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NII Holdings, Inc. today announced that Nextel Argentina, Nextel Brazil, Nextel Mexico and Nextel Peru will offer the BlackBerry(R) Curve(TM) 8350i smart phone. The BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the first BlackBerry smart phone in Latin America to offer this unparalleled combination of services and features with Nextel's industry-leading Push-to-Talk (PTT) service along with premium phone features, the industry's leading email and messaging capabilities, web access, productivity applications and rich multimedia capabilities. Also, it includes Wi-Fi(R) and 128MB of internal memory. This powerful and flexible smart phone for mobile business users is available exclusively to Nextel customers in Latin America.

The BlackBerry Curve 8350i smart phone and the industry-leading Push-to-Talk service will provide one-touch, instant and effective communication between NII subscribers and over 10 million iDEN subscribers in North and South America. In addition to enabling easy access to personal and corporate email, the BlackBerry Curve 8350i comes with built-in Wi-Fi, a 2-megapixel camera, 128MB of memory and an expandable memory slot for additional storage to help subscribers in Latin America push their business to new heights.

RIM BlackBerry Curve (8350i) Features

• Built-in capabilities for assisted autonomous GPS capabilities
• 2.0-megapixel digital camera with 5x digital zoom, flash and video recording
• DataViz Documents to Go is preloaded to make it easy to edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents directly on the smart phone
• Speakerphone is optimized for sound quality with Direct Connect
• Advanced Media Player to listen to music, watch videos and show pictures
• Expandable micro SD memory card slot allows plenty of storage for pictures, videos, music and documents
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with support for (A2DP) stereo Bluetooth and more
• Group Connect feature enables group conversation up to 20 Persons.

Bharti Airtel has launched world's first Windows based online desktop powered by Microsoft and Nivio, giving access to a personal virtual desktop from any computer conected to the internet for Airtel broadband customers.

The service has been launched across 95 cities in the country. Atul Bindal, President, Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel said, " Our online desk platform will be useful in making computing more accessible to SMBs, SMEs and SOHOs as well as individual home customers of Airtel Broadband".

The new service from Airtel comes with 5 GB space along with free anti-virus protection and reduced IT infrastructure cost with no cost of CPU.

After much postponement, India is finally on the 3G map of the world as Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Limited (MTNL) kick-started 3G services in Delhi today.
The state-owned telecom operator even has a name for the new service, and it's not mere 'MTNL 3G.' They've christened it as  MTNL 3G Jadoo.

This being a soft-launch of 3G Jadoo, initially, only some parts of Delhi would have access to the service. Currently, the areas being covered are: Connaught Place, Sanchar Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, India Gate, Pragati Maidan, Delhi Gate, and Minto Road.
So, if you have a phone that supports 3G, and needless to say, an MTNL connection with GPRS activation, take a walk around the areas listed and see if the 'E' or 'G' (that denotes connectivity) on your phone turns to 3.5G!
In case you're curious to know about the speeds being offered, connect your phone to your notebook to find out.
MTNL is not charging extra for the service introduced today as it wants its customers to get a feel of 3G's capabilities. Eventually, there will be a commercial tariff plan announced, and the registration will start after the commercial launch -- a couple of months from now.
Mumbai too will have a similar soft-launch for MTNL's 3G services two months hence, says J. Gopalan, executive director, MTNL (Mumbai).
He adds, "The first phase would include trial services to be offered in areas between the Airport and Prabhadevi. The second phase would include South Bombay."
State-owned telecom operators MTNL and BSNL have the first-mover advantage to offer 3G services in India. With Delhi services commencing today, Mumbai will follow suit in two months' time. Chennai too will get to experience 3G services in January 2009 through BSNL.
Sooner or later (MTNL plans to offer 3G services across India by mid-2009), our countrymen will be able to surf the internet with speeds up to 2Mbps on their smart phones.
MTNL will be installing 15 lakh 3G lines in the first phase of its 3G roll-out in Mumbai and Delhi (which currently have 35 lakh existing mobile lines).
Now that it's finally happening, if you live in Delhi or Mumbai, do you plan to get yourself an MTNL connection just to get a taste of high-speed internet on your smartphone?

Courtesy –TechTree.com