Ufone Introduces Futura Phone with EVO Service

 is today launching a new handset called ‘Uth Futura’, which is said to be a cheaper3G alternate and an industry first device that support both GSM and CDMA EVDO REV A networks in parallel.

The killer features of this phone are:

• It will use (Ufone’s) GSM network for voice calls and SMS
• Plus it will use PTCL’s EVO network for data services, to be used with mobile plus it can work as EVDO modem – to be connected with PC to use EVO service.

So blended with the benefits of both the GSM and CDMA networks, you can have premium quality GSM coverage plus the high speed internet of 3.1 Mbps – in a single device.

EVO Tariffs for Ufone Futura

For GSM services, you will have to recharge your account with conventional Ufone cards or U-Share with usual tariffs that Ufone offers.

However, for Internet services, Ufone has partnered with PTCL offer exclusive per hour package to its customers.

Following are available packages:

• Hourly Package: Rs. 25 per hour (Default Package)
• Unlimited Monthly Package: Rs. 2,000 per month

Note: To use EVO Internet services, you will have to use PTCL Vouchers for recharge.

Features

• QWERTY Keyboard
• 2.0 MP Camera
• FM Radio
• Audio/Video Player
• Bluetooth 2.1
• WAP/MMS/GPRS
• 262K 2.4”TFT
• Micro SD Card Support up to 8 GB
• Email (Built-in Gmail, Other Pop Accounts )
• GPS Data (Only provides basic GPS data information, does not support Navigation feature.)
• (EVDO Modem/Mass Storage)
• Internal Memory: 34 MB
• Snaptu
• Nimbuzz
• Mobile TV

Price

• Ufone Futura is offered for Rs. 7,000
• Ufone Futura is available through all Ufone Sales and Service Centers (Except Peshawar)
• Ufone Futura is network locked
• Ufone Futura comes with replaceable warranty of 6 months
• Ufone Futura comes with 10 free EVO Internet Hours

• Handset Accessories:

  Ufone Futura will come with following accessories:
  • Stereo Head Phones
  • Battery and Charger
  • Data Cable
  • Modem Driver Disk
  • Handset Manual
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Samsung Infuse 4G review: Extra legroom

Introduction

In America, it is widely believed that bigger is better. Or so Samsung must have thought when they decided to launch the phone with the biggest and brightest screen first in the United States, and with the biggest network – AT&T. The Samsung Infuse 4G is definitely meant to stand out – its 4.5” Super AMOLED Plus screen is nearly unmatched on the market, and a beauty to look at. It makes 4-inchers look petty and irrelevant.

   

Despite its humongous screen, the Samsung Infuse 4G has an impressively thin body. At 8.99 mm, it is only a tad thicker than a Galaxy S2. It does have an excuse though – it’s packing a larger screen than the current Samsung flagship. That’s the spirit.

Key Features

• Quad-band GSM and quad-band 3G support
• 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support
• 4.5" 16M-color Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) resolution
• 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 512 MB of RAM
• 8 MP wide-angle lens auto focus camera with LED flash, face, smile and blink detection
• 720p video recording at 30fps
• Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g and n support
• GPS with A-GPS connectivity; Digital compass
• 16GB internal storage, microSD slot
• Accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Charging MHL microUSB port with USB host and TV-out (1080p) support
• Stereo Bluetooth v3.0
• FM radio with RDS
• Great audio quality
• Super slim and lightweight at 8.99mm and 139g
• 1.3MP secondary camera, video-call
• Full Flash support and GPU-acceleration enable 1080p flash video playback in the web browser
• Document editor
• File manager preinstalled
• The richest video format support we’ve seen

Main disadvantages

• All-plastic build
• No dedicated camera key
• Super slim body has poor grip when taking pictures
• Single-core processor
• No 1080p video recording despite having the same camera unit as the Galaxy S2
• Sheer size raises questions about single-handed use
• Non-hot-swappable memory card slot
• The device ships with Android 2.2 (Froyo), not the latest Gingerbread

Certain comparisons are not in the Samsung Infuse 4G’s favor. It looks like a flagship, but it’s not quite there. The Infuse just doesn’t have the raw processing power of the Galaxy S2. What’s fair’s fair though – it does look even more impressive.

iPhone 5 to be Thinner, Smaller, Slim

Stephane Richard, CEO of France Telecom, recently hinted during an interview that Apple and carriers have reached a compromise over a smaller SIM card rather than using an electronic SIM to make Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone thinner.

France Telecom – through its Orange brand – is the network that ranks second-highest in annual iPhone sales, coming in behind AT&T. Orange sells the iPhone in over a dozen different countries in Europe and the UK. Richard shares that networks had worked to convince Apple to hold off on building an electronic-SIM into its next iPhone, rumored for launch in September.

“All of us told them it was a bad idea because the SIM card is a critical piece of the security and authentication process,” according to Richard. “It would be very difficult for a telco or carrier to manage the customer relationship. I think that they understood this point. We had a very constructive exchange and dialogue with them.”

It was only last year when rumors surfaced that Apple had been working to try to eliminate the need for a SIM card from its iPhone models altogether through the use of an embedded SIM chip inside the handset. Carriers quickly voiced their concerns about Apple’s plan, however, and even went so far as to threaten to drop the iPhone’s subsidies if Apple didn’t give up on its plan.

For its part, Apple did not give up on the idea of reducing the SIM, and a compromise was finally reached last week, according to Richard. This new SIM standard, which was submitted to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, is even smaller than the “micro SIM” which is currently used by the iPhone 4.

It’s no secret that Apple wants to continue to slim down its iPhone models as they evolve. According to Richard, “We are going to work with them in order to standardize a new format of SIM which takes into account our needs with security and authentication and also is compatible with their wishes in terms of size,” adding that he “understood that the next iPhone would be smaller and thinner and they are definitely seeking some space.”

CEOs and other upper-level employees of wireless providers are no strangers to rumors and leaks regarding Apple’s iPhone handsets. Just last month, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo hinted that the fifth-generation iPhone would be “world phone” capable.

Those close to Apple claim that the company has been quick to punish those who have made serious leaks regarding the iPhone. Robert Watson, CEO of Canada’s SaskTel leaked last year that the new iPhone 4 would be released in June and that they would offer it in July. However, SaskTel did not begin selling the iPhone until just last month, leading many to believe that they were punishe

d for leaking the phone’s expected release date.

Other interesting mobile tidbits came out of the interview with France Telecom’s Richard, with him claiming that he is “quite happy with the existing landscape in terms of operating systems,” and sharing that a ”world with 90 percent of Android-based devices would not be attractive for us, but we are far from that.” Richard also mentioned that he thought Nokia and Microsoft are going to have a tough time of it, and that RIM, makers of the Blackberry line, has some “quality issues to address.”

Richard didn’t hold back his thoughts on the chances for tablets in the marketplace, either, noting “To me as a user and as a partner, there is the iPad and there is the rest. I think there will be a world market for the iPad. What will be, really, the size of this market, is difficult to say, because in fact it is a new market.”