and 10. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic. Nine out of the top 10 handsets using Opera Mini were made by Nokia.
In the U.S, it is an entirely different picture. Handsets using Opera Mini in the U.S. are: 1. Apple iPhone; 2. LG VM265 Rumor2; 3. BlackBerry 8520 Curve; 4. BlackBerry 9700 Bold; 5. LG VM510 Rumor Touch; 6. BlackBerry 8330 Curve; 7. Samsung SPH-M810 Instinct S30; 8. BlackBerry 9630 Tour; 9. BlackBerry 8530 Curve; and 10. BlackBerry 9000 Bold.
What's surprising is that not a single Android handset lands in the top 10 when it comes to Opera Mini users in the U.S. Is that because Opera Mobile (Opera's full-featured browser) is also available to the Android platform? Or is it because the stock Android browser is good enough for most people? Opera doesn't speculate.
“We believe people with access to information lead more social, more informed and more empowered lives,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software. “Growth in mobile browsing means the Web is pushing beyond its traditional borders. If the first era of the Web was about expanding the capability and content of the Web, the second age is clearly about access. In Opera we believe that access to the Web is a universal right."

Top 10 Youngest Internet Millionaires

Internet has proved to be a good place of investment for many entrepreneurs, young and old. Some of the young entrepreneurs have earned huge success in their projects and have become millionaires at an early age.

This list includes 10 such young entrepreneurs who have become millionaires on the internet.

10) Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith

Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith Tagged Inc. co-founded

Age: 28 years old
Project: Tagged
Wealth: $45 million

Tagged Inc. was co-founded by Harvard graduates and entrepreneurs Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith. Tagged.com was launched in October 2004 by Tagged Inc. and is privately owned.Tagged. com is a social networking site founded in 2004. Tagged is the subject of numerous customer complaints for sending deceptive bulk mail and is regarded as a phishing and spamming site and an "E-mail scam" by consumer anti-fraud advocates. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States

9 Jake Nickell

Threadless Co-founders Jake Nickell

Age: 28 years old
Project: Threadless
Wealth: $50 million

Threadless is a community-centered online apparel store run by skinnyCorp of Chicago, Illinois, since 2000. Co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart started the company with $1,000 in seed money after entering an Internet t-shirt design contest.

Members of the Threadless community submit t-shirt designs online; the designs are then put to a public vote. A small percentage of submitted designs are selected for printing and sold through an online store. Creators of the winning designs receive a prize of cash and store credit.

8 Alexander Levin

ImageShack Co.founder Alexander Levin

Age: 23 years old
Project: ImageShack
Wealth: $56 million

ImageShack is an image hosting website on the Internet. ImageShack has a subscription service, but the majority of their revenue is produced from advertising related to their free image hosting. The imageshack.us Alexa ranking as of September 25, 2007 is one of the top 40's. According to Nielsen//NetRatings , ImageShack was the fourth fastest growing web brand in July, 2006.

7 John Vechey

PopCap Games Co-founder John Vechey

Age: 28 years old
Project: PopCap Games
Wealth: $60 million

PopCap Games is a leading American casual game developer and publisher, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka, and currently employs more than 180 people. Most of Popcap's games can be played free in a limited form, with the full version available for a fee.

PopCap’s flagship title Bejeweled has sold more than 25 million units across all major platforms. PopCap games are available for Web, PC and Mac, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, cell-phones, PDAs, iPod Classic, iPhone/Touch and other mobile devices.

6) Angelo Sotira

DeviantArt Co-founder Angelo Sotira Age: 26 years old
Project: DeviantART
Wealth: $75 million

DeviantArt (official typeset as deviantART; commonly abbreviated as dA) is an American online community with worldwide appeal showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States. As of May 2009[update] the site consists of over 10 million members, over 81 million submissions, and receives around 105,000 submissions per day. The domain deviantart.com attracted at least 36 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.

DeviantArt aims to provide a place for any artist to exhibit and discuss works. Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications and others, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography. "Fella," a small robotic cat character, is the official DeviantArt mascot.

5) Andrew Michael

Fast Hosts founder Andrew Michael

Age: 29 years old
Project: Fast Hosts
Wealth: $110 million

4) Blake Ross and David Hyatt

Mozilla firefox project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. Age: 22 years old
Project: Mozilla
Wealth: $120 million

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 22.98% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of August 2009[update] , making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has 66.97%.

