How about a beer with your iPhone?

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YOU can do a lot with an iPhone these days — text, take pictures, surf the net, and even make a phone call. And soon, thanks to two Australian entrepreneurs, you will be able use it to open a bottle of beer by way of the ‘Opena,’ a hard plastic case that fits over the iPhone and is equipped with a slide-out bottle opener.

“At times you want to drink but don’t have your keys on you. So we thought, why don’t we attach a bottle opener to an iPhone case? We always have our phones on us,” said Melbourne-based Chris Peters, an industrial designer who developed the product with Rob Ward, a former toolmaker.

Start-up funding via a website has gone well, enabling a quick launch.

India added 13.35 m new mobile users in May: Trai

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TELECOM operators added 13.35 million mobile subscribers in May 2011, taking the total number of telephone users in the country to 874.68 million, sectoral regulator Trai said on Thursday.

According to the data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), mobile subscriber base increased to 840.28 million at the end of May from 826.93 million in the preceding month, registering a growth of 1.61 per cent.

With this, the overall teledensity (telephones per 100 people) in India reached 70.23 per cent.

However, the number of active mobile subscribers, according to the visitor location register (VLR) data, during the month was only 588.13 million. VLR numbers provide details on active customers at any given point of time, excluding switchedoff and out-of-the-coverage area customers.

The growth in the wireless category was led by Reliance Communications which added 2.50 million

users, taking its subscriber base to 141.16 million by the end of May 2011. Bharti Airtel added 2.45 million subscribers, taking its user base to 167.06 million. Vodafone added 2.44 million new customers to take user base to 139.42 million. Idea Cellular and Aircel added 1.80 million and 1.11 million users respectively, during the period. Tata Teleservices added 0.39 million users in May.

State-run telcos BSNL and MTNL added 0.82 million and 27,952 new subscribers in May.

Wireline category continued to lose customers, with the subscriber base declin

ing to 34.40 million at the end of May from 34.55 million in April, Trai said.

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests jumped nearly 24 per cent in May to 105.70 lakh subscribers, from 85.41 lakh in the preceding month.

Trai said, in all, 105.70 lakh subscribers had submitted requests until May to different service providers under MNP , a service that allows people to change operators while retaining the same number. Out of these requests around 6.32 lakh pertain to Haryana where MNP was implemented from November 25, 2010.

LG brings new 3D smartphone

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MIYOUNG KIM Reuters SEOUL: LG on Thursday introduced the Optimus 3D smartphone in South Korea and hopes to sell 1.7 million units this year. The phone runs on Android platform and uses Texas Instruments' OMAP mobile processors. It will be available through South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom.

LG is betting the 3D smartphone will help it expand into the portable gaming hardware market, which is dominated by the likes of Japan's Nintendo and Sony.

The Optimus 3D, which has a 4.3-inch display and two cameras, comes with preloaded 3D games made by mobile video game specialist Gameloft SA. In the second half, LG's new product lineup will include LTE (longterm evolution) phones and smartphones with high definition displays, Park Jongseok, head of LG's handset division, said.

LG, the world's No.3 handset maker, cut its 2011 smartphone and handset targets as its present Optimus series has failed to stop the success of iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S. The firm declined to predict when the loss-making divi sion will make a turnaround from four quarterly losses.

“Our overall performance is gradually improving...but it's difficult to give a precise prediction when our business will turn around due to a fast changing external market environment,“ Park said.

Salora launches SM501 dual SIM handset

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Salora has launched SM501, a stylish bar Dual SIM handset with a touch screen display that makes it fairly effortless to use it with either fingers or stylus. Screen size is amazing and large enough to provide the real taste of touch screen. The handset also comes with a 3.5mm adaptor that fit regular earphones, headphones and portable speakers. SM501 is a step ahead with the integration of touch screen and e-book reader. In addition to English and Hindi, SM501 supports Bengali too.

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APPLE plans to launch its next-generation iPhone

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APPLE plans to launch its next-generation iPhone during the third quarter of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The newspaper, citing “people familiar with the situation,” said Apple has placed orders for key components to used in the new version of the iPhone and that it would be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4. Apple released the iPhone 4 in June 2010. “Apple’s sales estimates of the new iPhone is quite aggressive,” the Journal quoted a source at one of Apple’s suppliers as saying.
“(Apple) told us to prepare to help the company meet its goal of 25 million units by the end of the year,” the source said. “The initial production volume will be a few million units,” the source said, adding the supplier had been told to ship components to Apple’s Taiwan-based assembler Hon Hai in August.
Apple declined to comment on the Journal report.
Analysts have been predicting that Apple would begin production of a new iPhone in August and introduce it in September or October.