MTS PLAYING WITH SMART PHONES

Operator watch: MTS

The CDMA operator is doing everything to lure users-from launching a slew of Android handsets to giving attractive voice and data plans. Read on to know more.

MTS is the only CDMA player in India that has no GSM network. The other two CDMA players Tata Docomo and Reliance Communications have GSM networks too. MTS has more than 16 million subscribers, at least 10 per cent of which were using dongles (data cards) in the month of June 2012. The operator wants to grow further and is now not only bringing attractive plans for customers, but has also launched around 12 MTS branded CDMA handsets to lure new users.

Already, in the last two months MTS has launched as many as five smartphones in India. Apart from that it also showcased three new dual SIM Android phones this week, which can use both CDMA and GSM networks. The aim of this move is to lure GSM mobile users who are reluctant to migrate to CDMA.

top features of android jelly bean

             Top five new features in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

          New OS version enables voice dictation feature no longer needs network connection to

   Google previewed the new version Android 4.1 is nicknamed Jelly Bean,  Wednesday at a conference in       San Francisco for computer programmers.

  The new OS facilitates faster ways to search content on the Internet, share photos between two phones   and more has been promised as a part of the next version of Google's Android operating system for mobile devices.

Here are the highlights of the new android 4.1 Jelly Bean:

            1. Google Now

        One of the new features in Android will be Google Now, which is supposed to get you the right information at the right time automatically, if you activate the feature. If you say "traffic," for example, it will look at your usual commute to work and show you alternative routes if there's a lot of traffic. It will tell you the scores of your favorite sports teams automatically, and it will keep you up to date on the status of your flights if you're traveling.

Google said the Google Now feature will get smarter as you use it more. The feature represents Google's response to Siri, the popular virtual assistant on Apple's iPhone.

          2. Offline voice typing

Android has long included voice dictation feature but with Jelly Bean, Google has taken it even further and it no longer needs network connection to work. Yes, that means offline voice typing. The company's engineers have shrunk the voice recognition engine significantly to make it fit in a phone, unlike earlier when the whole processing used to take place of Google servers.

Offline voice typing will be initially available in English (US), 

LONG BATTERY SMART PHONES ON THE MARKET

Smartphones with long battery 

They're cell phones, music and video players, mobile Web browsers, and personal organizers, among other things. Not surprisingly, all this can take a toll on battery life, and when you depend on your smartphone for so much, the last thing you want is for it to run out of juice when you need it most.

Smartphones are the  Knives of the tech world

with moderate use, smartphones can give you a full day's performance before needing to be recharged, but not all gadgets are created equal -- some simply run out of steam early, whereas others will hang in there for the long haul. Here are six smartphones with battery usage that really impressed us, whether it was because they scored well in Labs battery tests, or simply because their usage time stood out from the crowd of humdrum cell phone batteries we encountered (and believe us, we encounter a lot). Give one of these devices a try if you're looking for a phone that packs some decent juice.

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx -15 hours and 16 minutes

HTC Evo 4G LTE -10 hours and 13 minutes

Samsung Galaxy S III -9 hours and 24 minutes 

Motorola Droid 4 - 9 hours and 5 minutes

Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE -8 hours and 6 minutes

Sony Xperia Ion - 7 hours and 57 minutes 

RESULTS RECIVED FROM POLY MATE RESEARCH DIVISION.