Showing posts with label Dual Mode Mobiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dual Mode Mobiles. Show all posts

Monday, October 22, 2007

Send Free SMS in India using 160by2

After having written a post on making a free phone call using Fring in my post How to make a free call using fring, i was in the process of researching for a free SMS service to send SMS in India, during this, i came across a few services which do make this possible. In my coming posts, i will try to present with you few of the services which can be used to send Free SMS in India. One such service is 160by2 and in this post i intend to discuss on the various features provided by them.160by2 (Click on the image to see an enlarged version)

160by2 is a SMS Marketing service launched in India by smscountry networks. The service allows users to send Free SMS messages through their website. Using 160by2 service, users can send free SMS of 80 characters. The rest 80 characters are filled in by the service with contextual advertisements.
The web interface is pretty interesting and easy to use.

Some of the features provided by 160by2 are:

  • Sending same message to multiple users.
  • Sharing of messages with other users.
  • Users can maintain their contact information in address books.
  • Group messages feature. ( although i still need to test this)

Invitations to 160by2 can be obtained by accessing their webpage here

Try it out and share your experiences in the comments.

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Saturday, August 4, 2007

Spice Mobile to launch Dual Mode Phones in India

Spice Mobile is trying to capture 10 percent stake in the mobile market in India. The company has announced that it shall be offering dual mode phones in India. Dual mode phones will be capable of having two sim’s. One CDMA and the other GSM.

The company is also going to launch ‘People’s phone’ costing less than Rs 1000.
The Hindu quotes ” The Spice Dual comes with two variants D-88 which supports both GSM and CDMA active connections at the same time and Spice Dual D-80, which supports two GSM and GSM active connections which is useful for travellers operating in the local area. The price of D-80 is Rs 9849, while D-88 is yet to hit the market.”
Sounds cool…. isn’t it.Cheers,
Vaibhav