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The Apple iPhone 4S was launched on both Aircel and Airtel in India today at a midnight launch ceremony. The Airtel launch was held at an upscale restaurant while Aircel decided to keep it real by holding the event at their South Extension market retail outlet. The launch events included handing over the handsets to the first pre-order customers.

You’ve already seen the plans on both the carriers. The iPhone 4S in India does not seem to have any specific tweaks made to Siri. Mapping via Siri did not work during our trials.

The Indian accent was also quite a hit or miss for the voice control service. The iPhone 4S has been priced at Rs 44,500 for the 16GB model.

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The wait is finally over! Aircel have recently announced that, the much awaited iPhone 4 will be available for purchase in India from May 27th. This is definitely a good news for those, who were eagerly waiting for the launch of iPhone 4 in India. Last month, both Aircel and Airtel announced that, the iPhone 4 will be available soon in India. And now, Aircel went ahead and announced the availability of this amazing smartphone.

“We are very proud to bring iPhone 4 to Aircel customers in India. We always endeavour to bring to our consumers a world class experience and offer the best in innovation and service. With a robust roll out of Aircel ’s 3G services in 13 circles across India, the launch of iPhone 4 will allow our consumers to truly savour the 3G experience. With our incredible new price plans, we aim to make iPhone more affordable than ever,” said Mr. Sandip Das, Director, Aircel.

iPhone 4 features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Retina Display, Apple’s A4 chip, iOS 4 and more. iPhone 4 allows you to access more than 500,000 apps from the App Store. The 16GB variant of iPhone 4 will be available for Rs.34,500 while the 32 GB variant comes with a price tag of Rs.40,900. Stay tuned for more updates.

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Aircel has been awarded for Innovation in Value Added Services (VAS) by Communications Multimedia and Infrastructure (CMAI) Association of India during the 5th National Telecom Awards 2011. Aircel tied up with Facebook earlier this year to offer new Value Added Service (VAS), that lets the customers to update their Facebook status by calling 51555 from their Aircel connection.

Other than updating the status, this also lets the users to listen, comment or like friend’s status update, find friends, get notifications and get anniversary and birthday alerts. Call to 51555 costs Rs 1 per minute that lets you record the status up to 30 seconds.

New Delhi, Tuesday, May 18, 2011: Aircel, a leading telecom player with pan-India operations and a subscriber base of over 55 million, introduces an innovative way to connect to your family and friends on Facebook, a social site with over 500 million users around the world, through the new Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel. Aircel was today honored for Innovation in VAS with the CMAI 5th National Telecom Award.

For the first time, Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel lets people connect to their family and friends on Facebook in their own voice, even without internet access on their mobile phones, which makes it an easy access for a large audience anytime anywhere. Moreover there is nothing like connecting in your very own voice which can express volumes where sometimes words fail…. One can now easily find and connect with new friends using Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel – creating a much richer Facebook experience on their mobile phones.

The product is easy-to-use – for example, to broadcast what you’re up to today, simply dial a short code to record your voice message, and post it as your status update on Facebook. Your friends will then receive an SMS alert about your new status update, to which they can reply with their own voice updates on Aircel.

This indeed opens a world of possibilities for all to connect, share, and socialize in a quick and more personal manner which spells efficiency as you multi-task your way through various activities during the day. Also, Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel does not require access to mobile internet, which makes it more user- friendly and provides larger access.

Mr. Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel said, “At Aircel it is our constant endeavor to Innovate and bring the best to the consumer which enables the consumer to better his lifestyle and live SMART. Convergence is the way forward as it opens a world of possibilities. Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel is a step in that direction which helps both the business community and the youth to connect efficiently, be it a celebration or an emergency. It is an honor indeed to be working with Facebook and making this possible for the very first time”.

Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile Business at Facebook, said “Today, over 15 million people are actively using Facebook in India, where mobile devices are an important tool for Indians to stay connected to the people and things most important to them. This collaboration with Aircel will offer an opportunity for our Indian users to easily connect and share with their friends on Facebook anytime, anywhere.”

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Aircel National Do Not Call Registry If you wish to register or de-register from our Do Not Disturb Registry, then please send SMS or Call on our toll free number as per the instructions given below :-
By SMS:(Toll Free)
To register
     Type: START DND
     Send to: 1909

To de-register
    Type: STOP DND
    Send to: 1909
 By Call:(Toll Free)
You may dial 1909 from your Aircel mobile to register or de-register from this service.

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When the 3G licenses were awarded to operators in India last year , none of the players won a pan-India license. Some players won licenses in 13 circles and others in 9 or lesser number of circles. Now a report from LightReading states that Aircel and Tata have been busy in talks to roll out 3G services together .An industry source told the publication that Aircel and Tata have decided to team up to offer 3G services in all circles where they have won licenses. Aircel has won licenses in 13 circles and Tata has won in 9. The duo share 3 circles. Tata Docomo has already launched 3G services in India and Aircel is expected to launch 3G services anytime.

There are also rumours that Airtel , Vodafone and IDEA are teaming up to roll out 3G services.

Hope we get our 3G at least in 2011 !

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Today Motorola launched their new slim touchscreen Android Handset QUENCH XT5 in India. QUENCH XT5 runs on Android 2.1 and comes with a high-resolution 3.2inch capacitive touch screen and a trackball . The QUENCH XT5 is packed with various Google services and Android Market.

Motorola QUENCH XT5 Features12.5mm thin114gramsAndroid 2.15MP camera with digital zoom and LED flash 3.5G Wi-Fi GPSAccelerometerFull HTML browser with Web kitMP3 player2GB SD card in-box Memory is expandable up to 32GB3.5mm  headset jackMotorola QUENCH XT5 Price and Availability

The QUENCH XT5 is available with bundled Aircel Offer for Rs 13,990 . It comes with free 2GB SD card in-box and an Aircel Offer. The offer is available both in prepaid and postpaid.

With Aircel prepaid connection you get up to 9GB download for three months PLUS 150 Aircel to Aircel local minutes. To activate this offer, please SMS

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FoneArena was the first to report that the Motorola Charm was coming to India this month and Motorola just announced the launch of the Moto CHARM in India powered by Android 2.1 Operating System.It’s a QWERTY

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