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The Samsung S8500 Wave is the first device to run the new Bada OS but it comes with a familiar TouchWiz interface. Lively and colorful, the interface packs several usability and design upgrades compared to its featurephone days.

A notification tray sits at the top always ready to show you the latest events you have missed and let you control all your connections. The video and audio players have completely revamped interfaces and all the UI icons are new. The visual task switcher and the optional ten menu screens are also nice features although not as innovative.

The young Bada OS owners will source applications from Samsung Apps – an online store that is already available in 3 countries and should launch in 50 more in the coming months. For now there are only around 100 Bada apps available there but Samsung promise to put great effort in extending that number. It has 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash camera. Display type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors………….

Mobile phones in the third world

Connecting People’ might just be an ad slogan for a leading mobile manufacturer, but its sentiments hold more weight for millions of people living in third world countries who recently obtained mobile phones. Mobile phones have proliferated much more quickly and deeper into the third world than any other technology based product. Mobile phone technology may be ubiquitous in the developed world, but the effect that these hand held devices are having in the third world was not anticipated.

Mobile phones in the third world

The introduction of mobile phones in poor countries has been under different and extra ordinary circumstances compared to the bevy of retail options available in the developed world. Bangladesh, for example, got access to mobile phone technology as early as the late 90’s. Dhaka based ‘Grameen Bank’, known for taking micro lending to the rural population in Bangladesh, set up Grameen Telecommunications that provided low cost phone services in rural areas. Using the loans borrowed from Grameen Bank, village entrepreneurs, mainly females, purchased mobile phones which they than used to sell phone services to village customers who didn’t have access to their own phones.

Mobile phones in the third world

In the last few years, leading mobile manufacturers like Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG electronics have set up mobile manufacturing units to meet the burgeoning consumer demand in India. Vodafone, one of the world’s leading mobile communications providers, launched a program called M-PESA in 2007, an innovative mobile payment service that enabled Kenyan customers to complete simple financial solutions by their mobile phone.

Mobile phones in the third world

A low level of income in the third world countries does not necessary make a consumer less demanding about the functionality and value of their purchases.

Taiwan based MediaTek played a key role in the development of Shanzhai phones as the company developed a circuit board that can integrate the functions of multiple chips, thus offering small start-up Chinese companies a platform to produce low-cost mobile phones.

Mobile phones in the third world

According to the UN report published in May 2009, six in ten people around the world have a cell phone subscription, which clearly indicates that mobile phones are the communication technology of choice, especially for people of third world countries.

Windows Mobile has come a long way, even though it was lost in the woods around 6.1 for quite a while. With the latest version, Microsoft are set for a clean break with the past. One of the pivotal announcements this MWC was without a doubt the new Windows Phone 7 OS. There are yet no devices made to support it, but we’ve got some shots of a prototype plus some lengthy presentation videos to feast your eyes on.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS

The Microsoft booth was one of the most visited places at the huge Barcelona Fair grounds. After announcement, the booth played a non-stop stream of live 30-minute presentations whole day. The new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS was presented on a prototype. That phone won’t make it to the market and it has been created for demo purposes only.