To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.

Latest Firefox features include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing (aka "geolocation") based exclusively on a Google service and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through add-ons, created by third-party developers, of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users.

Firefox runs on various versions of Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.5.3, released on September 9, 2009[update] . Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/MPL

3) Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley co-founder and Chief Executive Officer youtube

Age: 30 years old
Project: YouTube
Wealth: $300 million

Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1976) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.

Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.

Hurley is a user interface expert and was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube

2) Andrew Gower

Andrew Christopher Gower is a British games developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd

Age: 28 years old
Project: Runescape
Wealth: $650 million

Andrew Christopher Gower (born 2 December 1978) is a British games developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd, the company he founded with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder. He is noted for writing MMORPG RuneScape, with the assistance of his brother, Paul Gower and also a lead developer.

Jagex Games Studio (or Jagex Ltd./Jagex Software/JAGeX) is a producer of online computer games based in Cambridge, UK. It is best known for the three versions of its RuneScape MMO, as well as for having produced the FunOrb games site and developing the 'to be released' MechScape MMO. Jagex has over 350 employees, with all content development, management, and customer support provided 'in house'.

The company produces games exclusively written using the Java language, its name standing for "JAva Gaming EXperts". It has received a number of awards for its achievements and is one of the highest profile developers in the UK.

1) Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Facebook Founder

Age: 23 years old
Project: Facebook
Wealth: $700 million

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Facebook is a social networking site popular worldwide. Zuckerberg serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business and his wealth.

Time Magazine added Zuckerberg as one of The World's Most Influential People of 2008. He fell under the Scientists & Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and ranked 52 out of 101 people.

Nokia C5-03 set to replace Nokia 5800XM

Nokia had announced C5-03 in October and this phone is now set for release in India at 10k price point. For long, 5800XM has been  one of the best low-midrange Symbian handset. After Nokia 5235 (8k retail price), the next best Symbian touch device is X6 which retails for 15k, and it doesn’t really justify the 14k+ price tag. C5-03 should fill that gap, which was taken care by old horse 5800XM. C5-03 doesn’t boast of any new features. Consider it as 5800XM v2.

First, let’s take a quick look at specifications:

Dimensions:

• Size: 105.8 x 51 x 13.8 mm
• Weight (with battery): 93 g
• Volume: 65 cc

Display and user interface:

• Screen size: 3.2" 16M resisitve touch
• Resolution: 640 x 360 (nHD)
• Symbian S60v5

Camera:

• 5 megapixel camera
• Video resolution: 640x480, 15fps

CPU/Memory:

• ARM 11 600MHz
• Internal memory: 40 MB
• MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 16 GB

Data network:

• GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296 kpbs downlink/177.6 kbps uplink
• HSDPA category 9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps
• HSUPA category 5, maximum speed up to 2 Mbps

Connectivity:

• 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth 2.0
• USB 2.0
• 3.5mm AV

Battery:

• 1000mAh Li-Ion battery BL-4U
• 11.5hrs (2G), 4.7hrs (3G) talktime
• 25days standby (2G)
• 35hrs music playback
• 7.5hrs video playback

GPS:

• Integrated with A-GPS
• Digital compass
• Ovi Maps 3.0, lifetime free navigation license

When compared to 5800XM (which it is going to replace), C5-03 has:

• thinner and lighter and better looking build
• faster 3G
• better processing speed
• triband HSDPA
• less onboard memory
• no proximity sensor
• inferior camera, no camera flash and poor video recording quality
• smaller battery

When comapared to 5230, C5-03 has:

• thinner and lighter build
• faster 3G
• better processing speed
• faster triband HSDPA
• better camera
• 802.11 b/g (wi-fi)
• less onboard memory
• no proximity sensor
• smaller battery

As one can see, this phone is slightly inferior when compared to 5800XM but a better phone than 5230 in features. If priced at 9k, this phone can give a touch competition in the low-mid range market and it’s main competitors will be:

• Samsung  Galaxy 5
• Samsung Wave 525
• LG GT540 Optimus
• Samsung Galaxy 3
• HTC Smart